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The Transnational Progressive Obsession with Israel

by Phantom Ace ( 66 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Progressives at August 16th, 2009 - 6:13 pm

Israel is one of the most hated nations among members of the Transnational Totalitarian Progressive Movement. Leftwing media outlets like Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Think Progress, MSNBC, CNN and the NY Times constantly bash Israel. Universities in America and Europe have anti-Israel rallies and many on the left invent conspiracies involving Zionists. This is a sick and unhealthy obsession with the nation of Israel, but it is no shock. Progressivism comes from the same Anti-Semitic root as Nazism.

It begins, reasonably, as a response to apparently unnecessary violence by Israel. Then it moves on to accuse Israel of expanding on land the Arabs insist is theirs. Nothing wrong with criticizing that, surely. Israel, a state, deserves to be judged like any other.

Even those friendly toward Israel have often felt duty bound to point out its mistakes. In more innocent times, I imagined that intellectuals in the West paid careful attention to Israel’s faults because they expected it to set a high standard. Who would worry about the moral status of, say, Bolivia? No one except Bolivians. Jews, however, live with the injunction to be (as Isaiah quotes God) “A light unto the nations.”

But now everything has changed. Opposing Israel has become an institutionalized ritual. It’s now a movement across Europe and North America. It has its traditions, like Israel Apartheid Week, celebrated every spring in universities, often the cause of riots and an occasion to intimidate Jewish students. Vehement opposition to Israel appears to be the major interest of thousands of people all over the world. Many are Muslims, sympathizing with the Palestinians, but many are not. This week, attacks on Israel once more appeared on the agenda of the general council meeting of the United Church of Canada, a critic of Israel for generations.

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The fact that Progressives hate Israel is just one of the many  reasons to support Israel. It is also no coincidence that the left collaborates with the Totalitarian Islamists against Israel. 10 years ago most people supported Israel, and a majority still do. However, now there is a growing Anti-Israel attitude among those 25 and younger. This is due to Progressive brainwashing and the mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism under the guise of Anti-Zionism.

Israel is a nation that all on the Right should support.

The real question: How many Americans have health insurance?

by bar ( 33 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Healthcare, Politics, Republican Party at August 14th, 2009 - 9:05 am

That’s the real question. We have all heard the alleged numbers of Americans that don’t have health insurance, 46+ million. The true number is likely less than half that. Twenty somethings are not interested in low insurance premiums with extended coverage. They are interested in new iPhones, clothes and pimping their cars out. When I was a twenty something, I didn’t care about health insurance or retirement. They are just things most young people don’t have at the top of their to-do-list. I worked for 7 years before I got a job that offered health insurance and I didn’t seek that job for the insurance benefits. I just needed a job.

Now just try to find out how many Americans really do have health insurance. When I do a goggle search 99% of the results are how many Americans DON’T have health insurance. Then I stumbled across a census report dated August 2008 with 2007 data and it states that more than 250 million Americans have health insurance. Of that, we have heard that about 89% are happy with their dreaded “status quo”. Even if I, for the sake of argument, accept the 46 million uninsured person claim, it still amounts to only 1/5th of the total number insured. I guess the 1/5th will now dictate to the other 4/5ths? That doesn’t seem right or fair. Why should I and the rest of the majority suffer for the minority? That is nothing but kowtowing to special interests.

Take the gay rights crusade for example, less than 3% of the population is homosexual, yet they will define what marriage is for the other 97%. That sounds really fair! Why turn the world upside down just to appease that small percentage?

I also take note of the Obummer canard that healthcare costs will rise dramatically in the near future. Thus the need to act RIGHT NOW before its too late! So he is fighting a crypto-ghost of his own making for his own convenience.

Illegal aliens use our emergency rooms as primary healthcare centers now and its on the American tax payers dime. We do not deny healthcare to those who can not afford it. Illegal aliens don’t pay taxes so they do not pay into any system that covers their healthcare costs, its free for them.

If we truly want to cut healthcare costs, we must first stop these illegal free loaders.
You and I and your insurance and my insurance are paying for those free loaders, because nothing is really free, somebody has to foot the bill.

Mr President and members of congress stop wasting our time and your time writing thousand page bills that change the “status quo” for over 250 million Americans that are happy with their “status quo” just to appease the very small minority and illegal aliens. Unless you want to lose your job, then by all means carry on.

Its past time for the American people to stand up and take notice of your shenanigans and vote you all out of office. Its time we get some representatives that care about the majority interests and stop kowtowing to special interests. Last time I checked the majority has a larger vote then the minority, a simple fact that is lost on our current elected officials.
-bar

Update: 10 things that make American healthcare better than any other developed country.
Well at least until Obummer and congress get their hands on it.

I Guess There *Were* End-of-Life Provisions in ObamaCare After All

by tqcincinnatus ( 97 Comments › )
Filed under Healthcare, Politics at August 14th, 2009 - 7:04 am

Hmmmm.   Looks like a lot of left-leaning bloggers will be eating crow, since Chuck Grassley, one of the leading Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee, says that end-of-life provisions have been removed from the Senate’s version of ObamaCare,

Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, who is working with Finance Committee chairman Sen. Max Baucus on a health care compromise, has just issued a statement saying that concerns about end-of-life issues in the House health care bill are entirely legitimate.  In addition, Grassley says the Finance Committee has “dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration entirely” because of those fears and also because of concerns that they could be “implemented incorrectly.”  Grassley’s statement:

The bill passed by the House committees is so poorly cobbled together that it will have all kinds of unintended consequences, including making taxpayers fund health care subsidies for illegal immigrants. On the end-of-life issue, there’s a big difference between a simple educational campaign, as some advocates want, and the way the House committee-passed bill pays physicians to advise patients about end of life care and rates physician quality of care based on the creation of and adherence to orders for end-of-life care, while at the same time creating a government-run program that is likely to lead to the rationing of care for everyone. On the Finance Committee, we are working very hard to avoid unintended consequences by methodically working through the complexities of all of these issues and policy options. That methodical approach continues.  We dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration entirely because of the way they could be misinterpreted and implemented incorrectly. Maybe others can defend a bill like the Pelosi bill that leaves major issues open to interpretation, but I can’t.

In other words, the end-of-life provisions could have lead to “death panels”….just like Palin said. 

Makes sense, really.  When you start rationing care – as you almost invariably do under any universal single payer health care system – then you start taking into account things like “how many useful years does this person have left?”  And you start considering that giving health care to old people who won’t be working and producing tax revenue isn’t worth it.  You start measuring the value of a person’s life on how much revenue they can generate for the state.   Then you end up with the death panels Palin warned about.  Where did she get such a silly idea?  Probably from Oregon, where exactly that sort of thing has already happened via Oregon’s state-run health care system. 

Once again, conservatives were right, and the leftie blogs were wrong.  I’m starting to detect a trend here.

 

 


Majority of Americans reject Obama’s progressive agenda

by Phantom Ace ( 187 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Democratic Party, Economy, Liberal Fascism at August 13th, 2009 - 10:30 am

The new Rasmussen poll has good news. Only 47% of Americans support Obama’s policies. 52% reject his Transnational Totalitarian Progressive Policies. This is good news and hopefully more Americans will begin to oppose this tyrant and his gang of fascists thugs.

Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet recorded. The President’s ratings first fell below 50% just a few weeks ago on July 25. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove.

Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans disapprove along with 65% of those not affiliated with either party. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of Democrats offer their approval. Most women (51%) offer their approval while most men (56%) disapprove. For more measures of the President’s performance, see Obama By the Numbers and recent demographic highlights from the tracking polls.

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The Progressives will dismiss this poll and claim it is a rightwing conspiracy. In reality, the progressives don’t care what people think. In their minds they know what is good for us. Their Neo-Feudal outlook on life will be more exposed as their agenda becomes unpopular.

Keep up the protests. Their agenda must be stopped!