12 Replies to “philosophical musing for today, March 2, 2012”

1. richard mcenroe says:

   March 2, 2012 at 8:50 am

   Democrat leadership: Vote for us and we’ll give you free shit!
   GOP Leadership: You’ll take our shit and vote for us.

2. Ernst Schreiber says:

   March 2, 2012 at 9:24 am

   Undoubtedly Mitt Romney and his crack team of professional electioneers will sex up their appeal to the disaffected yutes with smart Veep pick.

   Of course, after the way the last smart veep pick got treated by same (more or less) professionals, who in their right mind would accept?

3. batboy says:

   March 2, 2012 at 9:34 am

   Well, you have to admit that Romney has *great* hair.

4. sdferr says:

   March 2, 2012 at 9:48 am

   Goldman Sachs showing a little leg?

5. iron308 says:

   March 2, 2012 at 10:00 am

   And the right will give them

   Who’s this ‘Right’ you speak of Kemosabe?

6. Lost My Cookies says:

   March 2, 2012 at 11:03 am

   C’mon. That hair?

   Punk Rock

7. Libby says:

   March 2, 2012 at 11:07 am

   …but also Rubio, West, McCotter, Ryan, etc.
   It’s the old guard supporting Romney, not the ones who voted for big change in 2010.

8. sdferr says:

   March 2, 2012 at 11:17 am

   James Q. Wilson (1931 – 2012)*

   Capitalism and Morality, 1995 (pdf)

   The rediscovery of character: private virtue and public policy, 1985 (pdf)

9. geoffb says:

   March 2, 2012 at 11:19 am

   I notice that the Democrats have learned one thing from their past efforts in this vein.

   In the past the “victim” herself would be the one giving the testimony. This had always worked until the Internet made it possible for ordinary people, who knew facts pertaining to the situation that was being testified about, to be able to get an audience without going through the liberal gatekeepers of the media.

   That method has blown-up in their faces in recent years. So we see that in this case all the “victims” are referred to by the witness as ““A friend of mine” or “a married female student told me” or “Women employed in low-wage jobs” or “the faces of the women affected by this lack of contraceptive coverage“. People who can not be found and their actual situation looked at to check the veracity of Fluke’s claims.

   There is one slip-up in her testimony. “Fluke testified. “One told us about how embarrassed and just powerless she felt” Who is this “us” since she is supposedly testifying for herself not as part of some organization.

10. geoffb says:

    March 2, 2012 at 11:23 am

    Darn it commented on the wrong post.

11. motionview says:

    March 2, 2012 at 11:29 am

    Here is one place where the death panels are going to make a difference we won’t see util we are gone. Who gets a total knee replacement (TKR)?

    The seven-year cumulative average Medicare payments for all treatments were $63,940 for the non-TKR group, and $83,783 for the TKR group, for an incremental increased seven-year cost of $19,843.

    So, if you are only worried about the budget for your eight years in office, you can save 25% by not giving people the surgery; even now a slight majority of people just live with the pain, right?

    There were significant positives in the osteoarthritis TKR group: the risk of mortality was half that of the non-TKR group and the congestive heart failure rate also was lower, at three, five and seven years after surgery.

    A lot cheaper, and a lot deader. Think this 91 year old is getting his TKR covered by Dear Leader? Obama already said no to a new hip for Toots, good luck with a knee for the likes of you.

12. Mike LaRoche says:

    March 2, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    Well, you have to admit that Romney has *great* hair.

    Bigfoot agrees.

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