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Because you're too much of a moron to get the point that was made, perhaps?

There is a strange silence regarding my accurate assessment of the Fairweatherian conservative racist agenda regarding prison populations...as there always is. Resume the important debate over who's called who a spearchucker....

The FW's of the world abandoned overt racism for the covert kind: their 'tough on crime' agenda (which FW LOVES to talk shit about whenever possible). Fuck insulting them: put those mfkin' jigaboos AWAY!

JayB: All poignant analysis, no personal experience. Remember, always trust an expert.

Guess I don't have to feel so bad about posting my ugly mug on this forum....

A FELONY? Jebus, this place is outta control. Of course, he WAS black and not yet in prison.... Anyone ever listen to that Lenny Bruce schtick about the easing the sleepy child out of the plane to lighten it up because the wings are on fire?

Second that. Did the Tulalips have anything to do with this?

THe Daily Telegraph? Heh heh... Anyhoo, the fewer Brits out there the better.

I would think they'd be well equipped for high colonic therapy.

Funny (to me) anecdote from grad skewl: A 'buddy' of mine (later determined to be an across the board douche) was hanging with my roommates telling black jokes, all the while thinking that my 250 lb, 6'3" rugby playing roommie was Lebonese or some shit. Uncomfortable silence. He turns to my roomie and asks "Uh...is this OK?" My roomie silently shakes his head. My buddy slowly gets up and leaves. My roommie's dad was black.

Yeah, the folks I've known who have died under hospice care couldn't speak more highly, er, when they were alive, that is, of the folks working there. Well, it's a country of 300 million. If you want fringe bullshit of any stripe and you look hard enough, I'm sure you'll find it. For some, such as this poster, it's an avocation. Now that there are about 1000 blogs per capita, this has become even easier.

This thread couldn't possibly be for real.

Actual stuff dropped, from the pack or on a route, by myself or a partner, over the years: ice axe (recovered) ski poles 3 ice screws (recovered) 2 belay devices biner, sling, piton 3 wired stoppers digital camera (Recovered...what was left of it) altimeter watch (FAWK! Now resting at the bottom of Prince William Sound) tent (recovered mid tely turn just before it rolled into a crevasse) various skis (recovered) Gear stolen by bushy tailed wood rats over the years: 1 pr light gloves fuel cup for MSR Whisperlite 1 pr jumars (THAT HURT)

I've dropped the hint that maybe we should get the fuck out of here a time or two.

Dearest, kindest sir, My name is May Akabogu-Collins, and I have come into a rare opportunity from which you could benefit....

The finger eater's getting a lot of play, though. As usual, the 'debate' centers around the fringe.

Yes, with some weird exceptions, but they shouldn't be the only ones. We already have a single payer program that works and has a high approval rating from patients. Why not open it to all? We also have a federal employee insurance program. Again, same argument. Is this really so hard? No, despite all the horseshit flying about 'Merka being divided' on the issue (um, no it isn't) and end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, it isn't. Guess that would be TOO much socialism, which is really just a 'patriotic' way of saying not enough corporate cock sucking.

A public option means government run insurance, government run care , or a combination of both. Medicare is an example of government run insurance, private care. The VA is an example of both.

Health care reform without a strong public option is no health care reform at all, that is for sure. No other civilized nation on earth allows its health care providers and insurers to be for-profit companies. They recognized the obvious conflict of interest, and inequity in availability and quality of care between the rich and poor that we enjoy. Obviously the problem isn't the GOP. They no longer matter in the voting game.

THis would be an obvious 'no show' maneuver, but I question its veracity. You can read whatever you want in the blogosphere. Any seriously delayed implementation is simply a smoke screen for not doing anything, which is, after all, the GOP agenda.

Another anecdote: A guy in the rental car line in Cali who owns his own business pays $25,000, that's right, three zeroes, to insure his family. Um...that's an entire annual income for a sizeable part of our increasing poorer population. Nope. No problem here. Move on.

I actually climbed the route last spring, so I'm familiar with the raps, where to place that pink tricam, etc. Just needed the gulley conditions. Thanks.

The irony is that overall approval ratings for Medicare and other public health care systems in the US is actually quite high. They work, and people like them...just as they do in every other civilized country on earth. TR Reid recounted that the biggest policy debate insult around the world was a threat to 'go to the American system'. Everyone else knows our little clusterfuck is cruel, out of control, and getting worse. Like your employee sponsored program right now? How sure are you that you'll still like it 5 or 10 years from now? Not worried? You're an idiot.

...and this little pinky went to the Free Market....

Health care is rationed everywhere in some form. That's an inescapable reality of a limited resource. We choose to ration health care here by simply not providing it to tens of millions of men, women, and children. Our health care costs are twice, per capita, as expensive as other countries. Our administrative costs average 18% versus 5 in other countries. The Japanese more than twice as many doctor visits per year than we do, yet their per capita costs are still much lower. The message is that our clusterfuck is just that: it requires wholesale simplification and the benefits of economies of scale and administrative standardization that result. Here's a nice example for you from personal experience: The over the counter price of Crestor, a highly effective cholesterol lowering drug taken by millions of AMericans, is over $2400 dollars a year. One medication. Pay up or die of a stroke, fucker. Welcome to unfettered capitalism.