Month: July 2009

H/T Hot Air Cross Posted at Power and Control

Well now we know why the bill has a mandatory Advance Care Planning section in it. Under Obama Care you are going to need it a LOT sooner than you think. H/T Hot Air Cross Posted at Power and Control

A lot of people say that that politicians don’t have principles, and it often seems that they don’t. But as I pointed out earlier, there is one overarching principle that tends to dwarf all others to the point where it might delay or kill the full implementation of socialized medicine: The only thing which might…

I was reading the comments at a Town Hall post and came across this one. Recently, I stopped to grab lunch at sandwich shop/gas station. It was busy there so I parked in the hinterlands. While walking to the store I passed the gas pumps and I noticed a young black man about 30 splashing…

It seems like the Democrat Party is not happy with some Democrats. The DNC announced that they will start running ads in Blue Dog districts to punish them for their vote on Waxman-Markey. They may do the same for any Democratic nays on ObamaCare. This is great. I remember not so long ago when they…

What do you do when you’re stuck in the present, but the present doesn’t matter? You get frustrated. As I said earlier in an email, I think there’s a lot of political frustration because any elections are still quite a ways in the future, and anything can happen between now and then. What the politically…

One of the things conservatives tend to forget is that loathing the left does not necessarily translate into loving the right. AJ Strata discusses this phenomenon, and argues that some purists on the right don’t care, so long as they get to feel superior: The center right Reagan coalition was torn asunder by the purists…

Cross Posted at Power and Control

It looks like the Obama Birth Certificate issue is heating up. In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group Americans for Freedom of Information has Released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro,…

I hate to sound like a pessimist, but I think E. J. Dionne is right about the Democrats having the votes necessary to impose socialized health care: …with 60 votes in the Senate, Democrats can, in principle, work their will on health care without any Republican support. Obama is bound to make compromises, partly to…

Via Ann Althouse, a horrifying account of an Iranian volunteer government security man who was considered so good at his job that he was given “the honor” of being an official government rapist. He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I…

In his discussion of how British crime statistics have hit an all time high (while the right to self defense has been virtually abolished), Andrew Ian Dodge highlights a nightmarish leftist scenario I’d never heard about before: bringing criminal attackers into hospitals to visit their victims. That way, they can say they’re sorry so everyone…

While noodling around the ‘net I came across a statistical study of the history of sunspots and the Earth’s climate. (if the English is less than perfect it is because the person writing is a native of Finland) When the planetary effects have been searched as a cause for sunspots, a gravitational effect is mostly…

Glenn Beck explains the American oligarchy/government organization chart. Is your blood boiling yet? The Greeks have seen all this before. Something like 3,000 years ago. The one thing we have in our favor is that oligarchies are rarely popular when self-government is at least a theoretical option. Time to take to the streets. See you…

Commenter ThomasD at Classical Values had this to say about the Advance Care Planning post. I work in long term care, and have worked in hospice care (much of which is currently covered under Medicare.) I also absolutely loathe Obamacare and it’s backdoor attempt to create a single payer government controlled system of health care…

The Obama Administration says that their health care plans are a work in progress. Administration officials defended President Barack Obama’s broad health care proposals on Sunday and urged a skeptical public not to judge the Democrats’ overhaul until Congress writes a final version. Facing independent budget predictions that contradict the White House’s rhetoric, officials sought…

During the Bush years, this blog was highly critical of a top White House science advisor — the Council on Bioethics Chairman Leon Kass. Not only was he against people living longer lives, but he had kooky views on a number of subjects which Justin dug out of books he had written in the 1970s.…

I just read an interesting section of the proposed health care bill that refers to Advance Care Planning Consultation. Now what the h e double toothpicks is that? Go to page 425 and read a ways and you come to: 4 ”(E) An explanation by the practitioner of the 5 continuum of end-of-life services and…

The Russian Fleet is in dire straits. In ten years it may no longer (for practical purposes) exist. The NVO report does not pull any punches: “The Russian Navy is on the verge of irreversible collapse. Within ten years there will be in the entire navy less than 50 vessels still capable of operations, which…

I just read about the oldest man in the world dying at 113. The secret of his longevity? He “attributed his grand age to ‘cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women’.” I don’t smoke, and while I love whiskey, these days I mostly drink red wine for its reputed health benefits. As to “wild, wild women,”…