15 Responses to “Kender needs help”

1. ThinkingMeat Says:
   October 2nd, 2008 at 6:29 am

   Kender’s Not-So-Final Post…

   It seems clear now that Kender’s “Final Post” was merely a clumsy attempt to drum up sympathy, prior to a pathetically overt plea for money.

   And sadly, some folks will no doubt fall for this transparent ploy.

   UPDATE 10/02/08 7:22 …

2. Cao Says:
   October 2nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm

   Meatbrain is a sick individual…anyone who sees this please go there and leave him a comment showing your disgust. Not only is what he has done in bad taste - terribly bad taste - but it’s also against the TOS with his hosting company.

   He has mirrored web pages before and been chastised by his hosting company for this…I think it’s time we reminded the hosting company that meatbrain is a constant offender in this regard.

3. Kat Says:
   October 2nd, 2008 at 6:56 pm

   Frankly, Cao, I’m amazed that you permit the trackbacks from that… person.

   Ah, well, your blog - but it must be tiring to take out the trash on such a regular basis

4. Cao Says:
   October 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm

   That post has violated the TOS with his hosting company….if it was just another ******* type post, I wouldn’t have bothered…but he’s hit an all time low with this one

5. Eric Says:
   October 3rd, 2008 at 1:04 am

   When they talked about Meathead, I always thought they were talking about some “symbol” for liberals. I would seem that he’s a real person (though I use the term loosely).

6. billy Joe Says:
   October 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 am

   I’d feel sorry for Kender if he ever showed a degree of humility and introspection in the past. Alas, he hasn’t that I’m aware of until his farewell and even that was spiteful.

   It would have been incredibly useful to know that he was on government aid and can’t make too much money because he’d then have to forgo treatment.

   Why doesn’t he get a job or start a business, & get private health insurance, which is far superior than government-run health care, as his friends all proclaim.

   That’s how real conservatives deal with these things, right? Pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and all that. He sounds like he has become dependent on the government.

7. Cao Says:
   October 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 am

   There is no requirement to ‘feel sorry’ for Kender. The word I use is …compassion. (a word that doesn’t exist in the self-absorbed modern liberal’s dictionary)

   Compassion is a profound human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another’s suffering.

   But you people seem to enjoy when people suffer…in fact, meatbrain in particularly not only ENJOYS it when his political opponents are suffering in one way or another, he makes a point of broadcasting it on his pathetic blog. That leads me to believe that you and he both have something seriously wrong with you.

   What I find totally bizarre are the requirements you people have in order to have compassion for someone who’s in trouble. But perhaps you’re completely unable to be compassionate; that’s what I’m starting to conclude.

   Because he’s a “racist” - which I’ve never seen and is laughable considering all the different races that have been blended into his own family…which I doubt the supreme white guy meatbrain has in his own family….how many hispanic brothers and sisters do you have, meatbrain? How many blacks? From what I can tell your children are as white as snow. What a hypocrite he is…perhaps that’s why he has so much white guilt.

   Because Kender doesn’t show “humility” (whatever that means) you provide the most pathetic excuses for your obvious schadenfreude. People with low self-esteem are more likely to feel schadenfreude than are people who have high self-esteem…isn’t that a shame that meatbrain needs to celebrate the misfortune of others to feel better about himself?

   You need some mental help.

   Sorry, when you donate organs there is nothing on the form that requires that the organ recipient be a certain race or ideology…

   and it’s the wonderful age of socialism that meatbrain is trying so hard to usher in that has Kender in this weird position to begin with. The system requires that he NOT earn money in order to collect his benefits. The catch to that is…if he were to earn his own money, he’d have to earn an obcene amount in order to cover his medical requirements/benefits.

   But when it progresses to what meatbrain would consider utopia…people like Kender will be too expensive to keep alive and a burden on the system.

   Maybe you could work on lobbying for that …that only liberal fascists on the dole be allowed to collect benefits and a person whose views don’t agree with yours should just kick the bucket with your blessing ::twisted:

   I’m sure it would be received well by people of your ilk.

8. Bob Corbett Says:
   October 5th, 2008 at 11:47 am

   Thank you and your family for the service to our country.
   it is refreshing to see a Woman conservative —
   I made an offer on the ACLU/blog to drive for Kender.

   I have an employee who had a kidney transplant after being on diyalsis for several years and almost dying–VA and company help was all he had after our medical group plan cancelled us –

9. billy Joe Says:
   October 6th, 2008 at 3:46 am

   Cao, what you’re criticizing is the free market in medical care that conservatives are always trumpeting. YOU sound like some sort of communist now.

   Isn’t it interesting how when conservatives are the victims, they clamor for socialized medical care? Conservatives love the free market until they get victimized by it and then they’re all for ’socialized’ what-have-you.

   As I said over at Meatbrain’s blog, I have used Universal Health Care in Japan and liked it much more than my healthcare in the US. It’s cheaper, more comprehensive & more transparent than what I have to deal with in the US.

   Everyone, even Kender, should have it. Instead though, conservatives (even John McCain himself) would rather have ‘government’ health care for themselves and force everyone else into the supposedly wonderful private market - the private market that they, like Kender, have opted out of, no less.

   All I’m asking for is consistency from Kender. It would be nice to get it from you, as well, given your belief that Kender needs gov’t health care. I’m not holding my breath though.

   Consider your hypocrisy exposed though. Conservative ideology works just great until it collides with reality, like it has in Kender’s case.

10. Cao Says:
    October 6th, 2008 at 5:59 am

    Where on earth do you get the idea that government benefits which restrict the ability of someone to work - are based on or have anything to do with - the free market?

    I don’t know about Japan, but I’m learning that contrary to your bluster about how wonderful it is, Japan has some problems brewing with its nationalized healthcare.

    Just 8 years ago in 2000, they were discussing on the internet how Japanese healthcare was mostly private…but 8 short years have changed everything as the government stepped in to try to contain costs.

    Pricing and Reimbursement in Japan: Costly healthcare system inefficiencies increase the focus on healthcare cost containment.

    Of course, outfits like NPR are broadcasting how the Japanese get more for less, but with rising numbers of elderly patients and a workforce hard pressed to pay for the benefits for them, trouble looms for the Japanese and innovation is at a virtual standstill.

    A range of macro trends are also impacting drug prescription and P&R, including: rising healthcare costs as a result of system inefficiencies, the fact that innovation is neither well-cultivated by Japanese drug developers nor well-rewarded by the Japanese government, and lastly the effects of an ageing population combined with a stagnant economy.

    So thinks aren’t as rosey for healthcare in Japan as you would like to think with your rosey depictions of socialism, but then again, you’re a friend of meatbrain.

    Like most industrialized countries, Japan is faced with a rapidly aging population and a declining birthrate. In addition, Japan’s economic growth has been stagnant for the past 10 years and continues to decline. These factors are plunging the overall medical system into deficit and increasing the burden on younger people, who must contribute more money to compensate for shrinking government revenue and the growing number of elderly people.

    Ah but who cares about facts, anyway? Certainly not meatbrain and his ilk.

    We should be keeping an eye for disaster to strike Japan as it’s already struck in countries that have ‘free’ healthcare: In other areas of the world where there is universal health care - like Cuba - Canada and Britain, people are literally DYING while they’re waiting to be seen.

    To meet U.K. government targets, which require emergency department patients to be treated within four hours, thousands of patients are kept in ambulances outside the department for hours. Last year, more than 43,000 patients waited for more than an hour before being allowed into the emergency room.

    Ambulances that are being used as “mobile waiting rooms” are unavailable to take fresh calls. The Labour government brought in the four-hour standard in an effort to end the scandal of patients waiting in casualty for days (Daily Mail 2/20/08).

    British patients are being denied certain operations because of lack of worthiness, based on smoking, obesity, heavy drinking, or age. Officials are urging patients to turn to “self care” instead of physician visits.

    Statistics from the Conservative Party show that the number of patients released from British National Health Service (NHS) hospitals with malnutrition has doubled in the decade since Labour came to power, increasing from 74,431 in 1997 to 139,127. While most of the patients had nutritional deficiencies on admission, the nutritional condition of at least 8,500 actually worsened during their hospital stay.

    Last year, Health Minister Ivan Lewis admitted that patients were being starved on the wards, with some elderly patients given little more than a scoop of mashed potatoes for lunch. Often, elderly patients are given non-pureed food that they cannot chew or swallow. Food trays may be placed out of reach and simply taken away when patients are too weak to get to them (Telegraph 1/1/08). “The threat to cut benefits to the old and the unhealthy in Britain is a clear confirmation that healthcare can never be free,” he says. “The threat also shows that healthcare can’t be truly universal, at least not for the long term, because it becomes too costly to maintain as such” (”Health Freezes Over,” Investor¹s Business Daily 1/29/08).

    That kind of BS is already happening here in America…as a woman died in a waiting room in a psychiatric hospital recently…

    NEW YORK (CNN) — A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.

    Esmin Green was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric emergency department of Kings County Hospital Center on June 18 for what the hospital describes as “agitation and psychosis.”

    Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment,

    Sorry, bud, that’s not the ‘free market’ at work…that’s a warning sign as to the deteriorating health care system that will only get worse if the government ends up in control of it.

    You apparently don’t even understand what “free market” means!

    Canada’s “father of universal health care” recommends an overhaul of the system and going back to privitization!–under government control, Canada’s national healthcare system is in crisis.

    “We thought we could resolve the system’s problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it,” says Castonguay. But now he prescribes a radical overhaul: “We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice.”

    It would figure you’re a fan of meatbrain’s, LOL

    Socialism/communism is based on government control - which slows an economy down and takes away incentive to work -which is precisely what the system is doing to Kender.

    The free market is increasingly not being allowed to correct itself; as government keeps interfering!!!

11. Billy Joe Says:
    October 6th, 2008 at 9:58 am

    By the way, if Kender is dependent on the system, why don’t you show him some tough love and make him pull himself up by his bootstraps?

    Why are you enabling his idleness with your generosity? You’re just reinforcing his culture of laziness. Right? That’s conservative ideology as told to me by FOX News and you’re choosing to treat the symptom rather than the disease.

    CONSERVATIVE FAIL.

    What’s the expression? give a man a fish…

12. Cao Says:
    October 6th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    that’s what we’re helping him to do - pull himself up. And he’s doing it. He doesn’t get a “free ride” from anywhere - and hasn’t his whole life. How is this any of your business, one wonders?

    when Jen Hall got her head kicked in by a couple of homeless people - and wound up in the hospital missing all but 4 of her teeth and had to have part of her skull removed…did people just leave her alone - to pull herself up by her own bootstraps- or did they set up a fund and start fundraising so she could pay over $100k of medical bills while she’s convalescing and going to physical rehab to walk again?

    I think you’re hysterical over something that is none of your business. If people want to help someone who is literally disabled out of the goodness of their hearts, they have a right to do that without your idiotic condescension.

    How do you know he is idle? Who the hell are you to tell me what to do? What business it of yours to ask me about what kind of care me and/or my family are getting?

    Japan might be clean, but - if you ever get arrested THERE - there is 100% conviction rate! bWAHAHAHA!

    I don’t imagine Japanese people stand in parking lots crying for the people who’ve been convicted like meatbrain does with Mumia…

    Hey. Why don’t you give that a try and let me know how it goes?

13. Billy Joe Says:
    October 6th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    Why don’t you help him by getting him private insurance instead of inferior gov’t healthcare then?

    Oh, that’s right… the private insurers would probably reject him because of his ‘pre-existing’ condition. Or else charge him so much that he literally can’t afford health care. But hey! that’s the free market for you! Funny how when conservatism and reality collide you instinctively run away from the market.

    Great system we have! Given your non-response, I assume you don’t have any insurance at all.

14. Cao Says:
    October 6th, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    I suggest you go out into the street there and start demonstrating against the police there and Japan’s devastating 100% conviction rate. Because not all 100% can possibly be guilty, right?

    Let me know how that works for you.!!!

    You’re giving up some things for what you claim is “free”.

    Like most industrialized countries, Japan is faced with a rapidly aging population and a declining birthrate. In addition, Japan’s economic growth has been stagnant for the past 10 years and continues to decline. These factors are plunging the overall medical system into deficit and increasing the burden on younger people, who must contribute more money to compensate for shrinking government revenue and the growing number of elderly people.

    I don’t know if you said how long you’ve been in japan, but one has to wonder why you haven’t noticed Japan’s economic problems.

    I repeated that because you’re ignoring my points on Japan - which indicates to me you’re not willing to acknowledge the problems that are a result of the stupid system they’ve adopted there. Now, back to the US:

    While government’s role in health care has expanded — one out of two health care dollars is now spent by the government — health care has become more expensive, less efficient, and less accessible. Health insurance premiums have nearly doubled since 2000 while inflation grew at 18% and wages grew by 20%. Meanwhile, the percentage of employers offering coverage has dropped 8% during the same period.

    So while you claim that what’s happening here is due to the free market, it is not.

    The symptoms we’re seeing are because of more government intervention–what is happening is not because the free market is being allowed to work, dearie.

    A market-based system that would unleash the power of innovation and competition in health care is within reach. A key reform would involve transferring health care tax benefits to individuals rather than employers. Free-market health care isn’t merely a good idea that ought to be attempted; it is the only idea that will work.

    ~Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., writing in the NY Sun

15. Cao Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 5:28 am

    By design, a (government) monopoly produces a different kind of worker. Unwilling to have their wages capped and freedoms restricted, the best inevitably leave. Mediocrity, unfortunately, gives rise to fewer malcontents and thus is a prerequisite for stability in the system. Put it this way: if a socialized system wants to survive, it must expunge the most driven and gifted from its midst. When wages, moreover, are tied to a negotiated deal with labour, rather than, in the case of a competitive market, to the individual physician’s performance, the position of the mediocre practitioner is further reinforced.

    That’s common sense, but of course socialists don’t have any. But none of that matters to YOU, just as long as it’s “free”.

    Failure Defined as Success in Socialized Medicine

    Medicare is in fact a pit of perverse incentives. It’s hard to get kinkier than to make failure tantamount to success. If a hospital consistently underperforms the administration has cause to celebrate. Why? Because it is rewarded with more funds to ostensibly “fix the problem”. To underperform is to have your budget increased.

    And there you have the problem in a nutshell, you loony!!!! bwahahaha

    Japanese nursing care in trouble

    A recent editorial in the Japan Times decried the terrible situation in Japan in nursing care caused by the severe lack of workers. Repeated in countries worldwide, the situation in Japan is a downward spiral of quality and according to the Times, ‘if the trend continues, the nation’s nursing care system could collapse.’

    Is the system collapsing?

    Whether you want to be on one of the Japanese health insurance or pension plans or not, one thing is for sure, the system is failing. The recent loss of pension payment records, not just a few but millions, has opened many eyes as to how incompetent the system has become. The Japanese aging society is the most rapidly advancing one in the world. Not many years ago the Social Health Insurance used to be favored over the National Health Insurance as the SHI paid 90% of medical costs compared with 70% that the NHI paid. Then they changed the SHI to 80% and now it is 70%, same as the NHI.

    Wow, sounds like it’s not such a rosey picture there!!! But of course what they’re calling for us more government to “control” the crisis, LOL

    Yeah, that’ll work…:roll:

    You have your head in the sand and are unable to face reality…!!!

    Good luck with that…and…let me know how your protest against that Japanese 100% conviction rate goes.

    Prison In Japan Part I: The Taxi Ride

    In Japan, suspects for any type of crime, can be held in a type of prison called a 留置場（りゅうちじょう, Ryuuchijyou）, under the “daiyo kangoku” (代用監獄) system of imprisonment without trial (the official political correct term for　”daiyo kangoku” by the way is “daiyo keiji shisetsu”（代用刑事施設）. Prisoners can be held for interrogation for 23 days without charge, without being offered bail, and without proper legal representation. Both Amnesty International and the UN Human Rights Committee have condemned the practice, which persuades many prisoners to confess to whatever they are accused of in the gruelling interrogation process.

    What kind of socialist are you that you don’t publicly condemn and protest this practice?

    CHICKEN?

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