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I heard a story on NPR the other day where they interviewed the man who was the principal at Columbine HS at the time of the shooting. He told stories about people who were students there in their adult life having panic attacks and breakdowns when taking their own children to school. Moms taking their kids to their first day of school breaking down in the drop off line out front. They're permanently scarred.

Life won't be different for the Newtown and Parkland students.

 

Next week will be the 30th anniversary of my first job after passing the bar. I have been continusiously employed for 30 years. I worked full time for 2 years after undergrad. My wife has worked continuously for 21 years and 25 of the last 3o, taking 4 years off to be a full time mother. We are lucky, we’ve worked for local government for most of our careers sacrificing money for security and the satisfaction of doing good rather than doing well. We’ve also lucked into health care. Which came in handy in sept of 2015 when my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. The worst kind of Breast Cancer. After surgery and chemo and radiation she was clear for a few years until it spread to many parts and was diagnosed in New Year’s Eve 2018 with stage 4 incurable Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Her chemo treatments can be as high as $ 11,000 for 1 infusion. Follow up ,shots to keep her white count up are nearly $1,000 a shot and 2 are needed each week It was more expensive 3 years ago because she needed a different shot 3 times, at $13,000 a shot.

We are lucky, we have insurance. We paid some of the premium and our employer paid more than half. We have one daughter with a chronic but treatable disease, common but requiring medicine.

While she slowly dies it’s important that she get to keep what she’s worked for and not go into bankruptcy just to get another shot or pill or treatment session. Because for real people bankruptcy is decanting. Unlike that cancer causing fuckturd trump, for who banktruptcy was a life saver.

That the government would mandate this coverage for everyone and have everyone share in the cost is a no brainer, it is the moral thing. And fro. What I understand it is the judeo Christian thing.

I also pay ungoldly taxes, federal state local sales real estate Make the rich pay the same proportion of taxes to income that I pay and we can have universal health care, including mental health care and addiction treatment.
Yes we can reduce the amount government spends for things, especially military. There’s no reason we pay more than the next 11 countries combined. But getting the rich to pay the same percentage a salaried worked pays is damned needed. And lift the cap on social security income, or at least eliminate the employers half after $150,000 in income.

 

Once again, the guy who hates President Trump sure as hell seems to be rooting for him.

 

He loves the collectivist workers’ paradise, yet only seems to give a shit about what happens to him. Makes perfect sense.

 

I think that the headline writer might have put a little topspin on this one.


NY Judge Rules in Favor of Unvaccinated Children Spreading Measles With Impunity

https://splinternews.com/ny-judge-rules-in-favor-of-unvaccinated-children-spread-1833861419

 

We don't know if it's going to happen in the future. It may not. Millennials may disrupt that pattern.

We'll see. Hispanics, as of 2018, were close to 50/50 on abortion being legal. The further left the Democrats go, how many drop the party?

 

Hispanics voted 70-30 Democratic in 2018. It's a very stable voting bloc. GW Bush made inroads, but his popularity in his home state may have had a lot to do with that.

 

Make Measles Great Again

 

Carl Sagan was pretty good at the futurist gig.

 

"I'll never see my golf courses, I'll be too busy working all the time."

 

Abortion as an issue has been around a long time and Hispanics are still 70/30 Democrat. I don't see much changing. But Hispanics tend to heavily favor increased regulation of firearms and favor social welfare programs. What have the Republicans done to pull away Hispanics over those issues? And there the children in the ages.