U.S. Rep. Phil Hare, the Democratic congressman from the 17th District, generated controversy with a comment about the Constitution in a Thursday meeting in Quincy.
Further insight and the congressman's response: http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display_mobile.php?id=486688
April 2, 2010
March 30, 2010
Who reads instructions?
Found at the http://consumerist.com/
March 29, 2010
If you call a dog's tail a leg, does it have five legs?"
Story: Please dont call it state socialism.
Snipit:
"We're told that for some reason we're not allowed to call the Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda "socialism," "communism," "Marxism," "state socialism" "fascism," or anything else that might sound unpleasant.
Much as I hate to cite the tyrant Lincoln, if we call a dog's tail a leg, does it have five legs? Telling us we're not "allowed" to use an accurate label for something doesn't change what it is.
Snipit:
"We're told that for some reason we're not allowed to call the Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda "socialism," "communism," "Marxism," "state socialism" "fascism," or anything else that might sound unpleasant.
Much as I hate to cite the tyrant Lincoln, if we call a dog's tail a leg, does it have five legs? Telling us we're not "allowed" to use an accurate label for something doesn't change what it is.Instead of allowing General Motors and Chrysler to go through normal bankruptcies, through which new and more efficient private operators could have purchased their worthwhile assets while shedding their crippling union contracts, the two giant auto makers have now been effectively nationalized. Meantime, an unelected federal "pay czar" decides on the compensation of executives, even at supposedly private banks that have paid back all their "bailout" loans. Does that sound like the normal function of the American free market, as understood in 1910, 1960 or even 1990?"
March 25, 2010
Progressivism/liberalism/socialism/fascism/monarchy/oligarchy/dictatorship
Progressivism/liberalism/socialism/fascism/monarchy/oligarchy/dictatorship and other forms of statism are based on the idea that normal people are incapable of handling their own affairs.
They all assume that
(1) there is an elite group of enlightened people who can manage things,
(2) these enlightened despots will not be the same ones who screw up the private organizations that they deem to be the problem in need of fixing,
(3) these will be the people actually put into the positions of authority, and
(4) bureaucrats will be hired to administer the enlightened elite’s dictates.
Unfortunately, that theory quits thinking just before the point where it is clear that
(5) the positions of authority cannot always be filled by the necessary enlightened elite, and
(6) the bureaucrats hired to handle other people’s affairs will be normal people who are incapable of handling their own affairs.
Bureaucrats do not serve the people — they serve the bureaucracy.
(see also: self-licking ice cream cone)
This was blatantly stolen from sondrak because it is so damn good!
(1) there is an elite group of enlightened people who can manage things,
(2) these enlightened despots will not be the same ones who screw up the private organizations that they deem to be the problem in need of fixing,
(3) these will be the people actually put into the positions of authority, and
(4) bureaucrats will be hired to administer the enlightened elite’s dictates.
Unfortunately, that theory quits thinking just before the point where it is clear that
(5) the positions of authority cannot always be filled by the necessary enlightened elite, and
(6) the bureaucrats hired to handle other people’s affairs will be normal people who are incapable of handling their own affairs.
Bureaucrats do not serve the people — they serve the bureaucracy.
(see also: self-licking ice cream cone)
This was blatantly stolen from sondrak because it is so damn good!
From a Doctor Who Will Not Comply
Link: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjY3ZTg2ODNhYTg4ZDUyNjlmNTBmYWI0YmY2YTQ0YTI=
"An M.D. in family practice passed along this letter she sent to her patients after Obamacare became law. She relates that, so far, "100% of those who have contacted me about it have supported me and accepted the new conditions."
March 23, 2010
My Dear Patient,
As you must know, Congress has just passed extensive legislation governing health care delivery and insurance systems. Whether you agree with what it does or not, we are all now subject to this law and its sweeping changes.
I have always conducted my medical practice with my patient’s best interests as my first priority. Although not legally obliged to do so, I have routinely provided you with a receipt that has all the codes necessary to bill your own health insurance company for any reimbursement to which you are entitled. Until now, that insurance company was a free enterprise despite the fact that it was heavily regulated by state and federal laws. Now the situation is quite different. Through the new law’s mandates, regulatory powers and reform, health insurance is and will be largely a government activity which will have an ever larger jurisdiction over how doctors practice, make clinical judgments and are paid.
The new law provides for about 150 new government agencies, many of which are designed to be ‘oversight’ bureaucracies which will have the right to decide what medical care is legal to provide through insurance. Among other things, they will have the right to review my medical care of you and read your medical record. Now, as soon as you submit our economic transaction to your insurance company for reimbursement, you have involved me in these regulations and put me in the jurisdiction of government for my activities, decisions and behavior as your doctor.
No one can have two masters. Either I can serve you as my patient or I can serve the government. Either I can continue to make your welfare and health my only concern, including the protection of your privacy and medical records, or I can abide by ever-increasing amounts of government regulations and dictates to my decisions. I can’t do both. I choose to continue to follow my conscience and practice medicine to serve you.
For this reason, I am responding to the situation created by this new law by exercising my right not to participate in any health insurance program. I will still provide you with the same medical services that I always have, but the interaction will be exclusively and privately between you and me. This means that I will provide you only with a receipt for the services you have paid for, but without the additional information that is required to submit your receipt for reimbursement to your health insurance company. That is the only way I can make sure there will be no conflict between following the law and serving you. Because the law is now in effect, so must these changes be to my practice.
Sincerely,
Linda Johnston, MD
"An M.D. in family practice passed along this letter she sent to her patients after Obamacare became law. She relates that, so far, "100% of those who have contacted me about it have supported me and accepted the new conditions."
March 23, 2010
My Dear Patient,
As you must know, Congress has just passed extensive legislation governing health care delivery and insurance systems. Whether you agree with what it does or not, we are all now subject to this law and its sweeping changes.
I have always conducted my medical practice with my patient’s best interests as my first priority. Although not legally obliged to do so, I have routinely provided you with a receipt that has all the codes necessary to bill your own health insurance company for any reimbursement to which you are entitled. Until now, that insurance company was a free enterprise despite the fact that it was heavily regulated by state and federal laws. Now the situation is quite different. Through the new law’s mandates, regulatory powers and reform, health insurance is and will be largely a government activity which will have an ever larger jurisdiction over how doctors practice, make clinical judgments and are paid.
The new law provides for about 150 new government agencies, many of which are designed to be ‘oversight’ bureaucracies which will have the right to decide what medical care is legal to provide through insurance. Among other things, they will have the right to review my medical care of you and read your medical record. Now, as soon as you submit our economic transaction to your insurance company for reimbursement, you have involved me in these regulations and put me in the jurisdiction of government for my activities, decisions and behavior as your doctor.
No one can have two masters. Either I can serve you as my patient or I can serve the government. Either I can continue to make your welfare and health my only concern, including the protection of your privacy and medical records, or I can abide by ever-increasing amounts of government regulations and dictates to my decisions. I can’t do both. I choose to continue to follow my conscience and practice medicine to serve you.
For this reason, I am responding to the situation created by this new law by exercising my right not to participate in any health insurance program. I will still provide you with the same medical services that I always have, but the interaction will be exclusively and privately between you and me. This means that I will provide you only with a receipt for the services you have paid for, but without the additional information that is required to submit your receipt for reimbursement to your health insurance company. That is the only way I can make sure there will be no conflict between following the law and serving you. Because the law is now in effect, so must these changes be to my practice.
Sincerely,
Linda Johnston, MD
March 23, 2010
The Health Care Bill Is Not Socialism.
I have taken some time off to watch the Health Care bill unfold, reserving an immediate opinion until I have fully digested what has happened. My immediate reaction was that "This is socialism".
But this bill is not socialism, it is Statism using a socialistic tactic. Look at what has been done; You no longer have ownership of you own body. You are taxed/fined by the mere fact of your existence. By definition you are a subject of the State. Your body is now owned by the State. If you refuse to pay your Tax/Fine you will go to Jail. If you refuse to go to jail the State will KILL you. (Now that's healthy) Your life has now become a privilege granted by the State.My points will not be debated by supporters of this bill in a rational manner. The supporters of this bill and other progressive ideas like this will dismiss me as a nut, but the truth remains. You are no longer a sovereign entity. You are a subject. By no action of your own and only by reason of your existence, you are now coerced to action for the benefit of the State.
What was done is Unconstitutional or more simply stated, against the law and most importantly, immoral.
Our fundamental relationship with the government has changed and the change is for the worse.
Links;
GOP Challenges Constitutionality
IRS to Enforce Health Reform
For your vewing plesure:
March 16, 2010
America’s First Woman President: Barack Obama
America’s First Woman President: Barack Obama
This is funny and profound on so many levels.
Thanks for the heads up from cmblake6.
Thanks for the heads up from cmblake6.
March 15, 2010
IRS visits Sacramento carwash in pursuit of 4 cents
IRS visits Sacramento carwash in pursuit of 4 cents Read more:
"It was every businessperson's nightmare.
Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff's on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was ... 4 cents. "
And a sexy car wash photo because .... well Just because.
Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff's on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was ... 4 cents. "
And a sexy car wash photo because .... well Just because.
March 11, 2010
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) More RINO's to hunt.
Story: Senator Graham’s Inexplicable National ID Support
When Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) teams up with Chuck "The Schmuck Schumer" only bad thing can happen, and the latest is his idea of a national work ID card complete with biometrics. The idea behind the card is to somehow regulate identify and track illegal aliens who work in the country. Why should every American have to get a n ID card to work? How long until we have to pay for it. When does it become a national work licence? (What about the friggin thousands of laws that are not enforced?) Lindsey Graham is now just another reason as to why I will never give to the National Republican Party.
No, Senator, that’s not all you’re saying. You’re saying that native-born American citizens should be herded into Social Security Administration offices by the millions so they can have their biometrics collected in federal government databases. You’re saying that you’d like a system where working, traveling, going to the doctor, and using a credit card all depend on whether you can show your national ID. You’re saying that bigger government is the solution, not smaller government."
When Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) teams up with Chuck "The Schmuck Schumer" only bad thing can happen, and the latest is his idea of a national work ID card complete with biometrics. The idea behind the card is to somehow regulate identify and track illegal aliens who work in the country. Why should every American have to get a n ID card to work? How long until we have to pay for it. When does it become a national work licence? (What about the friggin thousands of laws that are not enforced?) Lindsey Graham is now just another reason as to why I will never give to the National Republican Party."Senator Graham’s take is equally simple: “We’ve all got Social Security cards,” he said to the Wall Street Journal. “They’re just easily tampered with. Make them tamper-proof. That’s all I’m saying.”
No, Senator, that’s not all you’re saying. You’re saying that native-born American citizens should be herded into Social Security Administration offices by the millions so they can have their biometrics collected in federal government databases. You’re saying that you’d like a system where working, traveling, going to the doctor, and using a credit card all depend on whether you can show your national ID. You’re saying that bigger government is the solution, not smaller government."
"Let me see your papers please".
March 5, 2010
Rino Hunting
Snippets and comments:
""Ads like this have no place in the Republican primary, and J.D. Hayworth should immediately take it down and apologize," said Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., a strong McCain ally.""
Ha! I say John McCain has no place in the Republican party. He has repeatedly violated the basic principles of the party as well as put forth legislation that was in clear violation of the constitution. He has no place in either party and certainly no part in the Republican Party. He has only gained notoriety in the media because he has agreed with the left. As soon as he became a candidate he and his running mate were thrown under the proverbial media bus.
"Wen asked for a response to Kyl's complaint, Hayworth spokesman Jason Rose told AZ/DC: "We respectfully decline the request and would encourage Senator McCain to get a sense of humor. After all, if Sunday's show did have an award for best election year flip-flopping and transparent conservative conversion, the incumbent would surely win the Oscar.""
BTW: I did vote for McCain's vice president and choked back the vomit. It was kinda like being given a choice to be sot with a .22 or .44 mag. Both could be lethal but it might have taken a little longer to bleed out.
March 3, 2010
Dish Network: A review
Back to the call, I let this person make his opening statement and then say, "I am not interested but thanks for calling. Thank you very much". That is exactly what I said. No more, no less, in a mostly cheerful tone. He started again and I said and I quote, "I am not interested but thanks for calling. Thank you very much" this time in a slightly firmer tone. He continues.. "How much do you pay for.." I cut him off and say "I am not interested but thanks for calling. Thank you very much.", this time in the calmest manner possible (Picture a Drill Sergeant warning a recruit that he is treading into dangerous territory and about to get his guts stomped out by abn irate D.I. if not careful.)
At this point he shold have hung up but kept going and I lose it. I raised my voice a bit and said "I am not interested but thanks for calling. Fuck You very much!"
Now I am sure all telemarketers have had people cuss at them. I bet they have had all types on the phone from one point or another, but I highly doubt they are taught to cuss back at their prospective clients. He responds "Fuck You!". There is a bunch of laughter in the background. And I am pretty sure I said "I was polite several times now. I am not interested. Fuck you very much." He responds FUCK YOU! with laughter in the background. Now If this is the way prospective clients are treated I only cringe how this company will treat it's paying customers. What a bunch of assholes. This P.O.S. should be fired.
BTW: Call came in at 18:13 est. from phone number (904) 262-0212 and had a caller I.D. of World Wide Comm. Beware. (I also let him know I would make others aware of this. He laughed and said "fuck you". Nobody ever warned him the Internetz is serious business.)
Sorry Charlie or Rangel stepping down from tax-writing chairmanship
Story: Rangel stepping down from tax-writing chairmanship
And a little related fun from the past: Mr. Tax Law Writing Tax Evader .
March 1, 2010
The Progressive Nanny State and Murder for the Greater Good, A follow up.
As a follow up my previous post, The Progressive Nanny State and Murder for the Greater Good, here is a story that illustrates what dangers the individual citizen faces when the state becomes involved in Prohibition.
Story: Family questions SWAT drug search that led to dog’s death.
In the comments:
There is so much missing from this it's disgraceful. The dog ran to the door and was barking... Anybody else have a dog that does this when someone comes to the door much less smashes it in??? Shots were fired all through this house. Numerous shots were fired thoughout this house. 7 in the pitbull itself. Blood everywhere! Bullet holes in the walls, moldings, tile. Will the City be paying for that to be fixed?? They didn't know any details when they went in. I would love to know which judge signed off on the search warrant. CPD had NO idea he was married and NO idea he had a child! Don't you think that might be something you want to get to know before you storm a house? Not like they don't live in a nice neighborhood as well. 30+ officers and a swat bus for a dimebag and a pipe. 2 different neighbors called police reporting shots fired. Dispatch told said callers there were no officers on scene! What a cluster****! If I still lived in CoMO I wouldn't vote for a single thing to support CPD. The idiots are running the assylum!
So its OK to have SWAT kick in a door, shoot two pet dogs, a Pit Bull and a Corgi, killing the Bit Bull, for what appears to be a misdemeanor amount of marijuana. Then throw on a child endangerment charge? How nice. How about an extra charge for kitchen knives and floor cleaner in the house. I am a strong supporter of law enforcement and am not a fan of Pit Bulls or drug dealers, but come on folks. Was the risk taken by the SWAT team worth it. Multiple gun shots in a house with human lives present including a seven year old. a wife, for a little pot. Hell even a lot of pot! Bottom line is that the cops were ready to kill , or be killed themselvs for that matter, to enforce these laws. Is it really worth it.
Story: Family questions SWAT drug search that led to dog’s death.
There is so much missing from this it's disgraceful. The dog ran to the door and was barking... Anybody else have a dog that does this when someone comes to the door much less smashes it in??? Shots were fired all through this house. Numerous shots were fired thoughout this house. 7 in the pitbull itself. Blood everywhere! Bullet holes in the walls, moldings, tile. Will the City be paying for that to be fixed?? They didn't know any details when they went in. I would love to know which judge signed off on the search warrant. CPD had NO idea he was married and NO idea he had a child! Don't you think that might be something you want to get to know before you storm a house? Not like they don't live in a nice neighborhood as well. 30+ officers and a swat bus for a dimebag and a pipe. 2 different neighbors called police reporting shots fired. Dispatch told said callers there were no officers on scene! What a cluster****! If I still lived in CoMO I wouldn't vote for a single thing to support CPD. The idiots are running the assylum!
So its OK to have SWAT kick in a door, shoot two pet dogs, a Pit Bull and a Corgi, killing the Bit Bull, for what appears to be a misdemeanor amount of marijuana. Then throw on a child endangerment charge? How nice. How about an extra charge for kitchen knives and floor cleaner in the house. I am a strong supporter of law enforcement and am not a fan of Pit Bulls or drug dealers, but come on folks. Was the risk taken by the SWAT team worth it. Multiple gun shots in a house with human lives present including a seven year old. a wife, for a little pot. Hell even a lot of pot! Bottom line is that the cops were ready to kill , or be killed themselvs for that matter, to enforce these laws. Is it really worth it.
Stairway to Heaven
For those that did not know, Stairway to Heaven was originally penned Lennon and McCartney back in '64. All rights to the song were lost to Plant and Page during a Drinking contest some years later. This long lost tape has just recently been found, and shows the fab four performing the song in it's original arrangement. Enjoy.
Just Kidding :-)
Just Kidding :-)
February 25, 2010
Megyn Kelly
Update: One of the better parts. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_kSMKKZFw&feature=player_embedded#
February 23, 2010
The Progressive Nanny State and Murder for the Greater Good
Story: The Chemist's War
I titled this post The Progressive Nanny State and Murder for the Greater Good, though provocative and some may say inflammatory for good reason. The above linked article is illustrative of what government can and did do "For the Greater Good". Post WWI was the start of "Progressive thinking in the united states. We saw laws and policies that clearly violated individual rights for the "greater good" such as Federal gun control laws, welfare programs, as well as Prohibition. No matter what the intention of these laws and policies were, the bottom line is, death to individuals, by the hand of the government action. In this case the U.S Government Intentionally poisoned Industrial Alcohol supplies because it became frustrated with it's ineffective enforcement of alcohol sale and distribution, resulting in the death of thousands of people.
"Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people."
This is what happens when one suffers from "Group Think". The individual is not targeted for his individual drunkard behavior, the group was targeted, the inanimate object blamed. This is the typical convoluted logic the progressives use. Prohibition, though it was technically legal, had a total disregard for individual rights and was and is totally immoral. 10,000 poisoned and add in how many more individual ancillary deaths for a law that was eventually repealed? (Yeah that sound like it worked out just fine........< sarcasm>)
I guess it is OK to murder if you are the government and frustrated and it is for the "Greater Good".
Found at sondrak .
"Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people."
This is what happens when one suffers from "Group Think". The individual is not targeted for his individual drunkard behavior, the group was targeted, the inanimate object blamed. This is the typical convoluted logic the progressives use. Prohibition, though it was technically legal, had a total disregard for individual rights and was and is totally immoral. 10,000 poisoned and add in how many more individual ancillary deaths for a law that was eventually repealed? (Yeah that sound like it worked out just fine........< sarcasm>)
I guess it is OK to murder if you are the government and frustrated and it is for the "Greater Good".
Found at sondrak .
February 22, 2010
Deep secrets: Former cold war agent gagged by the CIA
Interesting story regarding the Cold War "Uber" secret recovery of a Soviet Golf submarine in the Pacific.
Story: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7034913.ece
"David Sharp recalls every detail of the 1974 mission known as Project Azorian, one of the most ambitious, expensive and politically volatile clandestine operations launched by the CIA.
As one of the CIA’s agents in charge of recovering a sunken Soviet submarine and its cargo of nuclear-tipped missiles, Sharp spent 63 days at sea on what he described last week as a “marvellous engineering effort and a marvellous security effort to keep it under wraps”. "
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