Ha, good to know! I certainly won't look to him for his writing abilities. And the content? Was the book helpful?

I saw part of a Robert Kiyosake (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) program (infomerical?) on PBS one day. He apparently had a woman come up to him and say that she was trained academically in writing and was perplexed at how she, being a good writer, was unable to achieve monetary and sales success. She then pointed out that she didn't think he was a very good writer.

He responded by telling her that he went to school for sales and not writing. He then told her to look at his book and it how it says "Best selling writer and not best writing writer".

I don't know...kind of seems relevant here in that well written fill in the blank has little to do with monetary failure or success

Disclaimer: I have never read one of Kiyosake's books, so I don't know if he mentions this in one of them or not, but I thought it was a pretty insightful.

err...not quite: http://youtu.be/yy63Cn7WVbU?t=31s

I am shocked that they are shocked.

Generally, no they can't. There have been some laws in some states that are trying to make this possible, but as encountered resistance. In the US, most people use a driver's license as their ID as opposed to a passport. You don't need to be a citizen, or even here legally, to get a driver's license in many states.

https://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform-immigrants-rights-racial-justice/know-your-rights-what-do-if-you

It's a trap! Don't do it...this is a honeypot set up by government organizations to catch criminals and bring them up on hacking related charges! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVnArp9ZE0 -- Lord, I hope the sarcasm comes through.

I see what you did there. A new deadline has been set for January 15th-ish.

The poster never said it covered him from birth. In fact, he said he had to pay for some surgeries when he was younger.

Was trying to decide whether to mod you as offtopic or just trying to troll. But I'll bite:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/jun/27/top-5-falsehoods-about-health-care-law/

Admittedly, this is a from a year ago, don't know if much has changed.

Couldn't the inverse be true inspectors? Less experienced inspectors error on the side of caution while more experienced don't see the problem with a minor violation?

According to the summary and the article, tt doesn't sound like it is a preferential treatment, but rather the way the inspector interprets the rules and regulations.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=obamacare+amendments+written+by+republicans the Chuck Grassley one is pretty funny: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/obamacare-congressional-coverage_n_3697021.html

I think it is hard to deny that this the insurance industry did a number of this bill, but it is also false to say that Republicans didn't have any say in what went into it.

I'm looking for the part in any of your posts that says that non-Republicans wrote it. I can't seem to find it. Just because you say it happened, doesn't mean it is true.

Never said the law was written by 6 people. You just said that republicans had no input in the bill when my link confirms that they actually did. My link is not an article, it is a timeline from the senate's own references, releases, and video hearings of the process this bill took to become law.

The secret meetings go both ways: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWLeabRedMM

I'm sorry democracy didn't work out for you this time.

let's try it again with better spacing shall we?
A single republican may have not voted for the individual mandate, but they had input in writing this bill to be sure:
http://www.finance.senate.gov/issue/?id=32be19bd-491e-4192-812f-f65215c1ba65
June 17th, 2009 Three Democratic and three Republican Finance Committee Members hold the first of 31 bipartisan meetings to discuss the development of a health care reform bill. Over the course of the next three months, this group, Baucus, Grassley, Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), met for more than 60 hours and the bipartisan principles they discussed became the foundation of the health care reform law.
I am shocked the site is still up actually. Anyway, I haven't looked into this, but I heard from someone more informed than I was that the individual mandate was not in the original bill, but was subsequently added when the insurance lobby got a hold of the original bill.