How does single payer NOT bone everyone? I very much think that HDHP’s with HSA’s if started when most of us are young and healthy are the best option. It’s been the best for me and my family through the birth of two sons (both Cesarian and, therefore, expensive if using even traditional insurance).

For the birth of both of my sons, it was cheaper to have a high deductible plan (HDP) instead of the traditional insurance because of how much was covered by the insurance once the deductible was met. For reference, each son was born while working for a different employer with HDP’s from different providers. In each…

Yes - was it the Merc or BMW that had biodegradable wiring harnesses?

Do you mean to say Constitution instead of Declaration of Independence? Just want to make sure. Also, there is only one copy of the Constitution that was ratified and the language on it is much less precisely repeated that the DofI.

I can say, living in Kansas, that there are places in the world where a decline is damn hard to find.

I hand cranked a McCormick International WD6 tractor once. You have to do it just right or it’ll break your damn arm.

You, sir, are a true veteran of the un-ending conflict that is keeping a malaise-era vehicle on the road.

I just don’t know if he’d be able to find a starter in reasonable condition or reasonable time. Your conversion idea is worth pursuing in full, however.

Very good point! I had forgotten about that.

I would tend to agree but with one caveat. If the assassination target was not a Kim family member it could have spelled war. Let’s say they assassinated a South Korean cabinet minister or general - we’d go back to open conflict across the DMZ very quickly.

I would also add that I don’t believe Sec. Mattis wants to see his Marines chewed up like they were on the Choson. Bannon may not have the power that many are projecting to him - we know he has access and that contains a power all its own, but there are many people between him and troops going into combat.

They should certainly be renamed, in my opinion. I’d like to treat it the way the East Germans did after the wall fell and give those places the opportunity to rename themselves away from an avowed racist and Sangerist. As an example, there is a high school in Berlin named after John Lennon.

You make a good point. I am not familiar enough with the program itself but I usually have knee-jerk reactions to that name. I don’t really think that program has much value on it’s surface (never had much regard for those social sciences past grammar school) but I’m open to the possibility that I’m wrong.

Exactly, or the plastic chain guides that can get lunched.

St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes. Wonder when they come out with a Jeep model named for him because it would be more fitting than most model names they’ve picked recently.

Damn that’s a bleak outlook. I don’t see the American populace supporting an unprovoked war with anyone, but maybe that’s me being naive. The last war in Korea brought about a change in party control of the White House, but that had more to do with it being Eisenhower and less Republican vs. Democrat. I truly…

I can very much understand that. I think that the second option of annexing them into China is about the only option but China doesn’t want those same 25 million people running around inside their country either. I sincerely hope things can come to some resolution and disposition peacefully. My worst fear is…

To put the two on par is to not correctly understand the full actions of Woodrow Wilson - not just words but actions. The man re-segregated the Army! He doubled down on segregation within federal departments and facilities thereby hindering the civil rights movement and setting things back as far as forty years.

I, for one, disagree for one reason alone - 90's plastic parts and their eventual degradation. There is nothing more frustrating than trying to weedle one of these little connectors or tabs out only to have it crush, break, or snap.

Let me say this - anything named after Woodrow Wilson needs to go. That man was the most horrible individual to hold the office. He even verbally excoriated W.E.B. DuBois in the White House for being ‘too aspirational’ for his race.