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An Australian family
court has given the OK
for a 14-year-old girl –
born with a rare
genotype – to have
surgery to remove two
testicles.
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You have to be kidding
Having done a bit of research on this condition for one of my stories, I find it appalling that they had to go through a court procedure to ok the surgery. Data indicates that those with this condition are female as far as gender is concerned and that the testicles may become cancerous. They should be removed when they stop working and the testosterone (converted to estrogen by the body) should be replaced with HRT.
Portia
Portia
God Bless Rupert Murdoch
No seriously. Where would we be without his diligence in reporting all the news that pursuades people to think just exactly the way that floats HIS boat.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Fox news...
Is for many I hope this strange demented comedy show. I watch it with my cable package and I have a hard time wrapping my head around that they actually seem to really believe the crap they're spitting out.
But then again I'm Canadian, I hear stuff like these guys spout off on and I think about our political humor shows, where pretty much for the most part is the only place we see stuff like that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not America bashing, I love the USA it's a great country but it just Fox News...
WTF are these guys actually serious?
Bailey Summers
The Daily Show vs. Fox vs. No Truth Anywhere
The Daily Show has caught Fox on several occasions using file footage to support their "news" report. For example, they will show one rally and claim it is another.
On the other hand I got a postcard from our government suggesting my business might qualify for a 35% tax credit on what I pay for my employees health insurance. I was really excited because it was talking about the tax credit being for four years. So I nearly broke my fingers off going to the government website to learn more.
I read the entire website and found I had to do a complex calculation to see if my business qualified, which I did. Whoa did I get excited then. It was like over a hundred thousand dollars of tax credit. Boy -- could I use that. As it turned out I was meeting with my tax attorney the next day so I asked him to do some research for me.
He almost laughed.
1.) The 35% tax credit only applies to 50% of the health care cost. Now why wouldn't they simply say a 17.5% tax credit?
2.) The amount of dollars allowed for an employer to pay for insurance is $6,000 per individual. I pay about $15,000 per individual so that cuts out more than half of what I pay.
3.) There is a sliding scale and hardly anyone will qualify for the full credit.
4.) After three years the only way you can qualify is to buy your insurance through an "exchange" which I would never do to my employees.
His final words were "We have decided to do a rough calculation because most of our clients won't get enough tax credit to pay for us spending our time calculating it.
I voted for Obama -- so this is not some conservative screed. It is the very unhappy tale of a liberal who drank the cool-aid and saw a huge tax credit evaporate in the smoke of hyperbola.
Because of this I've decided to change the way I compensate my employees in order to screw the government out of as much FICA as possible. So there.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
That last part
good for you! Belle