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How Did I Spent The Majority of My Day?
Well, watching the Senate on C-Span of course. Ok, I’m a sick human being, but a VERY concerned American citizen! If you were one of the people who spared yourself from the indigestion, the Senate was debating on cloture. Well, the citizens of these great United States lost once again to the march of tyranny. The vote was 60-39 FOR cloture, which moved that piece of garbage, Reid’s so called Health Care Bill, closer to law. How did your Senator do?
Mine had enough sense to to vote “NO”.
Saturday Afternoon – Head Spinning – Laundry Time
Obama Loses Head, Names KSM Terrorism Czar – Feed Your ADHD
Swatting Flies with the Wednesday Funnies from TFMo! – Christmas Ghost
I have no confidence in the Army’s investigation – This Ain’t Hell
ClimateGate: Man-Made Global Warming May Be What Some Scientists Chose to be True – Blue Collar Muse
KFC goes halal in Brooklyn, coming soon to Manhattan – creeping sharia
Proof scientists were colluding to push man made global warming mantra – Right Truth
Heartbreaking – Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot
A sign the nation is going to hell – Nashville Blotter
Here comes your man … – The Nigh Seen Creeder
Word from Israel – Camp4U
These two signs together make for sort of an odd duck – From Where I sit
Obama: Professed 9/11 mastermind will be convicted – Texas Fred’s
Silence on Islam Kills, from Hassan to Honor Killings – Sultan Knish
History Says US Is Headed For Hell On Earth – Survival4Chicks
NO! NO! 1O TRILLION TIMES NO! NOBAMACARE! – Atlas Shrugs
Obama’s Foreign Policy – Unplugged – The Black Sphere
Indonesia: Muslim clerics claim 2012 Movie a “Provocation Against Islam” – Infidels Are Cool
Eric Holder Getting all GWB on Us? – Rustmeister’s Alehouse
A DISPLACED HOMEOWNER AND A PERSON OF GENDER! – Th’ Dumb Ol’ East Texas Boy
Obama’s expatriate years – American Thinker
Hollywood Partnering with Islamists – Bear Creek Ledger
So is the Obama admin a bunch of liars or just incompetent - Right from the Right
AG Holder Wants National Gun Registration – Alphecca
Cat is Out of the Bag on the Health Care ‘Trojan Viper’ – Dakota Voice
The Warning Signs Were Out There. – RADARSITE
San Fransicko Bookstore Considers ‘Going Rogue’ Too Icky to Sell – Moonbattery
The Fruit is the Thing – Digital Publius
The Dangerous Incorrectness of Political Correctness – Freedom’s Cost
It Isn’t Just Guns In “Bars” – The World According to Oatney
It’s Burkha Barbie! No, Seriously. I’m Not Kidding. Really – Stop The ACLU
An Observation
I’ve been watching the debate on the Senate floor, yesterday and this morning. Yes, I’m a glutton for punishment! 
I’ve noticed something quite telling. While the Democrats are speaking, I hear emotions. With the Republicans, I see and hear facts, figures, and logic. Am I biased? Perhaps. If I believed this bill would do anything to help in the costs of health care across the country, I would be a bit more supportive. But I get the impression that none of the Democrats have even read the bill.
Invoking the Bush years makes them look rather petty. Yes, Congress ran up the deficits during those years, and that’s why the Republicans lost the House in 2006. Does it not occur to them they will lose in 2010 for the same reason?
18 Signs of A Good Liberal
You may have seen this before, in some form or another. Personally, I had a sweatshirt that had some very similar sentiments. (Swiped from Real Conservatives.)
18 Signs of A Good (Progressive/Socialist/Communist) Liberal:
1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression, and governments create prosperity.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Iranians, Chinese and North Korean communists.
4. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical changes in the earth’s climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV’s.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can’t teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
9. You have to believe that hunters don’t care about nature, but PETA activists do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion Of The Christ for financial gain only.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried is because the right people haven’t been in charge.
17. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens, transvestites, and homosexuals should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
18. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.
Weasel Time
A Few Must Reads From The Foundry
The Senate Health Bill: Budget Gimmicks Galore
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled his 2,074 page health care bill with claims that the massive measure falls under the $900 billion cost threshold promised by the President.
To put it charitably, the truth is more complicated. The bill depends on budget gimmicks and unrealistic assumptions and projected savings to reach this goal over the 10 year budget window.
A Health Bill Nobody Believes In
Last Saturday night Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) forced through a vote on her 2,032 page health care bill only a few days after releasing it to the public. Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is poised for another Saturday night cram down, forcing a Senate cloture vote mere days before his 2,074 page bill was given to Senators. Yet again, Congress will be forced to vote on a bill that none of them have actually read. More importantly, as we pour through the details, it becomes obvious that none of them even believe the plan will do what the bill says.
Kills Jobs: All told, the Reid Bill raises taxes by $370.2 billion over the next ten years with many of those taxes starting to be collected this year while unemployment is at 10.2% and rising. Worse, the bill includes a job killing employer mandate which taxes companies for hiring people. Specifically, companies with more than 50 employees that do not offer a health plan approved by federal bureaucrats will be forced to pay a $750 per employee job tax.
The Senate Health Bill: True Cost is $4.9 Trillion
So, here’s the bottom line. On paper, the Reid plan plus the “doc fix” would increase total federal spending by about $4.9 trillion over 20 years. Senate Democrats would resort to bracket creep and other tax hikes to raise $2.2 trillion over the same period. The balance would be made up with spending reductions, mainly in Medicare, that no one believes can be sustained, and in any event do not constitute “health reform.” In other words, it’s a tax-and-spend bill of the highest order. And only the spending is certain to happen.
Take some time to read these.
Should Geithner Resign
Geithner feels pressure from left, right to resign
Geithner was forced to defend himself Thursday at a public hearing on Capitol Hill during which he was pointedly asked by Brady to resign.
DeFazio emphasized that there are growing concerns about Geithner among “populist” House Democrats, who have always been cautious about the Treasury secretary.
Geithner should never have been approved! Period! However, we can’t go back in time to stop the approval, even though many of us did try back then. He’s been proven to be totally incompetent, and most definitely should resign.
“Secretary Geithner has helped steer the American economy back from the brink, and is now leading the effort on financial reform,” Jen Psaki, White House spokeswoman, told The Hill. “His focus today — and ours — is on economic recovery and addressing the challenges the American people face every day. We invite anyone with good ideas, whether they agree with us or not, to be a part of the productive effort toward a solution.”
If the focus is on economic recovery, why is everything this administration, with the aid of their minions in Congress, doing everything possible to actually DESTROY the economy?
This week’s criticism was sparked by a report from Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general over the $700 billion bailout program. Barofsky concluded that officials at the Federal Reserve, including Geithner, who was head of the New York Fed, made a series of missteps in the bailout of American International Group (AIG).
They call them ‘missteps’. I call them down right criminal. The theft and a complete waste of taxpayer money.
“For the sake of our jobs, will you step down from your post?” Brady asked, saying that Geithner and the administration’s economic policies have “failed.”
Geithner defended himself, saying that the steps taken last year at the height of the crisis were necessary and that the economy has improved.
On what planet are these people living? Because it sure can’t be the same one I’m on! The official gubmint unemployment numbers are at 10.2%. Actual unemployment is more like 17%. If people aren’t working, they aren’t buying. If they are buying, there’s no need for production. If there is no production, there is no need to hire.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and six other House Democrats are seeking a comprehensive review of the Federal Reserve following Barofsky’s report.
But while Cummings has been critical of the Fed, he has not sought Geithner’s resignation.
“I’m glad you’re there,” Cummings said on Thursday. “I don’t know how many people could stand the pressure you’re dealing with.”
Yes, there is a great deal of pressure in such a position, I won’t dispute that at all. This is the guy who couldn’t handle the pressure of using Turbo Tax, so how is he suppose to manage the entire economy of a nation the size of the U.S.?
Just Out of Curiosity…
….I wanted to know how many times certain words were used in the Senate’s non-health care bill. Yes, I have been reading it, which is what got me to thinking, I’d like to know how many times certain words came up in the bill. It seemed, while reading through it, there were a lot more than what the count gave me, but oh well.
Here’s what I’ve come across so far:
Penalty – 115
Penalties – 48
Tax/Taxable – 511
Mandate/Mandated/Mandates – 7
Require/Requires – 1025
Internal Revenue – 104
Abortion – 21
Social Security Act – 392
ZoNation – Don’t Mess With My Womens!
Crime and Punishment
Criminalizing Health-Care Freedom
Heritage senior fellows Brian Walsh and Hans von Spakovsky have a new article out at NRO on the jail time provisions that exist in both the House and Senate bills. Read the whole thing, but here are some key graphs:
By transforming a refusal or failure to comply with a government mandate into a federal tax violation, the “progressives” are using the brute force of criminal law to engage in social engineering. This represents an oppressive, absolutist view of government power.
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The idea of imprisoning or fining Americans who don’t knuckle under to an unprecedented government mandate to purchase a particular insurance product should outrage anyone who believes in the exceptional promises and opportunities afforded by our basic American freedoms. The idea isn’t progressive but highly regressive, the equivalent of reinstituting debtors’ prisons, a punishment Americans eliminated 160 years ago.
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Many of the Americans who will surely ignore the government health-insurance mandate may not wind up in prison. But if noncompliance becomes too widespread, any one of us could become the example the feds prosecute to make sure the iron hand of the new Washington is clearly visible to other potential “criminals.”
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Unless this paternalistic juggernaut is stopped, Americans will lose some of their most fundamental freedoms, and the power of the federal government to impose novel requirements in every facet of our personal lives will have become virtually unlimited.
I guess I’m going to be one of those who ends up in jail, cuz I sure can’t pay the fine, and I have NO intention of being under the thumb of the likes of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. I suppose if I end up in prison, I’ll still be under their thumb, but I don’t think I’m going to be alone.
You Have GOT To Read This!!
Update: Yikes! Reckon I should have added….it’s a joke people! 
Swiped from Real Conservatives.
I Have A Pacemaker
Pages 858 to 1008 of Reid/ObamaCare: (.pdf):
Sec. 2521. National medical device registry.
Subtitle C—National Medical
10 Device Registry
11 SEC. 2521. NATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY.
12 (a) REGISTRY.—
13 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 519 of the Federal
14 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360i) is
15 amended—
16 (A) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub17
section (h); and
18 (B) by inserting after subsection (f) the
19 following:
20 ‘‘National Medical Device Registry
21 ‘‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall establish a national med22
ical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the
23 ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and
24 outcomes data on each device that—
25 ‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and
Sean Hannity’s Interview of Sarah Palin
This might annoy a few folks, but after watching this interview, I have gained a LOT more respect for this young woman.
2074 Pages of Control and Taxes
What does ‘first time homebuyers’ have to do with health care?
Senate Democrats’ Health Care Reform Bill
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s statement:
“While Americans have been clear about their opposition to thousand-page bills for new government programs, it’s now abundantly clear that Democrats haven’t been listening. This is yet another trillion-dollar experiment, but it is not what Americans bargained for.
“This bill has been behind closed doors for weeks. Now, it’s America’s turn, and this will not be a short debate. Higher premiums, tax increases and Medicare cuts to pay for more government—the American people know that is not reform.”
Ann on the Insanity of Diversity
At the End of the Day, Diversity Has Jumped the Shark
by Ann Coulter
It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: “Our diversity … is a strength.”
As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with its French and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinian populations.
Or consider the warring factions in India, Sri Lanka, China, Iraq, Czechoslovakia (until it happily split up), the Balkans and Chechnya. Also look at the festering hotbeds of tribal warfare — I mean the beautiful mosaics — in Third World hellholes like Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Central, L.A.
“Diversity” is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: “Cancer is a strength!” “Pollution is our greatest asset!”
