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Anybody else think it's ironic that Castro is dying from crappy medical care?
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Anybody else think it's ironic that Castro is dying from crappy medical care?
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TB
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1/18/2007 3:58:53 AM
re: Anybody else think it's ironic that 41 million citizens of the richest country in the world don't have health insurance?
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Laurie Street
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1/18/2007 6:38:46 PM
Thank you Laurie
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Lindy
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1/19/2007 1:39:26 AM
Don't need to spit.
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TB
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1/19/2007 7:13:57 PM
"What's that about?"
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Lindy
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1/20/2007 1:00:03 AM
Don't remind me about tax time.
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TB
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1/20/2007 3:23:16 AM
Are 41 million going without needed medical care?
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FrankC
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1/18/2007 7:48:32 PM
Nope, but it's not efficient.
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azstrummer
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1/18/2007 10:17:50 PM
McDonalds is efficient. Would you like Heart bypass surgery with your McChicken Sandwich?
(n/t)
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Scott Evil
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1/22/2007 3:04:50 PM
Yep. They only get emergency care. Cruel, sort of like war, huh.
(n/t)
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Bowser
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1/18/2007 11:16:36 PM
Inefficient is a word often associated with national health care programs
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FrankC
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1/18/2007 11:00:48 PM
re: Inefficient is a word often associated with national health care programs
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azstrummer
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1/19/2007 7:39:30 PM
I'll pass on that
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FrankC
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1/19/2007 8:41:05 PM
Gee Frank...........
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Lindy
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1/22/2007 12:02:35 AM
If wishes were horses...
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FrankC
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1/22/2007 1:48:43 AM
"What I desire..."
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TB
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1/19/2007 11:15:05 PM
re: "What I desire..."
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gbaikie
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1/21/2007 3:53:13 AM
What happened?
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FrankC
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1/20/2007 1:42:39 AM
I think you misread
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azstrummer
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1/19/2007 10:04:32 PM
The only ones who understand American healthcare are American conservatives?
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alcaray
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1/19/2007 7:11:31 PM
Is that what I said or just the way you perceive what I said?
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FrankC
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1/19/2007 7:58:48 PM
What you said:
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alcaray
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1/19/2007 8:34:58 PM
So everyone in America is a radical leftist dreamer or a conservative?
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FrankC
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1/19/2007 8:43:24 PM
Were you not refering to the "leftists" in this thread? Or were you bringing an uninvolved group of people into the discussion?
(n/t)
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alcaray
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1/19/2007 8:47:20 PM
If the shoe fits, anyone is free to wear it but....
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FrankC
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1/19/2007 10:05:03 PM
You responded to Raoul. Can I assume that he was the European you referred to?
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alcaray
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1/22/2007 3:28:14 AM
I guess you mean Laurie
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FrankC
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1/23/2007 6:38:08 AM
re: I guess you mean Laurie
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Laurie Street
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1/23/2007 5:10:08 PM
Anecdotal
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FrankC
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1/23/2007 7:18:38 PM
Ironic, no. Par for the course, yes.
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Fox
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1/18/2007 6:57:05 PM
80 years old? Smokes cigars? Drinks like a fish?
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Robert
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1/18/2007 5:19:49 AM
Seriously, speaking of irony
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Robert
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1/18/2007 5:39:52 AM
I do. Apparently he didn't follow advice. Friends who have visited Cuba - - -
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Bowser
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1/18/2007 4:47:16 AM
Good ol' Bowser.
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TB
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1/18/2007 5:27:08 AM
Arles, France, August 3, 1997
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Alan G. Archer
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1/18/2007 3:00:58 PM
"Well into her hundreds she drank a glass of port before lunch and another before dinner."
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Lindy
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1/18/2007 4:57:36 PM
Reservatrol
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azstrummer
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1/18/2007 10:22:41 PM
LOL
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Lindy
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1/19/2007 1:43:44 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.