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Re: Nicola Roberts PR

Ryan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:43:08 -0000

i fancy nicola robertssssssssssssss , shes the fittest from the whole group secondly followed by cheryl and nadine!!!i would love to give her a good seeing to!

Re: Soccer Fans: Boycott Sony Bravia HD TVs

Ryan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:18:06 -0000

I found it pretty ignorant and typical of american attitudes to sports that are not there own. I'm sure they think if they can somehow take the sport down a notch it'll be less of a competition for they're native sports. I am in the market for a new tv and sony will not be a choice I'll look at.

Re: R.I.P., George Carlin

Ryan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:20:43 -0000

A poor man has gone, that he will rest in peace is an illusion of some people. Unfortunately.

Re: Friday's News Update

Ryan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:35:29 -0000

The other two will probably be the two poppers that will be battling on the finale. Robert Muraine and Philip Chbeeb . They've been promoting them and they would be a much better addition to the tour than any of the other dancers.

Re: Kyle Payne speaks out about his criminal charges

Ryan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:54:10 -0000

Looks like Kyle will be sentanced on 8-25 at 2:30 P.M. He is a piece of shit and I hope he goes to prison and burns in hell

Re: The Daily What

Ryan — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:42:44 -0000

Why are you liberals so afraid of real women? It is so funny the way all of you got behind Clinton. So now women are the real second class citizens. To the back of the bus with the lot of you....Pitty.

Re: Palin as Working-Class Hero?

Ryan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:45:46 -0000

This is disappointing. These are the very issues (health care , taxes, retirement) that concern our family most.

Re: Palin as Working-Class Hero?

Ryan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:55:43 -0000

I don't see this as a biased article. I think all the candidates records are legitimate. I don't think Obama or McCain has perfect policies but we all have to sift through them and vote for the candidate that has our best economic interests in mind. I just want to know issue based facts like where they stand on taxes, health care etc.I don't care about all the personal stuff and i'm sick of hearing about it from all sides.

Re: Palin as Working-Class Hero?

Ryan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:06:16 -0000

Also I should say that i looked into both candidates tax plans. I kept hearing McCain say Obama would raise our taxes and Obama saying he wouldn't. I didn't know who to believe. After looking at both plans our taxes would not go up under either candidate. However our family would get a bigger tax break under Obama. Under McCains plan it appears that the wealthier you are the bigger tax break you get.

Re: Seven Against the World (by Kevin Lum)

Ryan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:11:17 -0000

Justintime,
Saying that the worldwide AIDS epidemic could have been "stopped in San Francisco" had Reagan done more is ridiculous and shows a complete lack of perspective.

AIDS didn't even start in San Fran. AIDS started in Africa and traveled to the U.S. Even if Reagan had waived a magic wand and cured all AIDS patients in the U.S. millions would still be dying in Africa and other parts of the globe today. It's a tragedy, but trying to pin this tragedy on Reagan is, as I said, ridiculous.

Even if you substituted the word "American" for "global" you'd still be making an over-the-top argument to blame it all on Reagan personally.

Re: Seven Against the World (by Kevin Lum)

Ryan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:35:39 -0000

First of all justintime, you just cut and pasted from Wikipedia. Stating that "these are the facts" as if there is no other information at all out there on the origin of AIDS is foolish.

Second, just because AIDS was first diagnosed in LA doesn't meant the disease had it's origins there and spread around the globe from there. Do you have any idea of how diseases travel?

There is absolutely no way had the U.S. even gotten the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. under control in the 80s that the spread could have been avoided in Africa. I challenge you to find one medical expert who believes such a thing could have happened. That San Fran. Chronicle op-ed to which you linked doesn't even make that case. It's talking about the U.S. epidemic.

Re: Seven Against the World (by Kevin Lum)

Ryan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:12:28 -0000

justintime - The fact that no one really knows where the world-wide AIDS epidemic started proves that Reagan could not have possibly stopped the world epidemic by focusing on San Francisco. You can’t stop an epidemic if you don’t even know where it’s breaking out. Yes, it was in San Fran, but it was also in many other cities and areas of the world, it just wasn’t as evident.

You wrote "If Reagan had provided timely leadership, could the global HIV/AIDS epidemic have been stopped in San Francisco?
Many think so."

Don't you realize how irresponsible this statement is? I'm assuming that because you don't come out and say you believe that Reagan could have stopped the world-wide epidemic you don't believe he could have or don't know. You merely posit that some people (without mentioning who these people are) think he could have.

That's like the people who say "some people say Obama is a Muslim, I'm not saying he is, but some people say he is." These kinds of insinuations aren't helpful to conversations, particularly among Christians.

Duh,
On the subject of farm subsidies and their waste, read this story.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/16/eveningnews/main3516149.shtml

Here’s another one the waste in our Farm Policy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100962.html

Let’s also dispense with this idea that because this legislation is being held up for the time being that people are dying because of that. The authorization of the current legislation runs through the end of the current fiscal year so money is still being spent today. Congress never lets a major reauthorization date go unaddressed, even if it’s just to pass an extension of the current bill. No one will die because the bill is being held up. They might die for all sorts of other reasons, but none of them are because of this delay.

Re: Payment Reform Coming Down The Pipe Line

Ryan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:06:51 -0000

A hearty THANK YOU to both of you, brilliant responses from both Robyn and sadsurgeon.

Plausible deniability is the name of the game and if you think in any way you will end up ahead after this mess is passed, you are sorely mistaken. Until physicians are literally walking out the doors of their hospital with their office belongings in hand, they will keep chipping away at doctors until they realize there is nothing left to do but actually fix the real problems with healthcare spending.

And I would like to know the answer to Robyn's question as well as I can't see any reasonable solution to the problem a payment plan like this would produce.