Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 13, 2009

Baslim: Doofitude is relative.

These good principled people decided to threaten the congressman’s life.

My congressman, Rep. Dennis Moore of Kansas had his life threatened twice by these same principled people.

yup, the “my life (and lifestyle) is more important than anyone else’s” group…. so very “principled” that they ignore anything in the bible they don’t want to do/doesn’t fit their ideas, and then they pick out obscure passages to misinterpret and try to push on the rest of us.

If a congressman isn’t doing his job, does he receive death threats?

Mission accomplished! GBT once again plays the part of motley fool!

trudoo is the liberal coward.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 (New International Version)

A Rebellious Son

18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

and: Leviticus 20:9 (New International Version)

9 ” ‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood will be on his own head.

thump thump thump goes the bible…. ding ding ding goes the bell…..

Was the Congressman named Joe Salazar by any chance?

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/84423/

nighthawks: You made me laugh - thanks. If you have time, go to “Tom, The Dancing Bug” on May 2, for “God-man”. (“Guy hanging from a building, “God-man, help me!” God-man, “OK, if you’ll kill your son” (there’s more, also). Another “God-man” episode yesterday.

Regarding nighthawks bible quotes: Don’t they describe most teenagers?

rricchhterr said: seems like the healthcare industry is preying on the weak…

Actually rricchhter, I think the health care industry preys more on the strong and those who can afford to pay. Once they’ve drained them and they have become weak and poor, they don’t care about them.

Having a non-profit in the mix doesn’t seem like a bad idea at all.

The problem comes when the insurers, who have cherry-picked the well and skipped over the codgers who are coming to the point where they are about to cost some money to support, decide to drop their once-lucrative customers once they get sick. So the ‘public option’ would get loaded with the sick and indigent, and not be so good a deal. It’s skewed, because the whole Risk Pool isn’t included.

Medicare for All wouldn’t have that problem.

LLeRay,

“Old” and “new” are useless terms. Some old ideas are bad, some new ideas are bad. What matters is good and bad.

Are Obama and Waxman bringing good ideas to the table? Are the Republicans? Long list of Republican proposals cited here:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Democrats-stifle-Republican-health-care-plans-8224780-58644807.html

Pick and choose and interpret any way you want to validate your beliefs while ignoring valid criticism.

Studiously ignoring the religio-politico huggamugga:

Ol’Fart: Apparently you and I are kinfolk. :-)

Yuseff: Apparently you and I are neighbors, since we share a congressperson. I’m in KCK. Where are you?

Of course there’s no real difference between government funded health care which was promised to veterans in exchange for their service, a quid pro quo arrangement if you will, and government funded health care for folks who have never done anything to deserve it other than to vote for the cretins who have made health care into the same emergency that Social Security was a couple years ago.

rricchhterr said, 3 days ago

seems like the healthcare industry is preying on the weak…

I think it may be more appropriate to say they are PRAYING on the weak!