tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post8840753781723614555..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: San Francisco Diary--Journal Of An ExileAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-7130124952668144442009-09-17T17:34:28.366-04:002009-09-17T17:34:28.366-04:00StanH: It's all so ridiculous. The last roun...StanH: It's all so ridiculous. The last round was development of property on the waterfront (which even I objected to because all that space south of Market that doesn't block any views and used to be old, empty warehouses was available). The enviro-freaks were out in force. The development got approved when some genius decided that instead of "lower-income units," they would require the developer to set aside large portions of the buildings for, are you ready, low pay-level city employees who couldn't otherwise afford to live in San Francisco. The liberal logic was it would be an economic plus to have the municipal employees living and working in the City. The project was approved, the city employees moved in, and within a year got "rent and mortgage pay increases." Result, the city employees took more out of the city than they put in, and the rents and mortgages in the building hit the level they would have hit in the original plan, except that non-productive city employees got the units instead of productive private business workers. A huge net loss for the city.<br /><br />As for Pelosi's crying jag, didn't their own Harry Truman say "if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen?"LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-6240153452241927532009-09-17T16:36:58.086-04:002009-09-17T16:36:58.086-04:00Great diary Lawhawk. They do the same thing in Atl...Great diary Lawhawk. They do the same thing in Atlanta when they develop a condo, or townhouses, etc. A certain amount of the dwellings must be set aside for the less fortunate, no matter the cost of the homes. It never works and invariably leads to the development failing or morphing into something that the developer never intended. They never learn.<br /><br />I was at a doctors office today with my Dad. This guy is a subdued Nephrologist. So I brought up the Barry, and this guy became animated, so in my unofficial poll of one a definite “thumbs down.” <br /><br />Lawhawk did you see your representative on TV, Madame Speaker (I wanted to say that in light of the ACORN prostitution rings) …Pelosi? She became weepy talking about all the vitriol in the healthcare discussion, and how this kind of tenor in the public discourse leads to violence. I thought protesting was the highest form of patriotism?StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-35147112556790605722009-09-17T15:40:03.952-04:002009-09-17T15:40:03.952-04:00And then there's this:
"A new Investor’s...And then there's this:<br /><br />"A new Investor’s Business Daily poll of more than 1,300 physicians finds that nearly two-thirds (65%) don’t back ObamaCare, more than 70% say the government cannot provide insurance coverage for 47 million additional people and save money without harming quality, and 45% of doctors say they “would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement” if the liberal health care plan passes."LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-14282942507170956842009-09-17T15:37:20.094-04:002009-09-17T15:37:20.094-04:00GANG: Here is the relevant portion of the New Eng...GANG: Here is the relevant portion of the New England Journal of Medicine poll that Doc Gurley said "proved" the vast majority of doctors support the public option and Obamacare in general:<br /><br />"As Table 2 shows, a large majority of respondents (78%) agreed that physicians have a professional obligation to address societal health policy issues. Majorities also agreed that every physician is professionally obligated to care for the uninsured or underinsured (73%), and most were willing to accept limits on reimbursement for expensive drugs and procedures for the sake of expanding access to basic health care (67%). By contrast, physicians were divided almost equally about cost-effectiveness analysis; just over half (54%) reported having a moral objection to using such data “to determine which treatments will be offered to patients."<br /><br />Does that in any way sound to you like that indicates "support" for the Obama National Health Service? Asked the same question, I suspect about the same percentage of conservatives would answer the question the same way the doctors did.<br /><br />This is the same trick the lefties have pulled on Global Warming. "90% of scientists agree that global warming is a problem. It's a settled issue." Well, yeah. But a large percentage (quite possibly a majority) of scientists also say that <i>man-made</i> global warming is nonsense, and an even larger number say that we can realistically do next-to-nothing to affect climate change. Yet cap and tax is built almost exclusively on the phony 90% "poll consensus."LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-90233979626379043252009-09-17T13:27:45.211-04:002009-09-17T13:27:45.211-04:00HamiltonsGhost: Actually, I think she was busy co...HamiltonsGhost: Actually, I think she was busy conducting the New England Journal of Medicine poll that found that 75% of all doctors support Obamacare. Why join the real world when their fantasy world is so much more fun?LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-11729333221001927192009-09-17T13:18:05.050-04:002009-09-17T13:18:05.050-04:00Lawhawk--I think you should send a copy of your di...Lawhawk--I think you should send a copy of your diary to Nancy Pelosi. The top Congressional Democrat as late as last night didn't know about the Senate vote on ACORN. She reacted to a reporter's question about what the House would do by asking: "I haven't heard about that, what did they do? Did they de-fund ACORN?" She must have been isolated in a 24-hour botox session at the time.HamiltonsGhosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777000856977635480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-74596511349568045082009-09-17T12:53:57.986-04:002009-09-17T12:53:57.986-04:00Andrew: I'm with you. I don't doubt that...Andrew: I'm with you. I don't doubt that some of the doctors who graduated from Tierra del Fuego medical school who work in the general hospitals and couldn't diagnose a hangnail are for the government-run option, but the doctors I know range from mildly-opposed to frothing-at-the-mouth opposed. Must have been an interesting polling sample, even with the loaded question.<br /><br />Anonymous: Not true. I know of two others. LOLLawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39599574092117258082009-09-17T12:45:43.255-04:002009-09-17T12:45:43.255-04:00WriterX: I was getting worried about the poor guy...WriterX: I was getting worried about the poor guy. He seemed to be losing his viciousness. But he seems to be recovering. I'm sure he won't let us down in the future.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-51805238030617461822009-09-17T12:31:11.720-04:002009-09-17T12:31:11.720-04:00Green Day fans must not know LawhawkSF is the only...Green Day fans must not know LawhawkSF is the only Republican left in San Francisco.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-87526227283237240182009-09-17T10:57:04.302-04:002009-09-17T10:57:04.302-04:0075% of doctors support this health care plan? Rea...75% of doctors support this health care plan? Really? Funny how all the doctors I know are vehemently opposed.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-29694109123355110302009-09-17T10:39:46.913-04:002009-09-17T10:39:46.913-04:00Thanks for the Mark Morford rant. It stopped my s...Thanks for the Mark Morford rant. It stopped my shakes. I feel better now.Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.com