Picture this:
“But, uh, you know, Wen, uh… my presidency depends on your support!”
Better yet, send me your own captions and I will print them in a future post.
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As usual, AARP looks out for itself, not its members.
As seniors we better remember that we have to look out for ourselves because neither politicians nor so-called ‘advocacy groups’ like ASRP will. They look out for themselves.
We see this with empty suit politicians selling their vote for the personal benefit of re-election money in the health care debate.
We see this with groups like AARP which supports the health care bill despite the fact that it will destroy Medicare by removing $500 billion from the program over 10 years, and will make Medicare payments to physicians even lower than now so even fewer of them will accept Medicare patients.
AARP is all about using their list of members to sell various kinds of insurance and other services keeping the machinery running, providing fat salaries and job security. And they are using seniors to do it.
They have not lobbied on behalf of seniors [...] Continue Reading…
The Obama administration reminds me of the communists and fascists of the last century. No, I’m not calling them Nazis or Communists, but I am saying that they are following the same pattern of political hegemony. This may enable them to take over every organ in our body through ‘health care reform;’ and every room in our home through the ’smart grid’ and ‘global warming’ legislation.
The pattern
The pattern for Hitler as well as the Soviet dictators was to reach out and grab territory that didn’t belong to them. Then when the world complained, jumped up and down and said this can’t stand; the dictators would say, “We have interests here,” or “We were invited in.” Under more pressure, they would say, “Let’s negotiate!” Unfortunately, the liberals and pacifists in the U.S., Britain, and France said “Yes, negotiation is the way to go,” and began to negotiate. The dictators would give half of [...] Continue Reading…
“Our forecasters are disappointed we didn’t do a better job with this. We’re going to do better next time.”
This from the National Weather Service on the huge storm dumping more than a foot of rain causing flooding in Florida.
We cannot predict what the weather will be like for the next 72 hours, but Obama and Al Gore think they know what it’s going to be like 50 years from now.
Isaiah 30:10:
‘They say to the seers,
“See no more visions!”
and to the prophets,
“Give us no more visions of what is right!
Tell us pleasant things,
prophesy illusions.”‘
Israel feared the Assyrians, but the leaders thought the people would rather hear falsehoods - lies about how things were going, so they demanded that the prophets tell the people lies – pleasant things, illusions; and Isaiah was exposing those leaders for their deception and destructive leadership. ‘Quit looking for information from God – we don’t need any information; the science is settled; we have decided what the people want. If you’re going to prophecy quit telling us the truth; instead tell us that God is urging you to say pleasant things.’ Today we have many examples of this kind of evil leadership; here – in the spirit of Isaiah - I expose two of them.
Tom Freidman
Tom Freidman, columnist for the New York Times, suggests that we [...] Continue Reading…
Conservatives throughout the country have a pent up frustration with the way our country is going. We wonder why some people just can’t see what is obviously true about our culture: punishment of crime lowers its incidence; true charity is freely given not taken away from individuals at threat of prison; freedom produces invention, innovation, and prosperity but centralized control kills them.
We show up at rallies only to be called an unwashed mob, Nazis, obstructionists; we show up at town hall meetings with our elected representatives and are pushed out of the meeting by union thugs, delayed until the room is filled with supporters only, ignored, denounced, degraded, treated like junk. We are considered evil by the mainstream media outlets even as they are going broke for loss of audience share. Without doubt we terrify the assorted communists, fascists, socialists, pinkos, bureaucratic totalitarians, and new age relativists in power now; we [...] Continue Reading…
How bad is the decision to embrace some of the world’s worst mass murderers and import them into America’s bosom? Let me count the ways.
Increased Costs
1. Mr. Obama has decided to reward his home state by making Illinois the home of the biggest nest of terrorists this side of Tora Bora. Yes, the Obama has decided to bring the world’s worst terrorists to America.
A few years ago when the state was flush with money, they built a new state prison for $145 million. Then they ran into recession problems and didn’t have enough money to actually house prisoners – they are currently using about 10% of the prison’s capacity. Obama has agreed to purchase the prison from the state of Illinois.
Attorney General Eric Holder promises that they will pay to “harden” the prison making it, “the most secure prison in America.” Yeah, Gitmo is already Geneva Convention, and Red Cross approved; [...] Continue Reading…
Democrat Health Care: Total Control of Your Life
Well. The Democrats have spent enough of your tax dollars to purchase 60 votes to bring the Senate health care bill to the floor for debate. Odds are it will cost hundreds more $millions to pass it. Too bad the president is busy lecturing Afghanistan on corruption to deal with it here.
We know that the health care bill isn’t about improving health care; lowering the cost of health care, or improving delivery of health care. We know this, because the legislation does none of these.
It’s not about improving health care
The best health care system in the world is about to be junked. Soon it will be run like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Amtrak.
Bubba says the one who pays the fiddler calls the tune. That means neither you nor your doctor will be deciding anything about your health care. Bureaucrats will be [...] Continue Reading…
Part Two: There Is No Way We Can Pay For This
John Marshall the 4thChief Justice of the Supreme Court wrote in 1819 in McCulloch v. Maryland that “The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” Since the apparatchiks who work for and run the federal government levy and collect taxes they need to operate the projects and pursue the ends that make them happy, it follows that the people who are taxed have their happiness destroyed. Our right to pursue “life, liberty, and happiness” is cancelled so the happiness of the ruling class can be pursued. (I have posted about our pampered and overpaid bureaucrats here. Since the power to tax can destroy, the government uses it specifically to destroy things. I mention smoking, alcohol consumption and other “sin taxes;” gas taxes to force people into public transportation, energy taxes to force us to quit consuming energy, (remember [...] Continue Reading…
The Democrat Party Gestapo is busy overturning the Constitution, and gearing up to fine and jail regular citizens who don’t purchase government-approved health insurance.
Yes, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid government put into office last January has passed legislation in the House during the dark of night last Saturday that includes fines of up to $500,000 and prison sentences of up to 5 years for failure to purchase something you may not want or need.
When we first mentioned this, many in the media were flabbergasted, called it stupid, not true, and those who would say such a slanderous thing are crazy.
Here are two authentic, unimpeachable sources that prove the Democrats are prepared to send you to jail if you don’t purchase a commodity they want you to pay for.
First, the Congressional Joint Commission on Taxation affirms the truth of the legislation here; and Nancy Pelosi is asked about jail time for not purchasing something [...] Continue Reading…
1, December 19, 2009 – 10:39 am
“But, uh, you know, Wen, uh… my presidency depends on your support!”
1, December 19, 2009 – 9:54 am
Seniors better look out for themselves; Congress sees you as a troublesome expense; AARP see you as an income center.
1, December 18, 2009 – 6:55 pm
They reach out and steal what belongs to the people, and when we demand they give it back, they want to negotiate.
1, December 18, 2009 – 5:22 pm
“Our forecasters are disappointed we didn’t do a better job with this. We’re going to do better next time.”
This from the National Weather Service on the huge storm dumping more than a foot of rain causing flooding in Florida.
We cannot…
