Crap Throwing Monkey

Probably because there isn't one. Individual health care in America is an exclusive-use limited resource governed by a free-market economy, period. Reforming it the way everyone would like would require one of two things: making it a non-exclusive use resource (a practical impossibility), or change the economic system under which it operates (an impractical possibility). The only other option is to accept that individual health care is a privilege, not a right. Frankly, there is no good option. Fixed resources + elastic demand = not everyone participates, no matter what your economic model. Every "solution" I've ever heard is either a mechanism for transferring the privilege from one class to another, or rationing it so that no one gets to participate.

Actually, he's guilty until acquitted, and then still guilty. I don't know what country you're living in, but this here's America. And I hesitate to say "good riddance" to Delay, because there's no guarantee whatsoever that his replacement won't be an even bigger schmuck than he is.

Very well put.

I would suspect that Brown's job at FEMA had little to do with emergency response as well. Ultimately, once you reach a certain level of management, the skills required become less specific to the speciality in question but are strictly management skills. Apparently, management doesn't materially change from specialty to specialty, which is why we see the trend in the military of increasing numbers of high-ranking officers with MBA's.

Teach a man to loot a sporting goods store, and you've apparently fed about 20 men for a lifetime. I wonder how much of what was looted in NO has shown up on eBay? Interesting question...don't know how you'd answer it, though.

And I assumed that, and was being sarcastic. Thus, my sarcastic smiley. The pipeline point's a good one, though...hadn't thought of that. Are the mandated sulfur requirements mandated at the refinery, or at the pump? That is, does the gas have to measure 50 ppm as it comes out of the refining process, or as it goes into my gas tank?

In general, if I see news footage of morons carrying TVs out of a Wal-Mart in hip-deep water, I tend to assume that it's true that morons are carrying TVs out of Wal-Mart in hip-deep water.

Seriously? I saw a lot more footage of idiots carrying TVs than I did people carrying clothes.

What are you, eight?

You, sir, have no taste. But then, it's not like that's any sort of surprise to anyone.

Sure she can make me pancakes in the morning. That way I don't have to get up and do it, and Ashley Judd and I can sleep in...

No you fools! Its George W Bush! I see 3 possibilites as to why you fools could be so blind. A) You're a bunch of freakin morons (see also your inexplicable fascination with James T Kirk) B) You're part of the grand conspiracy C) A and B Picard > Kirk BushBad! 457451[/snapback] Bush is merely a tool of the Illuminati. As is Picard. Not Kirk, though.

Which I'm sure has absolutely no effect on prices. Refineries should be able to make low-sulfur fuels from a given barrel of oil for the same cost as otherwise.

I think I'll just stick to Bills games for my horror fix...

I stumped it with "horrible human being". Although it did guess: a drunk, a baby, and a sumo wrestler. So I guess it got pretty damned close.

His editorials he refers to are in the appendices. They're arguably more informative than the book itself, for the reasons you say: he just sounds too vindictive most of the time. Personally, I thought Ari Fleischer made a better case in his memoirs than Goldberg does; Ari wrote with less anger and more objectivity than Goldberg does, which is rather surprising considering that conflict with the media was practically Ari's job description.

I didn't say that's why Fox is popular. I said that their reporting is bull sh--, and given their popularity, the others have to mimic their reporting to compete.

I forget what models they are, but aren't the new hybrid SUVs being released for the '06 model year getting about 30+? People keep missing the obvious fact: the market drives the standards, not the government. Does everyone really think Detroit's fuel-efficiency craze of the late-70's and early-80s was due to the government saying "Thou shalt make high-MPG cars!" Or did it have to do more with OPEC's policies in the '70s and the resulting popularity of Japanese pieces of crap?

Unless you're Fox. And of course, now that Fox has had success with that type of "reporting", and everyone's competing against them...

Actually, that numbskull Pete referenced earlier believes it's the Yakuza in revenge for Hiroshima. I give him major points for originality, at least. When's the last time anyone blamed anything on the Japanese mafia?

Oh. I guess that explains why he only ran three times on first down against Tampa.

No, it's actually mind-reading. The internet's a mind-reading tool created by the Illuminati, along with chemical trails in the sky and scalar gravity waves.

Anger? Actually, it's a pretty clear sign of scathing and acerbic comments.

Uh, no. It should be more like "The California woman who'se been used by the anti-war movement because of her son's death..." I feel bad for her less because her son's dead, but because when the lunatic fringe finds someone more timely to put on their pedestal she'll be discarded like used kleenex. A radio station here had some audio from this weekend's gathering of mixed nuts: Sheehan, opening proceedings with her usual statements, being cut off before she was finished to make time for the next three speakers...who then proceeded to rant about ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Palestine? Sure, the protests are about Iraq... And one of the loons actually had the gall to B word about how Israel should end the occupation of Gaza.

Actually, aluminum foil beanies enhance mind probes. When the aluminum chemically reacts with the molybdenum in the chemical trails left by the weather control devices, it results in a molecule known as "Compound X" (yes, the same "Compound X" that was found at the WTC after 9/11) that allows a more efficient transmission of the scalar gravity waves into your brain. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.