rocketman69's Comments (723)

“Any Chavez photos?”

“What is an exceptable form of greeting in your book? Is the hand shake ( a western greeting) the ONLY acceptable form of greeting OR is the POTUS permitted others?”

“Maybe you should get some sleep and stop sipping the hard stuff.”

“What a strange post. Your fantasies become odder and odder.”

“I want single payer healthcare and I want out of Afghanistan. Do you think that everyone is so unreasonable that they expect all problems fixed in less than a year?”

“Again you attack BUT refuse to answer OUR questions! You provide no data to back your claims only insults to a legit question. I stand to be corrected - if wrong. The discussion dealt with adamNsteve OPPOSED to the very idea of the POTUS respecting anothers culture/traditions by greeting their Dignitary in local tradition. adamNstave suggest that the ENTIRE Revolution War was fought and won by the USA so that NO American should ever have to BOW before a Foreign Royalty. He goes on to suggest that to do so is against standing protocol and tears at the very fabric of our free society. All I ask for since he seems to know proper international ettiquette as it relates to this matter is provide a link to the proper way and the acceptable way for a POTUS to greet another. It is apparent given the nature of the discussion that neither the POTUS/State Dept KNOWS proper protocol so please correct us all. I also ask if this opposition is due to JUST Obama action or would he feel the same had this been Reagan or Bush? The fact that you resort to ad hominem attacks instead of addressing the questions pretty much underscores amandaBC line of argument. Again like adamNsteve you find yourself over a barrel with a weak argument unsupported by facts ONLY racial undertones. So take off the hood my friend.”

“what does this even mean?”

“Late night gratuitous swearing. How exciting.”

“Oh, please do, bend over and show me your a$$.”

“Your "culture"?

ROFLMAO!!”

“Fantasy cultures don't count. We're dealing with the real world here.”

“I'd like to see an independent analysis of the funding, not an analysis from the people that are now gouging us.

Incidentally, isn't the admin costs for Medicare Advantage about $500 billion? Isn't that what this "provider" that conducted the analysis actually provides - Medicare Advantage?

Conflict of interest.”

“Neither Medicare nor Medicaid profits from denying coverage for needed services to eligible people whose lives depend on those services. Insurers make their money by denying coverage for legitimate claims.”

“No, you didn't read the article or you're intentionally mischaracterizing the "report". One, It was requested by the Republicans that opposed to any reform, and two, it comes from the company that is now making profits from administering Medicare Advantage - a useless program that SHOULD be discontinued.”

“I'd rather subsidize the medical costs associated with the pacemaker, which may keep Mr. Lunchbucket alive, than some poor person's premium to a private insurer, 20-30% of which goes into the pockets of some self-absorbed millionaire who may invest it overseas and conservative lobbying firms pushing legislation that will ultimately cost me more money ...”

“If it is executive decision, the next president will overturn it. Much more difficult to do so when it is in a bill passed by Congress and each vote is on record.”

“It is about the multiple aspects that creat a problem. Think multiple dimensions to the issues, not linear.”

“true but the bush administration didnt do a great job on that”

“If you believe that, then you probably believe they've cleaned up the pedophile issue, and handed over every known pedophile priest to law enforcement instead of hiding them away.”

“and of course, as a government contractor, the money they are paid comes from taxes; taxes that have been paid by gay Americans. Rather ironic isn't it that money gays pay in for the church to use are then used as a weapon against them.”

“When an automaker cuts corners and people die because of faulty designs or inferior materials they are forced to make amends and to do giant recalls. What happens when Insurance companies cut corners and people die?

Now I will agree that all companies try to maximize profits. That is what a company should do but our playing field has become so tilted that the average worker has less and less chance of getting or keeping a good paying job. Our laws allow companies to hire foreign nationals with lose restrictions such as No US National can do the job. I have seen this in action and it is abused. We have seen Indian contractors that are just out of school passed off as experts. We allow companies to move entire plants to other countries and give them tax breaks for doing it (I think that’s correct).

And we always see the reports that many specialized jobs are going for months unfilled because there is no one available to fill them. That is because employers want an exact replacement for the person that used to do the job. They want someone that can take over on day one and if they don’t get it they don’t hire anyone. What ever happened to training or mentoring?”

“they did not have 60 votes in the Senate and still don't

sell that lie to the uneducated”