It’s nice to see that Megan McCain has finally found something she is good at, taking her clothes of in front of a camera. I mean, she’s not the new voice of the young Republicans the way she would like to think and if her interview with Rachel Maddow at the NRA convention is any hint, my cat knows more about firearms than Megan does.
So, I wish her luck in her new career and I’m glad that she will no longer be riding her daddy’s coattails.
I would like to introduce you to one of the primary problems with our country today. His file number is EDB1056, but the world at large knows him as Ricky Choi, MD, MPH.
“Now, Instinct,” I hear you saying, “what make the good doctor part of the DB files?”
“Well,” says I,” I will be happy to explain.”
You see, most doctors are willing to stay within the bounds of their education and practice their medicine. Dr. Ricky though, seems to think that because he has MD after his name that he has all kinds of superior knowledge on a unending range of topics beyond medicine up to and including how you vote:
I would argue that nutritious food, safe medications, air quality, domestic violence, affordable housing, access to health care, sex trafficking, cultural factors, schools, safe neighborhoods, voting, human rights, international trade agreements, and the state budget, to the extent they impact health of my patients and communities, are also in my scope of practice.
Of course, he also is an expert in firearms too
So yes, to ask if a device that is associated with over 30,000 deaths a year and over 50% of suicides is unloaded, locked up, and kept out of reach of children is also well within my scope of practice.
Now, I’m going to take a wild stab and guess that this guy is not a lifetime member of the NRA and also has never even seen a firearm range except for that one time when he was watching ‘Lethal Weapon’ and I’ll be he closed his eyes during that part because it was so disturbing.
This, my friends, is a prime example of the elitist douche bag. It is a person that believes that because they are knowledgeable in one thing that they are knowledgeable in all things. In this case, because he has a piece of paper that allows him to practice medicine in California, he also thinks it allows him to do anything he damn well pleases because he is educated and you are just a simple, working class slob.
I am positive that if he were shown any gun, an type of firearm at all, and asked how to make it safe for storage he would stare like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming truck. He is good at parroting lines “The gun should be locked up and kept out of reach of children” but when it comes to the actual DOING he is most likely just like our president – good with the overarching initial statement, but when it comes to follow through he’s out on the golf course.
So, Dr. Ricky, I do hope at some point you will kindly STFU until you actually know what you are talking about.
Best comment I read on this article
thesixthmoon 10:34 AM on May 5, 2011
“Guns are within my scope of practice.”
That’s great. Can you tell me, do you consider the .380 an effective self-defense round? There is some controversey over this.
God, I am glad I moved to a free state.
Have you ever read something that so moved you that you felt compelled to contact the author and let them know how much their writing meant to you? Well, I got that feeling just the other day after stopping by Breda’s Blog and seeing what she had to say about Eric Heyl.
Now, to say that Eric Heyl is a sexist jerk is probably putting a happy face on this waste of human flesh, but still I decided to contact him and let him know what I thought of this particular article he wrote:
After reading your article all I can say is this: You’re an idiot and know nothing about women, shooting or concealed carry and are also a perfect example of why your profession is referred to as the Lame Stream Media.
I supposed I could have used facts to show that women shooters are the fastest growing segment of the shooting world, and that firearms can be obtained in any color of the rainbow or that you can colorize it yourself using Duracoat, but I said to myself “Self (which is how I talk to myself) all these wonderful facts will be lost on him because A) he is a misogynistic douche bag and B) look at that dead thing on his upper lip!!!” So I kept it simple for him, which I thought was best.
Surprise, surprise!! He responded:
It pains me to have lost the respect of someone who works tirelessly to advance humanity by designing lumpy green ninja-looking creatures. But I do thank you for taking time to share your thoughts.
The “lumpy green ninja-looking creature” he refers to is this.
Ninja-boy here is a character I did as a freshman in undergrad for an animation project, he’s about eight years old now and I use him as a gravitar and kind of a mascot. I also love how in the email he implies that somehow he is working to advance humanity and attempts to shoot me down with that. I never said anything about advancing humanity to him, so I guess he is projecting – maybe he should have his therapist explain what that is to him. Also, since he seemed confused about his status with me, I replied:
Actually, you have that wrong (as in most things you do) – you never had my respect in the first place.
I was considering becoming a columnist and writing ignorant, misogynistic pieces about topics that I had no knowledge at all but since you have that market covered I decided to be an animator instead. At least with my field we admit that what we create is a fantasy from our minds.
And again, he wrote back! We are well on our way to being regular chatty Cathys!
Delightful. I’m certain you’ll soon have the lumpy green ninja-looking creature market cornered. Thanks again, my hostile animator friend.
Hostile?? Hmmmm…. he must be projecting again, I don’t think I wrote one hostile word at all. Sarcastic sure, but hostile? Nahhhh.
I’m considering writing back to him just to point out one other fact that he has missed (hey, so far he has missed almost every fact that has come his way so at least he’s batting 1000 there) – Ninja-boy is YELLOW, not green. You would think he would be very familiar with the color yellow since it’s the kind of journalism he practices every day.
Bring it you bitch.
It figures that MSNBC would give this douchebag airtime and start the whole thing out with:
“From the wrongful wars to the corrupt economy, to the special interests in the six industries that control every politician in this country,the political system itself; 75% of all districts in the most competitive election ever weren’t even up for grabs last week and to clear our problems may require more drastic measures.”
So the wars we are fighting, which Congress voted on and approved, are wrongful because…. oh yeah, they just don’t like it. So, it doesn’t matter if all the laws were followed in the steps leading to these wars, if a lefty doesn’t like it, it’s wrong.
And the economy that is corrupt? Well, who’s responsible for creating the institutions that (as our Teleprompter Jesus likes to say) drove us into the ditch??? Let’s see – Fannie Mae was created back in 1970 when Democrats had control of both the House (243 – 192) and the Senate (57 – 43).
Fannie Mae is the one that expanded their lending under Clinton so that they gave loans to people that couldn’t afford to pay the loan back and to top it all of, in 2005 when the Bush administration pushed to get some regulatory oversight of them was met with such push back from the Democrats and RINO’s (who again controlled Congress) that it never reached the Senate floor and eventually we watched as the housing market crashed and pulled everything down with it.
As for the “Six industries that control every politician” maybe he should open his eyes a little wider. Seems to me the ones with the most union money in their pockets have always been the Democrats. Union money went 90% Democrat. As for what the ‘six industries are’ I won’t play guessing games and intuit what one he is referring to, to me this comes off as a throw away line. He spouts that and we are supposed to nod our heads and just agree without any kind of names or numbers.
The ‘author’ also likes to use big words like ‘duopoly’ (that means Republicans and Democrats together) and to them the only answer to this political turmoil that could come from within the system is that we need another FDR. Yeah, we need another FDR like we need another WWII. There is no problem that can’t be made worse by the government throwing money at it. If they REALLY wanted money to come from the top 2% and make it to the working classes, government theft of that money isn’t the way to do it. Instead might I suggest a little remembered solution to a financial crisis that Calvin Coolidge came up with? He lowered taxes across the board, reduced government spending and gave our country a little time period we refer to as “The Roaring Twenties” which saw the largest growth of the middle class that we have ever seen.
The douchebag author also scoffs at reducing the size of government. Why? Well, that would put those poor government employees out of a job which would add to unemployment. The stupidity is so thick here you would need a chainsaw to cut it. They keep talking and whining, but the part I love best is they go on about how the political system isn’t changing and that there isn’t any “third party” that is stepping in to change things. I guess neither one of them watched any of the TEA party rallies or saw how many TEA party backed candidates were elected into office across the nation.
Nope, we are a whole crapload of doom and gloom here at MSNBC. The country is lost and the only way to save it – as a last resort of course - is to have a violent revolution because no meaningful change every happens without violence.
Yeah, I can’t wait for them to try that one.
Oh, and his so called “political cartoons” are not only unfunny, but the artwork is crap.
