6922Reversal of the Heart - Carolyn Chrisman.(x)
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This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.
On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”
He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.
Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.
To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.
This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.
Healthcare is ridiculously expensive. I sit around all day and bill people for it. It’s such a business it’s unbelievable.
The US healthcare system is all sorts of dumb.:(
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That episode where you find out that a member of the zany villain squad actually has a heartbreaking past, which includes a bit where he pushes himself to perform a feat that has never been done before and has never been done since, all for the sake of love, only to be rejected as a freak.
All three of them have heartbreaking pasts.
Meowth’s was listed above.
James had abusive (at the very least neglectful, but they didn’t care how he was treated so long as he awarded them prestige) parents who had engaged him to a sociopath, who wanted to whip him and change everything about him to be more “presentable.” He ran away and was on the streets for a long time before he finally joined a crime ring.
Jesse was raised by a single mother, and the two of them were so poor that they rarely had actual food; her mother would make her a “feast” out of snow in the winter that Jesse considered to be a treat because that’s how badly they were starving. If the audio dramas are to be believed, Jesse’s mother was also a member of Team Rocket, who disappeared (read: died) on an expedition searching for Mew, leaving Jesse alone. And then Jesse, like James (and Meowth) was so desperate for a means to survive that she (inadvertently?) followed in her mother’s footsteps and joined Team Rocket/a life of crime just to get by.
“Zany villains” they may be, but Jesse, James, and Meowth are the three deepest characters on the show. I love them.
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i shit you fucking not i got weepinzard first try and now i can’t stop laughing at his dumb face and his dumb name
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Article from The Guardian
congrats.
you’re all attracted to robots now.
thE FIRST 1
!!!!!!
I like it when we get to see what genuine silly guys these two are.
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WHERE IS THIS PLACE
I MUST GO THERE
Ok this place literally took my life ambition and made it slightly less cool. Dream BIGGER.
it’s like heaven only real
the EXP Restaurant + Bar is located in Vancouver, BC and i need to go there
Tara lets go, I went once and had a fairy fountain cocktail and it was heaven and I had a poutine burger.
like most people i go here for the experience. fun place to take friends but you can’t play games in there yet sadly.
I haven’t gone back since the servers started using my first name.
They do have games in the front little lobby bit while you’re waiting now btw!
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List of favorite games characters | Garrett (Thief games)
What is locked can be opened.
What is hidden can be found.
What is yours can be mine.
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30 Day Anime Challenge
Day 27 - Favorite anime ending
Shingeki no Kyojin 進撃の巨人 ED - “Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai”
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