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bellatrys I discovered this.
It's an attempt at a salvo in the argument currently going on in the US about healthcare or "socialised medicine" as the right wingers term it. But can there be any more of a 'I have just shot myself in the foot' argument than this one:
Unless of course there's another famous scientist called Stephen Hawking that they haven't told us about. Which seems unlikely.
I suppose someone must have told them, but it's still right up there - Investor's Business Daily seem content to have their arse hanging out all over the net.
ETA: Oho, they found themselves looking stupid and took it down. However, we have the evidence.
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It's an attempt at a salvo in the argument currently going on in the US about healthcare or "socialised medicine" as the right wingers term it. But can there be any more of a 'I have just shot myself in the foot' argument than this one:
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.
Unless of course there's another famous scientist called Stephen Hawking that they haven't told us about. Which seems unlikely.
I suppose someone must have told them, but it's still right up there - Investor's Business Daily seem content to have their arse hanging out all over the net.
ETA: Oho, they found themselves looking stupid and took it down. However, we have the evidence.
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Or onto any UK TV series. I get tired of trying to explain that it's class, not race, which is uppermost in the British mind most of the time.
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In fact, the Ianto death business is a good example of b). It's a nasty urban myth being circulated for reasons I'd not like to speculate about by people for whom I otherwise had some respect (I have contradicted it with full evidence three times on a particular lj and not been acknowledged once). And it plays into a particular kind of US victimhood. The fact that US citizens were, with the encouragement of senior US politicians (yes, Ted Kennedy, I'm looking at you - though I'm sorry for your loss, all the same) sponsoring and paying for terrorism on British soil for very many years (Kipling has a story from the 1880s about US sponsored terrorism)is of no interest to these people - they want us to be disrespecting their glorious dead, and choose to lie to achieve that end.