(No background music) School kids taught to praise Obama
This is an absolute travesty. We need to end “public education”. All they are doing is ensuring that the next generation of “voters” will be too indoctrinated to be free! Argh!
RANT: The little kids get the message at school!
Friday, September 25, 2009
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RANT: Liberty; not gooferment
Thursday, September 24, 2009Anonymous said…
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The consumer is king? No, he’s not. What’s my choice for electricity and gas? PSE&G or PSE&G? Or I have to move to another state. In many cases, one or two companies have a monopoly of a certain type of business or there is often price fixing and collusion between corporations. That is certainly true of the private for profit health insurance industry.
What the hell is some poor working stiff in West Virginia supposed to do against giant coal mining corporations that are polluting the water, soil and air of their neighborhoods? Oh yeah, they have the option to move from their homes where they may have roots going back generations. We have no choice about how the energy is transmitted to our abodes. The only way to deal with these great polluters is through the power of the government or the legislature. We need a trust busting Theodore Roosevelt and an army of Upton Sinclairs to take on all these giant corporations which are raping the environment and our wallets. Corporate America has too much power, they are unelected but they control the media and have undue influence over Congress and our legislatures, (local, state and federal).
We need strong unions to give workers a voice and to level the playing field.
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Blogger reinkefj said…
>The consumer is king? No, he’s not. What’s my choice for electricity and gas? PSE&G or PSE&G?
OK, let’s take PSEG. Who gave them a monopoly? The Gooferment. So aim your ire at the “state”! That’s why you don’t have a choice.
Even when given a monopoly, that still doesn’t completely insulate the monopoly service provider. Comcast was the monopoly. Then, came DirectTv. Then, Dish. Then, Verizon FIOS.
>In many cases, one or two companies have a monopoly of a certain type of business or
> there is often price fixing and collusion between corporations.
There is NO monopoly without GOOFERMENT. Competition disolves “natural monopolies” in a few years. Everyone always cites the Rockyfeller oil monopoly which lasted (I think) THREE years before competitors came in and took percentages.
>That is certainly true of the private for profit health insurance industry.
There is NO such industry. The Federal and State Gooferments regulate EVERYTHING about healthcare. AND, those companies LOVE it. It prevents competition. “Regulatory capture”, restriction on suuply, mandated coverages just make it expensive.
>What the hell is some poor working stiff in West Virginia supposed to do against giant coal
>mining corporations that are polluting the water, soil and air of their neighborhoods?
Where’s the Federal and State EPA that are supposed to be preventing that?!? In fact, the gooferment is the biggest polluter. (Check some of the DOD and DOE sites.)
If you had a fair judicial system, then they’d have a recourse. Read Healing Our World by Dr. Mary Ruwart. http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap14.html
>Corporate America has too much power, they are unelected but they control the media
> and have undue influence over Congress and our legislatures, (local, state and federal).
It’s called Facism. Where the State and Business become “bedfellows”.
>We need strong unions to give workers a voice and to level the playing field.
Yeah, right. Like the UAW, Teachers Union, or SCIU are weak. Please, don’t make me laugh. They are AS corrupt as the politicians.
So who’s going to save you now?
The answer is we have to rescue ourselves. It’s our thinking that needs to change. We have to demand freedom and liberty. We can start by voting out EVERY incumbent. Call it voter imposed term limits. Demand TRUE deregulation. No licenses, no permits, no gooferment oversight. Liberty will protect us.
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RANT: Demographic bomb explodes
Wednesday, September 23, 2009On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Khürt Williams wrote:
Why does the author think that “civilization” needs to be maintained and which civilization was her referring too? The contraceptives for Africa is not to stop people having babies but to stop the spread of AIDS and although I don’t agree with Pelosi’s politics, it does make sense that we do not want poor women having too many kids which then puts a burden on government (the people). Perhaps we need to start legally euthanizing the elderly instead of abortions.
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I REPLIED:
I’d like the gooferment to stop messing around with human beings. We need all the people we can create. Don’t kid yourself about the “purpose” of contraceptives. And, imho Africa’s problem is corrupt gooferments aided and abet by OUR corrupt gooferment. Imagine what would happen if the world said to the ruling elite of a poor African country, “No, you can leave your squalid little part of the Earth until you clean it up. You most certainly can not bank your stolen treasure here. You can’t enjoy our society while you are robbing and killing your own countrymen.” Argh, like that’s ever going to happen. Ever wonder why the world’s leaders eschew assassination? Not for the benefit of their citizens! Euthanasia, genetic selection, sterilization, and abortion is the complete undervaluing a human life. It’s the path TO the death camps. “Too many kids” from “poor women” is code for we have a gooferment that is out of control. Again, imho.
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RANT: Sorry it’s a duck!
Monday, September 21, 2009http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574425294029138738.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
* REVIEW & OUTLOOK
* SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Obama’s Nontax Tax
On a Sunday show, the President offers a revealing definition.
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“Mr. Obama: “My critics say everything is a tax increase. My critics say that I’m taking over every sector of the economy. You know that. Look, we can have a legitimate debate about whether or not we’re going to have an individual mandate or not, but . . .””
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If I can’t avoid it, then it’s a tax. Call it a “mandate”. Call it a “penalty”. Call it the “tooth fairy”. The IRS will ensure you pay it. If that’s not a “tax”, I don’t know what is!
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RANT: Who voted against defunding ACORN
Sunday, September 20, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/the_seven_senators_who_voted_a.html
September 15, 2009
The seven senators who voted against defunding ACORN
Ethel C. Fenig
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Now who were those seven senators who were apparently unfazed by ACORN’s bland unconcern of providing mortgage money to a supposed prostitute and her pimp, even counseling them on evading taxes? (Nine senators did not vote.)
# Dick Durbin (D-IL)
# Roland Burris (D-IL)
# Robert Casey (D-PA)
# Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
# Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
# Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
# Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
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Would seem to be an easy vote.
This demonstrates the culture of corruption in DC.
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RANT: The role of the police today — revenue agents
Saturday, September 19, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w109.html
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Witness the case of Jamie Lockard, a 53-year-old resident of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, who was stopped last March on suspicion of driving while intoxicated (DWI). A roadside Breathalyzer test determined that Lockard’s blood alcohol was under the legal limit.
Since incriminating Breathalyzer results are regarded as infallibly conclusive for the purpose of securing a conviction, a negative result offers immediate exoneration – correct?
One would think so. And one would be wrong.
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SENT TO A FRIEND:
And you AGREE with this?
HE RESPONDED:
I would like to see more respect for authority. Lack of it will get you in trouble, and rightly so.
THAT SENT ME INTO ORBIT!
Oh, yes, right or wrong, we can’t be disrespectful to the massa!
Authority EARNS respect.
Cops have become nothing more than revenue agents for the state. Roadside radar traps make them into highwaymen who robbing innocent travelers who fail to follow their posted warnings.
Seriously, who designs a road for NINETY or a HUNDRED, then posts it with 45, 50,55, 60 or 65, to nail the unsuspecting.
Seriously, roadside checkpoints for license, registration, insurance, drinking, drugs, and anything else we can think of, belong to an old WW2 movie about Nazi Germany. Where are your papers? Comrade, citizen, subject.
Argh!
Take DWI or DUI! It’s an excuse to hassle folks. OK, if you have an accident or, heaven forbid, hurt someone, then you should get the book tossed at you. (Unless your name is Ted Kennedy!) Otherwise, forget it. All the horror stories, come from repeat offenders — some with 10 or 15 “convictions” — or even police officers.
Sorry, but they have lost “respect”, because of their conduct.
The “Dial 911 and die!” is a toungue in cheek recognition that they are no more than a clean up squad. If they weren’t busy collecting revenue, then maybe they could go after real criminals.
End the drug war now. Pardon all the non-violent drug offenders. Close the FDA, DEA, and BATF.
Liberty and freedom for all!
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RANT: Municipal plate on the GSP
Wednesday, September 16, 2009Monroe’s MG63207 sped down the GSP tailgating.
No cops.
Guess there is a fire convention in Wildwood. The many other fire related cars and trucks with SG and MG plates seemed to be in no need to endanger everyone to get there!
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RANT: Congress is disingenuous
Tuesday, September 15, 2009http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125303051628912339.html?mod=djemalertNEWS
The House voted 240-179 along party lines to admonish Rep. Joe Wilson over his “you lie” outburst to President Barack Obama during the president’s health-care speech to Congress last week.
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Sorry, but where was the “admonishment” when they booed President Bush.
Like Sara’s “death panel” facebook post, with out Joe’s outburst, “illegal” aliens (an assinine concept) would be getting free health care. (In addition to everything else)
Argh!
Who’s going to call them out about “not one dime added to the debt”, cutting Medicare (real cuts; not controlling growth), and all the other “barbara streisand”?
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RANT: An open letter to Bill O’Reilly
Tuesday, September 15, 2009OPEN EMAIL TO BILL O’REILLY
Bill:
Like your show, find it “challenging”.
My pithy comment for you is that “The government gets to tell its version of every story that may or may not be the truth. It appears to take decades for the whole truth to leak out from the edges.”
Did FDR know about Pearl Harbor? Historians have long debated whether President Roosevelt had advance knowledge of Japan’s December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Using documents pried loose through the Freedom of Information Act during 17 years of research, Stinnett provides overwhelming evidence that FDR and his top advisers knew that Japanese warships were heading toward Hawaii. The heart of his argument is even more inflammatory: Stinnett argues that FDR, who desired to sway public opinion in support of U.S. entry into WWII, instigated a policy intended to provoke a Japanese attack.
Kennedy assassination? As an amateur shooter, that shot, at a moving car with a junk rifle without practice from elevation and with swirling wind, is per se “unbelievable”. A killing zone ambush from the grassy knoll and one other position (i.e., the three shots of Zapruder audio) is much more plausible.
And on and on. Truth about Lincoln leaks out. Wilson campaigning on a Peace Platform. FDR follows Hoover’s plan. LBJ Gulf of Tonkin. The Federal Reserve creation at Jekyll Island.
And this on the WTC.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/09/10/911-our-truth-and-theirs/
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Of course, the Israelis and our own government denied everything. Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli government, scoffed: Israel, spying on the United States? Why, who ever heard of such a thing?! The US government, for its part, disdained all such reports as “an urban myth.” The Israel lobby moved quickly to make sure the Cameron reports were thrown down the Memory Hole, and Cameron was accused of – you guessed it! – “anti-Semitism,” on account of having spent time in the Middle East in his youth.
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I’d just like you to be a little more skeptical of the “official story”. Admit that the powers that be, and their willing accomplices in the main stream media, want the sheeple kept in the dark, stupid with today’s gooferment union education, and paying for the privilege.
Yes, I’m a “birther”. I don’t know what to believe. For me what gives the story “legs” is Obama spending good money to keep everything hidden. That’s the smoke that sets off the detectors.
Unfortunately for what once was the Great Republic, we have smoke ‘n’ mirrors being used all over the place to our detriment.
As a tin foil hat kinda guy, it’s too bad we can’t treat all conspirators like Arthur Thistlewood. Maybe then we’d get the truth from the government.
Don’t be so trusting! To quote the fictional Doctor House, “They all lie.” And, I’m shocked — “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — that you are more circumspect.
P.S., Instead of interviewing the beautiful people, how about giving a “conspiracy nut” two minutes on video to express their favorite conspiracy and then you can rip them to shreds. But, be careful, you might find an erie thread of truth in their statement. Then what will you do?
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RANT: Too big to fail?
Saturday, September 12, 2009http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aUTh4YMmI6QE
Lehman Monday Morning Lesson Lost With Obama Regulator-in-Chief
By Alison Fitzgerald and Christine Harper
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“They should be broken up and sold off,” Fine, 58, said he declared, as Geithner scribbled notes before thanking him for his time and ushering him out into the January chill.
The Treasury secretary didn’t follow through on Fine’s suggestion, just as he didn’t act on the advice of former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. head Sheila C. Bair, or the dozens of economists and politicians who pressed the White House for measures that would limit the size or activities of U.S. banks.
One year after the demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. paralyzed the financial system, “mega-banks,” as Fine’s group calls them, are as interconnected and inscrutable as ever. The Obama administration’s plan for a regulatory overhaul wouldn’t force them to shrink or simplify their structure.
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Washington is corrupt.
Big financial entities make BIG financial contributions.
We probably don’t know half of the stuff that goes on below the surface.
So, we the taxpayers, get screwed repeatedly.
If you were the regulator, and you were presented with an “easy” solution (i.e., break up, sell off, and limit the future size), what would you do?
Seems easy to me.
Pick a big number say 1B$ (that’s billion with a B) and say “No finaincial entity insured by the Fed or the Federal Government gets bigger than that!”
Seems trivial to me.
But, where would the big campaign contributions and payoffs come from?
Washington and all the little DCs are corrupt.
We need more work, workers, and a lot less politicians.
Every wonder why there are SO MANY lawyers?
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RANT: Another 9/11 and still we haven’t … …
Friday, September 11, 2009… rebuilt the WTC (I prefer the middle finger design!);
… found OBL;
… brought our troops home;
… dismantled the TSA; and
… instructed our representatives about American values!
Donna Nobis Pacem
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RANT: Big insurers may gain from Obamacare
Thursday, September 10, 2009Cato Daily Podcast, 09/03/09
Cato Institute
“Big insurers may gain from Obamacare,” featuring Michael D. Tanner. [MP3] (09/03/09)
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I am shocked — “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — to hear that.
But I knew it when they started advertising for its passage.
Argh!
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RANT: How O could pass health care
Tuesday, September 8, 2009http://knappster.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-president-obama-should-do.html
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
What President Obama should do
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I don’t support any variant of Obamacare that I’ve heard about (a number of different proposals are apparently floating in and out of different congressional committees). I don’t support any “reform” that includes more, rather than less, government involvement in health care. And in point of fact, in broad outline, I just don’t support the Obama administration’s agenda, period. 90% of it is just plain bad, and the other, decent 10% (closing Gitmo, ending torture and unlawful detention, etc.) went by the wayside in record time once his hand came off the Bible he was sworn in with.
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I COMMENTED:
I too am a little L libertarian that has no use for EITHER party. Unlike you, if I was O, (being an unprincipled Chicago machine politician), I would give “stuff” galore to get ANY bill passed with a public option. Then I’d rest secure in the knowledge that this was the camel’s nose. And, in a decade or two, like FDR’s ponzi, there would be no way to prevent communism. They have the skools turning out functional illiterates. They’ve “won”. Too bad what they have won won’t sustain the parasite. imho
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RANT: The answer is always MORE gooferment
Tuesday, September 8, 2009*** begin quote ***
It doesn’t matter if liberals start calling national health care a “chocolate chip puppy” or “ice cream sunset” — if the government is subsidizing it, then the government calls the shots. And the moment the government gets its hands on the controls, it will be establishing death panels, forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions and illegal aliens, rationing care and then demanding yet more government control when partial government control creates a mess.
Which happens to be exactly what liberals are doing right now.
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The gooferment creates the problem AND, of course, the answer is more gooferment!
Argh!
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RANT: Gooferment subsidized stupidity!
Monday, September 7, 2009http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/09/27-billion-for-captain-morgan.html
John Stossel’s Take
Commentary from Co-Anchor of ABC News’ “20/20”
$2.7 Billion for Captain Morgan?
09/02/2009 12:52 PM
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40-70 jobs for the bargain price of nearly $3 billion?
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Turns out Diageo currently makes rum in Puerto Rico, so jobs there will be lost if the company relocates to the Virgin Islands.
“It’s insulting that the money we give is essentially paying for a foreign corporation to move from one U.S. location to another, while cutting jobs”
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You can’t make this stuff up. The gooferment should just not take our money in the first place. It delivers NOTHING!
Seriously, the guys at Free Talk Live posed the challenge: “Name one government program that works? Bearing in mind that overpaying is not being a success.” I’ve never heard anyone answer that. Can you?
And, you want them to have MORE programs? AND EVEN something as important as Health Care, Health Insurance, or whatever they are calling it today!
Sheeple.
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RANT: Let them play solitaire; better than passing “laws”!
Sunday, September 6, 2009http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/09/your-tax-dollars-at-work.html
Your Tax Dollars at Work
from John Stossel’s Take
by John Stossel
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The job of a Connecticut state representative must be grueling work, especially as the politicians have spent the state into financial crisis. The state borrowed a billion dollars and raised taxes to balance its budget. An AP photographer captured Democratic Reps. Barbara Lambert and John Hennessy hard at work.
As Republican Rep. Larry Cafero spoke about the budget, Reps. Lambert and Hennessy played solitaire on their computers. Another watched baseball.
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Are you surprised?
The gooferment is a joke.
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RANT: “Health care” is not a “human right”!
Thursday, September 3, 2009http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/08/yes-virginia-insurance-companies-do.html
Friday, August 28, 2009
‘Yes, Virginia, the insurance companies do ration’
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MY RESPONSE
Two “minor” points.
FIRST!!!
“Health care” is not a “human right”!
Place a human alone in a forest. Where is their “human right” to health care?
If you assert that is a “right” then their is an obligation for some one to provide it. If I have a RIGHT to health care, then my neighbor is FORCED to provide it. If he’s a butcher, baker, or a candlestick maker, then my health care will not be so good!
OH, you’re just going to FORCE him to PAY for my healthcare. Just as I am going to be forced to PAY for his.
Don’t you see the moral hazard in that? Don’t you see the stupidity in that? Don’t you see the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of that?
Argh!
Please go back and revisit the whole history of John Locke and concept of negative rights.
SECOND!!!
No one want to see people treated like in a third world country. Sick and dying, covered in flies, in human misery.
BUT, (there is always a big butt), you have no right to compel “charity”. America is an unbelievably charitable country. You can not “force” it. When you make it a gooferment program, then you have “free loaders”. Part of our current problem is that people want something for nothing. In my childhood, there was charity care in hospitals. My relatives would pass the hat around the family rather than have a relative use “charity”. They were embarrassed to have their neighbors think that they didn’t love their family member enough to care for them. Freeloaders weren’t tolerated; down on your luck, you were given a hand up. That’s the essence of true charity.
Remember the great hospitals in America were created by the Churches and Fraternal Organizations. Only when the gooferment took over, did we create the mess we have now.
SUMMARY
(1) Health care is not a right.
(2) There will be true charity without the gooferment intrusion.
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RANT: GM Government Motors to make cars in China?
Monday, August 31, 2009http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57T0IV20090830
GM to form China venture, invest $293 million
Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:33am EDT
By Fang Yan and Edmund Klamann
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – General Motors said on Sunday it has agreed to set up a light commercial vehicle production venture with major Chinese automaker FAW Group, with total investment of 2 billion yuan ($293 million).
The 50-50 joint venture, based in the northeast China city of Changchun in Jilin province, will make light-duty trucks and vans, GM said in a statement.
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Bet they will have the UAW representing the workers? Not!
Hey, it’s only 293M$ of our tax money.
Glad the gooferment is branching out. From it’s Constitutionally mandated functions.
Now you see the meaning of Fascism. Oh, I mean gooferment – business cooperation.
How’s that “change” working out for you?
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RANT: Responding to the Kennedy funeral
Sunday, August 30, 2009>I was struck this past week by the positive images and stories being told by the family and friends of the late US Senator Edward M. Kennedy. >His life knew more than its share of tragedy, ambiguity, and even disgrace. >But his life also had lots of good stuff to counterbalance all the drama
I was struck how the rich and powerful are able to skate away from the tragedy they cause. Mark Steyn called it “Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne”. I thought perfectly described it.
I grew up during the Camelot era. A product of Catholic schooling, everyone was enamored of the first Catholic President. Then over time, the inside joke got out. The sordid family history leaked out around the edges. Never an expose. Just an inside joke.
I was shocked — “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — to see Boston’s Cardinal Archbishop in the proceedings. Money talks; principles walk!
I followed the MJK story and an older wiser relative summed it up: “If you did it, you’d be in prison for a long time. But a kennedy, nothing will happen!” He was absolutely right.
Teddy was not a paragon. He was a typical “Liberal”. “Good for thee, but not for me.” He was born with all the advantages wealth could bestow. The womanizing, drugs, drinking, and such wouldn’t be so bad. Bad enough! But mainly self-destructive. He went to new depths when he killed a young girl in a particularly horrifying fashion (i.e., it took her an estimated FIVE hours to drown while Teddy sobered up and covered up)!
Where he really negatively excelled was in his role as “Senator”. He was the classic “Liberal”. He “knew” what was good for us! That ego would drive policy that would impact millions but not him. That’s the egotism of “liberals” that are “superior” to all the little people. He was a person who had it all given to him, and yet pretended to know what we all needed. In a different time, he’d not have survived. Somehow, in ours, he prospered. Guess it’s pretty easy when nothing, even murder, sticks.
My problem with him was that: (1) He masqueraded as a Catholic while active in the pro-abortion movement. That’s called giving scandal. We were always taught that was the worst sin. (2) He proscribed solutions while carefully exempting himself. Do you think he had Massachusetts care like an ordinary taxpayer of his state get mandated? (3) He had a particularly obnoxious habit — lately reported in the “liberal” media as if it were “cute” — of asking “if anyone had heard any good Chappaquiddick jokes”.
No, I wouldn’t call it drama. I would call it the tragedy of a wasted life. And, I fail to see the “good stuff”. He was a poltroon — where he was because of his family money, power, and influence. Like the modern day “super star” athletes, who should thank their lucky stars every morning, he should have been … … better.
Maybe great wealth is a great curse, but he certainly let it carry him down.
I think this is a motivator. No matter how much you are born with, you have to earn it. No matter how little your born with, you can do better.
It makes me sad. But not for the reasons on TV! Sad for what could have been.
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RANT: No privacy in Obamacare
Sunday, August 30, 2009http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/26/taking_liberties/entry5268079.shtml
August 26, 2009 8:26 PM
Democratic Health Care Bill Divulges IRS Tax Data
Posted by Declan McCullagh
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One of the problems with any proposed law that’s over 1,000 pages long and constantly changing is that much deviltry can lie in the details. Take the Democrats’ proposal to rewrite health care policy, better known as H.R. 3200 or by opponents as “Obamacare.” (Here’s our CBS News television coverage.)
Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and “other information as is prescribed by” regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for “affordability credits.”
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Over at the Institute for Policy Innovation (a free-market think tank and presumably no fan of Obamacare), Tom Giovanetti argues that: “How many thousands of federal employees will have access to your records? The privacy of your health records will be only as good as the most nosy, most dishonest and most malcontented federal employee…. So say good-bye to privacy from the federal government. It was fun while it lasted for 233 years.”
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And, CBS couldn’t possibly have a prejudice!
Please, the article is disingenuous. With a slap at a “free market think tank” as if that disqualifies them from having brought forward an “interesting fact”. THey point out to anyone who can read that the bill ENSURES that your privacy is gone!
Argh!
How’s “change” working out for you? Me, not so good!
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RANT: 45k for a year?
Monday, August 24, 2009*** begin quote ***
Trust the government
Human Events
by Newt Gingrich
“How much is one additional year of your life worth? Or one more year of life for your father or your wife? For your child? In Great Britain, the government has settled on a number: $45,000. That’s how much a government commission with the Orwellian acronym NICE has decided British government-run health care will pay for one additional year of life for a British subject. Think it could never happen here? Then you need to pay closer attention to what Washington is planning for your health care.” (08/12/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33100
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Probably all that I have?
How dare the gooferment intrude! Whose decision is it anyway?
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RANT: What gets covered up and what doesn’t when Obama speaks?
Thursday, August 20, 2009FROM THE FRONT PAGE OF DRUDGE
Why wasn’t this covered over like the religious icons at his Georgetown appearance?
Like most politicians, he’ll use whatever he needs to when it suits his purpose!
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RANT: Look at government health care survival rates!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009Breast cancer survival rate is twice England; prostate cancer survival rate is similarly higher.
No gooferment health care!
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RANT: Lemonade sellers to jail!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162009/news/regionalnews/sweet_lemonade_kid_lapped_184770.htm
SWEET LEMONADE KID $LAPPED
BITTER AGENTS WRITE $50 TICKET
By FRANK ROSARIO and TIM PERONE
JUST FINE! Clementine Lee holds the ticket that agents handed her and her dad. Parks boss Adrian Benepe voided it.
Last updated: 4:13 am
August 16, 2009
Posted: 2:13 am
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Three sourpuss Parks Department agents put the squeeze on a 10-year-old girl in Riverside Park yesterday, slapping the tyke with a $50 ticket for hawking lemonade without a permit.
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Sorry, but where did the bureaucrat get off “voiding” the ticket? And, what about Federal charges for practicing chemistry without a license.
The City (an imaginary entity) needs the fifty bucks.
Yeah, it’s absurd. But then, gooferment is absurd.
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RANT: We have some “yahoos” here?
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I was encouraged to learn that former President Jimmy Carter had decided to sever ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after a lifetime in that denomination, because of its position that Eve was responsible for original sin, that wives must be subservient to their husbands, and that women were prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors, or chaplains in the military service. This is indeed an abomination and must be challenged at every opportunity. Bravo to Jimmy Carter for having the courage to speak the truth in love.
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I’m thankful that the rest of the world keeps their women down. As one radio host used to say “with one hand tied behind my back”, these Yahoos manage to deprive themselves of a whole lot of human resource. Good for us! Then I read that we still have some of the same Yahoos here in country.
Wow!
How dumb?
Carrying a grudge from the beginning of time. Based on a book of unknown veracity. About a time when time began.
Reminds me of the movie about the primitive worshipping a Coke Bottle that fell out of a plane.
Makes as much sense.
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RANT: Slandering the insurance companies!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009Did Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius just accuse the insurance companies of being dishonest?
Isn’t Obama the chief law enforcement officer?
So which is it?
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