This from Joe Posnanski's blog regarding the London Games Opening Ceremony:
For instance, there were hospital beds getting pushed around in odd patterns until they spelled words like “GOSH.” This made absolutely no sense to me. I have since learned that this was to honor the National Health Service — which the media guide says “more than any other unites our nation.” And GOSH stands for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, which is where J.M. Barrie gave all his royalties from “Peter Pan.” So now it makes sense.
Oh those wild eyed liberal/progressive/marxist Brits. They "honor the National Health Service - which more than any other unites our nation". They need a good old dose of American independence where people who don't have insurance get inadequate preventive care, and then when things get really bad, they go to the emergency room, where the rest of us pay for them anyway. But by george, I choose my doctors and don't have to worry about a death panel.
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