‘Everyday in every way, I am getting better and better’ (Emile Coue).
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QUOTE: Getting better?
Friday, August 21, 2009
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POLITICAL: Skipping a funeral
Friday, August 21, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107092
Another Obama mistake
Posted: August 17, 2009
Barbara Simpson
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Did anyone in the Washington ruling party, from the president on down, notice that the remains of Navy pilot Capt. Michael “Scott” Speicher were found, positively identified and buried with military honors in Jacksonville last week?
If not, why not?
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Good question?
Seems like everyone has forgotten that we have boys and girls in harm’s way.
The speech at the VFW seemed to ignore that when he talked about only sending them when it was important!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Kick the gooferment OUT of health care, health insurance, and whatever
Friday, August 21, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107221
Is ‘death panels’ charge over the top?
Posted: August 18, 2009
Thomas Sowell
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As for a “death panel,” no politician would ever use that phrase when trying to get a piece of legislation passed. “End of life” care under the “guidance” of “some independent group” sounds so much nicer – and these are the terms President Obama used in an interview with the New York Times back on April 14.
He said, “The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out there.” He added: “It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. That is why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance.”
But when you select people like Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to give “independent” guidance, you have already chosen a policy through your choice of advisers, who simply provide political cover. The net result can be exactly the same as if those providing that guidance were openly called “death panels.”
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The gooferment has no business in health care, health insurance (other than to prevent fraud), or anything like it.
The FDA should be shut down. People, in consultation with their doctors, should decide the efficacy and safety of drugs.
We got into this mess because of Medicare. Unfortunately, time for that to go. We should be spending our energies on how to unwind that mess.
It all comes down to the definition of insurance. What is the purpose of wealth at end of life.
Insurance is not for routine maintenance (i.e., you don’t insure your car’s oil changes) and for predictable stuff (i.e., the car reaches the end of its useful life). Insurance is for the unpredictable catastrophes. People, all subject to the same random risk, band together to minimize the impact. That’s why insurers talk about “pools”. If I have a pool of ten people who all share the same risk (e.g., a meteor will strike ONE car this year), then the premium is 10% of the car’s cost plus administration. Very smart actuaries figure it all out. And, it seemed to work fine for decades. Think Lloyds of London. But, now the gooferment says “insurance has to pay for hair replacement”. What if I don’t want to insure that risk. Too bad; you’re screwed. Live in NJ; can’t buy NY insurance. Can’t buy multi-year insurance. No 20 year level premium term insurance in health care. Argh!
And, when I come to the end of my life, and I begin to spend my wealth in my declining years, who’s business is it anyway. What did I save it for? If not to extend or make my life comfortable?
Let’s send the gooferment back to the drawing board. They should stick to figuring out how to honor the camel. Wasn’t it a horse designed by a congress critter committee?
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TECHNOLOGY: Why do I have to …
Thursday, August 20, 2009… put in “state” from a pick list and zip code?
Do the programmers ever think about the user interface?
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
POLITICS: Stop the Abortion Mandate
In what realm is it fair to make people (like me) pay for what is morally abhorrent? Where does the Constitution say that the federal gooferment has the right to do this?
Government is the meme that kills! All of us. First our souls; then our bodies. Separate Government from all the various things it has intruded upon.
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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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GOVERNACIDE: VA “care”?
Thursday, August 20, 2009http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090818/D9A58L482.html
6 more cases of botched cancer treatment at Pa. VA
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Six more cases have been found of cancer patients being given incorrect radiation doses at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. The errors happened in a common surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer. That brings the total to 98 veterans who were given…
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Obama44 didn’t mention that in his speech to the VFW. Did he? Guess he just didn’t know.
And these bozos want to run everyone’s health care?
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MONEY: Your Home Is Not An Investment
Wednesday, August 19, 2009http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/your-home-is-not-an-investment.html
Your Home Is Not An Investment
from Bargaineering.com by Jim
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There are many benefits to owning a home and I’m a huge fan of it, but don’t justify buying a home by thinking its home is an investment. It’s not.
It is, however, a place to live, a place to make your own, and a place to make yours. It’s a place to put down roots, a place to raise a family, and a place to grow old in. It’s a place to call your own, it’s just not an investment. It’s a home.
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Had this discussion a few weeks ago with an OLDER friend and his family. Couldn’t seem to break thru that “rent” was not “lost”. Sigh.
It’s only an investment if you get rent for it.
Frau is enamored with HGTV and all the renovation, vacation, and first time. (I don’t understand how they can ignore labor cost in the renovations. I don’t understand buying an international vacation home for several 100K$; how many times can you go there? I don’t understand first time buyers who exceed their budget consistently.)
It’s only a legacy.
It’s not an ATM like how people were refinancing to get cash out.
Everything is great when the market is going up; down, not so good.
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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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