Thursday, October 29, 2009
Senate Plan Would Explode Number of Uninsured Americans
Subject: txt 1st hcare - 
The senate bill would create an incentive for individuals to drop their health insurance and pay the relatively small fine.
[Exactly the plan: 1) destroy private insurers, 2) enslave us to a government run plan, 3) do whatever they want {what will you do when you're told any tax decreases will effect your family's health care?}]
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Health Insurance Company Profits 'Anemic'
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In today's Fact Check ("Health insurer profits not so fat"), the AP writer ripped into what has seemingly been a mandatory talking point any time a Democrat brings up health care: the supposedly excessive profits of health insurance providers.
Woodward found that the Democrats' claim doesn't survive even cursory scrutiny:
Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th on the Fortune 500 list of top industries.
Nevertheless, Democrats continue to cynically exploit public ignorance about the size of profit margins achieved at companies in general and in the insurance industry in particular.
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Health Care Bill Favors Marijuana and Cocaine Smokers Over Tobacco Users
Subject: txt 1st hcare lbrty bdd -
Under the Senate Finance Committee version of the health-care bill, health insurance companies would be allowed to charge tobacco users premiums up to 50 percent higher than those of non-users, while marijuana and crack cocaine smokers could not be penalized with higher premiums.
...insurance issuers selling policies to individuals could only vary premiums based on three characteristics: tobacco use, age and family composition.
[Despite the fact that smokers cost our health system less than 'healthy' seniors, who can have their lives extended by nearly a decade - at extremely high cost. Social engineering + junk science = insane policies.]
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The Left’s World of Fairy Tales
Subject: txt 1st hcare - 
How is one to rationally explain the Democrats’ belief that the government taking over another one-sixth of the American economy is a good thing?
The answer is religion. The left has made its views a form of religion.
Examples of left-wing dogmas that transcend reason are as numerous as any religion’s catechism. One example is the belief that men and women, boys and girls, are basically the same, that the vast majority of characteristics we ascribe to male and female natures are in fact socially induced. This irrational dogma was virtually universally believed and taught by the left-wing faculty when I attended college, and remains so today... [snip]
Dogma explains why it is useless to point out to the left how the left has economically crippled California, once the most prosperous, most adventurous, most successful “country” in the world (it has an economy that would make it about the seventh largest country in the world).
Likewise, it does not matter to blacks what Democrats have done to their cities. As they watch their cities crumble, they will once again vote overwhelmingly for the party that oversaw this destruction.
None of these facts matters because religious-like dogmas are not derived from facts...
[Highly Recommended > ]
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FLASHBACK:
Beware of Ideological Teamism
"Ideological teamism" refers to people's desire to belong to a team representing that they want to believe, which corrupts their judgment in determining what to believe... "
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Leader of Detroit mosque killed, 11 charged in FBI raids
Subject: txt gwot nsec islm - The leader of a Detroit mosque was shot and killed Wednesday during a series of FBI raids that resulted in charges against 11 and the death of an FBI dog. At least six of those charged were in federal custody late Wednesday afternoon.
A complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit names Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, as "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group." He was killed in a gun battle during one of the raids, according to a joint statement by federal officials.
Abdullah, 53, also known as Christopher Thomas, was the local leader of a black Muslim group that calls itself "Ummah," or the brotherhood, and wants to establish a separate state within the United States governed by Sharia law, Interim U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg and Andrew Arena, FBI special agent in charge in Detroit, said in a joint statement.
[GWOT]
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Lawyers want admitted al-Qaida member released
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Defense attorneys for an al-Qaida sleeper agent plan to argue at his sentencing this week that his five years spent locked up without charge was enough punishment and he should be immediately released.
Former Bradley University student Ali al-Marri, a 44-year-old native of Qatar, pleaded guilty in May to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
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Guantanamo prisoners to get swine flu vaccine
Subject: txt gwot islm bdd libs othr -
Even as some Americans await the arrival of their swine flu vaccines, the Pentagon has decided to vaccinate both soldiers and terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ..
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Paralysis
Subject: txt gwot -
The Obama administration’s protracted share session on an Afghanistan troop buildup is turning into a debacle. The commander in chief looks weak and hapless. With Rahm Emanuel making the case for further dithering as Afghan elections get sorted out, and Robert Gates calling for a decision regardless of Afghan leadership, the president’s lauded “team of rivals” is now fractious and incoherent. He has lost the confidence of our allies. He’s losing (lost?) the confidence of his military and, frankly, at cross purposes with his commanders. Consider this:
“A perception that our resolve is uncertain makes Afghans reluctant to align with us against the insurgents.” — Gen. Stanley McChrystal, in his submitted assessment of the Afghanistan war
“I’m not interested in just being in Afghanistan for the sake of being in Afghanistan or saving face or, in some way — you know, sending a message that America — is here for — for the duration.” — President Barack Obama, Meet the Press
Mission accomplished.
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MSNBC: Obama Should Follow Woody Harrelson's Advice on Afghanistan
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Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's "Hardball," invited on former Cheers star Woody Harrelson to talk Afghanistan war policy. The Zombieland actor announced that he was opposed not only to the war in Iraq, but also to the fight in Afghanistan as he compared it to Vietnam and advised that Barack Obama should "pull those troops out," to which Matthews chimed:
[audio available here]
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"It doesn't look like he's pulling out. He's not gonna follow the recommendation of Mr. Woody Harrelson it looks like...although he might be better off doing that."
[audio available here]
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Muslim student refuses to remove face covering for school
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A burka-wearing student has been banned from enrolling at a college after staff claimed the Muslim garment was a barrier to ‘safety and communication’.
Shawana Bilqes, 18, refused to remove the head-to-toe gown which reveals only her eyes.
She had been asked to show her face as a check to avoid identity fraud in case she was posing as someone else
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Flying Imams Victory
Subject: txt gwot islm -
Homeland Security: A suspect Islamist group is gloating that a cash settlement in the so-called Flying Imams case is a ''victory for civil rights.''
It's a victory for future hijackers...
‘The Simpsons’, Islamophobia and CAIR: The Price of Freedom
Subject: txt islm - 
This past January, London’s Daily Star tabloid announced urgently that an upcoming episode – “the most controversial episode ever”! – of The Simpsons on the Sky1 network “pokes fun at Islam” and “is certain to enrage Muslim fanatics.”
As anyone who morbidly follows this sort of thing (as I do) knows, enraging Muslim fanatics is hardly an accomplishment of Halley’s Comet-like rarity. It doesn’t take much: books, cartoons, teddy bears named Mohammad, posters of puppies, piggy banks, a Burger King ice cream swirl and the Nike logo (both of which apparently too closely resembled the Arabic script for “Allah”), are just a few of the recent Western offenses that have sparked their frothing outrage worldwide.
Yet despite the Daily Star’s perversely hopeful tone, there was no violent reaction in the UK from said fanatics, nor was there one in the United States after the episode originally aired here last Thanksgiving weekend (in a grimly ironic twist, the same weekend as the devastating mass murder and mayhem committed in Mumbai by a band of – wait for it – Muslim fanatics, or as the culturally sensitive media preferred to call them at the time, “gunmen”).
So why no Muslim fury over The Simpsons?
Because the moral of the toon: coming forward to protect your community from a possible terrorist attack by Muslims, even with an abundance of probable cause, marks you as a buffoonish bigot.
So, contrary to the Daily Star’s claim, the episode did not poke fun at Islam, but at Homer. Simpsons creator Matt Groening explained to Sky1:
“Cartoons deal in stereotypes. We try to be sensitive.”
Well, sensitive to the murderous rage of Islamists, anyway, since the episode ridicules the stereotyping of Muslims as terrorists, while stereotyping Homer as an Islamophobic, paranoid, ignorant American... [snip]
“The price of freedom,” said Thomas Jefferson, “is eternal vigilance.”
Not willful blindness, not political correctness, not naive complacency, but vigilance. While the current administration has its hands full demonizing its critics, winning the praise of dictators worldwide, and embracing anti-American radicals and Sharia supporters, radical Islam continues to wage war against us on our own soil.
It’s up to each one of us ordinary Americans, us Citizen Soldiers, to throw off the yoke of political correctness, disregard trumped-up accusations of Islamophobia or racism, and help law enforcement protect our communities and our country from the enemy among us.
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Dismantling America
[HT:LDot: "When Thomas Sowell is alarmed we are in some kind of trouble..."]
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
Does any of this sound like America? ... [snip]
Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year-- each bill more than a thousand pages long-- too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up.
Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question-- and the biggest question for this generation....
[Highly Recommended > ]
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Financial Regulator Calls for Crackdown on Facebook, Text Messaging
Subject: txt lbrty mny -
Recent problems with the financial system could be used as a reason for regulators to have authority policing social networking sites like Facebook and other types of electronic communication like text messaging. If Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) CEO Richard Ketchum has his way, that's exactly what will happen.
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ABC Worries About Carbon Footprint of Food
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"you're eating oil when you're eating a burger: You need oil to make the fertilizer to grow the corn. You need petroleum to make the pesticides to grow the corn. You need oil to move it all around the country."
"What it tells you is that the carbon footprint of that burger is really big," ... "The result is a product that takes a huge environmental toll and obviously takes a health toll as well."
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Biofuel Production Increases Greenhouse Gases In Atmosphere
Subject: txt grn - Study:
For several years, Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his media sycophants have been telling the nation that a movement away from fossil fuels to biofuels is necessary to save the planet from the Left's bogeyman known as global warming.
A new study by the Marine Biological Laboratory raises series questions about this premise.
According to MBL's Thursday press release,
"Carbon emissions caused by the displacement of food crops and pastures may be twice as much as those from lands devoted to biofuels production."
Nice. So rather than acting as the well-touted global warming panacea, biofuel production is anything but. Given pending cap and trade legislation currently before Congress, one would think this study would be of great importance... [Alas, evidently not...]
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State to launch 'cash for appliances' program
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California's plan to implement a "cash for appliances" program with federal stimulus funds focuses on three meat-and-potatoes appliances used by millions of residents.
The state has been allocated $35.2 million in federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to participate in the State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program.
[I.e., trash more functioning equipment, at taxpayer expense, in the name of the false god of AWG.
Religious dogma + junk science = bad policies.]
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Hoffman Name Unmentioned in NY Daily News Story About NY-23 Race
Subject: txt msm 2010 -
Okay boys and girls. A bluebook exam question for you. What is the big excitement all about in the New York 23rd CD race that has captured the attention of the political world for the past week? I'll give you a really strong hint in the form of this observation from yesterday's Washington Post:
"It is now a two-person race between Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens with Scozzafava fading badly."
Hmm. So you would think that any recent news story about that race would have to at least include a mention of the Conservative challenger Doug Hoffman who has surged to the lead in a couple of recent polls as the Republican, Dede Scozzafava, plunged to last place.
Well, in the world of the New York Daily News, Doug Hoffman doesn't even exist...
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London Telegraph: Obama's Failed to Defeat Conservatism in U.S.
Subject: txt 2010 msm -
Brent Bozell was hardly alone yesterday in touting new polls showing a surge for conservatism in reaction to Barack Obama's forever-lengthening statist agenda. Also making the rounds is Nile Gardiner's blog for the Telegraph (of the UK) suggesting President Obama has failed to defeat American conservatism:
This week’s striking Gallup poll on political ideology is further confirmation that the United States is in essence a conservative nation, which has ironically become even more conservative under Barack Obama. According to Gallup, 40 percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36 percent as moderate and 20 percent as liberal. This is the first time conservatives have outnumbered moderates in America since 2004...
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