Comments on: Obama = Hitler? Your Logic Is Not Earth Logic

By: Shani

Shani — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:37:53 +0000

As a Brit: ahahaha!!

As a Jew, and former Israeli: that second video actually made me cry. What on earth is wrong with people?

By: The Angry Black Woman

The Angry Black Woman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:53:51 +0000

I have done my homework, I’m looking for proof that you’ve done yours. Assertions that “everyone knows these things” ring hollow and evade what i asked you to do. If these truths are so universally known, you should be able to find three independent sources backing you up with no problems. I suspect your only source for this stuff you’re spouting is Glen Beck, and he’s only one, and he’s not independent. So. If you can’t pony up, then hush.

By: karnythia

karnythia — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:41:02 +0000

No it is you that has not done your homework. End of life planning and hospice care is not the same as the death panels keep blathering about endlessly. Stop lying to yourself in order to bolster a ridiculous objection to fixing our broken healthcare system.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:37:16 +0000

As to “it should not go without saying”
The reason it can go without saying is that you know it already.
My point is to let you know that I do, as do so many others.
Either you have not done your homework, in which case you look kind of silly pontificating as if you had, or you know better, in which case you’re being dishonest.
In either case, most folks know better, which you should think about.

By: The Angry Black Woman

The Angry Black Woman — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:07:06 +0000

No, it should not go without saying. Prove your premise. I want three independent sources for every statement you’re positing as fact.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:51:46 +0000

Obama, discussing the end-of-life expenses as a driver in the entire health care cost system, remarked that we need groups of ethicists and physicians to have the hard discussions.
One of his advisers, Dr. Emanuel, has been more explicit.
The Brit NHS has a formula quantifying how much good life you have left and uses that to decide if you get the expensive stuff or just a pain pill.
You should also see the restrictions on pap smears there, and breast cancer drugs for the elderly. And, it should go without saying, the results.

By: Zahra

Zahra — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:46:46 +0000

@ Jennifer Pelland–

Co-sign. Barney actually was my representative for four years, and much as he drives me crazy on trans issues, he really has his moments, like this one. I appreciate how often he 1) calls a spade a spade, and 2) uses humor as a political strategy similar to the way many oppressed groups (including some of his own) use it as a life strategy. It works!

By: Haddayr

Haddayr — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:51:55 +0000

I have loved Barney Frank with a fierce adoration ever since someone tried to “accuse” him of being gay in the 80s, when these sorts of revelations might have been career-ending.

His response, and I think I’m close to a literal quote, was: “Yeah, I’m gay. So what?”

By: karnythia

karnythia — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:14:40 +0000

Funnily enough I’ve been discussing it elsewhere so much I don’t think I thought about here.

By: msday

msday — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:03:01 +0000

Ok, where do I start with that ignorant inbred, cretin who yells Heil Hitler and then makes fun of a man, sharing his outrage over an 8000. bill for emergency services. In all honesty, I do not know. One thing is for sure, is that if it were me, she would have been slapped. I know that we can’t solve the problem with violence but she was downright provoking that man, and would have deserved it. Hey, by the way, I came over here to see if you were blogging about the treatment of Olympic runner, Caster Semanye? Come on ABW, get on it…