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At least 26 companies have pulled their ads from Rush Limbaugh's radio show since he called a...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 6:20 PM ETAt least 26 companies have pulled their ads from Rush Limbaugh's radio show since he called a law student a “slut” on the air last week, including publicly-traded companies ALL, AOL, CARB, CTXS, JCP, PLCM, SHLD and VITC.
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First he gets Bin Laden then he gets Rush Limbaugh.
Priceless.
We all know what Rush thinks of all women. GOP wants to silence American females.
Sounds like free enterprise, and the Constitution, at work.
That and Oxycontin.
Also, I'd rather pay for women's contraception than healthcare for a fat person.
The government should give money to men so they can have sex too. I'll take 3 grand a year.
Twenty times a month with a lot of different partners? Maybe he should have called her oversexed.
Particularly those I don't benefit from.
She doesn't have a right to have her birth control funded by others. I don't have a right to have my sexual desires funded by others. It's very simple.
Only the free market can rightfully determine a person's true want/desire for something by pricing it and offering it for sale without coersion. Forcing others to pay by threat of penalty isn't an insurance system - it is communism/dictatorial rule. If forcing something onto someone by threat of penalty were classified as providing insurance, then the North Korean government would be an insurance company and not a murderous regime.
In China, for instance, one is not forced to carry insurance and compensation in an accident is negotiated between the two parties driving.
Secondly, you don't have to drive. But with president Obama's health plan (and the pretend oppostion from the GOP concerning its enactment), you will be forced to pay for others health insurance no matter what.
But someone like you pretending to be outraged about having to buy car insurance is fake. You like central planning and therefore you like all forms of coercion.
Do I have a hard time with being forced to get health insurance, sure, hate to be told to do anything, even by my wife. But, I have had health insurance all my life, too afraid to die needlessly. I pay part of my premiums now, but know that if I didn't it would come out of my wages. If an uninsured gets sick, do my hard earned wages go to save him? Or do we let him die? It was his choice. Do the emt's search for a med insurance card, and after not finding one, just leave the scene? Or do I help pay for his treatment even though he has no skin in the game? And yeah, I do agree with you, being forced to do anything sucks.
If there were easy answers, this healthcare nightmare would be solved. With people getting older and fatter, our conversation here is pretty moot. We, as a society, cannot give the best care to everyone.
The same guy who decried the current administration's role in helping countries deal with the brutal Lord's Resistance Army as "Obama is attacking Christians".
Rather than decry the stupidity, let's just use this same style of logical process on Rush.
During each of Rush's weddings he made pledge to God of "until death do us part", then got divorced, had sex with other women, therefore is a serial adulterer.
Rush abused drugs illegally, therefore is a dopehead, all dopeheads should be in jail (right, conservatives?), so Rush should be in jail.
She isn't rendering any "services" in direct exchange for consideration.
Once the fixed cost of birth control pills is funded, there is no incremental cost per sexual encounter.
Seriously, you don't understand this?
Well, what can one expect of a fan of the guy who defends the "Lord's Resistance Army".
I don't care about incremental costs. The point still stands: If we didn't pay for her pills she may be a bit more discriminating or thoughtful before having sex. If you agree with that, then we are paying her to have sex.
We are not paying for any services. We are paying her to support her "vanity".
If you want to argue her point about whether birth control should be covered, fair game. If you want to characterize her as a screechy whiner with an annoyingly strong sense of entitlement, you won't get any argument from me.
But she's not a prostitute. That's all I'm arguing here -- the stupidity of the "logical" chain trying to call her one.
Rush may have chose his words poorly - in which he did apologize for, but he his point about not paying for the pills for non-medical reasons was well founded.
The sad fact that we must shock folks into thinking about this stuff is pretty sad - but that's another subject altogether.