Health Care Bill Clears Procedural Hurdle

Originally posted by Mountainmeg

Originally posted by ashanu90

You may be wondering why I didn't simply look "gringo" up in a Spanish-English dictionary, since I was so determined to find its definition. Well, I did, and the word was defined as "one who speaks gibberish," and "blonde," neither of which made much sense in the common usage of the word unless you are writing a story about a gibberish-talking fair-haired woman, right?

Now don't get mad at me, all you blondes out there who speak gibberish, I didn't write the dictionary. Anyway, you know me. If it's simple, I'm not interested. Confusion, chaos and complication are my middle names, so I began to search through dusty etymological tomes for an answer.

The word "gringo" was mentioned in Spanish literature as early as the eighteenth century. In his famous Diccionario, compiled prior to 1750, Terreros y Pando, a Spanish historian notes that "gringo" was a nickname given to foreigners in Malaga and Madrid who spoke Spanish with an accent. Maybe it sounded like gibberish.

never freaking mind i was probably thinking of something else, life is contradiction

[edit on 22-3-2010 by ashanu90]

Originally posted by stephenwephentephen


I belive this is great, the health care bill is really gonna help the general American population, i mean i see alot of people arguing against it, but is there something i am missing, i have made myself very clued up on the bill, but i really am actually asking someone out there to explain to me in simple what is so wrong about it.

Is it so wrong to make cheaper hospital fee's, the thought of living in a country where healthcare isn't 100 per cent free (Up the NHS

) terrifies me, i mean if i break my arm, i go to hospital, get all the healthcare i need and it's free, i believe it's a total sham that Americans have too pay for healthcare so anyway to make this cheaper is just a total blessing...x

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Tell me how do you know everything will go as you think it will? How do you know everything won't go completely different? All my life all i have seen is the government screw everything up (no matter what party there from), but now you come on here and say everything will go smoothly. I highly doubt that will be the case. Sooner or later something will go wrong...it always has. You people that think that this is the start of paradise need a reality check, there is no such thing as a paradise. if you want to dream about paradise then pop in a movie about one because that as close to paradise as your going to get. There will never be a prefect world. Deal with it.