jaylake with some good linkage

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More on the Obama "socialist indoctrination" scandal — Or, arrant and opportunistic Republican hypocrisy, documented example number 1,257,440 (or so).

The mainstreaming of crazy — Bad Astronomy Blog on the Obama school speech kerfuffle. He says it better than I could, including: I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. Conservative discourse has gone beyond self-parody in this age of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, yet the conservative viewpoint is still the lede on tv talk shows and news broadcasts.

Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care — Speaking of the conservative lede, here's the Wall Street Journal with Sarah Palin. The stupid, it burns. Just for a start, it's not like health care isn't overbureaucratized now. Look at the percentage of private healthcare dollars that go to overhead, versus public healthcare dollars (ie, Medicaid).

I'm too fried to be useful, so you get C&P outta me for the time being. Maybe another good night's sleep after work today (lifting is currently 50/50 for this evening).

Comments

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Article 1: Yes, Republicans don't want their kids listening to communists. So? Presumably the communists get mad at kindergarten teachers for saying things like "don't take stuff that isn't yours".

Article 2: I'm a racist and crazy and there's something wrong with me for disliking Obama. Got it.

Article 3: Your objection to this article is that there's a lot of bureaucracy in healthcare, so the solution is clearly a gigantic government bureaucracy. What?