Re: Holy fucked up healthcare reform Batman!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Everybody in America knows that Universal Healthcare is the vag that Nazi's sprung out from, and it is also from that same vag that Communists came out from. Universal Healthcare is Socialism, and that's one step away from Communism.

that last line i wrote are the exact words that my Fox News watching cousin said on her facebook, (it's a good thing she's just a slacktivist). My eyes rolled back so hard, it felt like Yuen Biao doing backflips.

if you add that to the other nuts who think that we are slowly turning into Russia, then it would seem to me that there are a lot of people who failed Social Studies/History in american high school.

the sad thing is, these people (including my cousin and her brainwasher/paranoid/wingnut boyfriend) only gets their information from FUX News and they don't trust any other information outlet whatsoever. my cousin's boyfriend even had the gall to say "well you get your information from PBS etc" when i gave her a link to information about Healthcare systems in other countries from the PBS website. I was not aware that PBS has become one very politically biased, leftwing, talking points channel. My eyes were doing parkour at that point.

Re: Holy fucked up healthcare reform Batman!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Globalization through ISO standardization, World Bank(with it's hands in all pots), Conservation International, and the WTO has built up now to a point where they can stop paying lip service to human rights/religious/environmental groups, and implement sneaky secret policies that are social nightmares like Water Privatization, Eugenics, and government subsidized healthcare for illegal alien immigrants undocumented with the USCIS.

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Also, trusting anything PBS says is totally fucked because they used to be known as the National Education Channel before THE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER!!!!


Wikipedia Article:
The network was founded as the Educational Television and Radio Center (ETRC) in November 1952 by a grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Education. It was originally a limited service for exchanging and distributing educational programs produced by local television stations to other stations; it did not produce any material by itself.[1]

In the spring of 1954, ETRC moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and on May 16 of that year it began its operation as a "network". It put together a daily five-hour package of programming, releasing it primarily on kinescope film to the affiliated stations by mail.[2] The programming was noted for treating subjects in depth, including hourlong interviews with people of literary and historical importance. The programming was also noted for being dry and academic, with little consideration given to entertainment value, a marked contrast to commercial television. Many of the shows were designed as adult education, and ETRC was nicknamed the "University of the Air".[3]

The center's headquarters moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan to New York City in 1958 and the organization became known as the National Educational Television and Radio Center (NETRC).[1]

The center became more aggressive at this time, aiming to have the role of the U.S.' fourth television network. This included the beginning of imported programming from the BBC into the United States. It increased its output to ten hours a week.[1]

The organization changed tack again in November 1963. It renamed itself National Educational Television, and spun off its radio assets. Under the centerpiece show NET Journal, NET began to air controversial, hard-hitting documentaries that explored numerous social issues of the day such as poverty and racism. While praised by critics, many affiliates, especially those in politically and culturally conservative markets, objected to the perceived liberal slant of the programming.

In 1966, NET's viability came into question when the >>>Ford Foundation<<<< decided to begin withdrawing financial support because of NET's continual need for additional funding. In the meantime, the affiliated stations were determined to try to keep that from happening by developing a reliable source of revenue.

The U.S. government intervened and created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1967 to fund the network for the time being. However, the CPB's intent was to create its own public broadcasting network. The CPB embarked on that course of action because many NET affiliates were alienated by the programming that network offered. These affiliates further felt that NET's simultaneous production and distribution of programming constituted a conflict of interest.
The last NET's 3rd and final ID. (February 19, 1968 to October 4, 1970)

PBS first began operations in 1969, with NET still producing several shows. However, NET's refusal to stop airing the critically praised but controversial documentaries led to the decision of both Ford and the CPB to shut the network down. In early 1970, both threatened to cut their funding unless NET merged its operations with Newark, New Jersey public station WNDT-TV.

On Monday October 5, 1970, the exact day that PBS began broadcasting, NET and WNDT-TV officially completed their merger. NET ceased to operate as a separate network from that point, although some NET-branded programming, such as NET Journal, was part of the PBS schedule for another couple of years before the identity was finally retired. WNDT's call sign was changed to the present WNET shortly thereafter. Some shows that began on NET, such as Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, continue to air on PBS today.



This US Health Care Bill is brought to you by Wal-Mart and Ford:
http://www.businessweek.com/careers/...mart-image.jpg


http://www.sandiego.edu/soles/images/ford_2.jpg

Re: Holy fucked up healthcare reform Batman!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

my point is they are hardly a politically skewed propaganda machine and neither are they a place to get illegitimate information from (i just saw a poll that showed that close to 50% mostly southerners consider FOX news as THE most reliable place for information). here is the exact show that i linked to and you tell me if this is a politically heavy biased report (compared to the shrill autospew points of fox news):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...roundtheworld/


on a sidenote, i like how government officials (senators, reps whatever) like to talk about how EVIL government is...as if they AREN'T part of government. wtf is up with that?

Re: Holy fucked up healthcare reform Batman!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Oh come now, don't worry, everything will be alright.



GOD, I love her too. You confuse me, boy. C'mon, fess up with the leather bit, I can't even find any Police Academy clips...

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Nooo, you can't turn into Russia! I mean, how should I read your posts in the future, since I can't read cyrillic? :(

Seriously, from across the pond this healthcare reform "debate" seems very exaggerated and quite a bit ridiculous - it's the silly season, right? Well, we have crocodile sightings at bathing lakes, you have sightings of black, democratic Nazis...

Of course, the euthanasia and Hitler analogies have been picked up by German media. - But let me assure you, they aren't anywhere near a major news topic, and are correctly being classified as "absurd" and the healthcare reform debate getting out of bounds due to the activities of calculating, conservative political forces. Critical coverage mostly concentrates on the fact that President Obama is forced to offer compromises on one of his central pre-election promises.

For those among you who understand German (or can make sens of Bablefish gibberish), here are soberly written articles from three well-respected German news authorities:
ARD: Debatte über Obamas Gesundheitsreform eskaliert
Spiegel: Obama kämpft für seine Gesundheitsreform
Zeit: Obama lenkt bei Gesundheitsreform ein

Re: Holy fucked up healthcare reform Batman!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Update on German media coverage, both from Spiegel Online:
- Front page right now: "Obama tunes financial plan of his mega reform"; a German article on political lies; Babelfish "translation".
- "Americans Want 'Freedom to Pay Too Much for Inferior Health Care'"; original English article by Spiegel Online, containing quotes from German newspapers.

Neither article even mentions the Nazi/conspiracy accusations.

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I love that this post started out with saying how "fucked" it is to trust anything on PBS, and ends with the smoking gun that clearly proves the point - "...some shows that began on NET, such as Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, continue to air on PBS today". Shit dude, you're totally right. We can't be letting our children get brainwashed by those goddamned, number counting, hand-stuffed muppets. I heard they were sponsored by the letter "H", the same letter that kicks off a name we all know - HITLER! And of course, we all know about Evil Bert...







I also love that you actually wrapped up by slapping a couple bumper stickers on your post.

I'm sorry to be so flippant - sort of - okay not really, but you're not giving me much of substance to work with here...

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:eek: ...& the left takes a swing!




http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health...rhaul_analysis

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Mister Rogers helped plump up PBS's funding like one motherfucker, wonder why he never had a catchy song about THAT, ha ha:
Mister Rogers and PBS funding

In 1969, Rogers appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts. In about six minutes of testimony, Rogers spoke of the need for social and emotional education that public television provided. He passionately argued that alternative television programming like his Neighborhood helped encourage children to become happy and productive citizens, sometimes opposing less positive messages in media and in popular culture. He even recited the lyrics to one of his songs.
The chairman of the subcommittee, John O. Pastore, was not previously familiar with Rogers' work, and was sometimes described as gruff and impatient. However, he reported that the testimony had given him goosebumps, and declared, "I think it's wonderful. Looks like you just earned the $20 million." The subsequent congressional appropriation, for 1971, increased PBS funding from $9 million to $22 million.[21]

Some other fairly recent political stuff ole Mr. Rogers was involved in getting passed before he himself passed:

• On March 4, 2003, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed Resolution 111.

which can be found........>>>HERE<<<
The NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) ultimately uses >>>PACS<<< that influence who gets supported in a campaign and how much they get:



http://i31.tinypic.com/2j2wcgx.jpg

Fair and balanced support huh? ;)

• On March 5, 2003 the U.S. Senate unanimously passed Resolution 16.............found >>>HERE<<<

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hite_House.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/co...gnify-clip.png
Rogers meeting with President George W. Bush in 2002.