Eight PM Open Post – June 29, 2012

What are you thinking about this evening?

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162 Responses to Eight PM Open Post – June 29, 2012

  1. Cowboy Logic says:

    Muy caliente!

  2. GaltFan says:

    This morning the Sun rose in the East, and it is setting in the West in my little corner of the world as I type this.

    Yesterday sucked. Today is better. November 6th, 2012 will mark the beginning of the end of our most egregious national nightmare.

    May we all (those able to) wake up November 7th with a most welcome victory hangover.

  3. ★FALCON★ says:

    I'm pissed at every facet of this over-reaching, over-bearing, mechanized, conglomeration called the Federal Government. This isn't the land I inherited.

    And I'm willing to fight to take it back. I'm not going to disgrace those that fought for so much, gave their lives and their fortunes to leave me this legacy to squander it to third world sycophant that have no ideals, no moral and no ethics.

    This is my country – and I'll be damned if you're going to take it from me without a fight to the death.

    Bring it.

    • GaltFan says:

      Sheesh, and here I thought that it was my country.

      I guess we'll have to join arms and fight for our mutual interests…

    • Cowboy Logic says:

      And I'm willing to fight to take it back.

      The next question is, are you willing to die fighting for it?
      Are you willing to give up all of your worldly possessions?
      Are you willing to be labeled an outlaw, an outcast?
      Are you willing to lose your station in life, your respect in your community?

      For that is what it will take.

      Quite honestly, I believe it is a good thing that you are so riled up.
      Now if you can just rally several million more, there might be hope that we can change………..

      • ★FALCON★ says:

        I'm willing to murder every communist that stands in my path.

        • GaltFan says:

          Killing an enemy combatant isn't murder.

          Don't limit yourself to communists – kill all of the unreasoning collectivists.

          • RandyL2 says:

            Isn't it compforting to know Barry, Eric and Janet are watching over domestic security . . . am i a bit too paranoid or should we be a little warry of the language we use on conservative sites? Just saying . . .
            These people (and their many clones), cancer, infiltrated the highest positions of power in the U.S.
            They have no limits (other than being found out for what they really envision) in reaching their goals. They control the buttons, and the tools, and the law and military (and judges). http://www.ehow.com/list_7346796_kinds-government...

    • AZVick says:

      I swear, FALCON, sometimes you're just reading my mind.

    • Strays says:

      I wish it was that simple as straighforward as it was back in 1776.

      The fact is, this war is one of indoctrination and legal skirmishes.
      Your armies are the (non-existend) Constitutionalist teachers vs. the Communist teachers battling over our youth.
      Your armies are the (scarce) Constitutionalist lawyers vs. the Communist lawyers battling over the extinction of our laws. Your armies are the (few) Constitutionalist journalists vs. the Communist journalists battling over the mindless and unthinking sheeple.
      Your armies are the (old) Constitutionalist voters vs. the Communist voter under 40 battling over who is going to be entrusted with the remnants of our Constitution.

      Do I sound depressed? — It's been a permanent condition since early 2009. I continue fighting but all I can see day after day is the rise of something worse than Europe.

  4. aPLWBinAK says:

    I'm still trying to process the fact that this week our treasonous SCOTUS declared it legal for a Dicktater of unknown origins to assess us a financial penalty in the form of a 2.5% tax, for the NON purchase of a good or service, whether we want it or not. Today it's health insurance, tomorrow it's anything he decides…..anything. 'Not buying something', could also be construed as 'minding our own business'…..therefore, the Gubmint can now 'tax' us for minding our own dam bidness. How did we come to this?

    • LibertyWriter says:

      Today, mandatory health care insurance. Tomorrow, mandatory health care.

      • aPLWBinAK says:

        And the next day a tax for not eating broccoli….

        • LibertyWriter says:

          I like broccoli and you should too.

          • aPLWBinAK says:

            :) I do like broccoli, but that's not my point, and I know you that you got that too…

          • Duuuuh says:

            I do too. But being force fed it is where I draw the line. I out grew Gerber and pabulum a long time ago.

            • LibertyWriter says:

              Everyone should like Broccoli and should be required to buy BlueBell ice creme. It would be a better world.

              • Duuuuh says:

                Gee thanks Liberty. Now I have a sudden craving for a A&W Root Beer Float.

              • aPLWBinAK says:

                mmmmm iiice cream….too bad it doesn't LOWER our LDL.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  I have it on reliable sources that BlueBell is a health food. It is one of the four major food groups: salty, spicy, sweet and greasy.

                • Oregontea says:

                  I believe you forgot the beer group.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  At least he didn't leave out the salty or greasy groups. Now I'm thinking Low Country Boil or Chili-dogs and Rings at the Varsity.

                  Man! Liberty is talking Le Cordon Bleu dinning tonight.

                • Oregontea says:

                  He is a bit uppity.I thought the 4 food groups were beer, burgers,steak and whiskey.What do I know? Some people even graze on some green stuff that growsin the ground. I thought it was cattle food, myself.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  Jalapenos fall under the spicy category. Anything else that is green is suspect.

                • aPLWBinAK says:

                  I knew a kid years ago who refused to eat green Jello, because it looked too suspiciously like a vegetable…

                • Duuuuh says:

                  Guacamole definitely falls in the suspect category.

                  I have serious concerns for people who order that sh!t.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  I am not aware of any known gooshy food that is considered healthy.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  And that is why neither you or I will ever live in outer space.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  What?

                  My wife told me I lived there all the time.

                • Red47 says:

                  Rings at The Varsity for me, too, please. I'll go watch TV in the room playing FOX News until they are ready. I'll even buy.

                • I_Me_Mine says:

                  +10…
                  Barley, hops, and water (malt for some ; ))…God put them here for a VERY good reason.
                  Are pretzels a food group? If not, they should be.

                • Oregontea says:

                  I believe pretzels are a sub group of pizza.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  Correct. Although the sub group of pizza that contains pineapple does fall in the fruitcake genus.

                • Oregontea says:

                  Contrary to my wives opinion, pineapple does not belong on pizza. Itdoes turn it into fruitcake.Pizza consists of crust, sauce, meat, meat, meat and cheese. Maybemushrooms and olives. Oh, and extra cheese.It covers all food groups when paired with the food, beer.A complete and nutritious meal. Especially good in mornings, cold.Both the pizza and the beer.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  Beer was certainly the founding father of pizza. How else could you possibly explain throwing a bunch of things on a plate covered with dough and shoving it in the oven?

                  Someone had to be really trashed.

                • Oregontea says:

                  Many of humankinds best inventions are directly related to theconsumption of liquid refreshments.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  I truly believe that beer and wine are the catalyst that turned humans from being nomads and hunter gatherers into farmers.

                • Oregontea says:

                  Many believe that opposable thumbs are what separate us from apes andmake us human, nay, nay, it is spirits.The thumbs are just good for holding the bottles they come in, oh, andfor writing the checks to pay for the spirits.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  Opposable thumbs…. the missing link. I think you've found it.

                  It all had to do with a beer mug.

                  Stupid monkeys… they are still trying to figure it out.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  Correct. Our ancestors discovered a way to pound grass into a platform to support various spicy, salty, sweet and greasy foods. Often they used an especially prepared secretion from a cow that when melted acted as a binder. They used to use paper napkins instead of the pounded grass but found that the pounded grass tasted better and was more digestible.

                • Oregontea says:

                  True, I studied this at the post secondary indoctrination institute.Post graduate courses in malted grain beverage consumption paired withthe baked discs of meaty pleasure completed the study program.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  We are indebted to the Romans for government and pleasures; and the Greeks are indebted to everyone.

                • Oregontea says:

                  The Greeks were and are definitely receivers.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  Ahhh. You and Duuh making me laugh tonight.

                • I_Me_Mine says:

                  : )))
                  Everyone would laugh at me when I dipped my pretzel sticks in a bowl of Ragu Pizza sauce topped with parmesan cheese.
                  He who laughs last….

                • Oregontea says:

                  Exactly.This completes the pretzel pizza. Proof of theory.Again, paired with malted grain beverages, a perfect meal.Nutritionally, that is.

                • I_Me_Mine says:

                  I learn so much here at CV 2012.
                  Politics, along with its history.
                  Current events.
                  Food porn.
                  Adult beverages.
                  How to spell (correctly).
                  I'm just so…grateful.

                • Oregontea says:

                  If one pays attention here an education better than the finestuniversities is available, for little more cost than an internetconnection. And, when you subtract the percentage usage of saidconnection for porn purposes, the cost is really negligible.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  I understand there are cave drawings depicting just such a meal.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  I think I may have seen some neon sign with that similar design somewhere in my lifetime.

                  Sorta makes you wonder if those old caves were restaurants…. and those drawings were the menus.

                • I_Me_Mine says:

                  Not in Oklahoma, or Arizona, what does it matter… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6qw_yeo6o

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  Barley and hops are a way of treating water making a naturally occurring distasteful substance palatable.

                • I_Me_Mine says:

                  I almost never drink water by itself.
                  Ya know, fish f**k in it : )
                  I do like it frozen though with canadian blended poured over top on occasion.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  It is a known fact that frozen water counterbalances global warming. Keep up the good work.

                • I_Me_Mine says:

                  I do whatever I can to keep our environment in perfect harmony.
                  However, I cannot do this all by myself. The carbon dioxide content in our atmoshere is around .0035%. If freezing water in those little tray thingy's…wait, I just thought of something,
                  Remember the aluminum ice cube trays? The ones that had the handle attached to the ice cube formers? You pull up on the handle to release the cubes?
                  Wow, I love this site….and beer.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  It's a trade off… Wanna lower your LDL or your anxiety? It depends on which is higher.

                • onecornpone says:

                  The answer to cholesterol problems is Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as jicama…

                  Grate it into a cabbage slaw, julienne it to add to a salad, slice it to have as a crunchy snack. It will lower LDL in almost every single instance.
                  .

                • GaltFan says:

                  Sure it will – until the FDA decides that it is an unregulated "drug" and prohibits it's sale…

                  Nature has a cure for just about everything (not death – we'll hafta figure that one out ourselves), but the interests that be don't like the wide-spread dissemination of such information. Not sure why they're worried though, since most folks are too lazy, stupid or unwilling to mind their own health and take the appropriate actions to maintain it.

                  For all the BS surrounding the Obamatax legislation my concern was always centered around it's affects on liberty/individual rights. I was never worried about "access" or premiums or any of that. I pay for my own policy (since 2006) and have watched the premiums climb every year. My primary concern is that I (all of us!) retain the ability to act in my own best interests, and that I am not involuntarily tied to those who pay no mind to their own interests and responsibilities.
                  :-) ;-);-p'''

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  I have made a life long healthy lifestyle choice of avoiding doctors. So far it is working. I had to be sewed up a couple of times and once I needed some penicillin, but I have learned better since.

                • sistyugler1 says:

                  Does it survive the winter in the panhandle or do you replant it every spring? I'd like to try to grow it if I can get it to live as a perinneal, Are the leaves really poisonous or is that hogwash?

                • onecornpone says:

                  Sis, I don't know anything about raising it, I have only purchased it in the grocery store. Seems it is usually labeled from some South American country, so I question whether we could raise it successfully. What zone are you in there in No TX? In the split between the Panhandle and So Plains I'm zone 6. I guess I should read up on it. It might be an interesting experiment.

                • sistyugler1 says:

                  I'm right on the line between zones 7 and 8. I think they're grown in both Mexico and South America. My guess is that sometimes it would survive our winter and sometimes it wouldn't. But, when I saw your post I thought Hmmmmm……..if it survives the panhandle it might do well here.

              • I_Me_Mine says:

                Have you tried the pound cake, strawberry and banana combo?
                That's the bomb that would solve world hunger and get the ragheads off our back.
                That, and a six pack of Shiner. Oh, and the NFL Football Network….

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  No, I haven't. But for the sake of preserving the Union, I will. On another note, I try to stay away from celery except on Thanksgiving (the stuffed with cheese thingys) and of course as a salt in my brisket rubs; but the 86 year old dingbat wife of my ailing Dad made me a peanut butter and celery stick… thingy. Even at my age and accomplishments, one can experience new culinary delights.

                • aPLWBinAK says:

                  All joking aside, I'm with you on celery. I've always insisted that celery is a 'non food item'.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  Who was joking?

                  Bugs Bunny doesn't eat celery so it is not even rabbit food which evidently causes palsy of the nose.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  The only way that celery has ever had any nutritional value whatsoever… is in a bloody mary… along with 3 olives, extra tabasco and salt around the rim.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  I put nothing in my drinks that might poke me in the eye. Being in construction and dealing with O.S.H.A has made me just naturally safety conscience.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  In a proper bloody mary…. celery is only the scaffolding.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  I always thought the bloody mary part was superfluous. Straight vodka seemed to work just as well.

                • Red47 says:

                  You have neglected the fair Dilly Bean which actually has more food value than the lowly celery, which requires more calories to eat than it provides. Celery is a moocher. The Dilly Bean? Producer.

                • I_Me_Mine says:

                  I tried celery with p'butty as a kid. Phooey.
                  Never ate it since. That and cottage cheese. If something has to curdle, I ain'ta eatin' it : )))

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  Well…it was a novelty. It is doubtful it will become a staple however, I find that cottage cheese as a platform for lots of black pepper (spicy) and salt (salty) is tolerable.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  Now here is something that your not gonna believe till you try it.

                  …a canned peach or pear half with a dip of cottage cheese in the hollow, a small dollop of mayonnaise on top of that and top it off with a cherry.

                  I double dog dare you.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  Decadence. That is exactly what is wrong with this country. And it is wasted on the young.

                • Duuuuh says:

                  It's amazing to consider the all the simple little pleasures of my youth in comparison to the discontent exhibited by todays youth.

                • Red47 says:

                  Excess consumption and lack of experience outside one's own cause discontent. So does bloating.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  … and how innovative we were in getting into trouble without causing any real harm.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  As long as we are talking about health food, not long ago I posted that Red Hot Cheetos were the best survival food out there. Since then I have discovered a product made by Clover Valley. I have only been able to find it at Dollar General, the outfitters store. It is ta dum… Sweet and Spicy Trail Mix.

                  A number of dieticians are of the opinion that there are actually five food groups- crunchy rounding out the group. If that is so then Sweet and Spicy Trail Mix has all five. I don't know where the greasy comes from, but I don't ask questions.

                • I_Me_Mine says:

                  I do likes me some trail mix.
                  You've heard the question about if you were stranded on an island and had only one dish to eat, what would it be?
                  Me, pinto beans and cornbread. Now the pinto's would have to have a big ol' hunk of salt pork, and a few whole jalapeno's (for good measure) and a big tall glass of good old V–D milk to dunk the cornbread in. None of that watered down crap they tell us is better for our health.
                  THAT, my friend, is some good eatin'.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  You bet! Cornbread and sweetmilk.

                  Have you ever mashed your pinto beans with a fork, combined it with crumbled cornbread and mixed it all with Miracle Whip? Mom taught all of us kids that trick.

                • I_Me_Mine says:

                  I always crumble up my cornbread and pour the beans on top. Mash it all up. But I've never tried it with MW. Will do next time…
                  Here's another one I grew up with as a kid. Mom would make chili and scramble a dozen eggs. Pour the chili over the eggs and add a big scoop of MW. Crumble up a big ol' handfull of Nabs, stir it up, and it's almost as good as the beans and cornbread.
                  Back to the good times.

                • LibertyWriter says:

                  Hmmmm

                  Picture me thoughtful.

                • Syrin23 says:

                  On or off the porcelain throne?

                • Red47 says:

                  Quip of the day.

    • Duuuuh says:

      When I was younger I had respect, faith, a certain kind of reverence for our system of government… and even politicians.

      Those days are gone… for now.

      • aPLWBinAK says:

        In 1996 PJ O'Rourke wrote “The Constitution contains a plan for representative democracy that has, over the years, been successful in luring some of our most egregious national characters out of the private sector, where they would have done no end of damage to industry and commerce, and into public office, where they can be watched” The problem is, we apparently not only stopped watching them closely enough, but somehow let them have unlimited power over us, and a total lack of accountabilty.

        • Duuuuh says:

          I know hindsight is 20/20. But where it failed is when we allowed Congress and the White House to delegate it's responsibilities to agencies, bureaus and now czars without any kind of sufficient oversight… thus avoiding accountability… and the Constitution.

          If you issue a blank check don't be surprised when……

      • AnnRandy says:

        Before we woke up to the REAL facts of political life…
        The respect is DEFINITELY gone for good…
        Unless, of course, Geo Washington or Ronald Reagan decides to make an appearance..

    • GaltFan says:

      I opined/speculated on the possibility earlier that Roberts may have been teeing up the ball for striking down Obamatax in a future court case with some of the verbiage/reasoning he used in yesterday's opinion:

      One little part quoted from the decision caught my eye and makes me wonder if Roberts is up to something. I'll break it into two parts:

      "…it makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earn­ing income."

      Which one isn't like the other two? Can we pass a "non-income" tax or tax people for not buying gasoline?

      "And if the mandate is in effect just a tax hike on certain taxpayers who do not have health insurance, it may be within Congress’s constitutional power to tax.”

      Or it may not? Is that the next aspect of this monstrosity for SCOTUS to decide?

      I'm still very pissed at the decision for the obvious reasons, but the weasel may have had a hidden purpose for such a monstrous act.

      Maybe wishful thinking on my part, but I had one teacher at the State Institute for Advanced Indoctrination (SIAI – aka State University) that was quite adamant that we should always pay close attention to modifiers and qualifiers. It is possible that the court may find such a tax unconstitutional once someone has standing to bring suit…

      • JohnK144 says:

        And, given that all taxing legislation has to originate in the House, and ACA was a Senate bill, how can this NOT be unenforceable?

        • GaltFan says:

          Heh heh! What a CF that whole fiasco IS! BZ pointed out yesterday that the "tax" is actually a "penalty" in the statutory sense. It is also a "tax" for purposes of Constitutional law. A "tax penalty" is unenforceable (hat tip to BZ again for the specifics) according to United States Code… As far as having originated in the Senate? Well, they "covered" that lie. If SCOTUS was tasked with striking down legislation passed under a cloud of deception we would needs thousands of "justices" to sort through it all…

          My optimism is probably too great, but I smell a rat somewhere in that decision. We need the right (well, preferable…) people making judicial appointments (most especially in the near future) if we are to see my delusion come to fruition.

          My opinion of Roberts right now is a slightly suspended sense of extreme anger for his risky and potentially stupid opinion…

          • JohnK144 says:

            I've heard some folks saying that "someone got to" Roberts. Now, I'm not willing to think of that as a "horse's head" kind of a thing, but I think I CAN believe that obama may have sent a message that if SCOTUS struck the law down, he would ignore the ruling and create a constitutional crisis. Since all the funding is in place to implement the law for now, I think obama was ready to implement by executive order.

            So throw that into the list of "possibilities," that Roberts took that football away from obama, while also sticking it to him by rewriting the basis of the law.

        • aPLWBinAK says:

          If I remember correctly, you are from Florida. If so, I've wondered what your opinion of this young man is from a local perspective and knowledge. Is he the real deal, or just another one who is photogenic and gives awesome speeches? Me and many friends have greatly admired him and Allen West from afar, but with the knowledge of the possibilty that things aren't always the way they seem when you do not have that local experience with them. http://youtu.be/8Ny6PdhOK0w

          • JohnK144 says:

            I wanted to watch the video before I responded. I voted for Rubio, with joy. I really like the guy. As a leader in the state house, he has always been a positive force, and he's a VERY good speaker. If you've never heard this one, I'd suggest his speech at the Reagan Library.

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IwP3gKS2L4

            I think he still has some growing to do as a "statesman" (I hope he becomes a true statesman), but I do still believe in him.

            As for Allen West, well, that man is a cut above any "politician." I actually used to live in the district he represents, for about 20 years. And to think that he could prevail there (a mostly liberal enclave) says a LOT about his appeal. But when it comes to issues of national security, foreign affairs, and just a simple love of country, there is no one better. Totally apart from the "political" or "racial" aspects, if Romney were to choose him as a running mate, I would JUMP at the chance to vote for that ticket. And if the country got to hear him speak on American ideals, I think they'd fall in love with the guy. They might even wonder why it isn't HIM at the "top" of the ticket.

            • aPLWBinAK says:

              Thanks John. I've actually watched pretty much all of his videos, and all I come across of West too. I've read enough of your comments over the last many months to respect your opinion, and your opinion of those two is in line with what we up here think of them too. West an American hero, and Rubio a future statesman, and rising star who 'gets it'. But, we've seen how easy it is for someone to totally fool the general public with a photogenic visage, and a carefully crafted 'brand' that does not come close to measuring up to their past actions and deeds, and so we (me and my friends, who are all conservative) are always aware that a local person has an inside perspective that others may not be able to see from afar. We love Rubio and West, and have hoped they weren't 'too good to be true'. Haven't found that yet, and your opinion just helps confirm what we've believed about them.

  5. LibertyWriter says:

    "Sudden and relentless reform."

    Sarah Palin on the Sean Hannity show.

    I like the sound of that.

    • Duuuuh says:

      "Sudden and relentless reform."

      That rings all kinds of bells…. I seem to remember something like that when I was younger. Wasn't the method of application by a razor strap?

      • LibertyWriter says:

        It took all day, but I finally got a laugh.Thanks.

        • Duuuuh says:

          My parent's sent me to public school until 7th grade and private until graduation. But the home schooling never stopped. They firmly believed in an institution of higher learning.

          I had so many learning opportunities provided to me by them.

          Don't get me wrong… I earned my education and I thank them for it to this day.

  6. GaltFan says:

    A (fictional) doctor's opinion on State controlled medicine and his response to it's imposition:

    "“I quit when medicine was placed under State control, some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of the victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything — except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, only ‘to serve.’ That a man who’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind — yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? … Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it — and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t." "

    Surgeon, Dr. Thomas Hendricks in "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

    • AnnRandy says:

      Short and sweet..

    • Strays says:

      Thus spoke the Prophetess.

      And yes, trolls are roaming. I just clicked AnnRandy back up to 0.

      • AnnRandy says:

        Thank you Strays, it's those simpleton trolls and jealous regulars that get us everytime..

    • LibertyWriter says:

      Poweful.

    • Taxpayer1234 says:

      Word. An idiot on Twitter said anyone in medicine shouldn't profit by it. I told him even Hippocrates got paid for his work. That I remained polite was easy because I had only 140 characters.

      • Syrin23 says:

        So then what's the incentive to work 100 hours a week all day, all night, all weekend, all holidays during the prime years of your life to come out a quarter of a million dollars in debt? Think that idiot would work Christmas Eve morning through Christmas night (until midnight) like I did missing all Christmas celebrations? How about missing his daughter's two year old birthday party because of getting called in? Yeah, tell what the incentive is there exactly?

        No one but me apparently picked up this line from Obamugabe that burned into my mind forever. "I want to take the profit motive out of medicine". Do that, and the quality you get will be exactly what you paid for. As the future of medicine looks bleaker and bleaker, the young MD's I know who haven't and won't make a good living are turning to life style meaning reduced hours, no call, no critical care coverage, etc. We will get what we paid for. I imagine hospice will increase 1000 fold.

  7. I_Me_Mine says:

    I took this afternoon off so I could come home and get a nap. I was up 'til 1:30 am bs' in with CTT and LW last night.
    Time really slips away when you're having fun.
    That's only part of the reason for the nap. The wife babysits the grandkids on her days off and she had a 'nail' appointment mid afternoon. So, I had to watch them until their dad picked them up.
    Well, they were horsin' around and the older one accidently knee'd the younger in the nose. Cryin' commenced and after a minute or so I finally went over to pick him up.
    I got one of the biggest hugs he's ever given me. It lasted so long he was gettin' heavy (3 yr old 40 lb kiddo).
    Whatever happens in the coming months to our country, please keep them in mind as I do. I will do for you and yours as well.
    Thanks.

    • Strays says:

      I have no children.

      I fight for yours and in honor of the sacrifices our predecessors brought in purchasing the freedoms we now p-ss away.

      • I_Me_Mine says:

        Thanks Strays.
        I'm thinkin' the older one may be President one day. Smart as a whip. The younger one…well, the jury is still out on him ; )).

    • LibertyWriter says:

      I am good at making and taking naps

  8. OK, That's It. I've seen everythin. I'll be leaving this planet now.

  9. AnnRandy says:

    Whenever I read all the violations of OUR Constitution by Obama,

    I always wonder that constitution he taught and was a "scholar" of.."cause it sure wasn't the US version…

    I'm guessin' Justice Roberts sat in on one or two of Obumblers Harvaard Law review classes…
    That's the only explanation…

    • Strays says:

      Shariah.

      He helped getting it implemented in Kenya.

      • AnnRandy says:

        Sharia is the antithesis of the US Constitution just as Obama is the antithesis of an American..

        And NEVER the twains shall meet..

    • Syrin23 says:

      This is what Affirmative Action produces.

      • AnnRandy says:

        AA for AAs has many MIAs in the new American economic reality..

        Black studies, Mexican studies, Womens studies and basketweaving has left most of these university casualties out in the cold with an expensive degree in this new ObamaNation..

  10. tiredofit2012 says:

    House to vote July 11th to repeal barrycare? Even if it passes dingy reid won't allow it to see the light of day.

    • Strays says:

      An exercise in futility.

      • Taxpayer1234 says:

        I don't think so. A number of Dems up for re-election are running away from OZero and Obamacare. I bet they could be persuaded at least to vote to bring it to the floor. Besides, a simple majority is all that's needed for this vote. It's possible.

    • LibertyWriter says:

      I think it would be neat if the Beaner would tell Reid that since he wouldn't even take up the House bill, or any of the other House bills or even pass a budget; that the House will adjourn until after November. The Representatives would go home and work their asses off helping every republican candidate for every office across their states to win their elections.

      And have the boloneies to follow through.

      • Strays says:

        I know one who might do just that.

        But, alas, he's staying in DC trying to get Holder's racist rear fried — and others are staying with him.

  11. LibertyWriter says:

    I am cashing in tonight. I have to go back and thumbs up everyone I missed. Good night all.

  12. SpaceRacer423 says:

    new Romney2012 slogan:
    "Fundamentally transforming America, back to America."

  13. Syrin23 says:

    In case anyone wonders where I am next week, we are on a week long vacation to the Caribbean. Going to meet with a realtor while these to discuss buying a get away home, perhaps permanently. See y'all in week or so. Keep up the good fight. Keep the powder dry and your food supply hidden.

  14. Red47 says:

    When I grow up I want to be a czarina.