I tried to find the Republican sponsored commercial that depicts a Washington bureaucrat (who looks suspiciously like an IRS agent caricature) interposing himself between a patient and her doctor. What the ad doesn't say is that we have that now. Replace "Washington Bureaucrat" with "Insurance Agent". No difference.
What, you've never watched your doctors fighting with the insurance company to attempt to justify care? I have. I watched my Dad's doctors more or less blackmail the insurance company to get them to approve an "experimental" procedure that has extended his life far beyond the year or so he had in 2001. He's enjoying time with his grandchildren today. If that doctor had capitulated, my dad would have died when his oldest grandchild was a baby. This is the healthcare system Republicans want to protect. They have a financial interest in doing so, not a humanitarian one. Republicans warn that Obama wants to destroy our healthcare system. Damn straight! We want to destroy the broken system that only works for the insurance companies and replace it with something that works for everybody.
The problem here is that in a Democracy (which is what the United States claims to have, if you weren't aware), the Government is supposed to be afraid of the people, not the people afraid of the Government. If the government were truly afraid of the people, Universal Healthcare would not be a debate at all. Ask yourself honestly, are you afraid of the Government, or is it afraid of you?
Insurance companies are spending millions of dollars with anti-reform commercials and buying Washington votes. Why? Do they have the best interests of the American People at heart, or are they interested in the billions to be made under the current system which routinely denies needed care to millions? They're afraid, because they know that every other industrialized country in the world has universal healthcare and it works. They know that our system of paying huge insurance premiums is entirely concocted and unnecessary. They don't want you to know that.
Did you catch that? The crutches that cost $15 in Canada were $45 in the U.S.? We must have some damn good crutches here in order to charge 3 times as much. Right?
I expect the first conservative to come across my post will respond with something like "If you think it's so much better in Canada, why don't you move there?" This probably seems like good logic to them. When you don't really understand logic, it's easy to miss a fallacy.
I believe in America and I believe we can fix this. I don't want to move to Canada, I want the United States' healthcare system to be the envy of the world, not the laughing stock it is today. You should too.
vetoed it because she heard from a friend that it was actually some Hollywood plot to bash fat people and accuse them of destroying the world. 
First, let me be clear. I've abandoned Christianity for many reasons, not the least of which is I no longer believe the adult fairy tale of a "benevolent" "God" watching over all of us and allowing all of the bad things to happen because he works in "mysterious ways". It's a load of crap. It's Santa for grown-ups. I think that there is some sort of higher consciousness, but it doesn't look out for us on an individual level, it's not a God, it isn't accurately described by any religious text ever, and it's completely explainable by science, even if it's science we don't understand yet. So all criticisms of Christians as to whether or not they have any idea of what their own religion dictates should be taken with a 
single "Christian" alive today that lives the life prescribed by the Christian Bible. For all their faults, the only group I know that actually came even somewhat close was the cult. 
my wife opposed to Wall-E? Because someone told her it was somehow un-Christian. I don't think anything that was lampooned by the movie is anything Jesus would not condemn. Why do so many Conservatives/Christians/whatever seem to believe whatever they're told? Are none of them capable of thinking for themselves? 
was a dismal and unfortunately accurate depiction of the piss poor state of health care in America. I'm shocked at how much better it is almost everywhere else. And he identified why it's different here, and traced it back to Nixon and Edgar Kaiser in 1971. It's appalling that in this country we give doctors bonuses on being able to deny as many people health care as possible, while in England doctors are given bonuses on crazy dumb-ass criteria like how many people they got to stop smoking. 
learned from it based solely on things she had heard about Michael Moore, presumably from her religious right friends. I'm glad I didn't let my own bias stop me. I've finally realized that despite being an ignorant conservative for years, I'm really a flaming liberal and I'm finally coming out of the closet. While most people my age are becoming more conservative and start voting Republican, true to the story of my life I'm doing exactly the opposite, I've wised up. I'm actually looking in to becoming an activist.
strength that's hard to find to say "we will not submit to terrorism, but neither will we become terrorists ourselves." It takes one kind of strength to stand up and criticize people like George Bush and Dick Cheney for sacrificing America's principles when times were dark, and it's entirely another to stick to those ideals when you find yourself in their position. The recent disappointments from President Obama serve to illustrate that he, just like the rest of us, is only human. Still, let's hope it doesn't happen again.
bottom without vomiting or suffocating from incredulous laughter, note how the tone changes. At the beginning the writer(s) makes an honest effort to sound legitimate, as though everything reported is mere fact. In a sense they are, in the same way North Korea reports facts on their state sponsored news agency. Towards the bottom all pretense is lost. Note the use of exclamation marks and the use of the words “we” and “our”. It’s not too hard to figure out the perspective of the writer. How many other Wikipedia articles use “we”, especially in an article about an individual? I was tempted to “correct” the article, but I suspect that’s already happened a couple of times. It’s surprising to see the “critical” links at the bottom haven’t been removed.
can live up to those standards, incidentally) and went to Portland Oregon to start again. The ICOC more or less collapsed under it’s own weight without the charismatic cult leader to hold it together. He’s still out there and he’s still ruining lives. He’s since moved back to Los Angeles and more or less rebuilt his “movement”. Apparently the current name is the Los Angeles International Christian Church (Ironically, I.C.C instead of I.C.O.C., the International Churches of Christ. Creativity does not appear to be one of his sins). 