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February 07, 2010
December 26, 2009
Did the Nelson deal kill Obamacare?
Senator Ben Nelson sold out Nebraska for a massive special deal in the senate's health care takeover bill on Thursday. The White House thinks this makes the bill a done-deal but is it?
The bill now heads for committee where it the House and Senate versions must be reconciled. The Nelson deal just made that impossible. Everybody will want their own gravy train added to the bill and for once the greed of the ruling class will bring them down by their own hands.
I don't think Pelosi has the strength to play whack-a-mole with all the new requests for "special" treatment from the rank-and-file members. The Nelson deal may have saved us all.
August 21, 2009
He DOES Think He's Jesus
Andrew Klavan catches this bit of God-complex:
Referring to the belief that God decides during the Jewish New Year “who shall live and who shall die,” Obama told the rebs, “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.”
Very simply, Obama was justifying the government's role in deciding who lives and who dies. This is a very crucial aspect of socialized medicine. Socialism is a death-cult and holding literal life-and-death decisions will help them "usher out" oppositional voices.
August 19, 2009
A Job Obama Relishes
Sometimes they just come out and say it: "Leipold said later in the BBC interview that there is an urgent need for the suppression of economic growth in the United States and around the world."
Now there's a job Obama is already hard a work doing via socialized medicine and cap-n-tax, etc. etc. etc.
July 29, 2009
Gov't Health Question
Let's keep this simple:
Which existing government program will serve as the the model of efficiency and effectiveness for our socialized medicine?
Anyone? Beuller?
UPDATE: A co-worker called it for the VA and apparently he was right :
UPDATE 6: Ouch. There's a pro-ObamaCare sign that says "VA HEALTHCARE FOR ALL". If that's your best pitch...
July 09, 2009
Greenshirts Will Finish Off Housing
This entry at The Corner explains the cudgel:
Pay close attention to (iii), (iv), and (vi) because those hit you right where you live. What that's saying is the state will be empowered to inspect your home if you want to 1) renovate your house in any way that requires a building permit, 2) sell your house, or 3) change the name of the person responsible for any utility bill.
I think the ultimate unforeseen consequence will be the complete destruction of the housing market, including (especially?) rentals. No real estate holder will want the state forcing bogus CO2 "upgrades" to their property.
Home Depot and Lowes will suffer greatly as well when people fore-go large renovation projects.
What might happen, though, is an underground RE economy, where people sublet rental units but keep the utilities in the name of some LLC or some such.
June 26, 2009
Match That, Obama
Twice in 13 months I required arthroscopic surgery on my left knee to remove damage to the meniscus cartilage. I was able to go from first meeting with the surgeon to the recovery room in under four weeks.
I'd like to know of any socialized medicine system in the world that can match that performance?
April 29, 2009
Flu & Tea Parties
Here's my prediction: if the swine flu continues to spread, as there is every indication it will, watch for the administration to ban public gatherings just before the huge July 4
The flu scare will be just the right tool at just the right time to quash the fervor of angry tax payers and there will be no hesitation to wield that tool. What will be most interesting will be the groups granted dispensation from the rule.
April 01, 2009
Tea Party Map
It's just a few isolated right-wing malcontents trying to get some attention. Nothing to see here, move along.
Thanks to Malkin.
Obama Gift Train Rolls On
So, what's next? Walmart gift cards?
Barack Obama met the Queen at Buckingham Palace today and gave her a gift of an iPod loaded with video footage and photographs of her 2007 United States visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia. In return, the Queen gave the President a silver framed signed photograph of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh - apparently a standard present for visiting dignitaries.The Queen already has an iPod, a 6GB silver Mini version she bought in 2005 at the suggestion of Prince Andrew.
March 29, 2009
Let's play Bailout!
March 27, 2009
Sorry, Taiwan
Dear Taiwan,
I know you are a free country struggling to maintain independence in the shadow of the mighty PRC. Your bold fight for independence is inspiring to freedom-loving people everywhere.
I'm so sorry it won't last.
As you are no doubt aware, the United States has elected a spineless weasel for President. Combined with our current financial predicament, the USA will cave to the PRC and leave you twisting in the wind.
I expect it will go down something like this: China will move naval forces within sight of your island nation and dare the US to do anything about it. Behind closed doors, Chinese representatives will let it be known that if our military interferes with their "internal dispute" they will dump all of their Treasuries on the market, finishing off our economy.
Obama, who is weak-kneed at the best of times, will pull our forces back and wag his finger at China. In other words, he will do nothing and you will all suffer. China will invade, we will do nothing and once your lovely country is brought to heel, China will dump their Treasuries anyway.
So, it is with deep regret that I must apologize in advance. Of course, you won't be able to read this after the fact which is why I'm writing it now.
Sincerely,
Director.
March 19, 2009
White House: Technical Difficulties
As suspected in this earlier post, the fantastic, amazing, brilliant gift of DVDs to British PM Gordon Brown were...region 1. This means they are unplayable on standard DVD players in the UK.
Everyone in the Administration who knows what a region code, take one step backwards. Everyone else: you are idiots who shouldn't be in charge of a baby shower.
March 12, 2009
Obamicons
March 09, 2009
Obama: The Great Uniter
I had Family Dinner with my Italian in-laws on Sunday. These are generally fun events, unless the discussion turns to politics then the fiery dispositions make things loud and angry.
This time, things did get loud and angry while discussing politics but with a difference: everybody was angry with Congress, Obama, and the Governor. For the first time in three decades, the family came together in agreement that government at all levels is corrupt and incompetent (except for in their corruption).
Way to go Obama, bringing the family together like that!
March 08, 2009
W. Made It Look Easy
Here's my new rule: No member of Congress for President, ever again.
Here's why: they don't have what it takes. They don't know how to work hard (parties don't count), they don't know how to be in charge of anything, they don't know how to be responsible.
Take the Gordon Brown flap, for example.
Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk.A Democratic strategist, who is friends with several senior White House aides, revealed that the president has regularly appeared worn out and drawn during evening work sessions with senior staff in the West Wing and has been forced to make decisions more quickly than he is comfortable.
He said that on several occasions the president has had to hurry back from eating dinner with his family in the residence and then tucking his daughters in to bed, to conduct urgent government business.
Obama has never held a real job, never had to work for a living. He's stunned that POTUS has to actually do stuff.
I have never, ever, ever heard of a President who whined about his workload. Real Presidents are real men who bear their burdens in silence. Obama is an impostor president.
March 06, 2009
But They're Great Movies!
Apparently Obama gave a bag full of DVDs to British PM Gordon Brown, who has vision problems.
All Obama got in return were priceless historical artifacts.
The question on my mind is this: what region code were the DVDs? Did some incompetent staffer (I know, doesn't narrow it down any) remember to buy Region 2 version in PAL format?
I bet not, but I do hope the gift receipt was included so Brown can return the movies for something more to his liking.
February 01, 2009
SuperBowl Pre-Game: Obama Interview?
I just turned to the NBC pre-game coverage only to find an interview with Obama. I had to triple check that I was on the right channel. One question:
What the hell is Obama doing on an NFL pre-game show?
Look, NBC, you have already proven you are on the Obama payroll. Why are you doing this? I think I have the answer.
Obama's ratings are sinking faster than the Titanic and NBC is doing its part to prop them up.
January 22, 2009
Pledge Isn't Just For Furniture
If you can sit through the whole thing, you win a prize.
Where were these do-gooders six months ago? They couldn't be moved from their sofas until today? The problems they describe only just started?
Here are two better pledges:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stand, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
November 19, 2008
The Unarian Model
An examination of the Unarius Academy of Science provides a useful template for understanding today's Obama disciples and their methods of dealing with the failures (past and future) of the object of their devotion.
November 12, 2008
How To Get A Gov't Job From Obama
With the print media in a nose-dive 'journalists' are making desperate attempts to land one of the 8000 positions the Obama administration needs to fill.
Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope. Barack Obama never talks about how people see him: I'm not the one making history, he said every chance he got. You are. Yet as he looked out Tuesday night through the bulletproof glass, in a park named for a Civil War general, he had to see the truth on people's faces. We are the ones we've been waiting for, he liked to say, but people were waiting for him, waiting for someone to finish what a King began.It is going to be a veeery long four years.