Dugger,

My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time –
To let the punishment fit the crime

Yes, I’m angry. I get angry when I spend valuable time talking to a brick wall. I don’t have that much time these days, so, Frank, when I waste it, yes, I get angry. And I wasted my time with you–as I suspect others in here have for years, I’m just the latest victim. The quandry that I find myself in, however, is that your crapola should not go unanswered. So…bearing that in mind….

What is it, about the below statement, by myself, in support of public/private parnetship., that you don’t understand?:

“The way you talk about government vs. private sector, you d think that the two couldn t mutually co-exist, and God forbid, form partnerships when presented with opportunties or challenges. These partnerships exist everywhere, you re just too damn thick to see it.”

Speaking of Zoloft….first of all, it’s primarily an anti-depressant. It doesn’t necessarily make a person less angry, moron. Then again, conservatives generally aren’t smart enough to tell the difference between being an anti-depressant and a laxative, so we’ll give you an empathy pass on that one.

Secondly, there are countless drugs out there that have been developed by virtue of the public/private partnership. A lot of the research that goes on at the NIH, or is funded by the NIH but done at the University, or Hospital level, is the basic research that lays the foundation for private drug companies to develop these life-saving medications.

Does a bell go off in Frank’s head? Or does Frank continue to be dumb as a box of rocks.

These answers, and more, on our next edition of …….CAN FRANK LEARN?

JK

As for my “selective memory”: I didn’t mention Randy Weaver, and Randy Weaver wasn’t a child.

You’re an angry person, JK, way too angry for a professed sophisticated, compassionate liberal.

I’m a believer in Intelligent Design, myself, but you’re posts are remarkably convincing evidence for evolution, if you get my drift.

Can you say Zoloft?

But Randy Weaver happened on Bush I’s watch. Or do we have selective memory.

There’s no shortage of lousy decision making in government, AND in the private sector, nitwit.

JK

You’ve got to be as dumb as a box of rocks. You read what I wrote, didn’t you? I spent (more like, WASTED MY EFFING TIME) 20 minutes writing what I thought was a defense of public/private partnership. I can see now, Frank, that I thouroughly wasted my time wih you.

And we get the above crap from you, which I assume has been going on for years.

Look, if you’re not even going to read or try to understand what it is that any of us are saying, why the F should we bother with your tired ass?

I DO NOT THINK GOVERNMENT IS THE ANSWER TO ALL PROBLEMS. FAR FROM IT. I am a liberal that happens to believe strongly in private ownership of proprety and business… and good grief…capitalism.

What are you going to do with me now, moron?

(I wonder what it must be like to go through life thick as molasses. Man.)

JK.

Why? Because the nomination of the first female chief justice will be hard for the Democrats to oppose. Judge Clements is conservative, but no more so than the late Chief Justice; her nomination is a net wash.

The Democrats will bluster, but not filibuster, the nomination of John Roberts. he has too much support, more than enough that if the Gang of Fourteen don’t break any filibuster, Senator Frist has the votes to employ the “nuclear option” in Judge Roberts’ case, and teh Democrats do not want to go into future judicial nominations with the filibuster weapon removed as an option.

It’s real simple: Judge Roberts isn’t much more conservative than Justice O’Connor, and Judge Clements (or anyone else, on the small chance I’m wrong about who gets the nomination) is no more conservative than Chief Justice Rehnquist. The real battle comes up next summer, when Justice Stevens is replaced.

Remember where you heard it first!

Didn’t take long for you to work sex in there either, if only I had an egg timer.

The “Golden of Clinton”

The golden age of Clinton.

Secondly, sometimes you’re totally befuddled and confused postings stagger th imagination…

In other words W in the F are you talking about?

Seems to me, braintrust, that far less people were complaining about the government’s response to 9/11, Hurricane Andrew, the Oklahoma City Bombings. In fact (and this is something I happen to know a little bit about), when James Lee Witt was the head of FEMA, FEMA had the reputation of being a well-run, tight operation.

The way you talk about government vs. private sector, you’d think that the two couldn’t mutually co-exist, and God forbid, form partnerships when presented with opportunties or challenges. These partnerships exist everywhere, you’re just too damn thick to see it.

That trait, I have noticed, is a particular to those of conservative, or more particular to libertarian ideology. ALL government is bad if it’s not about national defense and building a few roads.

As far as Katrina goes, this is a disaster of uprecedented proportion. New Orleans is essentially in a soup bowl. You had 100,000 people, who largely by virtue of being poor, and having little other options, couldn’t leave the city.

Government’s response to these 100,000 people, on all levels (city, state, and federal) was delayed by at least a day, and maybe two…and that will have ended up costing countless lives, in the end. We will know the reasons for this delay at a later time, but it’s hard NOT to notice that FEMA was re-organized and downsized, in the past five years. The old “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” should apply here.

JK

A state or nation in which the supreme power rests in all the citizens entitled to vote.

Yet, most conservatives–including the late CJ–work their entire lives to ensure only the ‘right’ people vote.

Conservatism works perfectly well in disasters, too, as witness the fact that much more money, water, food, supplies and personnel are coming from the private sector, than the government, already.

Sometimes parody writes itself.

Republic: A state or nation in which the supreme power rests in all the citizens entitled to vote. This power is exercised by representatives elected, directly or indirectly, by them and responsible to them.

This whole disater thing has pushed your leftist caravan over the cliff, eh, Oliver?

Conservatism works perfectly well in disasters, too, as witness the fact that much more money, water, food, supplies and personnel are coming from the private sector, than the government, already.

Finally, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has zero relevance in this instance.

When faced with branches of government run riot in the name of the so-called majority, it is vital that voices from a deliberative past are remembered. This SCOTUS is still trying to redeem it’s place in history. I have no wish to malign a dead man. However, Rehnquist has sealed his place in history.
Let us get this court back to where the Founders intended.

Would you like some God with your Constitution?

Sidenote: Justice Stevens is what, 82?

I really don’t know Rehnquist’s record that well, so I won’t make any statements about him. And there is such a thing as respect for the deceased and his family.

May we all find peace at the end.