It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while. Lovelock
It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while. - James Lovelock, well-know environmentalist
Thanks, James, but no thanks. We'll keep our freedom, you can keep the control. But Lovelock is correct when he states that:
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science,. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
This is one reason why the following is true. Government science is an oxymoron, and free science is redundant. When you are behold to government, everything becomes political. Everything. From science to text book selection. Freedom from government means freedom to decide for yourself, and if someone else doesn't like it, too bad, they can decide for themselves. It seems kind of obvious, but many people have forgotten it.
Racist Frank Rick at the New York Times thinks its about skin color, not ideas!
Racist Frank Rick at the New York Times thinks its about skin color, not ideas! Unfortunately Mr. Rich has bought into the most odious, idiotic, and heinous of the theories of slavery and the Jim Crow era - the one drop theory. This says that anyone with "one drop" of "non-white' blood is not white. So, President Obama has to be "black" or "African American" and any criticism has to do with skin color, sexual preference (in the case of Barney Frank) or gender (in the case of Nancy Pelosi).
At least Frank Rich is admitting his racism more openly now. Mr. Rich, there is help for racists, please get some: your racism is about as stupid as believing that eye color and hair color matter. And that there is any "race" except "human."
If we’re going to be socialists, lets be socialists all across the board
If we're going to be socialists, lets be socialists all across the board.
Democrat Ed Schultz, MSNBC advocating a takeover of radio for Congress next.
What is so bad about going to doctor and not having to pay?
A friend of my cousin's stated, in defense of ObamaCare, "What is so bad about going to doctor and not having to pay?" One answer is that SOMEONE has to pay. You will pay one way or the other. You will pay in cash, in respect from your friends, and in your liberty. There is no middle ground between being a welfare parasite and being free.
There are two ways of dealing with others - voluntarily or at the point of a gun. This solution is to put a gun to my cousin's head and the Dr's head and say, "I don't want to pay my own way, I want YOU to pay for MY choices." If you want to be free, the gun is not the logical or moral choice. It is the parasitic choice. The thing is that if my cousin's friend is doing it to the two of them, there are 100s of people who will be doing it to her. Is that what anyone really wants?
I dare say the slave owners in the South felt the same way: "What is so bad about getting food and water and shelter without having to pay." Oh, you mean the slaves were paying for it with their lives? But, really, "what is so bad about going to ...
a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis
ObamaCare will “control the people”
On ObamaCare: "It takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people." Rep. John Dingell, News Talk WJR with Paul W. Smith, March 23, 2010
Now that it is signed, they can let the cat out of the bag, officially. "Control" and "freedom" do not mix in a free country. Rep. Dingell is the longest serving Democrat in the House of Representatives.
“Liberty or Death? No thanks! Screw the liberty, just give me health insurance!”
On the 235th anniversary of one of the greatest calls for liberty - "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" - the President of the United States signed one of the biggest curtailments of human freedom in United States history. The irony may have been lost on Washington leadership today, and perhaps the quotation from Washington, DC, today would have been "Liberty or death? Why so extreme? Screw the liberty, just give me health insurance!"
Remember this quotation, it is all the more relevant today:
"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
…public will have five days to look at every bill that lands on my desk-Obama
On the campaign trail President Obama said the "public will have five days to look at every bill that lands on my desk" before signing it into law.
And with the Health Insurance bill, we had 36 hours. The days are growing shorter.
BlueCross BlueShield would not lower my annual premiums by an average of $2500 today
After the historic, infamous, vote yesterday, I called BlueCross BlueShield today to ask if I should divide the $2500 in average annual savings over the next 12 months – I figured I’d just subtract $200/month and let them keep the extra $100 for the year. I said that the President had promised me that I was going to save that much per year and that given that health insurance reform would take effect tomorrow, I would beat the rush to find out how to save the money.
They laughed.
I even sent them this link in order to show them that I had been promised the savings many, many times over the last 18 months:
One medical procedure widely available…colonoscopies.
Government funded colonoscopies will be the only procedures that are common and widely available without a wait within a few years. Not from Doctors, but from the extra 16000+ IRS Agents the "Health Care" bill will hire.