I see where community organizers are fanning out into the inner cities, setting up offices and combing social networking sites like Facebook to enroll children in SCHIP and adults in MEDICAID before these citizens turn into federal criminals in 2014 for lack of health insurance. Of course, doctors can’t afford to serve MEDICAID and SCHIP patients because reimbursement rates are low and claim denials are high, but the important thing is to keep those community organizers employed between election cycles. One wonders just who are these people who can afford the time and means to engage in social networking while also meeting the means test for MEDICAID and SCHIP eligibility.
Archives for 2010
by Robert A. Hall
“I’m 63 and I’m Tired”
I’m 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired. [Read more…]
The Grand Jihad
In The Grand Jihad, Andrew McCarthy writes,
“Defending ourselves will require flushing out the Islamists: identifying them and imposing on them the burden of defending their totalitarian ideology against the positive case for liberty and human reason. Doing so will undeniably burden true moderate Muslims as well: Given the prevalence of anti-Constitutional beliefs in Islam, foreign Muslims should not be permitted to reside in America unless they can demonstrate their acceptance of American constitutional principles. But those who satisfy this burden should be welcomed, encouraged, and given the space necessary to seek reform.”
Well said.
Bierstadt color tonight
Summer blues
drum beats
TIMES SQUARE ATTACK RESPONSE: NONE DARE CALL IT THINKING
On May 1, 2010, when news of the Times Square terrorist attack first broke, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, on national television, as to who might have done it, “If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that, somebody who’s homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something . . . .” Bloomberg was not alone. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano declared that there was no evidence that the attack was “anything other than a one-off,” a British expression for “one of a kind.” At least the country was spared President Obama telling Americans that they should not “jump to conclusions,” as he did after the Fort Hood Massacre when the media reported that “Major Hasan . . . killed 13 and left 31 injured after he jumped on to a desk screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ – God is Great – and fired on defenseless colleagues.” [Read more…]
more color
tonight
Ahmadinejad Threatens Russia
Ahmadinejad Threatens Russia, Receives Response
By: A. Savyon*
Introduction
In the past 24 hours, there has been an exchange of harsh words between Iran and Russia. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened Russia by saying that its policy was turning it into an enemy of Iran, the Russians responded by calling Ahmadinejad a demagogue, and by issuing an unprecedented warning to Tehran while reminding it of the historic power balance between the two countries – under which Russia took for itself lands from the 19th-century Persian empire and forced it to sign humiliating agreements accepting these terms.
The following are the details of the interchange: [Read more…]
the man behind the curtain
Obama’s Non-answer Answer (short mp3 file) [Read more…]
SEIU or SS?
Mob Rule From SEIU
Labor: Does belonging to the service workers’ union give you the right to invade private homes, terrorize children and smear anyone questioning such tactics? Apparently so, based on recent events in Maryland. [Read more…]
Riptones next Saturday
Elbert County Tea Party Speakers
5/15/10 Frontier HS Gym, Elizabeth
The following are mp3 audio files (podcasts). Just right click and download them to your computer or mp3 player. Speeches are presented in the order they were given.
- Congressman Mike Coffman 25 minutes, 26 megs.
- Senate Candidate Jane Norton 22 minutes, 19 megs.
- State Senator Greg Brophy 27 minutes, 27 megs.
- Governor Candidate Scott McInnis 27 minutes, 27 megs.
Candidates in today’s speeches and Q&A sessions were more substantive by a significant degree than I have seen them heretofore at Elbert County Republican Breakfast forums. This was my third tea party event but my first one in Elbert County. I would not characterize the speeches I’ve heard at previous tea party events as typically more or less substantive so my experience doesn’t help explain why candidates seemed to bring their “A games” to the tea party meeting today. Perhaps we’re entering a phase in the political season where candidates are hitting their stride and gaining confidence and strength in presenting their messages. In any event, I appreciate their seemingly tireless efforts to stand up for conservative principles for the benefit of Elbert County citizens. It takes a lot of dedication and desire to stay in the eye of the storm like they do and I hope this rebroadcast helps.
Cap-And-Tax Bureaucracy
the morning show
a sense of humor
Examples of the sort of internet speech Justice-elect Kagan would like to suppress. [Read more…]
cover up
“9 indicted on charges of accessing Obama records
DES MOINES, Iowa — Nine people have been indicted in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama’s student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa.
The U.S. attorney’s office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport.
The nine individuals are charged with exceeding authorized computer access.
They are accused of gaining access to a computer at a Coralville, Iowa, office where they worked between July 2007 and March 2009, and accessing Obama’s student loan records while he was either a candidate for president, president-elect or president.
Arraignments are scheduled for May 24.
The charge is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.”
political correctness
The PC movement attempts the legal and militant suppression of views that depart from a belief in diversity for its own sake. Apparently in itself, diversity is not a sufficiently compelling goal that attracts people to uphold it. For diversity to succeed, history must be revised to show diversity and multiculturalism as preferred outcomes. When historical events did not result in a more multicultural outcome, if discussed at all, it is only in terms of vilification, racism, and evil. The more common tactic is to simply forget to mention events in history that do not support the diversity theme.
Political correctness is often compared to the orthodoxy of the medieval church in its suppression of Galileo, but this analogy fails. The church was the dominant orthodoxy with a long history, and it was resisting the tide of current events. The church was an entrenched power attempting to suppress new knowledge in order to preserve its station. Political correctness is new thinking, unsupported by the totality of history, that seeks to suppress old knowledge in order to take power for its own adherents.
So in the case of the church, it was suppression to retain power; in the case of PC, it’s suppression to take power. Both are wrong, but one at least had the stability and weight of history behind it. And with that historical foundation came the potential for orderly change. PC has no such potential. It can only be revolutionary and this is proved each time it’s progenitors revise history.
Most importantly, revolutions against an organic state of affairs have never worked out very well for the societies subjected to them. The prospects for political correctness are no better.
