Bark Collar wrote on August 25, 2009 06:56 AM: Give your pet their own special cat door. Cat Doors provide your cat with the freedom to come and go as they please without requiring you to let them in and out every time. Selecting a quality Cat Door can help save energy during the hot and cold seasons. Choose a Cat Door large enough for your pet to enter and exit comfortably and safely. Cat Doors should have a closing panel for times when you want to secure your Cat Door. Cat Door or Cat Flap gives you and your cat the freedom they deserve.

John F wrote on August 24, 2009 05:25 PM: Cuffs2Tight,

Feel a little better now? Good. I'm glad I could give you the opportunity to vent your spleen.

This is what you wrote: "John F thinks you are a bigot..."

So when you say in your last post that you never said that, you were lying.

It does not follow that only bigots make bigoted remarks. It's quite possible that Mr. Suprynowicz merely expressed himself badly, and no bigotry was intended. I'd like to give him the benefit of that doubt, even if you wouldn't.

Let me see.......

I'm going to ask the follwoing of Mr. Suprynowicz. Mind you, my remarks aren't directed at you. Don't be offended by them. This is simply a question for Mr. Suprynowicz.

Mr. S.,

You don't think that Cuffs2Tight might actually be six different kinds of idiot, do you? Do you think that perhaps I was correct when I said that it was actually his collar that is too tight and all oxygen has been cut off from his brain?

Remember, I asked the question of Mr. Suprynowicz. Please don't take any offense.

Dave Lincoln wrote on August 24, 2009 04:52 PM: 2 things for Vin:

1) I think the problem of unknowledgeable and unhelpful sales people will slowly change due to the high unemployment rate (I know it is especially high in your state and Las Vegas.)

There are plenty of Americans that will do good work here, contrary to what the commenter down below had to say. It's just that it's got to pay more than one can earn by lying on the couch watching 999 channels of satellite TV while waiting for the mailman to bring that government "safety net" check. But, I know you are all over this, so I am not telling you anything you don't know here.

2) Get 1 or 2 computer mouse pads and see if you can staple, tack, or nail them across a suitable opening in your door. (This is for the cats, BTW) You must arrange them so that they can flop away from the opening; I prefer to the inside of the house. The cats will get used to them - they are opaque, but also, they are more insulating than the store-bought door (unless the wind can blow directly at it). American ingenuity - it's not gone, just highly surpressed by governments all over. Yes, my spelling sucks today. No, I don't care.

Cuffs2Tight wrote on August 24, 2009 02:04 PM: Jon F, the "F" must be for "Fool." First, I clearly said you suggested Vin made a bigoted REMARK. Any sentient being could read, and understand the difference. That would exclude you Fool.

Second, I was asking Vin HIS thoughts on your REMARKS about HIM. I know this is difficult to understand, especially for someone who spends his every waking minute laboring away at his keyboard posting on message boards. Fashion yourself as some sort of a Professor, I bet.

And finally FOOL, or Mr. F, if you prefer, even assuming arguendo that you simply noted that Vin made a bigoted REMARK, it necessarily follows that only bigots make bigoted REMARKS, likewise with RACISTS. Now, I suppose I should provide a definiton of the word NECESSARLY for you, Mr. Fool.

Rant away Jon Fool. It gives you something to do. What an idiot you are. Jerk.

Titus wrote on August 24, 2009 10:53 AM: Forcing everyone into an expensive pre-paid medical care HMO plan (as HR3200 tries to) is at best a windfall profit generator for the insurance industry and at worst at road to single-payer serfdom.

For my part, I have a portfolio of insurance policies to provide for my family should I die, become disabled or require thousand of dollars of medical care. What I *don't* need is to spend $12K/year for a superfluous HMO because Big Brother tells me to.

Bill Smith wrote on August 24, 2009 07:51 AM: I see Patrick is right about one thing. The market is rigged and it is rigged by government.

Bill Smith wrote on August 24, 2009 07:44 AM: I see John F is very ignorant when it comes to health insurance at least. I have a $2000 deductible. The only doctor I see fairly regularly is a chiropractor, which does not count towards the deductible. The only things that I pay until it is met for seeing a specialist. I also pay a low monthly payment since I don’t run to the doctor when I have a cold. Same for my family.

Paolo wrote on August 23, 2009 05:50 PM: John F,

In a free society, the vast majority of people could and would protect themselves against medical catastrophe, and at very low rates, because these events are, by nature, rare and easy to insure against.

There is a very small and marginal minority of citizens in any society who are unable to care for themselves. In a free society, they are cared for either by pro bono work on the part of doctors, or by private charities. And private charities tend to try and teach those citizens how to care for themselves, unlike government welfare systems, which oddly seem to enjoy keeping them dependent, generation after generation.

John F wrote on August 23, 2009 05:33 PM: Paolo,

I don't see it as a non-issue as long as taxpayers end up bearing the expense of treating those who the insurance industry no longer finds profitable.

Or do you suggest that a free society is one in which those without the means to provide for their own medical insurance are free to die?

John F wrote on August 23, 2009 05:06 PM: Cuffs2Tight,

I'd say it's your collar that's too tight, not your cuffs.

Before you start beating up on people who speak Spanish, learn English.

bigot. n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

How does Mr. Suprynowicz's remark not qualify on that count? Where does he get off assuming that someone whose primary language is Spanish wouldn't be proud to be an American?

I didn't call Mr. Supreynowicz a bigot, I said he made a bigoted remark. There's a difference. If and when I ever make such a remark I invite you or anyone else to call me to task for it.

Jonah Goldberg's tactic is typical of people who have no argument. Its' schoolyard stuff and it amounts to, "No I'm not! You are!" Have I ever said anything on these pages to lead anyone to believe that I would hold certain groups to different standards than others? No. But you hurl that slur at me in order to divert attention from the original offensive remark. It won't work.

Jon H.,

Excellent points, as always.

1. There already is justification for general welfare programs; it's the general welfare clause in Article 1, section 8.

2. Amen to that, brother. I've been a proponent of a flat tax on income for just that reason.

3. I could go for that if there were protections written in that would ensure that insurance providers couldn't drop people who are current on their premiums.

4. Again, I agree in principle. I like the idea that any plan offered could have a lower limit, but not an upper one. In other words, insurance companies wouldn't have to cover anything below a certain amount, but would have to cover everything above it.

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