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Finding Out What’s In It! Part VI.

by Flyovercountry ( 93 Comments › )
Filed under Healthcare, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, Tranzis at January 29th, 2011 - 4:30 pm

The number of Obamacare waivers now total 729.  This represents a total of 3,000,000 Americans who are exempted from the taxation increases the remainder of us will be forced to pay this year.  Their waivers are good until 2014, coincidentally the last year of taxation increase, and where the free government largess begins.  There are several problems with this, which we should all have.  First, who decides who gets to opt out, and who doesn’t?  How is that determination made?  My fear, is that picking who gets to opt out is totally dependant on who supported this monstrosity to begin with.  Looking over the list of approved waivers, found within this link, I get the distinct impression that you will find zero companies or organizations who publicly opposed this monstrosity.  You will find however 7 SEIU union locals.  You will find GE.  You will find the Teamsters.  These were all the main cheerleaders telling the rest of us how good this was going to be.  They now are exempt from the burdensome extra expense the rest of us have to pay in order to conduct business.  The process for picking those worthy of waiver of course is located in the Law.  It is one of the many sections which says, “at the discretion of the Secretary,”  In essence, the Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sibelius gets to make up the rules for most of the new Law as she goes along.  Any company or organization which the Administration likes, does not have to pay, and any they don’t, well hard cheese for them.  The really insidious thing about it is, it is all perfectly legal according to the Law, (remember the constitution was thrown out in the passage of this nightmare.)

One of the things we were all told was this, “we must all purchase these policies, because if we don’t all pay into the pool, that will make the model unsustainable for everyone who does pay.  So here we are a year later, and some lucky few of us have been exempted from the pool.  This is crony capitalism.  this is not the free market system which made our country great.  This is the, “Party'” picking and choosing who works, and who benefits.  The CEO, Jeffrey Immelt,  of GE, one of the exempted companies, was just tapped by the Administration to head up the new Green Jobs Program at the White House.  Coincidentally, GE’s new focus for its company is green technology and green infrastructure.  So, when we are assured by our fellow citizens that we should trust completely the government, that these altruistic servants of the people are beyond reproach, and would never allow their own personal ambitions for power affect their decision making process, it makes me laugh.  They are so brazen about their intentions to destroy our personal freedoms and free market system that it makes me wonder truly how anyone could possibly miss it.  Bear in mind, the latest argument I heard on MSNBC posited by Chris Matthews was not that we conservatives interpreted the constitution wrong, but that the constitution should no longer apply at all to our nation.  The constitution should just be considered null and void, because it has outlived its usefulness.

During the State of The Union Address on Tuesday, President Obama cited Ronald Reagan as a political figure he would like to emulate.  I’ll assume for a moment that Obama really does admire Reagan, and that he was not merely invoking Reagan’s name because of Reagan’s popularity.  In that case, we’re in luck, because we can hear for ourselves what Reagan had to say about what Obama inflicted upon us.  Here it is:

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***COLDWARRIOR UPDATE: I was going to do a post on this article, but i’ll just add it here:

Patient care at risk under NHS reforms, experts warn

Patients could be denied hip, knee and hernia operations under unprecedented reforms to the NHS, the Royal College of Surgeons has warned ahead of a crucial Commons debate.

The people that wrote the health care bill admitted they are emulating the British system.

I wasn’t joking when i typed that treatment for a broken hip under Obamacare is going to be a wheel chair and some opiates…and your loved ones will have to bring back the wheelchair when your done with it. An unmended broken hip in a senior is a death sentence, you will die from pneumonia and have lovely bed sores; both from immobility. Just what the bean counters want; less seniors that they have to pay for. I am in this field, dont think I am kidding baby boomers…you will get this treatment first in a few years, then gen x and gen y will get it with both barrels as the system goes broke and has to shed patients. This has got to be stopped.

UPDATE II:  Here is the take from Investor’s Business Daily.

When is the murder of hundreds of living babies okay with liberals? When it’s done by an abortionist

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 157 Comments › )
Filed under Abortion, Barack Obama, Crime, Democratic Party, Fascism, Liberal Fascism, Politics, Progressives, Socialism at January 25th, 2011 - 4:30 pm

“He (Dr. Kermit Gosnell) was charged with the murder of babies who were fully delivered; he induced labor, delivered the babies and then stuck a scissors in the back of their necks and mercilessly killed them. Their first breath was also their last.”– Lori Ziganto, writing on redstate.com

“As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child — however way you want to describe it — is now outside the mother’s womb and the doctor continues to think that it’s nonviable but there’s, let’s say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they’re not just coming out limp and dead…”

So said then-IL state Senator Barack Hussein Obama, debating a “Born Alive” bill in Illinois, which would require doctors who perform abortions to allow babies who survive the procedure to live.

I’m pro-life, but putting that aside, the amazing thing to me is that they actually needed a law for this. The bill, which would have required the abortionist to do everything medically possible to help this living human being survive, did not pass, due to the lib majority in the IL senate, including Obama. Obama had a problem with this bill, but not because the aborted baby was born alive, a living human being.

No, Obama could not have cared less, and would have allowed a living human being to die because the baby survived the abortion, and not give a damn whatsoever about that precious child.

Unbelievably, he was actually worried more about the “burden” on the abortionist, while not being the least bit concerned about the living baby.

Obama objected to the idea that babies born alive after surviving the attempted abortion are anything more than pre-viable fetuses, because as living human beings, they would be protected by the constitution.

And in his radical leftist mind, that would lead to the barring of and/or reduction of the number of abortions.

At least five babies spent their last hours left to die in the soiled utility closet at Christ Hospital in 2001 alone; one even managed to live for almost 8 hours. Untold numbers suffered the same fate while Barack Obama sat on legislation to stop these horrendous acts of infanticide.

What a disgusting, evil POS he is (FYI, Christ Hospital is affiliated with the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church, not the Catholic Church).

Had you ever heard of this monster, Dr. Kermit Gosnell? Probably not, because the MSM is doing their best not to cover this. This POS medical doctor murderer is evil personified. He killed babies that were born alive by sticking a pair of scissors in the back of their necks and severing their spinal cords. Hundreds of them.

Most were black babies born to poor inner-city black women. These were living, breathing human beings that this monster killed. It’s premeditated murder, in my opinion, since he knew what he was doing and knew it would cause the death of these living human beings. For money. Some of the mothers of these babies he murdered also died from his evil actions. He’s no different than any other mass murderer. He should be executed after he is convicted.

Thanks to reprehensible leftist organizations, such as the fraudulently named Planned Parenthood, and the liberals and feminists who vociferously support it, and abortion on demand, the black population in America now is half of what it should be. Go back and read that sentence again.

Three quarters of abortion clinics are in inner-city areas, and 80% of abortions are done on black women.

But, of course, because libs are libs, don’t hold your breath waiting for race-bating poverty pimps, such as Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, to protest this mass murder of black babies.

They, like most libs, don’t give a damn about the black children who were murdered by Gosnell, because they can’t blame the murders on Bush, Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, or the Tea Party organizations.

Thanks to the liberals on the Supreme Court, who, in 1973, somehow interpreted that there’s a constitutional “right to privacy”, even though those words appear nowhere in the Constitution, approximately 55 million babies have been aborted.

Give credit to former Democrat governor Ed Rendell, who left office earlier this month, and said he was “flabbergasted” upon finding out about this atrocity, and current Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who has ordered a thorough investigation as to why state and local agencies did not report Gosnell’s activities before now.

Michelle Malkin wrote about this a couple of days ago, as did Lori Ziganto at redstate.com, about this ghoul’s heinous actions, and about how liberals in Pennsylvania, including former Republican governor Tom Ridge, allowed it to happen, EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING!

The Philadelphia Horror: How mass murder gets a pass
By Michelle Malkin

The mainstream news reports about Philadelphia’s serial baby-killer Kermit Gosnell and his abortion clinic death squad only scratch the surface of his barbaric enterprise. You must, must, must read the entire, graphic, 281-page grand jury report (embedded after my column below) to fully fathom the systematic execution of hundreds of (not just seven) healthy, living, breathing, squirming, viable babies — along with an untold number of mothers who may have lost their lives in his sick, grimy chamber of horrors as well. It is explicit. It is enraging. It will haunt you.

Ask yourself why you are not hearing about which root causes and whose rhetoric are to blame for this four-decades-long massacre — just the tip of a blood-soaked iceberg defended by the predators of Planned Parenthood. You know the answer: If it doesn’t help the Left criminalize conservatism, it’s not worth discussing.

From the conclusion of the grand jury report: “It is not our job to say who should be fired or demoted. We believe, however, that anyone responsible for permitting Gosnell to operate as he did should face strong disciplinary action up to and including termination. This includes not only the people who failed to do the inspecting, the prosecuting, and the protecting, but also those at the top who obviously tolerated, or even encouraged, the inaction. The Department of State literally licensed Gosnell’s criminally dangerous behavior. DOH gave its stamp of approval to his facility. These agencies do not deserve the public’s trust. The fate of Karnamaya Mongar and countless babies with severed spinal cords is proof that people at those departments were not doing their jobs. Those charged with protecting the public must do better.”

Over to you, eugenics-inspired, eco-freak Obama science czar John Holdren…

Click here to read the rest of the gruesome piece

Kermit Gosnell and Roe v. Wade: Something Evil This Way Came
By Lori Ziganto

Yesterday it was reported that Kermit Gosnell, an abortionist, was arrested and charged with eight counts of murder. He was charged with the murder of babies who were fully delivered; he induced labor, delivered the babies and then stuck a scissors in the back of their necks and mercilessly killed them. Their first breath, was also their last. Lacking even the dignity of a human touch; no one holding their tiny, innocent hand coursing with life’s blood, as that life left their tiny bodies. Eyes opening, trying to focus for the first time and trustingly seek out the security of the face belonging to the voice they’d heard for many months inside the womb. Struggling to survive, as the will to live is strong, even in the most tiny and vulnerable.

He was not charged with the murders of babies he killed the same way – earning $1.8 million in one year alone for doing so – only inside the womb.

Gosnell’s abortion mill was a gruesome house of evil. When police searched Gosnell’s facilities, they found that “bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses were scattered throughout the building. Jars containing the severed feet of babies lined a shelf.” This grotesque cretin kept severed feet as some sort of macabre serial killer trophy.

The State of Pennsylvania knew this. And ignored it. Allowing him to commit murder, time and time again, for decades. Their reasoning? Inspecting abortion mills clinics and requiring that they have basic safety standards would result in “putting up a barrier to women” and their ‘choice’. The ‘choice’ is never explicitly said because by choice they, of course, mean the purposeful killing of a baby. Barbara Boxer and even our own President would have believed the same. Barbara Boxer believes that a right to life does not exist until a mother ‘chooses’ to take her baby home, alive, from the hospital. President Obama, when a state senator in Illinois, had more concern for abortionists than for the babies whose lives they snuff out. He cared more about protecting the vile excuses for human beings like Kermit Gosnell than the babies they were attempting to kill. He believes that babies who are born alive during an abortion attempt should legally be left to die.
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The Russians Understand the Problem Here

by coldwarrior ( 216 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Economy, Politics, Republican Party, Russia at January 18th, 2011 - 4:30 pm

The Russian immigrant community understands the problem here in the U.S.; while we natural born citizens, well at least 52% of we citizens don’t understand the problem that the United States is facing and the perils of the path that we are on. I have a feeling that the Cubans in Florida and other immigrants from former communist countries that live all around America understand the problem here in the U.S. while we slide toward Socialism:

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Many Russian immigrants to the “red borough” of Staten Island are flocking to the Republican Party, saying that the national Democrats’ “socialistic” policies remind them too much of the top-down oligarchy they fled in their native land.

With many of the borough’s Russian arrivees already owning businesses and active in civic organizations, their muscle could help the Island GOP solidify electoral gains made this year, when the party took back congressional and Assembly seats.

Businessman Arkadiy Fridman said that the newly formed Citizens Magazine Business Club, a confederation of more than 50 Russian-owned businesses here and in Brooklyn, has aligned itself with the Molinari Republican Club (MRC) in an effort to increase the Russian community’s political and economic clout…Fridman said that the Democrats “are going in an absolutely different direction,” focusing on “income redistribution” and rich-versus-poor “class war.”

The Citizens Club, formed earlier this month, looks to support and grow local businesses here; introduce Russian firms to the borough’s existing business and political communities, and promote Russian community representatives to serve in elected office.

MRC president Robert Scamardella has actively been courting members of the Russian community this year.

“One of the main initiatives I have pursued has been to expand the base of the party by reaching out to diverse potential constituencies and securing their support and involvement,” said Scamardella, an attorney.

“This decision by leaders of the local Russian community illustrates the effectiveness of this approach. We will continue to reach out to other communities and seek their association with the Republican Party.”

Former Borough President Guy Molinari, the MRC’s namesake, said he’d noticed over the years that Russian immigrants here tended to register Republican.

Molinari called the affiliation with MRC “a natural marriage.”

“They want to be involved, be part of the community,” Molinari said. “They come from a country where they weren’t able to express themselves, didn’t have the right to organize or vote. They appreciate it more than some of us who were born here.”

Brooklyn attorney David Storovin said that the fact that the MRC is made up of business professionals “who are successful in their own right,” also made the match an attractive one.

He said that he and other Russian immigrants are also drawn to the GOP’s traditional veneration of flag and country.

Reflecting the American Dream ideal that has drawn immigrants here since the county’s founding, Storovin said that many Russians are “grateful” for the religious, business and travel freedoms the United States provide, and want to show it.

“We do feel patriotic,” Storovin said.

Yevgeniy Lvovskiy, of the ZHL Group development firm, said that many Russians here also are looking to break ethnic stereotypes that paint Russia as being all about “Siberia, beer and vodka.”

“We are looking for an opportunity to prove ourselves,” said Lvovskiy, who came to the United States in 1999. “If you work hard, and do the right thing, you get rewarded. We want to show people we are normal.”

It’s that self-starting stance, he said, that makes Russians here more in line with GOP orthodoxy.

I would like everyone to compare the above attitudes with the attitudes that people who represent La Raza, CAIR,  and the like. In this case, the group want to become productive Americans wants to assimilate and wants the U.S. not to slide into the very Socialism from which they escaped. And yet, some our very own citizens and many of our elected officials just refuse to understand what is happening:

State Sen. Diane Savino (D-North Shore/Brooklyn) said she understands the Russian aversion to anything that looks like big government, but thinks the criticism of the Democratic Party is off-base.

“You can’t ignore the fact that the Russian population here came of age during the Soviet era,” said Ms. Savino, who counts many Russians among her Brooklyn constituents.

“They have different thoughts on what communism and socialism mean. They are a little more sensitive to it.

“But, that being said,” she added, “you can’t compare the policies of the Democratic Party with communism. It’s absurd.”

Tell me, State Senator, why is comparing what the Democratic Party stands for and does every day with the old Communists an absurdity?

How Do You Know When Nancy Pelosi is Lying? Her Botox-injected Lips Are Moving…

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 237 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, Health Care, Healthcare, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Republican Party, Socialism, Tea Parties, Tranzis at January 6th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Let me ask you all a question. Has there ever, and I mean EVER, been a more:

A. Dishonest, or
B. Ignorant, or
C. Delusional, or
D. All of the above, person in Congress than Nancy Pelosi?

This woman lies so much, that if she was Pinocchio, she’d be Barney Frank’s best friend. But I digress.

She’s lied so many times, I don’t know where to begin, so I’ll start at the end of her four year reign of terror as Speaker of the House. And after viewing this out and out bullshit, remember that this lying Botox-addicted ignoramus was once second in line to the Presidency.

Of course, considering that:

A. Obungler is President (for about 700 more days), and…
B. The once stupidest man in the Senate, Joe ‘hairplugs” Biden, who’s now the stupidest VP in U.S. history, and was ahead of her on the “How is the President feeling today?” list, I guess it really doesn’t matter.

A stupid lib is a stupid lib, male or female, or in Barney frank’s case, either/or. But again, I digress.

Listen to this blithering idiot, with that botox-injected, and surgically stretched, but straight face, tell so many lies.

Among them are the libs’ supposed love of our military, whom they actually detest, at least until DADT is shit-canned, and the sissification of the military is complete.

And that in the four years she was Speaker, the libs never added a dollar to the deficit, even though not a dollar gets spent without congressional approval, and the debt has gone up $5.2 trillion since Pelosi was elected Speaker and the libs took control of the House.

But the dumbass then warns us all that we had better be concerned about GOP deficit spending now that we’re in control of the purse strings.

And her references to her Catholicism in the second video makes me puke. This abortion loving, even partial-birth abortion loving POS, and others of her disgusting ilk, should not only be excommunicated from the Catholic Church, but from the human race, explicitly because of her support of the killing of aborted babies who could survive after being born ALIVE!

If she was totally honest, and was asked, I’d bet she’s a big fan of Margaret Sanger, as are most pro-abortion libs.

It’s amazing to me that the libs will do anything to save the life of some murdering POS on death row, but have no problem killing unborn babies, and even babies that survive abortions. And some of you actually wonder why I detest liberals?



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