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"Should I decide to change my politics and become a conservative now that I'm exactly the middle-aged bourgeois/suburban tool I used to rail against, I can always vote Republican by voting Democratic. The new Democratic Party is an excellent substitute for the old Nixon/Ford Republican Party. They even passed Nixon's vision of a health care plan. That there's no Democratic Party left is a shame, but I guess one choice is better than none."
posted by seti at 2010-03-22 23:37

seti: Matt Taibbi on the recently passed healthcare reform bill.

All Death, All The Time: Modest Proposal for a Death-Themed TV Channel (in Spanish)
posted by kandinski at 2010-03-22 22:13

Congratulations Or Even A Sigh Of Relief Are A Waste Of Time
posted by seti at 2010-03-22 20:44

seti: Democratic Party planners in the U.S. better take heed of this advice.

A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain
posted by seti at 2010-03-22 18:59

"Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword fight."
posted by seti at 2010-03-22 18:15

seti: (via)

National Geographic Puts LSD Under The Microscope
posted by seti at 2010-03-22 17:37

In praise of Nancy Pelosi
posted by seti at 2010-03-22 17:05

Reuters: U.S. states launch lawsuits against healthcare plan
posted by seti at 2010-03-22 16:45

seti: That didn't take long.

The Rude Pundit weighs in on yesterday's Tea Party threats of civil war if healthcare reform should pass
posted by seti at 2010-03-22 13:01

thelink: funny how many of those usa citizens oppose compulsory confisccation of their wealth along practically any grounds except they cheer when their federal-tax funded military goes abroad to kill us poor little ol' foreigners
thelink: the main link is about this
seti: the last two wars weren't actually paid for by taxpayers but were added to the deficit
thelink: oh yeah, i forgot the main "reason" to go to war: plunder

(rechump) how complicit is the pope in child abuse conducted by the catholic church?
posted by thelink at 2010-03-22 08:23

thelink: reposted to question: "regarded as a secret of the Holy Office … under the penalty of excommunication" ... who in their right mind would not want to be excommunicated from this 'church' after finding out about attrocities its authorities have committed??????
thelink: so how can that 'threat' possibly be used to explain silence by its members?
thelink: O NOES THE BWIAR PAAAAATCH!!!!!

Communist Propaganda-Arm, Reuters, on the benefits of the Healthcare Reform in the US
posted by kandinski at 2010-03-22 07:21

thelink: there now, that didn't hurt, did it?
thelink: seems to be a case of usa still not getting it ... "Most people will be required to obtain health insurance coverage or pay a fine if they don't. " ... so people with very low income are actually penalised ... there are tax credits for low income earners, but that is only useful if you are making enough to pay much tax ... <smacks head on keyboard>
thelink: please let me be wrong.
seti: those people can get subsidies from the government to help them pay.
thelink: currently that's from the states, if i understand correctly ... does this change that? i believe the amount of help varies from state to state ... and is not very useful in some states ... i may be wrong about that too :)
thelink: or am i thinking of unemployment benefit, food stamps etc ...
thelink: perhaps explained here ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States
thelink: what i think is most questionable about the US system, and which has been inflicted on systems outside the US after political pressure and in emulation of our Successful Big Brother, is that the system is almost entirely private
thelink: which naturally puts commercial motives ahead of social benefit, and seems to entirely miss the moral underpinnings of the Hippocratic system of western medicine
thelink: underpinnings which as a result seem to have been largely forgotten, eg the oath sworn by doctors in my own country no longer bears much resemblance to the Hippocratic Oath (yeah we can name the new forms Hypocritic Oaths, for all the money-grubbing hounds in medicine now)
thelink: and their care leaves much to be desired
thelink: same thing for what passes for education, charity etc .. :p
thelink: even so, the words 'money', 'wealth', 'status' are currently not mentioned on the wikipedia page for triage ... why do hospitals and doctors anywhere insist on recognising them for that purpose then?
thelink: MEDECINE IS COMMUNISM! O NOES!

A conservative view on the political consequences of Healthcare reform
posted by kandinski at 2010-03-22 07:14

thelink: O NOES!!!1~!!! ;-\ "today’s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged"
thelink: if that's the worst fallout, bring it on ... sounds like it must be a good bill