Joe Doakes of Como Park writes:<\/p>\n
Obamacare is in trouble at the Supreme Court. Earlier this week, NBC spent an hour on middle-aged single adults needing long-term care, but having no insurance (and Medicaid doesn\u2019t cover them) so they\u2019re hogging hospital beds at enormously higher cost. One woman actually got sent to a nursing home in Poland and now she won\u2019t be able to see her grandkids. Yesterday, MPR had an interview with some official from Colorado \u2013 same topic, same plight.<\/p>\n
Same solution . . . everybody must buy health insurance so we can treat these people properly.<\/p>\n
Never heard a word about this problem until the Supreme Court arguments went poorly for the Home Team \u2013 now they\u2019re flogging the fierce moral urgency to treat a few cases as justification for sweeping aside centuries of precedent. The noble ends justify any ignoble means, it seems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ditto “Stand Your Ground”: \u00a0the laws have been successful (or, perhaps better still, non-notable) throughout the US. \u00a0But the Martin \/ Zimmerman case gets saturation coverage for two months – just as “Fast and Furious” seems poised to cause Obama some electoral damage?<\/p>\n
\u00a0And Liberals wonder why Conservatives think there is a liberal bias in the media. Ignore the tone and word choice in these stories, just look at the timing. Obamacare is in trouble, we\u2019re flooded with sob stories. We\u2019re not supposed to wonder at the timing? Dan Rather\u2019s \u201cfake but accurate\u201d memos just happened to run exactly 2 months before the election? These stories just happened to run this week, by accident?<\/p>\n
From Star Trek, The Next Generation:<\/p>\n
Taurik: “Sir, I’m little puzzled. Why are we intentionally damaging the shuttlecraft ?”<\/p>\n
Geordi: “We’re evaluating hull resiliency. Starfleet requires periodic testing.”<\/p>\n
Taurik: “I see… I don’t believe I am familiar with that requirement.”<\/p>\n
Geordi: “Probably because you are not a senior officer. Fire a shot over here.”<\/p>\n
Taurik: “That would be consistent.”<\/p>\n
Geordi: “Consistent with what?”<\/p>\n
Taurik: “With making it appear that this shuttle had fled an attack.”<\/p>\n
Geordi: “What makes you think that’s what we are doing?”<\/p>\n
Taurik: “The pattern of fire you asked for is similar to what might result if the shuttle had fled an attacker while engaged in evasive maneuvers.”<\/p>\n
Geordi: “It’s an amazing coincidence.”<\/p>\n
Taurik: “Yes, sir. It is indeed. Shall we proceed with the testing?”<\/p>\n
An amazing coincidence, indeed.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m just trying to figure who it is that doesn’t believe the media is biased, who should still be allowed to drive a car on the public freeway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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