If your doctor is Jewish, does the chicken have to be kosher?

I am normally against putting people to death, whatever the crime, however, in the case of Sue Lowden, I believe it would, in truth, be a kindness.

I’ll bet she was a M*A*S*H fan, where the Korean doctor tells Hawkeye that when his client can’t pay, he will take a chicken.

It’s scary when an old comedy show gag is proposed as serious policy by a Republican dim-wit!

Sue Lowden is pretty & popular. So is Sarah Palin. Real men love ‘em both.

Lots of people on both the Left and the Right dream of a lost “Golden Age” and try to imagine all sorts of ways to bring it back—while doing as little damage to the System as possible. For example, the tea-partiers long for a smaller government while insisting that this country should remain warlike and continue fighting the “global war on terror” regardless of the political, economic and social consequences to this land and its people. But “War is the health of the State”, as Randolph Bourne said in his unfinished 1918 essay; and to quote James Madison, “Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.” And the tea-partiers’ beloved Thomas Jefferson said, “War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”

This stupidly rigid insistence on maintaining the war-making power of the American State, regardless, is the primary reason why I could never become a tea-partier. Rather, I subscribe to Murray Rothbard’s belief: “I am getting more and more convinced that the war-peace question is the key to the whole libertarian business.”

Ahah! A former Ms. Beauty Queen brainless blonde airhead. That explains it all.

First of all most people live in cities and there are laws against owning livestock in cities. The health problems alone with bringing livestock to a doctors office would make more government agencies to oversee that all livestock were healthy and its shots etc were current-yep no bigger government here with the Repukelicans “smaller government” intrusion. The show us your paperwork crowd will love this.Will the doctors office provide you with those little bags to clean up after your doctors payment has an accident on the floor, or will the receptionist do it?

Owning livestock is not cheap and if you have to barter, usually that means you have no money.

I have bartered at events I have taken part of and it was mutual. Bartering is great in some cases, but it does not pay the utilities, your employees,etc..

What is it about the repug party that they are so out of touch with reality? There should be mandatory intelligence test for people to run for political office, if you cannot pass on at least a 90%+, you are not qualified to run for office. That requirement would eliminate the majority of those who are unfit for political office. Even the lowly paid fast food employee has more tests to pass to even be considered a suitable employee that what we have representing Americans.

I am ashamed at the laughing stock these elected officials have made of We the People to the rest of the world. How embarrassing.

BTW, Hey doc, don’t have any chickens, but how about the service of my stud buffalo?

Even in the good, old days, doctors preferred cash to anything else.  Chickens (and most other barnyard animals) are dirty ... can you imagine bringing a cage full of birds into the examining room?  I rode in a sleeper car last month from Lvov, Ukraine to Simferopol with a family and their bag full of pigeons!  Not the most comfortable journey I’ve had.

I understand and have sometimes bartered services ... I took a nice MacBook for services rendered on a software project just last year ... but money is still my preferred currency.  You can’t buy much with a dead chicken.

This is just a method of deflecting the whole issue of greed and stupidity which saturates our society these days.  Everywhere you look someone is demanding more money for their services.  No banker is worth billions of dollars!  No doctor, even the most brilliant surgeon is worth millions.  No movie star is worth $20 million/picture.  Greed has distorted our values and created this rush for the cash.  We will never solve these difficult problems while self-interest and greed are the most important factors.

One last point ... the best doctor I ever had was the family physician of my childhood.  His skills weren’t all that fantastic and his alcoholism sometimes got in the way but he made house calls ... even at 3 am.  And, if my dad didn’t have the money, the bill was either forgiven or deferred until there was some to pay.  Doc was a family friend who dispensed the most important medicine possible ... compassion!

say what you will, I like to trade tangible objects or
services rather than money.  as do some of my
neighbors.  and I live in a metro-mecca, Phoenix!  put
that in your pipe and smoke it