Kind of surprising it took this long to make a video about this, but it’s good stuff! “You’ve Been Spitzed” is the name and it’s a story everyone who has walked past a newspaper in the last 3 days knows well: Governor Eliot Spitzer (soon to be ex) and Ashley Dupre, is very expensive prostitute. Enjoy.
Rarely do we lift entire posts from someplace else (though we will quote the hell out of them sometimes), but every once in a while something has already been said perfectly that it makes no sense to put our own spin on it, so we do. This is from National Review:
One of Obama’s Earmarks Went to Hospital That Employs Michelle Obama
Dan Riehl notes, via Amanda Carpenter, that in the list of earmarks he requested, $1 Million was requested for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University Of Chicago. The request was put in in 2006.
You know who works for the University of Chicago Hospital?
Michelle Obama. She’s vice president of community affairs.
As Byron noted, “In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office.”
Looks like that raise was worth it.
To Quote Mel Brooks, “It’s good to be the king.”
This guy is nuts, no question, and the fact that Barack Obama sat in his church for 20 years, was married by this guy, had his children baptized by this man, and he wouldn’t call a man like this his “close spiritual adviser.”
Obama got some ’splaining to do…
And there’s more…
Hell of a guy!
Liberals have co-oped the term “universal” in terms of health care to mean socialized medicine without having to actually say “socialized,” since Americans do not support socialism, so they say universal. Well, everyone wants universal health insurance, because that means everyone has health insurance. When a Democrats talks about universal care the natural reaction is to grab your wallet before they do, naturally. But you should also worry about your health.
There really is no simpler way to say this than just to say it; when government controls your health care, government controls your life. Bureaucrats choose who lives and dies, not directly, but by the regulations they write and the restrictions they impose on doctors.
Government also controls your life by how much money they are willing to spend, let’s face, there is a limited supply.
A prime example of a health care bureaucracy gone bad (as if there’s any other way they go) can be found in this story from the Irish Times. Most people don’t realize the significant, life-threatening drawbacks of having the government in charge of what you can and cannot get from your doctor (which, by the way, will always lead to what you can and cannot do because it is deemed “unhealthy”), they focus on the horror stories of private insurance companies totally screwing over people, which they do, just not very often.
Things that are routine in this country are rare elsewhere, and unless you’ve lived overseas, or really talked to someone who has had a life-threatening disease, you won’t know the truth. Michael Moore sure as hell isn’t going to tell you because it doesn’t fit his agenda of making the US look bad while making him even wealthier.
Ireland, just like all socialized medicine countries, has waiting times for medical services because, well, to save money, the government controls and rations things. That means less machines, an inability to run tests in a timely manner, etc., just think of everything lefties say about HMOs and multiply it by 10.
Now imagine you’re in a system like that, seemingly free (though you’re paying for it through significantly higher taxes), and your doctor thinks you might have cancer. Terrifying, but tests need to be run to be sure, and before you can start treatment.
Now imagine having to wait a year and a half to get those tests.
That’s what’s happening in Ireland.
“PUBLIC PATIENTS can be waiting up to a year and a half for crucial tests to determine if they are suffering from conditions such as bowel cancer, according to new figures.”
There is a reason there is a growing trend toward private hospitals and insurance in socialized countries.
The Health Service Executive said hospitals were working closely with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to cut waiting times. It also said waiting lists were being checked to see if those who were named as waiting longest still in fact required a colonoscopy.
“If the procedure is still required, then patients can be assessed for eligibility for NTPF,” it said. The NTPF can buy treatment in private hospitals for public patients on a waiting list for more than three months.
“If the procedure is still required…”? That means if they haven’t died yet from our incompetence and one-size-fits-all approach.
Clinton and Obama have similar goals for our country, a system where everyone is treated the same – poorly. We need a plan that raises the level of everyone’s care, not one that lowers everyone to the same level of poor care.
Sure, there was a lot of toilet humor attached to the Eliot Spitzer – Ashley Dupre story, but that’s not what the headline is about. First, there was this story about a bill in Florida to require an unspecified amount of toilet paper be stocked in restaurants, which is insane. Now the state of Georgia gives us 2 more stories about what used to be private matters.
First, this story is just insane, but it’s not the government’s meddling that makes it so. A woman sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for 2 years, so long that her skin grafted to the seat. The boyfriend fed her in there, but she chose not to leave the room herself, seemingly. Clearly she is insane, but he doesn’t seem much better. Who waits 2 years to call the police for help in that situation? They are considering charging him but they don’t know with what. Being stupid isn’t a crime, though maybe…
The second story from Georgia is much more disturbing because it is about a government mandate that will insert the state in every sale of a house. Starting in June, selling a house with old toilets, you know, the ones that use enough water the first time so you don’t have to flush them a second, will be banned.
A few years ago, thanks to Al Gore, so called “low-flow” toilets became the only ones that could be sold in the US. This not only caused people to have to flush 2 or 3 times sometimes, but it also created a black market for the old toilets because, well, they actually worked. Staring in June, DeKalb County will require all old homes to be equipped with “low-flow” toilets before the transaction can be completed or else they won’t hook up a water supply. So someone in the transaction is going to have to buy new toilets, not sure which party.
The insanity of the government blocking the transfer of private property from one person to another for any reason, let alone something as insane as his, is ridiculous, and just another example of the PC Environmentalist Police stripping away our rights.
Here’s an idea for someone who lives in Georgia, and we only ask for 5%. Start a business replacing old toilets with new ones only long enough to pass inspection, then replace the old ones. For, say $150-$250 per toilet, put in “low-flows,” get the green light for sale, then go put the old ones back. You’d only have to buy a few new ones and could reuse them. Just provide a receipt to the new homeowner and you should be fine.
Otherwise, we’d suggest not moving to Georgia because God only knows what’s next…
This story from a Florida TV station probably calls for some serious analysis about over-regulation and the need for cost-benefit analysis. But that presupposes a level of maturity that we don’t have. Instead, we’ll just note that it’s about time that politicians address issues where they have genuine expertise…
Tim Berner-Lee, the “father of the Internet,” thinks Google’s dominance of the Internet search engine market will come to an end thanks to a program he created.
A little known or noted fact about Google, worth about a half-trillion dollars, continually funds left-wing causes, especially the push for so-called Net Neutrality, is that while they claim to be against the companies that poured billions of dollars into getting high-speed Internet to nearly every home in the United States managing those networks so they don’t become congested to the point they are nearly worthless, manipulates searches Google users do. How?
Go to Google and search for a few prominent politician, famous person or historical event. Check out what is seemingly always on the first page of results, generally about 3rd. It’s Wikipedia! Seems kind of odd that SO MANY searches should turn up Wikipedia, doesn’t it? Not when you realize Google owns Wikipedia. Hmm, strange.
If Google were really interested in ensuring the Internet stays “open” like they claim, rather than spending millions pushing for federal regulation of a free-market, they should enter it. Building the physical structure to deliver Internet service to home is expensive, cable and phone companies have spent billions doing just that, but Google can afford it. They should put their money where their mouth is, lead by example, and put up or shut up. But companies like Google would much rather use their money to buy influence (with Congressmen like Ed Markey and John Conyers) and force their will on others than actually live the life they would like to force on others.
Essentially, they are as they appear to be; old fashioned liberals.
We would not cry at the fall of Google. We hope Berners-Lee is correct.
There is nothing less sincere than an apology that comes with a qualifier like “…if anyone was offended.” You’re either sorry or you’re not, you can’t put conditions on it, if your intention is to be sincere, that is.
Hillary Clinton has done a semi-mia culpa for the sins of, well, damn near everyone associated with her campaign who has said anything anyone could remotely construe as racist about Barack Obama. You can see the story here, but she basically says the people (Geraldine Ferraro and her husband, to just name a few) who may have been offended that they either didn’t mean it or they weren’t speaking for her.
She “bravely” gave this apology to a room full of black community newspapers in Washington.
“Bravely” is in quotes because it isn’t brave, it’s pandering. If she were really sincere, or really gave a damn, she would have apologised the moment these things were brought to her attention, not more than a week (in the case of Ferraro) or the weeks it’s been since South Carolina.
So Hillary now moves deeper into the realm of insincere apologists. Just when you think a Clinton hit bottom…they pull out a shovel.
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