I am sure McEnroe did that to judges of any color.

Oh come on!

That is a statement even the 912dc crowd can support.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spKr46-KPC0

It’s not uncommon to hear small business owners complain…period. You can’t get good help, your suppliers are crooks, your rent is too high, whatever.

I have no way of comparing the cost of doing business here, since this is the only place where I have done business, although I have started and run four different companies. But people still want to live here and there must be a reason.

It’s a competitive world anywhere you go, and anywhere you go people rise or fall depending on luck and their own abilities, but there are still businesses providing goods and services. If they can’t hack it here, they can join the Army or work at McDonald’s.

If a white tennis player had gone off on a judge, would you…oh, wait.
–Duros

If a white tennis player had gone off on a black judge (and told him she was going to take the fucking tennis ball and shove it down his fucking throat) would you… oh, wait.

Oh, do tell.

I can’t speak intelligently

Heh. ’nuff said.

Maybe because it’s been played out and nobody cares anymore?

I think we all expect Kanye to be a douche. It’s his shtick.
Oh right, you guys hate talking about race. My bad.
I don’t think that was a racial incident. And nobody cares. I mean, how about Serena Williams. If a white tennis player had gone off on a judge, would you…oh, wait.

Oh right, you guys hate talking about race. My bad.

Of course you don’t care anymore.

Maybe because it’s been played out and nobody cares anymore?

Oh right, can’t be. HEY! LOOK OVER THERE!!!

It’s not his logo.

Now do a post on Obama calling Kanye West a Jackass so I can give O a big thumbs up!

A post on Kanye’s jackassery here?

About as likely as a post on ACORN right now.

Hey, I’m not the one who ran away.

The means of production applies to services as well as goods.

Again, which goods? Which services?

Speaking of drama queen bullshit care to expand on the meaning of human rights and homosexuals?

Well, the ultra-cons (such as yourself) were championing Prop 8, which took the rights for gays to marry away, as democracy in action. However, you guys think we shouldn’t be able to vote on a public health care option?

Now do a post on Obama calling Kanye West a Jackass so I can give O a big thumbs up!

These neo-birthers are too stupid to recognize the irony.

Like much of the west the politics of water have been very important in California. LOL, as Chicago is to clean elections Cali is to the clean establishment of water rights.

I can’t speak intelligently to the subject of California worker’s comp. It has no bearing on medical rates in my state. It does however play a large role in the cost of insurance and cost of doing business.

On another site I frequent, completely nonpolitical it’s about dragboats, many of the people there are from California. It is not uncommon to hear small business owners complain about the high cost of doing business in your fair state. The concensus there is that they are stuck, wouldn’t consider expanding, and would like to move their operations out of state. I realize your outfit is providing a rather localized service. 15 grand a year for insurance seems quite high for what you do. That’s more than $250.00/wk. That’s in addition to the money you put into workman’s comp isn’t it. In my state we have hourly costs for the mandated state provided workman’s comp insurance. It is rather expensive and leads to a lot of fiddling with the books.

Point conceded.

I speak of the ownership of the means of production.

Medical care is a SERVICE, like fire or police protection or public schools. Why would you leave it off my list?

Where I live, the local government controls the “means of production” of our water supply, by condemning land for storage, building dams, tanks, and a network of delivery systems. Would you suggest that we all trek to the spring 10 miles away with buckets to get our own, or do you agree with me that this socialist system works very well for our community?

If a piano moving goes bad, you lose a piano (barring a freak accident, of course). If health care goes bad, someone DIES. The stakes in health care a just a teeeeensy bit higher.

The difference appears to be only one of scale. Like the medical practitioners, I band together with other people in the same business to spread the risk through insurance. The bigger the group, the more evenly the risk is distributed, so if we include the entire population of the United States as our risk pool, we all benefit.

Even though I have paid over $150,000 for insurance in the last ten years, I have filed three claims totaling about $2000. One of those was a workers comp claim, the only one of my career, three stitches costing $28. You are safer moving pianos with me than cooking in your kitchen, but in spite of that admirable record, I pay the same rate as the clumsy movers.

The reason those three stitches cost $28 instead of about $500 is that the Workers Comp companies use their big numbers to negotiate medical rates that are a fraction of what I would have to pay through my own insurance. A public option would give all of us that kind of negotiating power.

Speaking of drama queen bullshit care to expand on the meaning of human rights and homosexuals? I’m not quite sure what homosexuals have to do with communism and socialism, there is a link between homosexuals, the prime vector for the spread of aids, and public health but I don’t think that’s where you are coming from.

Again, the production of what? Last time I asked this, you ran away with your tail between your legs.

Would you welcome a vote on the finer points of how the piano moving industry is compensated and the proper techniques that are acceptable when removing the legs or just how much money is wasted on padding.

Uh, let me illustrate the difference. If a piano moving goes bad, you lose a piano (barring a freak accident, of course). If health care goes bad, someone DIES. The stakes in health care a just a teeeeensy bit higher.

Do you feel that we are entitled to vote for programs that you consider “socialist,” like highway building, water delivery, fire protection, public schools, sewage services, and medical care, or do you feel there are limits to what we are entitled to vote for?

Republicans: Voting to take away human rights from gays is democracy in action. Voting to create a public health care system is the death of the nation.