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I wish President Trump, @ this Tuesday State of The Union Address, would ask if anyone had a pen & turn around and Stare directly at Skellitore...

I wanted witnesses just to hear what they would say. We already know the evidence, and what President Trump did was not what the House Democrats implied. Not one single Republican voted for impeachment. All of the witnesses that were called in the House impeachment had no relevance to the impeachment with their hearsay/opinion piece testimonies and gut feelings that Trump implied quid pro quo. It was the majority of the Democrats who used impeachment to become elected in their districts. I think it will be for naught. Only Nixon was the only President that might have been removed from office had he not resigned. What he did was child's play compared to the spying on President Trump's campaign by the FBI. The F.B.I. found no Russian collusion. All of the members of Trump's campaign team were charged with issues unrelated to any of the investigation. I would bet that had Clinton won the election that none of them would have been charged, because the investigation would have been dropped.

He's on trial because of all the phony investigations and plots by disgruntled deep state operatives that can't stand the fact that he was elected ... and they are mad with rage that despite all their false charges, phony investigations and pre planned impeachment hoax they STILL haven't been able to fool the American people into turning against him. His approval rating is at an all time high, and rising .... you are being fed a load of horse from CNN, LSDMSNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NBC and the NY SLIMES .... and you are just too ignorant to know it .... History will vindicate President Trump and Pelosi, Upchuck. Pencil Neck, Nonads will be forever labeled as villains in this historically partisan impeachment hoax ....

If that was a SHORT answer, I'd hate to see your idea of a long answer.......

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/31/blue-state-blues-democrats-case-against-trump-is-built-on-5-misquotes/

I have a tee shirt from this concert!

His results tell a different story .... he has done more positive things for ALL Americans than any president in my lifetime ... of course you have to take the liberal media blinders off to see it .... tru storie ......

1) He got a nice raise 2) Cost of living 3) He will have to play politics at Lee, but NOTHING like at Colleyville 4) Football is king in East Texas not at Colleyville 5) Coordinators teaching load is much, much better 6) Middle school setup is better 7) He's maxed out Colleyville; probably not much left to accomplish 8 ) If Tyler gets the indoor facilities that are talked about there will be no difference in the facilities 9) Did I mention that raise?

I had to dumb it down for some people ....

Yes, all 3 of the Rockwell's left Spring Hill for Gilmer.

I figured you would miss having one.

Lol ... I was really saying that for Danny's benefit .... sarcastically ... sorry .....

Tyler is like Plano?

I can't tell Who you are, but I can tell What you're not, and it sure ain't "middle of the aisle." Lol spare me.

The government already has their hand in insurance... they aren't taking it out... The only thing that is going to decrease premiums is to decrease the value of services. Which may even need to ripple down to the cost of Medical school. My team ortho can charge about $250 for 30 minutes as a specialist. That's really just to say "Hi. What's wrong with you? Ok assistant, order blood work and an X-Ray and possibly set up for an MRI." Let's break that down a bit more: The cost of an X-Ray machine is about $19-25k. The machine will last about 10-15 years and do over 2000 patients a year. Reimbursing $20-30 a picture. Let's break that down. Average $25 per X-ray for a clinic that sees on average about 38 people a week per physician (got this from my team Dr) ... that's $50k a year! They have made a 100% profit off of a machine the first year they bought it! Now lets look at blood work costs. On average it ranges from $17-45 per test. Which, as most of us know is about 4-5 tests. Add in the MRI costs. MRI costs for a patient are typically $345-$1300... I know for a fact that if you pay cash you can get an MRI as low as $250... Which the actual profit margin for an MRI machine is very similar to that of the X-Ray above. The cost of an MRI is $150k-1.5mil... However, it takes roughly 30 minutes to get an MRI done on a patient and Gateway out here where I am see 2 patients an hour from 9am until 9pm. 24 people a day 6 days a week. Which is 144 a week or 7488 a year times on average $600 per patient which is $4.5 million a year if they max out on patients. Even if they don't we are talking about a $1-2mil a year business after costs... Now if you want to say "Oh hey he tore his ACL." I will let you see the breakdown of a typical ACL surgery. This guy has the itemized bill before Insurance adjustments, but this will give you an idea of my conclusion below: https://calv.info/the-cost-of-an-acl So you are literally talking about price gauging to the point where it is almost criminal. Where does this come from? Government direction. Government sets the "Max amount you are allowed to bill under code ____ in the ICD10". Anesthesia can bill $5500 for a 1 hour surgery but Vanderbilt did a study on the cost of anesthesia for a typical general 1 hour study... The cost of the anesthesia was anywhere from $8-82!!!! So we can say this is capitalism etc... but in reality it is theft. I am ok with paying surgeons for their skills... but $200 for a $4 scapel that will only be used once... Screw that.

A little trivia ....My mother was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia .... that made it VERY DIFFICULT for me to obtain a Top Secret security clearance .... tru storie .....

You have Clearly drunk more than you share of the Democrat Punch, Jett. I HOPE you don’t really believe this charade against Donald Trump which was cooked-up by Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler et al for the purpose of overturning the 2016 Election? This whole Show was done by & FOR Hillary; Either you are blind, or just don’t Care.

One of us old timers.

Here’s another take on it. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dems-10-biggest-lies-in-trumps-senate-impeachment-trialkayla-gowdy

JT and their theories/infatuation about Lee. It must be true because someone spoke it into existence on Smoaky. I never heard Owens complain about old money for the 15 years he was the coach. I don't think it exists.. Just an attempt to take a side jab at your cross town school. And the comment that there "won't be any talent" at Lee after next year doesn't meet the smell test. The largest school in East Texas that is growing with a demographically balanced population doesn't have any talent?? Give me a break. As I have said before, a great program isn't built on shiny objects. I can think of multiple players over the last 15 years that were middle school studs that never even finished in either program. They will have plenty of talent to win with a coach like Coach Willis.

My guess is you dont know Colleyville too well....Lee has some old money but the sheer numbers of folks with money isn't anything close to Colleyville

For example: I had 4 very expensive neck/spinal surgeries a few years ago ... the total cost far exceeded 1/2 million dollars ... paid for through my BCBS of TX insurance .... I guarantee you my insurance premium didn't even come close to covering that ... can you imagine what it would do to BCBSTX if they had to refund most of the premiums of the healthier people that their claims didn't exceed their premiums? .... it's really just common sense ....

Pete Rose was asked which is worse stealing signs or gambling and he answered steroids ....

Do you not understand that would bankrupt the insurance companies? That goes against the primary concept of "insurance" .... or the pooling concept where the more healthy insured people with fewer claims who are less costly offset the people with major medical issues and astronomical medical bills that are 100s or even 1000s of times higher than the premiums they are paying .... if you start refunding large portions of the healthier people's premiums it would force the insurance companies to operate deeply in the red ..... surely you understand that concept .... you can't just blame the high cost of insurance premiums on the insurance companies ... that totally ignores the root cause ....

From A to Z!!!!

Gosh, if that doesn't sound like Barry, I don't know what does. Always looking down their noses and use big words to act like they know more than others, when all they are doing is dividing a country. Or is Barry just a parrot that doesn't know any better than to just listen to these folks divide America.

Well said .... SF can't afford to get a couple of TDs down, especially in the 2nd half ... if SF gets off to a good start and takes the lead, or keeps it close, they have a puncher's chance ... if SF has to go into catch up mode instead of slower methodical drives, the odds swing to a KC win ....

Isn't this ad a reflection and evaluation of the character of Democrats in general? They think Forever Trumpers are dirty ignorant rednecks. Which is funny because we know that a good portion of the DNC only group are government leeches. The difference is, the professional Republicans aren't going on FOX News and making fun of socioeconomic status and educational values of the Democrats who vote democrat to solely improve their free benefits at the expense of working class Americans. So yes, this is a solid ad that reflects the values of most democrats and what they think of conservatives. We've even seen DNC candidates try and talk about the ignorance of Republicans publicly... I've said it before, we are so divided as a country right now that we are headed to dark times soon. There needs to be a middle ground somewhere... However, we keep taking the extreme to an even further extreme on both sides. The difference is that the conservative extreme hasn't changed... Just the leaders of the conservatives aren't compromising on their core stances anymore. And Democrats keep pushing more and more to a completely different type of government and eastern overseas values.

I'm a "registered Independent" who almost always votes third party in presidential elections. Barring the unforeseen, he'll get my vote in November.

Baseball at Colleyville is a clear number one...the other sports are a pain because you have so many people and parents with money who have an opinion The old money crowd at Lee is maybe 10%??? Its 50+ percent at Heritage...that can beat you down

To be fair Atlanta started basketball season way before Pewitt did!

And without being restrained by my desire not to piss any of my bosses off my posts will become even MORE truthful than they have been in the past.....

I'm retiring this Year......lol......cant wait....

Colleyville Heritage's Joe Willis to Tyler Lee

Call it what you want, he wont be back next year

Don't have to prove nothing your just an outside hater. Adkins was the CF player, and they return their top 2 pitchers

Nah, not in White Oak. Lol

It is with great sadness that I let the Smoaky world know that BRF passed over the weekend. I did not know her personally but am close with her sister and bro in law and they informed me. She was one of the biggest supporters of Winnsboro Athletics for many many years though her presence at games had been less more recently. Thoughts and prayers to her family.

Isn't part of the of problem with rising overall medical costs is the number of people who have to be hired to consistently fight with the insurance companies over what is covered, what is denied, and what they "might" cover. Because instead of paying the darn bill like people expect when they purchase insurance, the companies try their best to deny all claims. I know, I have been there with that one. It takes months to go back and forth with insurance companies, including your beloved Blue Cross Blue Shield. And during those months of "not paying" people lose any fiscal credit they may have because they CANNOT pay all the money that hospitals and doctors want, up front. Oh you can pay a small amount each month, but that doesn't stop the phone calls, the harassment from the collectors. But please feel free to stand behind the insurance companies. And instead of trying to come up with a compromise of something, just say they need their profits. Because of people like you, not compromising or finding better solution, we are going to get government run insurance and then all the insurance companies and their employees will be without work. I know that helps the economy. SMH

“Catholics were telling me [at the March For Life] that they thought Donald Trump was a better Catholic than Joe Biden,” Campos-Duffy told Todd Starnes on his radio show Monday. Some interesting stuff, especially since he doesn't attend church, has never been a Catholic, has been divorced more than once, had multiple affairs, acts in a vicious and cruel manner toward others, and is generally considered to be one of our most immoral POTUSs ever to hold office by the majority of our country and the world.

You are correct, I am tired of health insurance cost rising also. Do I want the United States Government in charge of any health care program--HECK NO--our government can't do much of anything correct, and I would NEVER trust them with healthcare, I mean look at how bad Medicare/Medicaid is. But I would be inclined to allow government to change some of the rules for Health Care insurance rules. Like controlling the price, saying that a company can NOT raise prices more than 3% per year. Pre-existing conditions are insurable, and their cost can NOT be more than 3-5% more than a non pre-existing condition, the only reason I would except that is because some people with pre-existing conditions are really more costly than others. I would love to see a system where the insurance companies would have to repay premium costs back to the consumer that does not use any insurance during the year. The insurance companies would get to keep 20-30% of the money, but all other would go back to consumer. And in the spirit of compromise, I would even consider having that money placed in a Health Savings Account, for start up costs. Because then more younger people would not spend as much on insurance and grow a Health savings account for the future, so when they might have an emergency they have cash on hand to take care of it, not go bankrupt. I would love to hear other compromises, instead of just plain ole "that #### won't work", "it isn't profitable", or "everyone has a right to insurance".

Awe look the poopers are out, don't like to discuss topics so they just on it. I feel your pain Barry. LOL. And we wonder why the country is divided, people can't even have constructive conversations--yes Barry, I know hypocritical. LOL again.

Not this guy

We all agree the economy is "better" no president is above the law and after this one gets acquitted the bar is set low for any other president to get away with these actions..... Republicans are by far the biggest liars on this trial, I've heard them for hours and hours about how this allegation is untrue and corruption was his intent, after it unfolded now we hear it was inappropriate but does not rise to the level of impeachment.... what a joke... just like you, nothing you say on here is relevant, all I get out of any of your convos is "greatest president of my lifetime" or "true storie".... GTFOH

From everything I've read that you've posted I have a good feeling what I could call you but that's not for this site neither here nor there..... Carry on....

Yet you keep replying, ✌