"Is there really a way to fix it while cutting costs and keeping everybody insured? Nope.
#28 | POSTED BY DONNY33333"

Yup. But you have to be willing to give up the massive tax cuts that will go to medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and the very wealthiest Americans. You willing to do that, or is a few billion more to those extraordinarily wealthy entities worth killing decent health care for most Americans?

You know, Ray's gotta be right. Simply look at the average life span of humans before doctors started practicing medicine. Way longer, right Ray? Right...?

"I would never make it as a politician.
#165 | POSTED BY RAY"

Nor as an investor. Tell us the one about the gold and the stock market, Grandpa Ray!

"Really though, it was a shield lost in battle. Any piece of equipment lost in battle is no longer yours."

Exactly. And you stretched that to include art stolen from the wall in the home of a person in town. Guess what, "art on a wall" is not "a piece of equipment" and it is not "lost in battle." Just give it up, dude.

They are ------- animals. They belong in the stone ages.

"Why someone would do it I don't understand.
#5 | POSTED BY BOAZ"

Here is your one word answer: Whiskey.

"So long as they picked a fight first, it is all fair game to that frothing barbarian.
#32 | POSTED BY DIRKSTRUAN"

You might say that. 101 didn't.

That's called putting words in someone else's mouth. It's a bad trait.

"A top-notch education starts with a top-notch homelife. Many of the left-lessons you need to be successful start at home. And there is no amount of money that can make ------ parents become more effective. If they such already, it's not going to change just because they have more money to fund the suck.
#71 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER"

Hey dummy - read what I wrote. What in that led you to believe I advocate giving more money to ------ parents? If they aren't competitive, they won't get a bigger slice. (See, e.g., you.)

"It's not what he said, he was saying that he would rather have someone that was successful in finance running that department than someone who wasn't.
#62 | POSTED BY FISHPAW"

But of course that's not true. One need only look to the appointments he made to the Dept of Education and the EPA, not to mention Energy.

"She thinks their earnings belong to the state after they die and would love to see a 90% death tax.
#51 | POSTED BY BOAZ"

If you think that's bad, I don't think anyone should be able to inherit more than about $10M. I believe in survival of the fittest. If you can't make it after being a privileged, wealthy kid who is given a $10M head start, you are too stupid to deserve more.

Put the excess money back into the pot, use some to make sure every child is provided a top notch education and the basic necessities, and then let everyone compete for the rest.

"He's a billionaire today.
#51 | POSTED BY BOAZ"

Prove it. Also, how much government assistance has he benefited from, and how many times has he run something into bankruptcy?

If anyone currently posting here has not perused the link Hans posted, take a few minutes to do so. It's a classic.

Circa 2012:

"Ray is like the worry-wart child who predicted the murder of his parents and now wants them dead just to prove his worries were credible."
-- mOntecOre, mocking prophecy.

"The poor are poor because they're stupid.
#4 | POSTED BY RAY"

Lol.

Back in 2012, Ray was telling us that the stock market was on the brink of collapse, and that we should all invest our money in gold instead.

The price of gold in 2012: $1,664 per oz.
The price of gold today: $1,252 per oz.

Dow Jones Industrial Avg. in Jan. 2012: 12,300
Dow Jones Industrial Avg. today: 21,445

Poor, stupid Ray.

"By your logic, anything they took wouldn't be theft, since they would have won it by force. I wonder how you'd like that reasoning if someone stole from you?
#20 | POSTED BY DIRKSTRUAN"

Huh? How does that follow? I saw nothing in what Chairborne said that would justify, for instance, breaking into the nearby homes of townsfolk and stealing art off their wall. Wtf, over?

(He's kind of right. At this very moment, there are ten black toes beneath Boaz.)

They said it was a blackened toe, which Boaz would never touch. He thinks black toes are beneath him.

The shield looks like something TMaster dropped in the pool this morning.

""...voter registration information should be public record." - #34 | Posted by visitor_ at 2017-06-20 12:46 PM
It is.
#35 | POSTED BY HANS"

I don't think birth dates are part of this public record, and I know religious affiliations and similar information is not.

"What was the purpose of that war? You can't answer it and you call me an idiot. You're a fool.
The purpose of the war was economic and it has not only stabilized the world economy, it's kept it going in a positive direction.
#27 | POSTED BY LASTAMERICAN"

You are part right. The purpose was economic. The economic purpose was to make billions of dollars for companies that W and his Vice President were heavily invested in. Mission accomplished!

(If you don't believe me, answer why massive amounts of infrastructure like oil refineries and water treatment plants were bombed to smithereens and then quickly rebuilt by Halliburton et al. at American taxpayer expense.)

Is Laura Anne Coulter's brother? They have the same Adam's Apple.

"Last time, I was offered a carton of smokes, a fifth of vodka and a free ride to the polling station if I agreed to vote a Democratic, straight-party ticket.
#24 | POSTED BY JEFFJ"

Clearly you don't know what is used to bribe people in Oregon.

420 Blaze It

"Not a good thing - but based on what's online, this is just one treasure trove available for harvesting.
#22 | POSTED BY PETROUS"

That's crazy talk. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to hire people to data mine 200 million people to determine their religion, ethnicity, etc.?

"You are so proud of that, aren't you.... and we are still cleaning up after all that too. We are still cleaning up after Clinton's economic faux pas too (2007/2008 crash) and the Obama Democrats caused this to cascade. Slowest recovery in American history. Increased poverty levels dramatically.
#20 | POSTED BY LASTAMERICAN"

That was the problem? No mention of W's War of Choice in the Middle East, that has cost us a few trillion and counting? You're an idiot.

"What is the value of having my voter record?"

"They'd know who to prevent from voting.
#7 | POSTED BY DANNI"

Kind of, if they surmised. The reason this information is useful to these groups, Eberly, is because it shows who votes. It DOES NOT include information about who you voted for, but it does include your biographical data, political affiliation (if any), and whether you voted in past elections, and which ones.

I'll throw a bone to Danni: There is no reason to spend resources suppressing the vote of people who do not vote. There is a reason to target "get out the vote" efforts on people who are likely to support your candidate (for instance, they are in your preferred political party) but who have not yet cast a vote or historically don't always vote. (Whether you have cast a ballot is public information that is available close to real time. That's why I vote (by mail, in Oregon) right after I get my ballot. If I wait, I'll start getting calls from friendly progressives, encouraging me to vote.