Re: OT: Physicians for a National Health Program

[Jim Rojas <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw the Fox broadcast about the Cuban healthcare system. I believe it
was an honest outlook on things there. But I wonder why they didn't do
the same comparison with France, UK and Canada since they were debunking
the movie Sicko? Is this how they respond? Find one little white lie,
and expose the entire movie as a complete fraud?

Jim Rojas





Edmund Fitzgerald wrote:
> "Frank Olson" <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Nathan W. Collier wrote:
>>> "Frank Olson" <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>> message news:wJf6j.1939$jq2.753@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>>>> You mean spend your tax dollars on something besides weapons of mass
>>>> destruction?
>>> lets face it, canada is not known for its military might.
>> And yet Canada successfully invaded you and burned your White House.
>> [....]
>
> Frank, you have to be talking about the War of 1812.   Is this what is
> written in Canadian history books?  Goodness Gracious!
>
> In the war of 1812 the British sailed down the Potomac and found only Dolly
> Madison and a servant at home in the White House.  The President and the
> other men were off fighting the British elsewhere.  Anyway these brave
> *Canadians*, if there actually were any, pushed Mrs. Madison aside and set
> fire to the White House and burned an upper floor wing.  Mostly they looted
> the place, but Mrs. Madison had the forethought to remove the good stuff
> before they arrived.
>
> This was about the extent of your successful Canadian invasion and burning
> of the White House.  Hopefully you don't consider the pushing aside of Dolly
> Madison to be Canada's proudest military moment.
>
> The War of 1812 was a war that by all rights Britian should have won, but
> the liberals back home in the Empire got war weary and eventually cut off
> funding for the troops over here.  After they ran out of money they got
> their butts royally whipped, so to speak.
>
> A teaching moment.  *Support the troops*  History hangs in the balance.
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