The thing I like about those shirts with “Hollister” emblazoned on the front is that when you squint it looks like they say “I’m a Tool.”
While it’s fun watching old people at the beach look for buried treasure with their metal detectors, it’s a lot more fun bringing your own. To find the real treasure, simply bury your detector and wait for their reaction when those machines start beeping and they start digging.
To me, a new freckle is a lot like getting a tick. At first, it's a little unsettling, but you ultimately forget about it. Weeks later you notice it again and you’re surprised that it has nearly quadrupled in size. Finally, you sorta “scratch it off” and congratulate yourself for not wasting money on some silly skin doctor.
It takes a lot of maturity to take criticism from one of your writing classmates when you don’t find her to be a particularly good writer. Also, she has a big nose and is a diarrhea-face.
Actual bumper sticker with imaginary asterisk: Dissent is Patriotic*. Imaginary asterisk: Unless the issue is as important as health care reform.
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"Actual bumper sticker with imaginary asterisk: Dissent is Patriotic*. Imaginary asterisk: Unless the issue is as important as health care reform. "
Good point, Scos. After 8 years of a presidency in which the President was shielded from Town Halls unless every question was pre-screened, its been a refreshing change of pace to see Obama go about his business. Obama actually INVITES those that oppose or disagree with his health care reform policies to question him.
I do think some of the "dissent" has left the realm of dissent behind. The shouters and yellers, that stuff I don't have as much of a problem with. I do think equating Obama (or Bush) with Hitler is of questionable patriotism, and I am not surprised to see congressmen and women getting annoyed (such as Barney Frank's terrific takedown of a woman at a Town Hall who brandished a photo of Obama with a Hitler mustache). The guys showing up to the health insurance reform forums with assault weapons may be within their Constitutional rights, but I don't find that form of "dissent" to remind me Thomas Paine.
Check the aforementioned Barney Frank clip here (see what I did there Scos?)
Some good points there. While the townhalls certainly do have their "crazies" (as any protest will), the vast majority of these people are ordinary Americans who are worried about the government rushing through a 1,000 pages of (unread) legislation simply to insure people who lack medical insurance. People think this is a bait and switch for a "single-payer system," which, despite what he says now, is what Obama was in favor of just a few years ago. Nancy Pelosi herself fanned the flames when she dismissed the protestors (again) as "astroturf" and then went on to say they were "carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare." This was before her op-ed in USA that said, "These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades." That kind of hyperbolic and condescending language only makes people more upset with and distrustful of the government. Congress' and Obama's plummeting approval rates confirm this.
I'd love to talk about health care more, but the problem is, I don't want to shrink our viewership any further. Let's see what our readers think. Thanks again for the comment.
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