Does it pull a hood over your eyes when you post a duplicate story on Neatorama? :o)

And the linked story ends as she gives credit to... God? Then her blog page's main title is "Miracles...Believe in Them!" Sorry, no, you should be believing in and thanking hundreds of years of medical science, culminating in advanced surgical techniques which have prevented your death. A century ago (in fact much less than that) no 'miracle' would have saved you. For that matter, had you been born in a poor country today (same God, right?) with less capable medical facilities, no 'miracle' would have saved you. I'm all for people being grateful when they survive, but I wished they would direct their thanks to those who did the hard work. Rant over, glad she's alive, etc :o)

Sean, at first glance that might seem like a good plan but she doesn't need the money - she's the daughter of a billionaire so already has access to all of it :)

I presume the message is 'marry me or die!'

And lowering the minimum wage will help the poor in what way exactly?

Sandy Kong gives a couple of examples of the tips left for her servers. Yet she doesn't say how good their service was. If you get bad service, by all means give a bad tip. If the service is truly terrible, don't tip at all. I always wonder why the server should get 15% when all they did was take the order and bring the food. I'm not saying that's nothing, but shouldn't the chef get far more credit than the server?

Many countries have circumcision rates approaching zero, with no significant incidence of the diseases noted. Conversely, there are African nations where circumcision is more widespread than the US and the diseases are much more widespread. Personal hygiene, education and condom use are far bigger influences on the incidence of STIs than circumcision. If you clean it, protect it and don't stick it where you shouldn't, your risk of infection goes way down. Cutting pieces out of the body of newborn children without their consent isn't the answer.

If only one ethnicity were to be represented on ALL the different denominations they might have a point, but surely they can have an Asian female on the $100, a white male on the $50, and/or whatever spread of 'acceptable' ethnicities there might be. The article says that other denominations don't show people at all, so maybe they should have stuck with that for the $100 too.

My answer would have to be 'it depends on the disability', but that of course applies to physical as well as mental disabilities. You might equally ask if someone who is totally paralysed but mentally sound should be disqualified from office, but a certain Prof Hawking would argue that such barriers can be overcome. Mental disabilities are challenging in different ways, and no mental illness is the same. The only test for all disabilities, mental or physical should be 'can this person still carry out the duties of the job in question?' They may need assistance and/or special equipment, but a blanket 'no mental disabilities here' is unfair and unreasonable.

Nooo! I get the one I've never even heard of - Daikaiju. I was about to be disappointed then looked it up and realised that it's uncannily accurate - I'm 6'9", so I will go for 'I was born on the year of the giant monster' :)

While I try to convince myself that I would never do this, I have to be realistic and assume that if I earned a 6-figure income I would probably pay more for my kids' clothes than would someone with a 5-figure income. $10k seems like a lot to most people, but where's the point at which we 'normal' people say, 'okay, you can spend that much, I don't disapprove'? They're rich, they have money, they spend it. I envy their wealth, but certainly not their attitude.

Sounds a bit like William Castle's promo stunts for 'The Tingler' - see the film 'Matinee' for more.

I don't know what's worse, the fact that someone made this, or that someone somewhere will buy it and attach it to their door to show everyone how much they 'welcome' visitors to their house.

Someone who used to live on Crete but moved away: an ex-Cretian. That may not be an official one, however. Amnesia has a Greek origin, but I can't remember if it's related to a myth or not :)