There is no room in these perilous times for reactionaries.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/21/BAQT14S9FQ.DTL

You know, one of those 20 year Beltway insider hacks. Someone's who already in the loop with graft and bribery.

A long column about theoretical potentialities. A few hundred comments, such as they are once you weed out the crap and noise acid poetry. But bottomline this is all a silly bull session line or argument.

No one is going to prosecute any American past President for warcrimes. Never. It will never happen. If it comforts you to imagine tanks in the streets and you wearing Cuban uniforms to the righteous overthrow of the Evil American Empire, ok. Maybe there's a video game for that. I'm sure there is. But on earth, the real world, the one we live in, that's not going to happen.

And if you honestly believe that the Federal government is where all the criminality is, you are more deluded than even you can know. Most corruption is at the state and local level. No one's looking quite so hard and friends are easier to come by.

You don't care about food. You just want a host who reflects your Whole Food I never watch television ethos. They could serve dogfood and as long as they follow the dogma you'd be thrilled.

For those of you who bother to know something about NYS politics, you'd recognize that the alternative to a Kennedy or a similarly well funded star name candidate is a machine hack. Either from the Downstate GOP machine, the mid Hudson GOP machine, the Albany Democratic machine, the west state Buffalo machine or the white shoe Democratic machine. What do any of you actually know about NYS politics? I'd have to say it's nearly nothing.

Do you think guys like D'Amato, Schumer, Moynihan, Javitts, Lehman, Buckley, Keating, Goodell sprang up full blown from Zeus's head? No they arose out of the machine systems. Who do you think the respective parties, WHICH Paterson, a scion of the machine system owes his loyalty to, would elevate? Anyone you ever heard of? Don't bank on it.

Who were you hoping for? Bloomberg? He already overturned the law that GOT him into office which prohibits the Mayor from running a third time. Mark Green? Has he ever won an election? Maybe Rudy G can run, or Ex Gov Pataki? Hell let's raise Erastus Corning II from the grave to run his 40 year machine again.

Maybe she can nag the cancer away. Who knows, it's driven everything else off.

You are correct that thin times can affect health for the better. Why? diet might simplify and therefore improve. And, patients are more likely to drop routine medications that might be unnecessary in the first place. They are also less likely to see a doctor and doctors' mistakes kill more people than most illnesses. So there's that. But your example is really a biased one. A young patient otherwise in good shape with a well known chronic condition that could be alleviated by medication they choose not to take. You should ask you patients which ones just don't take their medications because they don't feel like it. A bet it's a lot of them. Ask you patients if they're planning on dropping that 10 or 80 lbs finally this year.

They are unsustainable. The people there should be expelled. Or, if they refuse, when we cut off the food, water, sewer, gas and lights they're on their own. We need to essentially get rid of human habitation in Arizona, Nevada and southern California. We need to unwind the clock 500 years and return it to its natural state including demolishing all the dams. The upshot is that we could coincidentally get rid of 50-70 million people and all their carbon footprints. The remainder would be packed into relocation areas, preferably away from natural areas.

Just to watch him die.

They simply imagine what a 'good' expiration date is. Drugs have to get very old and stored under very poor conditions to actually expire. Your pills are generally fine far longer than the expiration date would indicate. This is done to ensure that patients are routinely renewing.

Cut it off 8 hrs a day. Then see what happens. People will leave until it's sustainable.

You like being miserable.

sounds like it.

Why not? It's not as if you're getting the royal treatment from your PPO or worse, HMO. I spend about $600/year on medications. If someone can do that cheaper, I'm there. People already go to overpriced Doc in the Box already for services of dubious value. Cheaper is always better and the reason Americans pay so much for horrible quality service now is that they believe they and their physicians are 'more' special than anyone else.

The Church of England is dying. Fewer than a hundred thousand congregants consider themselves 'observant'. This is why Rowan Williams as the head of the Anglicans has effectively abandoned organized Protestant Christianity and has expanded the CoE's scope to include Islamic Sharia, Marxism, Gay Rights and Human Rights activism almost exclusively. By 2030 three of those four things will be abandoned as well and the CoE will morph into a kind of Islam-lite. Which is fine if that's what they want to do. The dissolution of the separation between Church and state though will be fascinating to watch.

It's right there in black and white.