Letters to the Editor
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Christopher Michael Neill
You're a dollar short and a day late. Someone already brought up the girl in the hot tub thing way before you farted.
And unlike the simpleton you appear to be, no one is advocating doing away with punishing genuine negligence. But it's a proven medical fact that delivery room alleged negligence has nothing to do with a baby being born with cerebral palsy, and this was well-known while Edwards was still conning juries, and it was pointed out to him, but he continued with the lie.
Now look at the facts on the falling numbers of ob/gyns in many states. Medical students are increasingly shunning the practice because of the risk of being sued by lying lawyers like John Edwards.
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You bet your ass I do
You don't look up the sources or try to deal with their actual arguments. You just dismiss them based on their alleged association with others.
That's all it usually takes. Besides, kid, this ain't my first day at the rodeo. I've been doing this for years.
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L.W.M.
Ignorant and stupid ... and proud of it!
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And you confuse argument(shiny objects)
With objective analysis. Dean Baker is an economist. I'll take an economists view of the cost/benefit analysis over a defendant counsels argument any day. Conservative ideology is a failure and the failed foreign policy is only one in the panoply of great failures. You shouldn't be so easily swayed by bullshit.
:-)
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Now we know you get your information from wing-nut liars...
You're a dollar short and a day late. Someone already brought up the girl in the hot tub thing way before you farted.
--Anonymous
as it was indeed a kiddie pool, not a hot tub, which was wing-nut code to try to make a kid seem like an rich whiner instead of a normal kid at a neighborhood pool. You really should be ashamed of yourself, but as a wing-nut, I am sure it is beyond your ken.
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Edward's grooming shows admirable insight into citizens' concerns.
As Oscar Wilde said, only shallow people don't judge by appearances. Republican men may fancy themselves to be naturally gorgeous. Like Wilde's Dorian Gray, some are, but only on the outside.
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Kitt
When Ya's think you heard it all, then more...Who was sleeping in a bathtub?
I hope we are learning. I'd recommend reading the "radical" Abraham Joshua Herschel? Our government placed Herschel on a FBI list for opposition to Vietnam war and civil rights/union work. Bush was getting washed-up to prepare to go to war with global terroist when he grew up?
What a insanity of inept critters these "journalist" prop up. To oppose a war your assured your fbi dossier gets fat. To be a frat and doze in a Tupi, your prepped to be a President? Something insane here? Yes.
I mention A. Hershel's book because of a book (no go back there to several days ago on a eve of comments)--
"Man [Women]is Not Alone" I only read a review. It can't hurt.
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There is another book for people who are serious "grown-up" and ageing peacefully adults. "Knuffle Bunny Too-- A Case of Mistaken Identity"
A child named Trixie takes her bunny to school. There are photograph.
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I thought poof was to blow out a candle? Whatever. Some ravaging crazed 'folk' will huff, puff, and poof out the candle? Let's all lobby for all males. Every male will now wear a long white George Washington wig. We can wear patten leather sandals, snickers, and wear matching socks. Wigwams?
Save money. No haircuts. Great. Can't we move on to discuss what deodorant the presidential candidates recommend that we use? Sure or Ban.
I am not calling Salon readers imbeciles. Good Night! The Last one here poof out the candle, please. And don't call all Salon readers imbeciles. That's not nice to say. Poor us. Glenn may cry here yet.
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haha I farted
Anonymous blowhard, what was the dollar amount you were willing to accept for your daugthers' hypothetical mauling at the hands of negligent maintenance?
Also, I will defer judging the science about natal birth defects coming from someone who likely believes global warming to be a myth. I'm not on that jury, but if I were, I would try to set ideology aside and look at the evidence on its face.
What is your motivation for tort reform, greed or just self-disinterest?
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Exactly
Now we know you get your information from wing-nut liars...
Googling "Edwards and ceberal palsy" brings up hits at WingNutDaily and CybercastNewsService and a few less obvious right wing hacks and all the hits are campaign hit pieces dated 2004 during that campaign. These two are the proud, stupid and ignant ones.
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Thanks to John Edwards
http://www.rgj.com/news/printstory.php?id=84058
http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-new-york/1147349-1.html
http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.0407/0245.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CYD/is_9_36/ai_75505252
And please don't point out the extremely flawed response by the American Association for Justice, a trial lawyers lobbying group. They play fast and loose with words, pointing to an increase in "physicians" while avoiding the central issue is "physicians who will deliver babies." They cite an increase in ob/gyns in one state, New Hampshire, without noting how many of those practice only gynecology and not obstetrics.
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And Oregon kiddly diddly
even a shyster lawyer knows enough to vet his sources.
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Ondolette
I am late getting back to the thread, but am thankful to hear that your friends in Lahore are safe at present. I hope they remain so.
I was honored to share the burden of your concern. If we cannot care for people halfway around the world, and their close friends nearby, then we have lost a critical part of our humanity.
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@Oregon Kid
Kitt already pointed out the fact about Andrew Card notifying the President during the reading of that children's book, so I don't need to address it.
With regard to going back to Washington, Bush's image--as Greenwald has pointed out quite often--is that he is a he-man, take-charge type. What kind of he-man leader runs for cover and lets Dick Cheney order a plane blown out of the air with SAMs? Further, last I checked, the Secret Service works for the President, not the other way around.
Your country has just been attacked. Where do you want your Leader: at least heading back in the general direction of Washington, or cowering at an air field in Montana, or wherever he ended up? How is that leadership?
Bush is "brave" enough to go to war zones--actual war zones--on foreign soil for photo ops with the troops and a Thanksgiving dinner. But after an attack on native soil? Not so much.