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It's not GOP hypocrisy, even the deomcrats love guns. America in general loves guns. It 'might', (but I doubt it) push for the expanded background checks and plug some loopholes.

Is it 'Hillary' or the 'Super PAC' or the 'Media'? I did not know they were one organization.

no but they did kill civilians. Your point is? American lives worth more than UK or Irish lives? If they kill their own, then it's OK to let them in as long as they promise not to kill us?

noble, but for some Christians, that means death to homosexuals and abortion doctors. And they are 'absolutely' correct in their beliefs and as sure of their faith as you are of yours. Which makes them no better than ISIS.

I never said regulate all prices to the 'same level'. I said publish the prices, and some cost controls obviously need to be in place (regulation). I even advocated for a public/private system so that special doctor can in fact charge 10 times whatever the next guy wants if he/she chooses to. Cars are not required for life or death. cars are not a human right that cannot be done without. cars are apples and oranges to healthcare. Most countries in the world now acccept healthcare as a basic human requirement, the USA has a long way to go in that regard. I guess your health insurance is therefore reasonable, the prices are not going up and you're completely satisfied with it, right? You do not wish to see ANYTHING change ever because the system is so perfect for you and everyone that you know and/or care about?

the article makes this sound like it is a bad thing. YES, this is EXACTLY what needs to happen. the doctors, hospitals, drugs and such need to be REGULATED insofar as price structure goes. that is part of the solution. The reason the insurance company might ,eave the exchanges is that they are getting raked by the hospitals with ridiculous charges that they have to pay because they are an insurance company. First step might be that they all need to publish their prices for every procedure, every task, every piece of equipment. period. These all vary depending on how good the insurance is and how many people they had to serve for nothing that day. My hip replacement estimated at $42K for the hospital for 2 days. I stayed one day and they billed $90K to BCBS, BCBS paid $56K. My insurance company got ripped off by the hospital, but even the insurance company does not give a fuck becuase the rates will go up to cover that eventually. If you want a free market system, one of the the first things that needs to happen is the providers need to publish their rates. for everyone and everything. one giant list. The codes already exist, it is how things are billed today. Then consumers could actually 'shop'. And so could insurance companies.

And merge the VA, Medicare and Medicaid into one. If you are going to hand out free healthcare, you can do it in one agency. Raise the ages for young, lower the ages for elderly, adjust the tax base to pay for it. Next year, do the same. In 5 years or less, we have universal healthcare for everyone. Leave the private system and insurance companies in place, expand the VA Hospital/Doctor/Care network to cover Medicare and Medicaid patients. But EVERYONE pays into the system through taxes, even if you use the private system. If you are filthy rich, you are getting your private healthcare anyway, if you are anyone else, most likely you go to the got run hospitals and the govt paid-for doctors. Govt controls the prices and has the right to negotiate with drug companies doctors, and other hospitals to adjust the prices of everything. Tort laws get reform to reduce lawsuits. What's the more likely outcome? We build a fourth agency to oversee the other 3 agencies, fuck it all up by spending another trillion dollars to offer exactly what we had before, which is shitty healthcare for half of America. And no healthcare for millions.

none of these have anything that controls the costs, therefore the costs will continue to rise as the hospitals, doctors, lawyers are still being fed by the syetm and have nothing to stop it from going up. It is pure delusion to think that just because I can buy a policy in Georgia rather than Florida that somehow it will be cheaper. the people in either state have exactly the same issues, the same cost structures the same everything pretty much. What in this plan stops people from being served in emergency rooms and the bill being put onto the insured? what stops doctors and hospitals from continuously raising their fees? What stops frivilous lawsuits (or non-friviolous ones from bankruptcy)? All of these are just a few of the factors that are causing the upward spiral of costs. There is NOTHING in there to control costs, therefore the costs will continue to rise. And BTW, i do not follow the super pacs to get my news or information.....I actually do the homewrok and the research. please try again. give me an example where the cost of health care will actually be reduced if I can buy a policy in another state. Do I have to travel to that state to get coverage? Do I get a choice in doctors? Does the open market still allow doctors to lose their licenses for malpractice or does the free market really mean FREE market, meaning any doctor can hang out a chingle to get the lowest price? Are you advocating absolutely ZERO regulation of helath care across the board? I mean I am sure we can open ahospital that will do surgeries for $20/pop, but you might have to allow doctors who get mail-order degrees to operate.

Perhaps you could expand on the solution you propose might work because it is nowhere to be found in the right wing charters and doctrines

certainly not working the way that it should or could. I predicted this from the beginning anyway. It will fail because we are simply forcing people to buy insurance they cannot afford. Not enough regulation of the actual prices or the controls to keep costs in check. People that could not get insurance before are thrilled I am sure - they are the happy ones. I always have had insurance but quickly becoming unaffordable. The solution is and always was, a public option paid for by tax dollars, universal or single payer, a public/private system or several possible variations of that. You can blame the left, the liberals, the democrats all you want, but even if the Republicans got in with majority house, senate and presidency, they have absolutley ZERO solution to control costs and will fail just as equally. And the idea fo the 'free market' is bullshit when talking about health care. We do not, nor have we ever delivered health care in this country. we only deliver health insurance. The greatest system in the world but only if you can afford it. If you cannot, you are still fucked. As an employer we are actively loojking into bringing subsidized insurance to our employees. COMPLETELY unaffordable, whether we buy it or they do. It will all be replaced with a public system, eventually. The USA just has to try every other possible option (and fail) first.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-says-he-would-certainly-implement-muslim-database-n466716 Only 17 seconds in or so Trump says "I would absolutely implement that...absolutely." directly asked a question, directly answered. Then expanded upon for clarification. This is called journalism, and while journalists lead with suggestive questions, he still answered it wih a positive.

what is it going to take for you to stop ranting follishness and rubbish?

Carson is doing that completely on his own. He's an educated man, a neurosurgeon and an idiot all at the same time. A complete idiot, ignorant of so many things in the world, and more than willing to stand up and say it out loud. There is no 'spin' needed, but we most certainly will have some fun with it.

Does not really matter - whether Hillary or Bernie get the nomination, the Democrats are all (mostly) aligned behind that person, and that person will most likely get the Presidency. The Republicans have the usual bunch of loonies up there and will in-fight to the end, then probably put the most electable person up there, regardless of whether or not they are loonie (probably Bush) and they will lose. They are disorganized and look like children. The Democrats and strongly united. But whether one or the other wins the presidency make no difference because CONGRESS is supposed to do most of the work, but they do not and Americans are generally so fucking stoopid they have no idea how it works or how it is supposed to work. Congress will continue to play games, the Presidency will continue to be the place where all the blame goes for everything. THe system will continue to be dysfunctional, Americans will do nothing to change it.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/27/middleeast/syria-france-isis-bombing/ France has been and is still involved with the fight against terrorism, including ISIS, Afghanistan and Iraq for as long as we have been involved....just not to the scale of our involvement.

why does the discussion always immediately jump to 'banning'. Who the hell said anything about banning guns? there are 1000 other things that we could do to improve the situation but we refuse to do ANY of it. not one single fucking thing. which makes America tacitly 'OK' with kids killing each other with easy to access guns. fuck the ban. how about some control? Tyson may be right, but here is what he missed, we REGULATE cars, we REGULATE medicine, we REGULATE a lot of things that put harm into people's lives or have the potential of harm into people's lives. knock it off with the 'banning' of anything. we need to improve... now are you willing to give up ANYTHING? even one simple iota of ANYTHING to make the situation better? I doubt it.

wow...THREE replies. Maybe I touched a nerve.

we use ballistics to solve crimes almost every day I expect. Not sure how many conservatives voted for this, but there were some. At least they tried something and failed. Are we for the every-gun-sale-background-check yet? That would probably be effective. $5M....wow, I mean the Iraq war was $280M/day.... Presidential security is about $5M/day I heard. I know I know - it's still taxpayer money, even if it is so small that it can hardly be measured. $5M over 15 years....hmmm, $936/day. I wonder what gun violence costs Maryland every day? But sure, an overwhelming victory for the right.....

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxonmobil-denies-lying-about-global-warming/ they sound like big tobbacco was 50-60 years ago.

your oversimplification of it demonstrates your lack of understanding of the issue. Kind of like me complaining that the neurosurgeon did a lousy job removing a tumor. Unless I am a neurosurgeon or at the very least have extensive training and experience in the medical field, then I will stick to whateveer the experts are telling me. When the vast majority of experts all jump on the 'climate change is bunk' bandwagon, then I will revisit the issue. that is NOT happening, not even remotely close to happening, not even a miniscule iota of than happening.

'does not look good' what does that mean exactly? Define 'good'. Even Rome is still standing. I never understand why everything has to be so perfect forever. No government, system of government, dynasty or kingdom has ever stood forever. things change. America is still here, the current system we have will probably collapse someday, and might even result in lost lives and social changes in government. Most likely, we will throw out the old and replace it with a more socialist govt after the corruption of the wealthy and the poverty of the poor reach the appropriate extremes. And after that, America will still be here, you and I (if we are still here - but I doubt it) will still get up in the morning, take a shower and a shit and go to work. It really is that simple. The Uk still exists. Rome still exists. China and Japan still exist. India has been here for centuries....they have changed and they still exist. And if your heaven exists, I expect you will get there and so will I....but the more likely scenario is simply........nothing. Your introductory post is interesting, but these are not the only two scenarios for the USA, there are several hundred thousand others than none of us can predict. For now, i will work towards keeping the lunatics out of office.

does not matter - if you are going around 3-4 times, then you are already finished. Anything past that is stupid/dangerous/neglectful/over-confident/altiude-wasting/time-wasting and leads to other distractions, not solutions he did 16+ revolutions..... that is not 'line twists'

there is only one kind of steak - it is called a rib-eye, and there is only one way to have it, and that is medium rare. Well done? - are you fucking kidding me?

I counted 16 revolutions (at least) of the canopy, he probably lost thousands of feet of altitude in that time. I expect he opened higher than usual for the type of jump, good planning, but everything else was pretty disgraceful. Especially if he is or was an experienced skydiver. try once, try twice and then screw it - Plan B Obsessed with saving the prop and camera. Jack Larrison went in at Z-Hills in 1997 or 1998, opened a triathlon at 2700', got a toggle fire, had issues all the way to ground, distracted by various things going on. Not a malfunction, just one brake released. It only took him 11 revolutions and 42 seconds to reach treetop height where he chopped. end of story. The only reason we know what happened to Jack was that he had a camera running with a clear view of his altimeter. Are line twists a malfunction? Not in many people's minds. Is a brake fire a malfunction? Not in many people's minds. But if have not solved either of those in 2 or 3 revolutions, then it is NOW a malfunction and get the fuck rid of it. And I now teach this in my safety seminars. I challenge anyone to open their parachute, leave the brakes set. get it flying straight....now release one toggle and see what happens. even 'docile' canopies will be horizontal to the ground in 2-3 revolutions and spiraling out of the skyve at a rate of 250-300' per revolution. And your eyeballs and feet will start to hurt rather quickly. this is a malfunction that needs to be dealt with immediately.

it does actually help the poor, especially in the states that signed on. In the states that did not sign on, i.e. Florida and Texas, then yes, it actually hurts the poor. That is not a flaw with the ACA, that is a flaw with the right wing nutjob anti-Obama policies of Florida and Texas (and others) For a pretty smart guy, you are in fact pretty obtuse when it comes to that simple fact. the STATES did not sign on...therefore they do not get the benefits and therefore the people suffer. complete utter bullshit from you today my friend..... this coming from a company that is in fact, trying to buy health insurance for their staff, but cannot for the simple fact that Florida decided to opt-out, and therefore it is both unaffordable for employers and employees. congratulations....well done you right wing idiots.