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Well, tried the outdoor pool. It'd be nice...except OMG the masses of kids! AUGH.

I did a few short laps, and even got used to the holy feck freezing water, ( nice on a hot muggy day).

I overheard a few kids laugh at my "duck feet" , my bright orange notched swim fins. I knew if I took them off for a second, they'd abscond with em!

Hee. Duck feet.

I miss swimming, I need a calmer environment in which to do it. I have a bit of a blasting headache from the echoey screamy kids. ( it's low income housing, summer, free pool, can't really blame the muppets anyway. It's nothing they did wrong. They're just being small people in summer.)

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Well, tried the outdoor pool. It'd be nice...except OMG the masses of kids! AUGH.

I did a few short laps, and even got used to the holy feck freezing water, ( nice on a hot muggy day).

I overheard a few kids laugh at my "duck feet" , my bright orange notched swim fins. I knew if I took them off for a second, they'd abscond with em!

Hee. Duck feet.

I miss swimming, I need a calmer environment in which to do it. I have a bit of a blasting headache from the echoey screamy kids. ( it's low income housing, summer, free pool, can't really blame the muppets anyway. It's nothing they did wrong. They're just being small people in summer.)

in which i display my lefty, commie,socialist bleeding heart liberal roots.

Blame the poor. Blame the Mexicans. Blame the Blacks. Blame gays, the welfare recipients, single mothers, the immigrants.

I think I'd have far less skepticism that the right wanted change, if they didn't trot out the big deck of "blame the marginal group" and useit as basis for why this, that or the other person doesn't deserve affordable care.

So far the only concrete suggestion of changeis: well, they think it needs to be debated for another 4 years while some 16 000 americans lose their insurance daily, and 46 million have none, or can't access it.

And that doesn't seem to be an issue? It's a human tragedy, is what it is. That's at least 46 million human lives. People. Not 46 pieces of ideology that health care is communist and unconstitutional. That's 46 million people you look squarely in theface and say "we don't think you're worth it."

Call me crazy but i don't have the stones to say that to my fellow canadian.

I can't help but go "why should we care what the right wants anymore? th eBush years proved it was religious extremism, predatory lending,halliburton, and Iraq, afghanistan and whatever other country looked shifty eyed at them." Blowing civilians to bits because they're foreign and at the same time, ignoring the grotesque suffering of those at home, at the hands of "for profit insurers" that have in the past years, gotten greedier and greedier.

I've stated before, the US spending on healthcare. By all means, the money is, on paper, there.

Instead, we also get Palin's Death Squad Bull, the "government will CONTROL" care.

To be blunt, I don't get where you're coming from, because all I've heard is "I don't care, I want what's MINE."

So maybe yes, split up into city states, where you can be free to practice the ideology of your flavor, of your choosing, and pay in only those taxes your city state citizens agree on, and never have to work as a collective whole with people whose circumstances are much different than yours.

And keep believing that misfortune can never, ever befall you, oh Moral ones. It's the greatest delusion going, that "it can't happen to me."

Because it IS happening.

And by tomorrow this time, to another several thousand people.

(i've restated the facts of single payer care again and again, but the falsehoods persist, possibly as a way to help yourself sleep at night saying "well, I have choice and they deserved it.)

However,you can be a moral person, a godfearing patriot who pays their taxes and their insurance and...still get hit with cancer, lose you rinsurance mid treatment or have to mortgage the home, sell the car,hope friends fundraise to cover the costs that insurers don't (many are cutting cancer care from their approval list these days.)

Then you can find yourself unable to work, go on medicaid, or welfare and beg for charity coverage and care, while people above you go "I pay my taxes and the welfare sorts just abuse it all, why should I care."

Funny how that works. Just as much as you can work yourself out of poverty,circumstances can land you there just as easily, and it's delusion to think you're completely immune.

So forgive me, I see the right's side as a somewhat self serving, amoralistic, 'gimme what's mine, screw the other guy" side, because that's the message you're sending.

i believe part of your history says something along the lines of "all men being equal", but apparently not so much anymore....

in which i display my lefty, commie,socialist bleeding heart liberal roots.

Blame the poor. Blame the Mexicans. Blame the Blacks. Blame gays, the welfare recipients, single mothers, the immigrants.

I think I'd have far less skepticism that the right wanted change, if they didn't trot out the big deck of "blame the marginal group" and useit as basis for why this, that or the other person doesn't deserve affordable care.

So far the only concrete suggestion of changeis: well, they think it needs to be debated for another 4 years while some 16 000 americans lose their insurance daily, and 46 million have none, or can't access it.

And that doesn't seem to be an issue? It's a human tragedy, is what it is. That's at least 46 million human lives. People. Not 46 pieces of ideology that health care is communist and unconstitutional. That's 46 million people you look squarely in theface and say "we don't think you're worth it."

Call me crazy but i don't have the stones to say that to my fellow canadian.

I can't help but go "why should we care what the right wants anymore? th eBush years proved it was religious extremism, predatory lending,halliburton, and Iraq, afghanistan and whatever other country looked shifty eyed at them." Blowing civilians to bits because they're foreign and at the same time, ignoring the grotesque suffering of those at home, at the hands of "for profit insurers" that have in the past years, gotten greedier and greedier.

I've stated before, the US spending on healthcare. By all means, the money is, on paper, there.

Instead, we also get Palin's Death Squad Bull, the "government will CONTROL" care.

To be blunt, I don't get where you're coming from, because all I've heard is "I don't care, I want what's MINE."

So maybe yes, split up into city states, where you can be free to practice the ideology of your flavor, of your choosing, and pay in only those taxes your city state citizens agree on, and never have to work as a collective whole with people whose circumstances are much different than yours.

And keep believing that misfortune can never, ever befall you, oh Moral ones. It's the greatest delusion going, that "it can't happen to me."

Because it IS happening.

And by tomorrow this time, to another several thousand people.

(i've restated the facts of single payer care again and again, but the falsehoods persist, possibly as a way to help yourself sleep at night saying "well, I have choice and they deserved it.)

However,you can be a moral person, a godfearing patriot who pays their taxes and their insurance and...still get hit with cancer, lose you rinsurance mid treatment or have to mortgage the home, sell the car,hope friends fundraise to cover the costs that insurers don't (many are cutting cancer care from their approval list these days.)

Then you can find yourself unable to work, go on medicaid, or welfare and beg for charity coverage and care, while people above you go "I pay my taxes and the welfare sorts just abuse it all, why should I care."

Funny how that works. Just as much as you can work yourself out of poverty,circumstances can land you there just as easily, and it's delusion to think you're completely immune.

So forgive me, I see the right's side as a somewhat self serving, amoralistic, 'gimme what's mine, screw the other guy" side, because that's the message you're sending.

i believe part of your history says something along the lines of "all men being equal", but apparently not so much anymore....