My family celibate the secular commercial Christmas tradition.

I was wondering this morning as I was scrambling my eggs just how many of the grossly unqualified billionaires that Trump is trying to nominate to cabinet positions paid for those positions?

They want so desperately to be Texas that they’re cosplaying as Texans.

It was a billion.

We do as well. I have private coverage for things that OHIP doesn’t cover like a private hospital room, massage, physio, and other therapies, eye glasses, dental, and prescription drugs. It’s much, much cheaper than in the US because it is single payer and heavily regulated.

To be clear, it isn’t free healthcare. In Canada we pay our taxes and the government administers the health insurance system. In Ontario where I live it’s the Ontario Health Insurance Plan. It covers most doctors visits and most treatments. I have Hodgins Lymphoma and am nearing the end of my treatment. Dozens of doctors visits, CT scans, x-rays, an echo cardiogram, a respiratory study, two PET scans, and all the drugs and the only thing I’ve paid for out of pocket is parking, and the hospital where I’m being treated just put in free parking for cancer patients and gave me a parking pass. Our government negotiates the price of drugs at the national level and regulates drug prices. Companies aren’t allowed to raise the price of a drug that is on the market unless there is a corresponding improvement in benefit to the patient. They can’t add a coloured band to a capsule, rename the drug (Losec to Prilosec, for example) and double or triple the price. Generic drugs are the same. That’s why epipens are $100 here and not $600 like in the US. There has been no substantion improvement in their benefit to patients so the price can’t go up.

Universal healthcare isn’t perfect but 22 of 23 highly developed countries in the world have it and the US profits before people system is grotesque.

Carrol couldn’t tell if he raped her with his stubby finger or his tiny penis.

They’re afraid.

Good.

They are afraid.

Good.

“I believe that we should punish those who do wrong, but once they’ve completed the terms of their sentence, we should allow individuals to reintegrate into society,” Davis told Fox2Now.

So not at all like Trump.

176 cm (5’ 9 1/2"). I used I be 179 cm (5’ 10 1/2") but I’ve gotten shorter as I got older.

It’s how tall I am. I don’t care either way.

No one gets rich from public healthcare.

That’s why.

They’re fucking terrified. The reaction of the public to this assassination has shocked them. They understand that they need to crush this guy and they need to crush the swell of public support or this is the end of unfettered capitalism. When the few have everything and the many have nothing the many rise up and take back everything and the cycle starts again. Every single dollar in every rich guy’s bank account came from the hard work of non-rich people. There are thousands of them and hundreds of millions of us. We can just rise up and take what they have. They have to stop this before it builds and before the majority realize that we can do it.

This is the way.

Take away the corporate welfare and regulatory cover and let the big evil companies fail. Maybe another big, evil company will take its place but without government cover it will fail too. Eventually small, less evil companies will take their place.

Cafeteria Christians

“Freedom of Speech” as glorified in the US means hate speech, racism, and discrimination. Be happy that your don’t have US style free speech. I am as a Canadian.

This is my BOOM! stick!

I’ve always been a 12 gauge guy myself but that’s a bit showy for the purpose.

In the final act of capitalism the corrupt government is made up of oligarchs who destroy the institutions of government that benefit the people and the oligarch loot every last penny that they can before the people rise up, murder them, redistribute the wealth of the country to the people, and start again.

In France it was the guillotine. In the US it will be in 9 mm pistol.

They’re afraid because they see it coming.

Sorry. I hope your melon has recovered.