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Nancy Pelosi is going to do for child care what she did for health care? We’re going to have child death panels now?
Why is one of the Game of Thrones books ahead of me in Humor? How funny is that series?
Game of Thrones always sounded like a ripoff of musical chairs to me.
I liked that the one caller to the Michael Medved Show thought I had improv background. I am not quick witted at all; I’m a writer, not an actor.
They should do a crossover between Arrested Development and Community and then cancel it.
If my arm is ever ripped off in an accident, I hope I’m able to gather my wits enough to say, “And that is why you always leave a note!”
Just finally got to listen to my Medved appearance. First time I’ve listened back to a radio appearance and didn’t find it cringe inducing.
Well, that was fun. I guess the key to a good radio appearance is to pretend to really really love Obama.
On other radio appearances, I tried to be myself, but it ends up I’m really boring.
I’m just so happy to actually be funny on the radio. I guess I found my thing: pretend liberal.
I’ve been the number one political humor book on Amazon since Wednesday. Hopefully I can keep it up. (TWSS)
Some people actually looked at the Obama administration and decided its failure was due to lack of obnoxious hippies?
Don’t know how the algorithm works, but my book is now the 18th results returned if you search for Obama on Amazon. It’s the 4th results if you search in Kindle books for Amazon. And on Barnes and Noble, it’s the first result, just before “Dreams from My Father”.
DEFINITIVE book on Obama.
Chimps are 99% the same as Hitler.
When I go back to work, I hope my coworkers know to treat me more reverently now that I’m a best selling author.
“Best selling author” is a vague enough term that I can call myself that, right?
If I keep my Amazon ranking high for long enough, they’ll send me a special hat so people on the street will know I’m a best selling author. It looks a bit like those graduation hats.
Frank where can us slackers who missed your radio interview go to get up to speed?
I had a random thought yesterday and laughed out loud. was behind the pulpit at the time. hard to recover.
PelociCare… crap. Gonna be stuck with mandated childcare and no kids needing it.
She can’t tell you what’s in it until it passes or it wouldn’t be a surprise.
“Best selling author” is a vague enough term that I can call myself that, right?
Why not, I still refer to myself as the 2006 Time Magazine “Person of the Year”.
Frank needs to get his own radio show…like Paul Harvey “And that is how Obama wrecked the economy. And now you know the rest of th story… This is Frank Fleming, gooday!!”
Don’t get a big head there FrnakJ, you know who else was a best selling author don’t you?
Hitler
Seriously congrats on the good sales.
“Nancy Pelosi is going to do for child care what she did for health care? We’re going to have child death panels now?”
She already has. You’ve never heard of Planned Parenthood?
Frank J:
A few quick answers to your questions.
“Nancy Pelosi is going to do for child care what she did for health care?”
Extend affordable child care to a lot more people? Gosh, I hope so.
“We’re going to have child death panels now?”
No. Because all the talk of death panels was complete and total B.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_reform_in_the_United_States
“Why is one of the Game of Thrones books ahead of me in Humor?”
Because George R.R. Martin is a great writer. And you suck.
“How funny is that series?”
Not that funny. But funnier than you.
“‘Best selling author’ is a vague enough term that I can call myself that, right?”
We all know how much you like deluding yourself about other things (Climate Change, the War in Iraq, Fred Thompson, etc. etc.) so sure, call yourself that. No worse than your other delusions.
Any other questions, just let me know. Always happy to help out.
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
Welcome back, Frank! “Hopefully I can keep it up. (TWSS)” She? That’s what you said, Frank. About yourself.
Boy, I thought my ribbing was rough, but that MFL is a big meanie. He doesn’t sound liberal at all, except in that modern turnspeak way that statists call themselves “liberal”.
Feed the troll! Don’t feed the troll. (To the tune of, “Kick the baby”. NB: never kick the baby).
@Monkey Brained Liberal: Whenever I seek definitive proof on anything, I cite Wikipedia. To quote Michael Scott, “Anyone can edit it [Wikipedia], so you know it has to be true.” Middle school students are prohibited from sourcing Wikipedia.
Obama has chosen multiple department heads who favor rationing, including the Chair of the Social Service Advisory Board and the recess appointment to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Additionally, Obama has approved a policy of paying physicians to encourage the elderly and terminally ill to forgo expensive treatments.
Now, when grandma is in the hospital, and you as her Monkey Brained son feel that she could have a good period of life if she could have the hip replacement she needs; however, a government board decides the procedure is not worth the cost for 1 years (2 years? 3 years? 5 years) of quality life, you can call it what you want. The government will essentially decide when she dies, given that failure to replace a broken hip usually leads to swift decline and death for an elderly patient.
To quote Monkey Faced liberal, “Facts? Facts? We don’t need to show you no stinkin’ facts.”
Frank, please dismoderate my comment. I used too many links again. I’ll try to be better, but Monkey Face was asking for it.
Pelosi has a childcare plan. She is hungry and Thanksgiving is coming up. I fear the Buttecup/Butterball dust up has confused witch Nancy.
MFL is jealous that he did not write such great prose about Dear Leader like Frank has.
Slap, Slap, Slap in the shower…that’s just Monkey Faced Liberal and Jerry Sandusky…
Burmashave:
Thanks for your comment! It led me to find this great article, focused just on Death Panels, on Wikipedia.
Guess what! It turns out the Death Panels claim is even more of an example of complete and total BS than I thought!
Here is the link — I highly recommend you read the whole thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panels
A few highlights from the article:
-Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) stated that ‘death panels’ were a baseless charge that unnecessarily incited fear and detracted from real problems in the proposed legislation.
-Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), thought there was illogical confusion over “death panels”; he said advance directives put “authority in the individual rather than the government.”
-Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said that he agrees with his colleague, Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA), a surgeon. As quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Issa, referencing Boustany, said “medical panels of people who care about what’s best for their patients … is good science and good medicine.” Speaking for himself, Issa said “Republicans have to step back from the words ‘death panels’.”
-The Economist said the phrase was used as an “outrageous allegation” to confront politicians at town hall meetings during the August 2009 congressional recess
-PolitiFact.com gave Palin’s claim its lowest rating—”Pants on Fire!”—on August 10 and on December 19 it was named “Lie of the Year” for 2009
-FactCheck called it one of the “whoppers” of 2009.
There is a lot more there, but you get the idea.
But, of course, I do not expect this to persuade you — as a wingnut, facts that are not in accord with your delusions are ignored.
However, I am curious — if you are going to be delusional, why not delude yourself with ideas that are a lot more fun? I mean, thinking that Obama is not an American citizen, that climate change is a plot by evil scientists to get grant money for all-expenses-paid junkets to Greenland, and that the health care legislation had Death Panels in it is not just completely wrong, but depressing as well.
Why not instead believe in other false, but happy and fun ideas? Like that Unicorns are real, clouds are made of cotton candy, and FrankJ is a widely popular and successful political humorist?
Ok, that last idea is a bit of a stretch for anyone to believe, but you get the idea.
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
If this was the 1980’s or 1990’s the punch line to your joke about the your arm getting ripped off would be “It’s just a flesh wound!” I’m glad to see humor has progressed so far in the last 10 years.
MFL, your entire argument consists of nothing but appeals to authority, which makes it seem like you aren’t even trying to come to a mutual understanding. Burmashave defined the term as rationing and proceeded logically from that definition. Give logic a chance, MFL.
What’s funny about Death Panels is that rationing is inherent to any nationalized health care (including Medicare and Medicaid to an extent), and to someone who likes the government paying for their health care, the obvious answer to Death Panels is to increase funding in order to decrease rationing! I find that funny because that’s the opposite answer a conservative is looking for.
Conservatives would rather decide how to spend their own meager money and be limited by circumstances, family and other charity, rather than the government taking it and being limited by federal decree. But perhaps you already know this and purposefully mistake their vernacular?
For the life of me, I can’t figure out what triggered moderation. Oh, well! 🙂