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Citation please

Here you go:

http://www.gazettetimes.com/al...

Indeed. Oracle is a tool.

Yes. Oracle is a company, and they are a "tool" in only slightly out of date slang.

You don't blame the screwdriver if the contractor messes up your kitchen cabinets.

Oracle IS the contractor, sweetheart. They are being paid to deliver the CoverOregon website. But my, don't we have such catchy tunes to remind us how great we have it here in Oregon? Long live Oregonians!

The fact is that there will be people who have lost their current coverage because the law won't allow the plan and they won't be able to get signed up in time to prevent a gap. The fact is that the time it takes to get the paperwork (one report was that it took five weeks)*, fill it out (19 pages), and then get it processed (God only knows how long), will result in people not being covered and not meeting the mandated deadlines for being covered. I'm hopeful that the same groups that carefully monitor every death in Iraq and Afghanistan and attribute them all to Bush will carefully monitor any harm this system creates to the US public just as closely and attribute it to the correct source.

* - from here:

When the online system wouldn't work, George submitted a paper application Oct. 7 for herself and her husband. Finally, on Nov. 12, she received an enrollment packet that tells her how much of a tax credit she'll receive and lays out her coverage options. She's now waiting to meet with her insurance agent to pick a plan and return the forms.

Oct. 7 to Nov 12 to get an enrollment packet. Atrocious. At least this article is honest enough to call them "insurance agents" and not "community partners.".

The Cover Oregon website currently tells people to enroll by December 4th to get coverage by Jan. 1. Today's the 3rd. Five weeks from today will be Jan 7, 2014.

The biggest problem with our healthcare system is the cost, and the ACA did nothing whatsoever to address that.

Well, what it tried to do about costs was to push them onto relatively healthy young people by forcing them to buy insurance. What the smart relatively healthy young people are doing is accepting the penalty for not buying insurance because it will ultimately cost them less. They'll simply wait until they get some "pre-existing condition" and then get insurance to cover it, never actually paying into the system more than they take out.

Or they'll be in the same situation the CT law school student is, where he's so 'poor' that he gets free health care and doesn't have to pay even the $39/month he was paying for insurance anymore, but would be paying much much more were he to participate in the exchange plans.

And when you consider the astronomical deductables that are in the ACA exchange plans, you have to be pretty sick to save money by having insurance anyway.

AP story about Oregon's CoverOregon -- nobody has been signed up yet. One woman sent in the paperwork to sign up in early October, she just got back the documents so she can actually know how much the plans will cost her and sign up for real. A 19 page form. She waited for more than a month for just the information, and she needs to sign up by December 15 (less than a month now) if she's going to get insurance on Jan 1.

The 2nd amendment is because we didn't have a standing military at the time, nor did most parts of the US have any law enforcement of note. Having those firearms at that time served a legitimate need.

Nice to see that you're pretty much completely ignorant of the reasons behind the 2nd amendment.

Actually, there are a -lot- of reasons that have been stated / opined as having been behind the 2nd amendment by scholars that seem to have put a bit more effort into their thoughts than you have:

• * To preserve slavery: http://truth-out.org/news/item/13890-the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery, and http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letter-the-real-reason-for-the-second-amendment-protection-of/article_0cb7886a-653c-11e2-9962-001a4bcf887a.html
• * Rawle believed its purpose was to check government's "inordinate pursuit of power": http://books.google.com/books?id=akEbAAAAYAAJ
• * Blackstone covered some ground with a self defense argument: http://davidkopel.com/2A/LawRev/19thcentury.htm
• * Spooner believed its purpose was to counter "government tyranny": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#cite_note-141
• * Carl Bogus, in the UC Davis Law Review, makes a strong case for the intent being to assure States that Congress couldn't disarm their militias: http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/bogus2.htm

The bottom line is that there exist a multitude of opinions, from scholars that actually back what they say up with decent arguments (you didn't quite make it into that group this time, hedwards), and cold fjord's post falls right into the middle of the range. I would say that making a single-line blanket statement of opinion as fact, then telling cold fjord that -he- is ignorant is laughable.

BTW- cold ford, I'm moderating tonight so posting as AC, but I -did- read your prior posts, and I guess you're not a shill. :-)

This time thankfully only soda cans bought it.

This timeit was a support column.

This time a cop accidentally shot a Bologna, so I guess it's not a CCW, and maybe the Bologna was resisting arrest.

This time it was in a starbucks, some kind of lead extra latte.

This one was in a school.

This Guy apparently hit himself in the leg when he dropped the gun at a Grocery store.

Again, This one is not a concealed carry, but as the guy was DEA and actually demonstrating gun safety to a group of children at the time he accidentally shot himself I think it merits inclusion on the grounds that accidents can clearly happen to even the most highly trained.

We people are the ones that could be shot at any time without warning because someone felt that the risk to others of their carrying a weapon was worth it. In this litigious society I would have though the insurance costs of packing heat would be prohibitive. Around 2% of gun deaths are from accidental discharges.

First off, yes, there were denials of warming by some neocons. At least until now:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8917093/

Then there's the argument that, oh, the environment will just adjust and absorb the carbon. Nope:

http://www.sundayherald.com/51146
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/umw elt_naturschutz/bericht-47597.html

Oh, and why worry, it's just heat, right?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/20 02377292_ocean13m.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29498448 .htm
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/08/05/ne ws/community/friloc07.txt
http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/pr/news/2005/news8474. html

Another writeup, from the town paper where it happened: Corvallis Gazette-Times, and another from the Eugene Registar-Guard here. On a side note, I'm suprised they responded so quickly, less than 24 hours between recieving the signal and a response team at the door. I used to live in the area, and Corvallis is a small (pop. 50k) college town, with some hills and rivers in the area but nothing like a mountain that would require a large search & rescue squad. I guess it's good to know they're there, though.

As for the transmission strength, from the article - " Mandrell has heard of this sort of thing happening with customized computer gear. Sometimes CAP equipment will pick up these signals, he said, but they are usually weak enough to ignore. "This was really strong," Mandrell said. "This was abnormally strong. It kind of surprised us."" I don't know anything about these distress signals, but I imagine that if they're designed to work from a battery-powered tranciever, anything connected to a wall socket should have enough power to work.

Police are here to protect me.

It must be nice to live in your town.

Something tells me that the local police officers in my town are not about protecting anyone.

Some of the cops are worse than the local thugs. Not all of them, but as long as there are a few like this, I won't trust a cop, EVER.

Will Google mean googols? Google is the stunningly popular Internet search-engine that recently announced plans to sell shares to the public. Googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Investors are hoping to make googols of bucks on Google shares.

Here is a little more on this.