Happy 4th of July everyone...
don't blow yer fingers off!!
and thank you Mary for ridding us of a scourge..
It has been an absolute delight to wake up in a peter free zone the last few days..
Have a nice bbq, everyone!
Posted by Twinky P* at July 4, 2009 07:17 AMUSA
Born 1776
DIED 2008
RIP
Independence and individual freedom are not virtues to Democratic Socialists; but government control is.
Posted by onar at July 4, 2009 08:12 AMThe Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
[a man puts a body on the cart]
Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.
The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.
The Dead Collector: He isn't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.
Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.
The Dead Collector: I can't take him.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.
The Dead Collector: I can't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?
The Dead Collector: Thursday.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk.
Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]
Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.
The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Large Man with Dead Body: Right.
Independence and individual freedom are not virtues to Democratic Socialists; but government control is.
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. - John Stuart Mill, 1866
So, if we are celebrating the country, what do republi-KKKons celebrate? Do they get out old lynching photos or read stories of past mandatory sterilization in the United States to their children?
Happy 4th of July everyone...
Right backatcha! Happy 4th!!! The 'pop' I'm waiting for is the sizzle of the stuff on the grill. What a day to be an omnivore...and a beer-ivore!
Posted by phidipides with all his fingers...but we'll see later at July 4, 2009 09:29 AMLife, liberty, the pursuit of happiness - and universal health care. Hm. That wasn’t quite the theme of the revolution, was it? It had to do with God-given rights.
Somehow the ship of state steered off course and life’s niceties morphed into rights. A goal listed on President Obama’s website: “Assure affordable, quality health coverage for all Americans.”
Assure. The founders had a quite different view of what government was to “assure.” It certainly wasn’t a hospital bed or cough medicine.
Forty years ago the government accounted for 10 percent of health care. Today, about 50 percent. And the remaining 50 percent has been made hugely more expensive by government’s costly regulations and mandates.
The administration’s solution? Squeeze out the remaining 50 percent.
Then there’s this: “When Medicare was set up in 1965, the politicians projected its cost in 1990 to be $3 billion — which is equivalent to $12 billion when adjusted for inflation to 1990 dollars. The actual cost in 1990 was $98 billion — eight times as much.”
Rights, it seems, can be expensive. Especially the man-given ones.
Happy Independence Day. Or should that be, Dependence Day?
Posted by Thomas Jefferson at July 4, 2009 10:05 AM"Or should that be, Dependence Day?"
I don't know, what are you on?
Bet you have a job and health care. Ever been turned down for a pre-existing condition or suffered a devestating illness or accident that maxed you out causing you to file bankruptcy?
When a family has no insurance the uninsured rate is 100%.
Pull up the ladder Jackoff, you got yours.
That wasn’t quite the theme of the revolution, was it? It had to do with God-given rights.
I'll be damned! And I thought the Declaration of Independence was, well, a Declaration of Independence! According to you it's really the Constitution and gives us our only rights and the limits on what government can do! I stand corrected...or you are the biggest fucking moron to ever come around these parts. I'll choose the second one, and as far as the remainder of your statement...it's just as stupid as your original contention.
Forty years ago the government accounted for 10 percent of health care.
Nope. 25% in 1960 alone.
Today, about 50 percent.
In 1993...after the Ray-Gun and Bush the Idiot I got through with devaluing the dollar and hammering the fuck out of American middle-class incomes, it hit 45% and has been about there since. republi-KKKons did it, not Dems.
And the remaining 50 percent has been made hugely more expensive by government’s costly regulations and mandates.
yeah...it has nothing to do with the health care industry's profits going from $23 billion in 2000 to $335 billion in 2008. Fucking republi-KKKons! Can't manage a church bake sale without stealing a little, can you?!
Oh, and while I'm at it. We are talking about the same Thomas Jefferson who thought all hereditary privileges should likely be abolished. Of course, Jefferson had a pretty special intellect. You would do well to develop a little yourself.
Posted by phidipides at July 4, 2009 11:08 AMwho forgot to shut the door and let the troll scum in??
geez we get rid of one and new ones crawl in spewing...
PUBLIC INFORMATION NOTICE: scout and peter are hosting a teabagging party complete with sack of shit races at the Banned Troll Internment Center today.
Guest speaker will be the Quittah from Wasillah.
Posted by TIKI AL at July 4, 2009 01:01 PM...Quittah from Wasillah...
Damn you, Tiki! ROTFLMFAO!!!
Anyone know if beer spewed down a keyboard can harm the thing?
Posted by phidipides at July 4, 2009 02:00 PMThe beer will dissolve the spilled Mountain Dew and coffee. If you hold your ear to the cooling fan grille you will hear a series of tiny belches.
Posted by TIKI AL at July 4, 2009 05:18 PMThe beer will dissolve the spilled Mountain Dew and coffee.
No shit! The dog took a lick and she's doing the moonwalk on the ceiling. So I opened a case panel and put me ear to the CPU fan. No tiny belches, but now I've got a Cheeto stuck in my ear canal.
Posted by phidipides at July 4, 2009 06:56 PMThe cheeto will ream out built up ear wax and if you reverse the polarity on the CPU fan you can use it to suck the whole mess out.
Posted by TIKI AL at July 4, 2009 10:17 PM