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From: Bill Graham on 15 Sep 2009 19:29 "Bob Larter" <bobbylarter(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:4aaf573c$1(a)dnews.tpgi.com.au... > Don't you think it's kind of hypocritical that on the one hand > right-wingers oppose abortion, calling it murder, and yet on the other > hand, they support the death penalty? Not at all. The death penalty is for those who have had their chance to live useful lives obeying the rules of the society, and failed to do so.....They had their chance, and, "blew it". Abortion, on the other hand, takes away an innocent's chance even before it existed. It is a, "death penalty" for no crime at all. To compare the two is illogical.
From: tnom on 15 Sep 2009 21:55 Off topic complaints can now be ignored from anyone posting to this thread.
From: Neil Harrington on 16 Sep 2009 00:59 "C J Campbell" <christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:2009091102101816807-christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmailcom... [ . . . ] > > Congress has not learned its lesson. Bush's approval ratings were > justifiably low. Congress' were even lower and they remain lower today. > And it isn't because they haven't passed a health care package. It is > because they are idiots. They haven't learned that taxpayers are tired of > paying for earmarks, bailouts, and gigantic government programs that > accomplish nothing. No wonder the public does not trust health care > "reform" -- not one member of Congress (or even the President) has set > forth even a single goal that health care reform is supposed to > accomplish. All we get is vague mumbling about lower costs, without > explaining how adding an additional layer of government bureaucrats (who > all must be paid and given offices in which to 'work') along with their > attendant consultants, contractors, endless studies, and inevitably > confusing rules and regulations, all of which will be the source of > endless litigation, will lower costs. > > Consider: for all the promise of banking "reform," which should have been > simpler than health care, nothing has actually changed, except that there > aren't as many banks. And if the health care bill gets signed into law, there probably won't be as many doctors. This morning's (Wednesday) Investor's Business Daily has a front-page headline saying: "45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul. "Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found. "The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors' own lobby - the powerful American Medical Association - both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul. "It also calls into question whether an overhaul is even doable; 72% of the doctors polled disagree with the administration's claim that the government can cover 47 million more people with betterquality care at lower cost. [ . . . ]" > In fact, both the percentage and the total amount of risky loans in banks' > portfolios is actually higher now than what caused the collapse a year > ago. And all those perks and bonuses that the public hated so much? > They're bigger and better. > > Economists originally predicted that the recession would end in June or > July. After trillions spent on bailouts and stimulus, Congress and the > Administration have managed to push that back until at least October, > while squandering all the capital that would be needed if a real emergency > arose. We're broke. If a major war broke out now, we couldn't afford to > fight it. Another Hurricane Katrina? Forget it -- FEMA is so broke that > they might not be able to handle so much as a wastebasket fire. If we > actually got another hurricane like Katrina, Obama might have the singular > distinction of making the Bush Administration's response look good. > > All Bush wanted to do in Afghanistan was catch a bunch of rascals who were > reduced to hiding in caves. Well, he could not even do that. So now Obama > wants to pacify the whole country, something that the Russians and British > and several other European countries have tried to do for centuries with > no success whatsoever. Even Alexander the Great couldn't do it. > > Oh, and lest we forget: Obama is still tapping phones; all he has done is > change the way the President pretends to get permission to do it. He > hasn't closed Gitmo; and if he does, all he really wants to do is relocate > it, probably to the district of some Congressman he doesn't like. All the > 9/11 insecurity measures and Patriot Act are still in place (unless, of > course, the President wants to terrorize New York City by buzzing it with > Air Force One again -- heck, if I was him, I'd be doing it every day). > Homeland Security is still around. So, really, if you hated George W. > Bush, you have to completely despise Barack Obama. > > Not that Obama actually knows anything about security. His idea of foreign > policy appears to be allowing North Korea and Iran to continue to get away > with continued development of nuclear weapons and threats to wipe their > neighbors off the map. Draws a sharp tsk, tsk from Obama, but nothing > else. So now two of the most dangerous regimes in the world will be armed > to the teeth with nukes, convinced that the US is a paper tiger, with > every incentive to actually use them and little to no apparent > disincentive. All well and truly said.
From: Ray Fischer on 16 Sep 2009 01:46 Neil Harrington <secret(a)illumnati.net> wrote: >"C J Campbell" <christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> Consider: for all the promise of banking "reform," which should have been >> simpler than health care, nothing has actually changed, except that there >> aren't as many banks. > >And if the health care bill gets signed into law, there probably won't be as >many doctors. > >This morning's (Wednesday) Investor's Business Daily has a front-page Ah yes. IBD. Do you remember their earlier screed against health care reform? They claimed that Stephen Hawking would be dead if he had to rely upon Britian's socialized health care. People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. Pretty funny given that Hawking is a professor at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. and is quite alive thanks to NHS. -- Ray Fischer rfischer(a)sonic.net
From: Twibil on 16 Sep 2009 02:43
On Sep 15, 9:24 pm, "Neil Harrington" <sec...(a)illumnati.net> wrote: > > When I was a kid there was no such thing as health insurance, or if there > was I never heard anyone mention it. Certainly my family didn't have it, and > still got medical care. But that was a long time ago -- you know, back in > the '40s and '50s that leftist-"liberals" nowadays tell us never existed. Erm, I've yet to hear a "liberal" tell me anything like that, and *you're* trying to pretend that nothing else in the health equation has changed in the interim, and it *has*. (Bigtime!) Example #1: When I was a kid in the '40s and '50s, doctors still made house calls, and the going price in our town was circa $6 to $10 dollars; medications extra but still cheap. Example #2: When I was twelve I had to have an emergency appendix operation. The total cost, including doctor's fees, medications, and four or five days in the hospital came to well under $1,000. Try that today and you'll likely be looking at over $1,000 per day just for the hospital room itself, without even considering the doctor's fees, medications, etcetera that can more than double the cost. Fact is that the cost of medical care has risen all out of proportion to the income of the average wage earner, and medical problems that could easily be paid for in the '40s and '50s are now costly enough to put the guy on the street into a bankruptsy court if he has no medical insurance. If the fact that medical care in the US today costs slightly over *twice* what it does anywhere else in the world doesn't make you suspect that something has gone rotten in the medical industry, you're simply not paying attention. |