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“My impression is that Sheen is a narcissist, the old lady bi-polar, the kids in a lousy situation, and the lawyers both lying dirt bags. But hey, two of the adults are self serving celebrities and the other two lawyers. What can one expect?

The authorities should make the spouses pay dearly for their abominable spousal behavior.”

“Corporate personae go blithely about destroying intelligent life in the Amazon Jungle. If your Jovian lunar microbe got in the way of immense corporate profit, it would be brushed aside without a thought. Only if it were perceived as worth sacks of money, which it probably would be initially, would it survive. That is the way with life in our universe.”

“I get the impression that what this blog entry is addressing is professional labor, not slave labor in the food and property maintenance service sectors.”

“In a country that can't even effectively regulate toxic emissions into the air and water and earth, the health care industry, the agricultural industry (meat packers a prime example), illegal entry into and residence in it, air travel safetyinto and through it, etc., etc, how is it going to develop or afford what you just proposed. Are you really so ill informed?”

“Sounds good to me!”

“Abortion is a very complex and difficult issue. If resolution the entire matter of the health care crisis here in the US depended on the management of abortion expenses, the debate could on indefinitely. The largest issues of the crisis are universal access and the destructive effect that corporate control of the system has on the national economy. Piratically speaking, these are the issues that should drive the debate toward any resolution.

That being what it is, political ideology and money are what are driving the current process of addressing the crisis. There are 17 women in the sitting US Senate, four of whom are Republicans. The four Republicans voted against the Senate bill, as they would against any Senate bill, for political reason. The thirteen Democratic Senators who are women voted for the bill for political reasons (and in some cases for monetary reasons as well). I strongly doubt that the abortion issue as framed by Nelson played much of a roll.”

“"Statics Show Beer Bellies on the Rise in Parts of the World".

I just made that one up. The right side of the HP main page is turning out some really inane c***ap. How much more empty can this press get? It's been slipping into something akin to Murdoch's British "Sun".”

“So when you're put in jail for not buying mandated health insurance from a private insurer and not paying the subsequent fines imposed upon you, you will get free health care lavished upon you as it is lavished upon all those incarcerated in the US gulags.”

“I think we should nationalize the military, and the tax collectors, and public services. Down with capitalist efficiencies, wealth generation, and an ownership society.”

“But that's communism. It's just like Raul promotes down in Cuba.”

“This stuff gets real interesting when Jewish law comes into play, with the disincentive its interpretation creates for the donation of organs from deceased Jews whose survivors follow the dictates of religious law. I glibly thought when reading this article of whether there were such things as kosher and non-kosher organs. But a little reading on the subject bought me to understand that there are genuine issues in these matters.

I decided though, that when money comes into play - and I mean big bucks, all discretion is thrown to the winds.”

“The fact that the current administration seems to discourage the prosecution of Bush and Chaney and their whole administration of fellow travelers for innumerable acts of treason only adds to the treasonous behavior of Obama's Admin.”

“No!”

“Magical thinking.”

“Everything I have read about this woman indicates that she had serious psychological problems. There were six daughters living with her, and a son is mentioned in having turned her in for the animal abuse. How many children did she have? Was she in an economic condition to care for them? Was there also child abuse here? Just having exposed those who lived with her to the abuse of animals must have had a severe negative effect on them. There is no spouse mentioned. Many of the comments here appear to come from animal lovers, and I can understand their distress, but there is a lot more in this matter than has been reported.

The comments on the story are far too presumptive and superficial, and the reporting presented here is really anemic. Is it just an example of the promotion and consumption of sensationalist press?”

“Never mind your 30 M additional HC industry customers.

Here's my fear, my nightmare.

The Republican party leaders, not withstanding the fact that a good number of them are as dumb as dirt, will realize how much anger and loathing this industry friendly bill will invoke in a large segment of the Democrat voting base and will provide just enough of its members to vote to pass it. Many in the US will then be stuck with a mandate, for which non-compliance is punishable by law, to either pore their own money directly into the pockets of the Corporate Health Care swine if they make anything close to a living wage, or have the Federal Government pore that money into the swines' pockets from the National coffers.

Never mind that the US hurdles on toward economic ruin, and the unemployment and related economic mayhem continues to expand. The fools in the White House will continue to celebrate their health care victory up to that point where a seething wave of odium votes them back into a minority........”

“Did the US tax payers pay for this ridiculous fool's trip to Denmark?”

“Here's my fear, my nightmare.

The Republican party leaders, not withstanding the fact that a good number of them are as dumb as dirt, will realize how much anger and loathing this piece of trash bill will invoke in a large segment of the Democrat voting base and will provide just enough of its members to vote to pass it. Many in the US will then be stuck with a mandate, for which non-compliance is punishable by law, to either pore their own money directly into the pockets of the Corporate Health Care swine if they make anything close to a living wage, or have the Federal Government pore that money into the pigs' pockets from the National coffers.

Never mind that the US hurdles on toward economic ruin, and the unemployment and related economic mayhem continues to expand. The fools in the White House will continue to celebrate their health care victory up to that point where a seething wave of odium votes them back into a minority........”

“Here's my fear, my nightmare.

The Republican party leaders, not withstanding the fact that a good number of them are as dumb as dirt, will realize how much anger and loathing this piece of trash bill will invoke in a large segment of the Democrat voting base and will provide just enough of its members to vote to pass it. Many in the US will then be stuck with a mandate, for which non-compliance is punishable by law, to either pore their own money directly into the pockets of the Corporate Health Care swine if they make anything close to a living wage, or have the Federal Government pore that money into the pigs' pockets from the National coffers.

Never mind that the US hurdles on toward economic ruin, and the unemployment and related economic mayhem continues to expand. The fools in the White House will continue to celebrate their health care victory up to that point where a seething wave of odium votes them back into a minority........”

“Nonsense, priusdrive.

You've got this one wrong.

At retirement age, I personally don't have to worry about health care. I'm more interested in the welfare of my children and the stability and solvency of the nation they live in. Without some form of public option, this bill will be essentially garbage. The President is now the problem, not John Dean. Obama has chosen his advisors badly (and not just with health care) and he has led this effort (or perhaps not led it) badly. Dean was a principal force in the resurgence of the Dem Party with his grass roots organizing.

Don't even try belittling Dean's accomplishments or wisdom. In fact, he's the only MD in this bout of Democrat infighting. I certainly trust his opinion, which has been completely ignored by the Admin. I haven't the least bit of trust in opinion of that truculent , out of touch, and incompetent Rahm Emanuel.”

“Which do you find hilarious, the running of the State of CA into the ground or climate change? Either way, you have a very odd sense of humor.”

“All pistols are machines you nitwit.”

“Looking at this picture of sorry, pasty faced, overweight, aging collection of male fascists makes you either want to cry out in pity for them or want to thank the Lord that they will all soon die of coronaries or by their own hands with their own guns.”

“Goldman Sucks.”

“Matt Taibbi has called Goldman on its insidious and criminal behavior and has been in some cases characterized as over zealous in his critique or even brushed aside. Now the WSJ (Murdock?) has weighed in and perhaps add greater credibility to Taibbi's hectoring of that corporation (Goldman Sachs) and reinforced what many of us are already quite aware of regarding its infamous alumni.”