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.

Unfortunately, dear idiot, the missile "defense" system you are so proud of has yet to knock down anything, and can't even come close unless the target has a radar homing device aboard, something I doubt Kim Il Sung would authorize on a Taepong.

Beyond that, the "threat" doesn't exist - at least not to the U.S. or western Europe. That's because massive retaliation is a threat. Missiles are easily tracked as to their launch site, so the evidence would be very strong as to who did what if something was launched. The real threat is a Pakistani nuke being given to the Taliban, taken to Sinjiang Province by camel caravan, loaded into a cargo container, placed on an 18-wheeler to be sent to Shanghai where it goes on a container ship and ends up in the Port of Long Beach, one container among 20,000. That way you don't have to worry about a guidance system, and there is no "provable" track.

But of course, something that doesn't involve the possibility of you and your fellow racketeers raking off more from a defense contract wouldn't interest a Republican.

But I really thank you for doing this series. Every time you show up, you demonstrate further why only 18% of the country is stupid enough to believe you about anything.

This is certainly one time where I hope the wingnuts got it right with their conspiracy theory, that today's acquittal does set them back a generation or two. After we turn them into the Unreconstructed Southern White Boy Loser's Party in 2010, we may be Republican-free for the rest of my life.

Heather Halfwit said:

Against this background, NBC's "Kings" looks less like a work of pretentious puffery and more like an imaginative fable, rich with insights into the ways that power -- particularly power that's seen as divinely granted -- inspires and corrupts.

Do you even have a clue what the word "good" means? This carved-in-cheap-cement piece of crap is proof that network television couldn't find the zipper on its fly with both hands on a clear day with a 4 hour advance notice.

Too bad the neighborhood advertiser formerly known as the Los Angeles Times isn't hiring. You could be Mary McNamara's clone for abject moron otherwise-unemployable stupidity.

Everyone knows there is no intelligent civilization in Colorado outside of Metro Denver (including Boulder). Greeley's the place where you have to go out of town to get a drink because they're "dry" in the city limits, which is why "formal, legal" Greeley is so small now. And the school there is known as "the second-bersty teacher-training school in America," which goes a long way towards explaining why public education is the mess it has been for the past 120 years (since the Colorado Normal School was first founded - ancestor of the "University" of Northern Colorado).

As for the other guy, he's a good example of why I grew up knowing you laugh at Colorado Republicans, they're so completely stupid.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that the national list includes such things as a 36-hole Frisbee golf course in Austin, Texas, and a "3 million dollar environmentally friendly clubhouse" for a municipal golf course in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Notice where these projects are: Texas and Nebraska. Notice which party controls these states. Yes, Austin may be the reliable blue jewel in a sea of bright red (friends there say living in Austin is like living in the Alamo: you're surrounded by The Enemy), but it's still in Texas.

Further proof why the word "Republican" is a synonym for "hypocrite".

Who cares what a gaggle of mouthbreathing morons say about anything? According to them, I'm a communist.

But, Fred Hiatt????? If that moron had been running the Washington Post during Watergate, Nixon would be President in Perpetuity.

And Hitchens can just be dumped in a vat of vodka, where he belongs.

I wonder which NeoCon/Fundie hack they'll hire to do the "riting" for her. He'll have to be sure not to use polysyllabic words or her "believers" won't be able to understand it. Perhaps it should be done in pictures.