Had enough of the Barack Obama “Blame America” message? Hard to believe it’s only been seven months. But I’m sure there’s much more to come—2012 is a long way off after all. If something is wrong with the world, or even if a problem doesn’t exist, the BHO administration and the finger pointer in chief himself never seem to miss an opportunity to place the blame squarely on America. So why not own the pattern with a campaign? Might even appoint a czar to the effort.
I really like the czar idea.
Adjusted for inflation, we’re spending more this year then we spend during World War II.
Just for the (very thick) icing on the cake, let’s bring on socialized health care. Obama better hurry though!
Obama: Don’t squander chance to reform health care
Here’s the biggest “whopper” in the whole article…
Obama also repeated his pledge that his plan would not add to the federal deficit or deny patients’ choices.
LOL!
Liar, liar, pants on fire! Look at social security, Amtrak, the postal service and medicare. They all add to the federal deficit. Why, oh why in the world would this plan not do the same? I’ll save patient choice and medical innovation for another day.
A 5.4% surtax on people making more than $1 million per year!!
This will give us Universal Healthcare. The powers that be (well I really mean the idiot Democrats in congress), better hope these millionaires, who are probably pretty smart folks in the first place, don’t “go John Galt” on them. I suspect most of them can manage their income fairly easily.
Why CanadaCare Sucks…Will ObamaCare Be Any Better?
Two to ten hour wait at the ER.
Next day at the clinic to get a cholesterol test. No blood test at clinic. Need a family doctor which can take 2 – 3 years.
Unbelievable. Gotta love it.
If companies that are “too big to fail” are too big to exist, then bills that are “too long to read” are too long to pass. This sort of behavior — passing bills that no one has read — or, that in the case of the healthcare “bill” haven’t even actually been written — represents political corruption of the first order. If representation is the basis on which laws bind the citizen, then why should citizens regard themselves as bound by laws that their representatives haven’t read, or, sometimes, even written yet?
Yea, what he said!
Regarding White House protocol and the Obama administration being overwhelmed, John Hinderaker concludes…
I’m not sure which is worse: the priority that the Obama administration places on politics over policy, or the lack of basic competence that the administration continues to manifest.
Aren’t we all getting a little tired of the global warming Armageddon predictions? Senator Barbara Boxer sounds off:
If the Senate doesn’t pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.
I suggest voting for someone else next time. Good grief.
The focus of this July 11th tea party in San Diego was on Healthcare.
For those of you championing the Canadian system, which certainly the Denver Post does and I must imagine the Daily Camera as well, here’s some food for thought…
One of the most interesting people I met today was Dr. Joanna Bryant, an emergency room physician who has a frontline view of what is happening in the trenches of the American medical system. Her husband, also a doctor, originally hails from Canada. The quote that I used for my title today stems from something Joanna shared with me — how the Canadians have been brainwashed into not seeking healthcare services when need.
“The Canadian doctors told my mother-in-law that the emphysema she had would kill her before her cancer did,” explained Joanna. “She didn’t seek cancer treatment as she said that she didn’t want to be a burden to the system. She died recently. I don’t want my son’s generation to be brainwashed like this.” Here is a picture of Joanna and her patriot son:
If you follow the link, you will also see diversity and Democrats at this tea party. Go on Boulderites, I dare you.
I haven’t read the editorial that inspired this letter, but I’m in full agreement with the author. He begins…
Ah yes. More hand-wringing over what to do about the train wreck called “public education.” Lots of rhetoric and zero results.
I teach math in the community college system and we have high school “graduates” who do not know their times tables. What were they doing for 12 years?
To which I ask again, “What the hell were they doing for the last 12 years?”. They were at least sorta learning what their teacher were teaching them, which was NOT the multiplcation tables. A few years ago, when my older daughter was in 8th grade I volunteered to test the students on their multiplcation tables. I worked with one student at a time and had “multiplication cards” that went from 1 x 1 through 12 x 12. The best students were always from outside our school district. We had 8th graders that were simply didn’t have a clue about multiplication facts, but they sure could skip count. Unfortunately, skip counting is error prone, not to mention SLOW, when your under pressure.
The 12x were very interesting. Take 12 x 5. Of course, skip counting is either very long if you counting by 5’s are a difficult if your adding by 12’s. I would ask the students “Do you khow what 10 * 5 is, and they would say “yes”. How about 2 x 5, and they would respond in the affirmative again. Then I would ask them to add the answers together and they would say 60! For more than 1/2 the students who were having difficulty you could see a light bulb turn “on” inside their heads. They were then able to attack the rest of the 12x tables with very improved results. Still, for 8th grade, that was pathetic. The issue is the 8th grade teachers are trying to teach Algebra or whatever it is, not the multiplication tables. This particular problem resided in the elementary school, that is if you decide NOT to blame the school board.
The letter writer goes on to suggest…
I can give you some suggestions for improving public schools. In the movie “Stand By Me,” on the very first day of school, the new principal got rid of all the troublemakers. Sent them home to their parents since they are the parents’ problem.
Get public schools out of the psychiatry business. If a child has severe emotional issues, it is the parents’ responsibility to deliver to the front door a fully functional human being ready to learn.
Get public schools out of the health care business. If a child has serious medical problems, it is the parents’ responsibility to find remedies and again deliver to the school a fully functional human being ready to learn.
Prohibit cellphones, iPods, calculators and laptop computers on school property. The school is supported by the taxpayers as a learning environment, not a social gathering.
Implement real academic standards. If you fail, you fail. No more social promotion.
Implement a dress code. If a student wants to dress like a circus clown, send her home or to the circus. A teacher that dresses like a slob does not impart the image that education should impart.
(bold and text enlargment is mine)
Can’t say that I disagree. No doubt our school system would do a much better job of teaching. That won’t necessarily fix the multiplcation problems unfortunately.
USA Today reports that “Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ’08”.
Which leads to to ask how come Boulder doesn’t have money falling from the ski like manna from heaven?
Cap and trade postponed in the senate! Blame it on popularity, or lack therof…
Two weeks ago, when the House barely pushed this through a vote, Barack Obama’s poll numbers still looked good enough to imply that there may not be consequences for hobbling the economy with ludicrous taxes, fees, and penalties for energy production. With his poll numbers eroding quickly and the electorate losing patience with high unemployment and Porkulus’ failure, that doesn’t seem like a safe bet any more. As the economy continues to drag, cap-and-trade will look more like a disaster than the mythical one it purports to avoid.
There’s more where that came from.
Looks like the WaPo ombudsman can at least do his job…
WaPo ombud Andrew Alexander demolishes the cover story that made Charles Pelton the fall guy, and clearly shows that both publisher Katharine Weymouth and executive editor Marcus Brauchli not only knew that the salons provoked serious ethics questions, their chosen fall guy raised them before producing the fliers that exposed the program (emphases mine, via Instapundit):
Another “land grab” may soon be under way in Boulder County. Unlike previous land grabs which were private and used “adverse possession” this is a government land grab of private property using emminent domain.
The land grab would allow the County to complete the open space recreation paths between Lyon’s and Boulder. When it comes to grand plans for open space, describing the County Commissar’s and the Land Use departments as “pit bulls” is being way to kind. Who votes for these guys?
Not me.
Thank you Blue Dog Democrats, my heroes for at least a day! I particularly like this statement…
“We need to slow down and do it right,” Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., said outside a meeting of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 52 moderate to conservative Democrats.
Hopefully that includes actually reading the bill before it’s voted on!
Democratic power is wearing thin with the voters.
Being out of power can do wonders for a political party. Voters have now witnessed 2 1/2 years of Democratic control over Congress and six months of total control in Washington, and they don’t much like what they see. As a result, the Rasmussen survey now finds that likely voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of ten key issues, including a 46-41 margin on the economy and 52-36 on taxes.
I’m sure this is mind boggling to the 25 square miles surrounded by reality crew. The never ending drumbeat of letters to the editor about climate change and nationalized healthcare to the local paper is well…. never ending!
Boulder is not a great place to be “un-enlightened”. 🙂
Climate change and global governance go together like a hand in a glove.
Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”
And that’s a good thing? Guess the tea parties need to take on bigger projects then just mundane idiotic deficit spending.
Stir in a little Prince Charles and the end of capitalism and global government seem a very real threat.
That would be the Patriots vs. ACORN and MoveOn.org on the issue of socialized healthcare. This would be in San Jose, not exactly a bastion of conservatism, although when you compare it to Boulder….
Carol Browner, former Clinton administration EPA head and current Obama White House climate czar, instructed auto industry execs “to put nothing in writing, ever” regarding secret negotiations she orchestrated regarding a deal to increase federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
Ain’t no sunshine… (nice video too!)
More here.