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The end of the road
Hard to believe, but I'm on my final road trip of the great book adventure. Right now I'm connecting for a flight to...where? I could tell you, but then I'd have to...do something that would be politically incorrect to say in this moment of national nervous breakdown. Why not follow me on Twitter, where (barring glitches) I hope to do some live coverage tomorrow of what should be a fascinating political event (and also write about it for the dead-tree Daily News on Monday.)
Meanwhile, you're in charge of Attytood this weekend. And to inspire you, I'll send a free signed copy of our socialist re-education program -- also known as my book "Tear Down This Myth" -- to the two best comments this weekend, probably one liberal and conservative (although I don't want to discriminate against any centrists...or anarchists). So put on your thinking cap and fire away..
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"And yet, you're compelled to read and respond," Actually, I'd classify my communications to to you as exposing your rank hyprocrisy. You've given up defending this terrible law, and the president's broknn promises, so all you can do it point out the fractional minority of the opposition who have commited vandalism. In laymens terms, you're engaging in smear tactics.— RG
another teabaKKKing nut commits an act of violence over an Obama bumper sticker. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/26/bumper-sticker-violence/— Les Ismore- ---}} Did our state controlled media hype all the threats Stupak was receiving from Democrats prior to his flip on abortion? Let me answer that for you libz. No. {{{--- Valid point, sloboat. Congratulations. They should have. And if they had, and if anyone pandered to the lunatics that made such violent threats, they should have been called out for doing so. Just like frauds who pander to the threats Stupak is getting now should be called out for doing so.— Talking point sleuth
- --}}} Actually, I'd classify my communications to to you as exposing your rank hyprocrisy. {{{--- Classic. So now reading and responding to my posts isn't reading and responding to my posts, but "exposing" my "hypocrisy." Yup. That RG is one advocate of "personal responsibility." LOL!— Talking point sleuth
- aaaiiiitt. I'm outta here, boyz. Carry on without me. Say, birdie, how disappointed were you to see Cornell lose to Kentucky?— Talking point sleuth
- "The only affect the lives of others." Yep, I'm not a nosy know it all busy body concerned abotu whats going on in others lives. The police are investigating, case closed. "You're entitled," No, I can afford health insurance. Entitled is when you believe you deserve something you can't pay for.— RG
TPS the recent rash of incidents coincided with the final House vote. It was lunatics either thinking that calling someone a N-word would actually change their vote or reacting to a vote they didn't like. Nobody has vandalized Mitch Williams house since 1993 but I doubt that had anything to do with the press coverage of the vandalism and threats.— bird11- 23, actually no, you are sadly mistaken. If tort reform were enacted today, it is estimated to have a negligible effect on malpractice premiums. You see what you dont understand is how the insurance companies make money. They take your money and invest it. When the market dives like it did under the MBA president, they raise rates to make more money. This is the big secret in the insurance business.— Les Ismore
- "That RG is one advocate of "personal responsibility."" Personal responsibility means that I don't force others to take care of me. How you use it here makes no sesne. You must be getting flustered. Time for a grand exit.— RG
- TPS, I did root for Cornell - the under dog thing - but not really upset. The Butler victory had me screaming with joy (I can't stand Boeheim). The real team I'm rooting for at this point in St. Mary's.— bird11
- OK - since I know you all are just waiting for my next post - one more: --snip-- My name is Stuart Butler. I am Vice President of Domestic and Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. ... Mr. Chairman, any observer of the American health care system is immediately struck by two of its central features. Gaps and unevenness in coverage. Despite the huge expenditures devoted to the system, there are enormous gaps in the degree in to which it covers Americans and there are wide difference in the level and type of benefits available to people of similar circumstances... Millions of Americans lack any insurance protection at all, and many of these are middle class. Many poor and non-working Americans are eligible for a wide range of benefits, while others struggle to keep their families just out of poverty yet lack any insurance....But as part of that contract, it is also reasonable to expect residents of the society who can do so to contribute an appropriate amount to their own health care. This translates into a requirement on individuals to enroll themselves and their dependents in at least a basic health plan ... And as any social contract, there would also be an obligation on society. To the extent that the family cannot reasonably afford reasonable basic coverage, the rest of society, via government, should take responsibility for financing that minimum coverage. The obligations on individuals does not have to be a "hard" mandate, in the sense that failure to obtain coverage would be illegal. It could be a "soft" mandate, meaning that failure to obtain coverage could result in the loss of tax benefits and other government entitlements. --snip--— Talking point sleuth
- Wonder why Drudge has no mention of the lastest teabaKKKer violence? Inquiring minds want to know.— Les Ismore
- DATE: 3/26/10 TO: Will Bunch FROM: Attytood Contributors RE: Rules Clarification We need a rules clarification for the weekend of 3/26/10 contest. Are post that are {{{---snipped---}}} from other sources considered post for prize consideration???— bird11
- Just in case {{{-snipping---}}} is allowed {{{--snip--}}} We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. {{{--snip--}}} Can't make a better post.— bird11
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