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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 02:19 PM
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“If Stephen Hawking Lived in England” and Other Great Points the Left Doesn’t Want You to Know
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/21

4.) When the people of oppressed countries like Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Israel, Australia and New Zealand finally get democracy, they can vote out their socialized health care systems.

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11.) I really resent the government thinking I need any assistance from them. I buy my FDA-approved medication on my own.

12.) If health care were available to all at government expense, people would over-consume, using it when they don't really need it. As in the common phrase: "It's Saturday night, honey. Would you rather go to a movie, or shall we have our gallstones removed?"

13.) For some reason, the lunatic left can't understand that the most important thing in health care is consumer choice. When you're in a car accident and you've lost pints and pints of blood, what you really want to do is to sit down, think over how much you want to spend and where, and comparison-shop. And if you happen to choose an incompetent surgeon, well, he damn well won't get your business next time, will he?
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 02:29 PM
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1. That is hysterical and tragic all at once!
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 02:39 PM
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3. The author might have been quoting people like Craig Nelson who doesn't want to pay taxes
because no gov. program helped him back when he was given food stamps & welfare :crazy: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/29/video-craig-t-nelson-s-gl_n_209024.html

It makes my brain ache trying to figure out how people can think things like that. Don't the contradictory thoughts ever bump into each other and spark awareness?????
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 03:08 PM
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4. That stepehn hawking one came from an editorial, I recognized it right away. LOL
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Papa Boule Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 03:39 PM
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7. That's something Altemeyer wrote about in The Authoritarians
I think his explanation was that submissive authoritarians don't compare contradictory beliefs -- they don't bring them up at the same time to contrast them or become aware of the conflict.

So, no, the contradictory thoughts don't bump into each other. I guess it's like they keep them in separate boxes and only open one box at a time, forgetting what's in the other box -- even if the other box was open only minutes earlier.
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 07:36 PM
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13. I just found that book last night and haven't had time to read it - link for the curious
Free pdf of the book here:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey

I have been meaning to dig out my copy of Alice Miller's Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence (can be read for free here: http://www.nospank.net/fyog.htm ) to help me understand how a culture can create such obedient unthinking followers as it's been quite a while since I read it.
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Papa Boule Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 08:00 PM
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16. Short answer: Abuse.
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 08:01 PM by Papa Boule
I've read most of Miller's books. Enlightening.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 02:38 PM
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2. Let's not forget the hundred of thousands of US senior citizens
whose lives have been terminated by the Medicare death panels.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 03:15 PM
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5. Brilliant n/t
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 03:15 PM
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6. I'd hate to visit all those Third-World countries listed in #4 ...
of course, they all worship a different God than the Christian States of Jesus's America ...
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 03:45 PM
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8. rec # 10
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Puzzler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 03:51 PM
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9. You could probably send this list to some wingnuts...
... and see how far it does the rounds until one of the wingnuts actually bothers to really read it closely.
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 07:41 PM
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14. it could be another case of Harry Potter in the Onion
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 04:34 PM
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10. k& a big enormous R!!!
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:41 PM
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11. Good, but Point #10 is a bit Californian, is it not?
Not all states' departments of health rate restaurants. A lot of people wouldn't "get" that one.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:48 PM
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12. .
:spray:
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gleaner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 07:49 PM
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15. Very good post!
Very funny and poignant at the same time. Also very true. I like the point about over consuming. I could add that if we have nothing better to do, my husband and I love having a nice Foley catheter put in or pulled out, several successive blood draws, especially those inspiring blood gas pops, and that we particularly would enjoy a nice colonoscopy or angiogram. What fun!:bounce:
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