My feeling about Obama’s health plan at this point is “Let’s call the whole thing off”. There is just no percentage in going ahead and a lot of reasons to drop this bill. Obviously all those people from last Saturday despize this bill. Of course Hartman says they were all bussed in, and were given the “simulated home made signs” they carried and at the end of the day they dumped the signs, and all the American flags in the trash. These people of course are all told what to say being spoon fed their lines. But if I’m the president I still have to think about the deviciveness I would be causing. What good thing could I point to about this bill. It’s a “sloppy wet kiss to the infurance companies”. We all know that. They get a lot of new customers and also get to charge them higher rates. The government gets to interfere more in everybody’s lives with all sorts of new layers of beaurocracy. This bill will add billions to our federal deficit. Whackos on the right of course never met a tax they liked. People on the right don’t see “the government” as “We the People”. They weren’t raised that way. They think of it as some alien force. They never met a giveaway to corporations they didn’t like. Illegal aliens will most likely not be prevented from siphoning off vast amounts of money for their aid. Like I said Wednesday and in the Thursday amendation I hope you read, that this was a horrible speech the President gave. It left me feeling the not least reassured. The right wing hated it. Even if you or I think “Death Pannels” are a phantom of the right wing, there are times when even paranoid’s feelings must be respected and dealt with, because they are such a large segment of the population.
One other thing conservatives are afraid of is “cultural diversity”. We were talking about this is Dr. Levy’s class today. Of course the Jews are a little afraid of this because they don’t want their race or culture watered down. I didn’t mention that those today who call themselves Jews are actually descended from a fellow named Ashanaz and that a group of this tribe got converted to Judaism in the fifth century in Turkey. Let people believe what they want to believe. Other people believe cultural diversity means converting vast segments of the population to homosexuality, because if you’re gay, you don’t reproduce. While we’re on the subject of population Dr. Levy said there was nothing morally suspect about cloning organs. But another classmate pointed out that the population problem is bad enough in the world without people living to 150. I too raised specter of “getting new organs every few decades or so” and on at least two occasions I said that this would be a way for rich people to show their dominance over the rest of us by living a lot longer and consuming the world’s resources. Of course Judy and so many others are concerned that people now will have their health care compromised. So you have the cry going up “No government health care, but don’t you touch my Medi-Care”. I can’t help of that skit that Thom Hartman does about Joe Conservative going to work, and how much he owes to liberals from occupational safety to clean drinking water to Social Security for his father. There is concern that people with specialized medical needs like diabetics or those on dialysis, might have their treatement cut off. And Dr. Levy doesn’t mind if insurance companies won’t cover something, but “It’s not the governments place to decide what medical care I’ll get”. There is something about that statement that’s absurdly detatched from reality. Especially because the whole source of roomer behind these “death panels” is just old people talking over what course their mental care and treatment will take every five years or so. Also remember that Dad was screwed over by his insurance company and that hospital in
There is a thing called closure that people need to mentally get over a traumatic event. Like Bo and Hope found closure when Officer Dean was subdued by Bo and arrested after Bo whaled on him a while. (don’t record it as an assault; it was “psychological therapy”). But sometimes closure doesn’t come. Rather than fawn all over the relics of Christianity, Dr. Levy should instead be asking “When is Jesus going to get Closure for alledged abuses by our race?” But what if your country has been lying to about the aledged enemy out there, such as Al Qaeda? What about a President to writes ahead of time before he even runs for President that “If I’m President I’m going to get us into a war and cash in on some of that political capital?” I don’t think a Presidential candidate has said a thing like that before. Can anybody spell “Mein Kamph?” Of course the right isn’t attacking Obama on his race. They’re just saying he isn’t a
Wolframalpha.com has their other site “Math World” and indeed they have several sites you can go to. There are so many categories and sub-categories in mathematics. Did you know, for instance they listed Trigonometry under Geometry and not its own category? Did you know also that hyperbolic functions were not considered a part of trigonometry but instead a division of calculus? They also had a major division called “recreational math” and under these were things like magic squares and magic circles. As you know this was one tentative name the Revolver album. In the singular “The Magic Circle” was what the Mamas and Papas were going to call themselves, but “Magic Circles”, plural, referrs to math. Just in case you were wondering.
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