Dear moron:

First, thanks for demonstrating so convincingly how low one must pass the IQ test to have been able to work for the dumbest collection of halfwits in American history - the Bush administration.

I have been the beneficiary of both a "gold plated" private health insurance program (back when such things were affordable by mere mortals) and a socialized, government-run program, namely the Veteran's Administration. I have had no problem whatsoever with the VA program, though I had all sorts of problems with the private program - getting them to OK a doctor visit, OK a treatment program, make good on the promise to pay for it, etc. I've never had a similar problem with the Va, and have certainly not run across any of the problems you think are so endemic to a government-run program, despite the fact I am being treated for conditions that could easily become "life-threatening." Not to mention the VA system has a nice digitized records system, so anyone providing me any treatment can access all my records to be sure they aren't doing something that will have a negative effect elsewhere. I wouldn't go back to that private, gold-plated system even if it was still available at a price mere mortals could afford (which it isn't).

ALL of the problems you cite with a public system are the problems that are endemic to the sort of private system most people can afford to get.

By the way, how much is Rick Scott paying you from his stolen $100 million to bother us weekly with your bullshit and lies???

You are an idiot - but we already knew that, when you said you were an ex-Bushie.

I guess I must have been on another planet recently. There are shows worth watching on network TV? And we are supposed to care about their new shows?

That's definitely news to me.

Die, networks - in a cold dark place, with the cause of death something polite society doesn't speak of. Preferably extremely painful.

I volunteer to inflict the pain very painfully on that little min-Putz, Ben Silverman. What a joy it will be to see him hanging from the nearest telephone pole as the meat rots off the skeleton.

This is mindboggling on many levels. First, there's the confounding spectacle of a Georgian Republican harking back to Lincoln as an inspiration, which inevitably reminded me that the heart of the modern Republican party is now located in the Deep South, which a: Lincoln crushed in a bloody civil war, and b: in large part became a Republican stronghold because of the Voting Rights Act that gave the descendents of the slaves Lincoln freed real access to the ballot box, and thus sent white southern Democrats scurrying to the GOP. Would Lincoln recognize his own party if he was alive today?

That's why it's now known as the White Southern Confederate Traitor Party.

Throughout the history of the U.S., the Southernist (as distinguished from "Southerner")incubus has jumped back and forth as a parasite on one or the other of the two national parties (whatever their names at the time) to provide one with the winning margin over the other in return for the victor leaving the "peculiar institutions" of the South and its general culture alone. That worked until the Democrats threw off the incubus during the civil rights movement, and it realized that the parasite had to take over and control the body of the host, failing to realize that when that happens, the host ultimately dies. And so, only 40 years later, we see that happening, while the incubus flails helplessly now that it's caught out in the light of day where it can be clearly seen. When most people see the ugly monster, they turn away from it in horror, which is what is happening now

It's not "American farmers" - it's American Agribusiness, the companies who also own the forest land that is being burned down in Central America, Indonesia, etc. The whole question of ethanol and biofuels and agriculture has to be looked at in a global perspective, where the bad guys (as usual) are American corporations.

Also, we get to beat our healthy smoke-free chests over the FDA now getting to regulate tobacco, not noticing that Big Tobacco has quietly moved their operations overseas, where tobacco farming in Africa now takes enough land that - did this crop not exist there - Africans could feed themselves. And then, of course, the tobacco is made into cigarettes that are sold completely unregulated in those countries.

But we Americans get to feel good about how "green" and "healthy" we are.

Too bad he didn't recommend that Reagan not suck up to

Bruce Springsteen regarding "Born in the USA", given that Springsteen handed Ronnie the Ray-Gun his ass and showed how "in touch" he was with pop culture. Roberts advice comes under "'tis better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and prove it beyond doubt." And for politicians - particularly Republican politicians - he was right.

California's budget fix: Screw the poor, the frail, the young, the students, and the environment.

Sounds very Republican to me. I'm sure the California Dumbocraps are happy as pigs in shit over the redistricting deal they did in 2000, to protect all incumbents - those two Republican seats they could have gerrymandered would have been pretty darn useful about now.