G'day, Belly I hope your health doesn't require you to be chipped any time soon. Arjay what we're all trying to point out was probably best summed up by fable 210 by Aesop 2600 years ago…

"There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was rather lonely for him all day, so he thought upon a plan by which he could get a little company and some excitement.

He rushed down towards the village calling out "Wolf, Wolf," and the villagers came out to meet him, and some of them stopped with him for a considerable time.

This pleased the boy so much that a few days afterwards he tried the same trick, and again the villagers came to his help.

But shortly after this a Wolf actually did come out from the forest, and began to worry the sheep, and the boy of course cried out "Wolf, Wolf," still louder than before. But this time the villagers, who had been fooled twice before, thought the boy was again deceiving them, and nobody stirred to come to his help. So the Wolf made a good meal off the boy's flock, and when the boy complained...

the wise men of the village said: "A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.""

The story is a fabrication. See http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/microchip.asp .

Funny. I did not read it as something mandated for everybody. I read it as a device which could be used if a patient needed to be kept monitored for medical reasons. If I had such a condition I would want to be monitored.

some people have a chip on their shoulder, so what's the big deal?

Wm Trevor chips got me in to this trouble, in part.
I like them too much and can understand that fable about a bloke wrestling a sea gull for the last one.

I hope you don't mind, Arjay, but I'm going to refer you back to this thread in future, if ever you drop in with any more of your wacky conspiracy-nut offerings.

>>...in 2013 if you want medical care and don't have a chip,treatment will be refused<<

It is so gratifying, on so many levels, that you managed to commit to the Forum a piece that was so elegantly, comprehensively wrong. The fact that you must feel such an absolute goose right now is only fair, given the insults you spray on those who have dared to take you to task for the gazillion blatant untruths you have published here.

Having said that, I'll probably miss you, in a strange sort of way.