Lifeboats? Why This Ship Is Unsinkable!
Your Mandarin has been contemplating the pending Sunday vote on the healthcare destruction proposal, and has the following questions:
1. How is it those progressives/liberals that have fought for the last 40 years for the government to stay out of their uteruses now fully embrace a proposal that will give the government complete control over their bodies?
2. If we are going to be taxed immediately for this healthcare proposal, but not see any services delivered for at least 4 to 6 years from now, isn’t that a case of taxation without representation?
3. People are calling for the impeachment of Speaker Pelosi and President Obama if this bill is passed. I wonder if a RICO indictment wouldn’t be more appropriate based on the thug tactics, bribes, and intimidation that has gone on to persuade Democrats to vote the party line.
4. At what point did our elected officials forget that this was a government for the people, by the people and not a dictatorship of the “intellectual” elite?
Just some random thoughts going through my head as I rearrange the deck chairs and wait for the ship to sink…
The Mandarin, whose real name is 吏恆, joined the order in 1309, and introduced the Gormogons into England during the 18th Century.
The Mandarin enjoys spending time with his pet manticore, Βάρἰκος, or Barry (who can be found in the Bestiary). When not in the Castle…well, frankly, nobody is quite sure where he goes.
The Mandarin popularized the fine art of “gut booting,” by which he delivers a powerful kick to the stomach of anyone that annoys him. Although nearly universal today, the act of gut booting or threatening someone or something with a gut boot is solely due to him.