YellowLinesandArmadillos

Because when you drive through PA this time of year, you often read the headlines, "DEER SEASON OPEN, THREE HUNTERS KILLED" in the local papers. I have read this headline and other similar at least five times in the last ten years.

That is an overstatement, but I won't quibble guns have a lot of regs. My point is not that they aren't regulated, but that they are not regulated or enforced uniformly from state to state. Can you regulate enforcement.... mandatory sentence guidelines and holding the dealers and sales folks criminally liable *(oh yeh often they are... increase the penalty then and add civil liablity) for not following the law. Because too many yahoos go out drinking whiskey and shooting (hunting??) on their ATVs a la Dick Cheney an only end up shooting each other. Everyone who owns a guns should be required to take an NRA safety class every 3 years, a la CPR certification. For most this will just be review and boring, but there is nothing like the human mind's built in forgetter, (called denial it won't happen to me attitude) that needs a wake up call. The yahoos give a bad name to real hunters. In lower 48 it is a real problem, in AK there may be enough space not worry so much. Plus, tundra trees and animal size are such that you might mistake another hunter for say an elk or a prairie chicken.

I hear what you are saying about changing the dynamics of the insurance paradigm, nice thought. But I don't think McCain's plan is actually achievable and this is not to be partisan statement. The plan does not address the idea of negotiating leverage. The only way to put an individual on the same footing would be to form insurance pools, a la they way Unions were formed as bargaining tools by laborers to address wage concerns on equal footing with big companies. We all know the problem with labor union corruptness. Rules and standards would have to be established a la credit union charters maybe to do this. Then maybe the plan has a chance, but on its own, it would fail miserably. However, even in that scenario, I am still not sure it solves the problem of covering the uninsured, saving taxpayer money and creating a more efficient system. If such associations were formed, they would create a formidable political force to raise the amount of contribution from the government creating a greater entitlement program. Not sure the government could prevent these entities from being formed in the first place if McCain's plan happened. Be careful of the law of unintended consequences.

Took you long enough to figure that out, LOL

Sorry, I was thinking more about delusional days when the market was around 11,500 to 12,000

Love the Avatar and finally we agree on something. Ack Thpt....

Palin????, cause she is so obviously Canadienne.

Got it, sorry.

Why they will still be taxed on it as income, now they aren't and if you are getting $5,000 from the Feds and you are negotiating by yourself, either way large health insurance cos will have you over a barrel, especially if you have health issues or one of you children do. This is a bad pandoras box unless there are some guarantees built in and price controls. The state deal will cause all insurance cos to register themselves in the state with the least oversight, a la Delaware and banks. Then there will be no real competition between different state plans.

Close at 8579, 2000 more like 2500. Down 678 today alone. Yikes.

Or more likely, your employer drops your coverage because it can't afford the taxes and knows that you can get it??? elsewhere

What is so intellectual about killing civilians because we don't have the forces their to take care of the job correctly???? Unless you were being sardonic.

They actually showed the first photo on MSNBC this morning. I don't know... it is tasteless and sexist, but the Republicans are using her sex and sexiness too so to me it is all pathetic and beside the point while we are in an economic crisis.

That is the problem with his plan, it really doesn't. His plan also taxes employers who provide a group rate to their employees in order to pay for giving everyone else insurance. Unless he capped the rate that insurers could charge to participate in a health insurance plan, which won't happen because insurance companies are unlikely to go for it, this whole thing makes no sense and employer health plans would become a thing of the past. I would want a lot more details before I even began to think this was feasible, let alone a good idea.

In fact recent bombings were found to have killed 30 more Afghan citizens. Palin still doesn't know her holes from one in the ground.

It is a lie and a Republican smear myth going around. He has his Birth Cert and this has been whined about by RW conspiracy nuts for three months or more... give it a rest.

LA TV reaches into Nevada and Nevada is in play. So apparently AZ has started coming into play.

I know, Abramoff has not even been brought up yet....

This doesn't help, it gets a Republican reaction, but really shows what kind of issues really get them up in arms... their looks! The economy is going to sh#$t and they are worried about photoshoped warts and hairs on Palin's face. Great. The photo manipulation is juvenile... kind of like my Avatar of McCain, but get over it.

Forget Palin, what about that lying sack of She#@, McBush.

If you really want to believe this, I have great piece of property for sale in Pelham, MA for $500,000... it is worth it even in today's current market.

Sure it does, just that the trust worthiness of the sources at this late date in time in the campaign when one side is desperate and the other side is counter punching with equal venom is to be taken with a grain of salt and not to be believed.

This is all called rat fing to quote "Jeb Magruder" of Watergate fame, but it is all distortions with maybe a drop of truth and if not I wouldn't trust the veracity of anything coming out of either side right now.

Also this??? http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archiv...mccain_asso.php