Maggie's Farm

Even the Left is lining up against the WH proposed Internet regulation. A quote:

Opponents of the policy rightly argue that its implementation would stifle innovation and impact service—a little bit the way that a government takeover of health care would with regard to that industry.  Also like health care, the internet is something that most Americans are unable and unwilling to go without.  Turning the internet into the functional equivalent of the US Postal Service (a communications system in which Genachowski takes a deep, and arguably ironic, personal interest) is the wrong answer to preserving it in a viable, useful form.  

Last week we had Anita Dunn praising Mao. Now we have another Mao-praising Czar in the WH. See Dr Sanity's If it walks like a Marxist...

From a Carville poll report on my half of America:

They believe Obama is ruthlessly advancing a ‘secret agenda’ to bankrupt the United States and dramatically expand government control to an extent nothing short of socialism. While these voters are disdainful of a Republican Party they view to have failed in its mission, they overwhelmingly view a successful Obama presidency as the destruction of this country’s founding principles and are committed to seeing the president fail. Instead of focusing on these intense ideological divisions, the press and elites continue to look for a racial element that drives these voters’ beliefs -– but they need to get over it.

With two Mao-lovers in the WH, it's no surprise some people wonder what's going on.

The Maldives are running a slick scam.

Govt control of insurance will lead to greater denial of care. Fro sure. In fact, Massachusetts now faces government rationing.

Afghanistan: Deciding not to decide is a decision

I want to go into the not raising pigs business

Founder of Human Rights Watch denounces Human Rights Watch. Same thing happened with Greenpeace. Non-profits commonly get taken over by Lefties.

Brit NHS pays its staff to get private medical care

Geniuses. Photo shows how they protest Geert Wilders.

World's largest duct tape factory

When firing your greedy money manager is a mistake. Harvard, in this case.

Remaking the system for 5% of the population. It does seem stupid, doesn't it? But it's part of a plan. Related: Only 42% favor health care reform./ Related: Health Bill or Stealth Bill? What's in those 1500 pages?

Why some utilities like cap and trade. They can make money on it.

"the actual climatological outlook is: morally cloudy, with a hyper-political chance of poor discernment." Kathryn Lopez

Via Powerline: Seriously, what can be done to stop this insidious invasion of our public space by left wing propagandists spouting costly nonsense?

AVI on "racism": Progressives may have convinced themselves that the victim claims of numerous groups are so unlimited that any accusation must be acknowledged as fair in its own way.

The New Left Gospel. Am Digest

PM: Only 50 days left to save the world. Yikes.

Via Insty: H1N1 is Obama’s Katrina. The US Gov’s response to H1N1 has been subpar at best.

David Thompson: I sense a malign presence

At Betsy: In his presidential radio address this weekend, Obama criticized insurance companies for offering up "smoke and mirrors" and false promises on reform. How ironic when Obama has been doing the same.

SISU on human nature.

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What is equality? AmThinker

WH: We control the media

Obama’s $787 Billion Stimulus “Created or Saved” 20 Jobs in Connecticut, 28 Jobs in Vermont & 22 Jobs in New Hampshire

Health reform:

The bill creates a new health entitlement program that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates will grow over the longer term at a rate of 8% annually, which is much faster than the growth rate of the economy or tax revenues. This is the same growth rate as the House bill that Sen. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) deep-sixed by asking the CBO to tell the truth about its impact on health-care costs.

Sad but true: Everybody wants something from big government. I want a pony.

Also, I want my reality back.

FOX has really gotten inside Obama's head.

Is Obama anti-American? h/t, Doug Ross

Grassley: Senate Health Plan Depletes Medicare, Raises Premiums, Thwarts Constitution Related: They said one trillion last week, now its 2 trillion. Do I hear 3?

An appreciation of my husband: Anchoress

The religion of the Left, revisited. Vanderleun

Stimulus Success: At Only $533,000 per Job 

LEAKED NETWORK MEMO REVEALS: Obama Controls Your Television Set

We are all Rush Limbaugh now

Free speech for me but not for thee. Riehl

Candide (or is it Don Quixote?) goes out into the big world. But these Dems know nothing about Ketman:

Unfortunately, no one prepared Clinton for her trip by explaining the rules of ketman. This is an Oriental form of dissimulation first described by the 19th-century French ethnologist Count Gobineau and perfected, as it happens, by the Persians. According to Gobineau, the people of the East believe that, “He who is in possession of the truth must not expose his person, his relatives or his reputation to the blindness, the folly, the perversity or those whom it has pleased God to place in error.” In other word, he must hide his true beliefs.

How do you do a "reset" when the other guys are playing you for fools?  These people are in so far over their heads. Relevant image above via Flares: http://yargb.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-don-quixotes-rule-world.html

The pitfalls of paternalism. Somin at Volokh. It's not a joke. If people want to be children, they will be treated as such.

Raul Castro on Socialism:

"Nobody, no individual nor country, can indefinitely spend more than she or he earns. Two plus two always adds up to four, never five," he said. "Within the conditions of our imperfect socialism, due to our own shortcomings, two plus two often adds up to three."

Reality is a bitch.

FIRE: Victory for Free Speech as College of William & Mary Dumps Speech Codes, Earns ‘Green Light’ Rating

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The new America? People are learning from Washington: "Everybody was like, 'I still want my free stuff,' and that started the riot," he said. Related at Betsy: The reality facing the money-for-nothing crowd

Glenn Beck VOGUE puts on blackface and nobody cares

Wall Street Journal surpasses USA Today as No. 1

Dems now represent the rich zip codes. So much for the "evil rich Repubs."

The Baucus plan would bankrupt the states. Say, how's that plan working out in Massachusetts?

From The Mind Boggles at Am Spectator:

It behooves us instead to take a moment to marvel at the insanity of the process we have allowed to steer the fate of the Republic.

Think about this. We have decisions made about matters desperately close to home, affecting our health and wealth, our lives and livelihoods, and by whom? A group of Senators, fairly capable people, farm the work out to aides of whom we know nothing. Who are these people and how is their capability determined, their efficiency measured, their accuracy gauged? The work produced by these ciphers in their crypts is hardly understood by the legislators, then subject to manipulation by jurists. It seems unimaginable that your life and mine may be offered as human sacrifices to the meddling of these wizards of Oz hiding behind their curtains.        

                     More on the topic of covering the field with slime -

The media war on the smart and charming Liz Cheney

Steyn on Rush:

...the geniuses at Media Matters say: You want chapter-and-verse on those "Slavery was great/Give James Earl Ray the Medal of Honor" quotes? Okay, here's some stuff Limbaugh has said about Obama...

The race deck is all trump cards:

Step One: You can't say that. It's racist.

So you don't. Next:

Step Two: You're using "code language".

As I always say, "code language" is code language for "I’m inventing what you really meant to say because the actual quote doesn’t quite do the job for me." Still, you steer clear of "code language". So then:

Step Three: We'll just concoct it out of whole cloth, and, after running for a week with "Slavery Advocate Wants Medal Of Honor For MLK Killer", our fact-checkers will confirm the accuracy of that statement by citing something you said about Donovan McNabb or Obama's economic policy. Close enough.

PS Can Rush buy the St Louis Rams if he gets Roman Polanski to front the deal?

Powerline's post on the topic, Rush is Out, included this pic from CNN with a totally manufactured Rush quote. This kind of thing is dangerous stuff, besides being immoral, unethical, and despicable:

Aussies hoard incandescent bulbs.

The WH's war against FOX 

The Dem war against Rush: State-Run Media Scum Smear Rush Using Fabricated Quotes. Says Steyn: Prove you never said it. But Rush is rightly contemplating legal action.

As a long-time Rush listener, I can state that Rush has no trace of racism. What he does is to refuse to condescend or pander to anybody. Is that considered racism these days?

The Dem dirty political fights this season

Dems: We don't need no steenkin' ethics

Villainous: E.J. Dionne Explains Angry White Men to Blue America

Who's on the hook for the growing state and municipal pension messes?

Blankley: Washington is nuts:

That's right. The federal government is giving the "green light" for the country to drive to the poorhouse -- and drive there, I would argue, by way of the lunatic asylum. Are they nuts?

Sen Mitch McConnell on the Baucus bill:

Afghan Pop. Watch the Afghan Star trailer.

From John yesterday re Columbus Day:

Speaking of Columbus, the Associated Press finds that the boldest explorer in world history did not have quite the same sensibilities as a liberal 21st century schoolmarm. This apparently surprises some.

Is mass transit really green? Probably not, but could you imagine NYC without trains, buses and subways? It just wouldn't work.

Nuclear weapons deserve the Nobel Peace prize

Most ominous graph of the day

So how many properties does Charlie Rangel own?

This kid definitely needs Reform School

Businessman Steve Wynn takes on Michigan Gov.

A fine Driscoll essay: Man’s Crisis Of Identity In The Latter Half Of The 20th Century

Parents & Kids Protest Obama, Democrats & The Teachers' Unions: PJTV Video

Oh great: Obama to SEIU: "Now the Time Has Come For Us to Do It All Across the Country - We Are Going to Paint the Nation Purple With SEIU"

Instructing monsters to be monsters. Am Thinker

Jules:

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn whines that Fox acts as a “wing of the Republican Party.” No complaints about the rest of the White House Press Corps acting as a Democratic high-rise condo development, though.

John at Powerline says of the Dem medical reform "this isn't reform, it is stupidity." I disagree. I believe it is a medium-to-long-term strategy to raise prices to drive people to the government plantation. Trouble is, people will blame the insurance companies instead of the government. The Dems have not really made a secret of their clever but deceptive strategy to achieve government control. Graph from Powerline:

This is the plan - to drive private insurance out of business so we can be relieved of the burden of making our own choices. 

The insurers have finally caught on to the Dem strategy.

Yes, at the very least the Dem reform will drive costs far higher in the short term. That is, insofar as anybody knows what the heck is in it.

One thing we do know is that insurance creep will be part of it. Not only will we lose the choice of major medical, or to be self-insured, but we'll end up paying for sex change operations, abortions, hair transplants and massage therapy.

Here's the Dem war against the specialists.

The most insulting thing about this whole mess, however, is that the taxes for it begin right away - but the program doesn't begin until after the next Pres election. Hmmm.

Aren't most folks working today? Scroll down and catch up with our posts from the weekend.

Darn good point from Powerline: "Any government medicine system suffers from a fatal contradiction: health care is a "right," but a right that must be rationed."

Former Dem Senator Bob Kerry (via Gateway's post on Sen. Feinstein):

On vision, President Obama is very inspiring. He has given moderates in Muslim countries room to move by speaking to them directly and respectfully, while at the same time continuing to wage an aggressive and necessary battle against radical Islamists who have declared war on the U.S. However, he has made too many apologies. And at this point, his strategy is too naïve and has too little coherence to be called a strategy. If the issue of foreign policy had been more important in his presidential campaign—and therefore important to the electorate—I might be more critical. And if I weren't a supporter, my judgment would be harsher. But in this realm, I'm still hoping for improvement.

Insty wonders

COULD MONTY PYTHON BE MADE in today’s Britain?

And as Mark Steyn puts it:

As Canadians have discovered, liberty is lost very quietly and quickly. And trying to get it back is slow and painful - particularly at a time when artists, universities, publishers and others who congratulate themselves incessantly on their truth-telling courage find increasingly pre-emptive self-censorship the better part of valor.

Surber:

Al Gore’s big question is paper or plastic.

I don’t have time for this fool.

A brief history of the prevention of tyranny. Doug Ross. One quote:

The French nobleman and legal expert Charles-Louis de Secondat, the Baron de Montesquieu, studied the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. He believed that a properly designed government, in order to prevent tyranny, would require three branches of government. He wrote, "If it is to provide its citizens with the greatest possible liberty, a government must have certain features. First, since 'constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it … it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power' . This is achieved through the separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of government... [to prevent any one] from acting tyrannically."

 Want more to read? Try Federalist #42

What's the #1 reason women want sex? (Hint: Same thing guys would say)

The last days of the polymath?

The action of the journalists was to shut down the journalist and defend the politician

What's the matter with you, Sen. Graham? It's a political hoax, you bozo.

CBO: Malpractice reform would save 40 billion

CBO: Finance Plan Would Save $81 Billion - by raising taxes like crazy on everything, by cutting Medicare - and by one other trick

Related: Massachusetts Is like health-care hell for one universal health care advocate

Related: The health care bill - which doesn't even exist yet - will go unread and unreadable

Too old for medical care? Brit Docs leave old lady to starve

Banning the bulb? Not too smart

Related: Record cold kills playoff game. The Ice Age is coming. How often do we have to warn y'all? 

Ship of Fools: Obama's Intimates and Advisors

Obama wins Miss World 2009

On Chavez' side? Why won't the O support Hondauran elections?

Advice about marriage. Villainous

A Conservative Bible? Include me out.

Is anti-trust used for consumer protection anymore?

Charlie Rangel: Poster Boy

The O: Taliban should be part of Afghan govt.

How reform is destroying medical care in Massachusetts

The Quinnipiac health care poll. Related: Docs turn to GOP

Stanford U doesn't want you to see this video. It's yet another Prof who swtiched from being an Ice Age alarmist to a warming alarmist.

The plummeting US tax recepts.

Related: The example of Vermont:

In sum, 13,912 Vermonters were responsible for almost half of the revenue generated through the income tax, and the income tax revenue constitutes about half of all the general fund revenue the state collects.

To visualize this inverse relationship, consider a pyramid standing on its head, with the broad side at the top representing what’s being spent, and the bottom point being the few upon which all this spending depends.

It doesn’t take much to upset a fragile balance.

Insty:

TAXPROF: 80% Marginal Tax Rates After Health Care “Reform”?

The CBO did a mark-up on the Baucus Bill - but there is no bill. As noted at NRO:

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, says that the new CBO report is “an estimate of a concept, not a formal cost analysis of an actual bill.”

“What we know at this point is that the bill cuts Medicare, raises taxes, and increases insurance premiums for tens of millions of Americans,” says Alexander. “It imposes onerous new costs on states and is likely to increase the federal debt.  We need to see the actual bill text and know its exact text before we begin a lengthy debate about whether it’s the right direction for our country.”

WSJ: The major provisions of ObamaCare already have been tried. They've led to increased costs and reduced access to care.

Rove: The GOP Is Winning the Health-Care Debate: Gallup says independents now favor Republicans by nine points.

Is the GOP folding?

Gateway:

Currently, only 29% of Americans say it’s more important to give people a government-sponsored non-profit health insurance option than to keep their current plan.
But, facts don't matter to the agenda driven democrat-media complex.

Insty:

GETTING SNEAKY: New plan might allow Dems to slip public option through Senate.

Senate Democrats desperate to find a way to pass a health care bill that includes a federal insurance plan may have come up with a way to do it without putting moderate members who oppose it in political jeopardy.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is weighing a plan to bring the final health care bill to the floor without a public option — making it much easier to get the 60 votes needed to prevent a Republican filibuster — and then adding the provision later as an amendment.

Yeah, that’ll work . . . .

Via Marginal Rev:

Jim Capretta looks at the Baucus healthcare bill and concludes that, because the subsidies phase out as income rises, it imposes an effective marginal tax rate on income of about 30 percent for many families. Add that figure to the income tax, the payroll tax, and the phase-out of the EITC and "the effective, implicit tax rate for workers between 100 and 200 percent of the federal poverty line would quickly approach 70 percent — not even counting food stamps and housing vouchers."

Whatever the Baucus bill will say, we can be certain that it is designed to screw things up badly enough that people will beg for single-payer government-controlled medicine.

Upper photo: Are you too young to know who those Docs are?
Lower photo via Jammie's piece on the NHS

Bill Ayers admits writing Obama's book. OK, maybe he was kidding. Who knows?  Photo is home-grown commie terrorist Prof. Ayers. I hope he was paid for his work.

Another Obama nominee nutjob. She wants polygamy. Where do they find these people? I mean, like, who could afford polygamy except multimillionaires? Well, but on the other hand, you could send them all out to work and just hang out and collect their paychecks...

Is "Obama Trauma" beginning to sink in? (Ms. Robin, note you have mixed up cow-tipping with kowtowing. "Cow towing" is a distasteful sexist term for a method of removing a spouse from the mall)

John Leboutillier has a website. We'll link it. We like him.

For crying out loud, would you please sit up straight. Sheesh.

New strict rules for the Aussie's Bathurst races:

Australian police are gearing up for an annual crackdown on motor-racing fans - limiting race-goers to 24 cans of beer a day. Spectators at the Bathurst 1000 - a three-day race meeting staged this week - will be told to stick to just the one "slab" of beer while at the racetrack. Wine-drinkers must also show restraint, facing a four litres per day limit.

One carton or four bottles of wine per day? Have the Aussies become pussy drinkers?

African-American "Studies" has been around for 40 years.

When you control the cash, you can control everything. Pay Czar wants to slash exec salaries. That's one way to get rid of them.

Good-bye Chrysler. They are going down, but still scrambling.

Related: How much of what "American" cars are made in the US, and how much of foreign brands are? Truth is, these concepts no longer have much meaning.

Education: Government thinks they came up with a brilliant idea. Turns out it is already being done privately, and is widespread. Watch government try to do it anyway and try to duplicate what is already being done.

I used to think that giving away the Panama Canal was the dumbest thing Carter did, but nowadays I think it was creating a Federal Dept of Education. Education is neither a Federal responsibility nor a Federal power.

Because the first "stimulus" worked so well, let's do it again

The propaganda unit of the DOJ. Imagine if Bush had pulled this trick...

                                      Medical-related

As a companion to Bobby Jindal's piece posted yesterday, here's What a Republican health-care plan should look like. The Dems could have hit a home run with ideas like these, instead of imagining that they can run American medicine.

Save your pennies. You may be subject to an "individual mandate." AKA a big "tax"

The big lies of the UN Climate Report. Am Thinker. Related, I still think the notion of CO2 as a "pollutant" is patently insane.

Related: Dr. Holdren used to be a Coming Ice Age catastrophizer. Maybe he is a catastrophizer by nature.

Equally insane: schools banning bake sales. Next they will replace pancake breakfasts with raw broccoli and tofu - and nobody will show up.

Camel's nose in the tent: FTC to begin to regulate blogs

I blame last year's economic mess ultimately on the government. Now they want to do it again. Of course, a good down-payment is a good idea - but what if the government gives you that too?

It's a great time to be a consumer - if you have any $ left

The 125th birthday of Ludwig Van Mises. Why he is important.

                 Medical-related

Jindal: The Conservative case for reform. I like it.

Democrats Mired in Chaos, Confusion Over Healthcare Bill

The infant mortality canard

Country With Worst Health Care In The World Wins Nobel Prize

I don't know where the WH rounded up those docs yesterday, but docs are overwhelmingly opposed to further government involvement and control.

Another point of view re Polansky, from NYM:

I tend to view the Polanski affair, not as an authentic case of rape, but as a payment dispute in which one side is able to whistle up the assistance of the criminal law.

Mayor at Drudge: Bloomberg: 'We can't just say everybody can go everyplace and do anything they want'... (fixed link)

A guy who wrote verse for Hallmark Cards (h/t, No Left Turns)

A new way to think about crime deterrance

Nice photos of the Adirondacks from Tiger. Nice place he has there.

How government is keeping unions alive

Did we elect a Beta male?

Horowitz banned from speaking on campus

The NEA is all about power

Do you want this Copenhagen Treaty? I don't.

California wake-up call

Althouse on the insulting, condescening, adolescent speeches to the Olympic Committee

Prelutsky:

The idea that any sane person would be in favor of the government’s running the health industry simply doesn’t compute.  Leaving such important matters in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats is beyond mind-boggling; it’s lunacy. 

Can the middle class afford Obamacare? 

Baucus' plan is the same old thing. From Weekly Standard:

Along with new taxes, the bill seeks to offset its enormous increases in government spending by squeezing Medicare, and particularly the Medicare Advantage program that millions of seniors use to get extra coverage through private insurers. But rather than use cuts in Medicare to shore up that program's ailing finances and help make it sustainable, the Baucus bill (like other Democratic plans this year) would use the money to create yet another unsustainable entitlement.

The bill would therefore exacerbate the chief causes of the rising costs at the core of our health care woes: inefficient entitlement spending and the absence of real market pressures in health insurance. Instead of addressing these, Baucus is offering tax increases, a new entitlement sure to grow more costly every year, fewer options for doctors and patients, a far greater government role in health care, and the prospect of health care service shortages, disruptions, and rationing.

Why do the Dems want to undermine Medicare Advantage?

"Boost the United States"? I thought we were a terrible, evil country. How can you say both?

The US gives up control of the internet. Good or bad or neither?

USAF pilots who cannot fly?

The Incest Lobby jumps on the Polanski story. Good grief. The non-incestuous are termed "outbreeders". I hear the theme from Deliverance. (h/t, No Pasaran)

Pence: We are on the verge of a great Conservative Awakening. I hope so. It requires radical Leftists to get them to pay attention - since they have demanding jobs and lives, etc.

Related: If I had told you, would you have believed it?

Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claims They’ll Understand It ‘Is Trying to Pull the Wool Over Our Eyes’. Just trust them. They care about you.

No climate change bill this year. Thank goodness. It's been too darn cold. I wish our Masters in government would turn the temp up a tad.

From WSJ Online re Olympics:

"This idea that other nations will do something that's not in their best interests because they like you is just silly."

It adds doubts. No kidding.

SDA:

The always-amusing Ace: Chicago dodged a bullet

As they say:

Few presidents have suffered this much loss of support in so short a period of time — and things will probably get worse before they get better. Friday didn’t help. Mr. Obama has sustained a political wound at a vulnerable moment for him.

Related, from Powerline:

We don't want this crap. The pols want it.

A joke: Ralph Nader's novel.

Why are the Dems trashing Medicare?

Related: If you were a doc, would you treat Medicare patients?

Government Motors' deepening troubles

Wow! Iran is nice enough to agree to MORE TALKS. Is this Kindergarten?

Related: Nuclear disarmament and the Tooth Fairy. Nyquist

Your tax dollars at work:

Homeland Security Waste Part 1

Part 2

The cost of non-profit journalism

The annual banned book charade

$615,000 tax dollars for a Grateful Dead library.

I wouldn't mind being this kind of "blithering idiot"

The one-millisecond trading issue

"Studies show..." Ace: all taxes are for your personal benefit

A holocaust? These guys are desperate

The Dem court-packing scheme. Imagine if the Repubs pulled this

Roger Simon: And yet those people are defending a man who drugged and sodomized a thirteen-year old!

Villainous quotes PJ O'Rourke:

I'm a 61-year-old man with three young children and a yard to rake. While I appreciate the attention from our most ex- of ex-presidents, I'm really too busy to properly accomplish all this loathing and detestation. I quit smoking so I don't even have a lighter to set crosses on fire. We don't happen to own white bed sheets and I'm five nine and--dressed in Ralph Lauren candy stripes and tripping on fitted corners--I'd feel like a fool at Klan rallies (and Tea Parties and Town Hall meetings, to the extent that there's a difference).

Then I have the task of finding people to disrespect, denigrate, and discriminate against. I know people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. But, unfortunately, I like them. When you like a person it's difficult to treat him (or even her) with the kind of vigorous and unrestrained bigotry that Jimmy Carter expects me to engage in. I have to go looking for people (people of the proper race, creed, and ethnic origin) whom I can't stand.

Is the O "playing at being President?" Gratuitously cruel but cute-as-heck photo of the O is h/t NE Repub.

Sarkozy: The O incredibly naive and egotistical.

The O wants the US to surrender sovereignty - but to whom?

These are supposed to be savvy guys. Don't they realize that they are being used as window dressing?

More from the Frenchies: How French women stay thin. h/t, Tiger.

Massive ACORN vote fraud in NY. Related: The Politico gets played by ACORN

It wasn't rape. As neoneo notes, after all she was a 13-year old sexually active temptress at the time. The rules do not apply to Hollywood, apparently. Sodom and Gomorrah over there. Vanderleun nails the story.

In praise of political anger. Gets your heart working too.

The FCC cannot tie its own shoes, but wants to dig into the internet. Arrogant jerks. Leave us the heck alone.

The enraged and hateful Left aims at critics' jugulars

The Are all men pigs? meme. We believe that, at heart, all men are not pigs, but dogs, invested with a powerful mating urge. However, most of us also believe in civilized, honorable, and honest behavior especially when sober or when not in the throes of uncontrollable biological urges and desire...

NYC celebrates 60 years of Chicom rule. Perhaps New Yorkers might enjoy the same thing?

Why the O bombed on health care. WSJ. No, the public isn't stupid.

NY Post - Reform horrors: The O's total disconnect

Via Wilkinson:

I actually think we are going to get a reform that is both worse than the status quo and worse than a pure single payer system.

Maybe they want to break it, so they can come in and "fix it" later. That is termed "tactics."

 Praying to Obama. Good grief. That is sick.

Ace on why it matters:

...it's why defeating health care in general and a government option in particular is so important. Once people turn their very lives over to the beneficence of government, it's game over.

Right. It makes us all slavish dependents on the government plantation.

Insty:

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: “Liberals are screaming over public option failure even tho WH says plan is no biggie. Someone has their story wrong.”

If anybody thinks Congress and the O know what the heck they are doing, please make your case.

With ObamaCare in a Hole, Will the White House Stop Digging?

The real obesity problem is with the government

The hockey stick is dead. It was a fraud

Fiendish plot to create government daycare

Insty:

CANADIANS PUSH FOR PRIVATE OPTION: “Whereas U.S. healthcare is predominantly a private system paid for by private insurers, things in Canada tend toward the other end of the spectrum: A universal, government-funded health system is only beginning to flirt with private-sector medicine.” (Via American Power).

Will Small Businesses Stop Offering Health Insurance If Reform Passes? I think that's their plan

Coyote: But’s Its My Hard Work Paying Your Unemployment

Seems quite clear now that the O did not write his books

Dr. Government by Sen. John Kyl

The new museum in Athens. Sounds good.

Bring it on! Coldest winter. But I was sorta hoping for some global warming by now. They promised!

From Surber:

Wild turkeys attack a little boy in New Jersey. Why do you think they call them wild animals, New Jersey? I say an ax, an oven, some cranberries — bada-bing, bada-boom — Happy Thanksgiving.

The video.

We like John Kasich. Wonderful fellow.

What?

The admission of foreign students is something policymakers haven't focused on sufficiently. Such visas should only be granted for graduate schools and four-year colleges — no high schools, community colleges, or technical schools, like the Golf Academy of America, the California School of Dog Grooming, or John Paul's Hair, Nails & Skin Care Institute, all of which are on the list of approved schools to admit foreign students.

No flight schools?

I cannot believe that Radical Chic is still cool in California. It's so 70s.

Give us back our bullets. I have mine.

Whatever you say, Sen Kerry, but to me it's just a new tax:

"I don't know what 'cap and trade' means. I don't think the average American does," Kerry said. "This is not a cap-and-trade bill, it's a pollution reduction bill" (E&E Daily, Sept. 25).

Baloney.

A Liz Cheney update. Like her a lot. Rising star?

Works as well as an aerobic workout. Today's photo of one of our farm staff is for our male readers' health. We need to keep them alive.

We commit 6 felonies/day? Heck, I am sure I can do more.

Upping the predictions on climate in preparation for the conference. But not to worry - Bundanoon will solve it for us. 

America's ridiculously large economy. India's national economy is equal to that of the NYC metropolitan area. Sheesh.

Oil bonanza in California (h/t, Miller)

George Will likes Marco Rubio

Neoneo: Are they laughing at us?

Stop allowing the Left to set the rules

Fineman: The limits of charisma. Somehow the charisma never really affected me.

Via Insty:

AND DON’T LET US CATCH YOU BEING NEIGHBORLY AGAIN: State bureaucrats threaten to fine, jail a Michigan woman for watching her neighbors’ kids. If people are neighborly, they need the state less. This cannot be permitted.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “‘If people are neighborly, they need the state less.’ You have unwittingly provided every ’social-service’ bureaucracy with a motivational slogan to be posted prominently in parts of the building where the public is not allowed.” I don’t think it’s anything they haven’t figured out already. . . .

Post Partisan in the WaPo rips the O's UN speech. One quote:

I’ve refrained from commenting on President Obama’s address to the United Nations General Assembly because the speech made me angry. And most postings -- or letters, or e-mails -- written while angry are better discarded or deleted.

But this address grows more disturbing on further reading. Some major presidential speeches deserve to be remembered, quoted and celebrated. Some deserve to be forgotten. A few deserve to be remembered and criticized, because they dishonor the history of presidential rhetoric.

Obama’s rhetorical method in international contexts -- given supreme expression at the United Nations this week -- is a moral dialectic. The thesis: pre-Obama America is a nation of many flaws and failures. The antithesis: The world responds with understandable but misguided prejudice. The synthesis: Me. Me, at all costs; me, in spite of all terrors; me, however long and hard the road may be. How great a world we all should see, if only all were more like…me.

It was bizarre.

A federal sales tax on medical insurance? The purpose of that must be to drive the prices up, to drive people to government programs. Why else would they try to make private insurance more expensive for people?

Stossel: “‘Liberal’ Is What My Philosophy Used To Be Called — It’s The Statists Who Are The Reactionaries”

Why the rush to push health care thru? It's political

Many thanks to law enforcement for catching these guys