hypnotoad72's Comments (391)

“After raising premiums on everyone else to the point where people will spit out George Carlin's 7 famous words (and a bunch of others, which would have made Carlin blush), people might cancel, the insurance industry falls, and these vultures who ate the golden goose have to cannibalize their own proverbial omelets.

Symbiosis. "You need us and we need us". They can't exist without us.

or is that parasitism? :-D”

“If done right, I'd make the switch.

Of course, living close to stores and work, and having a flexible schedule are even nicer than trains... you know, community garbage stuff like all that...”

“So parents need to get points from their children -- not the other way around?!

Arianna is often cool. This time, I don't agree.

On the plus side, she watches the show with her kids and she'll let them ask questions...

Reminds me of that episode of "Roseanne" where Dan had problems talking to DJ about sex issues...”

“And given what the republicans have been pushing, NOTHING is now better than SOMETHING.

Unfortunately.”

“The people in the red and blue states? The insurance companies in the red and blue states? The large corporations in the red and blue states?

Only one of those three is the right answer. Which is a shame as it's the wrong answer, depending on the context of the question...”

“I wonder what the people at ObamaUnderground.com are thinking... "Please pass the grape kool-aid, we're out of lime."”

“Are doctors informed? That's a valid question.

Once they peg a patient as something, to try to convince them otherwise, with every fact in the book, does nothing. or even consider other possibilities.

I loved being misdiagnosed with (won't name it here). As a result, the actual problem - a disc pressing into my spinal cord remained undiagnosed for a considerable period of time.

Amongst other issues, but doctors are increasingly overpaid for the conditions they freely hand out... along with the pills with the cool side-effects. Including weight gain, might I add...”

“Small businesses are the answer, no arguments here.

Unless large corporations are willing to re-invest in the country that built them and keeps bailing them out.”

“And we cannot do the action because we are not the elected officials who sign or veto the bills.

Nixing the leech-like lobbyists would be a great start in doing something for America.

We won't forget we are part of a global community, which is why we differ from the corporate lobbyists. They don't believe in any community. Unless it has security cameras.. Ironic; security cameras are supposed to deter thieves. Not protect them.”

“http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16503

Offshoring does more to hurt the middle class.

And we bail out the car companies who do it. On top of the usual "government subsidy".

The President wants us all to do our part. We get higher education, we buy cleaner automobiles w/higher MPG, and he just wants to continue offshoring.

On the plus side, that will eventually mean congress goes broke. Corporate lobbyists can't fund them forever and the congresspeople can't keep giving themselves raises forever.

They really need to think of America and not the "multinationals". America, on top of everything else, shouldn't be held responsible for the national debt if the debt wasn't accrued for their sake. We are not in the top 1% and everything congress does seems to benefit the corporations. Let THEM pay. We're fatigued from being fleeced.”

“I saw the adverts and even some dumb product placement ad using the movie as a stepping stone... looked very CGI.”

“Good to know the Public Option isn't done for.”

“As long as we are treated fairly, we should do our part in return.

If something as drastic as that really has to happen, people will know. But I don't think that's going to happen - for the right reasons.”

“You're welcome.”

“Unfortunate; the last few, oh, decades' worth of "conservatives" shows they aren't easy to cooperate with. They demand all and give nothing. That isn't bipartisanship, compromise, or anything else.”

“Music groups berate owning things and make their money selling the CDs, shirts, signed pictures, and so on.

Michael Moore (who may otherwise be right or wrong) is having great fun bashing capitalism by going around the world to countries with high suicide rates and saying how he admires them, and other forms of patronizing so he can get them to watch his movie: http://www.japanprobe.com/2009/12/03/michael-moore-in-japan/#comment-388988 The irony is too obvious NOT to mention.

Also, not to mention they are "multinational corporations" and not "American corporations", so it is NOT the "American way". But what he does is for money, not education. Documentaries, as a rule, don't spin information to induce a calculated emotional response. If he did care, he would be on our streets leading a revolution instead of whining that if people didn't start a revolution that he'd quit making movies. http://current.com/items/91072412_moore-if-theres-no-revolution-i-quit.htm (gee Mike, maybe that's why you're losing influence? Anybody else acting like, let's face it, a conniving toddler would be spanked and told to stay in their room and without the Nintendo.)

But all of this is entertainment, a concept defined as "Something to relieve the stress of real life". Equally ironic; entertainment now has people shoveling real life back at its audiences.

I ought to see the movie. Maybe it is genuinely good.”

“With big companies like GM, before 2009, whining how insurance costs were killing their profits, forcing companies to cover workers won't help much - especially if there are no cost controls.

I have a feeling this "reform" simply isn't, and will do more to harm our economy.

"Single payer" or "public option" would do far more good to lift the burden for companies, the workers, everybody. Otherwise it's just gearing up to be a free "money for nothing" giveaway to large insurance companies. (so much for "competition lowers costs")”

“Let's see what he signs. Or vetoes.

Yeah, it's easy to come to conclusions. But it's based on inference. He hasn't signed any HCR bill yet.”

“Seconded!”

“I agree, wholly.

It's a shame we'll never have meaningful lobbyist reform. Special privilege is not supposed to be the American way. In theory, anyway.”

“"Life is what we make of it".

All we can do is try our best.”

“IF that is true, then were all the comments made by his wife, Michelle, about being proud, just as phony?

We've made inferences from things we've seen. But inferences are not fact.

I refuse to be upset. Not without just cause.”

“I want to learn.

I like to learn.

Cost makes a lot of it prohibitive.

And since society as we apparently made it works on profit and not knowledge, we should all read legal forms and EULAs and see how we can s c r e w each other over instead of properly learning and doing good for self and community.

That's sarcasm, probably, but people are tired of double-standards and spin. That much is universal, regardless of political persuasion.”

“Thank you! More and more Americans know that to be true.

Fanned.”

“Fanned!”