Monday, October 19, 2009

Paging Mr. Goebbels

Here's yer public option
 How do you respond to these people?


  1. ABC Uses Obama's '9-Month Anniversary' to Tout Popularity Over Republicans     
Anchor Charles Gibson announced “the President has a 57 percent approval rating, his rating rising for the first time since April. And only 20 percent of the country now consider themselves Republican.
 -- 57 percent support the Obama plan's most contentious element - the public option. 

  1. FOX NEWS - Support for Democrats' Health Care Reform Falls to 42 Percent, Poll Shows
A Rasmussen survey released Monday shows 54 percent is opposed to the plans backed by President Obama and Democrats in Congress.


The White House is calling on other news organizations to isolate and alienate Fox News as it sends out top advisers to rail against the cable channel as a Republican Party mouthpiece.


Jumper girl

Allison Stokke
 Today's Greatest Athlete Who Ever Lived Since ...  Since Nobody!




Here’s Allison Stokke, a young, pretty athlete girl whose picture got on the internet while she was preparing to compete in the pole vault during a high school track meet. Then, it didn’t take long for her photo to be picked up and to travel through the World Wide Web.  It wasn’t done on purpose but now she’s quite popular and she said that she didn’t want to be known only for her looks but also for her performances.

And  she is a very good athlete indeed. Allison held seven national records; she set a school freshman record at the Pac-10 Championships;  was also qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships and in the outdoor season her jump was the second-best performance in school history.

I say she has nothing to worry about. She’s really good looking and a successful athlete. Go girl! :)  If she goes to the Olympics she'll be a sensation. [Individual pictures here]

Today's Boar

What a Boar



Rahm disease and cure

EARLIEST KNOW RAHM


Yesterday, in light of Rahm Emanuel’s comments on delaying the decision on troops for Afghanistan, I asked: “Are Sunday talk show declarations by Emanuel and political advisor [sic] David Axelrod an appropriate way to announce the considered judgment of the president at this stage of a long Cabinet-level review process? Or is Emanuel end-running the process? Do Secretaries Gates and Clinton agree with Emanuel? Were they consulted before Rahm popped off?”

I’ve now been told by an authoritative source close to Defense Secretary Robert Gates that he had no advance warning that Emanuel would be saying any such thing.

Update: A former government official e-mails:

Sen. McCain and other supporters of the effort in Afghanistan have feared from the beginning of this process that Whie [sic] House politicos were trying to get the pesky military out of the policy loop. Now it appears they are bypassing even the SecDef ... [Bill Kristol cont]
Odd that this would come to my attention just as I begin chapter 23 [The president's chief of staff - based on Rahm - somehow falls into a wood chipper at Gretchen's  Oktoberfest wine tasting] of my upcoming novel, "Mr. Jefferson Travels  Back to Washington.".  I think I'll give him anal cancer before the great tragedy.

Oath Keepers

Unique Haute Couture

Fashion Plates


 Barn Army mary, a keen observer of modus vivendi, submits this example.   "There's so much to see, and their purses and shoes match!"  I would never have noticed.  Thanks mary.

Goofy People mostly, like Chris Matthews

In Passing
 Stiff that blurred my vision
(Roll over for loopy 3-D viewing instructions.  Tell me if they work.)

Grab Bag
 Medical Meltdown Turns Off Guests, Confuses Audience |
Uh oh. Even Chris Matthews thinks Bill Maher's crazy.
Except, in this instance my family sides with Maher.  *gulp*

Palin offers calm critique of Baucus bill
She also took a process-oriented shot at Obama, writing: "In January 2008, presidential candidate Obama promised not to negotiate behind closed doors with health care lobbyists," Palin wrote.

Obama statement deserves a place in the Political Chutzpah Hall of Fame.

"It's smoke and mirrors," he said. "It's bogus, and it's all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies blah-blah-bullshit ....

Dems undermine free speech in hate crimes ploy
What does a hate crimes bill have to do with money for U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq?  Nothing, except  ... .
Which is why we hate Dems.  hate their guts.  Am I right?  Right.

“God, what have I done?”  From Hot Air (via Badanov)

I have a good friend that I work with who was a two time Bush supporter who said he bacame really upset with Republicans becasue of the shape of the economy. He voted for obama and has spent most of the deployment defending obama by claiming Bush was worse.

Finally, after 74 days of indecision on General McChyrstals troop request and the days wasted in Copenhagen and the dressing down the CinC did in Air Force 1, he finally said, “God, what have I done?”

For him, it took being affected in his daily operations here and seeing our ground folks that we work with getting killed. But people are getting it. People are starting to see.


Sgt. Chris Rudzinski, RIP

For the Rudzinski Family



 Last night SondraK received a call from a  GMA producer wanting permission to use the photo of Chris Rudzinski his dad sent while announcing his death in Afghanistan.  A segment on Chris, whom GMA had been with just a while ago, was scheduled for this morning. With that heads-up I had the TIVO set.  Here is that GMA segment.

Red Obama

With allies like Democrats ...
 One of the first things Bill Clinton did as president was transfer oversight of America's supersecret encryption and satellite technologies to Ron Brown's Commerce Dept.  Brown wound up dead in a plane crash, with a .40 cal size hole in his head, but that's a different non-story.  Commerce  became a playground for John Huang, who made regular phone and fax calls to China, and to the PLA's  Lippo Group partner.  Democrats would later argue that "the calls may have been personal."  I'm not making this up.  As a result, Red China went from having a third world rocket technology program, to one that allowed Gen. Xiong, then second in command of the People's Liberation Army, to in 1996  threaten to "vaporize  Los Angeles.

Sales to China of technology by Space Systems/Loral and Hughes Electronics were key, and resulted in the 1999 Defense Authorization Act.  A key provision required that the president notify Congress whether a transfer of missile and space technology to China would harm the U.S. space-launch industry or help China's missile programs.  Why am I talking about this?   Because Obama just overturned it, sending oversight back to Commerce.  Why?  Because Obama wants China to continue underwriting the huge debt he's piling up is my guess. 

As an aside (I can't help myself), the Senate hearings into this scandal were bollixed-up when John Glenn, in return for help in retiring huge campaign debt, demanded the hearings focus on Campaign-Finance reform, instead of treason. John Glenn will prolly burn in Hell (9th circle) for that betrayal.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Fahrenheit 1861

What if Ken Burns produced
a Michael Moore movie?

 I've been going through my old program backups, and found lots of interesting stuff.  Bookmarks from 2003-2004 were particularly interesting, like a link to this video that I'd all but forgotten forgotten.  Fahrenheit 1861 - part 1 (there is no part2 )

Birther Primer 101

Know Your Birther Put-Downs
 It's okay to be an anti-birther.  But why not be (the only) one who has the facts straight?


Chapter One: How Stuff Works in Hawaii.

This could have been you
  1. In 1961 you were born in Teaneck New Jersey
  2. Your aunt, who lived in Hawaii, thought it would be nice if you could attend her alma mater, the University of Hawaii at reduced rates. 
  3. So, Aunt Bess trucks down to city hall and fills out a form declaring your Hawaiian birth. 
  4. A certification of  live birth is duly issued.
  5. Birth data is retrieved pro forma by Hawaiian newspapers.
  6. A birth notice appears in the local papers.
 That's an actual scenario based on Hawaiian law.  Hell , the ( born in China)  Father of Modern China,  Dr. Sun Yat-Sen,  did same thing when having a Hawaiian birth was advantageous.  And while this  is not proof that Obama benefited from the same process, it does demonstrate that a  Certification of  Live Birth, with its attendant announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper,  is not the magic enema Obamunists claim.  Quiz tomorrow.

People who steal from babies

U.S. troop funds diverted to pet projects
Study finds $2.6 billion taken from guns and ammunition



  Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.

Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.
More of the "Screw what voters want, we're special" mentality from the House of Lords.  If this government was a Frank Capra movie,  the audience would be screaming for blood and throwing Milk Duds at the screen.  Bullets would be the better choice with this bunch. .45 calibur.

So many targets ...

In passing
 They're so many, and moving so fast we can't get a good shot.

Rev. Al Sharpton  threatens to sue Rush Limbaugh over Wall Street Journal op-ed
A little late to be looking for respect Al.  Hell, Rush left out race hustler and extortionist.

Thatcher adviser: Copenhagen goal is 1-world government
"At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed.  Your president will sign it."  Silliness aside, these people are serious. 

George Soros to invest $1 billion in green tech, will found and fund a climate policy initiative

Soros, defacto head of the Democrat Party, sees real green (soon pastel
Euro trash
, if he can help it) in Climate law.

Dems Go Nuclear
So all those "town hells" during the summer, where senators and congressmen were given an earful about passing secretly written thousand-page bills without reading them, will be ignored.

Child porn fears scupper airport ‘nude X-ray’ scans
Airport  security chiefs have been banned from subjecting children to a controversial new X-ray scanner that produces ‘ naked
Ha Ha
’ pictures of passengers because of legal warnings the images may break child pornography laws.
Yes, the entire world is now officially insane. 

Not only is this cool, but the babes are hot! The original.

The Kenyan Wetback

Birth of the Birthers?

 

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative.

Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans. Cont


AP


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The Standard Ltd
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P.O Box 30080, 00100 GPO, Nairobi-Kenya.

Tel. +254 20 3222111, Fax: +254 20 214467, 229218, 218965.
Email:
editorial@eastandard.net, online@eastandard.net
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 I assume one will find several contemporaneous denunciations of this 2004 Associated Press allegation of Kenyan birth.  If not, wait a few days. One will be found in the New York Times archives.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Thw Slowww Catsup

Ketchup
 

C/R

Finis coronat opus.

incorruptibles
 politicians, as you were


 Remember when Clinton said "You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy?"  Keep that slime bag away from Catherine Laboure.  Sheesh.  Seriously, this deal has always blown my mind.apart. 
... — their existence baffles scientists. While the preserved remains of mummies are generally found in states of rigor mortis-like petrifaction, incorruptible corpses are pretty pliable. Their skin is supple, even years after their deaths. They appear, for all intents and purposes, to be sleeping or only recently dead. What’s more, these corpses don’t show signs of having been embalmed. And the local conditions don’t appear to have had a preservative effect on them. While they remained in a perfect state of composition, other corpses interred nearby were degenerating like normal [More pics and videos]

Because we still can

In your face Africa

Reagan-Bush

If you didn't get anything ..
 it's because ur not me, the King of France!


I'm going to wear this everywhere, just to see that expession.  Like when people asked what Reagan-my-dog's name is. That look.

Hole in One
"Nothing to do with Ellen

C/R

Not quite a pillow fight, this.

 Taking On the 'Democrat-Media Complex'


 James Taranto's Interview With Andrew Breitbart: Taking On the 'Democrat-Media Complex  is a keen read.  Aside from learning where Breitbart: came from (all I knew was one day all of Drudge's linked stories seemed to go to his site), there's a delicious back-story on the masterful ACORN depantsing-by-video.  And here, I think, is a truth more damning than ACORN's criminality.  When aspiring film-maker James O'Keefe showed up with those ACORN videos, Breitbart knew instinctively that  "the mainstream media, given this information, would not cover it and would, in effect, attempt to cover it up"   The mainstream media is totally, utterly in the tank with kindred Democrats. 

This plan wasn't just a means to defend against the media's desire to attack the messenger," Mr. Breitbart says. "It was also a means to attack the media and to expose them . . . for the partisan hacks that they are. ... Every step of the way, we wanted to plant traps" for Acorn and its defenders,
Taranto, in closing, is compelled to gently upbraid Breitbart for going outside of strict (now utterly corrupt) journalism guidelines.
While Breitbart-style opinionated journalism can provide healthy competition, it cannot substitute for straight news.
I'll leave you to chew on that logic without further comment.  Hooray for Andrew Breitbart, and hooray for us.

Annoying Mike's Son, Chris - KIA

Friday, October 16, 2009

The Old Marine

NO SEX SINCE 1955


A crusty old Marine Sergeant Major found himself at a gala event hosted by a local liberal arts college. There was no shortage of extremely young idealistic ladies in attendance, one of whom approached the Sergeant Major for conversation.

'Excuse me, sir, but you seem to be a very serious man. Is something bothering you?'
'Negative, ma'am. Just serious by nature.'

The young lady looked at his awards and decorations and said, 'It looks like you have seen a lot of action.'
'Yes, ma'am, a lot of action.'

The young lady, tiring of trying to start up a conversation, said, 'You know, you should lighten up a little. Relax and enjoy yourself.'
The Sergeant Major just stared at her in his serious manner.

Finally the young lady said, 'You know, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but when is the last time you had sex?
"1955, ma'am."

"Well, there you are. No wonder you're so serious. You really need to chill out! I mean, no sex since 1955!"
She took his hand and led him to a private room where she proceeded to 'relax' him several times. Afterwards, panting for breath, she leaned against his bare chest and said, 'Wow, you sure didn't forget much since 1955.'

 The Sergeant Major said in his serious voice, after glancing at his watch, 'I hope not; It's only 2130 now.'
Tom Mann

Dingellized

Simpson Contest

`Simpsons' contest lets winner create character


Particulars below..  If you figure out where submissions go (thesimpsons.com has nothing), let us know.  My character is a new schoolmate who drives Lisa crazy because 1)she's attracted to him, 2)he's smarter than she is, and 3) continually shoots down her bonehead Liberal viewpoints. I call him Rodger Lepew.

"The Simpsons" is giving one lucky contest winner the chance to make others yellow with envy by creating a character for the animated TV series.

The new Springfield resident will appear in an early 2010 episode featuring Chris Martin of Coldplay as guest star.

The contest, part of the Fox show's 20th-anniversary celebration, is for those 18 and older. It opens Friday and runs until 11:59 p.m. EDT Oct. 24.

Online submissions at thesimpsons.com should be "pithy and funny," said executive producer Al Jean, who will help judge them along with series creator Matt Groening.

The winner gets a trip to Los Angeles to work with producers and the show's animation director. The top entry will be announced in mid-November.

Entries are expected to describe the character's traits, including his or her name or nickname; age; appearance; occupation and catch phrases (think Homer Simpson and "D'oh!").

"It's gotta be a human being. We've narrowed it down that much," Jean said.

The proposed character should have a typical "Simpsons" overbite and be yellow or another hue found in the Springfield universe, he said.

The contest is a tip of the hat to fans, Jean said.

rejuoy

Barney and Lindsey pegged my Barf-o-meter

In passing
"You in da mud Rastus"

Lindsey lalala Graham

Barney Frank, Predatory Lender
Almost two-thirds of all bad mortgages in our financial system were bought by government agencies or required by government regulations.

Lindsey lalala Graham
No Irish Need Apply?
Leaders of the Maryland NAACP, worried that a Baltimore mayor's criminal conviction could result in the appointment of a white or Republican leader who may not fully represent the majority black and Democratic city, are asking state lawmakers to strip the governor of authority to permanently fill the office. . .


Learning from Mao
Nadezhda Krupskaya, aka Anita Dunn, and WH communications director

The Seduction Of Lindsey Graham
When asked if he would vote for Graham now, Bonsignor stated emphatically, "No," citing Lindsey's support for Sotomayor, his support for TARP funds, and the final straw, his support for cap and trade.

Only 43% Would Vote For Obama Now
In what may be the ultimate job rating, 43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today, down from 52 percent six months ago, from April 22-23, 2009.


Answering machine message all schools should have.

--and there's some water too --

Old Spook

The Last Playground?


 Old Spook, a favorte tippler at the O Club Lounge, speaks for one helluva lot of peeps at his "retirement." 
   Scanning headlines, pocket knives, RINO congressional betrayals (Graham enviro, Snowe health, who's next?), Chicago comes to DC (Waxman enviro credits screw red states reward blue ones, Capone would be proud), fed govt turning into Leviathan, compliant press lying and covering, incompetent narcissist collectivist as President...

World gone mad. Too damned tired to even fuss anymore.

Too barfy to sleep too tired to be barfing. Note for others: Ensure tastes like crap going down and coming up.

Thinking dark thoughts, veering into the really dark stuff (how it might have been better had the plane hit DC and taken out Waxman, Pelosi, and most of Congress). Going to confession about that one.

Can't top your day Deac. I know electric fences do kick. Don't ask -- lets just say it involved being in my 20's and Jack Daniels. Lots of it.

Be back when I finally get into a better place in my head. May be a while. Y'all take care of you and your'n. Bye.  OldSpook 

Dr

Tea partiers and GOP regulars scuffle

Republican officials turned to a conservative icon and invoked an anti-tax pledge Thursday to salvage the slumping campaign of a New York congressional candidate competing with a more conservative third-party challenger, part of an ongoing battle between the fiscally hawkish "tea party" movement and the Republican establishment. [WaTimes]

This might better be described as "Conservative pulls ahead of RINO."  Which infighting threatens to give a GOP house seat to a Democrat.  To forestall that, erstwhile conservative, now pragmatic political hustler Newt Gingrich intercedes, convincing the  RINO sign a "taxpayer protection" pledge to fortify her conservative credentials after polls showed her losing ground to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman."

No.  Nuh-uh.

RINO Dede Scozzafava's declaration of convenience means nothing, and demonstrates a lack of integrity to go with her liberal bent.  I hope New York Republicans go big for Hoffman, even if the split vote results in a Dem pickup.  Because the Republican Party needs to be  convinced that running RINOs is the road to perdition.  Or face extinction. 

As for Gingrich, he signed onto the Global Warming charade.  'Nuff said. 

Thursday, October 15, 2009

--Mangina --

Today's Questionable Content
Men Only

--Target-Rush Limbaugh--

"I see that Ted claimed to have ****ed a thousand women.  S**t, I ****ed more Chicago White women than that.  Half the time their husbands wanted to watch.  White liberals have a very ****ed-up guilt complex.  Ask anyone.  The bros laugh at it and just swim in that white P***y." - Barack Obama (source)

Rick Sanchez - Liar

   How drive-by media source their news.

Fweg Shay

Starbucks Memories


Dr

Limbaugh and Double Standards

watched a game on TV- wins Heisman

 It really does no good to complain about Liberal outrages anymore.  I have a friend who gets Newsweek, and bristles at my contention that it's  leftist agitprop.  ("They cover both sides equally!").  So, in a very real sense the nation has two languages now, with one group unable to communicate with the other.  Belay that.  Conservatives cannot escape hearing, and reading, the left's version of things, such is the death grip Liberals have on the media.   Still, the NFL's rejection of Limbaugh's bid to buy the Rams pisses me off.   You know what's coming don't you?  That's right.  Another example of Liberal hypocrisy. 

One day after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell noted the NFL's "high standards" and expressed concern about "divisive" language hurting the league, Rush Limbaugh was dropped from a group of investors looking to buy the St. Louis Rams. Goodell's comments followed similar remarks from DeMaurice Smith, new head of the NFL players association and a lawyer who worked on the Obama transition.

Now that Goodell has asserted himself as the arbiter of acceptable political speech for the NFL, perhaps he'll take another look at Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, singer for the Black Eyed Peas. As we noted yesterday, one of the group's most popular songs is "Let's Get Retarded." And one reader points out, in the lyrics to the song "Where's the Love," the U.S. government includes "terrorists" just like the ones we're trying to stop overseas, and the CIA is like a street gang:

    Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
    But we still got terrorists here livin'
    In the USA, the big CIA
    The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK

The NFL voted to allow Fergie to become part owner of the Miami Dolphins earlier this week. So it's not really "divisive" speech that troubles the NFL, apparently, but a certain kind of "divisive" speech.

As noted, there is a standard at work here, but it's not a high one.[Weekly Standard]

Dr

The Dangers of a Value-Added Tax


 Speaking for myself, short of committing mass suicide,  there is nothing this government could do, suggest, enact, or impose that I wouldn't feel safe to call oppressive, unconstitutional at some level, and criminal.  Like the VAT. 
On its way out of the recession, the economy may encounter a VAT blocking its way.

Last week on PBS's "Charlie Rose Show," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she thinks "it's fair to look at a value-added tax." And the Congressional Research Service just published a lengthy new paper on the value-added tax that tends to obscure the fact that the middle class will bear the majority of its burden..
  • At a 17% tax rate, for example, he can quickly increase taxes by $1.5 trillion a year in a partially hidden way. A VAT is by its nature hidden, because no one files a tax return.
  • Obama could {most certainly would] also increase the income tax on "the rich," saying that they and the middle class get a nearly free ride under the VAT compared to less affluent people who must spend everything on purchasing "taxable" essentials. Not so, but the VAT lends itself to spin.
  • Mr. Obama and Mrs. Pelosi might also use the VAT to fund "free" government-run medical care and hospitals for everyone, as well as "free" college education and "free" home mortgages.
  • The one certainty about a VAT is its enormous revenue-producing potential. At a rate of 17% to 18%—about average for Europe—it could increase total federal taxes to 30% of GDP or more from 15% now, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
At the moment I'd support the VAT, if ...
  • The IRS was dismantled entirely
  • The 17% rate was protected by a 90% vote requirement  to increase, and a simple majority to decrease that rate.
  • No exemptions, rebates, exclusions for anyone, for any reason.
  • The VAT  replaces  the payroll, FICA, all medical care taxes, and no additional tax scheme can be imposed for any reason.
  • It would have to be enacted by a congress controlled by Republicans, and Obama's veto overridden else there would assuredly be a poison pill embedded someplace.  Poison for us.

Re: Yarmulkes

Dr

In Passing
 Stuff that makes me think bad things


   
Disillusioned liberals yearn for Hillary Clinton

Where were you when you came to the panicky realization that Hillary Clinton was right?
(Answer: Hopinng Obama would get the nomination because he was unelectable)

Obama’s embarrassing, pompous war with Fox News
Perhaps Obama and Dunn think that a clumsy attempt to link Fox News with Republicans will cause independents to abandon the channel for White House Comfort Zone MSNBC or even CNN, which still commands viewer dominance in airport terminals. That won’t happen. Having the White House for an enemy is ratings gold for the network.

Graham-Paul Dispute Highlights GOP Fissure

“We're not going to be the party of angry white guys," liberal Republican Senator Lindsay Graham told a Greenville, South Carolina, audience at Furman University where some supporters of Congressman Ron Paul were heckling him.

Russia takes Obama to the Cleaners

What a difference a few weeks make. On September 24, the New York Times reported this:... and  today in the New York Times we read this

Academic Freedom
There is no more unaccountable group in America today than academics. This is true even when they work for public institutions. This is clearly on display in this story about the American Association of University Professors arrogantly claiming that anyone who seeks to bring academics’ work out into the sunshine threatens their “academic freedom”.


A special bonus quote of the day. Butters, we hardly knew ye. Content warning. (via South Park Studios)


Dr

But, Maine does have lots of nice trees
 How can you give away a $1 trillion new entitlement and argue with a straight face that it won't involve new costs?
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), on the  AHIP report: prepared  by
Pricewaterhouse Coopers. "It wasn't based on any valid assumptions."

Many Democrats have unanswered questions about the bill that was passed by the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday on a 14 to 9 vote: How can you give away a $1 trillion new entitlement and argue with a straight face that it won't involve new costs? How could the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score it accurately last week ($829 billion over 10 years) when it's merely a phantom bill with no legislative language in it yet? How can they vote for a bill that hasn't factored in the cost increases that will occur when businesses offload their insurance responsibilities by throwing their employees into the ranks of the uninsured, paying the new fines instead of continuing to provide insurance?

Even if you take the CBO's numbers at face value, what about the exponential costs that will explode in the second 10 years? What about the approximately 25 million people left uninsured by the bill? Won't we still have to pay for their medical care if they walk into a hospital emergency room? How will the legislators sell a bill to voters that includes significant tax increases on the middle class (in the form of stiff penalties for non-coverage, higher premiums, and on medical devices like wheelchairs and new mothers' breast pumps) while the "benefits" don't kick in for three years? And how about reading the bill before voting on it? [Supermajority fight club]


Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Lest people remember him as a scumbag

horrified family members and advisers cut Kennedy confessions out of memoir.
B

Obamacide

Obama Playgirl

Dirt Bag Obama
Goes out of his way to get Levi his Playgirl shoot

Dr

Attention tofu eaters


 There are lots of these Commie v American comparisons floating about.  This, from rejuoy,  recommends itself , to me at least, for being fresh, and spot on.   And way more circumspect tweak than the clumsy, "All Liberals are democrats, and all democrats are twig eatin', tofu fartin', lily livered, Prius driving, America-hating, bleeding heart liberal, blinkered, Starbucks drinking, elitist, can't-we-all-just-get-along, granola eating, namby-pamby, Birkenstock wearing, tree hugging, long haired, pansy-assed, kumbaya-singing, Earth First, bed-wetting, patchouli wearing, dirty, smelly, dope smoking, bongo playing, arm pit haired women and feminized, armpit shaved men crying "Mother Earth is Gaia," tortured "artiste" types, Kennedy DNA bearing slugs [Vilmar]
If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
 If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
 
Who's that washed up whore?
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't` eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
 
If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
 

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
 
If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
 
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course!)
 
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
 
If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed.
If a liberal slips and falls, he grabs his neck, moans like he's in labor and then sues.
 
If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".

Driving Range Skeet

Redneck Skeet
Don M

Obama te Schmuck

BREAKING NEWS:

 Obama wins the Heisman Trophy
after watching a college football game!!!

 Jodi

Dr

Of course it works
 If all you really want is something to hold on to. 

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Tim W.

Open Thread

Open Swim
While I do my stuff


 Got arrows coming at me from all directions here Boss.  Drop some arty on my position.