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Actually, that makes perfect sense. Unfortunately.

I'd agree that everyone should have access to primary care. The questions become "what is defined as primary care", "who are primary care givers", "how do you entice primary care givers to be primary care givers", and "what level of emergency and chronic care should additionally be covered and who those care givers are and how do you stock that system", and "who pays for it and how." There definitely are issues w/ the current system. I don't see how the government stepping in and providing rationed "universal health care" doesn't create more problems than it solves. I'd actually expect that our government running the program to actually increase the inequities in the system.

He wasn't down by contact because he was on top of Brees. In order to be down by contact, one has to actually be down (a part of his body other than his foot or a hand must be touching the turf). I only saw it once, but it didn't look like he had a knee or elbow on the turf. Now, had Brees been touching the sideline instead of in the pocket, I'm not sure if Winfield would have been down or not. Because if Brees is touching the sideline, he's part of the sideline, so Winfield would have been on the sideline so he would have been down I guess. Right? But then NO would have still had the ball as a player on the sideline can't recover a fumble.

(Where is the wtf smiley when you need it?) Are you flippin' serious? Talk about "name calling, fear/smear, tactics." All I can say is "wow."

Mass murderers, probably none. (Note: I'm not including people like Idi Amin as they weren't / aren't Americans (the 2nd A in your AA).) Serial killers, at least 2: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.

It obviously is more of a longshot than Chaney becoming President, and much less of one than Byrd becoming President; but should the President go down, the new President and VP are not sworn in on the same day. To go through the procedure of the new President picking a VP will take a couple of weeks to a month; if something happens to the (new) President in the interim then it's (God forbid) "hello Madam President". That we haven't had any House Majority Leader sworn in as President due to incapacitation of the top 2 men is proof that it doesn't happen often and is a "huge longshot." That the majority party in the House chose her as their leader is amazingly sad regardless of whether she will ever hear the band play "Hail to the Chief."

Which is what makes Madam Speaker's comment all the more galling.

It'd be easy enough for you to do a search on it if it's that important to you.

I haven't seen what Biden professes, but how is claiming that Pelosi misrepresents Catholic doctrine anything but fact? The woman was on MtP and flat out stated that the Catholic church is undecided on when life begins and has been for hundreds of years. If she truly believes that, the San Francisco Diocese is further out than I'd have imagined. Of course, in fairness to her, in that same interview she stated that natural gas was neither a fossil fuel nor did it need to be obtained by drilling. I assume she plans on catalyzing a whole lot of cows in the near future to obtain the increased natural gas production she favors because that's the only other way I can think of to obtain it w/out drilling for the fossil fuel version of it. People worry about Palin potentially being 1 heartbeat shy of the Presidency. I can't honestly say I'm impressed that Pelosi IS 2 heartbeats away from it.

Yeah, that was a kind of interesting split screen. I was impressed that he kept the Ted Bundy moments completely in check. Of course, I'm also wondering if I'm impressed w/ her performance tonight because my expectations were rock bottom, or if she actually appeared only as ignorant as Biden appeared. I only got to watch the 1st 50 minutes, but I am still not certain how they BOTH managed to keep from just crushing their opponent's candidate.

Yep, the Republicans have stacked ALL the voting machines against the Democrats. That's why they still control both houses of Congress.

That'd probably explain the 5 copies my wife was forced to buy.

I think my wife's dissertation outsold Pelosi's book.

Great stuff Ken. Keep it coming.

Yes, they had held a narrow majority in the House until the last election. As demonstrated by the vote yesterday, just because you have a majority doesn't mean you will pass what legislation you bring up. Barney is, and was, a very powerful member of Congress and has been an ardent supporter of Fannie and Freddie for many years. There is absolutely no way any meaningful legislation was going to get approved unless Barney was on board or the Republicans had a much larger majority. Neither was realistically going to happen. Should the miraculous have happened, and all the Republicans in the House voted for it; how exactly would it have gotten through the Senate? It wouldn't have, and the cries would have gone out about how the mean Republicans were trying to keep minorities from being able to get their share of the American dream.

What do the Senecas care about some crime in Indonesia?

Wrong again Deb. Patriot Act - 2001 Sarbanes Oxley - 2002.

Ding, ding, ding! I don't understand why people don't seem to realize that every $ the government spends is a tax. It's just some of it will get taken out of our pockets tomorrow instead of today.

I thought they were heading home to see if they could find their old Giants gear before that game was over. "If I can find it, I hope I can still squeeze into that size 62 sweat shirt, I've put on a couple of pounds since January '02". And I loved watching Moss short arm a 3rd & 8 at the beginning of the 3rd.

All that system does is favor vertically integrated firms. But you probably knew that already. And yes, I own my own business.

Uh, that'd be Bush 41.

So, if I'm a small grain distributor buying wheat from a farmer, I pay 1% tax on the grain I buy, and then the mill will pay 1% tax on the grain they process, and then the baker will pay 1% tax on the grain they process into bread, and then the guy who distributes the bread will pay 1%, and then the guy who sells sandwiches made from the bread pays 1% tax on that and the vendor he sold the sandwiches to that actually sells to a customer pays 1% and the guy who finally eats the sandwich pays 1% on that. Did I get all that straight? That's just over 7% paid out on your 1% flat tax. Of course the sandwich which came from ADM which owns the whole supply chain ends up w/ a 1% tax at the customer's end. That clearly looks like an equitable situation to me.

Eh, the Bills were just waiting for Pominville to sign to set the market. Now that he's in, they're good to go.

She's still alive. Let's hope she makes another 221.