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Serious, serious pizza
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- Gabe Handel Nov 13, 2000 02:47 PM
I've lived in New England for about fifteen years now, having been a native of Pittsburgh, PA before that. The one thing that I've still not been able to find is a replacement for my absolute favorite pizza on the planet: Vincent's Pizza on Ardmore Boulevard (Forest Hills, PA on the outskirts of Pittsburgh).
If you haven't been to Vincent's, it's going to be hard to visualize the product, much less the actual restaurant (think 60's bar, velvet paintings, smoke, grime, and truck stop, and you'll get close... but not entirely there). Essentially, Vincent turns out an italian pizza with a thin crust under the toppings and a MUCH bigger crust on the edge--it's nicely singed, so there's lots of texture and nutty flavor, but the interior of the crust is very moist and bubbly (almost like foccaccia). Vincent loads the toppings on to the point where one slice is enough for a large meal. Best of all is that this is a pizza that freezes well, and the leftovers are at least as good as the fresh pie, if not better. It's greasy. Very greasy. ...but the grease mingles nicely with the toasted flour under the pizza, and you end up with nice texture and flavor out of that combo.
I've found a few pizzas around here that I really like. Mike's in Davis is a good thin crust cheap eat, as is Cafe Avventura in the Garage in Harvard Square, but neither of them gets the outer crust or the toppings right. Pizzeria Regina's original location turns out a crust that's nearly what I'm looking for, but it's just not big enough at the edges (nor do they heap on the goods the way Vincent does). Unfortunately, a lot of the pizza around here seems to be of the "Town House of Pizza" Greek variety, which doesn't float my boat.
I still haven't made it out to Santarpio's, which I hear is good, but the descriptions I've heard don't offer hope of a match of the Vincent's style. Any ideas, anyone?
Have you tried Pinoccio's in Harvard Square? It's on a little side street off JFK St. They sell Sicilian style as well as more traditional -- the crust is fabulous and the toppings. . .we'd lived here for 30 years and didn't know about it -- we were introduced by our 15-yr-old son. The place is a total dive when it comes to atmosphere, but the pizza is the best I've ever had! Let me know how you like it.
re: sbraverman
I would have to disagree. I think Pinocchio's pizza is just awful. Gummy crust, dried out toppings, and they often don't even take the time to properly reheat it, so it's often served lukewarm. Stay away at all costs!!!
re: Helen
An all time favorite of mine is the original Pizzeria Regina on Thatcher St. in the North End. The atmosphere has been the same for 50 years and so has the quality of the pizza. Another good bet is Circle Pizza on Hanover St. in the North End. Both places serve traditional pies. You won't find smoked salmon or leeks as toppings in these places.
re: Jim Leff
I'd have to side with Jim on the Regina issue. I never got to eat there ten years ago, but simply considering the fuss surrounding it and the legends you hear of the crust and taste...well, it fails miserably. For me, the pizza standard-bearers are the New Haven places in their heyday and places like the Star Tavern in East Orange New Jersey. Few, if any, Boston places equal this thin-crusted, greasy goodness. Emma's is in a league of it's own, but in the high-falutin' pie sense of the word. Santarpiro's seems to have potential, but never quite hits it. The experience is great, though. Boston's just not a pizza town.
re: Frank
overwhelmingly Pizza Regina, the original one in the end, hidden away from the main drag though..ask and be delivered to one of the best pizza's in boston...advice though...order it "Well Done" other wise it comes out tooo sloppy...
last time i was in the north end Circle Pizza was closed...otherwise i would have recommened that one as well...
other best bets...Bella Luna in Jamaica Plain...(and you can go bowling there afterword at the Milky way downstairs...and for best bets...i still love the pizza in my home town of Springfield , MA (they haven't got much else other than good pizza but...) i like the Red Rose on Main Street or Primo's on Worthington Street (near the police HQ)
re: BostonOpus
How can anyone say that Springfield only has PIZZA. I know there is good pizza, and Rose's is the best, since SIANO's in Chicopee (Mike's or Peppi's) and probably Nardie's are gone. What about The Student Prince and Fort Restaurant on Fort St. 413-734-7475, for Continental, German leaning, Cuisine. If Ruppert would still be alive he would find you and drag you in to taste some of their food. It is great. I used to be the Head Chef there, a few years back, ask Rudi, Peter or Barbara, or Hubie the Chef for me by name, and you will get a good seat!. Copy this posting and bring it to them as hard copy! Peter
re: Peter B. Wolf
my bad, its been a few years since i lived there, and fogot about the prince...my deepest apologies to the late ruppert...
and in addition springfeild does have good italian food in general...not much else to see there, except the hall of fame (if you like basketball
re: Peter B. Wolf
if you are looking for a great pizza,try lynwood cafe in randolf.the crust is the best,nice and thin and doesn't flop.expect a 45 min. wait on friday and sat. night after 6:00.
re: nobluff
I heartily agree re: the Lynwood Cafe in Randolph. Went for the first time last week and had their special pizza with anchovies. Crust, cheese and toppings were darn near perfect!!!
I've heard great things about Galeria Umberto in North End. Because they're only open during lunch time, I've never managed to make the trip. Please go eat there and debrief.
re: Larry
Emma's is a definite favorite. I loved their Huron Ave location, and haven't had a chance to get to them since they moved, but have heard it's just as good as ever. I'm going to check out Pinocchio's again. I had a slice there once, and it wasn't bad, but it was a long time ago, and I think it was an off-time (3PM or so), so it wasn't as good as it could have been. I'm curious about Galeria Umberto, and will check that out soon. Thanks, everyone!
re: Gabe Handel
If you get pizza at Pinnochios in Harvard Sq, make sure to get the thick crust, not the thin. They reheat the thick crust for you which makes the crust on the bottom nice and crispy and rebubbles the toppings. Almost no one orders thin crust pizzas there, so they tend to sit around.
Do try Santarpio's. The ambience will be a closer match to what you've described than anything else in town. It's loud, smoky, none too clean and covered with boxing posters. At the bar, you can overhear tidbits of the most fascinating conversations (women and gambling seem to be the favorite topics, along with darker hints about why the owner had enough clout to fight the city's plan to build an overpass on his property instead of at its current nearby location). The pizza itself isn't as large or as heaped with toppings as you might like, but the crust is a joy - thin and chewy, with just the right degree of char. Good tomato sauce/cheese ratio too.
Your best bet is to go with fewer toppings. An everything pizza I ordered arrived disturbingly underdone (and garnered disapproving commentary from the regulars who believe quite firmly that a mass of toppings usually means someone is trying to camouflage low quality crust and sauce). But the plain cheese and the garlic and onion pizzas are marvelous. They also have excellent wood fire-grilled lamb tips and sausages, served simply with a hunk of bread and hot peppers. Enjoy.
re: AirportGirl
Where is it located? You've peaked my interest and I really want to try it. I've just moved to the Lawrence area and I haven't had time to thoroughly explore Boston yet, but Santarpio's seems like my kind of place. Is it easy to find?
re: Gabe Handel
The gigantic Santarpio's sign is the first thing you see when you take the local exit at the end of the Callahan tunnel. You really can't miss it.
re: AirportGirl
Santarpio's is brilliant.
I've been eating there since I was 5 years old, and I learned this important guideline early on.
re: john
Well, I finally got out to try Santarpio's. It was pretty good, but I don't think it's my Boston area favorite. The meat kabobs looked fabulous, though, so I'm sure I'll go back to try those out.
The pizza was definitely quite good, and it was better with fewer toppings than with many (as so many folks here indicated). We tried a plain cheese and a pepper & onion, and the plain cheese was a far cry better on consistency (the other ended up a tad soggy). The crust was really unique. Thin, but dense and chewy, and with a really crisp exterior. Lots of cornmeal on the bottom. It was a good crust, but while the crunch was good, it lacked some of the elasticity and bubbliness that I like in a pizza crust. The cheese and the sauce were very good. The sauce wasn't that tinny, sweet stuff that you so often get at your version of the "Town House of Pizza," but rather it was a simple italian plum tomato.
The setting was just as described. It was a bit too cold, so we wore our jackets (for some reason, I have a mental association of warmth with the best pizza places -- perhaps it's the ovens).
The cold pizza test, this morning, went well for the most part. Unfortunately, though, Santarpio's didn't use a pizza box for our leftovers. Instead, the slices were piled on top of each other in a standard styrofoam take-out box, so the crusts got soggy from the toppings below them.
Overall, this was a pretty good pizza joint. I'd go there again (and I'll definitely try the kabobs). However, I think that Regina's North End location beats it (at least for the style of pizza that I love).
re: Gabe Handel
Your suspicions were correct - the bar-b-q is really great. They serve lamb, sausage, or a combo of both. I like the sausage better than the lamb, which I found a bit fatty. The italian sausage is very tasty, with fennel and tasty black pepper. It's served with a hard italian bread and some really yummy pickled hot peppers.
Caveat - stuff from the grill can take a while to cook. Often, your pizza arrives first. It's good to get your grill order in with you initial drink order.
caveat #2 - i've been going to Santarp's since I was 5 years old, and I swear they have some of the same old waiters there. Some of these guys were just as cantankerous in 1978! Have another bottled domestic beer, put another Sinatra tune on the jukebox, and assume the proper attitude.
re: JJ
Excellent recommendations about Santarpio's. I grew up and still live in Connecticut, and I can tell you that Santarpio's is the only pizza joint that can take a seat with the great pizza joints of New Haven.
Santarpio's is wonderful, the staff is crabby, a true Boston experience I hit every time in town. The sausage bar-b-que is a must, the secret is the sweet tomato sauce, that's what makes Santarpio's pizza special, most great pizzas depend on the bread and having minimal sauce, but not Santarpio's, their pizza is just magic!
re: Captain EO
Can anyone tell me whether this place is reachable by subway? Which station is closest? Maverick or Airport? Can you walk there from one of those stations?
re: Stevens
by subway go to maverick when you get out on the street stay to your right and walk straight down chelsea street for 1\2 to 3\4 ? of a mile or so its on you right before the overpass
re: C. Fox
follow 1a all the way to the airport, but instead of going up to the left towards the airport stay to the right.take your first left and right at the light.follow that st. till it splits[rite in the middle is a roast beef place]go to the left of the RB place,you will be on chelsea st follow chelsea st till you see Santarpios on your left. you can park on the left under the bridge. ENJOY
re: Scott Mccarrick
Thanks! I'm going to the airport today. I'll be saving my appetite for a li'l side trip!
re: AirportGirl
Was stranded in Boston for a few hours last weekend and decided to try Santarpios. Loved it! I won't say that it was the best pizza I've ever had (though is was damn good!) but the atmosphere of the place was great. I like joints where real people go to really eat, not to play pretention games. This was certainly that. I don't live close enough to become a regular there, but I'm definitely going back whenever possible from now on.
I think the best pizza is at Cafe Louis. It is grilled over wood coals and is very thin and crispy. It is not just boring mozzarella either. It is the same pizza as Al Forno restaurant in Providence.
Check out Amici's in West Medford, right on High St. I go there every now and again to taste pizza the way I remember it from my CT/NY upbringing. I order and consume a whole small pie, and every ambrosial bite glides down my throat like a blessing and fills my stomach and my soul with deep contentment.
I do not know of a place with the extra-size rim you appear to desire. But, after years of looking, I have found a place that uses genuine sliced Italian meatballs on its meatball pizza (instead of morsels of seasoned ground meat): DiPietro's on Highland Ave in the west side of Malden, near Medford. Nice thin crust (but not extra thin), nice cheese, no sugary sweet tomato sauce (pet peeve: never use tomato sauce that has corn syrup--it's revolting).
Another good pizza to try is the famous Zazza pizza at Caruso's on Main Street in Melrose, made only with tomato sauce, garlic, basil and cheese (the sauce is put on top of the cheese, and the cheese bubbles up through it) on a reasonably thin crust. It's quite good, but pick it up yourself, as it gets ruined if delivered.... Caruso's is also closed on Sundays.
i grew up in everett been going to santarpios since i was 8 or so i find it to be the best pizza on the east coast an iv tried pizza from bar harbor (maine) to daytona
This aint your traditional pizza by a long shot
but Iggy's Bakery in Watertown MA makes a range
of sourdough pizzas that are to die for.
A few suggestions:
On the upscale side, Figs (Todd English's chain, in Charlestown, Beacon Hill, and suburbs)has some truly excellent pizza. Very thin crust, excellent toppings, including some unusual yet delicious combinations (the fig and prosciutto pizza is a classic). Granted, it's a gourmet pie, but a very worthy one. And the other food is awfully good too.
And then there is Ernesto's (formerly Giorgio's) on Salem Street in the North End, "home of the two-pound pie."(!) Fortunately, it's notable for quality AND quantity. It's got a tasty, medium-thick crust (that's the regular pizza, their sicilian is nothing special), excellent sauce, good cheese. All the standard toppings are very good, some of the unusual ones are too. The eggplant (an old favorite) is hit-or-miss -- occasionally phenomenal, often a bit too bready. Prices have increased over the last few years, but it's still pretty cheap. Be warned: a "slice" is a quarter of a large pie.
Neither can take the place of Vincent's (based on your description), but they both serve fine pies.
There's a place at Haymarket (in the building adjacent to the produce stalls) that makes a pretty good, though not spectacular, pizza. Good, thin, chewy crust, some dark brown/black spots, average sauce, and most importantly, not overloaded with cheese. It's a bargain too-around $6 for a large pie.
Go to Concord Mass, The New London Pizza, is across from the train station. It is also across the street from a brick oven place, but having compared them, the New London is the place to go. I live in Marblehead, but every time I am any where near Concord, I make a special trip to the New London. Thin crust, crispy enough to pick up a slice without it drooping. I use garlic like a vegetable and they make a great garlic pizza. The sauce is delicate and never overpowering. My recomendation is: GO THERE.
I grew up less than a mile from Vincent's Pizza in Pittsburgh. For the last 19 years I've looked extensively in St. Louis, New York, Boston and (believe it or not) Hong Kong for a better pie. I have not found one. I have a picture of a Vinny pie with sausage and pepperoni on my desk so I can slobber over it every day.
Boston is particularly dispappointing:
Santarpio's - Ten years ago, OK, now it's no better than Dominoes. And also stay away from the impossible to chew lamb kabobs. I don't know what the big deal about this place is.
Galleria Umberto - Good, but certainly not much variety and has odd hours (I think they quit when the dough runs out).
There are some good 'non-traditional' pies here, such as at Figs, but for plain good pizza, it doesn't get better than the original Regina's. (Having just moved back to Boston, I do need to try some of these chow hounds suggestions, though.)
It's hard to believe, but Pittsburgh must have at least five pizzerias better than anything in Boston.
My advice is get in your car and drive to New Haven for either a Sally's or Pepe's pizza. In all the places I've eaten pizza (including over 200 in NY City alone - at least 10 places in each borough), the New Haven places - both on the same street - come closest to Vinny's in quality. I would often take the Sunday NY Times and get on the Metro North train (2.5 hours each way to New Haven) just for the pizza.
If you plan to go to NYC for pizza, e-mail me. If I find anything worth reporting in Boston, I'll post it here.


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Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Thursday he wants the former CEO of Mamtek to have GPS monitoring.
Bruce Cole is awaiting trial on four counts of securities fraud and one count of felony theft following the failure of the Moberly Mamtek plant.
Cole is currently under house arrest and must have electronic monitoring. According to Koster, the current monitoring system is inadequate and only shows when Cole enters or leaves his home.
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A hearing on the proposed monitoring and changes to Cole's bond conditions is schedule for Monday, May 20 in St. Charles County Circuit Court.
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1994 Chevrolet Camaro User Reviews
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Chris writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Convertible Review
Lots of power, Real head turner, Lots of fun, Lights turn completely off while driving...(comes in handy)
Gas mileage, Road noise, 2 low 2 ground, Fiber glass hood...(cant handle a little hail?)
My Camaro — Well its Amazing to me.. Been told its well over 400 horse by a few of my mechanics.. Because its a convertible there is alot of road noise and the suspension is very tight so I feel every bump or crack in the road and its VERY low to the ground so I have to go like 5km or less over speed bumps.... Only repairs so far and ive owned it for a year and a half now would be Spark plugs/ Wires and a new battery but it hailed a while ago and the hood and top need to be repaired/replaced because of it... I think its gorgeous and almost everyone I know who has seen it thinks the same... Gas mileage is amazing compared to my truck lol but still really bad compared to other cars.. about 16 mpg when driving nice... the car is SOOOO much fun like you have no idea how much fun ive had in this thing...
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
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Micah writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Review
T-Tops, Fast, Powerful, fun
wide turning radius, loud, heavy, horrible in bad weather, not much storage space
Fun Car In The Summer — Overall, this is an awesome car to drive. It is fast, powerful, and American made. It has somewhat quick acceleration. The car is heavy in the front end, so braking is not as good as some other cars. gas mileage sucks. I get maybe 18 mpg on a good day. There is ample leg room in the front two seats for anyone over 6 feet, although the car does sit low to the ground. The rear seat are very impractical. There is hardly any leg room at all in back.
Tony writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Base Review
Sporty look, All-American name
Terrible seats will cause back problems and it's horrible in the snow.
All In All, A Dependable, Good Looking Summer Car. — Sporty look, well layed out interior, but V6 had no power and seats were terrible. While I had it, I had to replace tires, a leaky injector, and when I sold it, it needed tie rods and ball joints. Tires were an odd size too. Over two years, that's not too bad.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Preston writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Review
Torque and horsepower
Raining grip
Amazing! — I love the torque and how it spins the tires very well! It takes your breathe away every time you hit the gas pedal. When i was stock it had great gas mileage but not so much anymore! It handles well with the sub-frame connectors!
Tony writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Convertible Review
Just look at it
the price of fuel in the UK
My Camaro — The car looks great, Gloss black is the only color! The interior has been re-upholstered with tan Connolly Leather drives like a real car,you throw it into corners and accelerate out, the 5.7 LTI engine goes like a bat outta hell.
Tyler writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Review
TTops, Performance, Looks
Winter driving, mileage not that great.
94 Z28 Camaro — Crazy Fast. Ttops are awesome. Some people complain about the interior, but its a muscle car not a caddilac. The seats are very comfortable, at least in the front. Forget about the back seat. It sucks driving in winter. It also is difficult to work on bc its very tight in the engine compartment. I love the styling. Got about 15 mpgs while romping on it continuously.
Nikki writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Review
Vroom Vroom!
CD player never worked from new...
Love It! — Awesome car. This thing will go! Good quality on the build. Smokes when you want it to. Great gas mileage---35 mpg on the freeway at 80 mph! Fun fun fun for this granny! Don't drive it in the winter though.....not much traction!
Aaron writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Base Review
maintnance free, zippy, head turner
not awesome on fuel, little back seat room, not enough power
1994 Chevrolet Camaro — overall the camaro is a great car. but there is some down sides. the car is only a v6 so not quite enough power to spin tires(160hp) but it does do a one wheelie wonder. its pretty fast off the line hits 100km/h in second gear and tops out between 190-200 km/h. thats pretty good for a v6. brakes quick and strong. handles like a dream it goes where you want. the car has been good for repairs i have done nothing to the car for as long as i have had it the previous owner did an alternator. no road noise very quiet. a very sleek clean fast looking car the inside is very accommodating. the back seat has little room and the e-brake is on the other side of the center console. comfy to sit in. a great heater for winter heats that car up in no time. it only does 20-25 mpg right now from empty it takes $51 to fill gas is at 83.9 l so its not bad but not great. but for maintenance there is very little very great running car. the car is a joy to drive it gets some looks turns heads. a nice car to rip around in and be a bit different.
Alicia Anne writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Convertible Review
loved everything about it
Camaro Z28 Convertible — i love the fact that it was a convertible..... it had modified engine to make it go faster!!! mint condition.... all i can say about performance is WOW! it was a dream car!!! so fun to drive...handled like a dream.. i miss this car so much and would love to find another one just like it
Luis writes:
1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Convertible Review
94 Camaro Z28 — This is one of the funnest cars to drive that ive ever owned. the acceleration is one of the best qualities of the car, and how could it not be with a 5.7L V8! the only thing i have changed is the brake pads, gas milage is definately a minus. I am currently selling it for $3500 o.b.o, not because i don't want it, but because thats what i do.
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I love this car overall. The radio is unimpressive for reasons I listed above. The gas mileage isn't too bad, particularly on the highway. The trunk space is impressive considering it's a sports ca... Read More
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This car is everything I hoped it would be and more. It has better power than my 90's Z28 but still gets 30 MPG. The front seats are very comfortable. The rear seats are a little small but that's w... Read More
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23,000 miles and still as tight as day I bought it, no rattles, still handles and runs like new big chevy V8 gets great gas mileage on the highway. don't have any bad things to say about this car. ... Read More
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With over 2,000 assaults per year nationwide, an average of five per day, driver assaults is clearly a concern, not only for transit systems in protecting their employees, but a wider concern for public safety, said CUTA officials.
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Predictable sentencing and penalties for those who commit assaults against transit operators would be an added tool for transit agencies in their efforts towards protecting employees and the Canadian public. "CUTA and our members are also working diligently to put in place other preventive security measures" Leclerc mentioned, referring to closed circuit television cameras and increased security personnel as examples.
The issue has been at the forefront of CUTA's efforts to support and represent the transit industry and its members, which include nearly all transit systems across Canada.
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elements of the dance - the flirtatious interactions, the abandoned
lunges, knife-sharp kicks and taut swivels. The choreography
retains the intimacy between two dancers, but casts off tango's
more restrictive conventions.
Reinterpreting it in her own expansive style, Revfeim uses the
entire body rather than just the legs and feet. Smouldering in red
and black, the women wear layered skirts, split to show length and
leg, while bare shoulders give a sense of the heat of a crowded
salon, and of the dance itself. "Turid Revfeim turns tango
conventions into a playful, even abandoned dance of courtship in Si
Supieras, incorporating beautiful pas de deux work into the complex
suite of tangos composed by Jonathan Besser." - The Dominion
Seasons: 2005
Choreography: Turid Revfeim
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Music: Jonathan Besser
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I am so glad a site like this exist :) read all the EAS and MAS postings. Painful :(
So I am married for 3 years , my husband worships me and loves me. The sex part was never great and I keep getting desires but is left unfulfilled. We have also been ttc since one year but of no use. Further depression :(
I met this great guy 3 months back through online chatting. He was great to talk and I instantly fell for his charms. We have been talking everday till wee hours. He is very sexual person and matches my intensity when we talky about our fantasies.
He later told me he is married and has two kids. He says he is separated from his wife though (might not be true).
Things were going great and we have planned to meet next moth. But past few weeks he has started not giving me enough time and love. He says he is busy with work and that makes me confused. I miss him.
I love my husband but the lack of intimacy kills me. Though he says he is ready to try but I dont feel so much attractions towards him now. :( I know I am such a B****.
What should I do ? Should I still meet my AP and have the greatet sex of my life ? Can I get away with this without a scar ?
I am so confused and helpless !


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Mozilla to Adobe: PDFs don't need no more steenking plugins
Mozilla's come right out and said what plenty of people think about PDF-reading browser plugins: they're often woefully insecure, generally replicate things browsers can already do and rely on proprietary technology. Mozilla's answer is HTML 5 allied with the pdf.js project, which together allow a newly-released beta of Firefox …
So almost 3 years behind Chrome! Wow!
Re: Chrome
Lol! Burn.
Re: Chrome
Re: Chrome
Umm... no? https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js, it's literally a javascript library that anyone can use, it just comes with Firefox. Want to use it on a website? It's right there, just include the pdf.js script...
Re: Chrome
It would actually be helpful if the article explained why this is different than when pdf.js was included about a year ago in Firefox 14?
Is it just enabled by default now? It's certainly not new.
Re: Chrome
I don't actually want my browser to display pdf files. I want them downloaded.
Before someone claims the contrary
It works perfectly on Opera.
Welcome news.
And so ends another why-the-hell-did-we-put-up-with-that era.
What's changed?
Isn't the danger in the flexibility of the format and the poor coding?
Let's just hope the mozilla and chrome coders are better than adobe's.
What about the other way round?
For many many years ColdFusion (shudder) has been able to convert HTML into Pointless Document Format. Will Firefox be able to do the same? (not that there's ever any need whatsoever for making a PDF out of anything)
Re: What about the other way round?
Firefox on Android can.
Re: What about the other way round?
That sounds complicated. Are there still OSs out there that do not include a PDF printer by default?
Re: What about the other way round?
Firefox on Linux can.
I love how when someone is having a browse on the internet, maybe looking up some info on the local council website or something, and they blindly click a link to a PDF file, and expecting a normal HTML page to load, you suddenly hear them say "oh for fucks sake" under their breath as the adobe plug-in slowly loads up!
This news will make Firefox users slightly more productive and swear less - I support it fully!
Re: Peedy-eff!
The issue isn't really the plugin, it's the f'ing 8.1mb file size to see a 2 page document becuase some numpty has directly copied a photo from their camera in it.
Does this get over that?
Re: Peedy-eff!
Given that many business all-in-one printer/scanner/etc machines include the option to e-mail a scanned PDF, it seems woefully unlikely.
Why would you want to view a pdf in the browser anyway?
If I get pointed at a pdf, it gets downloaded and then viewed.
There's simply no need for a pdf in a web-page except as a downloadable object. As the thing is intended to be downloaded and viewed off line, what's the point of an embedded reader?
Re: Why would you want to view a pdf in the browser anyway?
Perhaps you just want a quick glance at the info they've sequestered into the pointless blob... without the download-piontless-blob/load-bloated,insecure,unnecessary-crapware/view-info/cleanup rigmarole?
Re: Why would you want to view a pdf in the browser anyway?
Exactly, such as in my example earlier, people sometimes just want to check what day the dustmen are coming to collect the trash aka rat-feeder, hence why they say "oh for fucks sake" when their browser slows the heck up to load a plug in!
Downloading the info then opening up the reader app separately will certainly result in even more swearing - probably something like "oh for fucks sake this is seriously fucking fucky! - I fucking hate Adobe! - the bunch of fucking bastards! - I wish they would all just do a cult style suicide pact and drink bleach and cyanide and spare us from this endless shit! - bunch of fucking sub human fuck scum fucking fuckers!"
Re: Why would you want to view a pdf in the browser anyway?
I've always found opening PDF files in an external reader (other than Adobe's obviously) to be much faster and far less frustrating than waiting for the Adobe plugin to load.
PDFs are absolutely fine as long as you stay away from the Adobe software.
Re: Why would you want to view a pdf in the browser anyway?
Your example is best done in a calendar now, so hopefully your local authority/council/whatever-it's-called will ditch PDF for a public calendar display (gee maybe even Google Calendar?) so you don't have to go through all that swearing at Adobe, your council, and their web "design" staff.
Instead you just include their calendar into your own setup, just like including the public holidays (you DO include those important dates in your calendar app, don't you?).
Re: Why would you want to view a pdf in the browser anyway?
While the rant has a good flow and rhythm, your wording's a little off at the end.
They are "scum *S*ucking fuckers", not "scum *F*ucking fuckers"!
"PDFs are absolutely fine as long as you stay away from the Adobe software."
I use ghostscript and find a lot of pdfs are broken (FS is pretty intolerant of bad markup).
I don't know if these borked ones are adobe generated or otherwise produced. When I find them I need a acrobat or foxit to read them.
They are "scum *S*ucking fuckers", not "scum *F*ucking fuckers"!
Duly noted!
I take it I wont be marked A* then? - or should that be F* ?
Seriously? You're COMPLAINING about the difficulty of opening PDFs?
PDF is sufficiently ubiquitous that I don't even think about them. On my hard drive. On a web page, in a browser. As an e-mail attachment. On my phone. In a standalone app... I don't even give it thought. it just works. It's been at least five years since PDF presented any challenge at any time.
Now, if you want to talk flash web stuff in any browser on my Android phone.....
Re: Seriously? You're COMPLAINING about the difficulty of opening PDFs?
"PDF is sufficiently ubiquitous that I don't even think about them"..."I don't even give it thought. it just works"
The malware writers must love you...
"oh a pdf"
...clicky clicky....
"oh where's my data gone...what's this message? give you $150 and you'll unencrypt my drive you say?"
I'm glad that PDF was so easy to open.
[later on]
[ring ring]
"Hi Microsoft Support"
"My computer has a virus and you detected remotely? How kind of you to call, yes of course you can have my bank account details...what do you mean you have them already?"
The worst thing about PDF remains incurable... the file bloat...
"oh for fucks sake this is seriously fucking fucky! - I fucking hate Adobe! - the bunch of fucking bastards! - I wish they would all just do a cult style suicide pact and drink bleach and cyanide and spare us from this endless shit! - bunch of fucking sub human fuck scum fucking fuckers!"
...is exactly what I said last time I had to download a 36MB PDF just for an address!
Oh for fucks sake this is seriously fucking fucky! - I fucking hate Adobe! - the bunch of fucking bastards! - I wish they would all just do a cult style suicide pact and drink bleach and cyanide and spare us from this endless shit! - bunch of fucking sub human fuck scum fucking fuckers!
Re: Sadly...
The file bloat is mostly a function of document makers going overboard with embedded graphics and fonts. Simple ones with only, say, one or two fonts and a smattering of relatively simple graphics, don't really tip the scales very much.
Re: Sadly...
Indeed. My Master's dissertation runs to 117 pages of which about one tenth are colour images - and still fits into a 1.7MB pdf. Mind you, that's only fifteen thousand words, so it ought to be about 100kB for the text...
Has it improved?
Last time I tried pdf.js in Firefox it had a fair number of rendering issues. For the time being my solution is to use the Sumatra PDF plugin. Bloat-free, perfect rendering and starts in seconds.
People still use Adobe acrobat reader? Its the biggest pile of bloatware on the planet, i long since dumped it on windows in favour of foxit reader and not found a pdf yet its not been able to handle. Although for a while the royalmail.com website insisted you had adobe reader installed and refused to work with any other pdf reader but they seemed to have dropped that requirement now.
Fine for Static PDFs
The alternatives work well for static PDFs and some of them even support Acrobat forms but so far there are no third-party replacements for Adobe's own reader for filling in XML-based PDF forms generated by Adobe LiveCycle.
Re: Fine for Static PDFs @ Gerald Krupa
No third party support for PDF Forms - that's a good thing - lets not encourage the bastards.
PDF Forms - has there ever been anything more pointless - lets collect some information and lock it away so we can't use it.
Burn Adobe, burn in hell.
PDF is one of those typical unavoidable bad things which became indispensable by lack of alternative to somewhat easy to exchange intensely *formatted* texts which also needed to be *printable* and * presentable* over a range of platforms and media including paper which ruled out HTML4 or XHTML1 for many many reasons. Postscript was at the time too limited for typical use cases and why LaTeX didn't take off huge I still don't know but someone might be able to explain. In the end people didn't even do PDF that much and kept sending Word documents to world + dog and an industry of Word viewers popped up to "fix" that.
In the mean time SVG has been established somewhat but it took quite a while to agree. And it didn't become really simpler when you want to do something complex without the right tools, at least that's my impression so far. I'm sure a whole generation of SVG haters will rise with it.
I could never really come up with an answer to "Why don't they send it as a Word document? Everyone has Word!" Other than the fact the "everyone" had a pirate copy of Word.
Why not LaTeX?
It's simple, really. Every LaTeX-prepared document I've ever seen has used the most dog-ugly scratchy font I've ever had the misfortune to see. Uglier even than the dog-ugly scratchy renditions of the Latin alphabet in most for-the-Orient fonts.
And they have all been impenetrably obtuse academic papers, so the marketroids avoid it like the plague. Who wants their marketing material to look like an obtuse academic paper written in a font too ugly to qualify for Oriental-font Latin-part status?
Re: Quite.
"...I could never really come up with an answer to "Why don't they send it as a Word document? Everyone has Word!" Other than the fact the "everyone" had a pirate copy of Word..."
And that is why I spend so much of my time headbutting my keyboard. Because there are still so many people out there who think Windoze + Office = computer.
I don't have Word. I never have had Word. I never will have Word. I won't have any Microsoft software installed on any computer I own. Ever.
Thumbs up for PDF. It's not the file format's fault that there are fuckwitts out there too stupid to create optimised PDFs for email or web use —any more than the jpeg format is to blame for people embedding a 3000 pixel wide photograph, scaled down to the size of an avatar, on a web-page
Re: Why not LaTeX?
You sure you don't have a myopia?
LaTeX vs PDF
why LaTeX didn't take off huge I still don't know...
I like LaTeX, but LaTeX itself is too complex for non-technical users. Even with good tooling that abstracts away most of the macros and settings (eg LyX), LaTeX users need to have some understanding of the toolchain and how it operates. Some manager banging out a memo does not want to confront an "overfull h-box" error.
And LaTeX's sprawling collection of add-on packages are also too confusing for casual users. Again, even with a decent package manager, occasional users will have trouble with this right when they don't want to worry about it. "This document needs soul? It needs Frankenstein? Am I printing a script for Buffy the Vampire Slayer?"
(Incidentally, Steve the Cynic complains about fonts in LaTeX rendered documents. That's a sign that the author didn't bother getting a decent font, of which there are a great many available for LaTeX. My typical LaTeX document, rendered in Palatino with proper kerning, microjustification, protrusions, etc, looks a hundred times better than anything Word can produce.)
Yes, much of that could be addressed with better tooling, but building that, in a manner that provides a pleasant, low-effort user experience for the average office user, is a great deal of work. And it'd be hard to get paid for that work, since the underlying tech is free.
But in any case, comparing LaTeX with PDF is a category error. LaTeX is a typesetting language and associated resources. PDF is a file format that's mostly concerned with specifying page layout. LaTeX documents are frequently used to generate PDFs (eg via pdftex). LaTeX is closer to HTML+CSS in this sense - it's instructions for composing a document, not a description of the final rendering.
What happens if it comes across an encrypted document? Will it still respect the permissions? And embedded documents? Forms?
I hope not
which encryption? password protected content? I hope it goes "I'm sorry, this is not open data, whoever put this file online is a complete idiot". But it's also just an open source project that anyone can use, which the article forgot to mention. Hit up https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js and find out whether it does what you want.
PDFs are nice if you have documents that you're likely to want to print or send around by email. Unfortunately they get used inappropriately far too much. You shouldn't really need a browser plugin, because stuff posted on the web should be in HTML, not PDFs.
For example, huge user manuals in PDF format you need to download, when it could be put online with RoboHelp or tomeCMS or similar. I might only want the info in some subsection, I really don't want to download a huge 40MB file just to be able to get to that.
Re: PDFs
Surprised nobody mentioned OS X. All onscreen rendering is PDF based.
That's why there is a Save for PDF section in every print dialogue box.
Every native OS X application including Safari (which shares a fair bit code with Chrome) can render PDF.
First thing I check on ever Apple I play with (which is several thousand so far) is if the cursed Adobe PDF plugin has been removed and if not, to swiftly dispose of it.
Re: PDFs
"...Surprised nobody mentioned OS X. All onscreen rendering is PDF based..."
That's because this is El Reg. You're only allowed to make positive comments about Linux and Android. Anything else is trolling, shilling or fanboi-ism.
Re: PDFs and OS X
Are you sure it isn't actually Display Postscript v3, which just so happens to be able to render PDF v1.5 ....
I'm just thinking that Postscript and Apple goes way back to 1985 and the LaserWriter. Plus Steve Jobs used Display Postscript on the NeXT; which as we know was effectively the protoype for OS/X. (Adobe also made Display Postscript widely available on Unix during the 1990's). And PDF v1.5 was only finalised in late 2003, compared to PS v3 in 1997 and the first release of OS X in 2002.
Why Bother?
With HTML 5 getting more and more support daily i'm writing more and more code that does a better job that a "Peedy-Eff" in that its ...
1. Better quality
2. Smaller
3. Doesn't take 3 weeks to download
4. Is based on well known standards
This IMO is a failing of the provider of the document ... if it's something that "trivial" that you want to glance at it should not be a PDF at all and should in fact just be on the friggin web page.
So to put it bluntly ...
PDF is dead, it's an archaic method of making a document and serves no purpose on the web.
It belongs in a desktop driven world (which basically doesn't exist any more) for larger "100+ page" type scenarios only.
I wish Adobe would just retire that POS so the world can get on with using either OOXML or HTML5 to get the job done.
Re: Why Bother?
If HTML 5 docs would be "smaller" will most often have to do with the choice in images and fonts being embedded. There are some other things I'm not that sure about how to do in HTML like overlaying OCR-text and image of that text in a sensible way. And I mean without recreating the same situation as we had in PDF already but then worse. I've done it in SVG so I guess we could embed SVG in HTML5 at the very least. Don't forget it's not just about a presentation version for web viewing but also has to be able to serve as exchange format and the other party has to be able to have all the information of the originals. The reason people want to view PDF "as is" on the web page is just because it's work to convert between page and screen oriented layouts. So people don't bother to recreate the document, they just render on the web what they have. If they would create in HTML5 I wonder what will happen when people want to print seriously and serially (in pages). What you see is what you print? Or is your HTML5 with printing stylesheet going to give all kinds of surprises? I'm not impressed with previewing functions of browers although they are getting there.
>I could never really come up with an answer to "Why don't they send it as a Word document? Everyone has >Word!" Other than the fact the "everyone" had a pirate copy of Word.
Not me. Not getting it either, pirated or legit. Someone[1] sent me a Word document to fill out. Office 365 trial couldn't render it correctly, I had to download and install the Office trial. What a performance.
I've probably still got the floppy disks for Word 6,
I'll post them over, if you like!
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It is not surprising that a Democrat-controlled Congress, working with a Democrat president, managed to enact ObamaCare a little over a year ago. After all, supporters of the law had promised — bizarrely — that it would control medical costs while simultaneously extending coverage to tens of millions more Americans.
And yet, the public never got nearly as excited about ObamaCare as the president and Democrats in Congress did. Even if most Americans — and many members of Congress — didn't know all the details, the public had enough sense to realize, from the experience of huge cost overruns in other entitlement programs, that ObamaCare would not cut costs. Because of that and ObamaCare's other problems, opinion polls on the law didn't show big support for it around the time it passed.
But what is amazing and encouraging is that the public still hasn't been bamboozled by all the hype about ObamaCare. Ever since it passed, ObamaCare has gotten consistently low marks in opinion surveys. The Democrats' hoped-for acceptance of the law simply has not materialized.
In fact, the public is souring on ObamaCare even further. A recent Associated Press-GfK poll found that only about one-third of Americans now support the law! That's the least support the law has had since its enactment in 2010. Among senior citizens, just 29 percent back ObamaCare — and nearly 60 percent are against it. That may be because they are aware of how ObamaCare will shuffle money out of Medicare to pay for the law's big new spending.
Meanwhile, a recent Rasmussen Reports survey of likely voters finds a majority want ObamaCare repealed outright. Rasmussen has never found less than 50 percent support for repeal since the law passed, and never have more than 43 percent of respondents opposed repeal.
The man whom the president appointed as the head of Medicare, Donald Berwick, casually dismissed Americans' opposition to ObamaCare. He said the public is in a "psychological trap, where nothing looks good," the AP reported.
Actually, the public has its eyes wide open on ObamaCare and has seen through the budgetary smoke and mirrors that were used to pass it. Whatever ails U.S. medical care — and it certainly has problems — the American people realize that more federal control and spending is no solution.
Repeal of ObamaCare will be hard and may never happen. But Republicans in Congress who oppose it have strong support from the public, and should continue seeking to dismantle this unconstitutional law.
45 Million Americans without health insurance. Our private insurance industry dictates to doctors how they can treat their own patients, from the tests they can order to the medication that they can prescribe. All the while insurance companies are turning billions in profits. People are having major surgery and being sent home the same day. Poor people on medicaid are denied access to specialists.
...And then their are those who think medicare is a free ride. My friend draws $1068.00 a month in disability benefits, he pays $118.00 a month for medicare part B, another $45.00 a month for medicare part D (a gift to big pharma from George W.), he pays another $280.00 a month in co-pays for just four different medicines, add to that $230.00 a month for medigap insurance just to protect the few meager assets he has. Imagine living on $395.00 a month.
I am not cheering Obamacare but those of you who think our health care delivery system is the best have never been seriously ill or injured. Face it, our system leaves a lot of people wanting.
That's wrong with people opposing Obama's healthcare reform, the response to anyone that agrees with universal healthcare is always, "go to another country if you don't like the way things are!" which is such a childish response. Whether you believe in universal education and healthcare you have to admit that what we have right now does not work. Our public school system is HORRIBLE! Most inner city schools have students sharing textbooks because there isn't enough funding. The books they share are usually years old/irrelevant by the time they are donated by private schools once they are done with them. We no longer lead the way in academics in any subject, especially mathematics. Go to a grocery store, checkout at register that has a teen cashier, and when your total comes to $12.38 give them a $20 bill. Watch the panic come over them until the register calculates the change they should give back to the customer, basic math skills! We fail our youth in education in so many ways its mind boggling.
You are right, Cuba is a good case in point. As a country with nothing, under a punishing US embargo, with the price of sugar (their principle source of income) suppressed by the US, Cuba somehow managed to educate and provide basic health care, an amazing accomplishment.
Now as the US economic system is sinking,Cuba is poised to to continue to progress. Yes, they are poor, but they are working together rather the internal rupture we are experiencing in the US. Income disparity is far less, making social unrest less likely.
And Cuba already knows how to operate with very little oil per capita, a lesson that we in the US are about to learn. Cuba may inadvertantly be an example we could learn from.
As to moving to Cuba, I am reasonably fluent in Spanish, but I really don't like hot climates. Here in Canada, where I now live, education and health care are top priorities, something I always wished for during my 65 years in the US. Also, I might add, free enterprise and capitalism co-exist nicely in Canada where WE takes precedent over ME in public policy and private preference.
Just remember, Somalia is the most libertarian country on earth.
I would define WEism as always considering what's best for all ahead of what might be best for me, but possibly bad for my neighbor. It's the plain and simple concept of consideration for others in our daily actions.
Canada actually has a WE Day where the young are taught how every individual can make a difference by thoughtfully focusing their efforts toward a better community, nation, and world.
Last Fall my granddaughter came home saying WE Day was the best day of her life,so far. She is determined to make a difference in her world, but certainly doesn't lack personal ambition.
Libertarianism for 7 billion people would prove quite challenging unless it is considered as a harsh population reduction plan.
Our system is not perfect and everyone agrees some kind of reform is appropriate. obamacare builds on everything that is wrong with US healthcare and threatens to destroy what remains of what is right.
I find it amazing that anyone would still be in support of this horrible legislation.
What this editor always fails to mention when speaking of the large number of people who don't like "Obamacare" is that at least half, if not more, of those who say they don't like it don't like it because it is not far reaching enough, with too much control still in the hands of private insurance companies. I don't like it either but only because Obama caved in on the public option without even trying to make it part of the plan, and there are really no cost-saving measures that I can see.
Some things the private sector can do better than government. But the health care of our citizenry should not be considered a commodity, to be made a profit off of, like cars or furniiture. My mom has had Medicare for 24 years and is alive and healthy today only because of it. She has never been denied treatment or had to worry about certain prodedures not being covered. No private insurance company would have done as much without bankrupting her and then cancelling her policy altogether.
So, Mr. Editor, you can count me among those who do not like "Obamacare." But only because it's not nearly socialistic enough. You can make love to the private insurance companies all you want and lick their boots as they daily sacrifice lives over profits. But as for me, I'll continue to speak out for universal health care for all Americans, as a right, not a privilege for only the rich and the fortunate.
90% of the people that respond to these polls don't have the foggiest notion of what is actually in this law. They get their news and talking points from worldnetdaily, fox news and other surrogates of the powerful health insurance and big pharma lobbys which spent over $200 Million on advertising during the bills debate to confuse people on the bills content. Plus morons like Sarah Palin chiming in the disinformation campaign with accusations of 'death panels" "caps" and other nonsense.
Once people are explained what is actually in law, they tend to like it.
The right consistently tries to attack one of the most respected institutions in Washington the congressional budget office that scored this law revenue positive by about 150 Billion over 10 years. Referring to high quality analysis by CBO as "smoke and mirrors" is illustrative of the Right's pattern of substituting ignorance and fear for facts.
Can't wait for the general election when Mitt Romney attempts to explain why Romney Care is great but Obama Care is horrible - when in essence they are quite similar.
And where do you get your news Plato? The back of a cereal box? Or those bastions of impartiality MSNBC and CNN or, even better, Huffington post perhaps?
Once people are explained what is actually in law, they tend to like it.
Really - and you know that how? I've spent painful hours listening to presentations on it, by people who know what they're talking about (they're making tons of money doing it so at least the bill provided employment for some). Neither I nor anyone else that has suffered through these "learning experiences" find much to like. Why don't you share your wisdom and explain why this bill is the godsend you seem to think it is? Please - enlighten me.
The "smoke and mirrors" is in the numbers they were given to analyze. You familiar with the acronym "GIGO"? You apparently don't understand how the CBO works. Why don't you try to do that before making silly accusations?
Sailorman said...
"And where do you get your news Plato? The back of a cereal box? Or those bastions of impartiality MSNBC and CNN or, even better, Huffington post perhaps?"
How about the Kaiser Family Foundation, something you have probably never heard of because they deal with real hard data, research and analysis of the health care industry.
To be clear, no one is complaining about the elimination of preconditions or the eligible age extension, or the prohibition of caps. The issue the opponents of the Affordable Care Act continually cite is the Individual Mandate that requires the purchase of insurance.
From a recent article published by Winzer Insruance citing the lastest Kaiser poll:
"In the latest monthly tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, it appears clear that the majority of people are not too keen on the idea of the federal government mandating health insurance. But, the poll also suggests that the lack of support may be due to a misunderstanding of exactly what the insurance mandate means. . . . . .
. . . . .Kaiser found that many respondents clearly did not understand the individual mandate portion of the law. Opposition to the mandate fell to 35 percent when pollsters told respondents who initially opposed the requirement more detail about the mandate"
Sailorman said... "The "smoke and mirrors" is in the numbers they were given to analyze. You familiar with the acronym "GIGO"? You apparently don't understand how the CBO works. "
You guys keep disparaging the numbers the CBO came up with but offer no counter analysis nor do you specify exactly what it is that was "garbage" you keep refereeing to. If you can't explain or at least reference what's your asserting than your argument is worthless.
The fact is the CBO stand staunchly behind it's analysis and totally disputes the propaganda the Republicans were spreading that somehow the Affordable Care act would "cost jobs" and increase the deficit. Quite the opposite is true. From a January 2011 article in Economist's View:
" CBO Paints Grim Picture of Repeal (of the Affordable Care Act), TNR: ...The CBO is projecting that repeal would increase the federal deficit by around $230 billion in the next decade and by an even larger amount after that.
Wait, there's more. The CBO also estimated how repeal would
affect insurance premiums. And, once again, the effect is entirely predictable. Premiums for people buying coverage on their own would fall a bit, but only because people were getting less protective insurance and because many with pre-existing conditions would be locked out of the market altogether. And even though premiums would be lower, many people buying coverage on their own would still end up paying more for their policies, because they would not benefit from the enormous subsidies that the Affordable Care Act makes available.
Speaking of people locked out of the insurance market, the CBO
ran the numbers on the uninsured. An additional 32 million people would be expected to go without health insurance, bringing the percentage of non-elderly adults without coverage to 17 percent, which is more or less what it is today.
So there you have it: According to one of our most reliable
and nonpartisan authorities, repealing the Affordable Care Act would mean higher deficits plus insurance that is less comprehensive, less available, and in many cases more expensive."
And "you guys" keep lapping up the pap fed you by Obama and his minions. Sorry plato but I deal with "real" medicare every single day. I see a consant barrage "real hard data, research and analysis of the health care industry". What do you know about it aside from what you glean from your favorite websites? You know, the ones that agree with your statist leanings.
This is old hat but I'll give you two numbers that were NOT a part of the CBO analysis:
the doc fix
effect on state medicaid programs
The CBO was given blatantly nutty assumptions (we're gonna cut medicare costs by 20,30, 40%) and failure to include legitimate costs. If they left those out, what else did they "forget"?
You said "Once people are explained what is actually in law, they tend to like it." The Winzer article you linked(how hard was it to find them?) referred only to the mandate.
No one denies health delivery and costs need real reform. This wasn't it. A worthless argument is one that continues to ignore reality - like yours.
In other words, you have no response to the two issues left out of the bill. Nor do you want to defend your misinterpretation of the link you posted from your reputable organization. Is there a "reputable" organization that disagrees with your perspective?
Here's one for you though you will no doubt question whether it's from a "reputable source".
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the Senate would take up separate legislation to halt scheduled Medicare cuts in doctor payments over the next 10 years"
"So a long-term Doc Fix wasn't part of the bill, but it was part of the same deal. So, either Reid isn't a man of his word, or the CBO score is misleading us."
I didn't declare myself an expert, merely said I deal with it everyday, but if you wish to view me as an expert, by all means, do so.
Needless to say, I'm not impressed.
I'm leaving for the weekend so you can have the last word.
Actually Obamacare is good for some and not so good for the others if you are within the designated guidelines you can get a pretty good policy with savings from your subsidies but if you fall below 15,000 as an individual you are not going to get help.
Medicaid was not expanded in Tennessee so that leaves a lot of folks without medicaid or any way to get coverage.
If you are within the fpl poverty level you will get a fairly good deal!


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text: The Best Thing About the Conclave by Lisa De Pasquale 12 Mar 2013 post a comment Share This: I've really enjoyed seeing more Father Jonathan Morris on Fox News over the last few weeks during the coverage of Pope Benedict's resignation and the conclave. Boyish good looks aside, I like him because he's a great example to follow for talking to political and religious non-believers. He's down-to-earth, answers honestly and doesn't shy away from unconventional outlets. "Red Eye" superfan Sarah at Twitchy reminded me that in addition to the daytime Fox News shows, he's also a frequent guest on "Red Eye."


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