Monthly Archives: July 2009
It is getting closer!
The greatest time of the year is coming. CollegeFootball season baby!
Here is a clip of some Gator greatness from 1997
If you are a wealthy New Yorker
You might want to pray ObamaCare NEVER becomes law. And if it does, well you better invest the 41% of your income the government doesn’t take in this product! Your Liberal Arsses are GONNA NEED IT!
Um, I don’t think this is change they can believe in.
Congressional plans to fund a massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state’s top earners and possibly pressuring small-business owners to shed workers.
New York’s top income bracket could reach as high as 57 percent — rates not seen in three decades — to pay for the massive health coverage proposed by House Democrats this week.
The top rate in New York City, home to many of the state’s wealthiest people, would be 58.68 percent, the Washington-based Tax Foundation said in a report yesterday.
What did Dick Durbin say?
Well, he said this
From Fox Nation:
Democrats clearly enjoyed being on the other side of the confirmation process, defending a Democratic nominee.
“When we asked questions of the white male nominees of a Republican president, we were basically trying to … make sure that they would go far enough in understanding the plight of minorities, because clearly that was not in their DNA,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said.
Isn’t that RAAAAACIST? or is Durbin just an Expert in Forensic Bigotry?
Regarding Stomayor
No, I have not posted about the confirmation hearings because, frankly, they are a sham! A pure dog and pony show! She is going to get the gig, and the sad fact is, she is NOT qualified, but that IS what we get!
Now, let me ask a question here. Think, America, think what type of judge we would be in for if we had elected this man.
YEP! We would be looking at replacing a Liberal justiice with another Roberts or Alito. Think on that.
A modest proposal
A great piece by Ed Morrissey
Ladies and gentlemen of the Hot Air community, I have discovered an unfair disparity in access to a vital resource based on the economic condition of the consumer. This disparity is not just egregious, but it threatens the very core of our American way of life. People routinely get denied adequate and competent service on the basis of their ability to pay, even though they have a right to it, while the rich eat up all the resources with their ability to access the best and brightest in the field. And in the interest of fairness, the federal government needs to find a solution and impose it on the industry as a whole.
I refer, of course, to legal representation.
Oh, sure, in an emergency, the government will foot the bill for a public defender to represent the poor and indigent, but that’s hardly a comfort to those who needed a lawyer before getting into the emergency condition in the first place. Besides, while we have many dedicated public defenders, it’s hardly a news flash that the wealthy can afford much better representation and have a much better chance of prevailing in court in criminal cases. When the poor, working class, and middle class end up in that emergency situation, they can lose their homes and property to pay for decent legal care — and that shouldn’t happen in America, should it?
Obama said you could keep your health insurance! But……
Only if you do not try to change it, or get new coverage!
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:
“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
There it is folks. The “choice” of keeping your coverage s limited, VERY limited, and the choice of providing your OWN priavate health plan is, apparently, only until this chunk of Marxism becomes law.
Odd, isn’t it? How the party of “choice” is actively trying to KILL your choice of health care.
Of course, we all knew this was their goal didn’t we?
UPDATE!! Hot Air has a link from an Insta Pundit reader that says you CAN gt private plans after the bill becomes law, IF…
Investor’s Business Daily did not continue to read the bill to page 19. “Individual health insurance coverage that is not grandfathered health insurance coverage under subsection (a) may only be offered on or after the first day of Y1 as an Exchange-participating health benefits plan. ” It does not outlaw individual private coverage – you can still buy the plan on the Exchange where they will compete with the public option, not be replaced by it. The advantage of the Exchange, is that the coverage no longer has one of the problems of individual coverage – skyrocketing premiums should you become ill.
Read that VERY carefully, sounds like a big IF to me.
Plugs Biden: “We Have To Go Spend Money To Keep From Going Bankrupt” – CNS
Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.
“And folks look, AARP knows and the people with me here today know, the president knows, and I know, that the status quo is simply not acceptable,” Biden said at the event on Thursday in Alexandria, Va. “It’s totally unacceptable. And it’s completely unsustainable. Even if we wanted to keep it the way we have it now. It can’t do it financially.”
“We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation,” Biden said.
“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.” — Click HERE For Audio
The event, sponsored by the AARP – which supports the Obama administration’s plan – was attended by mostly AARP members who were bussed in for the meeting.
Biden told the group that the Obama health plan will not eliminate people’s ability to choose their health care insurance and that people who cannot afford insurance will be covered by the plan.
Favre almost a Viking
If this goes down, as I think it will, what a scene it will be when the Vikes visit the Packers.
Court Knew Man Jailed For A Year For Non-Support Was Not Child’s Father – AJC
Frank Hatley has languished in a South Georgia jail for more than a year. The reason? He failed to reimburse the state for all the public assistance his “son” received over the past two decades.
The problem? Hatley is not the biological father — and a special assistant state attorney general and a judge knew it but jailed Hatley anyway.
“I feel bad for the man,” Cook County Sheriff Johnny Daughtrey said Tuesday. “Put yourself in that man’s shoes: If it wasn’t your child, would you want to be paying child support for him?”
Daughtrey said he hopes a hearing Wednesday will resolve the matter. Hatley has been held at the county jail in Adel since June 25, 2008, costing the county an estimated $35 to $40 a day.
Even after learning he was not the father, Hatley paid thousands of dollars the state said he owed for support. After losing his job and becoming homeless, he still made payments out of his unemployment benefits.
Hatley’s lawyer, Sarah Geraghty of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, said two independent DNA tests — one nine years ago and one just a few days ago — prove he is not the biological father.
“This is a case of excessive zeal to recover money trumping common sense,” she said. “What possible legitimate reason can the state have to pursue Mr. Hatley for child support when he does not have any children?”
Pentagon Strong-Arms Private Company Into Firing Soldier For Questioning Obama’s Eligibility – WND
The Department of Defense has compelled a private employer to fire a U.S. Army Reserve major from his civilian job after he had his military deployment orders revoked for arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office.
According to the CEO of Simtech Inc., a private company contracted by the Defense Security Services, an agency of the Department of Defense, the federal government has compelled the termination of Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook.
Cook’s attorney, Orly Taitz, wrote in her blog that Simtech CEO Larry Grice said he would try to find another position within the company for Cook, but nothing is currently available.
The Department of Defense does contracting in the general field of information technology/systems integration, at which Cook, a senior systems engineer and architect, was employed until taking a military leave of absence on July 10 in preparation for his deployment to Afghanistan.
“Grice told plaintiff, in essence, that the situation had become ‘nutty and crazy,’ and that plaintiff would no longer be able to work at his old position,” Taitz wrote.
Grice made clear that it was Defense Security Services that had compelled Simtech to fire Cook, Taitz wrote.
According to the report, Grice told Cook “there was some gossip that ‘people were disappointed in’ the plaintiff because they thought he was manipulating his deployment orders to create a platform for political purposes.”
The Simtech CEO then discussed Cook’s expectation of final paychecks, without any severance pay, and wished the soldier well.
Messages left with Grice’s office had not been returned at the time of this report.
“A federal agency (such as the Department of Defense, acting through the Defense Security Services Agency) clearly violates the Whistleblower Protection Act if it takes or fails to take (or threatens to take or fail to take) a personnel action with respect to any employee or applicant because of any disclosure of information by the employee or applicant that he or she reasonably believes evidences a violation of a law, rule or regulation; gross mismanagement; gross waste of funds; an abuse of authority; or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety,” Taitz wrote.
“What has happened in the present case of Stefan Frederick Cook is that a federal agency appears to have taken action against Stefan Frederick Cook’s private employer, Simtech, Inc., which is a closely held corporation owned and operated by members of a single family, who are as much victims of the Department of Defense’s heavy-handed interference with plaintiff Cook’s private-sector employment as is plaintiff Cook himself.”
Why you should fear ObamaCare
Be afraid! Be VERY, VERY afraid! I am getting a late start today posting about this, so, I am going to give y’all some links to several blogs that are dissecting this looming chunk of Marxism.
Babalu:Welcome to Socialized Medicine
Donald Douglas Obama will ration health care He will have to, the bureaucracy will demand it.
Blue Crab Boulevard sees what is coming Best grab your ankles America!
Doug Powers looks at how the health care bill will make health care not just a right, but a Mandatory Right!
Flopping Aces has details of what the House passed today
Gateway Pundit has a map to the Marxist Hell to come
Here is an interesting piece I found on NRO Will illegals kill Obamacare?
The scariest part of this bill, should it pass, is in the fine print, as Ed Morrissey points out
Sure the supporters of ObamaCare say that the “rich” can pay. Even the Washington Post knows better! H/T Just One Minute
Meanwhile the Left Coast Rebel is asking why there is no debate
Oh boy! More Infommercials! I mean Indoctimmercials!
Moonbattery gives us some contact info for some Democrats that need to hear from us
William Teach has some realy bad news about ObamaCare. Aparently it will outlaw sex! No, not really, but that word caught your eye, now click the link you perv!
Lots more at Pundit & Pundette!
PatAustin has the word of the day unaffordable! As in ObamaCare is going to destroy the economy. Pat has lots of other informative links you should read too.
Let’s give the final word to Lance Burrie shall we?
OK that is IT! I am never reading Jammie Wearing Fool again!
Actually, I am lying, I will, because it is a great blog, even though I might be forced to endure the occasional Hey waiter there is a tampon in my steak post!
Ouch! Climate Change takes another shot to the nads!
Gorezilla must be ANGRY overt this!
While Congress debates a cap-and-tax proposal that will kneecap the American economy and drive jobs overseas, the so-called scientific consensus for global warming took a shot to the solar plexus. USA Today reports on a new study that calls into question the entire basis for the modeling that drives the “greenhouse gas” theory of climate change. In fact, its co-author says that climate change modeling is “fundamentally wrong” and that carbon alone did not drive the the rapid warming of the Earth 55 million years ago.
But,I thought there was no scientific disagreement!
Meghan McCain goes Big Tent again!
Meghan McCain, and her idiot followers, the Meghan McCain Republicans, YES I COINED THAT ONE! are all about the GOP being a “BIG TENT PARY”!
So I ask, if Meghan really desires a big tent, why does she continue to say things like this?
Meghan McCain: “Joe the Plumber –You Can Quote Me — is a Dumbass”
OK, so I quoted you Meghan. Now, how are such statements “big tent” in their nature Meghan? I mean you are the one squawking about a more “inclusive” party right ? So, Meghan, I will ask in the cool-like-that lingo you can grasp. WTF Meghan?
Just in closing, I must remind Miss Meghan that people like her, who get such joy because the media and Liberals praise them, are the true “dumbasses”. They are stupid enough to think that Democrats and the media really like them. No Meghan, they are nice to you because you are saying the things they WANT you to say. In other words Meghan, they see you as a useful idiot! Or, if you prefer a useful dumbass!
So, what do baseball fans prefer?
A live appearance by Barack “I throw like a girl” Obama, or a taped message from W? Hmmm, who would get more cheers? Sorry Barack!
Who says Leftists act like spoiled children?
Well, I have repeatedly, as has my blogging partner here. Oh and the latest example of the absolute immaturity of the Left? I found that in Carol’s Closet! Man there is a LOT of stuff in that closet! Via Say Antything Blog
To help you understand this I’m going to give you a visual. Think of a little girl, all red in the face, hands on her hips and stomping her little foot. Got it? Okay, now put it together with this:
Hilarious: HuffPo Says Sarah Palin Had No Authority To Write An Op-Ed In The Washington Post
The little girl’s name is Art Brodsky and she is throwing a hissy fit because Sarah Palin wrote an op-ed on Cap and Tax and The Washington Post published it. Except she (Brodsky) doesn’t think that she (Palin) wrote it and even if she (Palin) did write it, they (The Post) shouldn’t have posted it. According to Brodsky, WaPo already carries “conservative” opinion and by way of example cites Kathleen Parker. Seriously.
The only one I can think of is to “get people talking” about the Post page. To create “buzz.” Well, there’s good “buzz” and bad “buzz.” This is definitely the latter. It’s not only that Palin has no constituency to speak of. It’s not even that she has been trashed by the right, in addition to criticism by the left. She has no authority to write an article like this and the Post has no business running one.
Talk about stuck on stoopit!
Obama’s Science Czar Wrote Book Recommending Compulsory Sterilization, Abortion – Washington Examiner
Internet reports are now circulating that Obama’s Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren, penned a 1977 book that approved of and recommended compulsory sterilization and even abortion in some cases, as part of a government population control regime.
Given the general unreliability of Internet quotations, I wanted to go straight to this now-rare text and make sure the reports were both accurate and kept Holdren’s writings in context. Generally speaking, they are, and they do.
The Holdren book, titled Ecoscience and co-authored with Malthus enthusiasts Paul and Anne Ehrlich, weighs in at more than 1,000 pages. Of greatest importance to its discussion of how to limit the human population is its disregard for any ethical considerations.
Holdren (with the Ehrlichs) notes the existence of “moral objections to some proposals… especially to any kind of compulsion.” But his approach is completely amoral. He implies that compulsory population control is less preferable, because of some people’s objections, but he argues repeatedly that it is sometimes necessary, and necessity trumps all ethical objections.
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