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The Obama Health Plan Emerges

The exciting new future of health care for ourselves and our posterity.  Look at the numbers. Consider going to a DMV-like bureaucracy for a heart transplant.

We really want to DO this? Really? Have we lost our minds???? All the foreigners coming here now for advanced health care? Where will they go now?

Do any sentient beings really think government does ANYTHING better than the private sector? Where did they grasp this fantasy?

 From the WSJ today:

The Obama Health Plan Emerges

“Universal” government-run health care proved too ambitious even for FDR, who stripped it out of the Social Security Act of 1935. Lyndon Johnson settled[…]

Bush, Saddam, Yellow-cake and the Media

If somehow you actually believed the mulitalteral decision (all G8 countries) that Saddam was, indeed, buying yellowcake uranium to build nukes, you are hereby redeemed as a multilateralist intelligent person un-swayed by a leftist media and illiberal Democrat party.

If, on the other hand, you insisted that the Joe-Wilson-driven, media-demanded unilateral choice (that’d be only America felt that way) not to believe Saddam had yellow-cake - - wrong again!

Not only did Saddam have it, he had tons and tons of it. 550 metric tons, to be exact.

And Bush has known about it for years – since the US Army found it[…]

The Left and Democracy

Prop 8, the controversial California anti-gay-marriage-license (gays already have all rights of marriage in law in CA) Constitutional amendment  recently was passed by the same voters who gave Obama the state’s electoral votes. The same basic proposition passed in all four states in which it appeared on the ballot. This is the second time CA voters have passed essentially the same idea; the last time a few liberal judges overturned the will of a 60% majority of CA voters - millions of them.

Whether Kos & Co like it or not, America remains a center-right country.

So is the response of the Left[…]

‘No Excuses’ for Liberals

Today’s column by Bret Stephens has it exactly right. It is linked here and pasted in its entirety below for those lacking a subscription.

When the liberals today over-reach, and they will, they will have to take the heat for their errors and the destruction they do to the economy and the country.

About Carter, the worst president of the 20th Century, Kissinger noted,

“The Carter administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the[…]

What do a Railway Engineer, a NASA scientist and Al Gore have in common?

A very interesting article today in The Telegraph (UK). (All the quotes below are from the linked article.)

October the hottest month on record?

Nope. Not even in the top 50.

Who made the claim that it was? NASA Goddard head alarmist and manager of that formerly-august body, Dr. James Hansen.

And what happened? Bad data not vetted because that bad data “proved” what he wanted to prove. 

“If there is one scientist more responsible than any other for the alarm over global warming it is Dr Hansen, who set the whole scare in train back in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate[…]

Obituary for an Old Friend

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:

a. Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
b. Why the early bird gets the worm;
c. Life isn’t always fair; and
d. Maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to[…]

Michael Crichton - Editorial by the Wall Street Journal on his death

Michael Crichton has died. You know this. Who was he? An MD, author, film and TV producer, film director. He wrote excellent science fiction based on real science.

‘Aliens Cause Global Warming’

From a lecture delivered by the late Michael Crichton at the California Institute of Technology on Jan. 17, 2003:

Cast your minds back to 1960. John F. Kennedy is president, commercial jet airplanes are just appearing, the biggest university mainframes have 12K of memory. And in Green Bank, West Virginia at the new National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a young astrophysicist named Frank Drake runs a two-week project called Ozma, to search[…]

The Baby Boomer Debt - Are GenX and GenY Paying Any Attention at All?

So Detroit wants $50B to subsidize their inefficient unions.

And Boomer politicians just gave the Financial Industry $700B to help them recover from a mess Baby Boomer politicians created - and Baby Boomer financial executives helped along.

Who is going to pay for this $750B?

Our kids – and theirs.

And they voted on this?

Nope.

But wait – there’s more!

Social Security? When that tanks? Who pays for that?

Our kids – and theirs.

And they voted on this?

Nope.

 
And nationalizing health care? As Canadian doctors are suing Canada to get out of Single-payer? As Swedish doctors are suing Sweden to get out of nationalized health care?

Costs will be[…]

Good Money After Bad to Detroit

Detroit automakers now want $50B of our tax dollars to pay inefficient union workers to continue to make cars no one wants, at prices no one can afford.

So, realistically, this $50B is a union handout to enable unions to keep charging high rates to make cars no one wants.

Does this make sense to anyone? For our tax dollars to be spent subsidizing inefficient union labor that has just tanked what once was a primary industry?

Companies other than Ford, GM and Chrysler make cars in America – creating American jobs. (And the Big Three make cars in Canada that they sell in America[…]

“Bankrupt” 49% of America’s Electricity; “Skyrocket” Energy Prices?!

Millions – tens of millions? – of “working class” voters will vote for Obama on the 4th. Tomorrow.

Are they aware that Obama’s stated policies on electricity rates will cause the price of this most basic necessity of all basic necessities “to skyrocket”?

Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry – 49% of America’s electricity… 120,150 jobs in 2007.

Obama wants electricity prices “to necessarily skyrocket.”

These are Obama’s words! “Bankrupt.” “Skyrocket.”

Now you can funnel water into a barrel when it rains or pump it out of the ground, and you can grow your own food. But the difference between a first-world country and[…]