Someone alert Sarah Palin!

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ron-paul-gop-debate-20110913,0,3161863.story?track=rss

There's extremists speaking to a candidate with no real popular approval who support letting people die as decided by arbitrary death panels! How dare such representatives of Fake America impugn the nobility and honor of real America with such vulgar assertions? I mean the Republican Party is the voice of one whose Kingdom is not of this world, and I'm sure that they would tell such extremists that such vulgar and evil assertions have no place in US politics any more than claiming that taking vaccines makes someone mentally retarded.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20106117-10391704.html

I mean with such people advocating death panels that would kill and make the weak suffer the USA is DOOMED I tell you, DOOMED! I mean if we start letting arbitrary bureaucracies with no accountability decide who lives and who dies we might eventually wind up as a cyperpunk dystopia and I don't know about you but I don't like no regular punks, much less Cyber-punk. What would Jesus, who said to feed the hungry, heal the sick, clothe the naked, and visit prisoners, let alone love one's enemies make of those who say to him "Lord Lord" and then proceed to let the poor men die on street corners with their sores licked by dogs?

Certainly such things could not possibly be in our illustrious and noble society. Why such things would be straining out gnats and swallowing camels in pursuit of pride and arrogance on the part of followers of a God whose words they seem unable to comprehend!

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[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

I mean if we start letting arbitrary bureaucracies with no accountability decide who lives and who dies we might eventually wind up as a cyperpunk dystopia

Wait, I thought the death panels was a meme that belonged to the GOP...

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That's a deliberate parody of the kind of reasoning the enlightened and illustrious leaders of the Republican Party apply to end-of-life counseling and not intended to be a factual statement.

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Let me mention once again that explaining the joke ruins it. Satire, you need'a learn a bit more of it, methinks. ;)

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

On a side note, all this constant "war on--" something, is getting a bit worn out now.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Did I say something like that in my OP? If that's a reference to the choice of that figure of speech on the part of US politicians to refer to defeating abstractions I absolutely agree that it's a senseless and worn metaphor with nothing of substance behind it.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

No, I'm referring to the title of the article under your last link.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

I fully support your war on "war on--".

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

I also hate en- and em-dashes.

Coming up...

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

... the war on war on.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Obviously from your tone you are trying to make fun of something, but you fail miserably at communicating what that is.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's all Greek to you Antiochos.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Polý endiaféron...

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I think the saddest revelation is the sexism of the GOP - I mean they already had the Crazee demographic met with Michele Bachmann but that wasn't good enough so now she's been replaced by Rick Perry's talking hair.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

she's been replaced by Rick Perry's talking hair.

Oh I spit my Coke out reading that.


HE does have a great head of hair don't he LOL.

[caerfrli.livejournal.com]

How many jobs did Jesus create?

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Hundreds of thousands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clergy)?

Actually...

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

... those jobs belong to Caesar.

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

Every job that ever existed, even hand jobs.

He created...

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

... employment for thousands of woodcutters. (His followers were burned at the stake by the Church.)

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

I liked the 100% FAIL the conservatives had with their attack awhile back on the VA for "promoting death panels".

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

You're appealing to Jesus and expecting Rome to do that work? Lmao @ that

Thanks for the pointer.

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

I read War is a Force. I'll have to check this one out as well. Hedges is a good writer.

Re: Thanks for the pointer.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

If war is a force, then which is its particle? I'm betting on bulletton.

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

"Death panels" already existed before Obamacare. They're called transplant boards. You know, the people who decide who's worthy of donating or receiving an organ and who isn't? Therefore, argument from any side over the impact of alleged "death panels" in Obamacare is moot unless you're talking about removing or adding power to transplant boards.

Bachmann's claim that HPV vaccines cause mental retardation is just as ridiculous as the theory that the opinions of a few village idiots at a debate somehow comprises the opinions of the whole of the Republican party.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Same about the Tea Party. On the last GOP debate when Ron Paul was asked if he'd leave an uninsured patient in coma die, he started saying "No, but...", when he was interrupted by loud cheers from the crowd who said "Yeeeaaaah". Then he stopped talking.

But I'm sure those were just a few village idiots who do not represent the entire Tea Party. Credit where credit is due. Right?