Comments on: Big White Lies

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:33:20 +0000

Well, I guess the difference is that China prints our rubles, and our military leaches are much more expensive, so we’re not even doing as good, or at least fiscally responsible, a job as the commies did. I find that to be a bummer. (Oh yeah, and here when we find precious things, we let the corporations despoil the land, take the booty, and walk away for free, which also must make the commies shaker their fur-hatted heads in disbelief.) Thanks for saving me the time of refuting you.

By: nailheadtom

nailheadtom — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:21:53 +0000

Military spending? Didn’t they print their own rubles? Didn’t they make most all of their own military equipment and pay zilch for it? Weren’t their military personnel (and everyone else) basically working for peanuts? Aren’t they one of the world’s largest oil producers? And how about diamonds, gold, silver and all the other subterranean treasures that would likely be found somewhere in one of the world’s largest countries?

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:12:19 +0000

Well, for the answer to that I would refer you to my current post. It’s pretty much accepted that the Soviet Union finally collapsed under the weight of its imperial ventures, wherein its military spending deprived its “citizen” of basic needs to fund a bloated, adventurous military. Sound familiar?
As for health care, I think you ought to look at the 37 other countries that spend less and get better outcomes than we do for your answer.

By: nailheadtom

nailheadtom — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:06:00 +0000

One country, at least, blessed with abundant natural resources and an intelligent, well-educated population, offered “free” health care for decades. If any country had an opportunity to successfully implement a state-engineered health care system, it was the USSR. Yet, it was a dismal failure and that failure haunts the physical well-being of the former Soviet populations even today. With every opportunity for success, they failed. Why?

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:28:50 +0000

Color me surprised. Trouble is, even if someone checked their facts, Larson’s audience wouldn’t believe it. The new meme seems to be, “we’re the real majority,” and they’re sticking to it.

By: Meremark

Meremark — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:57:00 +0000

LIARS Larson is at it full blast now trying to blow 30,000 into seeming like 3 million.

What needs to happen is organizing a pool of callers to flood the lines for hours at a time, each saying the same disputation — that his word is LIARS.

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:41:04 +0000

I especially liked the two photos; and 9/12 looks like such a nicer day, too. What maroons.

By: Meremark

Meremark — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:37:27 +0000

A photo of the Mall during the event, side-by-side with a comparison:

http://kombiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/mallpicture.jpg

And, the link at Media Matters with details of the LIARS talking, squeak-sqwauk and run away. Including a traffic cam photo of the streets at the time WHERE the ‘marchers’ were/were not. Look! THERE’s Waldo. Easy to spot since: He’s alone. Who’d a’thunk there is traffic cams looking at the LIARS. Oh, this is hilarious.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909120014

Crowd size estimates are converging on some number between a low of 30,000 and a high of 30,100.

By: Karen M

Karen M — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:51:48 +0000

Yes, but their “tradition” seems to borrow very heavily from the Old Testament, which makes me loathe to consider them to be really the Christians that they claim to be.

By: Karen M

Karen M — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:48:25 +0000

I haven’t read the other comments yet, but I just have to say this… in reference to Canadians coming here to receive health care.

I and a few dozen other folks had (until recently) been paying for the pleasure of having our wonderful acupuncturist fly in from Canada every few months to perform his magic upon our weary bodies and souls.

Recently, being the key word. I doubt we will see much of him in future. He’s built up a practice in the north now, and it’s a hardship on his family when he’s gone for weeks at a time 3 or 4 times per year.

I’d love to be able to import any more Canadian-brand health care, but I’m not sure now how to go about it.

Now, to the rest of the comments!