Just Say No–to Health Care
As the fine old tribute to Rye Whiskey has it:
I eat when I’m hungry, drink when I’m dry,
And if whiskey don’t kill me, I‘ll live till I die.
That is all anyone can hope for.
by Thomas Fleming
The healthcare debate is as boring and stupid as every other debate in the United States. Republicans accuse the administration of plotting to impose socialize medicine and compulsory euthanasia, while Democrats retort that their critics, who have not read the proposed legislation, are resorting to demagoguery because they have no effective counter-argument. Suffice it to say that both sides are lying, though some of the mud they are slinging is tacky enough to stick to the wall.
Of course the Republicans have not read the bill, but, then, neither has the President or most Democrats in Congress. Politicians do not read bills or think thoughts. It is their votes that are bought, not the minds they do not have. All that counts is what side they are on and who has bought it.
I really cannot bring myself to care who says what about whom. If Palin and Gingrich are to be the standard-bearers of any conservative movement, we had better ignore the entire issue and do something useful. Read the poems of Leconte de Lisle, smoke a cigar, say nice things to pretty women in a bar, take your kids fishing. Do anything, but enjoy yourself while you can.
The rudeness of the protestors is appalling. Yes, I know I know, the Left does it all the time. Leftists also do drugs and murder their babies. If this is the freedom of speech protected in the First Amendment, then damn Jemmy Madison and the Congress that passed the Bill of Rights. Just in case you were not already revolted by democracy American-style—the tyranny of demagogues based on consent of the stupid—we have the spectacle of these Town Hall meetings. What is there to get excited about? Yes, they are spending the country into the poorhouse, and yes we shall undoubtedly have an even worse system of medical care.
But, what did you think? That you could live for ever?
Continued - http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/index.php/2009/08/13/just-...
This article is worth reading;
people have been sold the idea of massive intervention for every illness, just as they are being sold vaccinations.
Better, IMO, to choose the quality ofr your own life and death.
Hold Fast
"A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom--he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold."
--E.B. White
;-)
I love that quote.
:D
"There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there's the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public." - Mr. Universe, Serenity
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"There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there's the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public." - Mr. Universe, Serenity
thesomnambulantpublic.blogspot.com
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Couldn't resist ...
this chance to be sandwiched between LibBerte and Realdeal!
Helloooooo! Shouting accross the gulch ..helloooo ..hellooo!! Love.
Great post, and yes..it's a keeper!
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"I truly wish that real life would no longer surpass the worst excesses of my nightmarish imaginings... Arthur Silber **
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
Speaking Of Drunken Poets ..... ;-)
Bumps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8dxkA1XuOM&feature=PlayList&...
Belle -- Thanks for the group hug.
Just passing through ... I hope to soon be back in the saddle and ride through again with time for more than this tip of my hat.
Helloooooooo ... I miss you too. ;-)
This is a keeper. :-) Thank
This is a keeper. :-) Thank you.