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Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? Are there no emergency rooms?

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La brador mean bright in spanish according to Google. Go figure.

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I did not mean to cast asparagus upon your noble self. I've never owned a Lab. The ones I've met have been lovely! But except for fetching things, I have heard they are not very bright, which is why I phrased it, awkwardly, as a question. You seem like a very nice and intelligent fellow.

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I just looked it up on Snopes. The scold is right, Congress members must buy insurance (if they want it via their government job) through a D.C. Small business ACA exchange, with 72% subsidy from the government. I had the n me be having them pay full retail for individual plans, but not don't know if individual plans outside the exchanges exist or are are different from plans that snide the same exchanges. .

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I called it the first time! In this comment right here:https://wonkette.com/616710...The "indefensible" line that the emergency department counts as "free healthcare" needs to die a quick and justified death.

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Exactly. It's the impact that kills them. We must always distinguish the distal from the proximal cause.

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Bob Dole's dimes are for Bob Dole, and Bob Dole's healthcare is for Bob Dole. Better not get them on the dole, or they'll take all Bob Dole's dimes and Bob Dole's healthcare, but that's Bob Dole's dole.

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Well, you wouldn't want him to strain himself by actually saying "those people", would you?

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Thanks for the clarification... and not continuing the list :(

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Would he have had the nerve to say that if Ted Kennedy was still alive?

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And has been for 40, count 'em 40, years. He's been in the Senate longer than John McCain. Nobody works harder to get conservatives in the courts or to repress the rights of LGBTQ citizens than Orrin Hatch.

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Our babby Donna Rose is pretty damn good at champagnin' and campaignin' as Jalen Rose says.

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"You go to war with the plans you wish you had, not the plans you have."— Trump Rumsfeld

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So are hearing aids. If the Good Lord wanted you to hear things, he would have given you better ears.

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Dok Zoom for Gov!

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