Thursday, August 14, 2003
warren buffet: billionaire commie and scourge of the unborn
the freepers are up in arms after conan the candidate's announcement that warren buffet will be his "finincial and economic advisor." (does the finincial advisor part mean buffet will be providing arnold with stock tips and recommendations on term life insurance?)
anyway, the freepers prove that their idiocy knows no bounds. here's a sample of some comments (thanks to atrios for the link):
Sheesh. This gets worse daily. Buffett is a frickin' socialist.
courtesy of EternalVigilance
A lover of the communist graduated income tax. And other despicable things. A creep of the first degree in my mind.
courtesy of Protagoras
and then, this classic:
Warren Buffett is the greatest single enemy of the unborn in the world today. He embodies the culture of death. With him on board nothing a Schwarzenegger administration will ever do will be socially conservative.
courtesy of wideawake
you'd think making--oh, let's see--BILLIONS OF DOLLARS through capital allocation would be enough to qualify one as a good ole capitalist. but apparently the freepers have a different set of standards. kind of like their different set of standards for determining when a republican "lies" (i.e. never) and when a democrat lies (i.e. whenever they speak).
the freepers are up in arms after conan the candidate's announcement that warren buffet will be his "finincial and economic advisor." (does the finincial advisor part mean buffet will be providing arnold with stock tips and recommendations on term life insurance?)
anyway, the freepers prove that their idiocy knows no bounds. here's a sample of some comments (thanks to atrios for the link):
Sheesh. This gets worse daily. Buffett is a frickin' socialist.
courtesy of EternalVigilance
A lover of the communist graduated income tax. And other despicable things. A creep of the first degree in my mind.
courtesy of Protagoras
and then, this classic:
Warren Buffett is the greatest single enemy of the unborn in the world today. He embodies the culture of death. With him on board nothing a Schwarzenegger administration will ever do will be socially conservative.
courtesy of wideawake
you'd think making--oh, let's see--BILLIONS OF DOLLARS through capital allocation would be enough to qualify one as a good ole capitalist. but apparently the freepers have a different set of standards. kind of like their different set of standards for determining when a republican "lies" (i.e. never) and when a democrat lies (i.e. whenever they speak).
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
priceless
holy shit this guy is priceless.
“I know what we have done is right and we had to do it but there must have been a better way to do it.”
When a soldier starts his conversation like this you can’t help but really really like him. He was standing in the heat, yesterday it was about 52C, guarding the entrance to building where our “governing council” meets. And he was on a roll, the next victims of his attack were the members of the governing council themselves.
“these guys, they work only four days and take the rest of the week off, they should be working 16 hour days to get their constitution going”. Give the man a cigar.
“they have huge lunches, throw tons of food out and they drive stolen cars”, by now we were laughing so loud in the car people were looking at us like we were crazy. He said that if his name is ever mentioned he will be in trouble and mentioned something about an “article 15”. We had 20 minutes with him while we were being OK-ed for meeting a Council member, he was so cool I wish the Americans didn’t freak out every time an Iraqi walks towards them I wanted to shake his hands and say thank you. He made sure I got my pieces of paper back and let us in. But he left us with one more pearl of wisdom:
“They tell you it’s the Oil but I know it is not the Oil, I just can’t figure out what the hell it is we are here for.”
He should be on TV.
read the blog.
holy shit this guy is priceless.
“I know what we have done is right and we had to do it but there must have been a better way to do it.”
When a soldier starts his conversation like this you can’t help but really really like him. He was standing in the heat, yesterday it was about 52C, guarding the entrance to building where our “governing council” meets. And he was on a roll, the next victims of his attack were the members of the governing council themselves.
“these guys, they work only four days and take the rest of the week off, they should be working 16 hour days to get their constitution going”. Give the man a cigar.
“they have huge lunches, throw tons of food out and they drive stolen cars”, by now we were laughing so loud in the car people were looking at us like we were crazy. He said that if his name is ever mentioned he will be in trouble and mentioned something about an “article 15”. We had 20 minutes with him while we were being OK-ed for meeting a Council member, he was so cool I wish the Americans didn’t freak out every time an Iraqi walks towards them I wanted to shake his hands and say thank you. He made sure I got my pieces of paper back and let us in. But he left us with one more pearl of wisdom:
“They tell you it’s the Oil but I know it is not the Oil, I just can’t figure out what the hell it is we are here for.”
He should be on TV.
read the blog.
ha ha ha, screw you, infidel
via calpundit i get a hook-up to this iraqi blogger. i'm not sure what to make of this, but it's really pretty goddamn funny--in that jackbooted-stormtrooper-coming-to-smash-my-face-in kind of way:
G. my friend got beaten up by US Army last night, he was handcuffed and had a bag put on his head. he was kicked several times and was made to lie on his face for a while. All he wanted to do was to take pictures and report on an attack, he works for the New York Times as a translator and fixer. He got more kicks for speaking english.
his sin: he looks Iraqi and has a beard.
story will be told, I need to get him drunk enough to get the whole thing out of him he doesn't want to talk.
oh, and he has this to say about good ole' tom friedman:
...He is thinner than that picture they have on the site and he is very nice.
this guy is absolutely priceless! this blog is a must read. here's a sample--you can see the irony dripping off of every phrase:
Sanchez the genius has it finally figured out:
"Their message, he said, has been that 'when you take a father in front of his family and put a bag over his head and put him on the ground, you have had a significant adverse effect on his dignity and respect in the eyes of his family.' "
General Sanchez said the message from the Iraqis was that in doing this, you create more enemies than you capture.
Well, DUH dude. Would you like it if I try that on your family and see how you would feel about it?
any blogger who can start a phrase with, "Well, DUH dude..." is alright by me.
via calpundit i get a hook-up to this iraqi blogger. i'm not sure what to make of this, but it's really pretty goddamn funny--in that jackbooted-stormtrooper-coming-to-smash-my-face-in kind of way:
G. my friend got beaten up by US Army last night, he was handcuffed and had a bag put on his head. he was kicked several times and was made to lie on his face for a while. All he wanted to do was to take pictures and report on an attack, he works for the New York Times as a translator and fixer. He got more kicks for speaking english.
his sin: he looks Iraqi and has a beard.
story will be told, I need to get him drunk enough to get the whole thing out of him he doesn't want to talk.
oh, and he has this to say about good ole' tom friedman:
...He is thinner than that picture they have on the site and he is very nice.
this guy is absolutely priceless! this blog is a must read. here's a sample--you can see the irony dripping off of every phrase:
Sanchez the genius has it finally figured out:
"Their message, he said, has been that 'when you take a father in front of his family and put a bag over his head and put him on the ground, you have had a significant adverse effect on his dignity and respect in the eyes of his family.' "
General Sanchez said the message from the Iraqis was that in doing this, you create more enemies than you capture.
Well, DUH dude. Would you like it if I try that on your family and see how you would feel about it?
any blogger who can start a phrase with, "Well, DUH dude..." is alright by me.
now that we've won the war...
there's been something of a backlash amongst liberals against tom friedman lately due to his support of the war in iraq. he's also been a tad repetitious in the last few months with his endless refrain of: "we've won the war, now we have to win the peace." that being said, he's a lot sharper in today's editorial, although the message is still largely the same. perhaps it's the quality of the writing--his last line sums it up brilliantly:
It would be a tragic irony if the greatest technological power in the history of the world came to the cradle of civilization with its revolutionary ideas and found itself defeated because it couldn't keep the electricity on.
he also relates a story about getting robbed in broad daylight just outside of baghdad and has this to say:
...We drove for two more hours before we ran into the soldiers of a U.S. patrol and told them what had happened.
"Sorry," the sergeant said, "we just don't have enough people."
It's a travesty that four months after the fall of Saddam, the main road in and out of the country is still not safe. It underscores how much the Pentagon's ideological reach exceeds its military grasp. All of America's friends in Baghdad say the same thing: I love your ideas, but my daily life — salary, electricity, security — is worse since you came, not better.
i don't understand. is this a joke? it's gotten to the point where our soldiers just shrug and say "sorry," as if the pentagon's complete failure to adequately plan for the occupation of "a nation the size of california" is merely an acceptable hazard of the job? memo to donnie rumsfeld: GET MORE MEN TO IRAQ NOW!!!
i don't know what friedman thinks, but i'd say that winning the war won't mean anything unless we now win the peace.
UPDATE: looks like calpundit is thinking along the same lines.
there's been something of a backlash amongst liberals against tom friedman lately due to his support of the war in iraq. he's also been a tad repetitious in the last few months with his endless refrain of: "we've won the war, now we have to win the peace." that being said, he's a lot sharper in today's editorial, although the message is still largely the same. perhaps it's the quality of the writing--his last line sums it up brilliantly:
It would be a tragic irony if the greatest technological power in the history of the world came to the cradle of civilization with its revolutionary ideas and found itself defeated because it couldn't keep the electricity on.
he also relates a story about getting robbed in broad daylight just outside of baghdad and has this to say:
...We drove for two more hours before we ran into the soldiers of a U.S. patrol and told them what had happened.
"Sorry," the sergeant said, "we just don't have enough people."
It's a travesty that four months after the fall of Saddam, the main road in and out of the country is still not safe. It underscores how much the Pentagon's ideological reach exceeds its military grasp. All of America's friends in Baghdad say the same thing: I love your ideas, but my daily life — salary, electricity, security — is worse since you came, not better.
i don't understand. is this a joke? it's gotten to the point where our soldiers just shrug and say "sorry," as if the pentagon's complete failure to adequately plan for the occupation of "a nation the size of california" is merely an acceptable hazard of the job? memo to donnie rumsfeld: GET MORE MEN TO IRAQ NOW!!!
i don't know what friedman thinks, but i'd say that winning the war won't mean anything unless we now win the peace.
UPDATE: looks like calpundit is thinking along the same lines.
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
you say you're knee is hurting you? how about some open heart surgery?
does anyone doubt that the healthcare system in this country is broken? via south knox bubba, we learn that you might as well not even bother trying to go outside the system when obtaining health insurance.
So the moral of the story is, you can't beat the system. Don't even think about trying. Just go along to get along. But too bad if you are unemployed, underemployed, or a sole proprietor with no employees. In that case, as the State of Tennessee said "there are no options".
and then, i find this story about how tenet healthcare bilked medicare out of $54 million by performing unnecessary heart surgery on everyone and their brother in redding, california. i think this quote pretty much sums it up:
"I sometimes just shake my head at the American system, where the financial intent is almost cleverly designed to create mischief," said Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University health care economist. "For administrators, it creates a conflict of interest when they're trying to deliver the numbers at the same time that doctors are saying the hospital is doing too much cardiac surgery."
so let me get this straight, private companies are getting fat off of government largesse? how can this be? oh no, i'm having an o'reilly moment: TENET'S SPENDING MY TAX DOLLARS ON UNNECESSARY SURGERIES SO THEY CAN IMPROVE THEIR BOTTOM LINE? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.
whew, sorry about that. now back to your regularly scheduled blogging.
does anyone doubt that the healthcare system in this country is broken? via south knox bubba, we learn that you might as well not even bother trying to go outside the system when obtaining health insurance.
So the moral of the story is, you can't beat the system. Don't even think about trying. Just go along to get along. But too bad if you are unemployed, underemployed, or a sole proprietor with no employees. In that case, as the State of Tennessee said "there are no options".
and then, i find this story about how tenet healthcare bilked medicare out of $54 million by performing unnecessary heart surgery on everyone and their brother in redding, california. i think this quote pretty much sums it up:
"I sometimes just shake my head at the American system, where the financial intent is almost cleverly designed to create mischief," said Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University health care economist. "For administrators, it creates a conflict of interest when they're trying to deliver the numbers at the same time that doctors are saying the hospital is doing too much cardiac surgery."
so let me get this straight, private companies are getting fat off of government largesse? how can this be? oh no, i'm having an o'reilly moment: TENET'S SPENDING MY TAX DOLLARS ON UNNECESSARY SURGERIES SO THEY CAN IMPROVE THEIR BOTTOM LINE? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.
whew, sorry about that. now back to your regularly scheduled blogging.
