Open Thread – aka “Pithy Poetry Afterglow”
2009 August 14
and just to whet your whistle, the A/P has THIS piece of crap headline up right now:
GOP backs away from end-of-life counseling
yup…they need to equate the desire of those faced with true end-of-life decisions with advice from the proposed DEATH COUNCILS embedded in the House Bill.
Like equating the Death Penalty for murderers with the murders COMMITTED by those murderers. Oh wait…they’ve been doing THAT for years!!
Open thread…GO!
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Eastasia has always been at war with Oceania!
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Twist the truth
Dumb it down
rewrite history
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Wow, in the span of one month, Liberals are now for the death penalty.
What’s next for them? Approving conceal and carry permits for death panel workers?
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I can’t…. blah…..
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Well we need to keep the pressure up of course.
But the Teas need to start prepping for the next move — making a list, checking it twice and preparing to go into an coordinated assault on anyone who signed on to HCR. Whether it passes or not. Fact if HCR is defeated it is even more critical to defeat the ones that signed on to it. Death by policy is the only way to kill the idea once and for all. Kill a bunch of careers and you will never hear it again.
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the Left has literally embraced DEATH as their path to power!
bad enough when the government tells me what LIGHTS I must use in my house…now they want to dictate how long or WHETHER my personal “lights” stay on!
The Menendez brothers are running HealthCare…what could go wrong?
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No, of course that is right. This is nowhere near over, I still think it will pass. After all did Obama not say he was willing to be a one-termer over this?
This is a 12 round fight, and we are halfway round 3…..just gettin warmed up….
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drdog…I agree…it is TRULY the Cost of Freedom…and LIFE!
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rwy…rounds 4-10 may be fought from my family’s redoubt! aka: The Holler
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When did Obama say he would risk another 4 years?
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Some of us are not so fortunate. We have only one home, and it is of dubious quality as a defensive position.
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http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/08/obama_as_a_one-termer.php
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How about this gem, was riding the CNN front page for most of the day
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/britain.america.nhs/index.html
All about Britons saying how grateful they are to the NHS, and how they get solid free health care that doesn’t cost them anything.
Slaves. Of course you’re grateful to your master, who has made it illegal or virtually impossible for you to get health care in any other way.
That’s right, the NHS health care doesn’t cost you anything. All that health care rains down from the sky like manna from heaven. Never comes out of your pocketbook, nope.
Oh and did you check into why you’re not having any kids? Oh yes, too expensive, not enough spare income.
Okey dokey, two utterly unrelated concepts. Back to watching the telly. It’s very relaxing to have no choices in anything.
We must support our kind and generous master, the goverment.
Slaves.
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No, if it makes me a one-term president, I’m going to, we’re going to take it on because the country is in need of us taking this on.
Wonderful. If he can take a good chunk of the Democrats with him then double wonderful.
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Aurelius….yeah. Put yourself asleep and let massa tell you what to do and when to do it. It makes you love Tony Montana.
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Regarding NHS, the blog posting here is of interest.
Recently the Investors Business Daily ran an editorial which included the following quote:
IBD was ridiculed for this because Stephen Hawking is a lifelong citizen and denizen of the U.K., and is still alive. However, there is much more to the story. I’ll quote below from the blog which explains pretty well how NHS would indeed have let Stephen Hawking waste away in a nursing home until he died.
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Damn, screwed up the italics tags so it’s a little harder to read. Perhaps JM can fix the tag in the third paragraph.
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No, it’s ok mpt. IBD defended themselves well in a subsequent response. NHS is just another killer of people the left deems expendable.
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Are cattle grateful for their food?
You betcha.
I wonder how a poll of cattle would turn out — in favor or not of the food delivery truck?
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I’ll be telling my grandkids of a time when men were free.
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🙁 Yeah
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O/T but arent we well into Hurricane Season? I guess just the thought of reducing that dreaded CO2, not to mention the Messiah, is protecting us from horrible storms.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray Obama, my weather to keep. If I should get old before I wake, I pray Obama my life to take.
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That reminds me. MFG missed the benediction again. 👿
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Greetings, fellow patriots!
Very interesting article on Hawking above.
Thanks, mp!
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A blonde woman was speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde.
The blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver’s license. She dug through her purse and was getting progressively more agitated.
‘What does it look like?’ she finally asked.
The policewoman replied, ‘It’s square and it has your picture on it.’
The driver finally found a square mirror in her purse, looked at it and handed it to the policewoman. ‘Here it is,’ she said.
The blonde officer looked at the mirror, then handed it back saying, ‘OK, you can go. I didn’t realize you were a cop.’
😆
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Yahoo, thanks for the theatlantic.com article.
That is a ‘read my lips’ type of quote.
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JM– LOL! And I have lots of smart blondes in my family.
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I am blonde….and I am rofl!
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JR– tell us about the Holler. I am intrigued.
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The Holler needs prayers, as it is under threat from fire right now. 🙁 Please pray for a hedge of protection all around the holler and other homes in the area.
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Like Yahoo, I have no defensive position. Basically glass house, one gun, one dog.
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prayers forthcoming– are you in Santa Cruz?
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http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current This is the Yuba fire 🙁
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…the Messiah, is protecting us from horrible storms.
I thought it was just that Rove had turned off his hurricane machine.
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“0% contained”– not good!
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Where have all our freedoms gone?
Long time passing
Where have all our freedoms gone?
Long time ago
Where have all our freedoms gone?
Obama is destroying them one by one
When will America ever learn?
When will America ever learn?
Where have all the old folks gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the old folks gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the old folks gone?
Gone to ObamaCare graveyards every one
When will America ever learn?
When will America ever learn?
Where have all the ObamaCare hospitals gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the ObamaCare hospitals gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the ObamaCare hospitals gone?
Covered with shutters every one
When will America ever learn?
When will America ever learn?
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Very sorry to hear about the fire. Prayers and wishes go out to your family and other folks in the community.
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The Yuba Fire appears 15% contained tonight…hopefully it will be snuffed out before it moves up the canyons. The Holler (aka “Galt’s Gulch”) will remain our redoubt…even if we need to rebuild it.
cheers,
Justrand
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this is the video from the TeaParty protest mpt couldn’t make in SF due to a death in the family. a LOT of people for a CONSERVATIVE protest in the Bay Area!!
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“Obama slams TV over health care ‘ruckus’.”
Isn’t this the same TV that:
– Created the Barack Obama myth
– Protrects him 24/7
– Works to destroy anyone or anything that gets in his way (e.g. Sarah Palin)
– Constantly hypes him and his programs
– Hides any negative news
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Is today the day John Edwards admits he is “daddy dearest?”
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BC,
It is indeed. And thankfully it is becoming more irrelevant by the day. When a moose huntin’ woman from piddling little Alaska can send out two Facebook pages and it forces a change in major legislation…. Well it just goes to prove my point.
Political futures will be won and lost in the ‘tubes’ not on the Tube. The town hall meetings show another side as well. Massed community organizing is getting a bad name. ACORN was severely beaten by a ‘tubes’ organized grass roots move by folks in PA this week. They packed the hall before ACORN had a chance then booed them back on the buses. Very quickly folks have learned it is not just enough to get your point across, you also have to be prepared to perform counter-insurgency moves against your opponent denying them the field.
TV determined the Kennedy-Nixon debate. The Internet will take over that role in 2012.
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LOL–HotAir held open registration last week and got themselves infected with a nasty case of acroso. He’s posting over there under the name ‘spathi’.
Someone needs to tell them that penicillin is still the best treatment.
And at what remains of PP, Fecal Cat is now back openly as part of the troll fest.
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Get WCV to post over here and there would not be much of PP to even consider reading. You would have JokeLeaf moving fictitious stock portfolios around and PP worrying about his condo values like an episode of Monk.
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PG –
I noticed the same thing at Hot Air. It’s amazing that you can read one or two comments and figure out who a poster is. The last thread I saw on Poli, 80% of the comments were either from acroso or left wing trolls. That site has truly gone to hell.
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MM has posted another video from the San Francisco Tea Party. This one looks like it was shot from the platform.
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excellent video, INC. When that many people can gather in THAT city to protest their “savior” Obama…it IS news! Of course the media will either denigrate it or ignore it!
and boy oh boy, to those people ever look SCARY!!!
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The contrast between the Tea Party and other San Francisco protests is kind of remarkable.
It’s nice to see people proudly waving flags there rather than burning them!
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RedState had a video yesterday of Pelosi being interrupted by protestors in January of 2006 and telling them they were “very American”!
I won’t put Nancy’s face here, but if anyone wants to view it this is the link.
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Oh yes, how great. So lets see. Obama makes a deal with pharma to get $8bn a year in ‘script savings. They pledge $150m in advert support. And O thinks he’s winning while still strapped to a $1T deficit ball and chain.
Pharma is worth ~$950B and have a 16.5% profit margin. I point this out to show how bad a poker player Obama is and not to rip the drug companies. (They need the higher margins due to the risk they take on.) Now here is the kicker. Take a look at this table — http://biz.yahoo.com/p/510conameu.html. Note that drugs represent almost half of the capitalization of the healthcare sector. Then go look at this table of the other sectors — http://biz.yahoo.com/p/5conameu.html. Pharma is the biggest chunk and they just got a very cheap ‘get out of jail free card’.
The idiot (Obama) does not even know pharma just got ’21’ and he is busted in the healthcare blackjack table of life….
Oh and those poor health insurance companies that O is demonizing? They really are poor. That insurance subsector only has a $34B market cap. Johnson & Johnson has done $15B in sales so far this year. Gee think there might be some politics going on here? Har, Har.
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Dr. D, PowerLine really has the line of the day in that first link you have:
“This is beyond Astroturf; this is a veritable Jurassic Park of fake foliage.”
The thing is how does pharma know Obama will follow through on negotiations?
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INC,
Unless somebody was wearing a wire in the meetings, none at all.
But lets say he does, because he’s a honorable guy (cough, cough). He’s just made a deal with the largest cost center in the healthcare economy that they only have to cough up ~10% of net earnings and he will leave them alone. To me that kind of deal would seem to take away bulk price discounting off the table as he just did it across the aboard rather than drug by drug which probably could have garnered more savings as a class.
But having cut that deal where does he get all these vaunted savings from the other health sectors? My guess is he can’t and that is why the whole deal is a house of cards. His has only two avenues left — really clamp down on fraud and institute a health tax. Which of course it will be more of the latter than the former.
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that was a GREAT line…and the article SHOULD be the subject of in-depth investigations by the media and the DOJ. I’m kidding, of course. As I point out on the Open Thread I just started, the media is focusing on Abu Gharib, and urging the DOJ to look into Dick Armey’s (R) connection to HealthCare.
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Hey INC, throw this vid up here — http://www.gilacourier.com/?p=3135
The Dim cancelled their Town Hall so a REPUBLICAN from another district filled in. Now that is MY kind of Republican. Take it to ’em Kelley!!
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drdog…he does a great job of calmly discussing the issues. Dems ducking and dodging…Republicans standing up.
TeaParty in San Francisco??
Voter outrage in deepest BLUE part of Brooklyn directed at their Democrat Congress Critter?
Even John “Let’s Make a Deal” Murtha apparently is stiff-arming SanFran Nan!!
WTF??
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drd — the pharm’s deal is 80 not 8 bil over 10 years — forgot a zero! Good informative links on health care details this morning.
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janzam,
read it again. I said 8bn a year. yes, 80bn over 10 years. Somehow I think my math is right….
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uh oh…an arithmetic food-fight has broken out! Calculators at the ready? Begin!
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JR,
Its almost to the point if I don’ t run it through a spreadsheet it can get bad. Can’t remember the last time I used a calculator…. 🙂
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Kent Conrad backing out of any public option on HC — http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/91608/
They are on the run.
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Dr. Dog, I just saw your comment above. My husband’s on my computer right now doing clean up on it for me. I grabbed his notebook for a minute. Here’s the video:
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keep them doggies moving BlogHide!! (my “claim to fame” is that I wrote the original “Rawhide” parody, “BlogHide”, a couple years back!)
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I used to have that poem somewhere. I think I saved it in a Word doc., but I don’t know if it’s still there!
🙂
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I’ll see if I can find it….it must be on my computer somewhere 🙂
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If you find it you should post it in a thread by itself!
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Thanks INC!
Caption for this vid — Republicans, doing the representen’ that Democrats won’t do.
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That was an incredibly savvy thing to do!
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Drdog asked me to embed a video as a test, so I thought I would embed the video I tied to a news story last night at another site. You might as well laugh too!
Story:
Thank goodness the streets of clermont are safe! 😆 This dude was scary! Posters? Runnnnn!
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INC, if the Reps were smart, every time a Dim cancels an event a neighboring Republican ought to book it, same time and place. Excellent tactics.
JM,
Thanks. Working a scheme for that Rasmussen Presidential graphic to show up in a comment automatically. (neat if we could get approval….)
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JM…great video re. “scary things”.
It IS amazing, that after 8 YEARS of Bush being depicted as every evil thing that EVER existed, we now have the POLICE investigating who made fun of our Dear Leader.
Saying ANYTHING bad about Obama will be an official crime very soon.
I LOVE Big Brother!!!
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Hey, JM!
Went to the Saints game last night with a friend, sorry I missed poetry, didn’t even know it was scheduled!
Everyone bow your head, please:
Our Obama
Who art in Washington
Hallowed be thy name
Thy corruption come
Thy fraud be done
In Washington as it is in Illinois
Give us this day our welfare check
And forgive us our Christianity
As we forgive those who have decency or ethics
And lead us not into integrity
But deliver us from honesty amen
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splendid benediction, your Eminence. As always. As you can imagine, the “Death Panel” poetry was restrained and respectful…and always in good taste! 👿 or not