"The Olden Days"

Reactionary?Literally. The Lefty Blog-O-Sphere (Joke, son, Ah say, w/ chicken!)should pull "reactionary" out, explain it clearly, & apply it liberally. (Use only as needed.)

The Great Orange Satan transcribeth:

"I’m telling you that this works. You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I’ll paint your house. I mean, that’s the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I’m not backing down from that system."

Grandma's system does work for Ms. Lowden. Worth a minimum of $50 million, she can "barter" for health care w/ diamonds, gold ingots, or sports cars. Those who, say, paint houses, & their dependents, should avoid accident & illness for a few yrs. after the doctor's house has been painted. Don't fall off that ladder & break something!

Duplicate & lower-quality footage presented only because, prior to locating the original at DK, we took pains to leave as much of Tweety on the cyber cutting-room floor as we could, & can't bear to waste the effort.More heads who talk.Norm Crosby wrote in, asking: Does O'Donnell say people should "Hegel" w/ their doctor?

We hope that Sarah Palin is looking over her shoulder at fellow former newscaster Lowden, who seems as lost, incoherent (& therefore not an elitist, but one of us, another jaw-droppingly foolish & ignorant chicken-American) & able to make the hard choices & tough stands (Take Our Calendar Back! 1928 Or Bust!!) like the one-time half-term Governess of AK. Lowden, however, is wealthy enough that she needn't indulge in the obvious Palinesque grifting. Private jets/first-class tickets are much less from Vegas than Anchorage, corporate sponsors. Also: Bottle-blonde, eye-scooped hawt!

Sources: Us, watching tee vee all day & all night & all afternoon, & No More Mr. Nice Blog, many links & a rude suggestion of the possibilities that libertarian, county-option Nevada may offer for "barter."

Personal pointless aside: One of our grandfathers was a doctor; family lore has it that during the Depression of the '30s (Hoover's depression, as students of non-reactionary history will know) he indeed took eggs & the like for services rendered. Services that were rendered prior to the development of sulfa drugs consisting mostly of setting broken bones, hoping that fatal infection didn't set in, & prescribing poppy-based painkillers. (It that sense, Lowden's "before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents ..." statement is not completely wrong.) Not the same as today's chemicals, procedures & cures. How many eggs to cure little Esmerelda? Git a-layin', hens!