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BZ

In a 245 to 189 vote, the House voted to repeal ObamaKare on Wednesday.

Forty-six percent of Americans think the health care law is likely to cut jobs, 54 percent think it will hurt the economy, and 62 percent see it as increasing the federal deficit, according to a poll conducted January 13-16 by ABC News and the Washington Post.

In the process of civilly discussing the issue, Demorat Rep Steve Cohen of Tennessee compared the Republicans’ attempted repeal of ObakaKare to the Holocaust:

They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,” Cohen said. “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing. The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it–believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover,” Cohen said.

Inconveniently, he is wrong; dead wrong. And apparently “incivility” only occurs on the GOP side of the aisle. It was pointed out many months ago that, if ObakaKare was so critically important, why was there, at minimum, a four year lag before major installment? Many people can certainly die in the intervening years. But that wasn’t quite so critical. Things are critical when the Demorats say they are critical — like now — and not when they say so.

One bright light: the Republicans actually, for once, did what they promised during the elections, with their unanimous vote; not one GOP dissent. Symbolic or not, this is one step in the proper direction. And it shows to the Demorats that numbers mean something and, further, that some Demorats aren’t above jumping ship (three voted for the repeal: Mike Ross of Arkansas, Mike McIntyre of North Carolina and Dan Boren of Oklahoma).

The other very inconvenient fact is that twenty-six states are legally challenging ObakaKare — something not customarily printed or spoken in the DEM/MSM, oddly enough.

Harry Reid is going to avoid, like the plague, putting the repeal up for vote in the Senate because he doesn’t want to put His Minions on Front Street as voting against the repeal — publicly. It is said he will; in truth he’ll do his best for avoidance.

This is Step One.

There are o-so-many steps to go.

Do not release pressure on your local GOP politicians! Pressure ON.

BZ

Why is it that American politicians abhor moustaches?

And why is it that Americans don’t seem to vote for male politicians with moustaches?

This, of course, does not apply to Helen Thomas or to Janet Reno. Theirs were tacitly accepted. As well as Janet Napolitano’s. They are not included as the focus of this post.

So there you go: a bias against male moustaches in politics.

It wasn’t so terribly long ago that most male politicians had moustaches, goatees, full beards and, perhaps, even long hair.

Is this a Moustache Pogrom?

BZ

[For general reference, the current DSM-IV is here.]

In the midst of the worst fiscal situations encountered in decades regarding numerous state, city and county budgets and, specifically, Fornicalia city and county budgets — much less the entire state of Fornicalia itself — the City of Berkeley is deciding:

Berkeley Set To Offer Sex-Change Employee Benefits:

While other cities are slashing employee benefits, Berkeley is slated to add one more: paying for sex-change operations.

The City Council is poised to vote tonight to set aside $20,000 annually for city workers’ gender-reassignment surgery. The procedure is not covered by the city’s two health insurance providers, Kaiser and Health Net.

“We offer all kinds of benefits to our employees. This brings our benefits in line with what’s just and fair for the transgender community,” said City Councilman Darryl Moore, who originally proposed the idea in 2007.

The benefit would allow employees to collect the money before the operation. To receive the payout, employees would have to have lived as the opposite sex for at least one year and undergone hormone therapy. They also would have to have worked for the city at least a year.

The city decided to provide payment to employees directly.

“I support the staff’s solution here,” City Councilman Gordon Wozniak said. “It’s not a lot of money to set aside for something that’s rarely going to happen.”

The city has about 1,500 employees, and at least a few have recently inquired about sex-reassignment surgery, Moore said.

And to think that, years ago, I actually applied and tested to become a City of Berkeley police officer. I came out number two in rank one. I considered working for Berkeley because you could — zounds! — wear a beard as a cop. I thought that was so cool! Yes, I was that shallow. My Liberal Days.

When will it actually stop, ladies and gentlemen?

Berkeley long ago became an actual parody of itself. And then a parody upon parody. Boalt Hall. There is a reason it became known nationally, first in jest, then straight-faced (dare I utilize that judgmental word “straight” here?): Berserk-eley.

Berkeley is still berserk — and now, clearly, beyond.

They don’t get it. Leftists don’t get it. Liberals don’t get it.

In the face of such obvious reality, these Moonbats are still critically examining their navels. Only the truly insane do this. They do the same thing again and again and again expecting different results.

Which is why Fornicalia is about to be driven directly into the ground.

BZ

Above is the original photograph, in reference to this post.

Here is the Snopes.com page regarding the Photoshopped image.

My apologies: to Sarah Palin and all.

I stand corrected.

BZ