Dang, They Forgot The One Where He Outlawed Jesus and Made Homosexuality Mandatory
The steeple people are so upset and haggered that they have little spittle things running out the corners of their mouths over President Barack Obama.
They are whipping their Christian Soldiers into a frenzy with a new letter (PDF format) that says the Obama administration is going to require abortions and pornography in elementary school. And that’s just the start. He’s going to kill your grandmother.
Because medical resources must be rationed carefully by the government, people older than 80 have essentially no access to hospitals or surgical procedures. Their “duty” is increasingly thought to be to go home to die, so they don’t drain scarce resources from the medical system. Euthanasia is becoming more and more common.
Called a Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America, they claim we took God out of the pledge of allegiance and took away their guns. Also, they predict that Russian takes over Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. I don’t know why Obama caused that but I suspect it has something to do with kolaches.
But there’s the cool part – we get a Fairness Doctrine and a liberal Supreme Court.
Many legal scholars had predicted the Fairness Doctrine would be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. But the liberal Obama court upheld it easily. Of course, this bill fit the deeper purpose of the liberal-Left wing of American politics, which trumps all other purposes, and that is getting and increasing its power so as to impose its agenda on the nation. It was not surprising the liberal Supreme Court went along.
And the other cool part —
The Justice Department soon began to file criminal and civil charges against nearly every Bush administration official who had any involvement with the Iraq war.
I dunno, kinda sounds like a fair trade to me.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
Jumped right over the false witness commandment, didn’t they? And I bet they covet our wit and laughter.
1I guess if they can make up a whole fictitious scare story like this, a little voter fraud isn’t a big deal. This is open-mouth, smacking my head, falling on the floor stupidity.
2TexasEllen, good one!
Yeah, the only Commandments that our laws are actually based on are don’t kill, don’t steal, and don’t bear false witness (if you count that as lying to authority or perjury). Try to find a society on earth that doesn’t have those laws, regardless of religion or lack thereof.
“Liberal Obama court”…. oh be still, my heart! As if he could get anybody half liberal confirmed anyway.
3That letter was written in 2008 stating what 2012 would be like if Obama won. They were not very good at predicting what would happen over the next four years, were they.
4We have a liberal Supreme Court?
5that really puts these wingnut’s world view in perspective!
“. . . increasing its power so as to impose its agenda on the nation.”
Projection much?
6One of the things I love about that Focus on the Family letter is the Russian occupation of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic. All four of those countries are NATO members. Under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, an attack on any of those countries is treated as an attack on all 28 NATO member nations, including the United States.
7The best commentary I have seen on this is at
8http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/this-is-the-most-important-election-of-all-time-again.html
I have decided not to discuss politics with any of the right wing Teavangilists because when you do they bring up some really stupit stuff that is not ture. They have no idea how government works and which level of government does what or is in charge of what. The other day one told me that Obama has blocked the use of absentee ballots by the military. Since ballots are issued by local officals at the county level, how could a president do this? This person said by executive order. I think this would have made Fauxnews.
9Oh honey, they blame Obama for everything they don’t like, don’t matter if it’s about traffic tickets or nuthin’ else. Yes, it IS a super important election. Pick an issue. Almost any issue. I had an interesting discussion with an old lady friend in Left Texas. She had sent me that c–p about Obama and letting old people die. I just calmly wrote her a nice letter mentioning that I didn’t want to be kept plugged in if I weren’t going to be functional and maybe that is what the article was about? and lo, she agreed with me.
10Oh, lawzy me! I just read through that letter and can hardly speak. (Folks who know me say that is impossible.) How in tarnation do those people at Focus on the Family look at themselves in the mirror? Maybe we need a Department of Truth somewhere to filter this stuff through.
11I got something similar in an e-mail last night from a friend of my parents. There is no discussing this sort of insanity. My parents, on their own, decided they want to limit the amount spent on their care. Both of them have refused extensive (and expensive) dental work. Both of them asked for and completed forms giving the hospital and the doctors DNR orders. Both of them made it clear that there was a limit to the care/interference they wanted. This isn’t death panel stuff. It is common sense. We honored my mom’s wishes, and let her go peacefully. When the time comes, I will honor my dad’s wishes as well.
12Plus, if Romney wins, and Medicare gets switched to a “voucher” system, you can bet there will be limits on spending here in Texas. We all know how well federal money gets distributed to the people in this state when it comes in as a block amount to be distributed to citizens with vouchers. The fact is, there is only so much public money available. At some point, someday, we will have to look that fact in the face. Politicians on both sides need to face it and come clean with some serious plans for addressing the questions. Say the government has X number of dollars to spend. That amount will pay for one heart surgery for a person in his or her seventies. That same amount will pay for measles immunizations for every kid in a medium sized state. Which is the better use of public money? These people can castigate limits as creating “death panels” if they want, but what is their plan? These are hard questions, and screaming and running in circles won’t help get any answers.
13There have always been limits on medical spending and people have always died through lack of affordable care. Not always old people. Parents of severely disabled children–whose insurance was canceled, or whose kid ran through a lifetime of benefits in just a few years–have been told flatly that insurance won’t cover that kid any more. And some of those kids die. I know of two cases this year when people in middle age–self-employed, unable to afford health insurance–died because they couldn’t afford a trip to the ER or their doctor, and they just hoped the heart attack would quit hurting and go away. Only it didn’t.
For-profit insurance companies are harder-hearted than any government…they have a profit to make (and they’re making it.) They’re a major reason the cost of health care has gone up so much, and they get their sticky fingers into every aspect of patient care. They’re the reason we have laws saying that doctors can’t charge uninsured poor people less. So I tell people scared of “death panels” that there are already death panels…only it’s not the government pulling the plug.
While it’s true “there’s only so much public money” there’s more public money if the populace is a) healthy and b) earning an income sufficient to pay taxes. Other countries have healthier populations that live longer than we do.
14