ShamusDaedal's Comments (93)

“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!”

“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.

”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!!”

“This whole concept is very complicated and gets more so nearly daily. As an American, I might have used the term over there since it meant nothing to me until I read the articles. Ignorance of sensitivities may be no excuse, but in America all ages of black males are "men" and NEVER, even at age ten, called "boy". Be warned.

"Huckleberry Finn" has been criticized, even had demands that it be removed from schools in Chicago here in America. Would the irony have been nearly as powerful had Mark Twain referred to the most noble, unselfish, and loving character in that story as "black runaway slave"?

Hell, no! He deliberately used the ugly "Ni#**r" to show the glaring stupidity of preconceptions.

If Gollywog is nasty in the UK I'm now warned. Thank you.”

“Good for you!

From here, a hearty "WELL DONE".”

“You hint at something that's been worrying me for the last eight years! If my rage at the high court for appointing Bush and at Congress for letting the neo-cons get away with theft and murder is matched widely, good old Western "necktie parties" may become common.

Oh, right. After the "Let them eat cake" thing, it was the guillotine wasn't it?

We don't need a mess like that. Obama may be able to cool it.”

“Obama's power must come from the Congress, and they could do it but it will take guts to face down campaign contributers:

Corporations are an artificial creation of law. They exist at the suffrage of the government and are subject to rules laid down by government. So:

Match the control of “minimum wages” with controls on “maximum” wages. Those obscene multibillion dollar salaries and bonuses far over the rational levels just give money that could go to both workers and the shareholders. There’s a stimulus for you when money gets into the hands of people who will spend it.

Social Security is fed by the “payroll tax” and everyone pays something out of wages. If there’s not enough money from that, why not just levy the tax on ALL gross income? Then not only the lowest brackets would be hit the hardest.

Oh, should we make someone making “only” 5 million bucks struggle along with “only” a measly 2 0r 3 million?

And don’t call those amounts “hard earned”. Construction or mining or logging or farming or ditch digging or house cleaning jobs are hard work. Using the mind is not easy either, but are the services of a hedge fund guy or stock dealer or corporate lawyer really worth thousands of times more than those of teachers, most health care professionals, or social service workers? Give me a break!”

“Just as a referee cannot get into a game, Mathews kept out, but he also let that fatuous jerk pay out enough line to really HANG HIMSELF.

BEAUTIFUL”

“And be sure to point out how Gupta attacked Moore because he's a shill for Big Pharma, Doc!

I'm another MD who is suspicious of "Dr. Sanjay"”

“I'm a retired anesthesiologist and saw "Sicko" with a surgeon friend. We both thought Michael Moore was right on! He is no fool, and caught so much truth about our present system that we left the theater hoping all Americans would see it.

A lunch group of retired MD's here all agree that single payer is the way to go.

James Hearn MD
Portland, OR”