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Hey, killing them <i>is</i> healthcare! There are drugs involved, hypodermics, IVs, and the poor guy will never again suffer from the heartbreak of psoriasis.

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Well, that's true. Having bought pentobarbital on occasion for our lab to euthanize animals, i can attest to it being very cheap. I guess paying enough for a US company to manufacture it would require raising taxes and we can't have that. True fact: I was doing my postdoc in a Downtown Area of a Very Large City and was sent to the attached hospital to get pentobarbital. This involved signature, more signature, locked door, locked cabinet, etc etc…and then I was given a large bottle of injectable pentobarbital, clearly labelled, in a transparent plastic bag to carry out onto the street.

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gah. GA is about my least favorite regular place to visit and i have to make my annual trek this weekend.

as per usual, i believe my entire wardrobe will consist of obama and obamacare t-shirts.

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I do not want to hear of them ever again. Ugh.

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From all the evidence, it merely shuts down the brain's higher functions.

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Since your example is rather dark, it must be one of the 'urban' variety, otherwise known as a geoduck metro.

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I'm pretty sure that the right-wingers are convinced that there are only two amendments: A version of the Second that omits the reference to "well-regulated" and a version of the first that specifies freedom to say whatever the right-wingers agree with.

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Growing up in Atlanta, I often heard it called "the city too busy to hate." Guess they found the time.

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I see this as a job for Vince. Slapchop should work just fine as a name.

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UC Santa Cruz Libel!

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I was gonna go with Decapper, but I like yours better.

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Kind of like popping bubble wrap?

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A new job opportunity for Paul Ryan.

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Guillo-matic! From Ronco!

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And we <i>know</i> most of them are guilty because most of them are blah.

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They really should just bring back the guillotine. It's only tough on the witnesses -- and in some states I think that's not much of an issue.

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