OMG! Glacier melt may have become “unstoppable.

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  1. MarAzul

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    Heaven help the megacities!

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...sea-level-faster-in-threat-to-megacities.html

    Hard to tell what will do us first these days, Ebola or Sea Level?

    I just figured out my health insurance cost for the wife and I in 2015. Just exactly twice as much as it was for 2014.

    2014 was the first year it has cost me anything out of the past 54 years.
    Damn this ObamaCare is a blessing, err for someone I hear. Not here though,
    I think this may get me first. It really pisses me off.
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    It was unstoppable all along.
     
  3. MarAzul

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    What do you mean? We stop that one, it is gone.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    So, you think you should be entitled to lifetime free health care? Why?

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    It's the same one, just today it is smaller and still shrinking.
     
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    I think you should pay for his.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Aquaman shall replace Batman as the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I apparently have been.

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    It was part of the payment for services rendered.
    All was going well until ObamaCare added a tax for the payer to pay if they continued to provide the insurance. It also made it legal to stop providing the insurance.
     
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    You were not paying until Obamacare. Now I use the VA but my wife doesn't, she has to buy insurance and due to a funny little quirk in the ACA, I have to buy it too even though I don't need it since I have the VA
    coverage.
     
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    Ah! that one is gone. The NW passage opened up here a few years ago. I think it is closing again. The Canadian Ice service shows it choked in several spots but it was open when I looked in 2009-10
     
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    No, I mean you should write the check directly. It's your fault he lost his.

    And as he points out, it was part of his compensation.
     
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    He can eat cake.

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    Name this tune.

    "Glaciers melting in the dead of night
    And the superstars sucked into the supermassive"
     
  17. BlazerWookee

    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    Because it was part of his retirement package?
     
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    He should be mad at IBM, then. They could have continued his retirement package, and chose not to. Or he could be mad at himself for believing that they would.

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    If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.

    We were lied into this scam to enrich big insurance companies. How can you defend it with a straight face?
     
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    Because I'm not blinded by ideology like you. Our healthcare system has always been a scam to enrich insurance companies. Single payer is the answer, this is one baby step towards that. It's a baby step because certain people in this country can't even handle this sort of incremental change.

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