ShamusDaedal's Comments (128)

“If Montana re-elects Max Baucus should we kick it out of the union?

Just sayin'”

“This scares me to death. How will the anger generated by such things, even flipping off people upset by their callous disregard for human life, be calmed without violence? I lost a son many years ago and the pain is still here though no longer quite as fierce as once before.

I'd likely have smashed the face of a fool who taunted ME! But this company allowed a child to DIE so as not to disturb their bottom line! They are complicit in a homicide on some level. It's not "accidental" nor "murder" but a crime has been done and if our laws do nothing, someday possibly even lethal violence will come down.

Sadly, the authors of the policy will be unscathed while some underling pays with his or her life.

Congress do something, and do it NOW!”

“one of my favorites quotes:(Just seems so appropriate in this day and age.)



Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

(Siddhartha Gautama - The Buddha), 563-483 B.C.

Science provides answers that must always be questioned.

Philosophy asks questions that may never be answered.

And religion provides answers that must never be questioned.”

“I’m a retired anesthesiologist. The “free market” concept with “comparison shopping” just doesn’t work in Emergency rooms!! Gunshot victims don’t have the time for that.

But the purchases of drugs, supplies, services of “administrators” and more are quite amenable to “shopping”!

Is a hospital administrator really worth more than three or five times the value of a specialist who trained nearly a decade after medical school? How silly, but that’s what the system lets them get.

Are drug prices that can reach a 1000 % markup over cost not obscene? Hey, how do you think they can afford to pay CEO’s tens of MILLIONS of bucks each year?

Should scissors that can be had at a notions counter for 18 dollars really be worth the 165 bucks if found in a Hospital Supply catalog?

I saw these things first hand as a “hospital based” physician while the admitting doctors who sent in their patients missed it. I was there all the time and saw it clearly.

Remember, all those dollars come from PATIENTS. The “Medical Industrial Complex” is a huge efficient vacuum sucking the life out of the sick and infirm. And who do you think functions in the role of the “collectors and enforcers”? Ta Da! The insurance mobsters, that’s who.

Other countries just do not permit it!! Only SINGLE PAYER fixes the problem nearly completely.

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“The Cheney/Bush cabal came close to destroying my pride in being an American!

I hope MR. Obama pursues this matter as far as it goes!”

“I know your pain. I'm a retired "gas passer" and too many think I led a really cushy life. Like you, I did a lot at night, on weekends, and holidays and a whole lot for NO PAY.

I retired comfortably with an income roughly equal to my brother's who is a retired colonel. He put up with a lot, too, but he never had to try to beat the odds in the market for his retirement nut. Too many doctors I know are barely scraping by in their retirement. Pediatricians are really hurting.

Your specialty scared the hell out of me while I was exposed to it. You deserve any form of plush retirement you have, I could NEVER have survived in an Ob/Gyn practice. Enjoy your well earned rest.”

“Good for you!

Those other humor and intellectually challenged posters missed the irony. Back alley abortions killed and maimed. Roe v. Wade merely went with the lesser of the evils.

But who knows for sure if abortion is, in fact, evil? I sure don't.”

“EXACTLY RIGHT!!

Bush v. Gore is far and away the WORST and Criminal decision ever to come out of SCOTUS.

Dred Scott and Plessy pale in comparison.

Shame!”

“I think you are absolutely right! Since Eisenhower, the last halfway decent Republican president, the GOP has worked tirelessly to "dumb down" our populace. Just force yourself to watch Fox News (?) for a full hour.

The parade of distortions, perversions, and outright LIES (protected by the First Amendment) you'll see could NEVER be swallowed by people with a real education, and they know it!

The GOP's policies in general have allowed this once great country to slip down and to continue to slip. I owe nearly all of my present situation to the fact of the New Deal. Welfare for family stability in poverty (death of breadwinner) thru high school, college via federal scholarship, graduate school aided mainly with low cost student loans, and then to become (big time) tax PAYER to repay over and over for the sorely needed help!!

I defy any so-called conservative to name one, just one, program aimed at giving strapped youth the tools that can help them to become fully developed!! THERE ARE NONE !!”

“Halliburton should give the owners a million bucks an acre for their land. Tax free!

That's just a "drop in the bucket" to the Cheney Gang.”

“If he cut off Vincent's LEFT ear, why does the self portrait show his RIGHT ear area bandaged?”

“You're right. I'm an old man and I find that now the level of science being taught in most schools is miserable. There's some interference from the public that limits discussions of sex, elimination, and bowel functions. In my time we learned about a whole array of parasitic dangers, and this is certainly one.

Be thankful we don't live in the tropics. They have really nauseating things to face.

To this day, from fear of poison plants to vermin and bacteria and viruses, I wash my hands a lot. It's really not hard to do and so smart.”

“One of my sons in our fracturing family loved the TV show the Waltons because they cared for and loved one another because of the Depression. He was about nine when he said he wished a Depression would come back. He's now 47 and may get his wish.

Wow!”

“I'm educated to a doctorate in science, and naturally skeptical. But once, on a lark, during my forties, I listened to a "psychic". She predicted two things so specifically that to this day I still shake my head. One was a death and the other a near death.

I'd told others of the predictions before they came to pass as well.

I'm not religious at all, don't get into the "atheist v. agnostic v. deist" arguments, but definitely am an ardent "anti-theist". I deplored the way that fatuous Bush tried to force "faith-based" garbage on this country.

As for other phenomena, I just don't know.”

“All religions seem silly to me, arguing over the unknowable!

I'm glad I escaped.”

“I suppose these modern “Christians” would have supported the Romans right to beat, cut, crown with thorns, and then nail a man to a board just for being a troublemaker?

Perhaps they go to weird “churches”?”

“Right on!!

Breast implants should be an automatic disqualifying defect!”

“The appointing of Bush by the high court pushed by Scalia was a true horror. Now the arrogant Scalia has become a laughing stock. After we heard about his "S & F bomb" ruling, we howled.

When we heard about Justice Scalia’s comments, my son got nearly hysterical. After he quieted down, he proposed that we ban both those awful words from our house and substitute others for them. (We very rarely use either, I assure you)

He looked at the latest deposit on the carpet by our new puppy and said “Look, darn it! The puppy just s**t over there!” Then he guffawed and said “Let’s use another “S-bomb” instead.”

After a short debate, we settled on another “S-bomb” that means the same to us, namely SCALIA. That works just fine around here.”

“Ah, a kindred spirit! I'm a retired anesthesiologist and I and my retired colleagues are all in favor of a "single payer" system. A Canadian doctor friend whom I met when he worked here is delighted with his return to Canada.

His income is virtually the same because of his near zero overhead, and he needn't worry about how a patient can afford needed care. In fact, an illness that would have bankrupted him here (which began long after his return) is being cared for with no increase in his expenses beyond the taxes he pays.

Some doctors are indeed money grubbers and they are unethical. Most are not.

The real swine at the trough are the insurance companies, Big Pharma, and hospital supply outfits..”

“Glad to see another Marine is as exasperated as I am. Ford should only have pardoned Nixon AFTER he was convicted! Locking him up to prevent future crimes would have been silly. but for the rest of the world to see that the leader of the most powerful nation in the world could be dragged into court to account for his crimes would have shown how people power really worked!!

Ford blew it.

Reagan lied and should have been made to show how he violated OUR (we, the people's) law and he and his cohorts been made to do time.

If we, the people, let Bush and his whole miserable lying criminal crowd get a "PASS" on this monstrous pageant, who could maintain loyalty and patriotism to a gangster enterprise??

Who? Bush's base? Anyone else?”

“Just seeing how he thinks is enough to kick him off ANY bench!”

“You're right! It is snide, and stupid. The elections of our representatives and chief executive SHOULD be done democratically.

That "republic not a democracy" nonsense was thrown about along with "get over it!" after the supreme court put the worst fool ever into the highest office!!

Jefferson said that the aggregate wisdom of the people would be the best, Scalia and all ignored that and let us down.

Now look at what we've got for an honestly elected man to deal with.”

“This puts the topping on my disgust with Billy Boy!

His treatment of Lani Guinier and Joycelin Elders was so cowardly and loathsome that he lost me way back then.

Has he EVER stood up for or on any principle? Don't expect him to start now!”

“The reason WW II ended the depression is simple:

The GOP could no longer keep throwing wrenches into FDR's plan. It was working but when the Republicans pushed for cut-backs, it started to tank again.

Take a economics course, read some history, get enlightened!”

“Who's in charge of justice down there? Ed Meese?

DEATH for marijuana? Holy cow!!”