I’m treading on dangerous turf here, Portia, but I can tell you from personal experience that No Quarter has a long and checkered history of deleting dissenting comentary. Not obscene, not off-topic, just dissent.

You’re just going to have to take my word for it. The evidence is, well, deleted.

Hopefully, this odd policy is no longer enforced, in which case you can read this comment, and I can read yours.

Again: I present your reader base.

And again, I think you’re better than this. You really need to take a deep breath, Larry and Susan, and ask yourselves: Why are these people here?

Larry? Susan?

I present to you: your reader base.

Hmmm… usually all of my comments are deleted so I figured I’d let yours stand as the last word, Portia– however I seem to be still here, so I’ll try Larry and Susan’s patience once more with a response, thus:

Fascinating.

Demme would be crushed to learn that the message you drew from his film is that everything would have been okay if the closet door had remained closed.

What he was actually trying to say is that an HIV positive person is capable of performing his job and is not a danger or threat to his coworkers.

Further, in the film, inasmuch as Andy Beckett’s condition was revealed to his coworkers at his law firm by the lesions on his face, your statement could not possibly be more unrelated to the issue of electronic medical record keeping.

Look, we seem to be on wildly different pages here. You appear to be talking about some sort of public database where I can look up Rush Limbaugh’s urine toxology to see if he’s clean.

In the real world, Obama has committed a sum of money to encouraging hospitals to move away from paper record keeping to electronic, which is estimated to save 11 billion dollars a year.

Yes, I know, it seems like a simple and reasonable thing for a government to do.

Ask yourself: why have I allowed myself to have been misled about the purpose of this legislation?

You must decide, grasshopper.

Yes, I think it is. For example, writing english correctly helps to insure that you are understood. [laughing]

Direction of Country
Polling Data
Poll Date Right Direction Wrong Track Spread
RCP Average 04/20-04/27 42.6 50.0 -7.4
Quinnipiac 04/21-04/27 36 63 -27
Diageo/Hotl 04/23-04/26 42 47 -5
NBC/WSJ 04/23-04/26 43 43 Tie
Demo Corps 04/22-04/26 43 46 -3
CBS/NYT 04/22-04/26 41 50 -9
ABC/WPost 04/20-04/24 50 48 +2
Daily Kos 04/20-04/23 43 53 -10

See All Direction of Country Polling Data

This comes from http://www.realclearpolitics.com

It may foreshadow BO’s job approval in the future. I hope the table will survive when I click the “Add Comment” button. If not just look at Real Clear Politics and click the Polls tab.

I was amazed to read that Michelle Obama went to hand out food at a food bank. So far, so good, that’s nice.

BUT SHE SHOWED UP TO HAND OUT FOOD TO THE NEEDY IN FECKING $540 Lanvin “trainers” [tennis shoes for us normal people]!!!!

That’s just insulting. It shows poor judgment. It shows a wholly elitist attitude. Maybe she’s eaten too much arugula, and it’s clouded her brain.

Or maybe she just thinks she’s “special.” Who knows?

There’s a poll. Most people who’ve taken it think what she did is offensive. What do you think?

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2009/05/01/2009-05-01_first_lady_michelle_obama_kicks_in_own_foot_feat_for_fashionistas_lanvin.html

I truly fear the fact that you teach. Hopefully not logic.

1. It was a delegate race, not a vote-based race. If the shoe had been on the other foot, you’d better believe that Hillary would have leveraged her delegate lead in exactly the same way as Barack did. Moreover, those votes were, for the millionth time, from two races where Hillary, then the presumptive nominee according to the media you now so despise, was running unopposed by Barack Obama and where, in fairness, she wasn’t supposed to be running. (She had agreed to participate in the punishment meted out by the DNC to Michigan and Florida for moving their primaries without authorization. It’s a separate case whether or not that should have happened, but she agreed to it, then changed her mind in a pretty obvious and not very skillful or impressive bit of political gamesmanship.)

2. You’re implying that caucuses don’t count, somehow. Sorry, but in the rules as they were then layed out, caucus delegates counted exactly the same as primary delegates. Those were the rules, if you don’t like the rules to a given game, there is no law demanding you play it. If Hillary had won a bunch of caucuses but lost more primaries than she did, don’t tell me she would have just said, “Oh, well, those votes don’t really count, you win, Barack!” though you clearly expect him to have done the same.

3. Simply absurd. Basically, by your logic no one from Hawaii can ever be president. And, would you make this case if Barack Obama’s name and fleshtones were the same as John McCain’s? I’m not one to yell “racist” at every argument made against the President, but this one really walks like the proverbial duck.

In other words, grow a brain, please.

This site is one of the few which still allows free speech. You must realize if that were not the case, you would not be able to read your own posts here. Be thankful NO QUARTER tolerates all points of view.

I personally do not want my employer to be able to check on every UTI I’ve ever had or the time I tried Restylane.