among the many bits of hindu mythology there s one story about the god shiva who roamed the forest naked. legend has it that he once wandered into a community of saints and their wive. to teach him a lesson the jealous men placed a tiger pit on one of the god s paths. one day shiva fell in, there were howls of pain and then shiva came out wearing a tiger skin. impressive. but it s interesting that in some aspects o thf ancient faith that a tiger is not worshiped but worn or ridden. swamis would meditate atop tiger skins, but recent generations woke up to the crisis and by large tiger parts are taboo in india. but that is not the case in china where swapping a pelt for a favor or giving a bottle of tiger bone wine to your boss is still considered pretty
shia, and these are sunni extremists. but you are talking about a neighborhood that collectively is anti-u.s. across the board, and a terrorist training ground. bill: bret, thank you. live in d.c. thanks. path few anna? patti ann: it s been a long battle to liberate iraq. congress agreed to u.s. involvement in 2002. that was followed by president bush signing authorization of military force. then in march 2003, shock and awe. the united states launching strikes against baghdad after the deadline for saddam hussein s exile expired. fast forward to 2007, president bush announced the surge, the deployment of 30,000 additional troops to iraq. and then the end, twive, president obama announcing the end of the iraq war and saying troops will be withdrawn by the end of that year. in december 2011 the last u.s. troops left the country. the grave human cost of the
should face charges for that. and school teachers in every state in america are required by law to report if they suspect a child has been abused or the subject of criminal action. this happened in front of a teacher. this child was made to fear for his safety and the teacher did something, the school destroyed the evidence. there should be charges brought and not against christian. if people say you are supporting breaking the law and there is a defense called choice of evil like if your wive is sick and you are driving 90 miles per hour to get her to the hospital that is a choice of evil. he broke the wire tap law but did it to provent a greater evil and that was the criminal behavior against him and the malfeseance of teachers destroyed evidence and refusing to report the crime.
because of obamacare coming into effect as of january 1, the insurance companies were readjusting to cover all of the mandates that were going to be covered under the aca as well as there is taxes like 4.2% of taxes built into that for renewals before the end of the year. approximately 20 of my employees on the plan have chosen to get insurance elsewhere with wive s plans or insurance themselves with ther those 20 folks i was paying $150,000 a year it s now 2 oo3,000 with the renewal. what kind of impact does that have on your business? in small businesses we handle it in at least one of three ways, one we absorb the cost, two, we actually have to change our margin or maybe three we don t hire that employee that we need. we have to deal with what we have. either way, in any of those scenarios the consumer ends up paying for it. your costs are going up significantly, how concerned are you that it might cut into your business and your
because of obamacare coming into effect as of january 1, the insurance companies were readjusting to cover all of the mandates that were going to be covered under the aca as well as there is taxes like 4.2% of taxes built into that for renewals before the end of the year. approximately 20 of my employees on the plan have chosen to get insurance elsewhere with wive s plans or insurance themselves with ther those 20 folks i was paying $150,000 a year it s now 2 oo3,000 with the renewal. what kind of impact does that have on your business? in small businesses we handle it in at least one of three ways, one we absorb the cost, two, we actually have to change our margin or maybe three we don t hire that employee that we need. we have to deal with what we have. either way, in any of those scenarios the consumer ends up paying for it. your costs are going up significantly, how concerned are you that it might cut into your business and your