Month: August 2009

  • On the Road Again

    Well, it’s official. I’m going to DC for the 9/12 project. There’s a slight hitch in the git-up though. I had signed up to room with three other guys to keep the costs as nominal as possible, but everyone else is just wanting a single roommate so I have to pony up more cash.

    We will be traveling to DC via bus. Yes, I’m not looking forward to it. Limited computational time due to no A/C to recharge the battery and no wireless access. On the flip side, it will give me time to catch up on some reading.

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  • Obama Now Channels Heinrich Himmler

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    Directly from the White House website:

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    There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

    This Gestapo like tactic pits citizens against citizens in an effort to shut out the growing opposition to the healthcare takeover. This should raise hairs on the back of any liberty-minded American and generate screams of opposition.

    Using tax-dollars and union thugs to stump for a bad piece of legislation is bad, but calling on Americans to report their fellow citizens for opposing said legislation exceeds the bounds of anything most of us could even fathom happening in our “free country.”

    Please join with us in rising up against this usurpation of all things American, call your legislators, call the Whitehouse (from a disposable phone), and let Obama know that this is NOT acceptable behavior, now matter how much his legacy might ride on accomplishing the takeover.

    An Open Letter to the White House:

    I know you people are caught up in your beltway-bubble, but step back for a minute, take the silver spoon out of your mouth, and think about how this looks from the outside.

    You are asking American citizens to turn in their fellow citizens for voicing opposition to a bill, based on the text of this bill. Obama’s rhetoric does not change the text of the bill, and the opposition to this takeover has been far more likely to actually quote the legislation, in full context.

    Free speech is fundamental to American liberty. Even if the opposition to this bill had no factual basis for their opposition, this totalitarian “informant” tactic is entirely un-American in every sense. I know that doesn’t matter to an administration where the end justifies the means, but it matters to the average American. The more light the text of this legislation sees, the more the opposition grows.

    You can put me on the list of subversive “anti-reform” conservatives, and I’ll wear the label proudly. Just remember, the WW2 and Cold War generations aren’t dead yet, and they remember these tactics as the tactics of the enemy.

    Sincerely,
    ProfessorTom

  • The Perfect Solution to Senior Health Care

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    This has been going around the email loop and makes for a great blog post.

    While discussing the upcoming Universal Health Care Program with my friend the other day, I think we found the solution. I’m sure you’ve heard the ideas that if you ’re a senior you need to suck it up and give up the idea that you need any health care. A new hip? Unheard of. We simply can’t afford to take care of you anymore. You don’t need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, etc. Let’s take care of the young people. After all, they will be ruling the world very soon.

    So here is the solution. When you turn `70`, you buy a baseball bat and beat 2 senators and 2 representatives senseless. OF COURSE, YOU WILL BE SENT TO PRISON where you’ll get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head and all the health care you need! New teeth, great! Need glasses, no problem. New hip, knee, kidney, lung, heart? Well bring it on. And who will be paying for all of this. The same government that just told you that you’re too old for health care.

    And, since you are a prisoner, you don’t have to pay any income tax. Isn’t that wonderful?

    And if we all do our part we can end up in the same prison and have one hell of a social life!

    I really think we’ve found a Perfect Solution!

  • Nom Nom Nom

  • HR 3200 Bureaucracy Visualized

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    Click for larger version

    Folks, this is why you need to tell your representative to vote no on HR 3200.

  • Gordon Waffles like Obama, Pro-lifers Cook Him Until Burnt

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    Tennessee Democrat first voted for ban, then against

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A statewide family values group Friday blasted Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., for casting the deciding vote late Thursday to kill an amendment to the U.S. House of Representatives’ health care reform legislation that would have prohibited the use of tax dollars to pay for abortions.

    Ron Shank, Savannah, director of the Family Policy Network of Tennessee said Gordon “betrayed every Tennessean who believes prenatal children have an inalienable Right to Life, and he added insult to injury by casting the deciding vote to force us to pay for abortions, including horrific late-term abortions that brutally terminate those children’s lives.”

    “We hope every pro-life Tennessean will join us in demanding that Congressman Gordon tell us which pro-abortion group or lobbyist threatened him, cut a deal, or promised him a campaign contribution sufficient to change his vote from opposing taxpayer-funded abortions to supporting them,” Shank said. “We hope every Tennessean will join us in urging Gordon to vote against Nancy Pelosi’s trillion-dollar socialized medicine, rationed healthcare, and abortion-funding scheme altogether.”

    Shank pointed to official House Energy and Commerce Committee records available online, which indicate that Gordon was one of eight committee Democrats who earlier Thursday evening had joined all 23 committee Republicans in voting in favor of the pro-life amendment when it was initially approved by a vote of 31 to 27.

    Committee records indicate that two hours later, however, Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Ca., used a parliamentary maneuver to bring the pro-life amendment back up for reconsideration. This time, it failed by a vote of 30 to 29, with Gordon flip-flopping to cast the deciding vote against the amendment.

    The Associated Press reported late Thursday night regarding Gordon’s flip-flop:

    There was late-night drama in Waxman’s committee as an anti-abortion amendment passed when conservative Democrats joined Republicans to support it — then failed less than two hours later when Waxman used a procedural maneuver to bring it up for a second vote. In the intervening time, one conservative Democrat — Rep. Bart Gordon of Tennessee — changed his vote from ‘yes’ to ‘no.’ And a second conservative Democrat who hadn’t voted the first time — Rep. Zack Space of Ohio — voted ‘no.’ It was enough to take the amendment down on a vote of 29 to 30. The measure would have specified that health care legislation moving through Congress may not impose requirements for coverage of abortion, except in limited cases.