en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1966103 Comments by AKMaineiac http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/maine-supreme-court-overturns-oui-case_2010-11-16.html#IDComment110233253 Sounds kind of sloppy... but they were both drunk, both in the same car, and both knew the risks. At least no innocent bystanders were injured or killed. Hopefully this individual learns something here and we don't read his name in the paper again. Increasingly, this has become the case all too often. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:32:52 +0000 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/maine-supreme-court-overturns-oui-case_2010-11-16.html#IDComment110233253 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/Thanksgiving-is-not-a-day-it-is-a-sane-state-of-mind-.html#IDComment110197777 I think you can relax Richard, really. The rabid Left Wing agenda might have run off the rails and is going to be limited a little bit. However, I know lots of conservatives and lots of Republicans, and nobody is advocating the horrors the dolts on the Left are projecting onto others they disagree with. The old people are going to stay at the old folk's homes, the kids in the daycares, and school lunch will still be served. Republicans and conservatives all need clean air to breathe and water to drink, just like a Left WingNut. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:23:15 +0000 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/Thanksgiving-is-not-a-day-it-is-a-sane-state-of-mind-.html#IDComment110197777 http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Vehicles-shouldnt-pass-cars-already-stopped-.html#IDComment110197213 Won't be so confused the day you make a mistake, have an accident, and are not charged and don't "pay the price". So far, we're a little hesitant to criminalize every accident and send people to jail for not being perfect. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:17:47 +0000 http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Vehicles-shouldnt-pass-cars-already-stopped-.html#IDComment110197213 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/This-country-has-reasons-enough-to-be-fearful-.html#IDComment110196696 What's "rediculous" is comparing a drink of water to drowning and claiming it is the same thing. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:13:04 +0000 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/This-country-has-reasons-enough-to-be-fearful-.html#IDComment110196696 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/Why-not-open-competition-to-design-Waterville-logo-.html#IDComment110114699 Design a logo for the city of Waterville? Ouch... not sure, they'd better hire someone from away to do that. The term "sourdough" doesn't apply to just Alaskans that have soured on the country and aint got the dough to get out. Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:27:28 +0000 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/Why-not-open-competition-to-design-Waterville-logo-.html#IDComment110114699 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/This-country-has-reasons-enough-to-be-fearful-.html#IDComment110114355 Oh boy... poor Bob. Glad to see he can still type though. Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:25:01 +0000 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/This-country-has-reasons-enough-to-be-fearful-.html#IDComment110114355 http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Vehicles-shouldnt-pass-cars-already-stopped-.html#IDComment110112660 It falls onto every person to use caution and reasonableness when going through their day. Drivers are responsible for maintaining control over their vehicle and not running over pedestrians. Tragic accidents do occur however, and in order to avoid those tragedies sometimes pedestrians must also exercise some degree of judgement. The pedestrian has a somewhat greater interest in avoiding these situations under some systems of law... Newtonian physics comes to mind. Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:11:49 +0000 http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Vehicles-shouldnt-pass-cars-already-stopped-.html#IDComment110112660 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Maine-Marijuana-growers-medical-caregivers.html#IDComment110108537 Growers' rights? At this time, they have the right to remain silent. Anything they say may be held against them in a court of law. They have a right to an attorney, and if they cannot afford one, one will be provided. Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:40:41 +0000 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Maine-Marijuana-growers-medical-caregivers.html#IDComment110108537 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Nutting-had-million-dollar-pharmacy-dispute-with-state.html#IDComment110002110 And, my friend... in statistics, when the confidence interval includes the test figure the effect is said to be "insignificant". Like I said, and you seem to comprehend something of it... "By THEIR OWN FIGURES they could well owe" Bob Nutting on the order of 1 to 1.5 million dollars. I'll help you... 2.3 million dollars minus 637,444 dollars equals 1.67 MILLION DOLLARS. This is a range of over 1 million dollars... Even with statistical manipulations this doesn't even begin to be sensible. What makes more sense was some auditor with an agenda crawled inside Bob Nutting's filing cabinet with a magnifying glass and an attitude and came out with a big bill. This was used at the time to drive him out of business. And now it feeds to rumor and innuendo mill. Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:37:29 +0000 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Nutting-had-million-dollar-pharmacy-dispute-with-state.html#IDComment110002110 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Nutting-had-million-dollar-pharmacy-dispute-with-state.html#IDComment110001526 I know how they do things. It's a con game, and one they're only too good at. Missing paperwork, and paperwork they classify as "incomplete" or "insufficient" equals "FRAUD AND ABUSE" in their minds. They've bankrupted providers in every state, and continue to do so. This while nearly completely ignoring fictitious home health agencies that exist only out of a POST OFFICE BOX fleecing the system for millions of dollars for supposedly treating people who were never sick, and some of them were even DEAD. They're not interested in fraud and abuse, they're interested in extorting money back from providers they paid for services in order to nearly bankrupt them and recycle the money back into the system. And they wonder why nobody wants to take medicare and medicaid anymore? Really? They really do wonder... it's a wonder. Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:31:31 +0000 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Nutting-had-million-dollar-pharmacy-dispute-with-state.html#IDComment110001526 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Nutting-had-million-dollar-pharmacy-dispute-with-state.html#IDComment109922192 Insurance and reimbursement is a great big shell game, and people who don't work in medicine or insurance have no idea what the real story is behind any of it. You prove it with your baseless and foolish statements. The facts were outlined pretty well in the original stories, and if there was any evidence to even suggest Bob "overbilled" medicaid he'd be in jail right now, today, as we speak. Because he didn't overbill them for five million or so, he's small time and would have been hauled off to jail and bankrupted. The mere fact that the state can narrow down the amount Bob supposedly overcharged them by should give any reasonable person cause to pause a moment. If you stole from me, I'd be able to come forward with a more exact figure than "BETWEEN 637,444 DOLLARS AND 2.3 MILLION DOLLARS"! According to their confidence interval, they might well owe Bob a millions dollars or so. Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:54:12 +0000 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Nutting-had-million-dollar-pharmacy-dispute-with-state.html#IDComment109922192 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/Editorial-cartoon-most-offensive-ever-seen-.html#IDComment109920937 I'd have written before about the stupid editorial, but it was stupid. So is defending it. Nobody has argued that the paper or the editor should be put in jail or punished. So what exactly is your complaint regarding the first amendment and the "Tea Party" supposedly trying to censor anyone? Specifics please, like what section of what law did anyone here state the editor violated. Or is it you who has a problem with someone expressing themselves? I think that more likely, because you've invented an issue here where there clearly isn't one. It's not censorship for someone to tell you you're full of crap, especially when it's the truth. Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:44:40 +0000 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/letters/Editorial-cartoon-most-offensive-ever-seen-.html#IDComment109920937 http://www.pressherald.com/news/paris-maine-boy-run-over-fathers-pickup-truck.html#IDComment109917676 Hope the little guy isn't hurt too bad. I remember "working with" my dad when I was a kid. Some of my fondest memories, and some of his too. Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:18:41 +0000 http://www.pressherald.com/news/paris-maine-boy-run-over-fathers-pickup-truck.html#IDComment109917676 http://www.pressherald.com/news/Man-seriously-hurt-in-crash-with-moose.html#IDComment109810336 Don't like living around moose, move. We're not killing them all, especially along the road. People really must slow up some and pay more attention. I am sorry the accident happened, but it come with living alongside big animals. Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:52:49 +0000 http://www.pressherald.com/news/Man-seriously-hurt-in-crash-with-moose.html#IDComment109810336 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Nutting-had-million-dollar-pharmacy-dispute-with-state.html#IDComment109793050 If "at least $637,477 and perhaps as much as $2.3 million.", is "clear" then you're as fair minded as one might assess you as being based on that. I need not reply further. How about the legal precedent that one is innocent until proven guilty? Ever "read" that one? I don't have to justify Bob, or his actions. It's the convoluting and twisting auditors that should have to justify themselves. I'd still like to have someone explain what Bob's reasoning would have been to decline further involvement in Medicaid services and reimbursement if: 1. He was fleecing the system and making himself rich. 2. He was going into refusing further Medicaid reimbursement knowing he was facing an audit. Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:03:41 +0000 http://www.kjonline.com/news/Nutting-had-million-dollar-pharmacy-dispute-with-state.html#IDComment109793050 http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Economic-depression-is-caused-by-corporate-greed-.html#IDComment109768967 "All the companies I’ve seen who fail to make a profit do not stay in business. So much for their motivation of caring about people." The logical disconnect of most Left Wingers... You're right, if a business does not make a profit, they go under. They should go under. If the business goes under, the workers will not have a job. They have a vested interest in the business making a profit. Yet, we find unions and work rules standing in the way of making a profit. We have grievances filed and have to pay to get a job done twice or three times instead of once. Because a tender/operator is not an electrician and can't reset a circuit breaker or change a light bulb. So without a profit, some profit, a business can not exist and will not provide jobs because the labor will not be needed for anything. Sometimes, Dorothy, you have to evaluate and respond to competing priorities even when they're the same. It's difficult for some people to do so. It requires a level of discernment and evaluation that some just don't have. Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:33:38 +0000 http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Economic-depression-is-caused-by-corporate-greed-.html#IDComment109768967 http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Economic-depression-is-caused-by-corporate-greed-.html#IDComment109760825 Sure... and Peter will be defended and cheered on by a group of people who think our economic trust should be placed solely in the hands of the government. They think the government will always regulate itself and do what's in the best interest of the individuals. WHOOOPS! "Individuals"? Yes, that's right... what this country was founded upon and its system of laws was based upon. Individuals, you and me, who make up the "state, locality, and nation". That "individual" generally seems to be forgotten largely in the Left Wing drivel and mindset. The Left Wing thinks about groups, and collectives, and the individual doesn't mean squat to them. Get government back into its box, and keep it there. Right now it's run amok and costs far more than it could ever deliver. Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:08:39 +0000 http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Economic-depression-is-caused-by-corporate-greed-.html#IDComment109760825 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/MIKE-TIPPING-Be-aware-of-political-slant-by-professional-pollsters-.html#IDComment109760133 Only "poll" makes one little bit of difference is the one where as many who care enough to get off their duffs go down and cast a ballot for one or the other. The rest of it is just garbage and window dressing when we've already got more than we can afford of it. "... lies, damned lies, and statistics." Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:01:24 +0000 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinion/MIKE-TIPPING-Be-aware-of-political-slant-by-professional-pollsters-.html#IDComment109760133 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/students-get-taste-of-government_2010-11-13.html#IDComment109759646 I was thinking about this awhile back and considered what most candidates talk about on the campaign trail... "Accomplishing" things... like what? What's that mean? "Accomplishing something"? Getting your name on a bill, it seems like. Getting some money for the town/county/state, depending on what body you're elected to. I got a goal for all of them... and if they accomplish this one they'll have my respect despite my disagreement. Stick to your convictions, never give up, never surrender. Discard notions of being a great legislator because you had your name on dozens of bills that become laws which only served to infringe on The People more than before they were passed. Toss aside notions of being the great compromiser and being known as the guy who could get things done. If you feel, "NO!", then say and vote, "NO!". Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:56:46 +0000 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/students-get-taste-of-government_2010-11-13.html#IDComment109759646 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/new-facesbig-plansin-augusta_2010-11-13.html#IDComment109758630 Government might well be a necessary evil... but the fact that it is necessary changes nothing about it being evil. Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:46:13 +0000 http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/new-facesbig-plansin-augusta_2010-11-13.html#IDComment109758630