Comments on: Health care and town halls

By: noodleman

noodleman — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:19:18 +0000

Except, nood, the camel is very good at what it does.

But not when what was needed was a horse. Kind of like what happened to the Jeep as a military vehicle. It got turned into the Humvee.

By: justpbob

justpbob — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:44:41 +0000

Via Doug Grow @ MinnPost, here's an interesting look at Teabaggers vs Betty.

By: Rat

Rat — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:03:30 +0000

And it’s starting to look like the people selling this health plan, are not.

By: mnblrmkr

mnblrmkr — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:51:10 +0000

Except, nood, the camel is very good at what it does.

By: noodleman

noodleman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:49:07 +0000

@justpbob: That is why I don’t like committees. You wind up with a camel instead of a horse.

By: champs

champs — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:14:17 +0000

Oddly enough, end-of-life counseling is in my benefits package, administered by the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.

By: justpbob

justpbob — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:41:05 +0000

Oh dear. Do they think will make the shouting stop? Or just get louder?

@JPSantori Sounds like the Senate negotiators just dropped end-of-life counseling from the bill. Too bad. Shouters win.

By: justpbob

justpbob — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:47:04 +0000

I think Jonathan Swift beat you to the idea of solving a society’s problems via cannibalism, swandog.

However, I do think most people do want to “just get along,” as you note.

By: swandog

swandog — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:41:07 +0000

I think both parties participate in bulling people. What is ridiculous is that the media and both parties play up the battle for any given issue. The majority of us don’t want to fund dead beats with our tax dollars, do not care much about abortion, gays ect. Most of us just want to get along, are willing to pay their fair share and live their lives with our intrusion form either party. That makes for boring media and is not good for fund raising. In the end “we the people are to blame because we accept it like sheep. It looks to me like we have red sheep and blue sheep, maybe we should just start eating mutton.

By: noodleman

noodleman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:11:00 +0000

they are stirring up talk of revolution.

For some reason, the image I get is of someone just looking for a fight — any fight. Like a bully.

In much the same manner, a bully refuses to believe they are wrong no matter what kind of evidence is given them to the contrary. They just want to bust some heads.