From the anti-strib blog
Posted by: Kermit at
http://www.anti-strib.com/blog/whining-will-get-you-nowhere.html
Regarding a story published at KARE 11
ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- About three dozen Muslims and their supporters rallied Monday morning across from Apollo High School to show support for students who attend the school.
Those at the rally say the school staff is not doing enough to keep Muslim students from being harassed and in some cases is contributing to it. "Some of the teachers on some of these things, they say a lot of bad stuff, like go back to (your) country. You guys stink," said Ali Gure, 18, a high school senior.
"Some of the teachers". Hmm. I believe the stink mentioned is the waft of bullshit.
The rally organizer, Mohamoud Ismail Mohamed, added his own list of grievances. "Verbal abuses, like 'I hate Islam' and 'I hate you guys. You are different. Why (did) you come to our country?' which makes the life of the children in this school very hard," said Mohamed.
A more succinct question would have been "Why are you trying to bring your country here?" The story goes on to report that St. Cloud schools are about 9% Muslim, with most of them being Somali. This story is a microcosm of the inevitable result when we abandoned the "melting pot" value and replaced it with a mindless worship of "diversity".
March 31, 2010
Once They Encouraged the Pitchforks, Now Democrats are Frightened of Them........
By: Evan Coyne Maloney
(linked through Newsbusters)
When Barack Obama decided to launch his political career in the living room of unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, he tacitly endorsed using violence as a political tactic.
And when two staunch allies of the Democratic Party—the SEIU and ACORN—drove busloads of protesters to the private homes of AIG executives, just days later, President Obama told a meeting of bankers that “my administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
Implicitly, Obama was using the threat of violence to get the bankers to acquiesce.
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama didn’t shy away from confrontation. In fact, he encouraged it by telling supporters to “argue with” opponents and to “get in their face[s].”
The Obama Administration’s confrontational tone included some violent imagery last August, when one White House official encouraged Obama supporters to “punch back twice as hard” against opponents.
Later that day, at an anti-ObamaCare rally in St. Louis, a black man named Kenneth Gladney was handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when he was approached by pro-ObamaCare SEIU union members. One of the men asked Gladney, “What kind of nigger are you to be giving out this kind of stuff?”
The union thugs then beat him so badly he required overnight hospitalization.
Obama’s supporters got the message. They were getting in people’s faces, and they were punching. And kicking. Repeatedly.
Yet despite the fact that the Kenneth Gladney beating occurred the same day that the Obama Administration recommended supporters “punch back twice as hard,” there was no hyperventilating in the media about political violence or the veiled threats that encouraged it.
Today, however, the Democratic politicians who rammed through ObamaCare over the wishes of the American public are worried about the ugly environment that the Obama Administration spent over a year stoking. And if Obama and the Democrats truly believe that words lead to violence, then they should accept responsibility for the beating of Kenneth Gladney.
I’m certainly not condoning political violence, and would condemn any that actually happens. But there has been no reported violence against any Congressman, Senator or government official, despite the media frenzy of stories describing a crazed American public ready to terrorize politicians.
All politicians receive threats; any moderately trafficked blogger receives threats. So while I would hate for there to be any actual violence, excuse me if I chuckle at the chatter of the chickens in the media and our political class. This media-driven national freakout is a diversion, designed to de-legitimize opposition to ObamaCare and to take your attention away from the illegitimate and unprecedented usurpation of power by the Democrats in Congress and President Obama. They’re banking on you forgetting by November.
If the media is going to report on this atmosphere without discussing the Obama Administration’s words or the SEIU beat-down of Kenneth Gladney, if they are going to spend time breathlessly reporting rumored threats that have not been carried out while ignoring violence that actually occurred but didn’t fit their narrative, then it is yet more proof of the media’s patent bias
March 30, 2010
What happens when you leave a progressives unsupervised…..
Are you offended by the term “Good Friday”? Only if you’re a liberal whack job. This report is from Davenport, Iowa. It is humorously absurd.
One week before the most solemn day in the Christian year, the city of Davenport, Iowa removed Good Friday from its municipal calendar
Taking a recommendation by the Davenport Civil Rights Commission to change the holiday's name to something more ecumenical, City Administrator Craig Malin sent a memo to municipal employees announcing Good Friday would officially be known as "Spring Holiday." (Citing the separation of church and state)
"My phone has been ringing off the hook since Saturday," said city council alderman Bill Edmond. "People are genuinely upset because this is nothing but political correctness run amok."
Edmond said the city administrator made the change unilaterally and did not bring it to the council for a vote, a requirement for a change in policy.
"The city council didn't know anything about the change. We were blind sided and now we've got to clean this mess up. How do you tell people the city renamed a 2,000 year old holiday?" said Edmond.
It didn't take long for the city the resurrect the name Good Friday. Malin was overruled today and the words "Spring Holiday" disappeared. Good riddance
One week before the most solemn day in the Christian year, the city of Davenport, Iowa removed Good Friday from its municipal calendar
Taking a recommendation by the Davenport Civil Rights Commission to change the holiday's name to something more ecumenical, City Administrator Craig Malin sent a memo to municipal employees announcing Good Friday would officially be known as "Spring Holiday." (Citing the separation of church and state)
"My phone has been ringing off the hook since Saturday," said city council alderman Bill Edmond. "People are genuinely upset because this is nothing but political correctness run amok."
Edmond said the city administrator made the change unilaterally and did not bring it to the council for a vote, a requirement for a change in policy.
"The city council didn't know anything about the change. We were blind sided and now we've got to clean this mess up. How do you tell people the city renamed a 2,000 year old holiday?" said Edmond.
It didn't take long for the city the resurrect the name Good Friday. Malin was overruled today and the words "Spring Holiday" disappeared. Good riddance
New from the AP predicts massive doctor shortage................
Primary care physicians are already in short supply in parts of the country, and the health overhaul that will bring them millions more newly insured patients in the next few years promises extra strain.
This was a common criticism of the Health care reform legislationthat was constantly ignored by our media, and casually dismissed in political debate. The healthcare reform adds 32 million new patients to a system that is already low on supply, and at the same time reduces the financial incentives of becoming a medical practitioner. The result is obvious, we are bound for a shortage of doctors. This fact can no longer be ignored as the bill has now been signed into law. In a report published by the AP, some of the obvious issues are finally coming to light:
"Recently published reports predict a shortfall of roughly 40,000 primary care doctors over the next decade, a field losing out to the better pay, better hours and higher profile of many other specialties. Provisions in the new law aim to start reversing that tide, from bonus payments for certain physicians to expanded community health centers that will pick up some of the slack."
Along with the current shortage and 10-year projection, many current doctors will be leaving their profession as government regulations threaten their profitability. In a poll conducted one week before the health care passage, nearly 50% of doctors stated that the passage of the legislation would lead them to seek a new profession. Provisions in the healthcare bill attempt to entice them to stay, but the attempt is laughable at best. The new law provides a 10% bonus from Medicare for primary care doctors serving in areas already short on medical professionals. However, the government only cover around 80% Medicare payments, so the clinic still comes away losing money on the care.
Its not rocket science. The reason there is a shortage of doctors in certain areas is because the people in those areas don't pay for their care. There is no money for doctors there, and without that evil profit, the medical practitioners can't sustain their practice. There is nothing greedy about it, it's just a fact of life. No matter how many times you hear people say that healthcare is a basic human right, it cannot be considered a right as long as we depend on other people to and perform specialized care. Clinics cannot cover an area of people paying 80% of the costs. It is unsustainable
What this bill will do, is take the doctor shortage in these localized areas, and spread them among the general population. It wont’ get any better for those experiencing the shortage now, if anything it will get worse. What will be different is all the other areas around them that start experiencing the same shortages. That’s what socialized systems like this do. They guarantee the lowest common denominator for all.
This was a common criticism of the Health care reform legislationthat was constantly ignored by our media, and casually dismissed in political debate. The healthcare reform adds 32 million new patients to a system that is already low on supply, and at the same time reduces the financial incentives of becoming a medical practitioner. The result is obvious, we are bound for a shortage of doctors. This fact can no longer be ignored as the bill has now been signed into law. In a report published by the AP, some of the obvious issues are finally coming to light:
"Recently published reports predict a shortfall of roughly 40,000 primary care doctors over the next decade, a field losing out to the better pay, better hours and higher profile of many other specialties. Provisions in the new law aim to start reversing that tide, from bonus payments for certain physicians to expanded community health centers that will pick up some of the slack."
Along with the current shortage and 10-year projection, many current doctors will be leaving their profession as government regulations threaten their profitability. In a poll conducted one week before the health care passage, nearly 50% of doctors stated that the passage of the legislation would lead them to seek a new profession. Provisions in the healthcare bill attempt to entice them to stay, but the attempt is laughable at best. The new law provides a 10% bonus from Medicare for primary care doctors serving in areas already short on medical professionals. However, the government only cover around 80% Medicare payments, so the clinic still comes away losing money on the care.
Its not rocket science. The reason there is a shortage of doctors in certain areas is because the people in those areas don't pay for their care. There is no money for doctors there, and without that evil profit, the medical practitioners can't sustain their practice. There is nothing greedy about it, it's just a fact of life. No matter how many times you hear people say that healthcare is a basic human right, it cannot be considered a right as long as we depend on other people to and perform specialized care. Clinics cannot cover an area of people paying 80% of the costs. It is unsustainable
What this bill will do, is take the doctor shortage in these localized areas, and spread them among the general population. It wont’ get any better for those experiencing the shortage now, if anything it will get worse. What will be different is all the other areas around them that start experiencing the same shortages. That’s what socialized systems like this do. They guarantee the lowest common denominator for all.
Change" Is Not New
Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
When ancient fossils of creatures that live on the ocean floor have been found in rock formations at the summit of Mount Everest, that ought to give us a clue that big changes in the earth are nothing new, and that huge changes have been going on long before human beings appeared on the scene.
The recent statement that the earth was warmer in the Middle Ages than it is today, made by the climate scientist who is at the heart of the recent scandal about "global warming" statistics, ought to at least give pause to those who are determined to believe that human beings must be the reason for "climate change."
Other climate scientists have pointed out before now that the earth has warmed and cooled many times over the centuries. Contrary to the impression created in much of the media and in politics, no one has denied that temperatures change, sometimes more than they are changing today.
Three years ago, a book by Singer and Avery was published with a title that says it all: "Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years."
Contrary to clever political spin that likened those who refused to join the "global warming" hysteria to people who denied the Holocaust, no one denied that climates change. Indeed, some of the climate scientists who have been the biggest critics of the current hysteria have pointed out that climates had changed back and forth, long before human beings created industrial societies or drove SUVs.
It is those who have been pushing the hysteria who have been playing fast and loose with the facts, wanting to keep crucial data from becoming public, and even "losing" some of that data that supposedly proved the most dire consequences. It has not been facts but computer models at the heart of the "global warming" crusade.
Nothing is easier than coming up with computer models that prove almost anything. Back during the 1970s, there were computer models predicting mass starvation and global cooling. The utter failure of those predictions ought to make us at least skeptical of computer models, especially computer models based on data that advocates want to keep from public view or even "lose" when investigators start closing in.
On climate issues, as on many other issues, the biggest argument of the left has been that there is no argument. The word "science" has been used as a magic mantra to shut up critics, even when those critics have been scientists with international reputations as specialists in climate science.
Stealing the aura of science for political purposes is nothing new for the left. Karl Marx called his brand of Utopianism "scientific socialism." Even earlier, in the 18th century, the Marquis de Condorcet referred to "engineering" society. In the 20th century, H.G. Wells referred to the creation of a lasting peace as a heavy and complex "piece of mental engineering."
Genuine science is the opposite of dogmatism, but that does not keep dogmatists from invoking the name of science in order to shut off debate. Science is a method of analysis, rather than simply a set of conclusions. In fact, much of the history of science is a history of having to abandon the prevailing conclusions among scientists, in light of new evidence or new methods of analysis.
When the scientists in England who were promoting "global warming" hysteria sent e-mails out to colleagues, urging them not to reveal certain data and not to let the fact become widely known that there was a freedom-of-information act in Britain, they were behaving like politicians, rather than scientists.
The huge political, financial and ideological investment of many individuals and institutions in the "global warming" hysteria makes it virtually impossible for many of the climate crusaders to gamble it all on a roll of the dice, which is what empirical verification is. It is far safer to dogmatize and to demonize those who think otherwise.
Educators who turn schools into indoctrination centers have been going all out to propagandize a whole generation with Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth"-- which has in fact carried a message that has been very convenient for Al Gore financially, producing millions of dollars from his "green" activities.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
When ancient fossils of creatures that live on the ocean floor have been found in rock formations at the summit of Mount Everest, that ought to give us a clue that big changes in the earth are nothing new, and that huge changes have been going on long before human beings appeared on the scene.
The recent statement that the earth was warmer in the Middle Ages than it is today, made by the climate scientist who is at the heart of the recent scandal about "global warming" statistics, ought to at least give pause to those who are determined to believe that human beings must be the reason for "climate change."
Other climate scientists have pointed out before now that the earth has warmed and cooled many times over the centuries. Contrary to the impression created in much of the media and in politics, no one has denied that temperatures change, sometimes more than they are changing today.
Three years ago, a book by Singer and Avery was published with a title that says it all: "Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years."
Contrary to clever political spin that likened those who refused to join the "global warming" hysteria to people who denied the Holocaust, no one denied that climates change. Indeed, some of the climate scientists who have been the biggest critics of the current hysteria have pointed out that climates had changed back and forth, long before human beings created industrial societies or drove SUVs.
It is those who have been pushing the hysteria who have been playing fast and loose with the facts, wanting to keep crucial data from becoming public, and even "losing" some of that data that supposedly proved the most dire consequences. It has not been facts but computer models at the heart of the "global warming" crusade.
Nothing is easier than coming up with computer models that prove almost anything. Back during the 1970s, there were computer models predicting mass starvation and global cooling. The utter failure of those predictions ought to make us at least skeptical of computer models, especially computer models based on data that advocates want to keep from public view or even "lose" when investigators start closing in.
On climate issues, as on many other issues, the biggest argument of the left has been that there is no argument. The word "science" has been used as a magic mantra to shut up critics, even when those critics have been scientists with international reputations as specialists in climate science.
Stealing the aura of science for political purposes is nothing new for the left. Karl Marx called his brand of Utopianism "scientific socialism." Even earlier, in the 18th century, the Marquis de Condorcet referred to "engineering" society. In the 20th century, H.G. Wells referred to the creation of a lasting peace as a heavy and complex "piece of mental engineering."
Genuine science is the opposite of dogmatism, but that does not keep dogmatists from invoking the name of science in order to shut off debate. Science is a method of analysis, rather than simply a set of conclusions. In fact, much of the history of science is a history of having to abandon the prevailing conclusions among scientists, in light of new evidence or new methods of analysis.
When the scientists in England who were promoting "global warming" hysteria sent e-mails out to colleagues, urging them not to reveal certain data and not to let the fact become widely known that there was a freedom-of-information act in Britain, they were behaving like politicians, rather than scientists.
The huge political, financial and ideological investment of many individuals and institutions in the "global warming" hysteria makes it virtually impossible for many of the climate crusaders to gamble it all on a roll of the dice, which is what empirical verification is. It is far safer to dogmatize and to demonize those who think otherwise.
Educators who turn schools into indoctrination centers have been going all out to propagandize a whole generation with Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth"-- which has in fact carried a message that has been very convenient for Al Gore financially, producing millions of dollars from his "green" activities.
March 26, 2010
CBO forecast project federal deficit to exceed 90% of GDP by 2020............
President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90 percent of the nation's economic output by 2020. The numbers are beyond staggering. In a budget report filed Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office stated that the president's spending habits would generate a combined $9.75 trillion in deficits over the next decade. Unfortunatelyhose numbers, while extremely crippling, will only hold under the best case scenario. Barrack Obama's Presidency has been like watching what would happen if Paris Hilton took over her daddy’s Hilton hotels; bankrupting them in one weekend because she wanted everyone to have a free room.. He is our incompetant leader--elected in what will go down as the popluarity contest of the millenium. "Cool tall black guy vs. short old white guy with a hump on his back" - who will win the public hearts? But the election of this social worker is a different topic of discussion
The federal public debt totals $8.2 trillion as of today, and it's headed toward $20.3 trillion in 2020. That comes out to around t$72,000 per household today, and more than $170,000 per household in 2020. The figure projected by the CBO would equal 90 percent of the estimated gross domestic product in 2020, up from 40 percent at the end of fiscal 2008. By comparison, the ratio for economically troubled Greece hit 115 percent last year. Economist Kenneth Rogoff made the following point:
"For countries with debt-to-GDP ratios above 90 percent, median growth rates fall by 1 percent, and average growth falls considerably more"
The federal public debt totals $8.2 trillion as of today, and it's headed toward $20.3 trillion in 2020. That comes out to around t$72,000 per household today, and more than $170,000 per household in 2020. The figure projected by the CBO would equal 90 percent of the estimated gross domestic product in 2020, up from 40 percent at the end of fiscal 2008. By comparison, the ratio for economically troubled Greece hit 115 percent last year. Economist Kenneth Rogoff made the following point:
"For countries with debt-to-GDP ratios above 90 percent, median growth rates fall by 1 percent, and average growth falls considerably more"
American Liberalism is Socialism................
In a typical liberal rant, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz tells his radio listeners that he believes the next "socialist"
takeover by the government should be on all the radio airwaves. Its not all that surprising really. I've been saying it for nearly 3 years now: Democrats have become Socialist. They are bought and piad for by extreme lefitst. It's not even a rip on them, it's a fact based on their actions and ideas. They believe in big government control, and want the people to be dependant on them. In their mind, government takeover of free-markets is for the greater good. They are by all standards full blown socialists. Why can't we be honest about it? If liberal think this crap works; if regulating speech and energy and healthcare is what will help, then why not come out and say it? Why not be open, and proclaim a socailist fix is what America needs.
Shultz doesn't hide it, and in a twisted kind of way I respect him for it. At least he is open about what he wants to do. No other Democrat has been so honest. Europeans still think Obama’s a moderate for crying out loud. Our media persists that he is a centrist. Yet, Obama is the most socialist President this country has seen since Woodrow Wilson. Why continue does everyone try to hide it? The reason is actually very simple.
Everyone knows that socialism is a failure. It simply does not work. Democrats are trying to disguise what they are doing because the public has a justified fear of socialist governments. American's witnessed the tyranny of the socialist in eastern Europe and Germany. We fought WWII against the National Socialist Party of Germany (yes the Nazi’s were progressives), and then a cold War with the Soviet Union. We are still fighting with North Korea, and the human rights violations of China are not easily forgotten. We have socialist dictators in Venezuela and Cuba, murdering opposition and shutting down free speech. If Democrats presented their beliefs for what they actually are (socialism) they would never get a sniff from voters ever again.
March 24, 2010
Basic Human Rights.........
During the final healthcare debates, Representative Jim Clyburn of South Carolina repeated a typical progressive argument that healthcare is a fundamental human right. This is a ridiculous statement that is constantly repeated by liberal ideologues. Let me be clear, any object or activity that requires the wealth (or work) of other people to produce it, cannot be considered a human right. Only by force can another guarantee a right to anything that is produced by others. We all have a right to buy it, but we are not entitled to it. If we were all entitled to free healthcare, then why should the wealthy have to pay? Don’t they deserve the basic Human rights of all people?
Here is what Clyburn said:
“I said earlier, during my talk on the floor, that I consider this to be the Civil Rights Act of the 21st century – because I do believe that this is the one fundamental right that this country had been wrestling with now for almost a hundred years. I think tonight, we took a giant step toward the establishment of a more perfect union”
This statement is incredibly insulting to the people involved in the 60’s civil rights movement. Take a minute and compare the two. The civil rights movement of the late 60’s changed the way Americans think about people. It drove home the fact that our core constitutional rights are endowed too every man woman and child; regardless of their appearance or ethnicity They led a group of people to new heights while being directly persecuted by the government and its citisenry. They fought discrimination in the streets, abused and hated all the way, while remaining peaceful and insistent to their cause. They didn’t ask for anything from anyone else, except that they be given the freedoms promised them in the constitution. They wanted the freedom to live as equals, not priviledged. The civil rights movement was directly supporting and promoting the core beliefs of freedom and equality that started propelled this country forward.
Here is what Clyburn said:
“I said earlier, during my talk on the floor, that I consider this to be the Civil Rights Act of the 21st century – because I do believe that this is the one fundamental right that this country had been wrestling with now for almost a hundred years. I think tonight, we took a giant step toward the establishment of a more perfect union”
This statement is incredibly insulting to the people involved in the 60’s civil rights movement. Take a minute and compare the two. The civil rights movement of the late 60’s changed the way Americans think about people. It drove home the fact that our core constitutional rights are endowed too every man woman and child; regardless of their appearance or ethnicity They led a group of people to new heights while being directly persecuted by the government and its citisenry. They fought discrimination in the streets, abused and hated all the way, while remaining peaceful and insistent to their cause. They didn’t ask for anything from anyone else, except that they be given the freedoms promised them in the constitution. They wanted the freedom to live as equals, not priviledged. The civil rights movement was directly supporting and promoting the core beliefs of freedom and equality that started propelled this country forward.
An Off-Budget Office?
Under the headline "Costly Bill Seen as Saving Money," the San Francisco Chronicle last week began a front-page story with these words: "Many people find it hard to understand how the health care legislation heading for a decisive vote Sunday can cost $940 billion and cut the horrendous federal deficit at the same time."
It's not hard to understand at all. It is a lie.
What makes this particular lie pass muster with many people, who might otherwise use their common sense, is that the Congressional Budget Office vouched for the consistency of the budget numbers that say you can add millions of people to a government-run system and yet save money.
The Congressional Budget Office does honest work. But it can only use the numbers that Congress supplies-- and Congress does dishonest work. It is not the CBO's job to give their opinion as to whether any of the marvelous things that Congress says it will do in the future are either likely or possible.
It's not hard to understand at all. It is a lie.
What makes this particular lie pass muster with many people, who might otherwise use their common sense, is that the Congressional Budget Office vouched for the consistency of the budget numbers that say you can add millions of people to a government-run system and yet save money.
The Congressional Budget Office does honest work. But it can only use the numbers that Congress supplies-- and Congress does dishonest work. It is not the CBO's job to give their opinion as to whether any of the marvelous things that Congress says it will do in the future are either likely or possible.
March 23, 2010
Media Display Disgusting and Cowardly ..............
March 23, 2010 13:38 ET
The crescendo of bigotry by the left-wing media against the Tea Party movement reached a disgusting pinnacle yesterday with MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann indicting the entire movement as being homophobic racists based on the actions of a few fringe protestors. After describing reports of the “n” word being shouted at Rep. John Lewis Olbermann looked straight into the camera and exploded:
“In a backwards, sick-to-my-stomach way, I would like to thank whoever shouted at Mr. Lewis and Mr. Carson for proving my previous point. If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered, self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of Democracy, or of the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.”
Spoken like a true tyrant Olberman. And seriously, do you really want to talk about which party refuses to accept the outcomes of elections? Al Gore still thinks he is a former president, and so do most liberals. But for Olberman, anecdotal evidence - citing one shouted statement - is proof enough to cast a label of racism on a large and widely varied group of people. They all share the same beliefs regarding limited government, therefore they are ALL as racist as their most racist member. Eureka! They got us by the balls now.
The crescendo of bigotry by the left-wing media against the Tea Party movement reached a disgusting pinnacle yesterday with MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann indicting the entire movement as being homophobic racists based on the actions of a few fringe protestors. After describing reports of the “n” word being shouted at Rep. John Lewis Olbermann looked straight into the camera and exploded:
“In a backwards, sick-to-my-stomach way, I would like to thank whoever shouted at Mr. Lewis and Mr. Carson for proving my previous point. If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered, self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of Democracy, or of the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.”
Spoken like a true tyrant Olberman. And seriously, do you really want to talk about which party refuses to accept the outcomes of elections? Al Gore still thinks he is a former president, and so do most liberals. But for Olberman, anecdotal evidence - citing one shouted statement - is proof enough to cast a label of racism on a large and widely varied group of people. They all share the same beliefs regarding limited government, therefore they are ALL as racist as their most racist member. Eureka! They got us by the balls now.
How to lie like a president..............
On the campaign trail President Obama said the "public will have five days to look at every bill that lands on my desk" before he signs it into law. Evidently, this is one of those promises that Obama was only joking about.
Just one lie among all the others, which are endless. I guess he figured after not airing debate on TV, not reading the bill, and not voting on the bill; people wouldn’t care as much about one more little lie.
This guy has zero integrity, and that alone should make people very nervous. Obama dismissed the recorded 5-day promise as a fabricated attack from racist right wingers. MSNBC came out in support of his assertion saying the video, audio, and written transcripts were proof of more racism in the American Right. They went on to show that Obama has lied less in one year, then anyone who ever lived. Then, they gave him a gold tiara and declared him the coolest person in the Universe. Al Gore confirmed that this decision had the support of a scientific consensus, and that the evidence was undisputable
A Point of No Return?
Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
With the passage of the legislation allowing the federal government to take control of the medical care system of the United States, a major turning point has been reached in the dismantling of the values and institutions of America.
Even the massive transfer of crucial decisions from millions of doctors and patients to Washington bureaucrats and advisory panels-- as momentous as that is-- does not measure the full impact of this largely unread and certainly unscrutinized legislation.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
With the passage of the legislation allowing the federal government to take control of the medical care system of the United States, a major turning point has been reached in the dismantling of the values and institutions of America.
Even the massive transfer of crucial decisions from millions of doctors and patients to Washington bureaucrats and advisory panels-- as momentous as that is-- does not measure the full impact of this largely unread and certainly unscrutinized legislation.
March 22, 2010
A very bad move for America..........
Despite what fawning and gushing liberal media members have been reporting concerning what happened in our nation's capital Sunday, Former House Majority Speaker Tom DeLay spoke the really inconvenient truth that might haunt this country for generations,
"You saw the Constitution burned by the Democrats in the House of Representatives tonight"
"Not only did they not listen to the American people, they shredded and trashed the Constitution and then stood there on the floor of the House and lied to the American people."
The 111th congress and the shredding of the constitution……..
For those who haven’t figured it out, the name of this blog is in reference to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence. We adopted the name “the 57th signature” as a way to express our support for the declaration and the constitution. The enormity of what they created cannot be understated. They changed the world! They fought the tyranny of the state with ideas of individual human rights. They were revolutionaries.
The Constitution is without a doubt, one of the most profound and brilliant documents ever produced by man. It created a free people with individual rights, where every man is created equal. They announced to the world that there are no kings among men. That each man is entitled only to that which he came into this world with, or produced by the sweat of his brow. They gave us the freedom to act on our own judgment, free of coercion, free of dependence. They taught us that the value of the greater good is found in the individual, not in groups. These ideas inspired our nation, and catapulted us to excellence. The United States of America was united in it’s advocacy of the individual, and rejected the premise that some are innately fit to govern without the consent of the People. The Founders were brilliant men that saw the full potential of humanity, and found a way to put that potential to work. They gave us freedom.
On March 21, 2010, the 111th Congress of the United States passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (“Paging Dagney taggart.”) They might as well have called it the “Horray for Everything Bill”. This congress spit in the face of America by socializing 1/3 of our economy without even a super majority vote. They have taken over a sector of our lives that gives them control over nearly every activity we particiapte in.
They have forced the American people into servitude. President Barrack Obama and the 111th Congress, have violated the constitution and their oath of office. Every single representative who voted for this bill should be impeached. They were sworn to uphold the constitution. They failed miserably. As far as I’m concerned, they are enemy’s of the state.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed it “a great act of patriotism which honored the vows of our Founders for us to be a land of opportunity.”
This statement is a slap in the face of the founders and the American people. Pelosi, Obama, and Reid have put the federal government in charge of medical decisions and patient care. They have empowered government to deny medical care, penalize doctors, raise taxes, enforce penalties, jail citizens, expand deficits, and establish intrusive bureaucracies.
At the end of the day, here’s what you can expect from this legislation:
1.) New taxes – The bill doesn’t cover anyone for four years, but the taxes will begin immediately to pay for the initial cost of the legislation
2.) Bankrupt insurance companies – Private insurers only operate on a 3% profit margin. They have no control over the cost of care. Medical care still costs whatever it did yesterday, its just being paid for with taxes and loans by the government instead of you. Because the insurance companies need to make a profit to exist, the government will subsidize them right out of business. We will be single payer before long
3.) Increased demand for medical care – when you add 40 million people to the insured market, and don’t make them pay for it, they are going to use as much of it as they can. It would be the same if you gave out free ice cream – people would eat it. This means we are going to use FAR more medical resources then we have been in the past. Lowering the supply and increasing the cost. This will eventually lead to rationing and the government will decide who gets what care – if any at all.
4.) Medicare catastrophe - It is already bankrupt and they are balancing the healthcare sheets by making cuts to it. This is all well and good, except that the people on Medicare aren’t going to disappear. They will either stop Medicare all together and put everyone on the governments healthcare, or they will re-invest in it and expand it. Which would be the worst thing they could do for a system projecting trillions in deficit spending
5.) Fewer and less competent healthcare professionals – There is a reason Medicare failed. Medicare does not reimburse practitioners the full cost of coverage. Every time they treat someone with Medicare they lose money. With the government running the show 50% of doctors have said they will leave the field. 50% doctors and 40 million new patients means longer waits, more poor treatment, and shitty service
6.) Denial of care – When the government realizes the shit storm they created, they will have no choice but to deny expensive treatments to those trying to extend life. Those who could have gotten hospice care or heart surgery will be denied because of the expense. The threat of Death Panels will come about. That is a guarantee stated plainly in every version of the bill.
7.) Bankruptcy – Obama tried to get the American people to believe that without this reform healthcare costs would skyrocket and America would go broke. The problem is, his solution did nothing to address the cost of care. It is an insurance bill. It will only provide cheaper insurance. The costs of healthcare will become worse from this because more people need coverage, but less money is going to pay for more supply. You don’t need to be an economist to figure where that math will lead.
8.) Behavioral control - they pay for your healthcare. If you want healthcare you will do as your told. No mare fatty foods, alcohol, or tobacco; instead you have mandatory excersize. This is absolutely going to happen
9.) Socialism, Communism, or Fascism are the end result. If this bill is enacted into law we will fall into one of these 3 movements. It is guaranteed.
So enjoy the last remnants of freedom in this country, because four years from now it will be a whole new world……..
The Constitution is without a doubt, one of the most profound and brilliant documents ever produced by man. It created a free people with individual rights, where every man is created equal. They announced to the world that there are no kings among men. That each man is entitled only to that which he came into this world with, or produced by the sweat of his brow. They gave us the freedom to act on our own judgment, free of coercion, free of dependence. They taught us that the value of the greater good is found in the individual, not in groups. These ideas inspired our nation, and catapulted us to excellence. The United States of America was united in it’s advocacy of the individual, and rejected the premise that some are innately fit to govern without the consent of the People. The Founders were brilliant men that saw the full potential of humanity, and found a way to put that potential to work. They gave us freedom.
On March 21, 2010, the 111th Congress of the United States passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (“Paging Dagney taggart.”) They might as well have called it the “Horray for Everything Bill”. This congress spit in the face of America by socializing 1/3 of our economy without even a super majority vote. They have taken over a sector of our lives that gives them control over nearly every activity we particiapte in.
They have forced the American people into servitude. President Barrack Obama and the 111th Congress, have violated the constitution and their oath of office. Every single representative who voted for this bill should be impeached. They were sworn to uphold the constitution. They failed miserably. As far as I’m concerned, they are enemy’s of the state.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed it “a great act of patriotism which honored the vows of our Founders for us to be a land of opportunity.”
This statement is a slap in the face of the founders and the American people. Pelosi, Obama, and Reid have put the federal government in charge of medical decisions and patient care. They have empowered government to deny medical care, penalize doctors, raise taxes, enforce penalties, jail citizens, expand deficits, and establish intrusive bureaucracies.
At the end of the day, here’s what you can expect from this legislation:
1.) New taxes – The bill doesn’t cover anyone for four years, but the taxes will begin immediately to pay for the initial cost of the legislation
2.) Bankrupt insurance companies – Private insurers only operate on a 3% profit margin. They have no control over the cost of care. Medical care still costs whatever it did yesterday, its just being paid for with taxes and loans by the government instead of you. Because the insurance companies need to make a profit to exist, the government will subsidize them right out of business. We will be single payer before long
3.) Increased demand for medical care – when you add 40 million people to the insured market, and don’t make them pay for it, they are going to use as much of it as they can. It would be the same if you gave out free ice cream – people would eat it. This means we are going to use FAR more medical resources then we have been in the past. Lowering the supply and increasing the cost. This will eventually lead to rationing and the government will decide who gets what care – if any at all.
4.) Medicare catastrophe - It is already bankrupt and they are balancing the healthcare sheets by making cuts to it. This is all well and good, except that the people on Medicare aren’t going to disappear. They will either stop Medicare all together and put everyone on the governments healthcare, or they will re-invest in it and expand it. Which would be the worst thing they could do for a system projecting trillions in deficit spending
5.) Fewer and less competent healthcare professionals – There is a reason Medicare failed. Medicare does not reimburse practitioners the full cost of coverage. Every time they treat someone with Medicare they lose money. With the government running the show 50% of doctors have said they will leave the field. 50% doctors and 40 million new patients means longer waits, more poor treatment, and shitty service
6.) Denial of care – When the government realizes the shit storm they created, they will have no choice but to deny expensive treatments to those trying to extend life. Those who could have gotten hospice care or heart surgery will be denied because of the expense. The threat of Death Panels will come about. That is a guarantee stated plainly in every version of the bill.
7.) Bankruptcy – Obama tried to get the American people to believe that without this reform healthcare costs would skyrocket and America would go broke. The problem is, his solution did nothing to address the cost of care. It is an insurance bill. It will only provide cheaper insurance. The costs of healthcare will become worse from this because more people need coverage, but less money is going to pay for more supply. You don’t need to be an economist to figure where that math will lead.
8.) Behavioral control - they pay for your healthcare. If you want healthcare you will do as your told. No mare fatty foods, alcohol, or tobacco; instead you have mandatory excersize. This is absolutely going to happen
9.) Socialism, Communism, or Fascism are the end result. If this bill is enacted into law we will fall into one of these 3 movements. It is guaranteed.
So enjoy the last remnants of freedom in this country, because four years from now it will be a whole new world……..
The delusion of morality in diversity..............
The protesters of healthcare are racist bigots, hateful, and discriminatory. That is how the opposition to Obamacare is portrayed by the media. The media has been a lapdog for this administration, and have done everything they could to discredit any opposition with racial platitudes and accusations of hate. It is nothing but a distraction to keep the uninformed from really looking into the issue, and it persuaded idiots to dismiss opposition to the President as racial intolerance, or uneducated rambling.
What's so amazing about this, is that progressive racial ideology has become the "be all end all" of our social morality. Our country is more concerned with the opinions of diversity councils then they are economists. We care more about what seem nice then what works. We are are governed by white guilt. End of story. The Social progressive agenda is now the moral code for America. And that is truly pathetic. This is the same social code that has created the largest group of dependant minorities in American history. They took a country that was formed by massive immigration, a country that created the only melting pot of ethnic backgrounds in the history of the world, and have made it a dumping ground for the dependant. Immigrants no longer come here to be productive American citizens. They come for the free lunch, for a life of dependant victim hood. They are told that to assimilate would be accepting racism. That they deserve better, without earning it. They turned the most successful, free, and productive country in the world, to a group of progressive busy bodies concerned only with what is and is not offensive
For the sake of argument, let's just say that everyone who opposed healthcare was a full blown racist. They hate the presidents ideas because he's black. They oppose his bill because they want to keep the black man down. They want to go back to a pre-civil rights society. Let's just pretend that all the worst things about the tea party movement are 100% true. The tea party would still right be right about this government seizure of healthcare.
Whether they are racist or not shouldn't even influence the debate. The social views of a group should not influence the enactment of a bill in our country. It is irrelevant to the issue, especially since much of the cost increases have been the result of giving away free health care to those who don’t have coverage.. Socialized medicine is either a good idea or not. The racial preferences of its opposition, or supporters, does not matter. It has always been a deliberate distraction, something to keep people from paying attention.
This is another reason why most people should be terrified of this bill. It was never presented to the American people. It was never argued for based on better health care or lower premiums. It was argued for by Democrats and the media as, "The bill the racists hate". It was the most untruthful campaign since Obama’s presidential campaign. The government just took regulating authority of our health, because republicans are racists (evidently). Its a joke. It is another example of how over-sensitive out country is. We don't even debate issues anymore. We debate the moral fortitude of an idea’s supporters and opposers. The media's coverage of Tea Partys this year was the most ridiculous spectacle in modern media history. They failed in their duties as information hubs for the people, and that’s why they are all going out of business. They delivered us into dependency because people were too afraid of being labeled intolerant. As if tolerance of a bad idea were a virtue. But a shit sandwich is gonna taste like shit, whether its made by a member of the diversity council, or by a Nazi.
I won't get into how this bill will destroy out healthcare. That’s for a different post. For now, I can only reflect on what I find to be an amazing illustration of mass delusion and government propaganda. We are so lost in our fight for cosmic justice that we just invited tyranny to rule the most free land in the history of the world. It is a sad sad day to be an American. It is one of the first times I've ever been ashamed to be a citizen of this country. Every politician, and every progressive journalist should be held accountable for this. It is time for the next revolution. Let the legal battles begin.
What's so amazing about this, is that progressive racial ideology has become the "be all end all" of our social morality. Our country is more concerned with the opinions of diversity councils then they are economists. We care more about what seem nice then what works. We are are governed by white guilt. End of story. The Social progressive agenda is now the moral code for America. And that is truly pathetic. This is the same social code that has created the largest group of dependant minorities in American history. They took a country that was formed by massive immigration, a country that created the only melting pot of ethnic backgrounds in the history of the world, and have made it a dumping ground for the dependant. Immigrants no longer come here to be productive American citizens. They come for the free lunch, for a life of dependant victim hood. They are told that to assimilate would be accepting racism. That they deserve better, without earning it. They turned the most successful, free, and productive country in the world, to a group of progressive busy bodies concerned only with what is and is not offensive
For the sake of argument, let's just say that everyone who opposed healthcare was a full blown racist. They hate the presidents ideas because he's black. They oppose his bill because they want to keep the black man down. They want to go back to a pre-civil rights society. Let's just pretend that all the worst things about the tea party movement are 100% true. The tea party would still right be right about this government seizure of healthcare.
Whether they are racist or not shouldn't even influence the debate. The social views of a group should not influence the enactment of a bill in our country. It is irrelevant to the issue, especially since much of the cost increases have been the result of giving away free health care to those who don’t have coverage.. Socialized medicine is either a good idea or not. The racial preferences of its opposition, or supporters, does not matter. It has always been a deliberate distraction, something to keep people from paying attention.
This is another reason why most people should be terrified of this bill. It was never presented to the American people. It was never argued for based on better health care or lower premiums. It was argued for by Democrats and the media as, "The bill the racists hate". It was the most untruthful campaign since Obama’s presidential campaign. The government just took regulating authority of our health, because republicans are racists (evidently). Its a joke. It is another example of how over-sensitive out country is. We don't even debate issues anymore. We debate the moral fortitude of an idea’s supporters and opposers. The media's coverage of Tea Partys this year was the most ridiculous spectacle in modern media history. They failed in their duties as information hubs for the people, and that’s why they are all going out of business. They delivered us into dependency because people were too afraid of being labeled intolerant. As if tolerance of a bad idea were a virtue. But a shit sandwich is gonna taste like shit, whether its made by a member of the diversity council, or by a Nazi.
I won't get into how this bill will destroy out healthcare. That’s for a different post. For now, I can only reflect on what I find to be an amazing illustration of mass delusion and government propaganda. We are so lost in our fight for cosmic justice that we just invited tyranny to rule the most free land in the history of the world. It is a sad sad day to be an American. It is one of the first times I've ever been ashamed to be a citizen of this country. Every politician, and every progressive journalist should be held accountable for this. It is time for the next revolution. Let the legal battles begin.
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