President Obama has gone and made us cry again with another beautiful, thoughtful tribute to the dead in a horrible shooting. And as usual -- we wish it weren't usual, but these things have become too familiar -- he managed to leave us with some hope by the end. God, we're going to miss this president.
I think the long view is that you couldn't just cut out the insurance companies completely. They have too much invested in the system as it is to just let all that cash vanish from the table without a major fight. A fight that would have blown it all away, and then we'd still be completely at their profit-taking whims.
The longer view is that once everyone has skin in the game, meaning everyone is paying for health care at some level, and the costs are known, it's a far easier pitch to get people to question "why exactly do we need these profit-taking administrative enterprises that are just sticky-fingers holding onto large chunks of our health-care dollars, when we could do it all for ourselves with just a little extra government?"
I dunno, that shame-finger you're wagging at everyone looks a little dicey. I sure as heck don't know where it's been.
Anyway, let me be the first apologize on behalf of every single soul who doesn't agree with you 100% and/or behave exactly as you wish them to behave.
Especially let me apologize for the series of mocking comments made about George Bush by relatively anonymous strangers, attached to a blog-post put up on a corner of the internet that is many degrees of separation from the actual memorial service that occurred in Dallas in reality several hours ago.
Also, let me know if you need apologies for any terrible Youtube or Yahoo comments you run across, I'll be happy to do it, even if it takes the rest of my days.
I sincerely hope that my totally meaningful apologies will do some good for you.
I turned on Chris Hayes last night for a few minutes and had the misfortune to hear one of his guests, one Eugene O'Donnell, explain how the President's speech was so divisive and disrespectful to Police everywhere. I wanted to throw my shoe at the damn TV. O'Donnell is a former NYPD detective, and, evidently, an asshat.
You may be right. It was late last night when I finally got to watch the memorial service and I wouldn't put it past me to have mixed up who said what.
the latest poutrage from the right is that he didn't light the white house in blue lights for these dead cops but he lit it up rainbow for the ghey. I'm sure if he would have just done that then the republicans wouldn't have anything else to complain about
I think the long view is that you couldn't just cut out the insurance companies completely. They have too much invested in the system as it is to just let all that cash vanish from the table without a major fight. A fight that would have blown it all away, and then we'd still be completely at their profit-taking whims.
The longer view is that once everyone has skin in the game, meaning everyone is paying for health care at some level, and the costs are known, it's a far easier pitch to get people to question "why exactly do we need these profit-taking administrative enterprises that are just sticky-fingers holding onto large chunks of our health-care dollars, when we could do it all for ourselves with just a little extra government?"
cause I'm a decent fucking human being.
Are you, really?
I dunno, that shame-finger you're wagging at everyone looks a little dicey. I sure as heck don't know where it's been.
Anyway, let me be the first apologize on behalf of every single soul who doesn't agree with you 100% and/or behave exactly as you wish them to behave.
Especially let me apologize for the series of mocking comments made about George Bush by relatively anonymous strangers, attached to a blog-post put up on a corner of the internet that is many degrees of separation from the actual memorial service that occurred in Dallas in reality several hours ago.
Also, let me know if you need apologies for any terrible Youtube or Yahoo comments you run across, I'll be happy to do it, even if it takes the rest of my days.
I sincerely hope that my totally meaningful apologies will do some good for you.
I turned on Chris Hayes last night for a few minutes and had the misfortune to hear one of his guests, one Eugene O'Donnell, explain how the President's speech was so divisive and disrespectful to Police everywhere. I wanted to throw my shoe at the damn TV. O'Donnell is a former NYPD detective, and, evidently, an asshat.
Didn't Chief Brown say Congress needed to do something about the gun laws the other day, also too?
You may be right. It was late last night when I finally got to watch the memorial service and I wouldn't put it past me to have mixed up who said what.
See---that's why you get lime jello for dessert instead of red velvet cake. You have to sway for cake.
no, he said the people in the Pink Dome needed to do that, but I'm sure he'd be happy if Congress did also, too.
Why Not Both?
(and yes, the Dallas PD did not deserve to have this fall on them. Sword of Damocles and all)
Normally I would post meme Thanks Obama, but that's one snark too far.
Thanks Obama.
goddamn right.
that's a difficult title even for the most pure and sparkling of souls.
why not both whats?
Fuck you Ben Shapiro, you scrofulous turd gobbler. If you won't say "black lives matter" then obviously you don't actually believe "all lives matter."
the latest poutrage from the right is that he didn't light the white house in blue lights for these dead cops but he lit it up rainbow for the ghey. I'm sure if he would have just done that then the republicans wouldn't have anything else to complain about
I knew I'd seen him somewhere before.
BT,TD (OK, they were FrankenTele bindings)