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12-14-2013, 06:39 PM
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The problem with meme's is that they're usually lacking in context. It's funny, easy to swallow, doesn't require much thinking...
Stringing a lot of them together doesn't really fix that problem.
Not sure this is racist. A good test would be if you put a white guy there as a witch doctor would the point still ring true? In this case it likely would, even if it may be wrong...
-spence
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12-14-2013, 06:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
The problem with meme's is that they're usually lacking in context. It's funny, easy to swallow, doesn't require much thinking...
Stringing a lot of them together doesn't really fix that problem.
Not sure this is racist. A good test would be if you put a white guy there as a witch doctor would the point still ring true? In this case it likely would, even if it may be wrong...
-spence
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Spence makes a good test and proof. And when even Spence says "Not sure this is racist" (which I believe is Spencist for "I don't think it's racism"), that should be the end of the discussion.  One minor problem about the test of putting a white guy as a witch doctor--it's called OBAMAcare. I suppose if you used a white guy who rammed the act through or made it possible, such as Harry Reid, or even Nancy Pelosi (sort of like a guy), it would work.
Last edited by detbuch; 12-14-2013 at 07:02 PM..
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12-14-2013, 07:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
A good test would be if you put a white guy there as a witch doctor would the point still ring true? In this case it likely would, even if it may be wrong...
-spence
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there were white witch doctors..I think Northern Europe is where the term originated
1841 "In the north of England, the superstition lingers to an almost inconceivable extent. Lancashire abounds with witch-doctors, a set of quacks, who pretend to cure diseases inflicted by the devil." |
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12-14-2013, 08:52 PM
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Eben - I don't think so. And it is not how I interpret it. I saw Witch Doctor. Perhaps you see what you want to see (and no, I do not want to see a Witch Doctor  )
Detbutch - didn't you get the memo? It is now (again back to) The Affordable Care Act  |
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12-14-2013, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnR
Detbutch - didn't you get the memo? It is now (again back to) The Affordable Care Act |
Oh yeah . . . I forgot. hard to keep up with the shifting labels to suit the moment . . . like global warming to climate change. Maybe, when the higher premiums fully kick in it can be changed to just the Care Act, and then, eventually, to the I Don't Care, Just Suck It Up Act. And Quantitative Easing can just be referred to as Quantity releasing. or the Big Release of Political Gas. Political rhetoric is fun stuff . . . if it didn't so successfully hide the pain. |
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12-17-2013, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnR
Detbutch - didn't you get the memo? It is now (again back to) The Affordable Care Act |
Soon to be called the Unaffordable Care Act, forever. |
" Choose Life "
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12-26-2013, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by justplugit
Soon to be called the Unaffordable Care Act, forever.
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Yes it is . . .
When premiums exceed 8% of income they are not considered "affordable" and the mandate to purchase evaporates:
""The ACA was not designed to reduce costs or, the law's name notwithstanding, to make health insurance coverage affordable for the vast majority of Americans," says health care consultant Kip Piper, a former government and insurance industry official. "The law uses taxpayer dollars to lower costs for the low-income uninsured but it also increases costs overall and shifts costs within the marketplace.""
USAToday - 12/26/2013 |
You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you are capable of great violence.
If you are incapable of violence, you are not peaceful, you are just harmless.
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12-27-2013, 06:20 PM
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The more we learn about it the worse it gets.
IMHO,the only good thing in the whole bill is it will prevents being dropped
for pre-existing conditions. That could of easily been handled by legislative
regulation. What's one more regulation added to the 800,000 already on the
books.
The 30 million uninsured could have easily been handled by a separate
program without sinking the best medical system in the world.
It's not about health, it's about re-distribution of wealth.
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" Choose Life "
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12-28-2013, 09:21 AM
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There is more surprises coming after January 1st about Obamacare....What surprises me is that the republicans never have mentioned that people can call an insurer to get their own insurence through a private insurer without signing up for Obamacare....the only people that may qualify for a subsidy may need to sign up since regular insurence companies will not provide a subsidy.
Where R Mr. McCain and the rest of the GOP????
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