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When a provider accepts payment from the insurer and then tries to bill the patient for the rest of the bill is known as "balance billing." I understand that there is a federal law making balance billing illegal for emergency care providers.

Yes, once. There is a place in L.A. called the Greyhound that makes the best wings I have ever tasted. I spent years trying to get mine to a similar quality and failed.
Late one night me and a buddy were at the bar and the chef came out for a drink. So I asked him and he told me.
Basically, a two cook process. First confit at low temperature and then fry at high temperature.

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There's a lot of leftists in Twin Falls?

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If there is a place in the country that is more ruby red than Twin Falls, I have yet to see it. The only elections that matter are the Republican primaries.

And while there are a fair number of escapees from California, Oregon and Washington, they are registering Republican at a higher percentage than the general population.

That being said, I suppose we do have a few crazies.

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Nobody wants a realistic lawyer show. It would bore everyone to tears.

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Anatomy of a Murder (from way, way back in the day) is not only a really great movie but is very accurate in both trial procedure and attorney/client relations. Jimmy Stewart stars, and George C. Scott, in one of his first movie roles, is fantastic.

There is a scene with Stewart where he coaches his client in a workable defense without really coaching him (i.e. without crossing any ethical lines) that is just how it is done. Spoiler Alert Scott learns the danger of asking a question when you don't know the answer, and, of course, the client skips out on the bill.

Had a girlfriend once make me lasagna using cottage cheese rather than ricotta. I ate it and told her it was delicious. Because . . . you know.

How about using brown rice instead of white? A nice, nutty flavor that I think goes well with gumbo.

Is posting this guy some sort of inside joke that I'm not getting?

Charles Lamb, a Royal Navy Swordfish pilot, was a prisoner of war in a camp run by the Vichy French. They were extremely brutal and sadistic to the English prisoners. He wrote a book about it, "To War in a Stringbag."

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My question is, why did it take six hours of searching to capture these perpetrators inside freaking Camp Pendleton?

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Ever been to Pendleton? It's a huge base, bigger than Rhode Island. And the vast majority of it is hills and scrub.

Here is a little known fact. After the war the commander of the hunter killer group, Captain Daniel Gallery, because a writer. He wrote a series of very funny "sea stories" detailing the hijinks of a CPO known as "Fatso." Some of the stories are collected in a book called "Now Hear This."

I enjoyed them as a kid, I don't think they are available anymore.