I Can’t Believe It!!!!

Someone, particularly someone in the biz, actually isn’t worshiping the ground Michael Moore walks on. I’m not sure I can cope.

‘Sicko’: Heavily Doctored
By Kurt Loder

Is Michael Moore’s prescription worse than the disease?

“…Unfortunately, Moore is also a con man of a very brazen sort, and never more so than in this film. His cherry-picked facts, manipulative interviews (with lingering close-ups of distraught people breaking down in tears) and blithe assertions (how does he know 18 million people will die this year because they have no health insurance?) are so stacked that you can feel his whole argument sliding sideways as the picture unspools. The American health-care system is in urgent need of reform, no question. Some 47 million people are uninsured (although many are only temporarily so, being either in-between jobs or young enough not to feel a pressing need to buy health insurance). There are a number of proposals as to what might be done to correct this situation. Moore has no use for any of them, save one.

“As a proud socialist, the director appears to feel that there are few problems in life that can’t be solved by government regulation (that would be the same government that’s already given us the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Motor Vehicles). In the case of health care, though, Americans have never been keen on socialized medicine. In 1993, when one of Moore’s heroes, Hillary Clinton (he actually blurts out the word “sexy!” in describing her in the movie), tried to create a government-controlled health care system, her failed attempt to do so helped deliver the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives into Republican control for the next dozen years. Moore still looks upon Clinton’s plan as a grand idea, one that Americans, being not very bright, unwisely rejected. (He may be having second thoughts about Hillary herself, though: In the movie he heavily emphasizes the fact that, among politicians, she accepts the second-largest amount of political money from the health care industry.)…”

Let’s see - he’s a “socialist”; he wants more government regulation (isn’t that supposed to be a Republican failing?); he’s got the hots for Hillary Clinton; he’s so enamored of himself and his solutions for the world’s ills he prostitutes himself to, himself? Sure! Jump on his entitlement bandwagon!

Sounds like he’s the one who’s not too bright…

Not Only Is the Pope Catholic, but the Archbishop is not Episcopalian

:::smiting forehead with heel of palm::: Whodathunk!?!?!

This just in: Burke not Episcopalian:
Posted by Mollie

“Washington Post reporter Peter Slevin vented on St. Louis Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke in this diatribe news article published today.

“It’s a very curious read. Anyone wanting to know more about Burke or his theological approach to his office will be disappointed…”

Perfect Timing on an Apropo Quote

Today’s AWAD X-bonus:

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.
-Eileen Mayhew

Last night, Jon mentioned that he was planning to do (Josh Groban’s) You Raise Me Up with the men and boys choir this summer…

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