Rugged In Montana

This reporter's immediate female ancestor spent the first six yrs. of her life in Livingston, Montana. Which doesn't mean shit, but makes this story slightly more interesting to us. Will we read it, & bother to pull any of it?

OK, if only to demonstrate how imbecilicly fucking stupid those toads are (W/ all apologies to actual toads, of course.) we'll give you this:

But here's the twist: The folks at the local clinic where I found McDonald in the dentist chair -- known as "Community Health Partners" -- are actually quite comfortable with the federal government. That's because it turns out that taxpayers pick up 50 percent of the clinic's $4 million annual budget. "We're able to provide health care to someone who walks through the door regardless of their ability to pay," Dr. Mark Schulein, who runs the clinic, told me. People like Sonja McDonald, who wants more of these clinics around the country -- even when I told her the federal government that she dislikes so much picks up much of the tab. "The government being involved is fine," McDonald said. "It's just that when they try and overstep, when they try to say, 'No, this is what needs to be done.'" This reminds me of when you hear about folks at Congressional town hall meetings saying they don't want changes to Medicare and they want to make sure the federal government stays out of the way -- even though the feds run the program now and have for decades.

After they've strapped on a ewe ("Whut? Yuh callin' me uh queer? This hyar ain't no ram!") or two, do these people get a mad sheep disease that crawls throughout their nervous systems & eventually affects their brains? It's very difficult for us to believe that people are really so ignorant & oblivious. (You know, due to our high opinion of the species.)