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Archive for 12 June 2009
The One Thing
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TEA Party Flags!
Via Texas Fred’s:
American TEA Party Revolution Flags
Send $17.00 cash or money order to:
TEA PARTY FLAGS
P.O. Box 492
Chewelah, WA 99109
$17 covers ALL costs, including shipping…
We have to wait for checks to clear, we don’t have a lot of money to put into this and have used what we have to get it set up. Cash or a money order will expedite shipping. A money order will offer you the protection you need too. I understand having worries about sending cash.
We don’t have a PayPal account set up for this, PayPal takes out a nice slice of the money before you get yours and we are trying to hold costs to a minimum and pass along a very high quality product to our friends and fellow TEA Party patriots at as low a price as possible.
It takes about 10 days to get the flags from the manufacturer, then a couple of days via Priority Mail to get them in your hands, so, we can have them well before the 4th of July!
These flags are simply gorgeous, they measure 24″ x 38″ and have lanyard rings. They are very well constructed and I was totally impressed when I saw the finished product.
My partner in this venture is ordering quite a few flags as I post this message. We are pretty certain that folks will want one, and I assure you, the REAL flag looks infinitely better than the picture does. Our digital camera sux.
We will need your name and mailing address, and a telephone number if you are comfortable with that, included with your order. We have to know where to send the flag. 
We will NOT sell your information, WE HATE SPAMMERS TOO! Your information will remain completely confidential.
Personal note…..I’d suggest sending a money order. Cash through the mail? Just don’t trust folks that much anymore. I’m on my way to pick up my money order for TWO flags! 
Spread the word!
BO’s BS
Obama Rhetoric vs Health Care Reality
Campaigning for his health care plan yesterday, President Barack Obama told a Green Bay, Wisconsin audience: “Right now a number of my Republican friends have said, ‘We can’t support anything with a public option.’ It’s not clear that it’s based on any evidence as much as it is their thinking, their fear, that somehow once you have a public plan that government will take over the entire health care system.” In fact, the opposite is true. It is President Obama who is operating on rhetoric without any evidence to back up his claims. Consider the following four themes crucial to Obama’s argument:
1. You will be able to keep your doctor and health insurance if you want.
On the contrary, an independent analysis has shown that up to 119 million Americans could lose the coverage they have today under a Medicare-like public plan. The whole notion that a public plan would help increase competition defies common sense. For one thing, the government cannot create a level playing field between its own plan and private plans. It would be like an umpire at a baseball game also fielding a team. The playing field will always tilt towards the government plan that would eventually run out. And that is the whole point of the public plan. Just ask public plan architect Jacob Hacker: “Someone once said to me this is a Trojan Horse for single-payer, and I said, well it’s not a Trojan Horse, right? It’s just right there.”
2. You will have the choice of buying health coverage that is similar to the plan available to members of Congress.
During the campaign, President Obama continued to tell people that his plan would give the same coverage offered to Members of Congress through the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP). First, there is no public plan in FEBHP. Second, there is no “one-size-fits-all plan” in FEBHP. The plans offered vary by price, benefit and region. As a matter of fact there are over 250 plans offered through FEBHP including at least a dozen national plans that are available wherever you live. Under the President’s planned version of an “exchange” and detailed in congressional plans, the federal government would have unprecedented control over the type of coverage Americans can buy, resulting in a “one-size-fits-all” federal standard which would limit choices for families and weaken incentives for insurers to compete for enrollees based on value.
3. No government bureaucrat will second-guess decisions about your care.
Nobody wants to get between a person and their doctor, yet President Obama wants to establish a Federal Health Board — a Supreme Court of health care that would micromanage the practice of medicine through “best practices” and “comparative effectiveness.” Ironically, the examples the President pointed out yesterday of high-quality, low-cost care systems would probably not exist today had government been involved in them. The federal bureaucracy would destroy innovation and change would be slow to come by. So, in twenty years the American health care system would be stuck (again) in an outdated 2000 health care model.
4. American families will save money.
The President’s health plan is estimated to cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years. He plans to pay for some of it with “savings.” Unfortunately, these “savings” are unproven and untested. Even the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) – the scorekeeper for cost and savings – doesn’t appear to have much faith in these savings. And what has been the reaction from the left in Congress? Instead of embracing objective evidence on health care reform, they are trying to find ways around it, with some in Congress threatening to scrap the CBO’s cost estimate of the Obama plan and instead go with the White House’s own cost estimates.
If anyone truly believes this administration gives a happy flip whether or not you have health care, I know of this great bridge, right next to some Arizona beach front property!
Busted!
How’s That Transparency Workin’ For Ya?
Please, if you have an ounce of sense left after all the recent Constitutional shredding, go over to Michelle Malkin’s place and read just one more indication of the wrong doing of the Obummer administration.
Obama’s Americorps scandal — and the First Lady’s meddling
President Obama is hoping you won’t notice his abrupt change of inspectors general over at Americorps, the government-run, taxpayer-subsidized “community service” boondoggle (which Republicans helped expand as part of the $6 billion GIVE/SERVE Act in March despite its wasteful track record. Thanks, Republicans).
With intervention from Michelle Obama, the Americorps inspector general was given the boot and replaced — for doing his job too well, it seems, and uncovering squandering of funds by favored contributors, educational institutions, and left-wing groups.
Go! Read! LEARN! Is this the hope and change you voted for, libs? Probably. Which tells me a LOT about your mental health. 
He is NOT One of Ours!
Holocaust Museum Shooter NOT A CONSERVATIVE!
by J.D. Longstreet
Just a snippet:
Apparently our political leftist community decided to use the events at the Holocaust Museum to beat the conservative movement severely about the head and shoulders with stories of this truly awful incident by associating the lone gunman with the conservative movement itself. (Remember now, even the Department of Homeland Security recently identified those in the conservative movement as “Domestic Terrorists”.) There was just one problem with their efforts. Well, there was MORE than ONE problem with it, but the one that stands out and tends to make the leftist press, not only in America, but around the world, REALLY look foolish is the inconvenient fact that the shooter is not a conservative! Shocking! Absolutely shocking, what?
Turns out, the gunman is not a Christian. (Somehow the political left has decided that only rightists can be Christians. Go figure!) In fact, he is a SOCIALIST! He is reported to have made the statement: ““SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West.” I hardly think such a statement would indicate any connection to the conservative movement in “The West.”
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting extremely fed up with the leftist media, or as J.D. refers to it, “The Government Controlled Press”, not doing their job. At one time, reporters prided themselves on getting the FACTS on any story. Now? They look at sites like Daily Kids, and pretty much parrot what the left wing loons spout. This is NOT news, nor should even be considered informative. But that’s what we are getting on ALL news channels now. I know….I can hear it now….”what about ‘Faux News’?” Yep, even Fox has their own loon blaming the “right” for one lone lunatic’s actions. Of course, the left think he’s the lone voice of ‘sanity’. Uh….no, actually. I started noticing his increasingly irrational rants a while ago, and flat out quit watching him. I’d much rather watch reruns of Wipe Swap on Lifetime.
This old man walks into a very moving museum, with years of hatred built up for just about anyone and everyone, shoots and kills a husband, a father, just doing his job, trying to support his family, and the media automatically assumes it’s the fault of anyone who is conservative. Don’t forget, I’m considered a potential “domestic terrorist” many times over: pro-life/anti baby murder, pro-military, pro-2nd Amendment, anti-socialist….and the list goes on and on. I know many people who feel the same way I do, but NONE of us would ever…..EVER consider going into ANY museum, or church and open fire. Would NOT happen! The only people who are in any danger from us are those who would try to strip us of our freedoms and property, and that, through the ballot box and Tea Parties. But don’t push us!
There are many mentally disturbed people in this country and the number seems to be increasing. The animal who murdered Stephen Johns is in no way shape or form associated with conservatives! He is a neo-Nazi! National or Democratic Socialist! I would have to say he would be closer associated with the DNC and the current crop of ‘rulers’.
James von Brunn, the man who allegedly shot and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., was a Darwin-lover who hated the Bible and Christians, and defies media efforts to classify him as a stereotypical “right-winger,” according to reports. (source)
Nope, he is DEFINITELY NOT one of ours! So, I’d appreciate it, in the future, that the media would check the facts. I know, I am asking a great deal of the lazy, but hey, one can only hope. Oh, and Sheppard Smith should be canned! Immediately!
Who, What, When, Where, Why and How! Learn it. Live it. Do your flippin’ JOB!
