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Don’t force health care on everyone
My family has always been fortunate enough to have health insurance provided through my husband’s company. The co-pays have been low enough, and I’ve been very happy with the experience I’ve had with my insurance.
As a mother of two, I can’t imagine having to choose between taking my sick child to the doctor and buying food for my family. It is horrifying to me that some mothers actually have to make this decision because they can’t afford insurance.
It is unsettling that we are recognized as the wealthiest nation in the world, yet many people in our country aren’t able to receive necessary health care because of the high costs.
Something needs to be done in our country so that all families have medical care just like mine. I fully support any efforts to help the uninsured; but having had a positive experience with a private insurer, I don’t think government health care should be forced on everyone.
Those who prefer to keep their private insurance should have the choice of doing so, but not at the expense of a government plan.
Laura McLaughlin, 1617 Graybar Lane
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I'm afraid the flash will go off neme and they will confiscate it. We have 3rd row seats. I don't want to blind Stevie in her stink eye!
MamaG, have you ever been "Tempted" by "Black Coffee in Bed"?
I want to go to the Cold Play but I was on vaction in Virgina to see my daughter.
Fleetwood Mac w/o Christine McVie? Nicks is 57 and Mick is chopped liver. They want the money. Who's going to sing their hits? Nicks and Buckingham. Mick Fleetwood and John never sang a note.
I wanted to go to Bonneroo. Buffett, Springsteen and Phish?? Killer lineup.
That's not true Dargent, "Behind the Music" showed that John sang two notes in 1978...
Pain: I caught that coitus interruptus once but a shot of penicillin cleared it right up.
You betcha House until I got "Another Nail in My Heart" and had to go "Up The Junction" where someone was "Pulling Muscles from a Shell!"
Neme--Cold Play's new stuff sounds okay. I've never been a big fan myself.
Blanket, that sounds like my kind of fun...when is that festival? This weekend?
Fleetwood Mac could give us their take on Medicare.
They're all on it by now.
I got a freind that goes to Bonneroo every year. He calls me when Springsteen was on. He does to get me.
Well, they may not have Christine McVie touring anymore but the tickets were free, so I figured, hey, why not?
gd: Yeah, and Ringo belted out The Beatles best.
Yeah, me to Nemo. I disowned her when he showed me pictures of Spingsteen on stage with Phish...she's DEAD TO ME...
LOL House!
What, you don't like "Octopuses Garden"?? Harrison's solo is magnificent...
yes, Mama. I believe it is.
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/content/lifestyles/jazz-blues-stars-headline-jefferson-street-festival
The way they ran the harmonies through the Leslie speaker to create that effect...I tell you it was all Ringo's idea...
Harrison has always been so overshadowed by Lennon and McCartney - what a shame. He's so gifted and such a wonderful songwriter.
Cold Play last CD is sort of spritual to me. It is great on the open road.
I got U2's latest in the car now, Plus the new Springsteen Outlaw Bob is the first cut.
...so I get here just in time for the "disintegration hour".
blanket:
You talk about Harrison like he's still alive.
Blanket, his contributions on "Abbey Road" were the best on the album, hands down. But I think by then Paul and John were "phoning it in"...that's why you have the second side full of one minute song parts. And who the hell gave the green light for "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"????
i wish he were, panda.
Maxwell's Silver Hammer - lol! I still laugh when I hear that song.
The White Album is still my favorite...the second disk...that's a desert island record if there ever was one.
Where have you been all day panda? Could have used some of your wisedom here.
Rocky Racoon
Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey
My wife has an Uncle Albert.
Nemo:
I had some wisdom earlier too.
Then someone bumped me and now I'm just an everyday man.
That's it: "Everyday Man" sung by Rocy Racoon...I mean Ringo.
Rubber Soul
I prefer Revolver...
Tomorrow Never Knows blows my mind every time...
"Hey Bulldog," was/is one of my favorite Beatles songs. Thanks for the link Blanket! Neme, the last CD I bought was last weekend--Black Eyed Peas new one. It's pretty good but I like Elephunk best. I like music that has a good beat, no matter what kind (genre) of music it is.
Revolver is still my favorite with Abbey Road running a close second.
I think Revolver was better than Sgt Pepper...although "A Day in the Life" has got to be one of the best songs ever written.
I have the 45 record of Penny Lane...the B-side is Strawberry Fields Forever...
I liked Yesterday. It made me think of what is real and what counts.
Help is good too and a funny moive.
The Beatles song that has gotten me through some very tough times is "Why Don't we Do it in the Road"...brings a tear to my eye...
Strawberry Fields. Love it.
"A Day in the Life" is one of the best songs ever written IMO too. The Beatle's stuff could be so deep but so palatable too.
Yesterday is one of those guitar songs like Free Bird and Stairway to Heaven...if you play guitar you have to know that one.
"For No One" always gets me.
Beautiful song. I think "In my life" always makes me pause.
Why don't we do it the road. My wife play that for me, but would not try it. lol
I still remember crying the day Lennon was shot.
Oh, man, I remember that...Howard Cossell announced it during MNF...that was one of those "I remember what I was doing when..." moments.
I'm still in shock over Lennon's murder.
His "Woman" still tug at me.
Oh man, you guys are making my keyboard wet.
What about "She came in through the bathroom window" ?
I still remember what I was doing when I heard that Kurt Cobain died too. I was at work.
"So I quit the police department and got myself a steady job."