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'THE COST OF DYING:' FALSE CHOICES OR THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN HEALTHCARE?
busboy, Liberty60:
I couldn't disagree with you more. Any time the state gets involved in end of life decisions, whether it be Terri Shiavo or putting a criminal to death, it adds an "X" factor that should disturb you as well. This really isn't political with me. But it will become political or at least more political if government acts in locus parentis on such personal matters. Granted, government involvement may be unavoidable, but you shouldn't see this through some black and white prism, "government good, health insurance bad." It is disturbing any time government takes life, either passively or intentionally, whether that is war, execution, or termination of health services.
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 23.11.2009 @ 16:23
Sharp piece.
This is the Achilles Heel of national health care, isn't it? For a myriad of reasons, it is more jarring to have the state make the decision regarding rationing than private concerns.
We really aren't talking about advance directives and powers of attorney for health care here (both excellent and recommended ways for private individuals to have a degree of autonomy; I couldn't agree more with what was written in the previous comments). We are talking about the rationing that now happens on a private basis being dictated by the government. For the same reason I feel uneasy about the death penalty, I also dislike when the state exercises life and death decisions about health mattes. Like you, I don't know where to come down here.
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 23.11.2009 @ 11:55
'IQ OF A CELERY STALK?' WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT ONE?
Palin drew fire because her thin resume highlighted Obama's non-existent one. She will not be nominated in 2012 or come close because the county has been traumatized by and seen what can happen when an incompetent, unqualified buffoon like Obama occupies the Oval Office.
If the Republicans think it through, they should be able to blow out Obama as they did Carter in 1980. My guess is they do take a serious look at who should be their nominee and it will be someone with both private sector and public sector experience and heft--a sharp contrast to both Obama and Palin.
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 23.11.2009 @ 10:44
SUPERBLY OBLIVIOUS TO HIS OWN IDIOCY
No one was once second to me in their abject hatred of Andrew Sullivan, but these days I find him more sad, boring and pathetic than worthy of any emotion that demeans me.
First, as to substance, Sullivan always was and still is a tedious single issue voter who cloaks that obnoxious fact in faux intellectualism. I felt that way when he supported Bush, I felt that way when he opposed Bush, I felt that way when he supported Obama, and will feel that way when he inevitably opposes Obama. I get it. Sullivan supports gay marriage and everything else is illusion.
He always was a good read simply to induce bemused hatred regardless of what he claimed his ideology to be at any given moment.Sullivan jumped the shark with his Trig Palin crusade. Like most political bloggers, he was unable to admit the horrible mistake he made and instead turned the Palin family into his personal Moby Dick. For a while, even that was good for bemused hatred.
But after a point I came to realize Sullivan's fanaticism was something more than the inability to admit a mistake. Sullivan is possibly the first high profile case of an on line mental breakdown. Hence, he is simply sad. A more interesting figure might be worthy of psychoanalysis. Sullivan just merits sympathetic avoidance--which he amply receives.
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 19.11.2009 @ 15:22
IS THERE ANY WAY SARAH PALIN CAN RECOVER?
The best reason Palin won't get anywhere in 2012 is that the Democrats put up an unqualified incompetent in Barack Hussein Obama and look where that has landed them. I look for a Republican businessman to win the primary and likely blow out the general.
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 16.11.2009 @ 14:20
MORE THAN POLITICAL CORRECTNESS OR VICTIMHOOD AT WORK IN FORT HOOD ATTACK
Err, Terry, in this case direct threats against fellow soldiers and contacts with radical clerics were ignored. How do those grab ya?
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 12.11.2009 @ 16:10
OK, when RB and OTR both are right there's the actual middle ground. And both are right. Good points regarding the UCMJ and cracking down on gays while an Islamist threat is ignored.
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 12.11.2009 @ 15:55
Marge: My God you are an idiot. You get drummed out of the military if you spout off Nazi or white supremacist slogans because you lose certain First Amendment rights there. The same should apply to those who spout off Islamist bullshit. The fact you didn't even know this reveals you as a partisan hack.
When you aren't talking out of your ass with platitudes that have no basis in fact, I might bother to respond to you again.
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 12.11.2009 @ 14:26
The analogy between Japanese-American internees and these cases fails. Not one, repeat one, Japanese-American that FDR imprisoned ever had been found to have assisted the enemy or even spouted pro-Imperial and/or pro-Bushido ideology. It does disservice to those innocents to drag them into this matter.
We have a number of Muslim Americans who have not been so restrained, to put it mildly. A minority? Sure. But to brush off the willful ignorance in the Hasan and like cases as a "little more latitude" is ridiculous. It is political correctness run amok. I can understand why an apologist for the Left might not want to admit as much, but that is what it is.
I don't know where to draw the line, but when someone spouts off jihadist slogans and contacts radical clerics, that doesn't require rocket science. I hope all the government f***-ups who allowed this monostrosity to happen, at a minimum, have their asses sued off.
I can't disagree with much else you wrote here other than this isn't as pox-on-both-their-houses as you make it. This was the wages of PC, and for every conservative who goes overboard in anti-Muslim hatred there are a hundred left-wing lunatics who have the blood of Ft. Hood on their hands.
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 12.11.2009 @ 13:40
A RELATIVELY SHORT FOLLOWUP TO MY PJ MEDIA ARTICLE ON BI-PARTISANSHIP
If you have a problem:
a) Admit it.
b) Start treating it.
And what has happened?
a) Admitted.
b) Made worse from Medicare Part D to the pending trainwreck a/k/a "Healthcare Reform."
Maybe the folks you have loaded on have a great deal more intelligence (they certainly are more rational on this point) than you and realized there is absolutely no willpower or even sign of willpower to stop making it worse. Howls about bankruptcy and deficits ring hollow, to a rational mind, as folks throw money out of airplanes and fast moving trains.
Is that defeatism? It certainly is. Is it justified? It certainly is.
Comment Posted By jackson1234 On 10.11.2009 @ 11:50
