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From: T Wake on 12 Nov 2006 11:42 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ej7as9$8qk_022(a)s851.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <4556149D.6BA6B1AC(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> The complaint is valid. The message the Democrat leadership >>> is sending to all the Islamic extremists is that they tacitly >>> approve and won't retaliate. >> >>You have to be joking ? >> >>Do you *seriously* think that ? > > It is a fact. It may well be a fact that you do actually think this....
From: Eeyore on 12 Nov 2006 11:45 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >BAH may not be aware that it was a social conscience that drove Britain to > >> >look at the possibility of a National Health Service. > >> > >> Britain is a single country and has a "small" acreage. The US > >> is 50 "countries" span a quarter hemisphere. > > > >What's that got to do with it ? > > Administration costs. Availability. Approvals for specific > treatments. It's "easier" to get these done in a small > geographic space than a continent's acreage. I fail to see what geographic space has to do with it. Most ppl find the idea of 'economy of scale' quite convincing ! > >Which part of " couldn't afford to buy the best medicine [ re: the drug my > friend couldn't buy] " didn't you understand ? > > All of it. I asked him. His medical insurance only covers 25% of the cost of drugs. So the 'best drug' was beyond his financial means ( i.e his wages weren't enough to pay for it ) so he had to settle for something inferior that wasn't wholly effective.. Is that clearer ? Graham
From: Michael A. Terrell on 12 Nov 2006 11:45 unsettled wrote: > > I never met anyone who grew up during the great depression > who didn't think they had a good life and a good childhood > on account of not having much. > > Take the model of hunter-gatherer tribes. They wouldn't > begin to understand a value system that thought they are > just "existing." Still the totality of their posessions > was limited to what they could carry. So? If they had to move, they didn't have to worry about what to leave behind. As long as they could eat, clothe themselves and keep a roof over their heads, they had what mattered to them. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
From: Eeyore on 12 Nov 2006 11:48 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > >> Britain is a single country and has a "small" acreage. The US > >> is 50 "countries" span a quarter hemisphere. > > > >So what? > > You people honestly can't see the difference? It's a bigger country physically.. How do you think it would make a business less efficient ? Is FedEx in Europe more or less efficient / profitable than in the USA for example. Graham
From: Michael A. Terrell on 12 Nov 2006 11:48
Ben Ben Newsam wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Nov 06 12:47:09 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > >Didn't you ever wonder where your sewer people put all of that > >water that get flushed and put down the drains of your sinks, > >baths, and showers? > > No, because I know exactly what happens to it. It goes to the sewage > treatment works at Tinsley. And ends up as bottled water in France? ;-) -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |