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Random Politics & Religion #00
By Ramyrez 2015-02-06 14:07:50
Seeing the doctor isn't a problem, at least in my experience.
I call the office if I'm acutely experiencing an issue, they tell me when they have time that day to see me (they keep a certain amount of appointments open for short-term notice/walk-ins daily), I go in, register at the desk, pay my copay, see the doctor.
The issue here is obtaining medical records for work. I work in a medical-related field where I deal with copious amounts of medical records, so I've experienced the full range.
"Most" (I'd say, 70%?) of facilities accept the releases we use on a day-to-day basis without problem.
That last 30% can be a real bugger.
By fonewear 2015-02-06 15:08:14
I leave for a while and you are talking about hippie lawyers what is the world coming to !
The only lawyer that matters:
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By Ramyrez 2015-02-06 15:10:09
I leave for a while and you are talking about hippie lawyers what is the world coming to !
I was talking about hippy lawyers. Not to be confused with "hippie" lawyers.
Mine have supple curves and approach the bench with swagger.
The others eat granola and don't shower.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2015-02-06 15:10:11
I leave for a while and you are talking about hippie lawyers what is the world coming to ! The only lawyer that matters: YouTube Video Placeholder You should know by now that things always get crazy when you leave. You're the magical glue baby that holds it all together.
By Ramyrez 2015-02-06 15:11:28
You're the magical glue baby
STOP SAYING THAT!
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By fonewear 2015-02-06 15:11:58
Speaking lawyers anyone here going to watch better call saul ?
It's said cause that is the role Phil Hartman was made for, baby !
By Ramyrez 2015-02-06 15:13:26
Speaking lawyers anyone here going to watch better call saul ?
Didn't watch Breaking Bad, probably not watching its spin off either.
I know, I know. "I missed out on a masterpiece!"
But much like Mad Men, I can't watch a show where the protagonist(s) is that morally bankrupt and the good guys, if there are any, are bad guys.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2015-02-06 15:14:04
An altered "stop trying to make fetch happen" meme would've been better, Ramyrez. Tsk tsk.
By Ramyrez 2015-02-06 15:14:46
An altered "stop trying to make fetch happen" meme would've been better, Ramyrez. Tsk tsk.
I don't know what that means.
I actually came across this "fetch" thing looking for an image earlier...no idea. I'm bad at keeping up with the kids and their crazy lingo.
By fonewear 2015-02-06 15:15:32
I watched a little bit of Breaking Bad and I found Saul to be the most interesting part of the story.
I can't root for Walter White guy is a d bag.
The acting is good but I found a lot of the episodes pacing to be incredibly slow and sometimes boring.
They definitely over hyped Breaking Bad it was good but people acted like it was the greatest thing ever.
Sorta like Hillary. She can't live up to your hype people !
She used to be human !
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2015-02-06 15:18:33
An altered "stop trying to make fetch happen" meme would've been better, Ramyrez. Tsk tsk.
whynotbothgirl.jpeg
Mean Mad Men
Guess I should add both...
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By Siren.Lordgrim 2015-02-06 16:27:29
Taxation without representation Link
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In 1773, a bunch of colonial patriots in Boston got totally pissed off at King George because they were being taxed severely by Britain and yet had no say in the matter. "No taxation without representation!" these brave American colonials cried. And then they dumped several bales of English breakfast tea into the Boston harbor. And the rest is history.
"No taxation without representation," American patriots cried way back then. And now let's fast-forward approximately 300 years ahead -- to see how far we have fallen. There is another Tea Party in America now but these new modern Tea Party guys are currently doing the exact opposite of what the 1773 Tea Party guys did. This new Tea Party is now fighting as hard as it possibly can to get patriotic Americans taxed up the ying-yang instead -- but with NO representation.
"But wait a minute," you might say. "The new Tea Party does have representation. A whole bunch of its members are currently in Congress -- and even the President and the Supreme Court seem to obey their every command." Yeah, but. As the British used to say, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." And if you look closely at all those silver-tongued government "servants" in Washington who now swear all up and down that they are conscientiously representing the hopes and fears of this new 21st-century Tea Party? Well. Then. How come in real life these supposedly-loyal TP representatives actually always seem to be doing the bidding of Wall Street and War Street and huge greedy corporations instead.
Americans today are certainly being taxed and taxed and taxed all right -- but not by any officials who actually represent their best interests. Clearly, policy-makers in Washington right now are not representing the new Tea Party's interests -- and they are certainly not representing your interests. Or mine either.
Unlike the brave Tea Party of 1773, our 21st-century Tea Party has been hood-winked.
According to http://www.salary.com, the average Washington lobbyist is getting paid over $100,000 a year to happily whisper sweet nothings into the willing ears of government officials in Washington -- so that said lobbyist's employer will get all kinds of tax breaks and perqs. And of course these government officials in Washington then go out of their way to represent only the folks with big bucks, not people like you and me or even the new Tea Party members -- and especially not the new Tea Party rank and file.
Are you currently paying your very own lobbyist $100,000 a year to represent you in Washington? If not, then you clearly have no representation.
And mega-corporate road-hogs such as the Koch brothers and Americans for Prosperity spend how much on buying their representation in Washington? According to Mother Jones Magazine, just these two groups alone paid out 96.7 million dollars in campaign contributions during the elections of 2012. And did you also pay out 96.7 million dollars as well, to get your representative elected? No? Then your representative owes you diddly. Sorry, but that's how it goes.
If We-the-People actually did have any representation in Washington, America would certainly not be in the hot mess that it is in now. We would all have good schools, a solid infrastructure and lots of housing and jobs, and with no outsourcing, no wars-for-profit, no bankster dirty tricks, no super-fund tax breaks for the wealthy 1% -- and definitely no more "trickle up."
If modern-day Americans had only still managed to maintain that feisty American historical spirit of "No taxation without representation!" that our brave ancestors fought so hard for, then Monsanto and the nuclear industry and Big Pharma and oil barons and banksters and Citizens United and the Koch brothers and Wall Street and War Street would not be running our government and owning it like they do. WE would be running it and owning it.
But now here we are instead -- approximately 300 years after the original Tea Party heroes did their bit to bring us freedom from taxation without representation -- and most Americans still haven't learned a single thing since King George was our boss. Not one single thing.
Guess i'm not the only one speaking out because one is the loneliest number that we'll ever know. We are the majority and when we raise our voices the one big government can not ignore us. Never give up, freedom is worth fighting for. God bless the dream lives.
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rp&r page 213 Let Freedom Reign
rp&r page 216 The Law That Never Was the 16th amendment.
rp&r page 223 The Constitutional Republic known as the USA.
rp&r page 239 Taxation without representation.
By fonewear 2015-02-06 16:30:08
I believe in freedom but:
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By fonewear 2015-02-06 16:32:24
An altered "stop trying to make fetch happen" meme would've been better, Ramyrez. Tsk tsk.
whynotbothgirl.jpeg
Mean Mad Men
Guess I should add both...
I need Christina Hendricks in my life. Well I'd take 3 days a week.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-02-06 16:37:33
Taxation without representation Link
Full story below
In 1773, a bunch of colonial patriots in Boston got totally pissed off at King George because they were being taxed severely by Britain and yet had no say in the matter. "No taxation without representation!" these brave American colonials cried. And then they dumped several bales of English breakfast tea into the Boston harbor. And the rest is history.
"No taxation without representation," American patriots cried way back then. And now let's fast-forward approximately 300 years ahead -- to see how far we have fallen. There is another Tea Party in America now but these new modern Tea Party guys are currently doing the exact opposite of what the 1773 Tea Party guys did. This new Tea Party is now fighting as hard as it possibly can to get patriotic Americans taxed up the ying-yang instead -- but with NO representation.
"But wait a minute," you might say. "The new Tea Party does have representation. A whole bunch of its members are currently in Congress -- and even the President and the Supreme Court seem to obey their every command." Yeah, but. As the British used to say, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." And if you look closely at all those silver-tongued government "servants" in Washington who now swear all up and down that they are conscientiously representing the hopes and fears of this new 21st-century Tea Party? Well. Then. How come in real life these supposedly-loyal TP representatives actually always seem to be doing the bidding of Wall Street and War Street and huge greedy corporations instead.
Americans today are certainly being taxed and taxed and taxed all right -- but not by any officials who actually represent their best interests. Clearly, policy-makers in Washington right now are not representing the new Tea Party's interests -- and they are certainly not representing your interests. Or mine either.
Unlike the brave Tea Party of 1773, our 21st-century Tea Party has been hood-winked.
According to http://www.salary.com, the average Washington lobbyist is getting paid over $100,000 a year to happily whisper sweet nothings into the willing ears of government officials in Washington -- so that said lobbyist's employer will get all kinds of tax breaks and perqs. And of course these government officials in Washington then go out of their way to represent only the folks with big bucks, not people like you and me or even the new Tea Party members -- and especially not the new Tea Party rank and file.
Are you currently paying your very own lobbyist $100,000 a year to represent you in Washington? If not, then you clearly have no representation.
And mega-corporate road-hogs such as the Koch brothers and Americans for Prosperity spend how much on buying their representation in Washington? According to Mother Jones Magazine, just these two groups alone paid out 96.7 million dollars in campaign contributions during the elections of 2012. And did you also pay out 96.7 million dollars as well, to get your representative elected? No? Then your representative owes you diddly. Sorry, but that's how it goes.
If We-the-People actually did have any representation in Washington, America would certainly not be in the hot mess that it is in now. We would all have good schools, a solid infrastructure and lots of housing and jobs, and with no outsourcing, no wars-for-profit, no bankster dirty tricks, no super-fund tax breaks for the wealthy 1% -- and definitely no more "trickle up."
If modern-day Americans had only still managed to maintain that feisty American historical spirit of "No taxation without representation!" that our brave ancestors fought so hard for, then Monsanto and the nuclear industry and Big Pharma and oil barons and banksters and Citizens United and the Koch brothers and Wall Street and War Street would not be running our government and owning it like they do. WE would be running it and owning it.
But now here we are instead -- approximately 300 years after the original Tea Party heroes did their bit to bring us freedom from taxation without representation -- and most Americans still haven't learned a single thing since King George was our boss. Not one single thing.
Guess i'm not the only one speaking out because one is the loneliest number that we'll ever know. We are the majority and when we raise our voices the one big government can not ignore us. Never give up, freedom is worth fighting for. God bless the dream lives.
YouTube Video Placeholder Oh look, here are your representatives.
Looks like yet another "Truth and Justice" source debunked.
Never mind that all that "source" has on it is flawed opinions based on mischaracterized and opinionated historical reasoning, to say that there is no representation of the people of the US is not only idiotic, but ludicrous at best.
rp&r page 213 Lordgrim does a thing
rp&r page 216 Lordgrim doesn't understand a thing
rp&r page 221 Lordgrim asks a loaded, directed question
rp&r page 223 Lordgrim doesn't have a clue
rp&r page 228 Lordgrim pops
rp&r page 233 Lordgrim: Leader of the Illuminati
rp&r page 234 Lordgrim claims he is Jesus.
rp&r page 239 Lordgrim doesn't understand representation
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-02-06 16:39:18
Quote: Something really weird is happening in Europe. Interest rates on a range of debt — mostly government bonds from countries like Denmark, Switzerland, and Germany but also corporate bonds from Nestlé and, briefly, Shell — have gone negative. And not just negative in fancy inflation-adjusted terms like US government debt. It's just negative. As in you give the owner of a Nestlé bond 100 euros, and four years later Nestlé gives you back less than that.*
In my experience, ordinary people are not especially excited about this. But among finance and economic types, I promise you that it's a huge deal — the economics equivalent of stumbling into a huge scientific discovery entirely by accident.
Indeed, the interest rate situation in Europe is so strange that until quite recently, it was thought to be entirely impossible. There was a lot of economic theory built around the problem of the Zero Lower Bound — the impossibility of sustained negative interest rates. Some economists wanted to eliminate paper money to eliminate the lower bound problem. Paul Krugman wrote a lot of columns about it. One of them said "the zero lower bound isn’t a theory, it’s a fact, and it’s a fact that we’ve been facing for five years now."
And yet it seems the impossible has happened. Something economists thought was impossible is happening in Europe
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-02-06 16:40:35
Quote: Something really weird is happening in Europe. Interest rates on a range of debt — mostly government bonds from countries like Denmark, Switzerland, and Germany but also corporate bonds from Nestlé and, briefly, Shell — have gone negative. And not just negative in fancy inflation-adjusted terms like US government debt. It's just negative. As in you give the owner of a Nestlé bond 100 euros, and four years later Nestlé gives you back less than that.*
In my experience, ordinary people are not especially excited about this. But among finance and economic types, I promise you that it's a huge deal — the economics equivalent of stumbling into a huge scientific discovery entirely by accident.
Indeed, the interest rate situation in Europe is so strange that until quite recently, it was thought to be entirely impossible. There was a lot of economic theory built around the problem of the Zero Lower Bound — the impossibility of sustained negative interest rates. Some economists wanted to eliminate paper money to eliminate the lower bound problem. Paul Krugman wrote a lot of columns about it. One of them said "the zero lower bound isn’t a theory, it’s a fact, and it’s a fact that we’ve been facing for five years now."
And yet it seems the impossible has happened. Something economists thought was impossible is happening in EuropeYeah, holy ***if that's true.
Edit: it is.......
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By Siren.Lordgrim 2015-02-06 16:58:31
This is what the patriot act and national defense authorization act can do to you besides imprisoning us in fema camps
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if they can do it to foreign people they can do it to citizens as well.
rp&r page 213 Let Freedom Reign
rp&r page 216 The Law That Never Was the 16th amendment.
rp&r page 223 The Constitutional Republic known as the USA.
rp&r page 239 Taxation without representation.
By fonewear 2015-02-06 17:01:58
Quote: Something really weird is happening in Europe. Interest rates on a range of debt — mostly government bonds from countries like Denmark, Switzerland, and Germany but also corporate bonds from Nestlé and, briefly, Shell — have gone negative. And not just negative in fancy inflation-adjusted terms like US government debt. It's just negative. As in you give the owner of a Nestlé bond 100 euros, and four years later Nestlé gives you back less than that.*
In my experience, ordinary people are not especially excited about this. But among finance and economic types, I promise you that it's a huge deal — the economics equivalent of stumbling into a huge scientific discovery entirely by accident.
Indeed, the interest rate situation in Europe is so strange that until quite recently, it was thought to be entirely impossible. There was a lot of economic theory built around the problem of the Zero Lower Bound — the impossibility of sustained negative interest rates. Some economists wanted to eliminate paper money to eliminate the lower bound problem. Paul Krugman wrote a lot of columns about it. One of them said "the zero lower bound isn’t a theory, it’s a fact, and it’s a fact that we’ve been facing for five years now."
And yet it seems the impossible has happened. Something economists thought was impossible is happening in Europe
This is America keep it focused on America ! I have a picture of Paul Krugman in a bikini.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-02-06 17:18:42
This is what the patriot act and national defense authorization act can do to you besides imprisoning us in fema camps
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if they can do it to foreign people they can do it to citizens as well. Holy ***, not this again.
Seriously dude, stop using the National Defense Authorization Act, it is an appropriations bill.
Which brings us back to the list of questions you still refuse to answer:
Have the people lost control of the government in the first place? Who votes Congress and the President into office in your mind?
Also, tell us who, in your mind, are traitors. Name actual names, not accuse people globally, because you just might accuse me of being a traitor....
I guess the following list of questions is going to be added to the growing list of questions I asked you and you refuse to answer, such as (but not limited to):
1) What is an appropriations bill?
2) What does an appropriations bill do?
3) What is interest?
4) Why does interest exist?
5) How does interest come to being?
6) Who are the shareholders of the Federal Reserve?
7) What does the Federal Reserve do?
Remember, answering these questions with YouTube videos is not answering them. You have to answer them with your own words and (if possible) using sources other than YouTube videos to support your answers.
Seriously. Answer these questions, and learn from your mistakes.
rp&r page 213 Lordgrim does a thing
rp&r page 216 Lordgrim doesn't understand a thing
rp&r page 221 Lordgrim asks a loaded, directed question
rp&r page 223 Lordgrim doesn't have a clue
rp&r page 228 Lordgrim pops
rp&r page 233 Lordgrim: Leader of the Illuminati
rp&r page 234 Lordgrim claims he is Jesus.
rp&r page 239 Lordgrim doesn't understand representation and appropriations bills.
By fonewear 2015-02-06 17:20:26
I have a question. If a tree falls in a forest does Obama make a sound ?
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-02-06 17:21:19
I have a question. If a tree falls in a forest does Obama make a sound ? Yeah, he farts.
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2015-02-06 17:31:28
Lordgrim, as you'll be running for pres your curriculum should be made public anyway so let me inquire: what is your degree? And what work are you doing *right now*?
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-02-06 17:32:34
Those are questions! He is above questions and demands obedience from you, how dare you ask him anything, for he is right and you are wrong!
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2015-02-06 17:34:36
For someone who speaks so high and mighty, it interests me his background.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-02-06 17:36:10
You will not get an answer.
Or at least a truthful one.
By Bloodrose 2015-02-06 17:36:13
He has a background in Conspirology 404.
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2015-02-06 17:40:22
Guys, don't scare him off!
By charlo999 2015-02-06 17:42:37
Quote: Something really weird is happening in Europe. Interest rates on a range of debt — mostly government bonds from countries like Denmark, Switzerland, and Germany but also corporate bonds from Nestlé and, briefly, Shell — have gone negative. And not just negative in fancy inflation-adjusted terms like US government debt. It's just negative. As in you give the owner of a Nestlé bond 100 euros, and four years later Nestlé gives you back less than that.*
In my experience, ordinary people are not especially excited about this. But among finance and economic types, I promise you that it's a huge deal — the economics equivalent of stumbling into a huge scientific discovery entirely by accident.
Indeed, the interest rate situation in Europe is so strange that until quite recently, it was thought to be entirely impossible. There was a lot of economic theory built around the problem of the Zero Lower Bound — the impossibility of sustained negative interest rates. Some economists wanted to eliminate paper money to eliminate the lower bound problem. Paul Krugman wrote a lot of columns about it. One of them said "the zero lower bound isn’t a theory, it’s a fact, and it’s a fact that we’ve been facing for five years now."
And yet it seems the impossible has happened. Something economists thought was impossible is happening in Europe
This is America keep it focused on America ! I have a picture of Paul Krugman in a bikini.
It's the same situation as America. All the banks are tied. And because of debt based banking this is being forced to stop the system from collapsing. Essentially giving money away free because there's so much debt now people are cottoning on. Another way to try and slow it is QE. And America is at no 3 atm.
See many peter schiff's vids. He's been talking about it for years and is always right because he speaks the truth.
All other economists know but are gonna ride the wave all the way until the collapse. That's human nature of the greedy.
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By Bismarck.Ihina 2015-02-06 17:43:10
No one can be scared off by or resist Karen.
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