Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-09-06 Thread Patrick Sweeney
about the US any more. Sorry. Just applying your own rules to you. It's only fair. Patrick ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-09-06 Thread Patrick Sweeney
the government come to their house with a gun and force them to file their taxes? It's never happened to me. How much in back taxes do you have to owe before the government sends the IRS SWAT team to your house, I wonder? Patrick ___ http://mccmedia.com

Re: Passive-Agressive posting (was Re: The Role of Government in a Libertarian Free Market)

2009-08-18 Thread Patrick Sweeney
thing and one thing only - get the other person to blow his top so you can disregard them as being irrational or rude. It's kind of like playing with that old Eliza computer program. Anyone remember that? Patrick On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Jim Sharkeytemplar...@excite.com wrote: Doug wrote

Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

2009-08-16 Thread Patrick Sweeney
When you reach a point where the suggested solution to ridiculously overpriced health insurance is to take out an insurance policy on your insurance ... perhaps it's a sign that you ought to consider some other system. Patrick On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:24 PM, John Williamsjwilliams4

Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

2009-08-16 Thread Patrick Sweeney
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote: I'd guess that Patrick is expecting health insurance to have health status insurance already built into it. One would think the whole point of health insurance is to provide you with health care (more precisely, the funds

Senate Hearing on Wiretapping

2006-02-06 Thread Patrick Sweeney
) ... They sometimes forget? Is this al Qaida or the Keystone Kops? For that matter, if al Qaida's this naive inept, why even bother with a War on Terror? Just, you know, plant a pie truck near their base or scatter banana peels around. Problem solved. ___ Patrick

The Radioactive Boy Scout

2006-02-04 Thread Patrick Sweeney
anti-nuclear stance. Anyone else read it? I originally read it along with Bobby Fischer Goes to War for an obsessed prodigy two-fer. :) Patrick Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The Radioactive Boy Scout

2006-02-04 Thread Patrick Sweeney
blunder or pivotal moment, so it's accessible even to people with only a passing interest in chess. A great read. Here's the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060510242/102-8102077-3649715?v=glancen=283155 Patrick Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Human-Animal Hybrid Ban

2006-02-04 Thread Patrick Sweeney
Hi folks, Does this mean a big-screen version of Manimal is out? Patrick Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Fans Outraged at New Character in RotK

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Schlichtenmyer
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/01/jaromir.html Patrick Schlichtenmyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. -Ralph Waldo Emerson - Get your FREE email address at www.gogoworld.com

Re: I've done it again!

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Schlichtenmyer
Adam C. Lipscomb said: Alexander Norman Lipscomb (Alec) was born at 7:46 AM on Monday, August 11th. He weighed 9 lbs, 8 oz, and his mother is incredibly happy that someone else will be carrying him for the next while. Congratulations! Patrick Patrick Schlichtenmyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Scouted: Bester News

2003-08-05 Thread Patrick Schlichtenmyer
of a future society in which telepaths are used to detect crimes before they happen, the trade paper reported. This sounds similar to the storyline of _Minority Report_. Patrick Patrick Schlichtenmyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Be silly

You might be a physics major...

2003-08-03 Thread Patrick Schlichtenmyer
I found this list at joketransit.com. I hope you enjoy it! Patrick -- Title: You Might Be A Physics Major if you have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically. if you enjoy pain. if you know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do

Kayaking on Mars?

2003-08-01 Thread patrick
I found this article while searching for info about my favorite planet. Whether or not there is running water on Mars, I thought that the subject line would provoke some imaginations! :) http://www.msnbc.com/news/423452.asp#BODY Patrick The images, taken from Global SurveyorÂ’s mapping orbit

Re: The seven habits of highly ineffective societies

2003-07-31 Thread patrick
Jon wrote: Never give up! Never surrender! (Kudos if you can name the reference.) ;-) Capt. Taggert in Galaxy Quest! One of the best hard sci-fi movies IMHO. ;-p Patrick Patrick Schlichtenmyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Be silly. Be honest. Be kind

Hello!

2003-07-29 Thread patrick
Hello everyone, My name is Patrick Schlichtenmyer. I used to be a subscriber to this list a while back. I left because of other events transpiring in my life; recently I have been thinking of the list and I decided to drop in and see what's up. A little about me and my interests: My

Re: Hello!

2003-07-29 Thread patrick
Hello everyone, My name is Patrick Schlichtenmyer. [Irish-German? Not that it matters unless you have to choose between beer or guinness.] A bit of both, and then some. From what I've been told, my ancestors had their fingers in about every corner in Europe. Although beer has never

Re: Hello!

2003-07-29 Thread patrick
mail? (And William, how about you?) I have tried euro 6in1 and 8in1 in various sizes and metals; as well as japanese 3in1. I have also tried my hand at a persian 6in1 chain. Patrick Patrick Schlichtenmyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. -Ralph Waldo