Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:33:30 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.30.0.110427 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:33:28 -0500 Subject: Re: Apple to Pay Dividend, Plans $10 Billion Buyback From: George Kerby Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Apple to Pay Dividend, Plans $10 Billion Buyback Thread-Index: Ac0KlD5ITpB9CBXTcEKKKmLhJwNA2A== References: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lines: 67 X-Trace: sv3-9HiKKeS6irKV7gq9q5+MkLSMz4UTlrhY5xUZZTzfLsMYxEhDBK8suLJvHEOGyKRUvR5MOz0wvgvh8Pa!F1kIjLhgnw0MTnXl7ukqaNhtbJEma28cCyOqc3PQMZ9qccKfCgn7AJ6bWJbPq7xeu0/Cmz2qVpYr!Jg== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3743 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:10489 comp.sys.mac.system:22857 On 3/24/12 12:22 PM, in article jkkvsm$63a$2@dont-email.me, "Todd Allcock" wrote: > At 24 Mar 2012 10:43:36 -0500 George Kerby wrote: >> >> >> >> On 3/23/12 10:04 PM, in article >> michelle-7F2048.20042723032012@news.eternal-september.org, "Michelle >> Steiner" wrote: >> >>> In article , >>> George Kerby wrote: >>> >>>>>> If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life. >>>>> >>>>> Of course he leads his life quietly, lest the other Republicans > find out >>>>> and brand him unsuitable to coach school teams, lead a scout troop, > etc. >>>> >>>> Bullshit. Again. >>>> >>>> > >>> >>> the Log Cabin Republicans don't exactly quietly lead their lives. >>> >>>>>> If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ...and deserves no less. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Bullshit. Again. >>>> >>>> Respect comes with actions, not guvmint handouts / special favors. >>> >>> It's not a matter of respect; it's a matter of equality. >> >> I'm not paying for a stranger's Tune-up with my car insurance... >> >> your-neighbors-tune-so-why-should-my-healt> > > > Why do you use such an obviously socialist construct like insurance in > the first place? If you need health care or car repairs you should just > pay for it yourself, and the not use the resources of others who happen > to patronize the same insurance company as you. Contributing your hard > earned money to a third-party that redistributes it based solely on need > is just so "New Deal"-ish, I'm surprised you participate in it... > FYI, I don't know where YOU live, but in most states in the USA, one is REQUIRED by LAW to have automobile insurance. If the POTUS and Nancy "we have to pass it to see what's in it" Pelosi, have their way, ObamaCare will soon be the same as that. It will take a Supreme Court ruling to overturn a mandatory government law that makes citizens criminal for not having health insurance. Now tell me, with a straight face, that that isn't Socialist?