Here’s the inimitable Suzy Sampson, a semi-regular here at 9thousandfeet, taking the health-care pulse of the nation on the anniversary of our independence.
She’s in the South, of course, and it’s never difficult there to find someone willing to put their finger on the problem …
It’s being going to hell, for, um, most, y’know, basically since the Civil War, ever since Lincoln obliterated any sense of State’s Rights …
…all the while seemingly oblivious to how they’re being set up. And brilliantly too.
There’s no hope, I tell you. None.
Happy 4th, y’all.
Why does this remind me of the opening sentence in a Globe and Mail article that I read over breakfast in the hotel when I was up in Montreal yesterday?
And an especially Happy July 4th to Red
Further on:
Very true. But…credit where credit is due: the 2nd amendment.
Crappy connection here, but the video’s definitely worth it:
“…forty-eight hunded dollars to check out the boo-boo on your toe.”
Very true Bim – the 2nd Amendment does tend to promote civility. Or so I am told.
Mind you after 18 years on these shores I have only gotten as far as determining my dominant eye – the left (LoL) – but have never discharged a firearm.
Expat: Fourteenth, you mean? A la lanterne and all that,
Off to France in a couple of hours. Well, off to St Pancras in a couple of hours: had to queue at ticket printer last time and could take ages to get through the bloody passport and X-ray people . . .Squirrel’s case has strange spare bits he forgot to send with his kayak that’re bound to puzzle them.
Nervous abt using new biometric passport for first time. Photo does not look right. And it’s me without glasses. I am never without glasses. I can’t see where my glasses are without glasses. Once had to phone a friend to come and look for them for me. Now I keep a spare pair by my bed so I can look for them myself. They said they couldn’t see my eyes. But you can’t see my eyes in the photo either.
There’s supposed to be some kind of DIY thingy now at St Pancras where you sort of wave it at a machine, and then it beeps at you like the ones in the supermarket and says something like “Unexpected item” and “Please wait for assistance; the police will be along to arrest you shortly” or something. Probably. Squirrel does not get on with these machines.
The bloody Border Agency’s apparently been taking lessons from your TSA by the sound of it Since Squirrel will, hopefully, be coming back nicely tanned and browner than usual, if you don’t hear from me by the end of July, I got one of the answers wrong and they haven’t let me back in . . .Or Squirrel’s been arrested on the bloody Metro again on the way through Paris. Hasn’t happened for a while, but . . )
In my experience the bad driving starts a bit further south, in Boston. But then clears up again further north. I’ve never seen worse driving anywhere than Boston. Even in Naples the aggression is rational.
Bon voyage Squirrel!
OK – Happy Bastille day then
– enjoy your trip!
Bluthner –– My very scientific study of travelers who regularly grace our area with their presence shows that the very worst/rudest/clueless-est drivers are in this order (with #1 being worst):
1. Quebec
2. Ontario
3. Massachusetts
4. New Hampshire
5. New York
Which is very odd because when I’ve driven in Quebec and Ontario I haven’t noticed bad driving. And New Hampshire drivers in New Hampshire are much better than New York drivers in New York. Massachusetts drivers are bad at home and abroad. However, they have been trained to stop for pedestrians, so seem to be on the alert for the Vermonter born and bred who blithely strides into the crosswalk as if it never occurs to him/her that the oncoming car might not stop.
Massholes.
Amy –– My daughter In Massachusetts often calls me with her built-in hands-free blue tooth thingy (which I didn’t know existed until she first called me from her new car) on her commute home from work and I’m still not used to her interrupting herself (or me) in mid-sentence with a hollered “Fuck you, you asshole!” (not customary language for her), though I’ve learned not to take it personally.
I had not heard the term “Masshole” before, so thanks for the link. This blog is so educational.
This blog IS EDUCATIONAL !
I heart Suzy Sampson and all his blogs. Not really but I am in a nice mood.