Making Baby Jesus Cry - Page 67

Spanky · 08-10-2005, 06:22 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Are you going to ACL this year?

ACL?

Penske_Account · 08-10-2005, 06:24 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
Question:

I have heard many heterosexual guys say that they can't really be friends with a good looking women because they are always thinking of ways to get them in bed.

I have homosexual men tell me that the reason they have so many friends that are women because they really can't be good friends with a good looking guy because they are always trying to get them in bed.

So does that mean a bi-sexual man can't have any good looking friends?

Yes, so I have heard. It's why Shifty invented the concept of the DL.

Shape Shifter · 08-10-2005, 06:29 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
ACL?

Austin City Limits.

http://www.aclfest.org/

I've heard the hotels are booked, so let me know if you need a place to stay.

Spanky · 08-10-2005, 06:33 PM

Being that I am typical moderate Republican in that deep down I am communist, socialist fourth columnist, I have no problem paying for health care for poor people, I just don't want to pay for middle class or rich peoples health care.

Since driving is a priviledge (and not a right) why don't we require everyone that wants a driver license to show proof of medical insurance? If you are poor, and can't afford health insurance, then you can apply to the government and get health insurance. If you can't get health insurance because you have AIDS or something then you just show the government you can't get health insurance so you get the government health insurance. In both cases these people can get a drivers license. If you make less than $100,000 a year and don't drive then you get government health insurance. This would encourage people to take public transit. If you make more than a $100,000 a year and you show up at the hospital without health insurance you are taken out back and shot.

Thoughts?

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 08-10-2005, 06:33 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky

So does that mean a bi-sexual man can't have any good looking friends?

In theory a problem, but bisexual men do not exist.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 08-10-2005, 06:34 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky

Thoughts?

that you and ty won't discuss this as much as cafta.

Connect_the_Dots · 08-10-2005, 06:39 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
Being that I am typical moderate Republican in that deep down I am communist, socialist fourth columnist, I have no problem paying for health care for poor people,

You mean as long as it doesn't involve abortions?

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Since driving is a priviledge (and not a right) why don't we require everyone that wants a driver license to show proof of medical insurance?

Doesn't your state require proof of (auto) insurance to drive? Have you ever read an auto policy (on a sleepless night, perhaps)? I am pretty sure that it says something in there about paying for hospital bills as a result of auto injuries (but don't ask for a cite as I am not in the habit of reading State Farm pinko propaganda).

Spanky · 08-10-2005, 06:40 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
that you and ty won't discuss this as much as cafta.

Oh come on - you loved that.

ltl/fb · 08-10-2005, 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
Being that I am typical moderate Republican in that deep down I am communist, socialist fourth columnist, I have no problem paying for health care for poor people, I just don't want to pay for middle class or rich peoples health care.

Since driving is a priviledge (and not a right) why don't we require everyone that wants a driver license to show proof of medical insurance? If you are poor, and can't afford health insurance, then you can apply to the government and get health insurance. If you can't get health insurance because you have AIDS or something then you just show the government you can't get health insurance so you get the government health insurance. In both cases these people can get a drivers license. If you make less than $100,000 a year and don't drive then you get government health insurance. This would encourage people to take public transit. If you make more than a $100,000 a year and you show up at the hospital without health insurance you are taken out back and shot.

Thoughts?

What if there isn't any public transportation (e.g. rural (and many suburban) areas)? Is the government charging for this insurance, or is it free?

Tyrone Slothrop · 08-10-2005, 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
Being that I am typical moderate Republican in that deep down I am communist, socialist fourth columnist, I have no problem paying for health care for poor people, I just don't want to pay for middle class or rich peoples health care.

Since driving is a priviledge (and not a right) why don't we require everyone that wants a driver license to show proof of medical insurance? If you are poor, and can't afford health insurance, then you can apply to the government and get health insurance. If you can't get health insurance because you have AIDS or something then you just show the government you can't get health insurance so you get the government health insurance. In both cases these people can get a drivers license. If you make less than $100,000 a year and don't drive then you get government health insurance. This would encourage people to take public transit. If you make more than a $100,000 a year and you show up at the hospital without health insurance you are taken out back and shot.

Thoughts?

If you're middle- or upper-class, the hospital can sue you when you don't pay for medical care provided. It's the poor who are judgment proof.

Spanky · 08-10-2005, 06:42 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Austin City Limits.

http://www.aclfest.org/

I've heard the hotels are booked, so let me know if you need a place to stay.

If this is a joke I don't get it. Why do think that I would be going to ACL? Did Less say something?

Shape Shifter · 08-10-2005, 06:43 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
Being that I am typical moderate Republican in that deep down I am communist, socialist fourth columnist, I have no problem paying for health care for poor people, I just don't want to pay for middle class or rich peoples health care.

Since driving is a priviledge (and not a right) why don't we require everyone that wants a driver license to show proof of medical insurance? If you are poor, and can't afford health insurance, then you can apply to the government and get health insurance. If you can't get health insurance because you have AIDS or something then you just show the government you can't get health insurance so you get the government health insurance. In both cases these people can get a drivers license. If you make less than $100,000 a year and don't drive then you get government health insurance. This would encourage people to take public transit. If you make more than a $100,000 a year and you show up at the hospital without health insurance you are taken out back and shot.

Thoughts?

What do businesses say?

ltl/fb · 08-10-2005, 06:44 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
What do businesses say?

Damn. I wish I'd said that.

Connect_the_Dots · 08-10-2005, 06:45 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's the poor who are judgment proof.

Those lucky bastards. Those lucky, unwashed, smelly, in-bred bastards!

Spanky · 08-10-2005, 06:46 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If you're middle- or upper-class, the hospital can sue you when you don't pay for medical care provided. It's the poor who are judgment proof.

I will rephrase. I think everyone should have health insurance (especially if they have children) I just don't want to pay for it unless they are poor. When people don't have health insurance they only show up to the emergency rooms, clogging up the emergency rooms, and often when it is way too late and making something expensive that could have been cheap if they had gone sooner.

And when I mean government insurace, either the government pays for private insurance, or you can make an appointment at a county hospital. You don't just show up at the emergency room.