Complete turn-off!

[Doctor Rock]

'AIDS Is A Mass Murderer': german safer sex campaign depicts Hitler, Hussein, Stalin having sex


Well, I don't know if this campaign would convince people to use condoms... But it sure as hell is a complete turn-off. 

It kind of works, in a way. 

[Doctor Rock]

With the exception of goofy stuff like the phone in his hospital room, and tee vee (and if we'd set him up in a private room instead of semi-private, it would've cost money), we do not have to pay a cent for my dad's health care in all of this. (And I know that is not the case in America, from watching Sicko. I get all my information on your country from Michael Moore documentaries. ) As for meds, even the stuff my mom is on -- high blood pressure medicine, for example -- is covered by insurance at 85%, but as for actual doctors' visits, lab tests, hospital stays, delivery of chillens, surgery, etc., it's all taken care of. (Yes, we do pay higher taxes on most everything, and I would never in a million years say it's a perfect system, but...y'all could maybe look at Canada a little bit.


 

i was gonna ask you about that, but it seemed a bit insensitive to bring your dad in to our current political drama.  but thanks for the info.    also, it seems he didn't have to get on some crazy month-long waiting list for surgury, either, huh?  that's one of the main arguments against the "canadian system" by the anti-reformists....the horrible waiting lists.  and all the people that die as they wait. that and all little hitlers and mussolinis you have up there.  your hospital gowns in canada are really just brown shirts, right?

People who have less urgent problems sometimes are stuck several months or more waiting for treatment.   Urgent, life threatening problems have priority.  Surprise, surprise, eh? 

After my second stroke, when it became clear that they needed to operate, it took them a week to schedule the operation, and I was on the table in less than a month. 

My daughter is receiving laser treatment to make the big birth mark on her face a lot less conspicuous, and she has so far undergone two treatments.  It takes something like six months or more for her turn to come up.  Last time she went, it was february. 
 
My stepdaughter dislocated her elbow a few years back (she fell off the monkey bars) and we got stuck in the emergency ward for a whole night before she got treated. 

It's far from perfect, and as far as I know there are systems that seem to work better.  But it is still far better than yours. 

[Doctor Rock]

Boy, things are slowwww in here.  I know it's the weekend and all, but things are even slower than usual.  Must be my thread title, eh? 

[Tripp]

hey

[Tripp]

Little Rock was fun as usual..  I don't feel much like writing at the moment.. Me and Stan got home about 11 am then me and S____ started rearranging all the furniture in our house..  Now i am in pain..  gonna have some shrimp and a beer and lay down on our new sofa..

highlight from Little Rock last night was Dangerous Idiots (opening act)  doing a rock solid cover of Crashing Jet.. it brought a little tear to me eye..

[Mister Chaddy]

Nice rant

Shall we all just stop messing around? Will politicians and the media can the mealy-mouthed acceptance of right wing assholes doing their level damnedest to throw this country into chaos by toting AR15s into public meetings? Shall we stop pretending that any of this is about healthcare or even conventional party politics? All the Fox/Palin/Glenn Beck bullshit, the white trash whining about how they want their country “back the way it was”, the constitutional crap about the First and Second Amendments, the president’s citizenship, the Obama-is-Hitler nonsense, FEMA camps, pulling the plug on Grandma, and all the rest of the orchestrated poison is nothing more than a choreographed campaign by wholly unscrupulous corporate interests and their bought-and-sold communication creatures to steer the nation into maximum-profit, free-enterprise fascism by exploiting a single but hideously deep seated lumpen fear. Barack Obama is the first black president, and a culturally challenged segment of the nation just can’t handle that. The heart of the matter is a Neanderthal racist rage that should have been left in the 20th century and not seized as a tool by intellectually and morally bankrupt political shills. Some of you may object to my use of a Klan picture. Too bad. As far as I’m concerned it’s the symbolic visual of this shameful and shamelessly pandered-to mindset.

[Moetown]

highlight from Little Rock last night was Dangerous Idiots (opening act)  doing a rock solid cover of Crashing Jet.. it brought a little tear to me eye..

That's awesome!

[Just Some Girl]

'AIDS Is A Mass Murderer': german safer sex campaign depicts Hitler, Hussein, Stalin having sex


Well, I don't know if this campaign would convince people to use condoms... But it sure as hell is a complete turn-off. 

It kind of works, in a way. 

Ah, man, I was just going to post that. Pretty hott...till the last frame. I don't know if it'll get people to play safe, either. But maybe as an AIDS awareness campaign, might be a good refresher?

I wanna go drink my morning coffee outside on the back deck. But my crazy chatty neighbour is out there, so I'm avoiding, inside. Boo.

[Just Some Girl]

Ok, how 'bout this one: Can Google save the whales?

Or: Swine flu (ok, H1N1) rap. (It’s part of a contest sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, which challenges folks to submit their best swine-flu public service announcement.)

[Just Some Girl]

I guess we're supposed to be over here now.

Hm.

[Bizarro]

"Crashing Jet"? Damn, wish I'd have seen that. Makes me think well of those boys.

[Doctor Rock]

I meant to PM you with PPMAs, but I got distracted with some ..shit.

In other health care news, the septuagenarian Swede next door was called into the ER last week when the results of her blood test came back. With most her family living in Australia, this has had the retirees on our block shuttling her to and fro the hospital for tests and care.

A difficult old bitch she worked herself into a heart attack fighting with the doctors over heavens knows what. What I do know is that she demanded to know the family name of EVERY SINGLE hospital employee that served her in any capacity. She accepted all of them so far, but voiced her concern that they might try to give her a Hindu doctor.

eep.

That reminds of that time I spent the night in the ER under observation, listening to my ipod and hoping I was all right... There was a sweet looking old lady that kept saying, loudly but in a fairly reasonable tone: "help, I'm being held prisoner!  The niggers have got me and they want to turn me into their slave.  Please give me a knife or scissors so that I can free myself.  Somebody help me!"  

She was, I think, suffering from dementia, and they had her strapped to her bed, for obvious reasons.  She kept this up for several hours, and then she fell asleep.  Or someone shot her full of tranquilizers, I dunno...

[matthew]

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[matthew]

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/