paulejb - you owe it to your self respect to explain how a public option becomes a single payer when the CBO already gave an opinion that even with the public option 96% will be covered under private insurance. I want single payer and I hope you are right.
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Posted By: Apolitical @ 08/25/2009 12:40:20 AM
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Posted By: Apolitical @ 08/21/2009 3:00:44 PM
That probably provide a template to respond to those astro-turf bused tea baggers. If Oh'Really was put to the carpet by Barney in his own program, then this girl is small change. I must have seen the video clip a hundred times and enjoyed it everytime.
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Posted By: pbrockrock @ 08/21/2009 5:13:36 AM
Frank's point is that talking to a person convinced of a falsehood and who stubbornly refuses to reason is like talking to an insentient object. Socrates, in Plato's Gorgias says, "There again, noble Polus, you are raising hobgoblins instead of refuting me; just now you were calling witnesses against me." Exodus 20:16 "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." When reason breaks down Socrates is forced to admit: "Well, this is a new kind of refutation-when any one says anything, instead of refuting him to laugh at him." In Denis Diderot's "Rameau's...Continue Reading
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