Your post just proved Moore's point

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I have NO desire to see this movie, and I believe that it is just perpetuating and promoting what is going on in this county -- I recently suffered a broken leg and went to THE "county hospital, i.e., Jackson Memorial, in Miami/Dade County -- the ONLY reason that I even went there was because of the fact that my significant other did not understand that with my insurance through CHAMPUS that I could be seen at any or all hospitals in the Miami area -- as a side note, the ONLY time that I have been "turned down" is at a Kaiser facility as far as being seen as a CHAMPUS patient.

CHAMPUS is the major insurance carrier that serves our military and their familes once the service member is honorably discharged, retires from active duty or dies in active combat or retired.

What I endured at Jackson was little short of HORRENDOUS and I believe that if any of us were to be seen at a major medical facility, we would soon find this out.

Jackson Memorial is 1500 beds -- I was initially seen in their "Extreme Care" section -- I got there at 11:30 a.m. and was finally out of there at 11:30 p.m. In the meantime, I walked down to their radiology department because the ignoramous P.A. did not put me in a wheelchair or crutches after I told him that the ankle area had been bruised for a week even after I wrapped it, Epsom salts, ice packs etc -- guess their attitude was "oh well" -- sure enough, it was a fracture -- they lost my records and with my second appointment it was from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. to be seen in their "Trauma Clinic" -- no docs, just residents,but tell you what, if you are of Hispanic descent, or poor -- BOY do you get preferential treatment -- needless to say, I am still in pain, with swelling, can't wear a shoe after the cast being off a week, and cannot get results -- I called the ER a bit ago and told them that I was going to be seen at a real hospital and that they could take their treatment and stick it

Bottom line is that patient care has TRULY gone down the toilet, whether it be a nurse, doctor or ANY kind of healthcare professional.

The only things she chose to complain about were nitpicky things -- what they serve for dinner. Most kids don't have dinner with their parents. Last time I checked PB&J and yogurt were pretty healthy. Her GS has ADHD. He isn't going to "behave" on command. Any MT would know that. First she complains because they don't correct them, then she complains because they are, just not to her standards. Instead of criticizing her kids, she should be trying to help the situation.

Did she hit a nerve with me? Absolutely. My parenting skills are always being critiqued. From the time my oldest son was old enough to eat until about the age of 6, I had to pack PB&J everywhere we went. He refused to eat anything else. Was it because I didn't offer it to him, no. It was because that's what he liked and that's what he could control. My other child has ODD -- oppositional defiant disorder. Is it because I didn't parent him correctly? No, it's because that's how he's wired. I have 2 other children who are not like this. They were all raised in the same house under the same rules. I am constantly berated by my father for not "cracking the whip" on him and by my mother for being "too strict." It's so easy to sit back as GPs and offer criticism after criticism. Then after upsetting DS or DD, you can go back home and not be the one who on top of your feelings of inadequacy now has to deal with a difficult child.

I could see if it the OP said the children were malnourished or not cleaned and clothed properly, but she's complaining about yogurt and fishsticks. She's complaining about an ADHD child who doesn't behave.

Unfairenheit 9/11The lies of Michael Moore.

Moore: Trying to have it three ways
One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. How many times, in my old days at The Nation magazine, did I hear wistful and semienvious ruminations? Where was the radical Firing Line show? Who will be our Rush Limbaugh? I used privately to hope that the emphasis, if the comrades ever got around to it, would be on the first of those and not the second. But the meetings themselves were so mind-numbing and lugubrious that I thought the danger of success on either front was infinitely slight.

Nonetheless, it seems that an answer to this long-felt need is finally beginning to emerge. I exempt AL Franken's unintentionally funny Air America network, to which I gave a couple of interviews in its early days. There, one could hear the reassuring noise of collapsing scenery and tripped-over wires and be reminded once again that correct politics and smooth media presentation are not even distant cousins. With Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, however, an entirely new note has been struck. Here we glimpse a possible fusion between the turgid routines of MoveOn.org and the filmic standards, if not exactly the filmic skills, of Sergei Eisenstein or Leni Riefenstahl.

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.

When Sicko came out in Cannes France over a month ago, it was FOX NEWS (who really dislike Moore since Fahrenheit 911 movie) who FIRST commended Moore's SICKO film........FOX NEWS!!!!!!

Definition of IDIOT: A person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25

nope, Michael Moore certainly does not quality for your terminology of *idiot* - that probably would be you.

If her son won the Wii, he is the one who still should receive something for "winning" a prize in the first place. Am I missing something here?

If you're using your credit card to purchase stuff because you don't have the cash, then you can't really afford it. You're planning on paying it off/down when this new deal comes in May and you'll be making more income. What if that doesn't happen? Where will you be then?

A poster above said what she learned from her father was the best. If you can't pay cash, then you can't afford it. I learned that lesson the HARD way.

I didn't expect it, so I was trying to let people know, because $50 might be a significant part of, say, a grocery budget, for those of us who are struggling.

It all adds up. I'm not exaggerating about the college tuition. Poof - the equivalent of that is now being deducted.