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Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Taking Names
Cap & Tax passed in the lower house. While we are awaiting the filibuster from the Senate Republicans we can at least update our score cards.
From the "Cap And Trade Post Mortem" article written by Jamie Dupree here are the RINO's who need to be replaced.
"On the GOP side, there were eight (8) Republicans who voted for the bill," and as Jamie observed in another post, "they gave Democrats the winning margin."
They were:
Bono Mack (CALIFORNIA),
Castle (DELAWARE),
Kirk (ILLINOIS),
Lance (NEW JERSEY),
LoBiondo (NEW JERSEY),
Smith (NEW JERSEY)
McHugh (NEW YORK),
Reichert (WASHINGTON)
This is the start of my list for 2010 and 2012, the one where I name the names of those who need to be replaced and those where a true conservative opposition candidate needs to be supported.
From the "Cap And Trade Post Mortem" article written by Jamie Dupree here are the RINO's who need to be replaced.
"On the GOP side, there were eight (8) Republicans who voted for the bill," and as Jamie observed in another post, "they gave Democrats the winning margin."
They were:
Bono Mack (CALIFORNIA),
Castle (DELAWARE),
Kirk (ILLINOIS),
Lance (NEW JERSEY),
LoBiondo (NEW JERSEY),
Smith (NEW JERSEY)
McHugh (NEW YORK),
Reichert (WASHINGTON)
This is the start of my list for 2010 and 2012, the one where I name the names of those who need to be replaced and those where a true conservative opposition candidate needs to be supported.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Check out Take Action | American Solutions
I want you to take a look at: Take Action | American Solutions
Take Action because if you don't Obama and liberal Democrats will:
1. Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 74 percent.
2. Raise electricity rates 90% after adjusting for inflation.
3. Raise the cost of living of a typical household by $1,600 a year.
4. Raise residential natural gas prices by 55%.
5. Destroy 1-3 million jobs per year, every year until 2035.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Tank is Full of Empty
You’ve probably heard the phrase “the media is in the tank for Obama” and if that phrase makes it into a formal dictionary, next to the definition it will say “see Examples: Networks One-Sided News Coverage punctuated by all three networks airing specials profiling the president: NBC's "Inside the Obama White House", CBS programs "Barack Obama: An American Dad." and "Barack Obama: The American President." and ABC's "Questions for the President: Prescription for America" after broadcasting their evening news segment from inside the White House. Apparently the prescription for America is a Free Press-ectomy and a Propoganda Suppository.
But in their willingness to outdo the other two, becoming a free infomercial channel for Nationalized Health Care is not enough for ABC, because now they are refusing to air a commercial for C.P.R. (Conservatives for Patients Rights). CPR has been mounting a cogent argument against Nationalized Health Care. ABC seems so threatened by an open debate on the issue as if they are personally invested in Health Care becoming nationalized.
Their excuse is that they have a policy against running "advocacy" ads which is inconsistent, having run many before this, including bag-of-wind-power advocate, T Boone "Jousting Windmills" Pickens.
And perhaps ABC, as a corporation has something to gain if Health Care becomes a Socialist Government Program, but as a news organization they have now lost all their objectivity and therefore all of their legitimacy. They are now a propaganda machine for the Union of Obama Socialist Distopia.
I am watching an analytical debate right now about the economic validity and political realities of the health care plan on . . . you guessed it . . . FOX. Not a suprise that Obama has a poker like tell when it comes to his vitriole towards the one televised news network that dares to oppose him.
The death knell sounds for another member of the Fourth Estate. ABC News leads the way into the grave, becoming Always Broadcasting Communism: The Pravda of America network. Perhaps Disney (owner of ABC) is making so much money off of the Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers franchises that they can afford to let ABC be a perennial loser. I wonder how well that works when the average family can't afford a trip to Mickey's kingdom.
My sense is they don't want to hear from the public. Searching their corporate site only yielded this email address under investor relations: TWDC.Corp.Communications@disney.com
I am guessing correspondence directly to ABC News will simply be deleted. I will post back here if I even get a form letter response when submitting comments/complaints to this site
http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=ABC%20News%20Other
Friday, June 19, 2009
And Tater Tots Are Evil Too
This week President Obama proposed that American school children extend their time in class, either by lengthening the school day, or spending less time on summer vacation. “We can no longer afford an academic calendar designed when America was a nation of farmers who needed their children at home plowing the land at the end of each day,” Obama said. He continued to say “That calendar may have once made sense, but today, it puts us at a competitive disadvantage. Our children spend over a month less in school than children in South Korea. That is no way to prepare them for a 21st century economy.” (I won't even get into how the children of South Korea are about to spend 365 days of their year in a radioactive graveyard, thanks to Obama's inaction against N.K.'s nuclear intent or the fact that preparing for the U.S. economy that is being shaped by Obama's policies has more to do with being an illegal alien with a union membership card than it has to do with any amount of eduction.)
Just like the News Media there are plenty of blogsters in the tank for Obama as well and I read some of what they were blogging while looking for this quote. They are saying it will never happen because municipalities and states have authority over the schools and not the Federal government. So I guess NCLB was just a suggestion by the previous administration.
Texas Governor, Rick Perry was championing 10th Amendment rights here recently (that's where the Federal government has limited authority over the States) when the Obama-reich was trying to cram stimulus down our throats. But let's also not forget how many schools get Federal funding and that Chicago-style politics involves open extortion -- "do this or we'll pull your funding". And that's what he'd bother doing under the mantle of our 232 year old America. Now, in year One of the Obamerica he'll dispense with all of that legislative, Constitutionalized mumbo-jumbo and do what he's doing with the Fed, any Inspector Generals who are politically inconvenient, with G.M., Chrysler and AIG.
The only real challenge to this latest executive fiat is that his good buddies in the NEA will oppose this and the fundamental difference is that when the Obamafia strong-armed debt collectors in that Chrysler faux-bankruptcy, UAW members got paid NOT to have to work. NEA members are potentially looking at a longer school year -- having to work more or just facing longer school days and shorter breaks between the next stretch is likely not to be received well.
Suffice it to say, I know a few teachers who will be opposed to this and will likely leave the profession for something more lucrative if they lose their summer's off with their children.
And I've heard some interesting arguments in support of changes to the school calendar but my only point is that schools are the domain of local and state government and are well served by engaged parents actively involved in PTO's and supporting improvements from the home. I am confident education will not benefit from yet another Federal mandate.
Just like the News Media there are plenty of blogsters in the tank for Obama as well and I read some of what they were blogging while looking for this quote. They are saying it will never happen because municipalities and states have authority over the schools and not the Federal government. So I guess NCLB was just a suggestion by the previous administration.
Texas Governor, Rick Perry was championing 10th Amendment rights here recently (that's where the Federal government has limited authority over the States) when the Obama-reich was trying to cram stimulus down our throats. But let's also not forget how many schools get Federal funding and that Chicago-style politics involves open extortion -- "do this or we'll pull your funding". And that's what he'd bother doing under the mantle of our 232 year old America. Now, in year One of the Obamerica he'll dispense with all of that legislative, Constitutionalized mumbo-jumbo and do what he's doing with the Fed, any Inspector Generals who are politically inconvenient, with G.M., Chrysler and AIG.
The only real challenge to this latest executive fiat is that his good buddies in the NEA will oppose this and the fundamental difference is that when the Obamafia strong-armed debt collectors in that Chrysler faux-bankruptcy, UAW members got paid NOT to have to work. NEA members are potentially looking at a longer school year -- having to work more or just facing longer school days and shorter breaks between the next stretch is likely not to be received well.
Suffice it to say, I know a few teachers who will be opposed to this and will likely leave the profession for something more lucrative if they lose their summer's off with their children.
And I've heard some interesting arguments in support of changes to the school calendar but my only point is that schools are the domain of local and state government and are well served by engaged parents actively involved in PTO's and supporting improvements from the home. I am confident education will not benefit from yet another Federal mandate.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
How Do You Like Your Health Care Now?
Seriously. That's not a rhetorical question.
I came to a harsh and shocking realization tonight outside of Walgreen's while parking my car.
My son has one of those infections toddlers are always getting. Parents reading will know when I say that without blood tests, etc. the doctor at the after-hours clinic diagnosed it as viral and quickly provided prescriptions for some goopy pink-acilin and eye drops and ear drops for his pain. I was able to go to our Walgreen's directly while my wife took care of my son who had thrown up in the car. Because the doctor was able to transmit our prescription electronically I didn't have to wait for her return to get a paper prescription and I didn't have to drop off said script and have to wait or return later to get the medicine. The pharmacist didn't have my prescription medicine ready when I arrived. I would have to wait ten minutes. I called my wife. She said to pick up some Pedialyte while I was waiting.
I pay a premium back to my employer to have a "Cadillac" plan that not only allows me to go to an after hours clinic on this type of occasion but to only pay a small premium over my normal co-pay for such an occasion. With two small children it is money well spent to have such a plan.
All this was very good fortune but all the more reason I couldn't shake the realization that popped into my head minutes earlier.
A year from now under Obama-Care I will have to write quite a different story . . .
My wife and I will be up all night with the anxieties that befall any parent who can clearly see their child is not well. This anxiety is further punctuated by the shrill pain cry of a pre-verbal toddler pulling at their ears or eyes, not understanding what is causing their misery. The small dose of over-the-counter medication in the home will only have a very mild and temporary effect. One of us will have to take a day off of work to take our child to the Public Plan clinic, the one that is only open during banker's hours. The choice not to go to the emergency room in the middle of the night will be made based on the last occasion when we were waiting the entire night not to be seen in an overcrowded ward of patients similarly or worse off. Waiting only to be ultimately turned away in the morning because before we could be seen in the Emergency Room the Public Plan clinic would be open, meaning only the most severe cases would be admitted into the overcrowded and understaffed hospital. So our choice will be to endure the shrill cries and the lack of sleep but alas, daylight.
One of us will trudge off to the Public Plan clinic while the other is still bleary eyed at work even with three cups of strong coffee. The unfortunate parent who has to go to the clinic will be racing against time and traffic because arriving after the doors open means standing in an even longer line. The admitting agent, fresh from a career issuing licenses at the DMV and lacking all the empathy that Supreme Court nominees apparently must have in spades, will grunt and be generally distracted by my child's crying. This government employee will have difficulty finding our file on an overburdened and underfunded medical records system designed by the IRS - the same system that issues stimulus checks to pets and the deceased. At this moment the unfortunate parent trying to sooth the now persistent cries of the child will try to conceal their panic attack. They remember a friend, no urban myth by the way, whose records were lost; accidentally or "accidentally" deleted by some fumble fingered bureaucrat and the nightmare that ensued while simultaneously struggling with illness and all the necessary paperwork to be reinserted in the system. But this day the admitting agent finds our record but now has to call the Central Plan Administrator for an approval because it's only been three months since the last time our child visited the clinic and this sets off a red flag in the system for "free health care abuse". You see, to protect the nation from ever increasing costs there will be safeguards put in place to alert the admitting agents to the possibility of hypochondriacs and other chronic over-users.
Perhaps the increasing volume of our child's cries convinces the bureaucrat on the other end of the phone so now it will only be the better part of an hour before we are let in the back of the dingy clinic with uncomfortable seating to match the broken and dilapidated chairs in the waiting room. Choices of lighting and furnishing and whether or not there is a working TV or a clean bathroom at this clinic will be determined on the basis that now I am no longer a consumer with a choice, one they are trying to influence through these various accommodations but instead merely a ward of the state who can take or leave what my government offers me. Leaving of course, means leaving empty handed because the government run system is the only game in town. You see, private care options have been outlawed, made illegal because after crunching the numbers like so many other countries where they experimented with socialized care, it will be determined that this system can't exist with any competition. All providers and patients alike must participate or there will be a risk that none will participate.
Once in the exam room the doctor, who doesn't look well himself and is either overworked, depressed, unmotivated or all three, spends more time entering data into a computer terminal then he spends looking at our child. Something more akin to an interrogation than an examination by the doctor finally results in blood tests and a prescription for some pain medication. No anti-virals until they can determine the cause. There's a shortage of medicine after all. No profit means no surplus in an industry that is customarily late-paid a set rate by the federal government. Unfortunately the computer system is down at the time so the prescription will require a paper form in triplicate. After getting the necessary signatures and stamps the unlucky parent will drop off the prescription and head home with a child who is now so exhausted from crying they've lapsed into a fitful slumber.
The other parent will need to leave work early as long as the prescription can be filled on the same day. The only dispensing outlet will be a government run repository, again keeping bankers hours. You see the convenience stores will have since shut down their pharmacies because of the government controlled low profit margins and a continual lack of inventory.
And this is where the rationing of that one tiny bottle begins as we await the results of the blood test before we can get more medicine.
How do you like your Obama-Care now?
I know I like the current system just fine because I wrote this while my son was sleeping.
Whether you thought electing this guy to the Presidency was a good idea or not, this part of his agenda must fail.
Start calling your Senators and Congressman who can be found easily here under the Take Action link on the right hand side
http://cprights.org/plans.php
I came to a harsh and shocking realization tonight outside of Walgreen's while parking my car.
My son has one of those infections toddlers are always getting. Parents reading will know when I say that without blood tests, etc. the doctor at the after-hours clinic diagnosed it as viral and quickly provided prescriptions for some goopy pink-acilin and eye drops and ear drops for his pain. I was able to go to our Walgreen's directly while my wife took care of my son who had thrown up in the car. Because the doctor was able to transmit our prescription electronically I didn't have to wait for her return to get a paper prescription and I didn't have to drop off said script and have to wait or return later to get the medicine. The pharmacist didn't have my prescription medicine ready when I arrived. I would have to wait ten minutes. I called my wife. She said to pick up some Pedialyte while I was waiting.
I pay a premium back to my employer to have a "Cadillac" plan that not only allows me to go to an after hours clinic on this type of occasion but to only pay a small premium over my normal co-pay for such an occasion. With two small children it is money well spent to have such a plan.
All this was very good fortune but all the more reason I couldn't shake the realization that popped into my head minutes earlier.
A year from now under Obama-Care I will have to write quite a different story . . .
My wife and I will be up all night with the anxieties that befall any parent who can clearly see their child is not well. This anxiety is further punctuated by the shrill pain cry of a pre-verbal toddler pulling at their ears or eyes, not understanding what is causing their misery. The small dose of over-the-counter medication in the home will only have a very mild and temporary effect. One of us will have to take a day off of work to take our child to the Public Plan clinic, the one that is only open during banker's hours. The choice not to go to the emergency room in the middle of the night will be made based on the last occasion when we were waiting the entire night not to be seen in an overcrowded ward of patients similarly or worse off. Waiting only to be ultimately turned away in the morning because before we could be seen in the Emergency Room the Public Plan clinic would be open, meaning only the most severe cases would be admitted into the overcrowded and understaffed hospital. So our choice will be to endure the shrill cries and the lack of sleep but alas, daylight.
One of us will trudge off to the Public Plan clinic while the other is still bleary eyed at work even with three cups of strong coffee. The unfortunate parent who has to go to the clinic will be racing against time and traffic because arriving after the doors open means standing in an even longer line. The admitting agent, fresh from a career issuing licenses at the DMV and lacking all the empathy that Supreme Court nominees apparently must have in spades, will grunt and be generally distracted by my child's crying. This government employee will have difficulty finding our file on an overburdened and underfunded medical records system designed by the IRS - the same system that issues stimulus checks to pets and the deceased. At this moment the unfortunate parent trying to sooth the now persistent cries of the child will try to conceal their panic attack. They remember a friend, no urban myth by the way, whose records were lost; accidentally or "accidentally" deleted by some fumble fingered bureaucrat and the nightmare that ensued while simultaneously struggling with illness and all the necessary paperwork to be reinserted in the system. But this day the admitting agent finds our record but now has to call the Central Plan Administrator for an approval because it's only been three months since the last time our child visited the clinic and this sets off a red flag in the system for "free health care abuse". You see, to protect the nation from ever increasing costs there will be safeguards put in place to alert the admitting agents to the possibility of hypochondriacs and other chronic over-users.
Perhaps the increasing volume of our child's cries convinces the bureaucrat on the other end of the phone so now it will only be the better part of an hour before we are let in the back of the dingy clinic with uncomfortable seating to match the broken and dilapidated chairs in the waiting room. Choices of lighting and furnishing and whether or not there is a working TV or a clean bathroom at this clinic will be determined on the basis that now I am no longer a consumer with a choice, one they are trying to influence through these various accommodations but instead merely a ward of the state who can take or leave what my government offers me. Leaving of course, means leaving empty handed because the government run system is the only game in town. You see, private care options have been outlawed, made illegal because after crunching the numbers like so many other countries where they experimented with socialized care, it will be determined that this system can't exist with any competition. All providers and patients alike must participate or there will be a risk that none will participate.
Once in the exam room the doctor, who doesn't look well himself and is either overworked, depressed, unmotivated or all three, spends more time entering data into a computer terminal then he spends looking at our child. Something more akin to an interrogation than an examination by the doctor finally results in blood tests and a prescription for some pain medication. No anti-virals until they can determine the cause. There's a shortage of medicine after all. No profit means no surplus in an industry that is customarily late-paid a set rate by the federal government. Unfortunately the computer system is down at the time so the prescription will require a paper form in triplicate. After getting the necessary signatures and stamps the unlucky parent will drop off the prescription and head home with a child who is now so exhausted from crying they've lapsed into a fitful slumber.
The other parent will need to leave work early as long as the prescription can be filled on the same day. The only dispensing outlet will be a government run repository, again keeping bankers hours. You see the convenience stores will have since shut down their pharmacies because of the government controlled low profit margins and a continual lack of inventory.
And this is where the rationing of that one tiny bottle begins as we await the results of the blood test before we can get more medicine.
How do you like your Obama-Care now?
I know I like the current system just fine because I wrote this while my son was sleeping.
Whether you thought electing this guy to the Presidency was a good idea or not, this part of his agenda must fail.
Start calling your Senators and Congressman who can be found easily here under the Take Action link on the right hand side
http://cprights.org/plans.php
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