The much anticipated Michael Moore movie Sicko is out. There isn’t much mention or praise of it in the rightosphere as there is in the leftosphere. I’ve only watched the preview and I can already predict that it will be a very interesting movie. I guess it’s going to reinforce the horrible stories told to me by my American friends about America’s healthcare system. Four healthcare industry lobbyists for each Congressman? Damn!
If given a choice, this is the primary reason I’d prefer to move to Canada rather than America. Check out Umar Lee’s post on the issue.
From another perspective, it’s amazing how much room for freedom of expression exists in America. This movie (which is certainly going to piss off a lot of people) is proof of it.
There is another important thing which shouldn’t be missed… how the movie highlights the top-notch or ehm “top-notch” healthcare given to detainees at Guantanamo and compares it to that of American citizens. It contradicts all the media reports about the harsh mistreatment of the alleged terrorists locked up there. So who’s lying? Michael Moore or the media? Or both?
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“it’s amazing how much room for freedom of expression exists in America.”
And that’s the one the left will never understand. The more they protest and vilify, the more they do to confirm that their claims about capitalist/Republican/fascist oppression are just nonsense.
Raccoon might know the Radio Erivan jokes about the Soviet Union:
Question to Radio Erivan: “I have heard that Americans can publicly criticise the American president. Do people have that kind of freedom in the Soviet Union?”
Radio Erivan answers: “Of course they do. Anybody in the Soviet Union is totally free to criticise the American president.”
LOOOL!!
Those are good jokes, man. Gooood jokes.
Question: Could socialism be established in the Netherlands?
Radio Erivan: In principle yes, but what have the Dutch ever done to you?
Btw Roman, just curious, what do you? All I know is that you’re 20, believe in God and you browse the internet most of the time on your mobile. What do you study dude?
Or maybe you’re just a Mossad agent pretending to be a 20 year old normal guy.
Hehe. I’m 22 now, to be more accurate. I’m now in the final stages of finishing my degree in Communication Systems Engineering. Then its off to become an active part of the chief funder of said degree, which happens to be the Israeli military.
Found yet another classic:
“Question to Radio Erivan: Is it true that comrade cosmonaut Gagarin won a car at a charity banquet in Moscow?
Radio Erivan answers: In principle yes. Yet we have to point out that it was not the cosmonaut Gagarin, but the teacher Gagarin. Furthermore, it was not in Moscow but in Kiev, and it did not happen at a charity banquet but at a party congress. Finally, it was not a car that he won, but a bicycle that was stolen from him.”
To explain about my degree funding, I took an army scholarship instead of serving my three years. This means I serve SIX years after finishing my degree, but in a position where I contribute with my brain.
Oooh i c… so you won’t be experiencing bullets flying past your head.
I am a geek. I understand the place of a geek in the world. Me being sent to a combat unit was highly unlikely as it is, would’ve probably received some minimal techie training… Or as I know my Army, I would have been sent to repair sprinklers somewhere.
I had no intention of spending three years of slow brain death.
“Radio Erivan: In principle yes, but what have the Dutch ever done to you?”
Oh, the good old days…
Drima, you cannot completely understand these jokes. You must have seen Soviet communism to appreciate them fully! Radio Erivan jokes were legendary and the phenomenom died very suddenly in the early 90s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan
Roman, good career path!
Thanks, Andrew.
Incidentally, one of the links at the bottom of the page you linked to at Wikipedia is to a far more detailed Wiki entry.
Now that I’m on an actual computer, the link I was referring to is http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Radio_Yerevan_Jokes
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