For the next few days it'll be 95-105F degrees (35-40C) here.
Yeah, The Girl just rang me from Tel Aviv airport going "WTF? I brought sweaters!" So that's going to go well.
Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 16, 2009 5:19:38 am PDT #26587 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
sj - Oct 16, 2009 5:48:48 am PDT #26588 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm watching an episode of the Dr Oz Show that did a special free clinic for the day, and it is breaking my heart. 80% of the people who showed up have jobs but no insurance.
Laura - Oct 16, 2009 6:03:53 am PDT #26589 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
It is already over 90 here today. So ready for a season change.
Xposty with Natter. My mom broke her nose. She was trying to get something off a closet shelf and lost her balance. Hit the nose on a stair. Ouch. I added to the horror by publishing the picture my step-dad took. [link]
I'm watching an episode of the Dr Oz Show that did a special free clinic for the day, and it is breaking my heart.
The opposition to solving our health care crisis is infuriating and heartbreaking. What is wrong with these people? Do insurance companies bribe them that well?
Calli - Oct 16, 2009 6:11:01 am PDT #26590 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The opposition to solving our health care crisis is infuriating and heartbreaking. What is wrong with these people?
I think that the "government is the problem" people sold their theory a little too well. Thanks to various elected Vandals going at various government institutions with hatchets and deliberately malicious incompetence since Reagan's election, the idea of the US government having anything to do with health care is genuinely scary to some people. The fact that some of them have been yelling, "Keep the government out of Medicare" just goes to show how well the government= problem message has been sold. They like Medicare, so it can't possibly be a real government program.
sj - Oct 16, 2009 6:20:55 am PDT #26591 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'll admit to not being the biggest fan of government health care, but when it is between that and going broke so you don't die, there definitely needs to be a public option for people who don't have any other options.
billytea - Oct 16, 2009 6:25:48 am PDT #26592 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'll admit to not being the biggest fan of government health care, but when it is between that and going broke so you don't die, there definitely needs to be a public option for people who don't have any other options.
That's fair, although (and terminology tends to get tangled up in this stuff), as I understand it what's on the table is public health insurance - the health care itself is still remaining private under all proposals so far (except for vets, of course).
brenda m - Oct 16, 2009 6:30:01 am PDT #26593 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
(except for vets, of course).
Who by most measures have health care that outstrips the rest of us by a mile.
sj - Oct 16, 2009 6:41:41 am PDT #26594 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
That's fair, although (and terminology tends to get tangled up in this stuff), as I understand it what's on the table is public health insurance - the health care itself is still remaining private under all proposals so far (except for vets, of course).
Sorry, I meant insurance.
Lee - Oct 16, 2009 6:57:37 am PDT #26595 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Good luck on with the panel, Sail!
WindSparrow - Oct 16, 2009 7:04:34 am PDT #26596 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Job~ma, Sail.
House~ma, Barb.
Nose~ma, Laura's mom.