Fender Rumble Club

[steve_rolfeca]

No. The Veteran's Administration is my only access to health care. ObummerCare is a $500+ a month joke. At least I qualify for VA health care, otherwise I would have nothing at all until I reached 65 for Medicare.

....For Urgent Care or an ER I have to drive 98 miles south to Salem, Virginia to the VA hospital there.

You have no idea how much it pains me to read this.

My youngest has Cystic Fibrosis with diabetic complications. Our small college town has an excellent CF Clinic, and he sees his cardiologist, dietician, respirologist, etc. regularly.

Thanks to a good diet and excellent healthcare, if you didn't know his background, you'd take him for a normal 9 year old boy. He loves cycling, swimming and fishing.

Still, even with lower Canadian drug prices, his medications cost over $46,000 a year. That will only increase over time.

Thankfully, he is able to have the best of care despite our rather iffy finances, because of single-payer health care.

The only part of his medication costs that we have to pay, is $120 month for a special vitamin supplement.

I don't see how Obamacare will ever meet people's needs as long as the insurance companies have their greasy fingers in the pie, and your gov't is legally restricted from negotiations with big pharma.

 

[GManfromOz]

Damn, you got that? I've been drooling over that 115 from the moment I noticed it on eBay. Kept kicking myself for not living in St Louis or wherever it was... Lucky you, that is one heckuva deal!

$118!!!!!! Recommend retail here is $599, I got mine cheap as at $480. Holy smokes Batman. (And even on PPP we're getting ripped)

 

[eric_B]

Thanks for blowing up my inbox! I think I am caught up. Welcome to the Fender Rumble Club:
669. @Gabe Foltz
670. @GManfromOz
671. @Onward
672. @Jeffro3004
By All Means Do Rumble On!

Who wants to take over this list and become the Official Rumble Club Greeter and Membership Number Dispenser? I will e-mail you my list. It is just a simple notepad file with plenty of mistakes.

On the health front my heart has calmed down some and is no longer racing 150+ BPM. BP remains high and solidly hypertensive, but a bit lower. Heartbeat is erratic with atrial fibrillation. It's like having a really bad drummer living in your chest, but I don't think it'll blow up today. I got an appointment for an echocardiogram on Sept28th. No appointment with a cardiologist yet. I guess that will come later. Maybe. I tend to doubt I'll qualify for a new artificial heart, but you never know.

Rumbles Rock!

Glad to see you back here @Linnin!

 

[99Z3]

I finally bought it. I got a brand new Rumble 115 v3 cabinet for $118.

$118!!!!!! Recommend retail here is $599, I got mine cheap as at $480. Holy smokes Batman. (And even on PPP we're getting ripped)

GMan, is that 599.00 for the Combo or just the 115 cab where your at?

 

[GManfromOz]

GMan, is that 599.00 for the Combo or just the 115 cab where your at?

Just the 115 cab. The 4x10 can be got for about $850 on a good day, usually $999.

 

[ubernator]

GMan, is that 599.00 for the Combo or just the 115 cab where your at?

Some lady registered the trademark for the name fender in Australia, so fender in Australia is stupid expensive, and in high demand.

 

[ubernator]

You have no idea how much it pains me to read this.

My youngest has Cystic Fibrosis with diabetic complications. Our small college town has an excellent CF Clinic, and he sees his cardiologist, dietician, respirologist, etc. regularly.

Thanks to a good diet and excellent healthcare, if you didn't know his background, you'd take him for a normal 9 year old boy. He loves cycling, swimming and fishing.

Still, even with lower Canadian drug prices, his medications cost over $46,000 a year. That will only increase over time.

Thankfully, he is able to have the best of care despite our rather iffy finances, because of single-payer health care.

The only part of his medication costs that we have to pay, is $120 month for a special vitamin supplement.

I don't see how Obamacare will ever meet people's needs as long as the insurance companies have their greasy fingers in the pie, and your gov't is legally restricted from negotiations with big pharma.

Big pharma is a world government, more powerful than most realize. Same with big energy/oil and big Agra.

 

[GManfromOz]

Some lady registered the trademark for the name fender in Australia, so fender in Australia is stupid expensive, and in high demand.

It's expensive to live in paradise. /sarcasm

 

[BadExample]

It's expensive to live in paradise. /sarcasm

But you guys get to carry big knives, wrestle crocks and drink from big beer cans.

 

[ubernator]

It's expensive to live in paradise. /sarcasm

Out of all the major brands, isn't fender the only one that is price gouged? I just know the story of the fender name trademarked from the buyer of my MIM jazz basses back in about 99 who told me they were going to be taken to Australia where at the time fender wasn't exporting due to this "other" fender having the rights to the name, so there was a huge used import market. Apparently I might not be off in assuming part of that high price is due to fender eventually caving in to export, and part of the price is due to royalties going to whomever had registered the trade name fender in Australia?

 

[ubernator]

But you guys get to carry big knives, wrestle crocks and drink from big beer cans.

Those big beer cans come from Toronto.

Fahhsterrs, it's Canadian for beer, eh!

 

[BadExample]

Oh man, they moved production to TX!

I cried for a week when Guinness Ext Stout went to licensed N. America production.

 

[ubernator]

Oh man, they moved production to TX!

I cried for a week when Guinness Ext Stout went to licensed N. America production.

So my longtime fosters Canada joke is no longer relavent?

 

[BadExample]

It's still funny. Could say Texan for beer. I think last time I saw one it listed another location too, St. Luis?

I'm getting choked up about the Guinness again. Tried to sell my soul to take it back to Dublin. Devil said mines not worth much

 

[ubernator]

I do Canadian nasal better than Texas twang, and what to use in place of "mate"? The " eh" worked syllabically. Perhaps the walker Texas ranger lever is in order?

 

[99Z3]

Didn't make me Rumble!

So my longtime fosters Canada joke is no longer relavent?

 

[BadExample]

I do Canadian nasal better than Texas twang, and what to use in place of "mate"? The " eh" worked syllabically. Perhaps the walker Texas ranger lever is in order?

When your drinking Texan Foster's look behind you,

"cuz that where,

The

Rangr's

Gunna

Pee.

 

[ubernator]

I miss the old school Conan o Brien show, the walker Texas ranger lever was the best. And Mike the bass player from the MW7 and his zeta crossover and red mike lull jazz

 

[99Z3]

If it is on ABC, NBC or CBS.. other than the Olympics, I don't watch it.. I haven't watch those channels in over 25 years now.. and I feel that I ain't missin much either!

 

[ubernator]

I haven't regularly watched TV since analog was taken off the air