BarryS's Comments (382)

“what do you expect? bought bribed and corrupt to the core. they get cheap insurance; they have a free medical office on sie. the get priority in all hospitals, military bases, doctors'. why would they care about the rest of us?”

“congresspeople have a special telephone number to call with their problems [the SECRET NUMBER...] They are NEVER puyt on hold, always responded to, and ALWAYS get their way. BCBS knows better. That's why we can't get reform. Congress assumes everyone gets what the get. I dare congresspeople to call the telephone number I call THEMSELVES: if an employee does it for them, well it's an illegal payment to them and 20 years in prison. They should especially do it dring an emergency while their children are dying. Then, and only then wil the have even an inkling of what the rest of us go through. It should be put on TV and if they get special treatment, well 20 years in prison.
Or, they can go down to the local emergency room in DC without congressional ID and try to get help. Special treatment: 20 years in prison. etc. etc. There would be reform in seconds.100-0 in the senate and 435-0 in the house.
So, next time you have a BCBS problem, call your rep or senator and ask for the SECRET NUMBER.”

“He said that the cost curve must be bent. Just how does that happen without any competition? We were sold out just as Obama sold out his principles.”

“F is right.

repeal DADT: sellout
repeal DOMA: sellout
health ins reform: sellout totally pro-insurance company
close Gitmo: sellout
withdraw from Iraq: sellout
card check: sellout
help middle class: seelout by giving tax cuts/not stimulus [fake name]

escalate Afghanistan war: yahoo

Maybe a B if he were GW Bush.”

“of course. how much could it cost to buy South Dakota? a few hundred thou? cross state insurance policies with no regulation will get us the same: Mississippi level coverage -- or worse -- Texas level coverage.”

“i guess if they fail we nationalize them. so if they fail they lose all.”

“Our "leaders" already have gold-plated, lifetime-renewable, relatively low-cost all-inclusive insurance. They have no incentive to do anything. How about we make them buy individual policies for them and their little darlings, spouses and mistresses/gigalos and see what happens then.”

“the anti-trust exemption is the cause of this. break them up: no company with more than 20% of the state market. else company split into pieces of no more than 15%.”

“a new market to peddle hate.”

“who cares? his wife i think. she'll get 10's of million, but she was cheated on. but the rest of us? what does all this have to do with playing golf?”

“it's about time pro-choice churches spoke up. The silence has been deafening. Same with Same-sex marriage. The Right has portraid all "christians" as being anti-choice and homophobic. Of course this is not true. If you spoke up more often, then perhaps people would realize that being anti-choice and homophobic IS the non-Christian belief.”

“i think it's real easy to explain: Tiger was horny. so simple. so understandable. so commonplace.”

“according to the majority of Americans, the number 1 way to make your marriage last is to ban same-sex marriage.

However, the truth of the matter is to move to Massachussetts and behave like your neighbors who recognize same-sex marriage. If you currentl;y live in the "god" states you you probably be divorced as soon as you read this.”

“Alaska is so socialist that Socialist blush. They tax the oil companies like their is no tomorrow and rebate dividends to their citizens. [Louisiana that "conservative state, also does that.] The rest of the Alaska budget is provided by federal government handouts. Maybe Palin and her "anti-socialist" successors should ban that practice outright. Just hypocrites, and laughing all the way to the bank.
Just look at who is calling whom a commie. Sarah and Todd and the "abstinence" daughter and even the naked "son-in-law" all get the gravy. Liars, hypocrites, all.”

“Maybe if Obama fulfilled a few of the promises made to DEMOCRATS, this wouldn't be the case. Let's see: DADT, DOMA, out of Iraq, close Gitmo, and maybe, just maybe a little push on health care reform, card check, etc. etc.

we did get escalation in Afghanistan, payoffs to big banks, tax cuts instead of stimulus, same-old, same-old in Cuba, war-mongering rhetoric about Iran and N. Korea.”

“actually he should head the Secret Service. Better than the incompetennts that now run it.”

“Oh yes, and India should be pissed too. What country would send their head of state to the USA knowing that there are such security breeches.”

“Someone is not so competent. We should find out who pronto. and fire them. or maybe send them to protect someone else like glenn beck.

Full disclosure and many many firings. ASAP.”

“studies to show the opposite. And, at least Gay people want their children.”

“I am almost willing to give up on same-sex marriage as long as we follow the supposed "biblical traditions":

1. no divorce ever for any reason or death by stoning. [make this retroactive]

2. if no baby produced within let's say 2 years, marriage declared invalid, All benefits returned to state. And, you must impregnate your slaves to get a child [see Abraham]. Of course the other [multiple] wives are still valid.

Of course this means we need to go back to allowing slavery too, else how could you copulate with your slave?

As you can see, these people pick and choose what they want, and give excuses that they would never apply to themselves, banning or un-banning along the way the inconvenient truths of the past. Quite franky, Anyway, Jesus would be shocked today because most marriages don't have the pre-nuptual ritual bath. Better have your excuses ready when asked on Judgement Day.”

“DADT was bigotry plain and simple. Sen NuNN and Gen Powell were hysterics about shower-sharing [as though a five star general or the chairman of a senate committee was going to share a shower]. Enuf Said.”

“exactly. it is cheaper to dump the older employees and hire the young at 1/2-1/3 the pay. And to pay the top brass millions upon millions for making that decision.”

“he brought them on. he deserves to lose by the forces he unleashed. he went against principal to run with a totally-unqualified person. he already has shown his ego is bigger that the viablility of the USA. i have no sympathy for him. time for him to retire and spend Cindy's money. At least he is qualified for unlimited government-paid-for gold-plated lifetime medical care [unlike the rest of us], as he has had for his entire life. what is he worried about? he can pontificate from afar and be ignored without taking up space.”

“actually ACORN caused an oak tree epidemic, and the vaccine is tainted with squirrel.”

“actually even that can be compromised: allow only one person to buy it. why give the other eleven people a chance at living?”