Southern_Man

That really needs to be attached to some of the skydivers I know. Maybe stitched into their jumpsuit. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

War in the middle east is a sign of the end times? So what makes this different from the last, well, forever? Premillenial dispensationalists have predicted 328 of the last 0 eschatons. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

That's what the mohel said "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Compatibility seems to be the driving issue here... "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I don't think that is ironic. More like serendipity. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Indeed, self-insured instititions like the Washington Archidiocese will be included in those "insurance companies" required to provide birth control, abortifacients, and sterilization "for free." The only difference appears to be that they would not list that as a covered service in their policy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/birth-control-compromise-still-presents-grave-moral-concerns-to-catholic-church/2012/02/16/gIQAwpTtHR_story.html "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

^Your Westboro example is valid, if, and only if, the institutions are not self-insuring. Many large institutions (presumably including at least some of the Catholic hospitals and universities at issue) are self-insuring and only contract with an insurance company for claims adjudication and payment. In this case there is no "insurance pool" involved beyond the companies own employees. Note also that churches already have a ministerial exemption from the requirement to provide contraception and it is only the "affiliated institutions" which have to comply with the mandate. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

LibreOffice is replacing OpenOffice. Regardless, there are some problems trying to substitute BASE for ACCESS. Depends if you are using it as a database or as a frontend for a database plus some other parameters. If you really have to do a lot of work in ACCESS it is the one reason I can see for buying office (or access as a stand-along product if it is available) rather than using OpenOffice or LibreOffice. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

If this was the case than only the employees who actually used birth control would buy it. Therefore the cost of the policy would=the average cost of birth control/number of employees+cost of processing claims. People who use relatively cheaper forms of birth control would be paying way too much and would drop the coverage to buy their birth control products directly which would then lead to rapid premium increases for the other users. In the end what you have is a payment plan for birth control, not true insurance in any sense of the word. Of course this is somewhat illustrative with the problems with health insurance in general as well. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Me too. As a matter of fact, many larger employers are self-insured and only utilize a health insurance company for claims processing. So they are going to have to charge more for "claims processing" and then pay for contraception out of that? I guess, but that is a shell game. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Favorite song in Pictures of Lily... "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Eventually discarded in most applilcations because they could not retreat fast enough... "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I pretty much already pay that in the grocery store. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Should be renamed the "Giving up Liberty for Security--Deserving Niether and Losing Both ACT" Although that doesn't role off the tongue as nicely. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Reasonable is in the eye of the beholder and there may be some trade-off between what suit you want, how quickly you can get it and what it costs. I will say, though, that I bought a Bev Suit and it was made in a little over 2 weeks after I place my order. I paid $20 for a "rush" order (4 weeks) but not $40 for a "super rush" order. The overall price was towards the lower end of the scale and Bev has a good reputation, but it was an RW suit, not a freefly suit. I've been very happy with mine. I think Liquid Sky may have a longer wait time but I personally have not ordered from them. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

OK, the O.P. asked where Krugman was making his assertions. I located this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/17/social-immobility-climbin_n_501788.html Note that it is from HuffPo but is not an opinion piece--it is a report from OECD. I didn't have a chance to look at the underlying report and I would also want to see other studies (which Huffpo also references some) but Krugman is clearly not making it up out of thin air. The takeaway quote: The report finds the U.S. ranking well below Denmark, Australia, Norway, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Germany and Spain in terms of how freely citizens move up or down the social ladder. Only in Italy and Great Britain is the intensity of the relationship between individual and parental earnings even greater. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Extraterratoriality and/or universal jurisdiction are really perniscious and evil doctrines that cause all sorts of harm and mischief. Unfortunately the U.S. seems to be extending these things all the time. All in the name of security. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

As part of changes to VA gun laws they are also going to prohibit localities from requiring fingerprinting for a CCL. Currently it is up to the localitiy whether fingerprinting is required or not. That looks like it is going to pass. The House has passed a version of the Castle Doctrine, the prospects for that are unclear. Currently there is a pretty good amount of case law affirming people's rights in their own houses. Advantages and disadvantages in spelling out rights more explicitly while also disrupting a lot of the case precedents. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Just another comment about the guy not looking up at his canopy--he was judging apparently that it was flying correctly by how it felt--IMHO that is not a great procedure anyway. It is tricky to figure out something like descent rate based on feel. If can feel landable up high and suddenly you discover that it is moving much faster than you expected (due to damage) when you are on final and it is too late to do anything about it. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

It takes a twisted mind to argue that people who have completely paid off their properties have no skin in the game. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I see this going VERY well since you are such a great speaker and leader of people. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I think this is it. Total absence of any positive political philosophy put forward by the Republican party (over a long time). "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I'm a geek but I looked this up on some statistics sites. Apparently with falling down and then kicking a field goal the Giant's statistical chance to win was ~93=94%. By scoring the touchdown and giving the ball back to Brady the Giant's statistical chance to win fell to ~85%. They didn't show the underlying numbers so I couldn't check the work. I think I would still have scored the touchdown. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I'm pretty sure God is evil. I looked into becoming a Maltheist but they don't have a very good softball league and their potlucks suck. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Again, for somebody who has an MBA with courses in finance and econ this is just breathtakingly stupid. Your plan to increase the value of your condo is to make it so inhospitable for the current occupants that they want to sell and thus flood the market with even more inventory. OK, enjoy when your condo loses another $50k in value. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"