Zarathustra wrote:Hashi, nice post!

Hashi wrote: or flawed heroes, in the case of Iron Man, who is a hedonist, a playboy, and on the verge of being an alcoholic

I'm not seeing the flaws there.

Ahem

Because the bank has no interaction with the merchant. It's as if the customer had pulled the cash out of his pocket. In this case, it doesn't matter *where* the customer got the money; if he'd swiped an old lady's purse to pay for the widget, you wouldn't call the old lady a party to the transacti...

[quote="aliantha] Because the bank has no interaction with the merchant. It's as if the customer had pulled the cash out of his pocket. In this case, it doesn't matter *where* the customer got the money; if he'd swiped an old lady's purse to pay for the widget, you wouldn't call the old lady a ...

Oh good lord, I'll comment even though I swore I would never ever post at KW again, but I just can't stand it since this is my industry. Sindatur is right...the business is administrative and the first cuts you may notice may be in customer service. Ah, yes, just what you were hoping for. Longer wai...

It's actually nicer. I got angrier the more I thought about how many times this has happened to me and decided to do it publicly. It doesn't matter if you remembered if we were married or not. It's still insulting. And what's even more interesting is that it is ALWAYS a LIBERAL that does this (you k...

And you got Ki to join in with "So I'm guessing we're all ok with..." and ending a sentence with "...right?" You folks want to get snotty, I'll get snotty right back. Treat me like someone who disagrees with you, and who is maybe uninformed about something, but is possibly not a...

Opponents of this project say Ground Zero is hallowed ground. I would think that's hardly the place for a strip club. Maybe we should run *them* out, too.... We are at war with radical Islam and, again, you really should refer to the writings of this imam behind the building of this mosque. I think...

So I'm guessing we're all ok with Boy Scouts using public schools after hours for meetings again? What about the Ten Commandments? If it's a local issue, what's the big deal if a school in Alabama wants to have the Ten Commandments hanging in their school if nearly all the students are Christians, r...

dlbpharmd wrote:

Brinn wrote:Rock Band > Guitar Hero!

Damn straight!

You boys will make a competition out of anything!

Did you know there's a strip club a block from Ground Zero? Did strippers fly planes into the World Trade Center? Are we at war with strippers? A mosque it not offensive. And quite frankly, neither is a strip club. It isn't that the Ground Zero site is so sacred that a mosque shouldn't be near it. ...

Thought Andrew McCarthy's article on National Review Online was excellent. Especially this: This president, uniquely, could have framed that question in the right way. He could have called on Muslims who claim to be moderate to reject Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda explicitly, by name and without eq...

I should know that answer to that question, but I don't. I'll see what I can find out. I do know that it is part of our accreditation to maintain our administrative costs within certain industry benchmarks, but I'm not sure what those benchmarks are. I also know that as an industry we strive to lowe...

..there is a new requirement that insurers spend at least 80% of premiums on care. That sounds like a good thing. --A Of course it does. That's why the Dems legislated it. Because it sounds good and it makes everyone feel good to hear it. It puts those nasty insurance companies in their place, as i...

Thanks Sin and Av. :) I just needed a break, but I've missed the healthcare discussion. I did make a point this week of finding out a couple of things about the health reform bill in regard to limits on health premium increases. I found out that the government has the right to review increases and t...

I expect that because the law's provisions are being phased in, insurers are probably soaking their clients for as much as they can get. The insurance company that I work for is trying everything that they can NOT to raise premiums and reign in administrative expenses, despite the legislation that ...

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sindatur wrote:.He's HECKaCreepy, I think he creeps me out more than Ben in full "Back against the Wall" manipulation mode

I thought Keamy was really freakin creepy too. Especially when he said to Jin, "The heart wants what the heart wants." Was that empathy? I guess creepster empathy.

I don't even like the idea of the child being taken off campus in a taxi without parental consent, much less a medical procedure! In my opinion, this isn't even about abortion. It's about a child undergoing an invasive, elective medical procedure without parental consent or knowledge. What if the pr...

It was so absolutely ridiculous of me to think that perhaps someday taxpayers would pay for game systems.

Nintendo aims to get consoles in schools

Company's legendary designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, says it's his top goal

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35952226/ns/techno ... nce-games/

This is what is happening in Washington state: Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16 Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoi...