Could you tell us more about dad?
[QUOTE=Tiny12;434945]Real, balanced news just isn't as compelling. I watch / listen to MSNBC, but not because I think they are credible. I find them curiously entertaining, and enjoy following their efforts at mass programming, like a cult. And Ed Shultz makes me really horny. I'm pissed they kicked him to the sidelines to showcase Chris Hayes. Nobody seems to appreciate a hot, older JAILF these days. For me he's particularly intriguing because my first exposure to sex was when my father took me to a donkey show in Nuevo Laredo when I was 8 years old. It must be something Freudian.[/QUOTE]Interesting story, what else did he expose you to. For me, as schoolboys, we would make the detour to the football stadium via the red light alleys. Peering at the sitted women through the doorways, we would be yelled and hissed at. Sometimes, we would be brave enough to even approach a loitering woman to enquire the pricing, curses would fly and we would scamper. Also, the punters that were jostling around did not like us in our school uniforms making them feel like perverts. All this with only a dollar and change in our pockets, the dollar for the game and the rest for the bus and some snacks.
An interview excerpt with Patick Soon-Shiong
Who is this guy? He is reported the richest man in Los Angeles, and no, he is not from China. He is from South Africa and now an American, the new kind of American. Posted on 4/18/2013 from the Los Angeles Magazine.
[quote]You pledged $100 million to help reopen Martin Luther King Jr. hospital in South LA. Shut down in 2007 because of severe mismanagement, it’s a place that many others had given up on. Why did you want to get involved?
Martin Luther King said that medical care is actually a human right and that the greatest insult to humanity is to not provide care to people who really need it. When Martin Luther King hospital was shut down, it just bothered me. I read in the newspaper that this Hispanic lady went to the hospital and ended up having to call 911 from the emergency room and later died. So I went down there afterward to talk to the doctor and walk the halls, and I said, “Show me, just show me what happened.” This was a little island that was ignored in our own community. Here there is wealth and knowledge and information, and nobody wanted to take this on. So I went to UCLA leadership and said we must help them. Working with [CountySupervisor] Mark Ridley-Thomas, we took on this fight. We tried to shame institutions into helping. It emerged that there was this big financial risk that no one wanted to take. So I said, “I’ll take the risk.” Hopefully the hospital will open again soon.[/quote]
Conservative desperation is in the air
The recent posts and arguments from conservatives here are among the weakest and delusional I've seen in a long time. What's up guys? I don't know whether to feel sad or laugh.
- Word substitutions to flip arguments around (how unoriginal).
- Claims that all healthcare is now delivered through the tertiary level (large hospitals). I guess those physician clinics I drive by are all imaginary.
- Comparing low-cost healthcare plans with ACA-level coverage, to low-cost plans with flimsy coverage (apples to oranges).
- Considering the idea of people determining the role of their government to be "disgusting" and nazi-esque.
- Claims that high healthcare costs are driven by lazy government bureaucrats.
- Calls for personal responsibility and paying for your own health insurance, while ignoring the fact the ACA has an [u]individual mandate[/u], a concept that has a long history of Republican support for these very reasons.
Man, you guys are a mess.
