Comments on: Speaking of Sick http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:58:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Linkmeister http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137588 Linkmeister Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:14:54 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137588 "<i>you remind us all that political decisions have living and breathing consequences.</i>" Amen. I didn't comment the other day when you posted your query, but Michael just nailed my thoughts. “you remind us all that political decisions have living and breathing consequences.”

Amen. I didn’t comment the other day when you posted your query, but Michael just nailed my thoughts.

]]> By: Michael Bloom http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137587 Michael Bloom Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:13:06 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137587 As your other commenters have already noted, yes, the Republicans think we can and should go on like this, that the state of the union is sound. I think they think the game is up, that their various depredations have well and truly shit the bed and America's not gonna get out of this alive, and now they're basically just running out the clock and stealing the last few bits of silverware. I don't necessarily agree, after all they've always been the Party of Fear (tm) and so they're bound to take the most pessimistic view of things. But it will be the end if whoever wins in November doesn't investigate everything that went down in the Bush/Cheney regime and roll it all back and aggressively prosecute real malfeasance. I agree that Obama hasn't shown the stones to do that, but I'm not convinced that Clinton will either. About your issues with SG, I appreciate that reporting stories like this one can just tear your heart out, but part of why I love this blog is that you don't pretend everything's just a statistic, but you remind us all that political decisions have living and breathing consequences. As your other commenters have already noted, yes, the Republicans think we can and should go on like this, that the state of the union is sound.

I think they think the game is up, that their various depredations have well and truly shit the bed and America’s not gonna get out of this alive, and now they’re basically just running out the clock and stealing the last few bits of silverware. I don’t necessarily agree, after all they’ve always been the Party of Fear ™ and so they’re bound to take the most pessimistic view of things. But it will be the end if whoever wins in November doesn’t investigate everything that went down in the Bush/Cheney regime and roll it all back and aggressively prosecute real malfeasance. I agree that Obama hasn’t shown the stones to do that, but I’m not convinced that Clinton will either.

About your issues with SG, I appreciate that reporting stories like this one can just tear your heart out, but part of why I love this blog is that you don’t pretend everything’s just a statistic, but you remind us all that political decisions have living and breathing consequences.

]]> By: Dr. S http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137585 Dr. S Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:17:10 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137585 Condolences to the family. Condolences to the family.

]]> By: sparrow http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137577 sparrow Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:33:05 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137577 Hell yes, there are a lot of people who think we can go on like this. There're called Republicans. The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. - John Kenneth Galbraith Hell yes, there are a lot of people who think we can go on like this. There’re called Republicans.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. - John Kenneth Galbraith

]]> By: Linkmeister http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137575 Linkmeister Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:19:15 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/03/12/11/speaking-of-sick/#comment-137575 Sure. John McCain and the party he's trying to lead. Did you see "60 Minutes" last night, specifically the segment about the NGO designed to provide health care to Third World people who couldn't easily get it, but who now spend 40% of their time working in the United States? Sure. John McCain and the party he’s trying to lead.

Did you see “60 Minutes” last night, specifically the segment about the NGO designed to provide health care to Third World people who couldn’t easily get it, but who now spend 40% of their time working in the United States?

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