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currently i'd be willing to go back to healthcare circa 1776 if i could get the water shut off valve in my house to actually fucking work

it was a compromise between what the insurance companies wanted (the status quo) and what liberals wanted the only thing i see your side doing is going back to the shitty old days. if you can come up w/ somethign that covers everybody in a meaningful way, i'd be interested...

again, who wanted that? the insurance companies that prevented the last attempt at healthcare reform (hillarycare). they also demanded there be no public option. i'd be very happy to see the former go and later reversed. somehow i doubt that would please anyone on the right...

health care costs were increasing at a rapid rate long before the ACA passed, and, as said, while stil rising, having slowed the old status quo i have no interest in returning to: - if your sick you can't get coverage - if you have coverage and you get sick you get dropped, rates raised, denied service w/o possibility of appeal, etc. - if you have coverage and get service you get accused of hiding previous conditions and your service retroactively cancelled and bills collectors up your ass to recover the expenses i don't think anyone's in love w/ obamacare per se - it's a shitty compromise that every liberal hated and every conservative who demanded said compromise immediately ran from when it was accepted - fuck you, you have nothing better to offer but anger

the only thing obamacare is better than is the old status quo

young scotchman obewon kenobi did a series a few years ago on biking round the world too - only managed an episode or two though...

april: the hard way around: the passages of joshua slocum by geoffrey wolff - a piece of road mercy from some friend of tvash's - me, mid-blizzard, the only book i'd brought for the trip kicked only 2 days in - a fine read and breezed through quick - an odd lad i'd never heard of - product of a dying generation, the last of the age of sail - as an old man he undertook the first solo circumnavigation of the globe - lauded widely abroad, he returned to derision and suspicion, disappearing into the Deep Blue Sea soon there, never to be seen again fine quote it contained from dr johnson: "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."

march: the irish war: the hidden conflict between the ira and british intelligence - tony geraghty seemed appropos for the month of st paddys - despite the sub-title, a good primer on the entirety of irelands troubles with her big brother next door - the auther often injected into the action as he was an ex-soldier turned journalist who got the shit beat out of him while on assignment in the 6 counties during the 70s on after - written just a year or so after the good friday peace accord, wonder how old boy feels a decade plus on? seems like the shit worked, despite inevitable cynicism the physical force tradition, often carried about by folk who couldn't rightly explain what it would amount to - the insanity of terrorist movements that attempt to speak for a people that repeatedly reject them in public referendums - brendan behan: the first item on any irish republican agenda is "the split!" - "my owld alarram clock" - semtex - the reliable "honeypot" assassination technique - the classic case for extra-judicial killings - sinn fein: "ourselves alone" finished while being flung through the Deep Space and Wastelands of idaho and u-tard at the onset of yet another glorious spring break

i can handle shitty crag dogs n' 3 legged craggy dogs, but craggy, 3-legged bad-dogs blow

gun primarily needed to keep partner compliant - 1 or 2 rounds should be fine - target likely to be at belay quite close to you - snub-nosed .38?

war - who wants it? liberals are clearly capable of talking themselves into a good old fashioned war, but the default of conservatives is clearly "fuck'em, the easiest solution is war." the "healthcare for all" sticker does not feature the word "free" - and do you really lose your freedom to die of polio/cancer/etc under o-care? christ, what "freedom" have you been stripped of?

i'm getting a bumper sticker for carl's jr new ad campaign: FUCK YOU, I'M EATING!

if somebody knocks, be sure to scream: "go away, i'm 'bating!!!"

things r mo'better now

my favorite bumpersticker (i doubt it's owner was a dyed-in-the-wool libtard) back in the day in solid-red virginia was: "don't blame me, i voted for jeff davis"

all the negative energy made me stronger (plus i made larger holes to throw the old concrete into the mix)

reckon aid climbers need at least SOME approach the 1st 2 pitches are the most serious, but the rest of the route doesn't disappoint - would enjoy finishing it w/ you, ole boy, should ye be available

a pin anchor at foot level can't piss off anybody

the inescapable lesson i've learned over the years: if you love your team, for god's sake don't watch them...

the person who started this thread has been sacked

ggk eats angry for breakfast, lunch, n' dinner

kee-rist, i miss that shirt

this thread...is clear.

no one ever complains about bringing pussy to the crag...