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Dolls?!

If your IQ is smaller than your age you’re gonna’ totally dig this hip dolls I saw: I’m normally a person that likes toys but this twitard thingy has gone too far. I mean… C’mon! Dolls??. And right near the checkout counters. When will the stupidity stop? BTW, you should totally buy Edward, not Jacob. [...]

Jesus is a Bodybuilder

When I saw the big Jesus on the t shirt of a guy at the gym I thought to myself: he must be one of those hardcore Christians than everybody in the US has grown to accept. Still had a slightly WTF feeling, but you cannot really question the beliefs of a hardcore Christian, can [...]

The Humming Kids

Operation “Sorting and Uploading Vacation Pictures” is almost done. But since the progress bar is not yet at 100%, let me take a moment to tell you about an episode of our vacation. We were in the Escalante National Monument, at the trail head of the Lower Calf Creek Falls trail [just completed the 6 [...]

Group Death Cooperative

I’ve written about the American Health System before: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2010/02/01/taboo-%E2%80%93-american-health-system/ It’s not that my naivety level has suffered any major changes lately, but my experience with my health care “provider” (aka Group Health Cooperative)  is a surreal one. Lately I have been having some mild pain in my right hip and I went to have it [...]

The Health Care Reform – A Tale of Despair

Lots of talks and controversy on the long awaited Health Care Reform. By many people this is regarded as a victory for the ‘American People’, while other see this as a big mistake. The usual controversy associated with an ‘important’ law is everywhere. It is, in the end, the American way, right? It’s funny and [...]

A Bear’s Diet

Ever wonder what the diet of a bear in captivity is? Now we have an answer, kind of. Picture was taken at the local zoo, where the nice people who feed the bears thought it would be cool to share this info with the rest of us You can also look at sites like this [...]

Trash

We all know that keeping the environment we live in clean is everyone’s responsibility. What most people seem to forget is that it takes very little to litter compared to the time needed to clean it up. Back in Romania it was almost impossible not to see litter almost anywhere: on the streets, in the [...]

Taboo – American Health System

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: American Health System To put it short the system is as crappy as it seems viewed from outside the US. Even crappier. Health care is a business in the US. It’s not about the patient anymore. It’s about the profits of the Health Care “Provider”. Anything and everything will be [...]

Avatar

So I finally saw Avatar. Seeing the movie started as an idea somewhere the previous week. We went to the cinema to find out that all the shows were sold out. Crap. With our lesson learned, the second time we bought the tickets online. We went to the cinema 1 hour before the movie started [...]