In celebration of Mr. Boner's wonderfully effective Republican led House of Representatives 40 attempt of repealing the Affordable Care Act I thought I would put some needles in the eyes of those on this board who through their own willful ignorance complain about the Affordable Care Act.

4O REASONS TO LOVE OBAMACARE

1. Say goodbye to lifetime limits: Insurance companies will no longer be able to place an arbitrary cap on coverage.

2. Children can no longer be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition.

3. Starting in 2014, adults will no longer be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition.

Free preventive care, including:

4. Annual check-ups

5. Contraception

6. Vaccinations

7. Gestational diabetes screenings

8. Mammograms

9. Screening and counselling for HIV

10. Cholesterol screenings

11. Colonoscopies

12. Blood pressure screenings

13. Cancer screenings

14. Osteoporosis screenings

15. Young adults can stay on their parents' insurance plans until the age of 26.

16. If insurance companies aren't spending your premium dollars on your health care—at least 80 percent—they've got to give you some money back.

17. Insurance companies can't raise your rates by double-digits without justification.

18. Insurance plans can’t require higher co-payments or co-insurance if you get emergency care from an out-of-network hospital.

19. Women will no longer be charged more than men just because they're women.

20. The health insurance marketplace will be ready to go in every state starting October 1 of this year.

21. No-hassle comparisons: The online marketplace provides easy access to information on all available plans, so you can do a side-by-side comparison and find a plan that works for you.

22. Many Americans will be eligible for financial assistance to help them buy health insurance on their own, so you can afford a plan that will be there if you get sick.

23. When you buy insurance through the marketplace, premiums can be determined based only on these four factors: where you live, how old your are, how large your family is, and whether or not you are a smoker.

24. In the marketplace, you can choose a plan that matches your budget and needs: Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze.

25. By 2020, the Medicare prescriptions drug "donut hole" will be closed for good.

These are the essential benefits that all health plans in the marketplace must cover:

26. Ambulatory patient services

27. Emergency services

28. Hospitalization

29. Prenatal care

30. Neonatal care

31. Mental health services

32. Prescription drugs

33. Rehabilitative services and devices

34. Laboratory services like bloodwork

35. Preventive care

36. Wellness services

37. Chronic disease management

38. Pediatric services, including oral and vision care

39. Lower prescription drug costs for people on Medicare.

40. These states are already foreseeing dramatic drops in premiums: New York, California, Nevada, Connecticut, Oregon.

There you have it. 40 ways Obamacare is helping and will help Americans—benefits the House of Representatives is about to try to take away for the 40th time.

We all love to see the UPS truck arriving, but they occasionally use something called SurePost. It should be called EventuallyPost. They take delivery of the package and bring it to your local post office. Then it gets delivered by your regular mail carrier. The problem is that this can delay the shipment by a day or more.

I was tracking a UPS delivery, and it said it went to my post office. When it still hadn't been delivered by the next day, I went to my PO. "We don't have it." I emailed UPS. "Your Post Office has it." When I didn't receive it the next day, I went to my PO. "We don't have it." It arrived the following day. I have a package on the way now (not photographic) that is scheduled to be delivered by Monday. I'm not holding my breath.

We all love to see the UPS truck arriving, but they occasionally use something called SurePost. It should be called EventuallyPost. They take delivery of the package and bring it to your local post office. Then it gets delivered by your regular mail carrier. The problem is that this can delay the shipment by a day or more.

I was tracking a UPS delivery, and it said it went to my post office. When it still hadn't been delivered by the next day, I went to my PO. "We don't have it." I emailed UPS. "Your Post Office has it." When I didn't receive it the next day, I went to my PO. "We don't have it." It arrived the following day. I have a package on the way now (not photographic) that is scheduled to be delivered by Monday. I'm not holding my breath.

Something I wasn’t aware of until recently: I never stand still; I bob and weave all over the place. I first noticed this after I purchased my dSLR and it became dramatically more obvious when I purchased the longer lenses. It isn’t just camera shake from unsteady hands - my whole freakin’ body reels.

I’ve tried the hints about bracing yourself against something (not always available), holding your breath, arms tucked in tight. I’ve tried a monopod - but it just dances with me. Previously, the point-and-shoots that I owned were virtually never used because I could never get a shot that was focused. Now I’m thinking it wasn’t a focusing problem. I do use a tripod for the longer lenses, but I find macro photography also challenging. I don’t want to have to use a tripod for every shot! And I was also hoping to occasionally be able to make hand-held shots with the longer lenses.

So. What to do?

Should I stop taking my meds? Double up on them? Or embrace the bob-and-weave, ditch photography, and take up boxing?

I am an amateur photographer. Can I get some advice on how to improve this type of shot please? I am trying to get more detail in the feathers of the bird shots I take. I use a Nikon d7000. This shot was taken with a 70-300 f4.5-5.6g I was shooting shutter priority at 1/1000 I kept it there because some of my shots were in flight and I was hand holding the camera. iso 400 due to the overcast morning. I think the problem is lighting but I would think that using a flash on these guys would not be a good thing. I am trying to decide, do I just hate this camera or am I just that bad and need to quit this hobby.
The photo I am attaching is as shot.

Digiman, I also was raised in a Law Enforcement family. My Dad was a Chief in a small town in the Northeast. I can remember getting shot at a couple of times when I was with him in one particular incident where the" source within " was the ammo from his Sam Brown. Had absolutely no time to throw any kind of fairness doctrine at the perp. God bless those who don't like guns for that is their decision. And the Police Officer has to protect them from the bad guys. But there is a time when a person is responsible for their own protection. When a given group of people say that I cannot acquire the tools necessary to protect my family, friends or personhood, they can pound sand.

Once again, you resort to the illogical, but emotionally appealing tactic of looking at data from part of the issue, instead of the issue as a whole. Chicago is not a self-contained polity, like a province, or better yet, a nation state. That means guns can flow into Chicago from surrounding communities, and in fact that is what is happening.

"Most of the guns that come into Chicago are from out of state or from parts of Illinois where gun control laws are not so strict. More than 400 guns were traced to Mississippi, where many of those whose families immigrated to Chicago in the early 20th century may remain. Rather than serving as an argument against gun control (one that could certainly be countered by the murder rate in Louisiana), Chicago serves as a call to a national, regulated gun control policy. " (http://www.redstate.com/politicalwoman/2013/04/14/gun-control-chicago-style-or-bring-a-bat-to-the-fight/)

Another aspect of the situation around which you skirt is the actual penalty for gun law violation in Chicago, which is enough to deter generally law abiding people from violating it, but not hardened criminals. A respectable man would be crushed by a typical sentence of one year in prison with an average of six months actually served, whereas to a criminal it is the cost of doing business.

Garry F. McCarthy, Chicago Police Superintendent: "Chicago may have comprehensive gun laws, but they are not strict because the sanctions don't exist."

Finally, you have not bothered to read up on gun control laws that have succeeded. If Chicago were a self contained polity, it would be too early to write off the effect of its laws anyway, because they have long term, not immediate effects. Chicago's gun control laws were passed in 2010. At first there is little or no effect. After several years the number of guns begins to diminish, along with the gun violence. In ten years the effect is dramatic. It has been less than three years since Chicago passed its current gun control laws.

You are not interested in determining the truth; you merely grab those arguments you can twist into supporting your desire to have no restriction on gun ownership. You refuse to look at the overall situation in an objective manner. I'll give you this, though; you persist through wind and rain. You are impervious to unlimited refutations of your wild west values.