Fly encouraged me to blog on the Ft. Hood massacre this weekend, and well, I think I’ve illustrated my thoughts relatively well on his blog-posting on the subject.
A quick wrap-up–
I think it’s a shame that the foreign papers — particularly Great Britain’s Telegraph — are doing better and more honest reporting on this subject– particularly about the background and description of the murderous assailant.
Our press, on the other hand, is already making pathetic excuses for the Wahabbist strain that threatens us even from within our own borders. Like their co-religionists in the ruling Democrat Party, the mainstream press chooses to bury their head in the sand and ascribe blame to “random” mental imbalance, rather than the more obvious pathogens which have arisen time again.
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All that said, it’s even more despicable, in my book, that the Democrats are attempting to take advantage of the press cover given this horrific event to work an extremely rare weekend hoping to foist what the Wall Street Journal called “maybe the worst bill in Congressional history” on the American people without a single bi-partisan vote.
That’s right, Nancy Pelosi and her hard left co-horts in the House are making a power-grab of historical — and unprecedented — proportions with this week-end attempt to move your healthcare choices to Washington. In historical terms, even more than the rampage at Fort Hood, this bill’s passage could become the worst news of the week, and perhaps the decade for the United States and the world that depends on it’s innovative system.
I urge you to contact your representatives in Congress and make your voice heard as a taxpayer and defender of constitutional and personal freedom. Do not let them get away with this theft.
As Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) makes clear in this clip — we as U.S. citizens want to be on the right side of history, and all it takes is a phone call. Do it!
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Update: Bad News Bears: House Bill passed 220-215.
Note: I wish I had some mad skillz in the animatronic photoshopping, as I’d take the attached picture from this article and make George Washington (painting in the background) slap his forehead, “oy-vey!”-style.
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Election Day in 2010 is on Tuesday, the 2nd of November. I’m predicting more McDonnell-esque ass whoopings.
I gotta think Pelosi thinks she’s going to win a war of attrition here.
Of course, she doesnt’ care, as she lives in a safe, massively hippy district.
Carly Fiorina vs. Barbara Boxer, however?
Watch out, dimwit Babs.
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Boxer, the “Luckiest Politician in CA”, will manage to beat Fiorina, assuming she gets the nod – NOT a sure thing!
I’m done caring, let them pass this. Deficit/inflation play is in full swing now.
I will not be feeding my neighbors when they cannot buy bread, for the costs of this idiocy.
Weurd (sic).
Although, to be honest, the inflation thing is coming whether this is passed or not. The addition of yet another massive gov’t entitlement program at this stage of the game is, however, mind-boggling.
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This stuff gives me a headache.
Do the Giants get well today? I say yes.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say that “this stuff” is the most critical issue of our day, KC. We may mark this day as an important a precipice in American History as say, D-Day, or Gettysburg, as far as “ultimate direction” goes.
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I’m starting Manning over Rivers (I have them both, irony, no?) in today’s game, though I’m far less certain about that decision. 😉
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Mr Gint,
With regard to your numerous posts in regard to health care [reforms] have you considered the [cost] of the diagnostic process upon the insurance companies? I haven’t seen any discussion in relation to this fundamental factor, although I may have missed it.
Explain yourself.
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Rep. McCaul (10th district, TX) poignantly puts it in perspective:
“Behind closed doors, the Democrats crafted a monstrosity of a bill to take over one sixth of the economy, and then limited floor debate to four or five hours on one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation we have ever seen.”
I know this is not going to be a popular post here but what the hell.
I can’t believe how quick republicans forgot that most of the United States dire problems came from Bush. Unless i’m mistaken he is the one who drove the country into massive debt with nothing in return except an unjust war which is killing Americans and driving up the debt more then the housing crisis he allowed to happen.
We have universal health care in Canada and you will not hear many Canadians complain about their free (I know it’s not really free) health care. The US is the only industrialized country in the world without public health care which is pretty sad given how wealthy the country is (well was).
Dimwit, have you ever considered that the best healthcare provided to you comes from our system only because we don’t have a shit, investment-barren system like yours?
If socialized medicine gets passed here, you’ll know soon enough. You’ll be the first to feel the ebb tide.
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On its own, your allegation that the US exports healthcare to socialized systems seems unlikely. Can you can point to any documentary evidence to back up your claim?
Are you kidding? Where do you think the bulk of new drugs and devices available to the socialized systems are coming from?
Lenin’s Tomb?
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Yeah, didn’t think so.
So you’ve capitulated at the “common knowledge” phase of the game?
You Eurotards are too easy.
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It was a simple question, respectfully asked.
Unfortunately, it was answered in the usual manner. Your rhetoric is too full of self-evident “truths”. I fear the less astute in your readership will accept it at face value. Extremism is bred in such an environment.
Yes, well, sorry. A “base level” of common knowledge — along with reading comprehension — is a prerequisite for this blog.
Why do you lefty hacks all devolve to the same rote ad homenums? Google is such an easy tool to use, even for those completely ignorant on a subject.
Instead, you, Purdy, the wacky Canucky, et al, instead pull out the same hackneyed bag of cliches from your Leftist’s hand book, ie., — “extremism,” blah blah.
If you read my blog you’re up to speed on the situation. If you’re a first time visitor, you’re welcome to consult the archives. I don’t have time to re-explain my stance — nor educate you on facts — every time a noob wanders on.
One only has to look at how much the world’s (already) socialized systems depend wholly on the United States for investment and innovation to see how damaging this socialist takeoever will be not only to our already damaged (by gov’t interference) system, but the deliverable healthcare of the whole world.
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I am not a lefty nor a hack. And I did not utter an ad hominem. That is your specialty.
Truly, anyone that even hints at a differing opinion is subjected to a knee-jerk partisanship which adds up to nothing more than robo-rhetoric.
And you still haven’t answered the original question. So i must conclude that it’s you who struggles with reading comprehension.
No, you are lazy.
You don’t know the answer, which only suggests ignorance — not in itself a fault.
However — your seeming inability to conduct a simple google search (seriously, we’re talking “first page” material here) and asking me to retype items I’ve posted here previously only suggests “troll.”
I can only conclude that you are here to waste time.
“No interest.”
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That’s like asking a paranoid to objectively document his thesis Nice.
Additionally, this is the same wingnuttery that Karl ‘doom doom’ Denninger uses, and I quote from a recent post “That’s right. The Pharmaceutical and Device industry has managed to get legislation enacted prohibiting the re-importation of devices or drugs sold overseas. These overseas markets demand price controls on the drugs and devices sold there, and get it. We, on the other hand, have a “price at what the market will bear” system.”
So, the point is really not that the American consumer supports innovation but, that the American consumer is allowed the privilege of paying $100.00 for a prescription that cost $2 to make versus the rest of the world that sort of still uses common sense and refuses to put their citizens at risk to said economic banditry.
Additionally what this: If we cannot have a reasonable set of reforms as I have outlined in my “Wake up Washington” Ticker in September then we should instead pass a single-payer system such as exists in Canada, but (unlike Canada) let those who choose pay in cash for “excess services.” No, it’s not perfect, and yes, it is rationing. But so is what The House passed – they’re just hiding it in their 1900+ page mess so you can’t easily find it. A Canadian-style system, funded by general revenues, is Constitutional, unlike the outrage passed last night.
is called here is “a two tiered system” and would only result in a similar situation where the number of zeros in your bank account dictates your healthcare.
And now…. coming to you straight outta Canuckistan… .it’s “Misery LOVES company!”
As I said, there’ll be some comfort in knowing that your system will seize up first. But even the wealthy will not dodge this abomination, as lack of investment in innovation will effect every man woman and child on the globe.
It’s a shame economic literarcy is verboten in the socialist states. Luckily, “the school of hard knocks is always in session.
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Ugh… just a horrible, soul crushing loss there for my Giants. Just freaking devastating. Maybe they’ll fire the O and dee coordinators over the bye week.
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CTV showed the Saints/Giants game a few weeks ago so I got to see Drew put a hurting on your guys.
Please, Grey Cup, don’t embarrass yourself.
Stick to hockey or that sweeping kegger thing you people do.
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Lol
no but really why so many Canadian read jake’s blog? And I count myself in. Is it because he fits our a commun Canadian myth of the stereotypical firebrand American that we don’t really have up here? Or is it we like the pain?
A bit of everything I guess. But I think mostly it is because we have too little few people in Canada willing to challenge our accepted beleifs. Jake’s might be a bigot but he’s no idiot.
I think he’s partly right here. USA health is THE world market place for innovation. Innovation comes from all different places over the world. But all those OTHER places have public funded healt care industries. The thrive because they can compete and win on the ONLY free health care market: the USA. destroy the market and you will find out pretty fast buraucrats aren’t the best at picking winners and losers.
That being said, truth is the plan that passed in congress isn’t remotely close to what is found in other western societies ; public funded health care system for all.
No, you are correct. What passed in Congress is the equivalant of a faulty noose that, instead of killing the victim quickly, strowly strangles him as he kicks away on the gallows.
Also — I understand you were likely educated in the people’s republic of Canuckistan (so called by me because of their late problems with free speech, a la Mark Steyn), but you really ought to be more careful about falling into the leftist trap of rendering important words meaningless.
Much like when the socialists employ the nom du party of their fellow progressives in socialism — the Nazis — as an ironic throw off insult at those with whom they cannot compete intellectually, so “bigot” has become as equally tossable (and hence meaningless) a mudball.
On the other hand, if you are serious, or think you are — go shag a goat, Dudley Do Right.
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Funny you mention Nazis. Cause I don’t think you realize what a criminal gubment truly is. I was in Nurnberg yesterday. some of the anti-democratic bs and the words you use againts your president and your democratic institutions is right up there. You’re plight is way down there compared to what Europeans had to suffer over the years. Yet you whine and whine. school of hard knocks… Pft.. Please.. You are articulate enough to be from a well-off private school system that knows very little of what is a hard life. Your rethoric serves an elitist agenda.
I’m in Berlin today. About to join friends at brandeburg gate. You have a nice day!
So you’re saying only well-off, privately schooled folks can be articulate?
Shnautze!
Indie — get a clue,
If there were more people like me articulating a measured dissent against creeping socialism in early 20th century Europe you wouldn’t have had a Berlin War.
Talk about missing the point by a fortnight. We don’t WANT what you guys GOT, get it?
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Update — All the Jake favourites (sic) are “off the hook” with yet another plummet in the dollar thanks to our idiots in Congress.
They make me richer by the day (on a fiat basis, at least) and yet I loathe them. Odd, no?
Please be sure you have RGLD, people. It’s the GOOG of this group. Also, SLW, IAG, ANV and all the Jacksons are off the hook.
Be nimble, be quick. I will likely take some of my December GDX and SLW calls off today, in light of all the “free money” and buy some later month stuff in exchange.
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You made an assertion that I believe you cannot prove. I asked you to provide supporting evidence.
Your reply is “no interest”.
Run home ya big girl. Your mum’s calling.
It’s repartee like that makes the Left such an interesting group of conversants.
Again, I take the old saying to heart when dealing with ignorance:
It’s foolish to try to teach a pig to dance (or about healthcare innovation, or capitalism, or anything, really)
It will only end up wasting your time, and frustrating the pig.
Shove off, Senor Porcel.
Anyone still paying attention to this thread:
If you wish to receive some add’l information on the US dominance in healthcare innovation can send me an e-mail at [email protected].
Trolls need not apply .
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Addenda —
The National Institutes for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom makes recommendations that affect access to therapies for millions of patients treated by the National Health Service.
Hmmmmm….. jerk-off does know!
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You are an entertaining clown. That said, you do far better lifting your material from Gary Savage than from Michael Savage.
Carry on. I have overstayed and shall taunt you no more.