Would liberals support censorship in response to wife-beaters, skinheads, abortion-clinic bombers, gay-bashers, or any other violent group? Then why do they support censorship in response to terrorists?

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/shut_up_or_die_the_muslim_protesters_explained.html#ixzz28R3qo3aE

Ninety-one people have been arrested in seven US cities for their alleged roles in a $430m (£265m) Medicare fraud scheme, the justice department says.

A hospital president, doctors and nurses are all accused of submitting claims for treatment that was medically unnecessary or never provided. Charges against them include healthcare fraud, breaking anti-kickback statutes and money laundering, the agency said. Medicare is a popular government health programme for the over-65s.

"Today's arrests put criminals on notice that we are cracking down hard on people who want to steal from Medicare," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

She added that 30 other healthcare providers had been suspended or had administrative action taken against them based on credible allegations of fraud.

Dozens of people either surrendered or were arrested over the last 24 hours in a case led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, officials said. The team uses analysis of Medicare data to fight fraud.

The arrests were made in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Brooklyn, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas and Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; and Miami, Florida. Altogether the charges cover more than $230m in home healthcare fraud, more than $100m in mental healthcare fraud and more than $49m in ambulance transport fraud.

Court documents claim that patient recruiters, Medicare patients and other participants in the scheme were given cash kickbacks in exchange for providing information about healthcare beneficiaries. Their information was used to submit bills for treatment that never took place or was not needed.

A similar operation was launched in September 2011, with another 91 people arrested and charged over a suspected $295m Medicare fraud.

Iamon lyme: wow.. you sure are complaining.

"You have the right to not say anything sensible when you have nothing sensible to say, so why would anyone complain about that?"

So apparently do you. As well as Art in his Big Brother style version of history.

I need to take a time out while my town is on fire! Seriously. 30 acres now and spreading.

Artful Dodger: lol not "curtis lowe"??

I need to go play my dobro.

now this is what I like to see.A Man that speak his mind and also tells the truth.

Artful Dodger: lol

Bwild: I was surprised at how repetitive Obama was. Like he had no new ideas! Next time will be different so Mitt better be on his toes. Obama may employ a mini tele-prompter.

Artful Dodger: yomama tried and tried to make romney believe he was going to raise the deficit by 7 trillion with his tax cuts and the removal of certain deductions and tax loopholes. kinda funny really.

Iamon lyme: I'll bet Romney was fully ready for that question. Good thing obama didn't use it. I'll bet Mitt would have crushed him with it.

Artful Dodger: I didn't watch the debate last night, and it was for the same reason I didn't watch either of the conventions. I already know which one wants to win a contest and which one wants to do the job.

The media was upset that Obama didn't bring up the 47% comment by Romney... well duh, of course he didn't bring that up, because it's a phony argument that can only work in campaign adds and among their own people. It wouldn't work in a face to face debate with no teleprompter, and the opposing candidate standing right there ready to answer the phony charge.

What did the media expect? Romney would have nailed Obama over that, and Obama knows it. But the media now thinks Obama is not following through on the work they did to prop him up and keep him in a favorable light. Again, another "Well duh" to the media genius king makers and another "Well what did you geniuses expect?" It was a face to face debate, and Obama was left dangling because you weren't there to cover and lie for him, and to prop him up... because that is not the purpose of a debate.

Now some are saying, Well, the debate is no big deal, because most people have already made up their minds... LoL I can't argue with that!

BTW, the man who wrote, "DEMOCRATIC N word!" is a black man - a friend on Facebook. If quoting that title as HE WROTE IT is racist, take it up with him. And if you have a problem with the LBJ quote (and you should) good for you! That is if you are offended that HE, the PRESIDENT of the US said it. It should tell you something of the Democratic part at that time in our history. It should tell you that the Democratic party sought the black vote even while they thought of blacks as Negros and (that other word!). The Democratic party has NOT helped blacks. They have a different purpose. Keep blacks dependent on them so that they, the blacks, will keep the liberals in power. Then every once in a while, throw them a bone to keep them happy. If you can't see that maybe it's because you are the one that is racist. Or you're just plain stupid.

OTOH, if you just want to have a problem with ME because I quoted someone else verbatim, bite me. If that's your issue, I couldn't care less what you think.

Where do these intellectual midgets come from?

Silvery Moon: Take a chill pill Sliver. There is no racist posts here by me. So that must make you one of those intellectually deficient liberals. Well that explains it.

I've explained my position on the matter. If you want to lie about what's said, that's on you. But don't expect me to give a rip. I don't.

Artful Dodger: This is such a shame I was starting to like this game site until I saw the recent racist posts you posted to upset people :(

Why? Do you have a problem with black people? :|
I'm 79 years of age I've lived a long hard great life sonny boy and it would be nice to return to brainking and not see such garbage.
I am, I was (I'm not sure, still thinking about it) going to purchase a black rook it would be perfect for me lol

I can't post on these boards noone here goes by the rules.

Iamon lyme: intellectual dishonesty runs rampant with the liberals on here. Case in point is the obvious willingness to exploit racism demonstrated in their feigned disgust of my use of the N word. They don't really find disgust in the use of that word. They simply want to use the use of that word as a hammer - but only for political reasons. If the use of the word really mattered, they'd focus on the source. I've quoted LBJ before (un edited) and I always get the same phony response. Such is the racism on the left. They are willing to exploit race to gain politically.

Not ONE of these idiots have ever responded to those that authored the words. That it's the democratic party that originated the word, oppressed blacks, lynched them, segregated them, and when it was politically expedient, fooled them into voting for their party (through pandering and promises of "Hey, let us white guys take care of you! Vote for us and we'll give you money.") That's the democratic party. Blacks have voted democratic for years and what have they to show for it? Not much.

(V): I really don't care what you do or don't do, so your complaint has no merit. You can continue tossing out fake bombs and straw man dolls as your answers, and at the same time demand reasonable responses to anything conservatives say. Does that make you a hypocrite? Of course not! You have the right to not say anything sensible when you have nothing sensible to say, so why would anyone complain about that?

Artful Dodger: "You and I are so much alike it's scary!"

You know what I think is scary? I used to wonder why you got frustrated so easily and called people idiots and morons... now I'm getting frustrated and wanting to do the same.

I could be wrong, but I don't think it's because they are stupid. I think the intellectual baby talk and moronic reasoning is just a cover for intellectual dishonesty... because who in their right mind actually thinks saving babies is the same as 'saving' soldiers?

Saving soldiers from what, from being ripped from their mothers wombs? Or how about this, saving babies by not giving them guns and sending them into war before they are born...???

Oh wait, I get it now! Of course! Saving soldiers from being arbitrarily aborted. How could I have missed the connection... woof woof sniff sniff lick lick woof bark sniff lick.

Iamon lyme: You and I are so much alike it's scary!

Iamon lyme:

Iamon lyme: Not really, it's been a long time problem with conservatives not answering.. So if you have the right not to, then others do as well.

Not unless you want unequal rights.

(V): Iamon lyme: [ Because no-one on this board is obliged to answer any question if they choose not to. ]

Have you read any of your own past posts? I distinctly remember you demanding Dan and I to answer you, and we weren't even involved in the discussion. It was about abortion. I answered you, not because I had to but because I wanted to, and then you chose to ignore the answer. Of course people have the right to respond or to not respond, so other than proving how transparently hypocritical you can be, you have made no other point here.

Apparently I'm taking unfair advantage by remembering what some of you have said. So I appologize for disrespectively taking the time to think about what you've said, instead of simply reacting like a barking dog...

woof woof, what's that? what's that over there? Oh, gotta pee! what's that woof woof, what's that over there, what's that, gotta pee, sniff sniff, hey man that's good stuff, what's that over there? woof woof sniff sniff gotta pee again what's that over there?

Artful Dodger: Are you gonna lead by example?

The Col: To coin a phrase.. If I had a dime for every question that others have not answered on this board... I'd have a lot of dimes... or 5p's.. which people generally do find anyway as they are so small... but I'd I loads

Artful Dodger: LoL Bite you where? You're nothing but bone... not even skin and bone. No matter where they bite, all they'll get is a mouthful of bone... you gonna keep that pic up until after Halloween?

But I applaud your strategy. By keeping responses down to only two words, you've insured their minds don't have time to wander before you've finished your message.

bite me

(V): Grow up.

(V): Sometimes you have to just let it go.I never got a response from "uber" when I asked him if he still felt our Prime Minister was an idiot for closing the embassy in Iran shortly before the American embassy attack in Libya.

Iamon lyme: Because no-one on this board is obliged to answer any question if they choose not to.

The moderators say that is everyone's right... something like freedom or some weird concept like it!!

Repeating words and phrases over and over again but never explaining what they mean is intellectual baby talk. And taking one word or phrase out of context and ragging on and on about it is intellectually moronic.

Passionately reading lines from a teleprompter or repeating lines that have been memorized is called "acting". Passion is an emotion you feel because you believe in what you are saying. If you need to fake passion to get your point across, then you don't really understand (or care about) the issues.

If all you can think about is winning, and persuading others to vote for your candidate, then all you doing is watching a "beauty contest" and hoping your contestant wins the prize.

The presidency is not a prize. It's a job. If you go out to get a job, and you get the job, you did not win a prize... and you will actually be expected to perform some sort of useful work for whoever hired you.

mckinley: [ You can remember a post from July but not September. ]

If I didn't remember the post from September, then I wouldn't have asked what you meant.

[ I said people weren't fighting because slavery was immoral. ]

Yep, that's what I remember you saying.

[ I don't think I'm vague. ]

Nope, that was clear enough.

[ I thought I was respecting ppl's intelligence. ]

So why not respect mine? All I wanted to know was if the war was not about morality, and slavery not an issue, why was there a war to begin with?

When Ubber compared abortion to war and guns, I explained why I believe those are different issues. And I explained to you my own limited understanding of why there was a war between the North and South. I respected your intelligence by explaining my position, so why can't you respect my intelligence by answering one simple question?

Obama's the equivalent of a basketball player who has a "sweet spot" on the court where he's virtually unstoppable. The best example is Kareem Abdul Jabbar and his famous "sky hook," the deadliest shot in NBA history. The key to stopping Kareem was to deny him his "sweet spot" before he set up there and launched it.

Obama's "sweet spot" is in front of a teleprompter. When he's there he's the silver-tongued lothario that slickly seduced a nation into electing him president four years ago. But when he's sans teleprompter and forced to speak extemporaneously, he's all "ums" and "ahs," displaying all the rhetorical skills and command of the facts as Mushmouth, the blubbering, slack-jawed simpleton from the cartoon "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids." Obama just dresses better.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/romneys_going_to_win.html#ixzz28LCUadwv

Why then like other people Art, couldn't you take the word out as use stars in place as others have done in the past.

I knew that there were idiots on here that would focus on a word rather than focus on the author of that word. Quoting someone who uses the "N" word is to show you fools who is really behind the racist history in America. Yet you would rather pick on the use of the word in a quote than to actually address the policies of the liberals that actually promote a subtle form of racism. If a conservative had said those words, the liberals would never forget it. But because a liberal president said them, it's ignored and then forgotten. Blind fools.

mckinley: now you're showing your ignorance.

mckinley: you were talking about people on the right. I'm pointing out that it's people on the left who are the hypocrites.

Silvery Moon: You should be offended by it. It's an offensive word.

Artful Dodger: First it was "These N****rs" Now it's "These Negroes"

I'm Black I don't know about any other black people here on bk but I find it very offensive being called a Negro :|

Black is the WORD!!!

Artful Dodger: Was that too easy, or did I tip my hand with the hint?

I thought of this tonight, as I was puttering around the house. I do that a lot, I putter around and think about things like that. putt putt putt putt putt... and sometimes with puttering sound effects, thanks to the sort of food I to eat... what was I talking about? Oh yeah, so anyway it occurred to me that if I bet on Obama and win, I'll at least have a bit more to fall back on when Obama fulfills his promise to finish the job... *shudder*. If Romney wins I lose the bet, but in the long run I'll have more than if I won betting on Obama. As weird this sounds, it's actually not a bad idea. I wonder if anyone else is thinking the same thing, or plans on doing it for the same reason?

putt putt putt putt putt putt putt... oops. Dang it!!

Iamon lyme: if u bet on Obama and he wins, you win the bet and the money. If you lose the bet you still win money as taxes go down as does the cost of living.