tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post788065699582612510..comments2023-10-24T06:23:53.008-04:00Comments on Saint Brian's Chronicles: OBAMA SUCKS!Saint Brian the Godlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14902151482640409544noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-15594488607126659842010-12-22T20:02:37.457-05:002010-12-22T20:02:37.457-05:00Yes Ryan, you are very correct in pointing that ou...Yes Ryan, you are very correct in pointing that out. I had noticed. <br /><br />Which brings us to my new post, it being up, is the point......Saint Brian the Godlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14902151482640409544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-74627033881646191072010-12-22T17:25:29.206-05:002010-12-22T17:25:29.206-05:00"National Inquirer"
'Extraterrestri..."National Inquirer"<br /><br />'Extraterrestrial LIFE, claimed to be found my millions!'<br /><br />In a stunning announcement by leaders of various clubs across the world, they claim to have actually discovered extraterrestrial, non-biological life.<br /><br />We put it to the Director of SETI, who was less than impressed by this announcement, "We at SETI have been aware of these clubs for quite some time, and are less than impressed by this announcement."<br /><br />When asked, a spokesperson for Christian Science Monitor simply sneered, "See?, We told ya!"<br /><br />An actual scientist has made an attempt to study this phenomenon, how it works, if a purported 'spiritual connection' was detectable or measurable, but was suitably mystified by the total affront of adherents who sneered, "You have to 'know' BEFORE you know! You know?", before knocking him over and kicking teh everloving crap out of him, punctuating their kicks with remarks like, "Peace and goodwill to all men, muthafucka!", and, "Here, have some GOOD NEWS, atheist asshole!"<br /><br />The scientific consensus is that we are constrained to 'play along' or they will 'fuck you up'.<br /><br />Merry Christmas everyone, and a happy Winter Solstice, the natural new year and the rebirth of the Sun.pboyfloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475980562742243007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-73728370512816303982010-12-22T16:49:37.985-05:002010-12-22T16:49:37.985-05:00Brian said "OBAMA SUCKS!"
Well, he did ...Brian said <b>"OBAMA SUCKS!"</b><br /><br />Well, he did just repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-53753341279065091932010-12-22T09:39:40.739-05:002010-12-22T09:39:40.739-05:00Ian; I think the problem with Matt is that althoug...Ian; I think the problem with Matt is that although he’s fairly smart (Madeline, not so much), he thinks that he knows that his religion is <b><i>THE TRUTH</i></b>, which means everyone else is wrong. Additionally, he sees secularism as a "belief", so that “belief” is wrong as well. He doesn’t see secularism for what it actually is, a neutral system that is merely trying to accommodate the views of most everyone in the system, including his views.<br /><br />Secularism is not a “belief” because it doesn’t explicitly make any claims about any of the many Christianities, whether they are right or wrong, but it, by necessity, has to recognize that there are christianit<b>IES</b> as well as other religions (and the non-religious) in our societies. Secularism doesn’t say that the doctrines of the “Reformed Baptist Church of God Reformation of 1915” cannot be part of our system because they are wrong, it says they those doctrines can't be part of our system because other sects have contradictory doctrines so it’s best for everyone to keep it all out of the government. They don’t get that very important distinction, because they think they know that the doctrines of their sect are <b><i>THE TRUTH</i></b>. This would lead them to believe that supporters of secularism don’t see what they think they know to be <b><i>THE TRUTH</i></b> or they think we do know <b><i>THE TRUTH</i></b> and we don’t like it so we want to suppress it. The reason we’ll never see eye to eye with folks like Matt and will continue to argue past each other is not because we share different beliefs, but because we have different epistemologies. And that creates an even bigger gulf than the difference between a member of the Reformed Baptist Church of God Reformation of 1915 and a Wahbist.<br /><br />Obviously, it’s a mess for these people when policies concerning things like reproductive rights are directly opposed to their beliefs or when science directly contradicts their beliefs, but that’s their problem. They can go live in a commune if they <b><i>really</i></b> need to*. Seriously.<br /><br />* but rarely do they <b><i>really</i></b> need to, instead they just like to whine about being persecuted…Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-77090630687675588432010-12-21T23:40:03.167-05:002010-12-21T23:40:03.167-05:00Watching a show on Antarctic dinosaurs where the q...Watching a show on Antarctic dinosaurs where the question arises, how could dinosaurs and the plants and insects and so on survive at the South Pole, what with their horrendous conditions in the winter.<br /><br />Seems to me that they ought to get together with the plate techtonics guys here.pboyfloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475980562742243007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-80056005945559679462010-12-21T20:30:27.628-05:002010-12-21T20:30:27.628-05:00I said, on the MandM blog, “You cannot blame scien...I said, on the MandM blog, “You cannot blame science for pointing out flaws in some people’s religion.”<br /><br />To which Matt replied, “You Can’t blame Christian religious instruction for pointing out the flaws in someone else’s religion.”<br /><br />So, of course, I replied, "What? Are we living in a world of Matt’s total fantasy now? The definition of science is not hard to find in a dictionary, so it is very disingenuous of you to paint it as telling ‘the truth’ opposing Fundamentalist Christian’s ‘truth’.<br /><br />It’s so easy to play with words and imagine that science teachers are pretending that they aren’t teaching science, but ‘the truth’, on account of that ‘dirty secularism’.<br /><br />No one cares if your little darlings don’t know the scientific consensus on Evolution, although I, for one, would be less than impressed if it turned out that they became my doctor AND rejected the scientific consensus on Evolution and Biology and Genetics and so forth.<br /><br />No one ought to be trying to teach your kids science as ‘the truth’ because science is a ‘work in progress’ and it will ALWAYS be a ‘work in progress’, as it ought to be.<br /><br />Nevertheless, I don’t think that the onus is on science teachers to point out the ‘scientificness’ of science all the time, or to point out religious ‘truth claims as alternative truth’ which science only incidentally happen to debunk hare-brained, ignorant religious points of view.<br /><br />Seems to me that this, putting the onus on science teachers to become religious apologists, is what you desire.<br /><br />We can only imagine Home Ec. teachers having their students scream, “It’s a MIRACLE!”, every time they pull a baked cake out of the oven, simply to appease the extreme fanatics who want them to learn, not only baking but, that God is involved in every aspect of their lives?pboyfloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475980562742243007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-61872906573141312642010-12-21T02:34:46.407-05:002010-12-21T02:34:46.407-05:00as opposed to those who vilely misrepresented the ...as opposed to those who vilely misrepresented the facts.<br />---------------------<br />Vilely is the right word for it. They are vile, loathsome people who pretend their entire lives, lying to everyone they talk to. They have no morals whatsoever except 'all for me and screw everyone else' and yet pretend to be christians so well they fool most of the sheeple into voting for them and actually thinking well of them as people, actually even believing that they are working in their (the common people's) interests. <br />Not that they're very hard to fool. Just look at MI for example. I mean, if I'd never discovered the internet here, I doubt I'd ever have met such a fool in real life. What an education. She's dead-on convinced that she's right no matter what stupidity she spouts, all verbatim off fox news and right-wing talk radio and websites, not a thread of sense in any of her rantings, just paranoid stupidity. <br />Sad. I wish she'd have some 'logic epiphany' or something. Hate to see a life wasted like that. I wish her brain would turn on. <br />Of course, more interesting if it stays off, I guess. Entertainment at its finest.Saint Brian the Godlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14902151482640409544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-29707626718221582782010-12-20T17:49:12.447-05:002010-12-20T17:49:12.447-05:00Also - anyone who refers to the 'death panels&...Also - anyone who refers to the 'death panels' cannot actually have any real association with healthcare in any form. <br /><br />This term and the implication was a fabrication of right wing extremists and business factions that opposed the bills.<br /><br />Again as one who has actually cared for patients (trauma surgery isn't pay as you go by the way) reminding clinicians to have difficult conversations about their end of life desires is very compassionate - as opposed to those who vilely misrepresented the facts.Pliny-the-in-Betweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16580900408227953736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-4475425921863033662010-12-20T16:06:31.967-05:002010-12-20T16:06:31.967-05:00Oh, and yea MI, Obama, that dirty liberal, changed...Oh, and yea MI, Obama, that dirty liberal, changed the name of the program, but it's still, essentially a program that panders to Christians and gives money to Christian organizations to bribe people to become Christian.<br /><br />Too bad you can't give Obama credit for throwing cash over the supposed 'wall of separation' of church and state.pboyfloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475980562742243007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-23279386145573384482010-12-20T15:46:19.725-05:002010-12-20T15:46:19.725-05:00Nope, I think you're talking to a brick wall t...Nope, I think you're talking to a brick wall there Harvey.<br /><br />MI is likely to imagine that you must be lying about your qualifications, since if you weren't you'd be on the side saying, "What's mine is mine to share only if I see fit."<br /><br />We can see this in all children at some point in their development, the little tyke grabs a toy from a sibling and says, "MINE!", and the authority says, "Share now."<br /><br />But there's a mixed message because, at the same time, if (likely a bit bigger) tyke comes home without his jacket or a toy, the authority puts him on trial and scolds him for not looking after his own property! <br /><br />So 'gut feelings' can work both ways here, depending on who is involved.<br /><br />MI, going with her authority, the powerful and wealthy, is bound to rail against the 'foreign' THEM! <br /><br />THEY don't deserve healthcare because THEY don't work hard to earn the money for it.<br /><br />'THEY' may be Mexicans breaking their backs to put cheap fruit on the displays at her grocery store, but it's the land-owner who is the 'real' hard-worker, you see. It is HIM who is 'us' and 'THEY' are undeserving.<br /><br />Shit, the owner might be a raging libertarian atheist, willing to scream about being overtaxed while collecting a cheque from the government to leave vast acres untouched, but MI is on his side because he has demonstrated that he has the fruits of labour even if he didn't labour for them at all.<br /><br />Anyone who objects to this position, the gut feeling goes, must be one of 'THEM' too. "You bleeding heart liberals who rail against oppression of the poor, the old and the sick, MUST BE poor and/or old and/or sick yourself, so shut up!"<br /><br />How do I know this is true. There was absolutely not one peep from the 'crazy Christian right' when it came to the Bush government doling out taxes for Faith-based Initiatives. <br /><br />"For fiscal year 2005, more than $2.2 billion in competitive social service grants were awarded to faith-based organizations."<br /><br />You see, they don't object to the government giving money and services, just so long as it's to them.<br /><br />Gut reaction to this, "We pay in, it's our own money back anyways."<br /><br />But according to themselves, something like 90% of the poor, the old and the sick, ARE Christian, ARE themselves, ARE indoctrinated by the wealthy to despise themselves for being poor, old, sick.<br /><br />My mind boggles at this huge disconnect. You'd imagine that government programs had a 'tick box' asking for your religion and if you tick Christian, that was a good reason NOT to give you aid.<br /><br />Still, it's obviously not the government aid per se, it's aiding some nebulous 'them', that's the problem.pboyfloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475980562742243007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-4551925902249137182010-12-20T14:49:26.030-05:002010-12-20T14:49:26.030-05:00And, MI, I am neither a Christian nor a believer, ...And, MI, I am neither a Christian nor a believer, (not to mention that my income as a physician has been disproportionately squeezed through all of this).Yet, even I can see that we all hyave a responsibility to see to the well being of our fellow human beings.Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10797750710657979526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-79432990219963111322010-12-20T14:40:13.699-05:002010-12-20T14:40:13.699-05:00MI: (continued)
Our current healthcare system, for...MI: (continued)<br />Our current healthcare system, forty years later, has barely scratched the surface of this problem, despite the fact that many working individuals now have access to at least some form of paid insurance. Certainly, the addition of Medicare, Medicaid, Aid to dependent children, VA benefits, workmen's compensation, and the continuing decreases in reimbursement for these services to hospitals and healthcare professionals (who have borne the brunt of this financial "squeeze"),<br />etc., has helped to diminish the problem, but, with the exponential growth of our population, its aging, increased mobility from one part of the country to another and the general economic situation in this country, the fact that approximately 30% of our population remains un- or underinsured, seems unacceptable to me (and, I would have thought, to a caring Christian like you).<br />The only issue to caring Christians and other well intentioned right wingers like you seems to be who should pay for it. Certainly, all of you seem to agree that it would be a good thing if poor people could get at least minimal adequate care, just as long as "you" don't have to pay for it. The irony is that "you" (and all the rest of us) are paying much more for spotty and generally inadequate "catch-up" and emergency care right now, than any of us would if there were some universally available healthcare, especially if it could include preventive and timely management (which even paid insurance rarely does until quite recently). We already have "socialized" healthcare, but it needs to be much more efficient than it has been in a system wherein private, "for profit" insurance companies are able to set standards and decide who, if any, should be able to obtain, let alone afford access to healthcare.<br />Having said all of this, it is clear that the recently passed healthcare legislation, as mired as it has been forced to be in political infighting, right wing "talking points" such as "government takeover" of healthcare, "death panels", opposition to such issues as to whether birth control measures and/or abortion should be included, is at best a small first step toward and eventual, much neede overhaul of how we obtain and provide basic healthcare to our population.<br />As a caring, well-intentioned Christian, who "prays for all of us" as she does for herself and who wants to follow the teachings and examples of Christ, it is hard to understand how you simply accept the right wing "talking ponts" as gospel and fail to see all of our personal responsibilities in helping to "care for the least" of God's children.Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10797750710657979526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-77676406141333397412010-12-20T14:38:43.751-05:002010-12-20T14:38:43.751-05:00MI:
I have managed to refrain from any comments on...MI:<br />I have managed to refrain from any comments on your recent string of posts, but, at this point, I find myself driven to make an observation or two.<br />If you had even the least actual understanding of the realities of the healthcare delivery system as it now exists in the U.S., you would never have made the ridiculous responses to Pliny that you have done (in triplicate!!)<br />I have been in the practise of medicine for over forty years now, in four different population centers, varying from the east coast to the midwest, during which time we have gone from so-called fee for service with "free" indigent care (on a catch as catch can basis), through the first stages of paid healthcare insurance, to and including the advent of Medicare, Medicaid, etc., etc. I am still in practise at a County Hospital that serves the most populous city in my state and which provides the vast majority of uninsured and underinsured health services to this large population.<br />ALthough it is true that the poor patients in the large city where I went to Medical School were generally well cared for without means to pay, there were many who did not get even the most basic of needed services, often because they could not readily get to the Hospital for such "free" care and, often, had no choice but to frequent the Emergency Department, even when their illnesses could have been managed much better (and more economically)by some type of ongoing relationship with a Primary Caregiver. Moreover, they were often undertreated because they could not afford tyhe medications, rehabilitation, or extended care visits that could have greatly diminished the ongoing effects of their often myriad health problems. Let us not even speak of those poor patients who lived in more isolated circumstances and who were not near any large hospital or medical center that would provide such care (largely in return for the patient's willingness to be managed mostly by medical students and residents in various stages of training).Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10797750710657979526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-28359584952847078572010-12-20T14:03:53.658-05:002010-12-20T14:03:53.658-05:00I think it is very strange that we seem to be stuc...I think it is very strange that we seem to be stuck with these 'narratives' that the government, the party machines, the press and the church machine push on us.<br /><br />There are trends that we can look at and, I suppose, accept as normal. One might notice them because they are personally consistently offensive from whichever point of view that you subscribe to.<br /><br />MI, for example, and I mean no offense to you at all by saying this MI, consistently regurgitates the 'crazy Christian right' paradigm, which says, "All government is bad, but the right wing is, what I call, "Collective individualism". <br /><br />She'd imagine, "We are the 'heart' of America. We despise government interference. We are totally skeptical of ALL government. We make decisions based on gut feeling and perhaps a quote from the Bible interpreting that as God's Will. How could somone who is an admitted Atheist make any kind of decent decision, since they don't base their decisions on gut feeling and cherry-picked quotes from the Bible?"<br /><br />And so on. They have no definition of 'life' that doesn't include 'God', which is totally circular.<br /><br />MI, "I define life as the creation of an eternally living being. And I see nothing at all wrong with this, you're just trying to trick me."<br /><br /> They despise secularism as anti-religion and not a compromise at all.<br /><br /><br />I kind of went off on a weird diversion there, because it was not my intention to try to fathom the unfathomable 'mind' of the 'crazy Christian right'.<br /><br />It may be that I feel that they are at the root of it all although not entirely to blame for it. The right wing political machine which, often successfully controls them, and the media which influences and is influenced by them, with they themselves dictating to the others this general gut feeling du jour, all mixing and matching like some directionless, headless monster with only their seething hatred of all things deemed 'socialist' simmering in the background.<br /><br />There's certainly a giant conflict going on inside their heads that goes, "I want to be good and Godly and I believe that if I'm Godly then I'm good, but what's mine is mine and atheists and socialists are out to take it away, or share it out to the unworthy and the ungrateful."pboyfloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475980562742243007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-51633684192620903762010-12-20T12:41:02.859-05:002010-12-20T12:41:02.859-05:00Yes the post came through in threes - unfortunatel...Yes the post came through in threes - unfortunately the rule of wit is an implacable law of the universe - The end result of combining fractions of wit is a multiplier not a sum.<br /><br />As for the rest, well, I've been practicing for a long time and been involved in policy and public health. Had you read the thing you might have noticed that I was referring to an example of what a purely capitalistic system might look like NOT (I hate caps but sometimes you just need the added ummph) what we have now. We have a socialized medical system that differs from what I put in the story. <br /><br />The point - sorry for others that I have to spell it out - is that all this fear of socialized medicine IS the true hyperbole.Pliny-the-in-Betweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16580900408227953736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-79373614492872623192010-12-20T03:04:26.275-05:002010-12-20T03:04:26.275-05:00MI.. Pliny's a doctor, you twit.
Why don'...MI.. Pliny's a doctor, you twit.<br /><br />Why don't YOU pray for sanity? Let me know how that works for you.pboyfloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475980562742243007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-76092572953078382792010-12-19T23:30:20.170-05:002010-12-19T23:30:20.170-05:00Obsservant-- that post came through in threes.
...Obsservant-- that post came through in threes. <br /><br /><br />Hmm. <br /><br /><br /><br />Interesting, wouldn't you say?<br /><br /><br />;)MInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-4358031934794020172010-12-19T23:26:29.600-05:002010-12-19T23:26:29.600-05:00Pliny -- this is NOT a Science Fiction Novel!
Hyp...Pliny -- this is NOT a Science Fiction Novel!<br /><br />Hyperbole, indeed!<br /><br />You act like poor ol' Joe Blow can't find a doctor out of the millions we have in this country who work weekdays. As for stiffing the doctor; that shit's all a really wierd science fiction novel made up in your head, (were you high at the time?) We don't ask for science fiction, we just want to keep the status quo insurance that we pay for. How do you pay for the poor you say? Well, I'm sure the $timulus Bill could've covered a good amount of the poor in this country!<br /><br />Let's talk reality, should we?<br /><br />The only time the ED loses money is WHEN the patient has no insurance because otherwise, they do megawork-ups for fear of being sued by lawyers. <br /><br />Ah, lawyers. <br /><br />Congress is full of them!<br /><br />Remember ANYthing the gov't touches, it turns to shit--the anti-Midas touch...<br /><br />The poor? GIVE THEM INSURANCE!!<br /><br />But, leave the people who already have insurance alone!<br /><br />This would be cost-effective: give only those who need insurance--- insurance ! <br /><br />And we're talking about real healthcare here, not simply population control through population sterilazation via contraception and abortion mills then targeting the poor and indigent, (they're a burden on the State--Nancy Pelosi) and death panels for the elderly since they've already "lived a fruitful life" (Obama). <br /><br />Obama got one thing right: when he exempted himself and his family from the healthcare insurance: because he wants to keep his insurance. <br /><br />If it's good enough for the almighty messiah, then it's good enough for me, too!<br /><br />It's not really Obama who sucks, but rather all of you tools who fall for the rhetoric hook, line and sinker. <br /><br />Get real. <br /><br />If you were a real doctor, you wouldn't be talking like this because you would realize that you have a family to tend to above and beyond your patients and that you deserve your paycheck just lik the next Joe does. And, certainly , doctors, especially are to be lauded for all of the indigent work that they do for the people ---- quite unusual in a capitalistic system, eh? <br /><br />Thank God for all of the God-fearing physicians who do this out of the goodness of their hearts. <br /><br />Because otherwise the poor would be screwed, <br /><br />Remember whom to really thank in reality versus whom to thank the next time you're absorbed in a science fiction dream. <br /><br />Be careful what you ask for -- you just might get the plan that Obama and his family and all of Congress and their families are exempt from!<br /><br />Poverty should never keep you from being a productive and mature thinker and reasoning patriot.MInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-43841370290844974942010-12-19T23:26:26.194-05:002010-12-19T23:26:26.194-05:00Pliny -- this is NOT a Science Fiction Novel!
Hyp...Pliny -- this is NOT a Science Fiction Novel!<br /><br />Hyperbole, indeed!<br /><br />You act like poor ol' Joe Blow can't find a doctor out of the millions we have in this country who work weekdays. As for stiffing the doctor; that shit's all a really wierd science fiction novel made up in your head, (were you high at the time?) We don't ask for science fiction, we just want to keep the status quo insurance that we pay for. How do you pay for the poor you say? Well, I'm sure the $timulus Bill could've covered a good amount of the poor in this country!<br /><br />Let's talk reality, should we?<br /><br />The only time the ED loses money is WHEN the patient has no insurance because otherwise, they do megawork-ups for fear of being sued by lawyers. <br /><br />Ah, lawyers. <br /><br />Congress is full of them!<br /><br />Remember ANYthing the gov't touches, it turns to shit--the anti-Midas touch...<br /><br />The poor? GIVE THEM INSURANCE!!<br /><br />But, leave the people who already have insurance alone!<br /><br />This would be cost-effective: give only those who need insurance--- insurance ! <br /><br />And we're talking about real healthcare here, not simply population control through population sterilazation via contraception and abortion mills then targeting the poor and indigent, (they're a burden on the State--Nancy Pelosi) and death panels for the elderly since they've already "lived a fruitful life" (Obama). <br /><br />Obama got one thing right: when he exempted himself and his family from the healthcare insurance: because he wants to keep his insurance. <br /><br />If it's good enough for the almighty messiah, then it's good enough for me, too!<br /><br />It's not really Obama who sucks, but rather all of you tools who fall for the rhetoric hook, line and sinker. <br /><br />Get real. <br /><br />If you were a real doctor, you wouldn't be talking like this because you would realize that you have a family to tend to above and beyond your patients and that you deserve your paycheck just lik the next Joe does. And, certainly , doctors, especially are to be lauded for all of the indigent work that they do for the people ---- quite unusual in a capitalistic system, eh? <br /><br />Thank God for all of the God-fearing physicians who do this out of the goodness of their hearts. <br /><br />Because otherwise the poor would be screwed, <br /><br />Remember whom to really thank in reality versus whom to thank the next time you're absorbed in a science fiction dream. <br /><br />Be careful what you ask for -- you just might get the plan that Obama and his family and all of Congress and their families are exempt from!<br /><br />Poverty should never keep you from being a productive and mature thinker and reasoning patriot.MInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-74336836866250004272010-12-19T23:26:19.861-05:002010-12-19T23:26:19.861-05:00Pliny -- this is NOT a Science Fiction Novel!
Hyp...Pliny -- this is NOT a Science Fiction Novel!<br /><br />Hyperbole, indeed!<br /><br />You act like poor ol' Joe Blow can't find a doctor out of the millions we have in this country who work weekdays. As for stiffing the doctor; that shit's all a really wierd science fiction novel made up in your head, (were you high at the time?) We don't ask for science fiction, we just want to keep the status quo insurance that we pay for. How do you pay for the poor you say? Well, I'm sure the $timulus Bill could've covered a good amount of the poor in this country!<br /><br />Let's talk reality, should we?<br /><br />The only time the ED loses money is WHEN the patient has no insurance because otherwise, they do megawork-ups for fear of being sued by lawyers. <br /><br />Ah, lawyers. <br /><br />Congress is full of them!<br /><br />Remember ANYthing the gov't touches, it turns to shit--the anti-Midas touch...<br /><br />The poor? GIVE THEM INSURANCE!!<br /><br />But, leave the people who already have insurance alone!<br /><br />This would be cost-effective: give only those who need insurance--- insurance ! <br /><br />And we're talking about real healthcare here, not simply population control through population sterilazation via contraception and abortion mills then targeting the poor and indigent, (they're a burden on the State--Nancy Pelosi) and death panels for the elderly since they've already "lived a fruitful life" (Obama). <br /><br />Obama got one thing right: when he exempted himself and his family from the healthcare insurance: because he wants to keep his insurance. <br /><br />If it's good enough for the almighty messiah, then it's good enough for me, too!<br /><br />It's not really Obama who sucks, but rather all of you tools who fall for the rhetoric hook, line and sinker. <br /><br />Get real. <br /><br />If you were a real doctor, you wouldn't be talking like this because you would realize that you have a family to tend to above and beyond your patients and that you deserve your paycheck just lik the next Joe does. And, certainly , doctors, especially are to be lauded for all of the indigent work that they do for the people ---- quite unusual in a capitalistic system, eh? <br /><br />Thank God for all of the God-fearing physicians who do this out of the goodness of their hearts. <br /><br />Because otherwise the poor would be screwed, <br /><br />Remember whom to really thank in reality versus whom to thank the next time you're absorbed in a science fiction dream. <br /><br />Be careful what you ask for -- you just might get the plan that Obama and his family and all of Congress and their families are exempt from!<br /><br />Poverty should never keep you from being a productive and mature thinker and reasoning patriot.MInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-73423822677653353902010-12-19T22:44:00.365-05:002010-12-19T22:44:00.365-05:00I don't mind if Observant tells me I'm goi...I don't mind if Observant tells me I'm going to go to Hell simply because he's not my Judge nor my Creator. (btw, I do read Scripture, only not the KJV). I attend Mass and worship God and give Him many Thanks. And I try my best to keep His Commandments. <br /><br />But, it's very hard to do around Heathens, lol!<br /><br />At the end of the day, what really matters is that we as a people love one another and seek the fullness of Truth with the utmost of sincerity and authenticity. <br /><br /><br />This is what we all must strive for. <br /><br /><br />Everyone here is a beautiful child made in God's Holy Image. <br /><br />We are at different stages of the Journey. <br /><br />I don't mind exhcanging some light-hearted banter....even if we don't agree on things. Hey, it's what makes the world go 'round.<br /><br />I love everyone here and wish the very best for all and indeed, keep all in my heart and in my humble prayers. <br /><br />Anything I ask God for in your name, I ask for myself as well. <br /><br />I do hope you all enjoy a blessed Christmas and a prosperous New Year!MInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-10352791177275699682010-12-18T02:07:16.285-05:002010-12-18T02:07:16.285-05:00Does anyone know if Abraham was a fleece the flock...Does anyone know if Abraham was a fleece the flock type of guy?Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08042662884794386867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-23818682344461960662010-12-17T22:53:20.825-05:002010-12-17T22:53:20.825-05:00Great article Pliny.
People who are trying to sa...Great article Pliny. <br /><br />People who are trying to say that science and religion are similar, are pandering to the religious side, because as noted, science is just fine without religion. Religion is anti-science. It absolutely has to be. Science reveals the truth that religion spins tapestries of lies about. Science, because it is truth, naturally kills religion every time. Not by intent; by accident. By revealing its lies. Oopsie.Saint Brian the Godlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14902151482640409544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-69110689613329308722010-12-17T22:40:00.273-05:002010-12-17T22:40:00.273-05:00Science compromising with religion is by definitio...Science compromising with religion is by definition a dilution of science. Science is truth. Religion is falsity, mere human superstitions and belief systems not based in REALITY. <br /><br />How does the truth compromise with the lie?Saint Brian the Godlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14902151482640409544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2376937841692070856.post-53125084979693321942010-12-17T15:59:42.359-05:002010-12-17T15:59:42.359-05:00Good one Pliny. Of course the apologists have thei...Good one Pliny. Of course the apologists have their usual 'thing' going for them. The complexity of the scientific being compared to the totally different complexity of the religious seems to be harking towards some kind of Intelligent Design synthesis?<br /><br />The Catholic Church are great synthesizers.<br /><br />Too bad, like the man said, they cannot see how Evolution is science's great synthesis, no gods required.<br /><br />The 'field' of science and religion. What a laugh.<br /><br />Seems to me to be the same old bullshit, them willing to agree that they're right and that we ought to agree with them too. Good compromise, what?pboyfloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475980562742243007noreply@blogger.com