Comments on: Prayer fails 800-lb Christian

By: rog

rog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:06:02 +0000

@libhomo
“Imagine if the only media in the UK were run by Rupert Murdoch.”

Luckily we have laws to stop that kind of thing, for now; can you imagine nothing on telly but X-factor, get me out of here, cops, faddy women’s programs & the simpsons…Worse would be sky news supplanting the beeb! at least you would know that you were right all along, though it would be cold comfort.

By: libhomo

libhomo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:00:09 +0000

Broga: Dismissing people as idiots is something I can sympathize with, but it is important to remember just how rightist and propagandistic the US corporate media are. Imagine if the only media in the UK were run by Rupert Murdoch.

By: Robert Stovold

Robert Stovold — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:45:49 +0000

“Other than eating and reading the Bible…”

Neither of which is a proven route to weight loss. Had he dispensed with the lard as well as the Lord, he might have had more success. It’s tragic that people today are still taken in by supernatural mumbo-jumbo.

By: Broga

Broga — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:37:03 +0000

Angela K. That is it. American English – Southern States version. And, indeed, blond and blue eyed.

The food thing. I think they are the porkiest people on the planet now and that means not just fat but clinically obese. Here in the UK we now seem to be on the same track. The trick of making cows arses – and much else even less intially palatible – into something that tastes and looks good via chemical skills has become as art. Again, we are on the same track. I think the mad cow disease owed much to animal shit – why waste good nutrients when the hoi polloi don’t know any better – being recycled. As for battery chickens or Turkeys packed like Japanese on a Tokio Tube train – with Xmas coming up don’t even ask.

By: Broga

Broga — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:24:52 +0000

Lucky Jean. I am really sorry you have that terrible problem. Kidney stones is about as agonising as it gets. As for socialist medicine: the lies being told are just that – lies or Insurance Industry propaganda.

By: Broga

Broga — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:20:13 +0000

Lucky Jean. You have my sympathy and, may I say, my understanding. I know that in the USA patients cannot get a House Call and I also know some endure hell because they worry about the cost to their family. One of my big objections to private medecine is that the doctors are financially motivated to call for every test and charge for it. We are a long we short of providing a good medical service in the UK but the stuff about “death committees” and socialist medicine is rubbish.

Some of the best medicine in the world is in the USA but it costs …and how. I am sorry about your husband’s and your own suffering. Kidney stones pain is about as agonising as it gets although I have not had to suffer it myself.

Regards

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By: Brian Jordan

Brian Jordan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:16:08 +0000

All other considerations apart, the man is said to have gained 250 pounds – about 45% of his previous body weight – in the eight months or so he was collapsed in his chair. That’s over a pound a day. Whatever else he wasn’t doing, it was certainly not eating. Unless he had some remarkable endocrine problem that had made him so gross in the first place, the wife is at least guilty of stuffing him with food. Maybe well-meaning, but surely pig-ignorant at best.
Maybe the American education system is as bad as its public health system.

By: Bubblecar

Bubblecar — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:02:15 +0000

I don’t know if calling the poor sod an “idiot” is very helpful. It looks to me like a failure of society, not just one individual. An inadequate, profit-obsessed health system, little help from family or friends, and neighbours who didn’t even know he lived there. It’s no wonder people become fixated on fantasy and superstition, in such an uncaring world.

By: 1minion

1minion — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:04:04 +0000

What gets me riled is the last quote “If I feel anything right now, it’s envy for him … I wish he had taken me with him.”

This demonstrates everything wrong with religion. The woman should have ignored every one of hubby’s deranged prayer demands and gotten the man some help. To let him live like that for months is a disgusting thing and if I pity her, it’s because I hate to think how much brainwashing it took to make a woman not care about helping him get better, to just do as the man said do, regardless of sense.