Random Thoughts
I can never keep up with political correctness; I just got thrown out of the Ku Klux Klan for being homophobic.
No matter how many Sea World employees I talk to, I can never get a straight answer on whether dolphins taste good.
We get called racist for being against spending and government health care – not looking good for when illegal immigration is an issue again.
Some people apparently love the NHS, so if you want government health care, PLEASE MOVE TO BRITAIN!
Is it okay to be racist against Brits because I’m feeling pretty racist against Brits.
If you’re moronic enough to refer to government run health care as “free”, you have no place in this debate.
“Freedom isn’t free, but health care is! Pick the cheaper option!”
If liberals get to refer to health care as “free”, can we refer to the invasion of Iraq as being “free”?
Free at the point of use? “My couch is free! I paid for it at the store, but now any time I use it at home, it’s free!”
I’d live every day like it was my last, but I’m not sure of the benefit of uncontrollable sobbing.
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August 13th, 2009 at 10:33 am
I know how you feel. I have been having a bit of an identity crisis myself lately. I am not sure if I am a hick bitterly clinging to my guns and Bible, or a sophisticated, insurance company paid, Brookes Brothers man-about-town, or a neo-nazi thug.
I can’t even get dressed in the morning: do I wear overalls & John Deere cap? three piece suit & Windsor knotted tie? brown shirt & jackboots? It’s driving me absolutely Ron Paul.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Free at the point of use? “My couch is free! I paid for it at the store, but now any time I use it at home, it’s free!”
Now that’s thinking like a liberal.
August 13th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Love is free, it’s just the incidentals that have cost me 2 million dollars over the last 40 years. House, cars, kids, college…….
August 13th, 2009 at 11:09 am
“I’d live every day like it was my last, but I’m not sure of the benefit of uncontrollable sobbing.”
Okay, THIS was funny!
August 13th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Frank
Not at all impressed by your weighing in on the NHS debate on twitter. I saw your wildly misinformed tweets on the WELOVETHENHS search and thought to invite a debate with you from the position of a Brit who has spent 5 of the last 6 years living in the U.S. Given your snide response, it is now clear that your scant knowledge of the facts hasn’t armed you for a debate. Sure, no worries, I understand: you’re in over your head and all you have left are cheap shots to cover for this.
Your bio says : “Semi-pro humorist”. Maybe your humour is so out there that I’m just missing the joke. I do wonder, though, about the “Christian” part. Is that all part of your “semi-pro humor” or are you actually serious about that one? Did the Christ of your Christianity call people names?
In my country, people pay taxes in relation to what they earn, including a standard 15% Value Added Tax on all luxury goods, and *all* men, women & children receive the same healthcare treatment as each other. The “free at point of need” part that I wrote to you earlier, and to which you responded so eloquently (“not at all free and it only make the debate dumber to call it that”), refers to the part where — no matter your financial or social status — when you need the healthcare it is there.
An example, if you will: My family has a dear friend who is a retired minister and who owes his life to the NHS. His annual salary was always quite minimal, as is the way in The Church in the UK, but he dutifully paid his minimal taxes throughout his working life. Shortly after retiring, he was diagnosed with cancer of the colon. For three years now he has been receiving treatment for his condition, which has kept him in a good standard of life, yet he has not written a single cheque in the name of the NHS or any health care provider once in his entire life.
One particular part of his treatment is an injection, which has been administered by an NHS nurse every week for three years, and which costs £1,200 a time. He has not at any time had to fill in any forms, provide evidence of worthiness by way of a check-up to confirm no pre-existing conditions, he has not faced any “Death Panels” (where on earth did that rumour come from?) This healthcare, provided by the NHS, has covered him since his first breath and will do so until his last, no questions asked.
For now, I acknowledge that the UK’s National Health Service is not perfect by any stretch, but I refer you to the World Health Organization’s report: the UK’s NHS ranks 18th in the world; the US Healthcare System ranks 37th. Am I to take your comments on this subject in such a way as to suggest that you are proud of that? It seems clear to me — and to many — that the US healthcare system needs an overall. Maybe Obama is the guy to do that, maybe not. But I sincerely hope that one day the USA will join the ranks of *every other developed country in the world* to offer some type of semi-decent universal healthcare system.
Regards
Anne Williamson
August 13th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I do believe the SGT is on to something……..
August 13th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
“I’d live every day like it was my last, but I’m not sure of the benefit of uncontrollable sobbing.”
Okay, THIS was funny!
It was even funnier the first time, on the Simpsons!
August 13th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
If I knew that to-day was my last… my DW and I would spend half of it together in prayer; we’d spend the remaining half of it together as well… very together in fact, if you catch my drift.
I guess I missed the joke.
I can’t even get dressed in the morning: do I wear overalls & John Deere cap? three piece suit & Windsor knotted tie? brown shirt & jackboots? It’s driving me absolutely Ron Paul.
I know what you mean – but here’s how I sort it out: how I dress depends on whether I’m astroturfing for (1) the NRA, (2) the insurance lobby, or (3) the Aryan Nation on that particular day.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
This person should NOT be a part of the healthcare debate: http://www.toutube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI
August 13th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Dolphins; taste like Chicken(of-the-Sea), (pre-dolphin-safe)
August 13th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Gays can be Haters too: http://thepinkswastika.com/
August 13th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I’d live every day like it’s my last, but I wouldn’t be able to afford it. Skydiving, Rocky Mountain Climbing, Going 2.7 Seconds On A Bull Named FuManchu.>> Will O-bah-muhhCare pay for that?
August 13th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I’m a racist because I disagree with the IDIOT in the oval orifice? I’m a white man married to a Mexican woman. I don’t hate THE OBAMA because he is half black ! I HATE the idiot because he is a socialist who is trying to destroy my beloved constitution
August 14th, 2009 at 4:51 am
“I’d live every day like it was my last, but I’m not sure of the benefit of uncontrollable sobbing.”
“Okay, THIS was funny!”
“It was even funnier the first time, on the Simpsons!”
Or when it was one of the parting lines in a Tommy Sledge monologue. (“Remember: Live every day as if its you last. You know, with lots of whimpering and sobbing.”)
(On the other hand, I’ll be shamelessly stealing the other stuff in Frank J’s post like I usually do….)
August 14th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Dear Anne.
The WHO report ranking health care systems is garbage. It ranks health care systems not by the actual quality of care that one can get, but by how much government is involved to ensure that it is ‘fair’. The reason the US has not yet joined the ranks of every other developed nation in the world is one of several reasons that it is the MOST DEVELOPED NATION in the world, and these other nations are not. Why would we want to join the ranks of every other developed nation in the world when we are so far ahead? (Answer: Barack H. Obama)
The US doesn’t need an overhaul of its health care system. We don’t need a system at all. We need individual companies competing for customers by offering the best service for the lowest price while trying to make a profit. No overarching ‘system’ is needed.
The fact of the matter is that there is quite a lot that goes into a modern hospital. All these doctors, nurses, and lab techs graduate from schools, whose professors need their standard of living, whose buildings need housekeeping, security, plumbing and electricity, and so forth. The hospital equipment has to be manufactured by trained, usually highly trained, workers who expect a standard of living commensurate with their training, in high-tech factories (most of which are American-owned) which also need their utilities, security, and housekeeping. The hospital buildings themselves need housekeeping, security guards, and utilities. To say that simply because someone needs health care services, this person is entitled to receive these services at government expense, denotes an astonishing disregard for the economics of everything I just mentioned. If you believe that someone needs something and you want them to have it, it must be at the expense of you and those who can be persuaded to help, and no other. That is the only moral way to do it, because if you want the government rather than individuals to pay the bill, then it will always be Somebody Else’s Problem. When it’s Somebody Else’s Problem, then it’s not Your Problem if the plan goes wrong in any way.
Because if it is Somebody Else’s Problem, it will eventually fall apart. Your NHS will take measures to try to bring costs under control. They will audit the contents of people’s refrigerators, deny citizenship to fat people, and eventually exclude over-65′s from certain procedures. They will bring in foreign doctors even if they are terrorists in waiting. They will, bit by bit, strip you of every freedom you once had in the name of public health and stopping undue strains on the healthcare system. Some of this is already happening, the rest is in the future. It’s going to happen because it’s an inevitable consequence of the style of government you and your fellow voters have brought upon yourself. Keep gloating.
August 15th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
#5 – Anne,
“Did the Christ of your Christianity call people names?”
Matthew 23:13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31 and 33.
On at least one occasion, I’d have to say that the answer to your question is, Yes!