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Jimro
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Joined: Aug 1, 2004
Topics: 21 / Replies: 645
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Quote:Explain how doing otherwise would not fully defeat the purpose of having a single-tier, universal healthcare system in the first place. Huh, is...

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Cycle, right now in Canada it is legal for a doctor to opt out of the public system, but it is illegal for Canadians to buy private insurance to get b...

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Quote:There is not a single reason why someone would want to buy private insurance for the same coverage they already receive from the public system. ...

19 years ago
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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

All right then. Let's consider that Islam considers itself completely correct and that Christianity considers itself completely correct and that Juda...

19 years ago
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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Crazy, Are you finished with your rant? Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

How about if you want to kill unbelievers and you read the Bible? While the Koran may be more explicit, it does not change the fact that there's plent...

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Quote:Private insurance is illegal to protect the integrity of the public system. Explain this further please, I don't see how the integrity of the p...

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Cycle, It is not mandatory to have liability insurance for a motor vehicle in a certain area. Hence liability in that area is dirt cheap. You are s...

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Cycle, You still haven't answered my question why private health insurance is illegal in half of the Canadian provinces. You haven't explained why p...

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Cycle, Why is private health insurance illegal in 50 percent of Canada? Inquiring minds want to know. Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Crazy, You are spouting nearly word for word the arguments in the Koran that "the people of the book polluted God's word". Which is just o...

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

So in 50 percent of Canadian provinces it is illegal to buy private health insurance... Why is that? Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

The material you linked said that 6 out of 10 provinces did not allow private insurance for services offered through the state. Of course now that is...

19 years ago
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RE: Drugs: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, or Something Else?

From a biochemical point of view, drugs are bad. Many drugs cause brain damage. Marijuana has been demonstrated to damage memory function. Definate...

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

What is clear to me is that a purely socialist approach to healthcare lacks flexibility and choice, hence Canada's supreme court ruling that private i...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Yes, as far as working together I served with a number of Muslims in the Army. One was from Egypt, the other from Chicago. That was a couple years b...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

A wise man once said, "If a man who believes that it is his right to beat his wife reads the Bible or the Koran, he will come away believing that...

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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Canada's health plan isn't perfect, which is why citizens (who can AFFORD it) are (now) buying supplemental insurance. Or as one Canadian justice put...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Amidst the threats of "horrible doom" there is quite a bit of instruction on how to live life to it's fullest, and by following such instruc...

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Cycle; treat everyone the same! Jimro; but there are advantages to a more capitistic approach. Cycle; But that's not fair! Jimro; so what? And conver...

19 years ago
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RE: For all of us who loved "Ultimate Showdown"

www.darkstormguild.com/fi...estiny.swf Just in case ya missed it the first time. Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

The learned fool writes nonsense in better language than the unlearned - but it's still nonsense. Benjamin Franklin

19 years ago
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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Are you confusing spiritual consequences promised in the Bible to the physical consequences preached in the Koran? Here's the cliff notes version of ...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Rico, Thanks for the Snickers, but they're only good if you eat them. Cycle, Put the verses into context, and do yourself a favor and get a Strong ...

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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Quote:The point of the system is to administer the same diagnostic, treatment and preventive services to every Canadian regardless of income level or ...

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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Is the point of the system to "be fair" or is the point of the system to provide health care to every citizen? I don't see a problem where ...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Quote:But anyways, yes, upon further observation, in Leviticus there are no people being sacrificed in the precise manner that I described, however th...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Cycle, It's refreshing to see you backpeddle. Leviticus contains only 6 verses that contain both the word "woman" and "blood". ...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

It makes perfect sense. Fundamentalist Christians believe all of the stuff in the Bible, including the part about disemboweling "tainted" wo...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Cycle, Going through the Bible chapter by chapter might be good for you. I recommend starting out with the Gospels and completing the New Testament ...

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RE: If you outlaw nukes, only criminals will have nukes

Any individual who requires a machete for the purposes of cutting vegetation shall register the machete with the local police department on an annual ...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Let's compare Pat Robetson's remarks with this... www.nypost.com/news/natio.../62925.htm TOP JAIL IMAM IN HATE TIRADE By NILES LATHEM Post Corres...

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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Makes sense, if you have money to pay, why wait? After all, slapping down your Gold Card to pay an American hospital doesn't do much for the Canadian...

19 years ago
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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Quote:Actually, I heard that the new stipulation on that is that they can't go to heaven unless they each start an FCC letter campaign about the ramap...

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RE: And the Best Picture Oscar went to.....

Isn't it about time this topic got moved to MFC2? Just saying the Alaska wolf thread only made it to 44 replies before being moved... Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: If you outlaw nukes, only criminals will have nukes

Fully automatic weapons are not a real concern to most police officers, simply because they are so very rarely used. The one noteable exception is th...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Huh, so you believe that "Christian Bigotry" is only underground and us just waiting for a chance to jump out of the shadows and make everyo...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

Cooki, I understand that there are bigotted Christians out there, and Christians like me roll our eyes in disgust when they act like that. There are...

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RE: If you outlaw nukes, only criminals will have nukes

Self defense is a recognized inalienable right. Nuclear weapons don't qualify as self defense weapons. They do qualify as national defense weapons, ...

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RE: And the Best Picture Oscar went to.....

You know, I guess I must have typed "Heather" instead of "Heath", but I sure don't remember doing that. Guess I'm getting senile,...

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RE: It's that time of year again; The seal hunt.

Matt, Your "style" really needs some polishing. Saying stuff like this; Quote:This is not like the U.S. invading Iraq for their oil to mak...

19 years ago
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RE: And the Best Picture Oscar went to.....

Huh, or maybe "Midnight Cowboy" was just ahead of it's time. Or maybe "Crash" really was the better film. I found that the messa...

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RE: Health Care: Which System is Better?

Quote:Canada comes out considerably ahead of the US in nearly every health-standards indicator, Canada's population 32,805,041 (July 2005 est.) Brit...

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RE: Jylands-Posten cartoons of Muhammed

I don't see Christians, Jews, or Buddists rioting... Not a whole lot of foaming at the mouth action going on there... Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: Guns: Should they be Allowed?

The mirror technique works fine to expose the underlying reason behind someones choices. However I've never seen the mirror technique used effectivel...

19 years ago
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RE: Guns: Should they be Allowed?

www.freemarketnews.com/An...5&nid=3917 RAGING AGAINST SELF DEFENSE: A PSYCHIATRIST EXAMINES THE ANTI-GUN MENTALITY Friday, February 24, 2006 By...

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RE: Media Idiocy

And an antonym for "conservative" is "destructive". Jimro

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RE: Guns: Should they be Allowed?

Quote:I forgot to mention this: if you have an illegal/unregistered firearm and it is stolen Quote:Where did I recommend implementing gun registratio...

19 years ago
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RE: Guns: Should they be Allowed?

Firearm Registration is a bad thing. Nothing good comes from it. Hitler used it to disarm Germany, Castro used it to disarm Cuba, it disarmed the US...

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RE: Guns: Should they be Allowed?

I say that in a house behind locked doors is "secure". It was secure enough 150 years ago, 100 years ago, 50 years ago, and it is today. A...

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