Socialized Medicine: Almost A Century Of Failure Already

Hot Air

"Progressives plan to make a big push for single-payer health care in the midterms, hoping to force Democrats even harder Left than in the past four Congressional election cycles. They want a Medicare-for-all system that will eclipse private health insurance, similar to what Bernie Sanders laid out in his 2016 Democratic primary campaign. The Center for American Progress has put pressure on current officeholders to take up the cause of single payer, with considerable success; 2020 presidential hopefuls such as Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris have all signed onto Sanders’ latest legislative effort to create the program.

"Before they start creating new single-payer systems, though, perhaps they should fix the broken single-payer systems already in place. The scandals at the Veterans Administration get plenty of coverage, especially given that the VA locks veterans into its own providers and forces them to pay retail for any outside medical care. But a report on the other major system, the Indian Health Service (IHS), shows much worse performance and for a longer period of time, The Hill reports:" . . .

But you assured us gay marriage would not lead to legalized bestiality

Don Surber  "Eric Zorn chuckled at the worries of we mere mortals last August.

" 'Somehow, people are not yet marrying their pets," Zorn wrote in the Chicago Tribune.

"More than 16 years after the Netherlands became the first nation to legalize same-sex marriage, more than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in the United States, bestiality remains illegal."

"Canada would like a word with Mister Zorn.

" 'Sex acts with animals are legal in Canada, so long as there is no penetration involved, according to a surprise ruling issued by the Supreme Court," the Independent reported.

" 'The determination stemmed from a case involving a British Columbia man convicted of 13 counts sexually assaulting his stepdaughters, including one count of bestiality. But the man, identified only as DLW, was acquitted of the bestiality count with the new ruling."

"This was a 7-1 ruling, meaning Canada has only one sane Supreme Court justice.

"We barely have five." . . .

So thankful we did not get her

Trump’s Generals Are Too Valuable to Be Dismissed

The real challenge for the generals has been how to warn enemies and reassure friends that past global provocations against U.S. interests will now be deterred — but without a major war.

Victor Davis Hanson

To fire any one of the three would be a disaster for the White House.

. . . "Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, Trump’s national-security adviser, is occasionally rumored to be a robotic PowerPoint wonk and hawkish interventionist who soon might be terminated. 

"Secretary of Defense General James Mattis is purportedly too much the centrist Democrat, and embarrassed by Trump’s antics and therefore might be leaving. 

"Of course, few cabinet or White House appointees ever serve throughout an entire administration. Burnout is natural. Lucrative private-sector job offers multiply monthly. Normal people do not enjoy living inside the Beltway. 

" Barack Obama had four defense secretaries, three national-security advisers, and five chiefs of staff. That is about par for a presidential tenure covering eight years. 

"But the problem with all these rumors of departing generals is not just that they are likely false and shopworn. They also make no sense because the three generals have been radically successful. In just a year, they have markedly enhanced U.S. national security as well as the image of the Trump administration itself. 

"The media, which are mostly anti-Trump, have always been schizophrenic in the coverage of the three generals. Some media outlets initially echoed old worries about too many Pentagon tentacles or the militarization of the executive branch. They forgot that generals, both active and retired, have long held administration jobs. General Colin Powell, for instance, served four different presidents, starting with his tenure as national-security adviser under Ronald Reagan. " . . .

General Kelly gets testy with Kamala Harris

Gen ( Mad Dog ) Mattis's reply to CNN's Wolf Blitzer

H.R. McMaster lead US tanks against Iraqi Republican Guard at 73 Easting.

Kimmel ATTACKS VP Pence’s Christian Faith At Oscars, Gets NASTY Surprise Backstage

Mad World News  . . . "Americans also had some choice words for Kimmel about his Pence joke. “Jimmy Kimmel says Hollywood makes films to upset Mike Pence. I can’t decide what’s more pathetic, making movies that nobody watches to get the Trump administration’s attention, or admitting to it,” tweeted Alana Mastrangelo.

Jimmy Kimmel says Hollywood makes films to upset Mike Pence. I can't decide what's more pathetic, making movies that nobody watches to get the Trump administration's attention, or admitting to it.— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) March 5, 2018

"“The statement is indicative of the goals of Hollywood, to use film as a propaganda tool of leftist ideology and philosophies,” responded Twitter user “Socialism Sux,” summing up how Hollywood uses these sick films, hoping to make our culture anti-Christian.

The statement is indicative of the goals of Hollywood, to use film as a propaganda tool of leftist ideology and philosophies— SocialismSux (@shipwreck_10304) March 5, 2018

"Sage Antone tweeted, “Correct. They no longer make movies for audiences. However, unlike the applauding seals in the audience, your children are safe around Mike Pence.” Now, there is some wisdom. If a homosexual pedophile movie is lauded as one of the best of 2018, maybe it’s Hollywood who is the problem in our society, not guns and not the NRA.

Correct. They no longer make movies for audiences. However, unlike the applauding seals in the audience, your children are safe around Mike Pence.— Sage Antone (@AntoneSage) March 5, 2018

"Don't Dare Sit with Us if You Want to Live"

Gatestone Institute

Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Persecution of Christians, September 2017

"They get paid for every Coptic Christian girl they bring in. In some cases, police provide the kidnappers with drugs they seize. The drugs are then given to the girls to weaken their resistance... I even know of cases in which police offered helped to beat up the girls to make them recite the Islamic creed." — World Watch Monitor, Egypt; September 14, 2017.

"On September 14, a court sentenced a Christian man to death for "blasphemy" against the prophet of Islam. Nadeem James, a 27-year-old father of two, was originally arrested in July 2016, after a Muslim angry with him for personal reasons falsely accused James, who is illiterate, of texting a poem deemed "blasphemous" of Muhammad. — Pakistan.

"School textbooks taught her that "it was the Christians who wanted to plunder the lands and the riches of the Muslim world" and Turks merely responded by "defend[ing] what was rightfully theirs." (In reality, modern day Turkey consists of territory that was Christian for more than a thousand years before it was conquered by Turks in the name of jihad.) "Everything is used to make the Christians look like villains," she said, adding, "It's the same all through Muslim countries." — Turkey.

Raymond Ibrahim is the author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (published by Regnery with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).

About that ICE Raid the Oakland Mayor Interrupted...

Cortney O'Brien  . . . She shared the notice with the intent to "protect" citizens, not frighten them, she wrote.

"Oakland is safer when we share information, encourage community awareness, and care for our neighbors."

"It turns out the community is much "safer" having been swept by ICE, as a sizable number of the people the agents arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area had violent criminal records. 

Of those 232, 180 “were either convicted criminals, had been issued a final order of removal and failed to depart the United States, or had been previously removed” from the country and had come back illegally.Another 115 “had prior felony convictions for serious or violent offenses.” (Fox News)

"Those convictions include aggravated assault, murder, a hit and run, lewd acts with a minor, burglary, cruelty toward a child, indecent exposure, domestic violence, drug trafficking, battery, sex offenses and false imprisonment, an ICE spokesperson told Fox." . . .

EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Conservative Parkland Massacre Survivor the Media Has Largely Ignored

Townhall

. . . "I ask[ed] him why he thinks that's the case. "I don't know," he says, hesitantly. "Maybe because I don't use inflammatory language.  I speak calmly and logically without much emotion. I don't necessarily make the very best headline."  He's politely referring to some of his more "famous" peers' propensity to launch provocative and partisan attacks, such as repeated assertions that people who disagree with their political or policy preferences "don't care" about dead children, or have 'blood on their hands.'  But Kashuv knows that the disparate treatment he's lived isn't merely attributable to stylistic differences; he's convinced that the substance of his views is what has diminished his appeal to many activists and journalists." . . . 

In case you didn't watch the Academy Awards....

The grand irony is that Kimmel and the Hollywood cohort no doubt think they are helping matters, ultra-virtuous warriors and deep thinkers, living monuments to the beatitudes of liberal progressivism – and that can only be good, because they are good, and they know they're good because they care.  

And the award for Most Insufferable Virtue-Signaling goes to...  . . . "So we are asked to engorge a banquet of self-aggrandizement from an endless conga line of over-lauded thespians, so deep into their method-acting role as, apparently, the wisest of the wise that they have actually come to believe it, utterly incapable of recognizing themselves for what they really are: politicized hacks whose happenstance has found them in the klieg lights, in front of a microphone, bent on convincing the world that people who disagree with them are, let's face it, no damn good." . . .

The best and worst moments of the Oscars  "Obviously, this year’s Academy Awards were never going to match last year’s utter disaster. But did the ceremony have to be so utterly boring? By the end of the nearly four-hour ordeal, it was a challenge to stay awake. Can’t wait to see how far the ratings plummeted from last year’s 32.9 million. Still, a few moments stood out." . . .

Oscars Early Ratings Tank, Show Sinks 16 Percent From Last Year

Oscars: Jimmy Kimmel Takes Shots at Donald Trump, Mike Pence and Fox News  "Well, that didn't take long. 
"Right off the bat, host Jimmy Kimmel took shots at Donald Trump during the opening of the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday night, including about the president tweeting from a gold toilet." 

Oscars: Celebrities Push Gun Control Surrounded by a Wall of 500 Armed Officers

". . . The Academy Awards allows the American people to enjoy seeing the most number of stars in one place without having to donate to the Democratic Party."    Comedian Argus Hamilton

‘Keep your damn mouth shut …’ ABC tries to get Dolly Parton to trash Trump and her answer is brilliant

BIZPAC Review  "Reaching all the way back to the iconic 1980 movie “9 to 5,” which featured Dolly Parton, ABC News tried in vain to get country music legend to denounce President Donald Trump by likening him to the sexist boss in the film.
“ 'The sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical portrayed so effectively in that movie by actor Dabney Coleman hasn’t exactly disappeared from the culture,” said Nightline correspondent David Wright. “We have a president of the United States who said the things on that bus.”

"That a “journalist” can espouse such rank bias without a trace of shame is another matter altogether, but Parton proved to be a little too sharp for Wright’s taste." . . .

I thoroughly detest computer voices as in this video.

Snopes Fact Checks, Facebook Threatens Satire Site for Mocking CNN

Big Journalism  "The Christian satire site Babylon Bee has been fact-checked by Snopes and threatened by Facebook after it published an Onion-style article about CNN about purchasing a washing machine to “spin the news.”

"The Babylon Bee openly advertises itself as a satire site. Recent headlines include, “Local Pastor Hoping Curling Metaphors Go Over Big This Sunday,” “Nation That Calls Trump ‘Hitler’ Demands He Take All Guns Away,” “Calvinist Dog Corrects Owner: ‘No One Is A Good Boy’,” and “New Exercise Bike Forces You To Watch Christian Movies Until You Hit Your Calories Goal.” . . .

. . . "This time, in order to protect the far-left CNN from ridicule, Snopes and Facebook worked in tandem to teach the Babylon Bee (and all of us) a lesson about mocking your betters.

"It all started with a Babylon Bee headline that read, “CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine to Spin News Before Publication,” and a few paragraphs of satire that are more goofy than biting…" . . .

Full article.

Maxine Waters: Trump Is ‘Racist’ For Questioning My IQ....as She Demands Reparations. Updated

The biggest danger to America is the voters who chose this woman for her office.
Trump Jokes About Maxine Waters Needing An IQ Test At Gridiron Dinner 
. . . "The humorless left is in full meltdown mode after last night’s Gridiron dinner at which Trump made some hilarious remarks about the various idiocies of the media and Democrats during his first full year in office." . . .

Video at the link.
Weasel Zippers  "Then everyone is racist."Via Daily Caller:

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters alleged Sunday that President Donald Trump is “racist” because he questioned her IQ level.On Saturday night, President Trump addressed the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, an event that is known for its humor. Trump took jabs at his own administration and many of his rivals, and at one point joked that Rep. Waters should “immediately take an IQ test.”Waters was afforded an opportunity to respond to the joke by Joy Ann Reid, host of MSNBC’s “AM Joy.”

Keep reading…

Waters promises 'reparations' if Dems take over in 2020  "How radical can the Democrats get if they take over the government again? What used to be an extreme position - reparations to black people for slavery - is now entering the mainstream of Democratic party thought and could become a reality once the Democrats regain power." . . .
. . . "If we want to get to the point where we can get reparations, we’ve got to have the power to do that, Number 1, by having a supportive president would be wonderful, but taking back the House would be absolutely wonderful ... I need to take back that House so that we can have a majority in that committee.' ”

Maxine Waters Wants Porn Star To Give “Her Interpretation” Of Trump’s Mental Health…

Update:  ‘Stop Blaming White People’ Sign Causes Stir At NJ Post Office