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Well, hey, I'm not going to give a class in the horrors of the American health care system and why medicine should not be a capitalist sport. Were it up to me, we'd have universal, single-payor health care like the rest of the civilized world and that would be the end of it, no insurance companies necessary. If you want people to explain it to you, go to one of the other subforums where it's a regular topic of discussion.
Sorry, I get my information from more credible sources than Michael Moore movies.
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Karma is only a threat to those who deserve it to be.
How do you know who deserves to be threatened by "karma"? It's in very poor taste to essentially wish harm or ill-will on someone, which is what "karma has a way of slapping people" means. Do things you read on a message board really affect your life so profoundly that you have to resort to wishing ill will on people? Shame on you.
Please, don't insult my intelligence. Here's what you wrote and it's obvious what you meant.
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Originally Posted by Avienne
Yeah, yeah, because the fraction of a penny it will cost you is going to make or break you. "I don't want my money going here" and "I don't want my money going there." Broken record that sounds like the only thing that is important in this world is a dollar. Right. It's a good thing child-free people didn't feel that way about financing your public education with their tax dollars.
You are implying that child-free taxpayers on LI are subsidizing the public education system, and we are lucky they are not complaining about their taxes.
I asked you to show me one in Nassau County that feels this way.
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If you fell for the propaganda in sicko and like Michael Moore's vision of a global socialist utopia, then why not purchase a one-way ticket to Cuba?
You would fit right in.
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The Cuban government has been accused of numerous human rights abuses including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials, and extrajudicial executions (also known as "El Paredón").[88] The Human Rights Watch alleges that the government "represses nearly all forms of political dissent" and that "Cubans are systematically denied basic rights to free expression, association, assembly, privacy, movement, and due process of law".[89]
Cuba had the second-highest number of imprisoned journalists in 2008 (the People's Republic of China was first) according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international NGO.[90] As a result of ownership bans, computer ownership rates are among the world's lowest.[91] The right to use the Internet is granted only to selected people and they are monitored.[91][92] Connecting to the Internet illegally can lead to a five-year prison sentence.
Cuban dissidents face arrest and imprisonment. In the 1990s, Human Rights Watch reported that Cuba's extensive prison system, one of the largest in Latin America, consists of some 40 maximum-security prisons, 30 minimum-security prisons, and over 200 work camps.[93] According to Human Rights Watch, political prisoners, along with the rest of Cuba's prison population, are confined to jails with substandard and unhealthy conditions.[93]
Citizens cannot leave or return to Cuba without first obtaining official permission. Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
p.s.- It's bad karma, to talk about other people's karma.
Once again, please try to be civil toward each other. Personal attacks are against the ToS of city-data.
Thank you Nancy. Personal attacks are really fun though, wouldn't you say? As for me, I really wouldn't want to be called to an accounting,
of distinguishing between a simple statement and a personal attack. At what phrase do you draw the boundary of civility? Where is Emily Post
when we need her, the authority on public behavior? Yep, you can simply "blow me away", cut my cord and fix my wagon, and base your moves
upon my verbiage, the use of the language, the weaving of metaphors, the structure of sentence and the wisdom that underlies these thoughts
that I feel are being suppressed by your definition of "personal".
You may hold Avienne closer to your heart than you do me. I do not have a complete picture of the politics as they are played here. If your
warning about personal attacks is based upon a sentence, a threat or a disrespectful phrase that either of us has made toward one another, do
the same thing that the rest of the moderators here do, cut and redline, begin to point out the erroneous parts of a post and where they violate
those terms of Service. I can't speak up for the rest of the board, but I believe that we look up to you for guidance, direction and approval. I know
that I do. Let's call it even Nance, I'll tuck my claws in and go my way and Avianne will remain victorious. I'll put fifteen dollars into that account which
is looking to buy that prisoner a new heart. I'm sure that we can work things out Nan.
Please, don't insult my intelligence. Here's what you wrote and it's obvious what you meant.
Oh, stop. JDawg was whining about paying property taxes for teachers because she doesn't have kids herself. She clearly resents it. My response was to her, and it was to remind her that other people who didn't have kids paid for her teachers. Stop trying to pick flame wars and make more out of this than it is. You misinterpreted what I said. Man up and deal with the fact that you didn't read what I wrote. If you can't do that, and you can't stop putting words in my mouth and presuming to be in my head knowing my intentions when YOU ARE WRONG, then I don't give a damn what you think because it's clear you are here to do nothing but argue.
Oh, stop. JDawg was whining about paying property taxes for teachers because she doesn't have kids herself. She clearly resents it. My response was to her, and it was to remind her that other people who didn't have kids paid for her teachers. Stop trying to pick flame wars and make more out of this than it is. You misinterpreted what I said. Man up and deal with the fact that you didn't read what I wrote. If you can't do that, and you can't stop putting words in my mouth and presuming to be in my head knowing my intentions when YOU ARE WRONG, then I don't give a damn what you think because it's clear you are here to do nothing but argue.
I'm not too familiar with Jdawg's post history. Jdawg has 1 post in this thread, and I don't see her mentioning paying property taxes for teachers. You could have linked to it the first time, to make it clearer for people that aren't on here 24/7, instead of just writing "Please READ".
Oh, stop. JDawg was whining about paying property taxes for teachers because she doesn't have kids herself. She clearly resents it. My response was to her, and it was to remind her that other people who didn't have kids paid for her teachers. Stop trying to pick flame wars and make more out of this than it is. You misinterpreted what I said. Man up and deal with the fact that you didn't read what I wrote. If you can't do that, and you can't stop putting words in my mouth and presuming to be in my head knowing my intentions when YOU ARE WRONG, then I don't give a damn what you think because it's clear you are here to do nothing but argue.
My teachers sucked. I could have learned more teaching myself with my eyes closed.
"NEW YORK, April 26 (UPI) -- A judge in Long Island, N.Y., has given a woman until June 10 to quit smoking or she'll have to return to jail to serve out a 15-month sentence for theft. Diane McCloud, 48, was freed from jail in January by Nassau District Court Judge Francis Ricigliano after her doctor said she had less than six months to live if she didn't receive a new
heart, the New York Post reported Tuesday. At the time of her release, McCloud was entering the seventh month of a felony theft sentence for stealing merchandise from a Target in
Westbury. Recently her doctor notified the Nassau County District Attorney's Office that McCloud had missed several appointments and drug tests and had refused to stop smoking.
In court Monday, McCloud admitted she was still smoking about 4 cigarettes a day.
A Hempstead woman who was given a second chance at life in January when a judge freed her from jail so she could get a heart transplant may have blown it when she was jailed for stealing diet and beauty products from an Oceanside drugstore.
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The result of the judge's mercy --
