Packing to go back to school has taken up most of my blogging time this week, but it doesn’t look like I’ve really missed anything. The “debate” over healthcare reform, if you can even call it that, continues to decline to the point where I have to wonder if there is something in the water making the American people so incredibly stupid.
Here is a video of a woman (in an Israel Defense Forces t-shirt??) shouting “Heil Hitler!” at an Israeli Jew for defending Israel’s national health system and decrying the shameful treatment of our returning soldiers. Then, when he confronts the woman about the $8,000 emergency room visit that he had to pay for out-of-pocket because he doesn’t have health insurance, she responds by pretending to cry like a baby. Everything this woman does makes me cringe.
And these are the people to whom supporters of healthcare reform should respectfully defer? These are the people whose opinions must, must!, be listened to by policymakers if our Republic is to remain whole?
What. The. Fuck?
As Barney Frank observed at one of his town halls, trying to argue with these people would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.
You can’t have a “civil discussion” or “rational debate” or whatever politicians are trying to call this month of nonsense with people who have the shameful audacity to compare efforts to improve Americans’ access to healthcare with the wholesale slaughter of millions.
The number of spam comments I’ve deleted since I started this blog.
Damn.
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Ohio Police Dispatcher Discovers President Obama is Black
North Canton, Ohio, must be a pretty safe place to live considering that their police department dispatchers–i.e. the people responsible for receiving and prioritzing police emergency calls–have enough free time at work to send racist emails around while they’re on the clock:
In the message sent to an unknown number of recipients from a North Canton Police email address ( amalachowski@northcantonpolice.org ), Dispatcher Anita Malachowski forwards the message
“New “Air Force One” Tail Number and yes, please forgive me, I’m really sorry, I really, really tried not to laugh, but …………………..!”
The message is sent along with a Photoshopped image of Air Force One with the “N-number” or tail number spelled out as N166ER.
Obama Demonstrates Most Cost-Effective Death Panel Murder Technique
So everybody knows that President Obama is going to personally kill each and every member of the Greatest Generation, for cold hard cash, but the real question is how will he do it?
The answer: by pummeling them to death, with his bare fists. Peter Orszag finds this idea hilarious.
The super-bipartisan, must-be-negotiated-with Chuck Grassley:
If I had not been at the table, there would have been a bill through the committee the week of June 22, and it would have been through the Senate by now because there’s sixty Democrats.
Who cares if there’s ever a healthcare bill as long as Democrats can say the failure was bipartisan?
“Why do they call you Wolf?” 11-year-old Damon Weaver asked Blitzer during an interview that will air Friday on The Situation Room. When Blitzer replied that Wolf is his real name, Weaver quickly responded, “Is that because you have a lot of hair on your face?”
So 
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