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GST increased on used car sales to 18%
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In a significant policy shift, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council,
led by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, has raised the GST rate on the
sale of...
1 week ago
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On What Is Happening in Bangladesh
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As a connoisseur of cringe, I have, over the years, kept a watchful eye on
the Bangladeshi film industry: be it buxom dames charging at hanging
tomatoes to...
4 months ago
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Read Preeti Shenoy's posts on Substack now!
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Hello my lovely readers,
It's been nearly 18 years since I started this blog. So now my blog is an
adult :)
Some years ago, I started something calle...
7 months ago
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Allison Rebecca Stokke | American track and field athlete | Hottest Female
Athlete
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Allison Rebecca Stokke is an American track and field athlete and fitness
model. She broke a number of American records for high school pole
vaulting. A...
5 years ago
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How I grew up on hand-me-downs and friendly gestures
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Much before folks in the Internet space discussed ‘share economy’ over
drinks, and much before it was cool to use products such as Airbnb,
BlaBlaCar, Fon...
5 years ago
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My childhood tryst with Nasbandi & a counterfeit Amitabh Bachchan
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Of the many ‘firsts’ that leave an imprint on our lives, the ‘First movie
viewed in a theatre’ may not make it to most people’s lists; which would
include ...
6 years ago
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Owlish Stance
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Bankers aren’t boring any more. They discuss whether they are doves or
hawks, as the RBI Governor appears to announce the monetary policy. Would
his pol...
10 years ago
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WE HAVE MOVED!
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.pOINT_bLANK is back but on a new location - www.pointblankcartoons.com
See you there.
Cheers
12 years ago
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At the receiver’s end
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When I was young, if we wanted to listen to music we used to turn a knob on
a Medium Wave radio and it used to croak out music at a pitch of its choice
dep...
15 years ago
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13 comments:
Thank you - that really made my day :) It's nice to know people are still out there being kind to one another.
With all the bad news that we hear daily, it's nice to see a photo essay of the good that also go on around us, but is rarely reported. -- cm
This man isn't a doctor. He is a retired CIA employee who was training in disguises. When he retired, he decided to do this.
http://www.prosthesis.com/
> It's nice to know people are still out there being kind to one another.
After the deductable has been met.
He's doing his JOB. Not a hero. Not an exemplary person. Just a guy doing what he gets PAID WELL to do.
Plus, this is more than likely listed as COSMETIC, so it wouldn't be covered under an insurance plan.....
If its free, then yes...this is nice.
@ben
We don't really know his mix of motivations in starting this business (how much for gain, how much to help others) so while you're right that we can't assume he's a saint, we can't assume it's "just a job" either.
The wonderful thing though, is that it doesn't matter! Those who get these prostheses feel the cost is "worth it" perhaps many times over.
Sure, we'd all like all our wants and needs to be met "for free" but it's especially these very innovative services that are the result of a free market. In a central payer system, some bureaucrat would decide how good of a prosthesis is "good enough".
I don't care if he is a retired sewer sucker! he made a little girls life better. end of story.
In today's day and age, if you do your job, you're called a "hero".
He's an artist, he could've been making celebrity wax statues, but he has chosen to use his art and help provide a unique service for people who need it the most.
If doing your job makes you a hero? Then I must be one cause I do my job everyday as a pilot but I'm not considered a hero...
Unless I "almost" crash then some might think of me as a hero if I got down safely!
Either way this guy helped make someone happy. If I make someone happy when flying then I hope I get posted on a blog site! Who's got a camera, start blogging about the pilot who does his job everyday!
The illgoicaliness of logic. Yes, we can all argue about what is really going on in the picture. But it's not my job, nor do i get paid to do that. It makes me happy a little girl is happy, and thus kisses the old guy. = I feel better.
I've had enough classes to understand the truth of stuff. Old men like can do some terrible things, little girls can be quite obscene. Still, why consider such when it's not needed?
When you look at you old parents being happy, do you immediatly think abbout the the "truth" of them fighting, or even about them being VERY happy = them having sex?
No. No you don't. (hopefully).
This leads to two conclusions:
1. By bringing such up, you feel smarter/brighter/realer then those that are made happy and want to PROVE such to the world, b/c you consider by the way NO ONE has thought of that concept.
2. Or your slightly off kilter, and you tend to look for the bad "truth" of a matter... even if it's not there.
Either way, I also find it "cute", regardless of f he's getting paid or not.
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