8.28.2009

11 Days In The Hole/Bill Maher Is 'Stupid'

Its been a few days off but I am still glad to be working more than is healthy, while being paid by the hour, and silently observing the happenings on the Eastern Front.

I am especially happy to see the decrepit, decaying body that is Congress wither in front of our eyes. Nancy Pelosi is in hiding somewhere in the haven of California during the August recess, probably kicking at her winery and getting crunk with Barb Boxer and indulging in more Botox injections. Barney Frank is, well, Barney Frank growing more and more agitated at his constituency and New York Congressman Eric Massa proudly stating, then backtracking a little as is customary for any elected idiot, that he would vote against the interests of his constituency as long as he was doing what HE thought was right...Is this a surprise at all??

Nevertheless, as we emerge from said August recess and the President takes his vacation in Marthas Vineyard we can be assured that this winter will be a long and cold one as far as the politics of our country are concerned.

What really has put a little fire in my tank this week are the remarks I heard from Bill Maher. You know, the guy who had the late, late show on CBS then left that to go to HBO so he could say whatever he wanted. I don't know what the ratings are for that little ditty of a program, but I cannot say that they are that great, he is constantly joining the talking heads on CNN to give his little pithy comments on various subjects while plugging his show, then getting gusy bashing conservatives, kissing the ass of the President and how he is so freaking smart. Right.



Its pretty apparent from Mr. Mahers comments and overall attitude that he a giant among insects and the rest of us, meaning you and I, are nothing more than mindless zombies and that we cannot think for ourselves. Never mind that since we, as a people, cannot seem to come to a consensus on weather or not our Government should dole out our health care instead of letting us make our own decisions. Its obvious that the majority of Americans do not want to be told by the Government how to live or under what conditions. Has that not been a bold sign in our faces?

I have a question for you Billy, are we the only "stupid" country out there or are there others? Your ego and apparent contempt for the average citizen incites nausea at best, nor does it lack any substance at all. On top of it, in previous comments, you stated that America is stupid because there is a large part, perhaps not a majority, that would vote for Sara Palin. Tell me how this makes someone stupid. I, personally, don't know that I would vote for her, so does that make me "smart"?

There is one important piece that you are failing to realize, Bill; pure intelligence is God given. It is not learned or gathered. Then again, you have repeatedly denounced religion and you ego is so incredibly stifling to us little folk so I doubt you believe in any being greater than yourself anyway.

In the end I will resort to that of the "stupid American"...If I see Bill Maher, I will fight him.

8.17.2009

Laziness...And Retreat...

I'm too lazy to pontificate today on politics or anything for that matter. I spent the day working out in the summer heat so 30% of it can go to pay down the deficit.

In lieu of that, here are a few articles I recently read and will use the creative wealth of others to spread to the tens of people who actually read this thing...Enjoy...

This one is about the White House backpedaling on the 'flag@whitehouse.gov' debacle...

Another from Politico about pushing back the health scare bill to September...Maybe Pelosi and her gang are hoping the public will forget about it...I doubt that madam, many of the folks who are on this are well organized...probably better organized than ACORN or many unions.

Finally, the Libs are crying, probably hugging some trees or getting angry looking to see if they can play the race card in some way, over the W.H.'s decision to RETREAT on the "Public Option" speak...

Do you sense a theme here??

8.12.2009

"Fixing" Healthcare, Pt. 2

The morass of the current published health care legislation is confusing and incomplete at best. There are pieces that cite costs and fees that do not make sense as to where the money is going to come from nor do they cite how accurate those numbers are, not a single representative has stepped up to confirm any of the financial information, only that there will be surtaxes and other fees to pay for the coverage. Other pieces state the massive handouts and tax payer funded abortions as well as the clear, but not written, issue of the government system undercutting private insurance, especially smaller providers, and causing them to go out of business. This would cause then the individual to go to the government with palms open asking for coverage at that point. Lets also mention the thousands of jobs that would be lost in the process, lengthening the unemployment lines and putting more Americans under duress.

Even with all that and the reduced care, once again the road to ruin is paved with good intention. I personally feel that we need something more cohesive in this country that will make it more affordable for companies to provide meaningful health coverage, under a co-payer system, to their employees. I light of that I propose the following:

1. We must reform Medicare and Medicaid.
These programs have done nothing but further the welfare state and assist in the inflation of costs for the taxpayer. It has also propagated the poor and those on welfare to turn to emergency rooms for their primary care as opposed to the majority who seek doctors for their primary care. Additionally, illegal immigrants and those who are here without a knowledge of the working system have and do currently take advantage of that very system they do not fully understand. All they know is that they can take their kid who has a cough and fever and get treatment without being asked if they are legal or not. So long as they have ID and an address they can get treatment. The staff at the hospital is not allowed to ask their citizenship status, they could be sued and loose their jobs. What is more, the ER is crowded with individuals who are ill informed or do not have a sense of medical care so they turn to those ER's for non emergency items. Since the laws and lawyers are so on top of things, no patient can be turned away for fear of liability issues or the threat of a law suit.

2. We must ring in the lawyers.
A federal mandate must be issued stating that any and all malpractice claims should be capped at $200,000. The state of California has set this precedent by capping settlements at 250k. There are thousands of ambulance chasers and crooked lawyers who are sucking the system dry and putting strain on the insurance companies by suing every time someone gets an infection or a doctor makes a mistake. The fact of the matter is that this practice alone has corrupted the system and effected the premiums that people pay for their coverage. It has strained businesses and made it financially impossible for small business to afford the co-paid premiums to cover their employees.
By capping the malpractice judgements, as well as putting restrictions on medical litigation, the cost to the provider will decrease and open the avenues for insurers to do a higher volume of business making it possible to lower rates.

3. Set clear lines for public programs and abuse statutes.
A clearer outline and agenda to those who receive public medical assistance must be written in order to cut unnecessary costs and eliminate the waste and abuse of the system.
The system is also being taken advantage of at every turn, even as we speak. There are people who go from doctor to doctor, falsifying ailments and having prescriptions written in order to satisfy drug problems or to re-sell on the street. Under any Medicare or Medicaid reform, a valid Medicare ID must be presented and scanned into a system that gives a detailed history of visits to doctors or hospitals and what prescriptions have been issued. Additionally, a co-pay must be presented before any care, even emergency room visits, can be administered, unless the individual is in a state of trauma. Those who willfully abuse the system should be prosecuted or have their coverage suspended. The same should be extended to coverage through private insurers in order to drive down the cost of covering abuse of the insurance system.

In short the direction that the federal government currently takes, and has taken in the past, is a tact that will only cause each American an increased tax burden and dilute the system of doctors and hospitals, decreasing the quality of care and causing much undue stress and increased ill health on account of those things. Socialized medicine is nothing more than an attempt to place more control over the people of a nation. currently European countries and Canada look to eliminate their government subsidized coverage and lower the burden to their citizens, yet here we are, the most free nation in the world that ever was and we march towards that which has crippled financially some of our allies around the globe.

True reform comes in that which is to improve or eliminate the existing system and create the environment in which free enterprise can flourish and thrive making it easier for the individual to dictate their own care, and not to be dictated by a bureaucracy.

"Fixing" Healthcare, Pt. 1

As the health care debate rages, and in turn enrages, its become the cloak under which the feds are continuing to hide as they run out of arguments only to resort to more flaccid talking points and name calling.

Arlen Specter, the isle jumper from PA, is once again shouted down by a town hall attendee who had to be restrained by police, and representatives like Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are doing their best to not directly announce the time and place that the town hall meeting his office is organizing, but are instead being as indirectly direct as possible. As far as I know this very morning at around 10am Senator Brown is holding a meeting at the OSU Biomedical Research center in Columbus. I am marking myself out for an extended lunch hour to go over and make one more voice among the rest of the 'dissenters', as that is what anyone who is opposing this reform has been labeled as.

The old 'switcheroo' shell game that this bill is comprised of, along with the pages of hand outs, reparations and furthered affirmative action legislation; as well as the repeated denials by the president that he isn't aiming for a single payer system are falling on deaf ears. The technology and valuable tool of the Internet and YouTube are the silver bullet to Obamas two faced lies and attempts to b.s. the public. We all know by now and have seen the two pieces, one to the AFL-CIO and the SEIU where he plainly states that he is a proponent of a single payer health system. Yet yesterday at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire Obama played down and flat out denied what he stated both in 2003 and as recent as 2007.
And the liberal media called Romney a "flip-flopper". I think more fitting for Obama should be "liar", but you wont hear that from Olberman, Maddow, Stewart or any of the major network news outlets.

Obama also brought out the extinguisher once again to put out the fires that the likes of Specter, Boxer and Pelosi have started in front of the ranks of thousands calling some "un-American" and Arlen Specters additional comments that the protesters are "not representative of America".

Well then what is, Senator? Getting a huge pay off to jump over the isle to give the Democrats the filibuster proof majority? All you did was show that you actually are spineless.

Whats more is that Obama still plays that same old hand of the fear tactic, the one that GWB played so well when he tells people "For all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary is if we do nothing." So very lame, Mr. President, very lame indeed.

8.07.2009

Cloud Ships, Teleportation Portals and Giant Sea Beasts


This time I am not being the least bit facetious. In fact, this is a REAL article by a REAL news source and the sources and information has been verified.

U.S. and British scientists are really, actually, working on "cloud ships" which will sail the 7 seas turning sea water into water vapor which will create clouds to shield the earth from the harmful rays of the sun, because the sun is bad, right??

I'm trying not to choke on my environmentally irresponsible jumbo all beef frank with kraut and mustard right now...Allow me to take a sip of water from my plastic water bottle which I will dispose of in the "regular garbage" when I am done....

What is next, gigantic flying ships manned by aged scientists and a horde of little people in silly white jump suits? Whats after that, enormous floating ice machines that run on gerbil power that produce behemoth sized ice cubes and float them in the arctic circle for the cute little polar bears to play on??

Seriously, what ever drugs these loonies are on, I want some because this is, like, the sweetest freaking idea ever hatched by man and I need it to make me a better writer...

WSJ Op-ed piece

Here is an interesting WSJ article that shows that Obama may just hang
his programs with his own rope.

* AUGUST 6, 2009, 4:56 P.M. ET


OPINION
WONDER LAND
Why Obama May Fail
If Obama can't sell more government, no one can.

A very long time ago, it was January. Barack Obama stood at the mountain
top, bathed in the new light of a historic presidency and gazing down on
a congressional lake afloat with contented Democrats. Those who spoke
against him were vilified for not wanting this smart, vibrant president
to "succeed." How could he fail? Eight months into his presidency, Mr.
Obama may do just that-fail.

Back then, few would have argued persuasively that at the August recess
the Obama plan to redraw the American health-care landscape could be at
risk of failure, with Democratic Members of Congress going home to halls
full of raving constituents.

Why is this happening now? Mr. Obama was clear during the campaign about
his plans for health care. He described the public insurance option. He
spoke of the need for "sacrifice," meaning the wealthy would pay higher
taxes for his agenda.

If after all this Mr. Obama gets half a loaf or less on health care,
look for the reasons among the hopeful, admiring people who voted for
him. That is where his support is leaking.

Set to one side the progressive left, Congress's liberal war horses, and
the unions. For them, the Obama presidency is their last best hope, and
no one will be dropping out. Not so non-movement Democrats, centrists
and independents.

Start with taxes because conventional wisdom has held for years that
federal taxes must rise. Reality check No. 1: This much??!!!

I think many of Mr. Obama's supporters in the upper brackets of
politics, who were expected to bear the burden of his "sacrifice" by
meekly mailing in higher federal tax payments, are shocked at how high
their top marginal rates could go.

This is especially true in high-tax Democratic utopias such as New York
City, the famous ATM of Clinton-era fundraising, where the top marginal
rate for all taxes could hit 60% if the health surtax is imposed. Mayor
Mike Bloomberg is competing with Mr. Obama to pull tax revenue out of
the same base of taxpayers, and Sen. Chuck Schumer wants to tap them for
campaign contributions. Ask these two politicians what they're hearing
from this high-value swath of the Democratic base. Even the fattest cats
in time discover the fairness issue.

Taxpayers in New York, California and other states at the fiscal brink
are asking whether they'd rather pay a jacked-up marginal rate unto
death for another federal health-care program or pay taxes to support
the quality of life where they live.

The newly arrived inhabitants of the Obama White House, who this week
floated the possibility of middle-class taxes to pay for their deficit,
talk as if the states don't exist. Factoring in the "millionaire" health
surtax, the Tax Foundation's recent analysis puts the top marginal rate
over 50% in 39 states. This is nuts. Even if they back off on the
surtax, the health-care debate has made clear the needs and compulsions
of this White House, and some loyal Democratic "givers" are backing off
(or asking friends about no-tax Tennessee).

They say there's confusion in the land about the health-care bill. Here
is the biggest confusion, and for many Obama voters it's reality check
No. 2:

For years, Democratic politicians said the health-care problem was about
"47 million uninsured Americans." Whatever the merits, many people were
willing to do something for those with no health insurance. Suddenly,
these voters discovered that ObamaCare is about them. When did that
happen?

Every policy wonk in America may have known this was always an
everybody-into-the-pool proposal, and Mr. Obama has talked himself blue
saying people could stay with the insurance they've got or the doctor
they've got, "if you're happy with that" and don't like the public
option.

A lot of people simply don't believe this. How come? White House adviser
David Axelrod said this week, "Our job is to help folks understand how
this will help them." It could be they've already thought about that.
For many people, the first six Obama months already have been an
unsettling Dantesque tour through levels of government "help" they never
knew existed.

Normally government activity flows by like unnoticed sludge, but Obama's
celebrity got everyone watching. What people have seen is: an $800
billion stimulus package designed by Congress, a $4 trillion budget,
massive outlays by an alphabet soup of Treasury and Federal Reserve
programs, Barney Frank the symbol of Democratic goals, and then the
federal absorption of GM, an American icon. After all this, ObamaCare
looks like a bridge too far.

They are proposing the biggest federal social program in a generation,
which no one can understand (or explain), and which requires permanent
federal tax increases starting with the wealthiest but threatening to
engulf the middle class.

The harder the White House and Democrats push this idea, the worse it
could get for them. Americans may have arrived at the limit of how much
government they want or will pay for. If Barack Obama can't sell more of
it, no one can.

Write to henninger@wsj.com

The Blame Game

We once again are privy to the ongoing 'blame game' being played by the oafs inside the beltway. Since the liberals and their troupe of spineless congressional sheeple find themselves inching closer to the ropes of the proverbial ring, they find themselves looking for some help in the argument over the government take over of the health care industry.



I was told once by a speech teacher that when in a debate, if your opponent changes the subject or attempts to re-direct attention he/she is loosing or has found themselves without an argument. In Nancy Pelosi's case, this has happened. She was caught on record accusing the mass of citizens who have now found themselves protesting the feds from getting into the insurance business of carrying swastikas into the town hall meetings. I, myself, have never seen nor heard of such things happening, and I can tell you that I am involved on many fronts, not just from behind this monitor and keyboard. Yet, I am sure that sooner or later this blog will be one of the many numbered on the new W.H. snitch site, www.flag@whitehouse.gov. (Feel free to snitch, the brown shirts and jackboots can come but I wont let them in).

One of my personal favorite figures in Washington, Barbara Boxer, has taken her own jabs saying that all of this hallabaloo is "organized" and that the people just want to "change congress"..Really? You think so? Listen, lady, we do want to change congress and I will be much happier when you and your secret lover, Pelosi, are finished and sent back to kooky Cali on your private jet to stew in your own miserable juices. On the other hand if these town hall protesters were shouting about something she supported, she be standing up saying "They are exercising their right to be heard, they need help, they are being victimized and have a right to express their frustrations." Total hypocrisy again by the loony left...

On the Eastern Front, Obama has once again resorted to his artsy round about blaming of Bush for "this mess". What he keeps forgetting is that he was part of this mess as was half of the current congress, and if the system is still somewhat in place, they also should be roped in with that argument.

Its a pithy jab, King Obama, and a tired one at that. Both Alf and Vanilla Ice thinks that act is tired.

8.06.2009

March On Washington And More. Read On And Join Us, Exercise Your Rights!

Cleveland Tea Party Patriots

Bus to D.C. and Marcia Fudge Rallies
August 5, 2009

Bus to Washington D.C. for the September 12 March
We have chartered a bus to take us to and from Washington D.C. for the Septermber 12 march. It will depart from a location TBD near I-77 and I-480 at 11:00pm on Friday, September 11. With a stop for breakfast this will put us into Washington D.C. by 7:30am - time to help set up and get ready for the march.

The bus will depart Washington D.C. Saturday at 6:00pm. With a stop for dinner this will get us back to Cleveland in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

The cost is $60 per person. Your reservation must be received by August 11, 2009. Checks must be made out to Outsourcing Strategies, Inc. Mail to:

Linda O'Brien
P.O. Box 250
Russell, OH 44072

Include your

Name
Address
Email address
Phone number
Cell phone number (for use on September 12)

Linda will send you a confirmation of your reservation. We need your cell phone number so that we can make sure we don't leave anybody behind when we leave Washington D.C.

Marcia Fudge Rallies
There are two rallies planned to protest Representative Marcia Fudge's support of the government take-over of health care:

  • August 12, 2009, 5:00pm
    Ford Auditorium in the Allen Memorial Library on the campus of Case Western Reserve University
    Rep. Fudge is attending a reception and then speaking. We will gather outside with signs.
    For more details and a map, see this page.
  • August 13, 2009, 9:00am
    Warrensville Civic Center
    Health Care Town Hall
    For more details and a map, see this page.

Please try attend one of both of these. If we want to stop the government take-over of our health care system it is essential that we keep the pressure on our representatives. They are feeling the heat, and many of them are apparently in hiding during the Congressional recess rather than scheduling town hall meetings.

Keep checking the Cleveland Tea Party website for updated information. There are lots of events happening in August.

www.clevelandteaparty.com
http://clevelandteapartypatriots.blogspot.com/



8.05.2009

The Thought Police



The White House website is promoting the turning in of chain emails, blogs and the like in order to quell any "mis-information" concerning the health care reform by average citizens...or at least those who read the White House page.

One word: THOUGHTCRIME

As the Obama administration attempts again and again to shove down our collective gullets socialized medicine, they are trying so very hard to get the public to buy into for yet another day.

From what I have seen and heard its not going well. This will not stop Congress, however, until they are booted out or dragged into the streets to answer in front of a citizen court.

Dont just take my word for it, read it yourself and understand the arrogance and that the community organizer is and will be not only bold, but calculated in his work.

8.04.2009

Light Reading

An article from GetLiberty.org and Americans For Limited Government.

Enjoy.

Obama Exposed??


Its not as if we didnt know what was happening or what was going on, it was only a matter of time before the exposure began to take place and we were faced with the reality of what Americans are up against.

In Los Angeles, "Joker" style posters bearing the face of B.H. Obama with the word "SOCIALISM" printed in bold, block type below the depiction are and have been cropping up all over the city. Some have been astonsihed but others are applauduing the move as heroic and outspoken.

The corp of community organizers, namely Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Party Roundtable, care calling it "mean spirited" and "dangerous". I beg, Mr. Earl, to tell me how it is dangerous? Could it be because this is the right of the people of the U.S. to speak and express themselves as they see fit? Or does it go against that which is speedily being established? Vanity Fair magazine published similar images of G.W. Bush in 2008 to the jeers of the progressive movement and the Hollywood elite. The same Hollywood elite who are now taking trips to places such as Cuba and Venezuela to canoodle with the Commies, for what and to what end I am not sure.

Additionally, a recent video that has gone viral via YouTube, shows Obama doing what he apparently does best, two face the issues and pander to the voters. In a talk to the Ameican Medical Association he states that Government run health care is not a shell game to institute a single payer, Government exclusive health care system. In the same video he is shown with the SEIU saying that his goal, eventually, is to eliminate employer based health coverage. In the next clip he is standing in front of the AFL-CIO and plainly states that he is "a proponent of a single payer, universal health care plan".

My question is thus: Who are you lying to, Mr. President? The unions you represent in order to gather a few more pithy votes, or the American Citizen??

As Barack Obama has been compared to Lincoln, perhaps he should remember the words of that man: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."

There is folly in the leadership of a community organizer, an activist and ideologist as president. Although he has the skill to organize many people to his cause, the folly therein is his ignorance to the strength of the common man and his love of country, as well as his arrogance and overestimation of his precieved power. This man will serve no purpose but his own and tear down the foundation and framework, even the Constitution, to forward his own selfish ideology and that of those he surrounds himself with.