It's Not Just Phone Calls...

[SubaSteevo]

Originally Posted by Tigershark

As someone who deals with HIPAA everytime someone ends up in the hospital from a nasty collision or a major crime, HIPAA sucks. It maybe nice to not be able to get your neighbor's HIV test results on-line, but who does it hurt to let the Police know what your injuries are after being cut out of a car? Any personal freedoms there?

+3 to Robert for abstaining
+8 to Bipa for attempting to moderate and not preach
+10 to Landshark for doing what he does best, stiring the pot
+3 to lhopp77 for being Lee
-5 to lhopp77 for jumping to soon
-9 to WGJ for not relaxing a bit, this isn't the real world on here
-8 to SubaSteevo for being late to the party

I was going for the fashionably late entrance approach, guess it didn't work...

Actually I usually avoid political debates, because the people debating are usually the ones who will never change their mind. Sometimes I can't resist the urge to be a smartass though.

[Royal Tiger]

+5 to SubaSteevo for realizing resistance is futile......

[lhopp77]

Originally Posted by WGJ

May you someday get the point grasshopper,
WGJ

Probably about the same time you learn to spell. You think you insult me by calling me "grasshopper"??? LOL I have had that nickname as long as I can remember.

Wonderful news from Iraq today---wouldn't you say??????

Man I can't believe this---two wonderful days---elections and now this. Hummm--dancing in the street. (well if i could dance)

Lee

[WGJ]

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

[lhopp77]

Good old Benjamin was a great original thinker.

Lee

Hold the Presses!

Lee and WGJ agree on something!
(I think I'm going to faint)

[Royal Tiger]

Of course the world of 1759 is no way comparable to the world of 2006. I still say what's the big deal? The FBI is free to see what web sites I go to. None of them are in Arabic. They would get bored reading about my obsession over Porsches!

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by Tigershark

Of course the world of 1759 is no way comparable to the world of 2006. I still say what's the big deal? The FBI is free to see what web sites I go to. None of them are in Arabic. They would get bored reading about my obsession over Porsches!

[hippy]yeah man, but next thing you know, they'll be like kicking down your door and searching your house and finding your wee......i mean, stuff. far out, man! [/hippy]

[Royal Tiger]

Hitting the Iron City a little early this Sunday Alan?

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by Tigershark

Hitting the Iron City a little early this Sunday Alan?

i didn't even start yet.

[WGJ]

Originally Posted by Tigershark

Of course the world of 1759 is no way comparable to the world of 2006. I still say what's the big deal? The FBI is free to see what web sites I go to. None of them are in Arabic. They would get bored reading about my obsession over Porsches!

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato

[Royal Tiger]

No it's a mild intrusion to attain a greater good. The media spinning horror stories about reading E-Mail gets the normal idiot in this country paranoid. There is no way the FBI or CIA has the resources to read all the E-Mail. It is picked by set parameters. Don't visit anti-American or arabic web sites, and you won't end up in thier filter. Chiken Little syndrome sells papers and fires up the ACLU types.

[WGJ]

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
H. L. Mencken

[WGJ]

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791

[Royal Tiger]

So appearently your abilty to reason comes from out of context quotes for over 240 years ago. There is a list of favorable quotes by National leaders during the rise of Hitler, and we know how that turned out.