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Then those aren't conservatives. You can't insure against a condition that already exists. That is not insurance. People need to stop regarding it as such before the problem can be properly addressed.

It would seem that they're only pro-choice when it suits them.

This touches on something I've wondered about; how can you ensure against something that's already happened? It would seem that the best way to handle coverage for a pre-existing condition would be to have a separate assistance plan for such things, instead of including it in a program where insurance companies will have to pay it. My understanding of insurance is that you pay for protection against something you hope never happens, and that the insurance company charges you for financial compensation in case it actually does. You hope you have no problem, the insurance company hopes they have to make no payment. If you look at insurance this way, it seems like it's largely not being used as insurance is intended, and that adding the burden of covering pre-existing conditions on top makes no sense at all.

He probably figures that if Bill Nye can get away with it, then he can too. Hell, there's probably at least a book or two in it....

Agreed - he looks like Johnny and Edgar Winter's long-lost sister.

That one is for me as well, but a lot of MOD is pretty much in the same vein that SOD was. Then again, some of it isn't. I chose that song because it's brand new. It's good to see Billy is keeping busy.

I liked Colbert's show on Comedy Central as well, but his new show doesn't suit him nearly as well. He was more entertaining when he was a parody character. Now he's just playing to the angry left. Heaven knows that they could use a good laugh for a change - they're some of the most bitter, spiteful people I've ever seen. It strikes me as odd that if they want to go after Trump, why outdo him with regard to classlessness? It only makes Trump look like the second biggest ass in the conversation instead of the biggest.

This guy works for the Arizona state government. I definitely think it's an idiotic waste of money spent enforcing a really stupid law, but if I was going to be consistent then I'd chalk it up to a state's rights/Arizona issue.

Debate? What debate? There's no room for pragmatism in religion.

Wow - read all the replies.

Don't know of you like his other band MOD, but their new album is out in July: Billy's announcement: https://youtu.be/r8jQ1p-4NeE

I'm assuming that the photos, along with whatever else that was that Mike copied from 'right by his address book' will be used to show that Chuck is a complete loon, paranoid to the point where he'd create an imagined conspiracy against him by Jimmy. I'm only guessing though.

And I'll be defending myself in court during my attacker's funeral. I can live with that.

Don Bolsa embarrassed Hector at the cartel boss's poolside - pissed Hector off big time.

They're trying to recreate the political climate in Germany leading up to WWII, but they're playing both sides at once; they've got the fascist movement going strong, so they've decided to diversify into book-burning. Supposedly because people like us are intolerant.

So if they called it something other than 'Chinese Salad' then she'd start crying about cultural appropriation, I'll bet.

Oh, hell yeah! SOD and MOD both - I know Billy. The man is a force of nature, to be sure. That was great!

"It's there in front of you, the thuggish mobs of the left killing free speech at American universities. The thugs call themselves antifas, for anti-fascists. They beat people up and break things and set fires and intimidate. These are not anti-fascists. These are fascists. This is what fascists do." "Safe spaces are not about learning or critical thinking. Safe spaces belong to education camps, where future bureaucrats are trained in the Orwellian shaping of language and the culling of threatening ideas." Good to see something like this in the Tribune. Maybe it will actually get a few people thinking. Probably not.

You're probably right - I don't mean to say that I think automation won't cause a net loss of jobs, only that the positions created by automation are often not considered in conversations on the subject. When I was in a robotics program 25 years ago, they were teaching that the main uses for robotics was in assembly, usually performing dangerous or extremely repetitive tasks, and doing so at a rate of one completed action per minute. Those numbers may have changed since my school days - I don't know, but even if they haven't those are still attractive numbers: 480 consistent and accurate spot-welds per eight hour shift with no fear of injury to employees is good. What we were not taught about back then was using robotics to replace employees in an effort to reduce labor costs. It just wasn't being done at the time, at least not to any significant extent. In my view, the argument about automation working it's way into food preparation shows that the dollars per hour labor cost for unskilled work is being artificially inflated. The increasing demand to pay a living wage for unskilled labor is going to inflate labor costs to a point where restaurants will not be able to afford it unless they do automate. As I see it, this is the current issue. Automation will continue as time passes regardless, but an adoption and implementation of a living wage will hasten the process big time.

I'm guessing it was failure. You know, good old-fashioned totalitarian communist, socialist, let's have a parade with endless columns of missiles in tow that don't actually fly but for an odd mile or two in a random direction and then fizzle out in the sea of Japan, but our military parade will look extremely impressive to the pathetic thralls that are our citizens. Hopefully it's going to be China that gives Un the international-level B word slap that he has coming.

Some of us call it blind partisanship, plain and simple.

I'm not sure - was his first name Dingle?

Nacho is actually a nickname for people named Ignacio, in fact the guy that invented nachos was named Ignacio, and the appetizer was named after him.

I doubt that there would be much negative coverage of the dems if they do manage to shut it down. It will probably be spun as a bold act of patriotism.