Ted Rall for April 19, 2010

Geez Ted! this one really really cracked me up

Went to get an arm fixed and wound up costing him his arm and leg.

What a complex web we weave when first we adopt a Republican health care reform. What happened to single payer ? What happened to at least a public option ? We need to elect someone who will promise and effect ‘Change’. Doesn’t look good for Bank reform either. This bi-partisanship nonsense is very confusing. Where is choice ?

Single payer will come, but not in time.

Meanwhile there’s always mis-managed health insurance.

When it comes to an individual the current system is disfunctional, have a serious problem and learn first hand.

“American exceptionalism” – that means everybody except us. It’s like how the rest of the world uses the metric system…except Burma, Liberia, and the USA.

… just a small point about the $1.2 trillion “profit” our government will make - over TWENTY YEARS! The national debt is currently more than $12 TRILLION - ten times this 20-year profit excluding interest and any additional borrowings we need to make in the meantime.

How do I not use the metric system? My car has a 3.8 litre engine, I can get in trouble for buying a gram of coke, and the nuts on my furniture are tightened by mm wrenches.

Why did the bum get evicted? Pay your rent. You should have the money, you just got “free” healthcare!

The metric system, like single-payer, is inevitable – but not until all the old-timers who know only gallons, miles, acres, and Fahrenheit thermometers have died off.

…And kilometers to go before I sleep And kilometers to go before I sleep…

Now now… we only line them up and shoot them in China.

He’s definitely all wrong for a nation of illiterates.

Not exactly the change we hoped for.

Free health care? AAAAHAHAHAHAHA.

Public option or not, its not FREE.

What I heard must be true; over 50% of the people have less than a 95 IQ. Thats where libs come from. I always wondered.

If you’re saying that taxpayers would pay for healthcare…that goes w/o saying. And 95 IQ is average…it also goes w/o saying that 50% are below that mark. All I’m wondering is how much lower you are.

95 is below average. 100 is average. Unfortunately, that means that for every genius with a 140, there are two morons with an 80.

^IQ is a pretty crude measurement, however. And it leaves some of the most important things completely unmeasured. I’ve known more than a few people who scored very high but who were idiots in crucial areas of life – such as getting along with people, or knowing right from wrong. Testable intelligence is good, but it’s not the best quality.

I heard W’s IQ was 91

@ Tigger : have you noticed that Rall is blasting Obama for being too much like Bush?

I don’t want to belabor the IQ thing, but to say that 100 is the average is not really indicative of the actual numbers of people comprising the subgroups of geniuses and morons. Those would be roughly equal if 100 were the median score rather than the mean. It’s like the old truism that if Bill Gates walked into a bar, the average worth of everybody there would immediately be in the millions. Sadly, I think the pool of unintelligent people outnumbers the smart ones.

4uk4ata

Obama = Bush Lite

Whoa, someone showing some basic grasp of statistics!

Now, consider democraSSy, where every idiot can vote: The dictatorship of the stupid. Dubya or Obummer, what’s next? Palin or Hillarious?

And then: “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” – Rita Mae Brown

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” [In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]

– Desiderius Erasmus

Even more true in the U.S. of A., where they gouge the eyes out of the two-eyed ones.

Cross the eyes and doubt the teas.

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