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It's not so much about being complacent as it is just being a responsible adult vs someone with an attitude a phone and a point to prove looking for some YouTube exposure. There are way better ways to make a point and convey an opinion on open carry than doing what this guy did.

This is what happened to us years ago the last time the wife and I went. We didn't have kids then. It's an experience that ruined it for us and thus now with kids why we just stay with the local fireworks. Too many people.

there were about five or six too many dudes in that pool and not enough boobies.

someone better tell them because they are replacing the trees they are cutting down with saplings.

There are bits and pieces within this thread that when combined make me laugh like a kid Seriously, good luck with the car.

Relatively speaking, yeah, for a bus driver, they make a fair wage. Problem is they fail to accept that's the wage range for what they do. If a driver is there 7+ years and making a career of it, then they need accept the fact that they chose not to advance beyond what they have and that the rest of us aren't going to fund their crack-pipe dream to drive a bus and make a ton of money. I'm sure they are fighting for benefits, etc. just like everyone else, but reality has to slap them in the face and tell them if they want more, the door is over ------> there and to make more you have to aspire to do more. Harsh but real. In for more Sturg Love.

won't work? eh.... fitting for Obama's plan I say.

they'll just stay home, make more welfare babies, light up some crack and expect the new insurance to cover home visits. hell, my guess is Obama will provide them medical majiuana to wean them off the pipe.

If you were a fish you'd be in my boat on the way to a fire pit Too easy. I knew there was a reason I love having you here.

with unemployment high, the 4th upon us and public support likely nil for said unions, COTA needs to break them and ditch the unions once and for all.

is this for your mazda 3? my winter tires on the MS3 is 205/50-17. let me know if you need a winter set.

and you're the coolest mother fucker on this board hands down. no one holds a candle to your awesomeness and God Damn you know it too.

Strike in time for and shit on the celebrations of thousands for the 4th of July event even though you have a tentative agreement. It's the American thing to do.

^^ Thank you Ben! Man sees the light and understands the program. One would think you work in the field of medicine or insurance you understand it so well. Sad thing is that it's really not that hard to see but the masses out there see Obamacare just as they saw him, "with eyes wide shut" as the next coming of Christ. :dumb: If they could only understand what's headed their way. I oscillate from angry to scared to sad thinking about this shit. This country is so fucked up in some ways it's almost amazing that the enemies that hate us don't need to do a damn thing except sit back and let us implode on ourselves. I was never a Sarah Palin fan but the bitch is right on when it comes to her thoughts on care for the elderly. You watch, there's going to be a death plan headed our way as the costs caring for the masses of elderly coming down the pike will not at all be sustained under this new plan. 91 and need a new hip.....man will you pay out the ass. Better buy a new one of those too. If you don't die first and that will be if you're lucky. Sadly all this news makes the desire to live longer undesirable. Just spend all you've got and pick the date you want to die and make that happen. It will cost less, there won't be any pain in surprises, no suffering and who knows, they might even make a TV Show about it offering proceeds for staring on it to be sent back to your kids to fund their health plans. I'm going to via an airplane jump. Head first, top speed into where ever Obama is at the time.

Don't take my approach or posts as fighting. It's not personal. As you said, we don't know each other. We each have our strong viewpoints is all. I'm in the industry and have work in healthcare in some fashion my entire career and hate to see this type of stuff come down. The IRS is not the entity that should be running a state health insurance exchange. Hey, they already secured another "tax" for Uncle Sam, so job well done for them :dumb: Did you happen to see the 10TV Special last night talking about the demise of private insurance? Interesting and scarey true. This is not a long term viability plan for them. That's why the hospital stocks went up (becasuse, now they have 30M more customers headed their way) and the insurance companies stocks all went down....because they just took a kick in the nuts that is one step closer to spelling their demise. IMO, Obama care will create two separate plans and again, I'll let the medical practitioners here chime in. We are already hearing it from our providers. (again, I work in healthcare insurance). You'll have one tier of providers (doctors) that opts out of the entire Medicare, Medicaid and insurance bracket and you'll have groups of people like me that pay into a pool (aka private insurance buying group) to have complete access to the better doctors under a private health care out of pocket plan. This is where the good doctors who are in it to make money and provide quality care will be. Call it the group of "the haves" but as an edit, it will be more costly as Ben describes in his post below. Basically, 2-3-4x more than today for the same care. Proven again, just look at MA. since 2006. I said that like 20 posts ago. Then you'll have everyone else, the have-nots, waiting in lines along with all the people enjoying the handouts, for the bottom feeder doctors who are willing to take a Gov't based insurance and treat people like numbers; They will have to as in order to make money off what they will receive will be numbers driven. I just came back from a conference that was in motion when the decision came down and all the doctors there were talking about it. Like it or not, the lower half will now all be feeding among the welfare ridden and thus this is nothing more than an expansion of a program for handouts. Welcome to the welfare lines all you middle class suckers. Life is about to pull you down another couple notches in order to "Spread the Pain and spread your wealth" It's actually going to feel more like spread your butt cheeks. Cliffs: Those with money will go the other way to fund their own "Private Healthcare Buying Group" and again, the rest will enjoy what Canada and the UK See already.....shitty universal healthcare for all. You're right; book mark this thread. Unfortunately, I don't think it won't be a fun revisit in a couple years.

I know how insurance works, I work for an insurance company. In terms of what I'm advocating is to ditch bringing on the bottom 8% that you referenced and others who don't take the costs of their own healthcare to heart. This country needs to start making people using public assistance accountable for the costs associated with what's being provided to them. This program Obama has in mind is more of an expansion of welfare than healthcare. I know the intention is to bring the young immortals into the pool but the program in it's first few years is going to all but crush the smaller private insurance providers because those young immortals are not going to join up in the first couple years. It will be far cheaper for them to Opt out and pay the tax initially than buy the insurance. The insurance companies won't have premiums coming in from those that will never make the claim, which is what they need. Instead it will be that unemployed deadbeat with kids that now has exposure to more public assistance that will gladly take up the doctors time; hell, they're not going to pay for it so why not. If they want coverage, make them go high deductible at least. Otherwise they have zero skin in the game. In the mean time, the sick people now exposed to all this "coverage" will absolutely rape the system and the claims will eat the lunch of the providers. In turn rates will go up for the rest of us and the little providers....will go bye bye quickly. Combined with more free handouts the stage is set for rates to go up for all of use that are responsible. My wife is a family and bankruptcy lawyer but she's not on the side of the creditors thus she's not the hammer, she's the one getting people out of the holes they create and hopefully but rarely helping them understand how to stay out of the next one. She can't fix their stupidity nor their indifference to being accountable for their own actions or financial irresponsibilities. This new plan isn't going to help the deadbeats or those that don't care change their ways either. The only way to do that is to force them be accountable for their own expenses.

I was on Bethel yesterday and couldn't believe how many people have zero clue how a 4 way stop works :dumb: Like you I saw people blasting through them. They must think, no light means no stop. :fuuuu: I'd file a motion to have them prove there is a God before their policy of an "act of God" could be upheld. Until then, fix my fucking house.

No doubt. Just needed to confirm. Thanks. I even RTFM for my Mifi thinking it was me :lolguy: Hard booting them both did nothing but take up my time :fuuuu:

Trying to use my Mifi 4g LTE card and it's all be dead. Shows very sporatic connections via the flashing light but it shows all 5 bars? Light on the 4510L flashes then goes solid green most of the time. AT&T in the area sucks too. I'm at the office near Rickenbacker today so I'm not sure if it's just an area thing. Thoughts?

I know this truck and have seen it around. Needless to say, that won't buff out.

Then he'd take it stage 4 with a bigger motor and tune :gabe:

I couldn't help it :gabe: http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/144451418/original.jpg

The one you show is the Tobacco Hornworm. The rear horn is one of the distigushing signs to tell the difference between the Tobacco Hornworm and the Tomato Hornworm (I always thought they were just regional names for the same creature.) The Tobacco Hornworm rear horn is red (and becomes the Carolina Sphinx Moth. The Tomato Hornworms rear horn is green and black and is the larva of the Five-Spotted Hawk Moth. They both feed on the same plants; tobacco, tomato, potato, and related crops. Both larva are often victims of parasitic wasps mentioned above. We used to catch them as kids and have fun with magnifying glasses on them. Haven't seen too many on our plants but when I do, I drop them in the bird batch and let the robins and cardinals have a go at them.

So in post 129 you weren't clearly stating you were the one with the some issues? That's the post I'm directly part of my comments in my initial reply that got you riled up here to. Sorry but if you call some facts, questions and strong opinions on holding the 8% of this country you were so eager to point out accountable condenscending then you have some thin skin and low expectations of people on public assistance. Nice thoughts on my wife though. I'm sure she'd be glad to talk wiht you about her views on financial accoutability of people. You'd be in for an even more robust conversation than you're experiencing here. Buy a new pair of big-boy pants would be my advice. Good for you and us and our collective accomplishments. So our epenis battle continues without a fuck being given by others here. In the end, you stated you had issues that could have changed your lives and you're mad that I insist you be accountable for those bills. Sorry, but your blanket was obviously rustled if it caused you to change your persepective. Your words not mine. Let me know if you're up for a oonversation around the follow up questions I posed to you; rhetorical posed but you could always field them head on. Describe for me who you're referncing starting off in a broken wheelchair. I'll stand by the fact that We all start out equal. Most even on CR didn't start off in a broken wheelchair. Everyone has choices that put them where they are and there are enough opportunities in this world for everyone so that none of them have to cry about where they come from. That woes me attitude has to stop man. Coddling people who are in that phase of life isn't going to get them anywhere. All that it's doing is insuring they stay there. To claim you were born into a shitty situation or that as of XX years ago you were good and then something that could have changed your life instead changed your persepective means the world should now come together in a collective bill pay is bullshit. You are incorrect and likely not reading all my posts if you think I'm claiming to have it all figured out and haven't admited to failing before and likely to do so again in the future. I'm very glad to put plans in place that help those who help themselves, but to cover the butts of everyone as is being planned by Obama is failboat. Just look at the other systems and as I already mnetioned, costs of healthcare in Boston since 2006.

We have a health assessment like this too. 2010 and 2011 marked the two lowest years in our 56 year history that there were less claims than ever before from our nearly 4,000 employees. Those of us with the HSA have no premium. Standard plans will reach a 25% employee contribution for the premium in the next couple years. That's pretty standard across the board though. For a family of 4 on our best plan the premium is like $350 mo. Wife and I max out our HSA each year instead. Our company offers two levels. I took the higher of the two whereby they put in $2,500 per year. It's moot really once you have the maximum OOP funded. We have that and then some on the card thus why I chose the higher amount. . Not really. I doubt our employer of 4k people is going to fund the cost of the same plans under the new rules as their costs are expected to go way up. They might but they instead could push everyone off to the state exchanges. So far we're okay for this year and next but after is what I'm concerned about. It's also a fact that Vision and Dental care for families if pushed to be bundled with healthcare on one plan will be far underutilized overall. Believe me, we are in vision care, so I know as I have access to the statistics coming from the 58M covered lives we have under our plans. THus consumers will do themselves a dis-service just by the nature of third party plans being pushed to be included under one umbrella. Believe me, the health plans want that as they want less utilization. I don't like to see that but it's likely goign to happen. Sure we pay for it now to an extent but it WILL increase premiums because as of Obama's plan Healthcare plans will be taking on more people at the far end of the spectrum of health. Again, even my company is doing the math at taking on the 8% of the population now sucking up welfare and what they will be doing to our claims. Yes, costs of premiums will be going up. Insurance companies aren't going to lose money on this plan for the sake of wellness for all. There are some good points in the bill but overall, I don't like it. In the end, it spreads the pain to those that shouldn't have to bear it and does nothing to encourage those or insist those benefiting will do anything different other than go to the doctor more than they are now and in turn push the costs of doing so on us. Sure, they will get care, but the cause of their need for said care isn't being addressed, so daddy fat-ass who has diabeties will get treatment but change nothing about his lifestyle.