tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post3288574140568245506..comments2024-03-29T05:30:32.626-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: What a pack of Pussies in the US media.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12246201760032324832012-08-18T18:25:20.862-04:002012-08-18T18:25:20.862-04:00"Healthcare is not like "manufacturing,&...<i>"Healthcare is not like "manufacturing," or "lawn care"</i><br /><br />Yes, yes, it always pisses me off at cocktail parties when some moron compares health care to lawn care.<br /><br />I always say, "Sir, you are not as profound as you imagine. You are stating the obvious. Sir, you are simply not as profound as you imagine. Many may think so. But, really, they are not at all like."<br /><br />They usually get all ruffled up, indignant, and walk away.<br /><br />Once, when this happened, I was left with a nice looking girl to talk with privately, to my delight.<br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88108577055138502962012-08-18T17:32:21.870-04:002012-08-18T17:32:21.870-04:00"Every system that's superior to ours is ... <i>"Every system that's superior to ours is a Socialist-type System."</i><br /><br />Why, yes indeed. Why hadn't some of us thought of that?<br /><br />Oh, I remember......Cuba, North Korea etc etc etc etc<br /><br />Rufus, you are now getting out way ahead of even your Daily Obama Talking Points Memo. <br /><br />By the way, Ruf, you were saying one fine day how good the Afghan medical system was, better than ours, you said.<br /><br />IF you will follow to this article ....<br /><br />http://www.healthfiend.com/weeklytop/top-10-countries-with-bad-health-care/<br /><br />you will find your beloved Afghan system to be the THIRD WORST in the whole wide world.<br /><br />Want to know the worst?<br /><br />Slash and click....Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54585785730835161432012-08-18T14:24:56.484-04:002012-08-18T14:24:56.484-04:00That is the problem the right-wings have. Every s...That is the problem the right-wings have. Every system that's superior to ours is a Socialist-type System. <br /><br />Healthcare is not like "manufacturing," or "lawn care;" it does not lend itself to purely capitalist solutions.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46195860581198488972012-08-18T13:59:59.770-04:002012-08-18T13:59:59.770-04:00Israel's is a "socialized" system, a...Israel's is a "socialized" system, about halfway between Obamacare, and a One-Payer.<br /><br /><br />Roll on, Brother. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67850628213430255472012-08-18T13:56:33.716-04:002012-08-18T13:56:33.716-04:00ROMNEY PRAISES ISRAELI HEALTHCARE
Better Healthca...<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/30/romney-praises-health-care-in-israel-where-strong-government-influence-has-driven-down-costs/" rel="nofollow">ROMNEY PRAISES ISRAELI HEALTHCARE</a><br /><br />Better Healthcare than the U.S. at 8% of GDP vs Our 18% of GDP.<br /><br /><i> When our health care costs are completely out of control. Do you realize what health care spending is as a percentage of the GDP in Israel? 8 percent. You spend 8 percent of GDP on health care. And you’re a pretty healthy nation. We spend 18 percent of our GDP on health care. 10 percentage points more. <b>That gap, that 10 percent cost, let me compare that with the size of our military. Our military budget is 4 percent. Our gap with Israel is 10 points of GDP.</b> We have to find ways, not just to provide health care to more people, but to find ways to finally manage our health care costs.</i><br /><br />Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30797455738104242842012-08-18T12:31:43.634-04:002012-08-18T12:31:43.634-04:00Thank you, Rufus.
It is beginning to look as if o...Thank you, Rufus.<br /><br />It is beginning to look as if our national hooligan Obama is going to try to run out the clock until the election without holding a press conference.<br /><br />His minders don't want him to be asked 'why is no one working anymore?', a difficult question for him to answer.<br /><br />It's one thing to have Biden daily looking like a dope.....Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71793451190142480892012-08-18T12:27:14.192-04:002012-08-18T12:27:14.192-04:00A couple of the biggest, fattest doves I've ev...A couple of the biggest, fattest doves I've ever seen have lived in a tree about ten feet from my back porch for the last couple of years. It was too windy when they were trying to build their nest this year, though, and they moved to another tree. I miss watching them.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6573102775156169422012-08-18T12:24:31.090-04:002012-08-18T12:24:31.090-04:00Bob, that's the first thing you've written...Bob, that's the first thing you've written in months that is mildly interesting.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40846543813458535162012-08-18T12:23:27.699-04:002012-08-18T12:23:27.699-04:00I'm sure that makes the girls feel better (as ...I'm sure that makes the girls feel better (as they serve out their two-year sentences.)<br /><br />I'm sure the Russkies will quietly commute their sentences in a couple of months. Point having been made.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40254663915561569502012-08-18T12:21:53.453-04:002012-08-18T12:21:53.453-04:00I am starting to suspect that the beautiful clicki...I am starting to suspect that the beautiful clicking sound when the dove takes off isn't coming from the throat but from the clicking of the wings when she powers off.<br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52598668419534234422012-08-18T12:20:28.869-04:002012-08-18T12:20:28.869-04:00If the Mullahs didn't have Israel, they'd ...If the Mullahs didn't have Israel, they'd invent Israel. <br /><br />Keeps the attention of the masses away from their (the preachers) incredible growth in wealth. <br /><br />And, sure, they finance a few border raids by their proxies on Israel, but if you'll notice, Iran hasn't stepped outside its borders since JC was causing a disturbance up in the Levant.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28444518435699185302012-08-18T12:12:27.386-04:002012-08-18T12:12:27.386-04:00Breaking Pussy Riot News -
Russian Orthodox Churc...Breaking Pussy Riot News -<br /><br />Russian Orthodox Church Forgives Pussy Riot<br /><br />http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Russian-Orthodox-church-forgives-Pussy-Riot-3797872.phpBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61467197935946653762012-08-18T12:12:14.567-04:002012-08-18T12:12:14.567-04:00I think a lot of "Western" thinkers woul...I think a lot of "Western" thinkers would not look too unkindly on the "Ottoman Empire II, South" right now.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51041967581385979522012-08-18T12:09:44.769-04:002012-08-18T12:09:44.769-04:00Just like Pakistan, eh?Just like Pakistan, eh?Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3617626205764828112012-08-18T12:08:14.852-04:002012-08-18T12:08:14.852-04:00If I were Ahmanutcake, I'd be way more worried...If I were Ahmanutcake, I'd be way more worried about the Turks than the Israelis. They have the nukes, AND the Army, AND the Economy, AND, they are right next door.<br /><br />AND, they would dearly love them some oil fields.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46038945098302748812012-08-18T12:07:53.912-04:002012-08-18T12:07:53.912-04:00An attack upon the Russian nuclear power plant wil...<i>An attack upon the Russian nuclear power plant will not gain the Israeli any respite from a dispersed weapons program, if one exists.</i><br /><br />if one exists.....<br /><br />Just as I've long expected. These crafty sly Iranians have just been making it seem all these years as if they are hiding something. If they didn't want people to think they are hiding something they'd offer folks to have a real big long look at what they don't have, but they don't do this, as they want people to think they have that which they have not, kinda like Saddam maybe. They have no intention of developing nuclear weapons, don't want them, don't need them, and would never ever use them. Whole thing is a big illusory chess game, a boot without a foot, a hat without a head....Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84974623191829414572012-08-18T11:51:05.405-04:002012-08-18T11:51:05.405-04:00It wasn't about religion
It was about money an...It wasn't about religion<br />It was about money and power<br />Then and now.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28059101278321406432012-08-18T11:49:04.163-04:002012-08-18T11:49:04.163-04:00It was all about the TRADE ROUTES, back in the day...It was all about the TRADE ROUTES, back in the days of Persian carpets, b.<br /><br />It's always been about trade, in spices, slaves, or oil.<br /><br />Recall, if you will, the reason Genghis Khan marched on that region of the whirled after the Muslims killed the Trade Delegation he sent to negotiate opening his way to the West.<br /><br />desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20979596259023192472012-08-18T11:44:50.731-04:002012-08-18T11:44:50.731-04:00An attack upon the Russian nuclear power plant wil...An attack upon the Russian nuclear power plant will not gain the Israeli any respite from a dispersed weapons program, if one exists.<br />It would piss the Russians off.<br /><br />No telling how the Chinese would react, but ...<br /><br /><i>"... Major General Zhang Zhaozhong, a professor from the Chinese National Defense University, said<b> China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third World War</b>... Professor Xia Ming:<br /><b> "Zhang Zhaozhong said that not hesitating to fight a third world war would be entirely for domestic political needs...."</b></i><br /><br />desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8796988845587982352012-08-18T11:38:42.956-04:002012-08-18T11:38:42.956-04:00The Iranians told the OPEC members that anything b...The Iranians told the OPEC members that anything below $100 per barrel was unacceptable.<br /><br />They are working hard to get oil to that mark.<br /><br />The Iranians know that the Israeli cannot do any major damage to their nuclear program by bombing. This was exemplified by the Israelis poor performance on their last foray into Lebanon. A target set which was within easy striking distance of Israeli airfields. The Iranians know the tactical limitations facing the Israeli imposed by both the dispersement of the targets and the distance 'tween the Iranian target sets and the Israeli 1st Phase line. The Iranians have faith that their underground facilities will remain relatively unscathed.<br /><br />The Iranians also realize that an attack upon Iran, by the Israeli, will solidify their shaky political position in Iran.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14669024293077244622012-08-18T11:37:55.356-04:002012-08-18T11:37:55.356-04:00Do doves always give that beautiful tsde,tsde,tsde...Do doves <i>always</i> give that beautiful tsde,tsde,tsde,tsde,tsde sound when they take off? I've been watching one build a nest in a tree by the porch, so near I could spit a cherry pit and hit it. Every time out of the tree, and every time off the ground, little branch in its mouth, that same taking flight sound. I have heard that a thousand times, but this dove does it every time, and I am beginning to wonder if they always do that.<br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12498133773680574702012-08-18T11:33:00.219-04:002012-08-18T11:33:00.219-04:00I should have thought of that. Or, I should have w...I should have thought of that. Or, I should have wondered, what would Rufus say? Ah, bingo, it's about oil.<br /><br />This doesn't explain why they were so similarly aggressive before the age of oil, though. Back in the day of Persian carpets.<br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9201903479914095182012-08-18T11:00:08.813-04:002012-08-18T11:00:08.813-04:00Deuce posted the numbers, yesterday. While we'...Deuce posted the numbers, yesterday. While we've been dicking around, spending the kids' inheritance in the Middleeast, China has grown by 1,700%.<br /><br />We're letting the Oil Thugs, and the IOCs play us for fools.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8071785200894837342012-08-18T10:52:55.385-04:002012-08-18T10:52:55.385-04:00As for "loving death," I'd say they ...As for "loving death," I'd say they "love to preach," but I haven't seen any of them strapping on any suicide vests.<br /><br />Some of those old mullahs are billionaires, and Putin is definitely one of the richest men on earth.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29047840771686613732012-08-18T10:49:30.642-04:002012-08-18T10:49:30.642-04:00Corruption, tyranny, religion - they all seem to f...Corruption, tyranny, religion - they all seem to fit together, nicely, don't they?<br /><br />Tyrants, and autocrats trying to keep control of the oil money.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.com