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crazy people do crazy things- I think we always want to assign culpability, i.e. political figures, but in the end this guy was probably gonna do something to an unsuspecting couple, or other innocents, just happens he assign this as his convenient excuse to cowardice. Sad.

I don't condone rape, unless you really want to have sex with someone and they won't let you. as for the subject in question, I'm not that hard up.... well yet anyway.

It was old, outdated policy that needed to be scrapped. Only the people of Cuba can make change in their country, and only if they are willing to put everything on the line to do it. Does this mean I can get Cigars now?

Hmm. Disability meaning they can gets carts, and parking passes and free stuff done to their homes to retro fit for 500 pounds humans.... with no incentive to make life changes.... or... its a medical diagnosis and people can get linked up for therapy for mental illness? If this is the case, I do think people who suffer from morbid obesity can benefit from therapy, so perhaps this is a good move. I dated a girl whose father ate 4 pizzas a day, 2 at lunch 2 at dinner, stacked then on top of each other and ate them like big ass slices- and that is not all he ate in a day, and was well north of 400lbs. He finally decided enough was enough, and he went to OA, overeaters anonymous. He dropped down to 185lbs, but he went to a meeting everyday, had a sponsor, etc- it was like AA, just for a different type of compulsion/ addiction. He told me had gone to meeting everyday for 5 years, and would go back to daily meetings when the urges were to worst of his life was in a slump. The difference being OA was free, just addicts helping addicts. I don;t know if AA and OA and truly dealing with the underlying mental issue, or whether they are more abstinence groups of damaged people who are not drinking, drugging or eating, etc.

Probably didn't bring in enough tax money. Fracking has been done for 60 years in this country, only the last 5-8 years has it been an urgent environmental/ health issue. I'd be more nervous about drilling in deep waters, where we have seen demonstrated challenges and disaster potential, than breaking up earth to release gas.

I'd be in, except for a deductible or co-payments.

even better

Not when they tell us about those Shovel Ready jobs.... It's all legit....

I'm just not so sure releasing makes much of a difference. I think any president, in that briefing room after 9/11 gives the nod for getting info the armed forces needs, even of it breaks rules. To think otherwise is naive, IMO.

In that case, the emergency overspending could be slotted for in the next budget with tax increases/ cuts to equalize the difference, or at least accounted for over a time period. I don't think anyone would feel the government shouldn't have access to money for legitimate defense needs, but this spend it with no plan to pay it back or raise taxes to pay for it or specific cuts to offset it is become absurd. What the point of a budget if you are not really held to it? We could just call it "let's try not to spend too much" process... That basically what were doing now I guess.

I think the logic is we admit we were wrong, and full disclosure rectifies those wrongs? Maybe that heals a mending relationship between two rational groups. But what does it do between a civilized country a loose group of hard core fundamentalist militants who will blow themselves up and kill a square full of people without a second thought? I'd say nothing. We used tortured, wow, shocker. I just assume everybody does it in some shape or form during war, whether it's legal or not. I'd prefer to see our country stay out of more conflicts, and maybe our energy should be spent there.

It wasn't as simple as giving out tax credits. The ACA made profound changes in the way insurers are allowed to behave, how they spend your premium dollars for example. It disrupted the system in a good way, and the allocation of cost was shifted many different ways, some people got more some people paid more. In the end, after all the dire predictions, what has been so awful? Deductibles went up, but a R proposal included large deductibles and HSA to pay for them. Premiums have gone up, but millions of people are now getting Heath coverage they could not get or could not afford before. Chuck a Schumer can fist himself, just another out for himself self centered beaurcratic stooge. And I'm tired of hearing about the poor middle class. These same people who whine boo-hoo stories of financial meagerness are the same herd that are fighting with each other on Black Friday for **** they don't need with money they don't have.

Did you get the feeling that just San Angeles was like that, or the country?

We need a national risk pool. I used to be a State based advocate, but this move can been sobering to how impractical a State based option really is for so many people. We need: - a Risk Pool that includes all 330 Million Americans. In the end who cares where the the payment comes from, whether it be Cigna, Aetna or a Government Agency- one stipulation, they Government under no circumstances can they touch a dime of that risk pool money for other "needs". - After we establish a Federal Flat/ Fair tax (I know, funny), automatically assign each American a deductible for their family. If you make 500K a year, it gonna be a big deductible. If you make 15K a year, it will probably be very small. But every person needs to pay for their care, IMO, prevention visits, Mammograms, etc. Deductible encourage good utilization of resources and would creative competitive mini markets for all kinds of services. - Create an entity that has bargaining leverage to squeeze the best and lowest prices out of Drug Makers and Device makers. Let drug companies and Device makers out the heat on other countries and their health systems, were tired of subsidizing their cheap drug and cheaper devices. this hodge podge work around ACA thing, while has greatly benefited my wife and I more that I can say, needs to be scrapped and something much simpler be put in place that curbs cost, cuts administrative boondoggles, insurance company paperwork mazes, takes the sweet rides away from drug makers, and makes every American have a stake in making the system work and work well.

They obviously weren't Black enough... Or maybe too Black?

It seems to me the portion of the American economy defined as finance, or financial services- the place where rich people grow their wealth at an accelerated rate while most Americans don't have a clue how to make money in that sector- is growing and the disparity is increasing- coincidence, or cause and effect? If that sector and its growing prominence is a culprit, who do the Government's QE programs help, really? I honestly think it has a lot to do with just too many people. With a shortage of hands, there would be higher wages and competition over skills. As it stands today, there are tons of people with very few unique of in demand skills and an economy that does't need them anyway.

If it's transmitted through Semen, I expect the PPP to be light on posters in a few weeks....

No, cabinets are very hard to digest. It's the cellulose. That's the second vote for Delaware I've gotten in the last few weeks. I'm gonna give my wife a east coast winter before be lay down any roots... Lol Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. I am doing the 9 month comprehensive program, then will try to stay on for a year studio fellowship if I can. We rented a place in Rockport, and yeah, it's pretty amazing place. It's kind of strange, this area has very wealthy people who live in Camden and have big boats docked in the harbor, and blue collar folks who work two jobs just to stay afloat... But they all hang out together like its a high school party. There doesn't seem to be a status divide, I find it refreshing. Where did the in laws go?

Was, compadre. My wife and I are in Camden Maine for a year, I am attending fine furniture school.... We will probably end up back in Denver- Maine is beautiful, but the property taxes and expenses here are full retard. There are pieces of me that would love to have a small home here, make furniture and gave a schooner moored in a harbor... But let's be honest... How much do we think furniture designers/ makers earn?? Hint: probably not much! Lol It's sobering going in a high tax state again... How easy we forget.

Great, another 10 year pointless engagement in the desert against a plentiful enemy with nothing to lose. Think if we used all those wasted resources solving problems at home?

Yes. Less people and using less in aggregate is the real answer.

Lol, I guess not... Update: plans a reasonable, the website easy to navigate. But the questions they ask, confusing and convoluted. I'll share more later.

525/month for my wife and I in Maine- 6k individual, 12k family. PPO, no limits on providers... COBRA, 1260 for the month, though that does include vision and dental What amazes me is talking to people here locally, and they rave about the Maine Co-OP plans..... And that they would never sign up for Obamacare.... People are so dumb. There is no such policy called Obamacare, and they bought their Co-OP insurance on an ACA exchange. Americans really lack rigor for anything above an Applebees menu....

I find politics, which is on 24 hour news cycles, in a country where our politics are supposed to be small in scope and reach, disappointing.

****, I like to color... I even stay in the lines... Mostly...