Conservatives have strenuously denied that there is any anti-Semitism on display by anti-health reform protesters at town hall meetings nationwide — despite all the evidence to the contrary. Last week, Las Vegas radio station KDWN AM720 sponsored a “contentious” town hall, emceed by conservative morning show host Heidi Harris. At the event, local news stations were interviewing an Israeli man who was praising the “fantastic” “national health care” in Israel. During his remarks, a woman yelled out, “Heil Hitler!”
Thanks Mister Justin.
#118 – Alfred – I argue for freedom
So, you agree on that women should have the freedom to decide if they want to end a pregnancy, correct?
A Norwegian fella wants a job, but the foreman won’t hire him until he passes a little math test.
Here is your first question, the foreman said. ’Without using numbers, represent the number 9.’
‘Without numbers?’ The Norwegian says, ‘Dat’s easy.’ and proceeds to draw three trees.
‘What’s this?’ the Swedish boss asks.
‘Vot! you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine,’ says the Norwegian.
‘Fair enough,’ says the Swedish boss. ’Here’s your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.’
The Norwegian stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. ‘Dar ya go.’
The Swedish boss scratches his head and says, ‘How on earth do you get that to represent 99?’
‘Each of da trees is dirty now. So, it’s dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99.’
The Swedish boss is getting worried that he’s going to actually have to hire this Norwegian, so he says, ‘All right, l ast question.
Same rules again, but represent the number 100.’
The Norwegian fella stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little markat the base of each tree and says, ‘Dar ya go. Von hundred.’
The Swedish boss looks at the attempt. ’You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!’
The Norwegian leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, ‘A little dog come along and pooped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, vich makes von hundred.’
‘So, ven do I start?
[Canadian humor is a riot!
– ed.]
#125 – Dr Dodd
Give me a break. Isn’t there an end to your prejudice?
#124 – noname
LMAO 😀
#126-Jägermeister
Please! Give me a break. What do you call it when non-English speaking students score lower on English text test?
Is there no end to your prejudice?
#130-noname
I see you lost your copy of how to win friends and influence people.
Ouch! Racist. You’re gonna have to do better than that.
#129 – Dr Dodd – What do you call it when non-English speaking students score lower on English text test?
How well do you think non-Swedes score on Swedish tests? And how many foreigners know English? And how many foreigners know Swedish?
As for immigrants… the US and Sweden has about the same level, but Sweden takes in way more refugees per capita. So, blaming it all on immigrants is just nutty.
Immigrants as percentage of state population (most recent) by country
#40 – The USA – 12.81%
#42 – Sweden – 12.3%
Asylum Seekers (per capita) (most recent) by country
#4 – Sweden – 2.611 per capita
#22 – The USA – 0.292 per capita
# 131 Alfred1,
Who going to sue if dead. What a typical REPUKETON canard!
Yes you can sue, when your dead and your family is bankrupt. It’s all so so easy and affordable.
Oh, by the way, REPUKETON think all law suits are frivolous, and damages should be capped.
REPUKETON have long claimed suing doctors lead to higher medical malpractice insurance rates as well as higher medical rates for patients.
#133-Jägermeister-How well do you think non-Swedes score on Swedish tests…
You got me on that one – I have no idea.
# 132 Dr Dodd, I agree, calling names is bad form, but; the shoe fits.
# 137 SwedeinBoston, all very good and valid points.
That said, I think it fare to also say come back in 20 years and see if America still impresses you.
Where people who want to work can work and be rewarded and people who don’t want to work are out of the way.
Only 20%?
FREEDOM: being able to choose to be an ant or the grasshopper.
#14 No Obama is in favor of reworking medicare to the point neither you nor I can recognize it any more. The idea is to cut payments on care provided to seniors thus covering millions of younger people.
There they won’t pull the plug on gandma but then doctors and such may not want to treat her either. I hope you have the cash to make up the difference.
Here’s the real bottom line. The money is running out. Even without adding millions of people something is going to have to give with medicare and medicaid in the next few years.
We are going to meed massive amounts of cold hard cash from somewhere or the level of care is going to have to be harshly reduced.
Oh yeah the baby boomers are about ready to retire even if they don’t want to. You get old and you can’t stand the strain any more.
#144–Somebody==way to hide the sausage. I could go line by line because everything you say is utter nonsense, so you are right, this is NOT Oxford, but even identifying the subject of a issue would be a stretch goal for you. What happened?
I’ll give the first sentence as the exemplar: “There is really only one important political question and that is whether or not the people will be free.” /// No. The question is how can the richest nation (sic) on earth provide healthcare to its people. Being free has nothing to do with it.
The rest of your dribble is equally vapid. I could go look, haven’t you posted rationally here in the past?
Going back to Jagermiester post #122
Canada has a very sizable refugee and immigrant population, possibly much higher than the US. The base population though is very similar to the US.
Reading literacy,
#2, Canada 534
#9, Sweden 516
#15, USA 504
Gr. 12, Advanced Science
#2, Sweden 573
#11, Canada 485
#15, USA 423
Math literacy
#5, Canada 533
#14, Sweden 510
#18, USA 493
Damn that socialized education !!!
So how badly has socialized medicine hurt health care?
Life expectancy (years)
#8, Canada 81.2
#10, Sweden 80.7
#47, USA 78.1
Circulatory System deaths (/100,000) [less is better]
#5, USA , 265
#7, Sweden 260
#14, Canada 219
Heart Attack deaths (/100,000)[less is better]
#11, Sweden 110
#13, USA 106.5
#16, Canada 94.9
Consultation with doctors (/year)
#2, USA 8.9
#7, Canada 6.3
#15, Sweden 2.8
Low Birth Weight
#5, USA 7.8
#21, Canada 5.6
#25, Sweden 4.2
Teen Birth Rate (/1,000, girls age 15-19)
#1, USA 64
#19, Canada 27
#28, Sweden 13
Physicians (/1,000)
#26, Sweden 3.3
#52, USA 2.3
#58, Canada 2.1
And something just a little odd,
Plastic surgery procedures (/100,000)
#10, Sweden 48.1
#17, Canada 33.8
#19, USA 30.8
In Canada cosmetic surgery is only covered if it is the result of a disfigurement or accident. Otherwise it is an out of pocket procedure.
(My thanks to Jagermeister for pointing to this site :))
#145, Bobbo,
Being free has nothing to do with it.
I agree with the gist of your post but this line raised a question.
If you die from lack of medical care, are you now free?
Let us not forget… the Nazis invested heavily in developing the Autobahn system of roads… Do you like driving on a highway? then you are a NAZI!
Hitler was a vegetarian… do you like eating a salad now and then? Then you are JUST LIKE HITLER!
The Nazis wore clothes… and shoes… think about it… we should all go naked.
Lastly, I’m an Israeli – our social care system isn’t all that… but from what I heard is still better than what you have in the US.
The first thing we do, let’s burn the Constitution! It’s not like we want it anymore anyway.
#146-147 – Mr. Fusion
Excellent posts. The “Teen Birth Rate” tells a lot about the success of the US abstinence approach…
Nazi, Jews, Hatred, Republicants and all the above in the preceeding 150 posts..its amazig how much attention all this is getting… I even had a British Colleage ask me..”What to hell is going on in America over health care?”
In most all other civilized westernized countries these are non issues…
Unfortunatly every one votes for their Pocket… and don’t really consider anyting or anyone else… its all a huge shame on America..it really is…
America has a faction of far-right idiots who listen to Limbaugh and refuse to think for themselves.
#151, Alphie,
I’ve asked a couple of times already, is there a reason you won’t tell us what lies are being told about Bachmann and Palin?
It wouldn’t be because you are being deceptive, would it? Or, just throwing out some shit to watch it stick?
You see, those were the tactics the NAZIs used prior to WWII. They accused their opponents of everything then actually blamed them for the atrocities they committed. And they repeated it over and over and over.
Hey, that is just like what you are doing!!! You are accusing the Democrats of being Nazis over and over. You accuse the Democrats and liberals of smearing your heroes and heroines. You continue to accuse Democrats and liberals of things that just aren’t true.
I guess you have been exposed, asshole. YOU NAZI!!!
#152, Jag,
I thought it was because so many right wingers have brought their daughters up to be right wing nuts and the male right wingers are just “fucking nuts”.
To the Right Wing Nuts,
You might need someone to explain the joke. Ask around at your next Klan meeting. If you can’t find anyone there smart enough, try the barbershop.
Ronald Reagan was best friend with Nazi!
This just in…proof that Ronald Reagan associated with, and claimed to be GOOD friend with a Nazi!? Partial gov option health care makes Obama a Nazi. So England and their TOTAL gov single payer health care is 10 TIMES the Nazi country and makes their leaders 10 TIMES the Nazi Obama is, yet Nazi lover Reagan is seen HERE associating with the Nazi leader of Nazi run England:
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs/large/c8575-32A.jpg
Why does Reagan love Nazi’s so much? Even George W. Bush had only one other major country help in his Iraq War…ENGLAND! Even W. loved Nazi’s. Why do Republican support Nazi’s so much?
LOL. See how STUPID this Republican argument is! No facts, no reality, no common sense. The new Republican Party.
US life expectancy is higher at the high end. Compare the life expectancy of 40yr olds and 60yr odls, and the US overtakes countries that are ahead in the regular rankings.
Health problems are not the only cause of death.
#158, Lyin’ Mike,
Ok, so where are the statistics showing the US has higher life expectancy for 40 & 60 y/o?
Most dead people don’t have any health at all. Only the zombies are capable of showing any life.
If there’s one thing I agree with Sean Hannity is that the U.S.A. has the best health care and medical services in the world. Of Course, when he said that he forgot to add these six words “To those who can afford it.”
#156 – Mr. Fusion – I thought it was because so many right wingers have brought their daughters up to be right wing nuts and the male right wingers are just “fucking nuts”.
LMAO 😀
#158 – MikeN
WOW! 😯 I though that Alfredone was the dumbest Republican on the block… 🙄
That woman is disgusting piece of trash, but the only one she is representative of is herself. The health care system in Israel is a good one, that’s not what’s not table in the Obama plan. The Obama plan is nothing more than a power grab and monopoly welfare for corporations in a captive market. Btw, most of the organized hostilities I’ve encountered towards Israel comes from the Left and the Saudi sponsored Islamonazis working together.