Them’s some ugly mangoes. I’ll just wait here and play with myself dream about nanobots.

Wait, is the magazine called “Reason” or “Baseless Speculation About Possible Futures That Aids Our Libertarian Agenda”?

He’s right, of course. With ObamaCare, the public will be healthier and we won’t be able to trash the planet while I download my brain into a macho robot that will get it on with sweet cyberbabes. It’s not fair, and we won’t stand for it. Also, heh.

But as health care budgets tightened, private research and development (R&D) funds for new cancer therapies dried up.

Huh. What’s the CEO pay like way out there in the future?

How did S,N! let a photo escape unPhotoshopped?

Wait, is the magazine called “Reason” or “Baseless Speculation About Possible Futures That Aids Our Libertarian Agenda”?

Yes.

The “doctors aren’t accepting Medicare” canard is especially irritating: coming from a family of doctors and nurses, they’ll tell you that’s equally because they get so shafted by PRIVATE insurance payments. My bro has recently stopped taking ANY insurance as a result. When I went for my four impacted and infected wisdom teeth to be removed, with a swollen face and supposedly “good” insurance, the nurse over the phone blithely informed me that they would only pay for one tooth. The surgeon took pity on me and only charged me the amount the insurance would have paid–$35 per tooth (as opposed to 300-400 per chomper sans insurance). So this b.s. that “doctors won’t accept Medicare” is built partly on a total misinformation.

They also were going to call it “The Journal Of Transhuman Free-Market Wankering” but Books-A-Million refused to carry it if it had “wankering” in the title. So now it’s just implied.

See, this is why countries like the UK, Germany and France will never make big leaps in medicine. None of them have any big pharmaceutical companies… wel, except for Roche, GlaxoSmithKlein, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, Bayer, AstraZeneca and Bayer.

Please ignore the publicly funded university system of academic research behind the curtain.

How did S,N! let a photo escape unPhotoshopped?

Oh, those are his real eyebrows?

I jumped out of the boat for about 10 seconds and hopped right back in. Those waters are stupidity-infested, and honestly, I don’t really swim.

Please ignore the publicly funded university system of academic research behind the curtain.

Except when evil climate scientists game it to become RICH BEYOND THEIR WILDEST DREAMS!!!! BWAH HA HA!

Those waters are stupidity-infested, and honestly, I don’t really swim.

Probably full of candiru as well.

Seek engineering assistance if your nanobots become implacable and your penis remains enhanced for more than four hours.”

Reason Magazine’s science writer is an economics major who dropped out of law school. I can’t think of a better way to describe libertarians.

Please ignore the publicly funded university system of academic research behind the curtain.

You mean the apex of liberal thought that is secularizing the entire world? *Gasp*

Hahaha

Ha

HAHAHA

reason.com

That’s fucking hilarious.

So I went for mangoes and all I got was another fucking lecture on Bastiat. Maybe one day we can test out Bastiat’s theory by smashing Reason’s Overton window and see if anyone comes to fix it.

Ps. You title a post, “Shorter Ron Bailey”, and the punchline is about the lack of hi-tech peNIS enlargement… I’m sure this was deliberate.

Reason Magazine’s science writer is an economics major who dropped out of law school.

My cardiologist was a beat writer for the Aurora News-Register and a former butcher. What’s your point?

I got off the boat and all I got for my troubles is an alternative shorter:

Science has made so many wonderful advances in the last part of the 20th century as to render any medical prescription based on 19th century science dangerously out of date. Allow me then to use 19th century economics to explain why my prescription for better health care is not teh evil socialized medicine but rather the economic equivalent of “needs more leaches”.

I jumped out of the boat for about 10 seconds and hopped right back in. Those waters are stupidity-infested, and honestly, I don’t really swim.

Precisely what I did. Hop, splash, weird shimmering in water, straight back in boat as trail of tell-tale bubbles churns right past where I was standing only seconds before.

At first I figured it was a special effect — you know, show swarming piranha by dragging a weighted air hose along the bottom of the water, the bubbles simulating turbulence. But I could see the individual fish.

Anyhoo, gang, the shorter remains accurate. This gentleman yearns for a day when androids dream of fucking electric sheep, a future that will now never come because of PRESIDENT SPEARCHUCKER! Talk about the butterfly effect! Obammy just stepped off the futuristic sightseeing path and stepped on a tiny aphid; that aphid would otherwise have fed a small lizard, staving off death, but it didn’t, and so fast-forward eleventy zillion years and OMG IT’S A COOKBOOK!

Probably full of candiru as well.

Yikes. If I’m going to cause damage to my junk, it’d better be, you know, doing something fun.

My shorters would be:

Health care you can afford now is worse than future medical miracles that you can’t afford later.

Biotechnology progress is a function of human misery.

Health Insurance Reform directly alters Biotechnology Research, because of pony.

Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™

What planet do these asshats live on? America hasn’t made consistent and regular radical medical innovations in decades now. Yes, we decoded the genome…mostly on government research grants.

These nanotechnologies and biotechnologies and even gene therapies are being done in nations like South Korea, and China, and England and India.

India? National health care
England? National health care
China? National health care
South Korea? Transitioning to national health care

Um, dood? Might want to check your facts next time…

By the way, Sidney Pollack’s gotten pretty ugly since he died…

Might want to check your facts next time…

That would require a functioning intellect as well as reading glasses.

I too got off the boat and so glad I did. I’m going to call my stockbroker and tell him to sell short on all these companies that go out of business in 2014.

However, I did notice there are still no flying cars. Bummer.

Reason is the monthly print magazine of “free minds and free markets.”

Free minds, a la, “free” from thinking.

Free markets, a la, “free” to make billions off those sick people who shouldn’t have been born sick.

However, I did notice there are still no flying cars. Bummer.

But we have Space Dots*!

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* another innovation from India.

But we have Space Dots*!

Which came first the chicken or the Dipping Dots?

* another innovation from India.

BULLSHIT. They totally ripped off Dippin’ Dots.

Which are disgusting, by the way. If I wanted freezer-burned, tasteless ice cream, I would just leave a carton of it open in my freezer for 3 years.

OT- Let us Georgia Sadlynaughts raise a glass of FU to soon-to-be-gone governor Sonny Perdue. Dude’s pissy over healthcare, so he asks the AG if there’s grounds for a lawsuit. AG tells Sonny to STFU and GBTW, at which point Sonny says he’ll just file the suit himself. Meanwhile, wingnuts under the Golden Dome are trying some recall effort of the AG.

All this while these dopes don’t have, and refuse to even attempt, a viable solution for the financial woes plaguing Atlanta’s public transit. I hope these mensas from Hazzard County realize that job growth in Atlanta will be the only thing that allows this state to recover from the recession (Gas-n-Gulps on the interstates that go through Georgia’s six billion counties don’t employ a shitload of people, go figure), and that a viable public transit system is a huge factor in new business growth. But no. Can’t have that. Gotta pick our petty squabbles while Rome gets nice n’crispy.

The Libertarian free market doctor will see you now!

BULLSHIT. They totally ripped off Dippin’ Dots.

But they’re SPACE Dotz! We have a missile gap in our frozen treat program!

I hope these menses from Hazzard County

Veiled douchebag reference.

Um, dood? Might want to check your facts next time…

Ahem. Please understand, sir, that here at REASON.COM, we have all of the facts right inside our heads. You don’t need facts when you have reason, which is right in our name. I assume you can see the name? Reason? Hello?

You don’t need facts when you have reason, which is right in our name.

My website is called GeniusHealthCareFixesIncludeAPublicOption.duh
but that doesn’t mean I was consulted during this struggle for incremental, HC industry-blowing “reform”.

Congratulations to the vandal. Click while the clickin’ is good.

Nanotechnology smells

Nanotechnology, shortened to “poo”, is the study of the controlling of matter on an atomic and molecular scale.

Why do we even need doctors and whatnot? Why can’t we simply engage in free market capitalist principles within our own bodies? Why do our lungs just give oxygen away to any blood cell lazy enough to be pumped through those alveolar capillaries? If cells want to take in toxins and not have Big Liver protect them like children from their intakes, they should have that right.

You don’t need facts when you have reason, which is right in our name. I assume you can see the name? Reason? Hello?

Huh. I was reading that as “re-ass-on” and assumed it was a mag devoted to D-KW’s mother.

My website is called GeniusHealthCareFixesIncludeAPublicOption.duh
but that doesn’t mean I was consulted during this struggle for incremental, HC industry-blowing “reform”.

Well, let’s see. Did you try using actual facts? You know, like the ones that are all like, true n junk? There’s your problem. You have a wrench in your dinglemahoppajigit. Perhaps try the unicorns and magic ponies angle next time?

Nanotechnology, shortened to “poo”, is the study of the controlling of matter on an atomic and molecular scale.

I loled. Fucking love Wikipedia.

You know who ELSE liked facts?

Yeah, you know.

You know who ELSE liked facts?

Joe Friday.

If cells want to take in toxins and not have Big Liver protect them like children from their intakes, they should have that right.

I couldn’t agree more. Don’t get me started on White Blood Cells. They must do whatever it takes to rid the body of Terrust Pathogens. These Enemy Microbes deserve to be destroyed without trial.

But they’re SPACE Dotz! We have a missile gap in our frozen treat program!

You had to eat the generic bagged cereal when you were a kid, too, huh?

Alternative alternative shorter:

“Don’t judge a policy by its measurable effects, judge it by the imaginary effects I pulled out of my ass, here.”

You had to eat the generic bagged cereal when you were a kid, too, huh?

As a child, such generics askeert me. As an adult, I love the cheapest generics possible.

Why can’t we simply engage in free market capitalist principles within our own bodies?

Why do you think they call them “bloodbanks”? Hullo, moran?

You know who ELSE liked facts?

John McClain?

You had to eat the generic bagged cereal when you were a kid, too, huh?

No.

Product 19

*hangs head in shame*

It impresses me that the 2020 eleventy-fold increase in funding for university medical research is paid for entirely by taxes on libertarians. HOW COOL IS THAT?

John McClain?

No, his amusing side-kick, Sarah Plalin.

Left Wing Fox nailed it already.

The deep dark secret in private biotechnology is that there are very few real discoveries made by private industry. Most privately sold “super medicines” are basically publicly discovered in universities which are then bought out for “distribution” by biotech companies. Most of the R&D budget is entirely for buying out the discoveries of public university professors, buying out smaller biotech businesses founded by university professors, or paying for some research in mass production of the discoveries of said public university professors.

So unfortunately, libertarians will still be able to get their magical boner pills from the “free market” even if we somehow could put a bullet through the head of both the massive for-profit insurance industry and the for-profit drug industry.

Of course, they’d object because that magic bullet would mean everyone might be able to afford magic boner pills and that would decrease how special they would feel showing off their magic boner pills around the libertarian moon base.

You know who ELSE liked facts?

Joe Friday

Winner!

No, his amusing side-kick, Sarah Plalin.

I meant, this John McClain.

I meant, this John McClain.

Great movie. All of that shit happened to me last year.

I meant, this John McClain.

I know. I was being meta.

I always thought it was called “Reason” Magazine because they couldn’t spell “Raisin” and, when confronted with the actual spelling, said “Yeah, that’s exactly what we meant to say,” because to admit an error would betray weakness and then all the alpha males (Libertarians are ALL Alpha males, even the women) would turn on the weak libertarian dork and devour him, just to teach him a lesson.

“Yeah, that’s exactly what we meant to say”

So your argument is that all cats are libertarians?

Some rotten mangoes for your delectation:

The health reform bill also limited the administrative costs of insurers, which has ended up basically guaranteeing their profits. With competition all but outlawed, the increasingly consolidated insurance industry has had very little incentive to pay for new treatment regimens outside those specified by government standard-setting agencies.

You can always trust a libertarian publication to point out how private enterprise can not possibly address an unserviced market. With minimum standards in place it became impossible for insurance industries to offer anything other than the standard basic plan. How else could you explain the complete absence of private health insurance in nations with single-payer, like Canuckistan where only 65% of the population have some form of supplemental private insurance.

Also, why do we all have to depend on Big Sun for our nanny-state-main-sequence delivery of warmth and energy and keeping us all repressed in our nanny-state-gravity-well orbits.

Planets themselves should decide their own source of heat and energy and their own orbital path using the free market.

I thought civilization was going to collapse and gangs of free-wheeling socialists would be invading Galt Gulches across the country, expropriating and eating the productive members of society by 2020. Man what a friggin’ let-down.

I know. I was being meta.

Groovy, man.

Product 19

WTF kind of name is that for a cereal, btw? It sounds like something you’d feed a medical experiment.

Honestly, I ate bran Chex most of the time. My parents were obsessed with bowel health. It was the 80s.

I thought civilization was going to collapse and gangs of free-wheeling socialists would be invading Galt Gulches across the country, expropriating and eating the productive members of society by 2020. Man what a friggin’ let-down.

Any day now…

“So your argument is that all cats are libertarians?”

N_B that is so unfair to cats. Sure they’re entitled, but they never declare that everyone else could be exactly like them if only the damn government wasn’t stopping you.

Planets themselves should decide their own source of heat and energy and their own orbital path using the free market.

Again, we’re on the same page. Personally, I find it disconcerting that there are only 24 hours in the day. Who does Earth think it is?! It is my right as an American to have as many hours in a day as I please (I want 80). Furthermore, Winter? More like Loseter. I demand to have a say in whether snow will fall. Seasons — you’re on notice.

Mango 2:

Already bad in many areas back in 2010, waiting times for a doctor’s appointment 10 years later have nearly quadrupled, reaching the Canadian and British average of about 110 days.

Maybe some SadlyBriton can speak for teh NHS but the average wait time for a doctor’s appointment in Canada is sure as fuck not 110 days.
Here’s a HUGE pdf. The median wait time for diagnostic services is two weeks. The median wait time for specialist visits is four weeks. The median wait time for non-emergency surgery is 4.3 weeks.
The median wait time for the glory hole served by Ron Bailey’s mom is five minutes.

Planets themselves should decide their own source of heat and energy and their own orbital path using the free market.

Barring that, they could rely on the Power of Prayer™ to guide them through the cosmos. This works for health care too. Also.

Product 19

WTF kind of name is that for a cereal, btw

It means that the first 18 tries tasted even worse. Imagine that for a moment. Then wash your mouth out with whiskey.

So your argument is that all cats are libertarians?

Hey, now. That’s not nice. Although, come to think of it…

Again, we’re on the same page. Personally, I find it disconcerting that there are only 24 hours in the day. Who does Earth think it is?! It is my right as an American to have as many hours in a day as I please (I want 80). Furthermore, Winter? More like Loseter. I demand to have a say in whether snow will fall. Seasons — you’re on notice.

Exactly! And who the hell asked me how many chromosomes I was being born with, and whether I was between 5 and 6 feet tall versus being 20 feet tall, with horns and wings and stuff? Nobody. No, no, I had to have my future dictated by the statist Big Gene.

You don’t need facts when you have reason, which is right in our name. I assume you can see the name? Reason? Hello?

What, “Patently Transparent Excuse” was too long for you?

It means that the first 18 tries tasted even worse. Imagine that for a moment. Then wash your mouth out with whiskey.

I feel real bad for the tasters of WD-1 through WD-39.

Also, why do we all have to depend on Big Sun for our nanny-state-main-sequence delivery of warmth and energy and keeping us all repressed in our nanny-state-gravity-well orbits.

That’s why libertarians are all pro-AGW. They’re rooting for C02 to allow us to throw off the shackles of the anti-freedom sun.

They’re eagerly anticipating developments WRT Big Gravity Well to come from Galt’s Gulch Any Time Now.

So your argument is that all cats are libertarians?

Except people LIKE cats.

That’s not nice.

Hello? Have we met?

I was composing a detailed post about the differences and similarities between cats and libertarians when I realized that NO ONE CARES.

Jesus Christ. I’m turning into my mother.

Except people LIKE cats.

“People” like Ron Paul.

Excuse me, Dr. Ron Paul. No wait, the Honorable Dr. Ron Paul. No, still not right…the Honorable Dr. Racist Asshole Ron Paul.

I’m turning into my mother.

A. This is really the wrong forum to bring up your mother.

B. Unless you have really high-end CGI morphs, James Cameron is not interested.

And who the hell asked me how many chromosomes I was being born with

I certainly wan’t consulted. And before I was born, I just know I wanted to be born to a rich oil baron; not some middle-class firefighter. When will the universe begin to realize that we have rights?! Rights that are being trampled over by Big Chance.

“People” like Ron Paul.

Pfft, yeah right.

WTF kind of name is that for a cereal, btw? It sounds like something you’d feed a medical experiment.

Tasted like it, too.

Remember that Kellogg’s, which produces Product 19, also invented Corn Flakes which were originally sold as a healthy breakfast food.

This is Product 19

This is how it got its name

I have absolutely no idea what to say in response to this, so instead of making a joke about robot penises, I’m going to indulge in some shameless self-promotion. We’re in the place where I can do that, right? Right. I’m really psyched about my latest piece.

Some day I will get around to turning Rush Limpballs into Jabba the Hut, I promise.

And what librul fascist decided that Big Number would determine how nanny-state “math” would work? If I choose to use my money, which I will say is $1 million dollars in my pocket, because it’s my free-market decision what number to say, to purchase my own numbering and math system, then I should have that right, and I don’t need Big Axiom telling me what I can and can’t do.

You cannot imagine the horror stories I could tell you.

I had to have my future dictated by the statist Big Gene

Funny. Mine is dictated by BigAss in the corner office…

You cannot imagine the horror stories I could tell you.

Yea? You try being in the same studio as Yes for 5149 versions of YOU and see how you like it!

I’m turning into my mother.

That’s the left off the bypass. I can tell by DKW’s tire tracks.

Imagine the hells imposed by Aaron Spelling on his sub-writers and staffers making their way up to Beverly Hills 90210.

It means that the first 18 tries tasted even worse. Imagine that for a moment. Then wash your mouth out with whiskey.

By “wash your mouth out,” do you mean I have to spit it out? Because, uhhh, that ain’t gonna happen.

I feel real bad for the tasters of WD-1 through WD-39.

I chortled.

And what librul fascist decided that Big Number would determine how nanny-state “math” would work? If I choose to use my money, which I will say is $1 million dollars in my pocket, because it’s my free-market decision what number to say, to purchase my own numbering and math system, then I should have that right, and I don’t need Big Axiom telling me what I can and can’t do.

If I didn’t know any better, we were the same person. Just the other day I was telling my bank: “I have $50 million dollars in the bank.” They laughed saying, “No, it’s closer to 5 grand.” I was dumbstruck. What happened to Freedom?? Who is a bank to tell me what I have in my account? It’s just further proof that the Free Market is dead. The libruls have won people. Time to reload… another Bud Tallboy.

Imagine the hells imposed by Aaron Spelling on his sub-writers and staffers making their way up to Beverly Hills 90210.

Gonna be tough beating that one…

Imagine the hells imposed by Aaron Spelling on his sub-writers and staffers making their way up to Beverly Hills 90210.

Gonna be tough beating that one…

Who the hell you think he hired????

Imagine the hells imposed by Aaron Spelling on his sub-writers and staffers making their way up to Beverly Hills 90210.

Gonna be tough beating that one…

Imagine the fur bikinis discarded between 1 and 999,999 B.C.

Just the other day I was telling my bank: “I have $50 million dollars in the bank.”

Usually, they just offer me a chair in the office while we wait for the police.

This is really the wrong forum to bring up your mother.

I know, but I figured I deserved it because I almost posted a manifesto on cats and libertarians.

This is Product 19

This is how it got its name

There’s a reason breakfast cereal inventors are not know for their creativity.

There’s a reason breakfast cereal inventors are not know for their creativity.

<a href=They are also the reason why I was in rehab for a while.

Imagine the fur bikinis discarded between 1 and 999,999 B.C.

It was really hard to keep going on experimental search engines before Google was reached.

Tag NonFail? WP, you baffle me..

I almost posted a manifesto on cats and libertarians

It wouldn’t be original.

It was really hard to keep going on experimental search engines before Google was reached.

I’m waiting for a clever Internet cafe to call themselves “The Googleplex”

It was really hard to keep going on experimental search engines before Google was reached.

That company went through a lot of addresses before it got to the GooglePlex.

We Sadly contributors are like ants in one of those plastic ant farms. An administrator puts the piece of cake in the top and watch us swarm up and pick it apart into its constituent crumbs, bearing them down the tunnel system to our larders. When one of us dies, another mandibles the corpse to another storage area, while still others build tunnels to explore new areas and enlarge the nest.

This concerns me. Somewhere, there is a magnifying glass.

I, on the other hand, sprang into existence full-formed and perfect.

It was really hard to keep going on experimental search engines before Google was reached.

How about how long it took Jim Starlin to write The Infinity Gauntlet?

Product 19

WTF kind of name is that for a cereal, btw? It sounds like something you’d feed a medical experiment.

Well, there’s always Brown 25.

Spengler Dampniche said,
March 25, 2010 at 18:04

OK, I laughed.

Well, there’s always Brown 25

Ah, Picasso’s last movement!

Somewhere, there is a magnifying glass.

The optimist sees the magnifying glass as half-full.

The optimist sees the magnifying glass as half-full.

Or the sky as mostly sunny.

I owe you an apology, Brad; I read the shorter and thought “WTF, that can’t possibly be right.” I know, the reason.com URL should have been my first clue, but I grabbed my machete and hopped off onto the beach.

Moments later, I was trapped in a raging wingnut cliche-storm. Bare-faced lies about government takeovers and Canadian wait times were swirling around me. In desperation, I lashed myself to a mango tree to avoid being swept away–and was promptly pelted with rotten mangoes hurled by the maelstrom of hot air. I crawled back to the boat a sadder, but wiser man.

The hatfucking sociopath really is saying that other people should be denied treatment so he doesn’t have to wait. I guess rationing doesn’t count when the Invisible Hand does it.

Well, there’s always Brown 25.

Goddammit. I was eating a Tootsie Roll!

Also, the sheer math FAIL in claiming that a ten percent increase in patients will result in a four hundred percent increase in wait times always makes me chuckle a bit.

I see the White House Press Corps has taken up “Pule-lates”

I see the White House Press Corps has taken up “Pule-lates”

LOLWUT?

I always wonder how the glibertarians imagine they are going to get to their magical future when their whole approach to the present is based on everyone trying to hoover up as much short-term cash as possible. What rational company would’ve underwritten the space program? Or the Intarwebs? or the freakin’ national highway system?

Also, too, 100+ comments about a Libertarian health care post and not one reference to Bioshock? For shaaaame, Sadlies.

Also, the sheer math FAIL in claiming that a ten percent increase in patients will result in a four hundred percent increase in wait times always makes me chuckle a bit.

They’re wrong in this case, but that kind of claim isn’t automatically wrong. There are a lot of non-linear systems in everyday life where a small change in input gets really out-of-proportion results. The one people are most familiar with is highway traffic: if the number of cars is below capacity and there are no accidents, everything moves. A 10% increase in the number of cars, if it puts the road overcapacity will almost certainly result in large delays from the “friction” of interaction between people in adjacent cars.

That said, waiting times of a finite number of people in parallel queues for a finite resource is a more or less linear process and the mango claim is, as you say, grossly wrong.

Last night, Eric Cantor’s congressional office in Richmond had its windows shot out.

History will note that the first side to use live firearms were the liberals and progressives.

Well, there’s always Brown 25.

From Uranus

FreedomLover24 said,

March 25, 2010 at 18:21

Speaking of Brown 25…

History will note that the first side to use live firearms were the liberals and progressives.

Oh, you mean the people who are in power and getting what they actually want? As I recall, the teabaggers are pissed at the Republicans, too.

The Tea Party Movement is peaceful and non-violent, unlike the homosexual activists that threatened to burn down churches in California.

Last night, Eric Cantor’s congressional office in Richmond had its windows shot out.

Were they shot out in the shape of a backwards “B”?

T&U – The event that Troofus is claiming has so far been reported nowhere but in a press release from Cantor. It may have happened, it may not have. We’re talking about a lying piece of scum claiming he’s a victim.

Oh, and the press release has been quoted by the freepers and Fox News, but that’s stenography, not actual reporting.

The Tea Party Movement is peaceful and non-violent, unlike the homosexual activists that threatened to burn down churches in California.

So peaceful and nonviolent (hyphen-less) they bring weapons. I’m sure it’s just in case Man-Bear-Pig shows.

And another OT- I’m hoping you guys cover Jim Hoft’s recent Epic Fail.

Were they shot out in the shape of a backwards “B”?

I heard the ACORN logo was engraved on the bullets.

Were they shot out in the shape of a backwards “B”?

Lulz.

T&U – The event that Troofus is claiming has so far been reported nowhere but in a press release from Cantor.

Yeah, looking into it more now. Also, he claims there was one bullet fired. That’s hardly “shot out,” and could have even been an accident.

The event that Troofus is claiming has so far been reported nowhere but in a press release from Cantor.

Quelle surprise!

Was this like the “hacking incident” that took down Lieberman’s web page in 2004?

I’m hoping you guys cover Jim Hoft’s recent Epic Fail.

DN, I checked Hoft out, and after the first five words I gave up.

On Saturday the leftist media reported

He must be talking about this leftist media, right?

Yeah, looking into it more now. Also, he claims there was one bullet fired. That’s hardly “shot out,” and could have even been an accident.

Or maybe some Cantor staffer fails hard at suicide. It’d be irresponsible not to speculate.

From CNN: “Rep. Eric Cantor…also said he had received threatening messages.

He said he would not publicly release the messages out of concern that doing so would only incite further violence.

He also accused Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine and Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland – a member of the Democratic House leadership – of ‘fanning the flames’ of violence by using threats that have been made against Democratic members ‘as political weapons.'”

Someday, people will look back on this and wonder how the fuck it is such craven and reprehensible people rose to power.

In 2014, as the effects of health care reform took hold, libertarians everywhere died of petulance as they realized that no one was listening to them anymore.

In 2014, as the effects of health care reform took hold, libertarians everywhere died of petulance

…because the wait time for a whaaaambulence was 43 days?

Reason Magazine’s science writer is an economics major who dropped out of law school. I can’t think of a better way to describe libertarians.

Yeah, but he thinks he knows more about biotech than I do, even if I am a professor of molecular biology at one of the nation’s best medical schools, and he’s “an economics major who dropped out of law school.”

It’s all about believing in yourself, ya know.

He said he would not publicly release the messages out of concern that doing so would only incite further violence.

“…because there aren’t any… err, no more questions,” the spokesman continued.

The only coverage on Cantor’s office window being shot out either referenced Fox News or was of his press conference. Having a comment from the police would make it more believable.

Of course this is much more serious than the fact that someone cut a gasline into the house of a Democratic representative’s brother after the brother’s address was given out by a right wing asshole.

History will note that the first side to use live firearms were the liberals and progressives.

How can that be?

I thought we were all a bunch of limp-wristed pacifist hippies who hate guns and will be utterly defenseless when the islamic hordes overrun us?

utterly defenseless when the islamic hordes overrun us

Stop it, you’re making me hot. Between this and the Statue of Liberty side-boob from the previous thread, I may…I’ll be in my bunk.

So, saying, “Hey, guys, it’s not cool that people are making threats…we need to cool down a little” is fanning the flames of violence? Uhhh, so what are they supposed to say?

Also, the bullet was “shot through a window.” So the window was open? So the only evidence of the bullet even existing is *inside* his office? How convenient.

These nanotechnologies and biotechnologies and even gene therapies are being done in nations like South Korea, and China, and England and India.

Japan, too. I used to work for a company that published medical journals online. Lots of articles from researchers in Japan, especially cancer research. And they’ve got universal health care there, too. Plus government regulation on health care prices. And a higher life expectancy, a lower infant mortality rate, and lower per capita health care spending than the U.S.

Ah, good old treason.com – yeah, I think I’ll pass. One, they don’t deserve the click & Two, I already know what my own vomit tastes like just fine, thanks.

Already bad in many areas back in 2010, waiting times for a doctor’s appointment 10 years later have nearly quadrupled, reaching the Canadian and British average of about 110 days.

Sounds like a rather LIBERAL estimate to me … I wonder what WikiCommieMuslimSatanistpedia says:

The median wait time in Canada to see a special physician is a little over four weeks with 89.5% waiting less than 3 months.

The median wait time for diagnostic services such as MRI and CAT scans is two weeks with 86.4% waiting less than 3 months.

The median wait time for surgery is four weeks with 82.2% waiting less than 3 months.

2-4 weeks = 110 days because Von Mises, Rand & Buckley said so, bitchez!

Please ignore the publicly funded university system of academic research behind the curtain.

That whole “public subsidy, private profit” thing sort of clarifies who the REAL fat lazy parasites in society are, eh? Yes, I’m looking at you, Lockheed.

History will note that the first side to use live firearms were the liberals and progressives.

Since it’s been proven (according to teh wingsters) that the shouters of N*gger and F*ggot were liberals trying to make conservatives look bad, it follows that the shooting was by a teatard trying to make liberals look bad.

QED, cf. Rubber v. Glue.

piefilter

Whether or not Cantor is a lying sack of shit (history points to Yes) it’s worth remembering that a lot of the ‘Baggers are pissed off at the GOP for not being batshit-crazy wingnut enough.

OFFS. It’s a CONSULTANT’S office.

“…because there aren’t any… err, no more questions,” the spokesman continued.

I was thinking more like “because they say ‘die die die you babykillin’ lie-brul.’…er, no more questions.”

it’s worth remembering that a lot of the ‘Baggers are pissed off at the GOP for not being batshit-crazy wingnut enough.

Indeed. Some dumbass RedStater writes:

Thanks to two very recent articles by EE about Mitch McConnell’s rather low opinion of conservatives (”irrelevant”) and John Cornyn’s statement that Obamacare should be fixed, not repealed, (I.e, Big Government is good), one wonders just what they have they aren’t willing to lose in order to do biznez in Washington?

And just what do these American Conservative Union ratings (McConnell lifetime 89+, 2009-96, 2008-80, and Cornyn lifetime 93+, 2009-100, 2008-79) say about true conservatism in Congress? Neither recent position by Mitch and John (above) are conservative in the least. But they do seem to reflect a state of mind that is contrary to their voting record (which seems to be the sole basis for the ACU ratings.)

Conservative urine tests coming up.

Whether or not Cantor is a lying sack of shit (history points to Yes) it’s worth remembering that a lot of the ‘Baggers are pissed off at the GOP for not being batshit-crazy wingnut enough.,/i>

But we know who would be accused of being responsible, right? And by the time that the police actually found out who did it, it will have faded from memory and the only thing that would remain was “BOTH SIDES DID IT!”

Also, the bullet was “shot through a window.” So the window was open? So the only evidence of the bullet even existing is *inside* his office? How convenient.

Maybe someone inside was shooting at someone on the outside.

History will note that the first side to use live firearms were the liberals and progressives.

History has bookmarked it.

TAGS! I HATE YOU!!!!

History has bookmarked it.

History needs to clean its cache and cookies.

A possible gunshot was fired through the window of the downtown Richmond Main Street building that houses the offices of one of Rep. Eric Cantor’s top political consultants, a source says.

In Washington, Cantor said at a news conference that someone shot a bullet through a window of his campaign office in Richmond

So it wasn’t his office, and it might not have been a bullet, nobody can say. Damn, that’s not even embellishment, that’s lying outright.

So it wasn’t his office, and it might not have been a bullet, nobody can say. Damn, that’s not even embellishment, that’s lying outright.

Getting people worked up isn’t just a strategy anymore, is it? They *want* violence.

Stupid liberals don’t know how to shoot at Eric Cantor PROPERLY.

So it wasn’t his office, and it might not have been a bullet, nobody can say.

And they don’t know when it happened.

OMG. You guys, these people are really, really scaring me.

Liberals have offered no evidence that Tea Party protesters ever yelled “n***** or “faggot” at members of congress, either.

No videotape. No audio. Nothing.

It means that the first 18 tries tasted even worse. Imagine that for a moment. Then wash your mouth out with whiskey.

By “wash your mouth out,” do you mean I have to spit it out? Because, uhhh, that ain’t gonna happen.

A really good whiskey would evaporate in your mouth…like DKW’s mom!

Or Hitler!

He must be talking about this leftist media, right?

Some people never do grow out of the middle school bully mentality, do they?

Shorter Fox News: “We didn’t do nuthin’ and nobody can prove it. And you never should have told on us. You’re dead after class.”

Cantor, complaining about Dems publicizing threats they’ve received in the press conference he held to tell everyone about the not-his-office maybe-shooting: “It is reckless to use these incidents as media vehicles for political gain,” he said.

Also: “Cantor, in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, said he doesn’t know whether the shot was random or aimed at the building.”

It was probably just a random shot from some NRA type who thought he might have seen a black person across the street and freaked out.

And the race card gets played!

History will note that the first side to use live firearms were the liberals and progressives.

Unpossible. Liberals are limp-wristed paintywaisters without the patriotism required to own firearms. Heck, I faint at the site of them!

And the race card gets played!

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And the race card card gets played!

Years ago, I had the misfortune of knowing Ronald Bailey socially. He’s a pompous, smug, self-certain reactionary who never lets facts interfere with his ideology. Also, although this is personal and therefore supposed to be irrelevant to politics (I for one see an intimate connection between this fact and his loathsome views), he’s one of the biggest leeches that I’ve ever met. He lies to sponge free meals and other perks off people. I know. He pulled this stunt on me personally.

A libertarian moocher? Talk about UNPOSSIBLE!

The Tea Party Movement is peaceful and non-violent

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea. Tell your story walking, asshole. We’re done with you and your threats, Troofie.

By the way, when you coming to New York City, again? I’d like to buy you a nice tall stiff drink. It has your name tattooed on it.

It was probably just a random shot from some NRA type who thought he might have seen a black person across the street and freaked out.

Remember that if you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail?

Well, the NRA guy saw a fly on Cantor’s window and couldn’t be arsed to find a swatter…

Yes, I’m looking at you, Lockheed.

That dragon never did anyone any harm. You take it back.

do you mean I have to spit it out? Because, uhhh, that ain’t gonna happen.

INTEREST!

Website? Newsletter? Video?

Response by normal people to reports of violence – “Wow, that’s getting out of hand. Sure hope that doesn’t continue.”

Response by Troofy to reports of violence – “Wasn’t me! You can’t prove it!”

He’s a pompous, smug, self-certain reactionary who never lets facts interfere with his ideology.

That could describe every libertarian I’ve ever met.

Let’s see…health care reform as Armageddon….folks need to arm themselves…

According to recent commentators the news media played a crucial role in the genocide: local print and radio media fueled the killings, while the international media either ignored or seriously misconstrued events on the ground.[11] The print media in Rwanda is believed to have started hate speech against Tutsis which was later continued by radio stations. According to commentators anti-Tutsi hate speech “became so systemic as to seem the norm.”

g: Just imagine what the immigration reform debate is going to look like.

And who the hell asked me how many chromosomes I was being born with
I certainly wan’t consulted.

Done by popular vote. In the 1940s and 1950s everyone had 48 chromosomes. Then someone realised that with some rearranging and economising, all the genes could fit onto 46 chromosomes. People voted for it because you know, 1950s techno-optimism, robot butlers and freeze-dried coffee and all that.

Dragon-King Wangchuck said,

March 25, 2010 at 17:38

“Already bad in many areas back in 2010, waiting times for a doctor’s appointment 10 years later have nearly quadrupled, reaching the Canadian and British average of about 110 days”.

Erm, Sadly no. In the UK you call for an appointment in the morning and you get to see your GP the same day. If the practice is really pushed it might be the next day.

I apologise if this has already been covered off.

Done by popular vote.

It was not! It passed by “deem and pass” when someone added some budget reconciliation items!

even if I am a professor of molecular biology at one of the nation’s best medical schools

I’m an assistant professor of biochemistry at a lower tier state school (the kind that used to be called a normal school). I can haz start molecular biology vs. biochemistry flame war?

So much for intellectual honesty

Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum has resigned from the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, Frum announced on his Web site Thursday afternoon — a move which suggests the conservative movement has cut ties with Frum over the straight talk he has been providing all week

Guess who doesn’t like to hear straight talk?

(Gas-n-Gulps on the interstates that go through Georgia’s six billion counties don’t employ a shitload of people, go figure), and that a viable public transit system is a huge factor in new business growth.

Not only that, but the pay is horrible for those few employed. (Hell, half the time the owners don’t get rich for all their scroogy ways but go broke instead.) Whereas public transit operators, though often under the poverty line, somehow support several people. Which money recirculates in the economy*. (Plus the whole “access to jobs” aspect for the patrons at their employers … especially since ATL is very economically segregated, so the cheap labor lives far from the would-be manor ladies and lords.)

*-except for their overpriced rent payments (plus whatever section 8 chucks in… I told you some of them despite their “better” pay are below poverty line). those just go to make some douchebag rich. rich people hoarding or spending on luxury goods does not actually grow the economy, pace Rayguns.

Because health care budgets tightened, private funding for a cure for cancer dried up. And since no organization like a “National Cancer Institute” existed, wait, what? Research supported by public funding is less likely to produce conflicts of interest and suppression of results? The first example of a promising development is InCytu, should I link to it? Hm, the front page of their website says their technology was developed at a Harvard lab, and that lab is supported by the NIH, so maybe it undercuts my case a bit? Ah, nobody clicks on those.

And also nothing in the really watered-down health insurance reform bill adversely affects the people actually involved in this, viz. medical practitioners, research scientists, clinical operations directors, investors, &c?

You had to eat the generic bagged cereal when you were a kid, too, huh?

asshole*. Now I’m having flashbacks.

*I can call a female an asshole, right? I mean, everybody’s got one. (Comes with that whole “chordate” thing.)

Ron Bailey is the only actor to appear in all seven of the American Pie movies.

I was composing a detailed post about the differences and similarities between cats and libertarians when I realized that NO ONE CARES.

Well, call me nemo because I am highly interested in your interest. N? W? usw.

Ron Paul is the His Holiness Most Exalted Emperor Doctor Reverend Saint Martin Luther King Junior Senior The Unforgettable of the John Birch Society.

Hmm… did I go too far?

For fans of Product 19 and WD-40, I need to alert you to Procedure 110-Montauk.