Who’s Perpetuating Lies, Stereotypes and Ignorance?
Frank Rich’s column in the New York Times yesterday was a laugh-a-minute — just not ha-ha funny.
Rich is still insisting on joining the rest of the MSM in continuing to run with the accusations that the “n-word” was hurled at members of the Congressional Black Caucus at least 15 times at last weekend’s DC protests, in spite of zero actual evidence that it happened even once:
There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank.
If Rich is so sure about this (and he must have proof or he wouldn’t print it, right?), he can go claim his $10,000 prize!
And if Frank needs video proof, he can just ask Jesse Jackson, Jr., who was wielding two cameras with Spielberg-esque skill, closely following Rep. John Lewis and others through the crowd of protesters like a race-baiting fisherman trolling for slurs. Watch carefully as Jackson aims his cameras right at the crowd. Certainly Jesse Jackson, Jr. would have video and audio of these horrible slurs being hurled:
Curiously enough, nobody in the usually oh-so-inquisitive media is demanding to see Jackson’s video(s).
But if this isn’t enough proof of horrific Republican hatred, Rich gives us this:
How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht. The weapon of choice for vigilante violence at Congressional offices has been a brick hurled through a window. So far.
For Rich to insinuate that vandalism and threats of violence are all coming from the right but forget to mention that members of both parties have been threatened by small numbers of kooks on the fringes of both sides of the argument would have apparently thrown him over his column’s word limit. As a result, that little bit of information ended up on the cutting room floor. If Rich wants to read the police report about a Republican who had a bullet fired into his office, he can click here. Bricks through windows? Been there, seen that.
Rep. Jim Clyburn referred to the passage of the Health Care Bill as the “Civil Rights Act of the 21st Century.” I had no idea that the originial Civil Rights Act expired at the end of the 20th century and another was necessary. However, Frank Rich wants everybody to know that the struggle for, and backlash from, the Obamacare bill was very similar to those heated times in the 60′s when cracka Republicans were desperate to put a stop to the passage of the Civil Rights Act:
When L.B.J. scored his Medicare coup, there were the inevitable cries of “socialism” along with ultimately empty rumblings of a boycott from the American Medical Association.
But there was nothing like this. To find a prototype for the overheated reaction to the health care bill, you have to look a year before Medicare, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Both laws passed by similar majorities in Congress; the Civil Rights Act received even more votes in the Senate (73) than Medicare (70). But it was only the civil rights bill that made some Americans run off the rails.
Again, the assumption the reader is supposed to run with is that those “some Americans” who ran off the rails were Republicans. Rich didn’t mention something that almost everybody knows but that many Democrats pretend doesn’t exist — that it was the Democrats who held up its passage:
Two days later, the Senate passed the bill by a 73 to 27 roll call vote. Six Republicans and 21 Democrats held firm and voted against passage.
Between the House and Senate, 117 Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act, and 40 Republicans voted against it. In the Senate, 69% of Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act, and 82% of Republicans voted for it. If Rich would click the links in his own articles, he might learn something.
But there I go wasting time arguing the facts. The left owns the race argument, at least when it comes to their willing accomplices in the media playing along. One example is the targeting of minority neighborhoods for abortion clinics. If Sarah Palin bought a building in a minority neighborhood and put a sign out that said “Get help killing your unborn children here,” she’d be run out of town on a racist rail. When the left does the same thing they call it “health care” and somehow everybody actually believes it. But Republicans don’t do that — because you’d have read about it in a Frank Rich column.
As a matter of fact, Frank Rich, anti-discrimination columnist, works for a newspaper where the executives are paid to discriminate — It’s just that they’re paid to discriminate against white people, so that’s okay I guess. Rich also tirelessly spends a great deal of time defending the only political party that has a high ranking member who was once a Grand Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan. Rich’s spin on that might be that it’s proof of the Democratic Party’s inclusiveness and willingness to forgive & forget.
Frank Rich and Friends have more in common with what they accuse tea partiers of being than with the civil rights pioneers whose principles they claim to be standing up for—people who endured similar baseless blanket statements, idiotic and ignorant stereotypes, generalizations, false accusations and yes, even sophomoric homophobic slurs.
Some of us, regardless of our color or sexual orientation, aren’t going to watch our country turned into yet another failed socialist utopia on the ash heap of history without saying a word about it — regardless of the color or sexual orientation of those who are trying to do so. If the only “logical” rebuttal Frank Rich has to people concerned for the future of their children is “racism,” then I’m more positive than ever that I’ve chosen the correct side.
The only thing that’s being forced to the back of the bus these days is the Constitution, and that’s what the argument is all about, in spite of what the White House and most Democrats in Congress, with the assistance of columnists like Frank Rich, want everyone to believe.
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Not outrage, faux or otherwise. More like bemusement at the absolute silence from MM and the right over Cantor being caught in a lie that, had it occurred to a Dem, would have been the subject of about a dozen posts and 500+ comments from the folks here.
But today I have a conference call for a potential client whom I am going to help to set up a company that will help doctors more quickly and consistently get paid from insurance companies. Is that productive enough?
@Chap
I used to work in healthcare admin, so am I supposed to be impressed by your dipping of the hand into the insurance reimbursement river as it passes by?
From actual work related experience, you know what helps doctors get paid more quickly and consistently?
Cash up front.
I do not want in this, and am a little bored by it, but I am yet to see where you proved that Cantor explicitly “lied.”
In fact, he only brought that incident up in his speech as a means of demonstrating that many public figures are threatened, at one point or other in their careers, and that, unlike the Democrats, they usually do not use it to raise money.
Sorry, but you have no substantiated proof that Cantor intentionally deceived anyone.
Ummm….you really have no idea what you are talking about. My client is trying to prevent doctors from getting screwed out of reimbursement, which is apparently a pretty big issue, and the only “dipping” of my hands is going to be my fee (at a substantially reduced rate because he is a friend of a friend) in helping the guy incorporate and put together a few basic documents.
Run away now, little one.
On its face, he lied. He said his office was hit. It was not. It was another office in the same building. Beyond that, even without the forensics showing it was a shot fired from far away (which he claims not to have known about until after his statement), given that there is virtually no way anyone would have known that Cantor had a satellite fundraising office in a building that wasn’t publicized anywhere, beared no markings linking it to Cantor and which wasn’t even in his own district, anyone with a whisp of intelligence would at the very least be very skeptical that the bullet was targeted at Cantor. Yet he stood up and definitively claimedhe was targeted.
If that is not enough evidence, I don’t know what is.
Chapoutier –
Hmm. I know that some of the commenters here call you “Chappie”, but given your propensity for ignoring reality and petty schoolyard rebuttals, I think “Pout” is a more appropos contraction.
You seem awfully defensive there.
And I do know of what I speak. I’ve worked in the socialized wunderworld you dream of, and I am keenly aware of the issues of US physicians, since I had a thriving practice helping them with the very same issues you speak of.
And I am also keenly aware of how the sausage gets made in Washington, since I worked as part of the govt relations team for a major medical assocn in DC.
I, for one, am taking the time to read the entire finished bill, and I can assure you that it represents the absolute worst of Washington. Pat yourself on the back though, it’s chock full of impressive weaselese.
From what I have read so far, based on my own experiences, HCR solves none of the problems but conveniently expands federal power and control. But isn’t that what it was all about in the first place?
FWIW, I’m still trying to peel the Studmuffin off the ceiling when he got the e-mail at work that Wounded Warriors are now going to pay tax on their prosthesis fitted because they lost a limb in COMBAT in SERVICE to our Nation.
But, not to worry, I jumped on that one for you and explained patiently that it’s about time those pesky Wounded Warriors started paying their fair share! Obama wouldn’t have it any other way!
FWIW, I’m seeing signs that my specialty docs are no longer accepting Medicaid, Medicare and a long list of insurance. Hope! Change!
@Pout #108
Apparently the FBI disagrees with your viewpoint.
But don’t let something trivial like “facts” get in your way.
Carry on!
Are you so stupid as to be equating two totally different incidents?
You do not know of what you speak when you claim to know anything about my client’s work or my involvement, as evidenced by your silly attack in #105.
And I am sorry you wasted your time and valuable synapses typing out the rest of that post, which had absolutely no bearing on anything I was saying.
Well, according to your postings on the other Cantor thread, yes. Yes you are in fact that stupid.
Listen, sister, I never said Cantor did not receive real threats. I have no doubt he, and every other prominent person in Congress gets them all the time.
But you are somehow, in your addled little mind, coming to the conclusion that Cantor was not lying about the random bullet incident, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, because he actually did receive a totally unrelated threat from a youtube guy in Philly?
I can’t even wrap my mind around how you were able to contort that logic.
You should probably spend less time worrying about what I am writing and paying more attention to your own Grand Canyon sized gaps in deductive reasoning.
@Pout
Stop projecting.
But that would require a level of emotional maturity you sorely lack.
Oh nice, the “projecting” retort. Last refuge of a dying argument.
Thanks for playing, YTZGal.
I see YTZGal is getting a dose of the “Full Chappy.”
Just in case there is still any doubts, Chappy is a major putz firmly planted in the alternate universe where Jesus Christ is a mythical figure and Barack Obama is divine…
In Chappy’s world, anyone who disagrees with him is wrong and evil and stupid. But this is normal for left-wing, socialist lawyer types who can’t figure out if they are Stalinists or Maosists.
I never said Jesus was mythical, Grasshopper. I have no doubt he existed. I simply choose not to indulge the fairy tales that he has inspired.
No. The only people that are both stupid and evil are those that would pair Barbera d’Asti with London Broil.
“MM and the right over Cantor being caught in a lie that”
Apparently he wasn’t lying there chap….
What you talking about? The incident with the youtube video has nothing to do with the bullet-through-the first-floor-of-a-building-in-which-Cantor- has-a-second-floor -office-which-was-shot-from-half-a-mile-away incident.
Why people keep thinking one vindicates the other is beyond me.
Pout:
You want to act like a child, you will be treated like one.
For many years now, I have read your tiresome screeds and to be blunt have had it with your petulant need to pray upon the civility most conservatives ascribe to.
I note that my pithy comment that
Cash was the way to ensure timely reimbursement caused you to reflexively and immediately launch into attack mode with the full intent to diminish and deflect.
That doesn’t play anymore.
To further rub salt into your wounds, I must point out that Teh Won-Reid-Pelousy triumvirate refused to tackle Tort reform, even though it had genuine bipartisan support and is one of the fundamental flaws of the current system, adding to costs and reducing access.
Addressing tort reform would have saved us about 2,000 pages of socialist central planning drivel and fixed one of the major problems.
However, shielding providers somewhat from the threat of frivolous and costly litigation would have negated the need for your conference call to advise them on incorporation options and assistance with erecting an expensive corporate veil to shield them from …. wait for it …. frivolous and costly litigation.
Stand by for another temper tantrum in 3, 2, 1 ……
@War Eagle # 182
Pout gets away with it because he is indulged here.
He reminds me of one of my children who as a toddler, enjoyed reaching into his diaper after nap time and decorating the nursery walls, feeling quite smug with his creativity, and then be shocked when I wasn’t amused and impressed.
There are many times over the past few years when I have read his rants and seriously asked myself if he ever obtained an education from a genuinely independently accredited institute of higher learning, or if it was one of those mail-in things you see advertised on late night TV — you know, law degree and for a limited time, free alarm clock, just pay separate shipping and handling.
Huh? I paid absolutely zero attention to that meaningless comment, one way or the other.
Except that 1) I too support tort reform; and 2) but not for ginned up, absolutely unsubstantiated reasons like it will bring health care costs down. Why don’t you ask Texas why, 8 years after they enacted tort reform that brought both number of claims and payouts down substantially, they moved from 33rd in health insurance premium costs prior to reform all the way up to 33rd? Why don’t you ask how the $250,000 cap has worked in California, which has had it since the 1970s? Why don’t you look at any of the other of dozens of states that have tort reform as well and ask them why their premiums continue to rise?
Why don’t you? Because that would require a level of intellectual curiosity and honesty that you seem wholly incapable of mustering.
Why? Because pointing out the obvious truth causes you great distress?
I thought you came here for the attention.
Excuse me? What obvious truth would that be?
Oh, sweetie…poor delusional sweetie. I am sorry your BFF Cantor got caught making things up. It must hurt to know that Republican conservative politicians can be every much as conniving and disingenuous as Democratic ones. But it is better you learn that lesson now than have to learn it the hard way when you grow up.
I know – because, gasp! – it’s impossible for you to envision an alternate universe where people actually pay their own way.
I guess you’re not at the stage for emotional growth yet.
No…it’s because it was an entirely irrelevant and barely intelligible tangent.
Ah, so in addition to the garden variety bigotry you trot out, you’ve now added misogyny!
Glad to see you’re adding to your repertoire. Just wish it could be an original, rather than the cliched classics.
How very, um enlightened of you.
Here, let me frame your arguments in language you can understand:
I’m rubber,
You’re glue,
What bounces off me
Sticks to you!
What time is your afternoon recess?
No, jsmiddleton4, Chappy is the ultimate arbiter of truth. If Chappy says it is so, it MUST be so, at least in his universe. If you keep telling him he is wrong he will throw a fit at “work” and they will have to call his Nana to calm him…
Oh, and for the record, I have now asked 3 owners of specialty wine stores if Barbera d’Asti should be “slightly effervescent” (or “frizzante” in Italian) as Chappy claimed and they have all responded with surprise at the question and a resounding “of course not.” So much for Chappy’s “encyclopedic knowledge” of wine. Then again, I always suspected Chappy doesn’t know a Lambrusca from a Barbera or Piedmont from Lombardy…
But Chappy’s advice is worth every cent you pay for it.
Note how quickly Chappy resorts to the sexist name-calling here…
What do you expect from a left-wing, socialist lawyer?
Really?
Of course, what do I know? I have only drunk dozens of them over my life?
You need to find some new wine stores, obviously. But, did you ask them whether or not it would pair well with London Broil?
Rest assured Chappy, nobody is doubting your prodigious consumption of fermented grape juice…
Once again you point to a Barbera from Lombardy as being frizzante. Like I said, you don’t know Lombardy from Piedmont.
And you stated that ALL Barberas should be “slightly effervescent.” That is obviously not the case.
Go back and drink another case of Wild Irish Rose and get back to us if you ever sober up.
It was so peaceful around here while Chappy was on his latest binge. I see he spent a bit longer than normal in rehab this time too. Obviously it did no good at all…
No, you idiot. It is saying Barbera in all regions is made in a frizzante style. And, look at the other two quotes, which I was able to cull in all of 3 minutes and speak specifically of Astis. And, as I explained before, it is not a bubbly type of effevescence. It is, due to the very high acidity, a tingling on our tongue.
Anyway…I would invite YTZGal to come up with any study that shows that state where tort reform has been passed have seen significant reductions in the growth of health care premiums.
This should be easy for her, since she clearly has her finger on health care administration’s pulse.
But before you venture out to try to do what I have asked so many here before to do, please note a few things:
1) reduction in med mal insurance fees are NOT the same as a reduction in health care insurance fees.
2) Saving 100 billion over ten years (i.e., 10 billion a year out of 2.4 trillion) is not significant.
Lets see if you have better luck than all of the other posters here who claim the same as you.
Umm, California?
My cousin is a practicing physician here for over 25 years. He frequently mentions that after Gray Davis signed the CAPS on malpractice awards, his premium went down.
Sigh…. why does nobody ever listen?
Of course, Chappy ignores the additional real causes of the increase in health care premiums and points out that since controlling one factor hasn’t reduced health care insurance costs that it doesn’t accomplish the goal.
I would guess if the government had several hoses pouring water into a boat that simply shutting off one hose wouldn’t necessarily stop the boat from sinking. But, shutting off one hose at a time might be better than doing nothing.
But the left-wing, socialist lawyer only wants to point out that in some places after the one hose has been shut off the boat continues to fill with water, ignoring that government has increased the flow from the other hoses!
Chappy is not so smart and not so honest but I think we all knew that…
Oh, and now his argument is that since some Barberas are made in a frizzante style, all Barberas must be frizzante. Not so smart and not so honest, but we knew that. If Chappy told me the sky was blue I would require independent confirmation. Oh and he is changing the definition of “effervescent” at the same time. How pathetic!
Chapoutier is French for disingenuous weasel.
Statisticians are able to control for other factors. That is no excuse for an absolute lack of any evidence. For example, you can compare states without tort reform to ones with. Guess what you find? Nothing.
I never said frizzante. Frizzante would better describe something like a vino verdhe. I said slightly effervescent, which I qualified to you later as meaning a tingling sensation on the tongue. Which is true.
Serious backpedaling from the self-proclaimed “Wine Genius!”
Doesn’t know Lombardy from Piedmont. This is truly sad. I suggest Chappy’s “wine license” is really a “whine license” but either way it should be revoked.
Because Liberal Politicians are DEAF animals.
Thanks for pointing out the difference between Malpractice and Health Insurance premiums.
Health Insurance premiums are affected by many variables, such as TORT, State mendates, Insurance competitiveness, Drug costs, Service utilization, Insurance profits,…to name a few.
SO, which one of the problems mentioned above was tackled in the law signed by Obama?
TORT reform is by no means cure all for our Health Care problems.
People simply point it out first because TORT lobby is in the pockets of Liberal politicians.
If Pelosi / Reid / Obama were serious about Health Care reforms, they would tackled these issues head-on, in stead of using it as a political opportunity to expand their entitlement class constituency.
Not backpedalling. I told you months ago what I meant.
I don’t think someone that doesn’t know the difference between oenology and viticulture is really in any position to judge me.
The problem is that tort is such a small portion of the overall costs that it is like looking at ways to cut your household budget and thinking that switching from Peet’s coffee beans to Folgers is a really productive start.
@War Eagle:
This is what I’m talking about. I am fed up with indulging Pout’s obsession to be the resident sommelier.
His quip about Barberi vis-a-vis London Broil tells you everything you need to know about him.
He subscribes to group think and a rigidly controlled ideology about “what” wines “should” be paired with “what meats”. He also incorrectly assumes that the protein should be the centerpiece and what the vintage is paired to.
Furthermore, he has no true understanding of wine. Wine is crafted in an almost artisanal fashion: the same raw material in the hands of different vitners will yield dramatically different results.
We had to learn this first hand how so many variables would impact our finished product; from brix # at time of harvest, to the length of time the skins are in contact with the must, the type of yeast; yada yada yada.
I, for one, prefer the spirit of innovation and experimentation embodied in the spirit of American vitners, which Pout finds frightening because it challenges his narrow world view.
Given the right artisan crafting the wine and the right Chef, there are Barberis that would pair nicely with a London Broil.
My prof was grabbed by UC Davis as a Prof Emeriterus and when we lived near Napa, he took me only many terroir walks and wonderful boutique cantinas that challenged my perceptions of “what” goes with “what”.
I am sure that when Pout snuck down from the nursery after lights out, he overheard the adults but failed to put it into perspective.
FWIW, there are Vitners doing great things with Barbera in the California appellations. The ones from Paso Robles are particularly luscious, and I am sure that they would beat the pants of their Eurotrash cousins, in a oenophilic showdown in the spirit of 76, memorialized in the movie “Bottle Shock”.
But that doesn’t fit Pout’s anti-American worldview. I know anti-Americanism is trendy in Pout’s world, but I’m having none of it.
FWIW, I am sure Pout has no clue how his precious D’asti got to America so he could swill it. Something about a little ditty involving the words “every clime and place”. But I don’t think they cover that until Middle School.
And Pout would be quite content to have us living in the appeasing world of 1801, while equivocating the difference between a “ransom” and “tribute”.
He’s not worth our time.
Our Republic is in REAL danger.
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
I suck at Latin conjugation and syntax, but I understand full well what Virgo and Plato were trying to tell us.
sorry.
Virgil.
That’s the Meritage speaking.
It’s an American thing.
LOL YTZGal
You don’t know a thing about the history of that quip, nor about my wine drinking or pairing philosophy. Which is right in line with your ignorance of tort reform.
This is hilarious. American vinters USED to have a spirit of innovation and experimentation. Now, unfortunately, far too many are simply turning out overpriced, gamely Merlots and overoaked Chardonnays. The real spirit of innovation is now in places like New Zealand South America. Compare any $15/bottle out of California versus a bottle of the same grape at the same price point just about anywhere else in the world (including Washington) and 8 out of 10 times the non Cali is better.
Yes, if you strip out all of the qualities that Barbera is known for and replace them with others, you could get a Barbera to pair well. But that was not the context of the question posed by WE82 which was the source of that quip. Not that you would know that context, because you are simply talking out of your ass. He provided three wines he was thinking of serving and openly asked the board what people thought. The other two were much better pairings (I think a Merlot and a Rioja). And I told him that.
Now, i don’t know what your wine pairing philosophy is, but I assume it is not so minimalist as to simply say that any wine goes with any food equally as well. There are no rules, but there certainly are guidelines as to what most people tend to enjoy with what. And I am damn right on the money when I say that most people will find the average Barbera does not go well with London Broil because it does not possess much of a tannic backbone, is too light and too acidic. Challenging perceptions is fine. I think Buffalo wings pair really well with dry sparkling wine. I drink cold fruit whites with red meat all the time. But when someone asks advice about which wine, of which you cannot have expected anyone to have actually tried, to serve to dinner guests, YOU can blabber all day long about challenging perceptions yada yada yada. I am going to make the safest bet according to the general characteristics of the wine and the taste preferences of most people.
I offered this advice, entirely earnestly, and WE82 became a petulant little baby because the advice was coming from me.
But again, this is all context that you wouldn’t know. So why don’t you stuff your commentary about it?
By the way, I am still waiting for those studies, hell even one study, showing the effectiveness of tort reform in lowering health care costs. I am frankly a little baffled as to why it should take so long to come up with evidence for an assertion that you hold so dearly to your heart as gospel truth.
Can’t believe I let this one slip by? My obsession? Please. On occassion, people here ask me and I answer. If you see someone asking and have an alternative pairing, by all means pipe up and let it be known. Maybe people will start asking your advice instead.
But until then I would recommend pairing your evident jealousy of my popularity here with a very very young First Growth Bordeaux. The out of whack, astringent tannins will match nicely with your personality. Or, if you want to expand your perceptions, try a nice, luscious Barbera from Paso Robles. I hear they are doing amazing things with them over there.
Good grief! I think I am in LOVE with YTZGal!
Um, I feel someone, or something biting at my ankles.
Can someone please ask MM to call pest control?
Thanks.
War Eagle #149
And it is reciprocated.
I may be wrong, but I think you were the only who offered me sage advice on my “Victory Garden”.
Hugs back at ya!
Supplemental to War Eagle:
It never ceases to amaze me that Pout thinks he has a lock on enjoying good food made with fresh ingredients.
As to the putative “law degree” …
That and $3.15 will get him on the Metro.
awwww…
This is so sweet! It’s like watching the MM message board remake of “Like Normal People”!
“lock on enjoying good food with fresh ingredients”
Huh? Seriously, fess up. You are literally just grabbing a handful of those word fridge magnets, tossing them at the door, seeing what sticks and them posting that here, aren’t you? It is the only explanation that doesn’t end up with you in a straight jacket mumbling nonsesnse about London Broil and Barbera d’Paso Robles.
Well, Chappy is once again demonstrating his most memorable characteristics of arrogance and narcissism. His cup runneth over in those departments.
One must admit he “owns” arrogance and narcissism…
Hey back at ya War Eagle ~~~
FWIW, I absolutely love America and the American spirit in the way only an immigrant can
And no only am I so damn proud of my Studmuffin, but my entire small town back in the “Sports Capital of the Kawarthas” is too. They have a flag pole in the kids playground, where they fly the Canadian flag, and the battle colors of the Cdb deployed local boyz, AND the US flag and USMC out of respect and love for my husband, adopted son.
Trivia question: Are you aware that the “First American Regiment” is HQ’d in York, Canada? A big portion of my mother’s side of my family are Loyalist who had to flee. Studmuffin *loves* playing stump-the-chump with that one.
Do you ever get a mental image when you read what someone has written?
This is my mental image of “Pout” –
I see a frightened, deranged, former Charge d’affaires, hiding in the ladies room of some far-flung US consulate, in his urine-soaked putteees, (mail-ordered from J. Peterman, but I digress)
frantically punching numbers on his SAT phone to beg for an evac … except, (the reason that Pout is lashing out is that he understands,this time), no one is going to answer
My mental image right now is of Virginia Rae Hensley, but I digress…
Where is that tort reform efficacy study?
For what it is worth, I am native born and proud of my country. My father died in service to this nation that he loved too.
I have lived abroad for more than 12 years in four other countries and, while I have enjoyed living abroad and wouldn’t mind doing so again, I love America and am grateful that I am an American.
There is something grand about touching down on American soil that never gets old and I don’t take it for granted.
My wife is an immigrant from the Philippines and she loves this country too although she sometimes thinks we are nuts…
Good night and sleep well.
BTW, I wonder what wine pairs well with arrogance? No doubt Chappy knows and could tell us all about it, endlessly…
Arrogance pairs well with whatever the hell I say it does! Get it
!!!
Latest ethically challenged NY Times oped writers: Paul Krugman was caught lying about a New Gingrich quote. Krugman would not correct his lie and the NY Times was ultimately shamed into burying a correction:Maureen Dowd was caught stealing Josh Marshall’s blog writings and passing them off as her own words. She came up with a pathetic excuse that a friend told her the lines but the chum didn’t say that they came from Josh Marshall. The useless Clark Hoyt said “tut tut, Mo Dowd can do no wrong”. Frank Rich was caught saying that a Bush apointee got the job because he was a roommate in college of a Bush cabinet member. As it turns out, that was a complete lie. Rich never admitted the lie. Frank Rich is a pantywaist. When he is not bragging about having attended Harvard (and it is not often that Rich stops bragging about having attended Harvard), Rich is writing about the trousers that some actor wore in a Broadway musical 35 years ago. Frank, nobody cares!
Boy did i pick a day to wake up from my winter nap….I’m not even sure where to start, and reading most of these posts made my head hurt some…
With that said, hi guys
Chap, to try and answer your question earlier more directly (and granted, i didnt read everything, and skimmed on some, so…this might be off base a tad), check this link here.
It might be slightly offbase, but its at least a start…and its midnight and i’m tired.
There are always undercurrents of what causes prices to inflate, in any business. I would think it is more productive to seek out and reduce or eliminate those costs and factors…rather that attempt to pass token legislation. Is it at least plausible that fraud, waste, or just the ridiculous amount of administrative red tape, could contribute to this problem? There are many, including myself, who believe there’s too much red tape to begin with…and where there’s red tape, there’s financial hemorrhage not far behind.
I’ll prolly start back fresh and new on other posts tomorrow.
*wave*
abstract,
That article is exactly spot on. Even down to pointing out the very good reasons for tort reform independent of medical costs.
Thanks for posting it. Every person here should read it.
Your link was busted though.
Here is another.