Fairweather

Sweet freckled innocence? Drug-addled, sex-crazed killer? Am I going to hell for thinking she's kind of hot either way?

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Exactly. And you don't seem the least bit concerned. Certainly a lot less than the current condition where we are raked over the coals by the for-mega-profit insurance companies. And clout to reduce the cost of drugs for instance (like the VA)? Damm straight that would be a vast improvement. I vehemently disagree and believe history is on my side. Will the safety net be there for all under your single-payer scheme? Sure. But what will happen to the financial incentive for the pharmaceutical companies you're so fond of bashing? Do you really think they'll continue to advance their science at its current pace? I use this as an example, but it applies across the health care landscape. The system you envision will be purely political. That your bleeding heart can't bear the current paradigm wherein costs are redistributed matters not. That your pleas for liberty under a Bush government now support what is, potentially, the most intimate and personal government intrusion in to our lives--ever--is only mildly amusing. That lefties like yourself fall victim to the rule of unintended consequences time after time is truly sad given the high levels of worth you all seem so fond of assigning yourselves.

Exactly. And you don't seem the least bit concerned.

25,000,000/300,000,000=8.3% uninsured. Not worth overhauling the system. A private policy for a late twenty-something is $160/month. I would rather see the government mail a check than rip apart a system that is only partially flawed. Once the government controls access to health care, they control your life.

I like the insurance I have. Any attempt to take it away and replace it with long lines, government bureaucrats, and rat-infested clinics will make me deadly upset--and I suspect I'm not alone on this.

Like illegals?

This a bold statement. Can you back it up?

Peter's not talking Jesus Camp; he's taking about the mainstream media.

Cross from Royal Basin into Deception Basin and climb/ski to the head of Mystery Glacier. From the col you can either ski the glacier and back out the way you came, do a couple laps up Hal Foss Peak and Mount Fricaba, or (maybe) ski down Del Monte Ridge and out the Duckabush River to Boulder Shelter and back to the car where you began for a nice loop trip.

So you're against the resurrection of the "Fairness Doctrine"? I'm really not sure because your prose is virtually unreadable. Are you presently intoxicated?

Is Israel bringing the charcoal?

Of course. This act is clearly a case of domestic terrorism. I'll even grant that it's a good deal more repulsive that those Oregon ELF-types burning down laboratories or ski lifts--acts that seem to bring out the chirping crickets with avatars like yours. But if you had bothered to calm your jerking knee you might have taken my comparison at face value. Yes, both the murder of the abortion doc and the islam convert murder of the Army recruiter are terrorism.

Diversion? I think it's an apples to apples comparison. Heck, I hear e-lawyers do it all the time. I just love the way you goof-balls get all riled up when your world view is questioned.

Ugh, don't gimme that crap. While technically true, apart from the 1% smart enough to see the political downside to the act, the other 99% felt like the sun shone a little brighter, food tasted a little better, and life was like getting licked on the face by a puppy. Pro life my ass. Religion of peace my ass. Hey, you might be on to something BIG here! Does the same hold true for all--I mean 99% of--Muslims post 9/11?

No. I just want you and yours to display consistency from time to time and apply some of that critical thinking you seem so fond of touting even absent your own application thereof.

Wow! Lots of snow down low, but it looks like early July up on the mountain. Thanks.

So you're willing to cast judgment in one case, but not the other? Now, why would that be?

How would you know; none of these people have been tried. Neither has the accused in the Tiller case.

Uhhh, because anti-abortion wacko fucknuts make up a substantial portion the Republican electoral base which is not the case with the Democratic party and Islamic wacko jihadist fucknuts? Anti-abortion beliefs equal neither the promotion of, nor tacit support of murder. Meanwhile, your party is trying its best to secure the release of individuals who are--in some cases--not distinguishable from the killer of Doctor Tiller. Again; where is your outrage?

I'm not sure why Republicans would need to denounce this murderer any more than Democrats would need to denounce the recent Islam converts who killed an Army recruiter yesterday. Where is the outrage, oh JimProle? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,524405,00.html?test=latestnews A convert to Islam accused of having "political and religious motives" in a deadly Arkansas military center shooting pleaded not guilty to capital murder Tuesday and was ordered held without bond. One soldier died and another was wounded in what police say was a targeted attack by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, on U.S. forces. Muhammad, an American citizen who is a convert to Islam and previously was known as Carlos Bledsoe, already had been under investigation by the FBI at the time of the shootings. Muhammad was charged in Monday's death of Pvt. William Long, 23, outside the Army-Navy Career Center, which handles recruiting, in Little Rock. A prosecutor said Muhammad admitted shooting Long and another soldier "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past." Long and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, had recently completed basic training and had never seen combat. Ezeagwula was in stable condition at a hospital. An FBI joint terrorism task force based in the southern U.S. reportedly had been tracking Muhammad after he traveled to Yemen and was arrested and jailed there for using a Somali passport, an official told The Associated Press. The probe had been in its early stages and based on Muhammad's trip to Yemen, ABC News reported. While there, Muhammad, who was born and raised in Tennessee, studied jihad with an Islamic scholar, according to Jihadwatch.org. He moved to Little Rock in April. After the shooting, investigators searched his apartment and found additional weapons, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the AP. An FBI spokesman in Little Rock did not immediately return a call for comment. At Tuesday's court hearing, Deputy Prosecutor Scott Duncan said Muhammad told investigators that "he would have killed more soldiers had they been in the parking lot." Long and Ezeagwula were targeted as they stood outside the recruiting center smoking cigarettes. Muhammad, wearing a dark blue jail uniform with brown plastic sandals, sat with his hands in his lap before Little Rock District Judge Alice Lightle. He did not say anything during the brief hearing...

Actually, Bill, the don't taze me bro guy was subdued at a John Kerry rally. The pattern is clear. Democrats won't tolerate free speech. I suspect that poor woman has already been shipped off to Camp Tolerance for reeducation. Actually, it does look like they're about to lynch her. Shit!

I asked j_b to provide some numbers to support his earlier claims. I guess it's easier to just toss out unfounded charges of racism.

Spare me that nonsense. Believing in the sanctity of our borders is both an environmental and a common-sense imperative.

Of course. Prior to NAFTA Mexico was a paradise that no one would dream of leaving. Please, j_b, provide for us facts that demarcate where the contributions of illegals offset the burden they impose on government services.