Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

Indian Chiefs are still permitted to opt out of Medicare if they judge wampum (or the regulatory burden) to be worse than sweat lodge ceremony. Up to now, this has chiefly been an issue with the more warlike tribes like the Apache (sturgeons). 7th Cavalry takes a very dim view of anyone leaving the reservation and won't let them back on for a whole year (last time I heard).

Medicaid is different as the states have to chip and the wampum is generally worse than 4 day old buffalo liver in August.

Chiefs who leave reservation have to provide adequate time and support for squaws and braves to find new Chief or risk an abandonment claim.

Your Chief may be opting for "Boutique practice" where he takes many fewer patients and patients sign a contract where they pay a goodly retainer up front and then came come in anytime for quick rectal exam or other fun things.

As for 7th Cavalry. It is now quite obvious they can do whatever they want

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Protesters at Greenham Common. Not sure what they are protesting. Given the profusion of hemp-based casual wear my guess is they are not contemporaries of 8th Air Force at Greenham Common. Maybe they are protesting the Y chromsome?

Based on the 'Older Feminist Network' sign in the background, that's the most likely guess. Well, that and [omitted due to mixed audience].

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Your Chief may be opting for "Boutique practice" where he takes many fewer patients and patients sign a contract where they pay a goodly retainer up front and then came come in anytime for quick rectal exam or other fun things.

Many smoke signals in Wall Street Smoke Journal about the rise of boutique practices for physicians groups. Uncle Sam no control individual physicians, just wampum. Me say gettum wampum shaman. No let Uncle Sam buffalo you. Erm...maybe 'nother saying needed here...

[sprior]

Protesters at Greenham Common.

late 80s/early 90s Greenham was home to US cruise missiles. CND/feminazi's decided this was bad but decided the Warsaw Pact's SS-20s were "defensive". Gits

This is what I had to contend with going to work:

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Protesters at Greenham Common.

late 80s/early 90s Greenham was home to US cruise missiles. CND/feminazi's decided this was bad but decided the Warsaw Pact's SS-20s were "defensive". Gits

This is what I had to contend with going to work:

Lord Admiral,

Not being of Londinium stock or heritage, I must confess ignorance in comparative cultural norms. What is the difference between an English "Open All Year" Peace Camp and illegal squatting? We would have classified that activity as the latter here in the colonies.

[sprior]

As for rulers

Is there something afoot?

[sprior]

What is the difference between an English "Open All Year" Peace Camp and illegal squatting? We would have classified that activity as the latter here in the colonies.

A. It's in Scotland and not England and

B. The "Peace Camp" was sponsored by the local council. Strange but true.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

As for rulers

Is there something afoot?

These are your metrics for humor?

[sprior]

And now... kittens watching tennis!

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

As for rulers

Is there something afoot?

These are your metrics for humor?

Metrics afoot, trampling through the ruler's yard!

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Protesters at Greenham Common.

late 80s/early 90s Greenham was home to US cruise missiles. CND/feminazi's decided this was bad but decided the Warsaw Pact's SS-20s were "defensive". Gits

This is what I had to contend with going to work:

Ever see the bus a'rockin when you drove by?

Life in the Faslane
Surely make you lose your mind.......


By ra way...shouldn't the sign be facing the other way. Don't you guys drive on the wrong side of the road?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
By ra way...shouldn't the sign be facing the other way. Don't you guys drive on the wrong side of the road?

He *did* say that this was in Scotland. Would they have been able to read it regardless of which side of the road it was on? [&:]




ETA: KIDDING! KIDDING!

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Protesters at Greenham Common. Not sure what they are protesting. Given the profusion of hemp-based casual wear my guess is they are not contemporaries of 8th Air Force at Greenham Common. Maybe they are protesting the Y chromsome?

If this is the place I think it is, in NW England just across the border from Scotland, it was a place where Scottish couples eloped to for marriage because Scottish customs were too strict. The demonstrators in the pic may be seeking legalization of gay marriage, if that is not the case yet in Britain. Of course legalization of marijuana and protests against people defending their freedom to protest are also possible expalanations. Either way, if you have a Y chromosome, don't bring a case of beer and ask if they want to party ...[:-]

Edit: Correction - the place I was thinking of was Gretna Green, not Greenham Common.

[perkinh]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior



Is there something afoot?

These are your metrics for humor?

Metrics afoot, trampling through the ruler's yard!

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Not near afoot...but the ruler may be off.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Gabede

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy



These are your metrics for humor?

Metrics afoot, trampling through the ruler's yard!

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Not near afoot...but the ruler may be off.

We have yet to get the measure of this.

[Chickenboy]

Personally, I'm having trouble fathoming where this conversation is going.

Lord Admiral and Cap'n: make with the bang-bang-reee-boom-boom-ack-ack-ratta-tatta-glug-glug!

[witpqs]

Personally, I'm having trouble fathoming where this conversation is going.

Miles to go before you sleep. It's headed for a different league.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Personally, I'm having trouble fathoming where this conversation is going.

Miles to go before you sleep. It's headed for a different league.

To sleep, perhaps to dram ...

OK just stick to Imperial, US or Metric standards here. Troy should have died out back when the city did and the French "have some peas" [Avoirdupois] system is only suitable for Canoerebel's "War and Peas" AAR [just wrapping up now].

[sprior]

To sleep, perhaps to dram ...

Highland Park please.

[Cap Mandrake]

CHILDREN! CHILDREN! DON'T MAKE ME STOP THIS PT BOAT!

Only Admiral Lord Sprior and I can post extraneous filler crap that has nothing to do with WWII(c)!


So, a year ago, after a couple of drinks, I bet this trauma doc $100 that his guy wouldn't win the Presidency. I lost the bet. He makes a TON of money and his wife is an internist...so they both have big targets on their foreheads. I think they both thought the other guy (who actually had not even been chosen yet when I made the bet) was going to ban the teaching of evolution in schools and make everyone wear "magic underwear".

His wife came in compalining a while back that her taxes were too high. I had to laugh out loud.

Anyway, in a generous gesture, he suggested I pay off the bet with a donation to the Wounded Warrior Project. That was classy. Just as well, because I was goign to send in a 1099 to the Feds with his gambling winnings.


No...turn...yet. <odd facial twitch starts to kick up>