tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post2544423240114810459..comments2024-03-27T15:34:14.749-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: Socialism and Health CareVictor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-37445227888563337352018-09-19T06:38:53.268-07:002018-09-19T06:38:53.268-07:00It's times like these that separate the true f...It's times like these that separate the true fans from the mere posers.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-81702343333661087052018-09-19T05:35:33.722-07:002018-09-19T05:35:33.722-07:00Now that sport is art, poetry, and song, all wrapp...<b> Now that sport is art, poetry, and song, all wrapped up with a bow. It is deeply spiritual, and watching a game at Camden Yards (Oriole Park) is the closest thing the average Joe like me will ever get to contemplative prayer.</b><br /><br />Sometimes prayer can be <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/orioles/2018/09/18/baltimore-orioles-set-team-record-losses/1353379002/" rel="nofollow">a contemplation of sorrow</a>bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-31638173125384890682018-09-19T05:33:05.375-07:002018-09-19T05:33:05.375-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-5195531610921546032018-09-18T17:45:49.245-07:002018-09-18T17:45:49.245-07:00Our government ought to help with things that are ...Our government ought to help with things that are out of our control. If an enemy army invades, or an earthquake strikes, a hurricane, a pandemic disease ravages the population, our government ought to show up with troops, ships, trucks, and helicopters and whatever else for the rescue.<br /><br />I consider a catastrophic disease, illness, or end of life treatment to an individual the same. We ought to show up together, as a country for the worst that can happen to someone. This should be one purpose in our first world government.<br /><br />All the insurance I carry on my own, from my auto and house to my dental and optical, have an upper end to what they will pay and a lower end which I will pay out of pocket. A few examples: I pay for the oil and tires for my car. If I have a major accident, this is payed for by auto insurance. I pay if my water heater goes out, if my house burns down, my home insurance kicks in—all to the agreed limits of compensation. This keeps the premiums low, allowing my family to keep more of the money I earn.<br /><br />Obamacare is a fraud. It demands the insurance companies pay for things people can afford, like birth control and regular checkups (tires and water heaters) and demands no limit to the compensation on the high end of catastrophic illness. It’s the worst of what insurance should be. Obamacare is rightly denounced by sensible people.<br /><br />The solution is for the government to pay for catastrophic illness that are out of the control of an individual, while requiring the individual to pay for ordinary health care, like routine visits. In other words, the government must show up for things that are beyond our control and stay out of our everyday life.David Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222419875209542723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-25276921331480094162018-09-18T12:33:16.081-07:002018-09-18T12:33:16.081-07:00Current thread reminds me of this<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_1l316ow8" rel="nofollow"> Current thread reminds me of this</a>bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-17774851505142167222018-09-18T12:31:56.293-07:002018-09-18T12:31:56.293-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-2442194796045590632018-09-18T12:14:33.136-07:002018-09-18T12:14:33.136-07:00Lol, no. Reading comprehension is a thing. Try it....Lol, no. Reading comprehension is a thing. Try it.SteveKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497892283006396471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-63806497258008432452018-09-18T12:09:10.606-07:002018-09-18T12:09:10.606-07:00Blogger SteveK said...
Nowhere have I defended ove...<br />Blogger SteveK said...<br />Nowhere have I defended overcharging.<br /><br /><b>I quoted your words:</b><br />"Complaining about the high cost and inefficiencies of a government run military isn't helping you make the case for government run healthcare."?<br /><br /><b>that sure as hell is defending overcharge, at least in effect. I had a perfectly cogent point that answers the question what to do you sidestepped that with patriotic tripe.</b>Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-36431791383787877342018-09-18T12:07:06.482-07:002018-09-18T12:07:06.482-07:00No, I did not know him. But I do remember watching...No, I did not know him. But I do remember watching him on television (back when I had one).<br /><br />Seriously, there is a real schism amongst amateur astronomers over imaging (photography) versus sketching. You think the Sunni/Shia divide in Islam is serious? You've never been to an astronomy club meeting where these two groups go at it hammer and tongs!Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-3503040155651845522018-09-18T12:02:23.743-07:002018-09-18T12:02:23.743-07:00Look into Jon Gnagy.
Starhopper probably knew him...Look into Jon Gnagy.<br /><br />Starhopper probably knew him personally.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-50843631323921775132018-09-18T10:25:47.048-07:002018-09-18T10:25:47.048-07:00I did not realize I had poor eyesight (20/80 and 2...I did not realize I had poor eyesight (20/80 and 20/100) until my mid-teens. All those P.E. classes playing baseball where I could not see the ball until it was almost in my face gave me a very great fear and hatred of it in my developmental years haha.<br /><br />I certainly do not fault my art classmates, but I certainly had a different perspective. I wanted to rush through as quickly as possible while they were there to appreciate it. Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593005679430527458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-73168969053808190902018-09-18T09:56:32.721-07:002018-09-18T09:56:32.721-07:00Legion,
I totally agree with you about football. ...Legion,<br /><br />I totally agree with you about football. Baseball, however... Now <i>that</i> sport is art, poetry, and song, all wrapped up with a bow. It is deeply spiritual, and watching a game at Camden Yards (Oriole Park) is the closest thing the average Joe like me will ever get to contemplative prayer.<br /><br />As to "retirees who had decided to take it for fun and not a degree requirement," I guess that describes me in my class!Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-70333161943535093562018-09-18T08:23:06.315-07:002018-09-18T08:23:06.315-07:00Nowhere have I defended overcharging. Nowhere have I defended overcharging. SteveKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497892283006396471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-6762651921959265712018-09-18T07:39:44.725-07:002018-09-18T07:39:44.725-07:00Blogger SteveK said...
Data is now "utter non...<br />Blogger SteveK said...<br />Data is now "utter nonsense". LOL<br /><br /><b>can be irrelevant or conclusions drawn from it can be nonsense.</b><br /><br />Complaining about the high cost and inefficiencies of a government run military isn't helping you make the case for government run healthcare.<br /><br /><br /><b>Defending overcharge like it's a patriotic duty isn't helping you any.I'm talking about 45$ toilet seats and 50$ nails the pentagon buys you are defining like it's Mom and apple pie. The sacred duty of all Americans toe ripped off for the rich.<br /> <br /> that is utter nonsense,(and it;s "data") Of course like all conservatives you are using patriotism to side step the issues so you don't have to face fact that I gave you away to pay for health care and it's a way that fixes our military procurement,</b>Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-18629629347432829932018-09-18T06:51:15.950-07:002018-09-18T06:51:15.950-07:00If you asked me to draw a wavy line, I'd fail....If you asked me to draw a wavy line, I'd fail. That's a talent I can't even comprehend.<br /><br />I remember in college I had to take a Fine Arts class, and it was sheer torture. What mainly hurt was the majority of the class happened to be retirees who had decided to take it for fun and not a degree requirement, so every painting that appeared on the screen would be discussed in great detail with many accompanying oohs and aahs. Meanwhile my 18 year old self had mono the entire semester, dropped 30 lbs due to not being able to eat well because of my throat, and was also moping because I'd broken up with my long-time girlfriend (boo hoo). My perspective was much less conducive to appreciating Andy Warhol's soup can paintings, which to me at the time were the most pretentious and inane pile of BS I'd ever heard of. <br /><br />Though to this day I struggle with symbolism and attributing meaning to things which by all appearances have none, so I'd probably still struggle in that class. It's probably the same reason no one wants to talk sports with me.<br /><br />"Hey, did you watch the game?"<br />"You like watching a bunch of overgrown and overpaid man-divas in colorful spandex groping each other chasing after a ball?"<br /><br />"Hey, did you watch the race?"<br />"You like watching cars drive in a circle?"<br /><br />"This painting is magnificent!"<br />"It's a soup can. Walmart has hundreds."Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593005679430527458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-5527775650313227842018-09-18T06:19:42.185-07:002018-09-18T06:19:42.185-07:00It's an art class. I've always been frustr...It's an art class. I've always been frustrated by the low quality of the sketches I make while observing the Moon, and figured I could use some professional training. I've already seen an improvement in what I can draw. The instructor kind of threw us into the deep end of the pool right off the bat - the first objects to be drawn were our hands, followed by a flower in a vase. I was expecting we'd start out with simple objects and shapes. Hah!Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-80248722503786683242018-09-17T20:31:37.455-07:002018-09-17T20:31:37.455-07:00Or maybe even:
What are the primary inclinations ...Or maybe even:<br /><br /><a href="http://freedomoffaith.tripod.com/id11.html" rel="nofollow">What are the primary inclinations that lead us into good or evil?</a>bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-9668358741465197972018-09-17T20:28:05.705-07:002018-09-17T20:28:05.705-07:00How about this:
How to protect kid's mental h...How about this:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2018/09/17/raising-kids-with-religion-or-spirituality-may-protect-their-mental-health-study/#52cf492e3287" rel="nofollow">How to protect kid's mental health</a>bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-29359550570158558982018-09-17T20:19:16.056-07:002018-09-17T20:19:16.056-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-21387949218524623042018-09-17T20:12:36.907-07:002018-09-17T20:12:36.907-07:00OK. Victor needs a new post.
If only there was s...OK. Victor needs a new post.<br /><br />If only there was something controversial. Too bad there's nothing else to talk about.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-30672555240500296452018-09-17T19:57:08.770-07:002018-09-17T19:57:08.770-07:00I mean what class are you taking?I mean what class are you taking?bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-62173806953536316722018-09-17T18:31:32.498-07:002018-09-17T18:31:32.498-07:00Eat your peas too!
What class?Eat your peas too!<br /><br />What class?bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-20836316091093289092018-09-17T18:30:35.272-07:002018-09-17T18:30:35.272-07:00Hah! I'm taking a class at the local community...Hah! I'm taking a class at the local community college, and my granddaughter refuses to believe I have homework. "Only kids have homework! Not grown ups!" she says.Starhopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350334327301656588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-1907251690610634052018-09-17T18:21:10.223-07:002018-09-17T18:21:10.223-07:00I wouldn't allow any computer time until your ...I wouldn't allow any computer time until your homework was done.bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-64946454498614174852018-09-17T16:22:37.579-07:002018-09-17T16:22:37.579-07:00Your daughter gives you waaay too much computer ti...Your daughter gives you waaay too much computer time :-)bmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05855545675821692382noreply@blogger.com