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» in reply to
"...before we put everybody in the country in the program"
"Are you ever going to put your strawman arguments to rest? "
Bowser
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5/14/2009 4:32:19 PM
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Test driving government health care
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TB
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5/14/2009 4:34:07 AM
We've driven the current system into a ditch for most Americans
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Buck Galaxy
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5/15/2009 9:04:13 PM
"Most?"
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TB
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5/15/2009 11:52:06 PM
What's going to change?
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RobVG
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5/15/2009 1:18:34 AM
I have no problem at all with such things.
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TB
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5/15/2009 3:40:39 AM
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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ER
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5/15/2009 10:15:22 AM
re: Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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TB
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5/15/2009 5:00:48 PM
Again, you prove yourself impervious to irony.
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ER
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5/15/2009 5:47:59 PM
Irony...
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TB
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5/15/2009 6:30:26 PM
Well hell, I could have told you that.
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ER
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5/15/2009 7:19:43 PM
P.S.
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TB
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5/15/2009 5:26:02 PM
Tell me about it.
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ER
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5/15/2009 6:16:10 PM
re: Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Jody
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5/15/2009 3:48:22 PM
Read my post below, "A century ago in Ybor City"
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ER
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5/15/2009 6:48:34 PM
Whoops. That post should have gone under ER's "Ybor City" post. Sorry.
(n/t)
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TB
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5/15/2009 3:41:35 AM
A Century ago, in Ybor City
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ER
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5/15/2009 1:09:28 AM
"...before we put everybody in the country in the program"
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Buck Galaxy
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5/14/2009 6:10:06 AM
Here's the Finance Committee presentation
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TB
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5/15/2009 12:44:16 AM
Did you READ it?
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TB
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5/14/2009 4:51:28 PM
Since you love to just throw a link into a post, here's back at ya...
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azstrummer
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5/14/2009 6:13:26 PM
Great stuff. Send us Part I.
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ER
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5/14/2009 6:55:27 PM
Non-profit medical
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TB
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5/14/2009 11:00:00 PM
More
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TB
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5/14/2009 11:02:35 PM
Very interesting.
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ER
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5/14/2009 11:56:00 PM
re: Very interesting.
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TB
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5/15/2009 12:18:52 AM
A century ago, in Ybor City
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ER
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5/15/2009 1:00:30 AM
I printed this out...get back to you... Thanks!
(n/t)
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Jody feeding the maternal unit
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5/15/2009 8:55:27 PM
You should have been a History teacher...small digression..
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Jody
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5/16/2009 12:40:51 AM
No way!
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ER
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5/16/2009 12:42:04 PM
And THAT...
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Jody
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5/16/2009 6:31:25 PM
Get a load of this,
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ER
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5/16/2009 8:58:59 PM
I had you pegged wrong!
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Jody
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5/16/2009 11:18:21 PM
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
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ER
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5/16/2009 11:42:53 PM
Play
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Jody
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5/17/2009 12:33:29 AM
This point in time
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ER
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5/17/2009 1:51:07 AM
That was great ER...
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Jody
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5/17/2009 3:02:43 AM
History
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TB
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5/16/2009 4:46:33 PM
Some examples from military history
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ER
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5/16/2009 8:18:03 PM
Interesting.
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TB
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5/16/2009 8:32:16 PM
Interesting indeed.
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ER
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5/16/2009 9:22:19 PM
re: indeed.
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TB
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5/16/2009 10:54:09 PM
FDR? Deficit spending? Gold Standard?
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ER
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5/16/2009 11:14:12 PM
No offense, but you guys are rather dense.
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SDAI-Tech1
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5/14/2009 8:41:07 PM
The human body hasn't change much in the past 150,000 years.
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RobVG
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5/15/2009 1:51:17 AM
Profit makes quality
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azstrummer
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5/14/2009 8:48:13 PM
Yes.
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SDAI-Tech1
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5/14/2009 9:05:07 PM
All Conservatives need to justify the status-quo is "high profit".
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Bowser
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5/14/2009 8:06:02 PM
and leave us with what?
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azstrummer
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5/14/2009 6:11:49 PM
Huge?
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TB
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5/14/2009 10:55:34 PM
Yep your solutions were just so obvious
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azstrummer
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5/14/2009 11:52:48 PM
Set it at the states doors.
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SDAI-Tech1
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5/14/2009 8:13:34 PM
Techie, I don't care at what level of govt it exists
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azstrummer
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5/14/2009 8:30:40 PM
"Contracts with twice the idiocy............"
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Lindy
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5/17/2009 5:51:14 PM
re: "Contracts with twice the idiocy............"
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TB
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5/17/2009 8:28:04 PM
"You are being told....."
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azstrummer
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5/18/2009 3:22:31 PM
re: waste of resources
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TB
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5/18/2009 3:47:16 PM
I'm all for "fixing" Medicare
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azstrummer
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5/18/2009 8:24:14 PM
re: I'm all for "fixing" Medicare
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TB
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5/18/2009 9:49:43 PM
re: Techie, I don't care at what level of govt it exists
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SDAI-Tech1
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5/14/2009 8:52:03 PM
"Are you ever going to put your strawman arguments to rest? "
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Bowser
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5/14/2009 4:32:19 PM
Was that a serious question to him?
(n/t)
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azstrummer
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5/14/2009 11:50:40 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.