do you really think this shows sound judgement? It is not something a good role model would do. How would you feel if some of his underage students thought if it is ok for the coach then it is ok for them? not cool.
go back to giving out brown paper sacks of flour, rice, dried eggs, dried milk, cheese, canned ham and a cookbook. they won't starve and won't cost us more.
I followed him on the highway today. he was doing 45 mph in the left lane with his right blinker on the whole way. when he stopped at the rest area he was muttering something about "damn kids get off my lawn"
why is it that we are told to change our ways by people that make a lot more money than we do and live in nicer homes than we do? woildn't it be better to help the poor move up economically instead of forcing the wealthy and niddle class to become poorer and using less? you cand preach all day about me being "greedy" but that doesn't resonate. name calling and playing the guilt card will never workwhen those using it are better off than 99% of the people. the important thing to remember is that some pointy headed psuedo-intellectual is not smart enough to tell me how to live.SO SHUT THE HELL UP.
relax, life isn't a 60 minute crime drama. the police do an investigation, submit it to the DA and they decide what to do. in case you haven't noticed, life is not fair and it is very messy. let it proceed.
good point, I forgot about cuffing her to the bed. but really how serious are her injuries if she managed to walk a mile from the scene? she is going for the sympathy vote. give tehe cops time they have to dot their i's and cross their t's. I see kids texting and driving everyday down here and used to see it everyday in Lewiston.
exactly what the heck can lawmakers do to stop this? nothing. maybe the judge can by putting her away for about 20 years. maybe the parents can by not purchasing cars for irresponsible little dopes. If they find out who bought the alcohol put them in prison. Stop giving the lawbreakers a pass. I have no sympathy for that girl, she messed up and now she should have a decade or so in prison to think about what she did. Pay the price you moron.
the "payroll tax cut" is a reduction in the amount people would pay into the Social Security cesspool so there would be even less money going into the system and then it would go broke faster. It has been a vote buying scheme for the democrats for years and it is about to come to a halt since we are a broke country.
It has nothing to do with the governer's budget and everything to do with the failure of the past 35 years of democrat control. They couldn't control their spending and usurious tax rates so now the burden has become too much for the fewer and fewer people left working in the state. The party is over and it is time to clean up the mess. Good job Rotundo, Craven, LaFontaine and rest of the mis-guided socialist utopians. Your shipment of fail has arrived.
continued smear campaign? you mean like the one the democrats have done against the "evil" republicans for the last 40 years? now that the shoe is on the other foot, how does it feel Senator? I would like to thank you and all the other democrats for pushing this state to the brink of bankruptcy. Peggy Rotundo privately admitted two years ago the state is out of money. good job people. now get out of the way so someone with real world experience can try and fix the wreck you pointy headed elites left.
there are more minorities at any tea party than there are in the US Senate. There are more anti-semitic videos made from the average occupy protest than at all the tea party meetings. We haven't heard about body lice, fleas, rapes, assaults, drug dealing, public defecation or urination, or rambling incoherant rants at any tea party protests. and lets see you prove some Hitler references associated with tea party protests.
I remember going many nights to help cook the meals at Trinity. There is a desperate need for help, food, money and if anyone can go and just talk to people. Like Mr Breton said most people are just lonely. Ask the mailmen how the elderly talk to them. Please help either Trinity or the Root Cellar you won't regret it.
So when you took elementary school social studies did you pay attention? If so you would know this country is a representative republic and not a democracy and you would know what the difference is. Also you would know that elections are scheduled months in advance and well publicized so any normal person could plan for it unless you are the average democrat voter in a drug or alcohol induced haze.
typical of a liberal to profess concern for those less fortunate than others and then make fun of the same people. Money is not important to me and my wife that is why we give so much to charity. What we do is for the glory of God and not for the glory of man. And certainly not to impress some bitter old fool angry about the unfairness of life. I can't help it if my parents instilled in me the values of hard work, honesty, and not abusing drugs and alcohol. My wife and I were blesssed with a modicum of intelligence and know what it means to delay gratification in order to attain long term goals. If you think the government can create a paradise on earth you don't understand the concept of the fallen nature of man and you must have missed the lessons of the past 90 years in the old Soviet Union. We are imperfect so all human endeavor is fraught with error. I can take some small comfort in one simple fact; based on your picture, what I have gleaned from your comments and profile, and the actuarial table, chances are good you will die long before me so I won't have to see your inane leftist commie drivel much longer. Not that I wish you to die but I remember what Mark Twain once said "I never wished for any man's death but I have read many obituaries with a great deal of glee."
Billy Redden, the boy in the picture is neither retarded nor inbred and he is gainfully employed in Georgia leading a quiet normal life.
once again you display an abysmal amount of ignorance. So the state taxes 5% of the first $19,950 and 8.5% of the rest. my wife and I make a lot more than that. Also, stop the name calling. you don't make your argument any more valid.
and here is one from the University of Michigan that says the opposite. My wife and I left Maine last Jan. because of the high taxes and cost of energy. We moved to the mountains of eastern TN. no state income tax so a 8.5% increase in pay, property taxes on a nicer house went from $3,500 to $890 a year, energy is cheaper by far and food and gas is less. we thought we would save about $9,000 a year but it looks like it will be closer to $12,000. the chamber of commerce here says there is a lot of interest from people in high tax states about moving here. With no family or friends here it was a major life change for a couple in their 50's but we have adapted nicely since we will have no more Maine winters.
If you ever get over to Montpelier VT go 10 miles south to Barre and check out the Hope Cemetery 201 Maple st. the art on the stones is worth the side trip.
The president proposes and congress disposes. Any tax increase(that is what obama is proposing everytime he opens his mouth) must first be written in crongress and passed by both houses. So far no democrat has submitted any bill, although a couple of days ago a member of congress did submit a bill called the American Jobs Act. so obama has to come up with another name because he is to stupid and slow. Here is a copy of the bill. http://gohmert.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Gohmert_American_Jobs_Act.pdf
Sunshine is the best disinfectant, so if what you say is true tell the public who they are. Truth is the best defense. And point out to your wife that character matters, if they would cheat strangers on something like that they would cheat their friends in a heartbeat because they are cheating everyone in the country. Seriously, think about that we really need to bring back the concept of public shame.
Remember Mr Pelletier, people are known by the company they keep, and if these "close, personal friends" are such sleazy underhanded rip-off artists as you claim there is a chance you could be tarred with the same brush. Doesn't knowing about a crime and not saying anything about it make you just as guilty? It would be so easy to prove since cameras are everywhere now and if they use the cards it is on video and the electronic statement from the point of sale. They are enriching themselves at the expense of the taxpayer and the poor people the system is supposed to help. How do you know childern aren't missing out on food and clothing as a result of their theft? REPORT THEM PLEASE. As Votaire said "The opportunity for doing mischief happens a hundred times a day and for doing good, once a year."
god is a Republican and Santa is a democrat. God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well being of the disadvantaged. He is politically connected, socially powerful and holds the mortgage on literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God's heavenly country club.
Santa Claus is another matter. He's cute. He's nonthreatening. He's always cheerful. And he loves animals. He may know who's been naughty and who's been nice, but he never does anything about it. He gives everyone everything they want without the thought of quid pro quo. He works hard for charities, and he's famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus.
"judge not, lest ye be judged" “He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need” (Ephesians 4:28). “If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially those of his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever” (1 Timothy 5:28).
Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward. 3But when you do alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand does: 4That your alms may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret himself shall reward you openly. Matthew 6:1-2
the last one the left especially has trouble with since they assume any conservative doesn't give to the poor and sits in their vaults gleefully counting their filthy lucre and they don't broadcast to the world how much they do give. It doesn't matter to me or any right thinking person what someone else thinks because God knows and he will judge. We will all be before the awesome judgement seat of Christ someday and we will have to give an account of our lives, but we will give it to Him and not to some people commenting on a letter to the editor. with that i am off to work, have a blessed day all.
I will make a simple analogy; if I lived beyond my means for years and spent millions of dollars more than I made and one day someone told me I should reconsider what I was doing and then a few months later the bank called and said I am a credit risk so they were considering me a credit risk, how can I blame the person that warned me and not blame myself? Mr Albrecht, the 60's are over and they don't work. I know it is human nature to not be able to admit you are wrong but you and all the democrats are. good bye.
I think you missed the point. why should I be forced to pay for anyone else's life? And don't give me that crap about how do I know what her situation is. I will bet you $1,000 payable to any charity of the winners choice that she is a lifetime member of the welfare class. She is not entitled to the sweat of my labor. You want to pay higher taxes go right ahead, don't include me in your half-baked socialist schemes.
didn't obama, pelosi, and reid remove $500 billion from medicare? the democrat controlled senate has not submitted a budget for over 840 days and the democrats in the house didn't submit one the last two years. guess who isn't doing their job?
yes you did miss something, just drive around any campus in Maine and see how many out of state plates are on cars. http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/resident.htm Think about how much revenue is lost by not having the vehicles registered in the state. The snowbird has lived, worked, registered vehicles, and paid taxes in Maine, often for decades while the out of state student has no ties here other than to enlighten the rubes. They will be a felon if they voted here and back home because that disenfranchises all Maine residents who vote only once.
So, let me get this straight, you claim to be an 1990 alum from Xaiver and you claim you are a currently enrolled college student (thats what the story said) with an out of state residence (even though you live and run a business in Litchfield) and you are a registered voter in Maine? So confused but eagerly waiting your lawsuit.
the country is broke and they want to spend more? what is going to happen to people on a fixed income (Dan Breton) when the system collapses and there is no more money? that day is coming real fast.
afraid not, obama is the president now and it is all his. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz says so. Keynesian economics is a failed theory and all that try is are doomed to fail.
since the recession began in December 2007 it should really be called the Pelosi-Reid recession. Yes the bad old days of Bush when unemployment was just 5% and underemployment was about 10% and the debt was only 9 billion instead of its current 14 billion. Here is how it works: the country is out of money and we are on the verge of collapse. Raising the debt ceiling only works if people want to lend you the money. Its the same as if my wife and I decide to raise our debt limit. I say raise it $150,000 and she says $100,000 so we decide on $125,000 and then we call mastercard to give them the news. If they don't want to raise it then we pay our bills as they come due and stop living beyond our means. Capital and people are fluid entities not tied to any one city or state, they will go where they will be utilized fully and at the best tax rate for them. People don't choose to be destitute but they do choose to be slaves to the government welfare state, just drive down Pine Walnut Knox Sts.
His name is Noam not Norm. There is no such thing as Palestine territory since Palestine is a creation of the British in 1922 and has nothing to do with any land grab by Israel. To say "one web site" is silly at best because the muslims have killed more muslims than the Israelis. the concept of a balance of power is specious since peoples are always looking for an advantage over others. If the arabs put down their weapons their will be no war and if Israel puts down their weapons there will be no Israel. but you really lost any sense of credability when you called Jimmy Carter ethical and reasonable.
competition in the market? People can actually make informed decisions? But...but...but...I thought that was the government's job. you know, to tell us what to do. good job and thank you.
Why can't you just call yourself an American and forget the hyphenated add ons? Segmenting the country is not celebrating diversity, it is dividing us by creating a Balkanized regional society based of identity politics and group think. There is something called the greater common good and everyone must participate in order for the country to survive. Like it or not we are all in this together.
well obama did promise change....from two wars to three isn't the change the moonbats were expecting i think. where are all the protestors on the casco bay bridge? do they now want blood for oil? cue the crickets in 3....2....1....
What I thought more appropriate might be having three murals, the first being a mural of all the entrepreneurs that risked their own fricking money and gave their all to create companies that hired all those people.
The second could be all the union organizers that effectively sucked the life blood out of the companies.
The third could be a mural of all the chinese, mexican, and indian workers now gainfully employed.
Now would that be the same Crystal Ward that recently retired as a "government" teacher at Lewiston High school? I guess your view depends on whose ox is being gored. If the left wants fairness maybe they should have the same rate of savings for retirement and cost of health insurance as the dreaded private sector. If you really wanted to dicuss tax schemes then maybe the unstainable way the democrats have structured the welfare state and the prohibitive cost of doing business in the state of Maine should be a good place to start. Here's a thought Crystal, take responsibility for your own life. I manage to save over 20% of my income for retirement because I know what my family's needs are and the government doesn't know or care. When the Maine retirement system is declared insolvent don't come looking for my money to bail out the rest of you.
so let me get this straight, now if there is more oil in the market then prices will go down? welcome to the real world chellie. how about flooding the market by drilling and building refineries you imbecile.
When unions in private sector companies elect representatives to meet with the management or owners it is to decide how to divide the profits. When the public sector union reps meet with management it is to decide how to divide up the taxpayers money. The problem is the taxpayer has no say it how much they pay except at the ballot box. Since the American public has an affinty for electing sleazy, venal, power-hungry liars to political office with no sense of the fiduciary duty with which they are entrusted we will continue on the path we are on. If I kept spending more than I took in eventually I would have declare bankruptcy, so why would the cities and states be any different? The answer is not higher taxes but less spending.
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England's health care system has many different aspects to it and overall I would feel uncomfortable to have to rely on the English's health care system for anything other than getting me two aspirin and a cup of water. Depending on where you go in England and what city you're in will depend if you are actually getting professional care or something equivalent to Dr. Kevorkian. Overall England's health care system has its ups and its downs; however for most of the population of London who does not do health care privately I would say England is committing genocide among the people in low socioeconomic levels.
You must remember what it was like before 1980, when the telephone company had a monolopy. No one called long distance until after 5 pm or just on the weekends. When the monolopy was broken and competition was allowed you could call anywhere for pennies. The same thing would work for health insurance if people were motivated enough to do the research and find the best plan. Last year there were over 1,300 companies in the country that offered health insurance but only 6 were allowed to sell in Maine and it was essentially the same across the country. Those laws were put in place to protect the local insurance companies, so get rid of the law, allow any regulated company to sell here and don't make a boiler-plate policy for everyone. Allow people to do al-a-carte, design their own policies and the cost will be reduced dramatically. Also don't tie it to employers, allow it to follow the consumer. I am aware that the average democrat (government dependent person) has had the will to do for themselves sapped out of them by the drugs of laziness and dependency but the majority of Americans are still capable enough to know what is right for them and their families. You are not smart enough to tell me how to live.
even a penny would be a higher rate for their health insurance in Wisconsin. They currently pay nothing for their health insurance. Why do public sector employees even need a union? Is it to protect them from the tyranny of the taxpayer? Forcing the public to pay for civil servants they can't afford shows a lack of responsibility by people with no sense for the greater common good. it's a little disturbing that in '08 the leftists celebrated the election of all their cronies and reveled in the "intelligence" of the American voters but 2 years later refuse to recognize the abrupt change. The American public is always a year or two ahead of the poliitcans and talking heads of the dinosaur media. The party is over and we are broke, so time to change our habits.
Mr Breton, did you notice the time frame in the letter? Terry had the same complaint LAST YEAR and was told they were to busy to investigate. Wasn't that a democrat AG last year? I know facts are a tricky thing.
WE ARE OUT OF MONEY!!! How long will it take that fact to sink in? obama said he wants to use a scapel and the republicans want to use a machete, personally I would use a flamethrower. Anyone with a new born baby I would like to thank that child for paying tomorrow the money this government is wasting today. When the rest of the world realizes what we are doing to the currency and tells us to go screw, there will be food shortages like there was in Egypt, followed by rioting in the larger cities and massive social disorder. I can't believe Obama is as stupid as he seems so maybe that is his plan. Call me Cassandra but that is what is heading our way.
That is utter nonsense, you need an I.D. to cash a check, open a bank account, buy alcohol or any number of daily activities. How many people get to be elderly and managed to get through life with no form of I.D.? I would have to guess the number of people is close ot zero. If the issue is affordability then waive the $5 fee for those people that can't afford it. I think the real issue is the students at the university and colleges that vote by absentee at their out of state residence and then register here and vote. According to Maine law you must register your vehicle in Maine if you are registered to vote, so how much money is the state losing by not enforcing that? A better way to do it is the way American election monitors do it in the third world when they have initial elections; have everyone dip their finger in blue ink that won't wash off for three days.
As an aside, I would like to point out that a social security card is not valid I.D. for anything and the only people that can ask for it is someone who works for the Social Security administration.
Same day registration is a great way for voter fraud to happen, what is going to stop someone from going from town to town registering and voting? I don't want to deny anyone the chance to vote but anyone "out of touch and admittedly unorganized" doesn't take it seriously so tough luck for them. As John Wayne said "life is tough but it is tougher when you are stupid."
the high speed bullet train cannot be used on the current rail lines. It needs to be straighter and that would require the confiscation and destruction of private property to build it. It is just one more way for the government to try and control how people travel. No matter how much politicians want to change human behaivor, people are people and won't readily accept that. The only way to make it work is to raise gas taxes so high it is prohibitivly expensive for the average person to drive, but that will ruin the economy, making it impossible for anyone to travel, and create resentment among the people who used to be able to afford it and those who will be able to. It will mainly be the politicans and their friends. Vote those fools out, all of them.
You do realize that if Cutler had recieved MORE votes than Lepage did he would be the governor? Maybe you should give him more than a month since it took the democrats 3 decades to ruin this state. Once again I would like to point out the state is broke, that means we are out of money. The party is over and it is time to clean up the mess. There are some very hard choices facing this state and the only way to do it is some sort of financial triage. What will work for the greater common good while causing the least harm? It's time for everyone to be contributing members of society and if you don't want to then you have to suffer the consequences of your poor choices.
So in 10 or 15 years we may be looking at an eyesore? You mean like the rest of the neighborhood? That whole 50 square block area is a blight and an eyesore, but that is what you get when you import welfare dependent people with no expectations of life other than what can they get for free from the government. Take a nice (I use the term loosely) long walk up Walnut, Pine, Howard, Bates, Bartlett and Knox and the rest of the area. The majority of the people that live there don't care how they act, where they throw garbage or let their dog crap. It is almost seems like downtown Lewiston was designed by Hieronymus Bosch.
People can withstand just about anything except ridicule and since you buy ink by the barrel how about you folks keep up the drumbeat about how senseless and time wasting this is. Maine is in dire financial straits and we have people wasting our time and money with that nonsense. They should hang their heads in shame and skulk out of Augusta in the dark.
How about Allens Coffee Brandy the official adult beverage of Maine drunks? Marlboro's the official cigarette of Mainer's hacking their lungs out? MacDonalds double quarter pounder with cheese (which I love) the official meal for Maine wide loads? And lets not forget double knit polyester the official weave for the Maine shirts? Pitbulls the official dogs of Maine crack dealers? (I think that one already is in place). Or better yet how about tackling the serious problems facing the state instead of wasting time on stupid, senseless drivel like this?
Papers is just another, albeit, sinister sounding name for I.D. Today it is nicely laminated in plastic so I guess the thing to say is "show me your plastic". If you go into the bank to cash a check, get stopped for any traffic infraction, witness a crime, apply for a mortgage, open a bank account, get a Post Office box, turn on the electricity, buy alcohol, or any number of daily activities you must show I.D. To claim it is limited to one state is false. Here is the complete AZ law from last year. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf
follow your own advice and think before spouting off.
It is actually a marriage of inconvience. They need us more than we need them. All we need to do is inspect everything from China that comes into our country and they will collapse. It would take an lot of time to do that so the ships would not be able to unload and that would quickly make the factories stop making stuff which would cause huge unemployment and unrest. As far ass devaluing their money they did it Jan 1 1994, they cut their currency 8:1 and pegged it to the dollar, that is what made their "goods" affordable to american companies to move there. America still manufactures more goods than China despite what the mass media says. On a per capita basis we are 10 times more productive with 1/4 the population so we are 40 times more productive than they are and they will never catch up. All we need is the political will to do it.
trust funds? you mean like the Kennedys and Kerry and all the other hyprocrites on the left have? I think if you have income of $250,000 then you have taxable income of $250,000. But it is nice to see you finally realize if people get a tax break they will spend it and always better than the way the government will spend it.
There are a couple of laws that will never be repealed; the laws of gravity and the law of supply and demand. When you have more and more people chasing a scarcer commodity (oil) the price will go up. When you have to formulate dozens of different blends for different states instead of a uniform blend for the country the price will go up. When you restrict the drilling in this country and have to rely on a group (OPEC) that hates us the price will go up. To say there is some vast conspiracy or some cabal controlling everything shows an absymal amount of ignorance about how the world works. If I had to hazard a guess I think the people who constantly complain about the profit motive in this country are those who have no desire to make a profit themselves. Or know how to.
I could give you dozens more examples of crazy leftists hyprocrites but what is the point? You think diversity is fine and want to promote peace and understanding until someone disagrees with you and then you hate and despise them. Yeah, that makes sense.
Please explain to me how someone making more than $250,000 has a negative impact on a person making less than that. It doesn't, but the democrats have been quite adept at dividing the country into faceless factions with class envy and promoting the concept of diversity. We are all Americans so stop segmenting our society. This country is broke so even cutting out the earmarks would be a good start. We have plenty of money going to the feds, it isn't an issue of revenue it is a spending problem. Both political parties are driving up the debt, but with the public's addiction to largess from the treasury we also have ourselves to blame for the debt. We need to return to the self-reliant attitude that helped maked this the greatest country in the world and the reason so many people want to come here. What we need is an economic triage, eliminate spending on that which only helps a few people and focus on the greater common good. Trickle down economics have worked everytime they are tried, in the early 60's with Kennedy, the 80's with reagan and a few years ago with Bush, if taxes are cut for everyone then there is more revenue going into the fed.
Mr. Marquis, if you are a small business owner and facing the loss of your home, you are doing it wrong. You either need a smaller house, less employees, learn how to cut expenses, or stop voting for the people that will destroy your ability to run a business.
Now give me the response to my first sentence.
It is not an issue of revenue, it is all about spending. The 111th congress and obama spent more in the last 2 years than the first 110 congresses combined. It is really quite simple, what can't go on forever, won't. In a year or two we will have either an economic triage or total collapse of the world economy. Either way, woe to people like Mr. Breton who depend on the government for their money, food, and sense of self-worth. It is about to come crashing down everywhere. Do you really want to be in Lewiston when it happens? I don't, I have read Lord of the Flies.
There is a simple fix, drill for oil here, dig for coal here, build nuke plants here, and stop sending billions of petro-dollars overseas. that would fix our budget mess in a few years and screw the saudi's at the same time. I would gladly trade some brown pelicans and sea otters for that.
In Hungary in 1946 the prices doubled every 15 hours for a while. there is an economic rule that a lot of people seem to forget; what can't go on forever, won't. The total unsecured debt in the world (public an private) is estimated at 1 quadrillion dollars. there is not that much money available. we are at best a couple of years away from collapse so it is almost like the game of musical chairs in that there will be some people left standing at the end. All you need to ask yourself is "Do I really want to be in Lewiston when it happens?" no thank you I have read 'Lord of the Flies'.
If you are not rich, it is not the fault of the rich, it is your fault for not getting an education, a decent job, saving money and investing properly. I know a lot of wealthy people and they got there by hard work and self-denial. they put off buying stuff on credit and made wise decisions about what to do with their money. The fact they are wealthy doesn't affect my life one bit and if does not affect yours either. Envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
This country has plenty of oil and coal but we are being held hostage by the flat-earth, no-growth, enviro-marxists posing as protectors of the wildlife. We have plenty of resources in this country so lets use them. As far as the price of K-1 or gas, well, it is called the market. If you want a centrally planned economy look at how well it worked out for the USSR.
it is called the law of supply and demand. we have plenty of oil and coal in this country, but the leftist, environmentalist, no-growth, marxists have stopped us from getting it. You want cheap energy? build nuke plants, drill for oil and mine coal.
are you saying that elderly people with all their experience have nothing to contribute to society? sounds like ageism and sour grapes to me. plus didn't Baldacci hire his sister Rosemary to manage his campaign? how much squawking did you do then? cue the crickets. Chief Morris is a 30 year vet of the navy, commanded a warship with 550 sailors and was a police chief for 17 years. Sounds like he knows a little about security and leadership. But I forget how you liberals like style over substance and just care about how something looks never mind the results. that is why this state is broke.
If the Canadian system is so great then tell me why did Belinda Stronach come to the States for treatment and surgery for breast cancer? She is one of the wealthiest women in Canada and a former member of Parliament and came here in 2007 for treatment because she admitted it was the best place to get it. She also paid for it out of her own pocket. But you are right about one thing ugh, at least with obamacare everyone will have health insurance. Very few people will have health care only the people ages 18-49 and healthy will get "care" since they don't need it. Death panels here we come. Doctors won't work for free any more than you will.
the only thing I don't like about bates is that as a non-profit tax exempt they can buy all the houses around the campus they want and then not pay property taxes on them. Yet they love to preach to the rest of up about not paying enough taxes. As I explained before "shut up".
Hey Mayor McCheese, you are not a diplomat or someone engaged in treaty negotiations. You are the mayor of some podunk little town. you have already reached your level of incompetence. stop trying to play the learned old sage. but the real question is how does having a treaty with russia constrain Iran?
as an orthodox christian, my course of action is to attain a state of Theosis knowing that as a human I will fail due to the fallen nature of man. but does that mean I should just give up knowing I will fail? No, the struggle continues since man is imperfect and I will make plenty of mistakes along the way. For people to constantly deride the "hypocrisy" of christians shows a certain amount of ignorance about the state of man and certainly shows ignorance either willful or not about the Lord's teachings. We all are imperfect and to say you are better than others simply because you treat others nice and ridicule christians for their beliefs is naive and hypocritical. A church is a hospital for sinners and not a hotel for saints. Man cannot create a heaven on earth because God created it and He is perfect and man is not. See you in church, pew # 4.
The reality of the situation is if you want to fundamentally change the way people view downtown Lewiston, you have to change the view of downtown. Start getting rid of the social clubs, hangouts for wayward youths, force the ethnic stores to clean up the window space, and enforce the parking laws. Next drive down Canal St and look at the backs of the buildings on Lisbon St. It looks like the lower east side of New York circa 1900. Clean it up. You really want economic development in this city and state? Tell any business that wants to move here and hire locals at a living wage there will be no corporate tax and encourage cities and towns to give property tax breaks to them. The question is do you want the associated decline in the standard of living that goes with large casinos? Wouldn’t it be better to have people working and providing for their families by working and not trying for the quick score? What will happen is the people on welfare will squander their checks on the chance of a big win and it will only take a day or two to lose their month’s check. Who then picks up the tab for their family? Already strained social services will be tapped out quickly. What then? I don’t want to think about it but it won’t be pretty.
I don't get the hateful part. I was thinking about the community reaching out to help a young woman. All I could afford was $20 this week and I already gave it to her via Mark Laflamme. explain it to me.
Since when is minimum wage a livable wage? minimum wage should be eliminated because it allows employers to keep wages down. years ago I had a job that paid minimum and asked for a raise, the boss said "why, you make the minimum wage?". At that moment I realized what a trap it was. get rid of it and let the market decide, people will work, just let them negotiate with the employers for the wages.
"How anyone can think that the out of state companies will come into Maine and charge less for a product?"
Its called competition. remember back in the 70's when Ma Bell was the only phone company in town? no one called California until after 7 or weekends. when the monopoly was broken the prices came way down. let the other 1,300 or so insurance companies come into the state and have faith in our fellow citizens to make an informed choice for themselves and their families. The prices will come way down. But that is the big difference between the leftists and normal people. you think the average person is to stupid to make informed choices and needs the government to tell them what to do, but I can read, understand, evaluate and make a decision. Its like anything else, it just takes a little time and effort. have some faith in you fellow man.
Yesterday Craven had a mailer in Lewiston that said if Mainers were allowed to purchase insurance accross state lines it would be risky since we would be the only state to do so and would be all alone. Is she stupid or does she think we are? I will admit though, she does have the perfect name for a democrat. craven n. contemptibly fainthearted.
Clinton did not leave with a surplus. As is usually the case in claims such as this, it has to do with Washington doublespeak and political smoke and mirrors.
Understanding what happened requires understanding two concepts of what makes up the national debt. The national debt is made up of public debt and intragovernmental holdings. The public debt is debt held by the public, normally including things such as treasury bills, savings bonds, and other instruments the public can purchase from the government. Intragovernmental holdings, on the other hand, is when the government borrows money from itself--mostly borrowing money from social security.
When it is claimed that Clinton paid down the national debt, that is patently false the national debt went up every single year. What Clinton did do was pay down the public debt. But he paid down the public debt by borrowing far more money in the form of intragovernmental holdings (mostly Social Security).
In other words, he borrowed from the Social Security fund and put IOU's in the fund. they will come due shortly and then there will be hell to pay. I will make a deal with you liberals, you quit lying about the consdervatives and republicans and I will quit telling the truth about you.
The thing about the leftists that always amazes me is their inability to look inward or backward. If one is incapable of learning from repeated mistakes, isn’t that a version on insanity? If you really want to talk about false ideology, look no further that the Marxist tripe the democrats pass off as their official dogma. The idea that the world could be transformed into some utopia where there is no poverty, inequality, or suffering is an idea so noble and desirable that it will allow any crime to be covered up. From the manmade famines in Ukraine and China to the killing fields of Cambodia, the left is unconcerned with the consequences of their compassionate deeds. To me that shows the left is motivated not by altruism and love but by nihilism and hate. Every society set up by leftists has become a national prison with a system of gulags within and the people are subjects and cannot escape. False ideology? Look in the mirror.
so don't shop there and you have solved that problem. I look over the stuff carefully and have gotten some great bargains there. Look at it this way; if he knows how to run a business while keeping costs down and is parsamonious with his own money, wouldn't it stand to reason there would be a good chance he would do the same with our tax money? And wouldn't THAT be a refreshing change in Augusta?
democrats like trickle up poverty. we know they love poor people because their policies have created so many of them. Lenin said destroy the family and you destroy society. the dems are doing him proud.
How dare you peons question her motives. It's the 99% of the sanctimonious, mealy-mouth weasels like her posing as the voice of the people that give the rest of the democrat party a bad name. When I see her on TV coming down the stairs at the Portland jetport with that weary smile that trys to proclaim how hard she works and is so glad to be back "home" among the hoi polloi I want to puke. What is worse than a Mercedes marxist? A learjet liberal. get her out of our lives.
I suppose I could publicize our charitible donations for each year but we do it for the glory of G-d not the glory of man. However the real reason I won't is Matthew 6:1-4. have a pleasant evening my friend.
Hillary is worth over $100 million and she gave only $10. I will follow her lead and give 1/100,000 of 1% of my vast fortune to the relief fund. Where do I send the 5 cents?
Diana, I will make a deal with you, if you stop lying about conservatives and the right, then I will stop telling the truth about the no-growth, flat-earth, enviro-marxists, statist leftists like you.
you party hacks that repeat the same old lame shibboleths make me want to vomit.
biparitisan, unifying, energy, job creation, blah, blah, blah, vote them all out.
Some of the other holdings with the company are Citigroup, Savoy Hotel London, FourSeasons Hotels, Pepsico, Saks, Walt Disney Company, Apple, Ebay, Motorola, Priceline, Timewarner to name a few, so if you buy a pepsi at disneyworld do you support terrorists? If you buy and iphone on ebay do you support terrorists? Watch HBO that you paid with a citigroup credit card? Supporting terrorists I see. The better question is if you support the anti-drilling no growth enviro-marxists in this country that force us to buy saudi oil then are you are supporting terrorists?
From the Huffingtonpost:
"Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of the Saudi king and who was listed last year by Forbes as the world's 22nd richest person, met with News Corp.'s chief executive Rupert Murdoch on Jan. 14 in a meeting that "touched upon future potential alliances with News Corp.," according to a statement released by his Kingdom Holding Co. late Saturday.
Media reports have indicated that News Corp, parent to Fox News and Dow Jones & Co., among others, may be thinking of buying a stake in Alwaleed's Rotana Media Group, which includes a number of satellite channels that air in the Middle East.
Neither company has commented publicly on the possible deal, but the talks offer an indication yet that such an agreement may yet be in the offing.
Kingdom Holding's statement said Alwaleed is already the second largest stakeholder in News Corp., with 5.7 percent of the shares of the media company. The stake is held through Kingdom Holding, in which Alwaleed holds a 95 percent stake."
When rauf says America is guilty of murdering 500,000 Iraqi children how is that taken out of context? As for being against building the mosque, most Americans are against building it there, almost everybody asked says build it two miles away but not there.
What is irrefutable is that living under Islam, the non-Muslim population is always mandated to submit to Islam, accept discriminatory laws, and make payment of a mandatory Quranic tax imposed upon every non-Muslim. For a period of about 800 years, most of Spain was ruled by Muslims and this area was known as ‘Al-Andalus.’ Islamic rule ended in 1492, when the city of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Western Europe, capitulated to the Spanish Catholics.
The Cordoba Initiative is an organization whose name is taken form what was, 1,000 years ago, one of the world’s most advanced cities, Cordoba. This was a city that was politically and religiously dominated by Islam, and a city that was conquered by jihad. Today, Al-Qaeda that has a dream of seeing an Islamic world that would extend from Spain. This is based upon Islam’s principle of dar-al-Islam, which means a world where Islamic rule prevails over the people. Dar-al-Islam is attained through jihad and the media is full of Al- Qaeda’s calls for jihad and their claims to Al-Andalus and its major cities such as Cordoba.
Sorry, but I am not quite ready for that here. A phobia is an irrational fear. My fear of islamic terrorists trying to destroy this country is based on their actions in the past and their repeated attempts to continue attacking this country.
By the way Diane have you been fitted for your burka yet? Are you going to give up your drivers license? Is there a male family member always available to escort you in public? Do you have any gay or lesbian friends to which you want to say good-bye? Oh and that glass of wine with dinner, forget about it.
most of the problems in this state have her fingerprints all over them. she is an incompent partisian hack of the first order and just because she has been hanging around the capitol for years doesn't mean she knows what she is doing. her ideas are proven failures like most of the others up there. but thats ok folks, keep voting democratic because "they care". they don't care about anybody except themselves and their own sorry politicial hack-a-rama cohorts. GET THEM ALL OUT!
any truth to the rumor that the woman who wants to open the restaurant in the railroad building is a neice of a board member of the LAEGC? sounds like a conflict of interest to me. note to local government officials; this isn't your personal fiefdom.
the geographic center of the city is the corner of east ave and sabattus st. the only thing that could help this city is a 5 megaton airburst at 1,500 ft right there. then start over.
why does the LARC "win" tax money back from the government? they shouldn't have taken it in the first place only to filter it down through the hands of bureaucrats. Years from now people will look back and be astonished that we allowed ourselves to be duped my a semi-intelligent cabal of inept busybodies. This makes me think of what it
must have been like in Europe during the war. People knew they were oppressed but they could see the dim light at the end of the tunnel. November is coming and the democrats are going to be put on the ash heap of history along with all the other socialists. Simply because, IT DOESN'T WORK.
to an extent it is true the jobs were already here, but they could have been sent to NJ. on a per capita basis NJ has a better educated workforce, 37% of adults have a 4 year degree vs. 27% in maine. its the cost of labor and rent that was the deciding factor. jobs like that could be done in Mumbai just as easily and it is a matter of time before they are.
my BS detector is redlined. the only (2) reasons they came here is it is cheaper rent and cheaper labor than in NJ. there is no work ethic left in this area.
one more reason to leave this state. I grew up in Maine but I sure don't want to retire here. six more years to retire and then off to a more tax friendly state. I have been saying for a while now that a few years only the very rich and very poor will be able to afford to live here. Keep voting for democrats and keep getting screwed. there is nothing compassionate about financially destroying everybody.
so far it has been 8 years for my wife's daughter (30 year old college educated gainfully employed Canadian) to get her interview. that will happen in December. the fees are about $1,500.
so far it has been 8 years for my wife's daughter (30 year old college educated gainfully employed Canadian) to get her interview. that will happen in December. the fees are about $1,500.
Not a spending problem but a revenue problem? when you spend more than you take in regardless of what the projections were for the year, then it IS a spending problem. We can't do it for our home budget so why should the state do it? cut spending and tell the public sector unions to go pound sand, we can't afford it. what do you think will happen when the state and country defaults on their obligations? read that as goes bankrupt. just imagine what will happen the first time someone goes into the bank to cash a state check and the bank says sorry it's no good. The fiscal problems in this state have the fingerprints of Libby Mitchell and the democrats that have controlled the house and senate for the past 30+ years all over them. They may have had good intentions but they definitely have bad information and that is a recipe for disaster as we are witnessing. But then it is always fun to spend other people's money on other people.
excellent idea tron, but I have been saying for years education is a local issue. How can someone 2000 miles away know what is good for Wales or Turner? Plus make the public sector work more years. why should someone be retired longer than they worked and make more money than they did when they worked? If the state goes bankrupt it doesn't just hurt the retired state workers it will hurt badly the elderly, poor, and the disabled. You think the riots in Greece were bad just wait until we put our paticular American slant on things.
here is another syllogism. Tron is a leftist socialist lazy freeloader. leftist socialist lazy freeloaders are morons. Tron is a moron. see how easy it is folks?
excellent column Mark. sharp insight into the psyche of the male growing up in Maine. I knew the same group of people in the early 70's. noe how about banning tron and the other trolls for a while? play nice or go home.
Lil we say the same thing, it's not global warming it's climate change. Here in Maine the climate changes 4 times a year. just like it always has. There is a way to put it in perspective; a ream of paper has 500 sheets. if each sheet represents 1,000 years, then homosapiens have been here for less than half a ream. the world has been here for about 12,000 reams. it has heated and cooled many times before man was here and what possible explanation could there be? It must be a naturally occurring event. It is that whole ying yang thing going on or maybe it validates one of Newton's laws, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. in other words, it happens because we have no control over it.
firearms are used for various purposes, some legitimate and some illlegal. A lot of people keep them for self-protection and that is a valid and legal reason. The supreme court has ruled that police have no obligation to appear every time a person calls and asks for help. they must make a reasonable attempt to answer calls as time allows but they are to enforce laws and investigate criminal activity. If two calls come in at the same time and only one can be answered then they are not responsible if something (e.g.) rape, murder, robbery occur at the other call. That is when you pull out your gun and warn the miserable dirtbag to back off, if that fails and you think your life is in imminent danger, shoot 'em.
Tron, did you ever see the movie "The Caine Mutiny" with Humphrey Bogart? you remind me of the part he played, Captain Queeg. totally batshit crazy. "heh, heh, heh we'll find out who ate these strawberries" he repeated over and over as he played with the ball bearings.
the incompetents are the managers who refuse to take responsibility and fix problems. when you hire some dolt with a GED to run a multi-million dollar organization that is the idiotic behavior you get.
tron can be defined by using 6 body parts. He is a (1) knee-jerk (2) head case with his (3) foot in his (4) mouth and his (5) thumbs firmly up his (6) butt.
no the real issue with him is he is on welfare and like most others trapped in a world they have a love hate relationship with, (love being paid to do nothing but hate not being able to do anything) they think it is a zero-sum game. If someone or something gets a little more, they get a little less. Everytime taxes have been cut it results in an increase of tax revenue to the state or fed. There is no such thing as corporate welfare. Do you see CEO's sitting on the door step drinking 40 ouncer's out of a bag? Do they roam the streets in packs with pitbulls? Do they get young girls pregnant, leave them to go on to the next one and not accept responsibility for their actions? Corportations don't have to stay here if the taxes are too high, they can leave and some have left. Make it a business friendly climate and then more people will be able to work, pay taxes, take care of their families, and help those less fortunate that truly need help.
you do know how to tell if someone is a right wing nutjob? they are usually right, they have nuts and a job. if that doesn't help, then look for them cashing a paycheck (noun- renumeration for productive activity) Fridays.
when you combine underage drinking with 18-20 year olds that have been reared by parents who constantly re-affirmed their special status of being born and never wanting to damage the fragile self-esteem of their precious little snowflakes you get the type of self rightous conceited little twerps who think they are above the law. guess what? you are not. when the police tell to move, then do it, and there is a good chance you won't be clubbed or arrested.
There are people from all over the world that worship here, making it one of the most cosmopolitian groups in the area, and there are conservatives and liberals but the word of God is preached so it is pro-life. It is the Church the apostles set up 2,000 years ago and there has been little change, it is a nice connection to the ages. all others are offshoots of this one. anyone with a sense of history should come over and see. The service is half Greek and half English. and we almost always have coffee and a snack afterwards.
with a casino comes more crime, more damage for families, more of the undesireable elements that Lewiston has too many of in the first place. http://www.netnebraska.org/television/news/ne_connects/gambling/CasinosC...
This area is such a depressing area and the mindset of the people who want to stay here is cluelessness mixed with dependency and that makes for a very disturbing ride around town. just seeing the debris strewn hovels some people live is and the dog feces covered sidewalks all through the downtown would be enough to make satan weep for joy and realize his work is almost done here. put a casino in here and it will resemble Potterville in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life".
so they work but decided to spend their money on drugs instead of saving and getting their own car? and they are so trusting they believe a "friend" instead of checking if the vehicle is legal? that is stupid on so many levels. in a few years the kid will be sitting in front of the trailer eating dirt.
oh now its your parents fault? if she is 18 then she is responsible for her actions. but I guess your parents did teach her where to shop. slap her for me will you?
lets make a law that allows the state to pay stupid people like those two fools, say, oh, about $5,000 if they agree to get sterilized and not burden the rest of us with their dim-bulb antics and idiot spawns. or just horse whip them. yeah, that one i like.
your shipment of fail has arrived. did you forget your recent history? the soviet union and communist China, two countries without religion killed over 100 million people and the total commie body count is about 150 million. http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/archives/communistbodycount.php and it still marches on in the glorious peoples republic of north korea. I can just imagine the havoc the lunatic left in this country would bring to the population it they had a chance. the rage i sense in some of the letters tells me it would be typically american; on a grander scale than the rest of the world. Besides, how many worthwhile hospitals, universities, and charities do Godless socities create? have a great day everyone.
i have a permit, also a drivers license, and do I need to remind you that Ted Kennedy's Olds Delmont 88 has killed more people that my gun? Granted the murdering car was owned and registered to his mommy Rose but still he was the operator that evening.
the only death threat to you is the huge amounts of oreos and fish sticks you are jamming down your gaping maw. two simple excersizes you could do is the put downs and push aways. put down the fork and push your fat carcass away from the table.
I know 6th grade civics is lost on the libtards but once again i will tell you (slowly so even albrecht and tron might remember) the president proposes and congress disposes. got that moron? congress controlls the purse strings. ah yes purse, a work liberal men are familar with i am sure, just remember to cordinate it with your nail polish.
I know John and he is one of the most decent people I have met in this area, quiet, unassuming, and willing to do the extra to make it a better place but not wanting to draw attention to himself.
you saw it? collect the $100,000 reward offered by Breitbart. you are a liar and a member of THE BIGGEST hate spewing group, the democrat party. a misinformed ragtag collection of miscreants, liars, intellectually lazy, and morally vapid lay-abouts. but other than that i am sure you are all very nice people because you care, right?
If it boils down to further service cuts vs. paying enough to sustain our city at current levels, please go ahead and cut spending and taxes.There, I fixed it for you.
The hypocrisy of the left is always on display whenever this troll makes an appearance (which is daily) at 15 minutes past midnight.I don’t recall any criticism of the Dempsey challenge or the Chili Chowder challenge.One day a letter appears to be slightly critical of the event and the next day someone else corrects the mistake so now it is a concerted effort to puff up this event?Adjust you tinfoil hat and come out of your basement.I rarely see conservatives trying as hard as the left does to de-humanize and belittle those with whom they disagree.Isn’t there a certain amount of intellectual dishonesty or even some schizophrenic reasoning on the left since they reject creationism and love the Darwinian concept of survival of the fittest but totally refuse to apply it to the human condition or even running a business?
Many? name one time other than the ice storm. you are one of the most miserable people i have ever had the displeasue of reading. is your life so lacking in joy that you must bring everyone down? let me guess, you weigh about 350 lbs, yeah a real lardass, probably sit on your door stoop and watch the people with real lives and happiness go by. let go of the hate. when you are on your death bed it won't be your charming joie de vie, or insouciant wit that has marked your life people will remember, it will be your surly contemptible attitude with which you approached anything in your baneful existence. ugh
there is no gene in human DNA for altruism, and for you to constantly say that the profit driven motives of individuals is somehow wrong shows a basic lack of understanding for human nature. I will always be able to get more food, water, friends and clothing. What I will never get more of is quite possibly the most valuable commodity anyone has: time. We have a finite amount of it and to squander it is to waste life itself. That is why people do things for money, it is a unique way to measure their time and I suspect there are two reasons people like you constantly squawk about how greedy others are (1) you think you are the one that is going to live forever, (2) you are embarassed by your own miserable existence and have a burning envy for what others have. newsflash; we are all going ot die, and we are not equal. Your hatred for the free market system is evident but central planning does not and cannot work simply because it refuses to take into account one small factor; human nature and the desire of people to improve their lives. when people are able to provide for themselves and their families then they give extra to those less fortunate. you want proof central planning will never work? one word. Trabant. Central planners will never have enough information fast enough to make better decisions for the market than millions of individuals, acting freely will be able to make for their own self intrest. I don't know about you but I prefer to make my own decisions about what is in my best intrests. simply put, you are not smart enough to tell me how to live.
NYA is an independent for profit college prep school, tuition is about $22,000 a year. it is not in a district so taxpayers aren't on the hook. just a bunch of snooty adults teaching their precious little snowflakes how to game the system by not facing up to what they do wrong. no doubt they will be the no talent political hack leaders of the future.
damn you, you beat me to it. I was thinking repeal the child labor laws and re-open the sweat shops. keep the little beggars off the street and at the same time help them earn some money so they won't be poor.
so collect the reward. andrew breitbart is offering a $ 100,000 reward for proof of anyone spitting on members of congress last week, or calling them fags or niggers. you won't collect because it didn't happen. however supporters of Sen. Reid did throw eggs and assault Andrew Breitbart, http://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/03/29/breaking-video-reid-supporters-throwing-eggs-and-assaulting-andrew-breitbart/ but the real reason the health care bill won't work is because the CBO is obligated to base their numbers on info given them by congress. if congress said they will pay for it by selling 2 acre plots on the dark side of the moon then they have to assume people will purchase dirt on the moon. they are given faulty info to begin with and end up with the result congress wants. you can't name one program that actually came in on budget. This country is bankrupt, we have no more money. we might as well end it all now since it will end eventually and if we wait for it to end by itself then it will be chaos and anarchy followed by tyranny. Do you pefer the tyranny of the left or the right? either situation won't be much fun for those dependent on government.
Imagine a large condominium complex is meeting to consider a package deal with a cable TV company. Over eighty percent of the condo owners have their own satellite dishes, and are quite happy with the service. Some of them don’t bother to watch television at all, preferring to rent movies from Blockbuster or Netflix for entertainment. However, the condominium Board of Directors says they’re getting a lot of complaints from the residents who don’t have satellite dishes, demanding the condo association purchase a cable TV package, and fold its cost into the monthly homeowner dues.
The homeowners already pay extremely high dues, and they’re not happy with the quality of service they receive. They also notice that most of the people clamoring for cable television aren’t even homeowners – they’re renters, so they don’t pay the association fees directly. The condo owners already host regular movie nights at the clubhouse, which also has a well-stocked library, so no one is truly starved for entertainment. Still, the owners feel guilty that anyone has to make do without TV service in their home, so they invite a cable company to give them a sales pitch.
The cable company, BFD Communications, produces an incredibly complicated plan for providing cable television service to the community. The plan is thousands of pages long, and no one even claims to have read the whole thing. They spend the weeks leading up to the big board meeting pestering all of the residents with relentless advertising for their services, covering doorknobs and windshields with brochures. Their presentation at the board meeting is several hours long.
BFD Communications explains that purchasing their service will require a lifetime contract, which can never be broken. The condo residents will be required to deal exclusively with BFD for their entertainment needs – all satellite dishes must go, and even the library will fall under their control. The contract will include funding for a large corporate security force, which will ensure compliance by issuing fines for illegal satellite dishes, or attempts to smuggle rented movies into the development. As this feature of the contract is being explained to the homeowners, a large screen behind the BFD representatives is flashing slogans like “BFD Enhances Competition!” and “BFD Saves You Money!”
The cable TV contract will be fantastically expensive. Curiously, while it is a lifetime contract, the company refuses to discuss the fee schedule beyond the first ten years. An intrepid homeowner studies the contract and discovers the costs double after ten years… and this assessment was prepared by CBO Auditing, a firm which has underestimated the cost of every contract it has ever reviewed. The condo Board rules that only the ten-year projections matter, and the intrepid homeowner is asked to leave the meeting.
Other homeowners announce they’ve been researching BFD Communications, and discovered it has never been able to deliver promised services at the contracted price. Every single project the company has undertaken experienced enormous cost overruns, and delivered poor quality to its customers. Every time a smaller competitor has been allowed to bid against them, the competitor’s price and performance were superior – that’s why BFD demands exclusive lifetime contracts. The people who make this announcement are told their input is not welcome, and asked to leave the meeting.
A resident asks what different packages BFD will offer. She has small children, so she would like educational programming, but she has no interest in premium movie channels, shopping networks, or morally offensive shows. The cable company explains that only one package will be offered. Its purchase will be mandatory, and the high price of its many channels will be charged to all residents. A senile old man in the audience claims the BFD executives promised him there would never be any morally offensive programming.
This prompts an angry homeowner to leap from his seat, waving a portion of the gigantic cable TV contract… which says the members of the condo Board of Directors are exempt from the restrictions, along with some of their friends! They can rent movies, purchase high quality satellite service, and avoid having the exorbitant fees for BFD tacked onto their monthly dues.
A loud argument breaks out in the meeting area, with angry residents howling that they want no part of this terrible deal. These people are told their anger disqualifies them from further participation in the meeting, and they are asked to leave.
The remaining critics of the deal suggest that other alternatives should be explored. There are less expensive entertainment options to consider, and since none of them require lifetime commitments, wouldn’t it make sense to try them first?
The Board of Directors insists that the BFD contract must be signed immediately. It’s simply appalling that anyone in the development should endure a single day without entertainment. Why, all of the surrounding condo developments have already signed up with BFD! They all have appalling service and frequent TV blackouts, they’re all broke, and they borrow security officers from our development to keep their streets safe… but their Boards of Directors all laugh at us for refusing to provide BFD cable service to our residents, and our Board is tired of their mockery. The BFD executives mention that no one will actually receive any cable services for five years, but their fees will begin right away.
The meeting ends with the Board of Directors ignoring the demands of homeowners and voting for that lifetime contract with BFD. The residents leave the meeting hall wondering how they reached the point where a small group of Board members, up for re-election over the next couple of years, were able to ignore the clear wishes of the residents and saddle them with a lifetime contract.
Here are some lessons to ponder from the Parable of the Satellite Dish:
Never accept permanent solutions that are nearly impossible to change, when simpler and more easily modified plans are available. It’s foolish to let the advocates of permanent programs dismiss flexible alternatives before they have been tried.
A proposal that requires you to ignore both the past and the future is a swindle, not a solution.
Free people do not accept restrictions from which their government is exempt. This is one of the differences between leaders and rulers.
A demand for commitment without a guarantee of performance is domination, not service.
When free people are told something is “inevitable,” their response should be an immediate and overwhelming refusal to accept it. Inevitability is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the absence of resistance. Freedom is the never-ending quest for alternatives.
The people who loudly celebrate “diversity” keep coming up with universal plans. Their State is a giant who trims citizens to fit its bed, using rusty implements. The giant, the bed, and the implements were all equal sins in the eyes of our Founders. They come as a set.
When the State refuses to let you debate the terms of its plans individually, you can rest assured the whole is worse than the sum of its parts.
Freedom requires the courage to avoid being stampeded. You should ask more questions about something you are told is an “essential right.” Sober reflection is a hallmark of maturity. A wise State would not require its citizens to act like children.
The State cannot give you anything worth having. You’ll eventually find yourself guilty of the crime of wanting more. As the State fails to live up to its promises, it will be increasingly tempted to convict you of that crime… in advance.
at least he get's paid to write, unlike you basement boy. but why are you defending a pervert tron? do birds of a feather flock together? That this newspaper allows you to comment on articles verifies how desperate it is for content. oh yeah i forgot it is Bush's fault and a right wing conspiracy. rain coming this weekend it must be the Halliburton hurricane machine driven by Carl Rove.
Hmmm, next time I will say jalbrecht only, but I would like you just once to quantify your remarks. Mean spirited? depends on whose ox is being gored. hatefilled? well I suppose if you don't like the message then you would hate it. but you are projecting (again) your racist attitude onto the right by assuming because we don't like obama it is because he is black. No, it is because he is a marxist intent on raising taxes ever higher on everybody, destroying any chance of economic gain and making more people dependent on government and increasing the power of the leftists. Do you think that central command will succeed this time because Americans are doing it? It never has or will work simply because it doesn't take into account human nature. PEOPLE WANT TO BE FREE. Damn, how difficult is it for you to figure that out? Conservatives want a meritocracy where people are judged by their ability, work ethic, and content of their character, (where did you hear that before?) not the color of their skin. Nobody is smart enough to tell me how to live.
having read your rants for the past years I can safely assume you hate republicans and are intolerant of them and conservatives so that makes you irrational. don't project your racist, bigoted views on the rest of the country. people often hate what they fear becoming themselves.
Tron the republicans can't block any legislation in Washington since the dems have the majority in the senate and house. So don't blame them for being the ones stopping the destruction of America's health care system. Give credit to the public for being smart enough to see how hypocritical the politicians in Washington really are. Sunshine is the best disinfectent and when the real objective is exposed (cost control which will mean rationing, affecting the elderly since they use about 80% of the health care) the public wants no part of it. If anyone is old enough to remember Bell Telephone in the 70's no one made a call to California due to the expensive long distance rates. When the monolopy was broken in the early 80's the rates came down due to competion and now everyone calls where ever they want. Currently there are over 1,300 companies offering health insurance policies in this country and only 6 are allowed to sell in Maine. How come can we buy auto insurance from any company we want but not health insurance? Open it up and the rates will come down. I trust my fellow citizens to do the right thing for themselves and their families instead of some nameless, faceless bureaucrat. Nobody is smart enough to tell someone else how to live.
In an odd exposé that has left the worlds of politics and academia abuzz, a local homeless person revealed yesterday that he only blamed himself for his failures. The incident occurred near the dumpster behind the Shop Rite store in Brooklyn, when Willard Kookish, formerly of 435 Subprime Lane in Nutly, NJ, casually told a reporter that "my problems are my own fault." The veteran New York Times reporter Ken McLiar, who has been searching area dumpsters for a 3,785-part series on people who are homeless due to the evils of American capitalism, admits he was astonished by Mr. Kookish's bizarre confession. When asked to elaborate, Mr. Kookish went on to say, "I went through college drinking and smoking dope and never learned anything. I've had many job opportunities but didn't bother to show up. My family left me a nice house to live in but I took out home equity loans on it and spent the money on hookers and gambling. When the housing boom collapsed I lost everything. I made bad decisions and here I am bearing the consequences."
The startling revelation has left many in the community troubled by what it may portend for society at large. "It should be illegal to talk like that", said Marge Stumpko, an angered low-wage waitress from Lower Skunkworks, NY. "Aren't we all our brother's keepers? Is that all you're leaving for my tip, turdface?" Eddie Fuppish, a mismarked ballot corrector from Franken, Minnesota, sounded more conciliatory: "The poor man needs help. Anybody that takes responsibility for his own actions is certifiably insane. Just look at all the big businesses selling you stuff for money. Don't tell me you are in control of your own spending or anything else for that matter. You're not. That's why I vote Democratic and make sure other people do the same, even if they didn't mark their ballots that way. It's the right thing to do. People need to be protected."
Regardless of the troubling short-term fallout from the incident, the long term trends are clear. "We need to make people understand they don't matter," stated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Having become cogs in the huge state machine, they can't be allowed to think independently and control their lives; that's what we're here for." Pelosi stressed the inevitability of new taxes and government programs in order to liberate people from such delusions. "People like Willard Kookish better get this through their thick skulls: it's not their fault, it's society's. And that's why they need President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress to subdue this country in order to fix it."
As usual, albrecht, you are wrong, it was first attributed to De Tocqueville in his book " On Democracy in America". But if you and your ilk will indulge me to go off on a tangent I would like to point out the obvious. The usual understanding of "equality," when applied to people, entails equality of rights and sometimes equality of opportunity. But what is meant in all these cases is the equalization of external conditions which do not touch the individuality of man. In socialist ideology, however, the understanding of equality is akin to that used in mathematics, i.e., this is in fact identity, the abolition of differences in behavior as well as in the inner world of the individuals constituting society. From this point of view, a puzzling and at first sight contradictory property of socialist doctrines becomes apparent. They proclaim the greatest possible equality, the destruction of hierarchy in society and at the same time a strict regimentation of all of life, which would be impossible without absolute control and an all-powerful bureaucracy which would engender an incomparably greater inequality.
"always do the right thing, it will gratify some and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
here are a few ideas to discuss, how about tenants obligations not to throw trash onto the sidewalks and streets, cleaning up the dogshit from your pitbulls, don't leave debris in the hallway or the driveway, and don't be such a disgusting pig. This town is one of the worse places I have ever seen and that is coming from someone that has seen 32 states. I can't wait to retire in 6 years and leave this dump.
Finally American progressives can have a G.O.D. they can believe in. Banking on a wildly successful media coverage of its efforts to transform the backward, individualistic America into a nation of enlightened state-worshippers ruled by unelected czars, the administrative branch is preparing for a next radical reform that will further streamline the system and dispel the accusations of oligarchic rule by concentrating all the powers enumerated, extrapolated, and imagined under the constitution in the hands of only one man.
Said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, "We must urgently streamline the decision-making process because the time for talk is over. The outdated 19th century idea of reading and debating bills must end. Face it, not only does debate delay immediate action, so does voting."
The new legislation proposes the President of the United States appointing himself to the new position of Governmental Overall Director, or G.O.D. for short. "We believe in an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful G.O.D. to create order out of the chaos that is the unfortunate result of too many people making too many decisions for themselves. Hope and change require unity. Unity requires oneness of purpose. As you may know, Obama is The One."
Under the proposal the G.O.D. will give the people new freedoms, replacing the old freedoms which have atrophied to tired clichés. The G.O.D. is expected to replace individual free will with collective will of the communities represented by community organizers. Free enterprise will be replaced with free lunch, and free speech with free internet access. The inalienable rights of life, liberty and property will be supplanted by the rights of bodily functions, controlled unanimity, and regulated sharing.
"Citizenship encompasses both rights and responsibilities," Gibbs said. "Your rights are the government's responsibility so you don't have to fret over them. A burden is always lessened by lightening the load. For instance, it is the administration's aim to relieve everyone's money problems by relieving them of money. And may the G.O.D. bless America," stated Gibbs.
One part of the proposal that caused a stir of head nodding among the press was the President's assumption of judiciary powers one step above the Supreme Court - the so-called "Last Judgment" provision wherein the G.O.D. has the final say on all legal decisions. "Man proposes, the G.O.D. disposes," Gibbs quipped to approving chuckles of the press.
Further explaining details of the plan's implementation, Press Secretary continued, "How exactly this all works... the G.O.D. only knows."
Evidence of massive public support of the government's Act of G.O.D. was provided in the form of a spontaneous rally just outside of the White House, in which representatives of diverse communities, wearing inexpensive red shirts with an artful ACORN logo, were joined by occasional passers-by from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), all of whom happened to be carrying lovingly pre-printed signs: "Thank G.O.D.!" "One nation under G.O.D.!" and "In G.O.D. we trust!"
The plan has already had an immediate positive effect on the nation's political climate by rendering the opposition speechless. Staunch defenders of God's place in the public forum, Republicans have suddenly gone mum - apparently, out of fear that any anti-G.O.D. statements can damage their immediate political future and have negative long-term effects in the form of eternal damnation.
Despite the President's promise of a swift and decisive victory, Obama's War on Fox News has developed all signs of an unwinnable quagmire, making the White House even more isolated in its unilateral attempts to crush the growing media insurgency. As the war continues to grind on for a second month, public opinion is shifting towards a quick and complete withdrawal. While many observers still agree that the "War on Limbaugh" is a "just and necessary war," even the former supporters of the war effort are now labeling the War on Fox an "unnecessary war of choice" and claim that the cable channel had nothing to do with Obama's falling approval numbers.
Some say that the general in charge, Anita Dunn, greatly underestimated the power of fiery critic Glenn "Muqtada" Beck and his band of radical followers, who have inflicted heavy casualties on White House forces.
The war has recently passed an ugly milestone as Obama's hand-picked czar Van Jones exploded in the middle of the battlefield littered with pencils, notebooks, blackberries, and media tags, sending shockwaves of terror through the ranks of reporters in the service of the administration.
Accusations of war crimes continue to surface, the most recent war atrocity being Katie Couric's interview with Glenn Beck, after which the prominent Fox News commentator was found outside the CBS studios disoriented, with plucked eyebrows, and a coveted jar of M&Ms stolen from his pocket.
But while the President drapes his unpopular policies with concern for the well-being of American journalism, more and more editors, reporters, and even unionized janitorial staff are beginning to oppose their commander-in-chief for trying to "win" an unwinnable war with their hands, instead of just using executive powers to ban all dissenting speech.
"I've been in the media for a long time, I signed up because I hate this right-wing, knuckle-dragging, imperialist system, and I would gladly sacrifice any number of my fellow Americans to advance my agenda - but this is a dumb war and a rash war," Keith Olbermann of MSNBC said outside a congressional office he visited to demand a government crackdown on dissidents. "Why must we in the field put our reputations on the line when this Congress has the power to simply confiscate Rupert Murdoch's assets and put Beck, Hannity, and Coulter in jail?" he demanded.
The war is also personal for the aging media veteran Dan Rather, who had won many media battles but one single failure brought him a dishonorable discharge. As a result he is now suffering from Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder (PTSD), has become homeless, and lives somewhere under a Manhattan bridge.
"From the outset, there was a conviction Fox News was intractable and it needed to go," an unnamed White House source said. "The dangerous prospect of an informed voter loomed large in the Obama administration's plans of a pre-emptive strike. White House officials, in public and behind the scenes, made allegations depicting Fox News programming as less fair and balanced than it really was. But we never saw any evidence of it. Our reliance on mainstream media in this regard resulted in distorted intelligence."
The fact that none of the administration's claims have panned out raises a troubling question: What was Obama's real reason for the attack?
Doubts like these are causing slippage in support for the first in American history war waged by a U.S. President against a news organization.
The American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 will soon be coming to a vote in congress if Comrade Nancy "I'd Rather Be Feared Than Popular" Pelosi has her way (what do I mean "if"????) The bill is currently up to about 12 million pages, many of them still blank, and copies will be transported to the Capitol in large dump trucks, each of which has a carbon footprint the size of Algore's mansion plus Ted Kennedy's old Oldsmobile.
In keeping with the modern Congressional tradition, no one knows what's in this bill; the House members all agreed they would rather wait until after they voted on it and then be surprised. However I was able to sneak on to one of the trucks and look under the covers when the driver stopped to let off some illegal immigrants at a truck stop. Here is what I uncovered:
The rumors were true, there is no "public plan" option in the bill. However, there is a previously unmentioned paragraph in it stating that "all private property now belongs to the state." More on that later.
The President, members of Congress and other select denizens of the political class are not covered by the plan. They will be forced to obtain health care by travelling long distances to Switzerland and the French Riviera.
Hemorrhoids, most foot problems and any disease whose symptoms include foul smells or mucus are now classified as "joke ailments" and ineligible for treatment.
The Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be setting up a network of "national nannies" who will be coming to everyone's home to make sure they eat their vegetables and get to bed on time. This I found under a sub-heading entitled "if you're gonna live in my country, you're gonna live by my rules..
Another strike against the naysayers, there is no "death counseling" provision or euthanasia of any kind in the bill (seniors, relax!) Strangely enough, under the section entitled "Reconciliation, Adjustments and Fudge Factors" subheading "Actuarial Anomalies" the budget projections are based on the assumption 10% of the senior citizen population will disappear mysteriously each year. Must be a misprint.
If any private citizen is unhappy with the care they receive, they are free to seek treatment in another country. There is one caveat but I am not quite sure what it is. The wording in the bill says "However, said individual will not be allowed to come"; this was at the end of a page and the next page was blank, so it is not clear how that sentence is to be finished.
An interesting item under "Funding Fantasies" was that they expect some income from the sale of Government Girl Scout Cookies. I don't recall "Soylent Green" as being one of their flavors but it's been a long time since I had a box.
That's all I was able to find out so far but it sounds like a great plan to me. I can't wait until I start getting my health care from a kindly government bureaucrat instead of a grasping imperialist money-grubbing corporation. Thank you, Nancy! Thank you, Obama!
Sure we can, the best way for everyone to get along is ask me what to think and then do it. follow me you sheeple, I am smarter and know what is best for you, and you, and you too. Also for the planet.
signed by
the former VP, Nobel prize winner, and Oscar wiener
Since the best minds of the country have concluded that health care is a basic human right, it must also be presumed that this right automatically includes the most fundamental component of all human health - food. Leading nation's scientists have long been warning us that denying a person the nutrition from food impairs health in the most direct and injurious manner. Today the debate is over: the right to health and the right to food are pretty much one and the same - the inalienable human right to have your bodily functions regulated by the government for your own good.
That anyone is allowed to make billions of dollars by providing Americans with their basic health-giving nutritional needs is the shame of the nation and the cruel result of underregulated markets gone wild.
As eating is preventive health care at its most basic level, no health care reform would be complete without establishing a single-payer system of nutrition delivery called Foodicare, overseen by a super-czar level position of the Foodmaster General. An all-inclusive 2,500 page plan of this essential program is already available for immediate passage. No reading required; it is already self-evident that such an arrangement is even better than a similar plan most successfully enjoyed by North Koreans today.
The Foodicare program will cater to every American's health-through-nutrition needs in a fair and equal manner. A national menu of approved healthy foods at legal prices will be established and enforced for the public's own good. To guarantee food quality and equality, home kitchens will be disallowed and replaced with government-mandated nutrition care cafeterias, staffed with licensed and regulated health-through-nutrition care providers.
To ensure a steady stream of health-generating foodstuffs, and to safeguard against the vagaries of weather affecting harvests, it will be the US government's responsibility to control the climate well beyond the meager provisions of Waxman-Markey. While CO2 regulations may be a good start, we will soon be in an urgent need of a legislation allowing us to cap and trade rain and sunshine. In addition to having the maximum sustainable effect on the health of the planet and its citizens, it will also create thousands of jobs you never even dreamed existed.
The next logical step the government is expected to take is to properly identify and manage other important ingredients of the right to health care: housing care, clothing care, leisure care, and care for the citizens' romantic relationships - since denying a person good quality shelter, apparel, exercise, and recreational sex also impairs health in the most direct and injurious manner.
To maintain their control and sway the gullible masses, the Left needs to discredit and defeat the very idea of capitalism, individualism, and personal freedom. The simple litmus test here is this: would you like to own your government, or would you like your government to own you? This is the basic fault line and the starting point of all reasoning. America was the world's first nation to set up a system in which individuals owned their government - as opposed to the rest of the world were people remained slaves to their rulers. To exist, the American system requires capitalism, individualism, and personal freedom. These are the American values. The only significant force in today's world that still fights for them are American conservatives. The Left's ultimate model, on the contrary, implies that the individual is owned by the state. In such state humans become mere beasts of burden and are routinely sacrificed for the mythical "common good." This ideological divide makes the American conservatives the Left's worst enemies and best punching bags.
It's ironic that in order to make the world accept its "historically optimistic" vision, the Left needs to instill nihilism, fear, uncertainty, cynicism, and despair. In practical terms, that means to defeat the spreading of American values worldwide (by supporting Islamofascists) and at home (by supporting the U.S. Democratic Party represented by Howard Dean and Dick Durbin). And it looks like the desperate DNC leaders try their best to live up to such a high honor.
A word from the man who invented Global Warming Vodka,
former Vice President Al Gore (AKA Elmer Gantry):
There isn't a problem in the world that can't be solved by alternative fuels. Students of Progress know that all problems come from capitalism. Capitalism is fueled by selfishness. Therefore, if we find an alternative fuel to selfishness, we can fix all problems. I have invented such alternative fuel - and it's self-sacrifice. But since most people may agree to self-sacrifice only occasionally - instead of the required 24/7 all year round - they'll always be looking for ways to slack off. A World Socialist Government must be established to catch those slackers and sacrifice them for the Common Good. International research has shown that self-sacrifice and compassion work best when they are mandated and enforced by the government, in combination with planned economy and a strict but fair rule by a beloved supreme leader. Thus the most humane government is that which enforces a total and far-reaching human sacrifice.
So here's your alternative fuel to capitalist greed and selfishness. Problem solved.
corn based ethanol GLOBAL WARMING VODKA!
Not only is it a cheap alternative solution to life's problems. It also...
Raises awareness
Promotes social bonding
Improves determination to fight social causes
Advances dependency on government agencies
Creates a realistic illusion of melting icecaps
Replaces the need for tedious scientific research
Is appropriate for all ages
(May contain mind-control agents)
Enjoy over galcial ice that was pissed on by a polar bear
It is a scientific fact that Global Warming provides the means for the ignorant to declare with absolute certainty that they know the unknowable.
Since man-made Global Warming is becoming increasingly unknowable and avoids being accurately measured, progressive scientists are working hard on new arguments to convince the masses in the necessity to believe in it.
Al Gore provides information about man-made Global Warming but not proof for it. Should you believe in this Global Warming? This is where our Wager comes in, providing an analytical process for the masses to evaluate their options:
The masses believe in Global Warming and it really exists: we prevent climate change and kill capitalism: our gain is infinite.
The masses believe in Global Warming but it doesn't exist: we lose nothing but kill capitalism anyway and claim we saved the planet.
The masses don't believe in Global Warming and it doesn't exist: the growth of capitalist prosperity will continue unabated, distracting the masses from the need to fight capitalism. Faith in socialism withers away: our loss is infinite.
The masses don't believe in Global Warming, but it exists and arrives to smite the nonbelievers: See #3, plus our beach homes get washed away: our loss is infinite.
From these possibilities, and the principles of Marxist ethics (anything is moral as long as it advances Socialist Revolution) we deduce that it would be better to believe in man-made Global Warming unconditionally.
On a planet with limited resources, giving birth to more consumers is irresponsible, especially to white males who by definition are the most useless caste on a progressive egalitarian scale. To further this progressive worldview, we must organize Sacrificial Death Drives demanding all to sacrifice their children for The Greater Good™. We must attend pro-abortion rallies, acting as living proof of the terrible mistake our parents had made by not aborting us. It is best exemplified by a statement that Maxine Waters, a US Congresswoman (D-Calif) made at a Pro-Abortion Rally in Washington, DC on 4/25/04: "I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion."
After the revolution all pro-choice debates, focus groups, and parental notifications will become obsolete. The only notification a woman will need is that of the local Commissar who will perform the abortion himself based on visual assessment. The expected post-revolutionary drop in labor productivity will call for more strong and healthy workers and peasants. To fight off enemies of the socialist Motherland the Party will need more strong soldiers in the Red Army. Breeding workers and soldiers will no longer be a choice but a grave responsibility of every female citizen. Commissar's decision will be based on the prospective mother's strong built and good proletarian stock. If the above conditions are met, abortion will be denied and violators thereof will be punished by various terms of corrective hard labor. For sickly individuals, substance abusers, and bourgeois offshoots abortions will be mandatory. It will be required of the Commissar to experience pleasure while extracting such uselessness from the ranks of future citizens of our caring society, and to submit the fetal matter to the nearest stem cell recycling center.
No, no , no, once again you have mixed up the terminology. You and your children will get heath "insurance" not health care.
Kill the health care hogs!" is the progressive message we hear increasingly from the more socially advanced comrades in Europe. How many times have you stood in line at the pharmacy behind an ancient decrepit walking dead? Inevitably, they order dozens of medications and then pay almost nothing as our Mother State picks up the tab! How is one to deal with these selfish broken-down useless monsters as they suck the economic lifeblood from our Cities?
As usual, the Europeans have been leading the way. We all know how successful their previous bold moves in socialized health care have been.
The socialist system must and will crush the human spirit like a bug for the sake of the common good! Indeed, if everyone in America gets a feeding tube, there won't be enough money for social equality programs and global warming studies!
The main question of the day is, can Americans afford NOT to adopt socialized healthcare? Everyone knows that the individual will never take the necessary steps; it is up to the State to do it for us. In a vital decision like this, do we really need to depend on the vote of emotionally underdeveloped conservative segments? Those incapable or unwilling to acknowledge the moral superiority and the ethical progress of the more socially advanced Europeans, do not deserve a right to vote. Voting rights shall be taken away from them, as well as their medicine. One cannot expect a society to prolong the lives of its useless, degraded elements at its own peril.
The National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, monitors treatments "to make sure that your doctors are doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective." I am very glad to see that the same crowd that bitched about Bush and Cheney "wiretapping and listening in on their phone calls" have not made a peep about this and are just fine with turning all their medical data over to the government! I am relieved and glad that the government is taking direct action over a doctor's thought processes. I was just sick of having the Insurance Industry do all my own thinking. I am glad that someone as smart as Joe Biden will be directing all my medical decision making.
Oh, and please give us the name of the back alley abortionists so we can tax the income they make.
are you aware that there was one constitution that specifically separated church and state? It was in the constitution of the U.S.S.R
bol'shoye spasibo
Socialism - I have seen the future and ran from it.
I never thought I would see socialist contradictions in America, let alone write about them. But somehow all attempts to organize life according to "progressive" principles always result in such contradictions. And in the areas where "progressives" have assumed positions of leadership - education, news media, or the entertainment industry - contradictions become "historically inevitable."
America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
"We are a world of diverse people from all walks of life. 'Pro-gay' people, Gays, Lesbians, Transgendered, Bisexual people are not going anywhere. "
you forgot the "questioning" people. I hereby officially denounce you. get your shovel, report to the local commissar for two weeks re-education in the beet fields.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
There was a time in recent American history when certain Soviet jokes didn't work in translation - not so much because of the language differences, but because of the lack of common sociopolitical context. But that is changing. As President Obama is preparing us for a great leap towards collectivism, I find myself recollecting forgotten political jokes I shared with comrades while living in the old country under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Gorbachev. (I was too young to remember the Khrushchev times, but I remember the Khrushchev jokes.) I also noticed that the further America "advances" back to the Soviet model, the more translatable the old Soviet jokes become.
Not all Soviet advancements have metastasized here yet, but we have four more glorious years to make it happen.
Dialectical contradictions are one of the pillars in Marxist philosophy, which states that contradictions eventually lead to a unity of opposites as the result of a struggle. This gave a convenient "scientific" excuse for the existence of contradictions in a socialist society, where opposites were nice and agreeable - unlike the wild and crazy opposites of capitalism that could never be reconciled. Hence the joke
One of my favorite political jokes is this:
Love and marriage:
Sex differences are the result of social conditioning - yet homosexuality is biological.
Homosexuality is biological - yet everybody is encouraged to experiment with it.
Everybody is encouraged to experiment with it - yet venereal diseases are treated at the taxpayers' expense.
Venereal diseases are treated at the taxpayers' expense - yet taxpayers have no right to impose standards since there are no moral absolutes.
There are no moral absolutes - yet gay marriage is an absolute must.
Gay marriage is an absolute must - yet family is an antiquated tool of bourgeois oppression.
I'm looking forward to Purge Season. Ahhh... the smell of fear, the sweat on the foreheads, the glaring Klieg lights, the flowing tears, the begging pleas for mercy... I don't know about you, but it gives me goose bumps and a warm fuzzy feeling that my cold-blooded reptillian hypothalamus really enjoys, like a snake sunning itself on a warm, flat rock.
Our plans of ruling the world through the mentally challenged and comically illegitimate puppet George W. Bush have been a great success. Our secret world government, the 3rd Capitalist Cabal Internationale, has reported that thanks to our Great Imperialist War, 95% of the world's supply of crude oil is now part of our monopoly holdings! We can raise gasoline prices with no consequences. Shareholders are happy and profits are up. Killing innocent civilians has never been so satisfying.
To the uneducated eye it would appear the Capitalist Class is doing well. But our very success holds the seeds of potential ruin. Unfortunately, the workers and the peasants have CNN, The New York Times, and MSNBC. The last is the worst. It is comprised of socialist geniuses bent on welfare and poodle marriage - the lowest kind of lunatics who belong in an asylum for the criminally vile but sane.
We need to tax the poor wisely. We haven't been. The latest tax report from the 3rd Capitalist Cabal Internationale states that the rich top 20% of society are paying 80% of the taxes! The top 1% pay 38% of all taxes! We are giving back to the workers and peasants too much of the wealth we've removed from their frayed overall pockets through merciless exploitation.
It is necessary to bribe workers with the share of our satanically immoral profits so as to prolong our reign by keeping them within a barely sustainable poverty. But we shouldn't allow them to have more free time and more money than we think they need. These purblind clowns already have too much leisure and stray cash while paying little or nothing to the despicable oligarchical government that oppresses them.
Taxes, mes amis, are the classical leeching price of any civilization! If we don't tax the poor hard enough, the egg of civilization will break and the messy revolution predicted by Marx and Engels will become a reality. We have trouble enough with reality. Capitalists! Bourgeoisie and other exploiting classes! Counter-revolution has become a pressing historical necessity! Tax the poor and delay the inevitable advance of the people’ power! We have everything to lose but their chains!
As we know, AIDS is an excellent example of market failure -- but only under Republican administrations. When the ostensible leadership of the nation panders to a primitive constituency comprised free-market zealots and right-wing theocrats, don't be surprised when AIDS fatalities increase.
Judging by the vastly reduced frequency of AIDS stories in the media under Democratic leadership, and applying my rotated multilogit quadratic extraction matrices to the pertinent data, we can only conclude that Republicans and AIDS form a cause-and-effect relationship. Does this mean that Republicans are homosexual? Possibly, as their hostility towards gay rights might be an attempt to mask their own repressed leanings. But then, I am not a psychologist. I am only a (very talented) economist.
You are quite correct to state that the costs of AIDS fall on taxpayers. (And although I am not a physician, it is my understanding that AIDS can also have health consequences for taxpayers who are not yet infected.) And, of course, no one chooses to get AIDS.
And we can say the same thing about many other things. Though it is somewhat beneath me, let me provide you with a non-technical analogy.
The other day, I was driving on the New Jersey Turnpike to Princeton, which is where I work. Out of nowhere, my car broke down, and I came to a dead halt in the left lane. Now, I am not a car mechanic; I am only a (legendary) economist. And so, I sat in the left lane, listening to traffic reports of congestion to the George Washington Bridge, and thinking about how I was (somehow) losing money by waiting for assistance. And that's when I realized that:
A) My car's failure is imposing costs on everyone else.
B) "Free to choose" is all wrong here.
C) No one could say that anyone rationally wanted to be in this situation.
And so, I am suing the New Jersey Turnpike Authority for one hour of my very valuable time.
In other words, almost everything we do has some externalities, and we are often the victims of unintended circumstances. Therefore, it is axiomatic that the government should provide a universal "safety net" for everyone for every misfortune.
the jonly thing taht will help this godforsaken shithole is a 20 megaton airburst nuclear blast at 1,500 ft centered on the corner of east ave and sabattus st. that is the geographic center on the city
the reason there are so many in prison is it used to look good for the parole board if someone found religion and gave the facade of finding the light. "what's not fine is when those people try to force others to adhere to their personal beliefs." you mean like militant islamo-facists?
If the health care system in America is the Titanic then why do a lot of people from around the (socialist) world come here to use it? It always make me wonder if leftists actually purchase anything with their own money, work for their own money, or even work for that matter, since most appear to be clueless as to how the profit driven capitalist system works. For the most part, people left to their own devices and free to choose and will make intelligent decisions about what affects their lives, (democratic voters are the obvious exception). The protection racket is the one enjoyed by the lawyers and their bought and paid for hacks in congress that refuse to offer any meaningful tort reform. The concept of having health insurance magically leading to a long and prosperous life is a little misleading. The idea of personal responsibility is often lost on the leftists and it smacks of intellectual and moral laziness that they want to have the government tell them what to do. Well guess what? They aren’t smart enough to tell me how to live. If you want to exchange liberty for some false sense of security you will have and deserve neither. Once the government controls the health care dollars they can start dictating more and more aspects of your life. You put on some weight? No health care for you fatso. A lot of you put on some weight? Maybe we should close down MacDonald’s, burger king and all the ice cream stands. Or how about not selling beer or other adult beverages since alcoholism is a huge cost to society? There will be no end to the irksome meddling into our lives. The fastest way to reduce cost is to remove the prohibitions put on insurance companies about selling across state lines. Currently there are 1,300 companies selling health care insurance but only 6 are allowed to sell in Maine. Open it up to all and the cost will come down. Anyone old enough to remember life before the breakup of Ma Bell remembers the high cost of calling the west coast. Since competition was introduced it is now pennies to call California. The same will happen if the insurance companies are free to sell anywhere. Don’t confuse having health insurance with getting health care. Dear leader is fond of telling us that if we like our health plan we can keep it, but any company that can reduce cost by dropping their health care plan will do it and that will put about 150 million more people into the system. Combine that with the recent surveys of doctors that say about ½ of all doctors will retire instead of accepting government mandates and the system will be unmanageable. The cost is high today but it will be deadly when it is free.
the term is illegal aliens and in North Carolina they are responsible for a third of all motor vehicle violations mostly dwi. the state police down there report that when they stop them they claim they don't speak english so the troopers have a choice keep them there for a few hours while an interpreter is rounded up or let them go. so they go free and keep drinking and laughing at us. they are bankrupting the hospitals in border states and putting a huge strain on the prison system in california. a small group of illegals are going to hospitals ilas vegas and getting dialysis free to them but at a cost of about $15,000 each. which means you and me are paying. if they are here illegally then the have already demonstrated a propensity to break the law. kick them out.
if you live on fairlawn and your neighbors are aware of this, there is a simple solution. park your vehicles on the street in such a manner as to impede traffic flow. or at least to make it slow down. park in front of your house and another across the street even with your vehicle. leave room for emergency vehicles but cause a disruption to traffic flow. it must involve talking to your neighbors though. or just hide near the corner at 74 fairlawn and throw rocks.
no that is what we will get with the public option. how about this: there are only 6 insurance companies allowed to sell health care in maine but there are about 1700 nation wide. open it up to all and the price of insurance comes down. same thing happened in the late 70's early 80's with the phone company, no one called the west coast until after 7 pm because it was so expensive, now with competion the price came down a lot. the came thing with lasik and plastic surgery, people shop around when it is their money on the line. cap claims on lawsuits and loser pays. if you want to sit there and let the government tell you what you are going to get and be happy with it then you are intellectually lazy and morally bankrupt. the rest of us want to take care of ourselves and our families.
they had insurance so obviously they could afford it, they were originally denied the operation but cigna relented albeit a little late and she died. unfortunate? yes but she was not denied it because she had no insurance. with govt run health care she would still be dead. 14 years old, the cost-benefit analysis would not be in her favor to make it worthwhile for the operation.
there are 1700 companies that offer heatlh care plans but only 6 are allowed to sell in this state. open it up to all and the cost will come down. If we limit the pay to doctors it will not reduce the cost it will just mean we are refusing to pay. that is quite a difference. With the public option there is no health care.
Cultural mythology? Does that mean if you didn’t actually experience it then someone else isn’t allowed to offer an historical perspective? No one can offer recorded history that you will accept or believe? That’s like saying you are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. So by that line of thinking, the American Civil war is a cultural myth since no one is around today that witnessed it even though plenty of people wrote about it. What about the revolutionary war? Did that happen? Columbus sailing the ocean? Martin Luther nailing his 95 thesis’ to the door in Wittenburg? The crusades? What happened in the time of Jesus was witnessed and recorded as were his words. But by your line of reasoning, when you are dead and gone, you will be a myth, readily denied by all that live on after you.
Rex you think we will do it on the backs of those who rely on state programs? HA! you say that like it is a bad thing. those people need to get off their butt and start becoming productive members of society. I've worked in downtown Lewiston for the past 21 years and I see firsthand what the FAILED welfare policies the compassionate but economic illiterates in Augusta have wrought. There are people with just enough welfare money to eat, pay rent in crappy tenements and don't care how filthy the place is since they have no vested intrest in thebuilding and don't care where the trash piles up. Every day I see people wandering around town looking for drink, drugs, or trouble. It's not just antedotal stories because I work on the streets. Those people aren't there because they are or were exploited by some souless corporation, they are there because they don't know any better and were told the lies that someone else owes them a living.
combine that with the fact that what once were vices are now habits. The only thing this state owes them is an equal opportunity to succeed. It would appear this state is only providing them an equal opportunity to fail. This country is broke and it is a matter of time before the government checks either stop or bounce and then what do you think the peeps will do? Move to another town? Hardly. They will be heading out to the neighborhoods where the working people live, and then it will get ugly real fast. cut taxes cut spending and leave people alone, those fools in augusta and washington aren't smart enough to tell me how to live. Liberals have good intemtions and bad information, that is a recipe for disaster.
Why is it if people disagree with the atheist left they are mind-numbed robots incapable of consice, articulate, clear thought but when the leftists disagree with the right they are "speaking truth to power", being patriotic, and portrayed as brave free thinkers? I guess it depends on whose ox is being gored. The left has the appearance of mind-numbed robots since they prey of the weak and lazy by keeping them in ghettos both intellectual and physical. If they really cared about "the people" they would overhaul the dusfunctional education system starting with testing teachers and getting rid of the incompentent ones. Next reduce taxes on any business that is socially conscious, defined as:
providing a living wage (currently $27.28 per hr for family of four in androscoggin county)
provides access to health insurance
and provides access to a retirement plan.
Any business that does that should not pay more than 5% corporate tax. The best welfare program is a decent job, but the leftists in any country want to control the people by creating a dependency class. You only have to drive thru Lewiston to see firsthand the effects of that disasterous policy. We are currently exiting our 3rd generation of welfare dependent people and rapidily creating our 4th. I certainly don't blame them since they don't know any better but why do the same thing over and over? It would appear the theory of the democrat party is "if it doesn't work, don't fix it".
the prayer of the unitarians is real simple "Dear God, (if there is a God).....
The Christian faithful should bear in mind that the undertaking of Christianity should be exemplified through Jesus Christ as an inspired member of the Church in love and sacrifice. The gate of the kingdom of God is straight and narrow leading to salvation, unlike the gate of destruction, which is broad. The privilege of choice should be evaluated for the Christian to select rather the narrow gate which demands sacrifice and humility, kindness and sympathy to enter "unto life". The picture of the two roads and ways of life was known and exemplified by the pre-Christian world, as well as the Christian.
tron you moron if you get in an accident in lewiston will you care if the rescue people wear "grubby little boots"? I am watching the news (channel 6) and there was a no on 1 ad and one of the people in it was a fire fighter in the firehouse. behind him was some grubby little boots hanging on the wall. actually they look pretty clean. get off that high horse you sanctimonious fraud.
Bribes? how about the bribes from the trial lawyers to their wholly owned subsidiary the democratic party? in 2008 the dems got $19 mil and the repubs got about $25 mil. from insurance companies, almost even. trial lawyers in 2008? dems $180 mil repubs $72 mil not even close
Hey Mr. Fixit just because your 6th grade teacher failed you year after year for spelling and grammer doesn't mean you should hate all teachers. Maybe it really was your fault. But take heart, the world needs ditch-diggers and burger-flippers too.
here is a better idea. how about YOU monitoring your doctors fees, hospital charges, testing fees and insurance "gouging" instead of being a lazy american and expecting someone else to do it. in other words take responsibility for yourself and your life. most people do comparison shopping for everything else so why outsource one of the most important aspects of your well-being to some nameless, faceless beaurocrat? It might leem like some Byzantimum maze but take a little time to learn about it and then it is quite simple. if you don't do it then who will? tort reform is one answer, plus being able to purchase policies from other states is another, competition will bring down prices just remember what happened to the phone company. lots of people didn't make long distance calls until after 7 pm because it was expensive but now we can call whoever we want anytime and not take out a loan to pay the bill. the leftists always say the government doesn't have any right in our bedrooms, well it doesn't have any right in the bathrooms, kitchens, and waiting rooms either.
wow lil I am impressed, that is the first time i have ever seen you write more than one incoherent and rambling sentence. but it is still 5 incoherent, incomplete, nonsensical and rambling sentences.
a better question is how can anyone take dave seriously when he shows up at a republican meeting in lewiston (2 years ago), started yelling at the people there and when asked to leave he refused, so a 65 year old grandmother pulled out her cell phone to call the police and then he assulted her? yeah tough guy I remember that. you are lucky she didn't press charges. but dave like all the other libtards you are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care and when you add 50 million more and limit cost you get rationing. plus showing absoultely no concept about how businesses operate, you should realize that when a government option is available businesses are going to drop health care as a benefit to reduce costs and the estimates are about 150 million people will be forced into the government plan. any guesses what that will do to the system? do you think it might stress it a little more? a week or so ago Dear Abby had a column where people wrote in complaining about how unfair it was to wait more than 15 minutes in the doctors waiting room. are you ready for a 15 month wait? you libtards are so compassionate, so caring, so friggin' stupid.
"the arrogance of the leftist is surpassed only by their ignorance"
Susan, don't worry what the marxists say since they are always on the wrong side of history, keep speaking up for what you think is right. the arrogance of the left is exceeded only by their ignorance.
you write in vague suppositions. what about Beck, Limbaugh, Ingraham, Coulter, et. al. ? can't you back up your vapid arguments with any hard facts or do you just go "Uh,Uh,Uh, what about them?" WHAT ABOUT THEM? maybe you should listen to what they say instead of what others say they say. Or are you from the Mark Twain school of journalism? "get your facts first, you can distort them as you wish"
Well let's see, which party was the one that freed the slaves? (R) Which party was the party of slaveholders? (D) Which party had the founding members of the KKK? (D) Which party fought bitterly against segregation? (D) Which party had Al Gore Sr, and J. William Fulbright as senators that voted against the civil rights act? (D) Which party insists on keeping people segregated into nasty little slums and refuses to allow people to educate their children the way they see fit? (D) Which party has no faith in the concept of hard work, self-reliance, and personal responsiblity? (D) Liars? tax cheats? I think the democRATs have a monopoly on those personal flaws. no one is perfect but if you hold up Charles Rangel, Tim Geitner, Chris Dodd, and all the other sleazy race hustling poverty pimps as paragons of virtue, then you just show your small-minded myopic vision of a hateful section of America. The arrogance of the left in this country is exceeded only by their ignorance.
insurance companies have to make money in order to pay claims, plus a lot of pension funds are invested (read: responsible people that have jobs) in the compaines so there is the obligation to investors and the 4 million people that work in the field. The most necessary part of reform is tort reform, estimates are that 25-30% of fees for doctors are to cover the high cost of malpractice insurance. why are you leftists so adamant about companies being evil if they should (gasp!) make a profit? how about if we all work together to keep the government in check? you have to realise that when it is for profit the incentive is to create new and better drugs and equipment to treat people. that costs money for research and development. the populist, histrionics of the letter is funny since we have to assume you are smarter than us in that you know how much to charge for services and how much profit a company should make. If you are that smart why aren't you king of the world? but I must say I really love the comparision to public schools since they do such a terrible job educating students today. you want to see quality education go to almost any private school. health care is not a right, but people have an obligation to behave responsible. get some exercise, don't stuff double cheeseburgers down your mouth daily, and don't abuse drugs and alcohol, and maybe you will live a long healthy life. fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life. Don't confuse access to health insurance with access to health care they are not the same thing. The real question about government care is not will the government pull the plug on grandma but will they even let her get plugged in in the first place?
Hospitals, doctors, and drug companies have to increase their fees because of the constant threat of going to court. the middle class pays for everything because that is where the money is. If the "wealthy" have the money to pay for all our needs then why aren't they taxed at 100% or even 95%? the money is not there. currently there is no law that prohibits a company or individual from moving to another state or country in order to avoid paying taxes, so if the government raises the taxes to confiscatory rates what will stop anyone with the means to do so from doing it? stop the leftist, communist thinking and start thinking what it would be like if everyone got off their butts and contributed to society by producing some value instead of being a parasite.
Bush attacked constitutional protections? The ethical collapse of the leftists is nowhere more evident than the frightening "request" to report fellow citizens for making unacceptable comments to the white house. If a republican had done that we would have had to wrap Mr Duncan's head with rolls of paper towels due to the foaming at the mouth and the spittle flying forth. the silence is deafening but expected.
"always do the right thing, it will gratify some and astonish the rest"
my english teacher, Mrs Sarah Craig (God bless her) used to tell us that the most conscise way to write was to write the way you speak, and that was essentially nonsense.
part of the "right" to be healthy and survive is the responsibility to eat right get some exercise and don't abuse drugs and alcohol. then maybe based on genetic makeup you will survive to a ripe old age so obamacare can kill you. if youare here illegally you don't deserve a damn thing so get out.
The majority of people staying at maine motels and eat in restaurants are Maine residents. Why can't the people in Augusta realize that? the way to make this state better is to cut taxes and cut spending. quit giving my money away to lazy layabouts and start cutting taxes for businesses. I work in downtown lewiston so I see all the bums that get up at the crack of noon to do nothing. have you ever heard of tough love? end it now.
"Some of us are wise, and some are otherwise"
have another glass of kool-aid. those fools can't even run a web site for used cars, but don't worry I am sure they will do a better job with your prostate. it is really irratating that idiots like that cancel out my vote.
"when I was a child my grandpa told me the two political parties were the Republicans and the son-of-a-bitches"
you want great health care for free? become a doctor and give it away. They don't do it for altrustic reasons, and the drug companies don't develop drugs for the warm fuzzy feeling they get from helping people, they do it to make money. If you remove the profit motive then where will the new lifesaving drugs come from? Also if American companies don't develop the drugs how much will they then cost in Germany? that is spoken like the clueless,out of touch, leftist, eletist, bates college specializes in creating.
"Always do the right thing, it will gratify some and astonish the rest"
What color is the sky on your planet? Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt now in case you didn't know it. In other countries workers ( a work reminiscent of a communist paradise) aren't denied health insurance, they are just denied health care. There is a reason drug companies charge money for their product, they own it! Do you think they will spend hundreds of millions and not expect a return on their investment? You don't understand how a free market works or even human nature works. Medical care have different prices in different parts of the country? so doesn't gas, food, and clothing. Doctors get a bonus for changing hospitals? you say that like it is a bad thing, they are only looking out for themselves, and it sounds like something a ballplayer would do through free agency. Last year the richest 1% paid 40% of all taxes and the lowest 50% of earners didn't pay any taxes so they aren't even taxpayers are they? And could you prove some of the fraud in the military? You can't? then shut up fool.
the problem of the high divorce rate is directly related to the concept of "hooking up" whereby two people meet, have sex, and think hey this is fun if we lived together we could do it all the time, so they live together without really knowing each other. studies have shown that couples who do three things; 1. do not live together before marriage, 2. recieve pre-marriage counseling and 3. attend a church, have a divorce rate of about 11% and those that do the opposite three that is 1. live together, 2. get no counseling, 3. and have no religious background, experience a divorce rate of about 88%. Add those two numbers together and divide by 2 and you could reach the almost 50% rate that is so frequently cited. a little misleading I think.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
name one person that lost their home because they couldn't pay for health care and while you are at it name one person that died because their insurance companies refused the treatment.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
I have met Bolduc several times since he unfortunately is my rep in augusta. he is a clueless dolt. the problem is tort reform and the ambluance chasing lawyers. no one is denied health care today due to lack of insurance, but under obamacare lots of people with insurance will be denied care starting with the elderly, those with terminal illnesses, dementia, or people needing long term care. anybody have family members that fall in those catagories? then get ready to watch them die. although there is a provision in obamacare that offers counseling for ending your lfe. mmmm now thats compassion.
"extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" AU H2O
tron what is corporate welfare, do the companies line up to get heating assistance or food stamps? do we see some lazy executives out on the front steps of the building smoking and drinking at 10 am and harrassing passers by? do we see obese sullen unkempt companies spewing out smaller nasty little companies every 9-10 months just to increase their "benefits?" I know the libtards have a myopic skewered vision of how the world works but the reality is if you make it less expensive to do business here ( read: LOWER TAXES) more people will be working, owning homes, paying taxes, and being more responsible. How about this: a company defined as socially responsible is defined as one that provides three things to its employees, a living wage, defined as the hourly wage that supports a family of 4 above the poverty level, access to a health insurance plan, and access to a pension plan, so any company that wants to do those three things gets a huge tax break. bracket it for the number of employees and the larger the number of employees, the less the company pays in taxes. after all the best welfare reform program is a good job.
how can the number of doctors be reduced, payments to doctors, pharmacutical companies, and insurance companies reduced and still increase the number of people getting benefits by 50 million and have the cost go down? easy. ration care, so those with terminal illness don't get care, elderly don't get care, those that most need services don't get care, and infants and young children with life threatening illnesses won't get care. lets take a trip down memory lane shall we?
The order for the final solution was given sometime in early 1942 after the Wannassee Protocol was issued. This was based on an earlier murder program called T4 and it’s associated program called 14F13 aimed at Jews and gypsies. It was named for the address in Berlin of the agency responsible for the actions, Tiergarten 4. Of the people killed: adults in mental institutions about 100,000, children in institutions about 5,000, Jews and others about 21,000 It is estimated about 1/3 of the mental hospitals were cleared out during this time. Elements of deception make an accurate count impossible.
Copying the German model, in our own version of the Reichs Chancellery, the Obama administration has the brother of Rahm Emanuel, Dr Ezekiel Emanuel serving as director of the Clinical Bio-Ethics Department at the U. S. National Institute of Health and is a key architect of Obama’s health reform plan. His opinion is that the Hippocratic Oath is the driving force behind the high cost of health care in America. He has stated in an interview with Lancet that allocation of health care based on age is not a form of discrimination and there is no guarantee of health care to patients suffering from dementia. In Obama’s version of nationalized medicine these ideas, while morally questionable may become the law. After all the Dr believes that the Hippocratic oath, the very essence of western medicine, and the one binding oath that the Nazi death doctors abrogated across the board is “a problem” because it causes needless expense and Obama Care is all about curbing expenses and somebody has to pay one way or the other. Withholding medicine and care because of age or terminal illness is just fine with them even though this action will increase suffering and hasten death. The proof is in his own words. We seem to forget the Nazi T4 program was started with the best of intentions, the euthanasia of those in vegetative states, those unworthy of life, and folks with incurable diseases because of their long term costs to the state. Are we not doing the same thing with the elderly and those with dementia or incurable diseases because of the cost to the government? If we do, then what kind of nation have we become when the doctors turn their backs on us by force of law? What then is the price of life and how many may die as a result of Obamacare over time?
joel, one doesn't sin against politicians, one's sin's are against God. but your premise is correct vote them out.
"extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" Au H2O
no wonder the state is in trouble with morons like that in Augusta giving the people the business. "We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
Dave so much hot air and so little common sense. let me remind you that once again you are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care. so what if it is free, if you can't get care what good is it? in order to cut costs you must cut demand and to do that you must cut services. obamacare will start with ending care to the elderly and those with incurable diseases. I know no one wants to beleive that but america has its own Dr Death advising the president ezekiel emanuel the brother of his chief of staff rahm emanuel. he is of the opinion that the elderly don't deserve medical care and the Hippocratic oath is the driving force in high health care costs. just remember one thing: you are going to be old one day and then you will wonder why you can't get care. yeah good luck with that.
"extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" AuH2O
Dave so much hot air and so little common sense. let me remind you that once again you are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care. so what if it is free, if you can't get care what good is it? in order to cut costs you must cut demand and to do that you must cut services. obamacare will start with ending care to the elderly and those with incurable diseases. I know no one wants to beleive that but america has its own Dr Death advising the president ezekiel emanuel the brother of his chief of staff rahm emanuel. he is of the opinion that the elderly don't deserve medical care and the Hippocratic oath is the driving force in high health care costs. just remember one thing: you are going to be old one day and then you will wonder why you can't get care. yeah good luck with that.
"extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" AuH2O
we will become a nation that is run by the tyranny of the minority. what about my rights to believe in 5,000 years of judeo-christian tradition? even the primitive pre-historic societies recognized the concept of one man one woman as the basic foundation of society. deny it all you want and call us all the names you want but it won't change the basic historical truth that is the reality of life. if homosexuals want to live together, thats fine with me, like my brother and his partner do, my neighbors do, and some of my co-workers do. i still love them all. and leah, for the record it is not ok to sacrifice children, own slaves, have more than one wife, and if you eat shellfish you won't burn in hell.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
Why is it that for the most part those on the left tend to be against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the right to have homosexuals marry? It seems to me to be at odds with each other. Suppose for a minute that America loses the wars and the Islamo-facists are able to conquer this country. Or a more likely scenario would be that muslims are running for public office and start winning elections at the state level, then suppose the legally elected muslims are able to appoint judges to state supreme courts. How friendly will they be to gay marriage? Remember these are the same people that kill gay men by placing them next to a two story brick and stone wall and pushing it over onto them and give 4,000 lashes to lesbians for the first offence and then for the second offence are buried up to their waist and stoned to death. Meanwhile here in America the Christians merely go "tsk tsk we will pray for you" and gladly, willingly accept you for who you are as neighbors, co-workers, and friends. I would think more homosexuals would be voting on the right but like the Bible says "Are there none so blind as those who won't see?"
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
Outstanding journalism? yikes it makes me wonder what is avialable in their area. this is just another left wing screed that insists on preaching to the great unwashed from their ivory towers. they do have really good photographers though, Russ, Jose, and Amber, good job.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
As I recall, the last leader who nationalized the auto industry and was an eloquent and charismatic speaker, what was his name? or nickname? oh yeah thats right
DER FUHRER.
SEIG HEIL OBAMA
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
hey you with the silly hat, why don't you libtards remember when a disaster hits a community the procedures in place require the local officials (paging Mayor Nagin-D for dopey) must first ask the governor (Blanco-D for dumbass) who then ask the feds for help. neither one did what they were required to do because they were not only stupid but as a typical democrat they don't care about the people. Bush declared a state of emergency 2 days before the hurricane hit land and called Blanco to encourage her to order an evacuation. He had no legal authority to do so. homeland security is a failure because the venal corrupt demoncrats won't secure the border down south. it is the simplest thing to do. mexico secures their southern border with troops and they shoot and jail violators. if you don't like insurance companies telling doctors what they can or can't do what makes you think you will like a government beaurcrat telling them what they can or can't do? oh yeah thats because you worship at the altar of big government and are way to stupid to think for youself. instead of just parrotting the farrago of lies that come from the bubble-headed bozos on the mass media why not think for yourself? the only thing i agree with you is people will suffer and you haven't seen anything yet.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
all the leftists are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care. so what if we all have free insurance if we can't get care. The Kennedy-Dodd bill would create an individual mandate requiring you to buy a “qualified” health insurance plan, as defined by the government. If you don’t have “qualified” health insurance for a given month, you will pay a new Federal tax. Incredibly, the amount and structure of this new tax is left to the discretion of the Secretaries of Treasury and Health and Human Services (HHS), whose only guidance is “to establish the minimum practicable amount that can accomplish the goal of enhancing participation in qualifying coverage. The bill would also create an employer mandate. Employers would have to offer insurance to their employees. Employers would have to pay at least a certain percentage of the premium, and at least a certain dollar amount both to be determined later. Any employer that did not would pay a new tax. Again, the amount and structure of the tax is left to the discretion of the Secretaries of Treasury and HHS. Small employers would be exempt.
In the Kennedy-Dodd bill, the government would define a qualified plan:
All health insurance would be required to have guaranteed issue and renewal, modified community rating, no exclusions for pre-existing conditions, no lifetime or annual limits on benefits, and family policies would have to cover “children” up to age 26. A qualified plan would have to meet one of three levels of standardized cost-sharing defined by the government, “gold, silver, and bronze.” Details later.
Plans would be required to cover a list of preventive services approved by the Federal government.
A qualified plan would have to cover “essential health benefits,” as defined by a new Medical Advisory Council, appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The council would determine what items and services are “essential benefits.” The council would have to include items and services in at least the following categories: ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and new born care, medical and surgical, mental health, prescription drugs, rehab and lab services, preventive/wellness services, pediatric services, and anything else the MAC thought appropriate.
The council would also define what “affordable and available coverage” is for different income levels, affecting who has to pay the tax if they don’t buy health insurance. The council’s rules would go into effect unless Congress passed a joint resolution under a fast-track process) to turn them off.
Health insurance plans could not charge higher premiums for risky behaviors: “Such rate shall not vary by health status-related factors.” Smokers, drinkers, drug users, and those in terrible physical shape would all have their premiums subsidized by the healthy.
Guaranteed issue and renewal combined with modified community rating would dramatically increase premiums for the overwhelming majority of those Americans who now have private health insurance. New Jersey is the best example of health insurance mandates gone wild. In the name of protecting their citizens, premiums are extremely high to cover the cross-subsidization of those who are uninsurable.
The bill would expand Medicaid to cover everyone up to 150% of poverty, with the Federal government paying all incremental costs (no State share). This means adding childless adults with income below 150% of the poverty line.
People from 150% of poverty up to 500% would get their health insurance subsidized (on a sliding scale). If this were in effect in 2009, a family of four with income of $110,000 would get a small subsidy. The bill does not indicate the source of funds to finance these subsidies.
People in high cost areas ( New York City, Boston, South Florida, Chicago, Los Angeles) would get much bigger subsidies than those in low cost areas (much of the rest of the country, especially in rural areas). The subsidies are calculated as a percentage of the “reference premium,” which is determined based on the cost of plans sold in that particular geographic area
There would be a “public plan option” of health insurance offered by the federal government. In this new government health plan, the federal government would pay health care providers Medicare rates + 10%. The +10% is clearly intended to attract short-term legislative support from medical providers. I hope they are not so naive that they think that differential would last.
Group health plans with 250 or fewer members would be prohibited from self-insuring. ERISA would only be for big businesses.
States would have to set up “gateways” (health insurance exchanges) to market only qualified health insurance plans. If they don’t, the Feds will set up a gateway for them.
Health insurance plans in existence before the law would not have to meet the new insurance standards. This creates a weird bifurcated system and means you would (probably) be subject to a different set of rules when you change jobs.
The bill does not specify what spending will be cut or what taxes will be raised to pay for the increased spending. That is presumably for the Finance Committee to determine, since it’s their jurisdiction.
The bill defines an “eligible individual” as “a citizen or national of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence or an alien lawfully present in the United States.”
The bill would create a new pot of money for state gateways to pay “navigators” to educate people about the new bill, distribute information about health plans, and help people enroll. Navigators receiving federal funds “may include … unions, …”
This would have severe effects on the more than 100 million Americans who have private health insurance today:
The government would mandate not only that you must buy health insurance, but what health insurance counts as “qualifying.”
Health insurance premiums would rise as a result of the law, meaning lower wages.
A government-appointed board would determine what items and services are “essential benefits” that your qualifying plan must cover.
You would find a tremendous new disincentive to switch jobs, because your new health insurance may be subject to the new rules and would therefore be significantly more expensive.
Those who keep themselves healthy would be subsidizing premiums for those with risky or unhealthy behaviors.
Far more than half of all Americans would be eligible for subsidies, but we have not yet been told who would pay the bill.
The Secretaries of Treasury and HHS would have unlimited discretion to impose new taxes on individuals and employers who do not comply with the new mandates.
The Secretary of HHS could mandate that you provide him or her with “any such other information as [he/she] may prescribe.”
I strongly oppose this bill.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
But this is the "green" technology nutzy pelosi and all the other flat earth no growth environmental marxists are saying is going to creat millions of jobs. who do you think you are standing in the way of progress? oh yeah I know, not in my back yard.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
Yet when one of their constituents asks for an answer to such a simple question they, or at least a member of their staff, cannot find the time to respond. They either lie like a cheap rug or totally ignore you because they don’t want to listen to the little people.
There, I fixed it for you.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
actually Mr. Plog the reason we are told Americans have no savings is because the government says so, but to get to that number (0 or a negative) they factor in the deficit spending they do and the savings rate the citizens do and come up with the negative number. In reality the average citizen is saving a huge amount of money http://www.bea.gov/briefrm/saving.htm it is the highest rate in 10 years. which begs the question "if the average citizen can do it why can't the government do it?" Don't believe everything the government says and certainly don't believe what you see in this newspaper. "We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
who can steal from God? well the islamo-facists are trying their best to do that just as they have for the last 1300 years. "We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
lou i will defend to the death your right to express your beliefs. will you extend me the same courtesy? you will? good, i believe you are an idiot. free choice act will unionize and raise the cost of labor which will drive more business out of the state and raise the cost of everything left here. as for health care, you leftists are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care. 85% of americans are satisfied with their health care. so we should destroy the best systen in the world for the other 15%? the majority of those who choose not to have insurance are young people that still have the feeling of immortality and would rather have the extra money. my canadian wife has told me enough horror stories about the paradise to the north. in order to control costs which obama has said they will do they will ration care so the elderly meaning over 50 and the young under 12 will not get care. that was written into the first stimulus bill if you don't believe me. as for you last point my gay brother, gay cousin, gay neighbors, and gay co-workers already live in harmony with the rest of the community. "We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
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Yes, but nobody has ever
Yes, but nobody has ever heard of the Lewiston Choo-Choo. It just doesn't have the ring to it.
based on her picture I would
based on her picture I would have to vote
"GUILTY,YOUR HONOR"
do you really think this
do you really think this shows sound judgement? It is not something a good role model would do. How would you feel if some of his underage students thought if it is ok for the coach then it is ok for them? not cool.
good career move
good career move
go back to giving out brown
go back to giving out brown paper sacks of flour, rice, dried eggs, dried milk, cheese, canned ham and a cookbook. they won't starve and won't cost us more.
I followed him on the highway
I followed him on the highway today. he was doing 45 mph in the left lane with his right blinker on the whole way. when he stopped at the rest area he was muttering something about "damn kids get off my lawn"
and how long has it been
and how long has it been since the senate has come up with a budget? 1,000 days and counting. don't confuse motion with progress.
why is it that we are told to
why is it that we are told to change our ways by people that make a lot more money than we do and live in nicer homes than we do? woildn't it be better to help the poor move up economically instead of forcing the wealthy and niddle class to become poorer and using less? you cand preach all day about me being "greedy" but that doesn't resonate. name calling and playing the guilt card will never workwhen those using it are better off than 99% of the people. the important thing to remember is that some pointy headed psuedo-intellectual is not smart enough to tell me how to live.SO SHUT THE HELL UP.
relax, life isn't a 60 minute
relax, life isn't a 60 minute crime drama. the police do an investigation, submit it to the DA and they decide what to do. in case you haven't noticed, life is not fair and it is very messy. let it proceed.
I had a wicked thought today
I had a wicked thought today at work. Hit her where it would really hurt. after jail ban her from using a cell phone and the internet.
good point, I forgot about
good point, I forgot about cuffing her to the bed. but really how serious are her injuries if she managed to walk a mile from the scene? she is going for the sympathy vote. give tehe cops time they have to dot their i's and cross their t's. I see kids texting and driving everyday down here and used to see it everyday in Lewiston.
exactly what the heck can
exactly what the heck can lawmakers do to stop this? nothing. maybe the judge can by putting her away for about 20 years. maybe the parents can by not purchasing cars for irresponsible little dopes. If they find out who bought the alcohol put them in prison. Stop giving the lawbreakers a pass. I have no sympathy for that girl, she messed up and now she should have a decade or so in prison to think about what she did. Pay the price you moron.
An ideal form of government
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Voltaire
to encourage the others perhaps.
I love Christmas, it's the
I love Christmas, it's the time of year when families gather together and remember why they spent it apart.
the "payroll tax cut" is a
the "payroll tax cut" is a reduction in the amount people would pay into the Social Security cesspool so there would be even less money going into the system and then it would go broke faster. It has been a vote buying scheme for the democrats for years and it is about to come to a halt since we are a broke country.
It has nothing to do with the
It has nothing to do with the governer's budget and everything to do with the failure of the past 35 years of democrat control. They couldn't control their spending and usurious tax rates so now the burden has become too much for the fewer and fewer people left working in the state. The party is over and it is time to clean up the mess. Good job Rotundo, Craven, LaFontaine and rest of the mis-guided socialist utopians. Your shipment of fail has arrived.
continued smear campaign? you
continued smear campaign? you mean like the one the democrats have done against the "evil" republicans for the last 40 years? now that the shoe is on the other foot, how does it feel Senator? I would like to thank you and all the other democrats for pushing this state to the brink of bankruptcy. Peggy Rotundo privately admitted two years ago the state is out of money. good job people. now get out of the way so someone with real world experience can try and fix the wreck you pointy headed elites left.
there are more minorities at
there are more minorities at any tea party than there are in the US Senate. There are more anti-semitic videos made from the average occupy protest than at all the tea party meetings. We haven't heard about body lice, fleas, rapes, assaults, drug dealing, public defecation or urination, or rambling incoherant rants at any tea party protests. and lets see you prove some Hitler references associated with tea party protests.
I remember going many nights
I remember going many nights to help cook the meals at Trinity. There is a desperate need for help, food, money and if anyone can go and just talk to people. Like Mr Breton said most people are just lonely. Ask the mailmen how the elderly talk to them. Please help either Trinity or the Root Cellar you won't regret it.
So when you took elementary
So when you took elementary school social studies did you pay attention? If so you would know this country is a representative republic and not a democracy and you would know what the difference is. Also you would know that elections are scheduled months in advance and well publicized so any normal person could plan for it unless you are the average democrat voter in a drug or alcohol induced haze.
typical of a liberal to
typical of a liberal to profess concern for those less fortunate than others and then make fun of the same people. Money is not important to me and my wife that is why we give so much to charity. What we do is for the glory of God and not for the glory of man. And certainly not to impress some bitter old fool angry about the unfairness of life. I can't help it if my parents instilled in me the values of hard work, honesty, and not abusing drugs and alcohol. My wife and I were blesssed with a modicum of intelligence and know what it means to delay gratification in order to attain long term goals. If you think the government can create a paradise on earth you don't understand the concept of the fallen nature of man and you must have missed the lessons of the past 90 years in the old Soviet Union. We are imperfect so all human endeavor is fraught with error. I can take some small comfort in one simple fact; based on your picture, what I have gleaned from your comments and profile, and the actuarial table, chances are good you will die long before me so I won't have to see your inane leftist commie drivel much longer. Not that I wish you to die but I remember what Mark Twain once said "I never wished for any man's death but I have read many obituaries with a great deal of glee."
Billy Redden, the boy in the picture is neither retarded nor inbred and he is gainfully employed in Georgia leading a quiet normal life.
once again you display an
once again you display an abysmal amount of ignorance. So the state taxes 5% of the first $19,950 and 8.5% of the rest. my wife and I make a lot more than that. Also, stop the name calling. you don't make your argument any more valid.
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/12/higher-state-taxeslower-state.html
and here is one from the University of Michigan that says the opposite. My wife and I left Maine last Jan. because of the high taxes and cost of energy. We moved to the mountains of eastern TN. no state income tax so a 8.5% increase in pay, property taxes on a nicer house went from $3,500 to $890 a year, energy is cheaper by far and food and gas is less. we thought we would save about $9,000 a year but it looks like it will be closer to $12,000. the chamber of commerce here says there is a lot of interest from people in high tax states about moving here. With no family or friends here it was a major life change for a couple in their 50's but we have adapted nicely since we will have no more Maine winters.
If you ever get over to
If you ever get over to Montpelier VT go 10 miles south to Barre and check out the Hope Cemetery 201 Maple st. the art on the stones is worth the side trip.
the headline could also read
the headline could also read "more jobs lost under obama"
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_DEFICITS?SITE=AP&SECTION...
yeah right, here you go.
The president proposes and
The president proposes and congress disposes. Any tax increase(that is what obama is proposing everytime he opens his mouth) must first be written in crongress and passed by both houses. So far no democrat has submitted any bill, although a couple of days ago a member of congress did submit a bill called the American Jobs Act. so obama has to come up with another name because he is to stupid and slow. Here is a copy of the bill. http://gohmert.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Gohmert_American_Jobs_Act.pdf
Yeahhhh! I miss my friends in
Yeahhhh! I miss my friends in Lewiston. Have a great festival.
well, that proves that having
well, that proves that having money doesn't translate into having good taste.
like I said, truth is a
like I said, truth is a defense. If you publicly state a fact about someone and it puts them in a bad light but is correct they have no recourse.
Sunshine is the best
Sunshine is the best disinfectant, so if what you say is true tell the public who they are. Truth is the best defense. And point out to your wife that character matters, if they would cheat strangers on something like that they would cheat their friends in a heartbeat because they are cheating everyone in the country. Seriously, think about that we really need to bring back the concept of public shame.
Remember Mr Pelletier, people
Remember Mr Pelletier, people are known by the company they keep, and if these "close, personal friends" are such sleazy underhanded rip-off artists as you claim there is a chance you could be tarred with the same brush. Doesn't knowing about a crime and not saying anything about it make you just as guilty? It would be so easy to prove since cameras are everywhere now and if they use the cards it is on video and the electronic statement from the point of sale. They are enriching themselves at the expense of the taxpayer and the poor people the system is supposed to help. How do you know childern aren't missing out on food and clothing as a result of their theft? REPORT THEM PLEASE. As Votaire said "The opportunity for doing mischief happens a hundred times a day and for doing good, once a year."
god is a Republican and Santa
god is a Republican and Santa is a democrat. God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well being of the disadvantaged. He is politically connected, socially powerful and holds the mortgage on literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God's heavenly country club.
Santa Claus is another matter. He's cute. He's nonthreatening. He's always cheerful. And he loves animals. He may know who's been naughty and who's been nice, but he never does anything about it. He gives everyone everything they want without the thought of quid pro quo. He works hard for charities, and he's famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus.
P.J. O'Rourke - Parliament of Whores
do you have any proof of what
do you have any proof of what you wrote or are you just some lying leftist moron?
he would say...
"judge not, lest ye be judged" “He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need” (Ephesians 4:28). “If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially those of his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever” (1 Timothy 5:28).
Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward. 3But when you do alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand does: 4That your alms may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret himself shall reward you openly. Matthew 6:1-2
the last one the left especially has trouble with since they assume any conservative doesn't give to the poor and sits in their vaults gleefully counting their filthy lucre and they don't broadcast to the world how much they do give. It doesn't matter to me or any right thinking person what someone else thinks because God knows and he will judge. We will all be before the awesome judgement seat of Christ someday and we will have to give an account of our lives, but we will give it to Him and not to some people commenting on a letter to the editor. with that i am off to work, have a blessed day all.
I will make a simple analogy;
I will make a simple analogy; if I lived beyond my means for years and spent millions of dollars more than I made and one day someone told me I should reconsider what I was doing and then a few months later the bank called and said I am a credit risk so they were considering me a credit risk, how can I blame the person that warned me and not blame myself? Mr Albrecht, the 60's are over and they don't work. I know it is human nature to not be able to admit you are wrong but you and all the democrats are. good bye.
I think you missed the point.
I think you missed the point. why should I be forced to pay for anyone else's life? And don't give me that crap about how do I know what her situation is. I will bet you $1,000 payable to any charity of the winners choice that she is a lifetime member of the welfare class. She is not entitled to the sweat of my labor. You want to pay higher taxes go right ahead, don't include me in your half-baked socialist schemes.
as someone who paid taxes in
as someone who paid taxes in Maine for decades, you're welcome. what's that? you didn't say thank you? I didn't think so.
didn't obama, pelosi, and
didn't obama, pelosi, and reid remove $500 billion from medicare? the democrat controlled senate has not submitted a budget for over 840 days and the democrats in the house didn't submit one the last two years. guess who isn't doing their job?
yes you did miss something,
yes you did miss something, just drive around any campus in Maine and see how many out of state plates are on cars. http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/resident.htm Think about how much revenue is lost by not having the vehicles registered in the state. The snowbird has lived, worked, registered vehicles, and paid taxes in Maine, often for decades while the out of state student has no ties here other than to enlighten the rubes. They will be a felon if they voted here and back home because that disenfranchises all Maine residents who vote only once.
So, let me get this straight,
So, let me get this straight, you claim to be an 1990 alum from Xaiver and you claim you are a currently enrolled college student (thats what the story said) with an out of state residence (even though you live and run a business in Litchfield) and you are a registered voter in Maine? So confused but eagerly waiting your lawsuit.
the country is broke and they
the country is broke and they want to spend more? what is going to happen to people on a fixed income (Dan Breton) when the system collapses and there is no more money? that day is coming real fast.
single mother on a fixed
single mother on a fixed income driving a Mercedes? how does that happen? oh yeah I paid for it.
afraid not, obama is the
afraid not, obama is the president now and it is all his. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz says so. Keynesian economics is a failed theory and all that try is are doomed to fail.
since the recession began in
since the recession began in December 2007 it should really be called the Pelosi-Reid recession. Yes the bad old days of Bush when unemployment was just 5% and underemployment was about 10% and the debt was only 9 billion instead of its current 14 billion. Here is how it works: the country is out of money and we are on the verge of collapse. Raising the debt ceiling only works if people want to lend you the money. Its the same as if my wife and I decide to raise our debt limit. I say raise it $150,000 and she says $100,000 so we decide on $125,000 and then we call mastercard to give them the news. If they don't want to raise it then we pay our bills as they come due and stop living beyond our means. Capital and people are fluid entities not tied to any one city or state, they will go where they will be utilized fully and at the best tax rate for them. People don't choose to be destitute but they do choose to be slaves to the government welfare state, just drive down Pine Walnut Knox Sts.
would it make you feel any
would it make you feel any better if he used a knife or baseball bat?
His name is Noam not Norm.
His name is Noam not Norm. There is no such thing as Palestine territory since Palestine is a creation of the British in 1922 and has nothing to do with any land grab by Israel. To say "one web site" is silly at best because the muslims have killed more muslims than the Israelis. the concept of a balance of power is specious since peoples are always looking for an advantage over others. If the arabs put down their weapons their will be no war and if Israel puts down their weapons there will be no Israel. but you really lost any sense of credability when you called Jimmy Carter ethical and reasonable.
competition in the market?
competition in the market? People can actually make informed decisions? But...but...but...I thought that was the government's job. you know, to tell us what to do. good job and thank you.
Why can't you just call
Why can't you just call yourself an American and forget the hyphenated add ons? Segmenting the country is not celebrating diversity, it is dividing us by creating a Balkanized regional society based of identity politics and group think. There is something called the greater common good and everyone must participate in order for the country to survive. Like it or not we are all in this together.
coming soon to a polling
coming soon to a polling place near you
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/153079-gop-says-5000-non-citizens-voti...
well obama did promise
well obama did promise change....from two wars to three isn't the change the moonbats were expecting i think. where are all the protestors on the casco bay bridge? do they now want blood for oil? cue the crickets in 3....2....1....
offer some proof
instead of the same tired lame re-fried talking points from the democrat party (a wholly owned subsidary of the communist party)
What I thought more
What I thought more appropriate might be having three murals, the first being a mural of all the entrepreneurs that risked their own fricking money and gave their all to create companies that hired all those people.
The second could be all the union organizers that effectively sucked the life blood out of the companies.
The third could be a mural of all the chinese, mexican, and indian workers now gainfully employed.
and....
he is about 64, so he is some re-fried hippy, dippy leftover from the 60's. kum by ya and all that crap.
he is a systems anaylst at...
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Hmmmm....
Now would that be the same Crystal Ward that recently retired as a "government" teacher at Lewiston High school? I guess your view depends on whose ox is being gored. If the left wants fairness maybe they should have the same rate of savings for retirement and cost of health insurance as the dreaded private sector. If you really wanted to dicuss tax schemes then maybe the unstainable way the democrats have structured the welfare state and the prohibitive cost of doing business in the state of Maine should be a good place to start. Here's a thought Crystal, take responsibility for your own life. I manage to save over 20% of my income for retirement because I know what my family's needs are and the government doesn't know or care. When the Maine retirement system is declared insolvent don't come looking for my money to bail out the rest of you.
wow, nothing says "mentally
wow, nothing says "mentally ill and loving it" like a hysterical screed like that one.
so let me get this straight,
so let me get this straight, now if there is more oil in the market then prices will go down? welcome to the real world chellie. how about flooding the market by drilling and building refineries you imbecile.
Cut taxes to 1980's level?
Cut taxes to 1980's level? Heck yeah, for once you actually make sense.
When unions in private sector
When unions in private sector companies elect representatives to meet with the management or owners it is to decide how to divide the profits. When the public sector union reps meet with management it is to decide how to divide up the taxpayers money. The problem is the taxpayer has no say it how much they pay except at the ballot box. Since the American public has an affinty for electing sleazy, venal, power-hungry liars to political office with no sense of the fiduciary duty with which they are entrusted we will continue on the path we are on. If I kept spending more than I took in eventually I would have declare bankruptcy, so why would the cities and states be any different? The answer is not higher taxes but less spending.
your idea of
your idea of service?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6127514/Sentenced-to-death-...
trbc.com
England's health care system has many different aspects to it and overall I would feel uncomfortable to have to rely on the English's health care system for anything other than getting me two aspirin and a cup of water. Depending on where you go in England and what city you're in will depend if you are actually getting professional care or something equivalent to Dr. Kevorkian. Overall England's health care system has its ups and its downs; however for most of the population of London who does not do health care privately I would say England is committing genocide among the people in low socioeconomic levels.
http://www.healthjournalism.org/blog/2010/03/reports-reveal-problems-in-...
I could go on but what is the sense, you have convinced yourself that the government is the solution not the problem.
You must remember what it was
You must remember what it was like before 1980, when the telephone company had a monolopy. No one called long distance until after 5 pm or just on the weekends. When the monolopy was broken and competition was allowed you could call anywhere for pennies. The same thing would work for health insurance if people were motivated enough to do the research and find the best plan. Last year there were over 1,300 companies in the country that offered health insurance but only 6 were allowed to sell in Maine and it was essentially the same across the country. Those laws were put in place to protect the local insurance companies, so get rid of the law, allow any regulated company to sell here and don't make a boiler-plate policy for everyone. Allow people to do al-a-carte, design their own policies and the cost will be reduced dramatically. Also don't tie it to employers, allow it to follow the consumer. I am aware that the average democrat (government dependent person) has had the will to do for themselves sapped out of them by the drugs of laziness and dependency but the majority of Americans are still capable enough to know what is right for them and their families. You are not smart enough to tell me how to live.
even a penny would be a
even a penny would be a higher rate for their health insurance in Wisconsin. They currently pay nothing for their health insurance. Why do public sector employees even need a union? Is it to protect them from the tyranny of the taxpayer? Forcing the public to pay for civil servants they can't afford shows a lack of responsibility by people with no sense for the greater common good. it's a little disturbing that in '08 the leftists celebrated the election of all their cronies and reveled in the "intelligence" of the American voters but 2 years later refuse to recognize the abrupt change. The American public is always a year or two ahead of the poliitcans and talking heads of the dinosaur media. The party is over and we are broke, so time to change our habits.
last year for the VMA's she
last year for the VMA's she wore meat and this year at the Grammy's she was an egg. Two more red carpets and she will complete the Denny's Grand Slam.
Mr Breton, did you notice the
Mr Breton, did you notice the time frame in the letter? Terry had the same complaint LAST YEAR and was told they were to busy to investigate. Wasn't that a democrat AG last year? I know facts are a tricky thing.
WE ARE OUT OF MONEY!!! How
WE ARE OUT OF MONEY!!! How long will it take that fact to sink in? obama said he wants to use a scapel and the republicans want to use a machete, personally I would use a flamethrower. Anyone with a new born baby I would like to thank that child for paying tomorrow the money this government is wasting today. When the rest of the world realizes what we are doing to the currency and tells us to go screw, there will be food shortages like there was in Egypt, followed by rioting in the larger cities and massive social disorder. I can't believe Obama is as stupid as he seems so maybe that is his plan. Call me Cassandra but that is what is heading our way.
That is utter nonsense, you
That is utter nonsense, you need an I.D. to cash a check, open a bank account, buy alcohol or any number of daily activities. How many people get to be elderly and managed to get through life with no form of I.D.? I would have to guess the number of people is close ot zero. If the issue is affordability then waive the $5 fee for those people that can't afford it. I think the real issue is the students at the university and colleges that vote by absentee at their out of state residence and then register here and vote. According to Maine law you must register your vehicle in Maine if you are registered to vote, so how much money is the state losing by not enforcing that? A better way to do it is the way American election monitors do it in the third world when they have initial elections; have everyone dip their finger in blue ink that won't wash off for three days.
As an aside, I would like to point out that a social security card is not valid I.D. for anything and the only people that can ask for it is someone who works for the Social Security administration.
Same day registration is a great way for voter fraud to happen, what is going to stop someone from going from town to town registering and voting? I don't want to deny anyone the chance to vote but anyone "out of touch and admittedly unorganized" doesn't take it seriously so tough luck for them. As John Wayne said "life is tough but it is tougher when you are stupid."
the high speed bullet train
the high speed bullet train cannot be used on the current rail lines. It needs to be straighter and that would require the confiscation and destruction of private property to build it. It is just one more way for the government to try and control how people travel. No matter how much politicians want to change human behaivor, people are people and won't readily accept that. The only way to make it work is to raise gas taxes so high it is prohibitivly expensive for the average person to drive, but that will ruin the economy, making it impossible for anyone to travel, and create resentment among the people who used to be able to afford it and those who will be able to. It will mainly be the politicans and their friends. Vote those fools out, all of them.
You do realize that if Cutler
You do realize that if Cutler had recieved MORE votes than Lepage did he would be the governor? Maybe you should give him more than a month since it took the democrats 3 decades to ruin this state. Once again I would like to point out the state is broke, that means we are out of money. The party is over and it is time to clean up the mess. There are some very hard choices facing this state and the only way to do it is some sort of financial triage. What will work for the greater common good while causing the least harm? It's time for everyone to be contributing members of society and if you don't want to then you have to suffer the consequences of your poor choices.
So in 10 or 15 years we may
So in 10 or 15 years we may be looking at an eyesore? You mean like the rest of the neighborhood? That whole 50 square block area is a blight and an eyesore, but that is what you get when you import welfare dependent people with no expectations of life other than what can they get for free from the government. Take a nice (I use the term loosely) long walk up Walnut, Pine, Howard, Bates, Bartlett and Knox and the rest of the area. The majority of the people that live there don't care how they act, where they throw garbage or let their dog crap. It is almost seems like downtown Lewiston was designed by Hieronymus Bosch.
People can withstand just
People can withstand just about anything except ridicule and since you buy ink by the barrel how about you folks keep up the drumbeat about how senseless and time wasting this is. Maine is in dire financial straits and we have people wasting our time and money with that nonsense. They should hang their heads in shame and skulk out of Augusta in the dark.
In the immortal words of
In the immortal words of Obama, "we won, you lost". Get over it.
How about Allens Coffee
How about Allens Coffee Brandy the official adult beverage of Maine drunks? Marlboro's the official cigarette of Mainer's hacking their lungs out? MacDonalds double quarter pounder with cheese (which I love) the official meal for Maine wide loads? And lets not forget double knit polyester the official weave for the Maine shirts? Pitbulls the official dogs of Maine crack dealers? (I think that one already is in place). Or better yet how about tackling the serious problems facing the state instead of wasting time on stupid, senseless drivel like this?
Papers is just another,
Papers is just another, albeit, sinister sounding name for I.D. Today it is nicely laminated in plastic so I guess the thing to say is "show me your plastic". If you go into the bank to cash a check, get stopped for any traffic infraction, witness a crime, apply for a mortgage, open a bank account, get a Post Office box, turn on the electricity, buy alcohol, or any number of daily activities you must show I.D. To claim it is limited to one state is false. Here is the complete AZ law from last year. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf
follow your own advice and think before spouting off.
It is actually a marriage of
It is actually a marriage of inconvience. They need us more than we need them. All we need to do is inspect everything from China that comes into our country and they will collapse. It would take an lot of time to do that so the ships would not be able to unload and that would quickly make the factories stop making stuff which would cause huge unemployment and unrest. As far ass devaluing their money they did it Jan 1 1994, they cut their currency 8:1 and pegged it to the dollar, that is what made their "goods" affordable to american companies to move there. America still manufactures more goods than China despite what the mass media says. On a per capita basis we are 10 times more productive with 1/4 the population so we are 40 times more productive than they are and they will never catch up. All we need is the political will to do it.
trust funds? you mean like
trust funds? you mean like the Kennedys and Kerry and all the other hyprocrites on the left have? I think if you have income of $250,000 then you have taxable income of $250,000. But it is nice to see you finally realize if people get a tax break they will spend it and always better than the way the government will spend it.
Now if they made it a crap
Now if they made it a crap sandwich that would be more relevant to what we have had to eat from Augusta for the last 3 decades.
There are a couple of laws
There are a couple of laws that will never be repealed; the laws of gravity and the law of supply and demand. When you have more and more people chasing a scarcer commodity (oil) the price will go up. When you have to formulate dozens of different blends for different states instead of a uniform blend for the country the price will go up. When you restrict the drilling in this country and have to rely on a group (OPEC) that hates us the price will go up. To say there is some vast conspiracy or some cabal controlling everything shows an absymal amount of ignorance about how the world works. If I had to hazard a guess I think the people who constantly complain about the profit motive in this country are those who have no desire to make a profit themselves. Or know how to.
he is a pot-smoking, leftist,
he is a pot-smoking, leftist, an avowed atheist with a skull shrine in his back yard. Not to many conservative republicans I know act like that. but how is this for promoting peace?
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/83137110.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=17A4...
or this?
http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uplo...
or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPIP-i3sdVk&feature=player_embedded
or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNHuXU8nQ7M&feature=player_embedded
or this?
http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2010/10/26/nut-job-joy-behar-about-sha...
I could give you dozens more examples of crazy leftists hyprocrites but what is the point? You think diversity is fine and want to promote peace and understanding until someone disagrees with you and then you hate and despise them. Yeah, that makes sense.
Please explain to me how
Please explain to me how someone making more than $250,000 has a negative impact on a person making less than that. It doesn't, but the democrats have been quite adept at dividing the country into faceless factions with class envy and promoting the concept of diversity. We are all Americans so stop segmenting our society. This country is broke so even cutting out the earmarks would be a good start. We have plenty of money going to the feds, it isn't an issue of revenue it is a spending problem. Both political parties are driving up the debt, but with the public's addiction to largess from the treasury we also have ourselves to blame for the debt. We need to return to the self-reliant attitude that helped maked this the greatest country in the world and the reason so many people want to come here. What we need is an economic triage, eliminate spending on that which only helps a few people and focus on the greater common good. Trickle down economics have worked everytime they are tried, in the early 60's with Kennedy, the 80's with reagan and a few years ago with Bush, if taxes are cut for everyone then there is more revenue going into the fed.
Mr. Marquis, if you are a small business owner and facing the loss of your home, you are doing it wrong. You either need a smaller house, less employees, learn how to cut expenses, or stop voting for the people that will destroy your ability to run a business.
Now give me the response to my first sentence.
Marie Antoinette sez "have
Marie Antoinette sez "have some cake" http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/111th-congress-leav...
It is not an issue of
It is not an issue of revenue, it is all about spending. The 111th congress and obama spent more in the last 2 years than the first 110 congresses combined. It is really quite simple, what can't go on forever, won't. In a year or two we will have either an economic triage or total collapse of the world economy. Either way, woe to people like Mr. Breton who depend on the government for their money, food, and sense of self-worth. It is about to come crashing down everywhere. Do you really want to be in Lewiston when it happens? I don't, I have read Lord of the Flies.
There is a simple fix, drill for oil here, dig for coal here, build nuke plants here, and stop sending billions of petro-dollars overseas. that would fix our budget mess in a few years and screw the saudi's at the same time. I would gladly trade some brown pelicans and sea otters for that.
In Hungary in 1946 the prices
In Hungary in 1946 the prices doubled every 15 hours for a while. there is an economic rule that a lot of people seem to forget; what can't go on forever, won't. The total unsecured debt in the world (public an private) is estimated at 1 quadrillion dollars. there is not that much money available. we are at best a couple of years away from collapse so it is almost like the game of musical chairs in that there will be some people left standing at the end. All you need to ask yourself is "Do I really want to be in Lewiston when it happens?" no thank you I have read 'Lord of the Flies'.
If you are not rich, it is
If you are not rich, it is not the fault of the rich, it is your fault for not getting an education, a decent job, saving money and investing properly. I know a lot of wealthy people and they got there by hard work and self-denial. they put off buying stuff on credit and made wise decisions about what to do with their money. The fact they are wealthy doesn't affect my life one bit and if does not affect yours either. Envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
This country has plenty of oil and coal but we are being held hostage by the flat-earth, no-growth, enviro-marxists posing as protectors of the wildlife. We have plenty of resources in this country so lets use them. As far as the price of K-1 or gas, well, it is called the market. If you want a centrally planned economy look at how well it worked out for the USSR.
it is called the law of
it is called the law of supply and demand. we have plenty of oil and coal in this country, but the leftist, environmentalist, no-growth, marxists have stopped us from getting it. You want cheap energy? build nuke plants, drill for oil and mine coal.
are you saying that elderly
are you saying that elderly people with all their experience have nothing to contribute to society? sounds like ageism and sour grapes to me. plus didn't Baldacci hire his sister Rosemary to manage his campaign? how much squawking did you do then? cue the crickets. Chief Morris is a 30 year vet of the navy, commanded a warship with 550 sailors and was a police chief for 17 years. Sounds like he knows a little about security and leadership. But I forget how you liberals like style over substance and just care about how something looks never mind the results. that is why this state is broke.
If the Canadian system is so
If the Canadian system is so great then tell me why did Belinda Stronach come to the States for treatment and surgery for breast cancer? She is one of the wealthiest women in Canada and a former member of Parliament and came here in 2007 for treatment because she admitted it was the best place to get it. She also paid for it out of her own pocket. But you are right about one thing ugh, at least with obamacare everyone will have health insurance. Very few people will have health care only the people ages 18-49 and healthy will get "care" since they don't need it. Death panels here we come. Doctors won't work for free any more than you will.
you people are insane
you people are insane
you people are insane
you people are insane
thoughts running through his
thoughts running through his mind "How can I get me some of that delicous jailhouse meatloaf for dinner?"
the only thing I don't like
the only thing I don't like about bates is that as a non-profit tax exempt they can buy all the houses around the campus they want and then not pay property taxes on them. Yet they love to preach to the rest of up about not paying enough taxes. As I explained before "shut up".
My neighbor put up his
My neighbor put up his christmas lights yesterday. I think he is mad because I beat him. I put mine up 3 years ago. Merry Christmas Nancy.
Hey Mayor McCheese, you are
Hey Mayor McCheese, you are not a diplomat or someone engaged in treaty negotiations. You are the mayor of some podunk little town. you have already reached your level of incompetence. stop trying to play the learned old sage. but the real question is how does having a treaty with russia constrain Iran?
as an orthodox christian, my
as an orthodox christian, my course of action is to attain a state of Theosis knowing that as a human I will fail due to the fallen nature of man. but does that mean I should just give up knowing I will fail? No, the struggle continues since man is imperfect and I will make plenty of mistakes along the way. For people to constantly deride the "hypocrisy" of christians shows a certain amount of ignorance about the state of man and certainly shows ignorance either willful or not about the Lord's teachings. We all are imperfect and to say you are better than others simply because you treat others nice and ridicule christians for their beliefs is naive and hypocritical. A church is a hospital for sinners and not a hotel for saints. Man cannot create a heaven on earth because God created it and He is perfect and man is not. See you in church, pew # 4.
as a conservative i totally
as a conservative i totally agree with you on this Jon, he really should be out of there if not in jail.
The reality of the situation
The reality of the situation is if you want to fundamentally change the way people view downtown Lewiston, you have to change the view of downtown. Start getting rid of the social clubs, hangouts for wayward youths, force the ethnic stores to clean up the window space, and enforce the parking laws. Next drive down Canal St and look at the backs of the buildings on Lisbon St. It looks like the lower east side of New York circa 1900. Clean it up. You really want economic development in this city and state? Tell any business that wants to move here and hire locals at a living wage there will be no corporate tax and encourage cities and towns to give property tax breaks to them. The question is do you want the associated decline in the standard of living that goes with large casinos? Wouldn’t it be better to have people working and providing for their families by working and not trying for the quick score? What will happen is the people on welfare will squander their checks on the chance of a big win and it will only take a day or two to lose their month’s check. Who then picks up the tab for their family? Already strained social services will be tapped out quickly. What then? I don’t want to think about it but it won’t be pretty.
If you're over 40, standing
If you're over 40, standing in line to buy the latest video game, and play a mean game of hacky-sack, my car brakes won't work for you.
????????????????
I don't get the hateful part. I was thinking about the community reaching out to help a young woman. All I could afford was $20 this week and I already gave it to her via Mark Laflamme. explain it to me.
I have an idea...
why don't some of the commenters here send a few bucks her way. call it the Heather fund care of the Sun Journal? I'll start with $20 today.
care to spell it out for us
care to spell it out for us Hope? I have met him twice and thought he was a unctuous little weasel. but he is a democrat so I repeat myself.
THERE WAS NO SURPLUS
THERE WAS NO SURPLUS
Since when is minimum wage a
Since when is minimum wage a livable wage? minimum wage should be eliminated because it allows employers to keep wages down. years ago I had a job that paid minimum and asked for a raise, the boss said "why, you make the minimum wage?". At that moment I realized what a trap it was. get rid of it and let the market decide, people will work, just let them negotiate with the employers for the wages.
"How anyone can think that
"How anyone can think that the out of state companies will come into Maine and charge less for a product?"
Its called competition. remember back in the 70's when Ma Bell was the only phone company in town? no one called California until after 7 or weekends. when the monopoly was broken the prices came way down. let the other 1,300 or so insurance companies come into the state and have faith in our fellow citizens to make an informed choice for themselves and their families. The prices will come way down. But that is the big difference between the leftists and normal people. you think the average person is to stupid to make informed choices and needs the government to tell them what to do, but I can read, understand, evaluate and make a decision. Its like anything else, it just takes a little time and effort. have some faith in you fellow man.
my mistake, it wasn't a
my mistake, it wasn't a mailer, it was an ad in the sun-journal.
Yesterday Craven had a mailer
Yesterday Craven had a mailer in Lewiston that said if Mainers were allowed to purchase insurance accross state lines it would be risky since we would be the only state to do so and would be all alone. Is she stupid or does she think we are? I will admit though, she does have the perfect name for a democrat. craven n. contemptibly fainthearted.
words from our founders...
you say that like it is a bad thing.
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maybe this will help
2 Thessalonians 3:10
i think the rally cry is
moonbats of the world, unite.
Don't be such a shrinking
Don't be such a shrinking violet, tell how you really feel.
Clinton did not leave with a
Clinton did not leave with a surplus. As is usually the case in claims such as this, it has to do with Washington doublespeak and political smoke and mirrors.
Understanding what happened requires understanding two concepts of what makes up the national debt. The national debt is made up of public debt and intragovernmental holdings. The public debt is debt held by the public, normally including things such as treasury bills, savings bonds, and other instruments the public can purchase from the government. Intragovernmental holdings, on the other hand, is when the government borrows money from itself--mostly borrowing money from social security.
When it is claimed that Clinton paid down the national debt, that is patently false the national debt went up every single year. What Clinton did do was pay down the public debt. But he paid down the public debt by borrowing far more money in the form of intragovernmental holdings (mostly Social Security).
In other words, he borrowed from the Social Security fund and put IOU's in the fund. they will come due shortly and then there will be hell to pay. I will make a deal with you liberals, you quit lying about the consdervatives and republicans and I will quit telling the truth about you.
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The thing about the leftists
The thing about the leftists that always amazes me is their inability to look inward or backward. If one is incapable of learning from repeated mistakes, isn’t that a version on insanity? If you really want to talk about false ideology, look no further that the Marxist tripe the democrats pass off as their official dogma. The idea that the world could be transformed into some utopia where there is no poverty, inequality, or suffering is an idea so noble and desirable that it will allow any crime to be covered up. From the manmade famines in Ukraine and China to the killing fields of Cambodia, the left is unconcerned with the consequences of their compassionate deeds. To me that shows the left is motivated not by altruism and love but by nihilism and hate. Every society set up by leftists has become a national prison with a system of gulags within and the people are subjects and cannot escape. False ideology? Look in the mirror.
a populace without firearms
a populace without firearms are subjects and not citizens.
Inneundo? you better explain
Inneundo? you better explain to tron that it is not an Itialian suppository.
Caveat emptor
so don't shop there and you have solved that problem. I look over the stuff carefully and have gotten some great bargains there. Look at it this way; if he knows how to run a business while keeping costs down and is parsamonious with his own money, wouldn't it stand to reason there would be a good chance he would do the same with our tax money? And wouldn't THAT be a refreshing change in Augusta?
democrats like trickle up
democrats like trickle up poverty. we know they love poor people because their policies have created so many of them. Lenin said destroy the family and you destroy society. the dems are doing him proud.
How dare you peons question
How dare you peons question her motives. It's the 99% of the sanctimonious, mealy-mouth weasels like her posing as the voice of the people that give the rest of the democrat party a bad name. When I see her on TV coming down the stairs at the Portland jetport with that weary smile that trys to proclaim how hard she works and is so glad to be back "home" among the hoi polloi I want to puke. What is worse than a Mercedes marxist? A learjet liberal. get her out of our lives.
the moonbats have run this
the moonbats have run this state into the ground for 30 years. vote them out.
I want someone who will stop
I want someone who will stop spending. This state is broke. Ask Peggy Rotundo, that is what she said a few weeks ago. We are out of money.
great, the less moonbats
great, the less moonbats voting for Libby the better.
First of all you need to get
First of all you need to get young WORKING adults.
you can lead a horticulture
you can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
your paper still sucks. it
your paper still sucks. it is a rag and after subscribing to it for almost 20 years we cancelled it last year.
or this
or this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLE6T97DA2o
I know a lot of people that
I know a lot of people that are lactose intolerant, does that count?
I'm suprised no one thought
I'm suprised no one thought of this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1Y61uzLNY
the smile is in anticipation
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straight from the horse's
straight from the horse's mouth
http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/5421-clinton-text...
she admitted it
I suppose I could publicize
I suppose I could publicize our charitible donations for each year but we do it for the glory of G-d not the glory of man. However the real reason I won't is Matthew 6:1-4. have a pleasant evening my friend.
Hillary is worth over $100
Hillary is worth over $100 million and she gave only $10. I will follow her lead and give 1/100,000 of 1% of my vast fortune to the relief fund. Where do I send the 5 cents?
stupid is as stupid does.
stupid is as stupid does. Denis is the Franco derivative of Dennis. the letter writer is a male.
Diana, I will make a deal
Diana, I will make a deal with you, if you stop lying about conservatives and the right, then I will stop telling the truth about the no-growth, flat-earth, enviro-marxists, statist leftists like you.
60 minutes from Greene to
60 minutes from Greene to Lewiston? Gee, I had a car like that once, too.
you party hacks that repeat
you party hacks that repeat the same old lame shibboleths make me want to vomit.
biparitisan, unifying, energy, job creation, blah, blah, blah, vote them all out.
Some of the other holdings
Some of the other holdings with the company are Citigroup, Savoy Hotel London, FourSeasons Hotels, Pepsico, Saks, Walt Disney Company, Apple, Ebay, Motorola, Priceline, Timewarner to name a few, so if you buy a pepsi at disneyworld do you support terrorists? If you buy and iphone on ebay do you support terrorists? Watch HBO that you paid with a citigroup credit card? Supporting terrorists I see. The better question is if you support the anti-drilling no growth enviro-marxists in this country that force us to buy saudi oil then are you are supporting terrorists?
From the Huffingtonpost:
From the Huffingtonpost:
"Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of the Saudi king and who was listed last year by Forbes as the world's 22nd richest person, met with News Corp.'s chief executive Rupert Murdoch on Jan. 14 in a meeting that "touched upon future potential alliances with News Corp.," according to a statement released by his Kingdom Holding Co. late Saturday.
Media reports have indicated that News Corp, parent to Fox News and Dow Jones & Co., among others, may be thinking of buying a stake in Alwaleed's Rotana Media Group, which includes a number of satellite channels that air in the Middle East.
Neither company has commented publicly on the possible deal, but the talks offer an indication yet that such an agreement may yet be in the offing.
Kingdom Holding's statement said Alwaleed is already the second largest stakeholder in News Corp., with 5.7 percent of the shares of the media company. The stake is held through Kingdom Holding, in which Alwaleed holds a 95 percent stake."
5.7%? omg alert the thought police!!!
When rauf says America is
When rauf says America is guilty of murdering 500,000 Iraqi children how is that taken out of context? As for being against building the mosque, most Americans are against building it there, almost everybody asked says build it two miles away but not there.
What is irrefutable is that living under Islam, the non-Muslim population is always mandated to submit to Islam, accept discriminatory laws, and make payment of a mandatory Quranic tax imposed upon every non-Muslim. For a period of about 800 years, most of Spain was ruled by Muslims and this area was known as ‘Al-Andalus.’ Islamic rule ended in 1492, when the city of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Western Europe, capitulated to the Spanish Catholics.
The Cordoba Initiative is an organization whose name is taken form what was, 1,000 years ago, one of the world’s most advanced cities, Cordoba. This was a city that was politically and religiously dominated by Islam, and a city that was conquered by jihad. Today, Al-Qaeda that has a dream of seeing an Islamic world that would extend from Spain. This is based upon Islam’s principle of dar-al-Islam, which means a world where Islamic rule prevails over the people. Dar-al-Islam is attained through jihad and the media is full of Al- Qaeda’s calls for jihad and their claims to Al-Andalus and its major cities such as Cordoba.
Sorry, but I am not quite ready for that here. A phobia is an irrational fear. My fear of islamic terrorists trying to destroy this country is based on their actions in the past and their repeated attempts to continue attacking this country.
By the way Diane have you been fitted for your burka yet? Are you going to give up your drivers license? Is there a male family member always available to escort you in public? Do you have any gay or lesbian friends to which you want to say good-bye? Oh and that glass of wine with dinner, forget about it.
Those pictures are of three
Those pictures are of three people that haven't eaten enough prison food. bon appetit, you morons.
most of the problems in this
most of the problems in this state have her fingerprints all over them. she is an incompent partisian hack of the first order and just because she has been hanging around the capitol for years doesn't mean she knows what she is doing. her ideas are proven failures like most of the others up there. but thats ok folks, keep voting democratic because "they care". they don't care about anybody except themselves and their own sorry politicial hack-a-rama cohorts. GET THEM ALL OUT!
muscular dysthropy is not
muscular dysthropy is not ALS. you are not a nice person but I will pray for your soul to heal. God bless you tron.
muscular dysthropy is not
muscular dysthropy is not ALS. you are not a nice person but I will pray for your soul to heal. God bless you tron.
any truth to the rumor that
any truth to the rumor that the woman who wants to open the restaurant in the railroad building is a neice of a board member of the LAEGC? sounds like a conflict of interest to me. note to local government officials; this isn't your personal fiefdom.
MOM?
MOM?
the geographic center of the
the geographic center of the city is the corner of east ave and sabattus st. the only thing that could help this city is a 5 megaton airburst at 1,500 ft right there. then start over.
this might
this might help
http://www.raidsonline.com/?agency=Lewiston,ME
he's lucky he wasn't charged
he's lucky he wasn't charged with impersonating a Kennedy
Lewiston's motto
I think the motto should be "Where fun comes to die"
the words are used wrong...
why does the LARC "win" tax money back from the government? they shouldn't have taken it in the first place only to filter it down through the hands of bureaucrats. Years from now people will look back and be astonished that we allowed ourselves to be duped my a semi-intelligent cabal of inept busybodies. This makes me think of what it
must have been like in Europe during the war. People knew they were oppressed but they could see the dim light at the end of the tunnel. November is coming and the democrats are going to be put on the ash heap of history along with all the other socialists. Simply because, IT DOESN'T WORK.
good lord, thats not a
good lord, thats not a forehead it's a five head. what is wrong with his head?
what was so bad about that
what was so bad about that comment?
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to an extent it is true the
to an extent it is true the jobs were already here, but they could have been sent to NJ. on a per capita basis NJ has a better educated workforce, 37% of adults have a 4 year degree vs. 27% in maine. its the cost of labor and rent that was the deciding factor. jobs like that could be done in Mumbai just as easily and it is a matter of time before they are.
my BS detector is redlined.
my BS detector is redlined. the only (2) reasons they came here is it is cheaper rent and cheaper labor than in NJ. there is no work ethic left in this area.
I paid $153.00 for our 13
I paid $153.00 for our 13 year old truck, in TN any vehicle is $25.00 to register.
one more reason to leave this
one more reason to leave this state. I grew up in Maine but I sure don't want to retire here. six more years to retire and then off to a more tax friendly state. I have been saying for a while now that a few years only the very rich and very poor will be able to afford to live here. Keep voting for democrats and keep getting screwed. there is nothing compassionate about financially destroying everybody.
on the plus side, if Lepage
on the plus side, if Lepage does cut everything then tron might be forced to get a job and won't be bothering anyone here.
crap (double post) i hate
crap (double post) i hate that. wasn't paying attention
so far it has been 8 years
so far it has been 8 years for my wife's daughter (30 year old college educated gainfully employed Canadian) to get her interview. that will happen in December. the fees are about $1,500.
so far it has been 8 years
so far it has been 8 years for my wife's daughter (30 year old college educated gainfully employed Canadian) to get her interview. that will happen in December. the fees are about $1,500.
Not a spending problem but a
Not a spending problem but a revenue problem? when you spend more than you take in regardless of what the projections were for the year, then it IS a spending problem. We can't do it for our home budget so why should the state do it? cut spending and tell the public sector unions to go pound sand, we can't afford it. what do you think will happen when the state and country defaults on their obligations? read that as goes bankrupt. just imagine what will happen the first time someone goes into the bank to cash a state check and the bank says sorry it's no good. The fiscal problems in this state have the fingerprints of Libby Mitchell and the democrats that have controlled the house and senate for the past 30+ years all over them. They may have had good intentions but they definitely have bad information and that is a recipe for disaster as we are witnessing. But then it is always fun to spend other people's money on other people.
actually the real quote is
actually the real quote is teach a man to fish and you lose a democrat voter.
excellent idea tron, but I
excellent idea tron, but I have been saying for years education is a local issue. How can someone 2000 miles away know what is good for Wales or Turner? Plus make the public sector work more years. why should someone be retired longer than they worked and make more money than they did when they worked? If the state goes bankrupt it doesn't just hurt the retired state workers it will hurt badly the elderly, poor, and the disabled. You think the riots in Greece were bad just wait until we put our paticular American slant on things.
here is another syllogism.
here is another syllogism. Tron is a leftist socialist lazy freeloader. leftist socialist lazy freeloaders are morons. Tron is a moron. see how easy it is folks?
http://www.science20.com/adap
http://www.science20.com/adaptive_complexity/blog/whos_more_charitable_l...
put that in your crack pipe and smoke it.
he can't possibly be here to
he can't possibly be here to "rest" since he said he wouldn't rest until ...
APRIL 9, 2009 – "And we will not rest until we reach a day when not one single veteran falls into homelessness"
MAY 11, 2009 – "I will not rest until the dream of health care reform is finally achieved in the United States of America"
NOVEMBER 2, 2009 – "We will not rest until we are succeeding in generating the jobs that this economy needs"
NOVEMBER 23, 2009 – "I will not rest until business are investing again, and businesses are hiring again"
JANUARY 28, 2010 - "We will not rest until we build an economy that's ready for America's future"
MARCH 5 2010 – "I’m not gonna rest & my administration is not gonna rest in our efforts to help people who are looking to find a job"
MAY 26, 2010 – "We will not rest until this well is shut, the environment is repaired and the clean up is complete"
JULY 8, 2010 – "My administration will not rest until every American who is able and ready and willing to work can find a job."
you voted for Obama? thanks a lot you clueless jerk.
excellent column Mark. sharp
excellent column Mark. sharp insight into the psyche of the male growing up in Maine. I knew the same group of people in the early 70's. noe how about banning tron and the other trolls for a while? play nice or go home.
Lil we say the same thing,
Lil we say the same thing, it's not global warming it's climate change. Here in Maine the climate changes 4 times a year. just like it always has. There is a way to put it in perspective; a ream of paper has 500 sheets. if each sheet represents 1,000 years, then homosapiens have been here for less than half a ream. the world has been here for about 12,000 reams. it has heated and cooled many times before man was here and what possible explanation could there be? It must be a naturally occurring event. It is that whole ying yang thing going on or maybe it validates one of Newton's laws, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. in other words, it happens because we have no control over it.
firearms are used for various
firearms are used for various purposes, some legitimate and some illlegal. A lot of people keep them for self-protection and that is a valid and legal reason. The supreme court has ruled that police have no obligation to appear every time a person calls and asks for help. they must make a reasonable attempt to answer calls as time allows but they are to enforce laws and investigate criminal activity. If two calls come in at the same time and only one can be answered then they are not responsible if something (e.g.) rape, murder, robbery occur at the other call. That is when you pull out your gun and warn the miserable dirtbag to back off, if that fails and you think your life is in imminent danger, shoot 'em.
Mayor McCheese dancing? that
Mayor McCheese dancing? that probably set international relations back a few years.
Monosyllabic, nonsensical,
Monosyllabic, nonsensical, undecipherable, incoherent, rants lacking any type of linear thought process or sentence structure is hardly a blog.
Tron, did you ever see the
Tron, did you ever see the movie "The Caine Mutiny" with Humphrey Bogart? you remind me of the part he played, Captain Queeg. totally batshit crazy. "heh, heh, heh we'll find out who ate these strawberries" he repeated over and over as he played with the ball bearings.
it was for medicinal use I
it was for medicinal use I swear. hey you got any cookies, mannnn?
the incompetents are the
the incompetents are the managers who refuse to take responsibility and fix problems. when you hire some dolt with a GED to run a multi-million dollar organization that is the idiotic behavior you get.
the recidivism rate for
the recidivism rate for people executed is zero percent. good enough reason for me.
tron can be defined by using
tron can be defined by using 6 body parts. He is a (1) knee-jerk (2) head case with his (3) foot in his (4) mouth and his (5) thumbs firmly up his (6) butt.
no the real issue with him is
no the real issue with him is he is on welfare and like most others trapped in a world they have a love hate relationship with, (love being paid to do nothing but hate not being able to do anything) they think it is a zero-sum game. If someone or something gets a little more, they get a little less. Everytime taxes have been cut it results in an increase of tax revenue to the state or fed. There is no such thing as corporate welfare. Do you see CEO's sitting on the door step drinking 40 ouncer's out of a bag? Do they roam the streets in packs with pitbulls? Do they get young girls pregnant, leave them to go on to the next one and not accept responsibility for their actions? Corportations don't have to stay here if the taxes are too high, they can leave and some have left. Make it a business friendly climate and then more people will be able to work, pay taxes, take care of their families, and help those less fortunate that truly need help.
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that is just an example of
that is just an example of the Darwinian process. brutal yet efficient.
how about "where fun comes to
how about "where fun comes to die"?
some people are born to fail,
some people are born to fail, tron has it thrust upon him. I have seen him sitting on his door stoop langourously gazing as life goes by.
the earth is not my mother
the earth is not my mother and the government is not my father.
you do know how to tell if
you do know how to tell if someone is a right wing nutjob? they are usually right, they have nuts and a job. if that doesn't help, then look for them cashing a paycheck (noun- renumeration for productive activity) Fridays.
its George Bush's fault. it
its George Bush's fault. it must be global warming that caused it.
when you combine underage
when you combine underage drinking with 18-20 year olds that have been reared by parents who constantly re-affirmed their special status of being born and never wanting to damage the fragile self-esteem of their precious little snowflakes you get the type of self rightous conceited little twerps who think they are above the law. guess what? you are not. when the police tell to move, then do it, and there is a good chance you won't be clubbed or arrested.
There are people from all
There are people from all over the world that worship here, making it one of the most cosmopolitian groups in the area, and there are conservatives and liberals but the word of God is preached so it is pro-life. It is the Church the apostles set up 2,000 years ago and there has been little change, it is a nice connection to the ages. all others are offshoots of this one. anyone with a sense of history should come over and see. The service is half Greek and half English. and we almost always have coffee and a snack afterwards.
As a parishoner, thank you
As a parishoner, thank you Tron for the kind words.
with a casino comes more
with a casino comes more crime, more damage for families, more of the undesireable elements that Lewiston has too many of in the first place.
http://www.netnebraska.org/television/news/ne_connects/gambling/CasinosC...
This area is such a depressing area and the mindset of the people who want to stay here is cluelessness mixed with dependency and that makes for a very disturbing ride around town. just seeing the debris strewn hovels some people live is and the dog feces covered sidewalks all through the downtown would be enough to make satan weep for joy and realize his work is almost done here. put a casino in here and it will resemble Potterville in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life".
so they work but decided to
so they work but decided to spend their money on drugs instead of saving and getting their own car? and they are so trusting they believe a "friend" instead of checking if the vehicle is legal? that is stupid on so many levels. in a few years the kid will be sitting in front of the trailer eating dirt.
people who get stoned should
people who get stoned should not leave their baby in glass houses
good person? no, like most
good person? no, like most irresponsible doofus' they are only sorry they got caught. screw 'em and kill the dog too
oh now its your parents
oh now its your parents fault? if she is 18 then she is responsible for her actions. but I guess your parents did teach her where to shop. slap her for me will you?
were they in buying crack
were they in buying crack pipes for the kid? the babybong? my little roach clip? they may be working but they are idiots and not very responsible
lets make a law that allows
lets make a law that allows the state to pay stupid people like those two fools, say, oh, about $5,000 if they agree to get sterilized and not burden the rest of us with their dim-bulb antics and idiot spawns. or just horse whip them. yeah, that one i like.
your shipment of fail has
your shipment of fail has arrived. did you forget your recent history? the soviet union and communist China, two countries without religion killed over 100 million people and the total commie body count is about 150 million. http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/archives/communistbodycount.php and it still marches on in the glorious peoples republic of north korea. I can just imagine the havoc the lunatic left in this country would bring to the population it they had a chance. the rage i sense in some of the letters tells me it would be typically american; on a grander scale than the rest of the world. Besides, how many worthwhile hospitals, universities, and charities do Godless socities create? have a great day everyone.
do us all a favor and ban
do us all a favor and ban tron
i have a permit, also a
i have a permit, also a drivers license, and do I need to remind you that Ted Kennedy's Olds Delmont 88 has killed more people that my gun? Granted the murdering car was owned and registered to his mommy Rose but still he was the operator that evening.
the only death threat to you
the only death threat to you is the huge amounts of oreos and fish sticks you are jamming down your gaping maw. two simple excersizes you could do is the put downs and push aways. put down the fork and push your fat carcass away from the table.
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its bush's fault get with the
its bush's fault get with the program.
I know 6th grade civics is
I know 6th grade civics is lost on the libtards but once again i will tell you (slowly so even albrecht and tron might remember) the president proposes and congress disposes. got that moron? congress controlls the purse strings. ah yes purse, a work liberal men are familar with i am sure, just remember to cordinate it with your nail polish.
I know John and he is one of
I know John and he is one of the most decent people I have met in this area, quiet, unassuming, and willing to do the extra to make it a better place but not wanting to draw attention to himself.
you saw it? collect the
you saw it? collect the $100,000 reward offered by Breitbart. you are a liar and a member of THE BIGGEST hate spewing group, the democrat party. a misinformed ragtag collection of miscreants, liars, intellectually lazy, and morally vapid lay-abouts. but other than that i am sure you are all very nice people because you care, right?
if they ever make brain
if they ever make brain transplants successful I would like to have tron's, that way I can be assured of getting one that hasen't been used yet.
If it boils down to further
If it boils down to further service cuts vs. paying enough to sustain our city at current levels, please go ahead and cut spending and taxes. There, I fixed it for you.
The hypocrisy of the left is
The hypocrisy of the left is always on display whenever this troll makes an appearance (which is daily) at 15 minutes past midnight. I don’t recall any criticism of the Dempsey challenge or the Chili Chowder challenge. One day a letter appears to be slightly critical of the event and the next day someone else corrects the mistake so now it is a concerted effort to puff up this event? Adjust you tinfoil hat and come out of your basement. I rarely see conservatives trying as hard as the left does to de-humanize and belittle those with whom they disagree. Isn’t there a certain amount of intellectual dishonesty or even some schizophrenic reasoning on the left since they reject creationism and love the Darwinian concept of survival of the fittest but totally refuse to apply it to the human condition or even running a business?
Many? name one time other
Many? name one time other than the ice storm. you are one of the most miserable people i have ever had the displeasue of reading. is your life so lacking in joy that you must bring everyone down? let me guess, you weigh about 350 lbs, yeah a real lardass, probably sit on your door stoop and watch the people with real lives and happiness go by. let go of the hate. when you are on your death bed it won't be your charming joie de vie, or insouciant wit that has marked your life people will remember, it will be your surly contemptible attitude with which you approached anything in your baneful existence. ugh
there is no gene in human DNA
there is no gene in human DNA for altruism, and for you to constantly say that the profit driven motives of individuals is somehow wrong shows a basic lack of understanding for human nature. I will always be able to get more food, water, friends and clothing. What I will never get more of is quite possibly the most valuable commodity anyone has: time. We have a finite amount of it and to squander it is to waste life itself. That is why people do things for money, it is a unique way to measure their time and I suspect there are two reasons people like you constantly squawk about how greedy others are (1) you think you are the one that is going to live forever, (2) you are embarassed by your own miserable existence and have a burning envy for what others have. newsflash; we are all going ot die, and we are not equal. Your hatred for the free market system is evident but central planning does not and cannot work simply because it refuses to take into account one small factor; human nature and the desire of people to improve their lives. when people are able to provide for themselves and their families then they give extra to those less fortunate. you want proof central planning will never work? one word. Trabant. Central planners will never have enough information fast enough to make better decisions for the market than millions of individuals, acting freely will be able to make for their own self intrest. I don't know about you but I prefer to make my own decisions about what is in my best intrests. simply put, you are not smart enough to tell me how to live.
NYA is an
NYA is an independent for profit college prep school, tuition is about $22,000 a year. it is not in a district so taxpayers aren't on the hook. just a bunch of snooty adults teaching their precious little snowflakes how to game the system by not facing up to what they do wrong. no doubt they will be the no talent political hack leaders of the future.
I am sure he doesn't live
I am sure he doesn't live here bob. diversity is for the little people not them.
W. C. Fields said little
W. C. Fields said little children are tough but if you parboil them for six hours the are nice and tender.
damn you, you beat me to
damn you, you beat me to it. I was thinking repeal the child labor laws and re-open the sweat shops. keep the little beggars off the street and at the same time help them earn some money so they won't be poor.
so collect the reward.
so collect the reward. andrew breitbart is offering a $ 100,000 reward for proof of anyone spitting on members of congress last week, or calling them fags or niggers. you won't collect because it didn't happen. however supporters of Sen. Reid did throw eggs and assault Andrew Breitbart, http://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/03/29/breaking-video-reid-supporters-throwing-eggs-and-assaulting-andrew-breitbart/ but the real reason the health care bill won't work is because the CBO is obligated to base their numbers on info given them by congress. if congress said they will pay for it by selling 2 acre plots on the dark side of the moon then they have to assume people will purchase dirt on the moon. they are given faulty info to begin with and end up with the result congress wants. you can't name one program that actually came in on budget. This country is bankrupt, we have no more money. we might as well end it all now since it will end eventually and if we wait for it to end by itself then it will be chaos and anarchy followed by tyranny. Do you pefer the tyranny of the left or the right? either situation won't be much fun for those dependent on government.
Imagine a large condominium
Imagine a large condominium complex is meeting to consider a package deal with a cable TV company. Over eighty percent of the condo owners have their own satellite dishes, and are quite happy with the service. Some of them don’t bother to watch television at all, preferring to rent movies from Blockbuster or Netflix for entertainment. However, the condominium Board of Directors says they’re getting a lot of complaints from the residents who don’t have satellite dishes, demanding the condo association purchase a cable TV package, and fold its cost into the monthly homeowner dues.
The homeowners already pay extremely high dues, and they’re not happy with the quality of service they receive. They also notice that most of the people clamoring for cable television aren’t even homeowners – they’re renters, so they don’t pay the association fees directly. The condo owners already host regular movie nights at the clubhouse, which also has a well-stocked library, so no one is truly starved for entertainment. Still, the owners feel guilty that anyone has to make do without TV service in their home, so they invite a cable company to give them a sales pitch.
The cable company, BFD Communications, produces an incredibly complicated plan for providing cable television service to the community. The plan is thousands of pages long, and no one even claims to have read the whole thing. They spend the weeks leading up to the big board meeting pestering all of the residents with relentless advertising for their services, covering doorknobs and windshields with brochures. Their presentation at the board meeting is several hours long.
BFD Communications explains that purchasing their service will require a lifetime contract, which can never be broken. The condo residents will be required to deal exclusively with BFD for their entertainment needs – all satellite dishes must go, and even the library will fall under their control. The contract will include funding for a large corporate security force, which will ensure compliance by issuing fines for illegal satellite dishes, or attempts to smuggle rented movies into the development. As this feature of the contract is being explained to the homeowners, a large screen behind the BFD representatives is flashing slogans like “BFD Enhances Competition!” and “BFD Saves You Money!”
The cable TV contract will be fantastically expensive. Curiously, while it is a lifetime contract, the company refuses to discuss the fee schedule beyond the first ten years. An intrepid homeowner studies the contract and discovers the costs double after ten years… and this assessment was prepared by CBO Auditing, a firm which has underestimated the cost of every contract it has ever reviewed. The condo Board rules that only the ten-year projections matter, and the intrepid homeowner is asked to leave the meeting.
Other homeowners announce they’ve been researching BFD Communications, and discovered it has never been able to deliver promised services at the contracted price. Every single project the company has undertaken experienced enormous cost overruns, and delivered poor quality to its customers. Every time a smaller competitor has been allowed to bid against them, the competitor’s price and performance were superior – that’s why BFD demands exclusive lifetime contracts. The people who make this announcement are told their input is not welcome, and asked to leave the meeting.
A resident asks what different packages BFD will offer. She has small children, so she would like educational programming, but she has no interest in premium movie channels, shopping networks, or morally offensive shows. The cable company explains that only one package will be offered. Its purchase will be mandatory, and the high price of its many channels will be charged to all residents. A senile old man in the audience claims the BFD executives promised him there would never be any morally offensive programming.
This prompts an angry homeowner to leap from his seat, waving a portion of the gigantic cable TV contract… which says the members of the condo Board of Directors are exempt from the restrictions, along with some of their friends! They can rent movies, purchase high quality satellite service, and avoid having the exorbitant fees for BFD tacked onto their monthly dues.
A loud argument breaks out in the meeting area, with angry residents howling that they want no part of this terrible deal. These people are told their anger disqualifies them from further participation in the meeting, and they are asked to leave.
The remaining critics of the deal suggest that other alternatives should be explored. There are less expensive entertainment options to consider, and since none of them require lifetime commitments, wouldn’t it make sense to try them first?
The Board of Directors insists that the BFD contract must be signed immediately. It’s simply appalling that anyone in the development should endure a single day without entertainment. Why, all of the surrounding condo developments have already signed up with BFD! They all have appalling service and frequent TV blackouts, they’re all broke, and they borrow security officers from our development to keep their streets safe… but their Boards of Directors all laugh at us for refusing to provide BFD cable service to our residents, and our Board is tired of their mockery. The BFD executives mention that no one will actually receive any cable services for five years, but their fees will begin right away.
The meeting ends with the Board of Directors ignoring the demands of homeowners and voting for that lifetime contract with BFD. The residents leave the meeting hall wondering how they reached the point where a small group of Board members, up for re-election over the next couple of years, were able to ignore the clear wishes of the residents and saddle them with a lifetime contract.
Here are some lessons to ponder from the Parable of the Satellite Dish:
Never accept permanent solutions that are nearly impossible to change, when simpler and more easily modified plans are available. It’s foolish to let the advocates of permanent programs dismiss flexible alternatives before they have been tried.
A proposal that requires you to ignore both the past and the future is a swindle, not a solution.
Free people do not accept restrictions from which their government is exempt. This is one of the differences between leaders and rulers.
A demand for commitment without a guarantee of performance is domination, not service.
When free people are told something is “inevitable,” their response should be an immediate and overwhelming refusal to accept it. Inevitability is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the absence of resistance. Freedom is the never-ending quest for alternatives.
The people who loudly celebrate “diversity” keep coming up with universal plans. Their State is a giant who trims citizens to fit its bed, using rusty implements. The giant, the bed, and the implements were all equal sins in the eyes of our Founders. They come as a set.
When the State refuses to let you debate the terms of its plans individually, you can rest assured the whole is worse than the sum of its parts.
Freedom requires the courage to avoid being stampeded. You should ask more questions about something you are told is an “essential right.” Sober reflection is a hallmark of maturity. A wise State would not require its citizens to act like children.
The State cannot give you anything worth having. You’ll eventually find yourself guilty of the crime of wanting more. As the State fails to live up to its promises, it will be increasingly tempted to convict you of that crime… in advance.
at least he get's paid to
at least he get's paid to write, unlike you basement boy. but why are you defending a pervert tron? do birds of a feather flock together? That this newspaper allows you to comment on articles verifies how desperate it is for content. oh yeah i forgot it is Bush's fault and a right wing conspiracy. rain coming this weekend it must be the Halliburton hurricane machine driven by Carl Rove.
Hmmm, next time I will say
Hmmm, next time I will say jalbrecht only, but I would like you just once to quantify your remarks. Mean spirited? depends on whose ox is being gored. hatefilled? well I suppose if you don't like the message then you would hate it. but you are projecting (again) your racist attitude onto the right by assuming because we don't like obama it is because he is black. No, it is because he is a marxist intent on raising taxes ever higher on everybody, destroying any chance of economic gain and making more people dependent on government and increasing the power of the leftists. Do you think that central command will succeed this time because Americans are doing it? It never has or will work simply because it doesn't take into account human nature. PEOPLE WANT TO BE FREE. Damn, how difficult is it for you to figure that out? Conservatives want a meritocracy where people are judged by their ability, work ethic, and content of their character, (where did you hear that before?) not the color of their skin. Nobody is smart enough to tell me how to live.
having read your rants for
having read your rants for the past years I can safely assume you hate republicans and are intolerant of them and conservatives so that makes you irrational. don't project your racist, bigoted views on the rest of the country. people often hate what they fear becoming themselves.
Tron the republicans can't
Tron the republicans can't block any legislation in Washington since the dems have the majority in the senate and house. So don't blame them for being the ones stopping the destruction of America's health care system. Give credit to the public for being smart enough to see how hypocritical the politicians in Washington really are. Sunshine is the best disinfectent and when the real objective is exposed (cost control which will mean rationing, affecting the elderly since they use about 80% of the health care) the public wants no part of it. If anyone is old enough to remember Bell Telephone in the 70's no one made a call to California due to the expensive long distance rates. When the monolopy was broken in the early 80's the rates came down due to competion and now everyone calls where ever they want. Currently there are over 1,300 companies offering health insurance policies in this country and only 6 are allowed to sell in Maine. How come can we buy auto insurance from any company we want but not health insurance? Open it up and the rates will come down. I trust my fellow citizens to do the right thing for themselves and their families instead of some nameless, faceless bureaucrat. Nobody is smart enough to tell someone else how to live.
In an odd exposé that has
In an odd exposé that has left the worlds of politics and academia abuzz, a local homeless person revealed yesterday that he only blamed himself for his failures. The incident occurred near the dumpster behind the Shop Rite store in Brooklyn, when Willard Kookish, formerly of 435 Subprime Lane in Nutly, NJ, casually told a reporter that "my problems are my own fault." The veteran New York Times reporter Ken McLiar, who has been searching area dumpsters for a 3,785-part series on people who are homeless due to the evils of American capitalism, admits he was astonished by Mr. Kookish's bizarre confession. When asked to elaborate, Mr. Kookish went on to say, "I went through college drinking and smoking dope and never learned anything. I've had many job opportunities but didn't bother to show up. My family left me a nice house to live in but I took out home equity loans on it and spent the money on hookers and gambling. When the housing boom collapsed I lost everything. I made bad decisions and here I am bearing the consequences."
The startling revelation has left many in the community troubled by what it may portend for society at large. "It should be illegal to talk like that", said Marge Stumpko, an angered low-wage waitress from Lower Skunkworks, NY. "Aren't we all our brother's keepers? Is that all you're leaving for my tip, turdface?"
Eddie Fuppish, a mismarked ballot corrector from Franken, Minnesota, sounded more conciliatory: "The poor man needs help. Anybody that takes responsibility for his own actions is certifiably insane. Just look at all the big businesses selling you stuff for money. Don't tell me you are in control of your own spending or anything else for that matter. You're not. That's why I vote Democratic and make sure other people do the same, even if they didn't mark their ballots that way. It's the right thing to do. People need to be protected."
Regardless of the troubling short-term fallout from the incident, the long term trends are clear. "We need to make people understand they don't matter," stated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Having become cogs in the huge state machine, they can't be allowed to think independently and control their lives; that's what we're here for." Pelosi stressed the inevitability of new taxes and government programs in order to liberate people from such delusions. "People like Willard Kookish better get this through their thick skulls: it's not their fault, it's society's. And that's why they need President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress to subdue this country in order to fix it."
As usual, albrecht, you are
As usual, albrecht, you are wrong, it was first attributed to De Tocqueville in his book " On Democracy in America". But if you and your ilk will indulge me to go off on a tangent I would like to point out the obvious. The usual understanding of "equality," when applied to people, entails equality of rights and sometimes equality of opportunity. But what is meant in all these cases is the equalization of external conditions which do not touch the individuality of man. In socialist ideology, however, the understanding of equality is akin to that used in mathematics, i.e., this is in fact identity, the abolition of differences in behavior as well as in the inner world of the individuals constituting society. From this point of view, a puzzling and at first sight contradictory property of socialist doctrines becomes apparent. They proclaim the greatest possible equality, the destruction of hierarchy in society and at the same time a strict regimentation of all of life, which would be impossible without absolute control and an all-powerful bureaucracy which would engender an incomparably greater inequality.
"always do the right thing, it will gratify some and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
here are a few ideas to
here are a few ideas to discuss, how about tenants obligations not to throw trash onto the sidewalks and streets, cleaning up the dogshit from your pitbulls, don't leave debris in the hallway or the driveway, and don't be such a disgusting pig. This town is one of the worse places I have ever seen and that is coming from someone that has seen 32 states. I can't wait to retire in 6 years and leave this dump.
Finally American
Finally American progressives can have a G.O.D. they can believe in. Banking on a wildly successful media coverage of its efforts to transform the backward, individualistic America into a nation of enlightened state-worshippers ruled by unelected czars, the administrative branch is preparing for a next radical reform that will further streamline the system and dispel the accusations of oligarchic rule by concentrating all the powers enumerated, extrapolated, and imagined under the constitution in the hands of only one man.
Said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, "We must urgently streamline the decision-making process because the time for talk is over. The outdated 19th century idea of reading and debating bills must end. Face it, not only does debate delay immediate action, so does voting."
The new legislation proposes the President of the United States appointing himself to the new position of Governmental Overall Director, or G.O.D. for short. "We believe in an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful G.O.D. to create order out of the chaos that is the unfortunate result of too many people making too many decisions for themselves. Hope and change require unity. Unity requires oneness of purpose. As you may know, Obama is The One."
Under the proposal the G.O.D. will give the people new freedoms, replacing the old freedoms which have atrophied to tired clichés. The G.O.D. is expected to replace individual free will with collective will of the communities represented by community organizers. Free enterprise will be replaced with free lunch, and free speech with free internet access. The inalienable rights of life, liberty and property will be supplanted by the rights of bodily functions, controlled unanimity, and regulated sharing.
"Citizenship encompasses both rights and responsibilities," Gibbs said. "Your rights are the government's responsibility so you don't have to fret over them. A burden is always lessened by lightening the load. For instance, it is the administration's aim to relieve everyone's money problems by relieving them of money. And may the G.O.D. bless America," stated Gibbs.
One part of the proposal that caused a stir of head nodding among the press was the President's assumption of judiciary powers one step above the Supreme Court - the so-called "Last Judgment" provision wherein the G.O.D. has the final say on all legal decisions. "Man proposes, the G.O.D. disposes," Gibbs quipped to approving chuckles of the press.
Further explaining details of the plan's implementation, Press Secretary continued, "How exactly this all works... the G.O.D. only knows."
Evidence of massive public support of the government's Act of G.O.D. was provided in the form of a spontaneous rally just outside of the White House, in which representatives of diverse communities, wearing inexpensive red shirts with an artful ACORN logo, were joined by occasional passers-by from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), all of whom happened to be carrying lovingly pre-printed signs: "Thank G.O.D.!" "One nation under G.O.D.!" and "In G.O.D. we trust!"
The plan has already had an immediate positive effect on the nation's political climate by rendering the opposition speechless. Staunch defenders of God's place in the public forum, Republicans have suddenly gone mum - apparently, out of fear that any anti-G.O.D. statements can damage their immediate political future and have negative long-term effects in the form of eternal damnation.
Despite the President's
Despite the President's promise of a swift and decisive victory, Obama's War on Fox News has developed all signs of an unwinnable quagmire, making the White House even more isolated in its unilateral attempts to crush the growing media insurgency. As the war continues to grind on for a second month, public opinion is shifting towards a quick and complete withdrawal. While many observers still agree that the "War on Limbaugh" is a "just and necessary war," even the former supporters of the war effort are now labeling the War on Fox an "unnecessary war of choice" and claim that the cable channel had nothing to do with Obama's falling approval numbers.
Some say that the general in charge, Anita Dunn, greatly underestimated the power of fiery critic Glenn "Muqtada" Beck and his band of radical followers, who have inflicted heavy casualties on White House forces.
The war has recently passed an ugly milestone as Obama's hand-picked czar Van Jones exploded in the middle of the battlefield littered with pencils, notebooks, blackberries, and media tags, sending shockwaves of terror through the ranks of reporters in the service of the administration.
Accusations of war crimes continue to surface, the most recent war atrocity being Katie Couric's interview with Glenn Beck, after which the prominent Fox News commentator was found outside the CBS studios disoriented, with plucked eyebrows, and a coveted jar of M&Ms stolen from his pocket.
But while the President drapes his unpopular policies with concern for the well-being of American journalism, more and more editors, reporters, and even unionized janitorial staff are beginning to oppose their commander-in-chief for trying to "win" an unwinnable war with their hands, instead of just using executive powers to ban all dissenting speech.
"I've been in the media for a long time, I signed up because I hate this right-wing, knuckle-dragging, imperialist system, and I would gladly sacrifice any number of my fellow Americans to advance my agenda - but this is a dumb war and a rash war," Keith Olbermann of MSNBC said outside a congressional office he visited to demand a government crackdown on dissidents. "Why must we in the field put our reputations on the line when this Congress has the power to simply confiscate Rupert Murdoch's assets and put Beck, Hannity, and Coulter in jail?" he demanded.
The war is also personal for the aging media veteran Dan Rather, who had won many media battles but one single failure brought him a dishonorable discharge. As a result he is now suffering from Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder (PTSD), has become homeless, and lives somewhere under a Manhattan bridge.
"From the outset, there was a conviction Fox News was intractable and it needed to go," an unnamed White House source said. "The dangerous prospect of an informed voter loomed large in the Obama administration's plans of a pre-emptive strike. White House officials, in public and behind the scenes, made allegations depicting Fox News programming as less fair and balanced than it really was. But we never saw any evidence of it. Our reliance on mainstream media in this regard resulted in distorted intelligence."
The fact that none of the administration's claims have panned out raises a troubling question: What was Obama's real reason for the attack?
Doubts like these are causing slippage in support for the first in American history war waged by a U.S. President against a news organization.
The American Affordable
The American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 will soon be coming to a vote in congress if Comrade Nancy "I'd Rather Be Feared Than Popular" Pelosi has her way (what do I mean "if"????) The bill is currently up to about 12 million pages, many of them still blank, and copies will be transported to the Capitol in large dump trucks, each of which has a carbon footprint the size of Algore's mansion plus Ted Kennedy's old Oldsmobile.
In keeping with the modern Congressional tradition, no one knows what's in this bill; the House members all agreed they would rather wait until after they voted on it and then be surprised. However I was able to sneak on to one of the trucks and look under the covers when the driver stopped to let off some illegal immigrants at a truck stop. Here is what I uncovered:
The rumors were true, there is no "public plan" option in the bill. However, there is a previously unmentioned paragraph in it stating that "all private property now belongs to the state." More on that later.
The President, members of Congress and other select denizens of the political class are not covered by the plan. They will be forced to obtain health care by travelling long distances to Switzerland and the French Riviera.
Hemorrhoids, most foot problems and any disease whose symptoms include foul smells or mucus are now classified as "joke ailments" and ineligible for treatment.
The Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be setting up a network of "national nannies" who will be coming to everyone's home to make sure they eat their vegetables and get to bed on time. This I found under a sub-heading entitled "if you're gonna live in my country, you're gonna live by my rules..
Another strike against the naysayers, there is no "death counseling" provision or euthanasia of any kind in the bill (seniors, relax!) Strangely enough, under the section entitled "Reconciliation, Adjustments and Fudge Factors" subheading "Actuarial Anomalies" the budget projections are based on the assumption 10% of the senior citizen population will disappear mysteriously each year. Must be a misprint.
If any private citizen is unhappy with the care they receive, they are free to seek treatment in another country. There is one caveat but I am not quite sure what it is. The wording in the bill says "However, said individual will not be allowed to come"; this was at the end of a page and the next page was blank, so it is not clear how that sentence is to be finished.
An interesting item under "Funding Fantasies" was that they expect some income from the sale of Government Girl Scout Cookies. I don't recall "Soylent Green" as being one of their flavors but it's been a long time since I had a box.
That's all I was able to find out so far but it sounds like a great plan to me. I can't wait until I start getting my health care from a kindly government bureaucrat instead of a grasping imperialist money-grubbing corporation. Thank you, Nancy! Thank you, Obama!
Sure we can, the best way
Sure we can, the best way for everyone to get along is ask me what to think and then do it. follow me you sheeple, I am smarter and know what is best for you, and you, and you too. Also for the planet.
signed by
the former VP, Nobel prize winner, and Oscar wiener
AlGore
Since the best minds of the
Since the best minds of the country have concluded that health care is a basic human right, it must also be presumed that this right automatically includes the most fundamental component of all human health - food. Leading nation's scientists have long been warning us that denying a person the nutrition from food impairs health in the most direct and injurious manner. Today the debate is over: the right to health and the right to food are pretty much one and the same - the inalienable human right to have your bodily functions regulated by the government for your own good.
That anyone is allowed to make billions of dollars by providing Americans with their basic health-giving nutritional needs is the shame of the nation and the cruel result of underregulated markets gone wild.
As eating is preventive health care at its most basic level, no health care reform would be complete without establishing a single-payer system of nutrition delivery called Foodicare, overseen by a super-czar level position of the Foodmaster General. An all-inclusive 2,500 page plan of this essential program is already available for immediate passage. No reading required; it is already self-evident that such an arrangement is even better than a similar plan most successfully enjoyed by North Koreans today.
The Foodicare program will cater to every American's health-through-nutrition needs in a fair and equal manner. A national menu of approved healthy foods at legal prices will be established and enforced for the public's own good. To guarantee food quality and equality, home kitchens will be disallowed and replaced with government-mandated nutrition care cafeterias, staffed with licensed and regulated health-through-nutrition care providers.
To ensure a steady stream of health-generating foodstuffs, and to safeguard against the vagaries of weather affecting harvests, it will be the US government's responsibility to control the climate well beyond the meager provisions of Waxman-Markey. While CO2 regulations may be a good start, we will soon be in an urgent need of a legislation allowing us to cap and trade rain and sunshine. In addition to having the maximum sustainable effect on the health of the planet and its citizens, it will also create thousands of jobs you never even dreamed existed.
The next logical step the government is expected to take is to properly identify and manage other important ingredients of the right to health care: housing care, clothing care, leisure care, and care for the citizens' romantic relationships - since denying a person good quality shelter, apparel, exercise, and recreational sex also impairs health in the most direct and injurious manner.
To maintain their control
To maintain their control and sway the gullible masses, the Left needs to discredit and defeat the very idea of capitalism, individualism, and personal freedom. The simple litmus test here is this: would you like to own your government, or would you like your government to own you? This is the basic fault line and the starting point of all reasoning. America was the world's first nation to set up a system in which individuals owned their government - as opposed to the rest of the world were people remained slaves to their rulers. To exist, the American system requires capitalism, individualism, and personal freedom. These are the American values. The only significant force in today's world that still fights for them are American conservatives. The Left's ultimate model, on the contrary, implies that the individual is owned by the state. In such state humans become mere beasts of burden and are routinely sacrificed for the mythical "common good." This ideological divide makes the American conservatives the Left's worst enemies and best punching bags.
It's ironic that in order to make the world accept its "historically optimistic" vision, the Left needs to instill nihilism, fear, uncertainty, cynicism, and despair. In practical terms, that means to defeat the spreading of American values worldwide (by supporting Islamofascists) and at home (by supporting the U.S. Democratic Party represented by Howard Dean and Dick Durbin). And it looks like the desperate DNC leaders try their best to live up to such a high honor.
A word from the man who
A word from the man who invented Global Warming Vodka,
former Vice President Al Gore (AKA Elmer Gantry):
There isn't a problem in the world that can't be solved by alternative fuels. Students of Progress know that all problems come from capitalism. Capitalism is fueled by selfishness. Therefore, if we find an alternative fuel to selfishness, we can fix all problems. I have invented such alternative fuel - and it's self-sacrifice. But since most people may agree to self-sacrifice only occasionally - instead of the required 24/7 all year round - they'll always be looking for ways to slack off. A World Socialist Government must be established to catch those slackers and sacrifice them for the Common Good. International research has shown that self-sacrifice and compassion work best when they are mandated and enforced by the government, in combination with planned economy and a strict but fair rule by a beloved supreme leader. Thus the most humane government is that which enforces a total and far-reaching human sacrifice.
So here's your alternative fuel to capitalist greed and selfishness. Problem solved.
corn based ethanol GLOBAL WARMING VODKA!
Not only is it a cheap alternative solution to life's problems. It also...
Raises awareness
Promotes social bonding
Improves determination to fight social causes
Advances dependency on government agencies
Creates a realistic illusion of melting icecaps
Replaces the need for tedious scientific research
Is appropriate for all ages
(May contain mind-control agents)
Enjoy over galcial ice that was pissed on by a polar bear
It is a scientific fact that
It is a scientific fact that Global Warming provides the means for the ignorant to declare with absolute certainty that they know the unknowable.
Since man-made Global Warming is becoming increasingly unknowable and avoids being accurately measured, progressive scientists are working hard on new arguments to convince the masses in the necessity to believe in it.
Al Gore provides information about man-made Global Warming but not proof for it. Should you believe in this Global Warming? This is where our Wager comes in, providing an analytical process for the masses to evaluate their options:
The masses believe in Global Warming and it really exists: we prevent climate change and kill capitalism: our gain is infinite.
The masses believe in Global Warming but it doesn't exist: we lose nothing but kill capitalism anyway and claim we saved the planet.
The masses don't believe in Global Warming and it doesn't exist: the growth of capitalist prosperity will continue unabated, distracting the masses from the need to fight capitalism. Faith in socialism withers away: our loss is infinite.
The masses don't believe in Global Warming, but it exists and arrives to smite the nonbelievers: See #3, plus our beach homes get washed away: our loss is infinite.
From these possibilities, and the principles of Marxist ethics (anything is moral as long as it advances Socialist Revolution) we deduce that it would be better to believe in man-made Global Warming unconditionally.
On a planet with limited
On a planet with limited resources, giving birth to more consumers is irresponsible, especially to white males who by definition are the most useless caste on a progressive egalitarian scale. To further this progressive worldview, we must organize Sacrificial Death Drives demanding all to sacrifice their children for The Greater Good™. We must attend pro-abortion rallies, acting as living proof of the terrible mistake our parents had made by not aborting us. It is best exemplified by a statement that Maxine Waters, a US Congresswoman (D-Calif) made at a Pro-Abortion Rally in Washington, DC on 4/25/04: "I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion."
After the revolution all pro-choice debates, focus groups, and parental notifications will become obsolete. The only notification a woman will need is that of the local Commissar who will perform the abortion himself based on visual assessment. The expected post-revolutionary drop in labor productivity will call for more strong and healthy workers and peasants. To fight off enemies of the socialist Motherland the Party will need more strong soldiers in the Red Army. Breeding workers and soldiers will no longer be a choice but a grave responsibility of every female citizen. Commissar's decision will be based on the prospective mother's strong built and good proletarian stock. If the above conditions are met, abortion will be denied and violators thereof will be punished by various terms of corrective hard labor. For sickly individuals, substance abusers, and bourgeois offshoots abortions will be mandatory. It will be required of the Commissar to experience pleasure while extracting such uselessness from the ranks of future citizens of our caring society, and to submit the fetal matter to the nearest stem cell recycling center.
No, no , no, once again you
No, no , no, once again you have mixed up the terminology. You and your children will get heath "insurance" not health care.
Kill the health care hogs!" is the progressive message we hear increasingly from the more socially advanced comrades in Europe. How many times have you stood in line at the pharmacy behind an ancient decrepit walking dead? Inevitably, they order dozens of medications and then pay almost nothing as our Mother State picks up the tab! How is one to deal with these selfish broken-down useless monsters as they suck the economic lifeblood from our Cities?
As usual, the Europeans have been leading the way. We all know how successful their previous bold moves in socialized health care have been.
The socialist system must and will crush the human spirit like a bug for the sake of the common good! Indeed, if everyone in America gets a feeding tube, there won't be enough money for social equality programs and global warming studies!
The main question of the day is, can Americans afford NOT to adopt socialized healthcare? Everyone knows that the individual will never take the necessary steps; it is up to the State to do it for us. In a vital decision like this, do we really need to depend on the vote of emotionally underdeveloped conservative segments? Those incapable or unwilling to acknowledge the moral superiority and the ethical progress of the more socially advanced Europeans, do not deserve a right to vote. Voting rights shall be taken away from them, as well as their medicine. One cannot expect a society to prolong the lives of its useless, degraded elements at its own peril.
The National Coordinator of
The National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, monitors treatments "to make sure that your doctors are doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective." I am very glad to see that the same crowd that bitched about Bush and Cheney "wiretapping and listening in on their phone calls" have not made a peep about this and are just fine with turning all their medical data over to the government! I am relieved and glad that the government is taking direct action over a doctor's thought processes. I was just sick of having the Insurance Industry do all my own thinking. I am glad that someone as smart as Joe Biden will be directing all my medical decision making.
Oh, and please give us the name of the back alley abortionists so we can tax the income they make.
are you aware that there was
are you aware that there was one constitution that specifically separated church and state? It was in the constitution of the U.S.S.R
bol'shoye spasibo
Socialism - I have seen the
Socialism - I have seen the future and ran from it.
I never thought I would see socialist contradictions in America, let alone write about them. But somehow all attempts to organize life according to "progressive" principles always result in such contradictions. And in the areas where "progressives" have assumed positions of leadership - education, news media, or the entertainment industry - contradictions become "historically inevitable."
America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
"We are a world of diverse
"We are a world of diverse people from all walks of life. 'Pro-gay' people, Gays, Lesbians, Transgendered, Bisexual people are not going anywhere. "
you forgot the "questioning" people. I hereby officially denounce you. get your shovel, report to the local commissar for two weeks re-education in the beet fields.
Give me four years to teach
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
There was a time in recent American history when certain Soviet jokes didn't work in translation - not so much because of the language differences, but because of the lack of common sociopolitical context. But that is changing. As President Obama is preparing us for a great leap towards collectivism, I find myself recollecting forgotten political jokes I shared with comrades while living in the old country under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Gorbachev. (I was too young to remember the Khrushchev times, but I remember the Khrushchev jokes.) I also noticed that the further America "advances" back to the Soviet model, the more translatable the old Soviet jokes become.
Not all Soviet advancements have metastasized here yet, but we have four more glorious years to make it happen.
Dialectical contradictions are one of the pillars in Marxist philosophy, which states that contradictions eventually lead to a unity of opposites as the result of a struggle. This gave a convenient "scientific" excuse for the existence of contradictions in a socialist society, where opposites were nice and agreeable - unlike the wild and crazy opposites of capitalism that could never be reconciled. Hence the joke
One of my favorite political jokes is this:
Love and marriage:
Sex differences are the result of social conditioning - yet homosexuality is biological.
Homosexuality is biological - yet everybody is encouraged to experiment with it.
Everybody is encouraged to experiment with it - yet venereal diseases are treated at the taxpayers' expense.
Venereal diseases are treated at the taxpayers' expense - yet taxpayers have no right to impose standards since there are no moral absolutes.
There are no moral absolutes - yet gay marriage is an absolute must.
Gay marriage is an absolute must - yet family is an antiquated tool of bourgeois oppression.
if you have not met the
if you have not met the deductible then let the living room burn before the fire dept starts to put it out.
fish is considered brain
fish is considered brain food, in your case i would suggest a whale or two
fish is considered brain
fish is considered brain food, in your case eat a whale
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I'm looking forward to Purge
I'm looking forward to Purge Season. Ahhh... the smell of fear, the sweat on the foreheads, the glaring Klieg lights, the flowing tears, the begging pleas for mercy... I don't know about you, but it gives me goose bumps and a warm fuzzy feeling that my cold-blooded reptillian hypothalamus really enjoys, like a snake sunning itself on a warm, flat rock.
Our plans of ruling the
Our plans of ruling the world through the mentally challenged and comically illegitimate puppet George W. Bush have been a great success. Our secret world government, the 3rd Capitalist Cabal Internationale, has reported that thanks to our Great Imperialist War, 95% of the world's supply of crude oil is now part of our monopoly holdings! We can raise gasoline prices with no consequences. Shareholders are happy and profits are up. Killing innocent civilians has never been so satisfying.
To the uneducated eye it would appear the Capitalist Class is doing well. But our very success holds the seeds of potential ruin. Unfortunately, the workers and the peasants have CNN, The New York Times, and MSNBC. The last is the worst. It is comprised of socialist geniuses bent on welfare and poodle marriage - the lowest kind of lunatics who belong in an asylum for the criminally vile but sane.
We need to tax the poor wisely. We haven't been. The latest tax report from the 3rd Capitalist Cabal Internationale states that the rich top 20% of society are paying 80% of the taxes! The top 1% pay 38% of all taxes! We are giving back to the workers and peasants too much of the wealth we've removed from their frayed overall pockets through merciless exploitation.
It is necessary to bribe workers with the share of our satanically immoral profits so as to prolong our reign by keeping them within a barely sustainable poverty. But we shouldn't allow them to have more free time and more money than we think they need. These purblind clowns already have too much leisure and stray cash while paying little or nothing to the despicable oligarchical government that oppresses them.
Taxes, mes amis, are the classical leeching price of any civilization! If we don't tax the poor hard enough, the egg of civilization will break and the messy revolution predicted by Marx and Engels will become a reality. We have trouble enough with reality. Capitalists! Bourgeoisie and other exploiting classes! Counter-revolution has become a pressing historical necessity! Tax the poor and delay the inevitable advance of the people’ power! We have everything to lose but their chains!
As we know, AIDS is an
As we know, AIDS is an excellent example of market failure -- but only under Republican administrations. When the ostensible leadership of the nation panders to a primitive constituency comprised free-market zealots and right-wing theocrats, don't be surprised when AIDS fatalities increase.
Judging by the vastly reduced frequency of AIDS stories in the media under Democratic leadership, and applying my rotated multilogit quadratic extraction matrices to the pertinent data, we can only conclude that Republicans and AIDS form a cause-and-effect relationship. Does this mean that Republicans are homosexual? Possibly, as their hostility towards gay rights might be an attempt to mask their own repressed leanings. But then, I am not a psychologist. I am only a (very talented) economist.
You are quite correct to state that the costs of AIDS fall on taxpayers. (And although I am not a physician, it is my understanding that AIDS can also have health consequences for taxpayers who are not yet infected.) And, of course, no one chooses to get AIDS.
And we can say the same thing about many other things. Though it is somewhat beneath me, let me provide you with a non-technical analogy.
The other day, I was driving on the New Jersey Turnpike to Princeton, which is where I work. Out of nowhere, my car broke down, and I came to a dead halt in the left lane. Now, I am not a car mechanic; I am only a (legendary) economist. And so, I sat in the left lane, listening to traffic reports of congestion to the George Washington Bridge, and thinking about how I was (somehow) losing money by waiting for assistance. And that's when I realized that:
A) My car's failure is imposing costs on everyone else.
B) "Free to choose" is all wrong here.
C) No one could say that anyone rationally wanted to be in this situation.
And so, I am suing the New Jersey Turnpike Authority for one hour of my very valuable time.
In other words, almost everything we do has some externalities, and we are often the victims of unintended circumstances. Therefore, it is axiomatic that the government should provide a universal "safety net" for everyone for every misfortune.
the jonly thing taht will
the jonly thing taht will help this godforsaken shithole is a 20 megaton airburst nuclear blast at 1,500 ft centered on the corner of east ave and sabattus st. that is the geographic center on the city
i proved you to be either
i proved you to be either stupid or a liar yesterday go look
the reason there are so many
the reason there are so many in prison is it used to look good for the parole board if someone found religion and gave the facade of finding the light. "what's not fine is when those people try to force others to adhere to their personal beliefs." you mean like militant islamo-facists?
If the health care system in
If the health care system in America is the Titanic then why do a lot of people from around the (socialist) world come here to use it? It always make me wonder if leftists actually purchase anything with their own money, work for their own money, or even work for that matter, since most appear to be clueless as to how the profit driven capitalist system works. For the most part, people left to their own devices and free to choose and will make intelligent decisions about what affects their lives, (democratic voters are the obvious exception). The protection racket is the one enjoyed by the lawyers and their bought and paid for hacks in congress that refuse to offer any meaningful tort reform. The concept of having health insurance magically leading to a long and prosperous life is a little misleading. The idea of personal responsibility is often lost on the leftists and it smacks of intellectual and moral laziness that they want to have the government tell them what to do. Well guess what? They aren’t smart enough to tell me how to live. If you want to exchange liberty for some false sense of security you will have and deserve neither. Once the government controls the health care dollars they can start dictating more and more aspects of your life. You put on some weight? No health care for you fatso. A lot of you put on some weight? Maybe we should close down MacDonald’s, burger king and all the ice cream stands. Or how about not selling beer or other adult beverages since alcoholism is a huge cost to society? There will be no end to the irksome meddling into our lives. The fastest way to reduce cost is to remove the prohibitions put on insurance companies about selling across state lines. Currently there are 1,300 companies selling health care insurance but only 6 are allowed to sell in Maine. Open it up to all and the cost will come down. Anyone old enough to remember life before the breakup of Ma Bell remembers the high cost of calling the west coast. Since competition was introduced it is now pennies to call California. The same will happen if the insurance companies are free to sell anywhere. Don’t confuse having health insurance with getting health care. Dear leader is fond of telling us that if we like our health plan we can keep it, but any company that can reduce cost by dropping their health care plan will do it and that will put about 150 million more people into the system. Combine that with the recent surveys of doctors that say about ½ of all doctors will retire instead of accepting government mandates and the system will be unmanageable. The cost is high today but it will be deadly when it is free.
http://www.justice.gov/usao/e
http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm01911...
it is a criminal offense to enter the country illegally
the term is illegal aliens
the term is illegal aliens and in North Carolina they are responsible for a third of all motor vehicle violations mostly dwi. the state police down there report that when they stop them they claim they don't speak english so the troopers have a choice keep them there for a few hours while an interpreter is rounded up or let them go. so they go free and keep drinking and laughing at us. they are bankrupting the hospitals in border states and putting a huge strain on the prison system in california. a small group of illegals are going to hospitals ilas vegas and getting dialysis free to them but at a cost of about $15,000 each. which means you and me are paying. if they are here illegally then the have already demonstrated a propensity to break the law. kick them out.
if you live on fairlawn and
if you live on fairlawn and your neighbors are aware of this, there is a simple solution. park your vehicles on the street in such a manner as to impede traffic flow. or at least to make it slow down. park in front of your house and another across the street even with your vehicle. leave room for emergency vehicles but cause a disruption to traffic flow. it must involve talking to your neighbors though. or just hide near the corner at 74 fairlawn and throw rocks.
he won't retire he will stay
he won't retire he will stay in DC with his chubby little boyfriend
no that is what we will get
no that is what we will get with the public option. how about this: there are only 6 insurance companies allowed to sell health care in maine but there are about 1700 nation wide. open it up to all and the price of insurance comes down. same thing happened in the late 70's early 80's with the phone company, no one called the west coast until after 7 pm because it was so expensive, now with competion the price came down a lot. the came thing with lasik and plastic surgery, people shop around when it is their money on the line. cap claims on lawsuits and loser pays. if you want to sit there and let the government tell you what you are going to get and be happy with it then you are intellectually lazy and morally bankrupt. the rest of us want to take care of ourselves and our families.
they had insurance so
they had insurance so obviously they could afford it, they were originally denied the operation but cigna relented albeit a little late and she died. unfortunate? yes but she was not denied it because she had no insurance. with govt run health care she would still be dead. 14 years old, the cost-benefit analysis would not be in her favor to make it worthwhile for the operation.
there are 1700 companies
there are 1700 companies that offer heatlh care plans but only 6 are allowed to sell in this state. open it up to all and the cost will come down. If we limit the pay to doctors it will not reduce the cost it will just mean we are refusing to pay. that is quite a difference. With the public option there is no health care.
name me one person in this
name me one person in this country who was denied health care because they couldn't afford it. just one.
we don't have the money, we
we don't have the money, we are broke, stop spending, if I ran my house the way the politicians ran washington I would be in jail by now.
Cultural mythology? Does
Cultural mythology? Does that mean if you didn’t actually experience it then someone else isn’t allowed to offer an historical perspective? No one can offer recorded history that you will accept or believe? That’s like saying you are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. So by that line of thinking, the American Civil war is a cultural myth since no one is around today that witnessed it even though plenty of people wrote about it. What about the revolutionary war? Did that happen? Columbus sailing the ocean? Martin Luther nailing his 95 thesis’ to the door in Wittenburg? The crusades? What happened in the time of Jesus was witnessed and recorded as were his words. But by your line of reasoning, when you are dead and gone, you will be a myth, readily denied by all that live on after you.
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~douglass/recent-publications.html
here ya go
Rex you think we will do it
Rex you think we will do it on the backs of those who rely on state programs? HA! you say that like it is a bad thing. those people need to get off their butt and start becoming productive members of society. I've worked in downtown Lewiston for the past 21 years and I see firsthand what the FAILED welfare policies the compassionate but economic illiterates in Augusta have wrought. There are people with just enough welfare money to eat, pay rent in crappy tenements and don't care how filthy the place is since they have no vested intrest in thebuilding and don't care where the trash piles up. Every day I see people wandering around town looking for drink, drugs, or trouble. It's not just antedotal stories because I work on the streets. Those people aren't there because they are or were exploited by some souless corporation, they are there because they don't know any better and were told the lies that someone else owes them a living.
combine that with the fact that what once were vices are now habits. The only thing this state owes them is an equal opportunity to succeed. It would appear this state is only providing them an equal opportunity to fail. This country is broke and it is a matter of time before the government checks either stop or bounce and then what do you think the peeps will do? Move to another town? Hardly. They will be heading out to the neighborhoods where the working people live, and then it will get ugly real fast. cut taxes cut spending and leave people alone, those fools in augusta and washington aren't smart enough to tell me how to live. Liberals have good intemtions and bad information, that is a recipe for disaster.
Why is it if people disagree
Why is it if people disagree with the atheist left they are mind-numbed robots incapable of consice, articulate, clear thought but when the leftists disagree with the right they are "speaking truth to power", being patriotic, and portrayed as brave free thinkers? I guess it depends on whose ox is being gored. The left has the appearance of mind-numbed robots since they prey of the weak and lazy by keeping them in ghettos both intellectual and physical. If they really cared about "the people" they would overhaul the dusfunctional education system starting with testing teachers and getting rid of the incompentent ones. Next reduce taxes on any business that is socially conscious, defined as:
providing a living wage (currently $27.28 per hr for family of four in androscoggin county)
provides access to health insurance
and provides access to a retirement plan.
Any business that does that should not pay more than 5% corporate tax. The best welfare program is a decent job, but the leftists in any country want to control the people by creating a dependency class. You only have to drive thru Lewiston to see firsthand the effects of that disasterous policy. We are currently exiting our 3rd generation of welfare dependent people and rapidily creating our 4th. I certainly don't blame them since they don't know any better but why do the same thing over and over? It would appear the theory of the democrat party is "if it doesn't work, don't fix it".
the prayer of the unitarians
the prayer of the unitarians is real simple "Dear God, (if there is a God).....
The Christian faithful should bear in mind that the undertaking of Christianity should be exemplified through Jesus Christ as an inspired member of the Church in love and sacrifice. The gate of the kingdom of God is straight and narrow leading to salvation, unlike the gate of destruction, which is broad. The privilege of choice should be evaluated for the Christian to select rather the narrow gate which demands sacrifice and humility, kindness and sympathy to enter "unto life". The picture of the two roads and ways of life was known and exemplified by the pre-Christian world, as well as the Christian.
tron you moron if you get in
tron you moron if you get in an accident in lewiston will you care if the rescue people wear "grubby little boots"? I am watching the news (channel 6) and there was a no on 1 ad and one of the people in it was a fire fighter in the firehouse. behind him was some grubby little boots hanging on the wall. actually they look pretty clean. get off that high horse you sanctimonious fraud.
as opposed to clueless
as opposed to clueless left-wing nut-jobs with no concept how free trade and human interactions affect all?
WTF??? LOL!!!
WTF??? LOL!!! BRB. :) \%/
Bribes? how about the
Bribes? how about the bribes from the trial lawyers to their wholly owned subsidiary the democratic party? in 2008 the dems got $19 mil and the repubs got about $25 mil. from insurance companies, almost even. trial lawyers in 2008? dems $180 mil repubs $72 mil not even close
Hey Mr. Fixit just because
Hey Mr. Fixit just because your 6th grade teacher failed you year after year for spelling and grammer doesn't mean you should hate all teachers. Maybe it really was your fault. But take heart, the world needs ditch-diggers and burger-flippers too.
pay it forward Lisa it is
pay it forward Lisa it is such a great feeling to do that. even though you may think no one is watching, G-d is.
here is a better idea. how
here is a better idea. how about YOU monitoring your doctors fees, hospital charges, testing fees and insurance "gouging" instead of being a lazy american and expecting someone else to do it. in other words take responsibility for yourself and your life. most people do comparison shopping for everything else so why outsource one of the most important aspects of your well-being to some nameless, faceless beaurocrat? It might leem like some Byzantimum maze but take a little time to learn about it and then it is quite simple. if you don't do it then who will? tort reform is one answer, plus being able to purchase policies from other states is another, competition will bring down prices just remember what happened to the phone company. lots of people didn't make long distance calls until after 7 pm because it was expensive but now we can call whoever we want anytime and not take out a loan to pay the bill. the leftists always say the government doesn't have any right in our bedrooms, well it doesn't have any right in the bathrooms, kitchens, and waiting rooms either.
wow lil I am impressed, that
wow lil I am impressed, that is the first time i have ever seen you write more than one incoherent and rambling sentence. but it is still 5 incoherent, incomplete, nonsensical and rambling sentences.
here you go doofus, sorry
here you go doofus, sorry i'm late i've been working. do you know what that is?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123958544583612437.html
a better question is how can
a better question is how can anyone take dave seriously when he shows up at a republican meeting in lewiston (2 years ago), started yelling at the people there and when asked to leave he refused, so a 65 year old grandmother pulled out her cell phone to call the police and then he assulted her? yeah tough guy I remember that. you are lucky she didn't press charges. but dave like all the other libtards you are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care and when you add 50 million more and limit cost you get rationing. plus showing absoultely no concept about how businesses operate, you should realize that when a government option is available businesses are going to drop health care as a benefit to reduce costs and the estimates are about 150 million people will be forced into the government plan. any guesses what that will do to the system? do you think it might stress it a little more? a week or so ago Dear Abby had a column where people wrote in complaining about how unfair it was to wait more than 15 minutes in the doctors waiting room. are you ready for a 15 month wait? you libtards are so compassionate, so caring, so friggin' stupid.
"the arrogance of the leftist is surpassed only by their ignorance"
Susan, don't worry what the
Susan, don't worry what the marxists say since they are always on the wrong side of history, keep speaking up for what you think is right. the arrogance of the left is exceeded only by their ignorance.
you write in vague
you write in vague suppositions. what about Beck, Limbaugh, Ingraham, Coulter, et. al. ? can't you back up your vapid arguments with any hard facts or do you just go "Uh,Uh,Uh, what about them?" WHAT ABOUT THEM? maybe you should listen to what they say instead of what others say they say. Or are you from the Mark Twain school of journalism? "get your facts first, you can distort them as you wish"
Well let's see, which party
Well let's see, which party was the one that freed the slaves? (R) Which party was the party of slaveholders? (D) Which party had the founding members of the KKK? (D) Which party fought bitterly against segregation? (D) Which party had Al Gore Sr, and J. William Fulbright as senators that voted against the civil rights act? (D) Which party insists on keeping people segregated into nasty little slums and refuses to allow people to educate their children the way they see fit? (D) Which party has no faith in the concept of hard work, self-reliance, and personal responsiblity? (D) Liars? tax cheats? I think the democRATs have a monopoly on those personal flaws. no one is perfect but if you hold up Charles Rangel, Tim Geitner, Chris Dodd, and all the other sleazy race hustling poverty pimps as paragons of virtue, then you just show your small-minded myopic vision of a hateful section of America. The arrogance of the left in this country is exceeded only by their ignorance.
insurance companies have to
insurance companies have to make money in order to pay claims, plus a lot of pension funds are invested (read: responsible people that have jobs) in the compaines so there is the obligation to investors and the 4 million people that work in the field. The most necessary part of reform is tort reform, estimates are that 25-30% of fees for doctors are to cover the high cost of malpractice insurance. why are you leftists so adamant about companies being evil if they should (gasp!) make a profit? how about if we all work together to keep the government in check? you have to realise that when it is for profit the incentive is to create new and better drugs and equipment to treat people. that costs money for research and development. the populist, histrionics of the letter is funny since we have to assume you are smarter than us in that you know how much to charge for services and how much profit a company should make. If you are that smart why aren't you king of the world? but I must say I really love the comparision to public schools since they do such a terrible job educating students today. you want to see quality education go to almost any private school. health care is not a right, but people have an obligation to behave responsible. get some exercise, don't stuff double cheeseburgers down your mouth daily, and don't abuse drugs and alcohol, and maybe you will live a long healthy life. fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life. Don't confuse access to health insurance with access to health care they are not the same thing. The real question about government care is not will the government pull the plug on grandma but will they even let her get plugged in in the first place?
"you aren't smart enough to tell me how to live"
Hospitals, doctors, and drug
Hospitals, doctors, and drug companies have to increase their fees because of the constant threat of going to court. the middle class pays for everything because that is where the money is. If the "wealthy" have the money to pay for all our needs then why aren't they taxed at 100% or even 95%? the money is not there. currently there is no law that prohibits a company or individual from moving to another state or country in order to avoid paying taxes, so if the government raises the taxes to confiscatory rates what will stop anyone with the means to do so from doing it? stop the leftist, communist thinking and start thinking what it would be like if everyone got off their butts and contributed to society by producing some value instead of being a parasite.
"some of us are wise, some are otherwise"
Look for more truth from
Look for more truth from taxpayers appealing to other taxpayers as mid-term elections approach. There i fixed it for you.
extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Bush attacked constitutional
Bush attacked constitutional protections? The ethical collapse of the leftists is nowhere more evident than the frightening "request" to report fellow citizens for making unacceptable comments to the white house. If a republican had done that we would have had to wrap Mr Duncan's head with rolls of paper towels due to the foaming at the mouth and the spittle flying forth. the silence is deafening but expected.
"always do the right thing, it will gratify some and astonish the rest"
my english teacher, Mrs
my english teacher, Mrs Sarah Craig (God bless her) used to tell us that the most conscise way to write was to write the way you speak, and that was essentially nonsense.
"some of us are wise, some are otherwise"
part of the "right" to be
part of the "right" to be healthy and survive is the responsibility to eat right get some exercise and don't abuse drugs and alcohol. then maybe based on genetic makeup you will survive to a ripe old age so obamacare can kill you. if youare here illegally you don't deserve a damn thing so get out.
"some of us are wise, some are otherwise"
The majority of people
The majority of people staying at maine motels and eat in restaurants are Maine residents. Why can't the people in Augusta realize that? the way to make this state better is to cut taxes and cut spending. quit giving my money away to lazy layabouts and start cutting taxes for businesses. I work in downtown lewiston so I see all the bums that get up at the crack of noon to do nothing. have you ever heard of tough love? end it now.
"Some of us are wise, and some are otherwise"
IF THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY
IF THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY THEN KICK THEM OUT! EVERY OTHER COUNTRY DOES IT
have another glass of
have another glass of kool-aid. those fools can't even run a web site for used cars, but don't worry I am sure they will do a better job with your prostate. it is really irratating that idiots like that cancel out my vote.
"when I was a child my grandpa told me the two political parties were the Republicans and the son-of-a-bitches"
you want great health care
you want great health care for free? become a doctor and give it away. They don't do it for altrustic reasons, and the drug companies don't develop drugs for the warm fuzzy feeling they get from helping people, they do it to make money. If you remove the profit motive then where will the new lifesaving drugs come from? Also if American companies don't develop the drugs how much will they then cost in Germany? that is spoken like the clueless,out of touch, leftist, eletist, bates college specializes in creating.
"Always do the right thing, it will gratify some and astonish the rest"
Dear Ellen: What color is
Dear Ellen:
What color is the sky on your planet? Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt now in case you didn't know it. In other countries workers ( a work reminiscent of a communist paradise) aren't denied health insurance, they are just denied health care. There is a reason drug companies charge money for their product, they own it! Do you think they will spend hundreds of millions and not expect a return on their investment? You don't understand how a free market works or even human nature works. Medical care have different prices in different parts of the country? so doesn't gas, food, and clothing. Doctors get a bonus for changing hospitals? you say that like it is a bad thing, they are only looking out for themselves, and it sounds like something a ballplayer would do through free agency. Last year the richest 1% paid 40% of all taxes and the lowest 50% of earners didn't pay any taxes so they aren't even taxpayers are they? And could you prove some of the fraud in the military? You can't? then shut up fool.
"you voted for obama? thanks idiot"
the problem of the high
the problem of the high divorce rate is directly related to the concept of "hooking up" whereby two people meet, have sex, and think hey this is fun if we lived together we could do it all the time, so they live together without really knowing each other. studies have shown that couples who do three things; 1. do not live together before marriage, 2. recieve pre-marriage counseling and 3. attend a church, have a divorce rate of about 11% and those that do the opposite three that is 1. live together, 2. get no counseling, 3. and have no religious background, experience a divorce rate of about 88%. Add those two numbers together and divide by 2 and you could reach the almost 50% rate that is so frequently cited. a little misleading I think.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
name one person that lost
name one person that lost their home because they couldn't pay for health care and while you are at it name one person that died because their insurance companies refused the treatment.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
I have met Bolduc several
I have met Bolduc several times since he unfortunately is my rep in augusta. he is a clueless dolt. the problem is tort reform and the ambluance chasing lawyers. no one is denied health care today due to lack of insurance, but under obamacare lots of people with insurance will be denied care starting with the elderly, those with terminal illnesses, dementia, or people needing long term care. anybody have family members that fall in those catagories? then get ready to watch them die. although there is a provision in obamacare that offers counseling for ending your lfe. mmmm now thats compassion.
"extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" AU H2O
tron what is corporate
tron what is corporate welfare, do the companies line up to get heating assistance or food stamps? do we see some lazy executives out on the front steps of the building smoking and drinking at 10 am and harrassing passers by? do we see obese sullen unkempt companies spewing out smaller nasty little companies every 9-10 months just to increase their "benefits?" I know the libtards have a myopic skewered vision of how the world works but the reality is if you make it less expensive to do business here ( read: LOWER TAXES) more people will be working, owning homes, paying taxes, and being more responsible. How about this: a company defined as socially responsible is defined as one that provides three things to its employees, a living wage, defined as the hourly wage that supports a family of 4 above the poverty level, access to a health insurance plan, and access to a pension plan, so any company that wants to do those three things gets a huge tax break. bracket it for the number of employees and the larger the number of employees, the less the company pays in taxes. after all the best welfare reform program is a good job.
how can the number of
how can the number of doctors be reduced, payments to doctors, pharmacutical companies, and insurance companies reduced and still increase the number of people getting benefits by 50 million and have the cost go down? easy. ration care, so those with terminal illness don't get care, elderly don't get care, those that most need services don't get care, and infants and young children with life threatening illnesses won't get care. lets take a trip down memory lane shall we?
The order for the final solution was given sometime in early 1942 after the Wannassee Protocol was issued. This was based on an earlier murder program called T4 and it’s associated program called 14F13 aimed at Jews and gypsies. It was named for the address in Berlin of the agency responsible for the actions, Tiergarten 4. Of the people killed: adults in mental institutions about 100,000, children in institutions about 5,000, Jews and others about 21,000 It is estimated about 1/3 of the mental hospitals were cleared out during this time. Elements of deception make an accurate count impossible.
Copying the German model, in our own version of the Reichs Chancellery, the Obama administration has the brother of Rahm Emanuel, Dr Ezekiel Emanuel serving as director of the Clinical Bio-Ethics Department at the U. S. National Institute of Health and is a key architect of Obama’s health reform plan. His opinion is that the Hippocratic Oath is the driving force behind the high cost of health care in America. He has stated in an interview with Lancet that allocation of health care based on age is not a form of discrimination and there is no guarantee of health care to patients suffering from dementia. In Obama’s version of nationalized medicine these ideas, while morally questionable may become the law. After all the Dr believes that the Hippocratic oath, the very essence of western medicine, and the one binding oath that the Nazi death doctors abrogated across the board is “a problem” because it causes needless expense and Obama Care is all about curbing expenses and somebody has to pay one way or the other. Withholding medicine and care because of age or terminal illness is just fine with them even though this action will increase suffering and hasten death. The proof is in his own words. We seem to forget the Nazi T4 program was started with the best of intentions, the euthanasia of those in vegetative states, those unworthy of life, and folks with incurable diseases because of their long term costs to the state. Are we not doing the same thing with the elderly and those with dementia or incurable diseases because of the cost to the government? If we do, then what kind of nation have we become when the doctors turn their backs on us by force of law? What then is the price of life and how many may die as a result of Obamacare over time?
joel, one doesn't sin
joel, one doesn't sin against politicians, one's sin's are against God. but your premise is correct vote them out.
"extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" Au H2O
no wonder the state is in
no wonder the state is in trouble with morons like that in Augusta giving the people the business. "We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
Dave so much hot air and so
Dave so much hot air and so little common sense. let me remind you that once again you are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care. so what if it is free, if you can't get care what good is it? in order to cut costs you must cut demand and to do that you must cut services. obamacare will start with ending care to the elderly and those with incurable diseases. I know no one wants to beleive that but america has its own Dr Death advising the president ezekiel emanuel the brother of his chief of staff rahm emanuel. he is of the opinion that the elderly don't deserve medical care and the Hippocratic oath is the driving force in high health care costs. just remember one thing: you are going to be old one day and then you will wonder why you can't get care. yeah good luck with that.
"extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" AuH2O
Dave so much hot air and so
Dave so much hot air and so little common sense. let me remind you that once again you are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care. so what if it is free, if you can't get care what good is it? in order to cut costs you must cut demand and to do that you must cut services. obamacare will start with ending care to the elderly and those with incurable diseases. I know no one wants to beleive that but america has its own Dr Death advising the president ezekiel emanuel the brother of his chief of staff rahm emanuel. he is of the opinion that the elderly don't deserve medical care and the Hippocratic oath is the driving force in high health care costs. just remember one thing: you are going to be old one day and then you will wonder why you can't get care. yeah good luck with that.
"extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" AuH2O
we will become a nation that
we will become a nation that is run by the tyranny of the minority. what about my rights to believe in 5,000 years of judeo-christian tradition? even the primitive pre-historic societies recognized the concept of one man one woman as the basic foundation of society. deny it all you want and call us all the names you want but it won't change the basic historical truth that is the reality of life. if homosexuals want to live together, thats fine with me, like my brother and his partner do, my neighbors do, and some of my co-workers do. i still love them all. and leah, for the record it is not ok to sacrifice children, own slaves, have more than one wife, and if you eat shellfish you won't burn in hell.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
Why is it that for the most
Why is it that for the most part those on the left tend to be against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the right to have homosexuals marry? It seems to me to be at odds with each other. Suppose for a minute that America loses the wars and the Islamo-facists are able to conquer this country. Or a more likely scenario would be that muslims are running for public office and start winning elections at the state level, then suppose the legally elected muslims are able to appoint judges to state supreme courts. How friendly will they be to gay marriage? Remember these are the same people that kill gay men by placing them next to a two story brick and stone wall and pushing it over onto them and give 4,000 lashes to lesbians for the first offence and then for the second offence are buried up to their waist and stoned to death. Meanwhile here in America the Christians merely go "tsk tsk we will pray for you" and gladly, willingly accept you for who you are as neighbors, co-workers, and friends. I would think more homosexuals would be voting on the right but like the Bible says "Are there none so blind as those who won't see?"
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
Outstanding journalism?
Outstanding journalism? yikes it makes me wonder what is avialable in their area. this is just another left wing screed that insists on preaching to the great unwashed from their ivory towers. they do have really good photographers though, Russ, Jose, and Amber, good job.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
As I recall, the last leader
As I recall, the last leader who nationalized the auto industry and was an eloquent and charismatic speaker, what was his name? or nickname? oh yeah thats right
DER FUHRER.
SEIG HEIL OBAMA
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
hey you with the silly hat,
hey you with the silly hat, why don't you libtards remember when a disaster hits a community the procedures in place require the local officials (paging Mayor Nagin-D for dopey) must first ask the governor (Blanco-D for dumbass) who then ask the feds for help. neither one did what they were required to do because they were not only stupid but as a typical democrat they don't care about the people. Bush declared a state of emergency 2 days before the hurricane hit land and called Blanco to encourage her to order an evacuation. He had no legal authority to do so. homeland security is a failure because the venal corrupt demoncrats won't secure the border down south. it is the simplest thing to do. mexico secures their southern border with troops and they shoot and jail violators. if you don't like insurance companies telling doctors what they can or can't do what makes you think you will like a government beaurcrat telling them what they can or can't do? oh yeah thats because you worship at the altar of big government and are way to stupid to think for youself. instead of just parrotting the farrago of lies that come from the bubble-headed bozos on the mass media why not think for yourself? the only thing i agree with you is people will suffer and you haven't seen anything yet.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
all the leftists are
all the leftists are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care. so what if we all have free insurance if we can't get care. The Kennedy-Dodd bill would create an individual mandate requiring you to buy a “qualified” health insurance plan, as defined by the government. If you don’t have “qualified” health insurance for a given month, you will pay a new Federal tax. Incredibly, the amount and structure of this new tax is left to the discretion of the Secretaries of Treasury and Health and Human Services (HHS), whose only guidance is “to establish the minimum practicable amount that can accomplish the goal of enhancing participation in qualifying coverage. The bill would also create an employer mandate. Employers would have to offer insurance to their employees. Employers would have to pay at least a certain percentage of the premium, and at least a certain dollar amount both to be determined later. Any employer that did not would pay a new tax. Again, the amount and structure of the tax is left to the discretion of the Secretaries of Treasury and HHS. Small employers would be exempt.
In the Kennedy-Dodd bill, the government would define a qualified plan:
All health insurance would be required to have guaranteed issue and renewal, modified community rating, no exclusions for pre-existing conditions, no lifetime or annual limits on benefits, and family policies would have to cover “children” up to age 26. A qualified plan would have to meet one of three levels of standardized cost-sharing defined by the government, “gold, silver, and bronze.” Details later.
Plans would be required to cover a list of preventive services approved by the Federal government.
A qualified plan would have to cover “essential health benefits,” as defined by a new Medical Advisory Council, appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The council would determine what items and services are “essential benefits.” The council would have to include items and services in at least the following categories: ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and new born care, medical and surgical, mental health, prescription drugs, rehab and lab services, preventive/wellness services, pediatric services, and anything else the MAC thought appropriate.
The council would also define what “affordable and available coverage” is for different income levels, affecting who has to pay the tax if they don’t buy health insurance. The council’s rules would go into effect unless Congress passed a joint resolution under a fast-track process) to turn them off.
Health insurance plans could not charge higher premiums for risky behaviors: “Such rate shall not vary by health status-related factors.” Smokers, drinkers, drug users, and those in terrible physical shape would all have their premiums subsidized by the healthy.
Guaranteed issue and renewal combined with modified community rating would dramatically increase premiums for the overwhelming majority of those Americans who now have private health insurance. New Jersey is the best example of health insurance mandates gone wild. In the name of protecting their citizens, premiums are extremely high to cover the cross-subsidization of those who are uninsurable.
The bill would expand Medicaid to cover everyone up to 150% of poverty, with the Federal government paying all incremental costs (no State share). This means adding childless adults with income below 150% of the poverty line.
People from 150% of poverty up to 500% would get their health insurance subsidized (on a sliding scale). If this were in effect in 2009, a family of four with income of $110,000 would get a small subsidy. The bill does not indicate the source of funds to finance these subsidies.
People in high cost areas ( New York City, Boston, South Florida, Chicago, Los Angeles) would get much bigger subsidies than those in low cost areas (much of the rest of the country, especially in rural areas). The subsidies are calculated as a percentage of the “reference premium,” which is determined based on the cost of plans sold in that particular geographic area
There would be a “public plan option” of health insurance offered by the federal government. In this new government health plan, the federal government would pay health care providers Medicare rates + 10%. The +10% is clearly intended to attract short-term legislative support from medical providers. I hope they are not so naive that they think that differential would last.
Group health plans with 250 or fewer members would be prohibited from self-insuring. ERISA would only be for big businesses.
States would have to set up “gateways” (health insurance exchanges) to market only qualified health insurance plans. If they don’t, the Feds will set up a gateway for them.
Health insurance plans in existence before the law would not have to meet the new insurance standards. This creates a weird bifurcated system and means you would (probably) be subject to a different set of rules when you change jobs.
The bill does not specify what spending will be cut or what taxes will be raised to pay for the increased spending. That is presumably for the Finance Committee to determine, since it’s their jurisdiction.
The bill defines an “eligible individual” as “a citizen or national of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence or an alien lawfully present in the United States.”
The bill would create a new pot of money for state gateways to pay “navigators” to educate people about the new bill, distribute information about health plans, and help people enroll. Navigators receiving federal funds “may include … unions, …”
This would have severe effects on the more than 100 million Americans who have private health insurance today:
The government would mandate not only that you must buy health insurance, but what health insurance counts as “qualifying.”
Health insurance premiums would rise as a result of the law, meaning lower wages.
A government-appointed board would determine what items and services are “essential benefits” that your qualifying plan must cover.
You would find a tremendous new disincentive to switch jobs, because your new health insurance may be subject to the new rules and would therefore be significantly more expensive.
Those who keep themselves healthy would be subsidizing premiums for those with risky or unhealthy behaviors.
Far more than half of all Americans would be eligible for subsidies, but we have not yet been told who would pay the bill.
The Secretaries of Treasury and HHS would have unlimited discretion to impose new taxes on individuals and employers who do not comply with the new mandates.
The Secretary of HHS could mandate that you provide him or her with “any such other information as [he/she] may prescribe.”
I strongly oppose this bill.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
But this is the "green"
But this is the "green" technology nutzy pelosi and all the other flat earth no growth environmental marxists are saying is going to creat millions of jobs. who do you think you are standing in the way of progress? oh yeah I know, not in my back yard.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
Yet when one of their
Yet when one of their constituents asks for an answer to such a simple question they, or at least a member of their staff, cannot find the time to respond. They either lie like a cheap rug or totally ignore you because they don’t want to listen to the little people.
There, I fixed it for you.
"We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
actually Mr. Plog the reason
actually Mr. Plog the reason we are told Americans have no savings is because the government says so, but to get to that number (0 or a negative) they factor in the deficit spending they do and the savings rate the citizens do and come up with the negative number. In reality the average citizen is saving a huge amount of money http://www.bea.gov/briefrm/saving.htm it is the highest rate in 10 years. which begs the question "if the average citizen can do it why can't the government do it?" Don't believe everything the government says and certainly don't believe what you see in this newspaper. "We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
who can steal from God? well
who can steal from God? well the islamo-facists are trying their best to do that just as they have for the last 1300 years. "We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin
lou i will defend to the
lou i will defend to the death your right to express your beliefs. will you extend me the same courtesy? you will? good, i believe you are an idiot. free choice act will unionize and raise the cost of labor which will drive more business out of the state and raise the cost of everything left here. as for health care, you leftists are confusing access to health insurance with access to health care. 85% of americans are satisfied with their health care. so we should destroy the best systen in the world for the other 15%? the majority of those who choose not to have insurance are young people that still have the feeling of immortality and would rather have the extra money. my canadian wife has told me enough horror stories about the paradise to the north. in order to control costs which obama has said they will do they will ration care so the elderly meaning over 50 and the young under 12 will not get care. that was written into the first stimulus bill if you don't believe me. as for you last point my gay brother, gay cousin, gay neighbors, and gay co-workers already live in harmony with the rest of the community. "We either hang together or we will surely hang seperately" Ben Franklin