Neanderpundit

You’ll have a talent for causing things pain!

Yesterday I ended up blowing off a days work to go to the dentist, which didn’t amuse me much mostly because I had put it off so long.

See, I had what I thought was a chipped tooth but turned out to be a cavity. This guy, though, is pretty amazing. I went early(1:30) for my cleaning appointment(2:15) and he decided to look at my tooth first instead of afterwards; He took one look, grabbed a syringe, jammed my mouth full of novcaine so hard and fast my forehead was numb, ground, drilled, filled and five minutes later I was sitting in the reception area still early for my cleaning.

And though it is not my personal habit to endorse insurance, let me highly reccomend dentalplans.com.

Actually it’s not insurance, it’s what’s called a “Managed care” plan, where you go to a dentist that works with this or that plan and you get a discounted rate. Yesterdays’ visit was well over $350 and my out of pocket cost was $150. The plan costs $169 a year for the family and they usually have a deal where you get two or three months extra. So it more than paid for itself in one visit, and the wife and daughter get regular cleanings etc. there as well. The one I use (There are many on that site, pick one your doctor accepts) is Unicare 200. Our company offers dental insurance; it costs $85 a MONTH for EACH INDIVIDUAL and doesn’t cover what this plan covers.

Bloomberg has begun confiscating weapons.

In the NY metro area, there are, if I remember my numbers, more Jews than anywhere but Israel. But they don’t have anything to worry about, based on their ethnicity. No, the new Jews are the tea partiers. The patriots. Global warming ‘Deniers”. Anyone who is “intolerant” of liberal ideas. (You’ll be fine if you’re intolerant of freedom, by the way) We saw what happened to the people who resisted last time they started confiscating weapons. Let me remind you of the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: We did not love freedom enough.

Do you?

The Crown Point Gunshow is a typical small town show- it’s an awful lot of the same stuff different day, but it also has the occasional deal, and sometimes you run into a little gem. I see the new style AR bayonet is all the rage, which means the old style bayonets are gettinig cheap.

As we queued up to get in, Partner gets a look from the girl selling tickets. he brightens, she’s nice to look at, then she says “You look almost exactly like my dad”.

Oh, says partner.

Walking away, into the show:

” Well, there it goes. The last vestige of hope that a woman can look at me as anything but a decrepit old hulk is gone forever”

I told him maybe she had daddy issues, but I doubt that’s his thing anyway.