I must say that through work I have Bluecross/Blueshield of Texas and it’s been good to me. Yeah government healthcare has sucked for a long time and only works for the politicians who care nothing for the people who voted for them. Even worse for our veterans too.

{Don't prioritize your Looks}
- Poem written by Donna Ashworth,

"Don’t prioritise your looks my friend, as they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humor though, will only get better with age.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
Your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your time, will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.
Don’t prioritise your looks my friend,
they will change forevermore, that pursuit is one of much sadness and disappointment.
Prioritise the uniqueness that make you "YOU", and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things which will only get better."

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Listed below is also one of her tweets that I relish always ♥

{You search for your beauty in the mirror, in photographs, in the label of clothes… when you really should be searching through the messages sent to you by loving friends, the cards written to you on special days, and the memories of smiles you created from tears. Your beauty lies in all the ways you touch and care for those around you. The jokes you made to reroute a gloomy day and the music you shared to inspire. The times you showed up when no one else did and the invisible network of love, laughter and light you have sprinkled across this planet without glory or vanity. That’s where you find your beauty.}
- Donna Ashworth

Chicha Cup or Saucer??

Great topic and one of the most disgusting parts of America is the complexity (purposely) of our "healthcare" system and how we treat our elderly.

What we need is Medicare for all. Just remove the line in the federal law which limits Medicare to people of a certain age.

I agree that American healthcare totally sucks ! For those of us who work and pay into the system and then when you retire well you get hardly anything or nothing at all. Our prescription drugs are that way highly priced where you can hardly afford them like insulin. Both insurance and “Big piranha “ line our government officials pockets with big money to side with them. Wake up America your government will never be for you no matter what they say.

100yrs ago there were 2 billion people in the world, now there are 8 billion people. When it's cold those people heat their houses, hmm maybe that's why it it ends up warmer? When it's hot people run their Air Conditioning, Air conditioners are just heat pumps that push the hot air outside, hmm that would make things warmer outside.

Much of the "Green Energy movement" is just people whom think they are doing good things for the environment. Think of it like the "Recycling movement", you know where most of that plastic goes that you grow in the recycle bin? Sure you feel like you are doing your part but most of it ends up in landfills, the ocean, or burnt filling the environment with plastic, and that doesn't even take into consideration what it took to make the plastic in the first place, or the chemicals that leach off from it often ending up in you body. Things like Ethanol used as fuel take's up crop land, burns up the valuable top soil, and still add pollutants to the air. Hydro power has been used as centuries but now the tree huggers are worried because a few fish can't reproduce, but we've had "renewable energy" for centuries so it's not all bad.

Worried about methane? Well it's more then just farm animals releasing that methane, the 8 billion people are also releasing methane. But the biggest danger is the melting of the permafrost that's releasing way more methane then the animals. Nature has gone thru many changes in the billions of years planet Earth has been around, somethings it can fix quickly, other things take hundreds, or even thousands of years to adjust to. One way nature may try to correct it's self is by balancing the population, however humans have found ways to avoid most of these solutions, but someday nature will come up with something humans can not control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzExL8P22Ng

Not one of the greatest songs ever but a folk song I do like

Depends on the genre ...

In Metal, I go for Roswell 47 by Hypocrisy, or Evisceration Plague by Cannibal Corpse, or Postmortem by Slayer ... it varies every day

In Non Metal just the same: High Hopes by Pink Floyd, or Imagine by John Lennon or Moon Rabbit by Blackbird & Crow

Either Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin or Hotel California by the Eagles