What freaks me out and annoys the crap out of me is that my EMPLOYER sent me postcards already written and signed by "ME" and addressed to those same senators and MY representative explaining how "I" feel that we should keep our employer based healthcare. And urged me to send in these postcards, etc etc. I was like "OH FUCK NO"

That doesn't even make any sense! Oh man, i've got a rage headache now.

And I think the problem with the PUA business is the same as any system of belief -- there are people who take it the right way and get some benefit, and crazy people who distort it and use it for evil.

Of course there are men who need concrete tips about how to start a conversation with a woman, and take that knowledge to build actual relationships. And then there are men who think they can learn how to trick women into having sex with them.

Oh man, i've got a rage headache now.

I don't think those are covered under your current plan.

I also yell at the people who say that we have choice under the current system. If your employer provides health insurance, you have whatever insurance company your employer has chosen and that insurer's customer is your company, not you. The odds are that's an HMO or PPO, so you're limited in what doctors you can choose. If you're self-employed and not aren't under 30 and in perfect health, here you essentially have the choice of two insurance companies. If you've also had cancer, you have the choice of exactly one insurance company: the one you're with.

see, y'all lost me at "a stranger walked up and said somthing". My dislike of people I don't know pretty much ensures that anyone doing the above will get cut off before completing a sentence with "please leave me alone", "go away", and/or repulsion face.

Well, you have a point. I'm so misanthropic that I give off huge "Don't even LOOK at me" vibes. So it's a moot point for me, but *if* someone were fool enough to try it, I'd be angling for a cockpunch.

meara, isn't your employer a pharamceutical company?

What Jesse said.

Also I am so rage-filled about the fear-mongering being done on the right regarding healthcare that I can hardly see. It's immoral to lie just further a political agenda--and then to lie about something so needed and so basic just makes it 1,000 times worse.

I wonder if The Game advises wearing a cup.

I'm just going to do a rage pile on. I read this story last night and I don't know why there isn't more outrage, or why this guy is allowed to continue sitting on the bench:

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Can a busy female politician give reliable evidence? A judge says no

Lisa MacLeod is a young female politician who commutes to her job at Queen's Park from Ottawa and leaves her husband, Joe, and four-year-old daughter, Victoria, at home. Mr. Justice Douglas Cunningham of Ontario Superior Court said this is a big distraction for the 34-year-old woman and as a result he felt he could not accept her evidence as corroboration of the Crown's key witness in the recent high-profile, influence-peddling trial of Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien.

Judge Cunningham is 69; he was appointed to the bench in 1991.

His comments, delivered last week in his ruling dismissing the charges against Mr. O'Brien, are now drawing criticism from political strategists and activists who are shaking their heads, wondering when women will be treated as equals in politics.

For the PUA thing - I get the feeling that the men who suscribe to these beliefs aren't looking to date - or even have sex with - an average woman. They want the young, beautiful (or at least very pretty) girls - that's what they think they're entitled to.