tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post9036273646918223551..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Supreme Court's Debate on Health Care/Health InsuranceTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-61079043197077134462012-04-01T15:41:46.950-05:002012-04-01T15:41:46.950-05:00RJ Adams ~~ Every chortle and giggle is precious!...RJ Adams ~~ Every chortle and giggle is precious! There are so few to be had in the news cycle these days.<br /><br />I'm suspecting now that SCOTUS was only show-boating, and they'll uphold the Act but don't want to make it look too easy. They couldn't possibly take away all that extra dosh from their pals the insurance corporations.<br /><br />It's a farce alright, as you say - as is almost everything going on on the political scene just now.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-31542287542529907022012-04-01T14:37:50.138-05:002012-04-01T14:37:50.138-05:00I think the fact Roberts was appointed by George W...I think the fact Roberts was appointed by George W Bush is relevant. GWB didn't associate with any 'nice, compassionate' people. You've, no doubt, already read my take on this subject: it's okay for the states to mandate auto insurance (rightly) but it's a no-no for the government. The SCOTUS is a total farce funded by the corporates. Incidentally, corporations never suffer human diseases, never require healthcare, so how can they legally be 'people'?<br />PS It's nice to know I made GP laugh ;-)R J Adamshttp://sparrowchat.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-20381928972272594752012-03-29T18:47:37.500-05:002012-03-29T18:47:37.500-05:00Wisewebwoman ~~~ Obscene, obsolete and obnoxious! ...Wisewebwoman ~~~ Obscene, obsolete and obnoxious! :-(Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-69178847638352279302012-03-29T14:32:28.203-05:002012-03-29T14:32:28.203-05:00I feel such compassion for those suffering masses ...I feel such compassion for those suffering masses in the US whose lives are totally in the power of the corporations now accorded personhood by these very same judges who are completely bought and paid for.<br />It is an obscene political system.<br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-38993601690402626872012-03-29T14:17:04.317-05:002012-03-29T14:17:04.317-05:00Anon/Gian Paul ~~
Agreed. re judges at the top: ...Anon/Gian Paul ~~<br /><br />Agreed. re judges at the top: Same old thing, absolute power corrupts. The cream may rise but sours very quickly and stinks soon after.<br /><br />Yes - I have nothing but admiration and respect for the skills of the lawyers and judges I worked with in the UK. Good ones do exist.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-48411215592217910752012-03-29T11:37:07.192-05:002012-03-29T11:37:07.192-05:00GP: At times (like you T.) one has to be provocati...GP: At times (like you T.) one has to be provocative and express it to maintain one's sanity. As your friend Adams did the other day by hoping that they had "taken out the nails" before selling those Jesuses. Had a good laugh!<br /><br />Knowing that you were associated with judges in the UK, I am glad that some there left you with the memory of probity. They exist, no doubt, but not so much at top levels. Could give examples I know from Switzerland and more recently here in Brazil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-55036243441422215612012-03-29T09:49:47.857-05:002012-03-29T09:49:47.857-05:00Anonymous/Gian Paul ~
Excellent judges should be ...Anonymous/Gian Paul ~<br /><br />Excellent judges should be able to be objective when interpreting the law. That's their job - to blank out <b>all else</b> but their knowledge of the law and how it appies to the circumstances before them.<br />Do they do this? The best of them, in lesser courts, do, I think.<br />In the Supreme Court I'm not so sure. These guys have vested political interests, and too much power. I'd hazard a guess that so much power over matters that can affect the lives of a population of of 313,263,000 would have been considered unconstitutional by the men who wrote that hallowed document the US Constitution.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-83574368801948547532012-03-29T09:07:37.412-05:002012-03-29T09:07:37.412-05:00GP: "Astrology as easily refuted as global wa...GP: "Astrology as easily refuted as global warming" (except by - objective - observation), "objective" being my addition to this argument.<br /><br />But who in this world wants (or even could if he/she wanted) be objective? Supreme judges? Who still believes in that?<br /><br />Or for that matter who else, without being a judge nor supreme, is really able to be objective?<br /><br />If the same stringend parameters which are being used to refute astrology were applied to politics, justice (also social justice), and other "noble human institutions", the "world" would crumble. That thing the Hindus know as Maya would become intelligible to not just some initiate Hindi Gurus...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com