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Orwellian covers a lot of the Bagger bull-hockey.
Student loans are the new system of indentured servitude. Wage slavery runs an interesting parallel.
MSHA, NIOSH, OSHA, NASA, NLRB . . . All faired well under tricky Dick . . . Unfortunately the paranoid insanity does cover quite a lot of stuff.
@Maxrot: "Circle of Debris found around Uranus" - headline from leftwingwacko.com. @Robert s. re: Nixon: Dont forget the overthrow of Allende in Chile.
John Adams, for all his faults and idiosyncracies, is a president who kept us OUT of a war. It's too bad that the US celebrates weapons, hegemony, empire, and destruction of anything strange.
Runaway Paranoid Insanity must cover an awful lot. A little trip down memory lane:
The bombing of Cambodia, the deportation of John Lennon, the enemies list, the plumbers, paraquat, Bebe Rebozo, Spiro (nolo contendre) Agnew, the Saturday Night massacre...just off the top of my head.
@rladolf, I don't know, Polk achieved all his goals in a single term and didn't seek re-election because of it.
Actually, "head funge" manager sounds as sensible as anything in that territory.
All Presidents pale when compared to Jefferson and the Roosevelt boys . . .
I wonder if you can flag your own comments as offensive? I might just have to try it on that last one of mine. :-)
@harry, sorry you're right... Earth is over there next to Uranus
@rladlof, Nixon not heinous as a president? Sure if you look at all the Presidents ('cept Carter) since him, amazing how our expectations in Presidents seem to continually fall. :-(
@harry,
The US War on Some Drugs goes on unfettered, to the extreme detriment to Mexico, Colombia, etc. Hillary was in Mexico City the other day, and Gates in Colombia...
Mexico by Grace Slick - Jefferson Airplane ca 1970
Owsley and Charlie, twins of the trade,
Come to the Poet's Room
Talking about the problems of a leaf,
And yes, it'll be back soon
There used to be tons of gold and green
Comin' up here from Mexico
A donde esta la planta, mi amigo, del sol?
[The translation is: "Where is the plant, my friend, of the sun."]
But Mexico is under the thumb
Of a man we call Richard
And he's come to call himself king
But he's a small-headed man
And he doesn't know a thing
About how to deal for you
How to deal for you
There are millions of you now
I mean it's not as if you were alone
There are brothers everywhere
Just waiting for a toke on that gold
And God knows how far it can go
You're famous Uncle Charlie
For your Mexican smoke
You're a legend Owsley
For your righteous dope
There were a half a million people on the lawn
And we sang to their faces in the dawn
How long will that young race
Wait for the jailer's time to end?
How long will the Panther race
Wait for the iron bars to bend?
And no no no no no nobody waits
How Long
thats not earth, thats Pluto's play-toy.
Actually . . . Except for the runaway paranoid insanity, Richard Nixon was not heinous as a President.
@harry, c'mon everyone knows Earth is right there between Pluto and.... Mickey Mouse.
This doctor claims Canadian after Canadian that comes to his office bitches about their system. Just how many Canadians need to travel to Arizona for Skin issues? How stupid does this Doc think average people are to buy that load of BS? (He must be hanging 'round too many t-hags)
@Robert S.: wonder how many Americans can find Earth on a map? :D
Isn't Dr. Scherzer actually threatening to take *down* his shingle, not hang it UP, which is what one does to open UP a practice?
The problem with enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act is that the times are more complicated than they once were. Back in the day, the courts only required the "belief" that a business was behaving in a monopolistic manner. But the Act itself doesn't specifically define what is or is not monopolistic behavior (only its outlines) and in the past 30 or 40 years the courts have required more specific guidelines that make it more difficult for bringing successful cases against monopolistic behavior. It is interesting to note that at the time the act was passed many people--perhaps Sherman himself-- thought that the act was merely a political charade that had no real authority or benefit.
@rladlof:
Painful as it is to admit, on a domestic agenda, Nixon was to the left (economically) of Clinton, Obama or many current democrats. Sure he pushed Milton Freidmanism on Chile, but refused despite great urgings, to implement the Chicago Boys agenda in the US. Freidman almost had a fit when NIxon imposed wage and price controls.
I suggest that Canadians who show up in US medical offices complaining about their wait times, etc. are mostly upper middle class folks who can afford to travel.
It's kind of like some of the first polls that showed Herbert Hoover to be many points ahead of Roosevelt. The reason? The pollsters used the telephone system, which most people could not afford.
A Robert s.: In Mexico, they have 2 sayings about the US:
1. Whenever the US sneezes, Mexico gets cancer; and,
2. Poor Mexico...so far from God, so near the United States.
How old is this doc? Maybe he was going to retire in 2014 anyway!
So keep your own insurance if you like it you big baby.