Barry is much better than W! So true! DOUBLE W’s DEBT IN 100 days! HE is what you stupid people want! Nationalize Nationalize Nationalize
You get what you deserve.
Well, looks like we’ll make 2000 posts easy before Bookman gets back. I reckon he’ll just up and quit when he finds out it don’t matter what he writes, we’ll just go on posting anyway.
It would be a great weekend if I didn’t have to go to a wedding. I just hope the girl don’t stick out too much. Old Elmer Lovett don’t know whether to be proud he’s about to become a granddaddy or to punch the groom in the face.
Fripp being a long-time student of J.G. Bennett’s philosophy knows of what he speaks.
Bennett — “if one wants to follow a system of ideas of spiritual transformation, one has to work with them and try to make something of them for oneself.”
I can’t help but see the abortion issue in those lyrics. I won’t be crying tomorrow although people like DB and USinUK will. Maybe NOT though….maybe they count themselves among the elite who know all too well why Sanger’s first “reproductive” clinic was set up in Harlem. To them, maybe it was just co-wink-e-dink.
Mr. Bennett! It is well with my soul.
Sanger — “The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics…. We are convinced that racial regeneration, like individual regeneration, must come ‘from within.’ That is, it must be autonomous, self-directive, and not imposed from without.”
“We maintain that a woman possessing an adequate knowledge of her reproductive functions is the best judge of the time and conditions under which her child should be brought into the world. We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother… Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment.”
She nevertheless advocated certain instances of coercion, in cases where she considered the parents unfit to decide whether they should bear children:
“The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.”
As in the instance of Aborigines:
“It is said that a fish as large as a man has a brain no larger than the kernel of an almond. In all fish and reptiles where there is no great brain development, there is also no conscious sexual control. The lower down in the scale of human development we go the less sexual control we find. It is said that the aboriginal Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets.
Very much a feminist, eugenicist AND a PURIST in more ways than one.
On the “Cash for Clunkers” program. My husband has not only arrived home with our daughter’s new car but an intended trade-in from some guy whose truck was valued at $6,600.00. Gave him $3,500.00 which is what the dealer was authorized to give him under the program.
I swear, if he had the time to hang around dealerships, we’d be opening up a used car lot out front. Now I have to put up with the doorbell ringing every hour on the hour…
Yeah, that’s why he’s taking the fight to the Taliban and al Qaeda. But I guess that’s just a cover to hide his true sympathies.
TN- You must have missed all those long, annoying years when the Pinko Nation whined and moaned that Bushie was distracting from the real war in Afghanistan by invading Iraq, as though the United States was some tiny euroweenie basket case instead of the baddest as-s superpower in world history.
Funny isn’t it, if Bush had never invaded Iraq, not only would the US not be awash in that majestic victory that you so hate, you libs would have been calling Afghanistan a hellish quagmire for the last 8 years and you could have surrendered this past January.
big supporter of Sanger’s Harlem “initiative”? W.E.B. DuBois:
Du Bois held that the Talented Tenth or the “exceptional men” of the black race would be the ones to lead the race and save it from its criminal problems (Du Bois, 1903, p. 33). Du Bois saw the evolution of a class system within black American society as necessary to carry out the improvements necessary to reduce crime.
I guess in today’s elitist playground, Obama — with his superior intelligence, will lead them all in a “teaching moment.”
Bin Laden’s days are numbered; I’d say less than 180.
If Bush had put forth the effort in Afghanistan that he did in Iraq, the troops would have been home 4 years ago. But he had to even the score for Daddy. He must have been a miserable wretch when he was in the WH. About as bad as Laura was during his term.
But as I’m sure you know, I was against going into either.
The quagmire is Bush’s. The Hawaiian prince will clean it up, at great expense in blood and treasure, however.
Senate Dems blame media for August health deadline- That is a deadline that you created,” Hairy Reed told a group of about 75 reporters. “It’s not like we don’t have a product. Significant progress has been made … The mere fact that this wasn’t done by last Friday or by five o’clock doesn’t mean we’re not going to get a quality product.”
Uh huh-
“Ultimately, this is not about a process, it’s about results,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior political strategist, said during an interview in his White House office. “If we’re going to get this thing done, obviously time is a-wasting.”-Huff and Puff 7/15/09
Seein’s how you’re here all day, everyday….to croak in on the posts of others….I could guess you have nothing better to do.
This is funny coming from one who has quit this blog twice because you had better things to do—no wait—the last time, you were only gonna drop in once in a while. Obviously you drop in enough to monitor my posts. Glass house, meet stone.
“This idea that everything new that government provides ought to be paid for by the top 5 percent, that’s a basically unstable way of governing,” Mr. Burman said.
“There is no way we can pay for health care and the rest of the Obama agenda, plus get our long-term deficits under control, simply by raising taxes on the wealthy,” said Isabel V. Sawhill, a former Clinton administration budget official. “The middle class is going to have to contribute as well.”
Maybe we can get insurance companies to forgo some of their profits. Every penny of profits the insurance companies make is a penny of health care denied.
Or maybe we can open them up to a truly free market approach to competition. That and reign in the trial lawyers that force doctors to order every conceivable test in the book just to cover their rear ends.
No I don’t begrudge companies that actually produce something their profits. Where I draw the line is when top executives make +$500 to $1 of average employee pay. Insurance companies shuffle paper around in an industry that was set up to offer services based on collective buying power. Did AIG offer any other insurance products other than the ones they lost their @ss on? Are the purchasers of these other products now paying for the bad decisions of AIG? Was/is AIG in the health insurance business? How about Bear Stearns? How many people did they con to cover their losses before they went under?
“Let’s face it,” he says, “she galvanized our base in a way that I (McLame) couldn’t. Everywhere she went she drew enormous and enthusiastic crowds like a rock star.” He says his only regret in selecting the Alaska governor was that no one on the campaign predicted the ferocity of the assaults against her. “To the liberal left, particularly the feminists, she is their worst nightmare.”
Actually, I think Obozo is their worst nightmare but whatever.
Or maybe we can open them up to a truly free market approach to competition.
Arguments based on analogies can be slippery and ambiguous but here goes—Every time I here the phrase free market I cringe because a truly free market is only a hypothetical. Would you play tennis without a net? Football without sidelines or an end zone? Baseball without a pitchers mound, foul lines or a batter’s box? How about golf without out-of-bounds or a hole. Regulations exist in any game to give it structure. The debate is on how much regulation.
UpChuck- I’d love to pursue your personal demons with you, but on second, allow me to offer some free advice; gather up some serious capital, start your own insurance company, put in the long hours necessary to make it successful, treat your customers better than anyone else and pay yourself a pittance, no one is stopping you.
Last time I looked, this was still a free country (sorta.)
After 30 years in the construction trades–you know actually making something–by putting in long hours necessary to make it successful, treating my customers better than anyone (illegal aliens) and paying myself a pittance, I don’t think I could go into a business that doesn’t make anything. One of the rewards of construction is taking a step back, and looking at what I made.
Ah the joys of mowing. Takes me back to my youth when we played baseball from sunup to sundown with no pitchers mound, baselines, batter’s boxes, helmets. fences…….
Kamchak,
I’ll go along with some rules, but we’ve erred far more on the side of restriction and that’s the problem with health insurance. It’s all been by design though and this might be our last chance to achieve some sanity in government control.
I also imagine a lot of cancer survivors and cardiac patients will disagree with your premise that insurance companies don’t “make” anything.
I started to put Kenyan prince, but figured someone would do it for me. Let’s time him in the mile run. If he’s under 4 minutes, he was definitely born in Kenya.
Insurance companies that pay their executives millions of dollars each year are clearly nothing more than thieves operating with the approval of their bought and paid for Congressmen. And the notion that we could ever operate in a truly free market environment is absurd. Every time the Republicans move us in that direction, we end up with even worse recessions and depressions, etc. Phil Gramm’s actions in Congress before he took his cushy reward position at UBS is more than adequate proof of that fact for anyone willing to face the facts.
I also imagine a lot of cancer survivors and cardiac patients will disagree with your premise that insurance companies don’t “make” anything.
I imagine cancer survivors and cardiac patients are grateful to be alive and are kindly disposed to those that may not necessarily deserve it. The health care professionals are the ones that did the “heavy lifting.”
Well, we could, by taxing their wealth instead of their income. But you all know I don’t think that would be necessary or fair. We all have to pay our share, including the lower income.
We can also tax the entitlement payments at a rate of 10-100%. McCain and Biden are drawing Social Security benefits of over $2k a month.
Contractually obligated sort of defeats your own argument that they don’t pay and grudgingly is only a feeling you have which assumes facts not in evidence.
The easiest way we can reduce the cost of health care WITHOUT rationing care is to eliminate the profit and marketing, and reduce the administrative costs.
AIG Insurance company paid off on all of its bets, with tax dollars. Those executives ‘earned’ every penny of their millions of dollars of income. At least that is what the conservative Republicans want everyone to believe.
I don’t care, but it would explain her erratic behavior. She’s a public figure now and her every move is scrutinized. Plus, her being the second coming of Reagan adds interest to her trials and tribulations.
A little testy aren’t we? Sorry I intervened. I’ll try to remember not to rattle your cage!
WASHINGTON – Eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. About 4,000 members of the U.S. military killed in action. More than 34,000 wounded. Just six considered worthy of America’s highest military award for battlefield valor.
If consumers had the sense that the economy, including the jobs environment, was really turning around, he said it would bode very well for Obama.
“I think it would take some of the heat off Congress,” Rothenberg said. “There would be less focus on deficit and debt and economic shortfalls. It would be a significant boost to the president and frankly his health care agenda.”
Notice how the libs go after capitalism in health care instead of the fat targets like fraud and tort lawsuits?
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Then you’re saying there will be no change? That’s what’s happening now. We wouldn’t allow our pets to suffer that kind of agonizing death.
So which planet do you live on, TN?
Here on Earth, the elderly have to sign consent forms so that no heroic efforts will be made in the event they become necessary. Transplants are rejected only because a shortage of donors. Treatment is available for almost any ailment. No one is turned away from any emergency room, regardless of their financial situation.
Why do you think bookman tries to glamorize assisted suicide? People just off themselves in a timely enough here in the land of milk and honey, the socialists are prodding them along.
Obozo wouldn’t even monitor breathing or heart rates in the ICU because of the “unnecessary” costs.
Well, I was in the depths of despair after last night’s loss for the Braves. The mighty warriors went DOWN.
BUT….after this afternoon’s earthquake in North Georgia, a mighty force entered the hearts of the Braves (no, not Adam LaRoche) and the Braves won like real troopers. Bravo! Bravo!! Braves!!!
Please now, someone play the Halleluia Chorus..It is so suitable!!!
Well, while I eagerly await the music, I was reading what Dr. Todd Williamson, president of the Medical Association of Georgia, had to say about the healthcare plan being made in Washington. Dr. Williamson believes the “Obama Plan” could prove fatal to doctor-patient relationships.
He believes that the legislation will take away patient’s rights to choose his or her own health care, or select a physician. That, he points out, takes too muich control over patient care.
The Medical Association of Georgia is a coalition of 43,000 doctors.
Have you ever visited a blogsite where the host is this mysterious OZ type person, who is inaccessible to his visitors? He/she simply expounds his/her thoughts…visitors comment…he/she interacts without a profile to be referenced?
Well, what do ya know? Guess what staunch news advocate of the truth “revealed” that the Palins were getting a divorce? A lie big as Alaska, of course.
Why the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and was repeated by anti-Palin newspaper of Alaska, the Report. I didn’t think liberals could make any bigger lies than what they concocted for Bush. I was wrong. They have outdone themselves in lowdown dirty propaganda aimed at Palin and her family.. And for what? Palin is not even running for any office.
So what do you call this kind of ethics? Ethics? Ethics??
I know. Nobody cares. That’s true. BUT THEY SHOULD!
There’s enough “hankypanky” really going on to report. I don’t see any reason to make up all this stuff. Oh, I forgot. Liberals!! (Republicans certainly are NOT doing it.)
“NRA opposition fails to sway senators on Sotomayor”
WASHINGTON (AP) – The National Rifle Association’s threat to punish senators who vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been met with a shrug by Democrats from conservative-leaning states and some Republicans who are breaking with their party to support her. The gun rights group is used to getting its way by spooking lawmakers about the political consequences of defying its wishes. But it never before has weighed in on a Supreme Court confirmation battle. It was cautious about breaking that pattern, and it looks like a losing a fight to defeat President Barack Obama’s first pick for the court.
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RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
11:47 am
Yes you can. Just start the italics at the start of the text you want linked and use both the end italics tag and the end hyperlink tag at the close.
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
11:48 am
Fugly, Barry’s wife gets high marks? Is she taking tests while stoned? Do her and Barry blaze in the Oval office? Once a pot smoker……
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
11:49 am
I Report
You Whine
August 1st, 2009
11:05 am
Yeah, that’s why he’s taking the fight to the Taliban and al Qaeda. But I guess that’s just a cover to hide his true sympathies.
getalife
August 1st, 2009
11:49 am
Tell it to your friends Andy.
Unhinged.
The comedians are loving it.
cons are a joke.
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
11:49 am
If you are stupid click here
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
11:50 am
Did you click Getalife? You are a dumbass after all!
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
11:51 am
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
11:48 am
Nice picture, too.
http://www.ajc.com/
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
11:53 am
Barry is much better than W! So true! DOUBLE W’s DEBT IN 100 days! HE is what you stupid people want! Nationalize Nationalize Nationalize
You get what you deserve.
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
11:53 am
TnG isn’t she, well, FUGLY?
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
11:54 am
Going to the Park…ya’ll have a good day!
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
11:56 am
RW
Thanks
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 1st, 2009
11:59 am
Well, looks like we’ll make 2000 posts easy before Bookman gets back. I reckon he’ll just up and quit when he finds out it don’t matter what he writes, we’ll just go on posting anyway.
It would be a great weekend if I didn’t have to go to a wedding. I just hope the girl don’t stick out too much. Old Elmer Lovett don’t know whether to be proud he’s about to become a granddaddy or to punch the groom in the face.
Have a good weekend everybody.
getalife
August 1st, 2009
12:03 pm
pf,
Still not funny but keep trying.
@@
August 1st, 2009
12:32 pm
Bruno:
Loved the lyrics from the King Crimson song:
“Confusion Will Be My Epitaph”
Upon the instruments of death
the sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
with nightmares and with dreams
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying
Fripp being a long-time student of J.G. Bennett’s philosophy knows of what he speaks.
Bennett — “if one wants to follow a system of ideas of spiritual transformation, one has to work with them and try to make something of them for oneself.”
I can’t help but see the abortion issue in those lyrics. I won’t be crying tomorrow although people like DB and USinUK will. Maybe NOT though….maybe they count themselves among the elite who know all too well why Sanger’s first “reproductive” clinic was set up in Harlem. To them, maybe it was just co-wink-e-dink.
Mr. Bennett! It is well with my soul.
Sanger — “The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics…. We are convinced that racial regeneration, like individual regeneration, must come ‘from within.’ That is, it must be autonomous, self-directive, and not imposed from without.”
“We maintain that a woman possessing an adequate knowledge of her reproductive functions is the best judge of the time and conditions under which her child should be brought into the world. We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother… Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment.”
She nevertheless advocated certain instances of coercion, in cases where she considered the parents unfit to decide whether they should bear children:
“The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.”
As in the instance of Aborigines:
“It is said that a fish as large as a man has a brain no larger than the kernel of an almond. In all fish and reptiles where there is no great brain development, there is also no conscious sexual control. The lower down in the scale of human development we go the less sexual control we find. It is said that the aboriginal Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets.
Very much a feminist, eugenicist AND a PURIST in more ways than one.
On the “Cash for Clunkers” program. My husband has not only arrived home with our daughter’s new car but an intended trade-in from some guy whose truck was valued at $6,600.00. Gave him $3,500.00 which is what the dealer was authorized to give him under the program.
I swear, if he had the time to hang around dealerships, we’d be opening up a used car lot out front. Now I have to put up with the doorbell ringing every hour on the hour…
“How much you want for that truck?”
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
12:33 pm
Yeah, that’s why he’s taking the fight to the Taliban and al Qaeda. But I guess that’s just a cover to hide his true sympathies.
TN- You must have missed all those long, annoying years when the Pinko Nation whined and moaned that Bushie was distracting from the real war in Afghanistan by invading Iraq, as though the United States was some tiny euroweenie basket case instead of the baddest as-s superpower in world history.
Funny isn’t it, if Bush had never invaded Iraq, not only would the US not be awash in that majestic victory that you so hate, you libs would have been calling Afghanistan a hellish quagmire for the last 8 years and you could have surrendered this past January.
Now you’re stuck, hahahahaa.
Hope you don’t get defeated.
Where’s bin Laden at, huh, huh?
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
12:36 pm
TN- Pardon me but your link has a picture of three punkas-s Falcon players in it, is the First Fatso one of them?
@@
August 1st, 2009
12:41 pm
Oops! almost forgot…
big supporter of Sanger’s Harlem “initiative”? W.E.B. DuBois:
Du Bois held that the Talented Tenth or the “exceptional men” of the black race would be the ones to lead the race and save it from its criminal problems (Du Bois, 1903, p. 33). Du Bois saw the evolution of a class system within black American society as necessary to carry out the improvements necessary to reduce crime.
I guess in today’s elitist playground, Obama — with his superior intelligence, will lead them all in a “teaching moment.”
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
1:02 pm
I Report
You Whine
August 1st, 2009
12:33 pm
Bin Laden’s days are numbered; I’d say less than 180.
If Bush had put forth the effort in Afghanistan that he did in Iraq, the troops would have been home 4 years ago. But he had to even the score for Daddy. He must have been a miserable wretch when he was in the WH. About as bad as Laura was during his term.
But as I’m sure you know, I was against going into either.
The quagmire is Bush’s. The Hawaiian prince will clean it up, at great expense in blood and treasure, however.
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
1:08 pm
I Report
You Whine
August 1st, 2009
12:33 pm
No, they’re all too small. I knew there was a chance the picture would change. Sorry you missed it.
But these are just for you:
http://projects.accessatlanta.com/gallery/view/entertainment/fashion/michelle-obama-hair/
http://projects.accessatlanta.com/gallery/view/entertainment/fashion/michelle-obama-fashions/6.html
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
1:10 pm
These democrats are pathological liars-
Senate Dems blame media for August health deadline- That is a deadline that you created,” Hairy Reed told a group of about 75 reporters. “It’s not like we don’t have a product. Significant progress has been made … The mere fact that this wasn’t done by last Friday or by five o’clock doesn’t mean we’re not going to get a quality product.”
Uh huh-
“Ultimately, this is not about a process, it’s about results,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior political strategist, said during an interview in his White House office. “If we’re going to get this thing done, obviously time is a-wasting.”-Huff and Puff 7/15/09
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
1:11 pm
You mean the African Prince! Just sayin’ Damn Skippy!
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
1:13 pm
Damn! Fugly makes Oprah look sexy! She is a beast! That Chin would make TickMan blush!
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
1:14 pm
Harry Reed! haha
what a leader!
Bruno
August 1st, 2009
1:14 pm
“Bruno:Loved the lyrics from the King Crimson song”
Thanks for the shout, @@. And BTW, nice @@s you have there!
Here’s my favorite KC song–I Talk To The Wind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ghKS5UxmM
“The wind does not hear, the wind cannot hear…….”
Well, off to poker. A new season starts today, and I have to defend my championship.
Keep up the good blogging work, 2k is within sight!
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
1:14 pm
Nice pictures of the Amazon, TN, I like how her arm is bigger than Mr. Obozo’s head.
Bruno
August 1st, 2009
1:27 pm
Gandalf–Here’s for you by Camel. Tolkein’s “Gandalf” was the inspiration for the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwtAIKP58o4&feature=related
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
1:33 pm
I guess in today’s elitist playground, Obama — with his superior intelligence, will lead us all in a “teaching moment.”
There—I fixed your typo for you.
@@
August 1st, 2009
1:48 pm
Thank you, Kamchak.
That is, however, all the assistance I’ll be needing. Not much value in it — all things considered.
Seein’s how you’re here all day, everyday….to croak in on the posts of others….I could guess you have nothing better to do.
J/K….J/S
No really!
J/S J/K.
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
2:30 pm
Seein’s how you’re here all day, everyday….to croak in on the posts of others….I could guess you have nothing better to do.
This is funny coming from one who has quit this blog twice because you had better things to do—no wait—the last time, you were only gonna drop in once in a while. Obviously you drop in enough to monitor my posts. Glass house, meet stone.
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
2:55 pm
The New York Times finally figured out what we already knew. Good for them.
“This idea that everything new that government provides ought to be paid for by the top 5 percent, that’s a basically unstable way of governing,” Mr. Burman said.
“There is no way we can pay for health care and the rest of the Obama agenda, plus get our long-term deficits under control, simply by raising taxes on the wealthy,” said Isabel V. Sawhill, a former Clinton administration budget official. “The middle class is going to have to contribute as well.”
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
3:32 pm
RW
Maybe we can get insurance companies to forgo some of their profits. Every penny of profits the insurance companies make is a penny of health care denied.
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
3:38 pm
Upchuck- In your little world everyone strives to be the next Post Office or AmTrak, don’t they?
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
3:44 pm
Kamchak,
Or maybe we can open them up to a truly free market approach to competition. That and reign in the trial lawyers that force doctors to order every conceivable test in the book just to cover their rear ends.
Midori
August 1st, 2009
3:55 pm
I just read that the Palins are divorcing.
Here’s your chance, Andy.
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
4:04 pm
Andy
No I don’t begrudge companies that actually produce something their profits. Where I draw the line is when top executives make +$500 to $1 of average employee pay. Insurance companies shuffle paper around in an industry that was set up to offer services based on collective buying power. Did AIG offer any other insurance products other than the ones they lost their @ss on? Are the purchasers of these other products now paying for the bad decisions of AIG? Was/is AIG in the health insurance business? How about Bear Stearns? How many people did they con to cover their losses before they went under?
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
4:12 pm
Ho Hum
Or should that be hokum?
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
4:18 pm
“Let’s face it,” he says, “she galvanized our base in a way that I (McLame) couldn’t. Everywhere she went she drew enormous and enthusiastic crowds like a rock star.” He says his only regret in selecting the Alaska governor was that no one on the campaign predicted the ferocity of the assaults against her. “To the liberal left, particularly the feminists, she is their worst nightmare.”
Actually, I think Obozo is their worst nightmare but whatever.
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
4:18 pm
Or maybe we can open them up to a truly free market approach to competition.
Arguments based on analogies can be slippery and ambiguous but here goes—Every time I here the phrase free market I cringe because a truly free market is only a hypothetical. Would you play tennis without a net? Football without sidelines or an end zone? Baseball without a pitchers mound, foul lines or a batter’s box? How about golf without out-of-bounds or a hole. Regulations exist in any game to give it structure. The debate is on how much regulation.
getalife
August 1st, 2009
4:28 pm
So, the Palins are swingers.
Shatner reading her poetry is classic.
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
4:29 pm
UpChuck- I’d love to pursue your personal demons with you, but on second, allow me to offer some free advice; gather up some serious capital, start your own insurance company, put in the long hours necessary to make it successful, treat your customers better than anyone else and pay yourself a pittance, no one is stopping you.
Last time I looked, this was still a free country (sorta.)
@@
August 1st, 2009
4:39 pm
Kamchak:
Obviously you drop in enough to monitor my posts.
Only when you make reference to mine. Any other time, I consider you irrelevant — you and your grammar checkin’ “tool”.
Having you reflect on what I did or did not say in the past goes to show….?
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
4:46 pm
Andy
After 30 years in the construction trades–you know actually making something–by putting in long hours necessary to make it successful, treating my customers better than anyone (illegal aliens) and paying myself a pittance, I don’t think I could go into a business that doesn’t make anything. One of the rewards of construction is taking a step back, and looking at what I made.
Midori
August 1st, 2009
4:47 pm
Getalife,
The Shat is da bomb!!
getalife
August 1st, 2009
4:54 pm
Hi Midori,
cons are now “antichristers” and telling seniors they will be euthanized.
How much lower will they get?
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
4:57 pm
Aahhh, yes, the White Sux are trampling the Yanquees at beautiful Komuniski Field, although it tis early.
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
5:02 pm
Oboz will not “euthanize” seniors, from what I read, it will be a slow, agonizingly painful, stupid and disgusting death.
He would have to develop a soul to show enough compassion to euthanize them.
Midori
August 1st, 2009
5:04 pm
Getalife,
i saw that crazy dried up old hag spouting that nonsense in the House.
they are beneath contempt.
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
5:10 pm
Ah the joys of mowing. Takes me back to my youth when we played baseball from sunup to sundown with no pitchers mound, baselines, batter’s boxes, helmets. fences…….
Kamchak,
I’ll go along with some rules, but we’ve erred far more on the side of restriction and that’s the problem with health insurance. It’s all been by design though and this might be our last chance to achieve some sanity in government control.
I also imagine a lot of cancer survivors and cardiac patients will disagree with your premise that insurance companies don’t “make” anything.
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
5:18 pm
RW
I think the problem with health insurance is that care gets in the way of profits.
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
5:29 pm
I think the problem with health insurance is that care gets in the way of profits.
I don’t.
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
5:30 pm
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
August 1st, 2009
1:11 pm
I started to put Kenyan prince, but figured someone would do it for me. Let’s time him in the mile run. If he’s under 4 minutes, he was definitely born in Kenya.
We Don't Need No Steenking Government
August 1st, 2009
5:48 pm
Insurance companies that pay their executives millions of dollars each year are clearly nothing more than thieves operating with the approval of their bought and paid for Congressmen. And the notion that we could ever operate in a truly free market environment is absurd. Every time the Republicans move us in that direction, we end up with even worse recessions and depressions, etc. Phil Gramm’s actions in Congress before he took his cushy reward position at UBS is more than adequate proof of that fact for anyone willing to face the facts.
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
5:57 pm
I also imagine a lot of cancer survivors and cardiac patients will disagree with your premise that insurance companies don’t “make” anything.
I imagine cancer survivors and cardiac patients are grateful to be alive and are kindly disposed to those that may not necessarily deserve it. The health care professionals are the ones that did the “heavy lifting.”
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
6:06 pm
The health care professionals are the ones that did the “heavy lifting.”
No kidding. Isn’t it nice that the insurance company paid them for their efforts?
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
6:06 pm
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
2:55 pm
Well, we could, by taxing their wealth instead of their income. But you all know I don’t think that would be necessary or fair. We all have to pay our share, including the lower income.
We can also tax the entitlement payments at a rate of 10-100%. McCain and Biden are drawing Social Security benefits of over $2k a month.
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
6:10 pm
Midori
August 1st, 2009
3:55 pm
Palin divorce rumors denied:
(CBS) An attorney for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has denied a report that she and her husband are planning to divorce.
Sarah Palin’s attorney, Thomas Van Flein, told CBS News that the report of a divorce is “categorically false.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/01/politics/main5204228.shtml
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
6:12 pm
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
4:12 pm
We’ll see.
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
6:18 pm
I Report
You Whine
August 1st, 2009
5:02 pm
Then you’re saying there will be no change? That’s what’s happening now. We wouldn’t allow our pets to suffer that kind of agonizing death.
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
6:18 pm
Isn’t it nice that the insurance company paid them for their efforts?
Nice isn’t the first word that leaps to mind. Contractually obligated comes closer to describing it. Might want to throw in grudgingly also.
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
6:22 pm
Kamchak
Contractually obligated sort of defeats your own argument that they don’t pay and grudgingly is only a feeling you have which assumes facts not in evidence.
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
6:23 pm
We’ll see.
Gelding,
Why would you care anyway and what makes it your business?
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
6:24 pm
The easiest way we can reduce the cost of health care WITHOUT rationing care is to eliminate the profit and marketing, and reduce the administrative costs.
We Don't Need No Steenking Government
August 1st, 2009
6:27 pm
AIG Insurance company paid off on all of its bets, with tax dollars. Those executives ‘earned’ every penny of their millions of dollars of income. At least that is what the conservative Republicans want everyone to believe.
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
6:27 pm
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
6:23 pm
I don’t care, but it would explain her erratic behavior. She’s a public figure now and her every move is scrutinized. Plus, her being the second coming of Reagan adds interest to her trials and tribulations.
A little testy aren’t we? Sorry I intervened. I’ll try to remember not to rattle your cage!
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
6:29 pm
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
6:23 pm
Correction: She’s a celebrity now.
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
6:29 pm
Sarah Palin’s attorney, Thomas Van Flein, told CBS News that the report of a divorce is “categorically false.”
Yes, attorney’s are paragons of truthiness—er, truthfulness
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
6:31 pm
“Too few Medals of Honor for Iraq, Afghan valor?”
WASHINGTON – Eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. About 4,000 members of the U.S. military killed in action. More than 34,000 wounded. Just six considered worthy of America’s highest military award for battlefield valor.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090801/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_congress_medals_of_honor
@@
August 1st, 2009
6:34 pm
After 6 Months, Team Obama Plots Course
White House Team Takes Stock, Obama Touts Economic Progress
If consumers had the sense that the economy, including the jobs environment, was really turning around, he said it would bode very well for Obama.
“I think it would take some of the heat off Congress,” Rothenberg said. “There would be less focus on deficit and debt and economic shortfalls. It would be a significant boost to the president and frankly his health care agenda.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEzMbcoe4mA
Good Signs of Recovery But No Unbridled Optimism
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
6:38 pm
RW
I never said they don’t pay,and assuming facts not in evidence? What? Are we in a courtroom?
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
6:46 pm
Notice how the libs go after capitalism in health care instead of the fat targets like fraud and tort lawsuits?
~~~~~
Then you’re saying there will be no change? That’s what’s happening now. We wouldn’t allow our pets to suffer that kind of agonizing death.
So which planet do you live on, TN?
Here on Earth, the elderly have to sign consent forms so that no heroic efforts will be made in the event they become necessary. Transplants are rejected only because a shortage of donors. Treatment is available for almost any ailment. No one is turned away from any emergency room, regardless of their financial situation.
Why do you think bookman tries to glamorize assisted suicide? People just off themselves in a timely enough here in the land of milk and honey, the socialists are prodding them along.
Obozo wouldn’t even monitor breathing or heart rates in the ICU because of the “unnecessary” costs.
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
7:00 pm
Gelding,
I don’t allow you to have the power to alter my mood.
Kamchak,
More of a chat room than a court room but we are steaming ahead toward comment 2K and that’s all that really counts.
Dusty
August 1st, 2009
7:20 pm
Well, I was in the depths of despair after last night’s loss for the Braves. The mighty warriors went DOWN.
BUT….after this afternoon’s earthquake in North Georgia, a mighty force entered the hearts of the Braves (no, not Adam LaRoche) and the Braves won like real troopers. Bravo! Bravo!! Braves!!!
Please now, someone play the Halleluia Chorus..It is so suitable!!!
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
7:40 pm
Further correction on Palin: She’s a publicity-seeking celebrity.
Dusty
August 1st, 2009
7:47 pm
Well, while I eagerly await the music, I was reading what Dr. Todd Williamson, president of the Medical Association of Georgia, had to say about the healthcare plan being made in Washington. Dr. Williamson believes the “Obama Plan” could prove fatal to doctor-patient relationships.
He believes that the legislation will take away patient’s rights to choose his or her own health care, or select a physician. That, he points out, takes too muich control over patient care.
The Medical Association of Georgia is a coalition of 43,000 doctors.
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
7:51 pm
More of a chat room than a court room but we are steaming ahead toward comment 2K and that’s what really counts.
Have you go money on when we hit? What’s the bet on the final tally? What’s the over/under?
Dusty
August 1st, 2009
7:53 pm
TnGelding, 7:40
Ahem….what do you call people who post on a blog 24/7? The poor man’s pot of publicity?
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
7:54 pm
Have you got money…
Midori
August 1st, 2009
8:00 pm
Gelding,
and you expect them to start telling the truth NOW?
@@
August 1st, 2009
8:08 pm
Question for RW.
Have you ever visited a blogsite where the host is this mysterious OZ type person, who is inaccessible to his visitors? He/she simply expounds his/her thoughts…visitors comment…he/she interacts without a profile to be referenced?
Have you ever?
@@
August 1st, 2009
8:15 pm
She’s a publicity-seeking celebrity.
I don’t know how true that is, TnG. A powerful magnet doesn’t have to move to attract. I think it’s the media who has the problem.
Watching her speech the other day, the media is unquestioningly her target. It’s a battle they waged and she’s not afraid to meet them head-on.
I was impressed!
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
8:18 pm
@@,
Ummmm…yes? or maybe no
Dusty
August 1st, 2009
8:28 pm
Well, what do ya know? Guess what staunch news advocate of the truth “revealed” that the Palins were getting a divorce? A lie big as Alaska, of course.
Why the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and was repeated by anti-Palin newspaper of Alaska, the Report. I didn’t think liberals could make any bigger lies than what they concocted for Bush. I was wrong. They have outdone themselves in lowdown dirty propaganda aimed at Palin and her family.. And for what? Palin is not even running for any office.
So what do you call this kind of ethics? Ethics? Ethics??
I know. Nobody cares. That’s true. BUT THEY SHOULD!
There’s enough “hankypanky” really going on to report. I don’t see any reason to make up all this stuff. Oh, I forgot. Liberals!! (Republicans certainly are NOT doing it.)
@@
August 1st, 2009
8:29 pm
By Kamchak: Yes, attorney’s are paragons of truthiness—er, truthfulness
By Midori: Gelding,
and you expect them to start telling the truth NOW?
Ummmm, the two of you must see the similarities between yourselves and “the birthers”.
The birthers concern themselves with a violation of OUR constitution, while the two of you concern yourselves with SOMEONE ELSE’S marriage?
You so funny!
RW?
Ummmm…yes? or maybe no
What kinda answer is ^^^ that!!?!! It’s not a trick question, if that’s what you’re worried about.
Hillbilly Deluxe
August 1st, 2009
8:32 pm
Whoever has the 2000th comment should say something really profound.
@@
August 1st, 2009
8:43 pm
Oops! Never you mind, RW. I think I know where you’re coming from…
Tonga!
(ISH)
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
August 1st, 2009
8:43 pm
Well, I must say, BSG Season 4.5 was worth the wait.
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
8:43 pm
The birthers concern themselves with a violation of OUR constitiution,(sic) while the two of you concern yourselves with SOMEONE ELSE’S marriage?
Wrong again Scarlett. I was dissing lawyers.
Dusty
August 1st, 2009
8:51 pm
OH, Hillbilly Deluxe,
You mean “profound” like an Obama speech when the teleprompter is not working?
When the police say show me your ID?
When Bookman tells us about the 20 lb. trout that got away?
When a state governor explains how his hike on the trail ended in Argentina?
When Georgia’s Lake Lanier got be the water tank for Alabama and Florida?
Yep, we need somethng ….profound!
Kamchak
August 1st, 2009
8:59 pm
Yep, we need something ….profound!
How about: Weapons of Mass Destruction or The Smoking Gun is the Mushroom Cloud or Heckuva job, Brownie
@@
August 1st, 2009
8:59 pm
Yeah Kamchak, but they were Palin’s lawyers who said there was no truth to the rumors surrounding her divorce.
Hillbilly:
Should I save this one?
“The objective of specialization is to know more and more about less and less. Ultimately this means knowing everything… about nothing.”
Dang It!!! I jumped the gun.
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
9:07 pm
Dusty
August 1st, 2009
7:47 pm
Obama says it won’t. Let’s wait and see what they pass, if anythng.
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
9:07 pm
It sure sounded like a trick question. (ISH)
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
9:09 pm
Hillbilly D,
If Jay B releases the comments in moderation we’re already past 2000.
DoggoneGA
August 1st, 2009
9:12 pm
“He believes ”
Ok, that’s what he THINKS. Now tell us what he KNOWS about the plan. Guesses are just guesses.
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
9:13 pm
One thing we can e sure of. jay$ is laying in the weeds waiting to strike.
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
9:13 pm
Dusty
August 1st, 2009
7:53 pm
Wish I had a book to sell!
Midori
August 1st, 2009
8:00 pm
Well honesty is a family value where I come from.
@@
August 1st, 2009
8:15 pm
Well, good or bad publicity has the same effect. She certainly challenged them.
“Sarah Palin beats press to blog claim”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25689.html
RW-(the original)
August 1st, 2009
9:16 pm
How about: Weapons of Mass Destruction or The Smoking Gun is the Mushroom Cloud or Heckuva job, Brownie
So Kamchak constructs bumper stickers?
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
9:21 pm
“NRA opposition fails to sway senators on Sotomayor”
WASHINGTON (AP) – The National Rifle Association’s threat to punish senators who vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been met with a shrug by Democrats from conservative-leaning states and some Republicans who are breaking with their party to support her. The gun rights group is used to getting its way by spooking lawmakers about the political consequences of defying its wishes. But it never before has weighed in on a Supreme Court confirmation battle. It was cautious about breaking that pattern, and it looks like a losing a fight to defeat President Barack Obama’s first pick for the court.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/HOME?SITE=GACAT&SECTION=HOME
TnGelding
August 1st, 2009
9:22 pm
Correct link:
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SOTOMAYOR_NRA?SITE=GACAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-08-01-19-53-05
Pennsylvanian
August 1st, 2009
9:23 pm
It’s like a drag race. Gotta launch before I see green. Here we go. #2000?