It’s Malkin Squawkin’ Time
For some hard to fathom reason Michelle Malkin is, tragically, still alive and, to prove beyond doubt the injustice of her own continued existence, takes the opportunity to mock the death of some poor guy who died because he didn’t have health insurance. As you might recall, the usual response of this vile dwarf to people who have no health insurance has been to drive to their homes and peer in their kitchens to see if they have squandered their premiums on granite countertops. So this latest ploy by Malkin is a step downward — even for her.
The news story that started all of Malkin’s squawking and fussing concerns a guy who died from a toothache because he couldn’t afford an antibiotic prescribed for him when he went to the emergency room. According to Malkin, he died not from the infected tooth but, rather, because he was a dumb fuck. To prove this she finds a Wal-Mart that offers a bottle of amoxcicillin for $4, not that she cites any proof (nor could I find any) that this was what was actually prescribed. Apparently Malkin thinks you can march into a pharmacy and ask them to hand over their cheapest generic antibiotic without a prescription and that this antibiotic would, naturally, be effective against any and all infections.
Then again, of course, there is the problem that even $4 might be too much.
Some socialized health care zealots will argue that $4 … is too high a price for antibiotics. But co-pays serve a rational economic and public health purpose. They encourage consumers to be judicious and discourage patients from demanding that doctors dispense every last drug recklessly like Pez candy.
If a few poor people have to bite the dust so that only rich people can fill up their Pez dispensers with Cipro, well that’s just God letting us know who counts and who doesn’t.
WARNING: If you venture into Michelle’s comments section, we will not be liable for any self-inflicted injuries, including, without limitation, those caused by icepicks jabbed into eyeballs or subcranial injections of concentrated bleach solutions.
Fox News STILL pays her for this sort of unpardonable, indefensible shit. She should be poor, destitute and forced to manipulate her labia for coinage of minor denomination in front of an audience of ugly, slack-jawed sailors for the rest of her life.
I would be more diligent in taking my prescriptions if the pharmacy would use PEZ dispensers rather than child-proof bottles.
Please do not give the designers of colonoscopes any bright ideas.
Fox News STILL pays her
Behold the wonders of media concentration.
I vote we kick Rupert Murdoch out of the country and break up the FAUX Nooze empire.
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This web site has consistently provided evidence for an unavoidable conclusion.
There is an interesting subgroup of the human species whose members are readily identified and who appear over-represented among GOP media pundits. Upon direct observation of the normal, “intake” end of their alimentary canals, one is forced to hypothesize that members of this subgroup are physiologically and anatomically notable in having said canals arranged in opposite orientation of that of the majority of the population.
I fear that if I gazed upon the unspeakable Lovecraftian horror that is her comments section I would be driven permanently insane.
Well, that is, more insane than I am already.
I fear that if I gazed upon the unspeakable Lovecraftian horror that is her comments section I would be driven permanently insane.
Battle not with Malkin, lest you become a Malkin yourself. And when you gaze into the comments section, the comments section gazes also into you.
I fear that if I gazed upon the unspeakable Lovecraftian horror that is her comments section I would be driven permanently insane.
*shudder* i just read them all…why am i such a masochist?!?!?
they span from holy roller (god has not yet seen fit to send texas rain, but he will…keep praying!) to soulless evil (he should have gotten an education before he decided to have kids…and just where IS the mother and he only wanted the pain meds because he’s a lazy, stupid addict)
Some socialized health care zealots will argue that $4 … is too high a price for antibiotics. But co-pays serve a rational economic and public health purpose. They encourage consumers to be judicious and discourage patients from demanding that doctors dispense every last drug recklessly like Pez candy.
It requires a true hero to battle so flimsy a straw man. You might think he looks too weak to pose a real threat, but that’s what they said about Gumby.
Some profitized care zealots would argue that it’s better if people die than put together a system that allows poor black people to get health care.
Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.
/Rodney Dangerfield.
You know, I thought about commenting on the article, but then I realized to do that effectively and intelligently, I would have to cease pretending that Michelle Malkin is just a repellent nightmare caused by too much spaghetti and absinthe too close to bedtime.
So, anyone do anything fun over the weekend? I took some nice motorcycle rides.
How does someone get that fucked up? Malkin is just such a completely reprehensible and repulsive person. It’s just not fucking normal.
also, why hasn’t andon been banned yet?
Anyone know if there’s a killfile script for Safari?
If this is the state of our forces in the Pacific, we better hope Guam ain’t looking for a fight.
Michelle Malkin’s heart is the size of a dried, shriveled, dessicated pea.
Michelle Malkin’s heart is the size of a dried, shriveled, dessicated pea.
Aren’t dried per what they used to put in whistles to create a rattling sound?
This hate-filled witch got her start with the rightwing noise machine by defending the Japanese-American internment in WW2, and she’s done nothing but go downhill from that abyss.
A true intellectual.
She is such a cunt bucket.
I don’t know—at least most of her commenters reply in complete (if morally abhorrent content-wise) sentences. We, on the other hand, get andon, who HAS to be some sort of computer program because no human being could string together such gibberish on such a consistent basis.
It does remind me, however, to reinstall the dancing badgers script.
As far as Malkin goes … well, she’s like that chunk of black stuff at the end of Time Bandits: Pure evil. To the fucking core. Just nothing there that could be described as decent or even human. It’s all about the cause, and if people need to die in service to that cause, so be it.
And if that doesn’t work, there’s always her cheerleading career …
And Malkin once again wins this week’s Rabid Tsitzu Award.
How does someone get that fucked up? Malkin is just such a completely reprehensible and repulsive person. It’s just not fucking normal.
In small steps. You defend one little instance of a president taking a big fat shit on the Constitution for “obvious, justifiable reasons”, and pretty soon you’re in a contest with Coulter to be the world’s largest shitmallet. I think that’s what happens to all of them. You take one little step too far, then you have to defend that, then you have to build your platform around defending the indefensible…It’s a process. Nobody starts out this utterly useless.
Ok, not that it excuses the Malkinthing, but…my first response to hearing about this horrible incident was…”what, the doctor in the ER didn’t inform him that 1) clearing up the infection would make the pain go away and 2) that the infection was quite dangerous?” I also noted that amoxicillan IS the most typical antibiotic prescribed for oral abcesses – it’s very effective against anaerobic bacteria – and that a round of amoxicillan goes for less than $20 at Walgreen’s. The pain meds ALWAYS cost more than that.
But here’s the thing: number 1, we don’t know what, if anything, the doctor in the ER told the guy. If it was a typical ER, they may have rushed him through as quickly as possible, just written out the scripts and sent him on his way. 2, we don’t know how much pain this guy may have been in – it’s entirely possible that he was hurting so bad that he couldn’t focus on anything but getting relief from the pain. 3, we don’t know what this guy’s level of knowledge or lack thereof was. Obviously, he wasn’t a doctor himself. How much did he know about the dangers of this type of infection, and how much did he know about the cost of the antibiotic that had been prescribed to him? It may well be that he went to fill the prescriptions, found out that it was gonna be $60 for both, only had $50, and decided he just had to have the pain relief. We don’t know – and neither does the Malkinthing.
Here’s what we DO know: this guy, a young man of 24 who was otherwise in good health, died for lack of medicine costing less than $20, IN THE RICHEST NATION THAT HAS EVER EXISTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. And THAT is criminal.
The fact that the Malkinthing looks at the situation and concludes the guy deserved to die is more criminal yet.
Copays also are what is available to people who have health insurance and so completely irrelevant in the case of this man and other people in his situation. But if Malkin &c were the sort to let facts inform her commentary … the world would be 50 – 75% nicer and I wouldn’t be in the mood to smash something.
I mean in these times of economic strife, what kind of humanoid can be comforted by the knowledge know that if a man’s poverty should result in his death … Malkin will be there to piss on his plain pine casket?
In front of his family.
Slightly OT: Whenever I read the transcriptions of the Blar har gibber foam crew, I think of their kids. I went to school with Judith Matin’s (AKA Miss Manners) kids and we teased them about THAT a bit. I can’t imagine what fReichtard children have to put up with.
p.s. Yeah, if andon could be given the business end of the banhammer, that would be grand. Merci.
And … to top it off, something ate my brilliant comment.
Don’t mind me. I’ll be up on the bell tower, telling my gun how much I love it.
This hate-filled witch got her start with the rightwing noise machine by defending the Japanese-American internment in WW2, and she’s done nothing but go downhill from that abyss.
As far as Malkin goes … well, she’s like that chunk of black stuff at the end of Time Bandits: Pure evil. To the fucking core. Just nothing there that could be described as decent or even human. It’s all about the cause, and if people need to die in service to that cause, so be it.
In the search for a word that appropriately defines the depth of Malkin’s heinousness, I submit this entry from Cerberus at the end of the last thread:
I’m okay with using this word for Malkin and her ilk.
Nazis. I hate these guys…
How does someone get that fucked up? Malkin is just such a completely reprehensible and repulsive person. It’s just not fucking normal.
oh, i thought you were talking about andon…but ya know, it’s fitting either way…
I just love a nice false equivalency before lunch.
1) A wisdom tooth extraction is not the same as the extraction of an erupted tooth. It requires sedation and a surgical procedure, as wisdom teeth are quite often impacted and fail to erupt normally, hence the infection that can accompany them. So, rather than an $80 extraction, wisdom tooth extraction usually runs into the hundreds of dollars.
2) A dental infection can be hard to treat. I recently had a broken molar that got infected before I could get it extracted and it took a ten day course of Amoxicillin and another 10 day course of Metronidazole to get it under control enough to go ahead with the extraction. Amoxicillin … four bucks. Metronidazole? No way. Pain medication? You bet your sweet ass. It was that or a bullet to my head.
3) Years ago I had a dental abscess. I DID have dental insurance AND a dentist, and I’d seen him four times in two weeks because of the pain and had x-rays at every visit, but he never found the problem until my gums exploded. It required hospitalization and IV antibiotics to treat it.
4) Ms. Malkin should experience a raging dental abscess. It’s enlightening.
And Malkin once again wins this week’s Rabid Tsitzu Award.
she does gots choots-pah, i’ll giver her that!
Pardon my ignorance, but exactly what is a “Snotcho”?
We don’t know – and neither does the Malkinthing.
Here’s what we DO know: this guy, a young man of 24 who was otherwise in good health, died for lack of medicine costing less than $20, IN THE RICHEST NATION THAT HAS EVER EXISTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. And THAT is criminal.
and also too, another thing we don’t know is his geographics…what if walmart and walgreens or cvs not just around the corner…and i doubt dude had a car…and navigating the bus system whilst in agony? not something i would like to fucking try…
the fact is (sheesh, now i sound like gary) we DON’T know some of the details, but why is a fetus’ rights and sanctity more important that a young father’s? answer me that, malkinthing!
Here you go, S.P.P.
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Way, way OT, but, T. Boone Pickens, SOCIALIST.
Money quote: “You’ve got to have an equal deal like the SEC. You can fix the Big 12 now, but it’s got to go to an equal deal, and it’s not equal.”
4) Ms. Malkin should experience a raging dental abscess. It’s enlightening.
malkin IS a raging dental abscess…small, poisonous and suicide inducing…
i had one in when i was in my teens whilst living in rural texas…yeah! good luck getting to a dentist! especially on while on welfare! oh, sorry, the doc isn’t taking new patients (welfare, that is) now! so, sorry…try dr. so and so…he’s another 50 miles away!
yeah, good times…good times…
If you venture into Michelle’s comments section
I did that long ago and never again. It’s like Event Horizon, only without the happy moments.
sheesh, now i sound like gary
Damn, I forgot all about that guy.
Wonder if he’ll be back as the 2012 election season picks up?
Fun comment!
Getting paid to be breathtakingly odious human detritus on TeeVee is right there in the Constitution, sheeple! Also, it’s obvious that your calling her out on being a total fucking ghoul makes HER the real victim of far-left hatecrime.
Liberalism: it’s all about the hate. Also, Sharia Law homonups & secular humanist buttsex.
Alternate Caption: “This barbecued infant is plainly well-done! I specifically asked for medium-rare infant! You’re going to get a thumbs-down review on my blog! I demand to see the chef AT ONCE!”
For a lark, let’s assume that Malkin’s strawman IS REAL. Let’s assume that some pharmacy was gouging people who needed antibiotics by a factor of over 600%. Let’s assume that d00d really could afford either painkillers or antibiotics. Let’s assume that teh painkillers were for pain only, and had nothing to do with decreasing inflammation or anything else. Let’s assume that if d00d had only gone to Wal-Mart, forgone teh apparently medically unnecessary painkillers he could have gotten his antibiotics script filled.
She’s still essentially WRNOG.
c.f. (from teh ABC story emphasis mine)
It’s not about teh fact that teh gubmint don’t pay for drugs – it’s that as one of teh many many uninsured – he went without simple, basic, cheap easy medical care – and his problem developed into something far more serious. Even had he gotten teh antibiotics, there’s no guarantee that they would have saved his life.
Even if you consider all of Malkin’s random babbling about teh price of antibiotics – teh basic story here is about a guy who had an easily treatable medical condition that developed into a life-threatening condition because he was uninsured. That’s teh story.
And all of that is separate from teh whole TWENTY SEVEN BUCKS!?!!? WTF?! It’s not like he couldn’t afford thems expensive cancer drugs or wev – he died over twenty-fucking-seven measly fucking dollares. That is NOT an argument that teh social security net is good enough YOU DUMB FUCKING BITCH. FUCK YOU MICHELLE MALKIN.
Not saying the guy was selling his meds on the street, not saying he wasn’t…just stating the facts.
There aren’t enough “Fuck you”s in the universe.
Here’s a commenter begging me to shoot him in his fucking face:
Liberalism: it’s all about the hate. Also, Sharia Law homonups & secular humanist buttsex.
I came for the Sharia and stayed for the compulsory buttsecks.
Here’s a commenter begging me to shoot him in his fucking face:
yeah…i read this one earlier this morning and simultaneously threw up a little, reached for a gun and slammed a shot of whiskey…really?
bringthenoise is right: there aren’t enough fuck yous in the universe…
I’m not saying commenter TGC regularly kidnaps, tortures, roasts and eats neighbourhood puppies, and I’m not saying he doesn’t. The facts are the facts.
goddamn, you tsam!
In both of these cases, the system worked as well anyone could want but mom wants to hold on to her fifteen minutes of fame forever.
because a mother grieves her dead son forever you fuck! especially when said son was so heinously murdered…how do people write things like that and pass as ‘normal’ in society?!?!?
I’m not saying commenter TGC regularly kidnaps, tortures, roasts and eats neighbourhood puppies, and I’m not saying he doesn’t. The facts are the facts.
well, i heard it was BABBIES…that’s what my friend heard from the teevee…it must be true…at the very least, it would be irresponsible not to speculate…cuz it COULD happen!
Well tsam, didn’t ya hear? Virginia Fox (R-Asshole; biggest asshole on the planet), while arguing against re-authorization of the hate crime law, told us the “truth” about the Matthew Shepard case. It was, she said, “a very unfortunate incident” but “it’s really a hoax”.
And she said it with Matthew Shepard’s mother in the gallery.
Seriously. What. The. Figging. Fuck.
I don’t care what kind of magical unicorns dance around hypotehtical drug prices – and let’s not get into teh fucking ridiculous nonsense they are babbling about Deamonte Driver, a twelve year old who also succumbed to eaily treatable tooth abcesses. People have fucking died. From FUCKING TOOTH DECAY. Died of it. Because they couldn’t get simply and cheap medical procedures. BECAUSE PRIVATE HEALTH ISURANCE IS SO MUCH BETTAR SO SHUT UP YOU FUCKING HIPPIE.
People dying of easily treatable medical conditions is NOT a good thing. It is NOT a sign that everything is all hunky dory in teh world of provision of medical services. Make-up as many fantasy land scenarios as you want – these all indicate that there is a big problem in teh system and a lot moar needs to be done to help those who need it.
because a mother grieves her dead son forever you fuck! especially when said son was so heinously murdered…how do people write things like that and pass as ‘normal’ in society?!?!?
They don’t, really. This is just another example of conservative thinking. “It didn’t happen to me, I don’t quite get it, so it’s fair game for mockery”.
Not one of them, apparently, is able to stop and think for just a second about what it must be like for a mother to lose her son to a completely random, heinous act of cowardice and hate. Part of the reason for that is that they have to surrender their own cowardice and hate. Someone might think he’s a faggot if he did that.
I came for the Sharia and stayed for the compulsory buttocks.
You and everybody else.
Also, health insurance is relatively easy to get compared to dental insurance, which would likely stop the tooth decay before it becomes a deadly abcess. It’s often overlooked in these discussions, but for some fucking reason, optical and dental coverage are just nowhere to be found.
I believe they think of it like a form of natural selection. The minute one of those fucks uses that term, however, we need to hand him his fucking ass.
Off topic; “Closing the ‘Collapse Gap.'” A bunch of slides (quickly and easily read), comparing the U.S. and USSR, whose thesis statement is, the Soviet Union was much better prepared for economic collapse than the United States is.
(Not especially surprising slides, but always worth the read IMO. And, in fairness, I’d say “of course the Russians handled collapse better: they were always much closer to the bottom of than Americans were.” The higher up you are, the farther the distance you fall…)
Thanks o Gods of Sadly, No!
I’ll come down now.
Maybe not.
I’d forgotten about this (wonder why) but I’ll say again: How the hell can an event be both an unfortunate incident AND a hoax?
These people put the Dumb and the Fuck in dumbfuck and when anyone suggests I need to be civil to these human boils I make it a point to laugh very hard.
According to every article I’ve read, he had two prescriptions: one for painkiller, one for antibiotics, but could not afford both.
So he chose the painkiller, because, you know, sleep is important if you’re an aspiring paralegal.
There is no circle of hell deep enough for Malkin.
Unless it is happening to them. Bad things happening to them is NEVER natural.
Also, health insurance is relatively easy to get compared to dental insurance,,,
Yeah. In my corner of socialestic Canuckistan, dental and drugs aren’t covered under our universal health care* – so this thing could have theoretically happened here in LEAFS SUCK. But it didn’t. Because we make an effort at keeping people out of such dire straits that THEY FUCKING DIE OVER TWENTY SEVEN FUCKING DOLLARS.
*Some exceptions, liek if you’re old or a special case.
How the hell can an event be both an unfortunate incident AND a hoax?
Well, there’s a dead body, so you can’t claim it’s all hoax. That’s the “unfortunate” part.
Doubtless the “hoax” part is the part about how they did it because he was gay. She probably prefers an alternate narrative where he owed them money, or tried to assault their girlfriends, or was inhabited by the evil spirit Narthogon from the Eighth Circle of Tartarus or something more rational like that.
Not one of them, apparently, is able to stop and think for just a second about what it must be like for a mother to lose her son to a completely random, heinous act of cowardice and hate. Part of the reason for that is that they have to surrender their own cowardice and hate. Someone might think he’s a faggot if he did that.
again, damn you! i got chills when i read that…i can’t imagine what she went through…losing my 23 year old brother to a motorcycle accident was bad enough…but when you think of the suffering matthew shepard went through, it just pales…i’ve never, ever said this before but will now: i hope that commentor diaf…
another 10 day course of Metronidazole
Flagyl?
Sweet Jesus, where was your mouth??????
Yeah. In my corner of socialestic Canuckistan, dental and drugs aren’t covered under our universal health care* – so this thing could have theoretically happened here in LEAFS SUCK. But it didn’t. Because we make an effort at keeping people out of such dire straits that THEY FUCKING DIE OVER TWENTY SEVEN FUCKING DOLLARS.
NO WUNDER YOU DONT GOT ANY FREEDOM!
Also, I don’t think LEAFS SUCK allows big pharma to sell drugs for 100,000 times their fair market value based on any classical model of pricing (where there is actual competition involved, a market that has a choice, etc…).
I’m sure Canada isn’t perfect, but we sure are making you guys look good right now! YOU’RE WELCOME.
Selecting the pain killer is a very understandable thing to do. Any creature will want to get rid of the pain first. He probably thought he had enough time to deal with the infection later.
I suspect this will prompt a review of ED protocol, which may or may not be a good thing. (Tossing the pt. a couple of pain tabs = Good. Not writing the script at all = Bad.)
Also, you might think about building a fence on your Southern border, LEAFS, SUCK. There is likely to be a huge influx of migrant workers over the next 30 to 40 years. In yer base, stealin’ yer jobz…
And let’s face it, I’m sure the street value of pain pills is a lot higher than the street value of antibiotics! Not saying the guy was selling his meds on the street, not saying he wasn’t…just stating the facts.
Nice. Here’s a man who is trying to improve his life by learning to be a PARALEGAL, a white collar professional, and they still have to equate him with some loser drug dealer because, you know, he’s a nig*BONNNNNNGGGGGGG*
You’re probably right. Since this ignores the FACT that the defense tried to use Gay Panic in a spirited attempt to keep its clients out of jail, it fits perfectly.
FUCK AMERICA! OH YEAH!1!
What’s most disturbing is that someone would actually give a shit if hate motivation was an aggravating circumstance. Do these people intend to murder someone and don’t want the extra prison time?
electing the pain killer is a very understandable thing to do.
Absolutely, especially since few people equate the tooth infection with death.
In truth, it was incumbent upon the doctor to make sure the guy knew: tooth infection -> sinus infection -> brain infection is a very common progression of an abscess, and likely kills more children (who really get hit hard with this) than adults. Most people treat dental conditions very lightly.
The fact that this all took place in an ER tells me the infection was very advanced and very serious. Which tells me also that amxocillin is not a likely prescription at this point.
(I’ll ask my dentist, under any circumstance. She works with a lot of indigent patients, see what she says)
Vagina Fux. A real class act, that one.
I’m not saying Malkin is an infected pustule of hate, rage and self-loathing…wait a minute, yes I am. never mind
There is no circle of hell deep enough for Malkin.
Yo! How deep you want us to dig this circle?
Perhaps we could use the “Malkin” as a unit to measure hate? Kind of like the speed of light, you can approach it but never quite equal it.
So for example: Ann Coulter = .9 Malkin
I’m not saying Malkin is an infected pustule of hate, rage and self-loathing…
Of course not. But it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
wait a minute, yes I am. never mind
Oh.
Carry on.
Perhaps we could use the “Malkin” as a unit to measure hate?
I hate Malkin to the power of .999 Malkin, then.
Here’s what we DO know: this guy, a young man of 24 who was otherwise in good health, died for lack of medicine costing less than $20, IN THE RICHEST NATION THAT HAS EVER EXISTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. And THAT is criminal.
Amen.
In both of these cases, the system worked as well anyone could want but mom wants to hold on to her fifteen minutes of fame forever.
Sure, if “worked as well as anyone could want” means gay guy and poor guy ended up dead. Um, yay America! Anyway, you’re bitching about “fame-seeking” by somebody who’s actually got some relevant experience speaking out on the subject with which they have experience ON A POST BY MICHELLE FUCKING MALKIN?
In yer base, stealin’ yer jobz,,,
Fine with me. Just bring your sexy moms with you.
You all must check out the Google animation today. It’s AWESOME.
It’s AWESOME.
that is a day brightener…thanks, tsam!
“In both of these cases, the system worked as well anyone could want but mom wants to hold on to her fifteen minutes of fame forever.”
Holy fucking shit.
Sorry, this isn’t true. This just tells us the ambulatory blobs of fecal matter who claim the existence of EDs = Health care for all, blar har* need to have a few of their teeth knocked down their throats so they can’t talk any more. (If the person making the statement is also a policy maker they should have to endure the repeated insertion and removal of an NGI tube AND a Foley catheter.)
People without health insurance turn up in EDs for everything from the flu to the terminal stages of cancer. I ASSUME that if he were in severe shape (dangerous fever, delirium, etc) he would have been admitted, but he may also have refused due to fear of the cost. Can’t really say.
p.s. I wish the stories didn’t say he died of a toothache. He died of a raging infection that spread to the brain due to an infected tooth.
*BTW, anyone who walks around saying this in public should NOT go to an ED, even if both of their balls have been chewed off by rabid ferrets. They’ll be going into a facility full of very tired people who hate them and have access to all sorts of medical equipment. Like REALLY big enema bags.
You all must check out the Google animation today. It’s AWESOME.
Any bets on who’ll be the first howler monkey to get all frothy with rage that Google “is promoting homosexuality” and shoving something down our throats with it?
and shoving something down our throats with it?
But it’s just a little silhouetto of a man!
Shorter John Hinderaker:
Scary much! Scary much!
They’ll do a (ghey) fandango!
OT – but did you ever wonder how that actor got to be such a fantastic commenter? Able to squeeze in dozens of bon mots before you’ve even read teh comment he’s riffing on? It’s almost like he has some sort of genetic advantage.
OT, but also abhorrent
♫ I’ve seen Teh Loadpants and the damage done… ♬
(god has not yet seen fit to send texas rain, but he will…keep praying!)
I’m sure their is video of that tropical storm evaporating the second it hit the texas coast earlier this year. I’m pretty sure God is actively drying out texas as part of a long term plan to blow it out into the Caribbean where it can absorb the oil residue from last year.
Also, he told me Rick Perry is gay.
p.s. I wish the stories didn’t say he died of a toothache. He died of a raging infection that spread to the brain due to an infected tooth.
Well, I agree, except that it does go to highlight how utterly fucking unacceptable and ridiculous it is that someone with an infection in his head should be in the least bit worried about the cost. If there was ONE health insurance company in the country who insured everyone, we would never be having this discussion.
When do we get to look at gladiators?
Codeword for ghey hardcore porn…
Bill Flax, Contributor
I write about the intersection of economics and culture.
It looks more like you’re writing about your shame and frustration over your disturbingly small PENIS, Bill. You kinda suck, Bill. Howcome your mama didn’t give you a good old-fashioned mercy killing, Bill?
Geez, what a fucking MORON. Way to stay above it all, Forbes.
Perhaps we could use the “Malkin” as a unit to measure hate?
Googlebomb that, Santorum style.
The fact that this all took place in an ER tells me the infection was very advanced and very serious. Which tells me also that amxocillin is not a likely prescription at this point.
I can’t go to the Malkin site, so I can’t read it in full, but is the amoxocillion from the original story or is she just assuming that’s the antibiotic.
Cuz when I went to the ER with my blown-out gut this spring, what they gave me was some serious Cipro and Flagyl, and that stuff was pricey.
I am at a loss. How far will Malkin and co. go to prove that only care about the Almighty Dollar. Does she have loved ones or just dependents?
That photo is priceless. Although im sure Michelle with 1 Brain Cell could ballpark it.
In Texas, more than 1000 homes destroyed by wildfires.
STOP PRAYING FOR FIRE!!11Q
I went to the ER several years back with pancreatitis. That is generally caused by a plugged bile duct, causing the pancreas to begin digesting itself. That is, as you can imagine, a PAINFUL motherfucker. Nobody knows what it is, all I knew was that my side felt seriously like I got stabbed.
They jacked me up with morphine (which was AWESOME) and then turned me loose. After my insurance covered what it covered, I was still left with an $800.00 bill.
So go fuck yourself, Malkin.
esteev, it’s easy to spout this crap when one is a rampant hate bag. Reality doesn’t enter into it therefore there is no bottom. (Feature not bug, don’tcha know.)
I’m sure if Malkin ever had to decide “Feed the kids or pay the electric bill?” she’d hop on the Internet and squeeze out a post about stupid Free Market suppressing commsymp liberals taking her $$. (Rattling the donations jar all the while.)
I for one would cheer when Pepco showed up to pull the plug.
I was still left with an $800.00 bill.
That was just the Invisible Hand giving you a prostate check. Be happy; the sandpaper exam gloves were free!
How far will Malkin and co. go to prove that only care about the Almighty Dollar.
Jesus, bitch, we believe you. Shut the fuck up already.
Here’ the link to the story on ABC (not even gonna mess with HTML): http://abcnews.go.com/Health/insurance-24-year-dies-toothache/story?id=14438171.
As you’d expect, the antibiotic prescribed is not named because the hospital can’t say (any more than it can share the pain med the doc. prescribed) and it is doubtful the family is in the mood to check through his pockets. Maybe Malkin will go up and squat in their garbage can.
“A rampant hate bag.”
Do they have that in a tote?
Soon we’ll hear that taxes are a legit reason to secede. Wait. Oh shit.
“Toting the hate.”
p.s. While the comments at the article I linked aren’t 100% Makes Ya Wanna Holla (and punch someone in the face), I still do not recommend reading them.
(god has not yet seen fit to send texas rain, but he will…keep praying!)
He did see fit to rain down fire on them. Must be because he hates liberal gaybortionistas.
My cable and intertrons are out so can only communicate on my mobile devices. So I just wanna say that that pic of Michelle beautifully matches her soul*.
*which is hideous…is what I’m saying
Well, she has already shit on his grave.
So, when does it start raining frogs on Texas?
You know, when the Remote Area Medical clinic came to LA last spring, I volunteered – not as a medical professional, because I’m not one, but just to do something. They needed people doing line management and patient escorts.
One of the things that RAM offered during the 3-day stay was dental care. I met people who stood in line and waited 8 hours for dental care, and some were in serious pain. The clinic offered eye care, dental care and other medical treatements. The wait was long, so often people had to make a choice – treat the toothache or get glasses? Blood pressure medication or podiatrist? The patience of these folks was amazing – and their politeness and gratitude to volunteers.
Due to a genetic defect affecting my teeth, I’ve had over a dozen root canals, some of which were preceded by abscesses. I cannot imagine having to live a long time with that pain.
Soon we’ll hear that taxes are a legit reason to secede. Wait. Oh shit.
Rick Perry threatens to secede: drought.
Rick Perry runs for president: wildfires.
I’m just saying…
Sooo. This country, huh? Years ago I worked in the dental field, and did quite a few stints in various low income community clinics. You know, because in the US, dental care isn’t considered a ‘true’ medical necessity for teh poor peeples? This is what my experience taught me. Enjoy!
So, basically you, Mr/Ms Poor Peeples come in with a toothache. Because you can’t afford regular (any) cleanings and a toothbrush is used till the bristles are flat and floss is expensive and you’ve never been shown how to use it, right? Oh, yeah. And the high-sugar, high-carb diet because of the cheapness. Don’t forget that. (Tends to fuck with your immune system, this.)
S’okay then. Toothache. Clinic. IF you can get in (always ALWAYS packed), you’ll have two options: an amalgam filling, if it’s treatable decay (usually only little kids, since the adults will wait till they just can’t take the agony), or-ta da!-extraction of tooth/teeth. Cause, if one is gone south, pretty safe to assume it isn’t the only one. And, don’t forget, kids-the carotid artery that goes straight to your brains is REAL close to your face hole, so any major tooth infection can easily go into the bloodstream and….yeah.
Also, bonus note: Little poor kids don’t get that lovely nitrous. And as they usually have never been to the dentist before and are in a lot of pain when they do go, they are fucking freaked out (understandably, yeah?)
They get strapped into what’s known as a “Papoose Board”, which is something that would give Dick Cheney a fucking rock hard boner: basically, a flat board that fits under the child that has large velcro straps for the head, the chest/arms, the knees and the ankles. And of course a rubber wedge to hold that little mouth open.
(These patients get to go to the sound proofed operatories, btw.)
Righty then, onto extracting those little fuckers!
Have some extra strength Tylenol two-packets and a wad of gauze on the way out, our treat.
And then. And then what? Well, you sure as shit aren’t gonna be able to afford fancy crowns, bridges or (haha) titanium implants, are ya? So any surrounding teeths are gonna start falling into the void, so to speak. Resulting in bone loss and…..well, just don’t be surprised when you lose a tooth every time you sneeze (party trick!)
Dentures? Chuckle. Even if you are able to scrape the money together, they need to be relined regularly. Or they get loose and painful, causing nasty ulcerating sores. Good times, good times.
So, either way, you end up being able to eat only soft, cheap, foods. Mashed potatoes, boiled rice, soft white bread. Not exactly a diet conducive to good health, amirite?
And don’t even get me started on the fact that, in this country, if you have bad teeth/missing teeth/horrible breath…good luck getting that job, punkin! No job, no insurance. Catch 22, jokes on you, lololol.
/poor people, how the fuck do they work?
/thanks for letting me rant
Due to a genetic defect affecting my teeth, I’ve had over a dozen root canals, some of which were preceded by abscesses.
We must be related. Both of my parents stored their teefs in cups overnight before they were 60. I’ve still got some of mine left, my dentist(s) have lovely yachts I’m sure, and there are still times when one of the fuckers blows up on me and I want to shoot myself. I know more than one person whose teeth are literally rotting away because Medicare/Medicaid won’t cover dental care, which is insanity.
Rick Perry threatens to secede: drought.
Rick Perry runs for president: wildfires.
I’m just saying…
It would be irresponsible of us not to speculate.
The enamel formed poorly on my teeth. But my kid has it much much worse – basically no enamel at all. So we’ve sunk tens of thousands of dollars into his mouth – while the kid is growing up, everythiing you do has to be temporary, you can’t do the permanent crowns till the mouth is full-grown.
My kid is 23 now – So whatever can be done now on our dental insurance we do, but we sprang for the big stuff on our own dime. He basically needs every tooth in his head crowned. We borrowed against the retirement account to do half his mouth last summer, waiting to do the rest soon.
This being LA, his crowned and capped teeth now look fantastic, since the standard of cosmetic dentistry is what it is – but we didn’t do this for looks. He’d have lost several teeth by now if we hadn’t been this proactive.
My kid’s been putting long hours in dental chairs since he was a year old. And one thing that IS good now, is that dentistry isn’t as painful or as bad as it once was. My kid doesn’t have fear of dentists. The procedures are far less painful than they were when I was a kid.
but we didn’t do this for looks
I imagine this condition can cause chronic, excruciating pain, yes?
You know, speaking as one with a screaming bloody dental infection right the fckkk now, I’m glad I live in the uk where I don’t have to think about anything at all because I can’t. Never understood how an insurance cased system where you are expected to make rational decisions makes Any fckkimg sense when you’re in as much pain ad I am in now! Arghhhh!
g, glad your kid is doing well. I can’t imagine what you must be out of pocket. Our dental insurance has an annual cap of $5000, and I assume it’s pretty standard. What most dentists want for ONE crown is almost extortionate, and a whole mouthful… Were you able to work out some sort of a deal with your dentist, or were you faced with paying full price for everything?
Malkin is scum incarnate. There is no doubt there.
But what is interesting about her is that she is so because she does something so few conservatives have the sheer power to do, she follows through on her ideology.
As we were noting on the last thread, the “Just World Fallacy” is all the rage in conservative ideology these days. It’s okay and even required to look down on the suffering of the poor little maggots because they are being punished for sin or stupidity or not being white enough, whereas the “right” people are taking care of. And the rich of course deserve all their money because it was given to them by God.
Now most of the scum-suckers rationalize this by viewing the poor and other non-dominant groups as sub-human monsters, inhuman ciphers that don’t fully exist outside their personal psycho-drama. And thus the suffering is carefully kept at arms-length to prevent any getting on you.
Malkin proves her ghoulishness simply by seeking to prove and seek real-world confirmation for said beliefs. So, she goes rifling through the garbage of anyone suffering who dares point out that Life isn’t fair and Just and sometimes bad things happen to good people and seeks to demonstrate that “no, bad things only happen to people who deserve it, thus it will never happen to me, because I do things right”. It’s much the same worldview of those who sit in the juries of rape victims waiting to hear any insinuation that they were sluts so that they can rest assured that they will never be raped because they are not sluts and never go out alone where it’s dangerous.
But getting back to the point, she’s not necessarily more vile than her peers, except that her peers are more careful to leave the demonization as a thin proto-thought on top of their lizard brain, always careful to speak in generalities. Whereas she goes straight to the specifics of those who give a shit about the suffering of human beings and tries and demonstrate why all these examples deserved to suffer and die because of improper actions.
Thus we get the whole “you can’t have medical insurance, because you have nice countertops that probably came with the property” and this whole “he deserved to die because it’s possible that the medicine could have been cheap and he should have known to live in pain.”
It’s just the physical demonstration of the justification efforts of the right. What they mostly due quietly in the safe space of their proto-brains, Michelle Malkin does before everyone, screaming at everyone to take a look and join her in the active justification of the deaths and suffering of people who need not.
And it works because I doubt there is a single one of us who would be perfect enough to be “deserving” to a dedicated fuckwad’s sensibilities. Did you buy a CD you’ve been eyeing for months because it’s payday, but later you need a full cancer regime? Welp, that CD now shows you are too fiscally irresponsible to live.
I mean, look at this guy. This is a woman who managed to find the “granite countertop” argument for why a child deserved to die without aid, because apparently a single middle class affectation means everything is working as intended even if you didn’t create that affectation. But this guy, all she can slam is that he didn’t choose the antibiotic.
Yeah, he was poor and had to pick one. He tried to gamble on the one that would let him get back to work and thus help earn the value of the other medication. Sadly that gamble didn’t pay off.
It’s hilarious that her commentators are arguing that he must have sold them on the streets, because that would have been the better financial option and would have saved his life. If he sold his painkillers to rich white conservative windbags, then he would have earned enough for both painkillers and antibiotics. Crime would have prevented what our failed system would not.
We all know that such a system where the middle class can be fucked by a single emergency (even with health insurance), where the poor have to regularly gamble with their lives, and so on is a fucked up and broken system.
But Malkin must defend it for to do otherwise would be to face the horror of what she is and has become in the defense of a Just World Fallacy.
And this is why any number of Buddhist democrats can’t hold a candle to the evil of the Prosperity Gospel and Just World Fallacy and so on that float around conservative theology.
This is the only reaction I can muster right now…
People without health insurance turn up in EDs for everything from the flu to the terminal stages of cancer.
Yes, but not for toothaches. Not often at any rate. Generally, people yank ’em.
I demand that Malkin be fitted with a GPS tracking system, as I am declaring now that I will not be held responsible for my actions should she ever come within 100 feet of me.
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I can’t go to the Malkin site, so I can’t read it in full, but is the amoxocillion from the original story or is she just assuming that’s the antibiotic.
I’ve not seen any article that mentioned which antibiotic it was. Everyone is guessing.
Megan McArdle: A Kinder, gentler Malkin (.75 Malkin Units)
…because no human being could string together such gibberish on such a consistent basis.
My Doughy Pantload, let me show you it.
Actor, with McCurdle it’s not so much the Malkin Units as the gibbering stupidity. (Decimal points, how the fuck do they work?) Do we have a measurement for stupidity yet?
Stupid bitch.
Hey! I am as God made me, sir!
Oh, you were talking about…
Uh…
Never mind.
And a special mango from Powerline (Totally not compensating for anything):
And yet you would constantly disparage his masculinity, deny him basic rights, and argue against his very humanity and are having a low level freakout that a single part of his tribute acknowledged his second-class citizenship in this country.
Not to mention the fact that you insist on obsessing about what fulfilling lurid sex he must be having just by an off-hand reference that the “manly man man” you’ve got a hard-on for preferred the romantic attentions of the fellas.
Since you seem to pretend that every hero is straight as an arrow if we don’t note the deviation from the dominant and use that to bash the queers and cowardly little sissies, well, yeah, it becomes really important to point this out.
The rest of the shorter is accurate. He basically whines about how straight heroes aren’t being honored and he concludes this by ignoring all the other memorials for not being “America Fuck Yeah” for his tastes. Apparently having an attack on an International Business Consortium’s memorial acknowledge the multinational and multidenominational nature of its victims is just liberal faggotry.
Don’t those filthy families of the tragedy understand that the real tragedy of 9/11 was how it made white-male-christians shit their pants in fear that Muslim shocktroopers were going to invade Peoria?
Also, he is really upset that we have to acknowledge all these gay heroes, ignoring the fact that it’s because gay people have recently been rather heroic in big headline grabbing ways. The guy who organized the attempted revolt on Flight 93, the staffer who saved Giffords life by taking down the shooter, and the lesbian couple who risked their lives saving kids in the Breivik shooting.
If manly men conservatives had half the gonads to actually risk their lives saving others rather than trying to cause as much death and suffering they can or conjuring various fantasies of how heroic they would be if the liberal media would recognize them instead of a bunch of fags, then maybe they too could get mediocre recognitions of their heroism.
But since that won’t happen, I guess tough titties.
Also, love how the lack of heroes problem is one of their own making. There are plenty of people who are white, straight, or male enough for their tastes, but they tend to have unsightly liberal opinions or affiliations or complain about the naked exploitation of themselves by conservatives or how they are now dying of asbestos poisoning because the conservatives stiffed on health care for “the heroes”.
I mean, they just recently again pissed on 9/11 families and heroes, so yeah, sorry there isn’t a fantasy monument to the Nameless Conservative Hero who would Totally Have Punched the Plane out of the Sky like a Cross Between Superman and Rambo if he’d been there, but that’s because you guys can’t handle even the barest minimum of reality anymore.
So, please, go back to fellating war actors and action stars as “the true heroes”.
Were you able to work out some sort of a deal with your dentist, or were you faced with paying full price for everything?
Well, the good news is that his condition is interesting enough to educators and researchers that we got a good referral to a specialist at UCLA Dental School, and are paying far less than we would to a Beverly HIlls cosmetic dentist. But its still a boat-load of money.
Thanks for ranting. If I weren’t a wimpy liberal kw33r, I’d want to see this very informative rant engraved, backwards, on her forehead with a dentist’s drill.
Yuh-huh. And gangrenous extremities caused by poorly/untreated diabetes – most times poor folks just lop ’em off.
One of the commenters at Big Elf’s place says that “liberals are the enemies of science.” Guh?
Jesus fuck, if it was only 4 dollars why didn’t the hospital GIVE it to him? These people are so full of shit, they have no fucking idea what the prescription was for or how much it was, but heaven forbid they ever let their ignorance keep them from spouting off. Besides which, the antibiotic would STILL have been a temporary fix, as the wisdom tooth would still have to have come out and he still couldn’t have afforded it. So take your “this in not a failure of healthcare” bullshit and shove it up your ass.
Let me outline once moar for teh slow learning glibertarians – teh uninsured are moar likely to forgo or delay needed medical care. This means that small easily treatable medical conditions – ones that can be completely alleviated with very minor intervention early on – develop into life threatening and sometimes fatal situations. FFS, even teh fully insured in teh US do teh same thing*.
No one fucking cares what teh price of antibiotics at Wal-Mart is – teh guy was told to have his killer tooth extracted and he decided not to because he couldn’t afford it. Similar decisions are made by millions of americans. Even you believe teh Commonwealth Fund’s report linked in teh foot note – this number is FORTY ONE PERCENT.
*pdf file warning. Here’s teh clip from page xiii:
Do we have a measurement for stupidity yet?
And I quote: “My Doughy Pantload, let me show you it.”
Anyone know if there’s a killfile script for Safari?
Isn’t a 30-06 customary?
Here’s teh blockquote for teh pdf-adverse:
I call it the Forbesian index.
As an example, here’s an article that needs more Goodwin.
Yes, but not for toothaches. Not often at any rate. Generally, people yank ‘em.
Yuh-huh. And gangrenous extremities caused by poorly/untreated diabetes – most times poor folks just lop ‘em off.
Y’know how I can tell you didn’t even bother to read the article?
In the Powerline comment mangos:
Conservatives are like mynah birds faithfully repeating any snippet of BS they hear, no matter how much later or how much its been ridiculed and disproven in public sphere.
Also the various freakout of any acknowledgment of islam anywhere near the Greater Metropolitan area of the WTC really shows why we need to focus on every minority quality of every victim and hero.
Because these fuckers gleefully whitewash like its going out of style. WTC was filled with a number of international companies and was staffed largely by the non-white and included a fair number of people who would identify religiously as muslim. And a similar number were in the brave firefighters who tried to save as many people they could or who have later been found to sacrifice their lives in asbestos poisoning when they sifted through the wreckage for survivors.
But nope, not mentioned, so the wingnut horde imagine they were all white, christian, males who would gleefully cheer on any right-wing notion ever and hate the idea of multiculturalism. This despite repeated statements by the family members of the victims or the fact that this incident happened in a rather liberal city to a business place staffed with diverse multicultural people.
And speaking of our heroes, apparently they too must have made “poor decisions” which is why Republicans are constantly trying to short-change their health care as well.
I’d imagine more firefighters would prefer a check for their respiratory care more than a fucking plaque calling them sexy spooge sponges for wingnut ids.
Rick Perry runs for president: wildfires.
You have the causality around the wrong way.
Host is dying: parasite searches for a new, larger host.
Perhaps we could use the “Malkin” as a unit to measure hate?
Major Kong is brilliant. Malkins are like Friedman Units, only for Pure Hate. Malkins even sound scientific, sorta like Kelvins.
As Marion asks above, do we have a measurement for Pure Stupidity?
Do we have a measurement for stupidity yet?
I generally use my mother in law. DKW uses her for something else.
Also carefully not mentioned is that even people fortunate enough to get mediocre health insurance from the Great Spinning Wheel of Employment Fortune usually don’t have dental insurance.
Dental insurance is seen as one of those “cadillac health care” things that you have to have a really good job to get. As such, dental care gets ignored even longer than medical health care. And that’s before the cultural belief that it’s not a big deal.
And hey, you know why we think it’s “not a big deal”? Because it’s treated like a luxury we would be stupid to demand insurance for. Hard to be reminded that keeping an eye on dental issues is critical when everyone acts like it’s a privilege that only the rich or middle class would worry about. Much easier to just buy some “whitening” tooth paste and hope for the best.
Again, as many pointed out, this could be solved in a heartbeat if we were allowed to do right by people and actually save ourselves the money in providing free, accessible basic care for people.
But apparently doing the cheap preventative thing is just not how we do it in America when there is the vague promise of dead black people if we don’t.
The Powerline comment section is far less toxic than Malkin’s stew of hate. There they basically have a freakout that there was a brief mention of the sexuality of the hero they have a crush on, because that totally ruins it for them and totally makes a rote description of his actions on the plane a giant list of his sexual conquests.
Basically, they don’t dare say it lest they taint their wingnut orgasm over the Flight 93, but they are basically saying:
“The fact that he’s gay ruins it for me”.
They wish they could either live in ignorance or have a nice straight man to imagine giving them the order to “roll out” while wearing a sexy rugby jersey and straining next to them to push the heavy battering ram.
And yet, it’s somehow our fault that reality intervened.
Yes, that’s always the way with sexual fantasies, isn’t it?
Oh dear. According to my uncle’s facebook, he’s very, very offended to have been called a son of a bitch, because Jimmy Hoffa was referring to him personally in his speech, and since Obama didn’t correct him, him too. In addition, as ever, he’s very unhappy that The Liberals think he’s a racist. I mean, REALLY unhappy. Like, he posts something about it once or twice a week. It’s an obsession.
By the way, his facebook wall is what prompted my inquiry about “how do y’all deal with wingnut relatives?” yesterday. I can foresee this coming up at the next family reunion, whenever that is, hence the question.
You have the causality around the wrong way.
Host is dying: parasite searches for a new, larger host.
Have an internet on me.
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In the past year, I’ve had 3, count ’em 3, root canals and 2 serious dental infections. The worst one was the one that caused no pain; apparently it had been active for a couple of years and never would have been detected had I not leaned my face on my hand one evening and thought, “what’s that hard lump?” which in fact turned out to be an abcess about 1-1/2″ long on my upper gum. Freaked my shit out, because it was probably only millimeters from punching through into the sinus cavity. By the time I detected it, I had been feeling a little crappy for a few days, thinking I had a cold coming on and wondering why I wasn’t having the other symptoms like runny nose or sore throat. I carried my ass to the dentist stat…but then again, I know that untreated dental infections can cause death and hadn’t forgotten about the little boy in Maryland who died from same a few years ago.
The next one, I had some soreness, but not excruciating pain – just soreness. By the time I got in to see the dentist for that one, the whole side of my face was swollen. A few hours after I saw the dentist, the growing abcess …uh…resolved itself in the grossest way you can imagine. Again, fairly painless; in neither of these cases did I bother filling the Rx for the pain meds, and was given a course of amoxicillan to clear up each. Though on the second one, it coincided with coming down with mono, so I had the pleasure of hives from taking the amoxicillan.
The last one was excruciating for a few moments at a time for about a week, while I was on vacation; when I came home and made the appointment to see the dentist, it started REALLY hurting constantly the afternoon of the day before my appointment and kept me awake pretty much the entire night. With that one, there was no infection apparent – it was a cracked tooth under a 20-year-old crown. But I can’t imagine having to deal with that kind of pain for any longer than I did. I was lucky – they worked me in for the root canal that same day, and I practically ran to the chair, I was so looking forward to my novacaine shot. Didn’t get the pain meds for that one, either, because once the root canal was done, there was only a little residual soreness for a couple of days.
So, lucky me. I lived through it all, and it *only* cost me about $4,000 I didn’t have, though fortunately I have one of those care credit cards, which charges zero interest for a year or 9 months, depending…but if it isn’t paid off within that time, back-charges interest at something like 20%+. I just finished transferring the remaining balance of $2500 to another card to avoid getting screwed on that, and maybe sometime in the next couple of years, I will have paid it off. Of course by then, I’ll probably have had other crowns or other needed dental care so…maybe by the time I die it’ll be paid off.
Just another typical story from Teh Greatest Health Care System in The World™.
I call it the Forbesian index.
As an example, here’s an article that needs more Goodwin.
No shit, skimming the first page was all I could do.
The font size suggests their readers are the same one who get the big print books at the library.
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Jimmy Hoffa was referring to him personally
Your uncle’s a legislator, then? (ask him that)
Also, too, re: Cerebus’ comment on dental insurance: Unless you truly do have a “cadillac” insurance plan, one that really does cover dental care, it’s worthless. The dental plans available outside such coverage just don’t cover anything. Last time I had dental “insurance”, which was probably 10 years ago or longer, the premium was something like $40 per month. It wouldn’t cover crowns or other “major” procedures in the first year of coverage; after that, it would cover 50% of ONE “major” procedure per year. Crowns, at that time, ran about $750. So…after paying a full year of premiums ($480), they would pay half the cost of one crown ($375), which meant that you had only thrown away $105 extra carrying the insurance.
Stuff like cleanings and fillings they would cover more, but most of us, even working poor people, can come up with the money for those types of procedures, because for exams & cleanings you’re talking maybe $100; for fillings it’s under $200. It’s the big expensive procedures we need the coverage for, and for those, it doesn’t cover jack shit.
According to my uncle’s facebook, he’s very, very offended to have been called a son of a bitch
Tell him to take it up with Grandma.
I can’t read this thread. I’ve got some dental problems. Just can’t deal with all the horror stories about teefs and pain in this thread. I’ll catch the next thread.
Have fun.
*disappears into the shadows*
To add to DKW’s point:
I’m the type of person who will go to the doctor/hospital/dentist with absolutely no intention of paying (because I can’t, not because I don’t want to). Many other poor people, for whatever reason, are reticent to seek treatment knowing they are unable to pay. Many people die of treatable diseases, injuries and illnesses just because they feel like they can gut it out, and don’t want to deal with it all.
The font size suggests their readers are the same one who get the big print books at the library.
Yeah, the additional ink on the pages acts as an accelerant, insuring a more successful burn.
“with absolutely no intention of paying (because I can’t, not because I don’t want to).”
That’s a bummer for you, tsam. God must not like you.
This all reminds me of Camille Paglia openly gloating about the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson in her Playboy interview quite a few years back. There’s never been any shortage of ghoulishness in America’s ‘intellectual’ right, sad to say.
Libruls make science disagree with The Bible, therefore libruls hate science.
See?
That’s a bummer for you, tsam. God must not like you.
Which is weird because I’m white and straight. I should be right up in God’s wheelhouse, ya know?
My situation has improved immensely over the past couple of years, but for a long time, that was my life. I had NO shame about getting health care whether I could afford it or not.
Don’t. Get. Me. Started.
tsam – white and straight, but not rich. It’s that last one that proves God hates you.
Tell him to take it up with Grandma.
Grandma’s a liberal. That might be fun.
There’s never been any shortage of ghoulishness in America’s ‘intellectual’ right, sad to say.
Idtellectual is a better characterization for right-wingers- they operate purely on the basis of rage and fear.
“Which is weird because I’m white and straight. I should be right up in God’s wheelhouse, ya know?
My situation has improved immensely over the past couple of years, but for a long time, that was my life. I had NO shame about getting health care whether I could afford it or not.”
Awesome. I wish everyone were like that. It’s easier said than done though when you live in a society that exalts the rich and tells everyone else to fuck off and die.
Yer straight? Never would have guessed. 😉
Yer straight? Never would have guessed. 😉
No, seriously, I totally am.
tsam – white and straight, but not rich.
ooooooooooooooooooooh–RIGHT. 2 outa 3 ain’t bad, though, right? Come on now. I worked hard to be white and straight.
The point is that I’m not going to be a statistic. Health care, food, clothing, shelter–these are all things that you should buy if you can, but steal if you must.
As someone whose financial situation is steadily improving, I’ll be glad to pay a little extra for everything if a brother or sister needs and can’t afford. All conservatives can like it or suck it. Or both, if you please.
Don’t. Get. Me. Started.
That would go triple for me. I’ll just mention that my last self-extraction was a few wks. ago.
National treasure.
Health care, food, clothing, shelter–these are all things that you should buy if you can, but steal if you must.
Wow, I should drop this bomb on a conservadick comment board and watch them all “harumph” and “well, I NEVER” and condescend themselves to death.
LOL! One post out of context makes my “national treasure” comment about 10 Carlin Units funnier.
Provider_UNE_BlackityBlackBarbarian™ said:
Excellent point.
The thing is, there’s so much wrong with that Forbes piece it’s damn near impossible to know how to respond to it. I mean, dear Jesus H. Tapdancing Fucking Christ on a Pogo Stick … the dude who wrote it has to be more dense than white dwarf (the type of star, not Verne Troyer).
All I can do is post a quote by the guy who helped create fascism (the real kind, not the Loadpants-revisionist-history variety that has no relationship to anything resembling reality):
Of course, you know who else wrote a book in the 1930s …
“Wow, I should drop this bomb on a conservadick comment board and watch them all “harumph” and “well, I NEVER” and condescend themselves to death.”
THAT would be amazeballs..
So, when does it start raining frogs on Texas?
mmmmmmm, blackend frog’s legs….
So when I win the lottery, God will finally love me?! You mean I get a Cadillac CTS-V AND eternal life in heaven?
Sweet …
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go pay what is actually a tax on people who are bad at math.
brb
LOL! One post out of context makes my “national treasure” comment about 10 Carlin Units funnier.
Cuz GOLD TEEF!
“LOL! One post out of context makes my “national treasure” comment about 10 Carlin Units funnier.
Cuz GOLD TEEF!”
100 Carlin Units right there.
They get strapped into what’s known as a “Papoose Board”, which is something that would give Dick Cheney a fucking rock hard boner: basically, a flat board that fits under the child that has large velcro straps for the head, the chest/arms, the knees and the ankles
yes, welfare dentist attempted to do this to teh daughter when she was little and due to her specialness was even more than moderately freaked out…since this was just for a filling or some such, we left…and i then harassed the system until we got a dentist that would treat her with a little dignity…
because Medicare/Medicaid won’t cover dental care, which is insanity.
yeah, teh daughter and all her cohorts are now only allowed one checkup/cleaning a year…having people who a)don’t have the ability to brush and floss b)can’t brush and floss very well, c)have no way to communicate they may be in pain or that something is wrong or d)have a low wage drone brushing and flossing for them just is NOT a good money saving plan…
Oh it’s even worse than that. The Park Service won’t consecrate the
unremarkable chunk of structural steel wreckageONE TRUE CROSS at the WTC that proves how much Jesus loves us and protects us! OUTRAGEOUS.yes, welfare dentist attempted to do this to teh daughter when she was little and due to her specialness was even more than moderately freaked out
Austistic stepdaughter fucked a nurse UP one time. So I ended up being a manual papoose board for quite some time. Girl DID NOT LIKE medical personnel.
“Idtellectual is a better characterization for right-wingers- they operate purely on the basis of rage and fear.”
Not that you’re worng, but in the specific case I sited above, Paglia’s motivation was more based along the lines of Ego and spite, I’d say. Along with her usual eagerness to keep the spotlight focused on her for being “outrageous,” natch.
the growing abcess …uh…resolved itself in the grossest way you can imagine
uh, yeah…i vividly remember when mine burst…it was disgusting, but my raging fever and delirium just *vanished*…but yeah, it was icky…
I wish there was something that would induce fever delerium without the fever. I love that shit.
Of course, you know who else wrote a book in the 1930s …
As I initially thought, M_K was published in 1925 and ’26.
🙂
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Say, know who we haven’t heard from in a while?
Amy Alkon, that’s who.
I wish there was something that would induce fever delerium without the fever. I love that shit.
Ummmm. That is, … I mean …. Does not someone sell it somewhere very near you?
I flatly deny having ever been recklessly dispensed. Malkin will be hearing from my lawyers in the morning.
Say, know who we haven’t heard from in a while?
What is Arnold on about now?
My Wet-Suits are at the cleaners
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Speaking of icky–I got a giant cyst in my earlobe once. It grew and grew and grew, until one day I was standing in front of the mirror and squeezed it and….
DISGUSTING. I’ll spare you all the rest of the details since some of you are in dinner zone.
Sometimes I just cant help myself, so I donned the hip-waders jumped into the rowboat with the intention of dragging back some mangoes. I just can’t help myself sometimes, though I did not head into Malkin’s cesspool, ’cause that would have taken three Wet-Suits, and as I said, they’re at the cleaners…
Anyhoo from the Alkon reference above:
Security Theatre of the Absurd.
I’d have a lot more sympathy for the anti-Security Theatre backlash of the past year or so if it hadn’t so often taken the shape of “Don’t grope meeeeeeee!!!!! Go and grope these people! They deserve it, look how hajji-funny-looking they are!”
DISGUSTING. I’ll spare you all the rest of the details since some of you are in dinner zone.
Some of us (most I should say) have very good and vivid imaginations.
I am sure the smell was awesome! In that “my body could create something that foul”
Similar to the curiosity that requires one to occasionally look at the proceeds of a particularly prodigeous…I’ll stop right there.
Though I have just figured out what that smell that wafts is; there is a dead thing in the vicinity of the front porch on which I sit. I just have caught hints of it the last couple of days, the last waft provided enough molecules to finally recognize the scent of death.
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In both of these cases, the system worked as well anyone could want but mom wants to hold on to her fifteen minutes of fame forever.
HO HO! A commenter uses Michelle Malkin’s blog to accuse someone else of demanding attention!
So if someone lobbies for capital-punishment reform, inspired by their own personal experiences, they are publicity whores and should shut up.
If someone lobbies for capital-punishment reform, without having personal experiences, they have no skin in the game and should shut up.
Have I missed anything?
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I got a giant cyst in my earlobe once. It grew and grew and grew, until one day I was standing in front of the mirror and squeezed it and….
And that, children, is where Fox pundits come from.
Ugh, Alkon should have deployed the personal shitmoat in that case.
And that, children, is where Fox pundits come from.
Smut brings TEH FUNNEH!
I just have caught hints of it the last couple of days, the last waft provided enough molecules to finally recognize the scent of death.
You know, I lucked out and never did catch even the faintest whiff of the possum that died under the house sometime around December-January.
And that, children, is where Fox pundits come from.
This is DEHUMANISING RHETORIC and now I must drink to quell my self-recriminations.
You know, I lucked out and never did catch even the faintest whiff of the possum that died under the house sometime around December-January.
Admit it–you made stew out of him!
I’d have a lot more sympathy for the anti-Security Theatre backlash of the past year or so if it hadn’t so often taken the shape of “Don’t grope meeeeeeee!!!!! Go and grope these people! They deserve it, look how hajji-funny-looking they are!”
Those tossers can piss up a rope.
I can even take a small measure of enjoyment in the fact that authoritarians who complain about getting their junk groped are the ones that supported the bullshit in the first place.
Payback is a motherfucker and all that. Unfortunately, it won’t change the authoritarian impulse one iota for most of these fucknuts.
But those Porn-Scanners, Sir Gropes-A-Lot maneuvers, are bullshit. Of course the purpose of the TSA is to measure the sheeplike qualities of the American populace, who at this point in the game are not even remotely “Exceptional”.
But if this shit “Cole’s” a winger or two, I’ll take it.
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This is DEHUMANISING RHETORIC and now I must drink to quell my self-recriminations.
DIDNT DEBBY WASSSIEN SHTZ SAY TO BE NICE? WHAT NOW LIBZ?
Nearing the end of this violation, I sobbed even louder as the woman, FOUR TIMES, stuck the side of her gloved hand INTO my vagina, through my pants. Between my labia. She really got up there. Four times. Back right and left, and front right and left. In my vagina. Between my labia. I was shocked — utterly unprepared for how she got the side of her hand up there. It was government-sanctioned sexual assault.
Upon leaving, still sobbing, I yelled to the woman, “YOU RAPED ME.” And I took her name to see if I could file sexual assault charges on my return. This woman, and all of those who support this system deserve no less than this sort of unpleasant experience, and from all of us.
okay, as if reading about arnold alkon sobbing and her vag being invaded isn’t horrific enough, i read the comments…ugh
lot’s of tsa slamming and what defines rape…here’s the last comment i read:
To correct, I think it was ‘side of hand penetration’, which still qualifies.
wow, if someone can get the side of their hand into arnold’s vag through her pants i can only wonder at what sort of monstrosity it is…
How else are they supposed to know whether it’s a bomb or a salami?
Well, if it can hold four days worth of salami…
DAMN YOU PMAX!!!!
And a hearty fywp for bouncing my post twice. I was not posting too fast.
You know, I lucked out and never did catch even the faintest whiff of the possum that died under the house sometime around December-January.
You are lucky.
Fortunately for me I only catch a whiff when the wind blows just right, and a faint one at that. The wind is all aswirl so I wouldn’t even begin to know where to start looking, and as this is a job that would lead to no recompence and serves as an intermittent curiosity, I won’t be bothered.
And yes, I just made up the word aswirl, so sue me.
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now I must drink to quell my self-recriminations.
That’s just pouring aquavit onto a fire.
Also, too. Eyes iguana AHEM Mark D on teh Forbestrocity.
This is DEHUMANISING RHETORIC and now I must drink to quell my self-recriminations.
And I must drink to forget this DEHUMANISING RHETORIC.
Thanks for the excuse, old chum!
$4 is (SOMETIMES) what Wal*Mart charges for SOME generic drugs. Don’t have a Wal*Mart in your area (raises hand), a health insurance plan or have a script for a drug that isn’t on the formulary?
Toughies!
For my fellow health care policy nerds (assuming I’m not the only one here) – Walmart’s $4 Sometimes YMMV Rx Plan (short pdf): http://i.walmartimages.com/i/if/hmp/fusion/customer_list_details.pdf
However, it would have been nice if the hospital could have slipped him a few pain pills. But I don’t know, said hospital may be overburdened by sick folks who don’t have coverage. (In fReichtardspracht that’s “Moochers who are too stoopid to afford health care skreee die!!!)
The people who check under their bed’s for iman-sters, support authoritarian, Empire building solutions to problems that will not be solved in that fashion, who shat the bed and went all in on batshit inanity and insanity, and bought into the hilarious proposition that “oceans can’t protect us anymore”, as well as balsa wood drones delivering anthrax after 911. Fuck you.
Fat, ignorant and terrified is no way to proceed through life my friends.
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wow, if someone can get the side of their hand into arnold’s vag through her pants i can only wonder at what sort of monstrosity it is…
Well, no, it’s just that she was wearing her cameltoe pants that day and EMERGENCY BRAIN SHUTDOWN
Ugh. Malkin.
Seriously though, isn’t it about time that the shrieking vaguely humanoid harpy return to its home planet? I can’t imagine such an alien creature utterly devoid of compassion or empathy for other living beings gets much from hanging around here pretending to be an earthling. Guess wingnut welfare here on earth is legendary even outside the solar system or something..
wow, if someone can get the side of their hand into arnold’s vag through her pants i can only wonder at what sort of monstrosity it is…
I’m figuring that what really went down was that a brush against the lady parts got a tingle in the loinage and that shame washed down causing severe dissonance.
I feel a bit like I’m “Fristing”, and for that I appologize.
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Oh nuts, I just realized I may have participated in DEHUMANISING RHETORIC.
For that I apologize, I’m deeply sorry that I may have insinuated that Malkin could pass for a human being.
One of the commenters at Big Elf’s place says that “liberals are the enemies of science.” Guh?
Is there even one Wingnut trope that doesn’t ultimately boil down to “I know you are but what am I???”
Al Jazeera journalist not allowed to film football game.
So wait, I thought Dentistry Is Theft!!1!
???
Shouldn’t these folks be hailing this guy as a hero for being a glibertarian hero true to his ideals or something? I haz a confused.
“Is there even one Wingnut trope that doesn’t ultimately boil down to “I know you are but what am I???””
does STFU THATS WHY count as a trope?
does STFU THATS WHY count as a trope?
How about “WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!” ?
The more interesting part of the latest Alkon item isn’t the allegation. It’s that Alkon posted the TSA agent’s name on her blog and accused her of rape. The agent lawyered up and is suing Alkon for a cool half-mil.
Just another thank you to you kind folx who pitched in a dollar or more to put my kitteh at the top of the heap in the calendar competition.
It’s for a good cause.
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I kilt it ded.
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Coming soon to Craigslist in Alkon’s locale:
$$$$ 4 SALE $$$$ SHIT MOAT (pic)
This Shit Moat is slightly used. No real visible damage. Is worth 2 million but I’ll take less..
Burnette and the baby are in a prison now, in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
WHAT? Saskers have a can in Prince Albert? Talk about thinking outside the box!
Gee, thannnnnks for that McArdle/Atlantic link. She and her commentors are loathsome subhumans (oh, I’m sorry, libertarians).
Re: Dental insurance – yeah, a scam. My co-pay is 20%, with an annual benefit cap at ~$1,250. I blew through my 2011 cap with one emergency filling+post in the past couple of weeks. My bennies now exhausted, my upcoming crown will be 100% out of pocket unless I want to wait until next year kicks in. (And I don’t.) The office wants payment of some sort every time you walk through the door, even if it’s partial, but their first suggestion is usually, “oh, $100 or so”.
The consensus from the coverage of the incident is:
1.) Mr. Willis, unemployed single father of 6-year-old develops toothache, is told by dentist(s) that wisdom tooth is inflamed and must be removed. Not having insurance or a job with which to pay for procedure, Mr. Willis declines to proceed with treatment.
2.) Mr. Willis develops headaches and swelling in face, attends ER, is prescribed pain medication and antibiotics. He fills $3.00 prescription for pain medication, decides to forego $27.00 antibiotic.
3.) Mr. Willis, desperately ill, is taken to hospital via ambulance. Doctors tell family untreated infection has involved brain. Mr. Willis’s family is called to attend at what turns out to be his deathbed.
One interesting note about this is that his uncle is Bootsy Collins. The question that has occurred to everyone is this: why in the hell didn’t he call up ol’ Unc and ask to borrow twenty bucks for the antibiotics? Mr. and Mrs. Collins were out of town while all of this was happening, but the real answer may have something to do with the family now having set up a fund to take donations for Mr. Willis’s funeral and for his daughter’s education.
The hospital at which he died, by the way, also operates a low-cost dental clinic for low/no-income patients. It is unclear whether either the dentist Mr. Willis originally consulted or the ER staff referred him there, or even informed him of its existence.
Forty percent of Ohioans lack dental insurance.
Please insert comma between “6-year-old” and “develops” in point 1.) above, if you would. (Mentally is fine.)
Sequel on its way.
watching frontline makes me want to cry/shitmyself
kg – izzat the money eleveny thing? OPB is in pledge so we’re stuck with DooWop Celebration. Fuck, I hate pledge even more than The Ho and he’s in charge of it (as far as Oregon goes).
FYautocorrect. “niney”
Five minutes of This is what made me want to watch nothing but “half baked” or some shit for the rest of my life.
jesus christ I’m in a wallowing mood. i can’t believe I’m actually despondent.
Heading upthread in search of sweet pupienus foodpr0n
btw, how is the big “no more Jerry Lewis” thing going over in PBS circles? are they glad to be rid of him? is that thing even on PBS?
OT*: A little gallows humor for our times – with an educational edge.
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* Unless the idea of composting Malkin can be applied … & many would argue it’s long overdue.
is that thing even on PBS?
nope…
aw fucket anyway. gnight.
Keep fuckin’ that chicken, badger boy/girl.
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OT*: A little gallows humor for our times – with an educational edge.
This guy sounds like Jeremy Irons.
Oh, sure. You say that afterwards. How am I gonna get this damn comma offa my screen?
Oy. I can’t watch that right now. The text is awful enough.
As it was so well said upthread, “There aren’t enough “Fuck you”s in the universe.“
Thanks for the link, jim. I never could quite connect all the dots. This guy does an outstanding job of it.
I’m late to the party, but here’s my story: Ten years ago, I worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield and had excellent dental care. Before I left the company, I got all my dental needs taken care of, including two huge fillings in big molars, both in bottom teeth, one on the left, and one on the right.
Twelve years later, one of the big fillings began to break, and ultimately fell out. I had a little pain now and then, but since I could chew on the other side and had no dental insurance, I let it slide for a while. I got laid off from my already pathetic job, and a couple months later I had the worst, most agonizing toothache of my life. I took some leftover Biaxin my kid had, and after three days of thinking, wow, if I had a pistol I’d shoot myself in the head, right through that tooth! the infection fell back and I felt okay. I got my tax refund that week, so I made an appointment with a dentist. He said, yep, you had an abscessed tooth; here’s a prescription for clindamycin – I’m allergic to penicillin – and come back in a week and we’ll pull it. Well, I have a blood pressure problem, also going untreated because of lack of insurance, and a week later they refused to pull it because my blood pressure was too high. Said I needed a dental surgeon. So they refilled my clindamycin, which, by the way, despite being generic goes for $50 + a bottle, and my Tylenol III, in case the pain came back, and off I went, still with the abscessed tooth firmly in place. (Clindamycin has all sorts of hideous side effects, by the way, and can even be fatal itself under the right circumstances.) I went to my employer, told them I’d need more time off. (I’d just begun working again and my benefits were due to kick in in three days.) They fired me. I got unemployment, but now I could not afford the out of pocket costs for my dental surgery.
I got another job. Less than a month later, that big filling on the other side fell out. I’ve been to the ER at the county hospital, I’ve been to our state university teaching hospital – same deal, the dental college wouldn’t take the teeth because of my blood pressure – I’m fired from that job and have no money to even make the rent this month. I’ve got to get out to the county hospital and get some meds for the blood pressure, and I’ve got an appointment to have the teeth removed via surgery with IV sedation – on October 5th. As I type this, my tooth hurts again. I’ve taken 800 mg of ibuprofen but its not kicked in yet. Somehow, I’ve got to try to get the county to help me with rent, I’m going to have to go to the ex-bf and ask him to help me, and I’ve got to somehow try to get this special insurance for adults so I can get help for the BP so I can get the teeth taken care of. I’ve now lost so much weight that clothes that were tight on me are hanging off my frame. And this is what passes for medical care in the Yewnited States of ‘merka.
And I’m a professional with a degree (paralegal.) Yay, me.
Also, Malkin would be a much better herbicide than compost.
I never could quite connect all the dots.
WARNING: Use connecting all the dots at your own risk. Do not attempt to operate heavy equipment within twelve (12) hours of connecting all the dots. Side effects of connecting all the dots may include confusion, dizziness, loss of appetite, depression, nausea, rage, blurred vision & an intense ongoing need to slap a bitch.
Shit, Candy. That sucks.
Question on the BP though – how high is it? I ask because the last several times mine has been checked by a medical professional (at the dentist) it has been 140 over 90…higher than it should be. So I started checking it on the machine at the Kroger pharmacy whenever I was shopping – I was NEVER getting readings below that, which meant that it wasn’t the result of “dentist stress.” Even worse, I was getting readings sometimes as high as 160 over 95. So I did a little research, found out that CoQ10 can bring down BP an average of 18 points. Bought some, started taking it, and within 3 weeks was getting reading under 120 over 80.
So my question – are you taking CoQ10? If not, it might be worth a try. Depending on how high your BP is, it might get it down into a safer range.
M. Bouffant said,
That would go triple for me. I’ll just mention that my last self-extraction was a few wks. ago.
Jesus fucking Murphy, man, you did what?!? From down here at the arse end of the planet that sounds like a horror story. Weird in the extreme to hear of it happening in the Greatest Nation On Earth (TM).
Fuck. Me.
RE: Human Centipede sequel linked by MB: check out dude’s blogroll. Big Hollywood, Daily Caller…no wonder he was a fan of Human Centipede 1…he’s obviously a sick fuck.
Hey, WordPress doesn’t hate me any more! Hurrah!
wow, if someone can get the side of their hand into arnold’s vag through her pants i can only wonder at what sort of monstrosity it is…
Ugk, ick, urgle-squick, I really didn’t need that mental image I’m getting of ladyparts gaping like a suitcase.
And Jefferson P., your kitty looks like my Luschka – all ‘adore me, baby’ eyes and languid limbs. No wonder he’s top of the pet pops.
Well, JA, to be perfectly honest, they’re so effing loose it doesn’t matter. No blood, even, when pulling them. May make a necklace of some sort of all of them.
I’ve a full set of human-made choppers ready to be installed, but the psychological whatnot of going in & having the remaining “natural” ones whipped out is holding me back.
As mentioned up-thread, our Medicare doesn’t cover dentistry. At all.
Kids, floss like there’s no tomorrow! Or floss like you’ll live to be 100 & you’ll need the teeth.
Hey, where’d preview disappear to?
Yeah, I saw that when looking at Big Ho. Some people around here [sniffs] seem to find it amusing, & I’m not one to judge, only to help.
Interesting that we all seem to be believing Ms. Alkon’s story.
One of the commenters at Big Elf’s place says that “liberals are the enemies of science.” Guh?
I think this has been covered.
(1) A pair of rightwing racist amateurs dressed up in white lab-coats for some Science cos-play and wrote “The Bell Curve”.
(2) Real scientists said the book was tendentious shite.
(3) Therefore scientists are liberal; and liberals hate science. Also.
Is there even one Wingnut trope that doesn’t ultimately boil down to “I know you are but what am I???”>/i>
Projection, its the other white meat!
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The question that has occurred to everyone is this: why in the hell didn’t he call up ol’ Unc and ask to borrow twenty bucks for the antibiotics?
No!
The question is why did a young man have to die, from the complications related to a toothache, in the richest country on earth?
Whether he was related to “theoretical money”, or not is beside the point.
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The word “labia” appears a statistically improbable number of times in this comment thread.
The question is why did a young man have to die, from the complications related to a toothache, in the richest country on earth?
That’s question number 1.
Question number 2: What the fuck is wrong with people in this country that they prefer defending the health care system that failed him to admitting that his death was a preventable tragedy?
The word “labia” appears a statistically improbable number of times in this comment thread.
Your probability tables are more interesting than mine.
What the fuck is wrong with people in this country that they prefer defending the health care system that failed him to admitting that his death was a preventable tragedy?
The an$wer i$ not immediately ¢lear, i$ it?
The whole free market argument is losing steam. We are seeing its death throes, I think.
The word “labia” appears a statistically improbable number of times in this comment thread.
Like DK-W’s mom, this is an outlier
From TinTin’s post:
Is it just me, or is Malkin stating that spending four dollars is somehow going to keep me from buying the drugs I need to be healthy?
Doesn’t that, you know, defeat her own argument?
Interesting that we all seem to be believing Ms. Alkon’s story.
Who, now?
“The word “labia” appears a statistically improbable number of times in this comment thread.”
Business as usual around here. We just go ON AND ON about labias.
We just go ON AND ON about labias.
A significant percentage of us know the shortcut.
know the shortcut
CIRCUMCISION HOLOCAUST.
N_B, you know a short-cut to the labia? You must be one smooth operator.
Turn right at the navel.
“Go on,” she said. “No, really. Keep going.”
How much does Verizon suck?
As much and as often and as enthusiastically as DK-W’s mom.
Oh GOD, andon, FUCK OFF
WELL. This thread went quite blue this morning. I apologize.
vacuums layer … will be typing shittily on her iPad
Cophragia rule 34!
Dr. Mike strikes again: http://wonkette.com/452578/conservative-professor-protests-use-of-term-tea-bagger-in-front-of-ladies
Oh GOD, andon, FUCK OFF
Well, vs, you invoked him/her/it/other:
“We just go ON ANDON about labias.”
(I apologize for that, BTW.)
From N__B’s mango cart:
The time has come for conservative students to take the gloves off and start fighting campus indoctrination by turning the weapons of the left against the leftists themselves.
Bullshit like this almost makes me want to donate and volunteer for the Communist Party just to up the odds that whiny fucks might someday have to meet an actual Leftist. (protip: it ain’t the marginally Liberal middle class kids at your little university, Mike).
The word “labia” appears a statistically improbable number of times in this comment thread.
Labia luck tonight?
Question number 2: What the fuck is wrong with people in this country that they prefer defending the health care system that failed him to admitting that his death was a preventable tragedy?
Rephrased: Why do thousands of potential victims of said shitty system defend it as if it were something worth defending?
Because it’s hurting someone else just a little bit more, tsam.
Because it’s hurting someone else just a little bit more, tsam.
Well that’s just RUDE.
Mitt Romney says career politicians don’t know what it takes to “get this economy going again.”
re: Dr. Mike
Mike Adams has been choking this same chicken for so long you’d think that he’d just go consult a medical professional about it. Anyways, that piece contains such a condensed construct of his hypocritical projection that it needs to be highlighted.
Got that? He is proposing that “scores” of professors be fired for their political views. Nominally because they somehow push their political agenda on their students.
Another episode in TEH GREATEST HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD:
Self-employed friend, out of buisiness for several years do to an injury, trying to self-treat a bad tooth. Visited dental clinics but blood pressure was too high to pull abcessed tooth. Ended up in the E.R. for a kindey stone, passed out after waiting to be seen for eight hours, admitted with sepsis and ended up having emergency heart bypass. In a coma for a week, he was released with lots of expensive medication to take the rest of his life, the same bad tooth (E.R. doctors aren’t dentists, after all) and a bill for $550,000.
He still tries to get into the dental clinic in L.A., but the line forms before the clinic opens and after that it’s sort of a lottery number process.
I hear you, Candy. He always made a good living working for himself and never using credit, but now he lives on family donations and credit cards. And he pulls his own teeth.
Also re: teabagging.
Ancient blogwhore warning. Teh mainstream is so dismissive of g4m3r culture that they refuse to acknowledge that an industry that has been routinely massively outselling Hollywood for years can influence pop culture. Teabagging has nothing to do with sex. It’s an FPS term. Kinda liek how “rocketwhore” has nothing to do with prostitution except for teh fact that your mom camps launcher spawn sites teh same way she uses men. Ruthlessly, thoroughly, smiling and trash talking teh entire time.
DKW – I’ve played some FPS (counterstrike) but I don’t recall the term “teabagging” being used in a gaming context?
Teabagging.
Thanks. Now I’m going to have that song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Teabagging.
Or, dudes who want to put their balls in another dude’s mouth.
Yes, that has been big in gaming culture for a long time, among 11 year olds, and those who never matured beyond 11.
That’s why I quit playing FPS games online. That and the fact that I wasn’t very good.
[…] – It’s funny because the guy died unnecessarily. […]
Andon has been banned and most of his posts deleted.
Don’t look at me. And I thought it was a story someone else sent to her. (Also too: Who has the kind of cash that they can just eat the cost of an airplane ticket, which is what happens when – as claimed – you flee the gate all boo hoo hoo?)
Andon has been banned and most of his posts deleted.
Thank you.
Also, good luck Candy. And hope that things get better for potp’s friend too.
Srsly, at over 40% of the adult population either forgoing or deferring medical treatment, everybody knows someone in a shitty situation with respect to TEH GRATEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN TEH WORLD. Even out-of-touch media superstars. Even health insurance executives. Even teh Koch’s.
Certainly Michelle Malkin would know, what with her government subsidized high deductible MSA plan.
It’s not an abstract idea – that there are people letting easily treatable things like an abcessed tooth or a minor injury develop into something worse. Because they can’t afford the simple treatment or they have other also easily treatable conditions that conflict.
So the rest of you goldbrickers had better pick up the slack. We are way under quota for paranoid rambling and copypasta delusions of persecution today, and if we don’t hit quota it’s coming out of your Soros cash. So get to it, already.
First off, anyone who has played Halo knows “teabagging” all too well (I’ve bagged and been bagged more often than I’d like to admit … though more the former than the latter; also, too: HALO SUCKS BALLS).
Annnnnyway:
Only an elitistsocialisticfascistasticeffetteliberal uses things like “facts” and “calendars.”
(Actually, thanks for the correction. I took a wild guess at a joke and wound up in Epicfailand. Welcome to my life; thanks for playing.)
N_B, you know a short-cut to the labia? You must be one smooth operator.
Criminy, VS, it’s practically tattooed on your thighs!
We are way under quota for paranoid rambling and copypasta delusions of persecution today
Macs rule.
Andon has been banned and most of his posts deleted.
Fuck. Now where will I get my halfhearted jumping jacks performed by badgers?
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Macs rule.
‘Specially with cheeses.
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Macs rule.
It’s not just an OS, it’s a religion!
My son (a.k.a. The Boy) has four small cavities that need fixin’.
This is usually not an issue — unless your kid is autistic, blessed with sensory processing disorder (as in, everything is WAAAAYYYY more intense in terms of sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch), and has Tourette’s (the tick kind, not the screaming obscenities kind).
If so, the procedure has to to be done on an outpatient basis at a hospital.
This also wouldn’t be an issue … unless the dentist refuses to do anything until one forks over $600someodd dollars—again, just for the dentist—while the hospital demands another $900ish.
And that doesn’t even cover all of the costs. It’s just a down payment to make sure they get something.
Oh, and we actually have dental insurance (allegedly).
Of course, we can’t afford to do any of that because we still owe about $400 for an ER trip when we thought The Boy had appendicitis (it was gas, so the fact we have to pay so much to get him to fart is outfuckingstanding), another $200 for an upper GI I had last year, and still another $500or so for an MRI on my elbow (torn ligaments) in April.
A lot of people just don’t understand that, when the medical shit hits the fan, it can cost anywhere from $2K to $6K out of pocket (depending on the policy’s max out of pocket costs) even w/ insurance. For families on the edge, that’s a shitton of money they just don’t have. And for those without insurance … well, they’re fucked.
So, yeah. GREATEST HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD!!*
(* Offer only applies to those who are wealthy and can afford any procedure they need, regardless of costs. The rest of you leeches can FOAD.)
It’s not just an OS, it’s a religion!
Also an excuse to be a condescending asshole! YAY!
Also an excuse to be a condescending asshole! YAY!
I don’t need an excuse. My Mac’s just icing on that cake.
Also an excuse to be a condescending asshole! YAY!
I don’t need an excuse. My Mac’s just icing on that cake.
Applies double for me, but I have an iPad and iPhone, as well.
I have to rely on my wits for an excuse to be a prick. I am an Apple free person.
(So far. As soon as I can get rid of this POS Droid and get an iPhone, I’m on it)
I have to rely on my wits for an excuse to be a prick.
So you’re only a half-prick?
So you’re only a half-prick?
You think you’re witty, but you’re only half right.
More AWESOME from the Bible Belt.
http://www.wissenrockt.de/media/2011/09/20110907-gelangweilt-versuchs-mal-mit-einer-missionarsstellung-14.jpg
Discuss.
iStupid
Really?
I am greatly dismayed at what globalisation is doing to teh PENISes of Bhutan.
iPhone 5.
Having learned from Antenna-gate and implemented a pro-active fix, teh iPhone 5 will now randomly initiate phone calls when your finger touches the back or left side of the device.
I just had to laugh when I saw that the Mactards wrote an entire blogpost around a picture that MIGHT have been taken by a next generation iPhone. They don’t even know the origin of the picture.
Don’t worry too much about it, the device still sucks as a phone so it drops teh call within seconds.
A new survey will show that within two months of launch, calls made on an iPhone 5 from teh Skype app will outnumber actual phone calls.
Also on teh iPhone 5, texting is disabled except to your Twitter account. It’ll be half a year before anyone notices.
From tsam’s link. Headlines that make you think someone is porking the English language but then …
Police Probe Death of Arkansas Man Found in Bathtub With Local TV Weatherman
Will not make immature jokes about the weatherman’s last name.
Will note his employer is (at least publicly) treating the event with a lot more dignity and kindness than I’d expect from any place in Ark.
To demonstrate Apple’s appreciation for early adopters, teh first run of iPhone 5’s will come with special Limited Edition features including a special “personalized” .aac message from Steve Jobs. Also as a bonus, iPod functionality for the iPhone 5 is disabled and there is no way of actually playing teh message until after teh 50% price drop when a free app (“Where Are Teh Jobs?”) is released to play the file. The special .aac file is also included in the Where Are Teh Jobs app and can be downloaded by anyone with iTunes.
And I always thought hanging a wet bath towel on it was a neat trick!
To demonstrate Apple’s appreciation for early adopters, teh first run of iPhone 5?s will come with special Limited Edition features including a special “personalized” .aac message from Steve Jobs
That’s the second wave of adopters, actually. The first wave got a blow job from new CEO, Tim Cook
(PS who really is gay, but you’ll never hear that in the popular press)
I am greatly dismayed at what globalisation is doing to teh PENISes of Bhutan.
Wait…is that your mom crying tears of joy off to the side there?
Having learned from Antenna-gate and implemented a pro-active fix, teh iPhone 5 will now randomly initiate phone calls when your finger touches the back or left side of the device.
So they’re normalizing it to the Blackberry?
I just had to laugh when I saw that the Mactards wrote an entire blogpost around a picture that MIGHT have been taken by a next generation iPhone.
I know, right? I mean, it’s not like Windows Vista made anyone…
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Finally, a video game I can get behind.
It even has zombies to kill. Or re-kill.
Finally, a video game I can get behind.
S. McGravitas went there.
You’d think that conservatives would approve of a market-driven entrepreneurial product like this video game, but apparently not.
Too bad the guy who died wasn’t a fetus.
Then Michelle and her gang would have been like, “Oh my god! I can’t believe it! Another poor little fetus died! Boo hoo hooo!”
But since it was just some poor black guy, they were like, “Well, who gives a fuck about HIM?”
Jesus would be so proud!
Now, me, personally I never learned to tapdance.
But hey, I’d go buy the tap shoes, the outfit and start taking lessons immediately, if I thought I might get the chance to tapdance on Michelle Malkin’s coffin.
This is rich coming from a woman who brags about her taxpayer-subsidized health coverage:
Surely it’s Labiae?
Damn.
I was going on two years since I’d read anything by or about Malkin. I have to turn in my chip, now.
Apparently Malkin thinks you can march into a pharmacy and ask them to hand over their cheapest generic antibiotic without a prescription. . .
You can actually do that here in Panamá. We only need prescriptions for medicine containing narcotics, otherwise, you simply tell the pharmacist what you want to buy and how many doses and they’ll sell it to you. This became a problem when I visited the U.S.A. and ran out of my blood pressure medicine; you gotta have a prescription to buy anything but aspirins and steroids in the good ol’ U.S.A.!
With havin so much content and articles do you ever run into any problems of plagorism or copyright violation?
My website has a lot of completely unique content I’ve either created myself or outsourced but it looks like a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my permission. Do you know any ways to help protect against content from being ripped off? I’d certainly appreciate it.