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Jon Walker commented on the blog post What Your Recreational Marijuana Label Will Look Like in Washington State
very much so, the pesticides possibly used on marijuana are probably far more dangerous to your health than the marijuana
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Study Indicates Marijuana Could Help Treat Crohn’s Disease
thanks for the heads up will get on it
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Medicaid Study’s Warning for Obamacare Exchanges
Yeah the point remains like with every other form of insurance, the main goal is to protect against financial ruin. Medicaid does that well
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Bush’s Greatest Sin Was Telling America to Be Afraid
I meant to imply it is not technological possible for any of our “enemies”
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Government to Spend Roughly $340 Per Enrollee – Just to Operate Federal Exchanges
This is not just start up cost. They have spend a lot in the pervious years building it.
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Two Big Components of the Affordable Care Act Delayed for a Year
funny I just finish writing about that
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Gitmo: Never Ending Kafkaesque Nightmare… But There Are Video Games!
good point. I was trying to more capture the insanity than give a whole run down of all its many problems
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Who Would Keep Their Euros in a Non-German Bank?
My logic is more that you might have a reason to keep a small local checking account but any large saves you would want in a German bank
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Why I Love Saxby Chambliss’s Honesty on Gay Marriage
I have always been taught you add the ‘s unless the noun end in a “s” because it is plural. http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Obama’s Sequester Replacement Plan Would be Deeply Unpopular
The link is right there in the article http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/deficit_reduction_table_bucketed_r8.pdf
The military cuts Obama is calling for to replace the sequester is much smaller than the current cuts in the sequester
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post The Computer That Could Replace Your Doctor
you mock but things change rapidly. If you had a math problem would you prefer to trust a calculator or trained abacus user.
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post The United States Senate Is a Horrible Institution
difference is Vermont get 1/435 of the house but 1/50 of the Senate
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post The United States Senate Is a Horrible Institution
Not saying whites will not vote for black people but there is an issue of probability. A state like Vermont where only 1 percent is African Americans is very unlikely to elect an African American senator simply because there is almost no possible candidates.
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Reid Considering Incredibly Watered Down Bipartisan Rules Reform. Update: Deal Reached
Thank you DW, It was an expected but still depressing outcome
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Jon Walker commented on the diary post John “Scarecrow” Chandley, RIP by Jane Hamsher.
I will miss the old man
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post The Freedom of No Plausible Bipartisan Agenda
Obama always preferred the cover of actual bipartisan support for advancing his agenda.
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post Administration Seems to Hint that They Will Prioritize Bondholders
Yes there is nothing I have seen that shows the 14th amendment was meant to apply to only a very narrow modern interruption of “debt” as a particular type of financial production. “debt” is money you owe someone not just bonds.
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post The Lie of the Year Should Be Obama’s Promise Not to Raise Taxes on the Middle Class
I don’t know of a single economist who doesn’t agree that changing the CPI will result in the middle class paying more in taxes.
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post How Obama May Use Obamacare to Make Most Americans Worse Off
There is no doubt that at one point Obama agreed to raising the Medicare age and it is not unreasonable to suspect he would be willing to agreed to it again
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Jon Walker commented on the blog post How Obama May Use Obamacare to Make Most Americans Worse Off
Obama agreed to it as part of the deal boehner rejected in 2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/11/obama-medicare-eligibility-age_n_894833.html
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