kd1s's Comments (61)

“These tea party idiots are just that, idiots. Isolated stories? Please, there are lots more than just the few they heard about. Lots!

Of course today I had a discussion with my father. I swear he's spouting Fox News talking points but he swears he isn't. He would fit in well with the tea party morons.”

“Too funny. Not a terribly flattering picture of Palin either. That last 40 seconds is priceless.

I keep hoping Palin jumps the shark like Carrie Prejean did on Larry King. That was priceless too.”

“They also removed all the mailboxes in my city. You now have to go to a post office to mail something out. I'm just converting my last bill to electronic payment. At that point I'll hardly ever use the USPS.”

“I hope they win. A friend of mine works in a public school and he subscribes to the principles of protecting the kids regardless of where such 'offense' takes place be it on school time or off. I keep telling him this violates so many constitutional rights that it isn't funny.

I think zero tolerance policies in school need to be dismantled.”

“This is obviously an attack against the Democratic party since ACORN was a grassroots organizer.

I think it's interesting. I wonder if we could do the same with Republican fundraisers and grassroots orgs?

Oh wait, they're good at outing themselves aren't they.”

“Yeah but where did those who called themselves Republican go to? That's the increase in independents. Which in one respect is good.

Here in RI a new party is rising up, it calls itself the Moderate Party of Rhode Island. They pretty much adopt a liberal social view, and a conservative business view.

Me, I'd like to see about 12 parties. Then it would force the politicians to build coalitions as well as deter the influence of business on government. Right now with just two parties (or three) it's easy to buy favor. You just fund everyone. But spread it out and it become impractical.”

“Not a total loss of mass - there is still dead tissue and there's fluid that takes its place.

It's interesting though that she is functional but with some obvious deficits.”

“Now this is a surprise. Why? Didn't they try to toughen up the bankruptcy procedures because too many people were filing? So they added in the credit counseling mess. That's turned out well.

Yet we still have record bankruptcies.

But what annoys me most about the reform act is that they started treating unsecured debt as secured debt. That's a serious no-no.”

“How cool! As a kid I got to see all the Washington monument not once but twice in one year. First time was a class trip. Second was with my scout troop.

I need to get back if only for the Smithsonian museums.”

“The boyfriend of a friend of mine thinks that allowing gay people to marry will make his taxes go up.

It's that type of thinking that's pushed by the religious wingnuts. That taxes will go up, that the children will be irreparably harmed if they find out it's ok if two men or two women can marry, etc. The anti gay marriage bigots are harping on those issues alone.

The reality is, none of their straight constituency has felt any harm from gay people getting married.

And the anti-gay marriage bigots, it's the religious crowd that pulls the strings. They'll always complain about how it infringes their religious rights. The thing is every same sex marriage bill or judicial decision has carved out exclusions for religious institutions so that they won't be getting hit with lawsuits if they refuse to marry a gay couple.

It's all ridiculous because here's what is happening. Little by little churches are learning that you attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. And the Catholic leadership needs to be particularly careful since they are very out of sync with much of their congregation.”

“My goodness, they're all united on this front. And is it my imagination or does Bachmann look like a Stepford wife? She has that same deer in the headlights look to her.

These people will try anything to pain Obama as a commie. First they tried to paint him as a Muslim but that didn't work. Tried tying him to Hitler, that didn't work. So now it's a Commie Pinko.

They'll just try and try and try. And the czar thing, that comes from their patron saint Ronny Reagan who appointed the nations first Drug Czar.”

“I can't wait to get my hands on this book. I have a feeling it's going to be quite explosive.

But the one burning question I have is about Jeff Gannon. Who exactly was he visiting in the White House? Not that I'd ever want to claim Dubya as one of us, but was it him or Rove that availed themselves of the services of Gannon?

Inquiring minds want to know the salacious details.”

“I'm going to go all Freakonomics on you here. He posited that the reduction in crime in the 90's had to do with the legalization of abortion in the 1970's. Less people in poverty, less crime.

And what did neo-cons do in the 1980's and beyond, but restrict abortion even further. So we're going to see an uptick in crime, mark my words.”

“You know when I think of it, I can remember all the medical procedures done on me when I was a kid. Let's enumerate them:

As a baby I'd scare the crap out of my mother. I'd spike high fevers, or sleep for days. Off to the doctor. Weird birthmark, doctors, specialists to find out its nothing. Frequent ear infections, strep throat a bunch of times up into my early 20's, etc.

Luckily my parents had health insurance. As an adult I've rung up about $8,000 in visits, scans, etc. for recurring ear issues. Thankfully at the time I had a generous state provided insurance plan.

But now I'm running my own business and I want a public option available if only to keep the over 1,800 insurance providers in the country honest.”

“Well now, even the Dems abandoned the public option? They need to be made fully aware that it isn't reform if they leave that part out. And to stop worrying about their republican ilk.

The game is up, we know about the industry dumping money into election coffers, we know about the Republican tactic of no ideas, and of obstruction. What's left is for those of us who know the game to raise our voices and let them know we're not going to stand for it.”

“I'm glad to see some attack ads against the repug idiots. Next we need to start attacking them on the medical and social issues. I'd also like to see the blue dog Dems suffer too.”

“Anyone who is even remotely savvy about computers knows that whenever you get an email that even looks at the headers.

That last received line - that tells you where the message came from originally.

Then go to arin.net (American registrar) and plug the address in. Sometimes it'll tell you it's registered on ripe.net, or apnic.net. The former being the European address registrar, the latter being the Asia-Pacific registrar.

Some smart phishers and scammers have taken to masking the originating receive line. Those automatically get dumped into the bit bucket.”

“Bravo! We need to make sure our elected representatives pay the price for blocking a public option.”

“Yep, lots of antidepressants have an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions. But the drug companies need to keep pushing these drugs.

Remember, almost all the drugs we currently have available were discovered BEFORE we understood anything about genetics and epigenetics. So in essence they took the shotgun approach.

This means you may occasionally get side effects like "death".”

“The guy in the third row is the one to watch. He's got this befuddled almost incredulous look on his face while she's speaking.

I can just imagine what is running through his mind.”

“So tell me, where do you work? I have a feeling you're working for one of the insurance companies. This is classic FUD as described by Wendell Potter.”

“This doesn't surprise me at all. The U.S. is really a third world system when you come right down to it.

I've never gotten to experience the other systems but I've read enough to know that the insurance industry in the U.S. is doing everything they can to kill any public health insurance plan. Look what they've done to Medicare over the years. Yet Medicare is one of the less expensive systems when looked at by administrative cost.

I think Wendell Potter coming out against the insurance industry is the tipping point. He's now enumerated the various methods used by the companies to control politicians. In essence he has put voice to what we've all known for a very long time.

And it's clear that most Americans support a public (aka national) health system. We now need our politicians to come on board. We need to assure them that if they vote this in place we'll still re-elect them even if the drug companies run the negative ads, etc.”

“Reminds me of the old joke, what's the definition of frenzy? An Italian with a credit card in a whorehouse. I say this as someone who is of Italian descent.”

“So true. My SO is black and I've seen him openly dismissed by other white people. Before I met him I didn't think racism was such an issue, now I see it as a big issue.”

“Such a pity, I really love my Eddie Bauer parka. It's rated to -20F and true to their word, that thing is WARM!”