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The fucking fundies are successfully bringing this country further into ruin, it's getting worse everyday, and it annoys me to no end when people start apologizing for them and saying "they're not all bad", blah blah blah, etc. etc. "The new athiests are big meanies." No, the NAs have been...

See also: Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity

Right. You might have actually see these assholes in action to believe it. I probably wouldn't believe it till I saw it with my own eyes. The way they frame this issue, quite literally, has very little to do with the practical issues surrounding health care--numbers, metrics, what works, what's...

It's not "at the root" of this specific instance of one bill failing to be passed, of course--and that's not really what I said, if you actually read it. But heteronormativity and wounded white Euro male entitlement is a huge part of why the far right is resurging now all over the world, and...

Hannan seems like an utter douche, but this seems like a reasonable point, and I've been wondering why the repugs didn't take the high road and tell stories more like this one. Talking about real stories instead of using what amounted to basically threats and intimidation might have been enough...

If only it were just adolescents...men usually find a way to valorize their egotism, and turn it into something big and important and twist it into the moral option, no matter what. And nobody said anything about soldiers being bad or uniquely responsible, either. (anti-war is not anti-solider...

To be fair to him, Fox probably conned him into being a guest somehow. He may have had no idea how his words were going to be twisted or framed. They've done this sort of thing before and they'll do it again. Not that I've seen the footage mind you...

Speaking of "tribalist nonsense" I'm not a fan of war, period. Ego-maniacal, nationalistically sanctioned bloodsport isn't going to right any sort of wrongs in the world, and I'm convinced it's the purview of schoolboys with romantic notions who haven't grown up enough to realize that war...

Ha...or you could go the other way to Bensonhurst and chill with some Asian gangstaaaas after DiFara. Grimaldi's is by far the best pizza I can remember having in NYC, but don't they always have a 30 minute line out the door, too? Plus they make you buy a whole pie, you can't get a slice. The...

roffle@obama=hitler I'm not big on tactical justifications, although I'm sure there are trillions of them...war is war is war there will always be another justification some old man will come up with for why we need to go kill people somewhere...(i'm sure this Gates dude is not the focal point...

Ok, this is a good example of why "preventative care" isn't as easy as it sounds, practically speaking: All of those are technically preventative measures against more serious injuries or diseases or death. People say that we need to increase preventative measures, and sure, we do, but that's...

Aye aye aye what a bunch of morons.

This is exactly what doctors have been saying for years and no one has been listening. The cost keeps getting higher because costs get redistributed when people come in to see doctors, get procedures or treatment, then ignore the bill and eventually discharge the debt in bankruptcy. Somebody has...

Fleecing retirees for Jeebus, the Christian specialty.

Re where the hysteria might be coming from... I just saw this comment on a blog and it makes sense:

I think 'Fox News' republicans--mostly employed middle class whites with college degrees who worship Regan--are sort of just politically under the sway of ideology that I find repulsive. At a certain point, it's extremely condescending to make excuses for people, although it's always...

Well, I could just be hoping that's where he'd take the money from, but if I were him that's where I'd take it from. Immediately. Why expand the "war" in Afghanistan? Stupid. Just a waste of time and money. Hopefully they're still not planning on going into Iraq and rebuilding its entire...

Here's the link, looks like it was big pharma. Given that it's big p and not the insurance industry, I'm not surprised--150m is nothing to them, it's like piss in the rain. You're right about Limbaugh and others being responsible, too, I just think it's crazy that Fox News still has such a hold...

What I think is funny is that if you wanted to talk about the things that could be downsides to nationalized health insurance or health care, you could already look at medicaid or another country and point to legitimate problems that really do exist--sometimes things do get bogged down in...

Yeah, the single payer system is nice. The only downside to "socialized" medicine--since no system is perfect--is that there are longer waiting lists for critical surgeries and usually fewer surgeons to provide them, since often surgeons don't make as much money so fewer people want to spend 15...