Like I told my daughter, Caison, on election night--I'll help the president when he does something right. I echo his "off record" comment--Kanye West is a Jack-Ass. His disrepecting of Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech at the VMAs was nothing short of rude and may even be racist. But we shouldn't be surprised that someone the caliber of West would pull such a stunt. It would be interesting though to see how he would have reacted if Toby Keith would have done the same thing to him or another black entertainer. Even better, I would love to see him try to take the microphone from Toby--I wonder if Toby would have "put a boot in his [jack]-ass" since, like one of Toby's songs says, "it's the American way."
Just as much as Kanye showed he was a Jack-Ass, Beyonce showed she had class. She offered Taylor the remainder of her own acceptance time later in the show. Both of these young ladies show how celebrities should behave. Mr. West just showed his jack-ass.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Something's Fishy
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
The above paragraph was issued on the Whitehouse blog. The executive branch of our federal government is now asking us to report fellow Americans who disagree with a healthcare proposal. Health care! Not a terrorist plot, but health care!! Kids if your mommy or daddy disagree with the president on healthcare--REPORT THEM!!! If your grandparents are worried that government run health care will deny them services they need--LET BIG BROTHER KNOW!!! We're talking about HEALTH CARE!!! Please Mr. President, release terrorists from Guantanamo, but don't let senior citizens disagree with you on health care!!! Give me a break.
Can all you folks who voted for Obama and still support him please say a few words--Gestapo and KGB.
The above paragraph was issued on the Whitehouse blog. The executive branch of our federal government is now asking us to report fellow Americans who disagree with a healthcare proposal. Health care! Not a terrorist plot, but health care!! Kids if your mommy or daddy disagree with the president on healthcare--REPORT THEM!!! If your grandparents are worried that government run health care will deny them services they need--LET BIG BROTHER KNOW!!! We're talking about HEALTH CARE!!! Please Mr. President, release terrorists from Guantanamo, but don't let senior citizens disagree with you on health care!!! Give me a break.
Can all you folks who voted for Obama and still support him please say a few words--Gestapo and KGB.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Paul Krugman Conducts a Bad Poll For Liberals but a Good Poll for Reality
NYT's Krugman Conducts Informal Canadian Health Care Poll; Result: 'Bad Move On My Part'
July 28, 2009 - 11:39 ET The New York Times' Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and staunch champion of government medicine a la the Canadian model of our neighbors to the north.
Just this past Saturday in "Toyota, Moving Northward" he flogged the advantages of the single-payer system Canada offers. He postulated that one reason why the Japanese auto maker is locating its new RAV4 plant in Ontario is their government medicine:
Canada's other big selling point is its national health insurance system, which saves auto manufacturers large sums in benefit payments compared with their costs in the United States.
Suddenly Krugman the Leftist is all for huge government subsidies for big business.
Krugman's Nobel-prize winning economic mind then offers up:
So what's the impact on taxpayers? In Canada, there's no impact at all: since all Canadians get government-provided health insurance in any case, the additional auto jobs won't increase government spending.
Really? Adding workers brought in from outside Canada to the government rolls won't increase government spending? A little of Krugman's new math: X plus 5,000 still somehow equals X.
On January 9th, 2008 Krugman defended Canadian (as well as French and British) government medicine from an assessment of it by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in "A health care system to die for."
Rudy Giuliani warned us about what would happen if a Democrat wins:
You have got to see the trap. Otherwise we are in for a disaster. We are in for Canadian health care, French health care, British healthcare.
And that would be a terrible thing:
In "Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier Analysis" (Health Affairs, Jan./Feb. 2008), Ellen Nolte, Ph.D., and C. Martin McKee, M.D., D.Sc., both of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, compared international rates of "amenable mortality"-that is, deaths from certain causes before age 75 that are potentially preventable with timely and effective health care.
The key words being "timely" and "effective" - two words never associated with government medicine.
Just ask Shona Holmes, a Canadian government medicine escapee alive today only because she had an American free market health care system in which to take refuge. The system Krugman wants to see shut down. The four and six month waits for initial diagnoses of her condition to which Canadian (be) patient care had consigned her would have killed her.
And Ms. Holmes' life-and-death waiting game at the hands of government medicine is the rule rather than the exception. Most Canadians and Europeans - subject to the system - aren't as fond of it as is Krugman, who isn't.
Something Dr. Krugman could, should he be at all interested, find out with a little due diligence and some rudimentary research.
Of which he got a taste here with his informal poll. Oops.
—Seton Motley is Director of Communications for the Media Research Center.
Below is a link to Krugman's embarassing impromptu poll. In his defense, at least he admits that he screwed up this time. He might try the same with some of his other opinions ie. Climate Change is a bigger threat than bankrupt entitlement programs.
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=GduznzqGaG
July 28, 2009 - 11:39 ET The New York Times' Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and staunch champion of government medicine a la the Canadian model of our neighbors to the north.
Just this past Saturday in "Toyota, Moving Northward" he flogged the advantages of the single-payer system Canada offers. He postulated that one reason why the Japanese auto maker is locating its new RAV4 plant in Ontario is their government medicine:
Canada's other big selling point is its national health insurance system, which saves auto manufacturers large sums in benefit payments compared with their costs in the United States.
Suddenly Krugman the Leftist is all for huge government subsidies for big business.
Krugman's Nobel-prize winning economic mind then offers up:
So what's the impact on taxpayers? In Canada, there's no impact at all: since all Canadians get government-provided health insurance in any case, the additional auto jobs won't increase government spending.
Really? Adding workers brought in from outside Canada to the government rolls won't increase government spending? A little of Krugman's new math: X plus 5,000 still somehow equals X.
On January 9th, 2008 Krugman defended Canadian (as well as French and British) government medicine from an assessment of it by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in "A health care system to die for."
Rudy Giuliani warned us about what would happen if a Democrat wins:
You have got to see the trap. Otherwise we are in for a disaster. We are in for Canadian health care, French health care, British healthcare.
And that would be a terrible thing:
In "Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier Analysis" (Health Affairs, Jan./Feb. 2008), Ellen Nolte, Ph.D., and C. Martin McKee, M.D., D.Sc., both of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, compared international rates of "amenable mortality"-that is, deaths from certain causes before age 75 that are potentially preventable with timely and effective health care.
The key words being "timely" and "effective" - two words never associated with government medicine.
Just ask Shona Holmes, a Canadian government medicine escapee alive today only because she had an American free market health care system in which to take refuge. The system Krugman wants to see shut down. The four and six month waits for initial diagnoses of her condition to which Canadian (be) patient care had consigned her would have killed her.
And Ms. Holmes' life-and-death waiting game at the hands of government medicine is the rule rather than the exception. Most Canadians and Europeans - subject to the system - aren't as fond of it as is Krugman, who isn't.
Something Dr. Krugman could, should he be at all interested, find out with a little due diligence and some rudimentary research.
Of which he got a taste here with his informal poll. Oops.
—Seton Motley is Director of Communications for the Media Research Center.
Below is a link to Krugman's embarassing impromptu poll. In his defense, at least he admits that he screwed up this time. He might try the same with some of his other opinions ie. Climate Change is a bigger threat than bankrupt entitlement programs.
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=GduznzqGaG
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
One of my Political and Spiritual Heroes
Ezra Taft Benson, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and former Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower Administration, was both a prophet and a patriot. During the course of his life he served faithfully as a watchman on the tower warning of potential political and spiritual perils that threatened the United States of America. While most of his political speeches were given during the fifties and sixties, their messages are still very pertinent to America today. The following quote is a great warning about the present "Bailout" mania that seems to be putting the federal government on the road to owning large national companies, ie. GM, Chrysler, and AIG.
"I am unalterably opposed to socialism, either in whole or in part, and regard it as an unconstitutional usurpation of power and a denial of the right of private property for government to own or operate the means of producing and distributing goods and services in competition with private enterprise, or to regiment owners in the legitimate use of private property." From the speech--The Proper Role of Government
"I am unalterably opposed to socialism, either in whole or in part, and regard it as an unconstitutional usurpation of power and a denial of the right of private property for government to own or operate the means of producing and distributing goods and services in competition with private enterprise, or to regiment owners in the legitimate use of private property." From the speech--The Proper Role of Government
Monday, April 6, 2009
Democratic Representative Insults Father of Dead Virginia Girl
U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez, democrat from Illinois's 4th congressional district and apologist for illegal immigrantion, offered an offensive and idiotic remark during a congressional hearing in which the father of a girl killed by a drunk driving illegal immigrant was testifying about his daughter's senseless death. The father pointed out that the illegal had been arrested multiple times and never deported. Instead he was allowed to stay illegally in our country and have the opportunity to drink, drive, and destroy the lives of two young women. In some of the father's comments he referred to the illegals as banditos.
Representative Gutierrez offered the following remark to the father:
“What I have seen, unfortunately, is the will to target and to victimize and to scapegoat a community of people,” Gutierrez said. “I have seen that readily here. It makes for great political points but it doesn’t solve the problem and would not have saved your daughter’s life."
How idiotic can this congressman be?! If the laws had been enforced and the perpetrator had been deported as he could and should have been before the day that he once again became drunk and then slammed into the two American girls who were lawfully waiting for a red light to change, he would have never been here to kill the two young ladies. Instead the congressman turns the drunk driver and other illegals into the victims. The next victims of illegal immigrant crime may be some of Rep. Gutierrez's family. I wonder if he will have the same viewpoint then?
Representative Gutierrez offered the following remark to the father:
“What I have seen, unfortunately, is the will to target and to victimize and to scapegoat a community of people,” Gutierrez said. “I have seen that readily here. It makes for great political points but it doesn’t solve the problem and would not have saved your daughter’s life."
How idiotic can this congressman be?! If the laws had been enforced and the perpetrator had been deported as he could and should have been before the day that he once again became drunk and then slammed into the two American girls who were lawfully waiting for a red light to change, he would have never been here to kill the two young ladies. Instead the congressman turns the drunk driver and other illegals into the victims. The next victims of illegal immigrant crime may be some of Rep. Gutierrez's family. I wonder if he will have the same viewpoint then?
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Obama--Fabian Socialist
Prior to the election I commented on another blogsite that Obama was a socialist. I was rebuked that I didn't know anything about economic systems. True--I wasn't an Economics major. True--I didn't graduate with honors. That being said, I am a reader and a thinker. Evidently according to the following article I was also on the right track with my description of Obama. I just read this article and was pleased to see that my view was correct.
Barack Obama, Fabian Socialist
Jerry Bowyer, 11.03.08, 12:32 AM EST
Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. I should know; I was raised by one. My Grandfather worked as a union machinist for Ingersoll Rand (nyse: IR - news - people ) during the day. In the evenings he tended bar and read books. After his funeral, I went back home and started working my way through his library, starting with T.W. Arnold's The Folklore of Capitalism. This was my introduction to the Fabian socialists.
Fabians believed in gradual nationalization of the economy through manipulation of the democratic process. Breaking away from the violent revolutionary socialists of their day, they thought that the only real way to effect "fundamental change" and "social justice" was through a mass movement of the working classes presided over by intellectual and cultural elites. Before TV it was stage plays, written by George Bernard Shaw and thousands of inferior "realist" playwrights dedicated to social change. John Cusack's character in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" captures the movement rather well.
Arnold taught me to question everyone--my president, my priest and my parents. Well, almost everyone. I wasn't supposed to question the Fabian intellectuals themselves. That's the Fabian MO, relentless cultural and journalistic attacks on everything that is, and then a hard pitch for the hope of what might be.
That's Obama's world.
He's telling the truth when he says that he doesn't agree with Bill Ayers' violent bombing tactics, but it's a tactical disagreement. Why use dynamite when mass media and community organizing work so much better? Who needs Molotov when you've got Saul Alinski?
So here is the playbook: The left will identify, freeze, personalize and polarize an industry, probably health care. It will attempt to nationalize one-fifth of the U.S. economy through legislative action. They will focus, as Lenin did, on the "commanding heights" of the economy, not the little guy.
As Obama said, "the smallest" businesses will be exempt from fines for not "doing the right thing" in offering employer-based health care coverage. Health will not be nationalized in one fell swoop; they have been studying the failures of Hillary Care. Instead, a parallel system will be created, funded by surcharges on business payroll, which will be superior to many private plans.
The old system will be forced to subsidize the new system and there will be a gradual shift from the former to the latter. The only coercion will be the fines, not the participation. A middle-class entitlement will have been created...
Will Obama's be the strong-man socialism of a Chavez, or the soft socialism that Clement Atlee used to defeat Churchill after WWII? I don't know, but I suspect something kind of in between. Despite right-wing predictions that we won't see Rush shut down by Fairness Doctrine fascists. We won't see Baptist ministers hauled off in handcuffs for anti-sodomy sermons. It will more likely be a matter of paperwork. Strong worded letters from powerful lawyers in and out of government to program directors and general mangers of radio stations. Ominous references to license renewal.
The psychic propaganda assault will be powerful. The cyber-brown-shirts will spew hate, the union guys will flood talk shows with switchboard-collapsing swarms of complaint calls aimed at those hosts who "go beyond the pale" in their criticisms of Obama. In concert with pop culture outlets like The Daily Show and SNL, Obama will use his podium to humiliate and demonize those of us who don't want to come together and heal the planet.
You've heard of the bully pulpit, right? Well, then get ready, because you're about to see the bully part.
Jerry Bowyer is chief economist of Benchmark Financial Network and a CNBC contributor.
Barack Obama, Fabian Socialist
Jerry Bowyer, 11.03.08, 12:32 AM EST
Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. I should know; I was raised by one. My Grandfather worked as a union machinist for Ingersoll Rand (nyse: IR - news - people ) during the day. In the evenings he tended bar and read books. After his funeral, I went back home and started working my way through his library, starting with T.W. Arnold's The Folklore of Capitalism. This was my introduction to the Fabian socialists.
Fabians believed in gradual nationalization of the economy through manipulation of the democratic process. Breaking away from the violent revolutionary socialists of their day, they thought that the only real way to effect "fundamental change" and "social justice" was through a mass movement of the working classes presided over by intellectual and cultural elites. Before TV it was stage plays, written by George Bernard Shaw and thousands of inferior "realist" playwrights dedicated to social change. John Cusack's character in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" captures the movement rather well.
Arnold taught me to question everyone--my president, my priest and my parents. Well, almost everyone. I wasn't supposed to question the Fabian intellectuals themselves. That's the Fabian MO, relentless cultural and journalistic attacks on everything that is, and then a hard pitch for the hope of what might be.
That's Obama's world.
He's telling the truth when he says that he doesn't agree with Bill Ayers' violent bombing tactics, but it's a tactical disagreement. Why use dynamite when mass media and community organizing work so much better? Who needs Molotov when you've got Saul Alinski?
So here is the playbook: The left will identify, freeze, personalize and polarize an industry, probably health care. It will attempt to nationalize one-fifth of the U.S. economy through legislative action. They will focus, as Lenin did, on the "commanding heights" of the economy, not the little guy.
As Obama said, "the smallest" businesses will be exempt from fines for not "doing the right thing" in offering employer-based health care coverage. Health will not be nationalized in one fell swoop; they have been studying the failures of Hillary Care. Instead, a parallel system will be created, funded by surcharges on business payroll, which will be superior to many private plans.
The old system will be forced to subsidize the new system and there will be a gradual shift from the former to the latter. The only coercion will be the fines, not the participation. A middle-class entitlement will have been created...
Will Obama's be the strong-man socialism of a Chavez, or the soft socialism that Clement Atlee used to defeat Churchill after WWII? I don't know, but I suspect something kind of in between. Despite right-wing predictions that we won't see Rush shut down by Fairness Doctrine fascists. We won't see Baptist ministers hauled off in handcuffs for anti-sodomy sermons. It will more likely be a matter of paperwork. Strong worded letters from powerful lawyers in and out of government to program directors and general mangers of radio stations. Ominous references to license renewal.
The psychic propaganda assault will be powerful. The cyber-brown-shirts will spew hate, the union guys will flood talk shows with switchboard-collapsing swarms of complaint calls aimed at those hosts who "go beyond the pale" in their criticisms of Obama. In concert with pop culture outlets like The Daily Show and SNL, Obama will use his podium to humiliate and demonize those of us who don't want to come together and heal the planet.
You've heard of the bully pulpit, right? Well, then get ready, because you're about to see the bully part.
Jerry Bowyer is chief economist of Benchmark Financial Network and a CNBC contributor.
Obama: Once, Twice, Three, Four Times a Hypocrite, Idiot, Etc.
Some people told me how intellegent Obama was as to why I should vote for him. I wonder if they still feel the same way? The answer is probably yes. Many of his supporters view him more in a religious context than a political one. One told me that she believed that God had sent him to lead the country. God also sent the plagues on Egypt.
With questions now arising about Trade nominee, Ron Kirk, and his failure to pay $10,000.00 in taxes, Obama chalks up his fourth nominee with tax problems. Is he a hypocrite because he said his administration would be a model of ethics and integrity? Is he an idiot because he keeps making the same mistake? With his nomination of Tom Daschle he exclaimed "I screwed up." What is he going to say this time? Maybe it should be "I'll screw the American people."
With questions now arising about Trade nominee, Ron Kirk, and his failure to pay $10,000.00 in taxes, Obama chalks up his fourth nominee with tax problems. Is he a hypocrite because he said his administration would be a model of ethics and integrity? Is he an idiot because he keeps making the same mistake? With his nomination of Tom Daschle he exclaimed "I screwed up." What is he going to say this time? Maybe it should be "I'll screw the American people."
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