Categorical Imperative.

Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House

“I think America needs to be humble.” - W, in a debate with Al Gore

The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? A sweeping draft of history—distilled from scores of interviews—offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other key players.

November 8

cyn1cal:

jasencomstock:

cyn1cal:

Mandatory health insurance. What a crock. It should be an option, a right. Not a mandate.

Why shouldn’t it be a mandate? If you can’t guarantee that you won’t be going to a hospital for emergency care and can’t afford it, or if you can’t guarantee that you won’t declare bankruptcy because of your health care bills and fuck over everyone else you owe money to, why shouldn’t you mandate health insurance?

Fining people that don’t have health insurance = going too far. It should be a choice, regardless of the financial consequences of that choice.

I can’t guarantee that I WILL be going for emergency care or bankruptcy either. Regardless, I have health insurance, I just think that in principle it should not be a requirement.

I never said it was a good idea to choose not to have health insurance. However, I would argue that it should be a choice.

The government has invaded my life enough already. They don’t need to make good choices for me.

Some would argue “well why outlaw abortion or rape, then, isn’t that a government invasion?” - I understand the point behind such a question, but we aren’t talking about a choice that causes a criminal/murderous act. Such laws are in place to keep murder and horrendous things from happening, or at least punish those who do them. Regarding insurance, we are talking about a choice that is mostly personal.

Do I want a Whopper or a Chicken Sandwich? It sounds like I’m devaluing it, but analogously it’s that kind of choice. The government shouldn’t force me to eat healthy food, so why should it force me to get health insurance? They are both life choices that don’t directly involve other lives in a threatening way (other than financially)

You do get a choice. You get to choose the health insurance you want. or like most people, you get the health insurance your employer buys for you. so there is your whopper or your chicken sandwich.

An injured or sick person has to be paid for somehow. the argument that I shouldn’t have to purchase insurance if i don’t want to. I CHOOSE to be a burden on society should something bad happen, is foolish to the extreme, unless you have so much cash on hand as to be able to cover an event.

Not being insured is a macro horrendous event. It is bankrupting hospitals and making the United States as a whole operate at an unnecessarily high cost.

This would be different if we lived in a society where it is acceptable for people to die for not having care. but we don’t. if hospitals and doctors were allowed to not treat patients who wouldn’t provide them with a profit, then your arguement would be sensical.

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catbus:

I try not to think too hard about Politico for any reason because they are the DC equivalent of the newspaper in the doughnut shop about how the government is putting cancer in the water, but hoooooly hell:

Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust comparisons: “This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting”

And from the comment section…

You know what? The fact is that at a time in history, The Rosthchild family controlled practically everything.This is a fact. Not anti semitic. I resent the Jewish outrage at everything. I am a tea partier. obama is a Marxist and takes his orders from George Soros… it is similar and these people need to get a life., Why any Jew would support the Obama administation is a mystery anyway. He is a Muslim sympathizer and the greatest threat to Israel ever to sit in the White House. Wake up Jewish community. Take off the blinders.

Rothschild sign? Well its factually true. They were one of the primary families involved in founding the Federal Reserve and are still in it up to their necks. Obama, Bush, and every president since Wilson have done as the Fed told them. Since it a valid historical fact that this family was involved in creating and still has ownership of a substantial piece of the Federal Reserve (but nobody seems to know how much), I guess its now Anti- Semitic to discuss anything a Jew does critically? This guy is a Hebrew Al Sharpton.

Elie Wiesel: Newest, most current tool of the sick, perverted, racist, anti-semetic Democrap party. Have you no shame Democraps?

“most American jews are not very religious and many are outright unbelievers, Jews in name only.” Many older Jews in America feel shame for BEING in America, rather than emigrating to Israel in the late 1940s. Many sent money to help the colonization, and a few sent Army-surplus rifles, but the majority came up with the most interesting excuses for not answering the call to gather together and forge their homeland.

These were obviously posted by Democraps attempting to be-smirch the good name of Tea Partiers. C O N Spiricy.

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The problem with college gay guys

k-troll:

mejoe:

k-troll:

mejoe:

rising:

riverwide:

is that all they want is to have sex. Nobody wants to walk around downtown and just sip hot chocolate. Nobody wants to cuddle up on the couch and watch a bad movie.

EDIT: The problem with ~~college~~ gay guys

EDIT: The problem with ~~college gay~~ guys

I SO want a date like that, maybe with a happy ending, but especially with walking around, cocoa, spooning, and the works of Chevy Chase.

what planet do you live on where dates like these happen? i have never had a date like that

I’ve never had a date period. :( A boy can dream…

WTF are you gays talking about? the majority of gays want to have dates like this, four of them posting on the same subject in a row (see above). If you really want dates like this, ask out the dudes that want to do it.

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Bob McDonnell just now on FNS

Should Planned Parenthood be barred from recieiving state funds?

“I believe that state policy should be similar to the Hyde Amendment and that Planned Parenthood should be restricted from state funds.”

Thanks for electing such a moderate Virginia.

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cyn1cal:

Mandatory health insurance. What a crock. It should be an option, a right. Not a mandate.

Why shouldn’t it be a mandate? If you can’t guarantee that you won’t be going to a hospital for emergency care and can’t afford it, or if you can’t guarantee that you won’t declare bankruptcy because of your health care bills and fuck over everyone else you owe money to, why shouldn’t you mandate health insurance?

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“ Now, jail isn’t a certainty; depending on the infraction, fines are also an option. And, looked at another way, all this really means is that the government continues to retain the authority to lock up those who don’t pay their taxes. But still, this is a stark reminder that when liberals talk about “health care as a right,” what they really mean is “health insurance as a requirement.

No Health Insurance? Go Directly to Jail. - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

It’s the last sentence that is astonishingly right. This debate began as a discussion of health care as a right. But the legislation winding its way through the system isn’t about that—it’s about health care as a requirement. As a mandate. As an obligation. It’s not a right to health insurance; it’s the loss of the right not to buy insurance from insurance companies.

I hate the idea of government-provided health care, but in many ways that seems preferable to the product we’re getting. Once again, the Democrats sold out their principles and managed to find something worse than what they originally promised.

(via jeffmiller)

(via bellatoris)

(via sds)

Ha, what principle did the democrats “sell-out?” the principle of NOT mandating insurance if it means insuring 36 million others?

The only principle sold out last night was abortion rights. But apparently the right of Americans to be stupid and not buy insurance and go bankrupt when you have insurance bills you can’t pay is more important than a womans right to choose.

Reason magazine is anything but.

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catbus:

a) lol

b) health care bill = hitelr

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA, OMG best one!

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tlbb:

outofstateplates:

Guys I just want you to be prepared for the next time you see him.

WRONG EYE YO

butt pirate

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