VioletDatura's Comments (419)

“Favorited and fanned BOTH of you.”

“Funny, you sound just like a 7 year old...”

“Rush believes it's all a matter of choices - you just need to be wiser with your money. Is he wrong?”

“OMFrakkinG!”

“Really? You're going to run on revoking the health care of 31 million Americans?
Please, I beg you, do this. Also, run Sarah Palin for Prez while you're at it. It's win-win. (for us)”

“And Venezuela.”

“You mean, is Joe Lieberman's escalating war-mongering stances have something to do with his prolonged midlife crisis?”

“Why do we think "the system" can control jack?

This is not a failure of the airlines, it's a failure of human nature, and there's no avoiding that especially if someone wants to game the system, or try their luck at creating chaos.

Throw in the belief in a reward in the after-life, and you further stack the odds against order and control.”

“ditto!”

“I'm curious - what do you plan to do about it?”

“Where did you hear this?”

“Poll are funny things and not too nuanced. I'm probably one of those people who do not like this bill - I wanted the public option. That's how I would have voted on a poll.

HOWEVER, I console myself that 31 million additional people will be able to get insurance, and that pre-existing conditions won't keep anyone from getting insurance, and that there will be subsidies for those who can't afford it, and that no one can be dropped if they get sick.

It's a good first step, and I will continue to support Obama as president. I'm not a tantrum-throwing RWNJ who will scream down people in wheelchairs and staple teabags to my forehead.... I'm just a voter who will help vote out blue-dog dems next election. Then we'll get to work on fixing this bill.”

“so... if he campaigned on it.. what does this prove to you? That he's not getting 100% of what he wanted? Is any of the healthcare reform bill acceptable to you AT ALL? Your representatives refuse to vote for it.

So let's recap :
Obama won't get 100% - maybe more like 90%.
On the other hand - you and your reps are getting ZERO.”

“31 million people who don't have insurance right now, plus anyone who has a pre-existing condition as the insurance cos define it and can't get insurance, or anyone who would be endanger of losing what insurance they have if they ever got sick and actually needed to use it.

As far as forcing Americans to get insurance, there are subsidies if you can't afford it. But what I understand from Right Wingers, being able to afford anything is all a matter of prioritizing. If you're a Republican, this shouldn't be a problem for you, right? Rush says it's the difference between buying a house like his on the waterfront, or a bungalow - it's all up to you. Of course it's not, but that's what Rush says.

My representative just finished telling the host of my public radio station that the insurance companies will be regulated so that they don't gouge consumers who are compelled to buy insurance.

Is it that you just don't like the idea that you have to buy insurance because right now you don't have it, and that's your choice, and you don't like your choice taken away, .... or what?”

“What is? Divorce?”

“I was shocked, but then, as others have said, it's Huffpo's tabloid "entertainment" style.”

“The pain from her backstabbing hypocritical socialism-loving relative's actions must be unbearable.”

“this writing? http://bit.ly/4o43BV”

“Well good for him - he's finally out of the closet. I'm sure his self-misidentification was eating a hole in his stomach lining. Now he can finally vote exactly as he has been voting all along.”

“All of our elected politicians should read the bill, digest the facts, or shut up.

If they misrepresent what they've read they should be penalized.

But then, we live in a completely disfunctional society which has no hope to expect that they'd stop lying to us because we, the people, seem to accept this is par for the course. We'll just turn back to American Idol ..”

“It *was* President Cheney for all intents and purposes. You could give Bush a TV set and a few bags of pretzels and that would keep him happy and busy all afternoon. Cheney and Rove ran the government, along with Rice, and that guy who covered statue's uncovered breasts.”

“Wonder what that $500 Million would be if Bush hadn't whizzed through our surplus first?”

“I have a couple of old books - one's called "Murder Ink" and the other is "Murderess Ink." In the second, Stephen King writes an article called something like "How to Scare a Women to Death" - which goes into the subtle things that females pick up. There's the obvious, like threatening kids (that's why kids are always threatened in his books) and then there's the more subtle fear inducing tricks like moving the lady's toothbrush to the other side of the sink when no one's suppose to be home.

In the same book, Tabitha Kings writes a counter-article called "Living With the Boogie Man".

;-)”

“I was up until 5 am one night - couldn't put it down. Barbie reminds me of Stewart from The Stand.”

“I love Big Steve. Just finished "Under the Dome" coincidentally. Liked it nearly as much as "The Stand"... now off to check out his list of 10.”