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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 02:04 PM) It's not often I get to cite the Washington Times here, but this seems like a legit scoop. Someone can correct me if it turns out this is more common than they make it appear; as it is the Washington Times, I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted Steele gone anyway. One can only hope. He's a douche.

Evil mother f'er.

Pwned.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 09:52 AM) Man made disaster = these posts, I assume? Something like that.

UE is going to stay "steady" as a s***ton of people fall off the radar.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 09:09 AM) You're not even trying anymore. Gosh... I should take my man made disaster and go home, then... wait a minute...

Common thread - utopian health care. DOH!.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 09:09 AM) As stupid as it may be to think everyone else has it all figured out, its equally stupid to think that America has it all figured out. It never hurts to look around at your competition and look for some ideas to steal or use. Yea, we're stealing ideas all right - the ones that history has proven to not work. There's a fine line between arrogance (I-bama) and confidence - and I want America to be confident, not arrogant.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 08:29 AM) Wow. You must be a scientist. About as much of one as anybody else that's drinking the "man is destroying the earth, droolz!" koolaid. Or, to say it another way, about as much as the Goracle.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 09:02 AM) I'd really hate to break this news to you, but the rest of the world isn't out of the recession, nor will they be until long after we are. The worst is yet to come for them, which is what makes that statement even funnier. Let's see, with Greece nearing bankruptcy, the Euro has lost value over the last few weeks to the dollar, because investors know Greece is just the first. Many of the foreign countries that "figured it all out", invested billions into 3rd world nations in south america...who have basically told them, erm, sorry, but you're never getting that money back... You know, it continues to baffle me why Americans generally tend to think Europeans and "the rest of the world" have everything figured out...when it's actually the opposite. They often wait until the US sets fiscal policy before setting their own, so they can better equip themselves in case the US were to take any sort of drastic action. Amen. That's part of my "global citizen" comment from yesterday. We have to be so much like everyone else that we tend to forget this is America, and I'd rather lead then follow.

Imagine that.

But you see, it is cold precisely because of global warming. Don't you get it?

Screw off!

Why would it be a logisitcal nightmare? I think you just need to look at the situation. It will bring out the best in everyone, and allow people to show their magnificient posting abilities. Except for Kap, that bastard.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 21, 2009 -> 11:06 AM) Actually they re-inserted it after it was caught. And there's nothing wrong with cadillac plans being DOA. You know as well as I do that winds up being a huge cost savings to the country. The country (government)? Is that all that matters? Did they put the cap measure back in yesterday, because as of Sat. night they said it was out...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 21, 2009 -> 10:59 AM) Bans pre-existing conditions, bans lifetime caps or close to them, bans recissions, increases the medical loss ratio required for every company, attempts to limit the growth of insurance costs by imposing a tax on the cadillac plans (simple economics again), ends a number of other abuses, may increase competition between them, makes it possible for people who can't get insurance right now to actually get it without paying their entire business. Doesn't ban caps. They took that out at the last minute. As I said earlier regarding "cadillac plans" - they are now DOA. They're not going to collect s*** off of that. Premiums are going to go up, not down. Oh, wait, co-ops will stop that... BS. That's the lifeline - co-ops will take away from the private insurers. Y2HH, short term, insurance gets a small bone, but long term, they get screwed royally.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 20, 2009 -> 09:13 PM) Then we should stop dong everything possible to keep enriching that small minority like we have been the last 30 years, and work on rebuilding the majority (middle class) that we've been at war with since 1981. LMAO. You just don't get it, nor will you ever.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 20, 2009 -> 05:03 PM) What's wrong with co-ops? They are a federally based program. What they are doing without saying this is what they are doing is setting the market so that private insurers will still get the shaft. You all keep talking like all these people that are getting mandated are going to private insurers. That's not what is going to happen because there's no profit in these policies. No profit, no private insurance. Yea! That's what you want anyway.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Dec 20, 2009 -> 06:50 PM) Come on, Kap you mean you are not using SS as your retirement income. As of right now, I am... which means I'll be living in a cardboard box or working until I'm 90. I had to cash in my retirement.

"we're all just global citizens"... my gosh that thinking sucks.

If you want this country to survive, you have to get off of the government entitlements. Why is that so hard to understand? Oh, because that's the only way you know how to look at things. You've been suckered into the part of the population that says government is the only thing that can fix your way to anything that life throws at us as a country. At what point does it stop? That's what has made this country the most economically thriving country in the world was that the government generally stayed the hell out of the way until the last 70+ years (except Reagan - who only solved 65% of the problem and made the other 35% way worse). We WERE different, that is part of it. Liberals don't seem to want to admit that. They are always looking for the next entitlement or handout. Those rich f***ers can handle it! Evil bastards SHOULD pay the lower classes (redistribution of wealth is what we SHOULD be about). That thinking is so wrong. What the hell ever happened to making your own way? Now with all that said, there ARE times when the government should step in. I understand helping people up from difficult issues, and the safety nets. But fix the damn problems with the existing infastructure before you create the biggest entitlement of them all - but hell no, we can't do that, because then the power of the government wouldn't be what it is becoming.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 20, 2009 -> 05:39 PM) Which are, of course, 2 of the most wildly successful government programs ever, and the only reason either of them have any potential problems is the fact that Medicare isn't aggressive enough and thus it faces a large deficit once health care becomes 50% of our economy. But we've been over that. LMAO. Wildly successful. $50 TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTrillion in unfunded obligations... and that's wildly successful. So, I guess this "health care plan" is going to be even more wildly successful. What a f***ed up definition of "wildly successful". We all need to keep sucking on that government teat.

Sounds like co-ops to me.

Of course, Jennings has 18 pts now with a huge TD reception. I'm going to be in the championship of my league, if things hold together. I have MJD, Jennings, Ricky Williams, Kurt Warner (who is royally pissing me off), Vince Young (who I still haven't played)... I picked up Jerome Harrison today after his monster game and he's going up against Oakland next week. I also have Eli Manning... Joseph Addai. And some others I can't think of right now, I have a pretty good balance.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2009 -> 03:30 PM) Maybe in the meantime they can start collecting taxes from the whole world to pay for all of that freedom? Exactly.