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Hobnob posted:Yeah, I don't know why John Legal doesn't just drop his health insurance, since he can get all that free full medical and dental work done by clinics. [Edit]: Did my own research. There are, in fact, free dental clinics. There's one in my town, but I can't get to their website. The google summary says "Cannot connect". They must be really awesome. [Edit2]: Finally got to their website. They only offer "routine procedures", so it's not like you can get a free root canal or anything. So, to sum up, there is 1 dentist in my town of 150k who works for a free clinic, and she will only do routine procedures. That's not good service. MDDevice fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Dec 10, 2009 |
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Anyone who complains about people at free clinics getting all the breaks has obviously never been to one.
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# ? Dec 10, 2009 15:55 |
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dphrag posted:Or for that matter, just work under the table. Sounds too gay
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# ? Dec 10, 2009 18:21 |
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CT2049 posted:My dad's huge on Lou Dobbs and brings up all these points. I told him if it's all true why doesn't he just renounce his citizenship and stay here illegally, since it seems like illegals get it way better than citizens. you can't renounce a US citizenship. they thought of everything.
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# ? Dec 10, 2009 19:14 |
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Fiskiggy posted:you can't renounce a US citizenship. they thought of everything. I thought you could. What about if you moved to another country and became a citizen there, could you renounce your US citizenship then?
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CT2049 posted:I thought you could. What about if you moved to another country and became a citizen there, could you renounce your US citizenship then? ah, maybe theoretically you can if you do have another citizenship and promise not to live in America, but the uniquely American aspect I was thinking of is it won't stop the IRS from bugging you for taxes. No matter where you live. Fiskiggy fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Dec 10, 2009 |
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Fiskiggy posted:ah, maybe you can if you do have another citizenship and promise not to live in America, but the uniquely American aspect I was thinking of is it won't stop the IRS from bugging you for taxes. No matter where you live. [Edit]: The problem with this that I see is that you'd have to commit a fair amount of fraud to do it. MDDevice fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Dec 10, 2009 |
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MDDevice posted:It would make for an interesting article for someone to throw away all their documentation and live like an "illegal" for, say, 6 months. See what you can and can't do without being a documented citizen. It would be pretty relevant. I'm asked for an id by a police officer once or twice a year on average, so I would probably be right hosed unless I had a fake one somehow.
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LorneReams posted:I'm asked for an id by a police officer once or twice a year on average, so I would probably be right hosed unless I had a fake one somehow.
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quote:John Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $ 1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; John Legal now has Not only did they say 30% but actually take away 40%, but for a family filing jointly their tax rate would be somewhere in the 13-14% range. They have no property tax as the email specifically says they rent. They pay the same sales tax as Juan does. Altogether this gives John about $13,500 extra, enough to hire a hitman to have Juan killed.
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EngineerSean posted:They pay the same sales tax as Juan does. Altogether this gives John about $13,500 extra, enough to hire a hitman to have Juan killed. The Lou Dobbs tax break
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Intel&Sebastian posted:The Lou Dobbs tax break I want to believe Lou Dobbs is in too deep with the mob after calling in a series of hits against Mexicans he saw on the street, and had to step down from his show because he's about to be kidnapped and murdered by the mafia and doesn't want anyone to find out about his dirty little hobby. Cognac McCarthy fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Dec 10, 2009 |
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'Tis the season! THis was forwarded by my wife for comment. It came from one of her peripheral friends.angry christian posted:
and my response: I have no issue with anyone's philosophical bent when it comes to communing with the universe. It should, however, remain a purely private matter and consequently has no business anywhere in our government. Folks being how they are, however, in the case of December 25 and Oestre, we could let these holidays revert to their pagan roots. We could celebrate them as people did for thousands of years before the rise of Christianity & folks like this could take the stick of self-righteousness out of their rear end. Mail should not be delivered on Saturday or Sunday, because of the 40-hour work week. Good Friday is not a Federal holiday. For what it's worth, Christmas was not declared a federal holiday until after the Civil War. That having been said I have no problem with the elimination of all religious-based holidays, since we only seem to take Christian ones anyway, which only seems to encourage the religious-nutjob types into a froth about the US being a "christian nation." Now that I think about it: If that's what it took to get the God statements off of our currency, I'd be all for it.
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I like how the person says he will defer to their decisions because he/she believes that smarter people are making the decisions... then follows this up with a hair brained scheme because he/she is obviously smarter than elected officials. I like how they don't think through their plan. If Christmas wasn't a nation holiday, they would also work. Also, why is Thanksgiving included there? That isn't a Christian (or Religious?) holiday. Not to mention. Mail is delivered 6 days a week including Christmas/New Years Eve and the Friday after Thanksgiving. The post office is extremely good at what it does. Stop lumping them in with government inefficiencies, which actually don't hold up to scrutiny!
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I always like how these people have all the freedom to worship whomever and however they want, and they still find the time and reason to bitch and whine.
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And lo Jesus said "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and then be sure to make a huge stink about it and never stop playing the victim. In fact if you want you can even poo poo on obvious concessions to your religion in some snarky disingenous attempt at imaginary self-harm, really try it. It's hilarious."
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Intel&Sebastian posted:And lo Jesus said "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and then be sure to make a huge stink about it and never stop playing the victim. In fact if you want you can even poo poo on obvious concessions to your religion in some snarky disingenous attempt at imaginary self-harm, really try it. It's hilarious." Completely irrelevant, but this reminds me of supply side jesus: http://www.beliefnet.com/News/2003/09/The-Gospel-Of-Supply-Side-Jesus.aspx?p=1
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dphrag posted:Completely irrelevant, but this reminds me of supply side jesus: http://www.beliefnet.com/News/2003/09/The-Gospel-Of-Supply-Side-Jesus.aspx?p=1 Supply side Jesus is never irrelevant.
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Gripen5 posted:Supply side Jesus is never irrelevant. Leprosy is a matter of personal responsibility!
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Wow that's eerie.
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# ? Dec 11, 2009 22:42 |
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This should be the response, essentially the only response for every religious related email: christians
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I'm surprised she didn't add something about holiday=holy day you lose
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OBAMA IS LITERALLY HITLER:quote:I hope you find the time to read this with an open mind. It's interesting. Please read it with the open mind rather than immediately breaking it down into left or right, but rather look at it from the neutral viewpoint of right or wrong. It's like the line below says, "what if he is right?" Fun Fact: This wasn't written by Kaiser. It was written by some blogger and someone decided this was such a neat essay that they had to tack on some false sense of credibility. And from there it found its way to my grandmother
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DerpDerp posted:OBAMA IS LITERALLY HITLER: Did you point out to her that it's falsely attributed?
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Anything that starts with "Maybe he's wrong... BUT WHAT IF HE'S RIGHT" can be safely ignored. I think AIDS is caused by aluminium. Maybe I'm wrong... BUT WHAT IF I WAS RIGHT?!?!?
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^^^ Everyone knows that AIDS is the gay plague so it obviously doesn't matter.Zwabu posted:Did you point out to her that it's falsely attributed? Yeah, I sent back a few lines explaining where this came from. And a link to the post in Dr. David Kaiser's blog about this dumb essay. Oh grandma
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DerpDerp posted:^^^ Everyone knows that AIDS is the gay plague so it obviously doesn't matter. What kills me is that the right wingers I know who send this sort of thing never seem to be embarrassed when it's shown to be fake. If I sent something to a bunch of people via email that was easily debunked, I'd be mortified.
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Zwabu posted:What kills me is that the right wingers I know who send this sort of thing never seem to be embarrassed when it's shown to be fake. If I sent something to a bunch of people via email that was easily debunked, I'd be mortified. The Church put out a pretty stern press release calling the e-mails bullshit. So the newer e-mails said, "Well, we have it on good authority that not ALL Katrina survivors are convicted criminals--but surely SOME of them are! The warnings in the original e-mail are still important for everyone to know! Read it and pass it on!"
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Zwabu posted:What kills me is that the right wingers I know who send this sort of thing never seem to be embarrassed when it's shown to be fake. If I sent something to a bunch of people via email that was easily debunked, I'd be mortified. I feel this way too; I hate being inaccurate and misleading people. When I find out that I have done this, I go out of my way to correct myself. I guess I just don't have it in me to make crazy political email forwards.
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He hasn't figured out to remove from his CC list dammitquote:Quite an amazing human being...Makes you think about our leadership.
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Well, according to his account, torture is a completely ineffective method of getting information out of detainees.
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I'm also pretty surprised that he supposedly wrote two books, since he seems incapable of forming even the most basic spelling. Then again this is the age of Sarah Palin's book.
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Davish Krail posted:I'm also pretty surprised that he supposedly wrote two books, since he seems incapable of forming even the most basic spelling. I would be even more surprised if he wrote the email that was attributed to him
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Dr. Tough posted:I would be even more surprised if he wrote the email that was attributed to him The guy was a Swift Vet.
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prag posted:The guy was a Swift Vet. I thought the Swift Boat Vets were supposedly Navy folks who'd supposedly "served with" Kerry on the, er, Swift Boat units in Vietnam? (Many of whom did not in fact "serve with" Kerry at all of course.) This guy was an Air Force officer, how would he be able to even claim any relation aside from "I hate Demmy-crats"?
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Zwabu posted:I thought the Swift Boat Vets were supposedly Navy folks who'd supposedly "served with" Kerry on the, er, Swift Boat units in Vietnam? (Many of whom did not in fact "serve with" Kerry at all of course.)
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Zwabu posted:I thought the Swift Boat Vets were supposedly Navy folks who'd supposedly "served with" Kerry on the, er, Swift Boat units in Vietnam? (Many of whom did not in fact "serve with" Kerry at all of course.) He was involved with the 527 Organisation and the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth. Sorry I just shortened the whole thing down. The guy is an ex-PoW conservative nutjob who was buddies with McCaine and tortured by the NVA and the VC. He earned a bunch of medals but the guy is a loving loon. Him writing this poo poo is not a surprise.
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prag posted:He was involved with the 527 Organisation and the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth. Sorry I just shortened the whole thing down. The guy is an ex-PoW conservative nutjob who was buddies with McCaine and tortured by the NVA and the VC. He earned a bunch of medals but the guy is a loving loon. Him writing this poo poo is not a surprise. Well in that case, yeah he's a jerk. Also didn't the NVA waterboard prisoners?
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Dr. Tough posted:Well in that case, yeah he's a jerk. Also didn't the NVA waterboard prisoners? Not that I'm aware of but they did torture people.
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Not that political, but still crazy.quote:The Tomato Company Some gizmo! Bootstraps!
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