I love getting a newspaper. There is just sumpin' about reading stuff off dead trees rather than reading from a computer screen. As such, I subscribe to the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation. Sure it leans to the left. I did sumpin' a few months back called Meet the Staff where I posted the eitorial staff's political views in their own words. I also get a kick out of reading the letters to the editors. Some of these people are so fucking stupid I'm surprised they can even write. Case in point.
Real 'homeland security' is medical insurance
This has just gotta be rich. You can't hurt me Osama! I got medical insurance! Yeah, universal health care would have saved the WTC and the Pentagon. Put down those box cutters Mohammed. We got health insurance!
France, Canada and Germany can't be all bad. At least all their citizens have health care
Well so does Cuba. And guess what. Lots of Canadians come to the United States for health care they cannot get in Canada.
--- and live longer than Americans.
Please cite your statistics here. Matthew, if you're still trolling, would you give me a link to the data on this?
Maybe they figure that universal health care is more important to their national security than deposing a dictator in a small Arab country.
They don't have to worry about their national security. Ever since WWII we have been doing it for them.
The presidential candidate of any party who makes health care reform his or her main campaign issue will get my vote hands-down. All I want is a choice between employment-based, private insurance with its maddening hodgepodge of co-pays, deductibles, managed care, network physicians and pharmacies, and escalating premiums, and a simple, quality-controlled, tax-based, single-payer system that provides necessary medical services, including prescription drugs, even if I lose my job, go back to school or choose self-employment. That's real "homeland security."
LAURIE CRAW, Cave Spring
Laurie be careful what you wish for. When (not if) the gummint does implement a gummint run health care system (and it's coming) it will be worse than dealing with an HMO. Trust me on this. Think IRS. You want the same people who have given us our tax code to design a single pay health care system? You are a fucking idiot!
Oh, and here's another good one.
Too late for Bush's request for support
The Bush administration and his GOP cabal of Reagan/Bush, white elephant-dinosaurs have no right to ask the rest of the world to support his donor scheme to rebuild Iraq because the rest of the world, including the United Nations, was ignored to start this glorified war of so-called freedom, which has resulted in nothing but anarchy.
MOHINDER L. JERATH, Canton
Where do I start? Of course there's anarchy you ignorant dickhead! We just toppled a gummint. Why don't you take your head out of your ass and watch the news. Ask the children released from the children's prison what they think of the "GOP cabal of Reagan/Bush, white elephant-dinosaurs" who just toppled an evil repressive regime. Did you see the Iraqis toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein? Did you see the Iraqis cheering us for overturning their evil repressive gummint? I guess you think that we can just snap our fingers and bam(!) there's a new perfect gummint in place.
And guess what? If the rest of the world doesn't want to help us rebuild Iraq, we'll do it ourselves using Iraqi oil to pay American companies to do all the work. We're used to rebuilding countries. We rebuilt Europe and Japan after WWII, but you are such an incredibly ignorant asshole you probably aren't aware of that. Jesus! I hate stupid people!
And now, from Saturday's Peach Buzz Ted Turner mouths off in a speech given in San Francisco. Scroll down a ways to find this item.
Ted Turner, founder of the Cable News Network, said Rupert Murdoch helped start the U.S. war against Iraq by using his News Corp. media outlets, such as Fox Television, to advocate an invasion.
Omigawd! It's not about the oooiiiillll! It's about the N-E-W-S! Whoda thunk it?
Murdoch ''promoted it because it's good for his newspapers and good for his television stations,'' Turner said Thursday night during a speech in San Francisco. ''I call it Murdoch's War.''
Well holy shit! Rupert Murdoch, the William Randolph Hearst of the 21st Century. Stay tuned. Coming up next, brought to you by Fox, the war on Iran and Syria. And next season, also brought to you by Fox, we bomb France and Germany.
I don't make this shit up folks.
I wish I could.