I think what they are saying, Mona, is that government actually has no place in health care. For any reason outside the VA.

Well, even further than that, if you look into the reason proffered for keeping this information; it looks to me like inadmissible evidence under any circumstance. Which means it could not be used to procure a warrant of any kind. It could be used to frame someone, however. If you were an 'enemy of the state', what would stop them from altering the digital data? " Why were you in frequent contact with members of Al Queda, Mr. Smith?" This is bad. Really really bad. They have bigger plans that this. George Orwell was right.

More likely Weiner will win, and more rank and file Dem's will realize what is going on in this country. Hopefully before the yellow stars are issued to all conservatives.

Put. Them. In. Prison. These people need to be charged with the criminal neglect and outright corruption of which they are clearly guilty. If our government cannot manage that, there is nothing that they can successfully manage for our benefit and they no longer hold the authority to act on our behalf or take our money.

Hmmmm . . . . from the article I read her parents should pay. They pimped their daughter out and then turned the pervert out into the world to do it again. They should have contacted the authorities. Instead, they decided their daughter was worth 150,000 to them. Any moral high ground they had ended at that moment in time. Sorry.

Its okay. The sooner everyone figures out that the government lies to them, the better off we are as a nation.

His is the Nevil Chamberlain of our day. Peace in our time, with honor!

Reminds me of a couple of ultra liberal economics professors I had. I graduated in '92, which means I was taking 'Comparative Economic Systems' and 'The Economics of Lesser Developed Nations' about the same time the Berlin wall was getting torn down. There were very few liberal college professors in the College of Business Administration. Those who were taught economics and about the evils of capitalism in classes that explored the economic systems of Marx and Frederich, as well as weak state corruption economies. When I would make a comment such as 'the value of that book is dropping by the day', in reference to one of our required reading books; Das Kapital, the professor's eye brows would lift to the top of his forehead and he would make some comment that the reason for the abject failure of the communist system in Europe is that the Russians skipped the capitalist step as described by Marx. It wasn't the theory, it was the implementation that was wrong!!! The other, similar class was in lesser developed nations. The professor was indian (dot, not feather) and boy did he love the UN. Greatest institution ever devised, in his opinion. He did not tolerate any discussion of the corruption rife within the organization. Only the IMF, WHO could solve the worlds problems and take back what rightfully belonged to the indigent population, after having been pillaged by the colonial and imperialist 'white devil'. I one time asked him why he was here? Couldn't he do more for India and his people by being there, rather than teaching another 'white devil' the inner workings of the International Monetary fund and the statisitcal pitfalls of the Lorenz curve (economics)? Why would he come to a country he clearly had such disdain for and teach students about economics when there was clearly more opportunity, both for himself and for his fellow countrymen, if he stayed there and worked to improve his country? Again; eyebrows on top of the forehead. You'd have thought I was speaking blasphemy or selling whiskey to indians (feather not dot) from this guys reaction. Either way; both of 'em HAD to pass me. When I showed up every day, took great notes and got every single question on every test right and wrote cogent and meaningful essays, they had no choice but to (begrudgingly) give me a 'B'. If I'd towed their political line, definite 'A' and front of the line for a fellowship to grad school. Glad I got out in the real world.

Folks, time to ask the question; would it have been morally acceptable for the jews to declare war on Germany in 1937? We (conservative Christians) are treated as second class citizens and aren't even allowed to ask meaningful questions of our government. This is actively enforced by the MSM slander machine. Our government now feels compelled to take our rights take from us for exercising them, and we are allowed very little protection under the law. In the mean time we can be prosecuted for our motives when we do exercise our rights (under the term 'hate-crime'), we can be deprived of due process by government bureaucrats who are unaccountable when the victims of such abuse are Christian and/or non-minority or conservative (EPA, FBI, ATF). Equal protection no longer applies in any meaningful sense. The President himself has said he can kill U.S. citizens, on U.S. soil, without any due process, and his own Justice Department has made it very clear that whites and Christians do not have any civil rights they are interested in protecting. Further, they have used the U.S. Army as a 'think-tank' for purposes of accusing conservative groups of being extremist, and warranting surveillance, without any confirmatory evidence. They simultaneously ignore liberal groups such as ELF, the New Black Panthers, and OWS, when there is direct evidence of terrorist activities being committed by the members of these groups under the direction of the group leaders. I am not sure what moral obligation remains to an institution that no longer feels compelled to honor its legal obligations or even its founding heritage. I don't know what the point is of trying to argue with those who don't see the problem with stuffed ballot boxes but do see problems with citizens exercising their Constitutional rights. I think Al Gore said it best, when he said "there is no intermediate step between a final Supreme Court decision and a violent revolution." It is time to fire them, shut it down and start over. Before it comes to that.

Yes, but in high school you used a 2 litre bottle with a lid on it. The Earth's atmosphere has no lid. See, a two litre bottle heats up, increasing pressure. Take the lid off, release the pressure, the temp drops. Even before the CO2 escapes. Between Ideal Gas Law and Boyle's law, no warming is technically possible, sans some further mechanism of heat retention. The atmosphere would simply expand in accordance with the original temp and pressure. Of course; gravity would tend to serve as a lid, to a lesser degree of effectiveness than the one on the bottle, so now we have multiple physical process' interacting. Current models do a really poor job of skillful prediction. Oh, but I'm sure that only proves their model too.