"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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My premiums are up 20% again this year!! This is unbelievable. I have to pay for the fact that there's some irresponsible idiots out there who refuse to buy a health insurance plan, and instead just run into the ER when they are sick, not pay the bill, get their credit damaged, and the hospital has to write it off.

I'm so sick and tired of a Government that makes the responsible pay for the actions of the irresponsible.

I have always said that those people who couldn't afford health insurance that wanted it, should get on a Government plan. Those who have a major illness that had health insurance that a loophole within the health insurance makes it so that the Insurer won't cover it, those are the people the Government should bail out.

The idiots who run into the ER without any health insurance, who COULD have had a plan but chose to spend their money on a chick's shopping habits instead, are the ones that WE have to bail the hell out! It's crap!
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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It's a mess. Healthcare insurance is now a tax, and the healthcare industry is largely allowed to price healthcare as if it was private market. There's no accountability on how consumers use healthcare since they don't direct pay and there's no accountability on pricing and cost.
 

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Bottom line, when the government gets involved in anything that should be handled by private enterprise, things go down hill really fast and hardly ever get better.
 

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Sorry what does this have to do with Obamacare?

People have been guaranteed treatment at the ER since the 80s. One thing Ocare does is oblige people to get regular insurance, which will allow them to see regular doctors, not the ER for every little thing.

Ignorance is man's oldest foe.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Leporello said:
Sorry what does this have to do with Obamacare?
It's a healthcare tax shouldered mostly by the middle class and lower middle class.
 

Francisco d'Anconia

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Tenacity said:
My premiums are up 20% again this year!!
Everyone was warned about this before the law was passed, there shouldn't be any surprises. Plus, you can't fault people without insurance because they existed before ACA and your premiums probably weren't raised like this. Chalk it up to policies being mandated by the Government to have coverage for things that you may not ever need.
 
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