MAragon's Comments (269)

“That works for me, but it is sometimes met with hostility. I guess that's what some call xmas spirit.”

“Harper Collins could care less, they just want to sell books. Rupert Murdoch owns Harper Collins, and the citizen from Alaska is his new cheerleader. In fact, Murdoch and Palin are new BFF.
The citizen from Alaska certainly didn't know how to run her own healthcare plans in her own state. SHE CREATED HER OWN DEATH PANELS IN HER STATE. I am a recently retired ICD-9 Medical coder and insurance biller, and I can tell you first hand that the citizen from Alaska has no idea about healthcare.
Never, in the history of Medicare and Medicaid, has Federal funding been withheld from ANY state until Ms. Palin took over as governor. I believe this story is the reason the citizen quit in July as Governor, unfortunately, this story flew under the media radar, but, IMHO, this is a big story. This link is from the Anchorage Daily News, July 14, 2009.

http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/864670.html”

“of couse, nothing palin does is an accident. it was a strategic cheap shot at mccain and then she'll claim innocence cause she's always gotten away with it.”

“No, no, no.

Obama's the problem, dearie. Democratic voters got punked, but it was mainly our own fault. If you don't know the difference between real Democrats and the DLC, if you vote based on superficial sound bytes and campaign rhetoric that you are sure you know the candidates' and parties' meaning, you are a low information voter. What makes you think you know what "real support in Congress" looks like?

Rahm Emanuel created most of the Blue Dogs, selecting them to run for office, putting the Democratic Party apparatus behind their campaigns over real Democratic candidates in their home states. Obama and Rahm Emanuel made Blue Dogs stronger, more difficult to beat in 2010 and 2012 with the "go slow"/bipartisan approach.

This insurance & pharmaceutical industries' protection racket is Obama's bill. He took single payer off the table before negotiations even began. Obama needed to come out of the gate after assuming office with all cylinders firing to deliver on his campaign promises. Instead, Obama slammed on the brakes and reneged on one pledge after another, as if there was all the time in the world (and not a very tentative 60-vote majority in the senate, with two Democratic senators gravely and terminally ill).

Obama's not the answer; Obama (and the DLC) is the problem.”

“I find this entire discussion enlightening, to say the least. It confirms my suspicion that the vast majority of authors (as opposed to writers, which can be, and often is, a much different thing) are nothing more than panderers and sell-outs, willing to do anything to get noticed.

I blog and have a webs.com site. I also "tweet"--though that's only to tell another story, a subplot that's part of the larger story. And that's it. I honestly couldn't care less about having fans or followers: they simply aren't a priority. Nor should they be.

A famous blogger recently said of writing: "Don't quit your day job." He's right. He wasn't referring to the lack of cash that writing brings to most authors, but to the loss of integrity that inevitably follows upon the heels of any writer willing to do anything to get the cash than fandom hopefully generates.”

“I don't blog though. I figured I should make that clear. All of that energy other writers expend on blogging goes into my current projects.”

“Oh I doubt they will listen to anyone who would speak on behalf of someone who posted this racist article and pic...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fullosseousflap/204949846/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fullosseousflap/205223068/sizes/o/in/photostream/

I wonder how the celebs are gonna feel about this?”

“Mmmmmm.... Damian Lewis.”

“Yes, you are correct. I will try to briefly describe this in 250 words or less...

Vietnam W A R produced our first wave of really PTSD infected veterans due to the fact we drafted many of them and purposely try to eliminate young men who were considered undesirable (Go to prison or the military... your choice for example).

We implemented one half of a psychological/psychiatric theory that suggested that people don't get better in an institution. But the second half of the theory said that we have to have supportive services in the community to support those people. During the Reagan years, we deinstitutionalized thousands of people placing them onto the streets without support.

Over the past decades, due to the process for obtaining grant money, we have used creaming and cherry picking techniques to purify the truly ill individuals on the streets. We help the easy ones and turn away the hard to handle leaving them behind over and over.

You have one class of social worker left behind to deal with this population, law enforcement. Law enforcement is not good at social work. Ironically, we have spent the last two decades re-institutionalizing people into two new institutions, the jails and prisons. As such, we have the dubious distinction of having the highest per-capita prison population in the world. The prison now serve as mental health hospitals, drug rehab centers and nursing homes. And, they are not good at those things.”

“Most of the guns shows I have been to have a strict "NO Photos or Filming" policy.”

“There are constraints are reporters as well and depending on the state law they often have to mask the person's ident.ity”

“It is a commonly repeated fallacy that 90% of all the firearms the Mexican drug cartels are using came from the US. AG Holder and SecState Clinton were both left with egg on their faces for misquoting the actual statistics. Further, even of those coming in from the US, only a percentage are coming from gun shows.”

“I do the same thing when they call her "smart"”

“All true. The organized universal catholic hierarchy were brazenly attempting to coop those holiday/celebrations to bring in those individuals resistant to losing their traditional celebrations originally based on agricultural seasons. They also needed to marginalize women who threatened their male power bases and succession rights. No marriage in the clergy means no succession or estates to pass to outside the clergy. All of this evolved over time. Christmas is more an American celebration than anywhere as a commercial saviour rather than a celebration of the saviour.”