First, President Barach Obama has Al Sharpton proclaiming that the health care bill was simply the fulfillment of his promise of socialism, here. Now, Fidel Castro himself endorsed the plan as a socialistic victory. In the meantime, conservatives are on fire about a clip of Ed Schultz calling for a socialist take over of talk radio, here.
Castro celebrated the passage of national health care on Thursday, calling it a “miracle.” Castro wrote
“We consider health reform to have been an important battle and a success of his (Obama’s) government.”
Why do I think there are Sharpton/Castro clips being developed as I speak for the mid-term elections? I can see it now: “Better Meds Than Dead”
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Dredd
The fat ladies on the Supreme Court must sing their anthem before the curtain falls.
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Harrumph! …. (from all ex-fat lady singers)
Tootie, I don’t think I’ve ever directed a comment to you. All I can say is keep up the good work.
And for all you very smart or not so smart people you mean to tell me after the first two sentences you couldn’t figure it out. Here read it again.
Once upon a time I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President.
I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics.
Thank you Byron, after I read your comment I thought it was appropriate. It was in my inbox this morning and by the looks of other comments I should have stated so. I’m glad to see you were smart enough to figure out it was another copy/paste job from muaw.
PS. bdaman, It is customary to acknowledge the author of a work. If you don’t know who wrote it, but you can be reasonably sure it wasn’t you, “author unknown” would be acceptable.
Again my bad Duh, I’ll try to do better next time. Thanks for keeping me straight.
Trollbuster:
I didn’t think it was his own. I figured he found it somewhere. And I like it, it shows exactly what happens in a hard socialist country.
The thing about socialists that I find amusing is that a Capitalist system could provide them more than enough money for their social programs but they would rather have power than prosperity.
A prosperous person doesn’t need a government handout so it benefits a socialist/democrat to have the population feeding at the teet of government. A dependent people are easier to control than a free people. We will see what Americans are made of in November, are we going to sell our birth right for health care or will we have the spine that our ancestors did? We will know that first Wednesday in November.
The only thing that is owed a person born in this country is the opportunity to succeed or fail. A failure here is a rich man most other places.
Duh,
When this is your website, maybe then you can enforce the rules.
Why is it that a reminder of the rules of civility must be issued on a regular basis; to the “regulars”?
Yesterday morning, I chastized bdaman, not so much for what he said, but for the timing of his comment. (I don’t take sides)
We all need to remember whose house we are in. If you don’t like what someone has posted, you have the option of refuting it, or you can simply ignore it.
Please help to promote civility.
PS. bdaman, It is customary to acknowledge the author of a work. If you don’t know who wrote it, but you can be reasonably sure it wasn’t you, “author unknown” would be acceptable.
Is the proper way to use a dictionary or encyclopedia eating it or reading it?
“Apes read philosophy, Otto. They just don’t understand it.”
Ahhh, that Jamie Lee Curtis! Is their no wisdom so sweet as from her lips?
Marxism is as Marxism does.
You can claim that you are not a Marxist until the cows come home, but when you walk like a duck, squawk like a duck, look like a duck, swim like a duck….
oh, you get it.
He is a Marxist and that is why the Marxists love him. I believe he is a temporary Marxist. Marxists know ahead of time that the quick establishment of Marxism always destabilizes a nation. Friedrich Hayek taught this to the world last century.
The goal of the destabilization via the establishment of Marxism? Well, isn’t that obvious?
(sorry for mixed metaphors)
The little plagiarist has posted Dinner at the White House – a parable by Richard Gleaves, available all over the net, and palmed it off as if it is his or hers own writing. It is a stupid little right wing fantasy that teaches nothing of value. What a waste of time.
The fat ladies on the Supreme Court must sing their anthem before the curtain falls.
With the case filed against the health care law by several states attorney general, the door may become open to an era of judicial activism of the conservative type.
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/03/rise-of-machine-hypocrisy.html
bdaman,
Where did you find this? Sounds like you love good Fiction. How about Leon Uris QBVII. If uou can read that without wincing once let me know. I started it on a Friday at about 5pm and did not put it down until 10 am Sunday morning.
” Ed Schultz calling for a socialist take over of talk radio, here.”
I think this illustrates what that means for you.
When did this become a repository for fiction, bdabadwriter?
The Dinner Roll ..
Once upon a time I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President.
I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics.
There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration, but I paid it no mind. I live in a FREE country. There’s nothing that the government can do to me if I’ve broken no laws. My wealth was EARNED honestly, and an invitation to dinner with an American President is an honor.
I checked my coat, was greeted by the Chief of Staff, and joined the President in a yellow dining room.
We sat across from each other at a table draped in white linen. The Great Seal was embossed on the china. Uniformed staff served our dinner.
The meal was served, and I was startled when my waiter suddenly reached out, plucked a dinner roll off my plate and began nibbling it as he walked back to the kitchen..
“Sorry ’bout that,” said the President. “Andrew is very hungry.”
“I don’t appreciate…” I began, but as I looked into the calm brown eyes across from me, I felt immediately guilty and petty. It was just a dinner roll. “Of course,” I concluded, and reached for my glass.
Before I could, however, another waiter reached forward, took the glass away and swallowed the wine in a single gulp. “And his brother, Eric, is very thirsty,” said the President.
I didn’t say anything. The President is testing my compassion, I thought. I withheld my comments and decided to play along. I don’t want to seem unkind..
My plate was whisked away before I had tasted a bite.
“Eric’s children are also quite hungry.”
With a lurch, I crashed to the floor. My chair had been pulled out from under me.
I stood, brushing myself off angrily, and watched as it was carried from the room.
And their grandmother can’t stand for long.”
I excused myself, smiling outwardly, but inside feeling like a fool. Obviously I had been invited to the White House to be sport for some game. I reached for my coat, to find that it had been taken.
I turned back to the President.
“Their grandfather doesn’t like the cold.”
I wanted to shout, “that was my coat!” But again, I looked at the placid smiling face of my host and decided I was being a poor sport. I spread my hands helplessly and chuckled.
Then I felt my hip pocket and realized my wallet was gone. I excused myself and walked to a phone on an elegant side table.
I learned shortly that my credit cards had been maxed out, my bank accounts emptied, my retirement and equity portfolios had vanished, and my wife had been thrown out of our home.
Apparently, the waiters and their families were moving in. The President hadn’t moved or spoken as I learned all this, but finally I lowered the phone into its cradle and turned to face him.
“Andrew’s whole family has made bad financial decisions. They haven’t planned for retirement and they need a house. They recently defaulted on a subprime mortgage. I told them they could have your home. They need it more than you do.”
My hands were shaking. I felt faint I stumbled back to the table and knelt on the floor.
The President cheerfully cut his meat, ate his steak, and drank his wine. I lowered my eyes and stared at the small grey circles on the tablecloth that were water drops.
“By the way,” he added, “I have just signed an Executive Order nationalizing your factories.
I’m firing you as head of your business. I’ll be operating the firm now for the benefit of all mankind.
There’s a whole bunch of Erics and Andrews out there and they can’t come to you for jobs groveling like beggars…we need to spread YOUR wealth around…”
I looked up. The President dropped his spoon into the empty ramekin which had been hiscrème Brule.
He drained the last drops of his wine. As the table was cleared, he lit a cigarette and leaned back in his chair.
He stared at me. I clung to the edge of the table as if it were a ledge and I were a man hanging over an abyss.
I thought of the years behind me, of the life I had lived. The life I had earned with a lifetime of work, risk and struggle.
Why was I punished? How had I allowed it to be taken? What game had I played and lost? I looked across the table and noticed with some surprise that there was no game board between us.
What had I done wrong?
As if answering the unspoken thought, President Obama suddenly cocked his head, locked his empty eyes to mine, and bared a million teeth, chuckling wryly as he folded his hands.
“You should have stopped me at the dinner roll,” he said.
Is Rush a Liberal for the “Right”?
Of course Castro would pimp it as a win for him.
He’s a politician.
This totally neglects that this “reform” isn’t socialist anything. It’s insurance regulation and taxation. A sell out from what the majority of Americans want (if put to a vote solely on this issue) which is what citizens of many other Western countries have (like Canada, Great Britain and Sweden) and that is health care as a right from a single payer system.
But come on.
Please justify the raw inefficiency of multi-tiered multi-payer health care systems. Systems that skim money out at every level even if they are not allowed to discriminate against pre-existing conditions. Systems that give preferential treatment based on payment.
You can’t when it comes to raw numbers, but it’d be funny to watch the attempt.
Start with the fact that insurance works from risk pools and the cost of claims is directly related to the size of the risk pool as a risk pool is a tool specifically designed to spread risk and ergo cost.
Bdaman:
one thing you can say about commies is that they have good national anthems, the International is one of my favorites. But as with communism itself the promise of the music does not match reality. Soring notes for crawling through the mud on their bellies.
Prof. Turley:
I don’t know if you meant to, but very nice positioning of the Chavez and Obama stories. A not so subtle link on the possibility of muzzling the free press in this country. And with it the implication that this administration may have certain tendencies toward censorship or at the very least sympathies in that regard.
Viva Fidel