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The energy rationing idea is central to the carbon market because centralization itself is what makes the globalized market possible.

Have a great long weekend, everyone. Heading up to my sister's place in the mountains. Dogs, beer, fireworks, fun.

Here's a salute to our magnificent Founding Fathers or as the libs would have us to believe the "Original Neocons."

This is actually the first year I haven't gone crazy and bought a shitload of fireworks. Taking the kids to an amusement park and celebrating my littlest one's birthday... my little firecracker, born on the 4th of July (what an awesome day to have a birthday).

Let's see... so far I have packed: 12 Sam Adams, 12 St. Pauli Girls, 24 pack of MGD's for the relatives, 2 bottles of port (a fine Wollersheim Winery from 2005 and a 10 year tawny of Taylor Fladgate), a bottle of Captian Morgan, a couple cases of Coca Cola, a bottle of Canadian Club, a case of 7up, half a bottle of Crown Royal, vodka, the necessary ingredients for Bloody Maries on Sunday morning, Kahlua, cream, Baileys, some wine coolers for my weak stomached older sister... and my swimsuit...

.... but I get the feeling I'm forgetting something.

Apparently the details on the 300-page, final-second, not-read addition to the cap and trade bill just passed by the house have begun to emerge.

One particular group is very upset:
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/07/virginamericans-vow-fight-against-capandtrades-blood-sacrifice-amendment.html

Skinny, I'm drunk, blowing shit up, and desperate for female attention. Be a pal and call me up one of your old slutty girlfriends. Any one of them will do, just see to it that whoever she is gets here before I pass out. Clock - is - ticking - my friend.

Whoa! What did I justdo? One second I hit send and the next I have crazy colors and fireworks on the top of the page. Am I a;ready passed out? Has the bottle got the best of me?

By all means; let's move on to a more "progressive" socilaized medicne like that of England's

From the BBC:

Maggot infestation hunt continues

A search for the source of a maggot infestation at the Royal Children's Hospital in Aberdeen will continue over the weekend.
The discovery has caused the closure of three operating theatres, and postponements of procedures.

Policymaking by anecdote is only part of it. One reason no one takes wingers seriously when they talk about healthcare is their way of just arbitrarily collapsing all reasonable distinctions.

There are all sorts of systems characterized by who pays, who signs the doctors’ paychecks, who underwrites the insurance, etc., but to them, it’s just all “socialized medicine” so they don’t have to think too hard about it. Doesn't matter that in the overwhelming number of geographic areas, Americans are served by one monopolistic insurance "provider" and there is no serious "competition" at all.

Winston;

There are over 1,300 health insurance providers and one government option. So which one is a monopoly again? The "reduced cost canard" gagged up by the single-payer robots goes against real world evidence in that anything the government touches especially healthcare becomes a runaway boondoggle; see Medicare and 55 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities. The semi-government option championed by Romney in MA is a disaster and already breaking the state budget four years after being enacted. Introduce some price competition into the market with vouchers where people keep the money they don’t spend and then you will see prices come down AND people covered.

Tom, I’m sure you’re right about the number, but the more relevant matter would be: how many of those 1300 carriers are willing to write policies and pay healthcare providers in any particular market?

Fact is, where there’s no real competition, there’s no opportunity to enjoy its benefits, i.e., affordable prices.

The free market is a truly astounding mechanism. However, even most Americans have come to recognize what the rest of the industrialized world knows: where medical insurance coverage is concerned, not only has it failed but that failure has sent medical costs skyrocketing to completely unsustainable levels.

We pay too much. And we get too little for what we pay (except for insurance company dividends and hundreds of irritating ad spots urging us to ask our doctor if Pharmaceutical X is right for us).

One of my pet peeves is that every one of us has seen examples like these of employer-based coverage. This is so wrong and unworthy of a great nation.

NOT IN A MILLION YEARS

Couldn’t have made it up.

New York has one of the highest insurance rates in the country due to government mandates but is no healthier than states that require less. This is not the blueprint for better healthcare.

There is no mandate to buy health insurance in New York. You're probably thinking of Massachusets. New York has the same lousy profit-driven sad excuse for a healthcare system that every other state has, except it's even more expensive here than in other states.

And thanks Winston, that was hilarious. Wingnuts do actually believe that the dictionary and thesaurus are biased. Too funny! They say the same thing about Wikipedia so they created their own version called Conservapedia.

The link below is from a man who aligns with the right but is bi-partisan in his disgust for spending without revenue to back it up. His thoughts on Obamacare are enlightening.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aTKrn1jUJwdE

Comparatively speaking, we spend too much.

And too large a chunk of the healthcare dollar we spend goes to parties unrelated to committing actual medical care.

Even Tom has to admit there's something wrong with a system that lavishly rewards those who are best at collecting premiums, then denying those who paid them the coverage they thought they'd been buying.

By all means President Obama, let's pattern our national government after New York.

fixed by skinny

Tom, you should learn how to post actual links. I'll show you if you want . . .

And even you have to admit, Tom, the President has never proposed patterning national government after the state of NY. It's a good illustration of the disadvantages of one-party rule, which is why the GOP needs to Stop The Insanity and work at becoming competitive again.

Hey, weren't you guys supposed to have another Tea Bagging party this weekend? I guess that idea went out with a whimper.

. . . . or a Cubs fan . . .

Skinny;

Hell comes your way this weekend and his name is Albert Pujols.

Winston;

If you can assure me were not outsourcing Skinny's job to India by fixing my links; I'm a go.

The syntax looks like this:

open carat ("less than" sign) <
a
space
href=
www.YOUR LINK
close carat ("greater than" sign) >
Your text you're making a clickable link

open carat ("less than" sign) <
a
close carat ("greater than" sign) >

In some haloscan environments (like this one) you may have to place the www.yourlink.com inside quotation marks.

There’s a reference page here.

make sure YOURLINK is in "perenthesis",
and that closing 'a' needs a backslash ("/a")

You can do one of two things...
a) check your email associated with your BL Rag account or
2) copy this code and simply delete any and all line breaks:

<
a href=
"pasteyourlinkhere"
>
Type your text here
<
/a>

now you give it a whirl...
and try not to screw it up the way the Cards are going to screw up their 2009 season

huh? My head hurts reading this shit.

or just hope for me to fix them...
whatever works for you ;o)
Keeps the Indian labor out!

This is extremely troubling: “presidential post-acquittal detention power”? WTF?

"This is extremely troubling: “presidential post-acquittal detention power”? WTF?"

So is it okay for me to draw a Hitler mustache on Obama pictures?

Just wondering...

Machiavelli, I'll defend your First Amendment rights to the death.

That's pretty harsh words coming from Salon: "the Bush administration never claimed the power to detain someone even if they were acquitted." The wheels on the bus are starting to fall off.