rpmcestmoi's Comments (100)

“She should have been with it from the beginning, that poor state with miserable records in almost every important civilized area, and corruption to embarrass even the Ukranians! If anything she got trickles down to the poor I will be surprised and pleased.”

“What's great is they can do things in the name of something for which there is less thn no proof! WOW!”

“Goodness, biblical views are often very wacky. After all, we've got a collection of sritings by a lot of old dead guys who had different views of the same moment coming up with very different stories and very different versions of J. Those of us with a soft spot for a message of Jesus of Nazareth fasten on the sermon on the mount. AThat is just another kind of rosy glasses gerrymandering of "the truth" of who this person was. Sometimes he was this angry, anti-establishment guy who wanted to plow folks under...or at least throw them out of the temple for doing business there. Sometimes he was in a big hurry and ignored the needy, other times screwed up the schedule by stopping and raising people from the dead. And this whole question of "taking things out of context" has never played for me. When it suits believers they quote the book as definitive. But when you ask how they can walk around with seamed clothing, they bring up the historical relativism argument. It don't play, kids, it don't play.”

“Nobody said that, Bozo.”

“Oh, my goodness, I am shocked!!!
I thought the drug companies existed to do good things, make a reasonable profit, and sleep well at night.
Not so, I guess.
Just rapacious m-fs like most businesses.”

“Smart. Thanks.”

“TOE the line.

The question is not party, per se, but rationality (make health care available at reasonable cost to all, as in the rest of the world where shoes are regularly worn) or feed insurance pimps who so nor add anything to human well being.
Joe Lieberman is a bad guy. He is the toady of the insurance industry..­.that's all Connecticut has besides grassy lawns, insurance companies.
I think we might be able to buy him off if we approve all of the present and future illegal (by Israeli law) and throw in a few passes on bombing non-Israelis.
And not only am I not an anti-semite (a misuse that is common, given that most of the folks in the area, Muslim and Jew, are semites, but all Jews are not semites) but a supporter of the great Israeli journalist Amira Haas who has just won an award for her courageous reporting.”

“Is everybody having affordable health care bad for the American people? The American people overwhelmingly think it is a good thing.”

“True. For some (it was always true) the military is a way up. Maybe minus a limb, but what the hell. Or minus a consciousness. It used to be the boxing ring for black kids and pugs from my Boston neighborhood. Without the benefits.
It is the age old story that the rich and the comfortable live on the backs of those with fewer options. Bring on that draft and you will see the Lexus generation's cojones shrinking.”

“Right you are. Get those nice Lexus driving types' children in boot camp prior to posting to war zones and you may indeed get a major change of mind. You can only play with Monopoly money so long. Those without any skin in the game....et­cetera.”

“What the hell is iz Cheney besides the daughter of that awful couple celebrated by the booboisie? She has no background that allows here to comment on anything of significance.”

“I have to agree.

Arianna's fans say "spot on!" I say, slow down and keep your eye on the ball. Let's support Joe Biden and push the president but this is not Nixon and Watergate and Eliot Richardson time.”

“Feinstein is an unreliable senator, one of my two, and she has a fondness for aggression and insurance companies. Bad taste. Bad hair. Bad Senator.”

“McChrystal is a head case. You need that kind of insane dedication when you are leading troops over a hill toward a fortified enemy position, but the absurd monkishness of the true believe in a guy driving a nation's efforts and leaking his views before sharing them with the President is wrong. This guy needs therapy, not adulation.”

“It is not a sunlamp. It is what makes him cry copiously after lunch. It is liquid. He is a drunk and a fool and represents badly some people in Ohio. He is an abomination. A drunken abomination.”

“Noonan is only cogent a limited number of hours a day to make her silly pronouncements. Does she walk to the package store or do they deliver?”

“Why in the name of sanity is anyone covering the blathering of this nincompoop??? Please?”

“Very smart analysis. Thanks.”

“TIME has no reason to exist any more. It was once a stronger Newsweek with excellent young writers and great warhorses covering stories and beats very well before the new emphasis on radio and tv news (tv news in the present is a joke, however, and less relevant than even TIME) and th advent of the internet and interested people having access to the world's best journalism minute by minute.
It is a badly written and edited corporate rag. Even in the days of right wing Henry Luce it was a beautifully crafted if often twisted magazine, but it was never a joke. This kind of thing around Beck is a commercial, for criminy's sake. Polite company would turn its collective back on this guy who is both cynical manipulator and three bricks shy of a load. I think he and the florid "leader" of the Republicans in the house ought to get together for a weekly cry-in. After lunch is the best time for the representative, when his tears are fortified.
My guess is that TIME will not be around within 18 months.”

“guy made a typing error, jerk.”

“Not the only legitimate concern. I have noticed that cost is never the concern when there is a body count involved, or if we are talking warrior nonsense, and when the testosterone known as "national pride" involved. We can afford it for us if we can afford it for those turds sitting in congress. If we can't then they should lose theirs. (I am not talking a bris for the aging congress.)”

“Baucus is just trying to hold this thing up, confuse the populace, and feed the avaricious medical-insurance complex that has all of the power of the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about. see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-filipowicz/health-insurance-industry_b_246523.html for the sympathy these folks have for each other. Let's cut Baucus's national insurance we are paying for, and that of every other sob decrying the high cost of doing what is right.”

“Obviously an inappropriate and offensive move on the part of the University of Wyoming. (THey have a university; that's interestin­g.) But now that the subject is broached, I would be willing to begin a fund for a Cheney toilet in the student union, a never-flush model that denies it is full after overflowing. A great tribute to a great American.”

“No compromise on a public component. What the president needs to say tomorrow:

I am pleased to be speaking to the two august legislative bodies of this great country, here in joint session in the place of the people, the capitol building of the United States.
And I am pleased to look around me and see the robust and healthy congress that you are, supported in your maintenance of health by the finest health system in the country, one made and administered by the government, of which you are all members, and paid for by the American people.
Though some are rumored to take a different view, that such health care is beyond our means as a nation or that our government would not be able to run it if such health care existed, we here are living proof of the fallacy of that rumored view.”

“can't they get the nutty reverend out of office? Will they fumigate when she leaves?”