2009-08-26, 20:36 | Link #21 |
blinded by blood
Author
|
Uh-huh. I'm not saying anything directly bad about him, only stating my own opinions clearly and concisely. I am not pounding out twenty-page rants detailing every little thing he did and why it was bad (if it was bad).
I know quite a few folks who literally celebrated and threw parties after Reagan died. I'm okay if you didn't agree with the man's politics but seriously, celebrating his death? That's just fucking juvenile.
__________________
|
2009-08-26, 20:59 | Link #25 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
|
Still all you had to say was I don't agree with him, and not been disrespectful to someone who is already dead. Plus I wasn't talking about reagan, just that your own hipocrisy that lies with in your comment about respect when clearly you don't exhibit any respect for the dead, let alone an American hero.
|
2009-08-26, 21:38 | Link #27 | |
blinded by blood
Author
|
Quote:
How many soldiers had asshole drill instructors, and still respect them?
__________________
|
|
2009-08-26, 21:42 | Link #28 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
|
yea call him a tool is a sign of respect, right. Call him a tool the day of his death sounds soooooo respectful. Seriously your a hypocrite face it, stop trying to justify your obvious hypocrisy by saying you aren't. Learn some tact.
|
2009-08-27, 02:27 | Link #31 | |
Senior Member
Artist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: In your mom's pants
|
Quote:
(He's married to a Kennedy)
__________________
|
|
2009-08-27, 02:30 | Link #32 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Author
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
|
Quote:
Each is on their own when the warlords and thugs strike? ... versus lets work as a team on this and support each other.
__________________
|
|
2009-08-27, 02:41 | Link #33 | ||
.....
Join Date: Jul 2009
|
Quote:
Quote:
|
||
2009-08-27, 04:13 | Link #34 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Author
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
|
Quote:
The feudal system society is also useful study -- in some ways it was superior to the broken relationship between the robber baron corporatists and workers today. The aristocracy had the obligation to make sure it didn't get too rough on the peasants. Today, many ultrarich think they can just "skip town" after they loot the granaries and treasuries and let the infrastructure fall apart. Others, like the modern day members of the Kennedys and the Rockefellers (and the Gates family) have a clue that they owe something to the society that let them thrive.
__________________
|
|
2009-08-27, 04:44 | Link #36 | ||
.....
Join Date: Jul 2009
|
Quote:
Quote:
|
||
2009-08-27, 04:46 | Link #37 | |
Banned
|
Quote:
Don't worry, I'm with you on the right of revolution within reason as well. Hopefully it never has to come to that in the first world though. The worst we get are the hysterical town hall meetings with lunatics parroting what Glen Beck told them about "death panels". Funny that whole "death panel" thing, because that's kind of what I think of whenever I hear of a poor worker being denied their health care insurance because of a "pre-exisiting condition", thus dooming them to death if it's a terminal condition they are suffering from. Let me just speak for the Canadian health care system a little and what Ted Kennedy was fighting for before his passing. From personal experience right this month my dad has been undergoing pre-op treatments and meetings quite regularly. You see he had a gallbladder attack a while back and so we had to take him to a hospital. The wait was less than 15 minutes before he got to see a doctor and they treated him quickly and he was already feeling a better in a little over an hour or two, but instead of sending him home they did some more tests for a few hours to make sure everything had really settled down and then set him up with a pre-op meeting to see if he needed surgery. The nurses and doctor were all very pleasant by the way and looked after him with the same respect a commission doctor in the U.S would if not more so (speaking from memory again I remember the doctors who treated my Grandmothers heartattack down there seemed purely business and not very comforting) since hospitals have no obligation to send a patient home in order to get the next one in and make more money. I don't recall any "death panels" either, all I recall is my dad being treated for what was wrong with him and being referred for further treatment. So indeed as I've already mentioned he did need the surgery and the pre-op doctor told my mother who told me that if my dad was an American citizen then we would have had to re-mortgage our house just to pay for the operation and it almost certainly wouldn't have been covered under any affordable insurance plan since of course it could be easily identified as a "pre-existing condition". I just really don't get that whole idea of denying people the right to life and affordable public health care. Somewhere along the line the hippocratic oath got lost in that labrynthine health insurance system down south and it honestly kind of scares the hell out of me from ever wanting to visit there too often. What if I get sick, what if something happens to me and I have to go to the hospital for serious treatment? How could I afford it? I really hope Obama's health care reform bill gets passed. |
|
2009-08-27, 05:02 | Link #39 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Author
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
Thread Tools | |
|
|