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[liptonrm_backup]

Am feeling remarkably rage-y today. I logged onto Facebook for the first time since the Health Care Reform vote on Sunday and was slapped in the face by a status/thing about Health Care Reform signalled the End of Days, along with a reference to the Mormon myth that a Mormon (obviously a good, republican) will save the US Constitution (no, seriously, there are people who believe that). And then I had a rage blackout and only just stopped myself from commenting with the vilest, filthiest words imaginable.

I am just so motherfucking sick of this bullshit. And that was on top of discovering that, apparently, it's better to give money "ironically" to the KKK then to accept corporate sponsorship. [Warning: linked page contains graphic images of violence.] Yeah, we're a post-racist society. Sure. And let's not forget how protesters acted during the Health Care Reform debate over the past weekend.

I'll post later about last night's SPN (which I enjoyed) and the Stephen King novel that I stayed up way too late finishing. When I get the rage out of my system.

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[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

WTF, that's actually a Mormon myth? Wow. That's crazy. I'm really disgusted with the way people are reacting to this, and I already plan on skipping church this Sunday, because I don't want my sabbath marred by vitriol during testimony meeting. >_

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I first heard about it years ago, probably some bit of folderol that some Utahan shared somewhere (tangent: for some reason a bunch of Utahans end of going to college or law school in my home town and there's always a couple who think they have to school us because we're not from the Mountain West). It's all just friggin' crazy.

I think I'll probably hit up testimony meeting on Sunday (I've missed the past two weeks) but plan to get my flounce on if people start spewing vitriol. I have, in the past, stood up in the middle of a testimony about the awesomeoness the Church's stance on Prop 8 and swanned out of the meeting, making sure that the doors slammed behind me. Sometimes it's fun to take your toys and go home.

Mormons. *eyes roll*

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

A very good friend of mine told me that next year she'll be forced to buy a insanely expensive private health care, because that of her divorced husband won't cover her care anymore, and because she's slightly too young for Medicare (which will kick in 2012). She was filled with rage and angry at Obama (whom she had voted for).

I asked another good American friend (who is a surgeon) to give me some more details, and there's obviously a lot of misinformation going round. Thing is, the government took health care in it's hands over here for years. The system is far from being perfect, but most of what I need is covered, even if I have to pay a certain amount of money. And what some people don't seem to understand is that a government has to take things in its hands if private care doesn't work for those in real need - and in the US it definitely didn't.

Babykiller? There are laws against the govermental support of abortion, even I in Germany know that. Idiots.