Health Care Open Thread

(photo and caption from freedomofbleep.com)

The Administration is putting in another big push this week.  We should have a lot to talk about so let’s segregate discussion on this topic to this thread, which we’ll keep going until this thing is finally toast.

Monday Open Thread

I had a picture of Julius Caesar getting murdered… Big Government and many others have the same pic. Since I can’t stand to be part of the crowd I’m changing my pic.

Sunday Gospel

Creedby Rich Mullins

It is accomplished

Potential Tea Party anthem? Perhaps. I also prefer to look at this song as a thumb in the eye of any politician who wishes to be our overlord instead of serving WE THE PEOPLE.

Back to the Future

Embedding is disabled on youtube, but check this out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJQcol7HevI

That was a popular music video in the ’80s and I guarantee you none of us here who are old enough to remember it batted an eyelash when we saw it.  The culture had very successfully convinced most everyone under the age of ‘40 that Reagan [...]

Now This is Too Much

From Fox New York:

Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.

“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of [...]

Wednesday Open Thread

Kostya Govnuchkiovich Borienka, aka The KGB, unavailable for comment

The Other Shoe: Eric Massa

Last week I posted on Democratic Congressman Eric Massa in Dutch for “sexually harassing” a “junior” male staffer. Well, as with most things related to the House of Representatives in the Age of Obama it seems there’s more — a LOT more to the story. Outlaw had linked to a bit from [...]

Radio Free Threedonia has a new captain

Promoting Floyd R. Turbo to the command deck today, with special guest producer Kender MacGowan of The Humor Institute and Young Gun Conservative. Fingers crossed Veruckt will have enough time to join the fun, too, as RF3D cordially welcomes Frank Ryan, Pennsylvania candidate for U.S. Congress. A retired USMC Colonel, Frank’s hot off an appearance [...]

Time for a New Emancipation Proclamation

Federal pay has now officially outstripped private sector pay. From USA Today:

Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.

Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more [...]

No Quarter Given!

In today’s Texas history class students we find that on this date in 1836 the Alamo fell to the Mexican Army. For 13 days between 100-150 Texicans held out against the onslaught of over 1500 Mexican soldiers under the command of General Santa Anna. The battle became a rallying point for the Texas [...]

Riddle Me This....

First term Massachusetts Congressman Eric Massa — a DEMOCRAT — is not seeking reelection this fall. He says the reason is his health… others say it is that he made unwanted advances to a male staffer. Massa is married with kids.

From Politico.com:

First-term Rep. Eric Massa announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, [...]

Defending Lincoln

Nothing like arguing about Lincoln, so I’ll extend it to a new post here. In open thread, Floyd – quite correctly – said that if the South hadn’t been so stubbornly boneheaded about slavery, the American Civil War (or the War of Northern Aggression, if you prefer) would not have occurred. New commenter Jeff Stone [...]

Zombie Nazis: They're Everywhere

As long as we’re talking about Nazis, how about considering the electronic variety? When they first started hitting the streets, red-light cameras seemed like a good idea. We’ve all seen people screaming through red lights and we’ve all had to jam on our brakes because some idiot decided that he was going to make a [...]

Parking Nazis

It seems they are the scourge of Western Civilization. Theodore Dalrymple, one of my favorite writers, recently got a parking ticket over in the UK and he blogged about it at his blog (group blog) The Social Affairs Unit:

The alacrity, efficiency and speed with which monies are collected from certain members of the public [...]

Careful How You Use It

Happy Independence Day!

Since none of you heathens mentioned it, allow me to remember that TODAY is TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY!

To be honest if I wasn’t reminded by 67 Cougar I would have forgotten. Not much of an excuse I know but I was supervising 3 attack weapons teams flight operations over Iraq, so I nearly jacked it [...]

Taking Aim At Anti-Gun Nuts, Act 2

Today is a big day for the Second Amendment as the Supreme Court begins to hear arguments about the city of Chicago’s handgun ban. One of the plaintiffs is an elderly self-described liberal Democrat who lives in Morgan Park, a rough neighborhood on the south side, Otis McDonald. The tough old codger wants to be [...]

Crikey!

We need some more of this and while I agree that POTUS and the office deserve respect — there’s a way to be direct and confrontational without ad hominem.

h/t Jonah Goldberg

Uncle Cholly

If I Were a Senator

I don’t want to belong to any Congress that would have me as a member.

As I wrote in an earlier post, I think the Republicans failed to hit a home run today.  They made some good, key points, but I think they failed to communicate what is most essential.  Here is a [...]

Look at Me!

The Emperor Legislator has no clothes.

I heard some of today’s Health Care summit on the radio, but I have not seen any of the footage.  Who won?  From what I’ve heard I think the Republicans did, but it was like a baseball game where both teams allow a few runs to score because [...]

You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Vomit Blood...I give You the New Obama Proposal

I believe Joe Biden actually typed the text in this picture.

After suffering through the dribble that is President Obama’s latest “healthcare proposal” I have come to one very important conclusion.

Here is my revelation. I have played Monopoly with 5 year olds who have a better understanding of economics than our [...]

New birther argument: Obama potential identity-theft victim

Thus sayeth J.D. Hayworth, in the strangest bit of political pandering I’ve ever read.

“Well, gosh, we all had to bring our birth certificates to show we were who we said we were, and we were the age we said we were, to play football and youth sports,” Hayworth said. “Shouldn’t we know exactly [...]

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Budget Deficit

“What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?!”

I’ve put off this post for a long, long time.  Except to folks like me it’s a mind-stultifyingly boring topic, and one practically requires a PhD in numismatics to comprehend it.  But, the federal budget is in the news a [...]

Ask and ye shall receive

College Widow, who also kindly thanks G-Man for the challenge/inspiration, you rock!!!

Play, or Pay Up

Gotta love those Democrats.

The Land of Lincoln is, as you know, in the midst of a deep, dark budget crisis. We’ve got billions in debt and crumbling infrastructure, all thanks to Rockin’ Rod Blagojevich and a compliant, Democrat-controlled state legislature that spent the last eight years handing out cash for every goofy program they could [...]

Wisdom!

I love the Bible. I love reading it, studying it and I find it continually relevant on everyday topics attendant with the spiritual wisdom inside. I don’t expect some of you to understand all that — e-mail me and we’ll have a chat about that — I’m not a blog proselytizer…. Anyway… [...]

How Dare These Humans Laugh?

Wankette mentioned this bizarre Obama moment yesterday, but some things you just have to see to believe:

What’s most interesting to me is what occurs after the President says that the woman requested she be buried in an Obama t-shirt.

The crowd laughs, because they really don’t know what else to do.  When you genuinely like someone [...]

The True Face of Evil — North Korea Edition

Christopher Hitchens, in Slate, writes a review of the book The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matter by B.R. Myers

Hitchens begins:

Visiting North Korea some years ago, I was lucky to have a fairly genial “minder” whom I’ll call Mr. Chae. He guided me patiently around the ruined and starving country, [...]

Right Now, Back Then

I believe the statute of limitations has passed for the guys that did this flying. Who doesn’t love low passes by supersonic jet fighters? I mean besides commanders, safety folks and humorless tree hugging hippies.

Stolen from 67Cougar.

It’s Good To Be Queen

Here’s a run-down of the bar tab for one flight by a prominent celebrity:

Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Creme, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewar’s scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniel’s whiskey and Corona beer.

Nice selection of booze, but who’s it [...]

Now That’s Bi-Partisan

Interesting story this weekend: turns out that Senator Scott Brown and President Barack Obama are cousins. OK, tenth cousins, but still. Family is family.

Speaking of the junior Senator from Massachusetts, it was disappointing to see Brown come out in favor of a “woman’s right to choose,” but I suppose that is to be expected in [...]

“The pillage of the future by the present”

Here’s an interesting essay by German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk from The City Journal on The Grasping Hand of the modern democratic state and what it might mean. Here’s a bit go read the whole thing:

The modern democratic state pillages its productive citizens.

To assess the unprecedented scale that the modern democratic state has attained in [...]

Radio Free Threedonia 2.5 — Obamacare Undressed

Not one, but two healthcare experts joined the RF3D fun today: Threedonia’s very own Veruckt, AKA budding Tennessee politician Brandon May, and Megan Barth, from Docs4PatientCare and RedCounty.com.

Also wouldn’t be Radio Free Threedonia without more love going out to Neil “This is his year for a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination” Diamond.

Show available [...]

Harold Estes, Real American Hero

The sad thing about it is, the person this letter is intended for would consider him a tired senile old man…

Dear President Obama,
My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally [...]

Only in Pennsylvania (probably Texas, too)

With a H/T to an email forward my lovely wife, a little primer for tonight’s SOTU…

People in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania have a warped sense of humor.
It must be something in the coal-infused water.

This is the pull off at SR 61 and Adamsdale Rd.
A deer was hit there.
The couch was dumped there previously.
Day two [...]

“That’s a bingo!!!”

Print ‘em up and play at your own head-imploding risk tomorrow night…

Mad King Charles

I thought some of you might be interested in this story in The New York Times Magazine about Charles Johnson and his Little Green Footballs blog.

When I first got on the internet, I’d heard of three blogs: the Drudge Report, Powerline, and Little Green Footballs.  I don’t visit any of them now, but they were [...]

GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD

An interesting site worth a gander, some of you might be entertained by the blog called Great Satan’s Girlfriend. Hell, I checked it out just for the name. Kudos for that one.

http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/

Three stars, Joe Bob says check it out!

Greed

Greed: not a problem with banks, when the damn guvment stays out their way and doesn’t force them to take insane risks, but a helluva problem with guvment in general and this administration in particular. Has there ever been a more greedy president in history? Greedy for a cut of the profits from any business [...]

Obama star falls with his own rope-a-hope

Hotair has this poll from the National Journal.

The Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll shows 50% say they would probably or definitely vote for someone else. Fully 37% say they would definitely cast a ballot against Obama. Meanwhile, just 39% would vote to re-elect the pres. to a 2nd term, and only 23% say they definitely [...]

Did everyone forget – Reid just called us all racist

Brit Hume mentioned this on The O’Reilly Factor tonight – everyone is quick to admonish Reid for his racial overtones toward Obama, yet neglect Reid’s inference that the American public is racist. Hume felt that was the most appalling part of Reid’s now infamous “Negro dialect” statement, recorded in the pages of “Game Change,” the [...]

Dial “S” for… ahhh Nevermind.

What hath Oscar wrought? Ged Galvin of Barnsley, England has received a bionic butt.

Ged Galvin, 55, now presses a remote control to open his bowels and go to the toilet.

The IT project manager from Barnsley, south Yorkshire, almost died when an off-duty police officer pulled out in front of him in her car.

Mr [...]

Do they hear what we hear?