1. In Michael Moore's documentary, Sicko, he showed the story of an employee of the largest HMO in the country, Kaiser Permanente. Her name is Donnell Keys and she was fully insured by Kaiser. However, when her 18-month-old daughter drew a temperature of 104, and she took her to the hospital, she was somehow not allowed to be treated because she was told Kaiser would not cover the medicine needed. Her daughter later died after going into cardiac arrest. Now, how can Republicans see this story and feel proud of our health care system?
2. Democrats now control the House and the Senate, but for some reason it appears as though they are having great difficulty getting things done. Why is it that when the Republicans were in control, if they had an agenda they didn't seem to be running into the same difficulties that the Democrats are experiencing?
3. Bill Maher posed the question to his guest panel if they believed that Rush Limbaugh is a racist, and they all kind of danced around the question or gave very careful answers. Do people who are not racist constantly make racist statements?
4. Just to be clear, I am in no way shape or form criticizing the replacement referees. They were all put in a very tough position and I believe they are approaching the games with a tremendous amount of professionalism and enthusiasm. But, when are we getting the old referees back?
5. Alan Grayson from Florida said that the Republican health care plan is for sick people to die quickly and when asked to apologize he said, "yeah, I apologize to dead people... to all of the people who have died in this country because didn't have health care. Why can't more Democrats stand firm on what they believe in this way? Why does it appear as though far too many Democrats are so afraid to step on anyone's toes or ruffle anyone's feathers?
6. Why is it that America has the audacity , no matter if there is a Republican or a Democrat in office, to feel that we have the right to dictate who has a nuclear weapon and who doesn't?
7. Before President Obama's address to students last month, Jim Greer, the head of Florida's Republican party said on CNN, "In this day and age the president has enough to do focusing on the economy and finding jobs for Americans than writing lesson plans out of the oval office". Is education really not a priority at all for Republicans?
8. Do Republicans have respect for the position of President of the United States only if it's a Republican in office? Or is there some other trait that President Obama possesses that has drawn their disrespectful tendencies?
9. What happened with the whole controversy with Louisville head coach Rick Pitino? It sounded like a pretty intense story. Having sex with a woman in a public bathroom, paternity tests, death threats, extortion, etc. But somehow it just kind of magically all went away?
10. Commissioner Roger Goodell finally spoke out on Tuesday saying that Limbaugh's "divisive comments" had no place in the NFL. "I have said many times before, we're all held to a higher standard here," Goodell said to reporters. "I would not want to see those kinds of comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the NFL. No. Absolutely not." My only question is what took him so long to say this?
Thank God you live in America where you have the right to free spech. Just consider the ramifications of that speech next time.
"Thank God you live in America where you have the right to free speech. Now shut up!"
Small nations would offer billions for a couple weapons, but not one, so far.
There were about 150k war heads at one point, and now we are down to about 20k world wide.
Short answer - Yes.
This has been another episode of - Incredibly Short Answers to Obvious Questions.
Do Republicans have respect for the position of President of the United States only if it's a Republican in office? Or is there some other trait that President Obama possesses that has drawn their disrespectful tendencies?
I'm glad you posed this as about the "position", not the person.
You'll recall that Democrats were not very respectful of Bush. That's what BushDaddy complained about recently.
Best to compare the acts of Democrats towards Bush to Republicans towards Obama.
Except for a few obvious racists, not really much different.
Bush is a war criminal.
The liberals attacked bush and the conservatives with the deadliest of all attacks: The Truth.
You conservatives make up several new lies per day.
BS. pure bs.
Replace the word "Republican(s)" twice with the word Democrat, and you have the situation of the atrocious, unfair attacks on President George W. Bush for the previous 8 years. What goes around, comes around. And "is there some other trait that President Obama possesses...?" You bet there is: he is not only a liberal, he is an ultra-liberal. Conservatives don't disdain African-Americans (see Michael Steele, Condoleeze Rice, Colin Powell, etc, we reject liberals of every color, race, gender and creed, because they have almost completely ruined this once great country.
I got one for you.
Why is it that most sensible people agree that Racism exists in the US,however, it is hard to find a Racist person or institution. What gives?
There are reasons to be happy that I'm too sick to go out, anymore...
1) You can't make public policy based on emotional stories rather than facts and historical precendent.
2) Democrats sold out and backed anyone who would put a "D" beside their name starting in '06.
3) I suggest you listen to Limbaugh's show before labeling someone with a hurtful name like "racist".
4) You'll get the old refs back when they realize that everyone (incl. Hakim Warrick, Ray Felton, et. al.) is taking a hit.
5) . Republicans want market-based healthcare. You can disagree with them, but you can't say that they just want people to die.
6) America does not have the "right" to dictate who gets a nuclear weapon, but America's leaders do have a responsibility to its citizens to prevent enemies from getting them.
7) The prelude is orthogonal to the question. That said, Republicans certainly do not believe in publicly funded education as strongly as Democrats do. They believe that private schooling is better.
8) He sold himself as bipartisan but has acted rigidly progressive; he's a relative neophyte; he brings up America's past transgressions. Previous presidents haven't done that in the same way that Obama has.
9) This sounds like a rhetorical question.
10) Goodell waited until he could gauge public opinion before taking the easiest course of action, no matter how unfair to the person being attacked by the media. Much as he did with Pacman, Vick (initially), Plaxico, Chris Henry, Stallworth......
Modern Conservatism war formed to fight the Enlightenment and bring back the monarchy.
are you a "Half-ican American" does that sound racist to you?
If not, you are deaf.
In other words, the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty is the "dictating" document, not America. Other countries AGREED to it, through their own governments.
Can we enforce the NPT? I absolutely believe so, for global stability, regional stability, and our own security interests. If you haven't noticed, there's a lot of foreign terrorists who would really like to do us harm. And Iran, the country most keen at the moment to getting nukes, has been harming America and Americans (including under UN auspices) for years through proxies, especially Hezbollah. Also, avoiding a nuclear arms race in the Middle East seems to be a REALLY REALLY good idea.
That is the question I have for all the gop who obstruct and do nothing but whine and moan.
What page are the answers on?
Just kiddin', of course.
Great food for thought.
Conservatives, both republican and blue dog,
Hate democracy and the "people"
They love Plutocracy and monarchy.
Modern conservatism was formed to fight the enlightenment and restore monarchies.
If the "people" ever figure this out,
no avowed conservative will every get elected again.
Thanks for writing it all down. I believe you speak for many of us.
Go Thunder!