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J. Hugh Sullivan

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May 24, 2017, 3:41:56 PM5/24/17
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Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the
pleasure of
Evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold
tooth,
Whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly
Tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who
chatted
On a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ring tone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that
her payer
Status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the
patient
Informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes
every
Day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.
And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's
health care?
I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of
a shortage of
Quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a
"crisis of culture",
A culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on
luxuries and vices
While refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase
health
Insurance. It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that "I
can do
Whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me."
Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility
and dependency,
You'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties
will disappear.

Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD

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Ken Olson

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May 24, 2017, 3:56:15 PM5/24/17
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He makes a lot of sense. Whether or not the individual is 'real' is
immaterial.

JGibson

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May 24, 2017, 4:23:56 PM5/24/17
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He is real and wrote the letter to the editor in 2009. It appears to be "updated" to change a few things (congress vs. president; the last several sentences tacked on).

J. Hugh Sullivan

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May 25, 2017, 9:58:22 AM5/25/17
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On Wed, 24 May 2017 13:23:55 -0700 (PDT), JGibson
<james.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

>He is real and wrote the letter to the editor in 2009. It appears to be "updated" to change a few things (congress vs. president; the last several sentences tacked on).

I think the letter was too limited - but I chose to quote vice my
opinion.

I'll admit I am not usually exposed to all levels of people. But lack
of earned income seems NEVER to be a barrier to owning a better cell
phone than I have (Samsung Note 4).

If you want to see gold teeth go to any Kroger or Wal-Mart and look
poorly dressed people in the mouth.

Some wear clothes from Sam's Not Quite Worn-out Store but their gold
jewelry cost more than my Rolex.

Seems to me that should more rare and less general. But the rare part
is that I believe we ought to earn what we get.

Hugh

dotsla...@gmail.com

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May 25, 2017, 11:23:53 AM5/25/17
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Holy crap, Hugh and I are rocking the same phone.

Lol. Cheers.

J. Hugh Sullivan

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May 25, 2017, 12:23:30 PM5/25/17
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On Thu, 25 May 2017 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT), dotsla...@gmail.com
wrote:

>Holy crap, Hugh and I are rocking the same phone.
>
>Lol. Cheers.

Actually it's a lot more phone than I need - about 100 apps and I use
10.

dotsla...@gmail.com

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May 25, 2017, 1:20:37 PM5/25/17
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That's pretty universal, hugh. It's doable but they certainly don't provide a nice easy route for pulling off a lot of the bloatware they pre-install.

Cheers.

xyzzy

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May 25, 2017, 1:25:47 PM5/25/17
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On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 1:20:37 PM UTC-4, dotsla...@gmail.com wrote:
> That's pretty universal, hugh. It's doable but they certainly don't provide a nice easy route for pulling off a lot of the bloatware they pre-install.
>
> Cheers.

iphone is the same way. Not in number of apps but their size. Garageband comes preinstalled on iPhones and it's 1.37 gigabytes right out of the box!

Most people do what I do, create a folder named "Apple crap" or something like that, and drag them all into it.

J. Hugh Sullivan

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May 25, 2017, 2:52:57 PM5/25/17
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On Thu, 25 May 2017 10:25:45 -0700 (PDT), xyzzy <xyzzy...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I had a iPhone before this one - a lot fewer apps. A Jitterbug might
be all I really need except for the family I carry on the service.

I'll ask my son if the crap folder can be done on Samsung. I be
thankin' ye fer thu thot.

RoddyMcCorley

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May 26, 2017, 1:44:08 PM5/26/17
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On 5/24/2017 3:41 PM, J. Hugh Sullivan wrote:
I told ya: Racism is the progeny of ignorance.

--
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul
with evil.

Pennsylvania - Tá sé difriúil anseo.

J. Hugh Sullivan

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May 26, 2017, 5:49:41 PM5/26/17
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Seems to me condemning racism in a post that in no way mentions race
is ignorance personified. Bliss would be a great alias for you because
ignorance is.

Hugh

RoddyMcCorley

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May 27, 2017, 3:16:33 PM5/27/17
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They are called "Code Words." We know what they mean.

Eric Ramon

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May 27, 2017, 6:41:18 PM5/27/17
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On Friday, May 26, 2017 at 2:49:41 PM UTC-7, J. Hugh Sullivan wrote:

>
> Seems to me condemning racism in a post that in no way mentions race
> is ignorance personified. Bliss would be a great alias for you because
> ignorance is.
>

did you picture this as being about a white woman?

J. Hugh Sullivan

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May 27, 2017, 8:32:30 PM5/27/17
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There was no way for an intelligent person to form a logical
conclusion. Idiots get the hind part before often.

Hugh

J. Hugh Sullivan

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May 27, 2017, 8:34:28 PM5/27/17
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On Sat, 27 May 2017 15:16:36 -0400, RoddyMcCorley
<Roddy.M...@verizon.net> wrote:


>They are called "Code Words." We know what they mean.

So I did not need to say why your alias should be Bliss - you know the
code.

Hugh

Ken Olson

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May 28, 2017, 12:12:07 AM5/28/17
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You know what you believe them to be.

Ken Olson

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May 28, 2017, 12:13:06 AM5/28/17
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I've seen white women about like described in the OP.
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