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for all you bleeding heart liberals... (all three or four of you on this website) I encourage you to spend a day in my job and you can see what all your tax dollars go to. I sell tobacco for a wholesale distributor to convenience stores and gas stations. Unfortunately the stores that bring in the most revenue are in the shittiest of areas. That being said, everyday I see welfare money/social security checks spent on booze and smokes. The money spent on smokes is bitter sweet because at least their buying my product so indirectly its helping me. The rest of their money gets spent on candy, mtn dew and the lottery (also somewhat bittersweet because at least some of their money goes back to the state). I'm totally serious when I say this, but in west dayton a few months ago, there was a couple with their kids in a convenience store and told them it was too early for candy when they asked for "now n laters" (it was 9 a.m.) all the while the parents were buying two 40 oz of schlitz. So as much as you'd like to say healthcare is helping all these poor people who can't get coverage... My bias (because i'm exposed to this side of it everyday) shows me its just another handout to the worthless fucks that buy a 40 oz of schlitz and a blunt before 9 a.m. and could care less about being productive members of society, and are looking for a sperm donor at any given moment to increase their paycheck from the gubment.

its got navajo indian written all over it

Here's a good article about the cost that is shifted to the states in this medical expansion with medicaid. You can argue about the ambiguity of the commerce clause all day long, but at the end of the day, many states aren't going to be able to absorb the cost of this bill so I think thats motivation for suing as well. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=adgxwrGbvNUU *also, paying into the government for the FICA tax might be different than the government requiring you to purchase something from a private entity (i.e. an insurance company in the private marketplace). They're forcing you to participate in commerce. If you don't want to pay FICA, you don't have to work. But in this bill, you're required to purchase insurance regardless.

you get out of here with your onion news network fabrications, this bill is what the american people want! on a related note, did you see Harry Reid's favorability rating was 8% and nancy pelosi's is 11% while congress hovers at 16% overall... great work

I thought rule #1 was don't take gun advice from a motorcycle forum and fwiw I think malfunctions/jams also have a lot to do with the ammo you use, not just the gun. I'm not going to say I've never had a jam, double feed, whatever, but it rarely happens. I don't think there's a gun where thats never going to happen.

I love my glock, I've fired 10k+ rounds through it easily and it works just as good as the day I got it. Never fired the XD's, but have put a few rounds through an M&P 9 mm and loved it. I'd really like to get an M&P pro series. If you're just an occasional recreational shooter and carrying concealed, I think either one of those guns would be fine. Find a range that will let you rent guns, put a few rounds through all the models and see which one fits you best.

double post... anyhow Now that healthcare has passed... I'm going to put my Miss Cleo hat on and look into my magic ball. The next thing the dem's are going to do is pass legislation for amnesty on illegal immigrants to get millions more people "free healthcare" and buy millions of votes they just lost. Give it a few months, but this will happen before midterms.

just doing some quick math in my head and fwiw... the cost of water is MUCH cheaper than the cost of healthcare. And most police, firefighters, and roads are part of local and state government. Different rules apply to state mandates than federal mandates.

in case any of you missed it.. the only good thing to come out of the healthcare debate was John Boehner's speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_PcUUAi52I

you do have to have your endorsement for 1 year before you can ride passengers, (this is newer in the past few years, before you just had to have your endorsement). That being said... Sell your kid for cash on ebay, craigslist, blackmarket... whatever. Use that money to buy a new, better motorcycle. Put some custom pinstriping and maybe airbrush his/her face on it and then you can always have him/her with you when you ride. Problem solved! (a 4 year old on the back of your bike and you haven't been riding for very long? Too bad you don't have to have a license to have kids)

i see nothing?

I love how congress has an approval rating of 16% right now and they're like ... Yeah American's want this bill! We need to pass healthcare! And then Obama's approval rating continues to decline the more he pushes this healthcare bill and yet they see no correlation? If they pass it, and they're getting close, I can't wait for the shit storm. Should be entertaining! I think our government will go bankrupt just dealing with all the lawsuits from this legislation before it could bankrupt America from direct costs. By the way, when do we consider ourselves bankrupt? When you're 12 trillion in the hole, aren't you pretty much broke?

biggest democratic scandal of all time http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf

thanks you knew where I was going with that

buy a mac = problem solved

This all could have been prevented if he would have signed up for celebrity rehab! http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/10/corey-haim-celebrity-rehab-dr-drew-casting-died-death-drugs/

I don't get the right side headlight? the headlights are molded as a pair. I have a pair of headlights for an 06 that are mint condition on exterior but 3/4 of the mounting tabs are broken.

by vast knowledge do you mean that if you increase the demand of a product for everyone that the supply and quality of such product decreases and price of overall product increases?

you can argue the semantics all you want, but at the end of the day what made this story so compelling is that the man who flew to florida for the procedure was a Canadian Premier... I'd love to see them pass Universal Healthcare and then Harry Reid fly out of country to have a major surgery performed somewhere else.

If this isn't a ringing endorsement against universal healthcare, I don't know what is... http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h0QC7bditrEb3wYz_6_b-gsGGDxA game over! My heart, my choice,' Williams says, defending decision for U.S. heart surgery By Tara Brautigam (CP) – 1 day ago An unapologetic Danny Williams says he was aware his trip to the United States for heart surgery earlier this month would spark outcry, but he concluded his personal health trumped any public fallout over the controversial decision. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Williams said he went to Miami to have a "minimally invasive" surgery for an ailment first detected nearly a year ago, based on the advice of his doctors. "This was my heart, my choice and my health," Williams said late Monday from his condominium in Sarasota, Fla. "I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics." The 60-year-old Williams said doctors detected a heart murmur last spring and told him that one of his heart valves wasn't closing properly, creating a leakage. He said he was told at the time that the problem was "moderate" and that he should come back for a checkup in six months. Eight months later, in December, his doctors told him the problem had become severe and urged him to get his valve repaired immediately or risk heart failure, he said. His doctors in Canada presented him with two options - a full or partial sternotomy, both of which would've required breaking bones, he said. He said he spoke with and provided his medical information to a leading cardiac surgeon in New Jersey who is also from Newfoundland and Labrador. He advised him to seek treatment at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. That's where he was treated by Dr. Joseph Lamelas, a cardiac surgeon who has performed more than 8,000 open-heart surgeries. Williams said Lamelas made an incision under his arm that didn't require any bone breakage. "I wanted to get in, get out fast, get back to work in a short period of time," the premier said. Williams said he didn't announce his departure south of the border because he didn't want to create "a media gong show," but added that criticism would've followed him had he chose to have surgery in Canada. "I would've been criticized if I had stayed in Canada and had been perceived as jumping a line or a wait list. ... I accept that. That's public life," he said. "(But) this is not a unique phenomenon to me. This is something that happens with lots of families throughout this country, so I make no apologies for that." Williams said his decision to go to the U.S. did not reflect any lack of faith in his own province's health care system. "I have the utmost confidence in our own health care system in Newfoundland and Labrador, but we are just over half a million people," he said. "We do whatever we can to provide the best possible health care that we can in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Canadian health care system has a great reputation, but this is a very specialized piece of surgery that had to be done and I went to somebody who's doing this three or four times a day, five, six days a week." He quipped that he had "a heart of a 40-year-old, so that gives me 20 years new life," and said he intends to run in the next provincial election in 2011. "I'm probably going to be around for a long time, hopefully, if God willing," he said. "God forbid for the Canadian public I won't be around longer than ever." Williams also said he paid for the treatment, but added he would seek any refunds he would be eligible for in Canada. "If I'm entitled to any reimbursement from any Canadian health care system or any provincial health care system, then obviously I will apply for that as anybody else would," he said. "But I wrote out the cheque myself and paid for it myself and to this point, I haven't even looked into the possibility of any reimbursement. I don't know what I'm entitled to, if anything, and if it's nothing, then so be it." He is expected back at work in early March.

he did attack capitalism in his letter at the end and praised communism? That seems more left than right to me... but if he would have held out just a little longer on not paying taxes he could have got a job in the obama administration!

I'd say the economy is messed up because we're 12 trillion in debt and keep printing money like its still there? not because we can buy things cheaper online... Some of the biggest online retailers also have physical stores (walmart, best buy, target.. etc)

my first gun was a taurus 24/7 pro and I loved it, fired great, prolly put a thousand rounds through it before I traded it in for my glock. It just didn't fit my hand as well as the custom glock. I went through a basic pistol course one time and there was this kid who had a hi-point and he was all over the place with it, he was a terrible shot so I don't know if it was him or the gun, but about every 10-20 rounds the instructors had to tweak something with the gun until eventually it just shit out and broke. So I'd never own a hi point. Love my ruger LCP and SR556, never had any problems with those either.

if you've ever worked in a union you know that they're as worthless as the people they help keep employed. (speaking from experience at multiple union jobs, that shouldn't even have been unionized!)