A while ago I read an article in which the author started off by discussing some British books they'd read. They remembered reading about people who started businesses that operated on a shoestring, or went freelance, etc., and having a nagging feeling that something didn't fit. Then the realization hit - these people weren't agonizing over leaving jobs because they didn't have to worry about losing health care coverage. The article went on to point out how many people might either start small businesses or go freelance if they didn't have to worry about what would happen if they didn't have employer-provided health insurance.
Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.
'Hell Bound'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[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.
Toddson - Oct 20, 2011 4:39:06 am PDT #1346 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
ChiKat - Oct 20, 2011 5:13:37 am PDT #1347 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
ChiKat, the black and red corset is gorgeous, and it suits K.'s outfit and figure admirably -- she HAD to try it on. Is it all right if she wears it?
Absolutely! Have a great time!!
Strix - Oct 20, 2011 5:34:05 am PDT #1348 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'm leaving in a few! Largest Masonic temple in world is site: 7 floors of music, art, performance, burlesque, dancing and debauchery!
I may be a leetle debauched, but the people-watching will be AMAZING. And some good band playing! theatrebizarre.com
Thank you, ChiKat, Jilli and smonster for helping me!
P.M. Marc - Oct 20, 2011 8:27:29 am PDT #1349 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I, umm, may have just snapped at someone's here's friend on Facebook for delusional, misleading statements about socialized medicine. Maybe.
But, dude. WRONG ON THE INTERNET. And clearly lacking the reading comprehension to read the article he'd linked.
Also, and as well, too, to rant further away from BC's personal space, I've experienced wait times like that down here, with killer coverage, and not in the literal sense of the word killer.
And Canada has a bloody military. No, seriously. It does. Please try to tell the families of the thousands of Canadians in Afghanistan RIGHT NOW that the US keeps Canada safe from harm and pays for all its military needs. Tell that to the war vet who lives up the street from my Aunt Olive. Tell that to my Grandfather, who signed up in WWII (and got stuck stationed in country, due to being in his late 30s and having 5 kids under the age of 10, but anyhow).
Can I deprogram him? Please?
smonster - Oct 20, 2011 8:30:31 am PDT #1350 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Erin, I am so excited for you!! I hope it's a blast. Glad I could help out a bit.
smonster - Oct 20, 2011 8:34:13 am PDT #1351 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Was it one of my friends? Just so I know if I need to look. Limited Internet time.
SailAweigh - Oct 20, 2011 8:35:29 am PDT #1352 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Go for it, Plei. I've seen some of that stuff and it enrages me, too. Some of those folks need a major clue-sticking.
P.M. Marc - Oct 20, 2011 8:41:57 am PDT #1353 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
No, not one of yours.
I just feel kind of guilty, because he's probably a nice enough guy, but I haven't had enough coffee to deal with that this morning.
sj - Oct 20, 2011 10:58:03 am PDT #1354 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Erin, have a great time and take lots of pics!
The rain and cold have finally caught up with us, and with a vengeance over the last few days, but we still had a good time. We went on a whiskey tour today which also took us through some of the Highlands; unfortunately, I have reached my exhaustion point and slept through most of it. I hate to say it, but I'm almost looking forward going home just so I can sleep and sleep and sleep.
Kathy A - Oct 20, 2011 11:37:52 am PDT #1355 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
We went on a whiskey tour today which also took us through some of the Highlands
Did you go on a bus tour?
When I go next summer, I'm planning on renting a car for the Scotland portion of our trip, so I can drive it from Edinburgh up to Orkney. And it will be me driving, even though Mom will be accompanying me, since my sister warned me that Mom is useless with right-hand driving (she went on a driving trip in southern England with her a few years back), and not much better with maps, so it sounds like I'll be doing all the driving and relying on a GPS.