But there’s something we can do about it.
We’re Number 24
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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This is simply a calculation error. This is what I’ve heard from people who defend the idea that our healthcare system is the best in the world. Infant Mortality? Oh, the Germans don’t calculate infant mortality the same way we do.. . . .that explains it.
And that stupidity works. Watch as your trolls gather to drop their deuces.
The only thing that keeps this strip from being funny is that it is not too much of a stretch to see it actually happening, which sucks all the humor out. The only question left would be what would we accuse # 23 of doing? We already used WMDs as the grounds for our last baseless war, we might have to have the government equivalent of Vanna White give the wheel of slander (known as the wheal of fortune for war profiteers) a spin for a different excuse while hoping it doesn’t end up on “Bankrupt”. Of course the majority of America is sufficiently gullible that WMDs might keep working for a while so who knows.
Aggie,
Do they count their infant mortality the same way we do?
This. Is. AWESOME!
And according to the CIA Factbook you’re number 49 and you’ld have to bomb Portugal.
As per UN numbers, it get’s better, you’re 38, and number 37 is…..Cuba!!!!
ROTFLMAO
La MUERTE Desde ARRIBA Bitches!!!
There are also averages to contend with. Germany’s 100-year average is probably not so good compared to ours, don’t you know.
Aggie, the one cooking of the infant mortality rate that I know of is the one perpetrated by Cuba’s government. Hope you don’t consider this trollish.
Bucephalus: No I don’t consider that trollish:
“Aggie, Do they count their infant mortality the same way we do?”
I consider this trollish. What’s remarkable is how precisely the same conservative arguments come from such drastically different places. For example, I see almost verbatim the same statements from US 395 that I hear from right wingers in my family here in North Carolina, as well as the neighbors I had in Michigan. PRECISELY the same things.
Coincidence? No. Mass brainwashing. It isn’t too outlandish to believe, we do know it has happened before with the help of coordinated television and radio propaganda campaigns.
Of course, any slight imprecision in what I say will be honed in on. As Jon Stewart said last week, we can use the magnifying glass to closely examine important issues, or we can use it to set ants on fire.
He’s always waitin
Gotta make a move to tell them
regurgitation boy
He’s never had one
regurgitation bad one
Hot choclate boy
Walk by at midnight
Cut n paste what he will tell them
regurgitation boy
He’s never read one
(to the tune of Hot Chocolate Boy by Beat Happening)
Regurgi boy
Regurgi boy
now his friends are yelling
he sounds just like my neighbor
Regurgi boy
He’s a sensation
Regurgi nation
Regurgi boy
I think Reguri Boy has a nicer ring than the exhaustive, “Regurgitation Boy”
Aggie,
You are the only person who introduced a”conservative argument”. I ask again, do they count their infant mortality the same way we do?
Ted Rall, advocate (practically) of the RIAA and MPAA and so on, champion of intellectual property, is now the Red Menace.
Seriously, the zzzyawn libs are up in arms over you, Ted. You’re the official scandal of 2010. Forget all the trivia that happened this year.
Operation Vapors now commences – bring the smelling salts.
Will Dylan Ratigan be the next guy suspended or fired?
Not that you SHOULD care – seriously, the entire whorehouse has needed fumigating for a long, long time.
Aggie, well put. I have heard the same exact wording used from the radio, to my neighbor, to the blogs. Sometimes whole phrases are regurgitated.
In an essay, a grumpy Orwell once lamented the devolution of language (and thought) into a small collection of pre-fab’d tokens. At the time he noted the classic military theme of the phrases (eg. “mailed fist”, “jackboot” etc.).
What are we to make of some of the phrases in use by the righties? (eg. “…ram it down our throat”).