The insurance industry - who received the greatest corporate handout in the form of the "health care bill" in 2010 in the history of the world - has an exceptional racket here. They have the ability to not only delay payments in "processing" for so long that they automatically go to collections by the time they decide not to pay, they can also undo payments after the fact for any reason.

Don't believe me? I had exactly that happen to me when I was a college student. The insurance I had (through my parents) decided over a month after paying my doctor's office that they wanted to un-pay it, so they did. By the time they took their money back the debt was considered overdue (relative to the date of service). I knew nothing of this until I started getting debt collections calls from various bad actors at 3am under assumed celebrity names. They threatened to garnish everything imaginable and impound my measly car (which was not worth anywhere near the debt) to seek payment.

I eventually got through to the insurance company directly and got them to go back and re-pay the un-paid bills. They never apologized for their little experiment or gave a reason why they chose me. Even better I had to promise to never, ever, use that insurance policy again in exchange.

Thanks a lot blue cross-blue shield. I hope your CEOs enjoyed the additional cruise amenities that they got in reward for destroying my credit.

I did, because you want to discard the fundamental principle of innocent until proven guilty - as well as protection from double jeopardy and other basic rights extended to the accused in the criminal justice system in this country - when the accused is someone who has the dreaded letter D after their name. I figured your bit about "people are evil" was rooted in the mythology that you like to arbitrarily substitute in place of the law here in the US.

... and there comes your mythology, substituting in for reason.

Your political spectrum actually is better represented as a monopole, really. You only have people who you see as "good" (republicans) and those who you see as evil (everyone else). You don't even bother looking at what they actually believe in, only who they associate with. The obsolete one-dimensional political spectrum at least sorts on some sort of continuum, yours is binary.

i would like to say that suggests that you actually went back and read the comments (which would be the first time you did so in their entirety) and found that indeed I did not accuse you of directly calling for the assassination of President Lawnchair. However your history of behavior gives me reason to expect that you would not be willing to lower yourself to such an act, as learning is below you when it involves facts that do not support your world view.

So says the person bursting at the seams with pride over his selective illiteracy... But no, you have not hurt my "pride".

Well you could start by actually reading The Communist Manifesto, which spells out exactly what Marx wanted to accomplish with communism, and how.

I'm not sure how, or why, you come to that conclusion. Just because you like to repeat it doesn't mean it is somehow connected to reality, though.

More importantly neither were communism or socialism.

You really don't have enough data to support that hypothesis.

I have been consistently asking you to read just one piece of literature. It isn't even a long document, and it is available free from a large number of sources. You have repeatedly not only refused to read it but bragged about refusing to read it - while simultaneously claiming to be knowledgeable on it.

It would certainly be terrible if you were to actually be knowledgeable on the topics you are trying to lecture me on.

If you mean in regards to the actual effects that their spoon-fed ideals would have on >>99% of the country's population (including most of the people who have been duped into supporting the Tea Party) then I would agree with you.

I love that the article says it won't say how long the code was. If it is still as it was back when I worked retail, then it is a 6 digit code. Whoop-de-freaking-doo. Not like people couldn't have figured that out by trial and error.

Because they were doing their jobs as described? They didn't know they were entering bogus numbers. The procedure should have had the cashier - not the customer - calling the bank, but that didn't happen. It's unclear at this point why it went this way.

I believe it said that the culprit was making the call himself (likely from his own cell phone) and then giving the "code" to the cashier. Whether or not he was talking to anyone at all is not clear, he might have been calling some unanswered number and just talking into air to make the con look legit.

That isn't really surprising. Few politicians have been as good at getting attention from the media as her. While ron paul dominates youtube, sarah palin seems to dominate every form of broadcast. I wouldn't be surprised to see her (or Tina Fey's impersonation of her) on SNL again at least once this coming season.

Excepting that whole "innocent until proven guilty" bit, of course. But you don't like that statement so you can ignore it, right?

Impeachment is supposed to include an actual trial with actual presentations of actual fact, not a show trial heard by an angry mob.

The rest of the world - including those who have actually experienced (or at least read meaningful documents on) socialism and/or communism - acknowledges the validity of the two-dimensional political spectrum. Your insistence on a one-dimensional continuum of "good" and "evil" is as logical as claiming the world to be flat.

Which leaves the question then of why you bother reading (parts of) my comments and "replying" to them.

When you show complete disregard for the law in the name of politics you should not pretend that you are somehow capable of preventing such an outcome. If you go back and actually read the comments you'll see I never accused you of directly calling for assassination but rather pointed out that once you remove all protections of the law that are intended to protect everyone you should be aware of the likely outcome.

If someone called for illegally deporting the Koch Brothers, Rand Paul, or any other Tea Party heroes you would be leveling the same concern.

They would be if they were only assertions based on nothing. Being as they are observations based on words that you and I have actually written, no. You have shown repeatedly:

• That you literally don't know the first thing about Communism
  • and
• That you don't want to acquire that very basic knowledge even though it is freely available and not an even remotely difficult read

So in this case it is not insulting. Similarly if the Koch Brothers were to write a "Tea Party Manifesto" that described why they formed the Tea Party and what their aspirations were for it, I would read it before trying to tell people what it is about.

So then are you saying that between citizen A and citizen B, the opinion of A is more valuable because it has more money behind it? That has been a key mantra of the GOP (for several decades at least) and its tea party (since its inception).

There is no shortage of ego in the stance you are taking in regards to my posts. If you don't want to read what I write, then don't. With the arrogance you are showing currently towards them you don't seem to be enjoying them.