Smart Car Wreck

I received this email today and thought I'd share.

Here is a "beauty shot" of a Smart Car.

Below is a photo of a wreck in Jefferson Parish, LA (near New Orleans ) between two trucks and a Smart Car. Think I'll pass on the Smart Car. I don't think they will need the ambulance!

UPDATE: My husband informs me that the above is NOT a SmartCar wreck and gave me this link to share with you. Neither of us, however, would ever purchase a SmartCar or recommend that anyone else does either.

History Repeats Itself

For anyone who's read Liberal Fascism, this report from John Stossel titled, "A French Surprise: Politicians Don't 'Grow' Economies" about France and Germany recovering faster WITHOUT bailouts will come as no surprise.

Let's just say FDR was a screw-up.

What Part of Representative Did You Not Understand?

Say goodbye Rep. Massa. Because when you state...

MASSA: I will vote for the single payer bill.

PARTICIPANT: Even if it meant you were being voted out of office?

MASSA: I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

(inaudible participants' comments regarding the "interests" of the district statement from Mr. Massa)

Massa: I will vote against their opinion if I actually believe it will help them.

Can't believe a United States Representative would say outright that he would vote against the will of his constituents? Watch below or visit this Washington Times site, here.


Seriously, what part of representative did you not understand. We, The People, own you. You do not exsist as a professional politician without our consent. You can not remain in office if you alienate the will of The People.

So I say again, Goodbye Rep. Massa. You are not long for your district.

Constitutional?

ElectricCity Weblog askes if Obamacare is constitutional here.

It's a fair question and I'd direct you to the 10th Amendment.

Faith-Based Double Standards

Hardly anyone talks much about the faith-based initiative begun by President George W. Bush and expanded by President Obama. And there was hardly a murmur about Obama's appointee to head the program, the Rev. Joshua DuBois, a 27-year-old Pentecostal preacher.

A comparison of how the media have treated the two presidents and their faith-based programs during the first six months of their administrations (2001 and 2009) is the subject of a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

The above is from Kathleen Parker's piece in The Washington Post (here) comparing how the media have treated George W. Bush's faith-based initiatives against Obama's expansion and deeper funding of the exact same program.

It's a charming example of double-standards.

Impressive Rant on Roger's Rules

Titled, "Channeling your inner Goldstein: Obama’s Renewable Two-Minute Hate Fest", this glorious rant on PJTV under Roger's Rules compares Obama's administration favorable with Orwell's 1984.

Ouch and Ouch.

OSHA Head Doesn’t Think Anything’s Safe

(Originally posted on NRO-The Corner by my husband)

The Obama administration seems determined to refight the lost battles of the Clinton administration (Hillarycare, Kyoto), so it should come as no surprise that they’ve appointed a safety zealot as head of OSHA, whence came the ill-fated ergonomics regulations, if memory serves.

The nominee, David Michaels, is rabidly opposed to the industrial chemical BPA, about which Mark Hemingway wrote recently. It should be noted that, as a recent STATS analysis found, BPA isn’t anywhere near the problem junk-science advocates make it out to be. Expect an all-out blitz against BPA from OSHA at some point, and expect silence from the “war on science” guys even as the battle rages.

Some Obama Promises Must Wait

YahooNews here is reporting that Obama is going to have to hold off on some of his campaign promises.

That said, PolitiFact has a listing of all 515 campaign promises and whether they are being met, compromised on, stalled, or no action (374), here.

Email-gate?

The White House is passing the blame for unsolicited emails from the White House on a "third-party". Part of the statement they issued according to FoxNews here is...

"The White House e-mail list is made up of e-mail addresses obtained solely through the White House Web site. The White House doesn't purchase, upload or merge from any other list, again, all e-mails come from the White House Web site as we have no interest in e-mailing anyone who does not want to receive an e-mail," the statement said. "If an individual received the e-mail because someone else or a group signed them up or forwarded the e-mail, we hope they were not too inconvenienced."

[Emphasis mine]

The White House may not have purchased, uploaded or merged their email list from any other list, etc., etc., but no where to they say the White House did NOT forward their email list or sell their email list to a third-party.

Hmmmmm.

Unfair Government Competition

This Washington Times op-ed is subtitled, "The Postal Service is a scary model for health care" which is a strong beginning for a strong arguement against Obamacare.

Liberal Playbook Exposed

More overreach has resulted in liberal being exposed as Alinsky-bots as Andrew Breitbart argues here in this Washington Times op-ed.

Distrust And Verify

Michelle Malkin neatly sums up the attempt at mollifying Americans with the trial balloon yesterday of backing off the public-option in Obamacare, here.

Absolutely distrust and verify.

The Times They Are A Changin'

My husband snapped this picture in Dulles this morning. When the America stores and other political paraphernalia shops start selling anti-Obama products, then you know the tide is turning.

Overhyped Health Headlines Revealed

Popular Science debunks nine health myths that "journalists" are still hyping.

Democrats are Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys

IMAO has a post up about the appearance of Obama dropping the government-run bit of Obamacare. Basically don't you believe it until...

So, we shouldn’t let up just yet. Government-run health care isn’t dead until it’s shot, stabbed, beaten, burned, with the ashes mixed in goat blood and fed to Ted Kennedy and John Dingell, and the whole thing videoed and posted on YouTube.

Gotta say I agree!

Ongoing Review of HR 3200

The Gormogons are doing what no one in Congress seems capable of - reading the Obamacare bill aka HR3200.

Here is their review of pages 101-200.

Here is their review of pages 201-300.

Here is their review of pages 301-400.

Here is their review of what a healthcare policy actually costs.

And here is their initial posting of pages 0-100.

If you want to know what's going on with Obamacare (and you don't believe the White House is serious about dropping the public option given the fury the liberals are spewing right now), then you should read these posts.

Read 'em and weep.

Obama Dropping Public Option?

According to Sebelius here and this yahoo report here, he is considering it.

Well and good but not enough. Fix Medicaid and Medicare first.

Make insurance portable.

Create a catestrophic option so that unemployeed people can get an inexpensive just-in-case coverage until they find a job.

Health Savings Accounts and healthcare tax reform.

Real competition by erasing interstate barriers.

Block illegal immigrants from Medicaid (oh deal with it, there will still be clinics).

Those points are REAL healthcare reform objectives. This co-op thing is a joke

Avast Ye Mateys

There is a US Pirate Party for those looking to sail the high seas of "an increased respect for citizens, their privacy, and the reform of rights ownership laws."

By the by, September 19th is National Talk Like A Pirate Day. We celebrate every year to the horror of our daughter and profound satisfaction of our son.

Real Oversight

The Press-Enterprise has a post up titled "Private perks?" about the need for real, toothy oversight of Congress and their "ethics".

The ethics committee's decision was an indictment of the rules, not an exoneration of Dodd and Conrad. And while adding a mortgage disclosure rule would not end official corruption, it would help the public answer the first question in any legislative analysis: Who benefits?

"Who benefits?" is an excellent question to ask your Congressional Representative when they talk about Obamacare and never mention that they and other federal employees will be exempt from Obamacare in both the Senate and House versions.

Hmmmmm.

Regarding the Whole Foods "Boycott"

Don't hold back Ann Althouse. Tell us what you really think.

My goodness!

Gotta Love Pump Action

JustOneMinute.com has a fine post up titled, "The Pen May Be Mightier Than The Sword But A Pump Shotgun Trumps Fine Architecture" that makes for a very enjoyable critique of intellectual hubris vs. a fine Pump Shotgun.

Newt Agrees With Palin

This op-ed titled "Healthcare rationing: Real scary" from Newt Gingrich in the LA Times basically defends Palin's "Death Panels" point and expands upon it. Well worth a read.

Also here is the full text of Obama's Colorado healthcare townhall.

This Just Begs To Be Fisked

I'll let someone else fisk the crap in this op-ed from the New York Times by Obama.

But seriously, if you have to put all this effort into "convincing" Americans and its still not working, you're either incapable of leading, have a bad idea to begin with or (my inclination) both.

Oh I can't resist...

Second, reform will finally bring skyrocketing health care costs under control, which will mean real savings for families, businesses and our government. We’ll cut hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies that do nothing to improve care and everything to improve their profits.

Really?

How will it bring down the "skyrocketing costs" if you can't bring down the skyrocketing costs of Medicare and Medicaid?

Why can't you cut the billions of dollars in waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid first to PROVE you can do it with a whole new government bureaucracy that is going to cost billions of dollars to set up in the first place?

Why do we need a new government bureaucracy?

Why not simply expand the existing government programs to include more income groups?

And what are the "unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies"?

What about the unwarranted farm, sugar, and alternative energy subsidies?

Why not get rid of those to free up discretionary funding for a genuine overhaul of Medicare and Medicaid.

While not a real fisking per se, I think having seven questions immediately pop into mind from one paragraph of this pathetic "believe me" pleading from Obama is a fairly obvious sign that my second statement of this post is fairly accurate.

Pure?

This Huffington Post piece titled "Valarie Jarrett Heckled And Hissed At Netroots Nation" is all about how while otherwise politely received, Ms. Jarrett was heckled and hissed at when she defended certain military policies of Obama.

What I found disturbing was this statement below.

"I'm asking you to trust [the President]," she pleaded. "And I know that's hard. Because I know how pure you are to the cause. But he also has to keep in mind that he has to keep those folks safe."

[Emphasis mine]

"Pure you are to the cause"?!?

Isn't "purity" one of those political concepts more in line with socialism, fascism and communism than American Democracy?

Perhaps I am reading more into it than the comment deserves. I probably am. But when anyone - right or left - starts talking "purity", I start running.

No Treats From Obama

(Thank You Jonah - May I have another?)