Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican, left a message for Obama supporters on his door: heal thyself or at least find a doctor elsewhere.
Cassell posted a sign reading “If you voted for Obama…seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years.” Personally, I am not sure I want a proctological exam with a guy who is really pissed off at Democrats and liberals. Hint: when you visit Dr. Cassell bring a copy of Rush Limbaugh on tape, the exam goes much smoother.
Curiously, Cassell insists that telling Obama supporters to “seek urologic care elsewhere” is not denying them care: “I’m not turning anybody away — that would be unethical. But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it.”
This raises an interesting question. It would seem unethical to deny care based on political beliefs but state law only addresses race, religion,
gender, sexual preference or disability. However, as an ethical matter, it would seem rather clear but I am but a juris doctor.
To further his unique combination of politics and proctology, Cassell supplies copies of a health-care timeline produced by Republicans and added a sign that reads “This is what the morons in Washington have done to your health care. Take one, read it and vote out anyone who voted for it.”
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Did you flip burgers yesterday?
Happy belated Easter Byron.
Mespo:
“Some folks think Capitalism’s underlying selfishness is some god-given right, and their reply to those who would reign in its excesses are “well, it just business.” ”
Capitalism is a system of providing goods and services to human beings as such it is morally neutral in the sense you are using. It has provided great abundance for human beings and raised our standard of living. The problem as I see it is the government intervention in the market. It distorts markets and causes the problems you see and attribute to capitalism.
If the government tells farmers it will give them $10 per bushel of wheat when the market price is $7 what happens? More wheat gets grown than corn or soybeans. It also causes the price of wheat to artificially rise. That increases the cost of bread and the cost of beef and pork. Corn and soybeans are used to feed livestock and because they are no longer in adequate supply the cost goes up. There are many other unintended consequences of the artificial price setting for wheat but you get the idea.
That is why you cant have government monkeying around in the private sector it causes artificial booms and busts. People change their behaviour to take advantage of these changes and viola-an artificial economy based on some bureaucrats commodity manipulation vs. a true supply and demand economy based on principles of human consumption determined by individuals pursuing their rational self interest.
And what do you call excess? Most CEOs don’t make out like people on Wall St. do. Go look at the prospectus of any American Corp., they do well but I wouldn’t exactly call it excessive. And why shouldn’t a person of superior performance be paid a superior wage? The problem is that many seem to think that everyone can run a company or create Microsoft or Apple, they cant. But most people can dig a ditch or flip a hamburger. Why should a ditch digger be paid more than he is worth and a CEO be paid less than he is worth? [And just so you don’t think I am some sort of Little Lord Fauntleroy, I have dug ditches and flipped burgers].
Interview with Lauren Victoria Burke, first person to report that racial slurs had been hurled at members of Congress.
Lauren Victoria Burke known as the unofficial blogger of the Congressional Black Caucus”
Q: I know you probably don’t want to speak for the CBC, but do Tea Party activists strike you as racists or hate-mongers?
A: No matter what the group is, you have a middle of the road people, you have some people on the soft edges and then you have the extremists. You could be talking about Greenpeace, the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, whatever. During the Civil Rights era, you had Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
Frankly it’s hard to judge percentages because the Tea Party is so new.
All I know is that if you look at incidents that have been proven, there appears to be a fringe active. When I see members of Congress having their windows broken, faxed drawings sent to them with pictures of nooses, physical acts like the gas line being cut… those are physical, active things. We didn’t report half the things that have happened because it’s just too much.
Members get threatened all the time, on both sides of the aisle.
I’m an American History major, and racial issues are woven throughout the history of the country. Let’s not be naive, there will always be a fringe out there that has a racial component. Race is omnipresent.
Q: As I see it, a lot of the Tea Party activists are worried about the encroachment of the very kind of authoritarian, centralized government that our country’s founders broke away from. The federal government has become this omnipresent force, far beyond what the states that formed it had ever envisioned. I mean, the size of your toilet tank is now regulated by federal bureaucrats…
A: Yes, I would agree that most of the teabaggers [Ed: sic!] are focused most on taxes, on financial issues. I mean, the liberal stereotype was reinforced when the first thing Obama does when he took office is to spend $787 billion on a stimulus package!
And the latest bailout of people that have been foreclosed on, I totally disagree with. If you’re dumb enough to spend too much on your house, my tax dollars should not be borrowed against for that.
I understand the Tea Party sentiment and also understand you can’t control everything everyone says.
more here
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/04/interview-with-lauren-victoria-burke.html
Mespo:
“It is undeniable that a growing economy thrives on debt, since debt is actually money loaned.”
That certainly is a true statement but it implies that the money is being used for production, money the federal government borrows is not being used for production it is being used for consumption. As such it does nothing to promote the economy but is a burden on it as business has to compete with government for funding.
The stimulus didn’t work in the 30’s and it hasn’t worked now. Economic principles don’t change from generation to generation. Keynes was wrong then and now.
goneville is right! massa recently resign cause he was groping.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34146.html
In a widely anticipated interview on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show Tuesday night, Massa acknowledged that he had “groped” and “tickled” a male staffer at the congressman’s 50th birthday party.
Don’t forget “women barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen” and “free to be abused by big business” too.
I’ve never heard the last one but yea, “women barefoot” “pregnant and in the kitchen” point to complaints made by whites about African American teen and indigent pregnancy rates which the “moral majority” crowd uses to attack their moral character by painting them as promiscuous. In fact didn’t some republican leaders in the Senate or something recently say the one about pregnant and in the kitchen regarding something to do with President Obama? Seems I just recently heard that.
The irony here of course is the republican leadership lecturing anyone on promiscuity. Their almost weekly adventures in sexual promiscuity including marital infidelity and fondling of Congressional Interns are a running joke, so how they find the hubris to condemn others for anything is far beyond me.
goneville-n-keys,
No and I didn’t take it that way. Had I? Ask any of the regulars, my response would have been . . . colorful if I had. It’s hard to see in my icon, but I’m known for having bits of troll and wanton attackers in my teeth. You have been neither.
Don’t forget “women barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen” and “free to be abused by big business” too.
They are a curiously retrograde lot that seems to pine for a time that never really existed but was certainly not the dreamscape of idyllic society they think. Tea baggers are a lot like fans of “Leave It To Beaver”. They want to live in an idealized past that never was.
Sorry your post showed up after mine. Guess I type slow. No, I wasn’t thinking that. I to was being focused on the one item and not putting my own comment in context, Lol.
Of course I’m not saying you do think that, I was merely addressing your local colloquialism point. I think you probably see the same racism in that sign we all see. And in all the more subtle suggestions the Teabaggers use. Like that interview where the guy says “I just want things to be like they were 100 years ago”.
100 years ago being code for ‘Blacks to the back of the Bus’.
goneville-n-keys,
I don’t think anything you just said doesn’t comport with my observation.
In context, tea baggers are using language in a racist way.
You may have been caught in one of my “bad” habits. That post was less criticism of your statement, although addressed to you, than a reminder to other readers that context has value in evaluating language as a weapon.
Nothing more, nothing less. And it was most certainly NOT a defense of either duh or tea baggers in general. You’re not the first person to chew up duh and spit him out, goneville-n-keys. His persistence in being incorrect on many topics has gotten him trashed in here almost as often as our resident pet troll, bdaman – whom some suspect is paid to keep beating that dead birther horse or a masochist at best.
If you took me talking sideways as criticism or defense, I assure you it was meant as neither. I tend to obsess about language at times, but I operate under the premise that there are no intrinsically bad words, only bad contexts and intentions of speakers/writers.
Buddha Is Laughing 1, April 4, 2010 at 8:43 pm
“Dat” is a colloquial usage in modern parlance that has less to do with race (which I agree Amos and Andy’s usage was pure racist) than with locale. It is simply how some people in some regions simply talk regardless of color. New Orleans and parts of the East Coast. I’m think both NY and NJ, both of which I’ve heard residents use “use “dat” simply because that’s the local inflection”
You’re right it is context. And context means what’s on the rest of the sign he’s holding, and the context in which he’s holding it. I’m guessing you didn’t actually see the sign? The sign says “HOMEY don’t play dat”. Its a white rally. Homey is a word that originated with the black community, not the white one. We know that. So why’d he use “homey don’t play dat” when addressing a black President? No reason, he just chose those words to protest a black President at an all white rally for no reason? That’s an incredible stretch to make. The more obvious answer is he chose them because of their racial connotations.
But there’s more that does not support your suggestion. If its some local speak then he’d be speaking the words then and not writing them down. Just because some people might use lazy speech patterns doesn’t mean they would write it that way. They could I suppose if they wanted to be cutesy and show the President their rich local customs. In order for him to write it that way he’d logically need to have some sort of reason. And given the sign is being held by a man who is angry we know the term is not being used in some cutesy colloquial way. He’s not there to flatter the President.
The sign is meant to be derogatory. We know that much. That’s already part of the context and coupled with the word “HOMEY” and the fact that he and all the people he’s protesting with are not just white but primarily southern redneck whites, its an incredibly far stretch to conclude what you concluded.
And there’s one more glaring probability that doesn’t support your suggestion. Most of the Tea Baggers come from predominately white, southern voting districts. I don’t think they’re busing in Teabaggers from New York or the Jersey shore. And I doubt they’re out of New Orleans, which is made up of predominately democratic districts. This guy is more likely from a more Teabag friendly location. So neither of those areas you mentioned are probable. Possible I suppose, but that’s another stretch.
So no, I don’t think he was just being cutesy with the President and showing the President his rich local heritage and mannerisms by writing them down on a sign to flatter him with. And I don’t think he just picked the word “homey” out of a hat or meant it in a flattering way. And I don’t think he was from Brooklyn or Yonkers, or South Trenton.
I think the sign was meant to say exactly what it said and in exactly the context in which it was delivered.
She, who must be obeyed, must be obeyed. Vaya con dios.
My wife says it’s time. Good Night
Sure anytime Mes and it’s Florida 🙂
Buddha:
I tried it and it turned out fine. I suggest you follow it exactly. On the first swing, I left out a step, and I now walk on the results.
Bdaman:
You are the man. I did my prime rib like you did it last Christmas. I got the heat up and roasted it for about an hour and then turned it off for 4.5 hours. Back on for 45 minutes an it was done. Wonderful. By the way, somehow my invitation got lost this year. I expect “justice” next year! I’ll bring the gratin.
mespo,
Speaking of food and heels, I bought some yeast yesterday and I’m going to take a stab a making that bread recipe you gave me some time this week. I’ll let you know if it’s golden crisp and tasty or construction material suitable for bomb shelters when I’m done.
Change “was” to “were,” please.
smoked Spanish paprika, excellent !!!!!
Everyone has now departed grand kids and all.
Tonights menu consisted of
Whole prime rib slow roasted at 225 for 7 hours
Honey Baked Ham with a fresh pineapple honey glaze
Fresh Mahi on the grill topped with fresh mango salsa
Mojo Chicken grilled
Venison hot Italian sausage
20 lbs of garlic mash potatoes
various veggies and store bought deserts
I’m worn out and yes I cleaned the kitchen too.