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should i retain a lawyer now >?
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"we learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
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Oh yeah...I can't say I am a "complete" objectivist - there is a decidedly spiritual nature to man, that in my own personal experience (truth to one's own self is an objectivist ideal), I simply cannot deny. I can say I have a "high percentage" of objectivist ideology - but I discovered these similarities later in life because I was instilled with those ideas-in-common from the time I was old enough to begin being "brought up".
I was raised with the great instruction of two "REAL" men - my father and his father.
"I love Mark Steyn but he (and Rush, et al) totally miss the boat when it comes to Bush."
I agree - Bush was such a let down for me - I wanted him to put a big Texas boot in the azz of Congress and he gets in bed with Ted Kennedy right after he gets to DC. He was the perfect "R" strawman for the democrats.
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
October 27, 2009 9:42 a.m.
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
October 27, 2009 9:43 a.m.
Well since it's YOUR imbeciles book perhaps you should pull it back out and re-read the chapter on what we, the 'white man', did to the Indians who had been living in this country quite well before we came along and decided we wanted what they had.
GET OVER YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!! And don't forget to study
GOLO member since February 5, 2008
October 27, 2009 7:22 p.m.
GOLO member since August 22, 2007
October 27, 2009 9:34 p.m.
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
October 28, 2009 12:09 a.m.
Oooh! Oooh! Can I go, too???
GOLO member since August 1, 2007
October 28, 2009 10:16 a.m.
Nice....typical attorney
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
October 28, 2009 10:31 a.m.
GOLO member since August 22, 2007
October 29, 2009 12:21 p.m.
that is darn funny! I like that. See, I can recognize good humor from both sides!
GOLO member since September 23, 2008
October 29, 2009 2:04 p.m.
GOLO member since September 1, 2007
October 29, 2009 9:46 p.m.
Dont really check the the links, been chating with Doc for about 9 months. Feel like he's pretty sincere in what he believes as for me I keep hoping he's wrong. So far the only thing he's been wrong about is a bankers holiday which can still happen. I been keeping up with a few of the conspiracy guys so far they've been right they are only off on the time frames by about 3 months and severity but they haven't missed the mark by much. Just be prepared.
GOLO member since October 27, 2009
October 30, 2009 8:04 a.m.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyUCxKM1yT8 (I actually prefer this version to Neil Young's anyway.. &*$^%#$^& yankee...)
man, I am just too damned busy to get pay much attention to the nancy boys on golo although the economics lesson by dancidboy cracked me up...
Last week was the end of some marathon country x-ing, i LEVELED UP with another birthday and my kids kept me busy as all get out... I'm in on Lunch the first week of December.. we need to lock it down!
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 2, 2009 4:10 p.m.
To quote my grandfather:
"I ain't seen hide nor hair..."
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 3, 2009 11:09 a.m.
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 3, 2009 11:10 a.m.
Man he'd do anything for a piece of hippy tail....
Of course I saw them sitting in the floor of The Brewery in Raleigh back in 88 so there ya go....
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 3, 2009 11:26 a.m.
Happy Thoughts!
GOLO member since March 15, 2009
November 4, 2009 7:41 a.m.
"Dang hippies."
It was a recon mission.
I didn't even inhale...
(much)
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 4, 2009 6:35 p.m.
GOLO member since March 31, 2008
November 5, 2009 5:09 p.m.
I thought you Marines were "helo" pilots...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 6, 2009 7:44 a.m.
GOLO member since August 22, 2007
November 6, 2009 9:56 p.m.
It's a special kind of math - you need to use a quack-ulator...
This is the intermediate phase towards one payer universal - it will fail so spectacularly ( and the insurance companies will be the culprit - the preselected fall guy) that the government will be "forced" to step in and take complete control of the program since it is so vitaly improtant and too crucial to let it "fail" altogether.
The theives in DC say the words that people want to hear (reduced cost, choice, fairness, equal access) to cover the intentionally disastrous plan that is designed to fail - creating yet another problem that "only government" can solve.
It seems that the most "shovel ready" project is paving the Road to Serfdom...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 7, 2009 1:18 a.m.
Just be careful - don't want you to end up on a right-wing extremist watch list for checking out books that would cast doubt on your "loyalty"....
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 7, 2009 9:07 a.m.
DOH!
You'd tell me if you saw me on there -right?
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 7, 2009 11:58 a.m.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 7, 2009 12:16 p.m.
Saw that on his profile...I LOL'd...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 7, 2009 5:21 p.m.
You might want to take a valium before you view this website.
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 8, 2009 10:16 p.m.
Had to drive to Southport to finish some inspection work - I drove more than worked....
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 9, 2009 6:17 p.m.
Where did it go?
It was "my" blog how did it get deleted?
It was an excellent insult (suitable for framing) and now it's gone....
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 9, 2009 6:31 p.m.
http://ramparts360.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/4726/
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 9, 2009 7:43 p.m.
Is it just me or is it fixin' to hit the fan like we've never seen in this country?
It seems the precedent is being set such that the gub'ment can do whatever it wishes.
I may have to take a "news" blackout for a few days before I pop a brain vein...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 10, 2009 7:28 p.m.
Happy birthday, jarhead!
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 10, 2009 8:22 p.m.
GOLO member since July 4, 2008
November 11, 2009 3:40 a.m.
Now that is a disturbing thought...
And at least FDR knew when to fight back against the enemy (and knew WHO the enemy was...)
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 11, 2009 3:35 p.m.
I was talking to another
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 12, 2009 9:47 a.m.
Entrepreneurs aren't going to take unfair valuations and will bootstrap themselves and do more with less (less employment). The biggest issues he said that were addressed were raising corporate tax rates, increased government regulations (one of the companies they invest in is a Food Service start up and they are getting hammered by the Obama administrations new "Food Traceability" inititives), and a projected economic downturn when employment flatlines...
I am just amazed at the war on small businesses the government is engaged in.. I can't even wrap my mind around it.
Anyway, back to this call.. I've got to speak in a few minutes and propose to a CEO he take a pay cut and fire 50% of his staff... good times...
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 12, 2009 9:54 a.m.
a) the cuts stop (nothing cracks me up more than the armchair golo economists parroting the line "Employment is a LAGGING indicator" when EVERY company I'm personally involved in is cutting the hell out of headcout, op ex and cap ex... And is planning to be lean as hell for the forseeable future.
b) those out of work run out of money and consumer spending stops and catches up with the unemployment figures
c) inflation comes rushing on.. (seen the price of precious metal ETF's lately?!? my god..)
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 12, 2009 12:13 p.m.
that's a BS line.. a lot cracks me up more than that...
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 12, 2009 12:17 p.m.
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 12, 2009 5:30 p.m.
Drama Queen indeed. Of course his sycophantic boot lickers "friend" his new identity and the cycle continues. I think he did it deliberately for a: the martyr role and b: the drama. I gotta motor.. busy day.. you want to try to wrangle a lunch sometime early Dec? I'm in MSP most of next week then T-Giving then I'm in LA the last week of DEC. At some point in Dec I'm going to Dallas/ Austin-San Antonio while I try to wrap up my current project before the end of the year. The money is nice but I hate "working" for anyone else... Makes me feel slack...
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 13, 2009 8:26 a.m.
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 13, 2009 8:27 a.m.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight ;-)
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 13, 2009 10:17 a.m.
I must admit to a guilty pleasure of whipping him into a frothing state of whirling moonbattery - he also shows up as truth2008 from time to time...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 13, 2009 4:47 p.m.
military tribunal is a kind of military court designed to try members of enemy forces during wartime, operating outside the scope of conventional criminal and civil proceedings.
i am not saying they are not acting as if in the middle of a war against america, but the distinction is appropriate.
how we treat prisoners should be dictated by our laws, not the other way around.
Our US Federal criminal courts and prisons have a long and successful history of trying bad guys like this.
there are many, many terrorists in federal prisons convicted in civilian courts.
In fact, can ANYONE think of some terrorist that was released and let go free from US Federal Criminal court based just on some technicality????? Anyone????
can you Oldschool? honest question.
GOLO member since September 23, 2008
November 14, 2009 4:50 p.m.
WIlliam Ayers, Bernadine Dorhn, Patty Hearst . . . etal.
GOLO member since July 17, 2007
November 14, 2009 6:21 p.m.
“That's probably true. but the real expense to health care is not in the claims, but in claim prevention. If you go in to a doctor with a persistent cough, you WILL get an x-ray. Not because you need it, but because if you don't, and you have cancer, the doctor will get sued.”
I would argue that you will more likely get an x-ray if you have insurance, and won't if you don't. When I visit my doctor, he usually suggests diagnostic tests while assuring me they are not indicated by other test results. Since they "won't cost me anything" (that is, they are covered by my policy), I might as well go ahead and have them. I believe this happens far more often than a rear-covering test on an uninsured patient.
GOLO member since January 25, 2008
November 16, 2009 9:30 a.m.
I agree. Single payer or multiple payers, public or private, are not the issues for me. I would argue that the existence of employer provided insurance has done more to artificially remove market forces from health care than anything else. Once he has insurance, the patient no longer perceives that a specific treatment costs him very much, if anything, so he has no incentive to decline unnecessary or marginally useful services.
No current or proposed plan addresses this problem, which is why I don't support them.
IMO, all Americans need to be protected against catastrophic health care costs, all Americans need to have affordable access to basic care, and all Americans need to "have skin in the game" every time they are treated.
When I see such a plan, I will support it, no matter who the "payer" is.
GOLO member since January 25, 2008
November 16, 2009 9:42 a.m.
(I know i sure as hell will be /brrrrrrrr)
GOLO member since November 12, 2007
November 17, 2009 7:46 a.m.
On a personal note, I appreciate the tone of your posts this morning. I know you have some disdain for middle grounders like me; thanks for not letting it show. :-)
Btw, I recently had the good fortune of interviewing a former DoJ attorney for an article about Scouting and leadership. He argued some cases related to Gitmo detainees and had some fascinating stories that, unfortunately, can't be part of the public article. But I could have talked to him for hours about it. Too bad he returned to private practice this year. (One guess why.)
Cheers!
GOLO member since August 1, 2007
November 18, 2009 8:52 a.m.
I apologize for the mischaracterization. It was an assumption, which is never a safe thing to make, based on a comment you once made eschewing the thought of meeting the enemy in the middle. But I know those two are not the same thing.
On the bright side, we're looking at history in the making. I hope very much to one day have grandchildren ask me what it was like to live through this.
Ciao.
GOLO member since August 1, 2007
November 18, 2009 9:54 a.m.
True. I misunderstood and took it as you thinking the middle is a bad place to be.
I need to go look that one up again. I remember your comment but very few other details from the thread. I'm certain I wasn't really trying to urge you to meet someone in the middle, but I can't remember what I was up to. Maybe the topic was voting a party line?
"If we do not demand that politicians be guided by principles, then what do you think will guide them?"
Choose your poison. But sadly, there aren't enough voters making such demands. All part of the "history in the making" that I referred to -- it just happens to be a bleak history, and I hope it's not too late for people to learn from it.
GOLO member since August 1, 2007
November 18, 2009 5:05 p.m.
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