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Great counterpoint. I stand in awe. Yes, freedom. And don't forget these: bin laden is evil! Support our troops! School prayer! Lamestream media! Barack HUSSEIN Obama! NATURALIZED CITIZEN! ILLEGAL ALIENS! My wife yes, my dog maybe, my gun NEVER! Evolution is only a THEORY! USA! USA! USA! (with a nod to iNow)

Yes, I agree. The broader point I was trying to make was that the emergency room is not a substitute for health insurance. Supplying me with a lifetime of blood pressure medicine is cheaper to the healthcare system than the expense incurred if I have a heart attack. And waiting until a person develops a problem due to something like diabetes before treating them is not just an unnecessary expense to the system. I know this is less an issue with you, but it does significantly lower the quality of life for the person affected, reduces their productivity, etc.

This question could be asked of much of the population of the world. I think it is rather naive to believe that anyone who feels they have problems could somehow "just be happy" with whatever their situation is, siimply by having a happy thought. "I'm in prison, my kids hate me, I have nothing to look forward to. But what the heck, I'm just going to go ahead and be happy!" "I'm stuck in traffic, will miss my flight, and have to sleep in the airport tonight. But what the heck, I'm just going to go ahead and be happy!" It just doesn't work that way. Often times the solution is to change your situation. "I have no education and no job prospects. But rather than just try to be happy with my situation, I'm going to enroll in school and try to change things."

This is not quite accurate. Whether or not you receive treatment without insurance depends in large part on what it is you are walking in with. While it is true you can receive emergency treatment (and not just anywhere as many hospitals will send you elsewhere depending on the circumstances) there are many things that you cannot get treatment for prior to it being an emergency. Diabetes Congestive heart failure High blood pressure Cancer Heart disease Alcoholism Peripheral artery disease etc. (This is a very long list) My blood pressure medicine costs $0.03 per day. A visit to the emergency room during a heart attack is going to cost a bit more. Some things you cannot get treatment for at all. Hip replacement Knee replacement Preventive dental work Preventive anything, really. Health screenings Chronic pain Poor vision Physical or Occupational Therapy after a stroke A walker if disabled. etc. (This is a very long list)

That is what you get when you ask the question on a science site; accuracy instead of simplicity. The problem is that 'white', 'black' and 'latino' are not so simply defined or even have a definition that is agreed upon. And how many genes you get from which ancestor varies. It is like asking "which shade of blue is better, navy or royal?". It doesn't lend itself to an easy answer. But if for you and your friends you want to define 'white' as 'the race his mother is', etc., and you want to assume that genes are distributed evenly, then go ahead with 1/2 1/4 1/4 as being the correct answer. This sounds like more of a math question than a genetics question anyway. You'd get a better answer if you just asked "what percentage of genes come from which ancestor?".

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but... Your friend has 1/2 of his genes from his mother and 1/2 from his father. His mother can only give up 'white' genes which makes him half 'white'. His father can give up 'black' or 'latino' genes, but he doesn't have to give up half of each. Your friend could have inherited from his father all 'black' genes, all 'latino' genes, or more likely, something in between.

I think it was fair of KALSTER to close your account. You seem to me to have identified an imaginary problem, perpetrated by no one in particular, against no identified victims, and support sexual violence against those you've identified as the innocent, while supporting those who commit the sexual violence. I agree with KALSTER that you should seek professional help. Given your views I would never allow you near my nieces.

I'd be honored.

And it is this attitude I fear that will continue to hold this country back. When people fight to keep something as basic to human survival as healthcare a privilege, but insist the right to bear arms inviolate, we cease to move forward as a society. It seems to me as if people are becoming more selfish, caring only about themselves.

I can only hope that you are not responsible for the welfare of anyone. You either have no concept of what goes on in the real world or completely lack empathy. I cannot think of what else could lead to these kinds of comments. Some people, through no fault of their own, are not capable of providing for themselves. Emotional problems, mental problems, social problems, physical problems, abuse by parents/spouses/siblings, environment, old age, young age, dementia, Asperger's, divorce, cancer, and just plain bad luck can all lead to people not "living up to their responsibilities to provide for themselves". Yes, letting them "suffer the consequences" does seem harsh. I can only hope you do not run your family this way. "She's 18, if she cannot find a job in this economy to pay for dental insurance, that is not my problem. Let her suffer the consequences and bear the pain of that cavity. Sorry if I sound harsh." In my family, we all are responsible for each other and help each other when in need. I don't expect a lot out my country, but I do expect the basics, such as fighting for me when I need protection, eliminating barriers to my ability to fend for myself, and helping me when I cannot care for myself. If our government cannot do even that for us, then what good is it? I suspect that you never complain about the government providing roads for you to drive on, police to protect you, the military to guard your borders, firemen to protect your house, or any of the other services that they provide, that happen to be of use to you. But as soon as it is something that you personally don't need, then it is every man for himself. "Why should I have to pay? I'm having a hard enough time providing for my own!" Bullshit. When you start advocating everyone taking on the INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY of providing for their own personal protection in place of a police force, then I'll get on board with you for everyone providing their own health care.

Sorry, I thought it was rather obvious. Your entire post was dedicated to the proposition that: I then showed a picture of four objects that are not different from each other, even though they are observed at different places at the same time. Thus disputing your claim.

I remember: The milk man delivering milk to our back door. Hobos knocking on our door hoping for a meal. Which they always got and ate on the back porch. The nuns hitting us if we had a smart mouth. Shampoo bottles made of glass. You can imagine the results of that. My dad fixing his own roof. 'Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate." When no cars had air conditioning. How in every generation in my family for all of history, the wife cooked, cleaned, and waited on her husband. Until my generation. Damn! Candy cigarettes. Cigarette ads on television that touted their health benefits. Playing with mercury that was on the ground over by the factory. We'd push it around and try to scoop it up into little bottles. Young ladies hitchhiking. The guy building an addition to our house without using any power tools. (They were available, he was at the end of that generation.) Not one of the kids I hung around with had parents who were divorced. Making toy soldiers by melting lead and pouring it into molds. Cutting asbestos tiles and siding. If your dog or cat got sick, instead of taking it to the vet you'd get a new one when it died.

I don't believe this is possible. Unless of course they were actually Russian scientists in Afghanistan. That would be a completely different story!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

It looks to me as if once I vote either way for a post I am barred from voting on that post ever again.

Russian version of a Rickroll. Not something I'd play at a party. Well, maybe if my mom was having a party...

Sorry, don't mean to seem dense. Is it that he "does not see himself travelling into the past"?

Why would we expect him to see himself traveling into the future?

JustinW, Sorry to turn this into a logical fallacy conspiracy, but you said: Not one of your links mentioned one word about religious based institutions or contraception. The groundskeepers get angry when you move the goalposts... Just sayin'

Look in the mirror where I see something. What I 'saw' is "the table in half". Two halves make a whole. I crawl through the hole. ?????

'Good reason' is in the eye of the beholder. Some things are worth taking a risk for.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

From your link:

I think those are stormwater canals.