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14th April 2016, 08:52 AM
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Views: 1,059  Re: Apparently, I look like a suicide bomber
I had random cops follow me around after 9-11.
I tend to tan pretty dark and that with my long beard and freedom fighter hat apparently made me suspicious looking. It mostly happened out in western...
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7th April 2016, 07:26 PM
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7th April 2016, 06:29 PM
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Views: 1,359 Re: The high price of health care in U.S.
I was wondering about that 45% for teens . It seemed strange that it would jump from "normal" tax to that.
Now I'm wondering how you figure Capitalism equates to a way of organizing a society in...
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7th April 2016, 01:44 PM
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Views: 1,359 Re: The high price of health care in U.S.
Which is one way of saying you give money to your government through the tax levy and then the government covers your medical cost with that money through medicare. I also noticed in your other...
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5th April 2016, 08:04 PM
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5th April 2016, 02:36 PM
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Views: 1,359 Re: The high price of health care in U.S.
Well all you're doing now is showing that you have very little understanding at all of understanding me or what I think.
I presented an idea earlier that I believe would make health insurance more...
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5th April 2016, 12:55 PM
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Views: 1,359 Re: The high price of health care in U.S.
Nope, I just understand what rights, privileges, and entitlements actually are. I also understand that what you call health care is actually health insurance and there is a big difference.
The rest...
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5th April 2016, 11:43 AM
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Views: 1,359 Re: The high price of health care in U.S.
We must be using different internets.
To put that in simpler terms. You have a right to health care as in you have the right to take care of your own health. When you have to purchase health...
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5th April 2016, 11:03 AM
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Exactly. It's not a right but a social contract you pay for. To break it down further you buy health insurance from the government.
Personally here I'd like to see a lightly regulated free market...
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4th April 2016, 08:54 PM
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Views: 1,359 Re: The high price of health care in U.S.
Which makes it a privilege and not a right. The only difference in health care provided by anyone and other commodities or products is (where you live) prices are set by the government. No difference...
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4th April 2016, 07:20 PM
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Views: 1,359 Re: The high price of health care in U.S.
I don't agree that health care is a right, but I do agree it's treated like a commodity.
Like I showed above two of the problems we have here are the C.o.N laws many states have and the way medicaid...
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3rd April 2016, 02:23 PM
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Views: 1,359 Re: The high price of health care in U.S.
What's happened is the aca put more people on medicaid with the promise to doctors that medicaid payments would match medicare payments. Then the government lower medicare payments creating a net...
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3rd April 2016, 08:49 AM
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Views: 1,359 Re: The high price of health care in U.S.
Another problem is Certificate of Need laws that many states have.
Basically it prevents new hospitals and doctor run hospitals from being built if the state determines there isn't a need for one....
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1st April 2016, 12:47 PM
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31st March 2016, 06:20 PM
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29th March 2016, 02:33 PM
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24th March 2016, 09:14 PM
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24th March 2016, 12:13 PM
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Views: 410 Re: Generation X skinny and weak
Sure do miss the old days when it was the young generation and the old generation. With all these x,y,z, and millennium crap I don't know who's talking about who anymore.
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23rd March 2016, 07:46 AM
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21st March 2016, 06:54 PM
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Views: 653 Re: Why the new generation is so lazy
Someone I know posted on fb today that she couldn't believe little kids do nothing but play on computers all day.
She didn't like it when I reminded her she was a mother of two little kids who play...
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21st March 2016, 06:51 PM
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20th March 2016, 06:05 PM
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20th March 2016, 05:59 PM
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Views: 1,686 Re: Optical illusion for men
That reminded my of what happened with my father years ago.
He was 88 at the time and in very poor health. I went to his bedroom one morning to see how he was and keep him company. When I walked in...
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20th March 2016, 09:18 AM
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Views: 1,686 Re: Optical illusion for men
I keep looking at the license plate and wondering what country it's from.
I never heard of a GT-R until now and have no idea who makes them.
Yes the girl is nice but I know at my age I have no...
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18th March 2016, 03:26 PM
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15th March 2016, 10:19 AM
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Views: 652 Re: Time Does Not Heal All Wounds
I can defiantly relate to that Frank. I've had two dogs that I miss and keep their pictures near my desk. When I got the cat I currently have my thinking was to get a pet I wouldn't get attached to...
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15th March 2016, 10:14 AM
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Views: 361 Re: A Contented Dog Is A Happy Dog
I had a dog once that would eat my weed. She would also try her hardest to breathe in the smoke when I was smoking it. If I was having a cig she'd leave the room only to come running back in when she...
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11th March 2016, 05:59 PM
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Views: 445 Re: R.I.P. Keith Emerson
If not for ELP I'm not sure I ever would of listened to classical music and enjoy it. I will admit though that I add in drums in my head with Carl Palmer in mind.:D
I saw ELP in 73 on their Brain...
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11th March 2016, 02:42 PM
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Views: 445 R.I.P. Keith Emerson
Another great one gone.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Rondo/ Bach Improvisations - Live in Switzerland, 1970 - YouTube
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27th February 2016, 11:09 AM
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27th February 2016, 11:00 AM
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Views: 271 Re: Food for thought
I rant against social security and medicare all the time, yet when I turned 62 I signed up for it. I rant against it because I was forced to pay into it, which is the same reason I signed up to...
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27th February 2016, 10:17 AM
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Views: 271 Re: Food for thought
Just to clear things up here a little. Living off of social security and medicare at the end of your life is a tad different from living off of welfare and food stamps your whole life.
First you...
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21st February 2016, 11:29 AM
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Views: 1,000 Re: How much time you spend for workouts?
For almost all my life I've had jobs that were both physically and mentally challenging (after all I am mentally challenged to begin with;)). So I just called work exercise. When I mowed lawns I...
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19th February 2016, 04:19 PM
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Views: 263 Re: Not sure which song fits my week
Yes they are Whatever;)
Terra I've never heard that song, and I'm not going to listen now:D
Kay I knew the pipe was frozen, just didn't know it ruptured till it thawed. Usually here when a pipe...
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19th February 2016, 03:03 PM
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Views: 263 Not sure which song fits my week
Thanks to the bitter cold weekend I had a water pipe freeze in the basement. After it thawed I found it had ruptured in two places. Both spots are in the old thick wall copper pipe and not the newer...
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19th February 2016, 01:51 PM
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16th February 2016, 12:06 PM
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Views: 223 Re: Six ways Mushrooms can save the world
He may have been. Read numbers 1 and 5;)
11 Odd Facts About 'Magic' Mushrooms (http://www.livescience.com/48704-odd-facts-about-magic-mushrooms.html)
I don't actively hunt or grow Psilocybe...
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16th February 2016, 11:52 AM
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Views: 519 Re: ZNation
I liked it more then TWD. The "crew" in Znation have a purpose and a sense of humor.
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16th February 2016, 09:37 AM
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Views: 519 Re: ZNation
It was good. Darryl in the opening scene was great;)
If you haven't watched Znation though I'd highly recommend it. To quote Doc, "Zombies, Weed and GMO's, what could go wrong?"
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16th February 2016, 08:45 AM
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Views: 519 Re: ZNation
Yeah it was. If you had seen the wheel of cheese you'd remember;)
What I really liked about Znation is how they injected humor into the intense (or tense) situations.
Doc smoking a joint with a...
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16th February 2016, 08:32 AM
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Views: 223 Re: Six ways Mushrooms can save the world
You sound like my old Entomology (and plant pathology , fruit science and vegetable production) professor.:D Most of the labs in his classes where outdoors and the two of us would spend a lot of lab...
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16th February 2016, 08:16 AM
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Views: 519 Re: ZNation
Z Weed! Have you seen the wheel of cheese yet?
I'm a pretty big Walking Dead fan but I thought Z Nation was better. But then Z has The Murphy and my favorite "Doc".:D
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11th February 2016, 11:13 AM
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Views: 223 Six ways Mushrooms can save the world
A short (17 mins) video from Ted Talk by Paul Stamets.
https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world?language=en
I've used his Fungi products for years both indoors...
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10th February 2016, 11:51 AM
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8th February 2016, 10:29 AM
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Views: 7,171 Re: Official 2015-16 NFL Thread
When I got home from watching the game I caught that skit.
It was the hardest I laughed all day.:D
As for the game a friend of mine said it best I thought.
He said it looked like the old and...
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6th February 2016, 12:57 PM
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1st February 2016, 01:16 PM
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Views: 7,171 Re: Official 2015-16 NFL Thread
Not only the free super bowl ad but all the additional free advertising they are getting from the news stations reporting it. Of course with being located about 15 miles north of me they are all over...
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28th January 2016, 01:57 PM
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25th January 2016, 08:50 PM
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Views: 7,171 Re: Official 2015-16 NFL Thread
Well I didn't see this coming. Winston is going to the Pro Bowl in place of Brady. That makes 5 Bucs, three from offense going to Hawaii. Jameis Winston Headed to Pro Bowl!...
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24th January 2016, 01:20 PM
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24th January 2016, 12:38 PM
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24th January 2016, 11:55 AM
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24th January 2016, 11:51 AM
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24th January 2016, 11:43 AM
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23rd January 2016, 12:17 PM
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Views: 7,171 Re: Official 2015-16 NFL Thread
That could be the 2016 Bucs with Mike Smith as O.C.:D
By the way did you see we're getting a new football league this year?MLFB - Major League Football (http://www.mlfbmedia.com/)
There's also a...
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23rd January 2016, 12:08 PM
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