The Doctor Is In at the Lemonade Stand
A short, simple video about health care reform.
It focuses on the (now semi-defunct) public option, but the same logic applies to all government provisioned services. Bonus: The video combines (1) cheerful '50s sitcom-style theme music, and (2) allusions to a favorite childhood capitalism propaganda computer game, Lemonade Stand—the companion piece to the classic game Oregon Trail—which is, incidentally, now available for Mac.
This video is just one entry in a contest for health care reform hate videos sponsored by the Independent Women's Voice.
Via Randy Barnett
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Defunct is the wrong word. Deferred is the right one.
in = is?
Would Lucy van Pelt still be able to offer psychiatric help for five cents? She may be a bitch, but she still deserves the benefits of a free market.
Not under ObamaCare…
She’s clearly not licensed by the state and therefore should be shut down immediately.
Bitch is a strong word. I thought she gave Charlie Brown good advice–not to mention the director’s chair for a school play–in A Charlie Brown Christmas, which I just re-watched with my two year-old daughter.
It’s 2009. Bitch may not be an absolute pejorative in every context.
Wrong, bitch!
You’re the bitch, bitch.
STFU, bitch!
Maybe if you don’t want to be called a bitch, you should stop acting like a bitch.
Bitch.
Jesus, stop your bitching.
Whoa, bitchin’ ad!
This debate on semantics is, like, totally bitchin’.
Jinx!
Late, bitch.
Does Marsellus Wallace look like a bitch?
Lucy gave great advice while talking out of both sides of her mouth. It was usually after she pulled the football away and Charlie Brown landed on his back. Thinking about it now, she’d be a great fit for this Administration.
Capitalism bad! Hurr durr! Freedumb!!!
I always want Charlie Brown to kick Lucy in the face.
In fact, there are very few Peanuts characters I don’t want to see kicked in the face.
I disagree. I’d prefer to see Charles bitchslap Lucy. Like several times. With the full Sean Connery/Glenn Ford backswing.
But the beauty is that he “accidentally” kicked her in the face because she pulled the football away.
Plausible deniability versus the satisfaction of letting Lucy know that it’s you smacking her? Nah.
Incidentally, are you familiar with Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown?
Say, Oral Roberts just died. I thought he died years ago. Ninety-one is a good run, I suppose.
Is his brother, Anal, still alive?
Crass? Yes.
Made me lol? Absolutely.
While digressing, I’d also like to note that the servicer of Client Number 9 now has an advice column–on relationships, no less!–at The New York Post.
I would so fuck her.
Well, we (courtesy of her employer) did post her e-mail address, so you could tell her that yourself. I understand that she is available for a price. Or, at least, was.
Too late. Sloppy seconds for you, Gobbler.
It’s the Spitz!
Based on her voluminous body of experiments in the discipline a “The Psychology of Expectations” I do not believe Lucy would be an advocate of the “Rational Markets Theory”.
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I’d prefer to see Charles bitchslap Lucy. Like several times. With the full Sean Connery/Glenn Ford backswing.
My favorite* example of misogynistic film violence is when Cary Grant grabs Katherine Hepburn by the face and shoves her backward through the doorway**.
*sue me
** The Philadelphia Story, I believe
Say, Oral Roberts just died.
“Oral Roberts just died.”
*Guffaws, slaps knee*
I walked by a girl selling advice in Union Square the other day. I almost stopped, but then didn’t on account of I’m a New Yorker and we hate EVERYTHING and stop for NOTHING.
And I didn’t have any cash.
Solana, Ok, this is the only thing I am great at and I will answer for free. You have to ASK ME TWICE? cause I am telling you what most people don’t want to hear: the truth.
I just meant I thought he had died quite a while ago. It’s always weird when someone you think is dead isn’t dead. Or is undead.
You know what’s weird? Back in ’77, out of the blue, a friend of mine asked rhetorically, “I wonder when Bing Crosby is going to die?” We were all like, why would you even be thinking that??? Within a week, he was dead.
Pro-Liberate, “I just meant I thought he had died quite a while ago. It’s always weird when someone you think is dead isn’t dead. Or is undead.” It could be that you are dead and the weird thing is you were imagining dead people were alive and now you realize they are dead and you are dead too but think you are undead. Shit, I am dead too because I am reading and writing to a dead man.
Psychic.
It’s like when you’re thinking about a plate of shrimp…
You eat a lot of acid, P Brooks, back in the hippie days?
At least I don’t have any two-way mirrors in my house.
Yeah, not like the Duke.
You like music, listen to this. I was into these dudes before anyone. Wanted me to be their manager. I called bullshit on that. Managing a pop group is no job for a man.