Some days I wonder just what the hell some of my relatives are thinking- check out this "joke" my 70 year old aunt forwarded to me and her entire list of contacts:
Subject: The Perfect Solution to Senior Health Care
While discussing the upcoming Universal Health Care Program with my friend the other day, I think we have found the solution.
I am sure you have heard the ideas that if you're a senior you need to suck it up and give up the idea that you need any health care. A new hip? Unheard of. We simply can't afford to take care of you anymore. You don't need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, etc. Let's take care of the young people. After all, they will be ruling the world very soon.
So here is the solution. When you turn 70, you get a gun and 4 bullets.
You are allowed to shoot 2 liberal senators and 2 liberal congressmen that support this bill.
Of course, you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head and all the health care you need!
New teeth, great! Need glasses, no problem New hip, knee, kidney, lung, heart? Well bring it on.
And who will be paying for all of this. The same government that just told you that you are too old for health care.
And, since you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income tax.
And if we all do our part we can end up in the same prison and have one hell of a social life. I really think we have found a Perfect Solution!
Waiting to see how many others in the family decide to forward this mess to me.
Lest we forget others who advocate murdering Congressional members...
God dammit, WTF is wrong with people!? This is an outrage; what does it take to stop the madness of police brutality and abuse of the 50K volt Taser -- now used as a compliance device instead of social skills and training? This case involved only a complaint of excessive noise that brought the police to a home. Again, the police violence occurred in a private residence in front of a yard full of children.
A Latino family in Manassas, Virginia, is celebrating the baptism of their two young boys, at a party held in their grandfather’s backyard. The police arrive in response to a noise complaint, and ask to see the grandfather’s ID. The family’s account says that he provided it, but the police report say that he refused; both accounts agree that the grandfather was then Tasered three times in rapid succession, on his own property, and then charged with ‘public intoxication.’ The pregnant mother of the two boys ran to help him as he lay on the ground — and was also Tasered, then charged with assaulting a police officer.
I’ll say it again — all parties agree that county police officers arrived at a children’s baptism party being held at a private residence, then Tasered a 55-year-old Bible study teacher three times and Tasered a pregnant woman once, in front of a yard full of kids, including her kids, and family members. Then they read rights. To the grandfather and the pregnant woman. For ‘public intoxication’ and ‘assaulting a police officer,’ respectively. As they lay temporarily paralyzed on the ground.
Can you imagine being one of those two boys, and watching as your own mother, pregnant with your sibling-to-be, is electrocuted by police officers and arrested, for rushing to the side of your grandfather as lay paralyzed on the ground? How would that make you feel about your relationship to the police, as a young Latino man about to grow up in the astonishingly xenophobic state of Virginia?
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays), that bastion of ex-gay phoniness has just nominated Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg for an award for "distinguished service in public education."
PFOX head Regina Griggs said the following:
For the past four years, Mr. Sprigg has served on the school board's Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and and Human Development. The 15-member Committee consults with professional educators within the public school system in developing and evaluating the student sex education curriculum.
Mr. Sprigg has spoken out in favor of including former homosexuals in the county's "Respect for Differences in Human Sexuality" school lessons. These lessons promote tolerance of homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, cross-dressers, and the intersexed, yet failed to include ex-gays, which is the only disfavored group within the public school system. Without Sprigg, the ex-gay community and parents would not have a voice in the public schools.
Mr. Sprigg also enabled public school staff to promote a positive learning environment that holds mutual respect for others by participating in PFOX's flyer distribution program. PFOX distributed flyers to every high school student in the Montgomery County public schools urging the elimination of bias and prejudice against former homosexuals and their supporters. Students also received factual information on sexual orientation and resources on alternatives to homosexuality.
How sweet.
Griggs doesn't give the name of the award but based on his past history, nominating Sprigg for any award having to do with the tolerance and the advancement of education is like nominating one of those really bad American Idol rejects for a Grammy.
Isn't Peter Sprigg the SAME GUY who said the following:
" . . . I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe that homosexuality is destructive to society."
And you don't have to take my word for it, isn't that right, Peter:
Also based on some of the papers he has written for the Family Research Council, Sprigg wouldn't know factual information if it came to life and kicked him in the keister.
He helped to write the paper
I talk about both the paper and the book and their numerous errors here and here.
At the time in which I wrote the the two posts, I inaccurately gave another employee of FRC, Timothy Dailey, sole credit for writing these pieces. As you can see here, Sprigg had a hand in writing these pieces.
The only reason why Sprigg exists on this committee is to undermine anything that would benefit lgbts in a positive manner. He doesn't speak for tolerance and understanding but lies and obstruction.
From what I understand, his appointment was the result of a long and drawn out lawsuit over the school board's sex education program.
Also, there are enough reasonable members of that committee to cancel out any madness he may bring up.
But isn't it alarming that this man who would like to export gays and lesbians from the United States, who has no problem with creating junk science on gays and lesbians is on a committee that is supposed to look after the well-being of children, including those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender?
I don't know what award PFOX nominated Sprigg for but I've got one for him.
But to say what it's called would cause me to "lose my religion."
Peter Sprigg's "research:"
The Family Research Council continues to use 'outdated' work
Another flawed piece of work courtesy of the Family Research Council
The lies of PFOX:
UPDATE - PFOX answers my question. And someone is still distorting the issue
Another update from yesterday's post: PFOX caught distorting study
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