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Todd Gack

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  1. 28 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    This.  While it sounds nice to run away, holding the line here in the US is likely our last, best hope.  If we surrender our position on the globe -- and we're running at breakneck speed to do so -- then what fills the void will not be pretty, for us or anyone else.

    We are on the brink of becoming the kind of world that couldn't help but fall into a WWI and then a WWII.  This decade is where liberal democracy -- the concept that largely kept the peace and paved the way for unprecedented prosperity for 75 years -- makes its stand.  And yes, the inherent flaws of liberal democracy helped bring this moment about -- there are weaknesses that were there to be exploited.  But now, the fight is an existential one.  

    There are people who don't think it is as serious as making our stand in the fight for everything right now.  They are wrong.  That is absolutely what is at stake.

    Between reading your takes and hearing (or reading the captions - the man is hard to decipher) on Noam's take, I'm starting to think this trump fellow might be doing some real damage...

     

  2. 9 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Really, really excited to have a baby due in August. Gonna be a real fun time this fall.

    July 30th here.  Already put a deposit down to start daycare Nov 1st... annndd it's time for more bourbon

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  3. On 4/25/2020 at 12:15 AM, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Don't do it.

    Incessant barking. Dog shit in the yard. Chews up everything fucking thing left outside for more than a minute. I can't walk out onto the porch and down the steps without tripping over a fucking dog. I can't walk across the fucking yard without tripping in a hole.  I can't grill outside with out having a damn dog all up in my shit. I can't sit on the porch and drink a beer or have a smoke without dogs all up in my shit. Once a month or so one will either get sprayed by a skunk or roll in dead shit.

    I will fucking divorce my wife if she ever brings home another fucking dog. I hate our dogs. Fuck dogs hate dogs hate fuck shit hate

     

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  4. 2 hours ago, Turkleton said:

    Look, I know you commies can’t stand facts and reality (racist, xenophobe and all those other phobias you dumbfucks claim), so I understand your hatred toward him. But sorry, he is here to provide facts to the indolents that your party just can’t provide and it will be for years……… Should be fun.

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  5. 31 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    The Vanity Fair article about the DOE that came out in I believe 2017 should be bookmarked for posterity in all history books.  It was terrifying and exactly the same as what you described above.  That article alone should have sent alarm bells screeching.  Now we reap it.

    yep.  This is one of those articles where if even half of it is true, it's still terrifying.

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis

  6. On 3/20/2020 at 7:02 PM, ZB'Tejas said:

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    Picked these up today and going to break into them. One on the right was the #1 rated Whiskey in 2019.


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

    The Dickel tasted like someone dropped a bottle of multivitamins into a bottle of Jim Beam.  Worst bottle I've ever had, even as a mixer.  Hopefully your experience is better.

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  7. Can someone hold my hand through this?  part (c) basically states that it's secondary to insurance.  So does this mean that it covers 100% for the uninsured and it covers the balance for people who have insurance?  Meaning, it would basically allow to the CDC director to use funds to help people w/ insurance pay toward their deductibles?

    § 71.30 Payment for care and treatment.

    (a) The Director may authorize payment for the care and treatment of individuals subject to medical examination, quarantine, isolation, and conditional release, subject to paragraphs (b) through (h) of this section.

    (b) Payment for care and treatment shall be in the Director's sole discretion and subject to the availability of appropriations.

    (c) Payment shall be secondary to the obligation of the United States or any third-party (including any State or local governmental entity, private insurance carrier, or employer), under any other law or contractual agreement, to pay for such care and treatment, and shall be paid by the Director only after all third-party payers have made payment in satisfaction of their obligations.

    (d) Payment may include costs for providing ambulance or other medical transportation when such services are deemed necessary by the Director for the individual's care and treatment.

    (e) Payment shall be limited to those amounts the hospital, medical facility, or medical transportation service would customarily bill the Medicare system using the International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-CM), and relevant regulations promulgated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in existence at the time of billing.

    (f) For quarantinable communicable diseases, payment shall be limited to costs for services and items reasonable and necessary for the care and treatment of the individual for the time period beginning when the Director refers the individual to the hospital or medical facility and ends when, as determined by the Director, the period of apprehension, quarantine, isolation, or conditional release expires.

    (g) For diseases other than those described in paragraph (f) of this section, such payment shall be limited to costs for services and items reasonable and necessary for care and treatment of the individual for the time period that begins when the Director refers the individual to the hospital or medical facility and ends when the individual's condition is diagnosed, as determined by the Director, as an illness other than a quarantinable communicable disease.

    (h) For ambulance or other medical transportation, payment shall be limited to the costs for such services and other items reasonable and necessary for the safe medical transport of the individual.

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  8. 10 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    Add another state to the list that's ready for single-payer! :)

     

     

    Fantastic that they're in favor.  Not so much that their vote is basically ensuring the 1 candidate (out of 3) who will fight for it will essentially be finished after tonight.

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