Jefferson’s commentary of the news

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Jefferson said in his day:

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

What would he say about today’s newspapers?

David Hedrick asks Congressman Brian Baird the right questions

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David Hedrick’s own words describing this video:

I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.

A real government-run healthcare scenario

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This news report is from about one year ago from the Socialist Republic of Oregon.

Media lies

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After watching this from a “reporter” on a hard news program, not a commentary show such as Olbermann, can you ever take MSNBC seriously again?

This is sick. To blatantly cut the video to not show that the man carrying the gun is black and then to race bait? I truly do not know how these people live with themselves.

By the way, here is a picture of the “white” man holding the gun shown in the MSNBC video:

The real healthcare debate

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There is one basic reason that no one can agree about healthcare—the two “sides” are not arguing the same point.

This issue is much like the abortion debate. One position argues that life begins at conception and aborting a child is therefore killing. The other position argues that a woman has the right to choose to do whatever she wants with her body. The first argument is about the rights of the child, hence pro-life. The second argument is about the rights of the woman, hence pro-choice. However, neither side is arguing the same argument. Everyone supports life and choice. No one is pro-death or pro-force.

Our national healthcare debate has degenerated in the same way

For the most part, I believe the general public (large companies and organization are another issue altogether) on both sides of the issue are speaking the truth and are to some degree right and to some degree wrong when they accuse those of the opposite persuasion of spreading false information. Largely their views have been formed by reading and listening to information from the sources they trust, particularly their preferred media outlets, friends, and co-workers because almost every American has a job other than that of federal lawmaker, and therefore does not necessarily have time to read and understand a 1,000-plus page document written in lawyer-speak.

The healthcare bill (or bills, but it seems that HR 3200 is the primary version) probably does not literally say “there will be a panel deciding if person A receives treatment or dies”. There probably is no mention in the bill of care being “rationed” or of people with certain conditions being cut off from treatment entirely.

So those who say these things just are not in the bill are being truthful.

Beck speaks from his heart

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Is this who you want to be represented by?

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The person who is third in line to be President has absolutely no integrity whatsoever. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is only interesting in political expediency.

I hope these are the people who will stand up and vote the speaker out.

Geithner looking increase debt ceiling to fund police force

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You probably missed it—most of us did—last Friday Timothy Geithner was on Capitol Hill asking to increase the “$12.1 trillion debt limit by an unspecified amount”.

It is interesting at this time that Geithner is looking have the debt ceiling increased and even more curious that he did it on Friday, the day when news goes to die. Why does he want this request to remain obscure?

We know the additional debt is not for the “stimulus”. That is why Obama had to tug really really hard (read: payoff through extra funds diverted to their states) on the arms of those “fiscally responsible Republicans” from Maine and Arlen Specter, whose “party” affiliation depends on what will do more for him personally in the current election cycle, to convince them to vote for the “stimulus”. He had to convince them because he needed 60 votes to raise the national debt ceiling then.

So there must be something else going on that would cause Geithner and the White House to be concerned that the debt ceiling must be increased further. Unless there is yet another spending bill in the works that we are not aware of, this request seems to be in anticipation of socialized healthcare.

It is true that the bill isn’t supposed to go into effect for several years. However, there almost certainly will be a build up in bringing on all the new bureaucrats and administrators to operate such a plan. I’m certain that due to all of the planning that must be done, it would constitute an emergency that hundreds of administrators must start immediately!

But I thought the President said his healthcare plan would mostly be funded by “efficiencies” that his plan created? I don’t know about you, but I trust someone’s actions above their words.

Then again, this is all speculation. Maybe the money is to pay outrageous salaries to the droves of unconstitutional Obama cronies we know as “czars”. Though with such fine leaders, like avowed communist Van Jones, maybe the czars are working for free. You know, for the good of the people.

However, there is one other current policy that Obama needs to fund.

He needs to pay O’Brien.

Now that the federal government is openly forming the thought police, it won’t be cheap to sort through all those darn flagged not agreeing with The Party right-wing nutjob hating talking point regurgitating robots.

So please, for your own sake, flag this post. Because, for all you know the Ministry of Truth is monitoring your computer right now and I am clearly a thought criminal.

Sheila Jackson-Lee is a moron

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Sheila Jackson-Lee is almost as ridiculous as the “honorable” Congressman David Scott from my home state of Georgia. Sheila Jackson-Lee and David Scott are embarrassments to Texas, Georgia, and the United States of America.

I hope the constituents of Texas’ 18th district and Georgia’s 13th district have the courage to vote out fire such disrespectful non-representatives.

Remembering an old saying

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Last night I tweeted this (tweeted, that does sound really stupid). I think we all forget at times what we recited as a child in school. There is real meaning here.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under GOD, indivisible, with LIBERTY and JUSTICE for all.

Our government system was defined by our founders as a republic, not a democracy. We were founded as a nation under God, using his natural laws as the basis for our laws. Our states are not like European nation-states. Ours are indivisible. Yet our system was created such that the states were to hold most of the power. James Madison wrote:

The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. . . . The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.

Today, politicians from both sides of the aisle are making every attempt for the states to become beholden to the federal government. In many cases they have been successful, as we the people have allowed them to slowly chip away at our right to govern ourselves locally. Every state takes federal money with strings attached. Strings that we the people did not agree to, yet they are attached to our money. Further, it seems every multi-billion and multi-trillion dollar bill proposed or passed over the past year has been labeled an “emergency”, or what Madison would have called outside “the ordinary course of affairs”.

One simple example is the supposed “stimulus” package. We were told it was an emergency, that the economy would come crashing down if we didn’t pass it today. However, with less than 20% of it spent, economists are now saying we are either nearly out of the recession or out of the recession entirely.

All of the healthcare proposals are from the same vein. There is no emergency, just a pretended one, purported by politicians and promoted endlessly by the media.

Give us our freedom back. We the people are who should by free to define where our money should be spent, not the crooks in Washington. Real healthcare reform would entail less regulation to create downward competition on cost. Real honesty from politicians would demand repealing the rest of the “stimulus” bill.

“Justice,” the final point I highlighted in The Pledge of Allegiance, is blind. It is as God is because the principle comes from God. Justice is “no respecter of persons”. Social justice, also a creation of politicians for power, is an oxymoron because it places one part of society above another.

Let us remember the principles our country was founded on and fight vigorously to uphold those principles. It is no accident that our constitution, our country, and our people have stood for so long. It is my belief that though us, the people, our country through our freedom will stand until the end of time. But we must stand up and fight for our founding principles.

Sarah Palin’s response to President Obama

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Sarah Palin responded last night to President Obama concerning the “Death Panels”. Here is her insightful response:

Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly, and the disabled would suffer the most under such rationing; and that under such a system these “unproductive” members of society could face the prospect of government bureaucrats determining whether they deserve health care.

The President made light of these concerns. He said:

Transforming from freedom to socialism to communism

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The former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson speaks in 1966 on the transformation of our nation.

A nationalized healthcare solution

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I have a friend who is a third year medical student. His view on providing government-run “free” healthcare is that is makes sense if people follow a few lifestyle best practices that address the root cause of most medical problems.

The basic rules of his “dream plan”:
-You don’t smoke
-You don’t do drugs
-You don’t drink to excess
-You don’t participate in risky sex behaviors
-You have a BMI less than 30
-You exercise at least 30 minutes each day

The patient’s ability to keep these best practices would be monitored as part of a free care contract signed by the patient. Each benefactor would have to undergo annual screenings to see if they continued to qualify for free care. If they broke any of these rules then they would have to start paying for their plan for the following year. Anyone who does not meet the criteria will pay for their healthcare until they qualify at their next annual checkup by meeting all of the requirements.

The primary purpose of this plan is patient-driven preventative lifestyle change, since most medical problems seen each day in the doctor’s office are related in some shape or fashion to the plan’s stipulations. This is not discriminatory for people that don’t qualify immediately because anyone can qualify if they choose to make lifestyle changes. You don’t need money to quit doing things or to run around the block a few times every day.

Ideally those who qualify for the free care will be the ones who spend the least amount of public dollars on health care since they are healthy by virtue of avoiding all those things that cause chronic, debilitating disease. The plan would also encourage those who are not living a healthy lifestyle to change, since they will essentially be paid to do so.

If it had to happen, this seems to make sense. However, the greater issue in the healthcare debate is about choice. Once the government becomes involved, it will eventually crowd out all private industry and force its morality upon us.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the health-policy advisor at the Office of Management and Budget, member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, and brother of Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, is an Obama healthcare advisor. He has written:

Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years

Or in graphical form, this is the “Complete Lives System” that Dr. Emanuel advocates:

The amount of resources or medical expenditures that your life is worth is dependent wholly upon your age. At some point, you will simply be medicated until you die off. Why the AARP is promoting this plan, though strangely without “officially” supporting it (while the President apparently believes they do), is beyond me.

President Obama’s advisers think their opinions on human life are superior to ours. I am willing only to give credence for that opinion to God, who we know is, “no respecter of persons.” Please keep your hand off of my healthcare and my life decisions.

Life: Imagine the Potential

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HT: Pearl Diver

Also, please check out Beetle Blogger’s “Carbon Footprint of a Child“.

Arlen Specter is called out

If you haven’t seen this yet, Arlen Specter was called out by one of his constituents, then he demeans all of them.

I could be somewhere else. I don’t get any extra pay. I don’t have any requirement to be here.

Because, you know, that $174,000 per year he makes, plus one of best, if not the best, healthcare plans in existence that is his for life, and a retirement at around 80%, or $140,000, per year for life sure means he needs “extra pay” to speak with those he represents.

The video is here.