Monday, July 09, 2007

Now that Paul Krugman is touting the new Michael Moore movie "Sicko", you can rest assured that it is too extreme for 99% of America.

You may not be aware, but in the UK the NHS is in such need for doctors that they are willing to allow special fast-track immigration for medical personnel. Mohammed Asha, Mohammed Haneef and their comrades didn't even require a work permit to come and practice as doctors in state hospitals. You don't have to be the smartest jihadist in the cave to see that as an opportunity, any more than it required no great expertise for the 9/11 killers to figure that the quickest place to get the picture IDs with which they boarded the plane was through Virginia's "undocumented worker" network.Is that "crass" to discuss or negligent not to?
Back at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, three doctors are under arrest, and the bomb disposal squad performed a controlled explosion on a vehicle in the parking lot. Pulled from the flaming Cherokee, Dr. Kafeel Ahmed is now being treated for 90% burns in his own hospital by the very colleagues he sought to kill. But at one level he and Dr. Asha and Dr. Abdulla don't need to blow up anything at all. The fact that the National Health Service — the "envy of the world" in every British politician's absurdly parochial cliché — has to hire Wahhabist doctors with no background checks tells you everything about where the country's heading.
Also, what Michael Moore fails to mention in his movie is that the best medical care found in Cuba is found in GITMO fyi.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

“At a time when his popularity is as low as any president's in modern history, Bush's action also defied public opinion. Shortly after Libby was convicted in March, three national public opinion polls found that seven in 10 Americans said they would oppose a pardon of Libby.”
–The Washington Post, 7/3/07

Given that President Bush did NOT pardon Scooter Libby and a commutation is not a pardon, exactly how did President Bush “defy public opinion”?