No, I don't know the drill

Post #172,936 by ben_tilly 9/7/04 11:54:57 AM Reply	No, I don't know the drill Is anything in [link\|http://slate.msn.com/id/2105529/\|http://slate.msn.com/id/2105529/] wrong? If it is true, then what proof is there that Kerry wasn't in Cambodia that day? Cheers, Ben To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act - [link\|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20\|Nebraska Supreme Court]
Post #172,939 by bepatient 9/7/04 12:04:09 PM Reply	Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. But even he is not consistent in the storytelling. They are ALL POLITICIANS. How do you know they are lying? Their lips are moving. Oh...but AHNOLD is a Republican. That makes his lies/distortions/stretches worse. Sorry. Forgot. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #172,941 by ben_tilly 9/7/04 12:18:29 PM Reply	Which inconsistency are you talking about? The discrepancy between the diary and his later recollection? That is explained well enough in the article (you leave certain things out of diaries in case you're captured). Or is there a discrepancy between his retellings of the incident in later years? When the discrepancies pass normal discrepancies for anyone retelling an event that long ago, then I'll worry. As for Arnold, I don't know enough to accuse on that one either. Austria may have had conservative leaders, but what was the tenor of the whole country? I grew up in a country that was socialist by US standards, but the province that I was in had a very right-wing government. These two things do not contradict each other. Heck, I'm considered socialistic by many in the USA because I'm for universal health care - something taken for granted in the rest of the industrialized world! Cheers, Ben To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act - [link\|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20\|Nebraska Supreme Court]
Post #172,945 by bepatient 9/7/04 12:34:44 PM Reply	I wouldn't call you that... ...until at least the 4th beer :-) Its a matter of semantics, I think. I don't think you'll find anyone that says "Its ok for all these people to not have access to medical care." (well, maybe one or 2) However, the spectre of "nationalized health care" will spook quite a few people. We don't exactly have a really good track record established at the Fed level where all things healthcare are concerned. Medicare/aid ain't exactly a model to be followed. Probably could have insured all the uninsured for just the cost of the latest foray into senior drug benefits. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #172,958 by ben_tilly 9/7/04 2:02:21 PM Reply	My opinion on a good model to follow Make the rulemakers live under the same system as the rest of us. That gives them good incentives to not screw it up. Let them live under a different system, and they'll mess ours up every time. (The same principle applies to other kinds of systems as well. Like programming languages.) Cheers, Ben To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act - [link\|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20\|Nebraska Supreme Court]
Post #172,976 by a6l6e6x 9/7/04 3:45:00 PM Reply	Otherwise known as "Eat your own dogfood!" :) Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer

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