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August 14, 2009
Open Thread

Posted by Van Helsing at August 14, 2009 8:05 AM
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"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
Vladimir Lenin
Posted by: TED at August 14, 2009 8:16 AM
OTEY!
Posted by: nancz at August 14, 2009 8:16 AM
Ted, it could have been worse. They could have asked Adam and Eve to be replaced with Adam and Steve.
Posted by: Obama Lies Granny Dies at August 14, 2009 8:28 AM
Rep. Melissa Bean charging $25 entrance fee to town hall
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/14/rep-melissa-bean-charging-25-entrance-fee-to-town-hall/
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 10:03 AM
Climate Change Measure Should Be Set Aside, U.S. Senators Say
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ah3CTKEw4HQc
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 10:21 AM
Specter shocked to find individual mandate in ObamaCare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oBJuNZaXF0
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 10:37 AM
A horror story about government health care from New York and, in summation: the purpose of government health care is for political spoils:
Government Health Care: On Noose For One Neck
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5608
Posted by: Kevin R. at August 14, 2009 10:57 AM
Just another reason to halt the madness coming from DC.
Posted by: Lyle at August 14, 2009 11:06 AM
Remember in math class aka "Arithmetic" when baby-boomers learned "borrowing" in subtraction problems and "carrying over" in addition problems? Now it's called collectively called "regrouping."
Posted by: Graycat at August 14, 2009 11:06 AM
Considering this mess they've made of the public schools:
http://mises.org/story/3617
Maybe we ought not let them mess with Health Care
Posted by: Anonymous at August 14, 2009 11:33 AM
Ooops, forgot my name that was me above
Posted by: mandy at August 14, 2009 11:34 AM
The Obama Death Panel “Rumors” - The Times Looks Everywhere But The Mirror
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/08/the-obama-death-panel-rumors-the-times-looks-everywhere-but-the-mirror.html
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 11:36 AM
NAGR Video Exclusive: H.R. 45: A Call to Action
Posted by: SK at August 14, 2009 11:51 AM
Graycat, shouldn't that be "redistributing"?
Posted by: Eric at August 14, 2009 12:11 PM
Zombie reminds everyone (with irrefutable photographic proof), that the left relentlessly compared Bush to Hitler, while the Media almost totally ignored it:
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=612
Posted by: Refuter of Liberal Vermin at August 14, 2009 2:07 PM
Tomorrow’s Nationwide “Kiss-Ins”
Come one, come all! Skip a town hall meeting tomorrow, Saturday, August 15th, and attend a free freak show in an exhibition of exhibitionism near you!
MassResistance.com is reporting that “The Great Nationwide Kiss-in” will be staged in various venues, in some 35 cities and counties, throughout the country tomorrow. The sponsors? Who else but homosexuals?
In a methinks-thou-doth-protest-too-much declaration on their website, they write, ”This will be a fun and lighthearted event, but one with an extraordinarily strong message as well: we are human, capable of a beautiful normal love like everyone else in the world. We won’t keep being excluded. There is nothing wrong with us:” http://jointheimpact.com/2009/07/the-great-nationwide-kiss-in/.
“Beautiful?” “Normal?” It’s as if gays believe that if they chant that mantra loudly enough and often enough, straights–and they–will believe it. You can almost visualize them saying it: arms folded, stamping their feet, dangling their purses, feather boas flying in the breeze.
Like a gaggle of Stuart Smalleys, they insist, “There is nothing wrong with us!”
That, of course, depends on one’s definition of “wrong” as much as it depends on one’s definition of “normal.”
The “kiss-ins” are a protest against crackdowns on two “innocent” instances of homosexual public displays of affection in El Paso and Salt Lake City.
Based on previous protests and exhibitions, however “innocent” those kisses were or were not, the planned nationwide kiss-ins tomorrow will probably go far beyond gay smooches and far exceed norms of civil behavior.
As a legally protected species, they will no doubt get away with any and all excesses, especially in Boston. (See “Gay Pride Rights . . .” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1067.)
Still, for those who enjoy freak shows, they could be entertaining. Just keep the kids away and shield the eyes of small dogs which tend to overreact in the presence of oddities.
I’m not sure how far the kiss-ins will go in the ongoing homosexual campaign to convince normal citizens that they, too, are normal.
As Forrest Gump would say, Normal is as normal does.
Posted by: Berlet98 at August 14, 2009 2:41 PM
And where did right-wingers get the crazy idea that Barack Obama favored some kind of review board to deny care to citizens it was not cost-effective to provide health care to? (Death panels)
Seems like this idea came from... Barack Obama:
"The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here... I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. ...[Y]ou have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. ... And that’s part of what I suspect you’ll see emerging out of the various health care conversations that are taking place on the Hill right now."
Posted by: V the K at August 14, 2009 3:18 PM
Zombie reminds everyone (with irrefutable photographic proof), that the left relentlessly compared Bush to Hitler, while the Media almost totally ignored it:
Which of course is a ridiculously irrational comparison brought about by emotionality and ignorance.
Putting aside the historical fact that the Nazi's were leftist socialist locusts, since when were the Nazi's ever known for deregulation or tax cuts?
The leftist mind never makes any kind of coherent sense.
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 3:29 PM
Dem Rep tried to bar TV cameras from town hall (updated)
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/dem_rep_tried_to_bar_tv_camera.html
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 4:02 PM
Has anyone been watching Hillary "giggles" Clinton on her African tour.
She is a fucking joke! She another embarrassing liberal making our country look bad.
Posted by: Dave at August 14, 2009 4:31 PM
Protesters Surround ACORN Bus Leaving Town Hall-- Chant "DON'T COME BACK!" (Video)
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/protesters-surround-acorn-bus-after.html
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 6:01 PM
ABC Says Hate Groups Thrive at Town Hall Protests-- Ignores Violent Attacks on Anti-Obamacare Protesters!!
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/sick-abc-says-hate-groups-thrive-at.html
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 6:01 PM
"J at August 14, 2009 6:01 PM"
I second that!
Posted by: KHarn at August 14, 2009 6:27 PM
Obamacare union mafia closes Howard Dean event to the public
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/198475.php
Howard Dean rallying the union thugs, er, "community activists" in Ohio on Saturday
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/198465.php
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 7:17 PM
John Holdren and Harrison Brown
http://zombietime.com/john_holdren_and_harrison_brown/
Posted by: J at August 14, 2009 8:18 PM
Palin Was Against "Death Panels" Before She Was Against "Death Panels"
Think Progress, the Democratic policy and media-watch group, has come up with an amazing discovery. Sarah Palin was in favor of voluntary, private counseling so that people could put their end-of-life affairs in order, before she was against government bureaucrats getting involved in a mandatory process as part of health care restructuring cost savings efforts.
Nothing inconsistent about Palin's position. It's private versus public. It's one thing for individuals to plan their own lives on their own, but quite different when government enforces mandates and gets involved in such decisions as part of an effort to cut health care costs. Remember, keep your laws off my body, or something like that?
But that did not stop Think Progress from proclaiming that Palin was for "death panels" before she was against them. Needless to day, this will be the meme of the day, to be run with by left-wing bloggers to "prove" that Palin has been inconsistent, when in fact there is no inconsistency.
And I love Alan Colmes' title in his follow up: Palin Was For (What She Mislabels As) “Death Panels” Before She Was Against Them. Alan, you didn't need to use the parenthetical; everyone knows that "death panel" was just a descriptive and evocative term, not a literal quote of the name of a panel. Well, almost everyone.
Posted by: SK at August 14, 2009 8:21 PM
That will be 32 crocidle teeth 3 freshly plucked plucked gaw gaw feathers and a leopard skin
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at August 14, 2009 9:19 PM
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at August 14, 2009 10:32 PM
When Slimey Limeys Attack
The sleazey Brit tabloid The Independent is getting all persnickety over England’s being cast, along with Canada, as the dregs of government-run, (we call it “single-payer”) health care.
Formerly-Great Britain is in the throes of rapid decline and, as is typical of nations moving on down from their lofty past, is lashing out at its critics.
In a not too distant history, England was described as, “The Empire on which the sun never sets.” That expression of wishful thinking was initially written in 1821, when it was almost literally true. It’s not anymore.
Many thousands of suns have set for Britons and Great Britain in the nearly 200 years since and that “empire” is today a poor shadow of its former self.
Indeed, if not for American intervention in World War I, the Royal Family’s Germanic heritage would be more pronounced than it is and the Queen’s German would have long supplanted the Queen’s English as the mother tongue.
In retrospect, maybe we should have remained neutral and stayed out of the European mess in 1918. It may have obviated the necessity of World War II, when we again saved Britain’s sorry arse and also may have changed its Islamic-dominated future.
In addition to bad teeth, Brits also seem to suffer from bad memories and gross ignorance of debts owed to Americans.
When the mighty fall, they fall with a grand thump and the Brits are thumping all the way into the dustbin of history, most recently in defending its pride and joy, the NHS, or National Healthcare System, in place since 1949. Not coincidentally, the institution of the NHS came as Britain’s decline began in earnest.
Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan had the temerity to speak the truth concerning the NHS, and was immediately slapped down even by his own party.
Citing long waiting lists for medical attention and dismal survival rates, Hannan said he “wouldn’t wish it on anybody.” He added that, “to copy the system would lead the US towards bankruptcy” and that the UK was “just a couple of years behind Zimbabwe:” http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1c23b53a-883b-11de-82e4-00144feabdc0.html.
It’s not nice or healthy to speak unkindly of sacred cows.
The Independent valiantly leapt to the defense of the NHS with a thinly-veiled endorsement of Obamacare.
Featuring a no-holds-barred, abusive attack on America’s current health care system, supported by 80% of Americans, the tabloid contended that, “Although the Americans spend more on medicine than any nation on earth, there are an estimated 50 million with no health insurance at all:” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-brutal-truth-about-americarsquos-healthcare-1772580.html.
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Posted by: Berlet98 at August 15, 2009 12:32 AM
Sotomayor feels she is entitled to not have to pay for a fitness club membership:
The newly sworn-in U.S. Supreme Court justice had her membership at the Equinox Fitness Club canceled in 2007 because she breezed into the club on 92nd Street and Broadway, refusing to stop at the desk or show her I.D. card, and was denied entry to another Manhattan branch when she tried to gain access without proper identification. “She absolutely would not show her card or check in; she felt like she shouldn’t have to.”
Okay, I absolutely don't believe this story. It has to be made up. Sotomayor may feel entitled to a lot of things, but there's as much chance of her dragging her tonnage into a fitness club as Bill Clinton keeping his pants up at a YWCA.
Posted by: Fiberal at August 15, 2009 6:18 AM
ACLU now supports prior censorship of free speech that is even potentially religious.
[T]he district also agreed (to the ACLU's demand) to forbid senior class President Mary Allen from speaking at the school's May 30 graduation ceremony on the chance that the young woman, a known Christian, might say something religious...
But they support the "right" of NAMBLA to distribute instructions on how to rape children.
Posted by: V the K at August 15, 2009 6:41 AM
VtK,
"a known Christian."
Holy f***. They are making her out to be a criminal. We are officially in Minority Report...
Posted by: Anonymous at August 15, 2009 6:51 AM
Posted by: BURNING HOT at August 15, 2009 7:29 AM
Posted by: BURNING HOT at August 15, 2009 7:33 AM
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at August 15, 2009 7:42 AM
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at August 15, 2009 7:46 AM
She just wants to get the facts out and dispel "myths."
Sometimes.
Posted by: SK at August 15, 2009 11:16 AM

