Bush actually said this in his State of the Union address:
We will insure that decisions about your medical care are made in the privacy of your doctor's office, not in the halls of Congress.
I'll respond with four words: Terri Schiavo, Jane Roe.
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Beyond war, inflation, the end of the technology/productivity wave, and financial collapse, we think the most potent and short-term threat would be societies demanding a more ‘equitable’ share of wealth.
1. Medicare for All
2. End the Wars
3. Tax the Rich
4. A Jobs Guarantee
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POTL
, n. People Of The Lie. Coined by Christian psychiatrist and theologian M. Scott Peck in his book The People of the Lie, which is, among other things, an examination of the nature of human evil. Peck quotes Martin Buber:
Since the primary motive of evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church.
Additional excerpts can be found here. "Utterly dedicated to preserving their self-image of perfection, they are unceasingly engaged in the effort to maintain the appearance of moral purity. They are acutely sensitive to social norms and what others might think of them. They seem to live lives that are above reproach. The words "image", "appearance" and "outwardly" are crucial to understanding the morality of 'the evil'. While they lack any motivation to be good, they intensely desire to appear good. Their goodness is all on a level of pretense. It is in effect a lie. Actually the lie is designed not so much to deceive others as to deceive themselves. We lie only when we are attempting to cover up something we know to be illicit. At one and the same time 'the evil' are aware of their evil and desperately trying to avoid the awareness." Peck's material, I feel, has great potential for analyzing and deconstructing the nature and behavior of the wing of the Republican party that has captured our government. With the caveats, that Peck raises, that evil is very dangerous to analyze--since we are, after all, all vulnerable to it.
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"as you both read the letter from the insurance company
denying care."
Liberty, see -- he's bringing doctors and patients together!
He also talked about the need to stop the "divisiveness" about stem cell research. I.e., we should happily continue to throw out unused embryos rather than use them to save and improve lives.
but VL, that's not medical care...
...that's MORAL care. if yew wuzn't sech an atheist, yew'd know thet.
(walks away humming "Jesus" by the Velvets...)
Two more words
For the insured, the word is "Aetna," and the thought is, hope you never need any medical care that costs money.
For the uninsured, the word is "uninsured," and the thought is, hope you never need any medical care that costs money.
My thought, anyway. "Some" find the horrible decisions forced on the Sarkisyans and the Drivers of this world ... entertaining.
Open mic
Stand up night last night in Congress.
My favorite bit of the night was the , "No one can deny the success of No Child Left Behind."
Jack, I absolutely did LOL on that one
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