Government run health care

[Marigold2]

And on a lighter note because if there is one thing I have is a great sense of humor, I can laugh at myself and my party without taking offense.
THE TOP TEN SIGNS THAT YOUR EMPLOYER HAS CHANGED TO OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE PLAN:


(10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.

(9) Directions to your doctor's office include "Take a left when you
enter the trailer park."

(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.

(7) The only proctologist in the plan is "Gus" from Roto-Rooter.

(6) The only item listed under Preventative Care Coverage is "an apple
a day."

(5) Your Primary Care Physician is wearing the pants you gave to
Goodwill last month.

(4) "The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges," is
not a typographical error.

(3) The only expense covered at 100% is "embalming."

(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M's on them.

AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU'VE JOINED OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE PLAN:

(1) You ask for Viagra, and they give you a Popsicle stick and duct tape.

[Lady's Human]

I've been staying out of political threads lately, and these posts are why.

No one should be tattooed, marked, signed, or anything else because of how they voted, and anyone suggesting it is an absolute ass.

Anyone who hasn't been paying attention lately as to whats happened in Iran should realize why.

Godwin's law rides again.

[RICHARD]

I've been staying out of political threads lately, and these posts are why.

No one should be tattooed, marked, signed, or anything else because of how they voted, and anyone suggesting it is an absolute ass.

Uh.........My stupid brother used to tell me "not to be an AH all my life."

So, I chose to be a part time AH.

[Marigold2]

LOL what was I thinking. We don't need a tattoo to easily identify those who voted for Bush, we just have to wait till they quote Bushisms.
They misunderestimated me." --Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000


Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001

"I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me." --talking to key Republicans about Iraq, as quoted by Bob Woodward

"Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." --discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson

Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004

This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite -- I call you my base." --at the 2000 Al Smith dinner.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --in parting words to world leaders at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as those present looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008


"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." --Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

"Can we win? I don't think you can win it." --after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, "Today" show interview, Aug. 30, 2004

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." --Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008



"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002


"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --to FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

I've been staying out of political threads lately, and these posts are why.

No one should be tattooed, marked, signed, or anything else because of how they voted, and anyone suggesting it is an absolute ass.

Anyone who hasn't been paying attention lately as to whats happened in Iran should realize why.

Godwin's law rides again.

[Medusa]

I've been staying out of political threads lately, and these posts are why.

No one should be tattooed, marked, signed, or anything else because of how they voted, and anyone suggesting it is an absolute ass.

Anyone who hasn't been paying attention lately as to whats happened in Iran should realize why.

Godwin's law rides again.

I took Richard's comment as a joke because he mentioned those who voted either way and he finished w/a wink smiley. Marigold, on the other hand, specifically pointed to people who voted for Bush and her comment was mean spirited and there was no icon of any kind to indicate whether or not she was joking as well. Your point is well taken LH, however, don't expect things to change any time soon. This forum should be renamed the Snake Pit because there's an awful lot of venom spewed here every day, lots of spitting and striking and biting and then slinking back down into their holes when there is an outcry. If only they would stay there and not come out until they have something constructive to say.

[Lady's Human]

I took Richard's as a joke.

However, there are some who post nothing but spite and vitriol in political threads.

I was specifically referring to Marigold's post, I should have clarified.

[Marigold2]

What no mention of my funny Obama post? I am a big fan of his yet I can find the humor and not get mad.
I laugh at both sides and I never take offense at what people say.
As for making fun of Bush, he said those things, they weren't made up. He really is that dubm, dmub, dbum.
The Obama ones were funny and so were the Bush ones.
If a person voted for Bush they must have found him intelligent which to me is confusing, but that is what makes a horse race.
But to get upset, life is too short and if you let a post make you mad you are missing the point, which is to hear other opinions and to learn weather, you agree or not.
This is funny regardless of how you vote.

1) You ask for Viagra, and they give you a Popsicle stick and duct tape.

[Medusa]

What no mention of my funny Obama post? I am a big fan of his yet I can find the humor and not get mad.
I laugh at both sides and I never take offense at what people say.
As for making fun of Bush, he said those things, they weren't made up. He really is that dubm, dmub, dbum.
The Obama ones were funny and so were the Bush ones.
If a person voted for Bush they must have found him intelligent which to me is confusing, but that is what makes a horse race.
But to get upset, life is too short and if you let a post make you mad you are missing the point, which is to hear other opinions and to learn weather, you agree or not.

If you had merely offered an opinion, it's doubtful that anyone would have objected. No one even mentioned your post that made fun of Bush perhaps because no one was offended, including me. What is offensive is your post about tattooing those who voted for Bush so that they would never forget "what they did". Y'know, there are actual people on the other end of your posts. We have feelings, feelings can be hurt, people can get offended. I'm not a hot house flower who is too precious to live. I can take criticism and read posts that disagree w/my views as well as the next person. However, when a specific person or a group of people are singled out as a target of vitriol, people are going to get upset and offended, Monica! Surely you can see that. Then to add insult to injury we're told that we need to have a sense of humor when we object to being insulted. Here's a thought: don't insult people to begin with. Remind yourself that there are real live people who read these posts, not just faceless screen ID's w/no feelings. I'm sometimes shocked at what people say in the Dog House and wonder if they would dare say those things to a person's face. Maybe they would, who knows, and that makes it all the sadder.

[RICHARD]

Does this mean my part time job is over?

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Going back to the Health Care topic.
I really had a bad time with this foot splinter.

No X-ray found it and an 'exploratory surgery' wasn't a guarantee to fix the problem. I forgot about it and this past year it started to bother me as a sharp pain in my foot.

My toe went numb and I had pain all the way up my leg to my hip. When I was asleep I would stretch my legs until I got cramps and had to elevate both legs to get comfortable. I'd press the sole of my foot on the wall so it would not hurt.

Because a doc had seen the wound and done the x-ray and dressing on it I didn't think it was the splinter.

I got a callus on top of the callus and the skin on the bottom of my foot began to swell, then cracked. I was trying to see what was bugging me and ended up taking a piece of wood that was probably 1/8 of an inch out of the split in the skin.

I probably could have kept going back to the doctor over and over again. But if he didn't find anything the first time out with an X-ray, what good would a surgery done?

Was it wise to go thru the pain? Nope.

Could I have kept bugging the doc to do something about it?
Probably.

The fact that I have seen countless people who go into the doc's office for no reason at all really galls me.

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I have sat in the ER rooms when I had the flu and thought I was going to die.

Then some kid would come into the room with a sucking chest wound and head trauma.

It was then I learned I wasn't going to die.

While the topic of HCR is pretty timely, we all have to also look at the way we use the system and who really needs the care provided.

[Edwina's Secretary]

My husband came home last night having heard some of these pernicious lies at work yesterday. Makes you wonder what it will take before people stop spreading them!

Myths about healthcare