@Mike_FIRE @InezFeltscher We live in Texas - we had a choice between BCBS and United and they were within dollars of each other. We had to switch back and forth under ACA each year to basically pick the "cheapest" plan.
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Tim Wagner
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Tim Wagner
@prranch
I follow my wife and child around closing doors and turning out lights. Other than that, I'm barely productive.
Kerrville, TX شامل ہوئے Şubat 2011
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@prranch @InezFeltscher Yeah to put it simply dude i 100 percent don’t believe you. 200/month full coverage for two people direct from BCBS of all companies? Bullshit. BCBS was more expensive than COBRA for just myself, a healthy 23 YO in 2009
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For the kids who are too young to remember, you used to be able to get basically full, complete coverage above a max of $5,000 (aka “catastrophic coverage”) for 90 bucks a month before Obama made it “affordable.”
Chris Pappas@ChrisPappasNH
The ACA was signed into law 16 years ago today, bringing health care coverage to millions of Americans. But now, 22 million Americans are struggling to afford health insurance because Donald Trump and Senate Republicans refused to extend the ACA tax credits, which could drive families into crippling debt. I won’t stand for these attacks because every American deserves access to high-quality, affordable health care.
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It was not. I had work coverage by my wife and son did not. We bought them a Platinum BCBS plan for $200 a month. Immediately on ACA we had to go shit tier coverage and it was $400 per month. Five years later it was $800 a month and they had abysmal coverage. I never made more than $90,000 a year at that time - and that was total household income.
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@InezFeltscher The point is people who say “oh, insurance was affordable until Obama” don’t live in reality. Actual non-employer coverage was completely out of reach for the average American. The vast majority of people without employer coverage simply went without
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@TheWholeAsh It’s a *thick* burger - now I know why that bite looked awkward! 😂
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@SteveVDK_hunter Gotta toast that bread so it doesn’t fall apart so fast. #thestruggleisreal
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Picked up a quick 10 new birds (or birds I didn’t have in the Merlin app like the killdeer) today on Galveston Island!
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@TxRecon1 I have one question - why are they doing this to Cesar Chavez when they have similar (documented and corroborated!) information on MLK and they excuse his sins away?
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Woah. Cesar Chavez was a commie, but he also hated illegal immigrants, so it's pretty interesting to see all the bastions of progressivism destroy Chavez in order to side with the pro-illegals, open borders crowd.
Catholic News Agency@cnalive
An annual Mass in the nation’s largest Catholic diocese honoring the late farm workers’ leader Cesar Chavez will not take place this year after a bombshell report alleged that the activist sexually abused multiple girls. catholicnewsagency.com/news/270619/ce…
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New York and California politicians exist just to do marketing for moving to Texas and Florida at this point
Matt Whitlock@MattWhitlock
Kathy Hochul making a weak plea for wealthy people who have left New York (to red states like Florida) to come back to pay their high taxes to fund failing (unaccountable) social programs: “I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs we have in our state. Some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Ok! Cut the me the checks. But if you want to supportive, maybe the first step should be go down to palm beach and see who you can bring back home
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The dysfunction is similar to resource economies: the politicians expect they can just keep extracting and extracting, and are shocked to discover their mining or drilling or taxation depleted the resources
Newsflash: When you kill the golden goose you don’t get more eggs
Matt Whitlock@MattWhitlock
Kathy Hochul making a weak plea for wealthy people who have left New York (to red states like Florida) to come back to pay their high taxes to fund failing (unaccountable) social programs: “I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs we have in our state. Some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Ok! Cut the me the checks. But if you want to supportive, maybe the first step should be go down to palm beach and see who you can bring back home
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@Mike_kim714 Ok, that makes sense. I’ll try to pay attention to where the ball lands next time I hear something like that.
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@prranch Let’s say it’s 190 but I hit 9i (stock 158). They’re talking about 190 to the pin. But it might be 10-15 yds of help and I’m trying to land it 15 short of the pin because greens are firm and I can’t go long. So that’s 30 yds short of the pin. It’s more circumstance than anything
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Thoughts from Players:
-I had a decent Thursday but really struggled Friday. I think I overreacted to some swings I made on Thursday and made a couple changes Friday morning that ended up hurting me. Adjustments are tricky as the change I made to my driver swing was definitely for the better but the adjustment for the irons were for the worse.
-Cam Young is easily one of the most impressive golfers I’ve played with. I almost feel bad for the golf ball as it just gets pummeled on every golf shot. How about that freaking tee shot on 18! 😳
I think his caddie Kyle has helped him a lot with his green reading too. The guy is a supreme talent and is just getting started.
-I’ve always struggled at Sawgrass and idk when but I will come back and figure this place out. You can make a double so quickly here and I need to stay a bit more disciplined when I get in trouble. There’s plenty of birdie opportunities if you’re in the fairway, there’s just so much trouble when you’re in the thick rough. Theres almost no where to easily run it up near the green.
-Onto Valspar where I’ve fared better. I know a good stretch is coming sooner or later.
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@primo_jefe It got flooded bad last year and nobody thought it would open again. No idea how they pulled it off, but a real cool Texas place.
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The real ones know the bend store.
Ray Wylie Hubbard@raywylie
what a fun gig out in the middle of nowhere! 📷 credits: Melinda Mahaffey, Patrick Howard, Chad Devine
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That's kind of what I figured. To be fair, my stock swing is not 100%. If I do hit it 100%, though, it's a dead left pull and I might be able to make an 8 iron go 180. 😂 I just figured stock shots for the median Tour pro would be longer than a 52 year old occasional golfer (who used to be pretty salty).
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@prranch @Mike_kim714 Pros don't often swing full speed. They are marrying "enough soeed" with max control. You're prob just full speed all the time.
I saw Brandon Matthews Jr coach once admonishing him after he launched 8i "I know you can hit 8 iron 180...I wanna see you hit it 160."
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@TheChadRyan In 5th grade All Stars I got rung up for the last out of our tournament on 3 straight pitches in the other batters box. I'll never forget it and Dad was mad I didn't swing. That pitch last night was an actual strike. A great one. He should feel bad for taking it.
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Folks out here complaining about the called 3rd strike to end the WBC semifinal last night. If you think that was a ball, you’ve never played baseball in your life.
With 2 strikes against you and THAT pitch coming in, you swing the damn bat or you’re getting rung up every time.
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The Twitter wheels of support turn slowly, but they do turn... 😅
Attas@TxRecon1
I gave a lot of grief to Twitter Support after this account was compromised, but I was finally able to get back in and properly secure it. I will reach out offline to several trusted mutuals and ask them to repost this so my old friends will unblock me. 😂 Attas is back!
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@OSS_1970 Very few people down here are restocking because of sale barn prices. Lots of empty pastures here and out west of here, too. Good to hear y’all are stocked, though. I’m all for ending CRP permanently. Just don’t know where affordable starters would come from.
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As someone who doesn’t want any Mexican cattle to ever cross the border again, putting CRP back in play could help. I’ll let you do the math.
Lane Wells@laneallenw
As someone who has broken 1,210ac of CRP myself, I don’t think it’s lack of “grazing land” that contributes to low herd numbers: I believe it is lack of people who WANT to graze land/do animal ag that has made this contribution.
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