President Obama has certainly changed the opinions of the U.S. around the world. See here.
4% of Israelis view Obama as "pro-Israel"... thats change we can believe in.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Vindicating Enhanced Interrogations?
This article describes what went on in the enhaced interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and others at GITMO.
It is probably not a complete vindication of all the different techniques, but it does show that the interrogation program post 9/11 had some very tangible results and more than likely thwarted anymore big attacks on U.S. Soil.
It is probably not a complete vindication of all the different techniques, but it does show that the interrogation program post 9/11 had some very tangible results and more than likely thwarted anymore big attacks on U.S. Soil.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Liberal Hypocrisy
Paul Krugman shows us how its done... Here's a recent column by him about the deficit. He tells us we shouldn't worry about the 9 trillion dollar deficit projection for the next decade due to irresponsible government spending. Deficit spending is to help the economy he says. Unfortunately for Mr. Krugman he apparently forgot about the things he said about the deficits under the Bush administration. See here.
It is truly sad that someone who is so educated can be either this moronic or this blind by his own agenda that he would rail against a deficit that was much more manageable, albeit still unacceptable, compared to a deficit under another another administration that will burden this country for generations to come. Budget deficits are not good for this country regardless of who is in power, sadly someone with as much education as Mr. Krugman can't seem to understand even this basic idea.
It is truly sad that someone who is so educated can be either this moronic or this blind by his own agenda that he would rail against a deficit that was much more manageable, albeit still unacceptable, compared to a deficit under another another administration that will burden this country for generations to come. Budget deficits are not good for this country regardless of who is in power, sadly someone with as much education as Mr. Krugman can't seem to understand even this basic idea.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You...
Women giving birth in hallways, bathrooms, and nurse offices... Jolly old England is having to use hospital corridors, bathrooms, and offices to birth children because their hospitals are over-capacity. This is just the latest example of universal healthcare being incapable of properly caring for patients. This website has loads of other examples.
This is what happens when government gets involved in healthcare. You cannot expect the same quality of care. In fact you can expect lesser quality care and lesser care overall as these stories show.
This is what happens when government gets involved in healthcare. You cannot expect the same quality of care. In fact you can expect lesser quality care and lesser care overall as these stories show.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The 47 Million Uninsured Myth
Ed Morrissey at hotair.com has an excellent breakdown.
Essentially, there are really just 14 million uninsured out of necessity. The solution as he states:
Assuming we bought individual health insurance plans for each of these people at $300 per month, a cost that having a 14-million-member pool should allow. We could insure them for $50.4 billion a year. That would not be a very good solution for a number of reasons, but it costs a lot less than the $2 trillion over ten years that the CBO estimates ObamaCare will cost, plus it avoids the entire issue of overhauling a system most of us like. In fact, if the idea is to save money through ObamaCare, then this should be the baseline: any plan Congress creates should cost less than the $50.4 billion a year it would cost to simply buy insurance for everyone who can’t afford it.
Healthcare is yet another case of Liberal demagoguery being used to usurp the free market and fundamentally change our form of government. They are attempting it with climate change vis a vis cap and trade. The government now owns most of the American automotive industry and a large portion of the banking industry. When does it stop? The townhall demonstrations and the tea party movement have been brought out of all this government intervention in the economy. If the intervention continues the movements will only grow. I hope for the sake of our Republic they grow regardless of whether or not the government continues to overreach.
Essentially, there are really just 14 million uninsured out of necessity. The solution as he states:
Assuming we bought individual health insurance plans for each of these people at $300 per month, a cost that having a 14-million-member pool should allow. We could insure them for $50.4 billion a year. That would not be a very good solution for a number of reasons, but it costs a lot less than the $2 trillion over ten years that the CBO estimates ObamaCare will cost, plus it avoids the entire issue of overhauling a system most of us like. In fact, if the idea is to save money through ObamaCare, then this should be the baseline: any plan Congress creates should cost less than the $50.4 billion a year it would cost to simply buy insurance for everyone who can’t afford it.
Healthcare is yet another case of Liberal demagoguery being used to usurp the free market and fundamentally change our form of government. They are attempting it with climate change vis a vis cap and trade. The government now owns most of the American automotive industry and a large portion of the banking industry. When does it stop? The townhall demonstrations and the tea party movement have been brought out of all this government intervention in the economy. If the intervention continues the movements will only grow. I hope for the sake of our Republic they grow regardless of whether or not the government continues to overreach.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Rationing of Care
Government run healthcare is rationing of care in any form. Oregon has a "Universal Healthcare" plan in their state. They are also a state that allows assisted suicides. What is essentially going on there is that instead of providing treatment to certain people they are directing them to assisted suicides. See here. (Article by Jeff Emanuel on Pajamas Media)
The insanity of their plan can be summed up with just this:
A brief look at the state’s rationing policy demonstrates how out of whack the Oregon Health Services Commission’s medical priorities are. For example, under the OHSC directive, a person in need of an emergency appendectomy (prioritized 84th) would be denied that treatment before an individual in need of treatment for “tobacco dependence” (ranked 6th).
The insanity of their plan can be summed up with just this:
A brief look at the state’s rationing policy demonstrates how out of whack the Oregon Health Services Commission’s medical priorities are. For example, under the OHSC directive, a person in need of an emergency appendectomy (prioritized 84th) would be denied that treatment before an individual in need of treatment for “tobacco dependence” (ranked 6th).
A closer look reveals still more examples of absurd prioritization. The state rationing board ranked abortion 41st overall in state-funding priority, meaning the bureaucrats who designed the priority structure in this “public option” program determined that the use of taxpayer funds for abortion is more important (and more medically necessary) than covering injuries to major blood vessels (ranked 86th), surgery to repair injured internal organs (88), a “deep wound to the neck” or open fracture of the larynx or trachea (91), or a ruptured aortic aneurysm (306).
Also of note is the fact that treatments for esophageal, liver, and pancreatic cancers take up priority slots 337 through 339, with treatment for stroke at 340 — all over 300 places behind obesity (8), depression (9), and asthma (11).
So basically if you are depressed, addicted to smoking cigarettes, or want to kill your unborn child you have more value than someone who has had an aneurysm, cancer, or a stroke.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Chickens Coming Home To Roost
No I'm not quoting Jeremiah Wright, but it is a fitting description of what the Democrats will be facing in the 2010 elections if they continue with this insane Liberal agenda they are trying to push. See this.
What this story tells you is that the "brilliant" strategy, employed by the Democrats, of finding "Conservative" Democrats in these Southern and Western Congressional districts to run against GOP candidates who had gotten away from their fiscally responsible core beliefs may not have been as brilliant as they thought. The bottomline is that these "Blue Dogs" are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
If they vote for this healthcare plan, the Democrats are pushing, they will likely lose next fall. If they don't vote for the plan they will likely have their campaign funds stripped by the Democrat leadership as well as many of the good committee assignments that a lot of them had gotten as a result of aligning themselves with the liberal base of the party. The Democrats cannot keep their majority in the House without the Blue Dogs, but the Blue Dogs cannot keep their seats if they follow the leadership of Pelosi too closely.
What this story tells you is that the "brilliant" strategy, employed by the Democrats, of finding "Conservative" Democrats in these Southern and Western Congressional districts to run against GOP candidates who had gotten away from their fiscally responsible core beliefs may not have been as brilliant as they thought. The bottomline is that these "Blue Dogs" are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
If they vote for this healthcare plan, the Democrats are pushing, they will likely lose next fall. If they don't vote for the plan they will likely have their campaign funds stripped by the Democrat leadership as well as many of the good committee assignments that a lot of them had gotten as a result of aligning themselves with the liberal base of the party. The Democrats cannot keep their majority in the House without the Blue Dogs, but the Blue Dogs cannot keep their seats if they follow the leadership of Pelosi too closely.
41% Strongly Disapprove
Things not looking too good for the Obama Adminstration. The polls are tanking. I guess this will begin to get explained as America being a nation of racists and Nazis. The first black president gets elected with 53% of the vote, yet we're still a nation of racists.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The Debate on Climate Change is Over!
Don't I remember someone saying that? Yes, Yes I Do. Well it seems that is now all blown up. Professor Richard Lindzen from MIT has put together a paper that shows that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is drastically overstating the effects of CO2 emissions on the atmosphere.
Apparently, heat gets radiated out into space at a much faster rate than any of the crazy computer modeling systems, so many global warming studies use, can account for. So, this begs the question, if CO2 is irrelevant in the global warming debate then why do we need to implement these crazy cap and trade policies that the Democrats and the President are looking to pass? Its quite clear what they want. They want CONTROL. They want all of us dependent on the government for everything and if they destroy private business then that will happen.
I try to not be one who buys into conspiracy theories, but the theory that Obama is trying to wreck the economy so that people get so desperate they'll trust the government for their healthcare, livelihood, and everything is starting to seem much less like a conspiracy theory and more like a conspiracy. Liberals have to have crises in order to get their agenda rammed through. If people aren't desperate they won't trust Liberals with power.
Apparently, heat gets radiated out into space at a much faster rate than any of the crazy computer modeling systems, so many global warming studies use, can account for. So, this begs the question, if CO2 is irrelevant in the global warming debate then why do we need to implement these crazy cap and trade policies that the Democrats and the President are looking to pass? Its quite clear what they want. They want CONTROL. They want all of us dependent on the government for everything and if they destroy private business then that will happen.
I try to not be one who buys into conspiracy theories, but the theory that Obama is trying to wreck the economy so that people get so desperate they'll trust the government for their healthcare, livelihood, and everything is starting to seem much less like a conspiracy theory and more like a conspiracy. Liberals have to have crises in order to get their agenda rammed through. If people aren't desperate they won't trust Liberals with power.
Count Me In
I'm in agreement with the 49%. The government can keep what I've put in thus far. Make it a severance payment or whatever you want to call it. Social Security won't be around for me in my retirement years anyway. So give me my money now.
Government Madness
Hotair.com is a very good website for news. It does have a conservative slant, but it also unveils a lot of information about government legislation that will impact the little guy. Here is a case in point. This woman uses no plastics, but under the law has to test her products for a plastic additive. Below is the text of her email to the blogger at hotair.com:
Hi Ed-
Thanks for posting about the CPSIA. Garage Sale police aren’t the only insane parts of this law… I make and sell small stuffed teething giraffes for babies (or anyone else cutting a tooth). My giraffes are made from 100% cotton fabric, stuffing made from a synthetic fiber made from corn, and thread. That’s it. Nothing toxic about that, right? Well, according to the law, I have to lead test each batch of giraffes I make. I make them in batches of 10-12 because I’m a small time producer (and I get bored easily). That’s about $300-500 per batch. BUT I also have to test them for a plastic additive called Phthalates because the item is intended to go in a baby’s mouth. Never mind the fact that there is nothing plastic in any of the materials I use to make my giraffes. That’s about $800-1200 per batch. Now you’re talking a pretty expensive teething toy.
I testified before a subcommittee of the Small Business Committee in the house in May, and there have been some exceptions made to the law by the CPSC in how they’re going to enforce it, but the law also deputizes every single state Attorney General to go after offenders. By law I’m still not in compliance.
The sad thing is that this hits little old ladies that make blankies and lovies to give away to kids in the ER. And the little hats they knit for newborns in the hospital. It hits small potatoes businesses like mine who already make safe products. It’s sad, really. And the law does absolutely nothing to keep kids safer than they were under the original lead laws.
Oh, and the companies like Mattel who imported all the lead-tainted toys that started this fuss? They get to police themselves. Awesome, huh?
Thanks again for highlighting this stupid law on Hotair.
–Suzi Lang
Starbright Baby Teething Giraffes
www.starbrightbabyonline.com
Gosh, what would we do without the super nanny in D.C. to protect our children from 100% cotton fabric and synthetic corn fiber teething toys?
Deficit to be cut in half?
Remember this promise? Seems that has gone the way of virtually every other Obama promise. Should we be surprised? Now look at this projection. 10 year deficit from 7 TRILLION to 9 TRILLION. There's some hope and change for you.
Friday, August 21, 2009
1994 Redux?
Could it happen? The mood of the country seems quite ripe for a Contract with America type of movement. It seems quite clear that a solid majority of Americans are having buyers remorse over what this President and his Democrat cohorts are doing. The problem for the GOP in trying to capitalize on this mood is that they have no credible leaders in D.C. All the credible voices on fiscal responsibility are no longer serving in the House or the Senate. The people outside of D.C. such as Gingrich, Romney, Palin, etc. all have their own issues in other areas be it they are a severe target of the media, have skeletons in their closet, or are just not trusted by the Conservative base of the GOP.
The one guy who has shown what fiscal responsibility and limited government should look like is Bobby Jindal the Governor of Louisiana. Whether or not voices like his can be heard over the madness that is the GOP leadership remains to be seen. If these voices are not heard and if the GOP just runs the same pork-barrel spending RINO's then they will be much less likely to win next fall.
The GOP won big in 1994 because they opposed what Clinton and the Democrats were doing, but they also showed they had alternatives. It wasn't just saying that things like Socialized Medicine, Higher taxes, et al. were bad for the country, the GOP showed what they would do if given the chance. It is imperative that the GOP plans for healthcare, energy, taxes, the deficit, Afghanistan and Iraq be articulated by credible candidates. The mainstream media will not allow their plans to be articulated on their airwaves, at least not by the kinds of voices who people will find believable. Therefore, the GOP will have to utilize the tea party events, the town hall protests, talk radio, and the local media outlets in every congressional district in order to get their message heard.
The one guy who has shown what fiscal responsibility and limited government should look like is Bobby Jindal the Governor of Louisiana. Whether or not voices like his can be heard over the madness that is the GOP leadership remains to be seen. If these voices are not heard and if the GOP just runs the same pork-barrel spending RINO's then they will be much less likely to win next fall.
The GOP won big in 1994 because they opposed what Clinton and the Democrats were doing, but they also showed they had alternatives. It wasn't just saying that things like Socialized Medicine, Higher taxes, et al. were bad for the country, the GOP showed what they would do if given the chance. It is imperative that the GOP plans for healthcare, energy, taxes, the deficit, Afghanistan and Iraq be articulated by credible candidates. The mainstream media will not allow their plans to be articulated on their airwaves, at least not by the kinds of voices who people will find believable. Therefore, the GOP will have to utilize the tea party events, the town hall protests, talk radio, and the local media outlets in every congressional district in order to get their message heard.
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