So sad to see Obama, Congressional Democrats and their allies squandering a historic opportunity by starting negotiations from a position of compromise.

Fuck him. No, really, fuck him.

The primary reason Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the United States is that the United States is a world leader in an odd category — the percentage of infants who die on their birthday. In any given year in the United States anywhere from 30-40 percent of infants die before they are even a day old.

Why? Because the United States also easily has the most intensive system of emergency intervention to keep low birth weight and premature infants alive in the world. The United States is, for example, one of only a handful countries that keeps detailed statistics on early fetal mortality — the survival rate of infants who are born as early as the 20th week of gestation.

How does this skew the statistics? Because in the United States if an infant is born weighing only 400 grams and not breathing, a doctor will likely spend lot of time and money trying to revive that infant. If the infant does not survive — and the mortality rate for such infants is in excess of 50 percent — that sequence of events will be recorded as a live birth and then a death.

http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/cuba-vs-the-united-states-on-infant-mortality/

Brad Reed, as most leftwingers, continues to recklessly quote statistics without giving any thought to causality.

Nixocrat?

Just saying you may want to rethink the labeling, boss.

I’m in for $50 (and that’s from a tightly stretched budget). Just to wipe the smirk off Kristalnachts face. In fact, did you know that I was never really sure what a smirk was, until I saw Bill Kristol. I remember going “ah, that’s a smirk.”

But what about the gay, Islamic abortions, would there be money for that?

Well, as they say, “There’s always room for pie.”

Absolutely.

Well, part of him.

His head.

On a pike.

But what about the gay, Islamic abortions, would there be money for that?

Lucky duckies.

Anyways, the mathematians would like to study him and his continual defiance of the law of averages.

No, I think the real use for Kristol would be as the nexus of an improbability drive, a la Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The probability that Kristol would ever get something right is so vanishingly small that the wave of improbability emanating from that smug piehole 24/7 could be easily harnessed to allow interstellar travel.

2. Private insurers would be unable to compete, and would be driven out of business.

Think of how patently unfair it is these guys have to compete with non-profits like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders already! Every disaster relief effort they do is literally an economic holocaust for these poor guys. And the fact that emergency rooms will see the poor whether or not they can afford it totally destroys any sort of lower end for the insurance market. It’s an atrocimacy, I tells ya, an atrocimacy.

No, the face is the”shorter”. That smug, oh-so-sophisticated, slightly impatient, condescending, rather put-upon at having to explain himself to lesser mortals expression is the shorthand for the subtext of every word that he deigns to give to the world. It says, “I’m better than you; I’m a member of an elite class. It doesn’t matter that every prediction I’ve ever made has turned out to be absolutely, diametrically wrong, because my voice is still heeded.” What’s galling is that he’s right. He is still being interviewed as if he were some kind of expert, on every news channel on cable, day after day after day, and his columns are still printed, and are read by the people who are still making the decisions. His expression also conveys the smug satisfaction he takes from galling everyone who sees through his patrician, tory certitude.

Steerpike said,

July 21, 2009 at 4:57

Shorter Kristol’s face: Fuck. You. Also, neener neener neener, it don’t matter I got a tiny peenor.