POLITICAL: Organ shortages kill people

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117021

Another deadly government dictum
Walter E. Williams

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The Institute for Justice is not challenging Congress’ ban on compensation for solid organs such as hearts, kidneys, and livers. Instead, the lawsuit challenges only the provision of the National Organ Transplant Act that bans compensation for bone marrow. The premise of the Institute for Justice’s legal challenge is that there is a fundamental biological distinction between renewable marrow cells and nonrenewable solid organs. In the case of bone marrow, the donor’s bone marrow is completely replenished in a few weeks. That’s less time than it takes for the human body to fully replenish a pint of donated blood that is often sold to blood banks.

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Why are only the doctors and hospitals allowed to earn money from transplants?

We know that free markets are the ultimate in democratic freedom. No coercion. No fraud or force permitted.

Think of a poor family that has bury a loved one. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to have an “inheritance”? Why bury or incinerate the “family fortune”?

We have abysmal rates of organ donations. We have waiting lists of people dying. All because of our cultural reluctance to permit the buying and selling of organs. Free markets always “clear”. No free markets have “waiting lists”!

So lets nuke UNOS and put our friends at WalMart in charge of solving the problem.

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POLITICAL: The true cost of this health care disaster

Monday, November 30, 2009

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/11/27/obamacares-cost-could-top-6-trillion/
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ObamaCare’s Cost Could Top $6 Trillion
Posted by Michael F. Cannon

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When we correct for both gimmicks, counting both on- and off-budget costs over the first 10 years of implementation, the total cost of ObamaCare reaches — I’m so sorry about this — $6.25 trillion. That’s not a precise estimate. It’s just far closer to the truth than President Obama and congressional Democrats want the debate to be.

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Wow!

Are they kidding?

This will break the bank. And, their estimates are “off” by a multiple of 5 to 10,000. Never to the good side. Always to the over-run side.

We can’t afford it!

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POLITICAL: Where does the Ponzi scheme end?

Thursday, November 26, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117072

We pay them to lie to us
John Stossel

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Medicare is already $37 trillion in the hole. Yet the Democrats proudly cite Medicare when they demand support for the health-care overhaul. If a business pulled the accounting tricks the politicians get away with, the owners would be in prison.

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Ditto Social Security. If an insurance compnay did such an “insurance policy”, all the exectives would be in the “grey bar hotel”. Like Madoff, they’d be excoriated. Yet our congress critters can do the same thing and we don’t critize them? Sheeple! Wake up!

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POLITICS: the pseudo “drug war”

Monday, November 23, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s39VUAJE8-A

Buy American Pot: A Special Message From the AMGA, Dedicated to Keeping Pot Illegal & Profits High!
From: ReasonTV | November 19, 2009 | 9,907 views

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We all know that a lot of people are harmed by prohibition, but who benefits? Strangely enough, some of the biggest beneficiaries are the bootleggers. Sure, they take a big risk, but black marketeers don’t have to pay taxes, they’re protected from foreign competition, and they benefit from artificially inflated prices. Talk about protectionism.

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One has to laugh at the pseudo “drug war”. All it does is keep the JBT in power. Kids die from adulterated, impure, or unknown strength products. It transfers American wealth to Columbia Drug Lords and Third World terrorists while making our inner cities a free fire zone from waring gangs. Just like in Prohibition. And, it is easier for children to get than booze. So how about some common sense. Let’s turn the problem over to WalMart, Walgreens, CVS, and 7-11. Now “illegal drugs” will be the cost of aspirin and all the money we are dumping into prisons can go to treatment. You are never going to “prevent” someone from ingesting or inject stuff into themselves. Sohow about we try “freedom”. Could it be ANY worse?

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POLITICAL: True opinions?

Friday, November 20, 2009

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111900904_pf.html

White House aides: No Afghan decision before Thanksgiving
By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:17 AM

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Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures.

“You guys make a pretty good photo op,” the president said.

Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed “the gratitude of the American public” and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a “safer more prosperous world for all of us.”

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Well, a typical liberal. He’d telling us what he things of the troops. Argh!

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POLITICAL: Eviscerated the Fifth for nothing

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9C0O0SG0&show_article=1

Conn. residents: Pfizer land battle unnecessary
Nov 16 11:40 AM US/Eastern
By ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press Writer

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But the land where the homes once stood has remained undeveloped, and the community took another hit last week when Pfizer, a major economic engine in the city and its largest taxpayer, announced plans to close the $350 million research center and relocate about 1,500 jobs to nearby Groton.

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Susette Kelo, the lead plaintiff and owner of a pink house that was sold to a preservationist for a dollar, said she was not surprised by Pfizer’s planned departure or by the lack of development in the area. Kelo, a nurse, was paid $442,000 by the state for her old property, which was moved less than two miles away, and she now lives in Groton. Other homeowners forced to leave were also compensated by the state.

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Gee, the gooferment made a mistake?

I’m shocked — “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — and we are left with another bad Supreme Court decision. Think Dred Scott! And, do all these people get their homes back.

Wake up, Sheeple!

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POLITICAL: White House deception

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

http://wcbstv.com/politics/911.trial.paterson.2.1316155.html

Nov 16, 2009 8:21 pm US/Eastern
Paterson Rips White House For NYC 9/11 Trial
New York Governor Says Trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 4 Others In New York ‘A Decision I Would Not Have Made’
Paterson Rips White House For NYC 9/11 Trial – wcbstv.com

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Gov. David Paterson openly criticized the White House on Monday, saying he thought it was a terrible idea to move alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists to New York for trial. …

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Paterson also said that the White House warned him six months ago this very situation would happen. He said while he disagrees with the decision, he will do everything in his power to make sure that the state’s Department of Homeland Security will keep New Yorkers as safe as possible.

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SOOoooo the White House knew they wer…e going to do this SIX months ago; why know? To distract everyone.

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POLITICAL: Who’s fault?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

http://www.keywestlou.com/2009/11/good-morning-world-up-and-at-em-its.html

My Life in Key West
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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The economic failures of 2008 can be laid largely at their doorstep.

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No, I respectfully disagree. The failure is entirely do to the congress critters. imho!

CRA, and the corruption of campaign contributions is the proximate cause.

Going back a little, the FED’s creation in 1913 and FDR’s taking us off the gold standard allowed the expansion of the Federal Gooferment without any constraint. What we are seeing now is the same as the coin shaving of the various Louis’s of France.

(I saw an exhibit of the French Fran in the Smithsonian in the 1970’s that brought it into focus. The first franc was a hockey puck of gold; the last one a thin shirt collar button.)

Moral of the story: the bankers and their supposed “regulators” are the creation of and puppets of the congress critters. They should be in jail. And we all should have our heads examined for letting them to get away with it!

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POLITICAL: State theft for “eddykation”

Sunday, November 8, 2009

http://irisheagle.blogspot.com/2009/11/fee-paying-schools-cost-or-savings-for.html

Friday, November 06, 2009

Let’s pay more taxes to punish the rich!

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This morning’s Irish Times reports that taxpayers forked out €100m to “support” private fee-paying schools. Sounds like a scandal in these economically straitened times. Yet …

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I’d suggest that the problem is that the taxpayer is being forced to fund yet another activity. Education is the parent’s responsibility. Not the taxpayers’. We taxpayers don’t get the decision to have the children so why are we forced to pay to educate them. Education should be a valuable service that parents should be willing to pay for. Then teachers could earn what they are worth. If we are concerned about “bad parents”, that’s a different issue. Here in New Jersey, old folks are being forced to leave the State due to high taxes. It’s just not “fair”. Argh! We need a new model based of freedom and liberty.

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POLITICS: A disgusting reality

Friday, November 6, 2009

http://www.lifenews.com/state4544.html

The View Hosts Fail to Grasp the Real Immorality of Planned Parenthood, Abortion
by Colleen Raezler
November 4, 2009

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ABC’s “View” host Barbara Walters brought up Johnson’s story, calling it “controversial” and Behar quickly denounced Planned Parenthood for making money off abortions. She called it “gross” and “obnoxious” before she stated, “I don’t see abortions as a profit-making industry. I think that is the real immorality of it.”

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Well, sometimes a stopped clock is right.

I find Joy’s unquestioning “liberalism” (as well as Elizabeth’s Republican Kool Aid), “unintelligible”.

Woopi usually is spot on most times.

In this case, everyone seems to look askance at profiting from killing whatever; they would debate what exactly was being killed. But we all in our hearts know what it is … a baby!

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