7 thoughts on “Open Thread”

1. He also hopes the website
   

   will be an exciting information center about state government finances, auditing issues, and accounting guidance that can help local government as well

   must be CPA humor.  

2. Because although I’m utterly ignorant of all web programming at present… I could be a total whiz tomorrow with the right people around me.

3. Any of you GMD’ers have experience with Linda Myers from Essex (Chittenden 6-1)?  Seems strange to me that a 70 year old republican woman represents a town of liberal 30 somethings that like schools. Are the Dems moving on this?

4. File under “Guess you can’t blame them for being pissed.”

   The false outrage of Deathers, Birthers, our reactionary media and congressional insurance shills includes spreading outright and gross lies about many countries’ and particularly the U.K.’s National Health Service.  

   As the outrage built on GOP fabrications goes global, it looks like British physicians, patients and average blokes who are not brain damaged, are not too happy with Republican, the U.S. Insurance Industry’s and our Conservative Media’s lies about “Socialist Medicine.” Or, as it is known to people who have evolved beyond reptilian mud worshiping swamp denizens, the health care systems that are more successful, more efficient, less costly, more humane and safer systems that give patients better results. (You know “Socialist” for short).

   Typical comments – and there are hundreds, from the The Guardian’s article:

   Funny how these rightist Americans like to point out British grumblings about our health service but rarely highlight that most people here think the best cure is to spend more public money on it!

   MPs’ expenses? Trident missiles? EU Subsidies? War in Iraq? Doesn’t matter what people oppose, eventually almost any campaign will boil down to arguing that the money would be better spent on hospitals, nurses, doctors… not that the Republicans want Americans to know this.

   The NHS ain’t perfect, but the overwhelming majority of Brits want a better NHS not private healthcare

   or

    The Yanks are doing here what they do best…hurt, damage and try to destroy those who are weakest and most vulnerable. They have done it for decades all over the world, now they are concentrating their fire on their own. Well done, americans defenders of freedom and liberty, your forefathers will be more than proud

   and

    In addition, if they weren’t so terrifyingly powerful I’d find it amusing that the conservative right are screaming Christian values and doctrine one moment (for example, in relation to abortion and gay marriage) and in the next breath attacking universal healthcare, condemning their fellow Americans to prolonged suffering because they can’t afford healthcare. Love thy neighbour is clearly an optional requirement for these hypocrites.

   and

        An NHS surgeon saved my husbands life, and my experience at my GP’s this afternoon was exemplary – unlike what my American cousin goes through in her company if one of the employees has a long term health problem the company medical insurance goes up for all of them. Oh and perhaps the right wingers can explain why we get so many health tourists?

   Note – I took a several quotes, at random, that appeared next to each other on one page. There are several pages of hundreds of quotes saying basically the same thing. These quotes are not picked out of hundreds, these are the quotes that make up hundreds.

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