"We're number 1, we're number 1!"

Martha Stewart bakes bread...on Mars!

Fuck that.....think BEER!!!

lol...get your priorities together man....

;)

Hey....if yeast can survive there, that means you can brew BEER there.....

That's the key to life....so, maybe we can do it!!

I mean, the pilgrims stopped when and where they did because they ran outta beer...so, we know how important it is to long travel.....

The VA system performs as well or better than the private health care system

I can speak from first hand knowledge, that simply is NOT the case.

There are good people working there, but the care is NOT the best in the world....and the red tape prevents progress in any meaningful time scale....

Again....we cannot afford the govt health we have NOW with Medicare and Medicaid.....those two alone make up a large part of the annnual US budget as it is....and it's growing.

Just try adding the rest of the nation on there and well, you'll see bankrupt really quick.

But I do agree we still pay too much for health care and the outcomes we receive are sub optimal. Obamacare was insurance reform, but I would like to see the U.S. pursue a universal single-payer system like pretty much every other high-income country in the world. Oh no, wait, "socialism!!!"

Oh God no...please never let the US govt be in charge of my health care.

It's not even the socialism thing.....it's just the massive clusterfuck that government is running things.

Some are a necessary evil....military....etc.

But no....I've been to Social Security offices....ugh.

I've been to other federal offices and it almost agony getting anything done.....and often it takes way more than one trip.

I imagine it would be akin to the DMV with govt medical care.....and I just do now trust MY health to the bloated mechanisms of the govt bureaucracy .....

That's not even getting into the politics that would inevitably get involved.

And the US....we could not afford it for everyone, hell we can't afford the US health care we DO have....Medicare and Medicaid....too bloated, too $$$ and just horrible to have to deal with....

Sure we need to fix the private industry....lots to be done there, but the govt is NOT the answer I want.

Hell.....who'd want to have govt run medical centers right now with a govt shutdown going on....?

No thanks.

we have seen more de-regulation, more tax cuts, more gutting of labor

Ah....isn't it GREAT???

Thank God we've gotten them in office periodically to roll back the government some....

We need more of this IMHO.....

I would say Obamacare is very pro national interest, in that it promotes the health and welfare of the nation and slowed the explosion of health care costs.

Except, it didn't.....it raised medical prices across the board, and they are still rising due to Obamacare.

Why do you think the Dems keep having to try to pile more and more money into it....the program is not sustainable, never was.

Unless we get these cretins under control, they will be the end of us.

Yeah...companies "prioritizing customer convenience and trying to sell cars"....

I mean, WTF were they thinking??!?!

Wut?

I mean, I haven't been "on line" as much as some folks but I did start BBSing in 1981.

I doubt I've seen any reference to Philidelphia until this /. post.

Weird

This just made me think of Terry Pratchet's Diskworld magic (I've only read the Guards and Witches books).

What a–

Oops, Rocky Horror flashback.

JFC....I keep wondering where people leave where food and specifically meat is so $$$$

I live in the New Orleans area....PRIME grade Ribeyes and NYStrips can be had for $10.99 - $13.99/lb.

I llike to buy whole ribeye or strip roasts (usually at Costco) and cut into steaks myself, then vac seal and freeze them.

I know prices are going up...but geez....to me that was $1.99/lb for whole briskets going to over $5/lb (prime) these days.....makes my favorite BBQ meat more expensive.

Pork shoulders (Boston butt) was quite often $0.99/lb just a few months back, but of late the lowest price I find on those is $1.27/lb or so...

A whole top sirloin sub primal is like $8.88/lb this week at our regular grocery store....I'm going to get one of those and cut into pichanas.....sirloin steaks AND...cube up a bunch to marinate for shish-k-bobs.....

If food was really that fucking $$ in SD...I think I'd be moving out of that place pronto.....

Hey great....MORE MEAT FOR ME!!

I just love to eat me some 'dead animals"....

I'm not at all ashamed to be on top of the food chain.

natural/animal based casings are more expensive, "most" sausages you get in supermarkets etc are artificial casings.

Err...where do you live where this is true?

I can't remember the last time I was in a grocery store and saw a sausage that was NOT natural casings....

Hell, I go back to the butcher in the back and buy my natural casings from them for my home made sausages......they use natural and hence I buy from them so I can have a ready supply as needed.

And not this isn't a "butcher shop"....regular grocery stores in the area.

Well, there is SOMETHING going on today with younger boys/men....

I think it has to be in the foods....I'm seeing so many young men today, who are just looking feminine...

So many young men now, seem to have high voices....less and less am I hearing men speak like myself and my peers do...naturally in a lower register....

They look more femininie in the face structure too it seems...

So, whether or not it is phytoestrogens.....SOMETHING is affecting young men these days.