October 25, 2007

Well, it's coming back again. Folks, we ARE going to have socialized medicine. It doesn't matter that it doesn't work. It doesn't matter that it will hurt and kill people, just like socialism does every single place on the planet it's ever been tried. You see, socialism works for two reasons: because it's for the "greater good" (even if it kills some people, others will be better off) and because, at least in America, there's many good people.
You see, there's a lot of people in America still left that just won't give up. There's a lot of people who still see the value in hard work, so they're going to work hard, no matter what. There's people who, even if the income tax rises to 75%, are still going to work hard. Of course, that number continues to shrink as more people find out that if they don't work, government will provide, well, everything for them.
But there's still that mass of people who just ignore government, ignore politics, and continue working. There's the mass that doesn't realize that 20-50% of their earnings are being taken from them -- they just don't care because they're going to work hard. As long as there is this mass, socialism and socialist medicine will continue to expand, and will continue to work in America.
Of course, once more students from public schools graduate -- who have not been taught that hard work is good -- and more people retire and simply give up -- it will be harder to sustain the socialist system. The next generation is in serious trouble -- but no one cares about them. And after all, socialized medicine will "help" some people.
So socialism continues. Socialist medicine (SCHIP) will be implemented. And good people will continue to work hard -- at least as long as they can. And freedom will continue to decline until it just simply doesn't exist -- but you won't know, because you'll be working too hard.
Raven has more gory details.
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October 24, 2007
SAN DIEGANS & PRO-TROOP GROUP CONDEMN SENATOR BOXER FOR POLITICIZING FIRESTORM WITH COMMENTS ON IRAQ
The nationÂ’s largest pro-troop organization, Move America Forward (website: www.MoveAmericaForward.org) is speaking out to condemn Senator Barbara Boxer for politicizing the southern California fires.
Earlier on Tuesday in comments on Capitol Hill, Boxer attacked the mission in Iraq, laying blame on AmericaÂ’s effort to destroy terrorism with the deployment of U.S. troops in Iraq for hindering fire-fighting efforts in California.
“Shame on Barbara Boxer for trying to take a political shot at the missions and abilities of our troops during a time of crisis in San Diego,” said Howard Kaloogian, San Diego County resident and founder of Move America Forward.
Former State Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian was part of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in San Diego County on Monday. Kaloogian lives in San Elijo Hills. Move America ForwardÂ’s Vice Chairman, Lt. Colonel Buzz Patterson (USAF, Ret.) has prepared his family for evacuation in Simi Valley, CA, as the Malibu fire is threatening to come over the mountain into populated parts of Ventura County. The family of Move America Forward Grassroots coordinator, Joe Wierzbicki, was forced to evacuate from their homes in Fallbrook to the ocean after flames approached.
“Now is a time for people to come together to help one another during this awful natural disaster. Thousands of Californians have lost their homes, or may lose them in the next 24 hours, and the focus should be on how to help these people, not play petty and pathetic political games,” said Colonel Patterson, Move America Forward Vice Chairman.
Patterson also pointed out that if, “Senator Boxer was so concerned about insufficient military equipment, she should stop voting against military appropriations.”
Besides being shameless, Senator BoxerÂ’s comments are also inaccurate. As Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense Paul McHale declared today:
"I can tell you unequivocally that the ongoing war-fighting activities ... have had no negative effect at all (on) our ability to provide sufficient forces to assist civilian authorities in fighting the wildfires.... There is no manpower shortage,” McHale has publicly stated.
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October 18, 2007

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October 17, 2007

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October 15, 2007
If you have children in California, you are doing them a disservice. If you want to raise them with your morals and values, you will not be allowed to. Yes, I realize there are many who have insane morals and values in CA, but most of them don't procreate. I strongly suggest if you care about your children and want them to see freedom, that you move to New Hampshire. That seriously looks like the ONLY hope for freedom left on this planet.
A family is meant to be two parents of different sexes. No, it really doesn't matter what you think. That's a family, even if you don't like it. Men and women are different (again, if you don't like it). They were created with different purposes, values, and abilities. Study after study shows that children ARE better when raised by two parents: a MOTHER and a FATHER. ANYTHING else is just plain wrong.
Now I realize that there are single-parents that are raising children. And sometimes it's because something happened that was out of that parent's control. That's a completely different situation -- but it's still NOT a good situation.
Now California wants to completely and totally disrupt any semblance of order remaining in society. That's fine, if they'd keep it to themselves. Unfortunately, they won't. I'm sure the middle school boys are happy -- because now they are allowed to use either the boys' locker room or the girls' locker room. Gee, I wonder if there will be any increase in sexual activity?
Once again, this is about making some people "more equal" or more protected than other people. This is a very clear government action that shows that certain people and activities are preferred by government -- and in this case, it's the abnormal that government is supporting at the expense of the family.
Do you realize that a science textbook that says that people are born male or female is now banned in CA? Let's see the anti-religious science people get upset about CA refusing to allow facts in textbooks this time. Oh, right, this advances the liberal agenda, so it's perfectly okay to destroy science if it's in the worship of liberalism.
Ironically, this law also supposedly increases punishments (and definitions) for harassment. Gee, do you think that by allowing boys into the girls locker room that there might be more harassment?
The law also removes any state funding for any religious organization that might help people -- unless the religion is anything but Christian. The state will continue giving money to their approved religions, but not to other religions. Sure, go ahead, try and convince me this law has even one speck that's Constitutional (I know we don't use that document any more, but in theory we do).
What a puss-filled cesspool the state of California really has become.
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October 01, 2007
Seriously.
Soon, if national Democrats have their way, you can go to the C-Store and buy some cigarettes. If you're thinking they're expensive, you can think to yourself, "Well, at least it's helping the children." Perhaps we can work out the numbers soon to determine exactly how many children you'll be helping with each purchase. Maybe the Democrats can put out promotional signs: "Each 10 cartons you buy is one medical visit for a poor child of a parent who earns only $75,000 a year."
And to continue with the utter and total disconnect from reality, the Democrats continue to claim that if they massively increase a tax on something, then people will buy less of it -- which helps their program earn money because their new program will get money from the sales of the item that will be decreasing because it's a bad item that people shouldn't buy in the first place but when they do, it will be For The Children.
Democrats -- is there anything they won't lie about to get more cash of working people to spend themselves?
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September 18, 2007

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September 14, 2007
Bush: We need to finish this war.
Democrats: We vote to go to war.
Bush: Excellent, let's kill those who want to kill us.
Democrats: No war! Withdraw the troops!
Bush: What?
Democrats: War is bad. No war! Withdraw the troops!
Bush: But you just voted to go to war.
Democrats: That's before we knew you wanted to go to war. Withdraw the troops!
Bush: But...
Democrats: Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!
Bush: Okay, fine. Let's withdraw the troops.
Democrats: No wait, withdrawing the troops isn't what we want.
Bush: But you just said...
Democrats: No withdrawl! No withdrawl! No war!
Bush: Do you even listen to yourselves?
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Also related: Just Who Did Democrats Elect?
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September 12, 2007

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September 06, 2007

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September 05, 2007

Indeed. As Cao points out, it's quite interesting. We have a two-party system. One party claims to have morals, while the other does not. So those who are in the morals party are held to high standards, while the those who are in the other party are held to no standards. So if you have morals and standards, if you'll only support those who are in the morals party who actually have morals, you're not left with very many people to support, are you?
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September 01, 2007

And while it may not be actually true, it certainly seems that way.
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August 08, 2007
There's about 7 million unemployed in the US. According to Mr. Dodd, if we surrender in Iraq, he, personally, will create 480,000 jobs a month. So, if we elect Mr. Dodd, in just over a year, the US Unemployment rate will drop to absolutely zero.
Government. Is there anything they can't do (to you)?
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August 02, 2007
That's the message from Lidia Morawska, PhD, director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues. They have done some testing and determined that some printers -- and they cannot identify which ones -- emitted high levels of particles.
To show that Ms. Morawska is completely biased, she declared:
There should be regulations
In other words, she wants more, bigger government to protect people from themselves. A person interested in freedom would have declared, "Here is the information and the risk. Now people are smart enough to decide if they want to take risks or not." But not Ms. Morawska. She demands that government quickly start passing new regulations. I wonder if she'd prefer a new government department of "printer emission regulation." Of course they'd need hundreds of employees, all paid a "living wage" of at least $50,000 per year. And they'd need enforcement agents with arrest powers.
Oh, how I yearn for freedom.
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July 26, 2007

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July 25, 2007

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I know when Clinton was in power, people told Rush Limbaugh that he would be lost when Clinton was out of power -- but Limbaugh opposed stupidity in government, not just Clinton. When Clinton left, Limbaugh still had lots to talk about because stupidity and anti-freedom in government still runs rampant (among Democrats and Republicans).
But BDS is completely different. These people are openly opposed to Bush personally. These people blame Bush personally for things like global warming. When Bush leaves office, there is going to be a vast hole in these people's lives. Like most people, they will need to seek something to fill that vast hole. I do not know what they will do with themselves. We can hope and pray that they find something good with which to fill that hole (like Jesus), but I suspect that will not be the case. Instead, I suspect they will become zealots for some other religion -- like environmentalism or global warming.
What do you think these people will do with themselves?
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July 23, 2007
"the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency -- nay -- the very existence of George W. Bush."
Now, if there's any psychologists or psychiatrists (I always forget which is which) who really want to study this syndrome, I can provide a classic "textbook" case of BDS, with an example.
Last week I posted about Democrats. Specifically, it was about one bill that the Democrats did not support. It outlined what was in the bill and gave quotes of Democrats -- those same Democrats who would not support the bill. The post was about showing how Democrats say one thing but actually DO another.
Along comes a person to comment. The very first comment was about President Bush. Now there was absolutely nothing in the post about President Bush at all. It was about Democrats. I told the commenter that they could read the post. At this point, the commenter almost got it. He mentioned that my post didn't mention Bush at all -- but then he continued to ask about President Bush's position.
After trying to explain to the commenter that I was talking about the United States Senate, he continued to ask about president Bush. I went ahead and explained in simple terms that the post was about the Senate and not Bush. I explained that I really didn't care what Bush thought about this particular bill. Therefore, this commenter somehow logically concluded that I was ignorant.
Yes, because I didn't want to talk about something that this person did (Bush), I was ignorant. The discussion actually continued. In each and every comment (except one), this posted continued to mention Bush. As of this writing, he has continued to mention Bush -- 19 times now. And he's blamed Bush for, well, I'm not sure what. And yes, because I didn't want to talk about what he wanted to talk about, he started calling me names.
Take a peek at the thread if you dare -- but be careful, if you attempt to apply rational logic or attempt to discuss with him, you may actually get dumber. It's a true classic case of Bush derangement syndrome.
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July 20, 2007
To recap here are a few items that the Department of Defense Authorization Act would do:
* A 3.5 percent pay increase across-the-board for all service members and would guarantee a pay increase for members of the American Forces
* $50 million for the Defense Health Program sustainment account for health care facilities, particularly at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
* An increase in the authorized payment from $12,000 to $100,000 for Defense Department military personnel who die while working in a combat zone.
* An additional $4.1 billion for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles.
To recap here is what Democrat Senators have said about the troops:
* “We've all made a promise to our servicemen and women that while their away protecting us; we would be in Washington protecting them and their families. We should not let partisan judicial politics stop us from keeping that promise.” (Sen. Mark Pryor, Senate Democrat Conference Web site, accessed 7/19/07)
* “Our first priority should be to ensure that the men and women who honorably serve our country are given the resources they need to succeed both on and off the battlefield.” (Sen. Dick Durbin’s Web site, accessed 7/19/07)
* "As part of the Defense Authorization bill this week, I will introduce an amendment making it clear Congress will provide every dollar and every authority needed to build vehicles resistant to roadside bombs and shaped charges. As long as we have a single soldier in Iraq, we must do whatever it takes to provide them the best protection possible. This must be a national priority. (Sen. Joe Biden press release, 7/16/07)
* “…it is extremely important to make sure our troops continue to know we support them. The president was right to commend the troops for their tremendous efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but honoring them with words is not enough. It’s critical that our troops have the proper equipment they need to do their jobs.” (Sen. Jay Rockefeller press release, 1/20/04)
* “As long as our nation's policies put them there, our troops should hear an unequivocal message from Congress that we support them.” (Sen. Carl Levin Washington Post Op-Ed, 6/21/07)
* “We are here to say that, yes, we're going to fight hard for all of what government can do -- the needs that they [soldiers] have, the financial needs, whether it's health care needs, mental health care needs, equipment and everything.” (Sen. Mary Landrieu press conference, 7/11/07)
* The first definition of patriotism is keeping faith with those whoÂ’ve worn the uniform of the United States of America. Our obligation is to keep faith with the men and women of the American military and their families-whether they are on active duty, in the National Guard or Reserves, or veterans. (Sen. John KerryÂ’s Web site, accessed 7/19/07)
* We must ensure that our troops at home and abroad have the tools they need to protect freedom and democracy across the globe. I'm committed to working together to ensure our military and our men and women in uniform have what they need to do their jobs.” (Sen. Max Baucus’ Web site, accessed 7/19/07)
Yet when it came time to vote on legislation to increase troop pay, to increase money for military healthcare, to increase benefits for military widows and families, to increase the safety of our troops; Democrats staged a self-described stunt and when that failed to even impress their own liberal base, they throw a temper-tantrum and pulled the bill from the floor.
If Democrats really supported the troops they would call on their leadership to quit pandering to the left and pass legislation that actually does support our troops.
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