tvashtarkatena

God Hates Fags.

Kudos to the health insurance industry here. Amazing lobbying job.

Anyone think the 'denial of coverage' provisions are gonna last at this point?

Basically, the health insurance industry said 'open wide' and the Democrats promised to swallow.

Dr. John Gottman's book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is a good start for making sense of a confusing situation. Might be a good thing to read together. Gottman's 30+ years of research indicates that successful, long term relationships require 5 or more positive interactions for every negative one. What constitutes positive or negative is individual, of course.

I hear West African diamonds are a safe bet, too.

Thanks all you gold 'investors'!

Perhaps you should start your own thread for your groupies to pic a new sig line for you. Hey, sorry neither one of you contestants won. We can't all be winners.

Worry not. Your participation doesn't make an already interesting legal fight any more so.

And so goes the greatest government to corporate blowjob in history...other than military spending, of course. Bush's first round of completely uncontrolled bailout wasn't too bad, either.

The profit motive needs to be removed from areas where it creates a basic conflict of interest. Health care, for basic humanitarian reasons, is one of those areas. Primary public oversight and control of such a critical social function should also be instituted through government. Right now we've got an inefficiency clusterfuck with costs running out of control even as profits do the same.

If you can afford to "retire" at age 50, you were not taxed enough, and have obviously cheated and screwed over those less fortunate than you. Cough it up. You wannabes hate it when a libtard beats you at your own fetish game LOL.

What I enjoy most about being hyper wealthy is the arm candy.

It's the little things that make life worth living.

My art collection is priceless.

JayB: I'm looking for a driver, BTW.

For the independently wealthy who eschew both the bourgeois and the boutique: Go Aquasox!

where do you come up with this? Guesstimate. Plug the age/assets into online annuity quote thingies or monte-carlo simulators and it'll probably give you a figure in this ballpark. what a bullshitter you are. LOL Even JayB's caught the groupie thang. What's he BUILDING in there?

One must stop seeking enlightenment to attain it.

Maybe, maybe not. We'll all see, I guess.

The one that's happening right now in congress over the budget stupid.

Since they post original government and corporate documents, there's not much superficiality about it.

Hmm - seem to remember something about being a chief technical officer of some concern or another and making enough money to quit working and "do whatever the fuck I want" being bandied about some time ago - but I don't care enough to bother searching for the said claims. You are correct Jay. LOL

You care enough to remember that part correctly. As for the additional details you made up for your personal attack...I never gave them out. All in a day's work for a liar. And irrelevant. More compensation wouldn't change my political bent or actions a wit. It would mean that I could afford to give more money away...that would be cool. To think that greater income makes one more conservative might be par for the shitheels you hang with. My peeps got more solid values than that. This country's got a gigantic deficit, and the rich who benefited most from it are gonna have to pay it down, sooner or later.

Modern day China, liar? Um...that's pretty much a wholesale FOR PROFIT venture. The IRON CURTAIN? You're comparing the VA, Kaiser Permanente, and the health care sustems of the rest of the civilized world to the IRON CURTAIN? For real? One thing that is always missing in your posts is sustainability. Never, ever shows up. Hence your support for the Green Revolution - and the most unsustainable (and heavily subsidized) agricultural practices in history that produced it. Goodbye topsoil, ocean health, fossil acquifers, public health, and local control of communities. HELLO PROFITS. Just one example of the what's missing in the asset stripping parasitism that is the modern, national/multinational corporation. Also, it seems that our wealth was ON CREDIT, no? Yeah...just a wee omission there. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for capitalism. Local capitalism, where there's actually a cause and effect relationship between what the company does and the communities affected by its actions. Yours, however, is a short term worship of consumptive materialism ('wealth' according to your ilk), at the expense of the environment, culture, community, public health, egalitarianism, and social stability, of course. Even in the face of planet wide environmental and economic collapse, the good liar stands by his guns. "Oh, just ignore the last 3 years of data..." What we now enjoy is a society where everyone can buy cheap Chinese crap on credit, and everyone is afraid of losing their job, health care, privacy, education, and home. Great. We now have a culture so paranoid that its willing to jump on a fascist bandwagon, thanks in large part to the very same avarice and manipulation practiced by the corporate interests you so love. By all means, however, keep comparing even the slightest corporate regulation to the Iron Curtain or, why not go the distance and go for North Korea? No, not a rhetorical trick at all. When sustainability is considered, all of your arguments fail miserably and obviously. Funny how that works.