Politics: Onward from New Hampshire

[bilmore]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I'm hoping that the Deaniacs are able to persuade him to go out and run as a third party candidate.

You mean a fourth-party candidate, right?

(Nader announces next week, I bet. Everyone, log in to his web site and urge him to run - he's asking for opinions there - for the sake of our country.)

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Not Me
Speaking of being persuaded to run, I wonder if Clark is just kicking himself for listening to the Clintons?

Yep, just a terrible move. If he wanted to get into politics, he should have been more patient and waited for an opening within the GOP - that way he wouldn't have had to contort/pimp himself in the way that he did. Now he is persona non grata.

[sgtclub]

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/040211/markets_stocks_30.html

"NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chip stocks hit 2-1/2 year highs on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. economy was growing vigorously but reassured investors that no interest rate hike is imminent."

[Not Me]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Yep, just a terrible move. If he wanted to get into politics, he should have been more patient and waited for an opening within the GOP - that way he wouldn't have had to contort/pimp himself in the way that he did. Now he is persona non grata.

The Clintons just used him.

If the Dems knew what was good for them, they would wake up and stop letting those two control their party.

[sgtclub]

http://thecrimson.com/today/article357342.html

[Harvard to produce nude student mag]

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by sgtclub
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/040211/markets_stocks_30.html

"NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chip stocks hit 2-1/2 year highs on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. economy was growing vigorously but reassured investors that no interest rate hike is imminent."

Although I'd want to get out of pretty much every long position by, say, November 4.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Although I'd want to get out of pretty much every long position by, say, November 4.

Naw, I doubt Kerry can win.

[The Larry Davis Experience]

Originally posted by Not Me
If the Dems knew what was good for them, they would wake up and stop letting those two control their party.

Yeah, the Clintons' mind control kung fu over us is SICK. I mean, the fact that Wes Clark dropped out before Super Tuesday is going to...wait, what is that going to do again?

Damn those nefarious Clintons. They must have erased my brain...

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by sgtclub
http://thecrimson.com/today/article357342.html

[Harvard to produce nude student mag]

Okay, explain to me how this is a use of tax dollars. Private university, student activity fees. Start dancing, Sparky.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by bilmore
Naw, I doubt Kerry can win.

Even more reason to get out. Greenspan and Bush will have to stamp it out, too.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Okay, explain to me how this is a use of tax dollars. Private university, student activity fees. Start dancing, Sparky.

No, I think he meant it as a suggestion. Compared to the Lawrence Welk Museum, it WOULD be a great use for tax dollars.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by sgtclub
http://thecrimson.com/today/article357342.html

[Harvard to produce nude student mag]

The sad thing for these women who will pose for that is that in the future, unless they enter the adult industry or the entertainment industry, it will be used against them professionally. What seems so hip and cool to a 20 year old, seems embarrassing to a 35 year old.

If you are going to do ill-advised things in your youth, don't take pictures of yourself doing them.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The "of course" part is the rub. Since the DOJ doesn't comment on pending litigation, I assume that the DOJ's contention that it wasn't seeking patient-identifying information in these 40 files was an argument made to the court, not just to the press. And yet the judge found that it would have violated HIPAA.

I've read medical files, too. It's hard to redact all of the identifying info, esp. when a complete medical history is taken before a procedure involving anesthesia.

But it's fairly easy to remove the identifying info under HIPAA. Make sure that all 18 identifiers are out of there, and then double check for the "other identifing code or characteristic," and you're done.

The DoJ had at least three ways of obtaining the information under HIPAA's privacy provisions. The problem, though, is that the preemption language in HIPAA requires the covered entity to look to the more restrictive of state or federal law for each disclosure. In this fact pattern, Illinois state law was much more restrictive than HIPAA, and therefore, state law preempted HIPAA.

The HIPAA violation was through the preemption provision of the law. If the privacy rule in HIPAA had been applied to the request, the records should have been surrendered.

http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtwe...C/04-01090.PDF

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Not Me
The sad thing for these women who will pose for that is

you're assuming only women will pose. My college had some "art" magazine that, in one issue, had what is best described as light porn. Or dark porn, since it was made tasteful through inadequate lighting and shadows.

Anyway, cover picture was a star of the football team hiding his shame with his helmet.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sgtclub
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/040211/markets_stocks_30.html

"NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chip stocks hit 2-1/2 year highs on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. economy was growing vigorously but reassured investors that no interest rate hike is imminent."

Coincidently, my mortgage guy called today and asked if I wanted to refinance.