What is happening is sometimes I refresh to see new comments or I want to click on new diary and I will get a lock-up where the page will never finish loading. It is like the progress bar gets stuck. So I will exit out and I will get a error message stating the server is busy, are you sure you want to cancel or something like that.

Plus sometimes a diary or when I click on a headline the diary will come up missing all of the stuff on the side bars for members diaries, comments etc. I have no idea what is going on, but I have tried to change a number of things in IE 8 and I can not seem to fix things. Oh, this all began when you did your update. I thought this problem would be a fleeting thing.
Then again it is a Microsoft conspiracy! but many newcomers will have IE 8 and we do not want them running into problems. Anyway, I hope that helps.

Automobiles, Healthcare, Energy, Housing, Banking, Financial and Investment, Transportation (except airlines for the moment)…
Subcategories indirectly taken over by the Government Restaurants, Food, Tobacco, Pharmaceuticals…. subcategory-universal healthcare

Whats left folks? Holy Crap!!! The Government will single handedly have complete control over the entire U.S. economy? Am I wrong?

I’m an avid reader of this site but don’t comment often and do want to thank you for all you do here to inform and educate. Thank you.

Consider this an open thread.

If I’m outta line, please define ‘open thread’ more concisely so that I may learn and correct my behavior. Otherwise, I invite you to comment substantively.

The thought is you are an ignorant troll, thoughts?

When (if ever) is it appropriate to use Nazi references in posts and comments?

I take a narrow view on this. The evils of the Nazi regime are in a unique category. We haven’t seen anything on that scale since V-E day, and thank God for that. One of the reasons we haven’t as a species slid back into that morass is because there are people out there reminding us of who the Nazis were and what they did. They were dedicated evil men, and they were ordinary people. Their deliberate action and inaction led to the death of six million + innocents. They were not people who didn’t serve you soup. They were not people who didn’t agree with you on health care or foreign policy.

Casual references to Nazis in contemporary times, however well-informed, are out of place as far as I’m concerned (unless they really are neo-Nazis or something). Hyperbole, whatever the source and ideological leanings, serves to undermine a point. In this case it does more: it takes what was uniquely evil and makes it ever so slightly more mundane, common, acceptable. Any group of people united for the sake of the common good ought to avoid that, or so say I.

Thoughts?