Tuesday, November 24, 2009

You Can Make That First Check Out To Me, Microdot!

Back in Europe, watching the USA from afar, I realize that you have to stand back to have the perspective to really see the absurdity, the peculiarly American bent that warps the politics and the morality.

I read a quote by an Australian who said, "The Australians got the convicts, but the Americans got the Puritans." Do you want to trade?
So it was with almost utter disbelief that I read that in the Washington Post it was reported that Senators John Kerry and  Orrin Hatch have proposed the utimate faith based Christo-Pork amendment to the Health Care Bill now being debated in the Senate. This is the kind of cynical stuff that is crafted only to please a certain segment of their constituents.

They have proposed to have Faith based therapy covered by the bill. Some of the language in the proposal states, "Each prayer is a cerebral search for the resolution to the patients problem. The answer often comes in the form of an idea of a feeling: God is here, or God is life, or We are created in Gods perfect image."

In other words, they want to cover this unproven remedy solely because it is practiced by a religion. They don't include other unproven remedies and I'm sure that alternate medicines like the centuries old discipline of Chinese Empirical Medicine wouldn't be covered.

Would this religious pork fest cover the prayers of other religions? Why should we we be talking of subsidizing religious belief at all? This is the state subsidizing religion!
If this is serious, then why would it stop with medicine? Why not subsidize praying for deficit reduction or the War In Afghanistan?

Well, I'm getting in on the bottom floor, I'm writing up my first bill to present if and when this amendment passes. I just prayed for every person on earth to "Feel Better". It worked, didn't it? I know I feel better just thinking about it. Let's see, there's what...? 6 billion people in the world and my going rate for a theraputic prayer is quite reasonable, say $30 a prayer....hmmmm......

6 comments:

mud_rake said...

When I first began to read your post, I thought it was all tongue-in-cheek. But, CRAP!!!

Say it isn't so!

What next? The Return of the Puritans.

Unknown said...

That is unbelievable. They take out the abortion stuff and put that in?

microdot said...

Not only that, but it will pay for your viagra, too. Remember, Every Spermatozoa is Sacred!

Anonymous said...

I am backtracking from December 1 and will merely comment hat the cause you espouse is not furthered by recent events at the Hadley Climate Research Unit at Eat Anglia University.

Th Loop Garoo Kid

microdot said...

I can only say, "whaaaa?"

Have a happy global warming, remember, talcum powder is the best answer for heat rash brought on by groinal fungus infestations that are common in tropical climates.

microdot said...

TLGK..it took a few seconds to realize your post was not a total non sequiter. You obviously are referring to the "Leaked Emails" that supposedly refute the idea of climare change.

Thanks for positively identifying yourself as to what side you are on.
To take the data you are referring to and run with it as "evidence" that global warming does not exist is like standing in Central parkl on a sunny day and saying "See, it's not raining now, this proves it won't rain!"
You're on a fools errand and the only short sighted goal is to derail any meaningful results from the Copenhagen Conference.

As I said, stock up on talcum powder, if you are too cheap to buy talcum powder, a handful of cornstarch shoved down the front of your pants will do in a pinch.

I learned that from Ken Kesey.