poll: are the primitives

[franksolich]

You know, it's getting rather tedious and boring, going through all the work of getting out the boat and rowing over to Skins's island to observe the primitives, who seem to be focused on only one issue.

healthcarehealthcarehealthcarehealthcarehealthcarehealthcarehealthcare

As if it's the only thing in the world that matters.

I've said this before, and it needs repeating; "health care" has never been a major concern of my own--not in the Top 10, not the in Top 25, not in the Top 100--and despite my having taken some, uh, rather hard knocks these past six weeks, it still doesn't show up on this radar.

In the end, I am responsible for my own health care.

With more than two billion people--and possibly even more than that--in the world underfed and starving, with all sorts of epidemics and famines going on, with all the crime and violence happening, with all the totalitarianists suppressing and killing people, with the current economic house-of-cards about ready to be blown down, with an impending terrorist attack on American soil, with all the rampant corruption in blue cities and blue states, with the Constitution in peril, with decent and civilized people being hounded and harassed for their public dissent, with the decay and squalor of the inner cities, with the sordid state of education, with the left-wing dominance of the now-waning "mainstream" media, &c., &c., &c., well, it just seems to me these are more important, more urgent, matters than tampering with our health care system.

I think the primitives are paranoiacally obsessed with health care; they think it's going to be free for them, they think it's going to make them live forever--the old primitive fear of death thing--they think they're going to get to pick-and-choose from a chemical buffet, all the mind-altering pharmaceuticals they wish.

The last seems the most important to the primitives; they want all those free drugs.

Never mind the countless starving, the countless uneducated, the countless unhoused, the countless victims of war and violence and pestilence, and of course never mind those not yet born.  Screw the future; the primitives just want all those free drugs.

Health care is important, but I don't think it's one of the pressing matters of the day, and it gets rather boring, with two out of every three bonfires blazing on Skins's island about the primitive fantasies of free, unlimited, drugs.

[Carl]

I said too much but given the herd mentality I doubt there is much that will change.

[thundley4]

I said yes, but I do enjoy their lamentations, tales of woe and useless gnashing of teeth. 

[Splashdown]

 I'm the lone "no" vote thus far. It sure beats 8 years.

8


YEARS



of "Bush Lied, People Died"

 

[IassaFTots]

I am saying NO for the same reasons.  It is still a bunch of bibblebabble, but it is different bibblebabble.

[miskie]

I vote no - With qualifications.

In terms of entertainment, it is getting rather dull and predictable, but I would much rather have Obama and the primitives wrapped up in the healthcare debate where they can do less damage than if they were all bent out of shape on truly important issues.

[debk]

voted no....but if there'd be a "who cares" ....I would have picked it.

they are going to dwell on anything that is to benefit them.

[BlueStateSaint]

I said yes, but I do enjoy their lamentations, tales of woe and useless gnashing of teeth. 

So do I, sir . . . so do I!

BTW, I voted "yes."

[Ralph Wiggum]

I voted yes.  Mostly because they've been bitching about it for years, and will continue to bitch no matter what legislation is passed or not passed.

Although I guess if teh Rove is finally indicted....

[JohnnyReb]

"Obama lied...then we had to chose who died."

[USA4ME]

Yes, they are, but it won't change.  As we're all fully aware, the topic of "healthcare" falls under the general heading of "what can we support that would enable gov't officials, which hold the same political viewpoints we do, to be able to control the lives of the American citizenry on a day-to-day basis."  Now that 99%+ of the primitives barely even mention the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan except in half-hearted attempts, which in turn demonstrates they really have no problem with them, their focus is power and control, which they disguise by calling it care and compassion.  Once this healthcare thing is said and done, they'll move on to some other topic which involves their desire to have control over the population.

To primitives and libs in general, freedom = control.

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[Freeper]

Yes, they are, but it won't change.  As we're all fully aware, the topic of "healthcare" falls under the general heading of "what can we support that would enable gov't officials, which hold the same political viewpoints we do, to be able to control the lives of the American citizenry on a day-to-day basis."  Now that 99%+ of the primitives barely even mention the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan except in half-hearted attempts, which in turn demonstrates they really have no problem with them, their focus is power and control, which they disguise by calling it care and compassion.  Once this healthcare thing is said and done, they'll move on to some other topic which involves their desire to have control over the population.

To primitives and libs in general, freedom = control.

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Next issue will be global warmin.... errr climate change.

[IassaFTots]

Next issue will be global warmin.... errr climate change.

Oh Lord.   

[DumbAss Tanker]

Indeed it preoccupies them unduly, but the reason is obvious:  This is the free pony so many of them want the most out of the whole herd, since it would directly and personally benefit them..or so they think.

[franksolich]

Next issue will be global warmin.... errr climate change.

My deal is, it's hardly likely much will change in health care--which is a good thing--and so the unhealthy obsession will just go on and on.

I was surprised that bonfires about dead ted withered away so quickly after the funeral--I'd thought they'd go on for months and months; and of course our esteemed colleague USA4ME has pointed out the paucity of anti-war bonfires since January 20, 2009.

Won't this thing ever die?

And now our esteemed colleague Tanker has pointed out the obvious--no, it won't, because the primitives will lust after free pharmaceuticals to the end of their days.