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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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changed his status to single
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Rush is able to fund any kind of care he wants for himself so good for him. My semi-joking question was why other people should have to pay for another guy's treatment especially if he is the skid row drunk?
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When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
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``Are there no prisons?'' asked Scrooge.
``Plenty of prisons,'' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. ``And the Union workhouses?'' demanded Scrooge. ``Are they still in operation?'' ``They are. Still,'' returned the gentleman, `` I wish I could say they were not.'' ``The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?'' said Scrooge. ``Both very busy, sir.'' ``Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,'' said Scrooge. ``I'm very glad to hear it.'' ``Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,'' returned the gentleman, ``a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?'' ``Nothing!'' Scrooge replied. ``You wish to be anonymous?'' ``I wish to be left alone,'' said Scrooge. ``Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.'' ``Many can't go there; and many would rather die.'' ``If they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.''
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lobber of scimitars
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Been there, done that, seen it with my own eyes. The system is not as broken as Obama wants you to think. A better system for unfunded (or underfunded) persons needing primary care would be a significant improvement.
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I agree with your last sentence and feel envy for those living in PA. Colorado is a very conservative state, despite having a democratic governer at the moment. Colorado spends as little on indigent care as it possibly can get away with. When I didn't have health insurance some years back and became ill and needed expensive tests, Colorado medicine just shrugged its shoulders. One medical official told me to move to California since I would get better care there.
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King Of Wishful Thinking
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Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama |
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Read? I only know how to write.
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Spirit also has no health care. So when that big burly Martian kicked sand in its face, then Spirit was simply left to die. If you think Colorado is cold, try Mars. No health care. Angry Martians who hate Limbaugh. And so cold that even buzzards will not chew on your remains.
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lobber of scimitars
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tw, did you resolve to have a sense of humor for the new year? That's darn funny!!
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Read? I only know how to write.
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I'm a changeling. After two episodes of Craig Ferguson, I have morphed to adapt to a new environment.
Anyone know where to get hand puppets made? Where is the best place to buy kittens? |
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Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. |
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An improvement would be a system that didn't turn middle class working folks into dead folks or poor folks.
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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I know it gives you a hard on to think that I listen to Rush but really I am more of an NPR person.
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Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012! |
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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I don't know how you do it, Merc. I would think your head would explode.
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Merc likes to get an idea what the enemy is up to.
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