Monthly Archives: January 2010

UPDATEx11: Kill the HealthCare Bill

Read this. Explains the core of this issue. Short and not-so-sweet:

1) Restricts personal choice to more expense
2) Destroys economic incentives
3) Creates an existence tax.

Is this the change we voted for? I say it isn’t.

Both Hot Air and Politico indicate high level pressure from the White House to get this Healthcare Bill passed. Hhhhmm. Why not listen to us folks?
But, The One is about to hold a “party” on Tuesday …

Perhaps not. Thanks a whole heckuva lot there, Joe.

2nd BUMP: Well, it looks like Nelson (D-Nebraska) caved. And now, another weekend of Senate wrangling to vote on Healthcare by Monday early. What will Christmas feel like this year? And look what is in this package.

Not good. Not. Good. At. All.

3rd BUMP: Today’s Senate Schedule. The Not OK Corral.

Updatex4: Let Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) tell you what remains in the bill.

Updatex5: Stupac tells all. I hope.

Updatex6: Well, Glenn Reynolds points the way to reality again. Dare I say it? Read both links. Read the whole thing.

Updatex7: The Senate Health Bill Timeline. (Assuming most of this survives the conference on melding the House and Senate Bills into one.) If you don’t know how it spreads out and affects you by the numbers, this should open your eyes.

Updatex8: And these people want to control our healthcare? Not on my life, yours or Rush Limbaugh’s!

Updatex9: An Op-Ed piece in New York Times against the Healthcare Bill? Wow. And after reading it myself, I can’t say I am pleased about this either.

Updatex10: Yet another reason the costs of Healthcare are going to to increase (no matter what the politicians tell us). Can we all be Joe Wilson now?

Updatex11: Is this an example of what is coming here (U.S.A.) for us? Pathetic.

Heads Up

Apparently, the Healthcare “conference” will not be.

Anybody think this is a good idea? No? I didn’t think so.

The totally fair, transparent (yes, we see right through you) Congress is about to give us a ‘present’ sometime soon. They still won’t listen to the Republicans there nor us.

I have my torch and pitchfork. Do you have yours?

Nail in the AGW Coffin?

According to recent research mentioned in Science Daily, it could be.

UPDATE: Pssst, and there are well-qualified skeptics (on our side, that is).

A Lovely Letter

America Rising

Oh. Yeah. Yes. Indeed. For now and years into the future.

UPDATE: The link is fixed. Be sure to click on the HQ button near bottom right corner of video. It might open in that mode already.

Forgive me Glenn

I have to say, heh.

I like it. A lot.

Radio Interview

I am told that my interview on WFMD, by Adam Avery, will be broadcast this Sunday evening (tomorrow, 1/3/10) at 8:05pm.

This will be broadcast and streamed on their website – simultaneously, I believe.

Hope you enjoy it.

UPDATE: Green Nuclear Power

No, it is not a joke. And today is not April 1st.

Thorium can be the next (would have been the first) nuclear power source that DOES NOT produce over thousands of years of toxic waste. It can practically eliminate the risks of meltdown (with a new reactor design). And, we have around 175,000 tons of thorium in the U.S.

This was being explored in the 1950’s, but uranium was chosen instead for its nastier toxic byproducts.

We want more electrical energy. Independence. Reduce coal usage?

Here it may be. We just need the will to progress in this direction.

UPDATE: Apparently, I was caught up in the heat of the moment. I should have read a little more. My thanks to the commenter.

Rationing Care, or, How to Make Ends Meet

Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients

Isn’t that a state bordering Mexico? Make of that what you will, but here’s the money quote:

“If you truly know your business costs and you are losing money, it doesn’t make sense to do more of it.”