IntLibber,
The articles in question have nothing to do with socialized medicine. They are about the government limiting access to pain medication for people with chronic pain.
The fact that government "care" follows the same regimen is incidental.
Here is a report of a citizen being prosecuted for expressing her opinion on a case being tried.
I've Got A Secret
Media "Control" of the Elections?
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I'm not happy. Send me your money. Because without all your money my pursuit of happiness will be much more difficult than average.alexjrgreen wrote:I would argue that ill-health interferes with the pursuit of happiness...IntLibber wrote:We have a right to life, we dont have a right to health.
Ah. You will probably come up with some bogus claim like I'm making your pursuit of happiness more difficult. I'm having none of it. It is self evident that my happiness is more important than yours. Just ask me.
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You don't have a right to happiness. Only the pursuit of it...MSimon wrote:I'm not happy. Send me your money. Because without all your money my pursuit of happiness will be much more difficult than average.alexjrgreen wrote:I would argue that ill-health interferes with the pursuit of happiness...IntLibber wrote:We have a right to life, we dont have a right to health.
Ah. You will probably come up with some bogus claim like I'm making your pursuit of happiness more difficult. I'm having none of it. It is self evident that my happiness is more important than yours. Just ask me.
Ars artis est celare artem.
Well OK then. Pursue better health on your own dime.alexjrgreen wrote:You don't have a right to happiness. Only the pursuit of it...MSimon wrote:I'm not happy. Send me your money. Because without all your money my pursuit of happiness will be much more difficult than average.alexjrgreen wrote: I would argue that ill-health interferes with the pursuit of happiness...
Ah. You will probably come up with some bogus claim like I'm making your pursuit of happiness more difficult. I'm having none of it. It is self evident that my happiness is more important than yours. Just ask me.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
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Someone can interfere with your right to free speech (and incur penalties at law) without changing the fact that you exercise free speech on your own dime. The same is true of the pursuit of happiness.MSimon wrote:Or was I imputing more to that than you meant?I would argue that ill-health interferes with the pursuit of happiness...
IIRC, an American couple were prosecuted recently for denying medical treatment to their child.
Ars artis est celare artem.
Geeze people! I was trying to turn this thread into a sort of resource for people to find all sorts of articles about the inbred relationship between the media and the democrats, and you guys have cluttered it all up with irrelevant crap. How did you get so very lost from whatever thread that stuff was supposed to go in ?
Schizophrenics at work (or is it play?).Diogenes wrote:Geeze people! I was trying to turn this thread into a sort of resource for people to find all sorts of articles about the inbred relationship between the media and the democrats, and you guys have cluttered it all up with irrelevant crap. How did you get so very lost from whatever thread that stuff was supposed to go in ?
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Did you hear the one about the Agnostic Dyslexic insomniac ?MSimon wrote:Schizophrenics at work (or is it play?).Diogenes wrote:Geeze people! I was trying to turn this thread into a sort of resource for people to find all sorts of articles about the inbred relationship between the media and the democrats, and you guys have cluttered it all up with irrelevant crap. How did you get so very lost from whatever thread that stuff was supposed to go in ?
He lies awake at night contemplating the existence of dog.
And it took what? 12 or 13 pages to go totally off the rails? I'd say that was outstanding - given that the usual is three or four.Diogenes wrote:Did you hear the one about the Agnostic Dyslexic insomniac ?MSimon wrote:Schizophrenics at work (or is it play?).Diogenes wrote:Geeze people! I was trying to turn this thread into a sort of resource for people to find all sorts of articles about the inbred relationship between the media and the democrats, and you guys have cluttered it all up with irrelevant crap. How did you get so very lost from whatever thread that stuff was supposed to go in ?
He lies awake at night contemplating the existence of dog.
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67% Say News Media Have Too Much Influence Over Government Decisions
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... _decisions
Voters are even more convinced now that the news media have too much influence on the actions of government and try to help political candidates they want to win. Most also still think the average reporter is more liberal than they are.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of likely U.S. voters believe the news media have too much power and influence over government decisions, up six points from October. Just eight percent (8%) think the media have too little power and influence, and 19% think their level of power is about right.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... _decisions
About time too.Skipjack wrote:I find it absuletely hillarious, that the republican candidate for vice president, Sarah Palin is now working for the oh so unbiased Fox news...
I guess that influence can go both way, cant it?
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