From: Ed Pawlowski on

"dr_jeff" <utz(a)msu.edu> wrote in message
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> larry moe 'n curly wrote:
>
> <...>
>
>> Our hospitals are great; it's our private health insurance system
>> that's bad.
>
> Close. The problem is that we don't have a private health insurance
> system. We have a bunch of companies out to make a buck.

That is what companies are supposed to do. They should still have some
morals though, but they cannot offer free coverage.

From: Bill Putney on
Conscience wrote:
> On 2010-03-22 16:41:31 -0700, Bill Putney <bptn(a)kinez.net> said:
>
>>> ...yelling racial epitaphs
>>
>> Racial epitaphs? Sounds like the punch line of a great joke that
>> hasn't been written yet. Can you give me an example of a racial
>> epitaph - and what cemetery it is in? Better yet, a link to a photo
>> of the headstone. That would be great.
>>
>> Maybe it would say "HERE LIES BUBBA - ONE OF THE NICEST CRACKAS THE
>> WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN". That would be a nice racial epitaph.
>>
>> Thanks for the great laugh.
>
> :-)
>
> That was definitely choice.

Thanks, man! I thought so too. LOL!

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From: hls on

"larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencurly(a)my-deja.com> wrote in message

> Show me some developed democracies with more expensive health care
> systems than what we have.

Define expense. We have one of the most expensive health care systems,
to the recipient, in all the world.

Some other societies subsidize it, and someone still has to pay, BUT
they dont necessarily pay as much as the US does.

In the USA, health care is a monopoly of sorts. And it costs dearly.
From: Bill Putney on
Conscience wrote:
> On 2010-03-22 16:52:44 -0700, Bill Putney <bptn(a)kinez.net> said:
>
>> Conscience wrote:
>>> On 2010-03-22 16:41:31 -0700, Bill Putney <bptn(a)kinez.net> said:
>>>
>>>>> ...yelling racial epitaphs
>>>>
>>>> Racial epitaphs? Sounds like the punch line of a great joke that
>>>> hasn't been written yet. Can you give me an example of a racial
>>>> epitaph - and what cemetery it is in? Better yet, a link to a photo
>>>> of the headstone. That would be great.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it would say "HERE LIES BUBBA - ONE OF THE NICEST CRACKAS THE
>>>> WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN". That would be a nice racial epitaph.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the great laugh.
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> That was definitely choice.
>>
>> Thanks, man! I thought so too. LOL!
>
> The post you quoted reminded me of Norm Crosby. I can imagine the
> cretin scrambling for his unused dictionary.

Hah! You are exactly right. It is exactly the kind of thing Norm
Crosby would have said. What do they call them - malaproposims (after
Mrs. Malaprop)?

He'll probably try to debate me now on the political topic, which will
be hard for him/her to do now with any credibility.

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From: Bill Putney on
Bill Putney wrote:

> ...What do they call them - malaproposims...

Oops - malapropisms. I'm getting slap happy.

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