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Made fresh bagel dough last night and proofed it overnight in the fridge. Just boiled/baked them this morning.
A great start to a day!
I've never played a Stradivarius. Am I missing something?
I won't get into the merits of individual Canadians, but their society is far more functional than ours right now...were I a clever person (I can wish) living in a foreign land looking to emigrate someplace, I would definitely choose Canada right now over the U.S., and it makes me very sad to say that.
I will respectfully agree to disagree. It probably comes across that I have a beef against Canadians, I don't, but I do think Canada's reputation for many things far exceeds their reality. That said, I will grant that there are some areas where their way of doing things is more functional than our way of doing things.
(They are no better and perhaps worse than the US when it comes to addressing systemic racism, for example. Their vaunted healthcare system? Doesn't work the same way for people of color.)
I know. They will never, ever admit that one of the reasons their healthcare costs are kept low is because the US picks up a lot of the slack. We've had this discussion before so I know already that you don't agree with me and I am not trying to convince you otherwise. I will, however, mention again, that all the Canadians who qualify for proton beam radiation treatment are sent elsewhere to receive it, most of them to the US where the US system (and the US taxpayers) have built 13 such facilities. Canada has never built such a facility. They are very expensive to build. Their healthcare costs would be higher if they spent the money to build one. It is much cheaper to pay for the service built by another country. So, yeah, I agree, why would Canadians trade with us? I would however, be interested to know their answers if the US stopped accepting Canadian patients for treatments unavailable to them in Canada.
Don't get me wrong, there is a lot wrong with the US healthcare system. It desperately needs fixing and we don't have the political will to fix it properly but I would be terrified of adopting the Canadian way, terrified. So, yeah, I'd love to have everybody's preventative care covered in the US and no one should ever go bankrupt because of medical expenses, but adopt Canada's healthcare system in the US? No, thank you.
Well they are all better than me. Admittedly low bar, but Canadians are better than I am.
List of states in which I have done Pushups:
Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, South Carolina, Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Oregon, Washington DC, Washington State, Michigan, Utah
Canada as well.
Do any of us know what love is, really?
I mean, besides having zip in tennis?
What's love got to do with it?
Love,
Exciting and new . . . .
I feel that I’m the Isaac of this thread.
Anyone have any tips for peripheral neuropathy? See separate thread. Posted here for visibility.
I think they should make work shirts for men that button underneath the crotch like a baby's onesie so we don't have to worry about the creep up and re-tuck.
Eureka! It already exists!
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I found this amazing Beer Garden in Hamilton, Ontario last night. They had live bluegrass and a food truck. Just an amazing experience. They ended with Rocky Top and Fox on the Run. Fox on the Run is my all-time favorite Bluegrass song.
I just think you're missing the forest for the trees. Yes, we have 10x the population of Canada, so there is no doubt at all that we have a lot more specialized medical care that can't be found in Beaver Land. Having said that, I think that's an overall VERY small portion of their healthcare output...I suspect I know a lot more Canadians than you do, and I don't know a single one who would trade their system for ours. Not one. People don't have fear of going bankrupt if they have a serious issue there, while we do. The U.S. healthcare behemoth has done a nice job of demonizing single payer systems, for that I can say they've been successful.
p.s. and places like Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto are hardly bumpkinville...they have a lot more advanced stuff there than you imply.
I have said I will agree to disagree. What I worry about is the future more than the present. Healthcare systems like Canada's require that the people support raising taxes to pay for other people's healthcare. Even Canadians don't do that. There is a lot that needs fixing with the US healthcare system. Canada's system is not the answer for the US. I completely believe that you both know more Canadians and that none of them would trade their healthcare system for ours. I, however, am an American that would not trade our healthcare system for theirs. I will continue to fight (and vote) for better access to healthcare and to fix what needs fixing in our system, but, what bugs me about all the praise for Canada's healthcare system the most, is the attitude that it's perfect. It most decidedly is not. The racial disparities in their system are as bad if not worse than the racial disparities in ours. Also, for the small minority of Canadians who would benefit from expensive, high tech and/or cutting edge treatment they are less likely to get it in the Canadian system and they are way, way, way, way, way less likely to get it if they are non-white.
OK, I'm going to stop ragging on Canadians. Sorry for turning this into something resembling the plague thread.
Back to bad puns.
Well, you ARE putting words in my mouth. I never said their system was perfect, BD, and I'm curious if you can show me one single example of someone who has said that. Of course it's not.
Most of us on this board are not in the economic sector of the population where an illness is apt to bankrupt us, but it IS a concern for a lot of Americans.
Furthermore, few countries base health insurance on employer provided coverage as we do, which is a real hindrance for people who want or need to change jobs but can't for fear of losing coverage.
Anyway, we will agree to disagree...
I didn't say you did! I am sorry if it came across that way! I know some Canadians who say that and I know some Americans who are dissatisfied with our system who point to Canada as an example of a perfect system. I'm not satisfied with our system. I still don't want Canada's.
We need to make affordable health insurance available to everyone regardless of employment status. No one should go bankrupt because of medical expenses. There should be a public option. It should not be the only option. That's my stance on healthcare.
^ agreed!
Whew.
I do not want to fight with you. And even though I promised not to rag on Canadians anymore, I've been thinking. I suspect that our opinions have been greatly influenced by the Canadians that we either know or have come in contact with. Some of the most sexist comments I've ever heard have come from Canadians. I've also heard racist stuff from Canadians, although not the most racist. I have friends, a same sex married couple, where one of the pair is a Canadian citizen. They decided to move to Canada together after the 2016 election. They are still here because of all the Canadian bureaucracy red tape and ultimately, what they felt was prejudicial treatment (their words, not mine). They scrapped their plans and decided Massachusetts wasn't so bad after all even if the US as a whole can feel scary. So, anecdotal evidence has affected my opinion, perhaps unfairly, but it's hard not to let personal experiences influence your opinions.
That said, I did spend a magical summer in Montreal when I was a student at Duke and would go back to Montreal anytime. I honeymooned in Nova Scotia and would go back there anytime.
In the end though, I think we can blame all this on Clemmons. He started it with his "Canadians are better" schtick. ;) (I think that's the best way to end all disagreements, blame it on Clemmons.)
If y'all don't stop arguing about Canada, then I'm moving to Canada, I tell ya!
I never figured the canucks to be the stone that redirected the flow of the LTE but here we are!
Like watching two bull moose squaring off during the rut.
R. Kelly guilty on all counts.
https://www.wral.com/jury-resumes-de...case/19897530/
Autocorrect has not figured out how rarely I talk about ducks.
The best Donald Duck, of course, was the incomparable Donald “Duck” Dunn. Bass player for Booker T & the MGs, Stax Records, and of course the Blues Brothers.
Just a sample — although I promise his entire catalogue is groundbreaking work:
https://youtu.be/RTXszRHc0qs
It appears everyone is waiting for Disco Duck to make a comeback?
Well, that is disappointing.
...anyway, my joke was in reference to this, the funniest scene from The Dirty Dozen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=525PM43mrG8
Yesterday, I made like 2 gallons of marinara from scratch.
Today, I will be preparing an obscene quantity of lasagna: one for friends who just had a baby, one for a dear colleague who's having surgery later this week, and one (in the specially procured extra-deep casserole dish) for me.
I am very much in the camp that the reason the Ewoks had a dress to give to Leia because they had killed and eaten its previous occupant.
Here now:
https://youtu.be/T5al0HmR4to
Red rain...
Some days, you just need a 5 mile formation run.
New concept for me: on our local wee town online discussion forum (lost cats, old crap for sale) a woman posted she lost her "breastmilk ring" at our recent Harvest Market Festival. She says the "stone" is actually breast milk. New one for me...
Too much info. Whose breast milk, and why.
I’m working HARD these days, but in a good way. I put in a dog adoption application today. My team won this evening in fun fashion and I went with my friend.
Life is good.
I don't want to get too far into it yet because there are several steps yet to complete and I don't want to get my hopes up, but we've been casually looking for a while and the timing is feeling right, and an adoptable pup came up who looks like a perfect fit. Hoping for some movement this weekend maybe.
I bought more pistachios...
I had Alka-Seltzer for breakfast on account of some mildly questionable decisions last evening.
In my younger days, it sometimes took me 3 doses of Alka-Seltzer. Sometimes, even that didn’t work. So I stopped… heavy drinking.
I love German airports. Breakfast beers everywhere.
It's all fun and games until you spill your dessert on the floor.
There have been very few happy hours in my life that I've earned as richly as the one that's coming in an hour or so. It's been a hard working, but incredibly gratifying week.
Nothing in particular really; just a hard-charging week in the junior high trenches, capped off by the standard marathon Friday where my teaching partner was out, so it was just me and 31 7th and 8th graders from 8am until 3:15. Any week on junior high is a challenge; I guess I just feel like I met it really well this time around.
I once aspired to be a teacher, until I realized that I would be teaching a bunch of aholes like me at that age. Decided to be a hermit instead.
Happy Hour. Drinking Woodford Reserve to conjure up a feeling that Duke has a chance against the Holes tomorrow and trying to figure out just what species of ant is living off of muffin crumbs and nesting in my computer keyboard.
I'm watching BloodSport. Chong Li (and his pecs) holds up. The first 20 minutes do not. Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds does not either.
Greatest album cover of all time: N’Sync No Strings Attached. Has anyone ever been cooler?
Btw i love that Coolio apparently got really bent about Weird Al “ripping off” his song, given that Coolio ripped off Stevie Wonder:
https://youtu.be/_H3Sv2zad6s
I like my taco trucks with old ladies on the grill. The older the better.
(Cooking the food, not THE food).
That was no good. Nope, not fun at all.
Well, Vandy really isn't very good at this feetball thing.
I saw the Indigo Girls out on the town square in their homeland tonight. They are prophets.
Too damp to mow. Organic fertilizer and some mid week rain really kicked in.
My Hamilton, London, Toronto Canadian trip went amazingly well. Lots of high level intellectual discussions. Also they seemed absolutely flabbergasted by my accent. The people were incredible and welcoming. The last night they hired a chef and we had a big party where they made dinner. I really needed that trip. It was wonderful.
People REALLY seem to be done with Cutcliffe.
I've had a surge of spurge and it looks like more fungus.
It is the stink big apocalypse right now. Holy heck. I don’t know if anyone else is one the NE/mid-Atlantic but they are awful this year.
as cocktail hour hits, the typing on this thread gets sloppier and sloppier...errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
FYI - no sighting of Laundrie, yet.
We’re pretty obsessed. It’s an absolutely bizarre case and it boggles my mind that he was able to disappear like that.
The new body cam footage in Moab is heartbreaking and hopefully ends up in LE training videos in the future for dealing with domestic abuse situations.
In other news I googled Jurassic Pork instead of Jurassic Park and this came up:
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_4032092
So, got my Fall reading covered.
Yay, it's Monday!
Serenity now!
Facebook and Instagram are down. It’s happening. Do NOT talk about fight club.