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Charlie,
My writing contains typos. Your writing is teeming with egregious grammatical and orthographical errors. I don't mind them until you start throwing unfounded insults or making foolish comments.

The following is a free grammar lesson for you and the obviously less educated lefties
By the way I extend the wager (about my correct use of the subject pronoun “we”) to anyone who wants to take it, including Fernando. You guys can set the amount. I am sure I can match it.
A common pronoun mistake among the less educated happens in sentences where you use "than" or "as" to compare people or things:
Charlie is more unlettered than I.
BB is as unlettered as he.
Gringos consume more guacamole than we
The subject pronouns used at the end of all previous sentences are correct. However, Charlie instead incorrectly uses "me," "him," and "them," respectively. The subject form of the pronoun always comes after "than" or "as." Why? There's an understood verb in the construction.
Charlie is more unlettered than I (am).
BB is as unlettered as he (is).
Gringos consume more guacamole than we (do)
You can see why the object form of the pronoun won't work. "me is," "him is," and "them are" are just plain wrong, even though we frequently hear these sentences from educated people whose first or only language is English.

Charlie,

Question: Which sentence is correct? Is it the one with the possessive pronoun (MY) or the one with the object pronoun (ME).

I am unapologetic about MY excoriating the less educated whiners of the Left.
I am unapologetic about ME excoriating the less educated whiners of the Left.

Charlie,
…..do you still want to make a bet? Are you humble enough to admit that I can mop the floor with you on any subject any time I want? Or should I continue slaughtering you? I am willing to put minor orthographical and grammatical corrections behind, as long as you don’t act stupidly and make a fool of yourself again. I can be very unrelenting with people like you.
I admit that I may need a lesson in humility, but you need a lesson in humility and thousands of lessons in just about any academic subject.

Howie,

The use of pronouns is an area of grammar where Spanish speakers do a better job than English speakers. Conversely, English speakers generally do a better job avoiding double negatives (I make exception for slang and Ebonics). In Spanish is very, very common to say “No tengo nada”, which means “I don’t have nothing”, or “I ain’t got nothing”, or as properly said “I don’t have anything” A better way would be to say “No tengo cosa alguna”, but you will never hear that.

Frank,

The way I do my “ñ” is by pressing simultaneously the “Ctrl”, the “Shift” and the tilde “~” followed by the “n” in Microsoft Word. I never quite got your tip. Please send it again. It sounded easier.

Howie, Frank,

I have read you comments about the high cost of medical care for illegal aliens. We all should be concerned about it, but that is a tiny problem compared to the cost of Medicare, which is by far the biggest expense facing the U.S. in the next few decades. Read the following story.

TRUE STORIES. Death of two nonagenarians

My grandmother Elvira, was 91 when she could not get out of bed, refused to eat, and practically had entered a vegetative state. A doctor was called to make a home visit and his diagnosis was that my grandmother was not ill. All her organs were old and tired. She died few days later in her own bed, about 14 years ago in Mexico.

The other nonagenarian was Maria, the mother of a very good friend of mine. She died about three weeks ago, after a seven week hospitalization at Burbank Saint Joseph Hospital and a subsequent two week stay in a convalescent home. She was almost 90 and very much in the same condition as my grandmother, very feeble and tired. I don’t know the doctors’ diagnosis, but I know that Maria was very old, very feeble and very tired years before she died.

The bill for my grandmother’s doctor’s visit… let’s say a very high estimate of $600.00 for the few doctor’s visit during the last week of her life.

The bill for Maria… I don’t know the exact figure, but I heard that it cost about 12K per day in the hospital. So at that rate, the hospital bill must have come close to $600,000.00. All of it courtesy of the Medicare or Medicaid funds.

Here we have the example of two ladies who lived very long lives and died of natural causes. But the costs of their medical care during their final days were very different (less than $600 for my grandmother and easily more than $600,000 for my friend’s mother. In the case of my grandmother, her siblings may have resigned to accept the inevitable because they felt that hospitalization would protract everyone’s agony, would be futile, and it would also be very expensive. On the other hand, two of Maria’s daughter’s did not accept the inevitable and refused to consent to remove her life support devices despite the doctors’ fateful prognosis. They resisted the inevitable because they loved their mother so much, but also because they didn’t have to pay for those exorbitant healthcare costs.

Call me callous and cynical if you will, but it seems that people’s compassion gets greater when they rely on the “inexhaustible” Medicare fund. I am sure there are many other cases like Maria’s, that explain why Medicare is a bullet train wreck just around the corner.
The following is an extract from George Will’s column that deals with the biggest economical problem facing us in the not so distant future.
Go to: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will020410.php3
“While China increasingly invests in its future:[education]; America increasingly invests in its past: the elderly. China's ascent to global economic hegemony could be slowed or derailed by unforeseen scarcities or social fissures. America's destiny is demographic, and therefore is inexorable and predictable, which makes the nation's fiscal mismanagement, by both parties, especially shocking”.

Felipe...

So you gonna kill off the Baby Boomers with the Illegals?

Once again...medical REFORM...the system has to be examined from top to bottom.

Charile...

Saw a nice bumper sticker

"Italians never die...they just pasta away"

Mr. FRANK, Mr. Howie, Mr. Felipe, Mr. Victor Economista, " El Grupito ", " The Coconut Club Plus One " et al.,

In a very simplistic way I see the Health Care Reform, Immigration Reform, and the over spending that the present U.S.A. and Global Economies are doing, it boils down to this: " If you have in your bank $1,000 and you only earn $800 month but you have an outlay in expenditures for the upkeep of your family of $3,200 a month, in less than a very short amount of time you will go " BANKRUPT ". I believe Mr. Victor Economista will agree with my concept in the limited financial knowledge of economic concepts that I have. That is your homework for the day. And of course, " No insults, no name calling, BE RESPECTFUL with your comments towards one another ", Please.

Robert...

To be fair, using your analogy...

There ARE many times when borrowing is the correct thing to do...to buy a house, to get you through a down or layed-off period, to invest in an idea that could pay off down the line.

The rub is, of course, when is it no longer a good thing? The obvious things like taking a second mortgage so you can go on a cruise or get a Ferrari instead of a Corolla...but if borrowing means improving yourself or holding out until you can get through a tough time...

You get my point....