Free Health Care almost killed me! Except it Totally didn't
People who advocate for Private "American Style" Medicine in Canada crack me up:
Ontario’s healthcare monopoly almost killed Lindsay McCreith. After suffering a seizure in January of 2006, the 66-year-old retired auto body shop owner from Newmarket was told he had a brain tumour. But he would have to wait four-and-one-half months to obtain an MRI to rule out the possibility that it was cancerous. Unwilling to risk the progression of what might be cancer, Mr. McCreith obtained an MRI in Buffalo, which revealed the brain tumour was malignant. Even with this diagnosis in hand, the Ontario system still refused to provide timely treatment, so Mr. McCreith had surgery in Buffalo to remove the cancerous brain tumour in March of 2006.
In Ontario, Mr. McCreith would have waited eight months for surgery, according to his family doctor. Eight months is quite enough time for a cancer to worsen, spread and progress to an irreversible stage. Had Mr. McCreith not paid $27,600 (USD) out-of pocket for immediate medical care, he might be dead today.
Shona Holmes, a self-employed family mediator and the married mother of two children, began losing her vision in March of 2005. She also experienced severe headaches, anxiety attacks, high blood pressure, extreme fatigue, and weight gain. In spite of these serious symptoms and an MRI revealing a tumour in Ms. Holmes’ brain, Ontario’s health care system told her that she would have to wait months to see a specialist.
... (Give me a break, this is alot of text)
With the Mayo Clinic test results and diagnosis in hand, Ms. Holmes returned to Ontario, only to be told to wait for more appointments and tests. Having lost one half of her vision in her right eye and one quarter in her left, and unable to expedite appointments with specialists, she returned to the Mayo Clinic, where surgeons operated to remove the tumour. Within ten days, Ms. Holmes’ vision was completely restored. Visual field testing and a post-operative MRI also confirmed that the tumour caused the vision loss. Surgery had indeed been necessary to save her eyesight. Nevertheless, the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) refuses to reimburse Ms. Holmes for any of the expenses she was forced to incur in seeking necessary medical care abroad. While she has returned to work, her husband must now work two full-time jobs to pay off the debts they were forced to incur to save her vision.
Did you ever get the idea that Private Care proponents don't read their own press? The answer; in their minds is to sue to force a tiered health care system, where the wealthy can jump the line and take up the limited health care resources because the can afford it. I mean, what if there was private care in Ontario before these two sad sacks got sick? Would there magically have been more doctors? It's not like the doctors would magically appear out of thin air:
"The United States is experiencing a primary care shortage the likes of which we have not seen," Jeffrey P. Harris, MD, FACP, president of the American College of Physicians (ACP), told the House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee. "The demand for primary care in the U.S. will grow exponentially as the nation's supply of primary care dwindles."
As the population ages, and dementia, delirium and Alzheimer's disease impact millions each year, Medicare refuses to grant psychiatry the same "specialty" rates as others, and only pays these physicians about 50 percent of billings.
--Michael Golding
Patients per Doctor
Perhaps in MAgic Private Enterprise Land, health care is better, by and large, right?
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Country
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Life expectancy at birth
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Date of Information
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1
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Macau | 84.36 | 2009 est. |
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2
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Andorra | 82.51 | 2009 est. |
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3
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Japan | 82.12 | 2009 est. |
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4
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Singapore | 81.98 | 2009 est. |
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5
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San Marino | 81.97 | 2009 est. |
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6
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Hong Kong | 81.86 | 2009 est. |
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7
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Australia | 81.63 | 2009 est. |
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8
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Canada | 81.23 | 2009 est. |
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9
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France | 80.98 | 2009 est. |
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10
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Sweden | 80.86 | 2009 est. |
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11
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Switzerland | 80.85 | 2009 est. |
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12
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Guernsey | 80.77 | 2009 est. |
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13
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Israel | 80.73 | 2009 est. |
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14
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Iceland | 80.67 | 2009 est. |
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15
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Anguilla | 80.65 | 2009 est. |
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16
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Cayman Islands | 80.44 | 2009 est. |
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17
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Bermuda | 80.43 | 2009 est. |
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18
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New Zealand | 80.36 | 2009 est. |
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19
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Italy | 80.20 | 2009 est. |
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20
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Gibraltar | 80.19 | 2009 est. |
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21
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Monaco | 80.09 | 2009 est. |
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22
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Liechtenstein | 80.06 | 2009 est. |
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23
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Spain | 80.05 | 2009 est. |
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24
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Norway | 79.95 | 2009 est. |
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25
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Jersey | 79.75 | 2009 est. |
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26
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Greece | 79.66 | 2009 est. |
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27
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Austria | 79.50 | 2009 est. |
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28
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Faroe Islands | 79.44 | 2009 est. |
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29
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Malta | 79.44 | 2009 est. |
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30
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Netherlands | 79.40 | 2009 est. |
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31
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Luxembourg | 79.33 | 2009 est. |
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32
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Germany | 79.26 | 2009 est. |
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33
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Belgium | 79.22 | 2009 est. |
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34
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 79.07 | 2009 est. |
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35
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Virgin Islands | 79.05 | 2009 est. |
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36
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United Kingdom | 79.01 | 2009 est. |
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37
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Finland | 78.97 | 2009 est. |
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38
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Jordan | 78.87 | 2009 est. |
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39
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Isle of Man | 78.82 | 2009 est. |
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40
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Korea, South | 78.72 | 2009 est. |
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41
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European Union | 78.67 | 2009 est. |
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42
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Puerto Rico | 78.53 | 2009 est. |
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43
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Bosnia and Herzegovina | 78.50 | 2009 est. |
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44
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Saint Helena | 78.44 | 2009 est. |
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45
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Cyprus | 78.33 | 2009 est. |
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46
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Denmark | 78.30 | 2009 est. |
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47
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Ireland | 78.24 | 2009 est. |
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48
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Portugal | 78.21 | 2009 est. |
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49
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Wallis and Futuna | 78.20 | 2009 est. |
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50
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United States | 78.11 | 2009 est |
Shit, No, Huh?
This is from the CIA World Fact Book, not "My Commie Left Wing Free Halth Care Supporting Guidebook" at all. I keep for that for verbal debates.
Anyway; the only thing I hate about the free health care is that it isn't actually universal, dentistry isn't free, nor is eye care. All of these things should be free too. They all relate to quality of life and for the most part good overall health is good for the country, because healthy people both happy and productive and in our Hybrid economy, productive people have money and money is spent.
If anything, the two unfortunates should be suing the Federal and Provincial governments for not ensuring that staffing and funds were there to ensure their good health. That's what our taxes as for, not adventures in the Middle East!
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Drinking with the Crazy
Doesn't that face say "Phallus Goes Here"?
Don't visit his page; it's infectiously crazy. DrinkwithBob is all about selling ads for his Mouth Stretching goods. Not for me; not for you. If you need yuor mouth stretched, let me suggest the Pear of Agony. It's less of a chore.
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Visual Evidence that you're wrong
I had the misfortune of reading "Miss Eva"s twitter feed:
@perez hilton stick to Hollywood gossip. Leave the morals of America alone. Miss America is entitled to her views.
Miss California is a strong woman. I'm glad we still have young people with morals and values.
Perez Hilton, should stick to what he is good at, hating on celebrities. He is a gay man with no moral values.
The Miss America judges should be brought to task.
I'm not fond of the "She's got strong morals" crowd; because if you are familiar with what Miss C said she said she was "Bible Correct" [SHE'S A BEAUTY QUEEN WEARING MAKEUP AND SHOWING OFF HER BOOBS]. Morals are such mercurial things, sigh.
So, the point of this post.
I went to "TeamRose" or "Miss Evas" blog and read about their Fast. Their fast started in 2007 and it's two years later and they have lost a total of 48 pounds. Yup. They're not cheating.
Morals Morals Morals Eva.
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Why the oddly specific number? Why?
Two Quotes about Chrysler and GM that stick out:
“I know this is difficult,” Mr. Clement said. “I know this affects real workers in real towns and cities across Ontario.
and
CAW president Ken Lewenza has called Fiat's proposal to cut labour costs at Chrysler Canada by $19 an hour an “unreasonable” demand and has said it is “not going to happen,” arguing the CAW is competitive with unionized environments in the United States.
Why $19 and not a Percentage? That's a strange way of doing things. It's not like "cut them by 5%"; which would be the normal way to approach cuts.
Something stinks there. Is there anyone inside of Fiat who can break their wall of silence and pass along the skinny on this?
Also; this again:
“I know this is difficult,” Mr. Clement said. “I know this affects real workers in real towns and cities across Ontario.
If there is something that can be said about Harper is that Canada lives between Alberta and Saskatchewan. That's it. The rest of the landmass that we think of as Canada is "the Rest of it" and is dismissed very easily by the Snow-Texans of the West.
Some Interesting Reading on Tony Clement too (National Post)
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In Case you aren't getting it yet
What’s hilarious about the teabaggers, though, is how they never squawk about waste until the spending actually has a chance of benefiting them. You will never hear of a teabagger crying about OPIC giving $50 million in free insurance to some mining company so that they can dig for silver in rural Bolivia. You won’t hear of a teabagger protesting the $2.5 billion in Ex-Im loans we gave to GE through the early part of this decade, even as GE was moving nearly a hundred thousand jobs overseas over the course of ten years. And Michelle Malkin’s readers didn’t seem to mind giving IBM millions in Ex-IM and ATP loans at the same time it was giving its former CEO, Lou Gerstner, $260 million in stock options.
In other words teabaggers don’t mind paying taxes to fund the salaries of Bolivian miners, Lou Gerstner’s stock options, deliveries of “sailboat fuel,” the Hermes scarves on Sandy Weill’s jet pillows, or even the export of their own goddamn jobs. But they do hate it when someone tries to re-asphalt their roads, or help bail their slob neighbor out of foreclosure. And God forbid someone propose a health care program, or increased financial aid for college. Hell, that’s like offering to share your turkey with the other Pilgrims! That’s not what America is all about! America is every Pilgrim for himself, dammit! Raise your own motherfucking turkey!
And once again, Taibbi:
You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish… can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses!
Don't know about you, but given the choice, I'd rather be an elitist than a peasant any day.
Shamelessly stolen from Rising Hegemon
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Ronald Reagan: I knew this already
He's Dead. Don't Worry.
Ronald Reagan's acting career hit a lull in the late 1940s. Despite parts in minor films such as The Voice of the Turtle and That Hagen Girl, he became increasingly preoccupied with his more important role during Hollywood's "Red Scare" as head of the Screen Actors Guild. It was revealed last week that the future President played another role as well: as a secret FBI informant, code name T-10. According to an article published in the San Jose Mercury News, documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act indicate that Reagan and his first wife, Actress Jane Wyman, provided federal agents with the names of actors they believed were Communist sympathizers.
--Time American Notes Hollywood
Reagan was no friend to the Common Man, Classist and a turncoat. Ronald Reagan could not resist the chance to take credit for other peoples efforts. However; I'm not writing about Ronald here; I relish the chance to take a bottle of piss to his grave any day now; but oinly after my Thatcher, Bush I and Bush II urine around the world tour sometime int he next 20 years.
Instead; I wanted to note the sycophantic bleating of one of his supporters:
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• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
All of your parents likely voted for Reagan. Tough pill to swallow for people that so hate "what Reagan did to this country", eh?...• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
Reagan, like the rest of the world knew next to nothing about AIDS in the early 80s. To slag him off for inaction on something that no one fully understood at that time is silly. So we're blaming Reagan for terrorists killing marines in Beirut? Should we blame WTC employers for the deaths of their employees on 9/11? That's preposterous....• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
and what might that be #34? Reagan not only won the presidency in '80 and '84 but it was damn-near unanimous. To see people take potshots at a dead president who was nationally and internationally revered pisses me off. Do you know how many streets are named after Reagan in Eastern Bloc countries that suffered under Communist rule? Reagan wasn't perfect...but he did more in his 8 years at the helm than any president in the last 50. That's virtually undebatable....• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
#25 "Reagan saved the world from nothing." So winning the Cold War, saving U.S. Hostages in Beirut and saving the U.S. economy don't do it for you? I'm sure I could name more......• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
Reagan was the best president we've had in the last 50 years. And yes, I stand by that statement....• Commented on London cops beating the shit out of peaceful G20 demonstrators
For people commenting that the "police were pushing more"...uh, what's the cop to protester ratio here? Would I have to push harder to fend off 5 guys than they would to advance on me?...• Commented on London cops beating the shit out of peaceful G20 demonstrators
Ok...so maybe I'm the dense one but if I was in a pack of about 20 with my back against a wall and I was being pushed/advanced upon by literally hundreds if not thousands of people...I would probably push back—possibly even quite forcefully. Doesn't matter if the protesters were being "non-violent", I doubt I would allow myself to be crushed by throngs of people....• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
Marxism, Communism, Socialism...whatever you want to call it—has always seemed to me something that looks good on paper...but history has shown (and will continue to show) does NOT work in real life. No ideal situations exist in this world and for Communism to work requires ideal situations/environments. I don't think Marx was evil, as some seem to, but just an idealist with some interesting ideas that don't really work. "Right" or no...they just don't work. Heck, I even think that pacifism is a neat idea and would be great in an ideal situation...but then some guy comes along with a gun or knife and it's back to Darwin's "survival of the fittest"...• Commented on Thomas Fuchs and Felix Sockwell's 'Deconstructing Dumbo'
I don't know if your comment on bloggers holds water or not...however, I do like BB.net despite the transparent "leanings". I do wish there to be a bit less political speak on here or at least a bit more objectivity, however. I'm currently on my second username, because I was apparently banned from posting prior (not because of profanity or any such thing, but for disagreeing) Wouldn't be overly surprised to see this post end up in the bin....• Commented on Thomas Fuchs and Felix Sockwell's 'Deconstructing Dumbo'
So is your implication that educated people are not conservative? The fact of the matter is a) I am conservative b) I am educated c) I, myself am a graphic designer. I supposed applying labels is what this post is really about and the comments have proven it....• Commented on Thomas Fuchs and Felix Sockwell's 'Deconstructing Dumbo'
It is clever logo manipulation...but yeah, the mongers are on both sides, on that there is no debate. The left has Michael Moore, Franken, Maher, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins etc...the right has Limbaugh, Colter, Hannity to an extent. Clearly, BoingBoing has chosen which side they wish to get behind. I suppose we'll have to deal with it....NOTE: I've removed Comments from "Whimsical Stories"
Here's another one:
• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
The American communists were managed directly out of Moscow. The only reason they didn't get their chance to put millions "up against the wall" was because of people like Ronald Reagan....• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
I really wonder if you would feel the same way if Reagan had been informing on Nazis? The only difference between the two groups is that the communists have a higher body count....• Commented on "Marx was... second???"
Well, Mr. Jefferson also thought it was OK to hold slaves, have sex with your slaves, sell people into slavery etc. Probably not a paragon of good economic thought. Thank God the Republicans came into power and freed the slaves....• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
Failix This is a new form of argument to me. You write "Fail" and that logically proves what? Only that you have no critical reasoning skills. Open your eyes, read Liberal Fascism, you might get a clue. #247 Buddy666 I meant to write Lenin and Stalin. Do not forget that Lenin started the camps and the mass murders long before Stalin took control....• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
#231 Jesse Hitler is included as he was also a socialist, a national socialist. The red fascists and the black fascists are heads and tails of the same coin. When you line up the greatest mass murderers of the 20th century, Lenin and Marx and Hitler and Mao, along with lower ranked contenders like Pol Pot and Castro and Che, you do find Socialism as the common thread. Instead of re-reading Marx, Metzger should do a first read of the Gulag Archipelago, the Black Book of Communism, and Liberal Fascism. Or is that too much reality for this community?...• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
Raj77 - the point being that on the one hand you have the socialists, with a body count in the hundreds of millions, and the capitalists, who got excessive bonuses. Of course it's time to run into the arms of the state and try socialism again....• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
Hey, what's a few hundred million dead among progressives? You Marxists will get it right one of these days. You have to break some eggs, right?...• Commented on Solution to AIG bonuses: a 90% tax on people who receive them
Maybe next we can levy a bill of attainder against the people who donated to Prop8 in California, a tax of 100% of their hate donations....Note: Gay Republican, Money Quote: "Open your eyes, read Liberal Fascism"
Considering that every conflict that wasn't in the name of either Communism, Fascism or Socialism was ostensibly in the name of some form of Capitalism (if you wash away the veneer of honor or politics) the idea that Communism has killed Millions while Capitalsm has clean hands; is preposterous. Ask a dead homeless person how Capitalism helped them out. You can't though, because they starved to death, in AMERICA.
Anyway; where was I going?
Authority.
That's it.
I can't stand authoritarians; even though at times that is exactly what I am. I stand on my Bully Pulpit at home and demand blind obedience in the name of social order and cleanliness. Thwip,Thwack, Crack (Whipping Noises, I don't know). However; I know that out in the streets I don't carry any real authority. Sure I may possess the requisite size and strength to push people around; I could even lose a millions pounds and become a police officer (if I didn't have such a problem with following orders). However, even given these sweeping powers of persuasion or intimidation I know what actually moves society; that is the social contract. The understanding that while I want to make my life so much better; I can't just stomp my way to success, even if I was on TV.
These guys; the Reagan cheering squads; don't actually understand the social contract. They appear to fervently believe that cooperation and looking out for your neighbours is some kind "girly" persuit and that no person in their right mind would care for it. They want DADDY to look after society while they do there level "naughty" best to get one over on all their brothers and sisters. Daddy will take care of the monsters. Daddy will scare off the bad man. Failing that they will buy themselves a big gun so that they can be like Daddy. Don't you just want to squeeze their precious little heads (with loving arms)?
Then there are the "Rebellious" Ones:
CelleCast: @hhavenwood what is #teaparty ?? well, it traces back to our history where the sons of liberty protested onerous taxation from an elete govtmarkhendricks: Hmmm? Right wing radicals... religious fanatics with guns? Sounds like our Founding Fathers that the head of DHS doesn't like #teapartyjoecaruso: They "Cling to their guns, religion and bias". -Barack Hussein Obama And what does he "Cling" to???? #tcot #teaparty #USAHonestAmerican: @meanolmeany Threats from libs? They don't even own guns. #teaparty
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Boredom + Ennui equals TAKEDOWN
I hated Wall-E so much that when a Mefite posted a link to an old story about it; I found an equally old review and decided to take them down a peg:
The "good folks" over at Redstate.com loved Wall-E and posted a tortured set of reasons why Wall-E was all about the Reagan and the Guns:
1) The overthrow of fascist tyranny – The most direct conservative message in the movie is the uprising of the humans to throw off the chains of fascism. Humans on the Axiom have been subjugated to the soft fascism of the nanny state where the state provides all needs to all people, and they are all equal in their care. Everyone looks the same. Every gets the same food, clothes, media and activities. It is the perfect Marxist utopia, except for the French Revolution inspired construct of a ruling elite (Auto and his hench-robots) who have the ultimate freedom and authority to rule society and construct it to their ideal. Just because it is performed “for the good of the people” doesn’t make less of a tyranny. I’m sure Pol Pot’s forced march into the wilds of Cambodia was for the good of the people too.
Of course, when I think of Liberals, I think of Rigid social mores and Cool Uniforms. Or wait, do I think of Hippies? Yeah, the last thing. Also Fascism does not Equal Communism. These two things are not equal. I think they were trying to arge against authoritarianism; which I think is still a stretch, since there is really only one Authority and society as a whole (The land whales) were not down for it; they were just mindless consumers (like good Capitalists).
(Quick, examine that short Paragrah, did I say anything about a certain Austrian political figure? No, Give me a cookie!)
2) Failure of the Big Government social programs – We’ve had a lot of discussion of the anti-corporate message in the form of Big N Large. I contend that BNL is not a corporation, but a government. It represents the ultimate extension of the nationalized corporation as defined by Mussolini, and is a pretty close analogy to Great Society. In the end BNL has total worldwide societal control and all needs of the people are met by BNL’s “programs”. But just like the failure of the Great Society, BNL’s planned economy fails in a spectacular manner. Even the changes made to save humanity do not meet the promises. We see advertising, analogous to current PSAs, to take the Axiom on its 5 year cruise. But the promise of the Axiom is not met and we see the price of that failure early in movie when we see all the fat people on hover chairs. Just like the Great Society, once the liberal plan is put into motion, there is no option to change to a rational alternative. All that can be done is to maintain the status quo, without end. As a side note, the CEO of BNL makes all of his pronouncements from something that looks like the White House press room. This is reference to governmental power, not corporate power.
Simply stating that Wal-Mart , ahed, I mean BNL is not a Corporatation and then going on from there isn't reasoning; that like saying "I don't think the Green Goblin is a villan, so therefore Spider-Man is a menace!" good thinking there JJJ. So; yeah this whole section of the argument is out the door.
3) The effects of the Mainstream Media – Every human has a personal video feed that is used to pipe constant media brainwashing. We see the propaganda where they are all told that “Blue is the new red”. All of the mind numbed sheep dutifully go “oooohhh” and happily don the new color, while all continue to look identical. They dutifully do as they are told, including eating what they are told, until they have become an identical group of fat useless drains on the welfare state. A state which dutifully fills up the troughs for them to eat from. I found this theme to track with the current obesity problem in the welfare and food stamp programs.
I aggree; the mainstream media is a profit driven entity owned by large corporations who want money. How is this a Liberal thing. I get it; if you don't like it (it's Liberal) and if you like it (Like cool Stormtrooper uniforms) it's Conservative. Tell me again how Fascists and Commies are Liberals again?
4) Propagandizing the education system – There was one scene where we saw the fat little children being educated through the use of media propaganda. This removal of parents from the upbringing of the children falls in line with the current drive to push children into the public indoctrination system as early as possible. While it is only an aside, the next time you see the children is when they are in danger thanks to the callous disregard of the elites. In this case, the state doesn’t save them, it is the actions of Josh and Mary acting as pseudo parents that save their lives.
Again, I agree. Using the Education of the young to put forth an agenda is deplorable. Of course, when the truth is that agenda and you don't believe in it (like say Evolution and how the Mass Market is profit driven and not equitable...) wait what? Oh, my eduction by PepsiCo must have failed me again; no Pepsi for me tonight.
5) Triumph of individualism – Through accidental contact with the robots, Josh and Mary meet each other and begin a romance. We see one scene where the Lido deck is closed, and all of the hover chairs dutifully follow orders and head to the cabins. But Josh and Mary ignore the rules and stay in the pool. In another scene, we see Eve finally ignore the directive to deliver the plant to the bridge, and stay to help Wall-E when he is injured. Both of these short sequences demonstrate individuals standing up for self determination over the dictates of the state.
Wall-E is emulating something he saw in a Movie. If emulation is somehow being an individual, all those kids dressed as the Vampires from Twilight are downright rebels. Dumbass.
6) Elites fighting to maintain power – The Socialist concept of rulership by elites is often accompanied by the struggle to maintain power for the good of the people, even when the people are harmed in the process. It is all done for the good of society. Toward the end of the movie, we see Auto put the humans into danger by turning the ship and causing everyone to slide toward the walls (I promised I wouldn’t discuss the gravitational absurdity of this scene). Here the elite is trying to save humanity, but in the process is likely to kill a lot of humans. This parallels a common environmentalist desire of today to see a significant reduction in human population to save the planet.
What Elites? One Computer is "Elites" plural? Dumbshit can't even count now.
7) Individualism must be suppressed – In the movie, the robots save the day. But the robots that do this are the “misfit” robots that have been put into a “reeducation program” to get them to perform within the strict tolerances defined by the state as acceptable. Once Wall-E uses Eve’s “blaster” to open the doors, the misfit robots escape. Instead of being a danger to society as the state controlled media asserts, they instead help Wall-E and Eve save humanity.
The "Misfit" robots are dangerously malfunctioning devices used to maintain the ship; some of which were endangering the ship. By this reasoning, a clinically insane person who threaten kindergartens because "Obama is gunna take his guns" is a real conservative icon! Again, Fail! Or WIN! Depending on which end of the spectrum your type of Aspergers ends up on.
8) Superiority of the classics – This one is a bit of a stretch, but the continual use of a “classic” image of the movie Hello Dolly made me think of the fight against cultural corruption. Wall-E (and eventually Eve) pine for, and eventually show the triumph of, the classical values shown by that movie. They reject the cultural mores imposed by modern thought as expressed by their directives that they are expected to blindly follow.
Yes, like CLASSIC Warfare (Raping and Pillaging) and CLASSIC Marriage (dowries) and of course the old Conservative Favourite, the Classic Lifestyle of the Spartan Army.
9) In the end Humanity embraces truth and does the right thing – The captain finally decides to take the Axiom home. But his decision is based on truly knowing what they face. He learns that Earth isn’t the happy wonderful place that his movies are showing him. Instead he directly confronts the bleak reality of the world that Eve shows him. But despite the knowledge of the challenges that faces them, he rejects the easy stagnation of continued life on the Axiom, and returns to earth to build a new world. Once faced with the lies told to him by the state, he rejects the state and embraces the hard road of struggle for independence.
The "State" told him to keep looking for life at home and then when said life is found, GO HOME. Which is what happened.
HOW THE FUCK IS THIS SOMEHOW A LIE ON BEHALF OF THE STATE. THE FUCKING LARDWHALE CAPTAIN DID EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS TOLD TO DO BY A 500 YEAR OLD RECORDING. HOLY SHIT! THAT'S LIKE STONING SOMEONE BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAID TO DO IT.
Again, Wall-E sucks and this gave me an opportunity to relive some of the low-lights of this crap fest.
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The most Naiive Republican evers!
As a reminder, Governor Palin is a Tea Party supporter; Andrew Breitbart even basically called her the candidate of the Tea Parties. If any of our readers can put us in touch with New York Tea Party organizers, please let us know
So, if you are keeping notes: Republicans don't get into protesting, because they are so polite. However, in the same post we see a reference to the ongoing and sometimes very impolite Tea Party protests that have sprung up around the USA. Amazing.
Lest you think this is unique; check out this one:
If you want to show your disgust at Pelosi, be there! Now, I'm not one for protests. I've been to a few (I think of the Tea Parties more as rallies), and frankly Republicans and conservatives aren't too good at protest because we are just too well behaved. Take a look at the rest of the protest page:
(emphasis added) http://blogs.chron.com/texassparkle/2009/06/pelosi_protest.html
Why I do declare; it is so beyond us Republicans to mount an effective protest because we are simply to polite:
So Very very Polite.
Yup.
Paragons of Civility and Genteel Discourse.
Never Raising their voices in Protest; except for the most Egregious outrage, just ask the Dixie Chicks.
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