You have to look at how much individuals pay for healthcare, all hidden costs included, proportional to the amount of money they earn and get to keep.

The US government pays a lot for healthcare. When you work for a major university (as I have you), you became acquainted with how much funding their university hospital gets for research from the government. And in countries like Canada, where you can't even find a doctor and have to wait months to see one, of course the spending will be less as they have fewer medical providers and fewer variety of services. But your point is well taken. The US government does spend more "tax" dollars per capita than many of these other socialist healthcare utopias.

I agree with this from the article you posted:

"So what’s the moral of the story? Simple, notwithstanding the shallow rhetoric that dominates much of the debate, the United States does not have anything close to a free-market healthcare system."

Because we have just a partially socialized system, we have only a partial healthcare clusterfuck. But it can get much worse. Ask my colleague why he came to the US for cancer treatment (like Canadian politicians and the rich do) and didn't stay in Canada.

The US government has more money than other governments, so it can spend more. But I was referring to how much individuals pay, not how much a government pays. So, I'm not entirely sure I understand your question fully since I don't equate "Americans" to the US government. Not one and the same.

And look at what's included under "healthcare" costs. Is paying the overpaid humongous US "healthcare" bureaucracy a "healthcare" cost? What about Congressional medical insurance? Or military hospitals?
It's really hard to know, given the lack of economic calculation involved in government spending.

But you can see both sides use the same "US spends more per capita" to come to opposite conclusions. One says, it spends more but because it is not more socialist, it sucks more (not true, though). The other says, it spends more, so it means it is too socialist compared to other countries.

See if you can find data on where exactly the money is spent and the breakdown, more specifically than "healthcare."

The hard shoulder in britain is used for stopping in the event of emergencies and such - breakdowns, that kind of thing. Probably not a great idea to drive down it and get stuck behind a dead car.

One of the things that caused me to stop watching SNL after the late 90's was how frequently that started happening. Part of me would crack up at the actors not being able to hold their shit, but only when it was like 1 skit in a whole year of shows. At some point, the later generations just didn't give a fuck at all and wouldn't even try to mask their complete breakdown. It gave the show such an unprofessional feel having a large number of the performers seem like they just didn't care.
Its still funny seeing it in this context though. I love seeing other people laugh uncontrollably.

" That is typical of Texas rightwingers."

Oh and go and fuck yourselves, anyone who who uses the word "typical" when referring to large groups of (insert approved definition of "Texas rightwingers" here) people OR who begin a retort with "Actually, " when defending their point-by-point semantic breakdown of a paragraph with a view to using someone's state of residence as an earmark for their character. What a fucking tool a person like THAT would be.....

I could indulge you and respond but, to be frank, there is no point. I would simply state the obvious; you are a seriously angry person. Seek some anger management before you have a breakdown.

Turns out he's an acrobat (duh!) with a local circus act and he suffered a nervous breakdown: http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/06/11/video-emerges-of-naked-man-accosting-riders-at-bart-station/

Only one word for these cops: COCKSUCKERS

Illinois cops, some of the worst of the worst of the worst. Long-standing history of state corruption, organized crime-Not to mention THE most retarded gun laws in the country. Oh, and a shitload of racist white cunts, For Example: The following is the breakdown in demographics of the Illinois State Police:

Male 91% 49.0%
Female 9% 51.0%
White 80% 73.5%
African-American
or Black 13% 15.1%
Hispanic 6% 12.3%
Asian 1% 3.4%

(column 1-Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, 2000: Data for Individual State and Local Agencies with 100 or More Officers

Column 2- 2000 US Census factfinder - Illinois)

Pretty much a private white redneck crime syndicate.

I was expecting a far worse outcome, like him crashing with her as he tells her to save herself...

As for the middle lane, that is the travel lane. The outer lane is the merge/exit lane and shouldn't be used by slower traffic when there are 3 or more lanes in order to allow safer merging and exiting, especially when there are 4 or more lanes. Passing traffic shouldn't use the merge/exit lane, that is for the passing and inner lanes. He was in the rightmost of the middle lanes, which at least on right side drive countries like the US and Russia, would be for the slower through traffic. Nothing more irritating (well there are, but you know what I mean) than driving down the exit lane to get to an exit and deciding not to pass the slow car in front of you as you can't be sure to get around them before the exit, and then find they are just going straight anyhow.

It doesn't look like there was an exit there, just the driver of the car the motorcycle tried to avoid was making a dash to the breakdown lane across two lanes, and the motorcycle was going way too fast. I'm guessing the father here blocks two lanes to help protect the motorcyclist.

I can't believe all of the things they say about me
Walk in the room they throwing shade left to right
They be like, "Ooh, she serving face"
And I just tell 'em cut me up and get down
They call us dirty 'cuz we break all your rules down
And we just came to act a fool, is that all right?
(Girl, that's alright)
They be like, "Ooh, let them eat cake."
But we eat wings and throw them bones on the ground

[Pre-Chorus]
Am I a freak for dancing around?
Am I a freak for getting down?
I'm coming up, don't cut me down
Yeah I wanna be, wanna be

[Verse 2]
Is it peculiar that she twerk in the mirror?
And am I weird to dance alone late at night?
And is it true we're all insane?
And I just tell 'em, "No we ain't" and get down

I heard this life is just a play with no rehearsal
I wonder will this be my final act tonight
And tell me what's the price of fame?
Am I a sinner with my skirt on the ground?

[Hook]
Am I a freak for dancing around?
Am I a freak for getting down?
I'm coming up, don't cut me down
Yeah I wanna be

[Verse 3]
Hey brother can you save my soul from the devil?
Say is it weird to like the way she wear her tights?
And is it rude to wear my shades?
Am I a freak because I love watching Mary? (Maybe)

Hey sister am I good enough for your heaven?
Say will your God accept me in my black and white?
Will he approve the way I'm made?
Or should I reprogram the programming and get down?

[Hook]

[Spoken Word]
Even if it makes others uncomfortable
I wanna love who I am
Even if it makes other uncomfortable
I will love who I am

[Breakdown: Erykah Badu]
Dance 'til the break of dawn
Don't mean a thing, so duh
I can't take it no more
Baby, we in tuxedo groove
Monae and E. Badu
Crazy in the black and white
We got the drums so tight
Baby, here comes the freedom song
Too strong we moving on
Baby there's melody
Show you another way
This joints for fight unknown
Come home and sing your song
But you gotta testify
Because the booty don't lie

No, no, the booty don't lie
Oh no, the booty don't lie

[Verse 4: Janelle Monae]
Yeah
Yeah, let's flip it
I don't think they understand what I'm trying to say

I asked a question like this
"Are we a lost generation of our people?
Add us to equations but they'll never make us equal.
She who writes the movie owns the script and the sequel.
So why ain't the stealing of my rights made illegal?
They keep us underground working hard for the greedy,
But when it's time pay they turn around and call us needy.
My crown too heavy like the Queen Nefertiti
Gimme back my pyramid, I'm trying to free Kansas City.

Mixing masterminds like your name Bernie Grundman.
Well I'm gonna keep leading like a young Harriet Tubman
You can take my wings but I'm still goin' fly
And even when you edit me the booty don't lie
Yeah, keep singing and I'mma keep writing songs
I'm tired of Marvin asking me, "What's Going On?
March to the streets 'cuz I'm willing and I'm able
Categorize me, I defy every label
And while you're selling dope, we're gonna keep selling hope
We rising up now, you gotta deal you gotta cope
Will you be electric sheep?
Electric ladies, will you sleep?
Or will you preach?"

Ooh you beat me to it.

Who on Earth would be dumb enough to buy a 33.5 ton fish tank that was made in China? Don't they know everything made in China breaks in no time?

I'm not bitter about my GE dishwasher. Not at all. Just because I've had three major breakdowns in two years, and it doesn't work very well when it's 'working'. Not bitter at all.

Your ideals, his politics, WTF? What you are saying is that you chose an extreme example (like this news organization did) as your offering, inserting through the filter of your experiences in your society as described, what? You obviously have no desire to see anyone with guns, or any society in which this could possibly happen, and you'd be interested in selling a wondrous adjustment or replacement based upon what? Your personal experiences and world view?? Your own country's model for how to get along?? It's sounds just as pontificous any passionate nut job, right left or center.

Now focus on some lobbies wanting to make money, describe their motivations using crude imagery to make what point ??(knowing fuck-all about the gun lobbies in the U.S. I'd hasten to guess you are pulling shit out of your own ass??)?

A point everyone seems to miss is lost in endless banter over this gun issue in a country whose real problems dwarf how many and what type of boomsticks people have.

The people who control policy, who have worked hard to bankrupt this country and rape her human resources, drug them, offer them more laws to create an illusion of safety and fairness? Fuck you.

Problem isn't guns, mine or yours, or the ones you poor fucks in countries who have decided for you that guns are bad for you. The problem is that the world is full of the most part, of ineffectual, programmable, inept automotons when it comes to exercising their rights under natural laws, AS evidenced for me, in the up-voting of grinter's little passionate episode here...

My country is full of broken people, desperate people, seasoned with an inordinate amount of total fuck-ups, and I have to watch the shit in slow-motion while it gets even more fun...with guns, with a political system totally fucking retarded holding her citizens an economic hostage to special interests dwarfing any gun lobby's.

Is YOUR country broken grinter, or have you decided that you are satisfied with elected officials. we don;t have elected officials anymore. We have criminals.

WORLDWIDE, we're headed for a radical democracy or some comfortable, tolerable, illusory freedoms under a Nuevo-Fascist Global Cuntfest at this point.
Fuuuuck! Get a clue!? all I have to do is watch how utterly retarded these hearings are(kangaroo-court-style) to gauge the breakdown of this motherfucker...

Its caused by breakdown of biological products mixing in with water rather violently. Usually when a large algal bloom dies, the breakdown of the matter acts like a surfactant (destroyer of surface tensions!!!), which causes the foam.

Not usually all that harmful.

Some placeholders are objectively better than others, I think, is what he's saying about Copenhagen vs. Many Worlds. I'd be interested to see the breakdown of the different categories, like whether the super-top people and relative newbies cluster together.

No sir, empathy and tolerance go hand-in-hand, I'm not a fucking out-of-touch dinosaur- I ALSO recognize that racism is an issue that garners that gut-reaction simply from seeing the word typed or written on a page with certain types of peeps too distracted by ancillary clap-trap (pretentious, insincere, or empty verbiage) to have any effect whatsoever on the world of the "real", whatever one perceives that to be.

I see Colin Powell's talk of racism in the republican party as a complete non-issue as in, "Why should I give a fuck about this Uncle Tom, proverbial, "house-nigger" who acted anything like a general or statesman when he addressed the U.N. in a rambling justification for bankrupting the country into the Gulf War(s)-He should regret his actions under Bush and go fuck himself into obscurity and stay the fuck out of politics forever, kinna like Nixon when he bellied-up and bailed-out before impeachment, and was subsequently pardoned by that OTHER ineffectual tool, Gerald Ford.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/13/colin-powell-regrets-u-n-speech-justifying-the-iraq-invasion/

The fantasy world I speak of you refuse to consider though under your nose where it rests and obfuscates world view.

The New World Order is happening, it's the mechanism of disinformation, obfuscation, world economic manipulation, etc, that has you right where you don't want to be, a willing slave, complicit in the breakdown of human societies worldwide. Welcome to the Matrix Wendy, enjoy your preoccupation with guns, racism, and voting booths


Oh, and for the record once again, I am apolitical and believe the parties democrat and republican interchangeable, and the equally meaningless terminology of political discourse in light of the fistfuck being perpetrated on all nations of the world, a complete and pathetic distraction.
The goddamn whore of Babylon wants your mind, money, and muscle and you're standing in line to be first on the train, in my , "fantastic" world of illusion.

When you can define "morality" without it just being a code word for enforcing religion on the populace, then you can talk.

till then, shut the fuck up, morality has scant little to do with this. even the most "moral" person in the world can still be subject to mental breakdowns and the loss of reason.

Every single one of us has the capability of cracking given the right stress. the question is: can that "breakdown" be detected or caught early enough to do something about it, if not, then the question is, does that person have access to firearms?