November 2007
WatchYahoo settles suit with journalists. Apple iPhone goes into China. I predict clones. European iPhone results unknown. gPhone story laughable. I go nuts over the “Microsoft executive calls XP hack frightening.” This is the most idiotic story I have ever read. Guess what. You can get onto an unsecured wireless network if you want to. Stop the presses! More amazing news. Bebo let’s...
Bill Gates' house is a large earth-sheltered... →
October 2007
Universal Healthcare
Michael Moore: Who are you.
Tony Benn: I am a former member of the British parliament.
Michael Moore: When did this whole idea that every British citizen should have a right to health care start?
Tony Benn: Well, if you go back it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all powers where in the hand of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old... And what Democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station. From the wallet to the ballet. And what people said was very simple. They said in the 1930s we had mass unemployment. But we don't have unemployment during the war. If you are not gonna have unemployment by killing Germans, we are going to have no unemployment by building hospitals, building schools, recruiting nurses, recruiting teachers. If you could find money to kill people you can find money to help people.
Michael Moore: (Like a normal stupid, naive, short*&%^(^* American) Right....
Tony Benn: This short leaflet that was issued... very very straightforward.
Michael Moore: What year was this.
Tony Benn: This was 1948. Your new national health service begins on the 5th of July, what is it how you get it. It will provide you with all medical, dental and nursing care. Everyone rich or poor, man, woman or child, can use it or any part of it, there are no charges except for a few special items, there is no insurance qualifications, BUT IT IS NOT A CHARITY. You are paying for it mainly as tax payers and it will relieve your money-worries in times of illness. Now, somehow that the few words start this whole thing up!
Thacher: (She was a really republican style mind) NHS is safe in our hands...........