Sunday - July 25, 2010

WHEN THINGS GO HORRIBLY WRONG WITH NATIONAL HEALTH … THIS IS ONE RESULT.

I won’t make any personal comments on this story but saw it in this mornings paper and wanted to bring it to the attention of folks back home.
It is troubling, or will be for many I would imagine.

Axe falls on NHS services
NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured.

By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent

Some of the most common operations — including hip replacements and cataract surgery — will be rationed as part of attempts to save billions of pounds, despite government promises that front-line services would be protected.
Patients’ groups have described the measures as “astonishingly brutal”.

* Plans to cut hundreds of thousands of pounds from budgets for the terminally ill, with dying cancer patients to be told to manage their own symptoms if their condition worsens at evenings or weekends.

* The closure of nursing homes for the elderly.

The rest of this article is HERE

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   Monday - July 19, 2010

Letters From Littleton

So I got another letter from Peiper. He’s prolific! A whole handful of tiny little notepad pages, because it’s the only paper he can find right now.

They flew in 11 days ago, one damn long flight from California to UK. And promptly got sick. Son of a bitch. He wrote that people were coughing and hacking on the plane the whole time until it sounded like a TB ward.

Isn’t there something that could be done to sanitize the endlessly recycled small volume HVAC on airliners? Maybe pull the air through and electrostatic percipitator filter, run it across some UV lights, use a humidifier filled with antibacterials, then compress the air, run it through a recuperative dryer like those on air compressors, back through another electrostatic, and give it a misting of sterile steam on the way back to the cabin? Beats me. But being on a flight that lasts more than just a few hours is almost a guarantee of getting sick. And that’s exactly what happened to Jay and his wife. 3 months in sunny California, not a bit of illness. Fly back to soggy old England, back into their moldy mildew ridden old house, and within 3 days they’re sick as dogs.

Peiper is getting medical care over the telephone. That’s British Health Care. Coming soon to an Obama near you. All you have to do is wait on Hold. Forever.

And of course he sends the usual newspaper snippings, showing that nothing has changed a bit since he’s been away. Crazy muslim hook-handed preachers still getting a fortune from the gov, refugees from flyspeck corners of Africa given mansions to live in for free, PC making companies put in squat toilets in public locations to appease the Turd Worlders who only know how to shit in a ditch. Oh, and dig this. The EU is going to get representation as a new country at the UN. Without losing any of the votes of any of the member nations! Maybe the US should partner up with Canada, and then with The Bahamas, and then with BVI, The Cayman Islands, etc., etc. Get ourselves another 2 dozen votes, but we only pay in as the one country we already are. And let’s fall a few years behind in those payments! (yeah, about 50 years should do it)

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   Thursday - July 08, 2010

Just when does a child become an adult?

My flippant answer is that liberals never become adults. The crap life throws at you is always someone else’s fault, and someone else’s responsibility.

Case in point: The new Ohio healthcare law:

A new Ohio law says employers offering health insurance must allow employees the opportunity to purchase coverage for their children up to age 28.

Age 28? Do you know what all I had done by age 28? I’d been through 2+ years of college, served 6 years active duty in the US Navy, been honorably discharged, and was currently working at a dance studio where I taught the lady who became my wife. Mom & Dad did not support me at all during those years.

(During college I came home for summer. Parents didn’t actually charge me rent or anything, but I was expected to contribute to the groceries, and do the chores I’d always done. But I was NOT on their medical insurance anymore. I also had to accumulate enough money for books, incidentals, etc, for the next semester. In 1980, the Carter recession made that impossible so I enlisted.)

I’m appalled. Just when do we quit coddling young people and treating them like children?

Please note: currently the law says must allow parents… Won’t be long before that becomes parents must buy…

After all, it’s for the children.

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   Saturday - May 22, 2010

Looking A Gift Horse In The Mou … ahem

D.C. to begin using more-expensive Trojan condoms in HIV prevention program

High school students and college-age adults have been complaining to District officials that the free condoms the city has been offering are not of good enough quality and are too small and that getting them from school nurses is “just like asking grandma or auntie.”

So D.C. officials have decided to stock up on Trojan condoms, including the company’s super-size Magnum variety, and they have begun to authorize teachers or counselors, preferably male, to distribute condoms to students if the teachers complete a 30-minute online training course called “WrapMC”—for Master of Condoms.

Health officials and consumer advocates say that in terms of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, there’s no difference between Trojans and the less-expensive Durex condoms that the city is offering.

Scientists and D.C. health officials said the appeal of Trojan condoms can be attributed to the company’s marketing strategy, including the packaging of Magnums in a shiny, gold wrapper.

“The gold package certainly has a little bit of the bling quality,” said Michael Kharfen, a spokesman for the city’s HIV/AIDS administration.

Consumer Reports magazine said in a report last fall that Trojan and Durex, as well as the Lifestyles condoms repackaged by the New York City health department, both scored 100 percent in tests of “strength, reliability, leakage and package integrity.”

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   Tuesday - April 20, 2010

OOPS. OH SO SORRY DOC TO PATIENT AFTER REMOVING A VERY PERSONAL PART. BY MISTAKE.

I am not supposed to be here doing this at this time.  Saw this story and it just begged to be posted. OUCH!

This trip is turning into a very stressful nightmare and we haven’t gone anywhere yet.  That volcano is spewing again, our flight has not been canceled as yet but, that is because the airline(s) are waiting to the very last possible minute before announcing fly or no fly.
So here we are, tickets paid for, made arrangements to store puter at a friend’s house, there will be NO electronic check in or eBoarding Pass. Which is going to mean a hassle at the check in with a zillion other ppl.  I suggested that we put the travel off for a week but we are not allowed to do that. Well, sure we can but we’d lose all the money paid.  Then there’s the hotel in LA that’s booked.  Then it gets worse because the car and driver we use for trips like this, is due to pick us up at 7am tomorrow morning.  If we get there and then the flight is canceled while we’re there, we’ll have to find a ride back here. But if it is cancelled we can then
refuse to fly at another date. If all that happens, I’ll give some VERY serious thought to a ship sailing to an American port and fly to CA from there.
In fact, if we do get off the ground tomorrow as sched., I’m seriously giving even more thought to NOT using the return ticket. Big deal.  I’ll try and find a boat coming back to England. And the more I think about that, the more appeal it has.
Gee, I’m old enough to remember when flying was fun and the stews all looked glamorous.  Ancient history.
Should know something by 5 or 6 pm England time. Frankly, I hope the top blows off that damn thing and I can relax for another week while looking for ships.
On the other hand this story reminds of the line, “So you think you have troubles.”

Surgeon cut off testicle ‘by mistake’

A patient lost a testicle during an operation because the surgeon cut it off by mistake, a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing has been told.
Dr Sulieman Al Hourani was only supposed to cut out a cyst, but removed the whole right testicle instead.

Dr Al Hourani was a locum surgeon at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Greater Manchester, at the time of the surgery in September 2007.
He is accused of misconduct and also of stealing medication.

It is alleged the doctor, who is now practising in Jordan and was not present at the hearing, also injected himself with a drug meant for a patient.
Sarah Prichard, counsel for the GMC, said the mistake was made as a nurse helping the surgeon turned her back to get a stitch.

When she turned around the testicle had been removed.

SOURCE FOR THE SNIP

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   Friday - April 16, 2010

My Doctor, My Slave

News Item: Obama Signs $18 Billion Unemployment Benefit Extension Bill

Yeah, so what? Another payout plan based on money the government doesn’t have. Give the RECENTLY out of work folks another year or two of benefits. WTF, give them 5 years. 10 years. Who cares?

PS - casually riding along on this bill is a measure to get Medicaid payment back up to their previously poor payment levels. While the news is saying that they were “threatening” to lower them 21%, I know for a fact from 3 doctors in my area that the payments dropped 21-23% the MOMENT obamacare passed. Of course, that was AFTER their employee health insurance premiums went up a full THIRD at the end of the year, in expectation of obamacare passing.

So the government can pay whatever they feel like on Medicaid payments. Which is why we had that bit of story last week with the doctor who put the “take your business elsewhere” sign in his office. Many doctors refuse Medicaid. It’s a hassle, and a money loosing proposition, and they have all sorts of flaming hoops to jump through when treating one of those patients just to avoid getting sued.

So how would you like to be a doctor in a state ... or a country ... that REQUIRES you to accept Medicaid patients at any and all times AS A CONDITION OF LICENSING?

A bill currently under review by the state Senate in Massachusetts will make participation in the state and federal Medicare/Medicaid programs a condition of medical licensure, effectively making physicians employees of the state:

Every health care provider licensed in the commonwealth which provides covered services to a person covered under “Affordable Health Plans” must provide such service to any such person, as a condition of their licensure, and must accept payment at the lowest of the statutory reimbursement rate, an amount equal to the actuarial equivalent of the statutory reimbursement rate, or the applicable contract rate with the carrier for the carrier’s product offering with the lowest level benefit plan available to the general public within the Connector, other than the young adult plan, and may not balance bill such person for any amount in excess of the amount paid by the carrier pursuant to this section, other than applicable co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles.

So what this means is that in order for doctors to become licensed in Massachusetts, they will have to agree to accepting the payment rates imposed by the government, even though those payments may not cover their actual expenses for the care rendered.

I’d call it slavery. Some form of indentured servitude at the very least. Because there is NOTHING that is a) going to stop the feds from passing such a requirement, b) having passed it, they can then drop the Medicaid/Obamacaid payment to whatever they want, even ZERO, and c) once every employer in the country drops their employee health plans, as you know that they pretty much have to do out of economic necessity, thus forcing all their employees - ie, all of us - to sign up for Obamacare/caid/public option health insurance, then we’re all on the same bandwagon. Which means that everyone is now on the government plan, which means that doctors will now be paid whatever the government wants for every single patient they see.

Which is really no different than indentured servitude if the government pays them anything. And it’s slavery if the government pays them nothing. But they can’t turn any patients away, ever. And they probably won’t allowed to quit either.

Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Obamunism. Call it whatever you want, it’s all the same: an all powerful government, with a tyrant in charge.

How’s that for Change You Can Believe In working for you? Give up Hope yet, sucka?

Oh, and since the government now owns the means of production and the means of finance, and the president seems to have the power to fire the head of GM when he felt like it, what the effity-eff makes you think that this kind of salary capping won’t extend to whatever other industry the government wants it to? Bankers, brokers, executives, washroom attendants. Anybody. As long as they don’t belong to a union I guess.

See how easy it is to gain momentum and take all the other boulders with you once you leap over the edge and start the avalanche? 

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   Tuesday - April 13, 2010

Sick Day

Crap, I’ve still got the congestion nonsense going on. Felt like a wrung out dishcloth this morning. Underside of my nose is getting raw from the constant blowing. Bleh. And I’m in such a dark mood too.

Yeah, and I was Teh Suck at bowling last night. We continued our race to the bottom, winning only 1 game out of 3 for the ... 9th week in a row? Something God awful like that. Maybe I can blame my cold, but I couldn’t muster jack shit. Right into the pocket time after time after time after time, but leaving the 7 or the 10 or sometimes the 9. And then I’d miss the spare by a quarter millimeter or less, sometimes actually hitting the pin but only enough to make it wobble, spin, or slide aside. Time after time after time. Shit. I barely broke 400 for the night. 413 actually. Teh. Suck.

I was going to blow off my chiropractic appointment today, but when I called he told me he can do accupressure for sinus relief. So I tried some of that. It hurts. Did it do any good? I can’t tell yet. But he recommended that I continue with the steam treatment ... put a towel over your head and a big pot of boiling water and inhale the vapors until you’re soaked through, and with any luck breathing all that steam will open your nose. That’s the fallback treatment every allergic person knows about. It sorta works. And use eucalyptus cream. Vapo-rub! Ho boy! It’s like I’m 5 years old again. Now all I need is my ragged old teddy bear, a thick quilt, a grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of tomato soup, and some seriously violent cartoons to watch.

No, sorry, can’t get those anymore. Instead, I’ll just make something to eat and crawl into bed with some bit of fluff to read. The fluff reading was easy; I picked up a copy of Clive Cussler’s latest, Corsair, a book right up my alley. It starts with a historic flashback to the early US Navy confronting the Bey of Tripoli, with Steven Decatur burning the captured Philadelphia and the first action of the US Marines and the USS Constitution. Fighting the jihadis in their own sandbox ...

… that it is founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it is written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it is their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and the every Musselman who should be slain in Battle are sure to go to Paradise.

- Thomas Jefferson’s testimony to the Continental Congress explaining the justification given to him by the Barbary ambassador to England, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, concerning their preying on Christian ships, 1786

We ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever

- John Adams on the Barbary pirates, 1787

Cussler then shifts back to the present day, where his characters are manning a Q-ship off the coast of Somalia, trolling for the modern descendants of that same mindset. I’m sure merry hell will ensue, with plenty of things blowing up and acts of daring-do. Derring-do? WTH is a derring anyway? Probably a bit light on the cutlasses and broadsides, but you never know with Cussler. So it’s an absolutely perfect novel for me right now.

As for the something to eat ... I sometimes push things to the extreme when I’m under the weather. Not sure why, but maybe I just need really strongly flavored foods to cut through the bleh. So I hit the store, and got a nice big pork shoulder and a bunch of fruit and spices. I’m making up a pernil, so that chunk o’ pork is stabbed full of holes and soaking in a big jug of super mojo criollo, a marinade made from bitter oranges, orange juice, lemon juice, lime juice, vinegar, garlic, cumin, pepper flakes, onions, hot sauce, oregano, tumeric, sofrito, adobo, and recaito. It’s been in there since last night, so by tomorrow noon it will be ready to slow cook for about 8 hours. The marinade does such a great job of tenderizing that it might fall apart before it gets in the oven. But when it’s cooked - tasty tasty yum yum! Pulled pork sandwiches, super tender meat, crispy roasted pork skin. And if I make up a batch of dough, I can churn out a few dozen empenadas as well. Plus the whole condo will reek of roasting pork all day long. That’s even better than bacon. Even. Better. Than. Bacon!!

Other people turn to saltines and light ginger ale when they get sick, with maybe some watery chicken soup. Not me!



I’ll get back to bashing on Obama in another couple of days. I’m sure he’ll continue doing stupid things against the best interests of the nation, so there won’t be any lack of topics to castigate him about.

Latest rumor I’ve heard is that the Russians changed the ILS beam at their airport when that airplane full of the Polish government was coming in, so that it followed the glide path straight into the ground. Of course the air crew was refusing a waive off: their equipment showed them to have a perfect landing approach. That will never be provable, especially since Putin has the black boxes. If they ever get turned over to the West, they’ll show exactly what he wants them to show. No one will ever be able to show even a hint of evidence that this tragedy was anything more than a freak accident ... yeah right. Another freak accident, just like the former spy who was accidentally poisoned with that rare and highly radioactive substance a couple years ago. Don’t you ever believe it was an accident. The bear will always bite when he knows he can’t be bitten back, and Russia is really touchy about the Katyn massacre, even though they admitted to it after living a lie for 50 years. Worse than the Turks are about the Armenian genocide.

And now that Poland won’t be getting that nice missile shield ... thanks for nothing, Chairman Zero! ... they won’t say a word. But everyone will know, and remember. For someday.

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   Monday - April 12, 2010

under pressure

Crap, I’m sick. I’ve either got some kind of springtime sinus infection brewing, or I’m having a bad reaction to the tons and tons of pollen all the trees around here are spewing. Seriously, we’ve got snow drifts of the stuff outside. My sinuses are so blocked up my eyes feel like they’re going to pop out of my head, and the pressure is making my teeth hurt. I’ve done the steam thing, I’ve done the saline spray, I even gave the neti pot several tries. All help, but for about 2 minutes, then it’s right back to huge congestion. Time to try some OTC medicine, something better than the somewhat out of date dollar store antihistamines I found in the closet.

Bleh.

Otherwise I feel just fine, although this sinus mess is making it hard to get a decent night’s sleep.

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   Monday - March 29, 2010

Obama’s Army

Hey, remember how candidate Obama used to rattle on about his civilian army, trained and equipped better than the real army? Went over like a lead balloon, and we haven’t heard a peep since.

Well, now Fox News is reporting that a thing similar to that exists in the health care bill that just got signed into law. A giant civilian medical corp, “trained along military lines”, under his orders to go where he wants when he wants and to do what he tells them to.

Emergency preparation? Or did he just co-opt the National Guard as well?

“Funny”, muses useful idiot Shepard Smith, “nobody has mentioned this at all yet. Not a word of debate on it, not a mention of it from any member of the House or the Senate.”

“That’s because nobody read the damn bill!” shoots back retired judge Andrew Napolitano, “2700 pages of legislation; there could be ANYTHING in there, and nobody would know it!”

Almost nobody, judge. It’s out at FREEP, but only from 4 days ago:

SEC. 430. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.

Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows:

SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency.

(2) REQUIREMENT.—All commissioned officers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

(3) APPOINTMENT.—Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

(4) ACTIVE DUTY.—Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training.

(5) WARRANT OFFICERS.—Warrant officers may be appointed to the Service for the purpose of providing support to the health and delivery systems maintained by the Service and any warrant officer appointed to the Service shall be considered for purposes of this Act and title 37, United States Code, to be a commissioned officer within the Commissioned Corps of the Service.

(b) ASSIMILATING RESERVE CORP OFFICERS INTO THE REGULAR CORPS.—Effective on the date of enactment of the Affordable Health Choices Act, all individuals classified as officers in the Reserve Corps under this section (as such section existed on the day before the date of enactment of such Act) and serving on active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the Regular Corps.

(c) PURPOSE AND USE OF READY RESERVE.—

(1) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service’s reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.

(2) USES.—The Ready Reserve Corps shall—

(A) participate in routine training to meet the general and specific needs of the Commissioned Corps;

(B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises, similar to the uniformed service reserve personnel;

(C) be available for backfilling critical positions left vacant during deployment of active duty Commissioned Corps members, as well as for deployment to respond to public health emergencies, both foreign and domestic; and

(D) be available for service assignment in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved communities (as defined in section 399SS) to improve access to health services.

(d) FUNDING.—For the purpose of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the Commissioned Corps under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to the Office of the Surgeon General for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Funds appropriated under this subsection shall be used for recruitment and training of Commissioned Corps Officers.

So what this does is create the Health Police. It greatly expands the USPHS, which already exists, and is a uniformed, 6,000 member strong cadre of doctors and nurses. That’s right, UNIFORMED. With ranks, just like the Navy. Just like the braches of the military. And just like the military, Obama just created their Reserves with this bill. Which he can call up at any time. For health purposes only, right? You better hope so, because they just got a whole lot bigger. And pray that two of the ailments they aren’t tasked with curing is rebellion or dissent.

So, if this is nothing new, that the USPHS has been around for over 200 years, and the Reserve Corps itself has been around for more than 60, then why is this on the news this afternoon? Why is it even news? Could it be that Fox just follows the internet, and doesn’t bother to read things through? A made-up “news” story? Or is there a lot more to it than that?  “The way the passage is written is very vague”, says judge Napolitano, “it could mean anything.” Yeah, well does it actually mean nothing?

Advice to “journalists”: read the damn bill yourselves as well. Then do a little bit of investigation. Then see if your story is actually news. Or is it merely “olds”?

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   Thursday - March 25, 2010

WTF

The follow-up health care bill being considered by the Senate will have to return to the House for final congressional approval, after the Senate parliamentarian determined that two Republican challenges will succeed in stripping out language in the package.

The follow-up health care bill being considered by the Senate will have to return to the House for final congressional approval, after the Senate parliamentarian determined that two Republican challenges will succeed in stripping out language in the package.

Altering the bill in any way means it has to return to the House side, which first approved the package of changes Sunday, since both chambers must pass identical versions.

Democrats don’t appear worried. Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said the House could easily approve the expected changes. The Senate is expected to complete work on the bill Thursday afternoon, and the House could take it up again the same day—or push it off until Friday.

The package of changes, which is being considered under “reconciliation” rules allowing the Senate to approve it with just 51 votes, is the final piece of the legislative puzzle to the health care reform package signed into law Tuesday. Health care reform is officially enacted, but House Democrats wanted the package of fixes to change the way it’s financed and address other concerns.

The glitches have to do with Pell grants for low-income students.

For starters, student loans have no business whatsoever being in this bill. Flog the sumnabitch who put it in there.

Next, the federal government has no business at all taking over the student loan business. And if they do, I’ll tell what what the REAL outcome will be: “reparations”. That’s right white boy, no college loans for you. Hey you southern redneck, you’re not wanted at Yale. Because when the feds control the money, they control who gets an edumacation. And you damn well better believe that all the members of the permanent victim class are at the head of the line. ALWAYS.

Lastly, is there any hope at all that this fiasco can be defeated the second time through, now that the elites in DC have seen how many death threats, protests, and near riots their actions have caused? I’m beginning to get the feeling they’re just fucking with us. That this piece of unconstitutional tripe is some form of torture to keep us wound up tight, blood pressure peaking, RCOB ... while they sneak some other dirty deal through while nobody is watching.

Personally, I’d prefer waterboarding. Like a high powered neti pot, I bet that cleans your sinuses out but good, and we’re right at the beginning of allergy season.

This thing is like some kind of nightmare merry-go-round that never ends. Well, it’s more like a bullshit centrifuge, hip deep and high speed, and none of us can get off the ride.

Several thousand pages for the first bill, and the ink isn’t even dry yet, and now there’s a follow up bill. Nobody knows what’s in the first one, God himself has to guess at the contents of the second. And is even the new one the “doctor fix” bill we’ve heard about? I don’t think so; I haven’t heard it called by that name. So there’s a Part Three coming our way next. Or not. Who knows? This is insanity.

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   Wednesday - March 24, 2010

Another one to think about

The US Constitution defines the federal government and specifically limits it’s powers. Not rights - no government has rights, only powers.

The federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce.

The federal government has NO right, NO power to regulate in-state commerce.

All health insurance in the US is state based. You can not live in Alabama and buy your health insurance from Wyoming.

Whatever else it is, Obamacare is a raw power grab against State’s Rights. [granted that term is improper but it is convenient] Tyrannical.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

To the best of my knowledge, no state has held a vote with it’s citizens, or run a bill through it’s legislature, that abrogated their own power to regulate the health insurance industry within their state. And if no state has done this, then certainly not two thirds of the states have done this, or whatever the necessary number to willingly surrender that power.

Thus the efforts of the past 14 months were a total waste of time. The law is unconstitutional. Utterly.

“Yeah”, some will say, “but there are plenty of other branches of the federal government that aren’t specifically constitutional, and they’ve been around for a long time.” The Department of Education is one of those.

A good reply to that ... a man rapes your daughter and gets away with it. A while later he comes back and rapes her again, and again gets away with it. Do you invite him back for thirds? After all, he’s been doing it for some time now, so that makes it Ok, right? Arguing for the “greater good” falls flat: you can’t break the rules some of the time because it’s convenient.

Side point - had the Republicans been able to push through their version, which seemed to be the Ann Coulter solution [letting you buy insurance from any state; a free market], then the federal government WOULD have the power to create Obamacare and thus regulate interstate commerce. Saint Ann is not always right.

Sider point - “Obama, the constitutional scholar/professor”. Yeah right, says who? Show me ONE PERSON who took his class. Show me the notes, the exams, the syllabus. It’s BS. The only studying of that sacrosanct document Odingus ever did was to look for ways to subvert it. Him and his little chrony-pony Slaughter.

Sidest point - No kudos whatsoever for the Republican legislators who introduced an alternate bill. That they didn’t immediately rail against the constitutionality of the whole concept shows you just how corrupt and poorly qualified they are. Get them all out, period. Votes or torches, whatever works.

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   Sunday - March 21, 2010

Go on, give ‘er a spin

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   Saturday - March 20, 2010

Suicide is Painless…

Posted by Christopher     on 03/20/2010 at 07:22 PM   
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   Monday - March 15, 2010

SHE WEIGHS IN AT 602 POUNDS, AND WANTS TO SET A RECORD BY DOUBLING THAT. MOONBAT CROWN

Ok, this deserves a civilian moonbat crown maybe with skulls(?) as this woman is digging her own grave at some point.  This is GROSS.

Drew ... is there some way to embed just one of the bats on this photo?  I wanted to do that where I have the text on the pix. Jeesh.
This woman needs counseling pretty quick.
If she ever fell down, how would they get her upright short of a construction crane?  And we know who will end up picking up her medical tab.
What was it Texas Guinan said? Oh yeah. [what, like this? Drew]

The super-sized 602 lb. mother who is determined to become the world’s fattest woman

By Daily Mail Reporter

‘My favourite food is sushi, but unlike others I can sit and eat 70 big pieces of sushi in one go,’ she said.

‘I do love cakes and sweet things, doughnuts are my favourite.’

Donna, who wears XXXXXXXL dresses, eats mounds of junk food and tries to move as little as possible.

Ms Simpson already holds the Guinness World Record as the world’s fattest mother, when she gave birth in 2007 weighing 38stone.

She needed a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter Jacqueline during a high-risk Caesarean birth.

Yet although she can only move 20ft before needing to sit down, she wants to be even bigger.

‘I’d love to be 1,000lb,’ she said.

‘It might be hard though. Running after my daughter keeps my weight down.’

Donna Simpson already weighs 43st, but she is determined to nearly double her size to become the world’s fattest woman.

The 42-year-old from New Jersey, U.S, is set on reaching the 1,000lb mark (71st) in just two years. Remarkably she insists she is healthy, despite now needing a mobility scooter when she goes shopping.

MORE GROSS PHOTOS AND ARTICLE

[or was this the pic you had in mind? - Drew]

Posted by peiper     on 03/15/2010 at 10:07 AM   
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