You wanna fight? Game on.

They'll just come up with some snarky derogatory terms for you Ilya. They'll call you an imperialist Jew, they'll call you a racist homophobe. They'll call you all the "idiot" names in their arsenal. They won't debate you Ilya. They can't afford to lose this in the court of their own public opinion--let alone pay your travel expenses...

In related news there's that doctor down in Florida who hung this sign outside his office:

Now that is the type of debate I can go for.  And btw, the Orlando Sentinel took a poll asking whether or not this doctor is doing the right thing, here are the results as of 2:25 Pacific:

Poll: OK for doctor to protest health-care bill by shunning Obama voters?

Lake County urologist Dr. Jack Cassell has put up a sign on his office door reading, "If you voted for Obama seek urologic care elsewhere." What do you think?

What is your reaction to Dr. Jack Cassell's actions?

• Good for him. Obamacare will be a disaster, and we should keep fighting it. (37461 responses)
• 83%                                                                                                              
  
• Get over it, Doc. Health-care reform was badly needed, and this is just more sour grapes from the GOP. (2528 responses)
• 6% 
• Prescription for trouble. No matter what you think of the health-care overhaul, doctors should not impose their political views on patients. (5175 responses)
• 11%   

45164 total responses

(Results not scientific)

Looks like both the courts of public opinion and the courts of law are going to have a hey day with this.

He just don't get it.

Here is a little snippet of president Obama's little speech about that little bill that just became a BIG LAW:



Why does he keep doing this? Blaming the insurance companies for the federal government's failures?  Quite simply, it is the dynamic, singular regulation of this industry which has stifled and spoiled it.  I won't toy with the idea that he's ignorant, I think he knows what's going on--has been going on for quite some time now.

Only private insurance is restricted from doing business across state lines.  Only private insurance has to contend with an entity which constantly passes laws in favor of itself and against its competitors.  Only private insurance is answerable to the very people who want it destroyed.  Only private insurance companies have to battle with a competitor with unlimited resources who can print money, bribe people with that money, and use their coerced henchmen as agents of usurpation in any way they see fit.  Only them.  And here you thought the democrats were all about "fairness".

Let's be clear, this problem of over-regulation and restriction is not the Obama administration's fault.  This has been going on for a hundred years.  I for one find it funny that the government believes it can replenish the fields IT IRRADIATED by irrigating them with the same poisonous waters it killed them with in the first place.  Funny.  Funny. Funny.

Not so funny:

It was the government that institutionalized the poorly conceptualized 'cost plus' system with Medicaire. 

It was the government that encouraged provider-based health care systems of delivery and pre-enrollment.

It was the IRS itself that allowed the institutionalization of employer-paid insurances-a practice bereft of quality and ripe for the picking and abuse by labor organizations--which the government allowed encouraged mandated through legislation and interventionism.

It is the government's own tax code that encourages 'first-dollar' insurance options as tax avoidance measures--that is to say: if we can save money and get weaker insurance, we will do so almost every time.

It was the government that enacted the so-called "experience rating" which drastically skewed any equatable coverage system across the board.

It was the government that instituted Medicaire A and B, third party payer systems that have proven our humanness: if someone else is paying for it (with imaginary money) LET'S GO SHOPPING!

It was the government who bribed the medical industry into accepting these fruitless, enslaving plans.

It was the government that created the ill-conceived Health Maintenance Organization (in order to fix all the aforementioned problems the government itself created). The HMO failed as a cost-saving measure, as a quality-of-care measure and as a linchpin of fiscal security.

It is the government's own state-mandated insurance policies which have effectively costed people out of the health insurance market, historically (small businesses)and it is the oncoming mandates that will force them beyond that, into bankruptcy and liquidation.

We could go on and on and on. The governmental restrictions and regulations on the health insurance industry are a blight on the economic prowess of this nation and it will continue to be exactly that...and worse.

So yes, Mr. president, we will fight you tooth and nail, while we still have a doctor willing to fix our broken teeth and a manicurist able to stay in business long enough to weather this torrent of idiocy you have just signed into law.

Source.

I'm Just a Bill: Obama Stizzzyle (yo)

The hand stays and you're gonna pay for it.

That's it.

Theft, Lies and Coercion: A leftist gameplan

A Facebook response to another Facebooker posting a highly Digged story about the stupidity of tea-partiers:

...I applaud your effort to limit government, but think it's a bit hyperbole. (yes, sometimes that's how you get someone to listen, but it turns my ears off.) I like this quote from a doctor "I am a doctor. Here is my plight: I will have to pay more in Medicare taxes and take a pay cut at the same time. Having said this, I see patients daily ... that have no money for the medicine they need to live. They return to the E.R. numerous times for their "health care." And guess who pays the E.R. bill? You and I. Either we let these people die at the door of the hospital because they cannot pay. Or, we pay for their health care. There is no other option ... I have a conscience. I won't let my fellow American die at the door. I'll pay for her health care. God forgive me, and the rest of you who complain about it. "

Hmm.  "...turns my ears off."  No wonder these lefties can't learn anything.

I always wondered how people like the person who posted this define "conscience" and how do they justify thievery and coercion?

Now I know.   They simply make up a story about a "doctor" who doesn't know enough about the law to practice medicine...in any state.

A doctor?  Really?  Then he would know that no one is going to "die at the door of the hospital" because they don't have insurance.  He would know that federal law has required doctors to care for people-even if they cannot afford the care-for a long time.  And before the law enforced it, the hippocratic oath enforced it (too bad doctors did themselves in by doing away with the oath in the 70's, eh?)  That quote is a blathering lie and is not from a doctor (unless he's a complete moron).

And it's not just nitwits on FB and Twitter who are saying this.  Remember Chuckie Schumer's infamous:  They're DYING!  AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!!

In my state (Oregon) there has been a minimum of charitable care (uncompensated care) hospitals have been required to provide for some time now.  Yes, An actual law that says they pretty much have to work for free!

Makes you wonder what the term "conscience" means to people like this, doesn't it?  But hey, if they can make up quotes from "doctors" and cherry pick among Tea Party members, I can do the same thing...it's only "fair", right?

Tea: Define "Conscience"

Lefty: Uh, like, to like steal from people is ok if you've really convinced yourself that you deserve or need their stuff more than they do.

Tea: Did you know that hospitals have been required for a long time to service people in need of medical attention whether they have insurance or not.

Lefty:  Yeah, but we all have to pay for that care and that's like, not fair or something.

Tea:  Did you know that many states have had laws requiring hospitals to meet a minimum of charitable care each year?

Lefty: So!  That, like, doesn't count...or something!

Tea:  Did you know that the U.S. Postal Service loses 14.4 million pieces of mail each year?

Lefty:  What does that have to do with, like, healthcare?

Tea:  Hmm...maybe nothing.  Maybe everything.  I for one don't really want to find out if they have anything to do with each other.

Lefty:  You're an idiot, uneducated loser.  And you have no conscience!

Tea:  Fine.  Let's talk about fairness.  That's what lefties are really talking about when they say "conscience" isn't it?

Tea:  Name one other industry that is so regulated that it is not allowed to do business across state lines?

Lefty:  Uh...

Tea: O.K. Maybe an "unfair" question.

Lefty:  Yeah!

Tea:  Can you name one commercial entity that is restricted against doing business across state lines but has a competitor who is allowed to do so without impunity?

Lefty:  ...

Tea:  Does that scenario sound fair to you?

Lefty:  People are DYING!  They are DYING!

Tea:  Right.  It is so vital and imperative that we do something now. That is why this law will have no effect on the health system in this country for four years.

Lefty:  What?

Tea:  Yawn.  This is getting too easy.  You ask me a question now.

Left:  Yeah!  Ok.  Why do you hate people so much?

Tea:  Because they steal from me and justify the theft with lies and enforce the lies with coercion.  That's why.

That's it.

When "abortion on demand" becomes "abortion by command"

Abortion Funding Debate Rages

Yep. That silly little executive order won't mean anything. Neither will the Hyde amendment, by the time this Congress gets done with it.

I feel a Lee Greenwood song coming on...

Here is Mr. Stupid Stupak admitting the toothless nature of Obama's over-zealous tendency to sign executive orders on a whim:



Yes, I allowed Obama to lie to me and knew he was lying when he did it...

/snarky cynicism

Consummatum est

It's over.

Adolf Pelosi wins.

You can watch the demise of the Republic HERE.
 
I certainly hope everyone will remain calm.  Have some cookies and milk.  Hell, I dunno, go to the batting cage and whack a few dents into some balls or something.

Whatever you do, don't sit and stew.

Ok, wait.  Here.  I got it:  READ THIS.

That might help...

A e-group hug?

Not quite a haiku...but maybe poetry helps:

You're going to live.  You're going to die.  Between, there will be you and I.

Hmm.

That's all I got.

That's it.  That's all.

Sunday Morning Smackback

Along the lines of my last series of posts regarding Peter (the Rat) DeFazio, and the willingness of democrats to sell out their constituency,  this morning on Prof.  Jacobson's site he asks the following question:

"What if Barack Obama were not President, and Democrats did not control Congress. Would liberals be so willing to give the federal government this sweeping power?"

My answer to this would be:  Well, yeah, duh.

Here is the proof, in part.  The voting record for the 2001 NCLB act: 

No Child Left Behind.

Clearly the vote was bilateral.  Clearly the bill was socialistic.  Clearly the Democrat Party is mostly full of progressive spenders...and, CLEARLY SO IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.  Please keep trying to sell us on the idea that the Democrats are the only anti-American party.  Please!

For sure, Prof. Jacobson sees the health care reform bill as more of a "sweeping" power grab, and in terms of dollars, he is right, but in terms of importance, he's a million miles off.  Why is it that the democrats hid behind children in their fight to justify this health care reform?  Because, we all know the power the child wields in political discourse, as political tools.  And we all know why they can constantly get away with it.

Next, we could talk about the "sweeping" superfascistic powers granted to the executive via The Patriot Act.  But it's Sunday, and I'll not use the Lord's name in vain today, which inevitably happens when I talk about that Godda--

Ugh.

All that said, I'll also take note of Prof. Jacobson's points made via Randy Barnett and simply say that, yes, I agree: the health care bill is unconstitutional.  And that is the real issue here.  HOW a thing is unconstitutional is less important to me than the fact that it IS unconstitutional, in the end.  And in the end, a vast array of legislation that has come out of Washington--from BOTH sides of the isle--goes against the grain of the Constitution.  That, is the problem.

And that is it.  That is all.

What it takes for an Oregon democRat to sell out

Friday, Peter (The Rat) DeFazio mentioned some kind of something about why he was going to vote no on President Obama's health care bill.  He said, in some fuzzy, nondescript, roundabout way that the rural areas in Oregon would be treated unfairly in this bill.  So, being the man of principle that he is, he held out until he got what he wanted from Obama and the DemocRats.

Sorry to do this to you again...

NOT.

He got nothing of the kind.  If fact, he really didn't GET anything at all.  He got a promissory note from Obama--a man that has failed to keep his word in just about everything.  Yeah, real smart guy, this DeFreakio.

I love Oregon.  I love my city, Portland.

But...

You know what our most popular bumper sticker is?  "KEEP PORTLAND WIERD".  It should say "KEEP PORTLAND STUPID"  But then, Defazio is doing a damned good job of both.

DeFazio's 2nd Fifteen...

...minutes of fame.  This makes it 30 minutes and yes, you can demand that extra allotted time returned to you in kicker form forthwith.  Godspeed to you.

Actually, I was thinking...maybe DeFazio is the smartest guy on the planet.  (Shh...I did NOT just say that).

Smart, because by stating his displeasure with the would-be rural dispensation (or "lack" thereof) under this bill, he makes his liberal friends look bad for accepting a bill that doesn't do what it is supposed to in the leftist way of thinking.  I mean, what are they gonna say when he lambastes them for betraying their ideology point-blank?

Doubly smart, because by voting NO, Republicans and the rest of us will breathe our little, insignificant, individual sighs of relief and maybe stay off his case for fifteen (AND ONLY FIFTEEN) minutes.

TRIPLY smart, (I know, this is getting to the point of outlandish fiction), because he just might be able to finnagle a little sump'in sump'in for his little paltry district.  I'm sure he'll demand more cucumbers with which grade schoolers can practice fitting prophylactics on...

And that makes Peter DeFazio at least THREE TIMES SMARTER THAN THIS GUY:




Oh, I dunno. Maybe not.

That's all.

DeFazio Shoots for Fifteen

...minutes of fame.

Ooh!  Look at me!  I'm in major news outlets and shit!  I'm Peter Defazio and I KICK ASS!

So, why did Peter DeFazio (Oregon, Socialist) elect to change his vote on the health-care reform to "no"?

It's simply not socialist enough for him.



Oh, c'mon, that's gotta make you laugh somethin' wicked.




That's all.

We won what? How many times? And now we're...wait a second!

Here is a list of all Nobel Laureates for Medicine from 1901 to date.  I have no idea what major legislation could possibly prompt a person to seek out such a list and translate (for your ease) the country of each winner.  Certainly there must be a lesson to be learned from this list.  Certainly.

Thanks to my wife, Karey for her assistance in this.

• 2009 - USA USA USA
• 2008 - DE FR FR
• 2007 - USA USA UK
• 2006 - USA USA
• 2005 - AU AU
• 2004 - USA USA
• 2003 - USA UK
• 2002 - UK UK USA
• 2001 - USA UK UK
• 2000 - SE USA USA
• 1999 - USA
• 1998 - USA USA USA
• 1997 - USA
• 1996 - AU CH
• 1995 - USA USA GER
• 1994 - USA USA
• 1993 - UK USA
• 1992 - USA CH/USA
• 1991 - DE DE
• 1990 - USA USA
• 1989 - USA USA
• 1988 - UK USA USA
• 1987 - JAP
• 1986 - USA ITA/USA
  
• 1985 - USA USA
  
• 1984 - DK DE ARG/UK
  
• 1983 - USA
• 1982 - CH CH UK
  
• 1981 - USA USA SE
  
• 1980 - USA FR USA
  
• 1979 - USA UK
  
• 1978 - CH USA USA
  
• 1977 - USA USA USA
  
• 1976 - USA USA
  
• 1975 - USA USA USA
  
• 1974 - BE BE USA
  
• 1973 - DE AT UK
  
• 1972 - USA UK
  
• 1971 - USA
• 1970 - UK SE USA
  
• 1969 - USA USA USA
  
• 1968 - USA USA USA
  
• 1967 - SE USA USA
  
• 1966 - USA USA
  
• 1965 - FR FR FR
  
• 1964 - US DE
  
• 1963 - AU UK UK
  
• 1962 - UK USA UK/NZ
  
• 1961 - USA
• 1960 - AU UK
  
• 1959 - USA USA
  
• 1958 - USA USA USA
  
• 1957 - IT
• 1956 - USA DE USA
  
• 1955 - SE
• 1954 - USA USA USA
  
• 1953 - UK USA
  
• 1952 - USA
• 1951 - ZA
• 1950 - USA SE USA
  
• 1949 - SE PT
  
• 1948 - CH
• 1947 - USA USA AR
  
• 1946 - USA
• 1945 - UK UK AU
• 1944 - USA USA
  
• 1943 - DK USA
  
• 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1939 - DE
• 1938 - BE
• 1937 - HU
• 1936 - UK AT
  
• 1935 - DE
• 1934 - USA USA USA
  
• 1933 - USA
• 1932 - UK UK
  
• 1931 - DE
• 1930 - AT
• 1929 - NE UK
  
• 1928 - FR
• 1927 - AT
• 1926 - DK
• 1925 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1924 - NE
• 1923 - CA CA
  
• 1922 - UK DE
  
• 1921 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1920 - DK
• 1919 - BE
• 1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1917 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1915 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1914 - AT
• 1913 - FR
• 1912 - FR
• 1911 - SE
• 1910 - DE
• 1909 - CH
• 1908 - RU DE
  
• 1907 - FR
• 1906 - IT SP
  
• 1905 - DE
• 1904 - RU
• 1903 - DK
• 1902 - UK
• 1901 - DE

DE=Germany
CH= Switzerland
AU=Australia
SE= Sweden
DK=Denmark
ZA=South Africa (Union of-funded by USA)
PT=Portugal
BE= Belgium
HU= Hungary
AT= Austria
CA= Canada
RU=Russia

Here are the totals of some notable countries with the distinguished award on their national mantles.  Of course, nothing striking sticks out on this list at all.

USA:  92
United Kingdom:  18
Germany:  15
France:  9
Switzerland:  5
Australia: 5
Canada: 2
China: 0

Let it be known that my eyes kind of hurt after all this sorting and looking up the stupid abbreviations for these stupid countries, so I may have made a mistake or two.  I, for certain, will never be awarded a Nobel Prize for anything--especially not math.  This list was compiled by cross-referencing the list of winners by name at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/ with the year-by-year bios on each winner(s).

That's it.  That's all.

Meanies on the Left of me Meanies on the Right

We already know the Democrats of my generation are big meanies.  They're rude, lascivious, condescending and blatant screamers-in-the-face of even the most minor opposition.  We're used to that.  We've seen their handbook.  In fact, I'd have to say that the pro single-payer or government option or abortion-on-demand lefties have been fairly (I said FAIRLY) low-key during this whole process.  Perhaps they woke up one day and saw all the angry tea-partiers and town hall participants and said "whoa!  we woke the beast!"  Maybe.  But now...now they've seen the ripples of the center-right majority and staunch conservatives combine with the libertarian-minded into as big a wave as it can probably get and they're ready to shore up the defense.

Poor Bart Stupak.  Well, actually, he is a congressman, he should be prepared for a little strife when making an unpopular stand--a stand opposite that of nearly every democrat I've ever met:  abortion is a right.  I've seen first-hand the physiological transfiguration that happens to lefties when they even have to glance at pro-life literature.  They get all red in the face and their muscles tense up, it's like looking at a gyrating Daffy Duck right before he's about to blow up into a thousand pieces.  And now, the very health care bill they so desperately want passed could quite possibly be exactly that which they fear the most:  two thousand pages of pro-life literature.  Poor Bart.  I feel for you, bro.  I feel even more for your wife:


"The fight has taken a toll on his wife, who has disconnected the phone in their home to avoid harassment.
“All the phones are unplugged at our house — tired of the obscene calls and threats. She won’t watch TV,”  --The Hill

Obscene phone calls and threats.  Sounds about right...for the left.


But if you think the left has the meanness market cornered, think again.  Actually, no, you wouldn't think that, because that's all you ever hear about the tea parties.  They are ignorant, idiotic, racist, etc, etc, etc.  The "racist" one I find especially annoying.  Is it not common knowledge that the VAST majority of black voters are democrats?  In case you didn't know, NINETY FIVE PERCENT OF BLACK VOTERS VOTED FOR OBAMA IN 2008...hopefully that is clear enough for you.  So then, of course you won't find a lot of black voters at a tea party.  But the fact that you find any black Americans at anti-healthcare rallies really, really, really makes the left utterly, insanely irate.)

But the right can get irate too.  Yes.  They can.  Usually it takes someone trying to cram some neo-socialist crap down there throat.  But sometimes, when they are already stewing, all it takes is for some random guy to cross the street and goad them into acting out:



Yeah, throwing money at a guy with a sign that says he has Parkinson's disease isn't very nice. I suggest not doing this. In fact I strongly urge against it. Even if the street was acting as a barrier between the pro health care advocates and the protesters and this guy decided he was entitled to be the only one to cross the street and park his dog and pony show right in the face of the opposition.  So he got a little back in his face.  And what, forty bucks to boot?  Kind of ironic isn't it, that the protester had to pay cold hard cash in order to be mean.  Heck, I might go pose as a guy with chronic restless leg syndrome and park my wriggly self on the street if it's a paying position.

Meh.  In the end we all see only what we want to see.  And I suppose the self proclaimed Parkinson's victim was the equivalent to democrat maddening pro-life literature for that angry, WHITE guy.

That's it. That's all.

Your Own Private Idaho

When it comes down to it, health care reform on the federal level is unconstitutional as it stands.  And any bill that requires American citizens to buy anything is not only unconstitutional, it goes against the liberty engendered by the founding documents as a whole.  I've said it all along, the 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants the states rights that are not afforded to the U.S. government.  If your state wants health care reform, good luck, you're state is well within its rights to do so.

Your state is also well within their rights to tell the Feds to go to H E double toothpick.  And they will.

This from FOXNEWS via the Associated Press:

Idaho Becomes First State to Sign Law Against Health Care Reform

AP

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter is the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue the federal government if Congress passes health care reform.


"Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter is the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue the federal government if Congress passes health care reform.
Legal experts say the measure, signed Wednesday, will likely be struck down. But Idaho's new law reflects growing frustration with President Obama's health-care proposal.
Legislation similar to Idaho's is pending in as many as 37 other states nationwide.
Democrats in the nation's capital are hoping to pass health care reform by this weekend.
The American Legislative Exchange Council created the model legislation for Idaho and other states. The Washington, D.C.-based, nonprofit says Idaho is the first to sign a version into law"

Yep.  That's it.

Plays Nice With Others

Dennis Kucinich:  American Socialist.  Plays Nice With Others.

Say what you want about Dennis Kucinich, former Mayor and overseer of the decline of the once great city of Cleveland, Ohio.  But, so far at least, he's a man of principles.  Strange, anti-American, unconstitutional principles in my opinion, but principles nonetheless.

Not.

Dennis Kucinich is nothing more than Washington's weight-loss mascot.


The Before and After:




Today,  Mr. Kucinich did what we said he would do all along:  He "folded" to Pelosi and Obama and said he would vote for the health care bill (in whatever form it ends up being in).  For the longest time, Kucinich insisted, adamantly, that he would not favor a bill that did not include a public option.  Heck, initially he wanted a single-payer system and ONLY a single-payer system.  The so-called public option was a concession, Kucinich says.  So, obviously we already knew he was a knee-bender and a lazy daisy blowing in the wind.  And, needless to say I suppose, Kucinich isn't the only Democrat to stray from their principles of late.  Bart Stupak, the pro-life Democrat Representative, has recently stated that he is closer to agreeing on some language with Pelosi regarding the bill.

But...I have to wonder...

Maybe they knew all along that they would never see their beloved single-payer agenda attain legal status.  Maybe this, where we are now, with Pelosi and Obama actively attempting to avert the Constitution, is what they wanted all along.
Maybe Dennis Kucinich is a willing pawn, a character actor, if you will, in this Shakespearian drama that has become the health care debate.

Nah.  That's all way too conspiratorial for my tastes.  I just don't believe that these people would intentionally harm the Constitution...they do so by accident and with a sort of irreverential nonchalance toward it.   "Who cares?  The Constitution?  Who cares!?  It's 2010!"  This is the attitude wafting around the heads of state in this country.  Who cares? 

I care.  Libertarians care.  That's why we don't play the game.  We can't.  We cannot and will not sacrifice our values in order to get some bill passed we only partly agree with.  That's what politicians do, they willfully sacrifice their values for the sake of "getting along"  and "bipartisanship" and "the greater good".

Possibly the greatest example of the Libertarian mindset at work in Washington is Congressman Ron Paul.  Paul's main aim for the past few years has been to get SOMEONE to audit the Federal Reserve to see what kind of hinky business is going on there.  He had a chance to pass HIS OWN legislation last year but refused to do so.  Why?  Because the House Democrats attached his bill to the regulatory reform bill, a bill Paul would never support--no matter who visited his districts in Texas.

Ron Paul:  American hero.  Doesn't play nice with others.

That's it. That's all.