Comments on: I want to fight the greatest threat to freedom of our times

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:59:43 +0000

FYI: Beltians live in Beltium. Not Beltia.

By: Caterina

Caterina — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:38:55 +0000

I used to be proud of being educated in Wisconsin because it was such a sensible state politically – not no more! (Feingold excepted, of course).

As an unemployed person (thank you Wall Street meltdown) who’s about to lose COBRA, which was expensive enough, and trying to find private health insurance I can afford, all I can say it that asshole ought to give up his very expensive govenment-sponsored policy and join the rest of us underinsured (I live in MA, so at least I have access to the next best thing to Obamacare now).

By: gwen

gwen — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:53:08 +0000

My family has fought in every war this country fought, outside of Iraq. I too was a military brat who grew up on ‘socialized’ military medicine. As a career nurse, I am appalled at some of the things I treat, that came about because of the lack of medical coverage. Lack of socialized medicine in our country is a penny wise, pound folish solution.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:26:58 +0000

And no, I’m not going to reveal the location of the secret country Beltia. Never!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:24:27 +0000

The Kaiser’s army was really a threat to freedom? That’s a different view of WWI than my books have given me…

I suppose not.

Unless one was Beltian, French, etc.

But yes, I too can read Wikipedia as you can (history books indeed!) and there we find “The contemporary British reference to the First World War as “the Kaiser’s War” in the same way that the Second was “Hitler’s War” is not wholly accurate in its suggestion that Wilhelm was deliberately responsible for unleashing the conflict. ”

To which I say, to quote a general from a later war; NUTS! If you are going to be a despot in charge of a country, and that country tries to take over the world and all that shit, you are a threat to freedom.

And, just so we are clear, the American Civil War was fought to end slavery and the holocaust really did happen.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:22:13 +0000

@yogi-one: My dad served in the USAF medical corps and when he quit and dabbled in the civilian system he couldn’t stand it. In the military you did whatever you could to treat your patients and almost everyone put in ridiculous hours of work every week. In private (and public) hospitals the patients will lie dying until someone works out who’s going to pay for their treatment – on top of that, there are many so-called doctors who spend more time on the golf course than in the sick rooms. (To be fair, the military have some crappy hospitals like that too, and not all civilian hospitals are that bad.)

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:07:40 +0000

@feralboy12 –

This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends.
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they’ll continue singing it forever just because

This is the song that never ends..

By: feralboy12

feralboy12 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:33:05 +0000

My name is Ron Johnson
I live in Wisconsin
I talk out of my ass way up there
The people I meet
When I walk down the street
Say, “What is your name?” and I say,

My name is Ron Johnson
I live in Wisconsin
(repeat ad infinitum)

By: Raka

Raka — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:32:15 +0000

The Kaiser’s army was really a threat to freedom? That’s a different view of WWI than my books have given me…

By: yogi-one

yogi-one — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:18:58 +0000

I’m a military brat. my dad fought in WWII, Korea, and ‘Nam.

During my entire childhood I got single-payer, taxpayer-financed health care, including eye-care and dental care and all the rest. We called it the military health system, but if you want to get technicial, it actually fit the textbook definition of socialized medicine. If I got sick, my mom made an appt. We went in, got treated. I needed braces and orthodontal work. No prob, make the appt.

I guess I’m a living testamant that single-payer, universal health care will turn you into a godless communist, ruin your life, and allow tehrists to rule the world. I can’t believe I narrowly esacped those death-panels the US Army had waiting to for people like me amd my mom to get sick.

Now can I get a brane from one of them Morans? Not to mention those cool t-shirts!