(Long time supporter of beagles here. Just ask AJ.)
I love how intensely this story is covered, both because it's awesome and because it's awesome. (Joey, you really might want to consider posting about this because well...it's awesome.)
Now THAT's a cute picture.
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Speaking of trophies, did you see this?
http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/news/index.asp?id=6370
DA
Hahahaha. I knew about it, but I did not see it. So awesome.
LOL, I just took a break from writing about why the Westminster is Not Awesome. Expect it later tonight, I am too sleepy to continue.
Hahah... this is really cute- especially since it looks like he's misbehaving at the end...
Thanks for the puppy post
See you in a less than 24!
AJ
Fuck you Joey. It just became awesome.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120301945499169247.html?mod=home_we_banner_left
This is pretty sweet
I’ve given a lot of thought to our conversation of last night, re socialized medicine, since it’s a slow day at work and the courts are closed. Plus, its good argumentation practice. Since I’ve lately become addicted to diatribes, why not continue….
Your contention, as I understand it, is that socialized medicine is a right and a necessity, similar to transportation, education and so on. The term “right” is not merely political, but it also contains a moral context; a course of conduct is sanctioned, proper, an exercise worthy of the respect of others, and violating a person’s rights is unethical and morally evil.
The Declaration of Independence set out the unalienable rights to which Americans are entitled, amongst them the rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. These rights are different than the “right” to health care. They are individual, and are active. By this I mean that I have the right to exist as I please, to pursue happiness in my own course. I have the right to pursue happiness, to work for it, but others are not required to make me happy. Essentially, I have the right to act and to retain the results of those actions, the production of my hands, to do so with what I will. Any exercise of these rights at the expense of others means that the others become rightless, because they cannot pursue life, liberty, or happiness because their pursuit is subordinate to my exercise of my rights.
We are in the middle of a tidal change. Instead of the individual, active rights, which I can pursue, we are seeing the rise of enumerated rights which require no earning, no action or effort on the part of the recipient. Obama and Clinton both contend that people are entitled to something simply because it exists and tbey need it. Therefore the government should give it to them. This is a “right” in a different sense, not the freedom to earn something by my own efforts, but a moral claim that requires that I be given things, free of cost, without any action on my part.
Which begs the question, where does the government get it from? Simple, the people who actually work, create goods and services, are turned into the serfs of the state, sacrificial animals laboring to fulfill your needs. Yet, nobody has the right to the services of any professional individual or group just because he needs them. Surely, I would laugh someone out of my office if he walked through the door claiming to have a right to my labor because he “needs” it, but is unable to pay for it. If a person receives health care simply because they exist, this is charity. But it is charity taken one step further, extorted charity, taken under duress.
Doctors are not servants of their patients. Doctors have a right to assert the moral principle of their liberty, their property, their pursuit of happiness. Taking away their right to do so as they see fit, making them serfs of the state, destined to serve others because of those others’ right to receive free medical cares, is morally wrong. The Declaration of Independence is applicable to doctors as well as the rest of us.
RS
RS.
1) Goddammit.
2) I will read it if you think I should read it. At this moment, it is too long for me to read. You must ask me again to read it, and I will.
3) Goddammit.
I did just glance at a couple of sentences though, and I can tell it is totally annoying.
Hey, I was bored. Whadda you want from me? Read it when you are sitting in some class with nothing better to do.
RS
It's just so weird that both you and Scott Koelker rant in the same overwrought, hyperbolic, exaggerated and smug fashion. You probably can't tell you too apart, apart from the more frequent references to Nixon for you.
In any case, I just wanted to say...When I am sitting in class, I generally have something better to do. CLASS.
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