Politics and religion.

[blue]

I'd keep that dictionary close by!

Dictionary.com is on my Opera Speed Dial on this comp.

[lizbud]

Interesting question of fact that I read today. What political candidates,
now running for Prez & Vice Prez ,have been charged & found guilty of ethics
violations by their respective bodies of government?

Answer: John McCain & Sarah Palin. It's true. McCain by Congress & Palin
by the Alaska Legislature.

[blue]

Im well versed on the Palin Troopergate fiasco, but could you expound on McCains ethics violation please?

[lizbud]

Im well versed on the Palin Troopergate fiasco, but could you expound on McCains ethics violation please?

Just look up The Keating 5 Scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

[Lady's Human]

It's a damned shame the investigation sinto ACORN and voter fraud won't be complete before the elections.

Dallas Cowboys registered to vote in NV, 40,000 felons registered in FL, Dead people registered and voting from the grave.....

[RICHARD]

Dallas Cowboys registered to vote in NV,

They can read a playbook, but geography may not be a strong suit.


The only thing that really pulls me into this year of politics is the Health Care issues.

Let me tell you, gentle reader, that if you want to get totally screwed if you get sick, vote for the idiot who wants to nationalize health care.

There will be blood, when and if the government takes over the HC system.
People should look to the idiots driving the bus to reform the system, not take it over.

The level of care will suffer and the statement about getting the same level of care that either one of those two gets, as members of the Senate, makes me want to pull down my pants to clear the smoke from my crotch.

You won't get anywhere near the care or facilities they enjoy. Matter of fact,
the health plan that I worked for encouraged the "partners" -doctors and the patients were 'customers' - not to order diagnostic screening like x-rays, blood tests and other tests.

If you hate to see people dying in facilities waiting to see a physician, wait for socialized HC, 12 hour ER room visits will be the norm.

Pack a lunch, sweater and War and Peace. You might get over your illness before you see a doctor.

On second thought, make out a will while you wait,.

[Edwina's Secretary]

How fascinating RICHARD that you know what the medical care system would be like under a single payer system as opposed to the system we currently have.

I again bring up the statistic that our system is 37th in the world in care, #1 in cost.

I just finished the medical benefit renewal for a client of mine. They are a small, strugglng manufacturing company in LA County.

Thanks to an outstanding broker we were able to bring it in at a 6% increase. Family coverage is $1,434 a month.

It is not a top plan -- middle of the pack I'd say. We did that by carving out some things -- employees will have to pay more. And both the company and the employees will pay 6% more than they are paying now.

I find it interesting that so many other countries can figure out a way to go to a single payer system and provide better care than we do. I have more faith in the people of the United States than to say we cannot do what others have done.

(And those who are going to respond with anecdotal experience of bad service in other countries -- I am sure there are service issue. But here too. How many people have died in waiting rooms this year?)

[blue]

Just look up The Keating 5 Scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

From the article you linked.

Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment".

[lizbud]

From the article you linked.

McCain was censored for lack of ethics & lack of judgement. He had to
get on his knees and beg to keep his job.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_128807.html

[blue]

McCain was censored for lack of ethics & lack of judgement. He had to
get on his knees and beg to keep his job.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_128807.html

You couldnt find a less biased website as a source? Your second link showwed nothing in the way of him being censored or begging to keep his job.

Try this one, source.

In the end, McCain received only a mild rebuke from the Ethics Committee for exercising "poor judgment" for intervening with the federal regulators on behalf of Keating. Still, he felt tarred by the affair.

"The appearance of it was wrong," McCain said. "It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do."

McCain noted that Bennett, the independent counsel, recommended that McCain and Glenn be dropped from the investigation.

[Puckstop31]

Mickey is a Democrat? Who knew?

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politic...icle852295.ece


I wonder why we don't hear more about ACORN? Oh wait... I know. LOL

[Puckstop31]

"Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect. "

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008...orn_133540.htm



"Teenager Freddie Johnson said he was offered smokes and dollar bills to fill out voter registration cards. "

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaind...860.xml&coll=2



And of course.... BO "distances" himself from ANOTHER shady "friend".

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1223...mEditorialPage



BO has a clear lead. Why does all this need to happen? OR, if he really has nothing to do with it, condemn it.