Re: Hello. I live in Salem, and I believe in witches.

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:04:12 PDT, chris () blask org said:
>
> > This is not to be confused with a "Deather", though by and large they are the
> > same folks.  Deathers believe that the effort to reform the US healthcare
> > system is a veiled effort to euthanize the elderly of America, reasoning (not
> > to stretch the meaning of the word) that - as happens in such socialist
> > hell-holes as the UK, Sweden and Canada - once The Guvernment is given complete
> > and unquestioned control of healthcare they will choose to deny medicine to old
> > people.  I believe the theory is that this will endear the ruling party with
> > the younger voters who will then inherit Grandpa's old slippers.
>
> And to further illustrate just how batshit crazy some people here are - the
> actual proposal that set the Deathers off was *actually*:
>
> That the government-sponsored program should pay for counseling for terminally
> ill patients, to help write up things like "durable powers of attorney" (which
> are documents that state what should happen if you're not in any condition to
> manage your affairs anymore).  So terminally people will be able to
> write a document that says "I know I have pancreatic cancer, and don't have
> long left, so if I'm in a coma, don't keep me on a respirator, and if I
> have a heart seizure, don't resuscitate me, just let me go" and avoid the
> circus that was Terry Schiavo.
>
> Of course, these same people feel threatened when the President wants to tell their
> kids to stay in school, work hard, and get good grades, because if their kids
> are well-educated, Something Evil will happen.  Like the kids might actually
> start doing some fact-checking and thinking about what their parents say.
 
That's why Santa Claus is such a good idea. 
 

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