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I'd love to live on any planet where Obama is the most evil person alive. Sounds sweet...
But haven't you heard? He'd kill your grandmother and Stephen Hawking in the name of socialist healthcare. Just like they do in the UK.
(Context here).
And jokes aside, I agree. If Obama was the worst person alive, then things would be pretty damn good (and I would have a lot less to blog about).
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And I'd be dead ;(
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"something's afoot in the djinn trap"....
Arrrgh! That was a large mouthful of my afternoon glass of merlot
going west...memo to self: you *cannot* snort with laughter & swallow at the same time.Missed the keyboard tho'-
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Does that help Andin?;)
Thanks Sofie it does, thought it was the NZ we. Which I shall now refer to as Sofie's we.
Cause I wrote whose when I should have put who is. And a pedant rose to the challenge. -
Whenever I think of Lindsay Perigo I think of the correspondence he had with Robert Nola a few years ago, in which Perigo demonstrated that he and a proper understanding of arguments are not acquainted.
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Thanks for that link, I/S.
From the Investors Business Daily editorial (before they corrected it):
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.
Jay Brookman then points out:
That would be Stephen Hawking, British professor, who was born in the UK and has lived there for his whole life.
Hilarious.
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Beyond the Machiavelli of the Dulls...
conspiracy ingredients
a recipe for progress:
take 2 or more people
(up to and beyond 6.778 billion)
to work and breathe together
for a common end
- hopefully a happy onewe are all essentially Carbon (C) copies
perspiring (H20) in the same room
inspiring in the same gas (O)
expiring the same gas (CO2)climate change is inevitable...
we live in a dynamic troposhere
not a consumptive trope-of-fearchoose to not be part of the problem
don't wait for someone else to tell you what to do - inspire locally - or expire globally...
yrs interconnectedly
Phillup Merlot
The lung goodbye... -
Hilarious.
Oh, it got better than that:
The British physicist spoke out after Republican politicians lambasted the NHS as "evil" in their effort to stop President Barack Obama's reforms of US health care which will widen availability of treatment but at a cost to higher earners who will pay higher insurance premiums.
"I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS," he said. "I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."
And IBD didn't really correct the claim. They just pretended they didn't make it.
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I had a look at some of the other blogs, and whoa! is Lyndsay Perigo in a snot..
They are the embarrassing Marxists of their era. It's a bad day if Lindsay's not angrily denouncing a former fellow-traveller.
Great entertainment, if that's your thing.
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Whenever I think of Lindsay Perigo I think of the correspondence he had with Robert Nola a few years ago, in which Perigo demonstrated that he and a proper understanding of arguments are not acquainted.
Don't happen to have a link to that? Or know where I could find it - is it in The Free Redical?
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yrs interconnectedly
"Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky"
Phillup Merlot
"Tongue tied and twisted"
The lung goodbye...
"Just an earthbound misfit, I"
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And IBD didn't really correct the claim. They just pretended they didn't make it.
True. Well, they kinda admitted to a mistake, in a quite laughable way:
Editor's Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK.
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The current 'debate' about healthcare in the USA is causing a Very Special Ulcer in the 'how can this whole thing be so INSANELY STUPID?' part of my stomach.
I did, however, laugh at this fake quote from The Daily Mash, under the headline 'AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE ATTACK PLAN TO GIVE THEM HEALTH INSURANCE':
Stephen Malley, professor of American History at Reading University, added: "To be fair to Fox News and the Republicans, they do have a principled objection to socialised medicine based largely on the fact that a black man won the election."
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That would be Stephen Hawking, British professor, who was born in the UK and has lived there for his whole life.
The especially ironic bit is that given that his disease came upon him suddenly in early adulthood, there is every chance that had he lived in the US his insurer would have denied him treatment on the grounds that it was a pre-existing condition.
You want to find "death panels" in US healthcare, look no further than the insurance companies.
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I think we can grade Auckland Grammar and Kelston principals John Morris and Steve Watt F for epic fail.
Couldn't agree more Craig. There's also a certain irony in all this that Mr Johnny Morris is in fact an Old Boy AND ex-teacher from Kelston Boys.
Did he really need to appear on breakfast TV this morning ?
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Did he really need to appear on breakfast TV this morning ?
Quite. The exchange on Morning Report was bad enough.
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The Free Radical and SOLO sites are pretty hard to search but here is the beginning of the debate:
http://www.freeradical.co.nz/content/debate/intro.php
http://www.freeradical.co.nz/content/debate/nola1.php
http://www.freeradical.co.nz/content/debate/perigo2.phpThey go on for a while; there doesn't appear to be an index of the posts but I think it stops at about Perigo 6 and Nola 6.
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They are the embarrassing Marxists of their era. It's a bad day if Lindsay's not angrily denouncing a former fellow-traveller.
Great entertainment, if that's your thing.
Guilty as charged...
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The current 'debate' about healthcare in the USA is causing a Very Special Ulcer in the 'how can this whole thing be so INSANELY STUPID?' part of my stomach
Ironically this is holding up the climate change debate that the U.S has to have, amongst quite a number of other major debates.
What I don't like about our timid and quite frankly half hearted emission goals is that we are trying to sneak a low position while the market is volatile.
But Obama is a scientific president, he'll slam global warming when he gets to it, maybe not by copenhagen but as his Peter Gluckman will point out to him , he has too!!!
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But haven't you heard? He'd kill your grandmother and Stephen Hawking in the name of socialist healthcare. Just like they do in the UK.
Don't forget Trig Palin... nom nom nom. As one of Andrew Sullivan's subs this week put it, Obama's health plan is far from perfect and should be the subject of a serious debate. But you can't have a debate worth the name when one side consists of boors working themselves into apoplectic fits in public, and Sarah Palin losing what precious little is left of her mind.
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It's my understanding that it can get pretty hot in Afghanistan, it's nice to see good old Mr Key stepping in to ensure our boys will be able to keep rebuilding the nation in bearable temperatures.
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Getting back to Lomborg, when the science ethics committee of the person's country dismisses their work so comprehensively, it seems that individual perhaps might not be the best authority on the subject in questions. The Danish Science Ministry voided the committee's report (which seems like it could have been more detailed), but the committee retorted by saying even if they did re-examine the matter, their conclusions would be the same. There's still argy-bargy about it in the science community in Denmark. In any case, Scientific American does a nice round-up of the the problems with Lomborg's cherry-picking of climate studies (and statistics cited within those studies) and, erm, selective interpretations he draws from that restricted dataset.
And the part where he asserts that the 5 billion people on this planet are incapable of tackling more than one issue at at time? Well, that's already been sporked here, deservedly so.
Finally, regarding the strange US propaganda about the various forms of universal healthcare, not to be all teenager about it *cough*, but I maded a Facebook group for those in favour. Please join if you feel inspired.
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@Richard Llewellyn - thanks so much for the link to "The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See" - I cannot believe I've never seen it before. Completely brilliant.
His gradual pulling together of the threads of his logic - and the moment where he points out the difference between decision-making by row and decision-making by column is lightbulb-glowingly awesome.
Now I'll have to see if I can find a climate change sceptic to try it out on. I realised a while ago (while on a blind date, actually) that if someone is a climate change sceptic, that's a deal-breaker for me. No more blind dates with that particular guy :)
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But haven't you heard? He'd kill your grandmother and Stephen Hawking in the name of socialist healthcare.
To be fair, Obama did have a go at bumping off Stephen Hawking just the other day. I have photographic evidence.
Seriously though, I was watching Fox the other day (in Pittsburgh, PA), when on came this ad:
The 'call you senator' was replaced with 'call Senator Casey' who, perhaps not incidentally, is up for re-election next year and came in in 2006 with the so-called Blue Dogs.
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True. Well, they kinda admitted to a mistake, in a quite laughable way:
Editor's Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK.
They're probably holding off on making a full apology until they see his UK birth certificate. The long form.
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