Simple Jokes About Stupid Grifters

Why write the joke that has already been written?: "Scott Elman, president of the advisory committee, said the decision to halt Palin's appearance as a keynote speaker was '100 percent mutual' between Palin and the committee. Elman added that he was very disappointed that students weren't more open to having Palin speak.

Palin - the daughter of Sarah Palin, former GOP vice presidential candidate - became pregnant at 17 and is a single mom to a 2-year-old boy."

Let's do the joke again, 'cause it is funnier the second time around.

"Elman added that he was very disappointed that students weren't more open to having Palin speak.

Palin - the daughter of Sarah Palin, former GOP vice presidential candidate - became pregnant at 17 and is a single mom to a 2-year-old boy."

If you don't know what the hell is going on, start here. It's funny top to, fat, baby-pooping, bottom.

For the Gloomy Guy

Here's one for Sean, who is have a not so good, terribly awful, mean and nasty Monday.

Dear Health Care, Thanks for Saving Me. Fuck You.

Sadly, Andrew Lawton of the Strictly Right blog has been very, very ill. Luckily, his family will not go bankrupt. Being a good, and clueless, young conservative, Daniel hates our socialized system, which saved him again. And again.

Strictly Right � Blog Archive � Oh yes, I’m back!: "As many of you know, in early December I went into a coma and was being treated for a number of related issues at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. At four points, my heart stopped, and it was through 90 minutes of CPR and the use of a rare device called an ECMO machine (David here: this machine costs about $6000/day to run. And it means that Andrew was very, very sick. He's a lucky boy to have access to that kind of technology, and people with the ability to use it properly. Like that fucking matters.) that my life was saved. Despite what happened, and despite predictions from medical professionals, it appears that there are no lingering effects (expect for the loss of 30 pounds from the “Feeding Tube Diet.”) There was no brain damage. In other words, I’m still a conservative.

Contrary to what some people have tried to do, I have no intention of making this into a debate about healthcare. The fact remains, I’m alive, and I’m now home and ready to get back to Strictly Right."


Shorter Andrew: I will never admit to being wrong as long as your tax dollars keep me alive and my family solvent. Luckily my union job is being held for me. Did you know that lefty hippies are destroying our culture?

Maybe we should take Andrew at his word, and not politicize health care with only anecdotal evidence as to its effficacy. 3...2...1

Andrew on health care:

"It’s not something I’d like to see more private, it’s something I’d like to see completely private. It’s really sad to me, when I talk to people on the street and ask, ‘What are you proud of to be Canadian?’, it’s amazing how many people say public healthcare is the reason they’re proud to be Canadian. Public healthcare has become so much of an identity issue that people are too blinded to look at the actual practical aspect of it. And the fact is, public healthcare doesn’t work. Public healthcare nearly killed me. I have no respect for this system.

I was diagnosed last summer with a rare heart condition. Because I’m younger, they assumed it wouldn’t affect me. During four emergency room visits in three weeks, they kept telling me it’s a one-off, it’s a one-off [problem] ... and they finally put me on a wait-list for an urgent referral … and in that time I had a stroke. Thankfully, it didn’t kill me. It really has brought me to a place where I can more accurately access the issues of the healthcare system. Here I was, I’m in my twenties and I was in a walker for a while. I still walk with a cane occassionally. I had this happen while I was on a wait-list for something I should have never been on a wait-list for.

And you feel if you were in the United States you would have been looked after right away?

Absolutely

Are there any other residual effects from the stroke?

There’s some. It’s been almost a year now. I’ve been very fortunate that the post-stroke care I received was good. Once you get into rehab, it’s very good. The issue I have with Canadian care is not so much the quality, it’s access to the care.

I’ve considered writing a book on [my stroke] … I’m working on another book at the moment. But it’s something I’m absolutely okay to talk about, because I think, if you cannot sell the economics argument on healthcare to people, you can sell anecdotal argument, say look what happen to me. I think this is how we can make ground to push the system towards privatization."

To recap, the son of a government employee, who himself has a government union job, hates the system put in place by the government that has kept him alive and not forced his family into abject penury. Does that sound about right to you?