tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post7797186170999551828..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Open ThreadAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-90133204017910771332016-03-07T07:56:10.868-06:002016-03-07T07:56:10.868-06:00SF,
Northern Virginia, where so many are governmen...SF,<br />Northern Virginia, where so many are government employees or employed via government contracts, swept McAuliffe into office.<br /><br />Until the heavily populated, "close-in" precincts came in, Virginia wasn't going for McAuliffe.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-14347852104715801132016-03-07T07:22:22.304-06:002016-03-07T07:22:22.304-06:00Present company excepted, Virginia now spills over...Present company excepted, Virginia now spills over with DC teat-sucklers who know which side their bread is buttered on. <br /><br />Virginia, along with Pennsylvania is now solidly in the North-East political camp.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-10657636769412726532016-03-06T18:40:15.904-06:002016-03-06T18:40:15.904-06:00Baysider,
Because of something called thr Davos Ag...Baysider,<br />Because of something called thr Davos Agreement? I seem to remember hearing about something like that.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-88002982006705748612016-03-06T17:35:15.520-06:002016-03-06T17:35:15.520-06:00Many of these drugs sell for pennies overseas. In ...Many of these drugs sell for pennies overseas. In essence, just as we U.S. taxpayers fund 25% of the military expense of the 'free world', so does the U.S. citizenry fund a great deal of medical expense for others via huge transfer payments in price gouging. Baysiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562129788572031587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-61937399938011988372016-03-06T16:57:24.622-06:002016-03-06T16:57:24.622-06:00Repuglicons eating their own. Gotta love it! Thank...Repuglicons eating their own. Gotta love it! Thanks Donald! Lol!Goosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17605659414811024057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-5738543224005472542016-03-06T15:55:03.114-06:002016-03-06T15:55:03.114-06:00FT,
It stunned many Virginians that McAuliffd got...FT, <br />It stunned many Virginians that McAuliffd got elected.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-85285149480018065162016-03-06T15:53:16.043-06:002016-03-06T15:53:16.043-06:00FT,
No doubt about it: the NWO is the path to perd...FT,<br />No doubt about it: the NWO is the path to perdition.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-30480008432124512892016-03-06T15:51:20.085-06:002016-03-06T15:51:20.085-06:00Terry McAuliffe is stinking leftist turd with a ve...Terry McAuliffe is stinking leftist turd with a very bad Upper New York State accent. He should NEVER have been able to get himself selected governor of Virginia. Who stuffed the ballot boxes? Who voted from the cemeteries? Who confiscated Republican ballots?FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-20483147107666242482016-03-06T15:46:16.883-06:002016-03-06T15:46:16.883-06:00Take up, Christian Science.
You'll have much ...Take up, Christian Science.<br /><br />You'll have much better luck with God than you will with the New World Order.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-24350907596469755022016-03-06T15:44:39.356-06:002016-03-06T15:44:39.356-06:00Think what you like. You will anyway, and it '...Think what you like. You will anyway, and it 's not going to make a particle of difference. Apparently, you don't yet realize that you –– and all the rest of us –– have been rendered irrelevant. So, you might as well stay home and take a long nap on election day.<br /><br /><b>HAIL, HILLARY, QUEEN of the DINGES, RULER of the DUNGHILL!</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-28377932191349975542016-03-06T10:56:31.294-06:002016-03-06T10:56:31.294-06:00Bernie's Wrapped Up the Hippie Slut vote!<a href="http://wankfiles.blogspot.com/2016/03/sluts-2-bit-crack-whores-for-bernie.html" rel="nofollow">Bernie's Wrapped Up</a> the Hippie Slut vote!Joe Cameltoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18189167962738394522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-12063873252159278582016-03-06T04:13:56.017-06:002016-03-06T04:13:56.017-06:00Baysider,
How do we save ourselves from that gougi...Baysider,<br />How do we save ourselves from that gouging?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-32338226604546682982016-03-05T20:46:31.739-06:002016-03-05T20:46:31.739-06:00@AOW: "Not so long ago, the copay for that me...@AOW: <b>"Not so long ago, the copay for that medication was $30. What happened?"</b> There is horrific price gouging going on in the prescription drug cartel world. It affects name drugs and generics, which used to be a refuge of sorts. <br /><br />See more <a href="http://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2016/3/new-england-journal-of-medicine-exposes-generic-price-scandal/page-01" rel="nofollow">here.</a> The New England Journal of Medicine was a source for this (report published 2014 and picked up by PBS 2015), although Mr. Falloon has been writing about this problem much longer. <br /><br />Examples:<br /><b>Albuterol</b> sold at an average market price of $11 for a bottle of 100 2 mg tablets in October 2013. By April 2014 the average price for albuterol sulfate jumped to $434! A price increase of over 4,000%.<br /><br /><b>Divalproex Sodium ER</b> is used to treat seizures and prevent migraines. This drug had an average market price in October 2013 of around $31 for a bottle of 80 tablets. By April of 2014, the price for the same drug rose to $234…a price increase of 736%.<br /><br />Martin Shkreli is under criticism after raising the price of the anti-parasite medication <b>Daraprim®</b> from $13.50 to $750 per pill. Turing Pharmaceutical was founded in February 2015, bought the US marketing rights to the drug in August 2015, and hiked the price 55-fold in September 2015. Some people will now pay over $100,000 per year to stay alive.<br /><br />Do read the article. But only if your blood pressure is low. Baysiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562129788572031587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-7542049446699876682016-03-05T18:08:09.617-06:002016-03-05T18:08:09.617-06:00Yes, he is the enemy. He verbalises contempt for t...Yes, he is the enemy. He verbalises contempt for the Constitution at every turn. Support for Trump is to load the gun that will finally kill off the Republic.Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-24815790941553037552016-03-05T17:23:43.808-06:002016-03-05T17:23:43.808-06:00FT,
All I'm saying is this...
Mr. AOW and I h...FT,<br />All I'm saying is this...<br /><br />Mr. AOW and I had resources and the help of the Merry Widow, who dropped everything to come here so that I could go to work to pay the bills.<br /><br />What is we HADN'T had resources and assistance?<br /><br />It really has nothing to do with where I live. It has everything to do with the cost of getting state of the art medical care, which will never be cheap because "the best" costs bucks.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-82730050763273607472016-03-05T17:21:18.632-06:002016-03-05T17:21:18.632-06:00Mr. TRUMP is a great force capable of bringing abo...Mr. TRUMP is a great force capable of bringing about much needed CREATIVE DESTRUCTION, Silver.. FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-53812826473755778722016-03-05T17:18:58.321-06:002016-03-05T17:18:58.321-06:00FT,
But $6000 IS a lot of money if one does have i...FT,<br />But $6000 IS a lot of money if one does have it!<br /><br />BTW, deductibles roll over when the new calendar year begins. <br /><br />In Mr. AOW's case, he had a stroke on September 15, and out the door went the maximum out of pocket ($5000) in less than 30 minutes in the hospital's emergency room. January 1, we started all over again and burned through that $5000 in three months. At the same time, I was footing his health insurance premium to the tune of $680/month -- and my own health insurance premium of $259/month. Medical devices such as wheelchairs, etc., were not covered, nor at time, was there any prescription coverage. We burned through my entire annual salary in no time and dipped into our savings as well.<br /><br />Private insurances policies, BTW.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-66402334986423899722016-03-05T17:18:09.435-06:002016-03-05T17:18:09.435-06:00I'm not so sure of that, CI. You'd almost ...I'm not so sure of that, CI. You'd almost have to be a New Yorker to understand Trump. I was born and raised there, so what sounds outrageous to much of the nation sounds like "home and mother" to me. <br /><br />Things are seldom what they seem anyway. There is a great deal more to Mr. Trump than he has permitted the public to see thus far.<br /><br />Mr. Trump may not be a White Knight in Shining armor, but he is the best –– and probably the ONLY –– chance we to beat The Bitch of Benghazi into the ground never to rise again.<br /><br /><b>Mr. Trump was not my first choice. <i>I had hoped Dr. Carson and Carly Fiorina would capture the public's heart</i>, but, Alas! it was not permitted to happen –– the enemedia saw to that.</b><br /><br />Mitt Romney is a CYPHER –– a RINO –– the moral equivalent of a Wooden Indian –– and more than a bit of a fool. <br /><br /><b>Mr. Trump is NOT "The Enemy." The enemedia is - the GOP establishment is - and most of all the Marxian-Socialist-Statist -Tyrannist Democratic party and H. Rotten Clinton are the forces we need to focus on with laser-like intensity, and STOP harming <i>each other</i></b>.<br /><br />The Circular Firing Squad routine is beyond inane. It is sheer madness.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-88822317829292572172016-03-05T17:17:41.354-06:002016-03-05T17:17:41.354-06:00The GOOP Mansion was already in pretty bad shape w...The GOOP Mansion was already in pretty bad shape when Trump arrived...Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-74941808047314892692016-03-05T17:08:22.201-06:002016-03-05T17:08:22.201-06:00If you're searching for perfection, AOW, you w...If you're searching for perfection, AOW, you will not find it "'this side of heaven." There just ain't no such animal. Utopianism is, and always has been, doomed to suffer ignominious defeat.<br /><br />What I have offered –– and Mr. Trump too –– are a set of alternatives to Obamacare that would be far superior to those we have now, AND what we had before.<br /><br /><b>Freeing ALL medical expenses from insurance premiums down to the last ASPIRIN table from TAXATION would greatly ease the burden on the middle class, who could then AFFORD to subsidize the very poor and truly helpless.</b><br /><br />The poor don't need tax breaks, and neither do the rich –– depending on how one defines "rich," of course. ;-)<br /><br />What I've proposed is a PRIVATIZATION of the Medical Care System where <b>everyone participates but contributes only what he can afford</b>. Public funds would kick in ONLY in cases where a deathly ill person has NO money at all, is too sick to work, and would likely die without receiving critical care.<br /><br />Getting rid of the vast unfeeling, inefficient, oppressive, BUREAUCRACY that currently administers "health care" through the IRS (!) would GREATLY reduce the cost to all individuals.<br /><br />If it were up to me most people would have MAJOR MEDICAL coverage ONLY.<br /><br />You think SIX-THOUSAND dollars is a lot of money? Believe me it is NOTHING compared to the HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS –– even MILLIONS –– of DOLLARS a catastrophic illness is likely to cost.<br /><br />I'm very sorry you've had so many negative experiences. I can't understand why I have not, even though I've dealt with many a medical crisis –– of my own as well as my father's and that of others on whom I took pity. We live in the same country after all. Maybe the problems you've had stem from that infernal AREA in which you live? <br /><br />At any rate, so far I have had no distressing changes in the care I receive since the ACA kicked in, but then I've not been seriously ill in all time.<br /><br />Doubtless a great deal of unpleasantness awaits me as I proceed towards my eightieth birthday. I don't worry about it, though.<br /><br />As the old song says:<br /><br /><i>"What's the use of worrying? <br />It never was worthwhile, <br />SO pack up your troubles <br />In the old kit bag <br />And smile, smile, SMILE."</i><br /><br />The less we spend on GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE and SUPERVISION the more money –– and TIME –– medical personnel would have to spend on PATIENTS.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-8906908659964646302016-03-05T14:57:44.118-06:002016-03-05T14:57:44.118-06:00Hey, Clearwater.
Blog administrators don't de...Hey, Clearwater.<br /><br />Blog administrators don't delete all objectionable comments.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-36813517084343924362016-03-05T14:53:08.853-06:002016-03-05T14:53:08.853-06:00Anyone who screams about the dangers of Christiani...Anyone who screams about the dangers of Christianity but defends Islam and supports mass immigration from muslim lands is mentally-disordered.<br /><br />Anyone who rightly stands up for free speech, freedom from religion, the rights of women and gays, but turns a blind eye to daily Muslim violations of all those beautiful ideals is mentally disordered.<br /><br />Anyone who shrieks about Wall Street and global corporations, but refuses to see the Democrat hogs have their snouts in the trough just as deeply, is mentally-disordered.<br /><br />Anyone who thinks shutting down whole chunks of our economies and mandating expensive green energy--making marginal societies even more miserable--all for the foolish attempt to turn down the earth's thermostat 2.3 degrees celsius, is mentally-disordered.<br /><br />Anyone who--in the bald-faced absence of any evidence-- think Democrats are "for the working man," or "looking out for the little guy," is mentally-disordered.<br /><br />This is not liberal bashing. cons suffer disorders of their own...Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-13820253893626943052016-03-05T14:22:48.161-06:002016-03-05T14:22:48.161-06:00Unlike this place, Dave is respected at Western He...Unlike this place, Dave is respected at Western Hero, a conservative blog. Anonymous's wretched comment about a decent man is a perfect example of the hateful Trumpism that's consuming the GOP.Clearwater, Floridanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-22430707867459573722016-03-05T14:09:40.122-06:002016-03-05T14:09:40.122-06:00Ducky,
I share your alarm at the amount of corpor...Ducky,<br /><br />I share your alarm at the amount of corporate money in politics, but what is the alternative? Citizens United clamps down on free speech. It was over an anti-Hillary book (if I remember) and her peeps tried to brand it electioneering or some such.<br /><br />If you get some dangerous rightwinger blasting away at green energy companies from the stump, they can't fire back?<br /><br />It is simple-minded to simply call for overturning CU.<br /><br />and btw, it is <i>"Liberalism is a mental disorder"</i> Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-83491665313988959652016-03-05T13:17:41.396-06:002016-03-05T13:17:41.396-06:00I certainly think that he'll damage the GOP be...I certainly think that he'll damage the GOP beyond repair, or almost to that point. He's neither a Republican nor a Conservative....but rather, a charlatan who uses the Constitution to gin up his next applause line. With any luck, his vaudville act will encourge Libertarian leaning Republicans to ditch the GOP and vote LP.Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.com