This particular December, especially the past 2 weeks, a day in then 30s would be cause for celebration. Right now a day without snow would bring a smile.

Obama tends to be non-judgmental of others that he runs across.  Perhaps an outgrowth of his Mom's openness to the different.  Maybe Hawaii openness too.....

Obama did not ever agree with Wrights' views on America....Nor does he agree with Warren's on abortion and gay rights... Or Ayers on the use of bombs.  Their views on those subjects did not some how rub off on Obama....

They certainly weren't "disagreeing without being disagreeable", nor is Rick Warren.

I trust you and your daughter are now both enjoying robust wellness.

It's a totally sick world view, IMHO.

Stolen in 1990 from the  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and still at large.

Oh, and there are thirteen men on the boat. 12 apostles + one extra:

Some states, even Florida here soon are offering prescription cards for discounts even if you do not apply for the state plans.

With no discussion, my elderly mother was prescribed by a specialist a new and outrageously expensive drug for a fairly common condition-- this was pre-Medicare Part D, so she had to pay the whole thing out of pocket-- and we didn't figure out until near the end of her life that the drug she'd been prescribed wasn't at all revolutionary, just one of those reformulations, and she could have been started on much less expensive older drugs first to see how well she did on them before going to the super-expensive one.  Still makes me mad.

A lot of times, the new drugs are developed because of uncomfortable though not dangerous side effects suffered by some people with the older ones, but there's no reason at all to go straight to the gold standard without at least trying the efficacious but not always well tolerated older ones first, since it's usually only a minority of people who experience the side effects.

I don't know if that's the case here specifically, but it's absolutely worth really pressing the docs any time you're prescribed some expensive new medication.

Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox!  But this is one way the drug companies, with the often unintended collusion of the docs, milk the system and people's pockets.  Sometimes you do need that newest bestest thing and nothing else will do, but often enough, it's just a waste of your or the insurance company's money.

For the record, i interned with the SSA disability group, but I am nowhere near anything other than an armchair quarterback on these issues.  I will say that there are significant issues with the lack of regional job detail, the outdated dept of labor information, and the newer job information that is much more focused on job placement (guidance counselors) than on rehabilitation and disabilities.

The steroids are awful, awful hard on a person--they should be avoided if at all possible.  

Also, you might look into get qualified for vocational rehabilitation through your state.  I got my tutition paid through that program.  

First of all, I don't care whose or what bible Obama uses for his swearing in. I read somewhere that most presidents use their family bible and of the few who opted for one previously used by a past president, the one used was Washington's.

But it also seems to me that apart and aside from Obama's admiration for Lincoln, there is the fact that he was the senator from Illinois and he is the first African American president, both aspects of this which reflect a connection.