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Randy
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Posted - 03/09/2010 :  15:12:46  Show Profile Send Randy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/palin-crossed-border-for_n_490080.html

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system.

"We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," Palin said in her first Canadian appearance since stepping down as governor of Alaska. "And I think now, isn't that ironic?"

The irony, one guesses, is that Palin now views Canada's health care system as revolting: with its government-run administration and 'death-panel'-like rationing. Clearly, however, she and her family once found it more alluring than, at the very least, the coverage available in rural Alaska. Up to the age of six, Palin lived in a remote town near the closest Canadian city, Whitehorse.

Officials at several hospitals in that area declined to give out information on patient visits.

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 03/09/2010 :  15:55:03   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hilarious! Yeah, another hypocrite like Limbaugh who can now afford to pay their own bills. Or does Faux "News" insure its employees?

Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Randy
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Posted - 03/09/2010 :  16:10:34   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Randy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
It's almost reads like The Onion.
Like the Colbert video says, "Palin's a F!@#ing Retard!"

"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."

"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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dglas
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Posted - 03/09/2010 :  16:18:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dglas a Private Message  Reply with Quote
How the hell did she get Canadian coverage without a SIN and a provincial/territorial health card? She is Canadian? Dual citizenship?

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podcat
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Posted - 03/09/2010 :  21:13:22   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send podcat a Private Message  Reply with Quote
From Countdown, March 8:

Ironic? Certainly. And odd, considering in 2007, a different version

of that story published in “The Skagway News,” when Palin visited the town

as governor: “Palin drew from her Skagway past to illustrate her point.

Her brother burned his foot badly jumping through a fire, and her mother

had to take him down to Juneau on the ferry to the hospital.”

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 03/09/2010 :  22:26:46   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by dglas

How the hell did she get Canadian coverage without a SIN and a provincial/territorial health card? She is Canadian? Dual citizenship?
Oh, it was all perfectly legal:


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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dglas
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Posted - 03/10/2010 :  00:05:05   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dglas a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I wonder if I can make an Obama-style birth certificate issue out of this... :)

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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 03/10/2010 :  01:13:32   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by dglas

I wonder if I can make an Obama-style birth certificate issue out of this... :)
Palin you can have, hoser. Not Obama, eh?

Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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dglas
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Canada
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Posted - 03/10/2010 :  03:26:42   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dglas a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Wait a minute.
Doesn't the American electoral rules require that any potential president be American born?

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 03/10/2010 :  10:29:10   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
dglas, since I posted that Birf Certificate outside of Moonscape News, I feel it's incumbent upon me to point out the "issue date" on it. Hint, hint.

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dglas
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Canada
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Posted - 03/10/2010 :  15:48:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dglas a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Bad satirist! Bad! :D

*Fetches a rolled-up newspaper*

(..and here I was trying to help...)

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 03/10/2010 :  16:48:29   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by dglas

Bad satirist! Bad! :D

*Fetches a rolled-up newspaper*

(..and here I was trying to help...)
Well, yes, I was bad, because I took that outside my Moonscape ghetto, where it could more easily be mistaken as real. By the credulous.

Even so, I think it was far better than either of the phony Kenyan certificates that Orly Taitz and the other Birfers fell for.

Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/10/2010 16:51:37
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dglas
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Canada
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Posted - 03/10/2010 :  17:05:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dglas a Private Message  Reply with Quote
...ow...

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filthy
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Posted - 03/10/2010 :  17:10:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
It is my understanding that it was made perfectly legal, as she crossed the border on her broomstick.






"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

Edited by - filthy on 03/10/2010 17:11:49
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