But...but...but Michael Moore is fat! And if you ...

2007-07-16T10:30:31.297-07:00

But...but...but Michael Moore is fat! And if you want national healthcare, then I bet you want to send people to the Gulag!
*wingnut mode off*

my personal exposure to socialized medicine happen...

2007-07-16T09:45:23.989-07:00

my personal exposure to socialized medicine happened in norway. we were on a boat trip out of stavanger up the coast and into a fjord to play at a small festival (i was doing stomp jazz with harry "the hipster" gibson). i came down with a brutal case of pnuemonia. dangerously high fever, lungs almost at the shutdown stage. i was taken to the local clinic, given excellent first aid (O2 tent and stuff) and then flown by helicopter down to oslo. where i was placed on a course of IV antibiotics and kept in hospital for 3 days. i was discharged with a 2 week supply of medications. the charge? nothing. not even for the flight. we were traveling with piano, bass, drums, and guitar, hiring locals to flesh out the rest of the band. all over scandinavia our horns and other players were often folks that held PhD's in music (courtesy of that free tuition you pointed out). one of the coolest was when our brass section (three trumpets, 2 trombones and a bass bone) was two sets of siblings. they were family tight, sight read like demons, and swung out loud.

This country is about greed, and I'll bet their po...

2007-07-16T06:02:30.751-07:00

This country is about greed, and I'll bet their political system is different than ours.

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