well mr brown i only defend this hill because its the one i live on ....healthcare...i could give a rats butt about stem cell research but lemme tell you when janet n the homeland security czar said what she said several hours ago it tells me that Pres Obama has appointed a rather stupid and uninformed idiot to be head of security...its as if we knew more about what happend on that flight than she did...unexcusable and she should get the boot but will she ???hell no just as you say the sheeple are easily manipulated by the thought of global currency and stem cell research which means literally butkiss to the survival of mankind should middle eastern gentleman with questionable backgrounds be granted unlimited visas by the idiots in charge who are more worried about how it looks vs how IT IS!!!

egads that is my complaint ! maybe bush was equally as bad at being a president as BaraK Obama but geez whiz he did take security of the people a little bit more seriously!! yes yes and i know that Haliburton is the devil but hell they were there before anybody else and just like michael jackson nobody knew more about pop he did and  so did haliburton  know more about the oily business dealings of the middle easterns than anyone else.  its true this is a ship without a rudder here and somebody better wake up and grab the wheel or we are going down matey! we should be profiling these people like there is no tomorrow and the money we should be spending is on getting our troops the hell out of hell. leave these people to rot in the 4 th century where they want to remain.

My wife and I are child free CRNAs.. we considered getting a divorce for tax reasons... HOWEVER.. my military healthcare.. ie TriCare will not cover her if we are divorced...and that healtcare coverage will allow us to retire well before age 60.

ha ha ha  that is so true capt and why oh why is this the case i mean our President graduated Harvard and that should mean something here !!!! smarts smarts  ....uhhhhh not so smart.... and as for you alphamale i applaude your trepidations in getting divorced..afterall being able to retire before 60 is quite the coup maybe after you retire you could run for public office and get janet n's job ! i bet you could do a hell  lot better at it than she has.

no kidding whose blaming him its just that profiling should be initiated immediately politically correct profiling if you must but.... DO IT!! he should fire her or demote her immediately and the people who let him thru security just like he fired those SS agents ....remember...party crashers???????

so its obvious some people will make excuses for any mistake made and that leaves me just a wonderin .... and for the record.. one does not need to participate in stupidity to recognize it .

WASHINGTON -- The explosive device used by the would-be Detroit bomber contained a widely available -- and easily detected -- chemical explosive that has a long history of terrorist use, according to government officials and explosive experts.

The chemical -- PETN -- is small, powerful and appealing to terrorists. The Saudi government said it was used in an assassination attempt on the country's counterterrorism operations chief in August.

It was also a component of the explosive that Richard Reid, the convicted "shoe bomber," used in his 2001 attempt to down an airliner.

PETN was used widely in the plastic explosives terrorists used to blow up airplanes in the 1970s and '80s.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/28/detroit-explosive-common-easily-detectable/

I have flown internationally, and PETN is detectable.  I've even had my carry on baggage swabbed for it. 

i am truely sorry for all you international travellers but submitting to a cotton swab of your carry on baggage and now yur crotch is now necessary...... anyone for profiling ???? get in line over here!!! that should save at least 4 hours of pre board BS right there!

Maybe we should just profile the members of the Overseas Contingency Operation group. Not terrorist, not a war on terror, but people that cause accidents....Gee wasn't that a dumb thing to start-On the news, I noticed everyone using war on terror and terrorist, not the nice term obama wanted --contingency, my eye.

I agree that Napolitano was so wrong and she always looks like she is recovering from a big drunk. Another terrible appointee.

Is there anyone that has been appointed that seems to be like a decent human being? I haven't found one yet. Whoops a few resigned.

Back to the bill, this is why people are so fed up with this bill, They are not just crooks, they are stupid crooks.

I know someday I will have grandchildren studying this fiasco in school. I hope it has a good ending.

I thought Napolitano sounded like a puppet. I mean the guy actually got to set fire to his chonies and the system worked? Not! I have only flown once since 9/11 and may never again after this last mess.

maybe the great senator from Montana has a speech impediment!!!!either way he sounds like a driviling(sp) idiot. "Dad they won't play with us!" Dad always used to say to that..."well hell than go play by yourselves then!" Dad was great.

MrBrown says ...

That's the attitude. Give up before you even put the gloves on. How do you think these lifetime politicians keep doing what they do to us?

That reminds me of Harry  Barney Frank.

Investor's Business Daily is a seriously right slanted media vehicle, not that there is anything wrong with that just so you know who is presenting what.

Here is an exerpt from an article that the British people have taken on the lies written about  their healthcare and how they feel their system provides for them.  Just a comparison.

These kinds of attacks on the NHS aren’t unusual or new, but what is unique is the British response this time to the mad attacks on their healthcare system. British citizens — particularly tech savvy residents — are fighting back on Twitter. The top trending topics after Hannan’s FOX declarations included #welovetheNHS and #NHS. British Twitterers boasted ‘I Heart NHS’ avatars designed by Twibbon, a group that spreads awareness about causes by overlaying an image onto supporters’ Twitter profile avatars. The Twibbon team says during our interview that the response to the ‘I Heart NHS’ design has been “magnificent.” They add, “In the UK, people often talk about political apathy and show concern over disappointing voting turnouts. What everyone has shown over the last few days is a testament to the power of social networking, and Twitter in particular, not only to unite people in solidarity, but also to initiate global conversations at grassroots level.”

Graham Linehan, the man behind the #welovetheNHS tag, tells me he was motivated by FOX’s irresponsible coverage of the healthcare reform debate.

I think that the way that FOX News has been raising the temperature of the health care debate over there is one of the most reckless and cynical things I have ever seen. It’s just mindblowing to me. It’s also infruriating the way they change their coverage of the UK according to their needs. So when they wanted a partner to legitimise an illegal and ill-thought-out war, the UK was the best country in the world. Now that their needs are different, they attack the UK as ‘Socialist’. It’s breathtaking, how little shame they have.

What really inspired Linehan to do something was when Investor’s Business Daily published an editorial claiming Steven Hawking “wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.” Of course, the claim is absurd as Hawking stated later, pointing out that he would not be alive today if it hadn’t been for the NHS.

Where other British citizens saw gross lies, exaggerations, and frustrating half-truths, Linehan saw a “golden opportunity to kickstart a campaign to redress the balance a little bit.” He linked to the Hawking article and the #welovetheNHS hashtag was born. “I thought it might pick up steam once people saw the ridiculousness of that story, but I had no idea how big it would become. Three days now, and we’re still trending,” says Linehan.

The online response to the We Love the NHS campaign is overwhelming. “NHS Saved my life as a 19 year old naive lad!” writes one Brit. ”Saved my life, saved my wife’s life, beat my brother-in-law’s cancer and embodies a compassionate civilized ideal #welovetheNHS,” writes one more. The movement now includes some of Britain’s most powerful leaders, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who Tweeted “NHS often makes the difference between pain and comfort, despair and hope, life and death. Thanks for always being there #welovetheNHS.”

British newspapers, politicians, and medics are rushing into the debate partly to defend the NHS and partly to gain some kind of political leverage. Labor hoped to embarrass David Cameron by challenging him to disown the Hannan comments, which he did. “Nobody should be in any doubt, for the Conservative Party, the NHS is the number one priority,” said Cameron to Sky News.

The British newspaper, Daily Mirror, has started calling America ”the land of the fee” because of the way patients are forced to pay for medical services. Senior figures in British healthcare are also frustrated at the portrayal of the NHS. Mike Hobday, of Macmillan Cancer Support, stated: “We are really furious at the way in which the NHS, which is the best healthcare system around, is being denigrated by a group of people who clearly don’t have the first idea about how it works.”

“The NHS does a damn fine job,” says president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Dr. Alan Maryon-Davis. “These claims are complete and utter rubbish…The horrific thing about the American system is that there are tens of millions of people without health insurance. We spend less on health in terms of GDP than America but if you look at health indices, especially for life expectancy, we have better figures than they do in America,” he adds.

The nexus of the Internet makes the dissemination of disinformation difficult. Such interconnectedness means the lie of “dangerous Socialized medicine” cannot sustain itself when Brits of all ages and backgrounds shout to the rafters that they love the NHS, and are here to defend it.

Demint the dimwitis holding the admistration up not just the appointee because he wants it guaranteed that there will gbe no attempt at unionizing.  Our cops are unionized and the firefighters all of who responded heroically on 911 and also took down the shooter at Ft Hood recently.  The union had no effect on their abilities to do the job and do it well.  As far as the military please do not lump all the services together.  The Air Force is very proactive in getting rid of the chafe.  The saying is in the AIr Force' Flexibility is the key to airpower"  you may be referring to the Army and the Navy who are more heavily steeped in tradition.  The air force has to be able to adapt to new threats rapidly and leathaly or they cannot do their jobs. 

So 1 senator is holding everything up and not even allowing hearings or debate on the issue. WHo made him the guardian of the American people?  How about he back off and let democracy flourish?

Sure - let's keep putting the blame on one party. Spare me. The system stinks. The parties are corrupt. Politicians are vote grabbing self-perpetuating power hungry hacks.

Blaming the "Evil OTHER party" just feeds into their agenda... Blame those EVIL Republicans (or Democrats) and elect US and all will be well!

I can't believe that even the obviously intelligent posters here fall for this crap.