goldgoose's Comments (20)

“My President, Barack Obama, must immediately fire General James Conway to indicate to me that he is the President of the United States of America, that he is depoliticizing the US Armed forces, and the people that the ideology of the PNAC and the Neocon Republicans are NOT the policy of the United States of America or the Armed Forces. It has nothing to do with gay soldiers and it has all to do with the policy of the American Democratic Republic. I support and all Americans should support the men and women of the United States Armed Forces but no one is required to agree with or tolerate personal ideology or any ideology of the leadership of the U.S. Armed Forces; they are the employees of the USA and we the people and the American people should not take kindly to threats by any military general, such as James Conway. He and Benedict Arnold have their place in American history.
Mr. President, this is not a time for consensus; now is the moment of truth and time to show that you represent all Americans, whether they like it or not, and fire General Conway for disloyalty to we the people of the United States and our duly elected President.­!”

“Yes, UpstatreNY, you are absolutely right. Cost of health care insurance, private or public option, should consist of actual costs plus profits divided by the base covered; that is the accepted concept of insurance of any kind, to join together to distribute the cost over a larger population. The purpose of Obama's "reform" is to eliminate waste, take advantage of purchasing in quantity, regulation to eliminate the cost of corruption, protect the consumer, and eliminate duplication and paper work; in other words, the purpose of universal health care and reform is to improve the quality of health care for the nation.
When the profit motive is involved, the corporate policy is to minimize the quality of health care to provide the widest margin of profit; that is why I prefer to choose a quality health insurance of a non-profit corporation to entrust my health care; Kaiser Permanente provides for emergency care outside the area of operation but it would be an advantage to have a public option policy that existed nationwide. My choice of a non profit private company is based upon quality and trust and not cost. But the Obama plan gives everyone a choice; I don't know what opponents (except for insurance companies selfish intersts) are bitching about.”

“How can Americans be so ignorant? The public option will cost the people who choose it, the same amount as what MY HEALTH INSURANCE COST S TODAY! My health insurance has been entrusted to Kaiser Permanente for 50 years and it is the same health insurance carried by most people (millions) in Southern California, because Kaiser Permanente Insurance is a NON PROFIT CORPORATION. Kaiser Permanente is in the health care business to provide health care for people and not in business to make a profit. The quality of my health care is not dependent on whether or not it is profitable to my health insurance provider. Profit making health insurance companies are in business to make a profit by proving health care for people as cheaply as they possibly can to provide the greatest margin of profit for the company (just like Wal-Mart); if a premium payer is at risk to profits, they are dropped. It is time for the American people to decide if they want health care solely to provide health care or health care designed to make the largest possible margin of profit for the carrier; the Obama plan and the public option is simply to give all Americans the choice that those of us in Southern California enjoy. The public option is no more socialist than public schools.”

“Aye, and Arizona is also the State that had a State University, Arizona State University, that ask the President to provide a commencement speech of stature but refused to confer the customary honorary doctorate upon President Obama because the President of the United States did not have enough experience to justify and honorary doctorate from their university. Is Tom Horne related to the President of ASU, or what?
Yes Virginia, there really is an Arizona mentality!”

“Yes, the GOP has become the DOP, the Disgusting Old Party.
Gone is the political party of President Abe Lincoln, President Teddy Roosevelt, and Chief Justice Earl Warren..
Republicans today are disgusting! Republicans are the violators of the Constitutional American democratic Republic.
Republicans have become the illicit party of Watergate, Iran-Contra, Weapons of Mass Destruction Conspiracy, imperialistic wars of choice, torture of prisoners of war, illegal spying on their own citizens, gun toting enemies of compassionate universal health care, a party of hate.
The Republican Party of Lincoln has become a disgusting entity. RIP, party of Lincoln, a tragic ending.”

“My beautiful American democratic Republic has become the ugly United States of American Morons.”

“My best friend died because Aetna Health Insurance panel of doctors would not approve life extending surgery; the Aetna panel did not disapprove, they simply withheld approval until my best friend died. That, I suppose, is not a crime. A few years later, Aetna was sued in a similar case and Aetna had to pay the largest award yet for failing to provide benefits because their 'panel of doctors' did not approve. Aetna announced that they were doing away with the panels and the reason was, "the panels are no longer serving a benefit to the insured." Since then, Aetna has become one of the biggest health insurers in America. Medical care reform is suppose to deal with insurance companies that do not provide benefits that are due the insured.
No one else cared about my friends case, even some of her own friends, they all were confident that it could never happen to them.
In America, Faux News trains American brains. Personally my hero is Gov. Howard Dean.”

“I would like for someone to interview John Bolton about how it felt to lead a violent mob to the polling place to stop the counting of ballots in Florida in 2000. Does Bolton feel a charge from the coup that put Bush and Cheney into power.”

“There is NO empirical evidence that charter schools are 'better' than comparable ordinary public schools with a comparable student body!”

“Arne is actually a good guy and he improved the statistics of Chicago schools. But, statistics are not what is important; students are important and after students, teachers are important. Arne never had to look a public school student in the eye and say to them, "Your future depends on me, kid, and all I can to is try the best of my ability!"
Never trust your life or the value of your life to a statistician!
Statistics are helpful, but certainly not the answer!”

“Just found an error in my previous post. "public school immigration' should be "public school educations". Sorry, I blame it on the computer and not my psyche!”

“There is no empirical evidence that charter schools are superior to any other public schools!”

“Arne Duncan never had the responsibility for thirty five students in a classroom. There is lots about public education he does not understand. One thing he doesn't understand is that charter schools detract from other public schools; they take from the student norm of other schools and they take funding from other public schools. Charter schools are promoted by critics and opponents of public schools who do not believe ion democratic public school immigration. Charter schools segregate by class!
The other thing Arne doesn't understand is that testing students with 'standardized' tests is not appropriate for evaluating teachers. Students and teachers are human beings and not statistics. Statistics depend upon all the variable of a test being fully considered. It is impossible to factor the emotional and pysiological effests of human beings in testing achievement and tests of achievement are not per se tests of teacher quality; there is more to teacing than indoctrinating students in the multiplication table.
To fully understand, you have to spend 30 years in the trenches of public school politics.”

“"Tiller murdered?" How about assassinated?
"Right Wing Voices?" How about Fundamentalist Christian Terrorists' rants?
"Protests?" How about Fundamentalist Christian terrorism?
Rowe vs Wade is the Law of the Land; it is the Constritutional Law of the American democrratic Republic; read the Constitution. Is Operation Rescue political activism or defiance of the Law of the Land in America? No woman has ever been required to get an abortion in America!”

“So much for myth that academia and universities are liberal and that there is such a thing as academic freedom at universities.
A lack of experience? I still remember the full page anti Kennedy ads in the Dallas newspaper on November 22, 1963; please Mr. President, don't go to Arizona!”

“If the President of the United States, with an earned Doctor of Jurisprudece is not worthy of an Honorary Doctorate from Arizona State, neither is he worthy of an invitation to speak at commencement. If the student body treats President Obama as rudely and crudely as the President, I would advise President Obama not to attend.
Personally, I do not trust the people of Arizona for other good reasons.
Let the U of A invite Rush Limbaugh and give him an honorary doctorate; Rush flunked out of college and never earned a degree. In fact, Rush never accomplished anything worthy of making him a pundit. Limbaugh is full exposed in the Franken book, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot'. Limbaugh is a prime candidate for an honorary doctorate a Arizona State.”

“Yes it was a bad week for Republicans and I, as a Democrat, enjoy the implosion. One item by Jenkins that I would comment on was that McCain's remarks, recorded on TV about the Marine One helicopter high costs were not supposed (?) to imply Obama was to blame; McCain was reporting a group discussion in which he was a part, that took place just before Obama's calling on him. Obama properly responded that the helicopters were ordered by Bush but he had not decided what to do about acceptance of the helicopter or if new ones were needed. McCain later said in an interview that he had not meant to blame Obama but was using Marine One as an example of what his group had been discussing, costs that were over and beyond reason due to gouging by contractors. I think the Republicans screwed up enough on their own and we don't have charge McCain with accusations in this case. Give him the benefit of the doubt. Obama seemed to be aware of the helicopter fiasco and legitimately explained it for the TV audience. I think McCain will and should disagree with Obama when there is something to disagree about, but he seems to have quit campaigning. I noticed he stood and applauded Obama a number of times in Obama's speech to the joint houses.”

“Diplomatic relations with Cuba is long overdue. Americans should be allowed to visit Cuba and Cubans should be allowed to visit the USA. Travel agencies in Europe are pushing vacationing in Cuba, and Americans are not allowed to vacation there. Yet Americans are allowed to travel in the Mid East, China, and North Africa. American policy is complete nonsense. Cuba is a natural to trade with the USA; American policy only hurts the people of Cuba and Castro is no worse than China’s leaders or Saudi leaders or Pakistan leaders and certainly no worse than the dictator Batista that Castro replaced.
It seems the best excuse for banning trade and travel to Cuba is the votes of the Batista supporter refugees in Florida that have become American voters. American political leaders supported by Batista supporters would appear to be questionable to me.”

“Obama should appoint Gov. Howard Dean as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Dean is a physician, has experience in providing health care for children in Vermont,”

“This election is all about the War in Iraq!

This is what America’s sons, daughters, died for in Iraq.

Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/world/middleeast/19iraq.html

How many miles per dead American soldier does your car get? How many grandsons are you willing to sacrifice to fill the tank of your SUV? Face those faces of the dead in Iraq:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/”