The Political Funnies for
October 25, 2009
At 67, barring death from flu or auto (since I can’t drive in or walk a straight line anymore), life under Obamacare will be fraught with fear. As with many of his moves in other areas of the economy, the ones relating to health care will all be announced on weekends. Witness the H1N1 flu emergency that gives him powers beyond flu management.
We know how aware Obama is of the 24-hour news cycle. He has taunted reporters with his knowledge of it countless times. Is it any wonder then that he fired or caused to resign the former CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner, on a Sunday (March 29)?
Let’s face it, his White House Director of Communications should have known better than to quote Mao at a school graduation on a Thursday! The media’s storm that followed should make her check her calendar more closely – and her history. Mao represented individuality only insofar as it related to himself as a leader. Communism does not foster individuality. On the contrary, it more or less kills it.
When it comes to further management of my age group, those announcements will not only be made on weekends, but will be pegged for midnight, Saturdays followed by Obama fireside chats Sundays confessing to the nation that he really hated to do that to the old and weak.
So little money will be given to our care and disposition at death that I envision my obituary will read:
Died from lack of medical and spiritual care under the direction of a doctor who was over-tired and under paid and had, as a result, developed a very bad bedside manner.
She was cremated using a bunsen burner due to lack of funding for disposal.
Her ashes were strewn in the compost pile of the local community garden.
She will pop up in some form in the spring.
So I send out a call to arms to the aging boomers and beyond. Do not go quietly into that nursing home. Buy an iPod or other small communication device and strap it to your ankle next to the stiletto. We will need to keep on blogging on Quebec free internet ( Obama will have control of US internet ISPs).
President Obama, while you are busy either announcing policy, flying off to a summit or languishing at Camp David, under the radar thousands of elderly victims of elder care will be tweeting and blogging like a trillion pesky bees. A trillion comes easily to mind. It is the current projected cost for health care reform. How can we pay for these bright, socialist ideas?
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VotingFemale Speaks! – Obama Declares National Emergency; His Poll numbers – the real emergency
Hot Air – GOP ad: Behind Closed Doors
Sister Toldjah – Mainstream media revolts against WH for war on Fox News
BigGovernment – FACT CHECK: Health Insurers Profits Not So Fat
ArleneArmy – Obama Swine Flu Hoax: Americans Get Punked Again
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samhenry
October 25, 2009
Thanks, CAT. I’m grateful my fingers can still type this stuff. I havea GPS on the tip of my cane that directs me to great material. It usually takes me to your blog where the conversation gets me a goin’ on an ider.
Foxwood
October 26, 2009
Stiletto heels? Oh, the blade! Yes, yes… keep em’ under the radar.
samhenry
October 26, 2009
Not heels, FOX – a real stiletto – a real one! Tough men and even tougher women have them somewhere on their person!
arlenearmy
October 27, 2009
Has the WH figured out where folks are gonna be buried? Cause when folks get bad or NO healthcare, they eventually die quickly.
I hear that the cemeteries are getting full.
Ted Kennedy who had the best health care, dies & gets buried in Arlington. Arlington cemetery is now full & they barely have room for VIP’s & soldiers who get killed in action.
Personally, Im not into the cremation stuff & would not want to bring ashes of the dead into the house. I think it would give me nightmares.
But the WH had better figure in where the dead bodies will be interred. And I don’t mean interred in that Chicago cemetery where the owners were digging up dead folks. Funerals are very expensive.
samhenry
October 30, 2009
Arlene – I used to not want to be cremated but as I have aged, I have not minded the thought so much. I am going to be cremated and my ashes slipped under the sod at my father’s gravesite. My mother is burried near Philadelphia.
As for what happens to us after we die in general – think of the ice age. It swept all before it. This is good old planet earch and she takes no prisioners. I think that, contrary to global warming, we are going to hit a point where we go back the other way toward another ice age. I think these are cycles that have been followed through time older than we can imagine. It seems the entireuniverse iscyclic.
So don’t worry about protecting gravesites or making sure the stuff of life gets to the people you want to have it. Live free like the birds and, well, the lilles of the field – what is that quote – “they neither work nor….
arlenearmy
October 27, 2009
Its times like these that I wished I entered into the medical profession… like being a nurse or doctor. I would settle for having the knowledge of being a veterinarian at this point. I think we are headed back to the days of midwives.
Maybe a concoction of caster oil, peppermint, lemon etc… will do the trick for flu symptoms. But what would happen if we need to go under the knife? Who’s gonna do the surgery?
samhenry
October 30, 2009
A – I think we are going to rely on physicians assistants more and more. It will be rare to see a doctor. It is happening already in my area in certain health groups. We are losing gp’s at an alarming rate.
Surgery – it will probably be done by robots in the future. Portions of surgery have something akin to this alread. I am thinking of eye surgery here.
samhenry
October 26, 2009
Thanks for your link on this post, M2!