Once again, dear friends, into the fray!
So you think Obumble has no designs on killing dissent?
Here's a snip from a PDF I received via email today:
[quote]As evidenced by its open war against Fox News and conservative talk radio, the Obama administration clearly views its critics in the media as major obstacles to President Barack Obama’s plan to fundamentally transform America. The recent release of the Federal Trade Commission’s working paper on “reinventing journalism” makes it clear that the most polarizing president ever intends to federalize the news industry, just as he has done with autos, banking and health care. Language in the FTC document reveals the clear intent to transform the news industry from an information product provided by privately-owned news organizations into a government-regulated public utility that serves the “public good”, as defined solely by government. If implemented, the FTC plan would effectively nullify key portions of the First Amendment by giving government the power to prohibit reporting by any media source that criticizes its policies.
The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech, or of the press.
Obama’s FCC also working on plans to crackdown on opposition media
Mark Lloyd, Chief Diversity Officer at the Federal Communications Commission, has spoken with deep admiration of the “incredible revolution” that led to Hugo Chavez seizing iron-fisted control of Venezuela. An important step taken by the communist strongman to consolidate power was shutting down the country’s opposition media. Under Mark Lloyd direction, the FCC is working on plans to hit conservative broadcasters who don’t meet the agency’s politi-cally-malleable “diversity” and “localism” guidelines with massive monetary fines that would effectively drive them out of business.
Wall Street Journal: Owner of Venezuela’s last remaining opposition television station flees country.[/quote]
In actuality, Obumble might as well nationalize journalism. 95% of the media already complies with his demands.
Hey, fellow writers! What you're doing is called, "Gutless writing".
I'd call it "cowardly collectivism"!
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
McChrystal Replaced by Petraeus
Now THERE'S a headline for ya'!
For the past year, the Obumble bunch have been calling McChrystal, "brilliant", "genius", etc., and then, "WHOOPS"--we screwed up! He's really not fit to remain in the service of his country.
Why?
"Well, he called me bad names," sulked Obumble!
AAAaaawwwww!, you poor widdo' boy! Did the bad mans hurt your widdo' feewings?
Yep, in all seriousness, McC screwed the pooch! Socked the weenie--slapped the cat and the animal lovers came out of the woodwork and took away his hunting license!
Generals aren't supposed to bad-mouth the sitting POTUS! --Even if it's true!
ESPECIALLY if it's true!
So he had to sit down--take a seat--exit stage right.
Never fart in the presence of "the messiah"!
Now we have ANOTHER genius general--Petraeus--who hurried to claim he had already approved of Obumble's announced strategy of last fall. Completely disregarding the fact Obumble couldn't find an outhouse unless led by his momma, let alone compute a successful strategy for conducting a war.
Long live suck-up Petraeus. Let's seen how many troops YOU can get killed--for nothing!
Watch for the "tell-all" book by the new author, McC!
Guaranteed a best seller!
For the past year, the Obumble bunch have been calling McChrystal, "brilliant", "genius", etc., and then, "WHOOPS"--we screwed up! He's really not fit to remain in the service of his country.
Why?
"Well, he called me bad names," sulked Obumble!
AAAaaawwwww!, you poor widdo' boy! Did the bad mans hurt your widdo' feewings?
Yep, in all seriousness, McC screwed the pooch! Socked the weenie--slapped the cat and the animal lovers came out of the woodwork and took away his hunting license!
Generals aren't supposed to bad-mouth the sitting POTUS! --Even if it's true!
ESPECIALLY if it's true!
So he had to sit down--take a seat--exit stage right.
Never fart in the presence of "the messiah"!
Now we have ANOTHER genius general--Petraeus--who hurried to claim he had already approved of Obumble's announced strategy of last fall. Completely disregarding the fact Obumble couldn't find an outhouse unless led by his momma, let alone compute a successful strategy for conducting a war.
Long live suck-up Petraeus. Let's seen how many troops YOU can get killed--for nothing!
Watch for the "tell-all" book by the new author, McC!
Guaranteed a best seller!
Monday, June 14, 2010
So I started screwing around with the design-
--and the next thing I know, I can't recognize where I'm at, or how I got here.
I guess that's what you get when you step into the garage to do a little man's work at the old work bench.
I'd thought up something new and all I needed was one quart of gasoline, a fishing line--soaked in gasoline, of course--a target (already picked out) a little duct tape and some energetic wrapping.
So, just as I'm inspecting this contraption, my wife walks up, with a new cigar in her mouth, grabs my lighter and before I can say, "Where am I", WHAM! --I'm here.
Where ever the hell THIS is!
That damned woman will be the death of me yet!
I guess that's what you get when you step into the garage to do a little man's work at the old work bench.
I'd thought up something new and all I needed was one quart of gasoline, a fishing line--soaked in gasoline, of course--a target (already picked out) a little duct tape and some energetic wrapping.
So, just as I'm inspecting this contraption, my wife walks up, with a new cigar in her mouth, grabs my lighter and before I can say, "Where am I", WHAM! --I'm here.
Where ever the hell THIS is!
That damned woman will be the death of me yet!
Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas TX
Recently it's been said the minorities make up 35% of the American population.
Maybe that explains why the democrats are so liberal with benefits for the illegals!
Here's an excellent example:
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas , Texas is a fairly famous
institution and for a variety of reasons:
1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963
2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after
3. Jack Ruby-who killed Oswald, died there a few years later.
On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity
ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year.
That's almost 44 per day---every day)! In fact, NINE Hispanic illegal babies are born for every ONE Hispanic death!
A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants.
That's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas!
According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.
The average patient in Parkland in maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on their immigration status or ability to pay.
OK, fine. That doesn't mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital , they do. " Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics. NINE!!!
The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child---her previous two were also born at Parkland . Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost$200 to have them in Mexico. This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.)
"How long has this been going on? What are the long-term effects?
Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the US illegally - now she is having her own child there as well. (That's right; she's technically a US citizen.)
These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula.
Most of these things are available to American citizens as well, but only for low-income applicants, and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable.
Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification - no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income - an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word.
Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job.. Yeah, the 'free' care is not so easy for Americans.)
There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital is
going to sue them! Illegal's get it all free! But U. S citizens who live
outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this?
As if that isn't annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish.
This was apparently a great injustice to her.
In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish.. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) requirement.
I wonder how Americans would vote in the coming elections if they realized this is just ONE hospital out of the thousands across the country. Any wonder why health care is so expensive for the rest of us who pay for our care?
Hey, Obama! Want to save money on health care?
Send ALL of the illegals home, along with their babies, whether or not the baby is citizen.
If you want to verify the accuracy of this information:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp
Maybe that explains why the democrats are so liberal with benefits for the illegals!
Here's an excellent example:
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas , Texas is a fairly famous
institution and for a variety of reasons:
1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963
2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after
3. Jack Ruby-who killed Oswald, died there a few years later.
On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity
ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year.
That's almost 44 per day---every day)! In fact, NINE Hispanic illegal babies are born for every ONE Hispanic death!
A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants.
That's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas!
According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.
The average patient in Parkland in maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on their immigration status or ability to pay.
OK, fine. That doesn't mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital , they do. " Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics. NINE!!!
The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child---her previous two were also born at Parkland . Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost$200 to have them in Mexico. This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.)
"How long has this been going on? What are the long-term effects?
Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the US illegally - now she is having her own child there as well. (That's right; she's technically a US citizen.)
These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula.
Most of these things are available to American citizens as well, but only for low-income applicants, and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable.
Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification - no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income - an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word.
Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job.. Yeah, the 'free' care is not so easy for Americans.)
There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital is
going to sue them! Illegal's get it all free! But U. S citizens who live
outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this?
As if that isn't annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish.
This was apparently a great injustice to her.
In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish.. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) requirement.
I wonder how Americans would vote in the coming elections if they realized this is just ONE hospital out of the thousands across the country. Any wonder why health care is so expensive for the rest of us who pay for our care?
Hey, Obama! Want to save money on health care?
Send ALL of the illegals home, along with their babies, whether or not the baby is citizen.
If you want to verify the accuracy of this information:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp
Sunday, June 06, 2010
How Not to Gain Attention
Seems Obama has been under investigation for some kind of criminal link to the BP oil spill. The San Francisco Examiner has a story this morning about his (and some of his buddies) ties to BP.
I don't think this is the kind of attention Obama wants!
And speaking of that, here's some I didn't want:
Saturday began just like any other day. I woke up about 4:30, got up about 4:45 (after considering staying in bed) and staggered into the living room where my wife had coffee waiting for me.
I did my usual chores, which consisted of going out front and picking up the paper—you know—the one loaded with Obamaganda?
I came back in the house, sat down and started reading, while waiting for my wife to make breakfast!
I noticed my back seemed a little sensitive this morning, but passed it off as just arthritis flaring up from sleeping too long on my back.
By the time I passed up Doonesbury (never could stand that strip) my back was hurting pretty good.
So when my wife called me to breakfast, I told her I wanted two full-strength aspirin, instead of the 81mg “baby” one I usually take.
“Why?” she asked, directly to the point as usual!
“Oh, my back aches a little this morning,” I says, acting nonchalant!
After breakfast as I was dressing, I noticed the pain was a little more intense, but I ignored it and continued on with my ablutions!
20 minutes later, as I checked my email (my usual early morning sleepy chore) I discovered my back ached clear through my solar plexus!
Now this was decidedly not normal and not my cup of special tea from Gevalia coffees.
No, of course I don’t drink tea in the morning, stupid---I drink COFFEE—duhh!
Anyhow, despite not drinking tea, I decided to call my advice nurse to see if there were any actions I should take besides opening my front door and screaming, “HA-A-A-A-A-A-A-LP!” as loudly as I could!
We discussed the pain.
“On a rating of 1 to 10, how would you describe your pain”, she asked?
“Um, painful”, I said.
“No, no! I mean if you were to assign a rating to the pain, beginning with 1 as the lowest, or least pain, rising to 10 as emergency pain—where does your pain fall?”
“Well, generally in the lumbar region,” I said, proud I could use a medical term to show my intelligence.
There was a long silence on the phone. Finally, with a sigh, the nurse said, “Tell me how bad it hurts, Mr. ROC!”
“It hurts like hell,” I replied, “That’s why I’m calling you---geez!”
“So you should call an 911 right away,” she sez.
I let that thought perambulate through my brain for several seconds. It took several paths I didn’t like, one being the embarrassment of being hauled out on a stretcher in front of God, my neighbors and all the cats and dogs on the block!
“Well,” I welled, “I guess it’s not that painful.”
“Please hold,” she sez.
W’ot? Hold? Me? But, but, but-, I’m DYING and she wants ME to HOLD?
So I held.
Two minutes later she’s back. “Mr ROC?”
“Still here,” I sez.
“I talked to an emergency room doctor and he advised you come in right away. Can your wife drive you?”
Half an hour later, with my wife telling me I wasn’t really dying and the Emergency room was just another $50 waste of time, I’m checked into emergency at Kaiser Permanente in Antioch.
After blood tests, X-rays and 4 hours of waiting the doctor comes in and tells me there was nothing wrong with me!
“Nothing,” sez I?
“Nope,” sez he, and, “You can be home in time for dinner!”
“Not MY dinner,” sez the thoroughly PO’d wife.
So of course, my wife and I stopped at a local restaurant for dinner.
Who wants to cook when they have a sore back?
I don't think this is the kind of attention Obama wants!
And speaking of that, here's some I didn't want:
Saturday began just like any other day. I woke up about 4:30, got up about 4:45 (after considering staying in bed) and staggered into the living room where my wife had coffee waiting for me.
I did my usual chores, which consisted of going out front and picking up the paper—you know—the one loaded with Obamaganda?
I came back in the house, sat down and started reading, while waiting for my wife to make breakfast!
I noticed my back seemed a little sensitive this morning, but passed it off as just arthritis flaring up from sleeping too long on my back.
By the time I passed up Doonesbury (never could stand that strip) my back was hurting pretty good.
So when my wife called me to breakfast, I told her I wanted two full-strength aspirin, instead of the 81mg “baby” one I usually take.
“Why?” she asked, directly to the point as usual!
“Oh, my back aches a little this morning,” I says, acting nonchalant!
After breakfast as I was dressing, I noticed the pain was a little more intense, but I ignored it and continued on with my ablutions!
20 minutes later, as I checked my email (my usual early morning sleepy chore) I discovered my back ached clear through my solar plexus!
Now this was decidedly not normal and not my cup of special tea from Gevalia coffees.
No, of course I don’t drink tea in the morning, stupid---I drink COFFEE—duhh!
Anyhow, despite not drinking tea, I decided to call my advice nurse to see if there were any actions I should take besides opening my front door and screaming, “HA-A-A-A-A-A-A-LP!” as loudly as I could!
We discussed the pain.
“On a rating of 1 to 10, how would you describe your pain”, she asked?
“Um, painful”, I said.
“No, no! I mean if you were to assign a rating to the pain, beginning with 1 as the lowest, or least pain, rising to 10 as emergency pain—where does your pain fall?”
“Well, generally in the lumbar region,” I said, proud I could use a medical term to show my intelligence.
There was a long silence on the phone. Finally, with a sigh, the nurse said, “Tell me how bad it hurts, Mr. ROC!”
“It hurts like hell,” I replied, “That’s why I’m calling you---geez!”
“So you should call an 911 right away,” she sez.
I let that thought perambulate through my brain for several seconds. It took several paths I didn’t like, one being the embarrassment of being hauled out on a stretcher in front of God, my neighbors and all the cats and dogs on the block!
“Well,” I welled, “I guess it’s not that painful.”
“Please hold,” she sez.
W’ot? Hold? Me? But, but, but-, I’m DYING and she wants ME to HOLD?
So I held.
Two minutes later she’s back. “Mr ROC?”
“Still here,” I sez.
“I talked to an emergency room doctor and he advised you come in right away. Can your wife drive you?”
Half an hour later, with my wife telling me I wasn’t really dying and the Emergency room was just another $50 waste of time, I’m checked into emergency at Kaiser Permanente in Antioch.
After blood tests, X-rays and 4 hours of waiting the doctor comes in and tells me there was nothing wrong with me!
“Nothing,” sez I?
“Nope,” sez he, and, “You can be home in time for dinner!”
“Not MY dinner,” sez the thoroughly PO’d wife.
So of course, my wife and I stopped at a local restaurant for dinner.
Who wants to cook when they have a sore back?
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