Comments on: Well, Hello, Nanny http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: sam http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/comment-page-1/#comment-78586 sam Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:19:25 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/#comment-78586 You're telling me you don't suffer from Euro-envy, Gaius?  What is this world coming to? Next you will be telling me that you don't think the British Health Service is the perfect model for us in the USA. You’re telling me you don’t suffer from Euro-envy, Gaius?  What is this world coming to? Next you will be telling me that you don’t think the British Health Service is the perfect model for us in the USA.

]]> By: MikeM http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/comment-page-1/#comment-78568 MikeM Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:25:25 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/#comment-78568 "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" And that includes the liberty to choose things that might kill me. "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" And that includes the liberty to choose things that might kill me.

]]> By: Quilly Mammoth http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/comment-page-1/#comment-78566 Quilly Mammoth Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:04:07 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/#comment-78566 Well, it's good to get through...but your html thingy still doesn't work right.  :)  Good to see the posting picking up  which more importantly signifies your work schedule has returned to human norms. Well, it’s good to get through…but your html thingy still doesn’t work right.  :)   Good to see the posting picking up  which more importantly signifies your work schedule has returned to human norms.

]]> By: Quilly Mammoth http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/comment-page-1/#comment-78565 Quilly Mammoth Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:01:31 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/#comment-78565 Government is supposed to take care of certain things that are difficult for individuals to organize. Things like military defense, certain infrastructure like roads and bridges or some public health initiatives.These would fall under Common Good. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Our politicians, and particularly the Black Robed Thugs, have forgotten that this refers to _direct_ benefit.  Not the wistful benefit that "what helps one helps all".Did you know that Andrew Jackson loathed it when the Post Road Committee spent money on roads that didn't benefit more than one state?  It's one reason that he didn't really support Johnson for president.  Long Ago<strong> </strong>Old Hickory achieved maximum RPM<strong>.</strong> Government is supposed to take care of certain things that are difficult for individuals to organize. Things like military defense, certain infrastructure like roads and bridges or some public health initiatives.These would fall under Common Good.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Our politicians, and particularly the Black Robed Thugs, have forgotten that this refers to _direct_ benefit.  Not the wistful benefit that "what helps one helps all".Did you know that Andrew Jackson loathed it when the Post Road Committee spent money on roads that didn’t benefit more than one state?  It’s one reason that he didn’t really support Johnson for president.  Long Ago Old Hickory achieved maximum RPM.

]]> By: reader_iam http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/comment-page-1/#comment-78564 reader_iam Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:35:13 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/06/28/well-hello-nanny/#comment-78564 'Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, werewith shall it be salted?'I'll take the salt over the civilized. ‘Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, werewith shall it be salted?’I'll take the salt over the civilized.

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