From: gray asphalt on

"Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:59:15 +0000, assimilate wrote:
>> On 4-Sep-2009, Bobby Knight <bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> She is perceived by the left wing as so dangerous that anything she
>>>> says makes news. The left went into hyperdrive to destroy her when
>>>> she was added to McCain's ticket. I personally don't understand
>>>> what they see in her that is so threatening.
>>>
>>> I don't think they think of her as a threat, but a joke.
>>
>> A joke does not provoke the type of response she got.
>
> It quite obviously does. It still amazes me that the Republican machine
> is so hopelessly adrift that they actually coughed her up as a VP
> candidate. We could let that go, but then so many loons jump up to
> defend her. Belly laughs ensue all over again.

Makes one wonder.


From: gray asphalt on

"Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:34:34 -0700, Dinosaur_Sr wrote:
>
>> Right now, insurance companies, individuals, health care providers and
>> the sick people themselves make the decisions. What I really don't
>> like about the system in Canada is it's a govt only thing. Even if you
>> have the money to pay for the treatment, you can't get it in Canada if
>> the govt says no. Right now a Canadian could go to the Us, but that
>> could change.......
>
> How do imagine that would happen? Armed guards at the borders?

Didn't a Canadian court rule (recently) that it is
not constitutional for the government to restrict
citizens from buying private insurance? I either
heard that on MSNBC or FOX, so it must be true.


From: johnty on
On 10 Sep, 19:56, Alan Baker <alangba...(a)telus.net> wrote:

>
> It would help if it wasn't the Cuban government.
>
> Socialist "paradises" are not known for their... ...candor... ...in such
> matters.
>

Unlike Capitalist governments, eh?

From: Alan Baker on
In article
<b25c49e6-dbc2-4522-8e5b-b77bdbbbf12e(a)j4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
johnty <johnty1(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 Sep, 19:56, Alan Baker <alangba...(a)telus.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > It would help if it wasn't the Cuban government.
> >
> > Socialist "paradises" are not known for their... ...candor... ...in such
> > matters.
> >
>
> Unlike Capitalist governments, eh?

Yup.

Because it's very hard to tell lies with a press that can expose them.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
<http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg>
From: Howard Brazee on
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:27:46 -0400, BAR <Screw(a)You.Com> wrote:

>The government is good at taking and spending money. The government is
>not good at spending money wisely.

Nevertheless, just about everybody wants the government to spend
money.

Certainly our Republican politicians aren't models of fiscal restraint
either.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison