LEE RODGERS“GUN-FREE
ZONE” NONSENSE
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MORE OF YOUR OBAMACARE FUTURE …
A DIFFERENT AMERICA: IT'S HERE
MORE OF YOUR OBAMACARE FUTURE …
A DIFFERENT AMERICA: IT'S HERE
Wonder when Obama will advocate for armed guards in schools? After all, Sidwell Friends, the exclusive D.C. private school attended by his daughters, has eleven armed guards for protection.
Certainly beats a sign inviting killers to come right in: “Gun-free zone.”
Note to both sides of the great – and endless -- firearm debate: Do you seriously expect that a “blue ribbon panel on gun control” headed by Joe Biden is going to do anything substantive? (See below)
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"I guarantee you Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotguns, so don’t buy that malarkey. Don’t buy that malarkey. They’re (Republicans) going to start peddling that to you. I own two guns and if Obama tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem. I like that little over and under (shotgun), you know? I’m not bad with it. So give me a break. Give me a break." -- VP Joseph Biden, 2008
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We keep you advised on developments in Britain's National Health Service because it is the model for Obamacare. Major British newspaper The Telegraph offers the latest on the treatment of older people ...
"Widespread ageism throughout the NHS means elderly cancer patients are sometimes being written off as 'too old for treatment', doctors and nurses have admitted.
"About half of those surveyedl (48 per cent) said they thought 'stereotypes and assumptions' about older people were resulting in some patients not getting the best treatment for cancer.
"A similar proportion (45 per cent) said they had dealt with a cancer patient who had been refused treatment on the grounds of age. And two-thirds (67 per cent) said they had heard other health workers speaking to older cancer patients in a 'condescending or dismissive way'.”
Take a good look at your future.
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Felipe Moreno of San Bernardino, California, went to a party last week; a party to celebrate the predicted (by the Mayan calendar) end of the world.
For Mr. Moreno, it was. He was shot and killed at the party.
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“South Carolina's conservative Republican governor, Nikki Haley, is the daughter of Sikh immigrants from Punjab. US Representative Tim Scott of Charleston, a Tea Party hero who was raised in poverty by a divorced single mother, is South Carolina's first black Republican lawmaker in more than a century.
“An Indian-American governor appoints an African-American to the US Senate. Man, that lily-white GOP racism never ends, does it?" – Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
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As we contemplate the “fiscal cliff,” a concept bemoaned by many and understood by few, some points to consider …
"Fixing an ailing economy can be difficult in a democracy. Politicians running for office, pundits, and incumbent administrations will always be tempted to promote quick fixes, which aren’t really fixes at all. Indeed, as history shows, many popular responses to economic crises—closing borders to immigration and free trade, hiking taxes, or printing money excessively and driving up inflation—can do incredible damage to long-term growth.
"In the current sluggish economic environment, the remarkable history of American dynamism is thus more instructive than ever. America’s economic might is rooted in an entrepreneurial culture and a passion for innovation and risk-taking, traits nourished by the nation’s commitment to the rule of law, property rights, and a predictable set of tax and regulatory policies. Policymakers have lost sight of these fundamental principles in recent years." -- Guy Sorman, author of "Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis."
I would only add, "Which immigrants?"
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Argus Hamilton –
“The Senate held hearings on the administration's failure to protect the U.S. consulate in Benghazi from attack last fall. Cables show the attack was predicted and ignored. The White House has admitted that mistakes were made, but maintains that no one made them.”
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Bernard Goldberg (JWR) with a disturbing view of the Republican status – and future ...
“John Wayne became a giant in our culture, a genuine make-believe hero, because more than anything else he was the embodiment of American rugged individualism.
“Whatever we are in America these days, we're not that anymore. If we were, Barack Obama — a left-wing pol who sees answers to just about everything not in individuals but in big government — couldn't have been elected once, let alone twice.
“Republicans are right when they say we have a spending problem — not a taxing problem. And yes, most Americans also think the federal government spends too much. But they also think President Obama is right when he says we need to raises taxes on the so-called rich.
“If the economy heads south again and we go into another recession and more people lose their jobs, some Washington insiders are already saying that President Obama will no longer be able to blame George Bush for the mess. This time, he will own the economy and have to take the blame for whatever goes wrong. If the experts are right, Republicans would have a chance to come back from the dead. If the experts are wrong ... oh, wait: is that Hillary Clinton I see off in the distance taking the oath of office?”
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Bob Schieffer, racing full-tilt into senility, on CBS's “This Morning,” said of actor Ben Affleck, who has political ambitions, "He's a very committed – a very serious person. You know, he went to Harvard and majored in Middle Eastern studies."
More Schieffer bull-bleep. Affleck never went to Harvard; dabbled a little bit in some college at the University of Vermont and Occidental.
Affleck has since announced he won't be running for the U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts now occupied by John Kerry, likely to be moving to the office of Secretary of State.
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Speaking of which …
Is there a Marxist, Muslim, terrorist or any other anti-American group on the planet that isn't an object of John Kerry's affection?
Ponder that as his nomination by Obama to the office of Secretary of State proceeds to Senate hearings – where he will doubtless succeed.
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Confidential to my longtime colleague and ardent golfer Ossifer Vic: Scored that long-awaited that hole-in-one yet? No?
Then we won't dwell on the story of Sam Jones, 76, of Nashville, Tennessee who just scored two. In the same round.
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Reader Sam sends along a perfect illutration of the bureaucratic mind at work ...
At a high school in North Dakota , a group of male students played a prank.
They let three goats loose inside the school. Before turning them loose, they painted numbers on the sides of the goats: 1, 2 and 4.
School Administrators spent most of the day looking for goat No. 3.
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Conan O'Brien --
"Scientists announced they have found the world's oldest dinosaur. It had a collar on it that read, 'If lost, please return to Larry King.'"
O'Brien --
"Scientists announced they have found the world's oldest dinosaur. It had a collar on it that read, 'If lost, please return to Larry King.'"
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."