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Should be a wild four years.

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Herman Throwaway said:
You clearly know fuck all about Alberta, Calgary is a hardcore conservative city, with only one federal seat being held by the Liberal party for decades.

I'm not even addressing the rest of your retardation.
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Calgary is a provincial battleground city that just barely tipped for the UCP. Edmonton voluntarily voted itself into becoming a 15 minute city.
And it's going to get worse every coming day as more priced-out Vancouverites move here.
 
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Levitcus prime24 said:
The tea party was nothing more than an astroturf movement and its relevancy died 10 years ago, the fact the a person like this is effectively sabatoging the country so he can get a “own” on trump is proof that he shouldn't be taken seriously
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I will remind people Paul Ryan was the star of tea party. We do not want to go back to that.
 
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Levitcus prime24 said:
You know I was replaying wolfenstin new order not to long ago and I really like that game the story and gameplay are fun. But there is one thing that I noticed when replaying it. the most famous nazi conspiracy is that jews secretly had a society in which they wanted to take over the world, in wolfenstain this is treated as nazi propaganda except it’s true, there was a secret Jewish order that created advanced technology and hid it from the world, so in other words the nazis were right about the conspiracy.
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Not only that, it kinda justifies the nazi's actions. It transformed them from...well, nazis...to a people using the jew's horror weapons against them. It didn't help that that literal jewish wizard that reveals all this to you is so off-putting and amoral.
 
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Hokuriku said:
Calgary is a provincial battleground city that just barely tipped for the UCP. Edmonton voluntarily voted itself into becoming a 15 minute city.
And it's going to get worse every coming day as more priced-out Vancouverites move here.
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If the UCP changes leaders, you'll see things shift more in their favour. Smith pissed off a lot of people when she merged the Wild Rose party with the Conservative party, and many people refuse to support her for it, as she was the single most responsible person for the NDP winning in 2015 here.
 
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If the UCP changes leaders, you'll see things shift more in their favour. Smith pissed off a lot of people when she merged the Wild Rose party with the Conservative party, and many people refuse to support her for it, as she was the single most responsible person for the NDP winning in 2015 here.
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Smith didn't merge the Wildrose and the PCs. She crossed the floor but they remained seperate parties, which was the single biggest reason the NDP won.
In any case, a city with every other building having a fag flag on it being deemed 'hardcore conservative' is part and parcel of why we deserve to be invaded. They're outright trying to phase out 'Calgary' as a place name, you need to start looking around you.
 
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Jace on ice said:
The United States literally produces nothing we have zero manufacturing. Two thirds of our economy is selling Metadata to advertisers and marketing debt to consumers.

That fact that we have a stock market in the red at all is nothing short of a miracle.
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I literally have brain cancer from living next to petroleum and cement factories for my entire life but whatever.
 
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Catch The Rainbow said:
Being very blunt, people are too scared to negotiate with hospitals to lower their bills or set up payment plans. I know someone who was charged 10k by a hospital after insurance covered everything else and he just took it instead of negotiating like I urged him to. I did a lot of research and it turns out that if a hospital is non profit, they have to forgive some patient debt to maintain that status. Quick grok overview states:



Always negotiate.
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Correct. Best advice I can give is call the hospital and negotiate. The person on the phone can re-code shit to make a $6,000 bill into $4,000 or lower it even more. They would rather get less than litigate it for months, which ends up costing more. Also, most hospitals don't want to bankrupt people. It's the labs, specialists, and insurance companies that are really nasty.
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
Unfortunately (at least around here) Life Flight is a privately operated company and not covered under insurance. It's kind of a scam, had a coworker tell me about the way it worked for his dad after a bad car accident. You come into the hospital in critical condition and unable to consent to anything, and the hospital makes the decision to call Life Flight to get you to a better equipped hospital as quickly as possible. They dispatch a helicopter and whether they end up taking you or not, you get billed for the dispatch. If they do take you, it's an even larger bill (coworker claims it was $600k+). Insurance does not cover any of it.

If it comes down to me dying or me getting life flighted, well, I have Life Insurance to leave my family and I'd rather do that than saddle them with a half a million dollar bill for a helicopter ride I didn't ask for.

Edit: I guess there are multiple Life Flight companies. Here's another https://lifeflighteagle.org/
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Do you have any idea how or if Life Flight negotiates charges? I'm just curious.
 
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