On C-SPAN's call in show this morning, a woman named Bunny from Parsons, Kansas, said she was so disappointed by the Senate's health care vote that she took down her Christmas tree. And it seems like her call was not a prank.
It wasn't just Bunny's tree that went. "I have taken my Christmas wreath off my house. I have taken all the lights down," she said. "This is supposed to be a nation under God, and it isn't. They absolutely have ruined Christmas."
You can see C-SPAN host Peter Slen, no doubt trained to deal with the occasional eccentric caller, cock his head ever so slightly as Bunny breaks the news.
"So you took down your Christmas tree because of the Senate health care bill?" he asks, with a hint of incredulity.
"I certainly did. And I would like to see every light in the nation go out, especially in the White House," Bunny replies.
She also explains that members of Congress are sullying "God's holiday for the birth of his son" and that she opposes the bill so fiercely because its death panel provisions will unleash a "genocide"on seniors.
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Right, that's it, new bill- anybody who uses the phrase "Death Panel" and means it can never receive any kind of medial treatment, ever.
Yep, that's exactly what the health care bill is, you and Sarah up in Alaska (between this and bouts of almost reality television style family drama) are so brave to expose the secret genocidal plans of affordable health care /sarcasm
Meh. She's entitled to her opinion, and neither her actions (removing her Christmas lights from her house) nor her desire (that everyone else do the same) are particularly fundie.
The only real bad part is her confusion about the supposed "death panels," which is more ignorance than fundiness on her part.
(b) Construction- Nothing in this section shall be construed--
Here is the full text of the health care bill (56K warning, it's really big). Can you find me anything about "death panels" in there, besides the bit that ends with the above caveat?
Writing from Europe, for any politician here to condemn state funded health care would be political suicide.
In the name of God and all his holy saints! I live in the UK where we have a healthcare system that works, and where we don't expect too much from Obama because he is a conservative. But healthcare reform in the USA is well overdue, and what is being introduced is the same system as Switzerland, where I have also lived, and it works there.
Re: "death panels"either ...(In order to smear the Democrats, & to scare the increasing amount of "Gray Voters" into voting for them, rather than the opposition) or (because it'll cost them too much to provide medical care for the elderly...)
I'd like to take this moment to thank the right wing pundits in America, you know who you are, for spreading the usual thick covering of ripe manure on the topic of universal health care and filling the heads of people like Bunny with so many lies that she doesn't realize this bill was designed to help people like her.
But I thought that Jesus wanted people to help the sick and the poor?
Also, no country with public health care has a death panel. In fact, many countries with health care don't practise capital punishment. I am SO tired of repeating this -- I live in a country with public health care and I have elderly grandparents who are in no danger of being killed by the government for being old.
And THIS, my friends, is the danger posed by the religious right. Wrap your rhetoric in a flag and give it a cross, and these people will take it to heart. This is what sickens me about networks like Fox News: they are flagrantly abusing the trust of their viewers and spreading fear. The sheer damage they're doing to these people will take years to reverse, and they'll fight it every step of the way.
January 3rd and poor Bunny's already taking down her Xmas tree and lights?
This depresses me so much -- that's it. Down comes all my Halloween shit. Then I'm going out to the garden and eat worms. That will show them. Huh.
What is the average life expectancy in the US? Well, what do you know, it's not one of the top 20 countries. Sweden is number 8, with 80,86 (as of sometime during 2008). We have had puplic health care for more than half a century, and we're a rather secular society where the Death Penalty was outlawed in 1921.
Only Christmas haters would remove their decorations this early in Sweden. We have a tradition to keep it up for 20 days after Christmas Eve, and then have a party where we "dance out Chrismas", often literally taking the tree (minus decoration, of course) out in the yard during the "long-dance" (all are holding hands, in a long, long row and dance through the house).
What?!? Some crybaby in Kansas took down her tree because she didn't like health care reform?!? Well, that does it, recant the votes!! We can't have people throwing childish tantrums over this, now can we?
Oh crap... I live only about 15-20 miles from Parsons, KS. Yes, this kind of attitude is par for the course for this area. Lots of right-wing conservative Christians who watch Fox News so they'll know what to think.
But don't go thinking that everyone from Kansas is a right-wing fundie nutcase. It's only the several thousands of bad apples that spoil it for the other 143 of us.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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