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Last night while going through some older material on my hard drive, I found this Beetle Bailey cartoon from a few years ago. In it Mort Walker – through his character Plato – articulates one of the finest arguments about why socialism is not only a bad thing, but against human nature. And in light of what has transpired here in the United States during the past several days, I thought it would be quiet appropriate to post here…

Kinda sad really: when people like cartoonists show far more enlightenment and wisdom than those we elect to be entrusted with our government....

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I’m thinkin’ that everyone now has a perfectly valid and legal reason to tell President Barack Obama to take his crummy “health care reform” and shove it up his ass.

(Oh yeah, that’s right: not even Obama and his cronies want Obamacare. They’re exempt from it.)

But within the legislation – which the House just re-approved a short while ago – are provisions for conscientious objection to Obamacare because of religion. The legal language seems tailor-made for the Amish (who use the communal resources of their churches to provide for medical care) and for Muslims, for whom insurance is religious taboo.

Since I’m neither Muslim, or a member of any Christian denomination (I still prefer to call myself a follower of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ), I guess that means that I’m screwed, right? Well, who is anyone in this steaming pile of bullshit (that’s the very first ...

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Because of two items in the reconciliation bill – one of which having to do with Pell grants, which alone made people scratch their heads in wonder about why it was in the legislation to begin with – the House of Representatives will be voting once more on Barack Obama’s socialized medicine in order to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate versions.

Considering how in the past few days a number of representatives who voted “aye” for this monstrosity have had bricks thrown through the windows of their offices and one such congressman had a coffin dumped on the lawn of his house, I have to ponder aloud if such “knock-knock, zoom-zoom affirmation” might result in more than a few of them finally “getting the message” that the American people DO NOT WANT this crap!...

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Because I’m feeling extra cranky tonight (and have for the past 24 hours or so)…

“Chutzpah” is a Yiddish word meaning “shameless audacity”. It’s an olden Hebrew term that in his book The Joys of Yiddish author Leo Rosten describes as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to.”

So what fits in the category of “chutzpah”?

One example of chutzpah is the child who kills both of his parents, and then throws himself down on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he is an orphan.

Another example of chutzpah is the “evangelist” who routinely rails against a television station for “promoting dancing, R-rated movies” as being somehow sinful behavior, yet is apparently not bothered by the fact that he gives more than a million dollars of his congregation’s money to buy airtime ...

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Michael D. Tanner of the Cato Institute has written an essay about the costs of Obamacare, which passed the House last night (and which I nearly reacted to on this blog with a blunt “We are sooo f-cked”, before better angels of my nature prevailed).

In his article Tanner makes the following prediction, and I thought it was well worth making note of…

Republicans won’t really try to repeal it. Republicans will run this fall on a promise to repeal this deeply unpopular bill, and will likely reap the political advantages of that promise. But in reality there is little chance of their following through. Even if Republicans were to take both houses of Congress, they would still face a presidential veto and a Democratic filibuster.

But more important, once an entitlement is in place, it becomes virtually impossible to take away. The fact that Republicans have been criticizing

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Obamacare should be sufficient proof that our federal government is “deem ‘n pass”-essed.

I demand that Nancy Pelosi give me a lifetime supply of short-sleeve shirts. After all, the Constitution guarantees a “right to bare arms”.

Obamacare is going to be a violation of the separation of church and state, because it violates my religious freedom on grounds that I believe that having insurance is a form of gambling.

Okay, seriously…

This will be the absolutely worst legislation passed in Congress in American history, if President Obama gets to sign it.

And incidentally, there is enormously strong historical evidence that socialized medicine would not be the first time that the politicians in Washington have screwed us over with “deem and pass”.

(Hint: Google about “Philander Knox”)....

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Well, when the Speaker of the House is pushing “health care reform” that obligates people to purchase $15,000 of medical insurance or GO TO JAIL FOR FIVE YEARS, what the hell else are we supposed to call it?

Click here to read the report from Representative Dave Camp of the House Ways and Means Committee.

The House vote on this… thing… may come as early as today.

If this succeeds where everything else has not in honking off the citizenry into outraged action, I’ve got plenty of rope. And I can get a good deal on feathers too....

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The guys at Flopping Aces have gone through the 1,990 page abomination that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has introduced as the House of Representatives(?) version of the health scare “reform” bill.

Yah you read that right: one thousand, nine hundred and ninety pages.

It’s calculated to cost $1.28 trillion.

So what’s in this… thing?

Abortion funding.

The so-called “death panels” that we have been told repeatedly were just a figment of some people’s imagination.

And… get a load of this one:

“Pelsoi inserted a provision which would punish state governments who attempt any kind of law suit abuse reform that would impact lawyers fees.”

What. The. Hell. ???

So it’s not enough that Congress has decreed that pharmaceutical firms are to be protected from lawsuits stemming from any injury or death that even untested vaccines might cause. Now our “lawmakers” are shielding trial lawyers from tort reform… ...

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…if the next American civil war might begin over, of all things, health care.

No, really.

I’ve openly mused on this blog before about what issue it would take for this country to begin tearing itself apart. Previously I thought it would be about illegal immigration (which is still a huge problem and one that very few elected officials seem inclined to address).

But now, having seen numerous videos coming from “town hall” meetings between members of Congress and their constituents, and seeing the very real disdain that too many politicians obviously have toward the people they have sworn an oath to serve…

No, I don’t think this is “partisan” very much at all now. I do however believe that the disconnect which has been growing for many years between regular citizens and their elected representatives – during times in which both major parties have been “in power”, it should ...

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