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TEDDY WON’T SWALLOW HIS OWN MEDICINE
Re: Robert M. Goldberg’s
The Kennedy-Orszag $700 Billion Fix:
Robert M. Goldberg writes of Senator Ted Kennedy that “he truly believes that only government can ‘move from a system that rewards doctors for the sheer volume of tests and treatments they prescribe to one that rewards quality and positive outcomes.’”
Goldberg then cites as Kennedy’s example:
“In Medicare today, 18 percent of patients discharged from a hospital are re-admitted within 30 days — at a cost of more than $15 billion in 2005. Most of these re-admissions are unnecessary, but we don’t reward hospitals and doctors for preventing them. By changing that, we’ll save billions of dollars while improving the quality of care for patients.”
Senator Kennedy is 76 years old. He has been hospitalized multiple times in the past year due to his brain cancer. Senator Kennedy is going to die.
Therefore, his hospital readmission was unnecessary? Though
Senator Kennedy has lived a long and privileged life, he has made
lifestyle choices that are not conducive to good health. At what
point would President Obama, as Commander in Chief of
Medical Forces, tell the Senator that he’s not getting the
surgery, only a painkiller? By Senator Kennedy’s definition,
shared by President Obama, succumbing prematurely would be a
good outcome.
— Dan Martin
Thanks, Mr. Goldberg, for another incisive analysis. I have to
fight against rising anger every time that huge hypocrite Teddy
Kennedy opens his mouth.
Here’s why. You wrote, “Kennedy’s legislation would rob Americans first of choice, then of progress, and ultimately of victory against diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and stroke.”
Error. It should read “most Americans.” Kennedy and his family will always have access to the best care available. He, his family, and his friends in the very highest places will never allow the restrictions they will place on everyone else’s healthcare to have a whisper of an effect on their own.
We’ll get painkillers instead, and euthanasia when they’re ready
to foist that off on us and expect our averted-eyes boot-licking
gratitude.
— A.C. Santore
DO YOU FEEL LUCKY?
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Maureen Dowd:
Jeffrey Lord in this article made my day. Sorry Clint but I have
a new hero.
— J. Gedroic
Congratulations to Jeffrey Lord — nobody could describe Maureen
Dowd and the New York Times better. As a refugee from a
communist country so many years ago, I started calling the NY
Times “the NY Pravda” back in 1968. As for that hissing
viper Maureen Dowd — I know her opinion on any subject in
advance and will take bets on that. Together with Pelosi, Boxer,
Waters, Feinstein, McKinney and several such others, comrade Dowd
would have made an ideal candidate for a professional Gulag boss
in charge of re-education.
— Marc Jeric
Las Vegas, Nevada
This piece was absolutely one of the funniest I’ve ever read while at that same time it shredded cheerleaders of the institutionalized racism that has become the norm in our country.
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Smitty| 7.23.09 @ 9:06PM
UNFPA helps women by forcing abortions on them. Only heartless fascist liberals see this as a good thing.
Shame on you, Jane.
Meurant| 7.23.09 @ 10:18PM
I'm just appalled but what I've read about Ted Kennedy. The senator has dedicated his life to
the fate of the needy,and much more.How can one be so heartless!
MikeG| 7.23.09 @ 10:31PM
Ms. Jane Roberts,
You wrote "...fully twenty percent end in abortion, i.e., 40 million. Of these, half are illegal and unsafe -- resulting in about 70,000 deaths...".
Your arithmetic is wrong. These abortions resulted to 40.07 million deaths.
William| 7.23.09 @ 10:33PM
Ted Kennedy has dedicated his life to jacking taxpayers, fornication and turning perfectly good scotch into urine.
Soon, very soon, he will receive his reward.
Republican Hero| 7.24.09 @ 12:44AM
Senator Kennedy is 76 years old. He has been hospitalized multiple times in the past year due to his brain cancer. Senator Kennedy is going to die.
His readmission's were necessary. Sometimes you people make me wonder if you took retard juice on purpose.
Good job with the reading comprehension, retard.
Marx| 7.24.09 @ 12:47AM
Angry white liberals? Good job with the anger displacement. Obama is going to end all your shit. 25% and shrinking.
SoCon| 7.24.09 @ 2:36AM
Yeah, sure, Marx--Obummer is just kicking our a$$es up and down the street. Obama's favorables are tanking, dude--can't you read?
Your 20% liberal numbers are shrinking, fool; but unfortunately for Americans, Obama's 11+% unemployment numbers are skyrocketing.
Nice job, commie.
SoCon| 7.24.09 @ 2:40AM
Meurant, it's called the truth and I know it's a foreign concept to you brainless liberals. What about Mary Jo? Don't give a fig about that girl, huh? Well neither did Teddy.
A/S number one Race hate group| 7.26.09 @ 3:42PM
Paranoia as Patriotism:
Far-Right Influences on the Militia Movement
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Aryan Nations
Headquartered near Hayden Lake, Idaho, Aryan Nations is a paramilitary hate group founded in the mid-1970s by Rev. Richard Girnt Butler, now 77 years old. It was formed around Butler's Church of Jesus Christ Christian, one of the several hundred churches affiliated with "Identity," a pseudo-theological hate movement. Identity doctrine maintains that Anglo-Saxons, not Jews, are the Biblical "chosen people," that non-whites are "mud people" on the level of animals, and that Jews are "children of Satan."
Aryan Nations militantly advocates anti-Semitism and the establishment of a white racist state. Although primarily an Identity group, Butler's Aryan Nations reflects a Nazi-like philosophy; Butler himself has praised Hitler. During the 1980s, several of Butler's followers joined members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance and some KKK splinter groups to form a secret organization known as The Order, which planned to overthrow the U.S. government. To raise money for their planned revolution, The Order engaged in a crime spree involving murder, counterfeiting, bank robberies and armored car hold-ups. The group's activities ended with the death of its founder and leader, Robert J. Mathews, in a shootout with Federal agents in December 1984, and the incarceration of many of its members.
As noted, anti-Semitism is a basic tenet of the Aryan Nations ideology. For example, Dennis Hilligoss, the group's state coordinator in Oregon, recently said that "The Jew is like a destroying virus that attacks our racial body to destroy our Aryan culture and purity of our race."
To aid in recruitment efforts, Aryan Nations hosts many racist activits during its summer festivals of hate at Hayden Lake, called the "World Congress of Aryan Nations." At these conferences, Butler's organization has offered courses in urban terrorism and guerrilla warfare. Numerous extremists have addressed Aryan Nations gatherings. John Trochmann, a featured speaker at the 1990 congress, later became a founder and leader of the Militia of Montana.
Richard Baker| 7.26.09 @ 10:43PM
Marx:
Keep identifying yourself, moron. When the Restoration occurs, your lot will be easy to find. Just follow the incoherence.