Before I pick up Thraxxus’ gauntlet and chuck it back at him, I have to express my giddy approval of the “Death Panels” to be enacted by Obama’s new health plan. Not only do I think they are a good idea, but we should enact them ASAP. I believe having appointed bureacrats decide who lives and who dies based on health conditions (physical or mental) would be a godsend at this point in time. Birthers, especially this obviously insane bag lady? Thumbs down. How about anyone who is dumb enough to scream “Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” in public? He or she is obviously unfit to live. Citizens who scream “We’re afraid of Obama!” and “Obama is a socialist!” in public, although his administration has shown zero justifications for these statements, should be considered Death Panel fodder. How about the wackjobs that think that the health plan actually includes death panels? While you are at it include anyone who still takes these wackjobs seriously. That would be ironic.

P.S. to the wackjobs: “death panels” already exist. Perhaps you’ve read about the various nightmares of customers being cutoff from their health insurance at inconvenient times. Private health insurers have one or more decision-makers whose entire job is to measure the cost of your treatment against the profits of keeping you as a customer. Later in life, how valuable do you think you are as a customer? Not very. The situation is insanely hypothetical, but you tell me: Would you rather have some faceless government official make this decision, or some company suit who receives fat bonuses based on how much profit he makes for his company?