Cosmic Charlie said:

Well,

I'm willing to roll with it, it just seems odd.

Sort of like when (a thousand years ago) Billy Bob Thornton and Angelia Jolie had small vials of each other blood on necklaces.

Romantic? Well, I can see it.

But odd?

Definitely.

(Upon reflection - that whole marriage was a little off)

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Agreed. Odd indeed.

Here was something completely different, for me anyway. (Not AI.)

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mark46 said:

Eliminate the insurance companies is a bumper s ticker slogan.
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The Clintons tried hard to come up with a plan. Thee failed. Obama didn't try very hard.

SOME THOUGHTS
1) We in the US do NOT want the federal government managing the nitty gritty of health care.

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You really think many of us old farts are dissatisfied with medicare? Medicare is better than any employer -funded health care I ever had when I was working, and I would have been happy to have it instead.

mark46 said:

2) Insurance company rates and rules are regulated at the state level. This is good system for all but socialists and libertarians.

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Why?

mark46 said:

3) Romneycare/Obamacare is a reasonable part of a system. As is the case with auto insurance, everyone should be forced to pay into the system. If this system were better supported, perhaps more companies could stop including health insurance in their compensation packages and simply give the money to employees to purchase health care on their own or through a group that the employee chooses.
4) One issue is indeed the role of company contributions. Should the choice of health care be decided by our employers? That is truly a strange idea.
5) Medicare does need improvements, but it does work very reasonably well for seniors. And yes, I am an old man who has used the system and live in a community where 10's of thousands use the system. I do applaud Trump's twisting the arm of drug producers to lower costs and move production to the US.
6) Medicare for all is a reasonable goal. This is much, much better than trying to create new systems. It could be phased in, perhaps first to 60 year olds. But understand that the conversion cost is very high. A phase in would take decades.
7) We should face the fact that there are better ways to lower insurance costs than having every employer in America negotiating with the insurance companies.

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zippy2006 said:

As I've said above, when someone takes a desirable outcome (baked cookies) and intentionally compares it to the burning of Jewish corpses, they are implying that the killing of Jews is a desirable outcome. The chosen analogy is not innocuous. It wasn't arrived at randomly.

But I am going to try to listen to the whole Tucker interview in order to have a better perspective on this whole phenomenon. Fuentes looks like someone who became embittered, cynical, and extreme after being blindsided by the political environment.

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Would you mind if I copied and answered this post of yours in that thread in TAW? I fear my friends there may now think I'm a full blown Nazi for posting what I posted there.

BCP1928 said:

Nah, he's not a communist and he knows it and the communists (if any) know it, too.

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It just shows how little the right actually interacts with any real leftists. From the bit I’ve seen online, true leftist commie types aren’t too thrilled to see Mamdani palling around with the likes of AOC and Bernie because to them, they’re too mainstream DNC for their liking.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:

Trump needs to worry more about the people in America. That may lose their health insurance, food , jobs. There's no excuse for him to be traveling to other countries, when he's not taking care of the United States of America. That's his job.

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He can worry about many things at once. It's a stressful job. As Christians, we are called to love one another and care for those less fortunate than us.

fhansen said:

Either way they won't be saved without holiness. Rom 6:23, Heb 12:14, Rom 2:7.

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Just as they won't be saved without faith. . .(Eph 2:8-9).

dogs4thewin said:

It depends on what that family gets. There are sales and things like in season produce that would be cheaper Now, I do realize that some people have diet restrictions unrelated to being picky. I know someone for example who has celiac not being able to have any gluten at all is FAR from cheap.

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How much on average do you spend on food per day for yourself?

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

My current yearly insurance premium is about $6,000,

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Correction: Your share of the insurance premium is about $6,000. Your employer or, if you're on an ACA plan, the government picks up the rest (likely the majority).

durangodawood said:

Fantasy Chesterton notwithstanding, what do you really think?

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About Guiliani's post? (Please read below.)

Always in His Presence said:

Mamdani appears smiling, arm-in-arm with unindicted ‘93 WTC bombing co-conspirator and terrorist apologist

The Democratic frontrunner to become the city’s next mayor was seen laughing and grinning while standing arm-in-arm with Siraj Wahhaj at the imam’s Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque in a photo the socialist posted to X a day after the first mayoral debate.​

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And guess who was invited to and appeared at Mamdani's victory party? Goes by the name Hasan Piker. Muslim and communist who has said the attacks on 9/11 were a great, wonderful idea, and who advocates literally murdering middle class people in the streets of America. And more. He has a very large following on Twitch.

Brightfame52 said:

@fhansen



Prov 19:21

Many thoughts there be in the heart of a man; but the will of the Lord shall dwell. (There be many plans in a person’s heart; but the Lord’s purpose shall stand, yea, it shall prevail.)

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And He wants all to repent, none to perish.2 Pet 3:9

rambot said:

Why is that problematic? Do you believe that when you appear in a picture with someone it means you automatically share all their values?

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And regarding this imam - every other mention I could find of this issue was that the list was of "potential" co-conspirators and that it was criticized by some as being overly broad. Apparently some of the actual conspirators attended or visited his mosque.

BCP1928 said:

Can you quote them?

It's not a myth that eliminating insurance companies will save money.

True, but their average wages will increase as well. Alternatively, part of all of that 'average' $21,000 employers are paying now could go directly into the health care fund.

No, they just take it for granted, as does any other intelligent person.

And Trump said Mexico would pay for The Wall. So what?

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Eliminate the insurance companies is a bumper s ticker slogan.
===========================
The Clintons tried hard to come up with a plan. Thee failed. Obama didn't try very hard.

SOME THOUGHTS
1) We in the US do NOT want the federal government managing the nitty gritty of health care.
2) Insurance company rates and rules are regulated at the state level. This is good system for all but socialists and libertarians.
3) Romneycare/Obamacare is a reasonable part of a system. As is the case with auto insurance, everyone should be forced to pay into the system. If this system were better supported, perhaps more companies could stop including health insurance in their compensation packages and simply give the money to employees to purchase health care on their own or through a group that the employee chooses.
4) One issue is indeed the role of company contributions. Should the choice of health care be decided by our employers? That is truly a strange idea.
5) Medicare does need improvements, but it does work very reasonably well for seniors. And yes, I am an old man who has used the system and live in a community where 10's of thousands use the system. I do applaud Trump's twisting the arm of drug producers to lower costs and move production to the US.
6) Medicare for all is a reasonable goal. This is much, much better than trying to create new systems. It could be phased in, perhaps first to 60 year olds. But understand that the conversion cost is very high. A phase in would take decades.
7) We should face the fact that there are better ways to lower insurance costs than having every employer in America negotiating with the insurance companies.

chevyontheriver said:

Ha!

I suppose they may be honored by the association. And maybe he is also honored by the association. I wonder. Time will tell.

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Nah, he's not a communist and he knows it and the communists (if any) know it, too.

ARBITER01 said:

The bible is for born again Christians. It only becomes true and real inside of us after we are born again, not before.

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What is a born again Christian? Because I was baptized as an infant, in denominations some would regard as not “born again” (a high church former Methodist Episcopal parish of the UMC, a congregationalist denomination, an Anglican church, and the Orthodox Church) and i’ve always believed every word of it to be the truth.

Clare73 said:

A whole lotta' folks out there who do not rape, kill, murder, commit adultery, steal, or lie who are not righteous in the Biblical sense of the word.

Their saving righteousness is the righteousness of Christ imputed to them by God through faith (Ro 1:17, 3:21, 4:1-5, 5:8-19, Php 3:9).

Their actual righteousness is the result of obedience in the Holy Spirit (Ro 6:16, 19) by those of faith.

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Either way they won't be saved without holiness. Rom 6:23, Heb 12:14, Rom 2:7.