Wednesday Open Thread
Wednesday version of your open thread. Today we see Tom DeLay dancing the tango. I’ll say this – it’s slightly better than last week but still pretty terrible.
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happy blasphemy day everyone!! http://www.blasphemyday.com/
so how does everyone plan on sinnin today? draw pictures of muhammad, eat a bacon cheeseburger, stop thinking about how horrible gay people are for a few seconds… im looking at YOU evangelicals… Jews get a special bonus so soon after yom kippur… how is everyone celebrating?
Should Government Have E-Record of Every Woman Who’s Had an Abortion?
Townhall.com ^ | September 30, 2009 | Terry Jeffrey
Should doctors and hospitals be required by the federal government to maintain a national network of electronic health records for every individual in America that indicates, for example, whether that individual has had an abortion, a sexually transmitted disease, a mental illness or a drug problem? Such a system has already been mandated by the stimulus law enacted in February, and politicians in Washington, D.C., would now prefer not to answer straightforward questions about it. Americans should not let them get away with it. The stimulus law provided for “the development of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure” that would…
Should your employer have your medical information?
RICO, are you really asking if I think my doctor and the hospital should have my medical records or access to them? You’re goddamn right they should. I personally don’t carry my life’s worth of medical records with me on a daily basis, so, yeah, if something happens to me, I hope the hospital or my doctor has access to them. In my opinion, this might be the single stupidest point you’ve ever brought up (which is no small thing). And no, just mentioning the “dirty” parts of medical records doesn’t change the argument.
Scott, as is typical of your ilk, you cannot fathom any unintended consequences of your lefty policy plans.
a US senator was sailing to an easy re-election until his sealed divorce file was illegal leaked to the press.
The Clinton administration misteriously came into possesion of hundreds of FBI files of their rivals in both parties.
ofcourse as long as the Dear Leader is in office all your records will be prefectly safe, but someday an evil republican will be elected president.
but don’t worry, by the time that happens you will be so well adjusted from your psyciatric treatment that you won’t bat an eye at having your fetishes revealed.
I’m laughing that RICO thinks that Townhall is a credible source on anything.
The stimulus provides for no such tracking. And if it did, you could point to the precise text in the bill and not some bullshit from Wingnut Central.
And here we replay the entire stupid death panel crap again.
Where was RICO when Dick Cheney was reviewing our phone records?
the precise text has been hidden of course! It REALLY IS THERE it is just invisible to everyone buy RICO. RICO knows the truth, RICO will have us all…. twit
and X stryker.. long time no see btw….Vice President Cheney was KEEPING US SAFE FROM TERRORISM. If you had nothing to hide from him, you should have had no problem with him doing what he was doing for our children… dont you love the children? HEY LOOK A SOCIALIST BLACK GUY! GET HIM!!!!
Thank you. I consider myself quite ilky. But did you notice, even in the Townhall delusion, the government was mandating, not keeping, the database. The records are for the health care providers. And by your other “examples”, it seems more like you are advocating the destruction and not-keeping of ALL records. That should help society flow smoothly. You’re one of those who doesn’t sign the back of his credit card because you’re afraid someone will steal your signature, aren’t you?
actually, a better way is to write “see i.d” on the back of a credit card.
I dont know why we continue to argue with these people…. im guilty too. They dont really believe any of the batshit things they say. They are sheep who hate Obama because Glenn beck tells them to. And because they know their hate has no real basis for existing, they make up all these insane excuses.
RICO, just say “i hate Obama and everything he does out of hand” you’ll be honest with yourself and you’ll feel liberated.
actually you are wrong. BC then a thief can have a fake ID and then you are screwed….
either way, it isn’t your fault if someone accepts your card and it wasn’t you.
I think Tom did a pretty good job especially with a bad wheel. I am really happy to finally have an opportunity to vote for him.
Aw crimminy–if Castle announced he was running–you guys would have accused him of stealing Beau’s return day limelight…just be patient, since you won’t be doing anything to help his campaign anyway.
For the record, we didn’t set any of the deadlines that he has missed.
We report, you decide.
Deadline Geek? Maybe announcement..but not a deadline, like a failed obligation.
“I will make a decision by…” sounds like a self-imposed deadline to me. Like “I will have Version 3.0 of the website done by…”
Surely you aren’t saying that this isn’t proper to discuss. Castle said he’d decide. He told me personally that he would probably decide by last Monday. If he is yet undecided, that is itself news. The News Journal sure isn’t following up on the indecision.
Exactly lg. I’m not sure why Castle is giving all these deadlines. Is he waiting for something in particular? Why doesn’t he just say that he’ll decide when he decides? One or even two deadlines passing by doesn’t seem like a big deal, but he’s told us May, then August, then September and now who knows. The election is one year away. If he’s not going to run he’s certainly blocking money and attention from someone who will run by being indecisive like this.
“Is he waiting for something in particular?”
Yes, he’s waiting to see if Beau runs. If Beau runs for Senate, Castle retires. If he runs for AG, Castle runs for Senate.
Maybe he is protecting us from Protack. Perhaps that also means that he is closing the door on non-self-financed candidates. Hmmm. I wonder who could do that…
“If he’s not going to run he’s certainly blocking money and attention from someone who will run.”
Not really. No well-heeled Republican is going to be eager to hand over money to a nobody unless they know Beau isn’t running. Even if Beau doesn’t run, money will not flow to a no-name Republican, because the Democrat will at least have some name recognition.
In my experience (which I admit is not much), the way the big money works is 1) a big name candidate jumps in and the money flows, 2) the candidate shows impressive early fundraising which impresses the big money boys or 3) it’s a strategic seat. Castle is blocking option 2.
Again, I don’t see how. Is Tom Kovach going to attract big money? I doubt it.
Again, I don’t see how. Is Tom Kovach going to attract big money? I doubt it.