Aztek The Ultimate Man?

[Kitsune]

I see the anti-lawyer brigade is still active. I wonder how you'll feel when you have a horrendous workplace accident and are forced to hire a lawyer to get what you are owed.

The previous employment of a candidate has no bearing on who they are as a policymaker. George W. Bush was a complete failure of a businessman, and it didn't stop him from getting elected. Ronald Reagan was a ****ing actor. John Edwards was a lawyer. But it's not personality that I vote on, and neither should any other intelligent voter. I vote on platform. Edwards had a very strong vision for moving the country forward in a positive, progressive direction. His plans to equalize public funding for all political parties alone would have revolutionized American politics, and brought us much closer to the ideals of democracy that we like to brag about so much.

Actually, there is something worse. It's a stupid, uninformed, knee-jerk hyperconservative voter who thinks it makes sense to vote on something as moronically superficial as a haircut.

And, of course, you still haven't answered my question. Typical conservative.

And instead of actually having an argument, you thow ad hominem attacks. I'm tempted to say "Typical Liberal" but I think "Typical Aristotle" would be more accurate response.

Funny how It's okay for you to make personal attacks and insulting barbs, but its not okay for someone to make a joke about a politicians hairstyle. Edward wasn't just a lawyer, he was a lawyer who filled groundless lawsuits against doctors. Since malpractice insurance is a big part of the cost of health care in the US, Edwards is part of the problem.

You try to act like you are smart, but your first reaction is to anything you disagree with is name calling.

 

[fifthfiend]

groundless lawsuits

No they weren't.

Since malpractice insurance is a big part of the cost of health care

False

Insurance is a huge part of the cost of health care which has little to do with lawyers getting people their entirely deserved recompense for malpractice and a lot to do with insurance companies being enormous pulsating masses of undiluted greed.

 

[Kitsune]

No they weren't.



False

Insurance is a huge part of the cost of health care which has little to do with lawyers getting people their entirely deserved recompense for malpractice and a lot to do with insurance companies being enormous pulsating masses of undiluted greed.

Yes they were.

Does the study take into account that doctors often preform unnecessary tests for fear that if they don't they will get sued later?

 

[Aristotle]

And instead of actually having an argument, you thow ad hominem attacks. I'm tempted to say "Typical Liberal" but I think "Typical Aristotle" would be more accurate response.

Funny how It's okay for you to make personal attacks and insulting barbs, but its not okay for someone to make a joke about a politicians hairstyle. Edward wasn't just a lawyer, he was a lawyer who filled groundless lawsuits against doctors. Since malpractice insurance is a big part of the cost of health care in the US, Edwards is part of the problem.

You try to act like you are smart, but your first reaction is to anything you disagree with is name calling.

Exactly how much intellectual energy should I expend on two people who think that the "important issues of the campaign" are a candidate's employment before he/she was a politician, and a candidate's haircut? Really, how much intellectual energy does that deserve?

And the only reason malpractice insurance has skyrocketed is because so many doctors and medical practitioners ****ed up. Regardless, it's still only a tiny fraction of the reason health care costs so much.

I love how I totally derailed this thread.

So not only are you a racist, you're a troll. Huh.

 

[fifthfiend]

Yes they were.

Does the study take into account that doctors often preform unnecessary tests for fear that if they don't they will get sued later?

Except that 1. as I already established malpractice insurance damages are relatively small relative to the overall cost of healthcare so if doctors actually are that terminally terrified of lawsuits then it's a totally irrational fear 2. Considering your entire previous argument was premised on the idea that doctors are driven into penury by the high malpractice insurance rates which they already pay I'm not seeing why they would be so terrified of the lawsuit against the risk of which their insurance is the very thing which is supposed to protect them and 3. Considering as that doctors only actually can be successfully sued in cases where it is establisehd before a jury that whichever test was in fact necessary (Cause I am fairly sure you cannot be successfully sued for not testing someone for a disease unless that person does, in fact end up having that disease) then maybe it's worth having doctors perform the occasional "unneccesary" test? I mean I guess it's a real shame that doctors have to be inconvenienced just so the occasional patient doesn't have to die a preventable death.

 

[fifthfiend]

1. Nobody would believe you and 2. it wouldn't make what you said any less racist, so no.

 

[fifthfiend]

Remind me again

Sorry, I don't do favors for racists.

 

[Kitsune]

Exactly how much intellectual energy should I expend on two people who think that the "important issues of the campaign" are a candidate's employment before he/she was a politician, and a candidate's haircut? Really, how much intellectual energy does that deserve?

Love the way you get so anal over a joke that you start <beep>ing diamonds.

And the only reason malpractice insurance has skyrocketed is because so many doctors and medical practitioners ****ed up. Regardless, it's still only a tiny fraction of the reason health care costs so much.

So not only are you a racist, you're a troll. Huh.

Love the irony of Aristotle calling anyone else a troll.

 

[Aristotle]

Love the irony of Aristotle calling anyone else a troll is the height of irony.

That sentence doesn't make any sense. Well, it could almost make sense, in a really weird, meta sort of way, and I don't think that's how you mean it. But anyway, why am I a troll now? When do I show up and create a thread or respond to a thread with the sole purpose of stirring ****? Don't even bring up my opinions on Stan Lee. I bring them up when they are part of my discussion on a subject. It's no different than Darth or Corp going out of their ways to mention books they hate. It's just the way people communicate. But Izzy seems to be taking pleasure in wrecking a thread.

 

[Kitsune]

That sentence doesn't make any sense. Well, it could almost make sense, in a really weird, meta sort of way, and I don't think that's how you mean it. But anyway, why am I a troll now? When do I show up and create a thread or respond to a thread with the sole purpose of stirring ****? Don't even bring up my opinions on Stan Lee. I bring them up when they are part of my discussion on a subject. It's no different than Darth or Corp going out of their ways to mention books they hate. It's just the way people communicate. But Izzy seems to be taking pleasure in wrecking a thread.

Love the way you try to justify your trolling. You always post your opinions in the most offensive way your possibly can, and you always name call when people disagree with you.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Geez, and I thought this thread sucked when it was just about politics.

 

[Kitsune]

Geez, and I thought this thread sucked when it was just about politics.

Yes Politics Sucks....
Keep in mind the roots of the word... Poli meaning many, and ticks, meaning blood sucking insects.

 

[Aristotle]

You always post your opinions in the most offensive way your possibly can, and you always name call when people disagree with you.

Yeah, like pretty much everyone else here always has.

 

[fifthfiend]

This is a terrible thread and I apologise for my contribution in making it so.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, like pretty much everyone else here always has.

Nuh-uh, d-bag!

Anyway, Aztek seems cool. I was never clear on his powers, though.

 

[yahman]

Yeah, what a ridiculous concept. What next? Some jackass who gets universe-shattering powers from yellow sunlight?

I can't wait to see someone having the balls to retconn that. I wonder if anyone would really actually care ? I suppose nostalgia is a promminent disability amongst a lot of comic geeks.

 

[Aristotle]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Not everything has to be realistic. Reality happens quite often enough without seeping into fiction.

 

[yahman]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Not everything has to be realistic. Reality happens quite often enough without seeping into fiction.

It is broke, and very broke at that but, most people just don't like change. If he was originally powered by cornflakes or Lucozade; im sure people would be crying out for it, but yellow sunlight sounds exotic emough for fans and writers to be blasé about the situation. Others such myself want to drink Hemlock. I wish Ellis would do a run on Superman. He'd come up with a power source just as 'cool' but more scientifically accurate. Has anyone read his planetary D.C. Crossover, where he basically states Superman to have organs that work under the 'Unified Theory' ?

 

[Harlekin]

Why the **** would you want a scientifically accurate explanation for a bleedin' alien?

 

[Anubis]

Because it's useless and unnecessary to do so.

 

[yahman]

Why the **** would you want a scientifically accurate explanation for a bleedin' alien?

Ailenism, Reported !

 

[yahman]

Because it's useless and unnecessary to do so.

A bit like rebuking this comment !

***'on Grandads stop being so nostalic !

 

[Harlekin]

It has nothing to do with nostalgia. His name is ****ing Superman. If he wants to get his powers from the sun, who gives a flying frig?

 

[The Question]

Well, I personally have no problem with a writer putting a fair amount of thought into the nature of Superman's powers. It would probably be pretty cool if done well. I just don't think it should be deemed absolutely necessairy.

 

[fifthfiend]

EDIT: Post deleted due to being kind of meaner than I meant it to be.