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Friday, October 30, 2009

Obamacare Daily Round-Up 10-30

First thing we do to contain costs, kill all the old people. It's alive! End-of-life counseling in health bill.

Obamacare: Startling New Revelations Scare Public

The Unhealthy 'Public Option'. Using government-run health insurance to fix the status quo is like using a brick to improve a window.

Pelosi's bill sucks as much as Baucus's does. CBO Puts House Health Bill Total Cost At $1.055 Trillion. At least they are consistent. You can read the full CBO report in .pdf format here. AND House health bill clocks in at 1,990 pages

Turn Your Head and Cough

Our entire economy is "at risk" with Obamacare. Health care businesses at risk in House overhaul.

SECOND OPINION: Rank Hypocrisy: WHO Plays Politics with U.S. Healthcare Rating

No Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare

A Two-fer - Obamacare issue AND corrupt-thinking. At key moment, Obama leaves health post unfilled.

Watch CBS News Videos Online

Obama and the Old Hat People. People thought something small, agile and smart was coming to government, but so far it's turning out to be just big-box politics.

Health Care Reform End Game Emerges

Taxes, Taxes, Taxes: Americans for Tax Reform Chart The Tax Hikes In Obamacare

Should I read the new healthcare bill or finish Remembrance of Things Past?

Health Care Businesses at Risk in House Bill. Legislation produced by House Democrats would impose an array of new taxes, fees and government mandates on major players in the health industry, including insurers, doctors and drugs

Big Labor’s Selfish Healthcare Motivation Another two-fer, bad Obamacare decisions coupled with all the honesty Big Labor brings.

The Public Option Is Not an Option

The Inevitable Debacle

Health care issues: Public plan compromises

Why Self-Insurance Is the Answer to Our Health Care Mess

Uncle Sam Wants Queue: Under ObamaCare, Visit to the M.D. Turns into the DMV

Thursday, October 29, 2009

I Do Not Like Here

I haven't seen the tape yet but apparently Ms. Boxer was rude to my husband.

No one is rude to my husband except ME.

I'm thinking many, many rude things about Boxer right now. None of which are suitable to print - even on the internet.

Round-Up Delays

I must "de-litter" my daughter's room today.

And as my son has his weekly Occupational Therapy session for his SID, I may not get to posting the round-ups until later this afternoon.

Sorry. But a mom's got to do what a mom's got to do.

(That said, keep an eye on C-SPAN this afternoon. My husband will be testifying before a Senate Committee on how to help poor people.)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

NASA Ares I-X Rocket Launch Wed, 28 Oct 2009

I love NASA stuff. Best Start about 2:30 in.

In Economic Woes 10-28 Updated

There's your money in the form of taxes just being tossed down the drain. FEMA says it can't show return on $29 billion in spending AND Tsunami warning funds squandered in American Samoa

NO. NO. NO. GMAC Asks for Fresh Lifeline. Lender in Advanced Talks for Third Slug of Taxpayer Cash -- at Least $2.8 Billion More

Avoiding an American Lost Decade

Economic Freedom Fighters, Unite

Pork Report October 27, 2009: Paying Dead People Edition

Government Waste; Top 50 Examples

Geithner Backstairs Intrigue Awarded $13 Billion Directly to Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch (RIP), Société Générale and Deutsche Bank

New York Fed’s Secret Choice to Pay for Swaps Hits Taxpayers

N.Y. Fed pushed AIG on contracts. After federal bailout, insurance giant lost its leverage with banks

Don't Replay the '70s

Washington's Suicide Mission. The real problem is Washington's riverboat gamble on saving the economy with free money.

GOP Must Not Vote 'Present' on Our Future

Jersey Tax Revolt

A Tale of Two $250s

Money This is Victor Davis Hanson writing so pay attention.

E-Verify Works AND San Francisco Re-Approves Sanctuary City Law Of course they do.

Latest battle in book price wars

What Is the Current Price of a Hired Gun These Days?

Mandatory Savings?

Hearing on Executive Compensation Now

Obamacare Daily Round-Up 10-28 Updated

The Public Option: "Using Free Market Rhetoric to Expand Government Power"

Fraud Puts Insurance Profits in Perspective

Mich. Democrat: Pelosi 'not happy with me' Pelosi wants Obamacare so bad. AND Reid's Bait and Switch Tactics

Hard Counts: There’s a big ‘I’ in ‘Win’ as Reid shops for votes

Joe Lieberman: I'll block vote on Harry Reid's plan This makes me want to move back to Connecticut just to give Joe a big ole hug!

Bravest Congressman is Calling Obama's Bluff

It's the Time to Stop the Abomination of Obamacare

The Parlous Public Option

Defections have some Democrats casting about for Plan B WHAT ABOUT Republican Health Care Solutions

They Might Simply Stop

Moveon.org Issues Warning to Democrats Opposed to 'Public Option'. Any Democrat who opposes the government option will lose support from the organization's 5 million members, according to an e-mail sent by the group to its supporters. Isn't that Soros' outfit? AND Co-Opted Competition

The Big Question: What could Democrats gain or lose by tackling the healthcare bill alone?

Democrats struggle to find unity on health plan

Welcome to the Health Care Free Lunch Cafe

Democrats struggle to find unity on health plan

Democrats Divided Over Gov't-Run Health Plans. Moderate Democratic senators who control the balance of power on health care hold their ground, balking at a government-run insurance option as Republicans vow to mount a filibuster

Mandatory Savings?

Lieberman Steps Up. Opposing Reid's public option gambit.

Corruption Daily Round-Up 10-28 Updated

POLITICAL CORRUPTION
Converting the Preachers. George Soros launches a $50 million effort to purge economics of its free-market zeal. This man is deeply disturbed. AND Moveon.org Issues Warning to Democrats Opposed to 'Public Option'. Any Democrat who opposes the government option will lose support from the organization's 5 million members, according to an e-mail sent by the group to its supporters. So now Soros' pawns are threatening Congress?

FEMA says it can't show return on $29 billion in spending

Tsunami warning funds squandered in American Samoa

Mich. Democrat: Pelosi 'not happy with me' Of course she isn't. You broke into her hidden volcano lair and fought back. How dare you.

With Video - Rep. Shea-Porter: "I Love Alan Grayson and His Moral Compass Is Wonderful to Behold." If that's a moral compass, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

Geithner Backstairs Intrigue Awarded $13 Billion Directly to Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch (RIP), Société Générale and Deutsche Bank

Democratic Party Distributed White House Tickets to Donors. The Washington Times reported Wednesday that fundraisers who pledged to individually donate $30,400 or to bundle $300,000 in contributions toward the 2010 congressional elections were promised access to senior White House staff. The White House called the story a "stretch."

This is from the UK's Telegraph by Nile Gardiner (friend). I hope he is right. Barack Obama has failed to defeat conservatism in America

New York Fed’s Secret Choice to Pay for Swaps Hits Taxpayers

Four races test the strength of Obama's majority

ACORN/UNION CORRUPTION
Federal Government is Wrong to Keep ACORN in Combined Federal Campaign

SEIU/ACORN Stage Protests Against Banking Industry Meeting In Chicago

Mainstream Media Ignores Juicy ACORN Nuggets

How Dems outmaneuvered GOP on ACORN

Safeguarding the Voter Registration Process

MEDIA CORRUPTION
From the Big Book of DUH - Study: More Gov't Funding Of The Press, Less Political Corruption Reporting
VIDEO! Another bad moment for White House in war on Fox

Hate, Hate, Everywhere

White House Bid to Marginalize Critics, Fox News Backfiring. The Oklahoma Republican senator wrote in a column that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's failed attempt last week to round up enough votes to pass a $247 billion plan to shield doctors from steep Medicare cuts shows the administration needs to get serious about the deficit -- and lay off its critics.

Obama Presidency: Bullying from the Pulpit

How the Media Has Failed America on Healthcare Reform–Part II

Outrage: HBO's Larry David Over the Religious Respect Line in Comedic Attempt

Rush Sacked in the Red Zone By MSM

Climate News Network A two-fer from our good friend Mr. Horner. CNN corruptly promoting junk science.

Bias Then and Now

How the FCC and Liberal Churches Are Scheming To Shut You Up

JUNK SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENTALISM CORRUPTION
What Price Everything?

City takes aim at Kellogg's advertising

Smart Energy, not smart enough

Climate News Network A two-fer from our good friend Mr. Horner. CNN corruptly promoting junk science.

Those Freakonomics guys have shocked the high priests of science.

Biodegradable Bags for Life

GENERAL CORRUPTION
The Modern-Day Race Hustlers. The left has abandoned the philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. for an odious ideology that promotes race envy.

AZ GOP Pols Squash First Amendment Rights.

What Happened to Liberalism?

Dude, you're a governor! Schwarzenegger Sends Hidden 'F--- You' to Critic. A Democratic assemblyman who heckled the governor during a recent event in San Francisco receives a not-so-subtle rebuke creatively hidden within a veto letter

All Independent Candidates Are Not Created Equal

FIGHTING CORRUPTION
A Lesson Learned in Kabul - being held captive as a woman in a Muslim nation.

Thus, even before I became a feminist in 1967, I had already learned that the (imperfect) West is still a far better place for a woman to live than is the most hospitable, beautiful, wealth-encrusted Muslim country. Friends thought I had married a Prince and gone to live in a fairytale. They did not want too much reality to intrude upon their fantasies.

Thus, at too young an age, I already understood that barbarism and hatred of the Other is indigenous to Islam; it is not caused by Western “evil.” Intra-tribal and religious-sect feuding is a permanent way of life in the wild, wild East.

I could never get anyone in the American civil rights, anti-war, feminist, or post-colonialist movements to understand this. They needed to blame the Big Bad West for the world’s problems. They also needed to identify the developing world as intrinsically innocent, pure, victimized.

PJM Book Club: Blogging Rules for Radicals

‘One Voice Against Socialism’ Inspires Movement

Gallup’s Conservatives and Libertarians

Self-Governance Works

E-Verify Works

Safeguarding the Voter Registration Process

Economic Freedom Fighters, Unite

Bring it. Liberal Group Takes On Hoffman

Giving democracy a dose of clarity

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Random Round-Up 10-27

The flotsam and jetsom I couldn't round-up earlier....
Go here to check out the Carbon Criminals!

Senate Dems short votes for health bill _ for now. Here's to shortness.

Obamanomics Is Not the 'Change' We Need. Obama's Robin Hood theory of economics will set us back at least 20 years for every year he serves in office

Senate Passes Blame By Vote Of 91-8

The United Nations Is Outraged Again, Or: Department of Mideast Static

This Day in American History...

Government Insurance Plan Will Dominate Market, Senate Republicans Warn. As liberal Democrats cheered the inclusion of a government health insurance plan in the Senate bill, Republicans warned that new taxes on insurers will lead to a rise in private plan premiums. As a result, they predicted the government plan will have an unfair price advantage in the marketplace, potentially drawing millions into it whether the customers want it or not.

Reporter In Helicopter Pretty Sure Landslide Down There Somewhere

Sliding down the Opinion Poll

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11. The President’s Approval Index rating is -4 among women and -17 among men.

Obamacare Daily Round-Up 10-27

57% Say Health Care Plan Will Increase Costs, 53% Say It Will Reduce Quality of Care, 45% Favor Passage
They are willing to lie to you in order to control your vote. Dem health scare's 'phantom' menace.

Senate health care bill to include public option. Could Reid be trying to sabotage the whole reform effort, if so then good. Read further into the article to see how House Democrats are trying to change the name from public option as if a "better" name makes an awful idea any more palatable (and also reveals exactly how dumb they think we are). Perhaps this article makes sense of it all - Harry Reid, shopping for reelection insurance

Why Won't the Public Option Die?

This is why my 2004 Presidental vote was my write-in for Joe Lieberman and Zel Miller. Lieberman says he'll filibuster Reid plan. Bless you Senator Lieberman.

Senate moderates voice concern over public option

Michigan Democrat Leads Effort to Strip Abortion Exemption From Health Care Bill. Rep. Bart Stupak tells Fox News he's rounded up the support of 40 Democrats to support a procedural motion allowing him to insert language into the health care reform bill prohibiting federal funding from paying for abortions.

Health care issues: Penalties for no insurance

Pelosi: Public Option Needs a New Name.

Why Does the "Public Option" Have to Lower Costs?

The Opt-Out Cop Out. AND The Public Option 'Opt-Out' AND Opt-Out

How the Media Has Failed America on Healthcare Reform–Part I

Corruption Daily Round-Up 10-27

POLITICAL CORRUPTION
Community Organizing with Barack, ACORN and SEIU: An Eyewitness Account, Part I

It's the Chicago way. Rats! City to Pay for Informing on Tax Cheats

PJTV Salutes Mr. Really In Your Face Earmarker

Tax refugees staging escape from New York. Gee, I wonder why? And hemorrhaging the wealthy makes tax revenues plummet even faster. Smooth Move, New York.

Democrats' Policies Based on Dogma, Hopes, Dreams, not Reality

Fla. Democrat calls Fed adviser "K Street whore". Stay Classy Grayson, stay classy. Obama Praises Rep. Grayson as "Outstanding Legislator" Looks like Obama is as classy as Grayson.

From Pravda(!): America Moving from Kingdom of Cash to Socialism Slowly but Surely At least, they get to call it socialism.

Frank: "We Are Trying On Every Front To Increase The Role Of Government". What a turd.

Something really scary for Obama's Democrats. Sadly for democracy, what's scaring the Democrats is their constituencies.

When Chuck Norris speaks the whole world must listen. Obama's One-World Government

Hair of the Dog: Obama's Brand New War on Small Business, Healthcare, and the Free Press

From Thomas Sowell (a VERY smart man) - Dismantling America

They are willing to lie to you in order to control your vote. Dem health scare's 'phantom' menace.

Probably not their brightest move. NY-23: DCCC Goes After Palin Afterall, the woman has proven she can take a hit or two. AND Endorses Hoffman, MSM Rewrites History, a Petty Nation

Video: Glenn Beck goes all in for Doug Hoffman — and third parties

Things are looking up in NJ too. Election 2009: New Jersey Governor: Christie 46%, Corzine 43%

Some other folks better smarten up too. 5 Messages for 'Elite' Republicans AND A Conservative Earthquake, in New York and Beyond

The there is this out of Florida...

Newt, Sarah and a New GOP AND Conservatives Don't Need A Leader AND Will Martha Get the Sarah Treatment?

If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Do You Support Hoffman in NY-23? Have You Attended a Tea Party? Did You Vote for Sarah Palin for Veep?

Roland Burris Has a Lot of Questions About How the Federal Government Works. Interestingly, I have a lot of questions about Burris.

The Post-Gracious President. Whenever he must make a difficult decision, Mr. Obama complains it's Bush's fault. Obama was never gracious - he especially liked to be rude to women (Hilary and Palin) and our closest allies (but even during the campaign he threw people under the bus left, right, and center. Graciousness was never a word you could link to Obama.

MEDIA CORRUPTION
Spinning Out Of Control: Honor Killings and Media Bias I think they are more scared than biased.

Anatomy of a Disaster: Newspaper Circulation Drop Accelerates April-Sept.

That Unhinged Florida Reporter: Act II

CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks AND CNN’s numbers drop 68% in prime to last place

New movie takes aim at celebrity journalism

How the Media Has Failed America on Healthcare Reform–Part I

Obama's War on Fox Is Liberalism's War on Dissent

“It’s hard to kill the press, but it is not hard to chill it”

ACORN/UNION CORRUPTION
Is Union Priority A Dunn Deal For Obama?

Will Congress' defunding of ACORN expire Saturday? I think the real question is, What will Congress do if it does?

Taking a Crack at ACORN

ACORN, former official due in court in Nevada case

Solidarity Schmolidarity: Teacher Larry Sand Exposes His Union

Community Organizing with Barack, ACORN and SEIU: An Eyewitness Account, Part I

JUNK SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENTALISM CORRUPTION

Green world government. The U.N. uses environmentalism to seize control. And that my friends is why it is bad.

My husband will be testifying before the Senate this week on this subject. Senate hearing kicks off climate bill.

Here a post on NRO about an article my husband wrote with a colleague titled, "Smart Grid, Dumb Idea" that is in the current edition of National Review (the version on dead trees).

Obama putting $3.4B toward a 'smart' power grid. Few people realize that one of the things a "smart" grid does is control your home's thermostat. So if the power company decides you are using, say, too much heating energy, they will remotely lower your heat whether you want it lowered or not.

EnvironMENTAL Illness!

Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet. You first. (I like how this article references this man as the author of the "influential" Stern Report instead of the more accurate author of the "discredited" Stern Report.

UN signals delay in climate change treaty. Ummm, change delay to cancellation and I'm all yours.

What’s It All About, Albert?

Eco-Nuts Out to Destroy Life As We Know It. While Al Qaeda and eco-nuts use different tactics, they share a similar enemy: civilization.

“Cities Are Probably the Greenest Thing That Humans Do.”

GENERAL CORRUPTION
Book Excerpt: “Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor”

Let's go to the videotape

Honduras leader's nephew killed

Feminists Psychoanalyze Themselves Again

British Bishop Fined for Denying Holocaust in TV Interview AND British National Party Gains Further After BBC’s Question Time Fiasco. What the hell is happening in England?!?

Not sure what to make of this A Modest Proposal attempt. Progressive Protein Milkshakes

Biden's missile-defense missteps. Did anyone ever believe Biden was good at foreign policy?

Russia’s Strategy of Manipulation

FIGHTING CORRUPTION

This is why my 2004 Presidental vote was my write-in for Joe Lieberman and Zel Miller. Lieberman says he'll filibuster Reid plan. Bless you Senator Lieberman.

Fred Thompson Stars in Ad for Conservative House Candidate

Feminists Jealous of Sarah's Rise. They're jealous of a lot of things.

If it keeps my kids safe, I'm all for it. 'Little Buddy' GPS device keeps tabs on your kid. It's a device to keep in kids backpacks/lunch boxes. Personally, I want to embed one of those gps doggy chips under my kids' skin in order to keep track of them. I'll take it out once they've graduated from college.

Cheney vs. White House on Security

A good time to be a conservative AND Obama's big change: He moves America to the Right. I doubt that was the change Obama intended.

In Economic Woes 10-27

Our Lowered Economic Expectations

"outside the Democratic norms of our society"

Government by Holiday Inn Express

Worsening job picture fuels slide in confidence

Pork Report October 26, 2009: Decorative Street Lights Edition

Tax refugees staging escape from New York. Gee, I wonder why? And hemorrhaging the wealthy makes tax revenues plummet even faster. Smooth Move, New York.

From Pravda(!): America Moving from Kingdom of Cash to Socialism Slowly but Surely

State Budget Shortfalls Reveal Economic Fallacy

War Is Over, If You Want It

A new study shows that democracy and prosperity are inextricably linked.

Continued Economic Weakness Means We Need MORE Stimulus... Yeah, That's the Ticket!

Rolling up the TARP. The $700 billion for banks has become an all-purpose bailout fund.

Big Brother BS

A friend writes on Facebook that she was glad Dallas beat the Redskins.

In her comment box, I wrote "BLASPHEMY ;P" and Facebook erased it!

So I thought weird and I wrote "HERESY ;p" and Facebook erased it!

I then wrote "WTF? I tried to write two non-obscene words that have a religious context and Facebook just erased them. Talk about Big Brother BS."

And my friend responded almost immediately with, "It said you commented like 4 times, with nothing there...=) Wonder what's next to be censored?? Fox news! Tombstones! =)"

That pretty much sums it up. I can't write a word with religious overtones on Facebook without them arbitrarily deleting it - no complaint from my friend because she never got the chance to see it. A little friendly football rivalry/teasing and Facebook shuts it down.

Is free speech in America seriously this threatened?

Opting Out of Medicare?!?

So I just heard this morning Gov. Tim Kaine talking on WTOP. He said he did not believe any of the 50 governors of the United States of America would choose to "Opt-Out" because if they did so, they would lose Medicare.

WHAT THE ....?!?

Is Congress setting up the Opt-In/Opt-Out aspect of Obamacare so that if the state does not want to opt-in to the "Public Option", it forces the state to lose Medicare?