Michael211_2000 Forum Posts (775)

RE: what you prefer more ? Why ?

I agree... you're more likely to NOT take somebody for granted IF they're totally free to up and leave at any time! You have a reason to keep the romance alive, in a LTR.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: what you prefer more ? Why ?

Marriage is just a fancy ceremony IMHO. So you get all dressed up and go stand before a priest (or judge or ship's captain) and he/she says some very thoughtful things and pronounces you man and wife (or wife and wife, or man and man... lol!). But, what does it really add up to?

Marriage is a romantic notion of life that rarely works out as well as you'd planned, unfortunately. It's certainly NOT "till death do you part!"

I'd much rather have a really good quality VERY long term relationship that goes on and on and on and get's better and better and better...

That's my opinion based on my observations of it, at any rate.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Health Care Reform Poll

Between the Segway and those power scooters, it's little wonder that Americans are so badly obese... nobody moves on their own anymore.

A friend of mine who's been way too heavy got a powered wheelchair 2 years ago.... and just got heavier and heavier scooting around in the thing (he won't even consider gastric bypass surgery). This past summer his weight got so bad it started compressing the disks in his lower back and was pinching off nerves in his spinal cord... he started to lose all sensation in his lower legs and had to go in for emergency back surgery to relieve the pressure on his lower spine! And he still won't consider any kind of gastric surgery after nearly becoming paralyzed from his nearly 1/4 tonne of body weight! Geez!

He has insurance though, so the emergency back surgery and all the therapy he's been getting all summer long was fully covered... heck the isurance gave him the power wheelchair to begin with! When I 1st met him some 4 years ago he was walking on his own with a cane... then he got into a wheelchair and just went downhill from there. It's stupid, honest.

Regards!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Nice guy

No, not actually.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Nice guy

More likely they have criminal records actually... women seem to find that attractive in the men they date these days.

Hey don't shoot the messenger!!! It's just my observation that's all.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: looking for a white female preferably 19-23

Oops! Well my bad then.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Nice guy

Hey I'm just saying... if I had as much luck as Nice Guy has had, I sure wouldn't be complaining about it!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Nice guy

Walk a mile in my shoes babes.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Nice guy

You're way ahead of me, then. I'd pay to have even that much success in dating!



- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: looking for a white female preferably 19-23

Oh... my apologies if you're a male! That generic pic is hard to figure out... kinda looks like a woman with a short hairstyle to me.

Regards!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: looking for a white female preferably 19-23

Hey now babes, everybody has a right to want what is attractive to them! What are we supposed to do, lie?

And you should see the number of women's profiles who only want guys that are 6 feet or taller... everybody has preferences. Don't knock 'em for being honest and upfront about them.

Regards!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Do you have health insurance coverage and if so who pays the premiums?

You'd be suprised what the government spends money on, at your expense, already.

How about $9 light bulbs for poor people, installed for them at $4.50 a bulb and $1.50 disposal fee for the old bulb that was removed... figure 25 or so bulbs per home... you're paying for it!

City of Houston is using a federal grant to make low-income home's more energy efficient, it was on the nightly news just last night.

And then there's all those clunkers YOU just bought! LOL!

But nobody gets too up-n-arms about that stuff. Doesn't make a bit of sense to me.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Obama Rocks! Could the job being done better by republicans?

Actually, I think it's more about greed here in American... many people are just afraid that their uninsured neighbors might gain something by health care reform. And the Republicans are more than willing to feed those fears, to cut off our metaphorical noses to spite our faces, since they've lost control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency...

Those with health care coverage appear to not want those without health care coverage to have it.

But that's just 1 of my personal observations.

If it was only about the cost of health care reform to the nation, well heck we spend a fortune on foreign aid every year... more than enough to cover even the most liberal of estimates of the cost to reform health care for our nation!

But oh no, we CAN'T stop giving money away to foreign countries just to insure every American has access to quality health care... that would be un-American or some such BS.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Did the dumb guys messed it up for the real guys looking for love?

And actually, you said nobody is perfect... not that YOU aren't perfect. Subtle difference that.

Finally I do not see where the OP called any other poster on CS dumb. He was asking questions and posing possible explanations he thought might pertain to those questions. Nothing I haven't wondered about before myself before. Being a single male around here really suxs!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: "Americans" Lets have some feedback from eveyone!

WWI and WWII... we never asked for the job of "saving the world", it rather got handed to us.

If you think you (or China or whoever) can do it better then by all means go for it! I wouldn't complain a bit... saving the world is bloody and expensive and thankless! I'd be most happy to go back to the isolationist ideas of the 1930's when Americans wanted no part in foreign wars ever again.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Did the dumb guys messed it up for the real guys looking for love?

See, and I was meaning to check the correct spelling of "grammer" before finalizing my post but still forgot to change it! LMAO! ROF!

Yeah it's spelled "grammar", I had to launch MS Word 2000 to verify that I had it wrong. But oh well...

Regards!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Did the dumb guys messed it up for the real guys looking for love?

You're means "you are". Big difference here.

And honestly I sucked at college English Lit I and II classes... I think the instructors passed me only to get rid of me. LOL!

So again, let's let those without sin cast the 1st stone ya'll... I'm not particularly religious, but I know this to be true.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Did the dumb guys messed it up for the real guys looking for love?

Note: Before questioning somebody else's education and grammer, please make certain of your own education and grammer first... and watch out for typos, they seriously undermine the point you're trying to make!

"you've calling"? LOL!

There's a Preview Post button, I highly recommend you use it and read what you typed before Posting your Reply.

Everybody has room for improvement in their postings. Let thee without sin cast the 1st stone.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: have you ever met a weirdo from the internet?

Oh, YES! It's pretty weird to meet a woman who looks absolutely nothing like her online pictures.

Then another woman lied about her marital status... a few weeks after meeting her for lunch at The Olive Garden, her husband called me wanting to know how I knew his wife!

I could go on and on... being a single male around here totally suxs.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: What Is It With Some Guy's????/

Sounds like a certain South Carolina Republican Congressman had his eye on you hun.

LOL!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God"!)

Health Care Reform Poll

Damn good points!

Thanks.

- Michael ("American by birh, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Health Care Reform Poll

But isn't less government intervention what nearly got us into The Great Depression II here just recently? Less government doesn't necessarily mean better government, nor does more government necessarily mean better or worse government.

The devil is in the details.

My own mother is paying some $1200 a month now for her health insurance premiums, complains constantly that she is running out of money and that her premiums just keep going up, but is dead set against any health care reform legislation... I already cannot afford health care premiums, and I make pretty good money doing software programming. So, point is... if something isn't done and soon, there will be fewer and fewer people able to afford health insurance and the insurance companies will have to charge more and more to those who still can afford it, which is totally unsustainable and the whole system falls apart anyhows!

ps. We already have a governemnt socialist program and it's been with us since FDR's administration back in the 1930's (the most popular President in American history I'd argue, as he's the only 1 elected for 4 terms in a row which says something IMO)... it's called "Social Security". The pure capitalist system boat sank already, get over it! LOL!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Health Care Reform Poll

That was it! Thanks for jogging the memory with that info!

I don't know why it's so hard to fix things like that.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Health Care Reform Poll

I remember several years ago (possibly during President Bush Jr.'s 1st term in office) it was on the news about some Army Medical base in the United States that had deplorable conditions (Brooks Army Base maybe? I'm stretching way back here trying to remember that news story... maybe somebody else knows).

The Army pledged to make improvements, but I have no idea what ever happened after that. It was around the time of a large spike in troop casualties in Iraq and concerns about the care they were getting here in the states.

The bad thing about major news stories on the news channels is that you rarely ever hear how things turned out down the road. It's hard to keep track of what happened after the reporters were gone.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Health Care Reform Poll

That's ok, it's interesting info. My 2 polls don't overlap though, they're distinctly different... one is about health care reform, the other about who pays for health care coverage right now (if you have health care coverage). I couldn't make a single poll that covered both aspects.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Health Care Reform Poll

I'm not sure I understand your question... you answered my 2nd poll, or my second option in this poll? You can vote in both polls they're not mutually exclusive.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God"!)

Health Care Reform Poll

Covers their dependants too, doesn't it?

Health Care itself varies widely from clinic to clinic and doctor to doctor. Some are good, some you have to wonder how they have any patients left alive.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Health Care Reform Poll

I have nothing and it covers... well, nothing.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Health Care Reform Poll

Yeah well you try fitting THAT into a poll option!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Obama Rocks! Could the job being done better by republicans?

Well according to the numbers being released the experts (economists and financial experts mostly) say that the Recession has effectively ended, that the downward slide has stopped. Hopefully for good!

Is that not something right? I guess though we could give credit to President Bush for starting the bailout program which the Obama Administration mostly just continued with only minor changes....

So, you're saying that you have to do something right before you can do anything wrong? Where was that rule written?

I must've been napping....

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God"!)