Category Archives: Current Affairs

No Such Thing As Death Panels Removed From Senate Version

The Hill Is reporting The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday. The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after it was derided by conservatives as “death […]

AGW Today: Scare Mongering? You Want Scare Mongering?

Well, here, have a dose, via a few United Nations nuts, starting with this wacko pronouncement, via Andrew Bolt “Climate change will displace 25-50 million people by next year. The situation will be the worst in the poorer countries,” says Koko Warner of the UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security. Besides the fact […]

What’s The Latest Cost Of The Climate Change Scare-a-thong?

Here’s the United Nations Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions to slow global warming and adapting to impacts such as droughts and rising sea levels are likely to cost about $300 billion a year, the top UN climate change official said. Yvo de Boer also told Reuters on Tuesday, on the sidelines of Aug. 10-14 UN climate talks […]

Obama’s Health Scare Fest Not Even Front Page News At Grey Lady

While other papers may have run the story on Obama’s heavily scripted health system change town hall on the front page of the print and Internet, the Paper of Record, the New York Times, just can’t muster the fortitude to give him the coverage, instead, burying it on page A14. I guess even the cheerleaders […]

HCToday: Democracy Is Sick, Woops, A New Anti-Public Option Poll

Ezra Klein is seemingly all over the map with his latest post It Is Democracy, Not Health-Care Reform, That Is Sick. Too start with As Josh Marshall says, we’ve reached a point in the health-care reform discussion where logic has fallen apart. Consider, for instance, Danielle Allen’s op-ed this morning. Discussing the insistence of some […]

Say, About Obama’s Mandate To Implement Single Payer…..

One of the talking points we keep hearing from Democrat talking heads and other sheeple is that Obama was overwhelmingly elected along with a mandate to completely change the health system. Of course, he only beat McCain 53% to 46%. So, does this Rasmussen poll mean there is even more of a mandate to NOT […]

Complaining About The Health System Plans? You’re Un-American. John Boehner Responds

So says Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi in a USA Today column penned by the two, which, you probably have heard about at this point, but, Real Life, in the form of a monthly inventory count, kept me from commenting on However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to […]

No, Really, The Exotic Vacation Trip Was About AGW

Anyone ever notice that some of the biggest supporters of anthropogenic global warming seem to be the biggest CO2 offenders? Traveling all around the globe in private jets, taking limo’s, staying at fancy hotels, having power hog homes, and, oh, let’s not forget all great vacation locations and other areas of interest they head to. Remember […]

LA Times Misses The Irony In Labeling ObamaNuts “Grassroots”

At one point, the Obama voters were grassroots. But, ever since he started gaining traction during the primaries, the organization has grown stronger and more controlling, especially when you add groups such as ACORN and SEIU into the mix. I’m just wonder if Pete Wallsten of the LA Timeseven read what he wrote. We all […]

The Bamster’s Weekly Strawman Radio Show Forgets The “How”

One thing I have been saying and writing for a long is that no one is actually saying exactly HOW any of the Democrat plans, particularly Obama’s, will reduce health costs. I’ve emailed my Dem Congress Critters, Brad Miller (NC-13) and Senator Kay Hagen. So far, crickets.  None of the grasshopper upporters of the plans have […]

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