User profile: Lisa

As to R&R partners:

"There was no contract and no agreement," he said. "We did this as a favor to one of our partners, Jim King, who was a longtime friend of Dr. Desai's, to help him through this crisis."

Wow. must be nice to be able to tap into the backscratching lobby of the old boys network... how much does it cost us taxpayers to pay R&R to come up with slogans for Vegas?

Palin's got solid conservative credentials, she's a protestant, no baggage, and she's a woman. On the surface, it's a good pick. But she's got limited experience (which goes against McCain's arguments that experience is required), comes from Alaska (half the population can't find Alaska on a map and they have only 3 electoral votes), and she's a woman with an 18 month old baby (along with 4 other children). How many misogynist, evangelical, conservative males are going to vote for a former beauty queen (when will those bathing suit pics hit the net?) with a baby, who's young and not bad looking, to potentially run the country when old man McCain kicks the bucket?

I think it's a limited view choice... McCain is not gaining many votes with this choice (real Hillary supporters are not going to choose an anti-choice, pro-capital punishment, pro-rape of the environment, no foreign policy experience candidate) and far right conservatives are now going to start freaking out about McCain's age and mental health.

The debates should be fun!!

Nevada's tax base has relied on Gaming and Construction - which worked until too many people moved here expecting roads, utilities, schools, etc... Now that Nevada has the popluation to become a grown up state, we will have to pay more taxes, one way or another. You don't want Wal-mart and other large out of state retailers to pay what they pay in other states to do business (even though those companies don't charge us less or hire more people in exchange for us being so nice to them) and you don't want any taxes levied anywhere.

So down the line, when our infrastructure is crumbling and 75% of our population is uneducated, you'll be paying taxes for emergency road fixes, prisons, family services, and more cops while the money that gaming and business should be paying (and pay in other states - again, not giving us a break for all the money they are saving) will continue to be used outside Nevada and outside the country.

Hold onto your pledge and move those deckchairs around until you realize you are in a sinking state. Fix it or jump ship because keeping your eyes (and mind) shut to the reality of the situation will only drag us all down with you.

So in other words - if you don't have the money to pay for "Cadillac" healthcare, you will get Hyundai health care. Therefore, when you get cancer, you won't get the best treatment available which could cure you, only what is minimally available to keep you alive - or morphined up without pain until you die.

Let the working class die from diseases the rich can afford to be cured of. Maybe if enough of us get sick, the rich will allow us to become their ginea pigs so they can be assured of safe cures for their diseases.

This is the greatest country in the world? For the rich.

If Obama is all about change, why is he courting the establishment endorsements? He got John Kerry's endorsement. He wants Edwards' endorsement - who voted for the war. He got Ted Kennedy's endorsement - how much more 'Washington Politics' do you need to realize he is not about change any more than Bush was about compassionate conservatism? He's missed more than half of his Senate votes - I don't consider that change.