rob

He comes off smart on his show? News to me

What about the weather has you wondering?? Looks pretty good to me. I think there is a semi-recent west ridge TR in the TR section from KKKKK

i had to load the google cached version, and even the text only page at that. Kinda funny (obvious) satire... not sure it was worth the effort of getting it to load

Anybody have any beta to share on this one?

Touche -- but are you saying beautiful women are unattainable?

Doesn't matter how many babes were there unless you picked some up. Otherwise, it's like bragging about how much money you saw at the bank

I saw Zombie and Pantera and EyeHateGod at the gorge. Are those metal bands? The fans sure were dickbags.

bump!

OMG! Anti-American???!!! Someone go get McCarthy!!

He should be available soon -- I think he's just about wrapped up over here.

They caught Zippy the Pinhead? it's about time

Yeah, too bad. Even if I do find another position in the company, and interview for it, and they give me an offer (pretty big IFs), the VP or my org won't even let me leave until I've finished training our replacements, which could be months from now -- which really makes it hard to look for a job, since I can't really start for a while. It's like being some place between life and death. a) wait until the transition is over (months from now), then get 6 weeks to try and find a position within the company in a hurry, or get laid off and lose my stock awards b) look for a job within the company while I'm on the transition team, and hope they don't mind that I can't actually start for several months. c) leave the company NOW, and lose all my stock awards what a mess

Yay -- first I get to train the outsourcing guys who are taking over, so I get to stick around another month or two. Isn't that awesome?

I've got Friday free. Anybody want to go climbing? I'm open to anything -- cragging in leavenworth, C2C alpine trip (I can leave Thursday night), whatever. We can discuss ideas. Rob

i'm going to start wearing a turban whenever I drive around that part of the state.

And pharmaceuticals too? And hospitals? And Doctors in private practice? I think the first step is just to lower insurance costs. Health insurance industry makes billions in profits. That's a good place to start. Should Dr's be non-profit? Of course not. I know some Dr's. They don't make all that much. I think the first place to start is the insurance companies HUGE profits. They're raking it in while denying claims? Fuck that. Everyone has to buy insurance if their employer doesn't cover it. Say as a fixed rate payroll deduction. For those unemployed, it's covered for a time, just like unemployment. Everyone has some copay for each visit and some deductible. That sounds like a good start. With the profit ripped out of the insurance industry, perhaps cheap insurance would be more realistic. Medicaid exists for the truly impoverished. But, how would we cover those who have jobs and don't qualify for medicaid, but don't have enough for even cheap insurance? I'm thinking of my friend who works at Starbucks for 8 bucks an hour and lives paycheck to paycheck. The cost of insurance would have to come WAY down.

You guys really think that Bush is more of a terrorist than OBL? Please. I don't like the guy, either, but let's not be retards.

Yes, like "border patrol" inspections along interior highways. See my comments in that thread. How do you reconcile your desire for govt services and programs with your love of freedom? Re: health care? I'm not a health care expert. I'm not sure what the answers are, but I do see that there is a problem, and I believe that free enterprise had it's chance. As I've mentioned before, one good first step I'd like to see is to require insurance companies to be non-profit corps. Do I want to see socialized health care? I'm not sure. Propose a plan. I do think that we need to find a plan which assures reasonable coverage for all. How do we get there? I don't know. But what we're doing now doesn't work, and I'm not comfortable with just sweeping the uninsured under the rug and saying that "it's their fault." We often require citizens to do certain things to safeguard their health; we require them to wear seatbelts. We require them to avoid certain drugs. Why not require them to obtain health insurance? Why not subsidize a cheap form of health insurance for those that can't afford private health insurance? We subsidize wheat, why not health insurance? Things like "insurance tax breaks" and shit are just boondoggles. So far I have yet to see a proposal from the right which I feel really has any kind of chance at actually changing anything. I'm not sure I've seen a good proposal from the left, either, to be honest. But at least I think what we have now is unacceptable. How is that incompatable with a love of freedom?

Yes, like "border patrol" inspections along interior highways.

Then why are they here? I'm sick of people who come here and immediately set about complaining and trying to remake America into the place they left. Idiots. You're right, people who move here have no right to attempt to improve their adopted country. Trying to impose or whine for government health care is not "improvement". It's like walking into MacDonalds for a meal and complaining about how unhealthy the food is. Eat somewhere else. So, it's OK for them to try to improve our country, unless their goals are deemed by you to be "wrong?" People in America have every right to try and implement whatever changes they want, be it communistic, socialistic, fascistic, "collectivistic" or otherwise. That's what's great about America. Even the constitution can be changed. Nobody gets to decide which changes are on the approved list for immigrants to bring up. And I have a right to lobby for and express support for tighter immigration laws; no? Of course. What are we arguing about again?

I'm a software guy

Then why are they here? I'm sick of people who come here and immediately set about complaining and trying to remake America into the place they left. Idiots. You're right, people who move here have no right to attempt to improve their adopted country. Trying to impose or whine for government health care is not "improvement". It's like walking into MacDonalds for a meal and complaining about how unhealthy the food is. Eat somewhere else. So, it's OK for them to try to improve our country, unless their goals are deemed by you to be "wrong?" People in America have every right to try and implement whatever changes they want, be it communistic, socialistic, fascistic, "collectivistic" or otherwise. That's what's great about America. Even the constitution can be changed. Nobody gets to decide which changes are on the approved list for immigrants to bring up.

sorry I can't join you, Dan!

Then why are they here? I'm sick of people who come here and immediately set about complaining and trying to remake America into the place they left. Idiots. You're right, people who move here have no right to attempt to improve their adopted country.