DerickM

a fleem is a bloodletting tool

I declare today Opposite Day! Henceforth Yes shall be No and No shall be Yes!

well quit drinking and/or eating when you read my posts.

becuase every forum needs a reminder...

once a month for me

Universal Healthcare. You hear about all the time. It's coming, whether you are ready for it or not. Its become the new 'basic right' of the political talkers. Even this terminology is a lie. Healthcare, paid for by somebody else, is not a right. This is an entitlement. A right is free to all, to be guaranteed and safeguarded by The Power, and costs a third party nothing. Test this idea yourself. Does the right to free speech guarantee a taxpayer funded newspaper on every doorstep? Does the right to bear arms mean the government is obligated to provide guns and ammo? I'm not opposed to universal health care. Who could be against something like that, anyway. What I'm opposed to is government run health care dressed up in bullshit terminology. A pig by any other name is still a pig. And calling socialism "universal" is still socialism. What will be the effect of socializing the health care industry? What makes people think that the same government that couldn't keep a bridge from falling down can do medicine right? It sounds like a stretch to compare bridges to medicine, but in my view the stretch is in the other direction. Bridges, and their construction, are science. Exact. Precise. We know for sure what it takes to keep it in the air. There's not much guess work involved. It'll either work, or not. Medicine is not so simple. As much art as it is science, lots of educated guesswork is involved in getting a diagnosis right. And what cures most, wont cure all. Who ya gonna blame, who will be accountable, when a misdiagnoses is made? When talented, and gifted, professionals decide the govt isn't worth dealing with anymore, who will pay the costs in lost lives? New medicines not discovered? New techniques not tried? Will the government set pay scales for doctors? Most definitely. Part of government control involves price fixing. Strange ain't it? We like our baseball players to get paid monstrous salaries which leads to ever greater perfection of their craft, but haven't stopped to consider what price controls would do to the future of medicine. Will there be price controls on how much lawyers get paid suing doctors? Somehow, I doubt that, since it will be lawyers ultimately writing, and approving, the legislation. How many lives have lawyers saved? How many new cancer breakthroughs are discovered in a courtroom? Can you show me one person brought back from the brink of death by John Edwards? Given this,can you really justify his level of wealth compared to any doctor? Will the lawmakers be served under the same health care coverage? Or will there be one system for them, and one for us, like it is now? Can any senator rightfully, and morally, claim that he deserves better care than any one member of our military? Well, they currently do now. You really think this will change when we go to government medicine? For me, there is only one over riding principle when deciding health care policy: The most good, to the most people, for the longest length of time. And there ain't no way in hell I'm going to trust this to the same people who couldn't deliver Water to their own in the Superdome.

Yes! :huytsao

well...based on the bikini photo I would stare also..I would do my best to not be creepy about it though

guy in my neighborhood killed a couple of my cats and other peoples cats. He had 4-5 purebred champion dachshunds, who also happened to just love fresh salmon soaked in antifreeze...he got the message

"If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college." - Kurt Vonnegut

yep, its great to live in the greatest country in the world! Me-->:mad:<--kelli

cleaning is womens work anyway

a thread where people can make a quick post bout what they have playing while browsing LapBandTalk.com!! I have Holy Wars by Megadeth playing now

why can't I ever hook up with women like that...

anybody else notice he picks his nose with his pinkie and then puts his ring finger in his mouth?

you are a sick, sick person laura...to bad you are not single :heh:

BBC NEWS | England | Wear | Family wants plastic pen tops ban This is even more stupid than warning labels on hot coffee :tired Does anyone know where common sense was buried? I'd like to go visit and put some flowers on the grave. :rolleyes

From today's Weekend Wall Street Journal: Not Nobel Winners October 13, 2007; Page A10 In Olso yesterday, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to the Burmese monks whose defiance against, and brutalization at the hands of, the country's military junta in recent weeks captured the attention of the Free World. The prize was also not awarded to Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders who were arrested and in some cases beaten by police earlier this year while protesting peacefully against dictator Robert Mugabe. Or to Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam arrested this year and sentenced to eight years in prison for helping the pro-democracy group Block 8406. Or to Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Uyyouni, co-founders of the League of Demanders of Women's Right to Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia, who are waging a modest struggle with grand ambitions to secure basic rights for women in that Muslim country. Or to Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who has fought tirelessly to end the violence wrought by left-wing terrorists and drug lords in his country. Or to Garry Kasparov and the several hundred Russians who were arrested in April, and are continually harassed, for resisting President Vladimir Putin's slide toward authoritarian rule. Or to the people of Iraq, who bravely work to rebuild and reunite their country amid constant threats to themselves and their families from terrorists who deliberately target civilians. Or to Presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Mikheil Saakashvili who, despite the efforts of the Kremlin to undermine their young states, stayed true to the spirit of the peaceful "color" revolutions they led in Ukraine and Georgia and showed that democracy can put down deep roots in Russia's backyard. Or to Britain's Tony Blair, Ireland's Bertie Ahern and the voters of Northern Ireland, who in March were able to set aside decades of hatred to establish joint Catholic-Protestant rule in Northern Ireland. Or to thousands of Chinese bloggers who run the risk of arrest by trying to bring uncensored information to their countrymen. Or to scholar and activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, jailed presidential candidate Ayman Nour and other democracy campaigners in Egypt. Or, posthumously, to lawmakers Walid Eido, Pierre Gemayel, Antoine Ghanem, Rafik Hariri, George Hawi and Gibran Tueni; journalist Samir Kassir; and other Lebanese citizens who've been assassinated since 2005 for their efforts to free their country from Syrian control. Or to the Reverend Phillip Buck; Pastor Chun Ki Won and his organization, Durihana; Tim Peters and his Helping Hands Korea; and Liberty in North Korea, who help North Korean refugees escape to safety in free nations. These men and women put their own lives and livelihoods at risk by working to rid the world of violence and oppression. Let us hope they survive the coming year so that the Nobel Prize Committee might consider them for the 2008 award.

Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Study. Be Evil. . . . . . . . . *suspiciously looks at laurend*

[Homer Simpson] mmmmmmm....Lifeguards *drool* [/Homer Simpson]

everybody knows Garfield is only funny when his thought bubbles are edited out

Hand Me That Vodka Bottle. Now!!!

Dropkick Murphys - 10 years of service

:deadhorse: :eek: