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Whoa. For reals or shopped?

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Yeah, I know SS is not going bankrupt, but then I get annoyed with all the wingnuts who keep shouting it, and my friends believe it and freak out.

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What a great doctor! I had one like that too, but he retired several years ago. It's really weird when you suddenly realize that all the doctors you go to are younger than you - sometimes young enough to be your child. It seems to happen almost overnight. Even my dentist retired, and the guy who bought his practice is 32 years younger than me. It's one of the side-effects of getting older that nobody warns you about.

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Remember his boxing match? This is his publicity picture from it. All Trudeau including the tat of Raven.

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Traveling used to be my escape, but unfortunately I am not physically able to do it now. However I have been toying with the idea of retiring to Spain. Possibly Valencia. It's a soothing idea.

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The problem is that the GOP has taken on as its job since 1933 the dismantling and destruction of the New Deal, and eventually rolling back to a state not unlike the Roaring 20s except with more tax breaks for billionaires and continued criminalization and subjugation of the poor, gays, non whites and non males. It is time for them to be kicked to the curb and thrown out with the rest of the bad rubbish.

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There is that. And is the shut down an issue in this election yet? I guess if it is Cruz it will be. But, will anyone running against a Republican for a senate seat make it an issue? The idea that the 140 character attention span society will remember anything that happened two years ago and use it as a reason to vote is not very promising.

Surveys indicate that while people dislike Congress, they like their congressional representatives and senators.

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I am hopeful, at least, that the desire to support the outsider - and maybe some pantsuit coat-tails - will help oust my career congresscritter in November, to be replaced with that now grown up girl from Little House on the Prairie, who is running against him. But I am also full of fantasies of taking back the federal and state senates, Bernie Sanders as Hillary's veep, and Barack Obama as the next SCOTUS. And Hillz still in office, with coat-tails galore, come 2020, to end the republican redistricting nightmares. Hey, I can dream, right?

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Oh my god, are you looking at the polling data of Trump supporters and confusing it with polls of the general population?! That is enough to drive even the toughest and most resilient of us to despair and madness. It would explain your undying love and support of Louie Gohmert, though.

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Scalawag? Rapscallion? Scruffy-looking nerf herder? Poopyhead?

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My doc decided to become a stay at home mom. She still does shifts every now and then in the practice. I left that place shortly after she did. My kids had gotten sick so I made same day appointments. They set us in a room and promptly forgot about us. For 3 hours. Every time I would stop a nurse they would go find the doc who was supposed to see us. One actually told him "Doc there are sick babies in that room and they have been waiting for a while." His response? "I'll get to them when I feel like it!" They finally came into the room when they were starting to close the office down for the night. I was pissed.

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I wish I could say I'm shocked, but I'm not. I went through 5 G.P.s after my good one retired, looking for one that wasn't awful. Still haven't found a good one, but only one that is less awful than the rest.

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...if that is the case my kid may be on the FBI most wanted. I was just lucky as shit!!!

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...yeah my mini clone is more demanding than I am!!!

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...we are thinking about a "vagina" model of mini ABG. Which may be dangerous considering I would melt like a stick of butter on summer pavement and she may be the most spoiled rotten kid on the planet.

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We're the best! The men ain't too shabby either.

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