I know, I know — I should be babbling on about this, that and the other, but frankly, a few days of spectating at the health-care rumble has left me numb. These overfed, undereducated lice infesting the body politic make soccer hooligans look like Buddhist monks.
Adolf Obama is gonna put these yahoos’ grannies to sleep? Puh-leeze. He’s not a dummy like the last guy to hold the Big Gig. He knows those dried-up, toothless old crones planted their bumper crop of asshats long ago, and that gaggle of fucktards likewise inflicted this latest battalion of jabbering feebs upon us in a nanosecond of meth-addled ardor, with the best bits having clearly dribbled down momma’s leg. Talk about closing the barn door after the horse’s ass is long gone.
No, if we’re gonna put anyone down for the good of the Republic, it has to be these bellowing, pistol-packing pinheads themselves, along with their crotch-droppings, if only to pry them off Uncle Sammy’s three big floppy red communist titties — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — which they nurse from so regularly and understand so poorly. Bitch-slaps with Hellboy’s big red mitt for their pastors, teachers and parole officers.
The shmuck stops here.
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Damn! If I’d known better I swear that O’Grady was channeling the great HST!! Or at least some potty mouthed, inbred, ignoramus. Excellent work fine sir.
BRAVO! As someone close to me says when I wonder aloud why the same folks who set up a donation jar in their local “stop-and-rob” to help pay for little Jimmy’s kidney transplant are so opposed to universal healthcare as provided in every other civilized country–“PEOPLE ARE STUPID!” Especially the ones who take FAUX NEWS and Rush Windbag seriously.
And it’s okay to have a for-profit death panel deny coverage. Sort of like, it’s okay to kill in the name of pro-life. Or be pro-life and pro death penalty.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you, Patrick.
I mumbled something along the lines of Jeff’s comment to my significant other yesterday. We are closer to having death panels in place right now, via a lack of preventive and maintenance care for those who cannot feed the ravenous mouth of the health care highway robbery industry. Couple that with the endless rounds of advertisements extolling the virtues of bad lifestyle habits, and you have our health care train wreck in progress.
Pardon me, but my cynicism was fueled by a week’s vacation at my uncle’s summer home. He is a retired physician and directed me to read some of Michael Pollen’s work as he ranted about the corruption of the so-called health care delivery system and its sycophantic drug dealers and insurance companies.
Supersize my fast food dinner, sir, while I sit on my Lazy Boy and watch FAUX News. Small wonder these people are mental feebs. Hardening of the cranial arteries.
Sorry. That foaming rant kinda got away from me.
Here is one example and a list of refs. Not to mention, park the car and ride yer bike, but that’s preaching to the converted.
Unhappy Meals
By MICHAEL POLLAN
The story of how basic questions about what to eat got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and journalism.
January 28, 2007
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/p/michael_pollan/index.html
As we used to say in the 60’s, “Right on!”
Patrick you tarnish the good word schmuck by applying it to those yahoos.
Excellent editorial in the NYT on how the health insurance reforms actually save small business money. If so many small business owners are opposed to this cost saving proposal it may explain why so many go out of business in 12 months. The unseen hand of the market ultimately reacts to cost and savings not political righteousness.
But what do I know I work in the public sector – oh wait it will save my taxpayers money too by reducing my employee insurance costs.
At least the ‘debate’ is proof that many humans can hold more than one thought in their heads at a time, as long as the thoughts are all nonsense.
What you got against yahoos, Ben? Even the National Assn. of Druts doesn’t want to associate with these individuals.
President “O” will be here (GJ) on Saturday for one of those town hall meetings on health care. Given that out of the 100,000 people in this county, 98,000 are complete right wing wackos, you can bet that there will be quite a reception. You gotta hand it to Obama, whereas Bush rarely visited hostile territory, and never gave a speech in front of an audience that wasn’t carefully screened, President Obama is walking right into the lions den by coming here.
I own a small business and I’m all for health care reform. What pisses me off right now is that there is very little talk about how to make an efficient system. Right now costs are spiraling out of control because the idiots in charge have done absolutely zilch to encourage a decent system… Now they are finally talking but I see very little about efficiency, most of the talk seems to be about what is politically expedient.
I recently had an employee hit by a car who refused to go to the hospital because he has no insurance… He of course is headed to med school to hopefully be a doctor one day. Ah the irony. Oh yeah this systems works great!!!!
Khal,
Some of my best friends are yahoos.
Schmuck connotes some level of conscious, thoughtful evil/screw-it-to-the-other-guy ness. These folks are just angry no-thinking jerks. A whole layer or two lower than a schmuck.
I know not this term Drut.
Wouldn’t “schmendrik” be a better word? Since “schmuck” in this sense may be considered too vulgar for polite conversation. Or I guess you could just say “penis.”
Turd spelled backwards. Used occasionally in the USMC in reference to a recruit or midshipman, since referring to aforementioned as turds would amount to denigrating turds and be inappropriate.
Khal,
So we understand each other then.
Schmendrick has a diminutive aspect to it like a lovable jerk thing. Giligan was almost a schmendrick. A schmendrick is loved at least by his mother, a schmuck is not. There is nothing lovable about the folks in question.
penis is too short a word to use in public.
Sorry to be pedantic, it’s a job requirement.
My wife is a technical editor at the Factory and a former English professor. I have a deep appreciation for pedantic.
Oy,
Can we all agree on “putz” as a suitable descriptor awready?
I think we will have to appoint a committee to study that, Patrick.
“Besides all of that….what have the Romans REALLY done for any of us?”
Ben et al,
Since we do not know Giligan’s mother (let alone if he even knew his own mother) we cannot say with any certainty what her feelings were towards him until he didn’t return from that fateful three hour tour. Thus, for all we DO know he could be a schmendrick. Thus to say otherwise is making an assumption about something in which you have no knowledge.
Sort of like the fiasco that started this whole shitbox.
As for your observation on the use of the word “penis” in public discourse, I would offer that the word “dick” be used except that this might offend those men named Richard. Don’t laugh. I once had a boss tell me that we could not refer to callers on the air as “Dick” because some grandparents might get their kickers in a bunch. I didn’t ask about advertising Tang but I am sure that would have garnered a different response.
Sort of like the fiasco that started this whole discussion.