After watching for hours as the patients moved through the clinic, it was hard to believe that I was in America.
Eighty-three percent of the patients they see are employed, they are not accepting other government help on a large scale, not "welfare queens" as some would like to have us believe. They are tax-paying, good, upstanding citizens who are trying to make it and give their kids a better life just like you and me.
Ninety percent of the patients who came through Saturday's clinic had two or more diagnoses.
Eighty-two percent had a life-threatening condition such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or hypertension. They are victims of a system built with corporate profits at its center, which long ago forgot the moral imperative that should drive us to show compassion to our fellow men and women.
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on my way to take Brewser to get her jaw wire removed.
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I'll take Fridee. I wish we could have gotten together one last time before the big move (maybe we still can?), but I know this is gonna be exciting for you all!
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I'll take Fridee. I wish we could have gotten together one last time before the big move (maybe we still can?), but I know this is gonna be exciting for you all!
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OOps -- clint and Mala will have to work something out..![]()
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Hey ClintAmtrak goes straight from the ATL to the DC
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I'll take Fridee. I wish we could have gotten together one last time before the big move (maybe we still can?), but I know this is gonna be exciting for you all!
We will be back down around Christmas time -- Let's think about getting together for a dinner?
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Hey ClintAmtrak goes straight from the ATL to the DC
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She's right you know -- I am sure Ian would love to see all the fun things in DC!
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Also interesting to note: Healthiest and unhealthiest states...
The blues states asking for health care reform are already the healthiest, and the red states full of teabaggers and neo-libertarians against health care are the unhealthiest.
Ironic, huh?
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Pearl Jam will be on the next Austin City Limits, that doesn't sound very country to me.
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stupid cold my heads all stupped up![]()
Healing vibes. :hug:
Quote by Raine:I have seen Wilco on there. It's not really a country show.Quote by livingonli:
Pearl Jam will be on the next Austin City Limits, that doesn't sound very country to me.
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stupid cold my heads all stupped up![]()
Healing vibes. :hug:
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stupid cold my heads all stupped up![]()
Healing vibes. :hug:
see?![]()
I thought it was two spaces before the first one. My mistake.. Fixed it now.
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stupid cold my heads all stupped up![]()
Healing vibes. :hug:
see?![]()
I thought it was two spaces before the first one. My mistake.. Fixed it now.
You need one space before and one space after any emoticon. I changed this in the code to prevent things like converting a list that has A), B), C), etc. into A),, C)
Quote by livingonli:Quote by Raine:I have seen Wilco on there. It's not really a country show.Quote by livingonli:
Pearl Jam will be on the next Austin City Limits, that doesn't sound very country to me.
Wilco like Son Volt and the Jayhawks have a country influence in their sound. That's not a claim Pearl Jam has.
Quote by Raine:Well there is that. I guess I just never really thought of ACL as a solely country genre show.Quote by livingonli:Quote by Raine:I have seen Wilco on there. It's not really a country show.Quote by livingonli:
Pearl Jam will be on the next Austin City Limits, that doesn't sound very country to me.
Wilco like Son Volt and the Jayhawks have a country influence in their sound. That's not a claim Pearl Jam has.
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OK I am pissed right now -- My nephew was suspended from school for 2.5 days because a kid punched him in the head and he defended himself. He has complained to teachers aids and the teacher before about this bully and no one did anything, now when he finally decides to defend himself they say they didn't know this kid was a problem.
My sister is so pissed at the school, and I don't blame her. let's get some good vibes for her so that she can get to a place where she can calmly tell the principle that she is not a happy parental unit.
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OK I am pissed right now -- My nephew was suspended from school for 2.5 days because a kid punched him in the head and he defended himself. He has complained to teachers aids and the teacher before about this bully and no one did anything, now when he finally decides to defend himself they say they didn't know this kid was a problem.
My sister is so pissed at the school, and I don't blame her. let's get some good vibes for her so that she can get to a place where she can calmly tell the principle that she is not a happy parental unit.
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SO I am on the craigslist... the free section and I see this listing... Stunning chest of drawers dresser (Arlington) I love the description...
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I feel bad gor G -- He is not a kid that fights. He really reached his breaking point. And SisterLove does not suffer fools well.
We were always taght to NEVER Throw the first punch or instigate -- but we were also we have a right to defend ourselves.
The principle actually had the GALL to say to Sistah that G should have gotten a playground aid. Funnt, how was he supposed to do that when he is getting punched upside the head?
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Aunt Azelea says she will do Wed. Says she!
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Headlines that make you go: "um... seriously?"
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Headlines that make you go: "um... seriously?"
It is a serious issue at el Casa Del SSG!
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Aunt Azelea says she will do Wed. Says she!
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Aunt Azelea says she will do Wed. Says she!
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