Government Health Care Rant

Dying In Line
If you don't think people will die in line waiting for necessary health care just take a look at what's going on in Canada where the Canadian government offers tips on how to wait months for care, United Kingdom where the government brags about an 18 week wait being the acceptable length wait for treatment and France with among the most costly health care costs and yet require up to a 40% patient co-pay for care and 92% of people on public health with a supplemental health insurance policy for which they personally pay on top of their 60% income taxes. Name me one public care program the U.S. government has ever undertaken that has provided better services for the public than the public can provide for themselves?



Government Knows What's Best For You
Massachusetts has, although bankrupting the state, mandatory public health care that is forcing individuals who had private health care, prior to public health care, to have no option but to sign up for public health care.


Higher Taxes For Everyone
It seems that since more and more taxpayers are realizing it's not just going to be up to the rich to pay higher taxes to cover the cost of paying for public health care, more and more taxpayers are saying "Hell No!" to public health care. What the Hell is wrong with people who think they have the right to force someone to pay for something that they themselves are unwilling to pay for? The soak the rich mentality, fostered by democrats, is immoral.


Paying For Health Care
If people are Hell bent on public health care why not stop sending petro dollars to Saudia Arabia and Kuwait where U.S. petro dollars pay for their country's public health care and keep the money in the U.S. by drilling for and recovering the thousands of years worth of natural gas in the United States?

Junk Science

Wonk or Wanker, You Decide
At some point someone proclaimed Al Gore as an "information wonk." Most recently Al Gore became the self-appointed All Knowing Climate Guru. Gore's intellect is best revealed in some of his more brilliant, documented, public comments.

“Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, & water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.” - - Vice President Al Gore, 8/11/94

Based on the above comment Gore would have never again been permitted to discuss anything of a scientific nature had he been anything other than a Democrat taking up Hollywood's cause de jour.

“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.” — — Vice President Al Gore, 9/15/95

“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.” — – Vice President Al Gore, 5/22/98

“The future will be better tomorrow.” — - Vice President Al Gore

“We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.” — – Vice President Al Gore, 9/21/97

“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.” — — Vice President Al Gore, 9/22/97

“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.” — — Vice President Al Gore

Gore not only proves he's a moron but more than solidifies his position as the most pompous of arrogant elitists and one of whom there is no amount of evidence would convince that any half-baked, pseudo-scientific data concocted for the sole purpose of advancing his agenda was wrong and harmful to the future of civilization. Al Gore's global warming bullshit will, in time, be determined to be the greatest "scientific" hoax ever perpetrated on civilization.

“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future." — - Vice President Al Gore

“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.” — – Vice President Al Gore to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/93

With an arrogant, elitist, liberal democrat like Gore leading the parade of con artists making a fortune off of the global climate change hoax, the world's economies are doomed.

Morning Mind Bursts

Believe In The One Or Get Beatdown
Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook an Army reservist worked for Simtech Inc. a contractor for the Defense Department, until the Pentagon demanded Simtech, Inc. fire Cook after Cook questioned President Obama's authority to order troops to war due to questions surrounding Obama's eligibility to be POTUS stemming from questions regarding Obama's place of birth. Oddly enough, rather than produce evidence to prove Cook's question to be baseless the Pentagon merely "revoked" the original orders to send Cook to Afghanistan and demanded Cook's employer, Simtech Inc., fire Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook. Just another case of Obama's promise of transparency being a big fat lie and Obama's administrations eagerness to deny U.S. citizens the rights assured them by the U.S. Constitution.

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Outer Space
Space travel and outer space living isn't for me. I just couldn't stand being cooped up in a tiny space ship or space station for any amount of time. I'd hate not being able to golf or go to the beach.

Shopping Observations
I've been to Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Staples during the past week. People in Target and Wal-Mart were only buying food and only a few folks had sodas and snacks. I had to go to both places to try to buy fresh Italian Parsley and Wal-Mart heavy cream. Best Buy and Staples were nearly deserted and both places had only one checker and she wasn't busy. I bought my new Western Digital 1T external hard drive, on sale, at Staples. I was the only person to make a purchase in 30 minutes. Democrats taking more money out of the pockets of working folks and putting it into government programs is not going to help the retail industry in the U.S. Consumerism accounts for 80% of the U.S. economy. Yep! We're doomed.

Electricity
We lost power at 06:45 for about 15 minutes at mi casa this a.m. around. My spouse comes running out to the pool to tell me we had lost power. I asked, did you call the electric company to let them know about the outage. Spouse responded "I came out to tell you so you can call them because you're the one who always calls the electric company when we lose power, besides I don't know the name or number of the electric company." That exchange made me realize, my spouse would be completely screwed without me and I'm totally irreplacable. Win for me.

Morning Mind Bursts

Home Modification
I can't call what I'm doing improvement. I've spent 5 hours of my life removing a perfectly good 9.5" deep double basin, 22" x 33" white, cast iron sink that weighs a mere 11 thousand pounds that had a single chip on the basin divider and a white Delta spigot sprayer faucet with a broken hose with a hose replacement cost of $101.86. I replaced the aforementioned sink combo with a new $327.00 white, Moen spigot sprayer faucet without a broken hose that was on sale for $123.00 at a Going Out Of Business Sale at a plumbing supply company. My spouse was with me and noticed that the new and improved version of our Kohler sink had a lower basin divider without a chip and the sink was on sale for $72.00. Oh, there was one other thing. The new sink has 9" deep basins. You do realize a 1/2 inch makes a lot of difference when it comes to under sink plumbing. You guessed it, all new PVC piping. It only took me two trips to the hardware store. The second trip was because all too late I discovered the 3/8 black waste tube from the reverse osmosis spigot was 1/2" too short to reach the sink drain.


One other modification Kohler made to the new sink is they made it weigh approximately twice as much as the old sink. Thank Heaven my non-plumber spouse was here to help with the lifting and tell me how to install the sink.

I think I'll take a nap now and get back with y'all later.

Morning Mind Bursts

Another Fun Day In Pardise
I'm not sure if I went to Ft. Worth or Hell, yesterday. I'm not too worried about which direction I'm headed after I die. Since I go to Ft. Worth for fun and entertainment I'm ready for anything Hell has to offer. All I can say is the folks who settled Texas, without a/c, were tough S.O.Bs or running from some really bad stuff back home.

Conservative Talk
Folks in the republican party haven't figured out, if they don't give moderates a reason not to vote for democrats moderates will always vote for democrats. Republicans better figure out, fast, it's about politics not religion. When republicans get religion out of politics they'll rule the nation. Ronald Reagan wasn't a religious man, he was a moral man. Reagan knew, people wanted government to stay out of their lives and their pocketbooks. If republicans return to Reagan's Rules and drop the conservative crap republicans will, again, have every moderate gladly voting republican.

Another Run To Hell
I've got to get some work done and head back to Ft. Worth. See y'all later. Stay Cool.

Morning Mind Bursts

Meteors Meet Earth
If you just didn't get enough lame, low budget, made for T.V. 4 hour long disaster movies in the 80's "Meteor" is the movie for you. There were more illconcieved sub-plots and bad science in "Meteor" than I've seen in the past 3 years of listening to Al Gore spew his BS about global warming and Michael Moore selling Cuban Health Care in the U.S. I did learn a few things while watching "Meteor." Stacy Keach still can't act and Hollywood has a new crop of no talent unemployed has been actors and wannabes. The acting is so bad that 1/2 way through the flick you'll end up rooting for the meteors. Another thing that never changes is that Hollywood doesn't know squat about science. If you have too much time on your hands or just want to waste 4 precious hours of your life go ahead and watch the first 1/2 of "Meteor" on Hulu. You'll have to wait until next Sunday to waste two more hours of your life and watch the last 1/2 of "Meteor."

Sonia Sotomayor
The worst defense of the racist statements made by the Supreme Court nominee came from some Black, female, elitist liberal who said; "Judge Sotomayor only said 'a wise Latina would make a better judge than a white man' 5 times out of countless speeches and statements she's made throughout her career.'" The follow up question I wanted asked was; 'How many times would a white male get away with saying a wise white male would make a better judge than a black/hispanic woman.'? As long as one group of people, based on their sex and or race, have privelges that are denied to other groups, racism will be alive and thriving in the United States.

Chilly Home Front
I had someone step into mi casa and the first thing out of there mouth was, "Is it cold enough in here? Do you have any idea how much damage you're doing to the environment by keeping your house this cold in the summer time." I promptly ask them, "Do you have any idea how much of a moron you sound like spewing Gore's bullshit?" I told them they could bitch about me destroying the environment when they produced a single piece of irrefutable scientific data supporting anthropic global warming. Since they, more than likely, didn't know the meaning of "anthropic" they shut up and waited quietly for my spouse. When my spouse finally arrived their friend said, "It's really cold in here." Spouse, God bless them, responded; "Yeah, Isn't it great. That's the way I like it."

I know, y'all thought Chilly Home Front meant I finally pissed off my spouse enough that I was being cut off.

News From The Grill
I made grilled romain lettuce 1/2s with a drizzle of olive oil dressed with a fabulous warm champagne/garlic/shallot/red pepper flake dressing. It was awesome, fantastic. The amazing thing is that I hate lettuce.

Back To Sweating
I've taken a long enough break from repairing the drip irrigation system in my flower beds that I may decide not to trap and torture the squirrels that bit through the little rubber hoses that feed off the big hose. Before any of you get your panties in a twist let me remind you that squirrels are tree rats with fluffy tails and my trapping and torturing them would be a service to humanity.

Babbling Babydaddy

Levi Leaks
Somehow we're suppose to care what some teenager, who's too much of a dumbass to figure out he needs to wear a condom when he bones his 16 year old girlfriend, has to say about the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. Let's think about this, Levi Johnston was too concerned about his immediate self-interests to wrap his junk when he was making sexy time with 16-year old Bristol Palin, he can't give up being a teenager to maintain a relationship with his babymomma and forge one with his infant son, he's too busy working on his Hollywood prospects and talking with Tyra to go to his day job being a part-time carpenter to be able to help support his infant son but we're suppose to believe he's not feeding the media a steaming pile of bullshit when he tells the world he knows what's up with Sarah Palin resigning as Gov. of Alaska. Levi needs to shut up, worry about the crap in his life like going to work, helping support his son and spending some time with his son.

The picture is of Levi Johnston and his sister playing with guns in Alaska. Not even Levi is enough of a dumbass to hunt in gym shoes.

Bad Athletes

There's Crying In Baseball
Former San Diego Padres number one draft pick, Matt Bush was arrested Sunday June 29th in Mission Valley. Police responded to a road rage call and found Bush acting erratically. Bush was taken to jail and booked on charges of assault, DUI, driving on a suspended license, vandalism and resisting arrest. Bush was released Monday morning at 5 a.m. The arrest comes just weeks after Bush pleaded guilty to a drunken assault at Granite Hills High School in February.

clASS Act

Admiring Rio de Janeiro's ASSets
Regardless of the spin you're going to hear about Obama being a horn dog, it sure does look like Obama would be more than happy tapping the ASSets of 17-year-old junior G-8 delegate, Mayara Tavares from Rio de Janeiro. French President Nicolas Sarkozy seems to be a little smug about the whole situation.

Morning Mind Bursts

Running Of The Bulls 2009
For the fist time in 15 years some idiot was killed while running with the bulls in Pamplano, Spain. There're always injuries but, as far as I'm concerned, not nearly enough. Since the running with the bulls part of the San Fermin festival is the last fair fight the bulls have before they're killed in the bullfighting ring, I always root for the bulls.

CBS has a great slide show of the action in Pamplano, Spain.

Blogosphere
I've noticed there are, typically, three type of bloggers. There's the Hot Topic Blogger who share their strong opinions and encourage commenters to voice their opinions, there's the Care-Bear Blogger who posts topics of interest to the Care-Bear and really doesn't want comments other than those that pander to the Care-Bear's ego, the third type of blogger is the Observational Blogger and makes observations about everything and really doesn't give a damn what people think about their observations but really likes to hear other people's observations on the topics.

Insane Heat
Yesterday, it reached 108 degrees at mi casa and was over 100 degrees for more than 10 hours. That's too freakin' hot but a heck of a lot cooler than the 115 degrees they had, yesterday, in Baghdad, Iraq. I can't imagine how hot it must be wearing long pants and sleeves, a helmet and more than 20 pounds of body armor while worrying about not getting killed. I think I'll stop bitching about the heat.

Morally Bankrupt Pro Athletes
McNair gets himself murdered by the woman with whom he's cheating on his wife because he was cheating on the woman who murdered him. Former Major League baseball player Jim Leyritz sobbed in court because the judge decided Leyritz needed to spend the weekend in jail for beating his ex-wife. Leyritz was already out on bond pending the outcome of his 2007 DUI manslaughter case. Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Ronald Belisario was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. I don't know if it's the money or the fame but it sure does seem to me that pro athletes have a lot of issues.

Digging Up The Dead
It's really messed up what people do with dead bodies when they think no one will notice. Four people have been arrested for digging up and dumping the remains of more than 300 graves so they could resell the plots at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. Other than a couple of thousand years, is this really any different than digging up Egyptian mummies and selling tours through their crypts and tickets to see the remains?