When the Obozo-ites are not lying, they're burying the bodies.
This--like the Lerner problem--is the result of Too Much Federal Government. (Not that "Republicans" are campaigning on that issue, or anything.)
Thursday, October 09, 2014
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
Rove, the Architect of Losing
About time someone came out with both fists and smacked Rove in the chops. Here, Jeff Lord affirms the judgment of Brent Bozell: Rove--and all his cohort--should be banished.
...The moderate wing of the GOP has been responsible for one presidential loss after another stretching over decades dating all the way back to the re-election bid of the progressive Republican Herbert Hoover in 1932. From Hoover on through names like Landon, Willkie, Dewey (twice) on up to Ford, the failed re-election of Bush 41, Dole, McCain and Romney, every single time the advice is always the same: only a moderate can win. In the case of Karl Rove, in fact the “Architect” of the Bush 43 wins, the 2000 election lost the popular vote to Gore and needed the Supreme Court to get in the White House door. While the 2004 re-election against the abysmal John Kerry was a skin-of-the-teeth win with a bare margin from Ohio. And when it came time to pass on the baton to a GOP successor — as Reagan did successfully with Bush 41 in 1988 — the result was an abject defeat for John McCain, with President Bush 43 — a good and decent man — leaving with his ratings hovering in the mid-thirties....
This should be a fair warning to Scott Walker, by the way. Walker's campaign is certainly not swinging for the fences in conservative message--far from it. And Reince Priebus should not be bragging up the (R) wave led by Walker; that was really the work of Sykes, Belling, and other broadcast conservatives AFTER the TEA Party materialized in open revolt against Obozo.
...The moderate wing of the GOP has been responsible for one presidential loss after another stretching over decades dating all the way back to the re-election bid of the progressive Republican Herbert Hoover in 1932. From Hoover on through names like Landon, Willkie, Dewey (twice) on up to Ford, the failed re-election of Bush 41, Dole, McCain and Romney, every single time the advice is always the same: only a moderate can win. In the case of Karl Rove, in fact the “Architect” of the Bush 43 wins, the 2000 election lost the popular vote to Gore and needed the Supreme Court to get in the White House door. While the 2004 re-election against the abysmal John Kerry was a skin-of-the-teeth win with a bare margin from Ohio. And when it came time to pass on the baton to a GOP successor — as Reagan did successfully with Bush 41 in 1988 — the result was an abject defeat for John McCain, with President Bush 43 — a good and decent man — leaving with his ratings hovering in the mid-thirties....
This should be a fair warning to Scott Walker, by the way. Walker's campaign is certainly not swinging for the fences in conservative message--far from it. And Reince Priebus should not be bragging up the (R) wave led by Walker; that was really the work of Sykes, Belling, and other broadcast conservatives AFTER the TEA Party materialized in open revolt against Obozo.
The Mormons v. Althouse
Althouse loves to use the condescension-phrase "marriage equality".
The Federalist asks the right questions:
...The would-be polygamist needs only to use the arguments of a gay-marriage advocate: What kind of moral claim, for instance, does anyone have to stand in the way of peaceful, consenting adults who call their union a marriage? Shouldn’t every minority, no matter how beleaguered, be able to enjoy happiness with the one—or ones—they love? In a perfect nation, wouldn’t all Americans be immune from the cultural and religious prejudices of others? Isn’t it a tad judgmental for us to force every household to comport to our own stifling definition of family?...
Certainly Althouse understands "equality", so she won't mind if Mead brings home a few extra women.
Right?
By the way, Walker's acquiescence to the continuing erasure of the 10th Amendment doesn't boost one's confidence in his "conservative" credentials, does it?
The Federalist asks the right questions:
...The would-be polygamist needs only to use the arguments of a gay-marriage advocate: What kind of moral claim, for instance, does anyone have to stand in the way of peaceful, consenting adults who call their union a marriage? Shouldn’t every minority, no matter how beleaguered, be able to enjoy happiness with the one—or ones—they love? In a perfect nation, wouldn’t all Americans be immune from the cultural and religious prejudices of others? Isn’t it a tad judgmental for us to force every household to comport to our own stifling definition of family?...
Certainly Althouse understands "equality", so she won't mind if Mead brings home a few extra women.
Right?
By the way, Walker's acquiescence to the continuing erasure of the 10th Amendment doesn't boost one's confidence in his "conservative" credentials, does it?
Whitewater: Dirtballs Revealed
No, Whitewater is NOT just a town in Wisconsin. It's the name of a serious scandal which occurred during the Clinton years in Arkansas.
And somehow, the first prosecutor was.......ahhhh......"removed" from the case. He has a few pertinent remarks.
...By the summer of 1994, Fiske says, he was preparing to bring eight indictments against 11 defendants, including criminal charges for fraud against Jim and Susan McDougal (the Clintons' Whitewater business partners), Webster Hubbell (then an associate attorney general and formerly Hillary Clinton's law partner) and Jim Guy Tucker (Clinton's successor as governor of Arkansas)....
...Despite Fiske's efforts to find more evidence, he soon ran afoul of conservatives in Congress and on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, who accused him of pulling his punches....
Hmmm. The 'conservatives' submarined the investigation because Fiske couldn't find a direct link to Bill and Shrill--at least, not at that time.
Too bad. If he'd been able to indict the scumbags named above, someone would have rolled on Bill and Shrill. Then we wouldn't have had all those PRC spies floating around the US military.
And somehow, the first prosecutor was.......ahhhh......"removed" from the case. He has a few pertinent remarks.
...By the summer of 1994, Fiske says, he was preparing to bring eight indictments against 11 defendants, including criminal charges for fraud against Jim and Susan McDougal (the Clintons' Whitewater business partners), Webster Hubbell (then an associate attorney general and formerly Hillary Clinton's law partner) and Jim Guy Tucker (Clinton's successor as governor of Arkansas)....
...Despite Fiske's efforts to find more evidence, he soon ran afoul of conservatives in Congress and on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, who accused him of pulling his punches....
Hmmm. The 'conservatives' submarined the investigation because Fiske couldn't find a direct link to Bill and Shrill--at least, not at that time.
Too bad. If he'd been able to indict the scumbags named above, someone would have rolled on Bill and Shrill. Then we wouldn't have had all those PRC spies floating around the US military.
2014 Lie Of The Year Nominee
It's not likely that any Lie Of The Year will out-shine Obozo's '....keep your healthcare' megawhopper.
But this one is pretty damn competitive:
“What I also love about this conservative but extraordinary decision from SCOTUS is that it affirms the power of federalism against the alternatives,” said Andrew Sullivan of the Supreme Court’s decision not to review seven decisions on same-sex marriage this week. “Marriage equality will not have been prematurely foisted on the country by one single decision; it will have emerged and taken root because it slowly gained democratic legitimacy, from state to state, because the legal and constitutional arguments slowly won in the court of public opinion, and because an experiment in one state, Massachusetts, and then others, helped persuade the sincere skeptics that the consequences were, in fact, the strengthening of families, not their weakening.”
1) Federalism is NOT 'Federal blackrobes gone wild', Andy-boy.
2) The arguments have NOT 'won' in public opinion. Every State which voted on it (save one) voted against it.
3) 'Strengthening families'? Based on what longitudinal studies, Andy-boy? 3 years? 5 years? Be serious.
Obozo is still the champion. But the homosexualists are working on it.
But this one is pretty damn competitive:
“What I also love about this conservative but extraordinary decision from SCOTUS is that it affirms the power of federalism against the alternatives,” said Andrew Sullivan of the Supreme Court’s decision not to review seven decisions on same-sex marriage this week. “Marriage equality will not have been prematurely foisted on the country by one single decision; it will have emerged and taken root because it slowly gained democratic legitimacy, from state to state, because the legal and constitutional arguments slowly won in the court of public opinion, and because an experiment in one state, Massachusetts, and then others, helped persuade the sincere skeptics that the consequences were, in fact, the strengthening of families, not their weakening.”
1) Federalism is NOT 'Federal blackrobes gone wild', Andy-boy.
2) The arguments have NOT 'won' in public opinion. Every State which voted on it (save one) voted against it.
3) 'Strengthening families'? Based on what longitudinal studies, Andy-boy? 3 years? 5 years? Be serious.
Obozo is still the champion. But the homosexualists are working on it.
Judy's Epic Fail?
Well, well. Wisconsin's single largest beneficiary of ObozoCare makes the news again.
And it ain't pretty.
...Last week, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital revealed in a statement that a procedural flaw in its online health records system led to potentially deadly miscommunication between nurses and doctors. The facility sent Ebola victim Thomas Duncan home despite showing signs of the disease — only to admit him with worse symptoms three days later.
Hospital officials, who came forward "in the interest of transparency," initially cited workflow and information-sharing problems for the botch. "Protocols were followed by both the physician and the nurses," the statement noted. "However, we have identified a flaw in the way the physician and nursing portions of our electronic health records interacted in this specific case."...
Yah. Guess whose brand-name appears on the "electronic health records"?
...Texas Health contracts with Epic Systems for its electronic medical records system — and the Dallas hospital isn't the only client that has complained about its costly information-sharing flaws and interoperability failures....
There's a reason for that, and it's been common knowledge in IT circles for 10 years or more:
...Epic has been the subject of rising industry and provider complaints about its antiquated closed-end system....
Rough translation of the problem: Epic's systems are speaking Old Slavonic; the rest of the systems world is speaking English.
But ya'know, a few million here, a few million there, (all to Democrat corruptocrats) and voila!! It's the 'system of choice!'
And in an ObozoCare world, dead patients are a feature, not a bug.
And it ain't pretty.
...Last week, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital revealed in a statement that a procedural flaw in its online health records system led to potentially deadly miscommunication between nurses and doctors. The facility sent Ebola victim Thomas Duncan home despite showing signs of the disease — only to admit him with worse symptoms three days later.
Hospital officials, who came forward "in the interest of transparency," initially cited workflow and information-sharing problems for the botch. "Protocols were followed by both the physician and the nurses," the statement noted. "However, we have identified a flaw in the way the physician and nursing portions of our electronic health records interacted in this specific case."...
Yah. Guess whose brand-name appears on the "electronic health records"?
...Texas Health contracts with Epic Systems for its electronic medical records system — and the Dallas hospital isn't the only client that has complained about its costly information-sharing flaws and interoperability failures....
There's a reason for that, and it's been common knowledge in IT circles for 10 years or more:
...Epic has been the subject of rising industry and provider complaints about its antiquated closed-end system....
Rough translation of the problem: Epic's systems are speaking Old Slavonic; the rest of the systems world is speaking English.
But ya'know, a few million here, a few million there, (all to Democrat corruptocrats) and voila!! It's the 'system of choice!'
And in an ObozoCare world, dead patients are a feature, not a bug.
Two Lessons From WallyWorld/ObozoCare
Another 30,000 individuals tossed into the fiery pit due to Obozo and the Democrat Party.
Something else in the story which is important:
...Wal-Mart now expects the impact of higher health care costs to be about $500 million for the current fiscal year, or about $170 million higher than the original estimate of about $330 million that it gave in February....
Know why those costs jumped by ~50% or so?
ObozoCare requirements.
Something else in the story which is important:
...Wal-Mart now expects the impact of higher health care costs to be about $500 million for the current fiscal year, or about $170 million higher than the original estimate of about $330 million that it gave in February....
Know why those costs jumped by ~50% or so?
ObozoCare requirements.
Popcorn Time for Conservatives
The Clinton machine is now beginning payback-time.
Barack Obama is now about to meet the underside of Hillary Clinton’s bus.
The only chance Hillary Clinton has of winning in 2016 is to blame shift to Barack Obama and sacrifice him for the good of the party.
Leon Panetta has begun the process.
Kinda like when the Russkis deleted some Party bigwigs from the old photos.
In fact, it's a LOT like that, in more ways than one.
Barack Obama is now about to meet the underside of Hillary Clinton’s bus.
The only chance Hillary Clinton has of winning in 2016 is to blame shift to Barack Obama and sacrifice him for the good of the party.
Leon Panetta has begun the process.
Kinda like when the Russkis deleted some Party bigwigs from the old photos.
In fact, it's a LOT like that, in more ways than one.
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
Priest Slams Home-Schoolers
A southeastern Wisconsin pastor takes a couple of licks at homeschoolers, revealing his ignorance of home-schooled kids, their parents, and the nature of Satan (!!)
I’m not at all enthused about home schooling: too limited a degree of socialization, not enough involvement with a variety of peers, teachers and situations to learn to negotiate securely outside the family circle.
Keeping even small children hermetically sealed from the evils of the real world is terribly imprudent. Often hell breaks loose once teenagers are off to college with no parental controls, no helicopter moms or dads hovering over them.
Oh. Really?
Those home-school kids often reside in "neighborhoods," Father, where there are OTHER children with whom they bike, play pickup basketball, go sledding, or wander into the store to purchase candy. Those home-school kids often participate in Boy/Girl Scouts, non-school-related athletics, (it's called Land O' Lakes) and as a consequence meet and deal with adults who are not their own parents. Often they have jobs in retail; that's not exactly "hermetic." And in actually Catholic families, where there are several children, "negotiating" within the family circle is quite an exercise.
But maybe you didn't know any of that, Father.
As to 'all Hell breaking loose' after leaving the nest, Father, surely you hear Confessions of college kids who graduated from a parochial school who........ahhh........have succumbed to temptation? No? Never??
I know several home-schooled kids. They are friends of my children. They are great kids who can carry a conversation in first-class English, do mathematics, and even interact well with non-parental adults. Some, quel horreur, have entered the priesthood.
And trust me, those home-schooled kids who become priests will not issue such un-schooled letters to the Faithful.
Oh, by the way, those homeschooling parents know a thing or two about "apps" and "the Interwebs." They know how and when to helicopter the chilluns. See, there are home-school support groups which help parents, kinda like those Catholic-school home & school organizations.
As to the other part of your letter, Father, maybe you'd like to tell us about parochial-school children and their encounters with "ask.fm". How could that sort of thing happen with kids who are properly socialized, and not hermetically sealed? Did all Hell break loose right there in your classrooms? Hmmmmm?
It's been my experience, and that of the Church, that Satan is an equal-opportunity tempter. Parochial school, home-school, public school, no school at all--makes no difference to him. I think that's in Moral Theology 101, Father. You can look it up.
I’m not at all enthused about home schooling: too limited a degree of socialization, not enough involvement with a variety of peers, teachers and situations to learn to negotiate securely outside the family circle.
Keeping even small children hermetically sealed from the evils of the real world is terribly imprudent. Often hell breaks loose once teenagers are off to college with no parental controls, no helicopter moms or dads hovering over them.
Oh. Really?
Those home-school kids often reside in "neighborhoods," Father, where there are OTHER children with whom they bike, play pickup basketball, go sledding, or wander into the store to purchase candy. Those home-school kids often participate in Boy/Girl Scouts, non-school-related athletics, (it's called Land O' Lakes) and as a consequence meet and deal with adults who are not their own parents. Often they have jobs in retail; that's not exactly "hermetic." And in actually Catholic families, where there are several children, "negotiating" within the family circle is quite an exercise.
But maybe you didn't know any of that, Father.
As to 'all Hell breaking loose' after leaving the nest, Father, surely you hear Confessions of college kids who graduated from a parochial school who........ahhh........have succumbed to temptation? No? Never??
I know several home-schooled kids. They are friends of my children. They are great kids who can carry a conversation in first-class English, do mathematics, and even interact well with non-parental adults. Some, quel horreur, have entered the priesthood.
And trust me, those home-schooled kids who become priests will not issue such un-schooled letters to the Faithful.
Oh, by the way, those homeschooling parents know a thing or two about "apps" and "the Interwebs." They know how and when to helicopter the chilluns. See, there are home-school support groups which help parents, kinda like those Catholic-school home & school organizations.
As to the other part of your letter, Father, maybe you'd like to tell us about parochial-school children and their encounters with "ask.fm". How could that sort of thing happen with kids who are properly socialized, and not hermetically sealed? Did all Hell break loose right there in your classrooms? Hmmmmm?
It's been my experience, and that of the Church, that Satan is an equal-opportunity tempter. Parochial school, home-school, public school, no school at all--makes no difference to him. I think that's in Moral Theology 101, Father. You can look it up.
Sunday, October 05, 2014
It's Complicated. So the NeoCon Warmongers Jump Right In!!
Following some damn war or other, the Striped-Pants set drew a lot of nice straight lines throughout the Middle East.
Everyone got a piece of the pie(s) except the Kurds. Thiry million of them live in parts of Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.
Along came our modern-day geopolitical "geniuses" of the Bush II and Obozo Administrations--and managed to set off a Kurdish-tribalist revolution which (in no small part) was aided by the Russkis.
Now we have this:
Turkey [supposedly a NATO ally of the US] is focused on its near enemy in the Kurdish regions and its far enemy in Damascus, not the ISIS butchers who have laid claim to the Sunni lands of Euphrates valley in parts of what used to be Iraq and Syria. The Qataris want Assad gone and a new government—even one controlled by ISIS—which will grant them a pipeline concession through Syria in order to tap the giant European market for their immense natural gas reserves.
Likewise, the Saudi’s [whose bitches are US oil companies] want to destroy the Assad regime because it is allied with their Shiite enemy across the Persian Gulf in Iran and because they fear their own abused Shiite populations which are concentrated in their oilfield regions. Consequently, they see the fight against ISIS as essentially a pretext for escalating their war against Damascus, and are not even interested in bombing the non-ISIS jihadi like the Nusra Front that they see as allies in the campaign against Assad.
Got that?
OK. So tell me again: exactly what AMERICAN interests lie in this region, aside from Israel?
Hmmmmmmmmm???
Everyone got a piece of the pie(s) except the Kurds. Thiry million of them live in parts of Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.
Along came our modern-day geopolitical "geniuses" of the Bush II and Obozo Administrations--and managed to set off a Kurdish-tribalist revolution which (in no small part) was aided by the Russkis.
Now we have this:
Turkey [supposedly a NATO ally of the US] is focused on its near enemy in the Kurdish regions and its far enemy in Damascus, not the ISIS butchers who have laid claim to the Sunni lands of Euphrates valley in parts of what used to be Iraq and Syria. The Qataris want Assad gone and a new government—even one controlled by ISIS—which will grant them a pipeline concession through Syria in order to tap the giant European market for their immense natural gas reserves.
Likewise, the Saudi’s [whose bitches are US oil companies] want to destroy the Assad regime because it is allied with their Shiite enemy across the Persian Gulf in Iran and because they fear their own abused Shiite populations which are concentrated in their oilfield regions. Consequently, they see the fight against ISIS as essentially a pretext for escalating their war against Damascus, and are not even interested in bombing the non-ISIS jihadi like the Nusra Front that they see as allies in the campaign against Assad.
Got that?
OK. So tell me again: exactly what AMERICAN interests lie in this region, aside from Israel?
Hmmmmmmmmm???
You're Already a Felon. Who Needs the Laws?
We were reminded of this essay which was written in 2009--five years ago.
...Boston civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate calls his new book "Three Felonies a Day," referring to the number of crimes he estimates the average American now unwittingly commits because of vague laws....
That was five years ago. Silverglate could probably make that 4.5 felonies/day now.
Here's the core of the problem:
...Mr. Silverglate describes several cases in which prosecutors didn't understand or didn't want to understand technology. This problem is compounded by a trend that has accelerated since the 1980s for prosecutors to abandon the principle that there can't be a crime without criminal intent....
Toss out the yapping about 'technology.' This "crime without intent" thing is really the problem, and that stems from the rise of the Regulatory State, a convenient way to establish the Totalitarian State. It's also an excellent dodge for legislators who can (and often DO) say that 'this was not my/our intent.'
I suppose that's true; the intent of the typical legislator is to evade responsibility for anything so that he can be re-elected.
It should be the intent of US citizens to remove legislators from office. As one sharp observer put it, 'tis best to do so often, just as 'tis best to change baby-diapers often, and for nearly the same reason.
...Boston civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate calls his new book "Three Felonies a Day," referring to the number of crimes he estimates the average American now unwittingly commits because of vague laws....
That was five years ago. Silverglate could probably make that 4.5 felonies/day now.
Here's the core of the problem:
...Mr. Silverglate describes several cases in which prosecutors didn't understand or didn't want to understand technology. This problem is compounded by a trend that has accelerated since the 1980s for prosecutors to abandon the principle that there can't be a crime without criminal intent....
Toss out the yapping about 'technology.' This "crime without intent" thing is really the problem, and that stems from the rise of the Regulatory State, a convenient way to establish the Totalitarian State. It's also an excellent dodge for legislators who can (and often DO) say that 'this was not my/our intent.'
I suppose that's true; the intent of the typical legislator is to evade responsibility for anything so that he can be re-elected.
It should be the intent of US citizens to remove legislators from office. As one sharp observer put it, 'tis best to do so often, just as 'tis best to change baby-diapers often, and for nearly the same reason.
Rule of Law Collapse, Part 3,587
We have written a few times about the slow but steady collapse of the "rule of law" in the US. A large part of that has come from "courts" who have ruled, e.g., that 'fees are taxes' (or was it that 'taxes are fees'?) or that unborn babies are not entitled to the right to life. Make no mistake: this is a war against the rule of law, and as in any war, the truth is the first casualty.
Another part of that collapse comes from a Federal Leviathan which--for the last 20++ years--has less and less observed the National Interest in favor of its Political Interest. This has been consistent through regimes of (R) and (D), albeit the Obozoites have accelerated this cancer exponentially.
Another pundit, Longstreet, refers to this as the collapse of the fulcrum.
The “fulcrum” of our nation, the point on which our nation balances and turns, is the reliance upon a competent and honest government, limited by constitutional constraints and bound by laws duly and legislatively codified. It requires an embodiment by those who would vow to uphold those laws, promise competence, and swear to duty.
He then lists (and it's a long list) the deviations from law and duty promulgated by these cretins.
Noonan indirectly makes the point, too.
......in the past year of listening to testimony from government officials, there is something different about the boredom and indifference with which government testifiers skirt, dodge and withhold the truth. They don’t seem furtive or defensive; they are not in the least afraid. They speak always with a certain carefulness—they are lawyered up—but they have no evident fear of looking evasive. They really don’t care what you think of them. They’re running the show and if you don’t like it, too bad.
We are locked in some loop where the public figure knows what he must pronounce to achieve his agenda, and the public knows what he must pronounce to achieve his agenda, and we all accept what is being said while at the same time everyone sees right through it....
The only people who seem to tell the truth now are the people inside the agencies who become whistleblowers. They call a news organization, get on the phone with a congressman’s staff. That’s basically how the Veterans Affairs and Secret Service scandals broke: Desperate people who couldn’t take the corruption dropped a dime. What does it say about a great nation when its most reliable truth tellers are desperate people?
(HT: Cold Fury)
Whichever you care to call it, one of the potential results is anarchy; another is dictatorship. Neither is pleasant to contemplate. Restoration of the rule of law is the third possibility, of course, but that will be arduous and a lengthy process indeed.
Another part of that collapse comes from a Federal Leviathan which--for the last 20++ years--has less and less observed the National Interest in favor of its Political Interest. This has been consistent through regimes of (R) and (D), albeit the Obozoites have accelerated this cancer exponentially.
Another pundit, Longstreet, refers to this as the collapse of the fulcrum.
The “fulcrum” of our nation, the point on which our nation balances and turns, is the reliance upon a competent and honest government, limited by constitutional constraints and bound by laws duly and legislatively codified. It requires an embodiment by those who would vow to uphold those laws, promise competence, and swear to duty.
He then lists (and it's a long list) the deviations from law and duty promulgated by these cretins.
Noonan indirectly makes the point, too.
......in the past year of listening to testimony from government officials, there is something different about the boredom and indifference with which government testifiers skirt, dodge and withhold the truth. They don’t seem furtive or defensive; they are not in the least afraid. They speak always with a certain carefulness—they are lawyered up—but they have no evident fear of looking evasive. They really don’t care what you think of them. They’re running the show and if you don’t like it, too bad.
We are locked in some loop where the public figure knows what he must pronounce to achieve his agenda, and the public knows what he must pronounce to achieve his agenda, and we all accept what is being said while at the same time everyone sees right through it....
The only people who seem to tell the truth now are the people inside the agencies who become whistleblowers. They call a news organization, get on the phone with a congressman’s staff. That’s basically how the Veterans Affairs and Secret Service scandals broke: Desperate people who couldn’t take the corruption dropped a dime. What does it say about a great nation when its most reliable truth tellers are desperate people?
(HT: Cold Fury)
Whichever you care to call it, one of the potential results is anarchy; another is dictatorship. Neither is pleasant to contemplate. Restoration of the rule of law is the third possibility, of course, but that will be arduous and a lengthy process indeed.
Factoids About Ebola: It's Dangerous
The scene: a round-table discussion of Ebola with one VERY significant fact included.
....All four speakers had front-line experience, having spent a great deal of time recently in Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. All of them are affiliated with non-profit organizations that have as their sole purpose bringing long-term and emergency healthcare solutions to third world countries. They are all admirable men and masters of their material....
Hmmm. Experience, direct, front-line. Far more qualifications than those of, say, President Girly-Pants and his CDC/HHS/State bureaucrats and spinners
A few choice items:
.....When the latest Ebola outbreak began in a remote village with an infected two-year old child, there were no systems in place to stop the disease’s spread....
... To the extent there are any systems on the ground in Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, they are the NGOs represented at the talk, plus WHO, the CDC, a British government agency, and a few disparate other groups. They are trying to coordinate, but are behind the curve. The local governments are helpless ...
... Ebola can transmit through people’s skin. It’s not enough to keep your hands away from your nose and mouth. If someone’s infected blood, vomit, fecal matter, semen, spit, or sweat just touches you, you can become infected. Even picking up a stained sheet can pass the infection. Additionally, scientists do not know how long the virus will survive on a surface once it’s become dehydrated. The current guess is that Ebola, unlike other viruses, can survive for quite a while away from its original host....
Say WHAT?
...If patients get Western medicine that treats the symptoms — drugs to reduce fever and to control vomiting and diarrhea, proper treatment if the body goes into shock, and blood transfusions — the mortality rate is “only” 25% — which is still high, but is significantly lower than the 70%-90% morality in Africa, where patients get little to no treatment....
Well, that's a relief.
HT: Belvedere
....All four speakers had front-line experience, having spent a great deal of time recently in Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. All of them are affiliated with non-profit organizations that have as their sole purpose bringing long-term and emergency healthcare solutions to third world countries. They are all admirable men and masters of their material....
Hmmm. Experience, direct, front-line. Far more qualifications than those of, say, President Girly-Pants and his CDC/HHS/State bureaucrats and spinners
A few choice items:
.....When the latest Ebola outbreak began in a remote village with an infected two-year old child, there were no systems in place to stop the disease’s spread....
... To the extent there are any systems on the ground in Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, they are the NGOs represented at the talk, plus WHO, the CDC, a British government agency, and a few disparate other groups. They are trying to coordinate, but are behind the curve. The local governments are helpless ...
... Ebola can transmit through people’s skin. It’s not enough to keep your hands away from your nose and mouth. If someone’s infected blood, vomit, fecal matter, semen, spit, or sweat just touches you, you can become infected. Even picking up a stained sheet can pass the infection. Additionally, scientists do not know how long the virus will survive on a surface once it’s become dehydrated. The current guess is that Ebola, unlike other viruses, can survive for quite a while away from its original host....
Say WHAT?
...If patients get Western medicine that treats the symptoms — drugs to reduce fever and to control vomiting and diarrhea, proper treatment if the body goes into shock, and blood transfusions — the mortality rate is “only” 25% — which is still high, but is significantly lower than the 70%-90% morality in Africa, where patients get little to no treatment....
Well, that's a relief.
HT: Belvedere
The ObozoCare Web Portal Cost
When Obozo's current HHS liar told Congress that "Healthcare.gov" cost $834 million........
($834 million. $834 MILLION. Eight hundred thirty-four million DOLLARS. Eight HUNDRED thirty four MILLION dollars....)
.......anyhooo.....
Seems that the HHS liar was, ahhhhhhhhh, lying.
She missed a few numbers.
...I’ve summarized them here as bullet points:
Now I realize that numbers like "300 million" are very small numbers in D.C. and when a bureaucrat misses one, two, or a few of those small numbers, we should not BLAME them. Those are just crumbs on the floor in D.C.
Well, the crumbs--the little tiny numbers--that the Obozo liar missed brought the cost of Healthcare.gov up to $2.1+ BILLION.
So far.
($834 million. $834 MILLION. Eight hundred thirty-four million DOLLARS. Eight HUNDRED thirty four MILLION dollars....)
.......anyhooo.....
Seems that the HHS liar was, ahhhhhhhhh, lying.
She missed a few numbers.
...I’ve summarized them here as bullet points:
- $300 million contract to process paper applications to serve as backups to electronic files
- $387 million for real-time interfacing between the IRS and Healthcare.gov to verify income and family size for insurance subsidy calculations
- $400 million in accounting tricks HHS used to pay for creating Healthcare.gov when 26 states refused to take federal start-up grants to build their own. Congress made no appropriations to build Healthcare.gov, so HHS shifted money from other units to fund the project.
- $255 million in spending between February 2014 – the end of Burwell’s timeline – and August 20, 2014, the most recent information available. Bloomberg also included projected spending at current levels through September 30, 2014, the end of the fiscal year.
Now I realize that numbers like "300 million" are very small numbers in D.C. and when a bureaucrat misses one, two, or a few of those small numbers, we should not BLAME them. Those are just crumbs on the floor in D.C.
Well, the crumbs--the little tiny numbers--that the Obozo liar missed brought the cost of Healthcare.gov up to $2.1+ BILLION.
So far.
Friday, October 03, 2014
The Unemployment Report, Examined
As is the usual case, "unemployment" went down. By no co-incidence, workforce participation went UP.
And there are other problems.
the September data confimed that the whopping surge in jobs... was thanks to your "grandparents" those in the 55-69 age group, which comprised the vast majority of the job additions in the month, at a whopping 230K.
...What about the prime worker demographic, those aged 25-54 and whose work output is supposed to propel the US economy forward? They lost 10,000 jobs....
Zerohedge also mentions that 'average earnings' slid.
Lesson? Unless you're on the Gummint tit in DC, things are not good at all.
And there are other problems.
the September data confimed that the whopping surge in jobs... was thanks to your "grandparents" those in the 55-69 age group, which comprised the vast majority of the job additions in the month, at a whopping 230K.
...What about the prime worker demographic, those aged 25-54 and whose work output is supposed to propel the US economy forward? They lost 10,000 jobs....
Zerohedge also mentions that 'average earnings' slid.
Lesson? Unless you're on the Gummint tit in DC, things are not good at all.
Thursday, October 02, 2014
"You Can Keep Your Health......."
OK, so Obozo was not able to demolish the US economy despite his best efforts, and he could only secure one bond-rating change for the worse.
OK, so Obozo was not able to stem the rise of ISIS despite CIA's clear and frequent warnings going back three years or so.
OK, so Obozo was not able to rescind the 2nd Amendment through his "Fast and Furious" (3-year-old mentality) gun-running program.
OK, so Obozo was not able to declare total amnesty to all 14 million illegals--yet.
So. What to do? What to do? Fundamental Transformation has eluded him. What to do??
“We live in a global world, and what we’re confident that we can do is to both protect the safety of the traveling public and … protect the broader American public by rigorously applying the kind of medical protocols that are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control,” Earnest replied. --quoted at PowerLine
That's the trick!!! Import a deadly disease!!
OK, so Obozo was not able to stem the rise of ISIS despite CIA's clear and frequent warnings going back three years or so.
OK, so Obozo was not able to rescind the 2nd Amendment through his "Fast and Furious" (3-year-old mentality) gun-running program.
OK, so Obozo was not able to declare total amnesty to all 14 million illegals--yet.
So. What to do? What to do? Fundamental Transformation has eluded him. What to do??
“We live in a global world, and what we’re confident that we can do is to both protect the safety of the traveling public and … protect the broader American public by rigorously applying the kind of medical protocols that are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control,” Earnest replied. --quoted at PowerLine
That's the trick!!! Import a deadly disease!!
Readings for Bishops
Terry found an interesting passage issued by the US Bishops (NCWC) back a few years ago.
"1. The growth of bureaucracy in the United States is one of the most significant aftereffects of the war. This growth must be resolutely checked. Federal assistance and federal direction are in some cases beneficial and even necessary; but extreme bureaucracy is foreign to everything American. It is unconstitutional and undemocratic. It means officialism, red tape, and prodigal waste of public money. It spells hordes of so-called experts and self-perpetuating cliques of politicians to regulate every detail of daily life. It would eventually sovietize our form of government.
"2. The forward-looking forces in our national life must resolutely stand against further encroachments on individual and state liberty. The press, the home, the school, and the Church have no greater enemy at the present time than the paternalistic and bureaucratic government which certain self-seeking elements are attempting to foist upon us."
........So.......
How many employees does the USCC have?
"1. The growth of bureaucracy in the United States is one of the most significant aftereffects of the war. This growth must be resolutely checked. Federal assistance and federal direction are in some cases beneficial and even necessary; but extreme bureaucracy is foreign to everything American. It is unconstitutional and undemocratic. It means officialism, red tape, and prodigal waste of public money. It spells hordes of so-called experts and self-perpetuating cliques of politicians to regulate every detail of daily life. It would eventually sovietize our form of government.
"2. The forward-looking forces in our national life must resolutely stand against further encroachments on individual and state liberty. The press, the home, the school, and the Church have no greater enemy at the present time than the paternalistic and bureaucratic government which certain self-seeking elements are attempting to foist upon us."
........So.......
How many employees does the USCC have?
Wednesday, October 01, 2014
Romney's Disease
So Ace ruminates on Romney Redux:
...Or does it just mean that Romney does in fact have "President Disease," as one wag put it, and won't be able to shake it until he either becomes president or is so thoroughly crushed that the idea becomes hateful to him?
I don't know. But I guess we have to start talking seriously about all this now.
OK. Seriously: NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Was that loud enough?
...Or does it just mean that Romney does in fact have "President Disease," as one wag put it, and won't be able to shake it until he either becomes president or is so thoroughly crushed that the idea becomes hateful to him?
I don't know. But I guess we have to start talking seriously about all this now.
OK. Seriously: NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Was that loud enough?
Hot Damn! Good Ad!!
Had Sykes' "The Schoolhouse Door" been in video, (and about a different topic) it might have looked like this.
ObozoGifts to Insurers: Illegal
Who'da thunk it?
Seems that ObozoCare's "risk corridors" program--whereby taxpayers fund insurance-company losses--is illegal.
Not to worry! John Boehner's entirely-spineless Pubbies will come to the rescue. Insurance companies have very effective lobbyists, ya'know.
Seems that ObozoCare's "risk corridors" program--whereby taxpayers fund insurance-company losses--is illegal.
Not to worry! John Boehner's entirely-spineless Pubbies will come to the rescue. Insurance companies have very effective lobbyists, ya'know.
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