The Hall of Fire

Like trying to make sure the least fortunate of us have health insurance? Done while destroying the freedom and choice of other people. You have got be kidding me. Giving people the choice to stay with their private insurance or enroll in a public option is destroying freedom and choice? :shock: :r...

It has nothing to do with him being conservative, or a conservative talk show host. It has everything to do with the vitriol he spews on a regular basis. People don't want to be associated with that. So the question this thread asks is moot.

halplm wrote:The left should give him grief, as he isn't doing anything he promised to do.

That's just plain wrong.

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/

It wasn't until this recent healthcare stuff that I realized just how very good you Canadians and the Europeans had it. Currently we are trying to figure out how to get coverage. How nice if we didn't have to worry about it. It really is amazing the weight it lifts off your shoulders. You can chang...

Public universities have been around for more than a century, providing a college education for less, and the much more expensive private universities still exist and prosper. Private health insurance exists in the UK as well, right alongside the NHS. Regarding what Voronwë posted about insurance c...

Rachel Maddow's commentary on the situation is quite good in my opinion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJuEOaF ... r_embedded

Why are you lumping all Americans into one vast group Alatar? It's not right at all. All those millions of people who voted against Bush twice certainly didn't "allow" him to come to power any more than they "allowed" him to start the war in Iraq. They certainly did not do "...

I can't say I feel any sympathy whatsoever given the outrageous vitriol they've spewed.

I agree with Ax.

Personally I was very glad to hear President Carter's statement. We need visible, respected persons calling that sort of stuff out.

Thank you Voronwë, it always bothered me. It was simply a way to demean what the purpose was. freddy Except for the fact that the people identified themselves with that name. It wasn't the left-wing blogosphere that came up with that name...it was the people taking part. I specifically remember Rac...

I have never heard of anyone, anywhere NOT having to wait for hours. The one time Iavas went to the emergency room, he was seen pretty quickly. I'm sure it wasn't over 30 minutes...maybe not even 15. I honestly can't recollect how long we waited but I do remember it wasn't hours. Of course I experi...

Thanks all. I'm pretty proud of them, especially as I've never felt I'm much good at landscape photography. They nearly look professional. Though I think it's hard not to come away with good photos from the Lake District!

A few standout photos from our trip: Crummock Water (we were so lucky to see the lake so still): http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/Eruname_Tinuviel/Nature%20pics/lake1.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/Eruname_Tinuviel/Nature%20pics/lake2.jpg A tarn near Grasmere I can't remember the name ...

This past week, I've been really surprised not to hear a peep of coverage from BBC news about the healthcare fiasco going on in the States, especially considering how often the NHS is brought up as an example of how horrid a government healthcare system could be. It took a Tory MEP criticising the N...

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Since when do big ears have anything to do with race?

Many Americans I have met don't understand the differences between Socialism, Marxism, and Communism, they often seem to think they are all one and the same, having been too lazy or stubborn to actually find out for themselves. I don't know the difference between them. :oops: We didn't really delve...

The Daily Show pulled up a clip from McCain's campaign back in 2000 where he was advocating the more weathy paying higher taxes. A person in the audience was questioning him about it and he said something to the effect of him thinking it wasn't unreasonable to a weathly person to pay more. It's incr...

halplm wrote:You are not trying to understand Palin's statement, or her point. You are choosing to interpret it in a way that offends you because you don't like her.

Yes hal, of course you're right. I've seen the error of my ways and will move along now.

But we are not going to edit posts simply because we disagree with them. Er, Voronwë, I complained about his posting style , not any of his political opinions. You most certainly have jurisidiction over that. It WAS dismissed here, Yes, because people smelled something fishy. The same happened on c...

Eru, do you think Obama's constant attempts at class warfare are uniting or dividing? What are you talking about? What class warfare? Palin is not dividing with her comments. Sorry but you're just plain wrong on this one. She pissed off A LOT of people with her "real" America statement. S...