Category Archives: Ethics

Should Suspending Elections Be Joked About?

Hhhmm, ask the Democrat Governor, Beverly Perdue, of North Carolina what she thinks about that.

Apparently, she thinks it so important to focus on jobs, she “recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years.”

Later in the article, her press secretary said she was joking.

Tain’t funny, Guv. Apparently, you have to have someone else explain yourself, rather than you.

Solar Scandal Story Spiked By ABC and NBC

They made no mention of the Solyndra execs being questioned during their Friday evening newcasts.
I guess the media folk figured that “invoking the 5th Amendment” at each question posed to those Solyndra execs wasn’t newsworthy. So where did that $545M of our tax money wind up?????? I would think that in itself would be a plenty newswortthy question to warrant some discussion.

Here is some more on this, at Hotairpundit.

Medicaid Caps Benefits

Don Surber nails it in his post – Gazette misses the story.

But the bigger story was this “he received a notice saying he had exceeded his allowable charges.”

So the recipient had to dig up the data to learn the government was getting billed by caregivers that never visited him. Maybe it is too much to expect the government to find such details themselves, but here Don Surber notes the additional fallacy of the presumption on the part of the news paper itself.

That ” … the Gazette noted that this would not happen if we had universal health insurance.” And who would be the source of the universal health insurance?

Obamacare is attempting to be such. It is the government.

In other words, not only would nothing change, it would get even worse.

New Healthcare Rules

Which one first?

Got asthma? Prepare to have to use new “greener” inhalers. Namely because the EPA is going to ban the use of over the counter inhalers that will enlarge the ozone holes at the planet’s poles. Which means you are back to prescription-only, more expensive, inhalers.

And then, there’s this:
In a proposed rule from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal government is demanding insurance companies submit detailed health care information about their patients.

I don’t know, sounds strangely familiar to something like, registering all of our bodies, as if we were firearms.

I do not trust these people. At all. How about you?

UPDATE: An Idiot Judge

According to Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler, you do not have a fundamental right to consume the food you grow or own or raise.

Really? Wow. According to this nimrod, he would likely think we don’t have the right to breathe, either.

Check out, The Food Renegade, for the rest of the story.

Additional links (since someone complained about the first, but it isn’t broken):

When they asked him to clarify his statement, these were his words:

“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;”
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;”
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice…”
(source)

And

Case 5:10-cv-04018-MWB: FARM-TO-CONSUMER LEGAL DEFENSE FUND, et al., Plaintiffs, versus KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, Secretary, United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al., Defendants.

Benefits Paid To The Dead

Yup, government is still paying tax-funded benefits (fraud and waste) to the dead – and not catching it in time to prevent it.

In this day and age of high technology, cell phone conversation recording, GPS tracking, red-light and speed cameras – all these that can catch every single instance of law breaking ….. the government, with all its workers and smarts ….. keep wasting our money. To the tune on average of $100M to $150M per year. And that is just to federal annuitants.

Where do I sign up? Wait just a minute, are these recipients still voting?

You Would Think We Could Learn From This

From a friend:

http://dotsub.com/view/6474921d-8943-443b-9128-de62aa3b3e54#.TnjUXxiGpyo.facebook

WARNING: Some bad language.

How Not To Create Jobs Part 2

By enacting Patent Law changes that will ultimately hurt our country, our innovators.

The first paragraph –

On Sept. 16, at a ceremony involving some fanfare, President Obama signed the ironically-styled America Invents Act into law. While posed as an effort to “modernize” U.S. patent law by “harmonizing it with the rest of the world,” the bill actually represents an effort by multinational and foreign corporations to crush America’s vital culture of independent inventors.

Can you say – unConstitutional?

The Killing of Kelly Thomas

WARNING: Graphic images. Not for the faint of heart.

To Bring A Smile And A Tear To You

From a beautiful little Brazilian girl.