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amyrose2712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:39 PM
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"We fought wars against this kind of European health care,"- idiot on C-span.
Sorry I just had to write that one down. Now I remember why I stopped listening to callers.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:41 PM
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1. Right - I think that's what WWI was all about - German Health Care.....
funny thing is these assholes BELIEVE what they are saying, and even dumber assholes believe them....

mark
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:57 PM
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16. The gas chambers had a 100% success rate in curing what ailed you.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:41 PM
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2. Could you hear the air whistling through the missing teeth?
Usually a sign that the call is genuine and not just some college students having fun.
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LiberalLoner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:45 PM
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3. No, but there was that slurp that you hear with full dentures....
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amyrose2712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:45 PM
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4. Yeah but I thought it was coming from the ears.
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:47 PM
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5. I have several missing teeth because I cannot afford care at this time. Thankfully they're in the
back of my mouth, but it's easily discernible how comments like yours degrade an intellectually stimulating website into a base mentality of insults.


hahaha.. just rippin' on you. But I do have missing teeth, so shuddup or I'll bite you with my sharp one that broke last year.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:56 PM
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13. I recognize that my comment was classist, ageist and dentist.
and herewith apologize for any hurt. May my remarks be extracted sans anaesthesia.
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:59 PM
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19. Forgiven, truly. And I will no longer think of you as those things or as an anti-dentite.

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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 03:15 PM
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24. I just thought it was ironic
Many of the folks most militantly against health care reform would benefit greatly from it.

Even the most basic dental care is something many Americans don't have (and many Europeans do).
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:49 PM
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6. We fought for the right to die without health care!!!
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

:crazy:
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:53 PM
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9. As Mr. Oliver Said, Ma'am
"I would rather die of a curable disease while homeless than live in the freedom killing hell-scape envisioned in this bill!"
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:53 PM
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10. Good one!!! n/t
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:54 PM
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11. it's so funny, isn't it! they're the easily led sheeple our mommas warned us about.
where they come up with these thoughts is beyond me. But I agree with the comment below, some really weird calls come in. I end up turning it after a few of them, too. It's just ends up being too much eye rolling for me in one day.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:56 PM
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14. I know. Our eyes might freeze that way!
As our mommas also said. Listening to C-Span can be dangerous to our health!
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:57 PM
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17. HA!!
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:51 PM
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7. So noted...
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:52 PM
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8. Some pretty whacked out people call in... I usually end up switching channels
as I find it so frustrating (sometimes scary) listening to some of them. Please tell me they're not for real... It's just for entertainment value, right.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:56 PM
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12. Hmmm . . . he must have been referring to the same Europe
that has all the countries that are rated much higher than the United States when it comes to health care. It's a shame you can't cure dumb.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:57 PM
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15. That is sick.
Reaganomics also destroyed public education. Obviously.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 02:59 PM
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18. Everyone knows that Hitler opened free clinics on the Polish border & that was the 1st shot of WW2
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 03:02 PM
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20. damn, those liberal textbooks misled me as a child yet again... bastards.
I oughta hunt 'em down and bite those commie-libs with my fang.
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Clyde39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 03:06 PM
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21. Has this person been to Europe and noticed how good the people there look?
We couldn't help but observe that a large majority of people are not overweight---I guess it's because of their lousy health care!
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 03:13 PM
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22. You mean the wars of PInkertons against organized labor?
The wars fought in this country for over a century pitting the workers' desire for justice and decent working conditions against the wealthy and their private police?

These wars?

http://www.amazon.com/Labor-Wars-Maguires-Workers-Memorial/dp/1931859701
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amyrose2712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 03:30 PM
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26. Not I , the C-Span caller. nt
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 04:21 PM
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27. I meant the generic, abstract "You"
not amyrose2712, of course!
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 03:14 PM
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23. Yes, European health care is horrendous. Just look, for example, at
all the illegal Scandinavian immigrants sneaking to the U.S. to get away from their hideous and oppressive socialist health care systems. Ole and Lena are coming to America to experience first-hand the wonders of $12,000/year premiums and rescission of coverage.

Of course we fought WWII so we wouldn't have to give up such a wonderful system as we have. Poor Ole and Lena.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 04:38 PM
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28. What these people don't understand is that when we fought to save Western Europe from
Nazism, we also defeated communism with our Marshall Plan, which revitalized war-ravaged Europe. The western European nations pretty much all created universal, single payer health care for their people. So in our own way, we helped them have what we don't have today...ironic, isn't it?
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 03:16 PM
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25. I'm impressed that this chuckle nut knew how to dial a phone!
Seriously, the stupidity coming from these people is too much.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 05:29 PM
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29. How do such idiots get to be on teevee?
:rofl:
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