Saturday, December 15, 2012

Is the American Economy Being Deliberately Destroyed?

Stay with us on this, there is an educated guess regarding the subject.
Gulag Bound
"New Zeal Is the looming economic destruction of America deliberate? Bill Whittle thinks so. So do I."...

The Doctor Won’t See You Now; American health care is in a bureaucratic death grip.

Mark Steyn   ...."They gave her the usual form to fill in, full of perceptive inquiries on her medical condition: Do you wear a seat belt? Do you own a gun? How many bisexual men are you now having sex with? These would be interesting questions if one were signing up for eHarmony.com and looking to date gun-owning bisexuals who don’t wear seat belts, but they were not immediately relevant to her medical needs. Nevertheless, she complied with the diktats of the Bureau of Compliance, and had her medical records transferred, and waited . . . and waited. That was August. She has now been informed that she has an appointment with a nurse-practitioner at the end of January. My friend pays $15,000 a year for health insurance. In northern New Hampshire, that and meeting the minimum-entry requirement of bisexual sex partners will get you an appointment with a nurse-practitioner in six months’ time."
After much gifted satire, Mr. Steyn sums up his entire point with this assessment:
As I wrote a couple weeks ago, Obamacare governmentalizes one-sixth of the U.S. economy — or the equivalent of the entire French economy. No one has ever attempted that before, not even the French. In parts of rural America it will quickly achieve a Platonic perfection: There will be untold legions of regulators, administrators, and IRS collection agents, but not a doctor or nurse in sight.
Hat tip to Margi Hawks, Liberty, MO.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Connecticut school shooting: no law can abolish the human capacity for evil

UK Telegraph  "How do we comprehend evil like this? My Church has some observations. Man is fallen and so is capable of anything; in fact he has a genius for doing harm. We might choose to live in despair at this state of affairs, but we are offered some hope. Blogger Thomas Peters reminds us of Pope Benedict’s words when he visited the death camps of Poland: “In the face of the horror of Auschwitz there is no other response than the Cross of Christ: Love descended to the very depths of the abyss of evil to save man in his core.” "
Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy

Michigan Union Goons Threaten Governor Snyder: “We’ll Be At Your Daughter’s Soccer Game”…

Political Cartoons
Weasel Zippers  "Gov. Snyder later that day signed a bill into law making Michigan a right-to-work state. One of his daughters is a 16-year-old high school student.
" “Just know one thing, Rick Snyder: You sign that bill, you won’t get no rest,” Williams said. “We’ll meet you on Geddes Road. We’ll be at your daughter’s soccer game. We’ll visit you at your church. We’ll be at your office. More here
" “Because Michigan workers will not take it laying down — by any means necessary!” he said.
"Geddes Road is where the Snyder residence is located."
Political Cartoons by Henry Payne

Newtown, Conn. School District Had Recently Installed New Safety Protocols

CBS New York  "In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left more than two dozen people dead, including 18 children, CBS 2 has learned the school district had just installed a new safety policy designed to prevent situations such as what happened on Friday.

"At approximately 9:41 a.m. a gunman opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary School. Early reports indicated one child and the gunman, who has not been identified yet, were killed, but later the horror of what actually took place started to come to the surface. It was later learned a second person connected to the massacre was taken into custody, but the specifics of who he is and how he was possibly connected to the tragedy were not immediately known."

Removed article about Ryan Lanza because he WAS NOT THE SHOOTER. HIS BROTHER WAS, LATEST REPORTS SAY

Craig Andresen's Friday Fume

NATIONAL PATRIOT  "So, amid lunacy from socialists caught on camera dishing out violence in Lansing as our Emperor prepares for a 4 MILLION DOLLAR vacation as the rest of us head for the FISCAL CLIFF because HE wants to SOAK the so-called “rich” we have accomplished some GOOD things this week.

"We’ve helped Clint Tarver get back on HIS feet after his hotdog stand was destroyed by socialist goons AND…We sent off THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of Christmas cards to our military Heroes!!!"...

"I guess the EPA isn’t regulating ENOUGH of our lives yet and so…In Virginia…the Marxist agency now wants to regulate…
RAIN!!!
"First of all…in the last 90 days…the EPA has enacted 900 NEW REGULATIONS and they were all held in secret UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION!!!
"Now…They have determined that RAIN, at least in Virginia…IS A POLLUTANT!!!"....

Then he mentions these glorious words from Harry Belafonte:
“The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and put all these people in jail. They’re violating the American desire!"
As you may imagine, all my Belafonte 33 1/3 albums from the calypso days of the 1950's are now in a landfill with no regrets. TD

 "A newly proposed ARMY MANUAL HANDBOOK tells our SOLDIERS…"NOT to speak ill of the Taliban…
NOT to speak up for women’s rights and…
NOT to put PEDOPHILIA in a bad light?????
Yep.
THE POLITICALLY CORRECT WOMBATS OF SOCIALISM WANT OURS TO BE THE MOST POLITE ARMY ON THE PLANET!!!
...."WHAT ABOUT OUR CULTURAL NORMS??? YOU KNOW…LIKE DEFENDING OUR LIVES…OUR LIBERTIES…OUR FREEDOMS??? WHAT ABOUT THOSE??? WHERE ARE THOSE IN THE NEW HANDBOOK???
"AMONG THEM IS THE FREEDOM TO CALL THE ENEMY THE ENEMY AND ALLOWS FOR NOT-SO-HARRY BELEFONTES TO WISH OUT LOUD FOR A 3RD WORLD D**K-TATOR!!!!!"
Craig Andreson blogs at The National Patriot

Judicial Watch Lawsuit Forces Release of bin Laden Burial Records

We the People
"The Obama administration has no problem releasing classified secrets to the public if they believe it will make them look good or serve the liberal agenda. But if the administration believes it would be embarrassed by a certain disclosure, it is held tightly under lock and key."....
"But now the Obama administration is fighting Judicial Watch in court to keep secret the details surrounding bin Laden’s burial at sea. Why? Because, one might surmise, the details of bin Laden’s burial might be a great source of embarrassment for the administration."....
"However, if U.S. Navy regulations were followed, the remarks could have included the Muslim prayer,
“O Allah, forgive him, have mercy on him, pardon him, grant him security, provide him a nice place and spacious lodging, wash him (off from his sins) with water, snow, and ice, purify him … make him enter paradise and save him from the trials of grave and the punishment of hell.”
"I can imagine that this prayer might upset more than a few Americans."

House Dem's bill requires Treasury to study taxing cars by the mile

Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy
The Hill  " "We must invest now in our nation's roads, bridges and public transit to prevent enormous costs in the future," Blumenauer said Thursday. "With the Highway Trust Fund facing a 21 percent reduction revenue by 2040, based on current driving patterns and projected increases in fuel economy, we need innovative solutions to close this gap." "

How about this? Stop spending!  They will tax us for our mileage, then look for new programs to use the extra money on. When will the population get sick of liberals and the way they drive a nation into the ground?

Even the press is beginning to notice: Boehner is trying, Obama is not

Jennifer Rubin  "Let’s get over the notion that the Republicans are the ones preventing that “balanced” deal the president insists on securing. The New York Times (hardly the hotbed of the conservative media) acknowledges:"
Mr. Boehner has offered to raise his opening bid of $800 billion in increased tax revenue over 10 years, but only if the president makes a significant commitment to overhaul entitlements and slow their growth. The White House’s opening bid committed to pressing changes next year to federal health care programs that would save $400 billion over 10 years. The speaker wants a far larger pledge and a firm commitment that the president will put his political weight behind substantive changes to Medicare and the tax code.

Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel

California, there I go.

Does this mean all our tech support calls will be answered by some guy in India named Steve or Bob ?

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Scary video: US Debt Visualized With $100 Bills

American Glob  " This is one of the scariest videos you’ll ever see.
"You won’t believe how big a trillion is, let alone $16 trillion.  Via Moonbattery"

"Not even the boobs running the government could think this can be sustained. At the current rate of spending, Obama won’t even need the four years he has been given to collapse the economy as planned."

‘Shut Up!’ Neil Cavuto and Dem Rep. Battle it Out in Must See Interview

Noisy Room   "While discussing the looming “fiscal cliff” on Thursday, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) had a rather unpleasant exchange of words:"
Quoting from The Blaze:
Cavuto repeatedly pressed Rep. Johnson for specifics on what Democrats would be willing to cut as part of a budget agreement. For her part, the Texas congresswoman insisted on focusing on “revenue generation.”
“No, you told me things you’d do to raise taxes. That’s what you told me. Credits, allowances, that sort of stuff. That’s what you told me,” Cavuto said.
“You’ve got to talk about revenue generation,” the congresswoman replied.
“I know that, but it’s 100 percent of what you’re talking about, congresswoman,” said Cavuto.
“It is not 100 percent of what I’m talking about. If you’d shut up for just a second, I would try,” she responded.
Cavuto shot back: “You got to tell me one thing you’d cut. I beg you congresswoman, one thing you would say, I would cut this. What would it be?”
Rep. Johnson thought for a moment and responded: “You.”
A pause.
“You don’t know, do you?” asked Cavuto.
“Well, yes I do know, but I have to have time to explain it. I can’t tell you I’m going to walk in and cut this and cut that. First of all, it has to have be some type of dialogue. We have not had that,” she said.
Shortly after that, and a little after Rep. Johnson made a crack about Fox News “consulting with the Republicans,” Cavuto decided to end the interview and cut to a commercial break. When he came back, he issued an apology.
“Alright, first off folks, I want to apologize to the Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and to you who might have been offended by my interrupting the Congresswoman, not allowing a simple answer. But that’s all I wanted. A simple answer. What would you cut?” he asked.

The Fox News anchor continued, adding that “both sides have to bring something to the table. Both sides have to be specific and when they are not, it gets maybe a little bit ugly.”
“But I keep telling you here, I’ve done this to Republicans and to Democrats, I’ve done this to those who say they’ll outline revenues but never do, outline cuts but never do,” he added. “I’m not red or blue here. I’m just green and I’m seeing red right now for the craziness of all the green that’s going, but we got to do this sort of thing. We’ll stay on it.”