BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[theweaselking]

The latest from the US insurance industry's astroturfing:

"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."

No, really, they said that.

(If you don't get why this is funny, a hint: Stephen Hawking's American accent is a factor of his *speech synthesizer*.)

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Professor Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University will be interested in hearing that his continued existence is apparently an accounting error.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Someone at IBD* must be really pissed at him for reversing himself on naked singularities.

*Also stands for "Irritable Bowel Disease." Coincidence? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

[cuddlycthulhu.livejournal.com]

Man, these are the people have a slogan. This slogan is awesome.

Their slogan?

"Get your government hands off my Medicare!"

AWESOME!

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

What else is funny is that they don't seem to realise that private health insurance is also available (and cheap) here, it's not some sort of facist (or commie) nightmare to not need to have your credit card on you if you're hit by a bus!

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

I read this one the first thing in the morning, after four hours of sleep (total), and I wondered if I had woken up in some strange alternate Earth instead of the one where I went to bed.

Then I decided to skip breakfast and just booze straight up, because there are things you can't take while sober.

[sjo.livejournal.com]

Then I decided to skip breakfast and just booze straight up, because there are things you can't take while sober.

This may explain why my alcohol consumption seems to have risen.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I saw this and giggled insanely for a long long time :)

[marlo.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Way to trip and impale yourself on your own sword.

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

Damn! They fixed it!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Heh. I love the edit's choice of "implied". Implied? No, it said outright that it's a damn good thing Hawking is an American, because those dirty brits would have just killed him LIKE THEY WANT TO DO TO YOUR GRANDMOTHER.

[thipe.livejournal.com]

Uh... no we don't...

*hides axe guiltily*

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

too bad you didn't get a screen shot .(

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's still there, in the source code. They just commented that paragraph out.

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

still not as cool for presentation though

[quotation.livejournal.com]

The article has an "Audio Version" where some radio announcer guy reads the editorial to you.

The Hawking thing can still be heard at http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://media.libsyn.com/media/ibdeditorials/333933006516877.mp3

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

Oh they cleaned it up.

How are end-of-life decisions made now?
THE MONEY'S GONE. AND SO ARE YOU.

The VA paid two million dollars to fix my girlfriend's brain. I go kind of crazy when I think about this.

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[wyatt1048.livejournal.com]

Oh, for fuck's sake. I've actually seen someone say that as a parody. Did they tke it seriously or something?

[drjamez.livejournal.com]

I recall hearing Hawking himself, in a documentary (A Brief History of Me, perhaps?) complain that his voice box was American-made. Then again, according to him, if it were British-made, he'd bemoan that he sounded like a Dalek.

Quoth Dr. Hawking.

You win some, and then you EXTERMINATE THE REST!
- James -

[quotation.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Obama also wants to kill Palin's baby.

[ikkarus01.livejournal.com]

You may be interested in Dr. Hawking's response (http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/erica/2009/08/stephen-hawking-likes-his-deat.php?ref=recdc), if you haven't seen it yet.