Comments for Amy Alkon on MND http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com The Advice Goddess Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:04:21 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on They’re Calling It “The Botax” by Jack Dumas http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=901&cpage=1#comment-2936 Jack Dumas Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:04:21 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/19/theyre_calling.html#comment-2936 Sorry, but when you start complaining about taxes on cosmetic surgury to benefit society as a whole youy've lost your credibility. I used to read you back when you only gave relationship advice, but I must say, your polical commentaries are a dissapoinments. I guess the Peter principle is alive and well, despites the various report that it does not exit. Sorry, but when you start complaining about taxes on cosmetic surgury to benefit society as a whole youy've lost your credibility. I used to read you back when you only gave relationship advice, but I must say, your polical commentaries are a dissapoinments. I guess the Peter principle is alive and well, despites the various report that it does not exit.

]]> Comment on Vote Your Melanin! by Jack Dumas http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=909&cpage=1#comment-2935 Jack Dumas Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:58:48 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/21/vote_your_melan.html#comment-2935 Sorry I don't by it. There is such a thing as tokenism and that what we have in the republican party, I was part of it and a token. I might not agree with jesse jackson, I always though he was kind of an idot, for your point is equally idiotic Sorry I don't by it. There is such a thing as tokenism and that what we have in the republican party, I was part of it and a token. I might not agree with jesse jackson, I always though he was kind of an idot, for your point is equally idiotic

]]> Comment on The Price Of A Ham Sandwich Has Also Gone Up by Redrajesh http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=908&cpage=1#comment-2932 Redrajesh Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:09:55 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/20/the_price_of_a.html#comment-2932 Most college education is crap and only serves to provide employment to profs. It is high time college is not overrated the way it is so that the nutcase profs don't think so highly about themselves. Most prof's are also vastly overpaid and probably don't deserve to get even 1/3rd of what they are paid. Universities also indulge in vast overspending on infrastructure which provides no academic value add and the costs of all these expenses is passed on to the students who derive no benefit out of it. Until universities scale down their useless expenses and eliminate waste, they have no right to pass on higher fess to students. And corporates could also help by not insisting on college degrees for jobs like mail sorter and executive assistant so that people do not unnecessarily waste their time and money on something which is of no use to them. Most college education is crap and only serves to provide employment to profs. It is high time college is not overrated the way it is so that the nutcase profs don't think so highly about themselves. Most prof's are also vastly overpaid and probably don't deserve to get even 1/3rd of what they are paid. Universities also indulge in vast overspending on infrastructure which provides no academic value add and the costs of all these expenses is passed on to the students who derive no benefit out of it. Until universities scale down their useless expenses and eliminate waste, they have no right to pass on higher fess to students. And corporates could also help by not insisting on college degrees for jobs like mail sorter and executive assistant so that people do not unnecessarily waste their time and money on something which is of no use to them.

]]> Comment on The Price Of A Ham Sandwich Has Also Gone Up by Jack Dumas http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=908&cpage=1#comment-2900 Jack Dumas Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:57:47 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/20/the_price_of_a.html#comment-2900 Everyone hate taxes, but if California had not had all those tax freezes, they could pay for this instead they decide to keep taxes low which benefit the rich much more than than poor. The problem that California has right now is because their taxes were too low for too long, to little revenue, and having to do thing cheaply, with poor quality. Basically, trying to save a buck today by not doing proper maintenance will cost you many times that amount when the thing breaks earlier than it should and has to be repaired. This has been the conservative philosophy for years and all in the name of fiscal responsibility. Thanks for bringing the country down with ideologies. Having been a republican for most of the last decades, I no longer believe this crap. Rich people do not care if they run the country into the ground as long as they keep on being rich. They seem to find people like Joe the plumber and I guess you (and formerly me I am ashamed to say) to support them in their greed by telling the people at the bottom of the economical scale, too bad, we are subsiding you enough already. Everyone hate taxes, but if California had not had all those tax freezes, they could pay for this instead they decide to keep taxes low which benefit the rich much more than than poor. The problem that California has right now is because their taxes were too low for too long, to little revenue, and having to do thing cheaply, with poor quality. Basically, trying to save a buck today by not doing proper maintenance will cost you many times that amount when the thing breaks earlier than it should and has to be repaired. This has been the conservative philosophy for years and all in the name of fiscal responsibility. Thanks for bringing the country down with ideologies. Having been a republican for most of the last decades, I no longer believe this crap. Rich people do not care if they run the country into the ground as long as they keep on being rich. They seem to find people like Joe the plumber and I guess you (and formerly me I am ashamed to say) to support them in their greed by telling the people at the bottom of the economical scale, too bad, we are subsiding you enough already.

]]> Comment on The Price Of A Ham Sandwich Has Also Gone Up by Jack Dumas http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=908&cpage=1#comment-2899 Jack Dumas Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:57:03 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/20/the_price_of_a.html#comment-2899 Yes, keep on telling people that if they can't afford university, well too bad it means that they are looser or that they don't belong because too many people are going. This will ensure, that the other countries that do subsidize their university to a higher degree and are better at converting their human potential to something valuable will pass America, and I believe this will happen during our life time. American like to think that they have the best university, but that is only because America was a rich country with a big population and the fact that the other countries were so behind. America could afford to was the human potential of the masses and still have enough left over to beat the competition. Now the competition is much stronger, less wasteful of human potential, and getting stronger every year. Unfortunately Americans are not good about world news, so we still cling to our glory days and don't notice how quickly the other are catching up and even passing us. Yes, keep on telling people that if they can't afford university, well too bad it means that they are looser or that they don't belong because too many people are going. This will ensure, that the other countries that do subsidize their university to a higher degree and are better at converting their human potential to something valuable will pass America, and I believe this will happen during our life time. American like to think that they have the best university, but that is only because America was a rich country with a big population and the fact that the other countries were so behind. America could afford to was the human potential of the masses and still have enough left over to beat the competition. Now the competition is much stronger, less wasteful of human potential, and getting stronger every year. Unfortunately Americans are not good about world news, so we still cling to our glory days and don't notice how quickly the other are catching up and even passing us.

]]> Comment on The Price Of A Ham Sandwich Has Also Gone Up by Jack Dumas http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=908&cpage=1#comment-2897 Jack Dumas Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:42 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/20/the_price_of_a.html#comment-2897 back in the 80's when I was young, CEOs made approximately 40 times their workers salaries, now its up to 400 times. During that same time middle class wages have been most stagnant. America success is now based on the success of the rich, sure, some people might look at the fact that American companies are all over the globe and look at that as a measure of American power and can use this fact as an excuse to say we are not declining. But the truth is that the money does not make it to regular American. Many of those American companies have bigger foreign payroll than American one. back in the 80's when I was young, CEOs made approximately 40 times their workers salaries, now its up to 400 times. During that same time middle class wages have been most stagnant. America success is now based on the success of the rich, sure, some people might look at the fact that American companies are all over the globe and look at that as a measure of American power and can use this fact as an excuse to say we are not declining. But the truth is that the money does not make it to regular American. Many of those American companies have bigger foreign payroll than American one.

]]> Comment on The Price Of A Ham Sandwich Has Also Gone Up by Jack Dumas http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=908&cpage=1#comment-2898 Jack Dumas Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:06 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/20/the_price_of_a.html#comment-2898 It used to be that American could afford to waste the talent of their population, after all, America has more than 3 times the population of the biggest European Country, and the countries with bigger populations (China and India) could not match the American level of technology and education. This has now changed, and we are starting to see the effect now. By saying to hell with people that can't afford college, which is most of the middle class, we are wasting the human resources big time. Not all people should go to university, but frankly universities need all the people that have the ability to complete it. By excluding people based on income, America is generating its own brain drain. It used to be that American could afford to waste the talent of their population, after all, America has more than 3 times the population of the biggest European Country, and the countries with bigger populations (China and India) could not match the American level of technology and education. This has now changed, and we are starting to see the effect now. By saying to hell with people that can't afford college, which is most of the middle class, we are wasting the human resources big time. Not all people should go to university, but frankly universities need all the people that have the ability to complete it. By excluding people based on income, America is generating its own brain drain.

]]> Comment on My Health Care Doesn’t Need “Reform,” Thanks! by Jack Dumas http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=897&cpage=1#comment-2881 Jack Dumas Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:01:01 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/17/my_health_care.html#comment-2881 my health care sucks, its was fine until I hit about 40 and got an erniated disk. Now, pre-existing condition, I make good money but I am still screwed. Why would I blame the goverment for healt care companies increase their premiums so their CEO's can make tens of millions of dollars my health care sucks, its was fine until I hit about 40 and got an erniated disk. Now, pre-existing condition, I make good money but I am still screwed. Why would I blame the goverment for healt care companies increase their premiums so their CEO's can make tens of millions of dollars

]]> Comment on Today’s “I See Rude People” Quote by L. Steven Beene II http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=894&cpage=1#comment-2873 L. Steven Beene II Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:34:47 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/17/todays_i_see_ru_1.html#comment-2873 THAT was funny. "He wants to turn left too" .... yea, been there and done that. Steven THAT was funny.

“He wants to turn left too” …. yea, been there and done that.

Steven

]]> Comment on Dump Her, Get Dumped In Prison by L. Steven Beene II http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-2872 L. Steven Beene II Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:03:00 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/18/get_entrapped_g.html#comment-2872 "Contributing to the delinquency of a Minor"!?!??! She got her drugs, and arranged the whole thing. The guy, was obviously lied to about the age. I mean, molestation/statutory rape laws were meant to protect against minors who got targeted by older people who KNEW they were underage and who targeted them. When a man does not know, and, in fact was SET UP, it would seem the other adult who SET HIM UP, should face a stiffer penalty than he did. If I steal a car - I get charged with GTA. If someone tells me it's THEIR car (lies about the age), and hands me the keys (drugs some girl), and then I get pulled over - ummm, can you see a jury convicting me? Or if not jury nullification - at least dismissing most of the charges. That said, the woman was could easily be charged with aiding and abbetting, conspiracy, engaging in the production of child porn, and a host of other charges. If I had been on that jury - NULLIFICATION. Steven “Contributing to the delinquency of a Minor”!?!??!

She got her drugs, and arranged the whole thing.

The guy, was obviously lied to about the age.

I mean, molestation/statutory rape laws were meant to protect against minors who got targeted by older people who KNEW they were underage and who targeted them.

When a man does not know, and, in fact was SET UP, it would seem the other adult who SET HIM UP, should face a stiffer penalty than he did.

If I steal a car – I get charged with GTA.

If someone tells me it’s THEIR car (lies about the age), and hands me the keys (drugs some girl), and then I get pulled over – ummm, can you see a jury convicting me? Or if not jury nullification – at least dismissing most of the charges.

That said, the woman was could easily be charged with aiding and abbetting, conspiracy, engaging in the production of child porn, and a host of other charges.

If I had been on that jury – NULLIFICATION.

Steven

]]> Comment on Obama Thinks Medicare Is A Model For Reform by mfraser29 http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=645&cpage=1#comment-2861 mfraser29 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:18:34 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/09/11/obama_thinks_me.html#comment-2861 This article is nonsense. Sounds like the author is on the AMA payroll. She claims "Medicare is going bankrupt"---- then argues for why Medicare needs to pay MORE! Brilliant. I particularly like the quote from the doctor who says: "It costs me $300 an hour to be open." Really? $48K a month? Would he care to open his books? Of course not. Either he's paying himself way too much or you can't run a practice. Either way, stop whining like you're a victim. Also, let's not forget that, for the most part, doctors are paid by taxpayers (Medicare/Medicaid) or businesses that pay their employees health insurance----often in lieu of giving raises. Something's got to change or the current, for-big-profit system will bankrupt us all----and doctors will still claim to be underpaid. This article is nonsense. Sounds like the author is on the AMA payroll.

She claims "Medicare is going bankrupt"—- then argues for why Medicare needs to pay MORE! Brilliant.

I particularly like the quote from the doctor who says: "It costs me $300 an hour to be open." Really? $48K a month? Would he care to open his books? Of course not. Either he's paying himself way too much or you can't run a practice. Either way, stop whining like you're a victim.

Also, let's not forget that, for the most part, doctors are paid by taxpayers (Medicare/Medicaid) or businesses that pay their employees health insurance—-often in lieu of giving raises.

Something's got to change or the current, for-big-profit system will bankrupt us all—-and doctors will still claim to be underpaid.

]]> Comment on My Health Care Doesn’t Need “Reform,” Thanks! by JohnInCA http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=897&cpage=1#comment-2844 JohnInCA Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:15:37 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/17/my_health_care.html#comment-2844 Wow... another Kaiser testimonial during annual open enrollment. I wonder if these "journalists" get paid for this fluff. It's sad that the real stories about Kaiser aren't published because articles like this are consuming everyone's time and attention. Also worth noting is that Kaiser lacks outbound dialing capabilities in its contact centers. The inconsistency (was it the doctor or the nurse who called?) should make one question the entire posting. Wow… another Kaiser testimonial during annual open enrollment. I wonder if these "journalists" get paid for this fluff. It's sad that the real stories about Kaiser aren't published because articles like this are consuming everyone's time and attention.

Also worth noting is that Kaiser lacks outbound dialing capabilities in its contact centers. The inconsistency (was it the doctor or the nurse who called?) should make one question the entire posting.

]]> Comment on Seven Salient Facts About Major Hasan by johnbyrnes http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-2822 johnbyrnes Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:05:31 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/17/seven_salient_f.html#comment-2822 The military does not have an objective and culturally neutral system that collects information and evaluates it to determine the degree (or level) of aggression an individual is displaying, nor has it people who have a clear responsibility to observe and report this information within an objective system nor a team who is responsible to evaluate it and respond. The military does not have the AMIS solution and it desperately needs it! Major Hasan has illustrated out vulnerable we are, learn more about the problem and the solution by reading our Blog. <a href="http://blog.aggressionmanagement.com" target="_blank">http://blog.aggressionmanagement.com</a> The military does not have an objective and culturally neutral system that collects information and evaluates it to determine the degree (or level) of aggression an individual is displaying, nor has it people who have a clear responsibility to observe and report this information within an objective system nor a team who is responsible to evaluate it and respond. The military does not have the AMIS solution and it desperately needs it! Major Hasan has illustrated out vulnerable we are, learn more about the problem and the solution by reading our Blog. http://blog.aggressionmanagement.com

]]> Comment on Seven Salient Facts About Major Hasan by johnbyrnes http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-2823 johnbyrnes Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:05:07 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/17/seven_salient_f.html#comment-2823 HOW TO PREVENT FUTURE NIDAL HASANS We have read with concern the many signs Major Hasan provided which would indicate an unstable and potentially dangerous frame of mind. Our concern is that those who actually saw and heard the signs and those to whom the signs were reported did not act upon them. From Hasan’s contact with a radical imam, to the initials SoA (Son of Allah) on his business card, to his comment that he was a Muslim first and a soldier second – there is no doubt the signs that he was potentially dangerous were there for all to see.____Furthermore, he was under surveillance by two Terrorist Task Forces, one with Department of Defense oversight and the other with FBI oversight. So why wasn’t he stopped? ____The answer is quite simple – HOW TO PREVENT FUTURE NIDAL HASANS We have read with concern the many signs Major Hasan provided which would indicate an unstable and potentially dangerous frame of mind. Our concern is that those who actually saw and heard the signs and those to whom the signs were reported did not act upon them. From Hasan’s contact with a radical imam, to the initials SoA (Son of Allah) on his business card, to his comment that he was a Muslim first and a soldier second – there is no doubt the signs that he was potentially dangerous were there for all to see.____Furthermore, he was under surveillance by two Terrorist Task Forces, one with Department of Defense oversight and the other with FBI oversight. So why wasn’t he stopped? ____The answer is quite simple –

]]> Comment on Back To The Echo Chamber! by chris http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=888&cpage=1#comment-2816 chris Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:16:05 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/14/back_to_the_ech.html#comment-2816 Spoken like a hard core devotee to the average. Spoken like a hard core devotee to the average.

]]> Comment on Why We Should Start Electing Smart People by Jean http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=877&cpage=1#comment-2790 Jean Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:27:04 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/13/why_we_should_s.html#comment-2790 Chris, Pay it off at the end of the month and it doesn't matter WHAT the rate is. At any rate greater than 0%, if you charge more than you earn, you'll be a pauper in no time. Chris,
Pay it off at the end of the month and it doesn't matter WHAT the rate is.
At any rate greater than 0%, if you charge more than you earn, you'll be a pauper in no time.

]]> Comment on Why We Should Start Electing Smart People by chris http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=877&cpage=1#comment-2781 chris Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:30:58 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/13/why_we_should_s.html#comment-2781 To answer the last question.......because they change it, and there is no set criteria for doing so. To answer the last question…….because they change it, and there is no set criteria for doing so.

]]> Comment on Why He Stopped Believing by chris http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=885&cpage=1#comment-2766 chris Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:28:45 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/14/why_he_stopped.html#comment-2766 Nah, not really, his intelligence takes him far enough to convince him he has it figured out, then he hits a snag, and since he feels he had it figured already, well then, better "sort" the math out eh? Make it work, already convinced and all nudge wink..... Sorry, setting aside which book, there IS a God. Like Morgan Freeman tells Jack Nicholson in the Bucket List.......YOUR HEAD IS IN THE WAY. If you feel it shows enlightenment to claim everything came from nothing (adding that you dont even bother to ponder what NOTHING really is)....you are so full of self that the most basic, most fundamnental , most common sense thing that even the lowest life form somehow viscerally understands, is clouded by an agenda that you've buried so deeply you arent even aware its there. The guys book made logical sense up to the point he drops deism and embraces athiesm. That badly tainted the previous scholarly discourse. Interesting read though. Nah, not really, his intelligence takes him far enough to convince him he has it figured out, then he hits a snag, and since he feels he had it figured already, well then, better "sort" the math out eh? Make it work, already convinced and all nudge wink…..

Sorry, setting aside which book, there IS a God. Like Morgan Freeman tells Jack Nicholson in the Bucket List…….YOUR HEAD IS IN THE WAY.

If you feel it shows enlightenment to claim everything came from nothing (adding that you dont even bother to ponder what NOTHING really is)….you are so full of self that the most basic, most fundamnental , most common sense thing that even the lowest life form somehow viscerally understands, is clouded by an agenda that you've buried so deeply you arent even aware its there.

The guys book made logical sense up to the point he drops deism and embraces athiesm. That badly tainted the previous scholarly discourse.

Interesting read though.

]]> Comment on Why He Stopped Believing by chris http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=885&cpage=1#comment-2765 chris Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:28:19 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/14/why_he_stopped.html#comment-2765 Following atrophysics as best I can/could, trying to if not follow the exact mathematicaly derivations, at least the overarching macro machinations, i realized after i got over myself, that each time the two sides of the equal sign didnt match, these geniuses will simply create a new "universal constant". Its truly not unlike saying something goofy such as 2=4 and i can prove it, all we must do is add the universal factor ( x 2) before the 2, and call that "dark matter", and whalla, 2 = 4....SEEEEEE?!? So many read these articles even at the level of time magazine are are impressed with the cut of the writers gib....maybe he looks slightly unbalanced and MUST be a genius, I mean he is SOOOOOO smart. Following atrophysics as best I can/could, trying to if not follow the exact mathematicaly derivations, at least the overarching macro machinations, i realized after i got over myself, that each time the two sides of the equal sign didnt match, these geniuses will simply create a new "universal constant". Its truly not unlike saying something goofy such as 2=4 and i can prove it, all we must do is add the universal factor ( x 2) before the 2, and call that "dark matter", and whalla, 2 = 4….SEEEEEE?!?

So many read these articles even at the level of time magazine are are impressed with the cut of the writers gib….maybe he looks slightly unbalanced and MUST be a genius, I mean he is SOOOOOO smart.

]]> Comment on Why He Stopped Believing by chris http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/?p=885&cpage=1#comment-2764 chris Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:27:42 +0000 http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/11/14/why_he_stopped.html#comment-2764 What they all leave off, as does anyone who reaches this point is, and he more/less admits this....regardless if Christianity or the Great teacup....something from nothing....or even the existence of nothing...as a THING....noTHING...being someTHING....doesnt compute. Nor does eternal existence of someTHING, or noTHING. As a scientist by education, one who somehow logically poo poo'd the something from nothing dilemma as childish, and just too base and naive a question to inform such heady ideas as all those other ones we can canjur once we get past that pesky thingy, I finally got old enough to not concern myself with how childish or unsophisticated it seems to as, "where'd that come from" over and again. Its not naive, its confidently mature. What they all leave off, as does anyone who reaches this point is, and he more/less admits this….regardless if Christianity or the Great teacup….something from nothing….or even the existence of nothing…as a THING….noTHING…being someTHING….doesnt compute. Nor does eternal existence of someTHING, or noTHING. As a scientist by education, one who somehow logically poo poo'd the something from nothing dilemma as childish, and just too base and naive a question to inform such heady ideas as all those other ones we can canjur once we get past that pesky thingy, I finally got old enough to not concern myself with how childish or unsophisticated it seems to as, "where'd that come from" over and again. Its not naive, its confidently mature.

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