Plan B Forum

So is this socialism or communism? Perhaps Liberty can explain it to me. Headlines from the NY Time today: "$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The...

So now Lindsey (nice legs) Halligan is out of a job because of some silly legal technicallity. I think she should be put in charge of the project to court martial Senator Mark Kelly, US Navy, Retired, for sedition for telling the troops to obey the law. What a strange thing to tell the troops. snail...

Might be a good rule to always stay behind somebody who is carrying a shotgun, not just Cheney or Sec'y of Homeland Security Noem.

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"all men [not just rich white guys]. . . Certain inalienable Rights, that among these are life [governments cannot execute criminals] liberty [governments cannot put people in jail] and the pursuit of happiness [ governments cannot interfere with people who like to have sex with goats or little girl...

Sure, BSG. I see a nine panel cartoon with clever rhymes about Trumps calling (screaming at?) a female reporter who asked him a question about Epstein on some recent flight onboard Air ForceOne, Piggy. I have not heard anybody speaking to Trumps statement that he seeks more federal investigation int...

Hard for me to imagine something more Absurdist than the very possible situation of a job candidate being interviewed for a job and both sides of this dialogue are actually AI routines.

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Good question Joe Guy. We might be witnessing an actual living, real world enactment of the 'Emperors New Clothes."

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Please note he only attended Wharton for the last two years of college undergrad credit. I took credits at three different colleges to get my AB degree. There is a world of difference between the experience and acculturation of a student at a higher education institution who is there for the entire ...

BSG--you are obviously fake news. What I posted has to be true facts. I was wearing a red MAGA hat made in Viet Nam while I typed it.

So you think Prof Kelly said it a hundred times. But can John Barron verify it?

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This stable genius was awarded (I think that is the proper term) an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. Yet not a single individual has identified themself as a fellow student in one of the president's classes. No one is willing to say they were one of the pre...

I am bewildered by the assumptions behind his question: " Would you be willing to pay an additional 5% in income tax, dedicated to supporting a federally owned and operated national health care system," If the USofA adopted such a system, why would the fees and profits now going to the Insurance com...

I carry no weight for the Soviet or current government of Russia. But enormous respect the Russian People and their willingness to sacrifice. The Siege of Leningrad--2 years, 4 months, 19 days before the Germans gave up and pulled back. While the Russians built bunkers with walls of frozen dead. And...

I am not sure of the details (I plead old geezer attention failure) but I think I heard the Arizona congress critter situation mentioned in a news item that said in passing that a similar congressional district in Texas is without representation because the Texas Governor has been sitting on it, ign...

I find that report posted above informative and interesting--but I am bewildered by one missing set of data: what is the resulting product? In other words what does each system buy? I am not sure customer satisfaction should be the goal. Where is the comparison of life expectancy, morbidity, mortali...

When I was a kid, this calendar day, the 11th day of the 11th month, was called 'poppy day'. My personal attorney and personal friend is the only person I have seen who wearing a poppy on this day for years. This year he did not. I asked and he said he could not find it. Used to be sold for an unspe...

And you have reminded me of an old joke: What do they call an elected official in Chicago who lives on their government pay check?

Unfit for office.

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The American system: Unless you can afford a boutique physician, all money is to be filtered through an insurance company, and all expenditures approved by an insurance company, which has never treated a common cold, removed an appendix or birthed an infant. All treatment is to be done by/at a for-p...

Perhaps Mr. Trump would prefer to be the extra-territorial president. He wants to invade Nigeria to protect Christians, Invade Mexico because I don't know what, invade Venezuela because it is too easy to just blow up their boats And look at all the neat gifts he gets from all these appreciative othe...

The true flavor of justice in America. So just how much out of pocket did this man have to pay to reach this 'not guilty' verdict from a jury his peers? Never mind how much taxpayer money was involved. Please tell me some legal group that has not been castrated by Trump took it on pro bono. snailgate.

I don't regularly or sporadically check Philly or Pittsburgh newspapers. the NY Times and WaPo did not give much 'analysis' of the vote in Pennsylvania on retention of three State Supreme Court judges. I think PA has something like what is called 'the Missouri System" for judges: Appointed by some p...