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With Socialized Medicine, Everyone Gets Screwed in the End

The photo below is of a real sign posted in an NHS hospital in the UK and it’s indicative of what inevitably happens with socialized medicine: supply cannot keep up with demand and, as a result, care needs to be rationed. Apparently, the situation is so dire in Britain that their national health care system can no longer provide the normal methods of birth control and they’ve been forced to resort to more unorthodox methods.

Needless to say, this sign is proof that any socialized health care system eventually becomes a pain in the butt.

A Trip to the Memory Hole: Foreign Policy Lightweights

Unfortunately, according to our President-elect and likely Secretary of State neither of them will be qualified for their jobs:

[Hillary] Clinton zeroed in on Obama’s remark that his “strongest” foreign policy experience came from living in Indonesia as a child.

“Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next president will face,” Clinton said in a speech to an audience in Iowa.

Obama’s response?

I know, I know… they’re “just words.”

Retrospective Irony

Note: This post has been updated.

A recent article in Time linked to a review of the Top 25 blogs. Although undated, the permalink suggests the reviews were written last year, which makes one wonder why Time linked to them as if they were still current, but I digress.

In its review of Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish, Time had this to say:

He endorsed George Bush in 2000, John Kerry in 2004, and seems to be leaning toward Barack Obama this year.

For anyone who didn’t follow Sully’s descent into hysterical madness, he ended up “leaning” so far over he fell into Barack Obama’s lap. In addition to repeatedly titling posts and signing them off with the oxymoronic phrase “know hope,” Sully had to this to say the night of Obama’s convention speech:

I’ve said it before – months and months ago. I should say it again tonight. This is a remarkable man at a vital moment. America would be crazy to throw this opportunity away. America must not throw this opportunity away.

Know hope.

He also became so fanatically driven to try to smear Sarah Palin that he perpetuated the unfounded rumor that Trig wasn’t really her baby and repeatedly called on her to release her medical records to prove she was his mother — even after the election!

If Time is going to continue linking to that review they may want to update it. In the meantime, it still gave me a good laugh to see Sully portrayed as a moderate.