Doc Zero makes the case for against a Public Option in your television viewing, a Universal Entertainment Care program if you will.
The Parable of the Satellite Dish
I’ll cut right to the moral of the story:
- Never accept permanent solutions that are nearly impossible to change, when simpler and more easily modified plans are available. It’s foolish to let the advocates of permanent programs dismiss flexible alternatives before they have been tried.
- A proposal that requires you to ignore both the past and the future is a swindle, not a solution.
- Free people do not accept restrictions from which their government is exempt. This is one of the differences between leaders and rulers.
- A demand for commitment without a guarantee of performance is domination, not service.
- When free people are told something is “inevitable,” their response should be an immediate and overwhelming refusal to accept it. Inevitability is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the absence of resistance. Freedom is the never-ending quest for alternatives.
- The people who loudly celebrate “diversity” keep coming up with universal plans. Their State is a giant who trims citizens to fit its bed, using rusty implements. The giant, the bed, and the implements were all equal sins in the eyes of our Founders. They come as a set.
- When the State refuses to let you debate the terms of its plans individually, you can rest assured the whole is worse than the sum of its parts.
- Freedom requires the courage to avoid being stampeded. You should ask more questions about something you are told is an “essential right.” Sober reflection is a hallmark of maturity. A wise State would not require its citizens to act like children.
Norman Podhoretz outs himself as an unabashed supporter of Sarah Palin, and it is refreshing to see. I think this sentence alone explains a great deal about her appeal to ‘ordinary’ Americans.
She understands that the U.S. has been a force for good in the world—which is more than can be said of our president.
And in this one, he attempts to capture the reasons behind the remarkable vitriol she inspires, mostly from the Left, but also from a certain ‘class’ of the Right.
When push came to shove, they could not resist what Van Voorhees calls Mr. Obama’s “prodigious oratorical and intellectuals gifts” and they could not resist attributing Sarah Palin’s emergence as a formidable political force to “the base enthusiasms and simian grunts” of “the loathesome Tea Party rabble.”
She didn’t go to the right schools, she isn’t from the right urban area, she fishes & camps & shoots things, she is married to a blue collar worker, she has too many children…..
Here’s what those elitists snobs on both sides of the aisle are forgetting: Most people in America didn’t go to the right schools, there are vast tracts of land outside the uber-sophisticated urban hot spots, large numbers of their countrymen hunts & fish & enjoy camping. We are either blue collar ourselves, or unlikely to look down on someone who does an honest day’s work. We love a woman who loves her children and finds that she can, in fact, have it all; career, gorgeous hubby, beautiful children – and look great while doing it.
At this point, I don’t know that I want her to run for President in 2012. I do know that,
…I would rather be ruled by the Tea Party than by the Democratic Party, and I would rather have Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office than Barack Obama.
A post at Big Government, reminding us of Sinclair Lewis’s prescient book, It Can’t Happen Here, gives us the comment of the day:
What are you talking about Zak? The electorate in this country would have to consist of fools for something like this to happen. It would take a generation of people dumbed down by a bloated and incompetent public education system and a journalism monopoly that mirrored an anti- American pop culture.
Now leave me alone. The View is coming on and I need to catch up on some real news before Cops.
Plus I think Clooney is on Ellen which is good because the kids are staying late at school for a science project. Their teacher is going to help them save the polar bears from Haliburton.
but each day itself is glad news.
ObamaCare manages to slip in another version of Social Security. Money out of your paycheck today, for some potential ‘payoff’ later. After the government bureaucracy takes it’s ridiculously exorbitant cut off the top, of course.
While Congress spent the last year debating how to provide health insurance for the uninsured, a little-known provision slipped into the heath care law that could cost some Americans upwards of $2,000 a year.
The Class Act, otherwise known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act, is the federal government’s first long-term care insurance program.
Under-reported and under the radar of most lawmakers, the program will allow workers to have an average of roughly $150 or $240 a month, based on age and salary, automatically deducted from their paycheck to save for long-term care.
The Congressional Budget Office expects the government will collect $109 billion in premiums by 2019.
If this is for real, the Democrats are even scarier than we all thought.
It is going beyond Chicago-style politics to Soviet-style politics.
Watch what you say about Dear Leader and his policies – and watch your back.
BTW: If this Health Care Bill is implemented in anything resembling it’s current form, my company(s) will likely end up being shuttered. We are just a ‘small’ business though, only sent out 400 W-2s for 2009, so I doubt D.C. cares much.
p.s. And the title quote is from….?
I was going to write a post today about Arizona moving closer to a concealed carry without a license state.
But I was tired. And my puppy was sore. I was tired because my puppy was sore; worried about him all night, got up early to go to the vet*. So, I brought the dogs in the house, laid a blanket for them and a comforter for me and we all took a nap together on the floor. Found out Cash likes to snuggle up to my feet and Tango, who likes to sleep on his back, seems to “talk” through his dreams. It was pretty sweet and very relaxing.
Perhaps I can get that post written tomorrow….
* Still not sure what is wrong, he is limping pretty bad but no obvious break per the x-ray. Anti-inflammatory shot & pain killers for a few days. Oh, and no roughhousing – yeah, we’ll see how that goes.
“And I became a bill no one wants, and I’ll remain a bill no one wants until they force me through as a law no one wants”
(Hat Tip Macker)
I was at a bar on Friday night, and I got talking to a woman who was very strongly Democratic, and very supportive of the health care bill. When I raised all of my standard objections with her, she said, “I know, but we have to do something.”
I didn’t say this at the time, but I thought to myself, “What a perfect illustration of the difference between liberals and conservatives.”
From an Unhappy Special Agent Johnny Utah
I received this email from a friend today
You know people in other parts of the country don’t understand how severe the weather can get here in Arizona. Look at the devastation in my own back yard caused by the recent storm.
This is why I love to listen to songwriters perform their own work. There have been some amazing renditions of this great song recorded over the years, but hearing Irving Berlin perform it the way he first envisioned it, with all the emotion that went into writing it, you really know what those words mean.
Jerome Kern once said, “Irving Berlin has no place in American music… He IS American Music.” Not a bad legacy for an immigrant Russian Jew.
(Thanks to Hey Tammy Bruce and SondraK for bringing this video to my attention)
