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I suppose it's a little easier for me, since I'm sure homeopathy is utter nonsense, and 'healing herbs/foods/supplements' close behind, so i only need to track prescription drugs and a few OTC things I don't take regularly. It's a pretty simple matter to gather the six prescription drugs and 4 prescribed supplements together in those pill caddies labeled for each day of the week and keep them in the kitchen, since I take them with meals. The extra OTC stuff, like acetaminophen and allergy pills live in the bathroom medicine cabinet.

You have to be 65, or in some cases, disabled, to receive Medicare. Medicare pays 80% of what are called Part B medical expenses (most anything but hospitalization and prescription drugs). Part A is hospitalization and Medicare pays 100% after a small deductible. If you qualify (generally less than 2K a month in income and 2K in assets other than your home, if any, Medicaid will pick up the 20% of Part B and usually pay your Part B premium. I qualify for both and went through a health crisis a year or so ago, with over three months in the hospital, and haven't paid a penny out-of-pocket. Medicaid is a state-by-state proposition, though, and if the funding isn't there neither is the coverage.

Old people who can't afford housing are screwed. We're dealing with that with a relative right now. Medicare won't pay for 'custodial care' like assisted living, period. They will pay for nursing home care that's deemed medically necessary. Medicaid will help with assisted living, but the patient essentially needs to impoverish himself to qualify (which, I guess, is as it should be). The facility my relative is going into (nursing home) provides all the 'creature comforts' she wants, anyway (save privacy).

It's probably unreasonable to expect there to be flying squads of government do-gooders running around helping people like your old guy, but as you mentioned, programs exist to help out. Someone (you?) needs to point him to the proper agencies.

Quote from: Rix Gins on February 07, 2018, 03:30:34 AM
The Cunard Liner SS Tuscania was sunk by a German U-boat on February 5, 1918.  There were 384 crew members and 2,013 United States Army personnel on board.  Approximately 210 soldiers and crewmen were lost.  One notable survivor was aeromechanic Harry Randall Truman, who would later die in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Drowning's too good for him - let's wait sixty-two years and light the guy up in a freaking volcano.

Quote from: paladin1991 on February 03, 2018, 12:51:07 AM
So, Dad was cuffed and stuffed.  But was he arrested?  Where do I send money for his bail/legal costs?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/03/dad-who-charged-at-larry-nassar-receiving-hundreds-donations.html

https://www.gofundme.com/show-support-for-randall-margraves

"Judge Janice Cunningham ultimately opted against charging Margraves with contempt of court, but said she could have."

Quote from: Rix Gins on February 02, 2018, 03:19:56 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, February 2, 1918.

MOONEY'S SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER -  PRICE 75 CENTS - FEBRUARY 3, 1918

MENU:

SOUP
Consommé
Schlastien

RELISH
Celery
Pickled Beets
Ripe Olives

ENTREE
Sweet Bread Patties

ROAST
Stuffed Turkey, Cranberry Sauce
Roast Loin of Pork,- Baked Apple
Milk-Fed Chicken, Stuffed

VEGETABLES
Mashed Potatoes
Green peas
Baked Potatoes (5pm)

DESSERT
Black Coffee
Assorted Pie

Why did they have to wait until 5:00 to get a baked potato?

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 22, 2018, 03:22:41 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, January 22, 1918.


BANDIT HOLDS UP CLUB SALOON

The holdup man had on a black mask, which covered his entire face. He was about 6 feet 10 inches tall and weighed about 180 pounds.

6' 10" and 180 pounds - shouldn't be hard to pick him out, especially in 1918.

I listened to a few minutes, and, like The Swish, I couldn't get past the bad audio quality, though the fact that you chose a lying sack of shit like John Lear as a guest didn't help.

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 29, 2017, 02:57:37 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 29, 1917.


AMUSEMENTS AT BUTLER THEATER

  Miss Glaum, whom a noted critic recently declared to be "the screen's most credible vampire," has a part particularly fitted to her abilities.

I think that should be 'vamp', not 'vampire'.

Now come Gene Simmons and that snot, Chris Matthews. This is getting better and better.

Quote from: paladin1991 on November 24, 2017, 01:40:26 AM
buy some pepper spray.  Squirt that in the garage when fm time to time and soon they will stop smoking out there.  Or call the 7 digit line to the police from a burner cell phone and give the neighbors address, complain that they have an underage girl in there and that they are smoking dope and laughing about how stupid the local coppers are.

FTFY

In this case, 'indefinite' means 'until the Twitterverse moves on to another 'crisis''.

Quote from: Swishypants on November 12, 2017, 04:44:07 AM

https://youtu.be/X8cmbmwFAl8

The younger chicks still want us! We know how to break down an M4 to the extractor level, play guitar for real, and are the ONLY real ROCK GAME left in town!

And we understand Escrow! Sexy as hell to the 25 year old hotties!

This probably belongs in the Things That Annoy You thread, but it really chaps my ass that @Swishypants can be this annoying and this funny at the same time.

If the book is written as well as the blurb, I can't wait to read it. I could use that $4,972.

"Future Self is the ultimate self-analytical, therapeutic, goal-setting process that is completely under your control. Future Self engages and draws upon your own innate wisdom, using today's digital technology in a revolutionary, new, truly interactive way. With Future Self, you'll learn: How to use your phone to recharge yourself…in 30 seconds & take control of your life. How to use flowments to consciously travel forward in time. How to save $4,972 on your next transformational seminar. Get Future Self: $28! Forget your selfie…get into your self, your Future Self.! MORE THAN INFORMATION…PERSONAL EVOLUTION. GET HIGH ON…YOURSELF. With Future Self you will find out: Who you were. Who you are. Who you will…become. And most importantly: How to do it, starting…now! Future Self, the book that always tells the story of...your life."

Quote from: Sarcastic Plastic on October 22, 2017, 09:50:45 PM
Anyone with a PhD from Harvard has got to have a lot going on upstairs.

Until you recall that Jerry Corsi also has such a degree ...

'No-no' for no-hitter in baseball, and every football color guy is suddenly talking about players being 'in space', which annoys me mainly because I have no idea what they're talking about.

After Charlottesville, 'white supremacist' became 'white nationalist' across the media board. Not the same thing at all.

Usually known as travel trailers here. I've owned a few and the only serious mechanical problems I've had were wheel bearing failures, so have those cleaned and packed at least once a season.

The guy who maintains my vehicles insists 'it's all about fluids'. Change the engine oil, transmission fluid and coolant religiously to the manufacturer's 'severe duty' schedule. Cheap insurance. If you need struts and other suspension parts replaced, be sure they install zerk fittings which allow lubrication, if possible.'Lifetime lubrication' ain't.

My personal habit is to replace not-so-expensive parts at the first hint of a problem. Charge idiot light flicker? New alternator. I really don't like being stationary on the side of some god-forsaken side road.

Spend some time at the local Walmart parking lot practicing backing up and parking the trailer where you want it, so your fellow RV'ers won't laugh at you later.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450976/yellowstone-super-volcano-nasa-developing-mitigation-measures

Geez, I thought you'd never ask. I voted 'Yes', not because I don't want to read posts I disagree with ( I read and enjoy posts from the two guys in the UK, and they haven't got anything right since they showed up here). I'd like to be able to Ignore the nitwit trolls who post a dozen times n a row in a thread and spend most of their time here insulting each other.

Who knew that Camelot was 'one of John Kennedy's favorite songs'? Dolt.

You probably didn't know her name, but you knew her voice - June Foray, voice of Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale and many, many more, dead at 99.

    http://variety.com/2017/tv/people-news/june-foray-dead-dies-rocky-natasha-bullwinkle-1202508180/
     

Fidel Castro and Janet Reno dead in the same month. God's Christmas present to the rest of us.

What's the over/under on Hillary's onstage collapse?

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on September 24, 2016, 07:11:56 AM

Far be it for me to suggest you go look for yourself....

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/13/the-macabre-truth-of-gun-control-in-the-us-is-that-toddlers-kill-more-people-than-terrorists-do

http://www.snopes.com/toddlers-killed-americans-terrorists/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/01/toddlers-have-shot-at-least-23-people-this-year/


You're welcome

Thank you. I assumed you would have all the links right there at your fevered, American-hating fingertips. Even Snopes has to jump through some considerable hoops to define toddlers and terrorists in order to judge this claim True, and the article from your Guardian is just more whiny, 'I'm a'feared of those evil guns' propaganda.

I'll also point out that if it's true, it's only true for one year (2015). That may be what we in the colonies call an 'anomaly'. Maybe the Moslems were taking a break.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on September 24, 2016, 06:01:23 AM
In fact more people are shot by toddlers in the USA than terrorists ...

[citation needed]

Quote from: rekcuf on September 20, 2016, 11:34:22 AM
Quimby, just humor the guy. His autism is OP.

136 is a dude? Jesus. 'Cunt' still applies, though.

Having elected a queer as their prime minister, the Canucks seem oddly insistent that we Americans do the same in our presidential election. #humastrapon

Pompous Canadian cunts.

If you need to mix great whiskey with soda pop, you should probably stick to Zima.

Quote from: loveslibraries on September 15, 2016, 03:31:07 AM
Sucks whom or what, or where or even when? C'mon he sucks for a reason not just because he said he's Tommy's husband!  And "frisky" at closing time!

Well, he spent two hours night before last interview-fellating  Robert Shapiro. All talk show hosts are at their worst when interviewing a guest who they think they (and you) should admire.

Quote from: 21st Century Man on September 05, 2016, 01:09:16 PM
Well you're entitled to your beliefs.

They aren't beliefs, they're HuffPo talking points. Pathetic.

Quote from: 136 or 142 on September 02, 2016, 01:42:20 AM
1.I don't believe most people can be converted.  Most people just dig in even further when challenged. .

Then why do you keep posting these walls of text trying to excuse the crimes of that lesbo cunt?