From Margaret and Helen:
Margaret is it just me or did combing your hair become optional when going out in public? I’ve been watching news clips of these town hall free-for-alls and we have definitely become a nation of tired, poor, and huddled masses clearly tempest-tossed, but without access to a good beauty salon. Universal Hygiene – now that is something I could get behind. And all of them are asking for their America back. I wonder which America that would be?
Or another America?
I remember that America. In that America people screaming at public gatherings were called out for what they were – an angry mob. Of course, they wore sheets to cover up their bad hair. Let’s be clear about something: if you show up to a town hall meeting with a gun strapped to your leg, the point you are trying to make isn’t a good one. Fear never produced anything worthwhile.
And what’s all this crap about killing your grandmother? Are you people honestly that stupid? This has become less an argument about healthcare reform and more a statement about our failed education system.
Go read the rest of Helen's wonderful post. Margaret and Helen have been "Best Friends for Sixty Years and Counting…"
Thanks to Ann.
Margaret and Helen are my second and third favorite silver-haired bloggers!
ReplyDeleteAwww Crapaud, you make me blush. Thank you.
ReplyDelete"...less an argument about healthcare reform and more a statement about our failed education system."
ReplyDeleteFailed education, yes--or the proof of the power of propaganda. Frankly, I think the conservatives are trying out their new propaganda machine for the next election... seeing what works, ya know what I mean?!
Margaret, the failed education part comes into play in their inability to recognize propaganda for what it is.
ReplyDeleteAnd whose failure is it when folks don't know Medicare is a federal health care program?
The Republicans are always planning for the next election, and they'll do whatever it takes to win, without a trace of shame.
Yes, they should at least comb their hair...
ReplyDeleteAnd what about that website(the name escapes me of course) that posted that story about Stephen Hawking and how he would never survive if he were on the British Health Care System.
Susan, yes. He had to personally refute the story.
ReplyDeleteAnd did you know that Sarah Palin was for the "death panels" before she was against them?
Yes, just like the "Bridge to Nowhere."
ReplyDeleteI have to give my observation about people who don't know that Medicare is a federal program. When I took over care of my m-i-l several years ago, I was surprised at the way the Medicare card looked. It may be different now, but there was a vague red, white and blue flaggy thing....and nothing that identified it as a federal government program. I had to look at it for a while because it appeared as if it was one of those rip off insurance companies ("No matter how old you are you'll never be denied...")
ReplyDeleteThis is not an excuse. I find this health care reform issue sickening and discouraging. I'd like to take a lawn mower to Grassley.
amyj
And polls show a large number of people in my state(NC) believe that Hawaii isn't part of the US. Sheesh!
Amy, I don't know. It seems to me that no matter what the card looks like, that most folks would know it's a federal program.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Hawaii thingy doesn't apply to Obama, because he was really born in Kenya, doncha know.
And you protest that people like you - like us - are not extraordinary.
ReplyDeleteAll this sort of stuff, in church and out, is why I'm so tired and ready to turn my back on humanity. When you see the only real solution being a massive plague - or a little human intervention - to cleanse the gene pool, you've got to decide whether human-kind are worth your soul.
Mark, can you still laugh? If you can have the occasional laugh, you are still living. I confess that at times I'm driven to near despair, but then someone or something delightful or funny comes along, like Margaret's post, and that turns me around.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have no intention of losing my soul. After all, I'm a native of New Orleans.
No.
ReplyDeleteI can't feel laughter or tears, anymore. Just endless weariness.
I look at how outnumbered we are, and when someone says "Jesus died for Man's Salvation!" I think, "And His Sacrifice will mean nothing."
Mark, if Jesus loved us humans enough to become one of us, live with us, and die for us, then we must be of great value.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm sure humans are.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure these hairless pink apes who run things are humans, though.
And, just because humans are valued, doesn't mean they won't be overcome.
Eh. I'm sure I'll get over this, and go right back to believing what calls itself "Mankind" can be helped.
ReplyDeleteThat illusion is what keeps us sane.