Making Baby Jesus Cry

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
We're both trying to find a way to use competition to keep prices down. You have in mind that most people will have their own insurance, and will either will make their own choices to drive prices down, or will select insurance providers that do so. I have in mind that people are going to be in something like an HMO, only with a government-required minimum standard of coverage, and that the competition among providers to get that business will keep prices down. I don't like your mechanism for some of the same reasons that led to wonk owing this ER doctor $5000. But that's off the cuff.

And theren't aren't many trolls hereabouts lately, but Hank et al. like to call people trolls. They think it's funny.

So people will get to choose their HMOs but the government will pay for it? Kind of like a school voucher. Or will the HMOs bid for government contracts?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Spanky
If Hillary becomes our next president it will be partially your fault.

Look at this way. Say Dole got elected. But then Gore beat him in 2000. Then September 11 happens on Gore's watch. The 2008 election would be irrelevant anyway, as we would all be speaking Arabic now, to the extent we converted. To the extent we didn't, we would be one with the babyjesus.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
whay are Ty, Penske and Hank considered Trolls?

I'm not a troll. Penske is just angry. He created this board and now he has no input into how its run and what is deleted. He's just acting out.
Ty, now there's a hard question. I believe that Ty's behavior can only be explained by some severe incidents in his childhood that he keeps bottled up. JMO

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
We're both trying to find a way to use competition to keep prices down. You have in mind that most people will have their own insurance, and will either will make their own choices to drive prices down, or will select insurance providers that do so. I have in mind that people are going to be in something like an HMO, only with a government-required minimum standard of coverage, and that the competition among providers to get that business will keep prices down. I don't like your mechanism for some of the same reasons that led to wonk owing this ER doctor $5000. But that's off the cuff.

And theren't aren't many trolls hereabouts lately, but Hank et al. like to call people trolls. They think it's funny.

My goal is to have as little government as possible but still get everyone covered. The more government the more things get screwed up. I can't think of way to have less government involvement and still get everyone covered than my plan. If someone else does I would love to hear.

[SlaveNoMore]

Hank Chinaski
I'm not a troll. Penske is just angry. He created this board and now he has no input into how its run and what is deleted. He's just acting out.

Um, it was his incessant blather on the Infirm Real GA's Big Board that led to the creation of a separate Politics Board by Plated, et al. But hey, why let me ruin a good yarn.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Look at this way. Say Dole got elected. But then Gore beat him in 2000. Then September 11 happens on Gore's watch. The 2008 election would be irrelevant anyway, as we would all be speaking Arabic now, to the extent we converted. To the extent we didn't, we would be one with the babyjesus.

Go easy on him. He only says this because he knows he has his hands full figuring out a way for the Governator to make a respectable showing in the next election.

Curious to know how the Clinton-haytahs are going to spin the newest revelation of the hush money paid to shut up a Governator doxie.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Spanky
So does Troll mean posting alot? So am I considered a Troll?

On the off-chance that you are serious, a troll is:

One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument. http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...term=troll&r=f

The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Spanky
My goal is to have as little government as possible but still get everyone covered. .

Did you consider what happens in new york city? Or any place less reliant on cars than California?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Look at this way. Say Dole got elected. But then Gore beat him in 2000. Then September 11 happens on Gore's watch. The 2008 election would be irrelevant anyway, as we would all be speaking Arabic now, to the extent we converted. To the extent we didn't, we would be one with the babyjesus.

Um no. Dole would have taken out the Taliban in 98 or whenever the Embassies got bombed, and if not then for sure at the Cole incident. Oh, and no one in his administration would have allowed the wall on intell so Atta would be in prison 9/11- unless Gore let him out.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I don't remember them as part of the Axis of Evil, but if you think about Paul Hogan it makes sense.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050812/...tralia_us_bomb

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Um, it was his incessant blather on the Infirm Real GA's Big Board that led to the creation of a separate Politics Board by Plated, et al. But hey, why let me ruin a good yarn.

Strategery my friend. The bottom line is, without me in the guise of Ken PornStarr, there likely would not have been a PB brought into existent. It wqas my saavy in negotiating with Plated that sealed the deal. Further, of the first 20000 or so posts there, approximately 63% are attributable to me or my socks. Without me, it would have withered on the vine like the Greedy Housing Ads Board or whatever that one is at the bottom, after sports.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
so Atta would be in prison 9/11- unless Gore let him out.

"Ping! Pow!

[SlaveNoMore]

Penske_Account
Strategery my friend. The bottom line is, without me in the guise of Ken PornStarr, there likely would not have been a PB brought into existent. It wqas my saavy in negotiating with Plated that sealed the deal. Further, of the first 20000 or so posts there, approximately 63% are attributable to me or my socks. Without me, it would have withered on the vine like the Greedy Housing Ads Board or whatever that one is at the bottom, after sports.

I miss Joey Sanguine

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I miss Joey Sanguine

Yeah, no shite, that dude owes one of us a steak dinner.

[SlaveNoMore]

Penske_Account
Yeah, no shite, that dude owes one of us a steak dinner.

And lap dances. And cigars.