From the combox

My Google Reader has over 400 sites  I routinely peruse.  While plowing through this information everyday can be quite time consuming, the reading of the comments on many posts takes up the majority of the time.  While I'm very interested in what "experts" in different fields have to say, the com-boxes provide some of the best information. 

On sites like American Thinker the quality of the comments sometimes overshadows the article.  My own combox provides some pretty darn good comments from people I consider to be more than a little smart.

Abby from Abbey's Road posted this on my "Chilling" post

As the Bible says, every person will have a number ... yes, it is chilling, and it is also SOCIALISM! I pray to God that America survives Obama's term and that someone, some unknown individual who truly cares about THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY comes forward and is elected.

You do know that the proposed healthcare bill is 2,700 pages? I posted something on my blog about it this morning. (link added by moi)  Your elected officials (1) will not read every paragraph of a 2,700 page document; (2) admit to the back door agreements that are filling the bill with special favors; or (3) vote as those who elected them would want. If so, they would poll the people of their respective districts. Congress is a complete and utter disgrace to the Constitution written all those years ago by truly GREAT men who cared about the United States of America!

I am mad as hell and I, for one, am not going to take this any more. I am very vocal in my community and I can only spread the word, and THE WORD, and hope it sinks in.

Say it: "TERM LIMITS!" It's really simple, you know ... JUST DO IT!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Peace and blessings be with you, Adrienne!

And from Quite Rightly

Yep. If you wonder about the plausibility of this, all you need to do is read the published works of Obama's health care advisors. Then attend a couple lectures by futurists. The biggest immediate problem between getting from here to there (that I see, and I'm no expert) is getting the health care system computerized. That's not getting a lot of attention, because many people still think setting up a computer system to handle complex data for hundreds of millions of people is a snap. If it was such a snap, you'd be able to get into the practice page! But if everybody is "wearing" an implanted chip... Nowadays the utility meter reader doesn't come into most people's houses. They drive down the street in a truck picking up radio signals sent out by the meters in each home. A few years down the road . . .

MightyMom provided more:

Quite Rightly....there is already a federal law that all hospitals use 100% computerized charting by some not too far in the future date...I think 2011??...and therefore all hospitals are in the process of changing to computerized charts....There is also already a process of reporting of "certain quality indicators" to the federal govt by every hospital. In all fact...that computer system you refer to is already 75% in operation and the linking of it all is about a year away. For example. Think of CVS or Walgreen's commercials...all their computers are linked...as are all 10 hospitals that are owned by the company I work for. You walk into a hospital in Dallas then leave and come to my hospital 45 miles south and I have all your info at my fingertips. the pieces of the network are already there....all Big Brother has to do is link them.