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Oct. 16th, 2007 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Pink Raygun review for Heroes last night is up.
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It's like this, folks: SCHIP is not about politics unless you make it. You can bandy back and forth about this and pretend it's all about manuevering, but in the end it comes back to kids. Kids need health care. Period. The political gain spread out on less than a thousand people in the federal government is nowhere near as much a coup as it would be to the parents and fucking humane human beings who recognize the fact that kids don't have health care is a crisis that cannot be solved by a cut-throat, merciless private-owner market.
If you firmly believe that children deserve to be punished for their parents' inability to afford healthcare on a salary that disqualifies them for health care through medicaid/medicare, fine. You're a scumbag, but fine. At least it's not a weak excuse to throw the suffering of children onto the fire of "politics." Admit it to the following: "I am perfectly comfortable enjoying a negligible amount extra money to spend on myself that would otherwise have gone towards insuring the health of future generations of America," and be done with it.
To everyone else--those people who still have something resembling humanity and a heart in their chest: this is what those selfish bastards don't care about (warning: the pictures are graphic and made me cry).
Conservative blowhards are now accusing the Frosts of unseemliness and bad form for bringing out these photos to show what their children suffered. Right, because it's so low to actually reveal the truth these days. Nothing like that high-mindedness of attacking a family that nearly lost their children in an accident. No sir. I see that little boy in the first photo and I see what the conservative nuts don't get: I see them looming over the kid's bed trying to disconnect each separate line that is keeping him alive. Because he doesn't have the supposed right-to-life that he might have enjoyed if he were a bunch of cells parasitizing his mother.
Would you want this to be how the Frosts saw their kids last? All because we couldn't invest a little in making sure that, in an emergency, they wouldn't have to make that decision? Gross me out.
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It's like this, folks: SCHIP is not about politics unless you make it. You can bandy back and forth about this and pretend it's all about manuevering, but in the end it comes back to kids. Kids need health care. Period. The political gain spread out on less than a thousand people in the federal government is nowhere near as much a coup as it would be to the parents and fucking humane human beings who recognize the fact that kids don't have health care is a crisis that cannot be solved by a cut-throat, merciless private-owner market.
If you firmly believe that children deserve to be punished for their parents' inability to afford healthcare on a salary that disqualifies them for health care through medicaid/medicare, fine. You're a scumbag, but fine. At least it's not a weak excuse to throw the suffering of children onto the fire of "politics." Admit it to the following: "I am perfectly comfortable enjoying a negligible amount extra money to spend on myself that would otherwise have gone towards insuring the health of future generations of America," and be done with it.
To everyone else--those people who still have something resembling humanity and a heart in their chest: this is what those selfish bastards don't care about (warning: the pictures are graphic and made me cry).
Conservative blowhards are now accusing the Frosts of unseemliness and bad form for bringing out these photos to show what their children suffered. Right, because it's so low to actually reveal the truth these days. Nothing like that high-mindedness of attacking a family that nearly lost their children in an accident. No sir. I see that little boy in the first photo and I see what the conservative nuts don't get: I see them looming over the kid's bed trying to disconnect each separate line that is keeping him alive. Because he doesn't have the supposed right-to-life that he might have enjoyed if he were a bunch of cells parasitizing his mother.
Would you want this to be how the Frosts saw their kids last? All because we couldn't invest a little in making sure that, in an emergency, they wouldn't have to make that decision? Gross me out.
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Date: 2007-10-16 07:04 pm (UTC)This is how I feel about 'honest' conservative candidates like Ron Paul or John McCain.
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Date: 2007-10-16 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-16 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-16 07:56 pm (UTC)