Patting the wrists, rolling the eyes. - Page 82

sgtclub · 03-24-2005, 12:17 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
BTW, has Terri's law entirely blown up in Congress's face? (assuming a denial of cert.) They don't get the intended result, it happens really quickly that they don't, they passed an asinine law with no benefit, and are stuck explaining why they didn't do more. Good work, fellas.

Yea, well thought out, right.

sgtclub · 03-24-2005, 12:20 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Well, they do get to blame the judicary.

I now officially hate congress.

sgtclub · 03-24-2005, 12:21 PM

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050324/D891E8HO3.html

bilmore · 03-24-2005, 12:24 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Well, they do get to blame the judicary.

I'm guessing that you'll see such speculation from the media, but it won't happen. Congress is going to want to let this chapter in its history die a very fast, but very quiet, death.

Hank Chinaski · 03-24-2005, 12:25 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
BTW, has Terri's law entirely blown up in Congress's face? (assuming a denial of cert.) They don't get the intended result, it happens really quickly that they don't, they passed an asinine law with no benefit, and are stuck explaining why they didn't do more. Good work, fellas.

Maybe it's like in prison where you're supposed to kick the biggest guy's ass your first day in. You make the statement- "I'm fucking nuts- don't fuck with me or I may go ballistic"

bilmore · 03-24-2005, 12:27 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe it's like in prison where you're supposed to kick the biggest guy's ass your first day in. You make the statement- "I'm fucking nuts- don't fuck with me or I may go ballistic"

To their credit, then, they really nailed that "fucking nuts" part.

Replaced_Texan · 03-24-2005, 12:28 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe it's like in prison where you're supposed to kick the biggest guy's ass your first day in. You make the statement- "I'm fucking nuts- don't fuck with me or I may go ballistic"

It's a little past their first day, no?

Sidd Finch · 03-24-2005, 12:30 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
The Economist always speaks in terms of the failings of the leaders. I would like to see them focus more on the failings of the electorate. One of the curses of democracy is accountability, but no one ever holds the voters of France and England and Germany accountable.

In the last century, those electorates used to all get together and kill a bunch of each other. Is that what you had in mind?

bilmore · 03-24-2005, 12:37 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
In the last century, those electorates used to all get together and kill a bunch of each other. Is that what you had in mind?

I was thinking more along the lines of Chirac and Schroeder, but your idea sounds fun too.

Replaced_Texan · 03-24-2005, 12:38 PM

So when Medicare is in much worse financial shape than Social Security, why are we concerned with Social Security "refom"?

Also, why diss the two non-cabinet level trustees?

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In the past five years, the date when Social Security would begin taking in less in taxes than it pays in benefits has actually slipped, from 2015 to 2017, the public trustees wrote, while the date of Social Security trust fund exhaustion has been pushed back from 2037 to 2041. Looking 75 years into the future, Social Security's cost, measured against the size of the economy, has also improved, from 6.8 percent of the gross domestic product projected in 2000 to 6.4 percent projected in yesterday's report.

In contrast, Medicare's financial outlook has deteriorated on all fronts. The year Saving and Palmer joined the board, Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund was projected to begin paying more in benefits than it collects in taxes in 2010. Instead, it reached that point last year. The point of trust fund exhaustion has moved up from 2025 to 2020.

Total Medicare expenditures are expected to approach 14 percent of the economy in 75 years, nearly the total tax take today. That is nearly triple the cost of Medicare projected in 2000.

I believe that the Prescription Drug Benefit may come back to bite a lot of people in the ass.

robustpuppy · 03-24-2005, 12:45 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
I'm guessing that you'll see such speculation from the media, but it won't happen. Congress is going to want to let this chapter in its history die a very fast, but very quiet, death.

Let's hope they filled out the damned form.

bilmore · 03-24-2005, 12:46 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I believe that the Prescription Drug Benefit may come back to bite a lot of people in the ass.

""The way to solve a problem in the future is not to add benefits to make it more underfunded," Saving said."

Good call. We need to scale Medicare benefits back drastically.

bilmore · 03-24-2005, 12:47 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Let's hope they filled out the damned form.

It's okay anyway. Delay will testify that he heard this saga whisper "please kill me" several times.

Replaced_Texan · 03-24-2005, 12:50 PM

If you get the shit beat out of you by someone you live with in Ohio, it's better to be married to them.

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CLEVELAND - Domestic violence charges cannot be filed against unmarried people because of Ohio's new constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Stuart Friedman changed a felony domestic violence charge against Frederick Burk to a misdemeanor assault charge.

Same beating is treated differently under the law in Ohio, just in case some gay person gets plummeled.

I also have the strong desire to do violence in Ohio. Good thing I'm not married, or else I'd move up to a felony.

sebastian_dangerfield · 03-24-2005, 12:52 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
I'm guessing that you'll see such speculation from the media, but it won't happen. Congress is going to want to let this chapter in its history die a very fast, but very quiet, death.

Agreed. This has made Frist and Delay look like the scumsucking whores they are. I think its fantastic that Delay has been quoted by hundreds of papers equating Terri's plight to his own "struggle" against a cabal of evil lefties. I haven't seen a quote shoved so far up someone's ass since the Lott debacle.

If you doubt for a second that Bill Frist is Damien of the Fourth Reich, you're willfully ignorant. That man has antifreeze in his veins. I could see his dead Pol Pot eyes roll back in his head like a shark moving in to rip flesh as he sits behind his desk, Monty Burns-like, scratching the number of the beast on his forehead, sniping at an aide "Get me a camera. I am a doctor. its time I diagnose this fucking vegetable."

"What's her condition, sir?"

"Her condition? Her condition is an audience of one million pieces of white trash, who are going to cheer whan I tell them I'm saving her from a morally bankrupt court system. Then, the fucking money men will look at me, instead of that fat W clone presiding over Florida. This will undo that fat ne'r do well brother. I will be the candidate in 2008. It is written."

"Written where, sir?"

"In cat innards. I dissected a cat, alive of course, in 1978. And its intestines spelled out, in sanskrit, '2008.' It is predestined. Fetch me that Hannity fellow. I'm going to save Mary."

"It's Terri sir..."