Monthly Archives: December 2009

Your Healthcare: Jeopardized

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I must admit this up front: I am not a pauper.

I am not a bum or a sociopath or an excusionist or a tattoo’d POS or a deviant or an Alt-Lifer. I am an individual who has paid years and years into his own medical plan — for 30+ years. I have always been gainfully employed because I made sure that I was. I received no handouts.

Up to now, I’ve had some encounters with my health plan for various reasons. They’ve been there for me when needed. Yes, I’ve had to fight when necessary but not because my facts weren’t there; they became validated and then supported.

All in all, I’ve paid and received. Through Kaiser Permanente — one of the most stringent, oppressive, unforgiving and restrictive HMOs extant.

I’ll still take Kaiser over any governmental option “offered.”

And still, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still refuses to answer the Most Base of questions:

These are the people you would trust with, literally, your life in the balance?

Despite this, Lou Dobbs quit the Communist News Network (CNN). Did he perceive troubles in its immediate future? Is he prescient? CNN has already dropped to last place amongst the various cable news shows — despite its having invented the cable news show at least 20 years ago.

Further:

Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats in 2010 Vote
Registered voters prefer Republicans for the House, 48% to 44%

Bad news for VP Joe a while ago. One citizen killed.

BZ

P.S.
Today, 68 years ago, 2,386 Americans died at Pearl Harbor.

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Pushing The Envelope, Part I: Parkour

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Parkour, otherwise known as the art of French Free Running.

The human being has always pushed the envelope into and beyond the realms of danger. This is the first of three consecutive Sunday postings displaying how restless Man is with the mundane and how he purposely crosses the threshold into danger willingly — and sometimes unwillingly.

Isn’t it wonderful to be young? Give these guys another ten years and let’s see how wonderful their joints and bones are. Just when you thought some of the human stunts you’ve seen in movies were digitized, now you realize “that ain’t necessarily so.”
BZ
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Again: Why American Media CANNOT Be Trusted

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FOURTEEN DAYS after the release of the UK e-mails which are now called ClimateGate, and the American media networks of ABC, CBS, NBC have purposely not reported the story.

What further information does the public need in order to realize that the American Fourth Estate 1) does not wish to truly inform; 2) conforms to the most liberal of biases and 3) purposely excludes stories and information contrary to their pre-programmed Leftists agendas.

Why, then, should any American media interest receive even one dollar from the U.S. government when it is proven, again and again, that not only can’t they do their reporting jobs, they purposely withhold necessary information from the public?

Continentally, a US scientist says that, like the UK ClimateGate, NASA is withholding information about so-called Global Warming. NASA has repeatedly refused to honor FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests for two years.

The nation of India has already stated it will refuse to sign any agreement placing limitations on emissions.

The problem is that lots of people go around saying that the climate change we see is a result of human activity. That is a very dangerous claim,” Parliamentary Speaker and former Finance Minister Thor Pedersen (Lib) tells DR.

And finally, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore has canceled, at the last moment, his speech for the Copenhagen Global Warming summit on December 16th. Why?

Could it POSSIBLY be because he is ill-armed to verbally handle the confrontations or even questions logically to be asked but upon his presence on stage?

I submit: yes. He is petrified at having to answer even the most basic of questions from anyone with a curious mind.

Once again, Your American Media in the tank.

BZ

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30,000 More Troops To Afghanistan

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I have but one question for my readers. It revolves around what I term an “If / Then Equation.”

It goes something like this:

IF Mr Obama is committed to completely removing all American troops from Afghanistan in 18 months (already having communicated his timetable and its concomitant tactics for all to hear and see in the speech this week), THEN why should even one more American troop die in that country?

“Benchmarks for getting out”?  For once in his useless life, Bill Ayers might be right:



BZ

Thanks to Yid With Lid & Random Acts of Patriotism for videos!


(By the way, click on and look closely at the top photo. For my fellow Rangemaster and gun friends, that is trigger discipline!)
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Government-Funded U.S. Media?

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Ratings of the Leftist DEM/MSM continue to sag.

Dobbs left, and CNN plunged.

In the meantime, FoxNews is up 7%.

Newspapers are still hemorrhaging readers.

As a result, the AP writes:

With the media business in a state of economic distress as audiences and advertisers migrate online, the Federal Trade Commission began a two-day workshop Tuesday to examine the profound challenges facing media companies and explore ways the government can help them survive (my emphasis).

Henry Waxman — this should come as no shock — thusly concludes:

Acknowledging that talk of government support for the press raises “red flags,” Waxman stressed it is not the job of Congress to “deny the evolution of media.”

But “as we look at these various solutions, government’s going to have to be involved in one way or the other,” he warned (again, my emphasis).

The DEM (what I term the Defeatist, Elitist Media) are already nose-deep in the arse of the Obama Administration.

Is there anyone besides myself, reading the above, who doesn’t feel a massive chill running up and down their spine when our government begins making noise like it needs to fiscally shore up (read: control) the United States media?

And this support — do you wonder, as do I, if such fiscal support will somehow manage to assist venues such as Conservative Talk Radio? Fox News? Conservative news and information sites on the internet?

This is nothing more than the Governmental Toe being dipped into the Media Control waters.

Any rational, thinking American should be sickened and appalled today at the implications here.

BZ
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