Patterico's Pontifications

12/25/2006

Merry Christmas

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 12:22 pm



Merry Christmas!

16 Responses to “Merry Christmas”

  1. MERRY CHRISTMAS MR POTTER

    krazy kagu (9b4d22)

  2. Back at ya, Patterico!

    Merry Christmas.

    Darkmage (c20107)

  3. And amid the season’s cheer is this clunker from Ezra Klein and the LA Times, styling their kind of cheer. Welcome universal health care because…

    “Small businesses failing, big businesses foundering, individuals priced out and, amid all this, skyrocketing profits for insurers, hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers.”

    Happy New Year!

    JJ (ea6508)

  4. Ezra is only right. Sorry he’s spoiled you Holiday, but The Truth Hurts.

    David Ehrenstein (f45bb3)

  5. I’m sorry, David, but I oppose universal health care. I think that due to limited resources we should offer it only to the people of Earth.

    nk (bfc26a)

  6. Don’t you mean “Middle Earth”?

    David Ehrenstein (f45bb3)

  7. Uhh no, you must have me confused with someone else.

    nk (bfc26a)

  8. David

    Our health care system may have some problems (due mostly to government interference)

    But it is better than the “universal care” of England or Canada (do NOT be old and in need of surgery there… )

    Darleen (543cb7)

  9. Patterico

    I hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas!

    I’m sitting with a second cup o’coffee, still in robe and slippers, waiting to dig out the house from all the shedded wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, cups, plates and all other evidence of the merriment of yesterday’s celebration.

    We had four generations under one roof!! From my parents to my grandchildren.

    Darleen (543cb7)

  10. There is another path to reforming health care that deserves a much more respectful hearing than it usually gets.

    Bradley J. Fikes (639821)

  11. Bradley

    I haven’t read Cure yet, but the author was interviewed by Dennis Prager and I heard some very common sense suggestions.

    Darleen (543cb7)

  12. i offer you a “merry christmas” (belatedly, because i was away) because it’s your holiday and i’d rather you be merry than any other state, however…
    christmas is not only my least favorite holiday, it’s my least favorite day of the year. i am a pagan. i believe that the two greatest enemies of mankind are modern religions and modern corporations, and christmas is the day they join together in a hideous display of obscene excess. the friends i visited yesterday had a tv in their house, not just a standard one but one of those big, hi-def monstrosities, and (on the healthcare theme this thread diverged toward) i couldn’t help noting all the drug ads. damn, i must have seen 50-60 drug commercials in the last 24 hours. it was a dark day when prescription drugs were permitted to be advertised to end-users (and now the pharmaceutical industry is lobbying for a new rule where they don’t have to mention the side effects). to look at the power of this evil industry, you need only look at federal law; congress prohibited medicare from using its pre-eminent market clout to negotiate for lower prices. whose interests should come first, the american taxpayer or the drug industry? i have a strong sentiment about this which is in direct opposition to the industry and its republican supporters (the demos aren’t all good either). the republican medicare prescription drug “benefit” was a landmark, watershed betrayal of our interests. i could say much more but i have work to do around here, here’s a heartfelt happy new year!

    assistant devil's advocate (722259)

  13. Merry Christmas to everyone!
    ( see I am not such a bad guy after all!

    Charlie (55cd2b)

  14. Hey Big P! Hope you had a great Christmas and here’s to you and yours for a happy and productive New Year! Go ‘SC!

    Donald Douglas (8a4443)

  15. Jeebus H. Chribist. You assholes can’t even let someone have a simple Christmas post. It must suck to be you, and always be so unhappy.

    CraigC (aa6a7c)

  16. Hey ADA, it’s not Christmas anymore so how about you take a flying leap? The “evil” pharmaceutical industry has done a hell of a lot more to improve people’s lives than idiots like you ever have.

    Last and least, as a New Year’s resolution one can actually keep, what say you finally figure out how to use the goddamned shift key? It’s there for a reason.

    Xrlq (f52b4f)


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