1.) porclivities = proclivities
2.) can trust = can “we” trust

“…from the McGreevey divorce trial.”

Deceiving others about one’s sexual preferences or porclivities indicates a personality that is comfortable with lying and untrustworthy for office.

In the same vein of Perot in 1992: If he/she deceives us about what goes on behind the bedroom door, then how can trust him/her behind the office door!

The current proposals where, Rusty?

The current proposals here all take special care to not allow doctors to decide what can and can not be allowed.

– Guide to Universal Health Care.

So if a doctor doesn’t believe in abortion, they wouldn’t have the choice not to offer it? That doesn’t seem right.

“Also, universal healthcare takes power out of the private business realm and places it in the public government realm.”

You’re right that they wouldn’t become government contractors. They would literally work for the government.

Question – why on Earth would my job offer me medical benefits that are costing them a lot of money a year when they can simply stop offering coverage since the government would pick it up?

SO being a philandering man-whore isn’t enough to make one a jerk?

Having a threesome doesn’t count as philandering.

And adultery can make one a jerk but I don’t see how it affects one’s office holding abilities (it’s not the adultery, it’s the hypocrisy…ie Senators Craig and Vitter and Governor Spitzer).

And in McGreevey’s case it’s that he hired someone unqualified to a sensitive position (the jokes write themselves!). Whether it’s an affair or a personal favor or what have you, that’s worse than cheating. It means you’re unsuited for your job.

You might think that them taking offense over such things is stupid, but you can’t tell them they aren’t allowed to be offended.

I said they shouldn’t be offended. Not that they’re not allowed to be offended.

Ummm, last I checked Universal meant throughout the universe. Our healthcare would be countrywide. Minor point, maybe, but before you pop out with smartass comments trying to make me look stupid, I would check what you’re writing.

Universal health care: “health care coverage which is extended to all citizens, and sometimes permanent residents, of a governmental region.”

The “universal” refers to the people in the region universally having it. Not the entire universe. Which again proves to me that you don’t understand how universal health care would work.

The current proposals here all take special care to not allow doctors to decide what can and can not be allowed.

they implicitly have the right to tell us what we can and can’t put in our bodies, how much we should exercise, what our weight should be, etc.

…couldn’t be further from the truth. You would, assuming you already have insurance, get to keep the same doctor and same insurance plan. No nanny state.

Medical professionals wouldn’t suddenly become government contractors. That would eliminate the need for insurance and providers aren’t going to let that happen.

This is getting off-topic. Let us all agree: McGreevey is a jerk. Specifically for being corrupt.

SO being a philandering man-whore isn’t enough to make one a jerk?

On McGreevey – way way TMI. I know newspapers are all about making money, but really, why do they think we all want to hear about all the sordid details??

Why should what a couple does behind closed doors bother you? (Excluding any criminal activity of course.)

Not the point. What my point is, is that you are not the arbiter of what offends people and what doesn’t. If an orgy offends someone so be it, you don’t get the right to decide what offends someone or not. You might think that them taking offense over such things is stupid, but you can’t tell them they aren’t allowed to be offended.

I don’t think you understand how universal health care would work in this country.

Ummm, last I checked Universal meant throughout the universe. Our healthcare would be countrywide. Minor point, maybe, but before you pop out with smartass comments trying to make me look stupid, I would check what you’re writing.

And, we may be off-topic, but I would love for you to explain exactly how government-run healthcare in this country would work, since you seem to think you’re an expert.

The problem is Rusty, that once the government is taking care of our healthcare, they implicitly have the right to tell us what we can and can’t put in our bodies, how much we should exercise, what our weight should be, etc.

I don’t think you understand how universal health care would work in this country.

This is getting off-topic. Let us all agree: McGreevey is a jerk. Specifically for being corrupt.

Other than my desire for universal health care, you won’t find a single time I’ve supported a Nanny State

The problem is Rusty, that once the government is taking care of our healthcare, they implicitly have the right to tell us what we can and can’t put in our bodies, how much we should exercise, what our weight should be, etc. Therefore, you obviously do support a Nanny state.