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Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.

Now, are all doctors saying this? No. Is NHS itself? No. But there's some interesting nuggets in here.

This is what gives me the creeps when Hillarycare is brought up.

When medicine is dispensed by the state, the state gets to decide what medicine is given out. The state is then able to use that power to influence citizens' behavior.

Why stop at the old, the obese and the smokers? There are so many other undesirable behaviors out there we should able to put the kibosh on.

(Hm, is it ironic that I'm watching Demolition Man right now?)

I'm telling you... her part of the dark side has no cookies.

In laying out her four goals, Mrs. Clinton did not announce any major new policy initiatives, though she did say she would unveil her universal health insurance plan in two weeks.

The four goals were largely thematic: “restore America’s standing in the world,” “rebuild America’s middle class and the economy to support it,” “reform our government” and “reclaim the future for our children.”

On the last goal, Mrs. Clinton turned more personal, saying she wanted her presidency to be a means of helping parents raise their children. “I want to be able to say to you as your president, ‘Our children are well,’ ” she said.

I love these goals, peoples. Honest I do.

- Restore America's standing in the world -- by doing what?
- Rebuild the middle class & economy -- last I checked, the middle class and the economy were doing just fine without her
- Reform our government -- yeah, like that's a new one
- Reclaim the future for our children -- WTF?

Like Mom says: What a condescending bitch.

Oh, and I just can't wait to find out what new!HilaryCare entails.

Telegraph: Live Earth was a Dead Loss

There was a moment at Live Earth when I knew for certain it was all going horribly wrong.

There were 70,000 people in Wembley Stadium. The organisers had hoped for a television audience of two billion, to highlight the imminent dangers of global warming. On stage, Tom Chaplin from Keane vainly tried to lead a singalong. Behind him, a big screen boasted "We Called - You Answered", while the numbers who had responded to Live Earth's text message pledge were rolled out. The first line was "3,389 UK responses".

Frankly, my local community signed up more people to protest against a phone mast, and our only celebrity was a voiceover actor for Bob the Builder.

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BBC News: Monsters beat Live Earth on US TV

A three-hour NBC programme marking the global day of Live Earth concerts was the least-watched show on mainstream US television on Saturday night.

It attracted an average audience of 2.7 million viewers and was beaten by a re-run of animated film Monsters Inc. ...

In the UK, TV coverage of Live Earth was watched by an average audience of 3.1 million viewers between 2000 and 2200 BST, less than a third of the figure for the previous weekend's Concert for Diana.

Wikipedia:

Bands including the Arctic Monkeys, The Who and Muse dubbed Live Earth "Private Jets for Climate Change." The event's total carbon footprint, including the artists' and spectators' travel and energy consumption, was probably at least 31,500 tonnes, according to John Buckley of CarbonFootPrint.com - more than 3,000 times the average Briton's annual footprint. Performers flew at least 222,623.63 miles (about 358,278 km) — the equivalent of nearly nine times round the planet — to take part in the event, and this figure does not include transport of technicians, dancers and support staff. However, as Live Earth-linked We're in This Together campaign coordinator and climate-change consultant Steve Howard noted, "The important thing was not to have no carbon footprint and no acts, but to have really great acts."

Concert-goers at the event’s London leg had left thousands of plastic cups on the floor of Wembley Stadium, although organizers had urged audience members to use the recycling bins provided, the BBC reported.