Another utopian budget... but why?

Well, I haven't read the Comrade's budget proposal, which was revealed today, and I don't really plan to. By all accounts, it's just a waste of paper. A rehash of the last three years. Karl Rove even noted that some of the supposed "budget cuts" the Comrade lists were cuts made long ago, or are cuts like, "Well, in 2018, we won't be spending money on the war in Afghanistan."

Good grief, let's hope not.

So what's the point? I supposed the Comrade is bound by tradition if nothing else, to propose a budget. I suppose he'd rather be golfing.

But more seriously, even Brain-dead Harry Reid, democrat leader of the Senate majority, says he won't bring the Comrade's budget to the floor to be discussded and voted on. That is to say, even ol' Brain-dead understands the budget proposal is useless, stupid, and a total waste of time.

So why propose it?

You might recall that the Comrade's 2008 presidential campaign involved a lot of fantasy, like "Hope and change." All for the positive. With him in office, he claimed, we'd all be living in a land of milk and honey, with endless opportunities and limitless wealth.

Yeah, sure. But apparently enough naive voters were -- and perhaps still are -- so willing to indulge in such brainless wishful thinking that it won the Comrade the White House.

I'm betting the Comrade thinks this will work again. Sort of like the old Arpege commercial: "Promise them anything, but give them.... " What? Marxism?

I'm sure the Comrade sincerely believes in his little marxist utopia. That's why he's so dedicated to selling it. And I'm sure he thinks all these empty, stupid promises can win him another term.

His strategy is simple. He says, "Look, I'm promising you people the world. Free. Just vote for me and you will have everything you ever dreamed of."

Which is ridiculous and impossible on the face of it.

And when all this cotton-candy fantasy fails to materialize, he blames the Republicans. "Oh, we could have such a perfect world except for John Bohner and Mitch McConnell."

Yeah -- well, the truth is, the last budget the Comrade proposed did get voted on, and it was voted DOWN 97 - 0 in the democratic Senate.

This time, Brain-dead Harry Reid apparently wants to spare the Comrade the embarrassment of being so resoundingly rejected (and probably snickered about) a second time.

And the Republicans don't have anything to say about it. The democrats have the senate majority. They could pass it in a heartbeat. But even the democrats understand it's pointless, detached from reality, and just another empty campaign promise. Enough broken promises already -- many of them also have to run for re-election next year. They don't want have to defend their support for this kind of garbage.

But you can put money on the fact that the Comrade will be parading around during his next campaign, talking about how those mean devils in congress just keep standing in his way.

And thank God for that.

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The Loo at the White House

This may end up being a rather international blog.

Start with a guy name Richard or Robert Loo, who replaced Bill Daley at the White House. He was on "Fox Sunday" with Chris Wallace this morning. Anyone know what a "loo" is in England? Same as a "W.C.," which stands for "water closet," perhaps the ultimate Victorian euphemism for "toilet."

So, anyway, Mr. Loo now is speaking on behalf of the Comrade. How appropriate.

Chris Wallace asked him where the "right" to birth control pills comes from, since it's not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. No doubt a careless oversight on Madison's part. They were all men anyway, right?

Mr. Loo said this "right" comes from the socialized medicine bill.

We've covered this before. No government can invent a human right. Rights come from the Creator, not from the Comrade, Marx, Lenin, or any of his other heroes. So that's a stupid and useless comment, isn't it? Figures it comes from the White House Loo. It's probably written on the wall there, along with the phone numbers for a few congressional whores, like Nelson or Landrieu.

(In fact, not even the government has "rights." No, the government has "powers." Granted to it by citizens with "rights." Get it?)

So then Chris Wallace asked Mr. Loo, since under the Comrade's silly fix, his back-step in trying to claim authority over the Catholic God, the Catholic church will not have to be dispensing birth control and "morning after" pills to its employees. But it's insurance carrier is compelled to.

Isn't this just cost-shifting? Wallace asked. That is to say, won't the Catholic church still be paying for the pills through its insurance premiums?

Mr. Loo says no, because birth control pills are free.

(OK, about this time I'm rolling on the floor laughing, with coffee shooting out my nose. This is like an interview with Foster Brooks, remember, the comic who acted drunk all the time?)

No, really, Mr. Loo insists, if you figure in the cost of birth control pills into the cost of women's overall health care, they don't cost anything.

At this point, even Chris Wallace had coffee shooting out his nose, though the camera panned away from him, no doubt to preseve some of Mr. Loo's floundering dignity.

So in addition to the English "loo" thing, here's the other international part:

I was in Italy many moons ago. At the time, Italy had hyper inflation. The money was so worthless, when you bought something small, like a newspaper, they wouldn't give you change in lire. They'd give you a piece of candy, which was actually worth more and, let's face it, tasted better.

So here's a solution the Comrade might consider, since birth control pills really are "free." Get the drug stores to dispense them. Like, if you go to a drug store for, say, a bottle of fish oil tablets, and you give the clerk, say, a $10.00 bill, with maybe $1.50 change due back... Why not just have the drug store give you your change in birth control pills? Since they're "free," the drug stores won't be losing any money, right? And neither the Catholic church nor the insurance companies will have to deal with the issue at all.

This even works for men. If they buy condoms or viagra or something, they can get their change in birth control pills that they can pass along to their partners. Knda like the way junkies swap food stamps around. See how well that all works? Even for the black market. Everyone wins! And no one has to take any responsibility for anything.

And boy, those birth control farmers sure better step up production. I think demand is going to go through the roof. We may not be able to find enough of them growing "free" in the wild anymore. And put up big nets, so next time it rains birth control pills, we won't lose too many.

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Can you marry marxism with Christianity?

No.

Every time time the Comrade claims to be a "Christian," I sort of snort. Before he believes in any kind of God or spirituality, everything he says and does, and apparently even thinks, is right out of the marxist handbook.

Marx did not believe in any kind of spirituality. According to Marx, we evolved from dirt through continuous and irresolvable fights over the ownership of material things.

Marxism is so grim, unimaginative, and pointless, it makes human life just sort of useless and pathetic all together. You get up and go to work for the sole purpose of making enough money to get up and go to work tomorrow. The only purpose any Marxist has is to be a slave to the state. The peons are supposed to hold that as a "virtue."

And maybe someday, you can run for President of the USA, and drive around in a big jet and be surrounded by the Secret Service.

Marx was all about materialism -- and not the Madonna kind of materialism, but the kind that says, to quote from Reap the Wild Wind, -- "Laying in the mud, man looked up and saw the stars. And thought they were something to eat."

That's Marx.

Has that got anything to do with Christianity?

Well, they're both faith-based and neither has been absolutely proved.

But Christianity exalts aspiration, joyousness, family, civility, and if you're Jesuit, even intellectuality. Christiantiy applauds achievement and personal development, and above all, a personal conscience and self-directed, responsible, ethical behavior. Judaism the same. (For me, the jury's still out on Islam.)

Marxism does not. Marxism insists we're exactly the same, interchangeable cogs in the big wheel of a univerisal and absolutely authoritarian government. You do what you are told by someone else, whoever's in power. To do, own, want more than anyone else marks you as socially undesirable, especially if you exercise your own capacity for rational thought and insist on making personal judgments. In marxist cultures this gets you killed.

Marxism and Christiantiy cannot occupy the same space -- hence the suppression of religion in the Soviet Union and most ofther marxist nations. And I think that's what the Comrade and the rest of the nation is beginning to figure out. He's trying very hard to suppress religion here. It competes against his own beliefs, and cannot be allowed to exist in his marxist utopia.

The Comrade, of course, is all for the superiority of the state. That's his "fundamental transformation" of America. Take away personal liberty, personal property, freedom and happiness in trade for socialized medicine.

Sound good to you? Think about it and exercise your own judgment about it -- while you still can.

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Obama claiming authority over God

Very interesting conflict over HHS claiming that the Catholic church has to provide its employees health insurance that pays for birth control pills and the like. Given that the Catholic church is totally against birth control, abortion, etc etc. on moral grounds.

Let's go back to the central idea behind the establishment of the United States of America. The main idea was that this nation is based on individual rights, most notably the capability of the individual to "live by your own lights."

It's because of this principle that we have democratic elections and the Bill of Rights, particularly the First Amendment, which claims "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof."

So, apparently that's no longer true if your view of morality and your decisions based on those views conflict with the dictates of socialized medicine.

That is to say, the authority of the government now supercedes the authority of the church?

The government makes all of our moral and all other decisions now. And the church is just some place to socialize on Sundays?

The leftists say women have a "right" to birth control, abortions, etc. And we all have a "right" to health care.

I can't agree with a "right" that enslaves the providers of such services. How does that work? If you become a doctor, you're opting to be a slave to the state -- or to anyone who claims to need your services? Hosptials are what? They fall from the sky to house and administer to the sick?

Where, exactly, does this "right" come from?

It's not a right. It's a privilege, and a quite dear one -- in terms of being the  product of a highly evolved science and technology. We aren't born with this. This doesn't occur in nature. This is manufactured by human beings, just like cars or shoes or Ferris wheels. How can you have a "right" to this?

And how can the stupid socialist in the White House compel the Catholic church to go along with his stupid program?

Is the Comrade now a moral authority over God? The Comrade knows better than the Pope what's right and wrong?

Please....

Look, I'm not even religious and this makes me just enraged. Just who the hell does this asshole think he is?

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Santorum big in Midwest

Well, Rick Santorum swept three Republican nominating elections today -- in Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado. He also won in Iowa by about 50 votes or so.

Funny, my theory is that Romney is appealing as a "winner" in places that are heavily liberal, because he's about half liberal and so slick I doubt butter melts in his mouth. Over-consulted maybe? Even the Republicans who live in these liberal states regard Romney as a "winner" because they can't imagine anyone else attracting the independent vote. These Republicans regard independents as kind of waffling half-liberals. And many of the independents aren't. Many of them are gun-totin', God-lovin' reactionaries and Tea Party. They don't like any of the established parties and Romney is not likely going to appeal to them.

Then there's also the problem of Romney-the-wrecking-ball, being that he can't even make any suggestions to try to curb his maniacally destructive SuperPAC. The one that does the hatchet jobs on all the other candidates, funded by big wads of money from Wall Street pals and other very successful Mormons. I do believe a lot of folks -- myself included -- are just damn sick of the negativity and actually turned off by it.

Gingrich looks like he pretty much fell off the radar in these states today. In fact, he was in Ohio today. Probably smart, because none of the states today are bound to deliver their delegates to Santorum. They have additional procedures for assigning delegates. Gingrich came in third, except in Minnesota, I believe. But he still can recoup some points. There will still be some shifting around before the national convention.

I wonder now if Romney-the-wrecking-ball will go after Santorum. Probably.

And the thing is, I don't really dislike Romney personally. He strikes me for some reason as a very kind person and he's obviously very intelligent. But he's got this pack of rabid wolves that he sets on his opponents, and that is not a strong testimony to his character. It terribly unattractive. Kind of like two-faced and ruthless.

And that's enough for now.

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The tragedy of socialized medicine

I get a lot emails from people -- jokes, news, all the weird stuff that goes viral. A couple weeks ago I got a link to a YouTube video, part of a Mark Levin radio show from November, 2011. A brain surgeon called in and told Mark about a conference he'd been to with others in his specialty, apparently hosted by what is laughingly referred to as the US Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS -- Heavy Horse Shit?). You can look it up. It's still on YouTube and runs about four minutes.

See, the way it goes with health care under socialized medicine is that doctors really don't have a lot to say about the treatment they give patients. There are several agencies within HHS that will review standard, customary, whatever, therapies are available for whatever can go wrong with the human body. From this stack of possibilities, these committees will pick the therapies that seem most appropriate, according to statistical data, which is already being collected and crunched. They already do this in Europe. You have First Line responses and therapies, Second Line if the First line doesn't work, possibly even a Third line.

So if you find a lump in your neck and go to the doctor, all he has to do is look up on his computer (ideally this info will be on the Internet), exactly what tests to give you and how to treat you. If your doctor strays away from these guidelines, he can be fined $100,000.00 for his first offense. Second time, he goes to jail.

Your doctor may know you better than the bureaucrats in Washington and may have better and more effective ways of treating you, but that doesn't matter. The feds are paying for it -- SOCIALIZED MEDICINE -- so the feds call all the shots. Get it?

So anyway, this brain surgeon goes to this conference with HHS in Washington, and what's under discussion? The guidelines for neurosurgery under Obamacare -- socialized medicine.

So this surgeon just wanted to tell Mark Levin that, for one thing, the feds don't think of recipients of socialized medicine as "patients," or even as "humans," really. No, HHS refers to us as "units." And "units" 70 years old or more who come in with something like a stroke -- what does HHS prescribe for their treatment? "Comfort care."

That is to say, wrap them in a warm blanket and wait until they die.

Of course, that's only for the mooches who are on Medicare. Not for the brightest and the best who buy their own private health insurance.

Before you stand up and crow about that, go find out what a private insurance policy costs per year for people over the age of 70. Unless you're in a labor union, in which case your bosses have got the Comrade by the short hairs and have exerted enough pressure there to get the Comrade to force every other American taxpayer to fund their Cadillac benefits.

But for the other 94% of us who are not in the UAW or SEIU, we'll pretty much be stuck with Medicare. Medicare has pretty much crowded out other insurance for the elderly. People my age have paid for it for most of our working lives -- funding it for our grandparents and parents.

And now we're stuck with -- being wrapped in a warm blanket until we die.

Discussing this with a friend, she noted, "But we'll all be in that same boat." Yeah, well, it's nice to have friends. We can hold hands, wrapped in our warm blankets until we die.

And it's not like it's going to stop with the over-70 crowd.

How long before the invincible 30-somethings, with knees and hips ruined by jogging and no resistance to viruses due to a failure to eat anything but carbs (without a face), begin falling apart? This will occur about the time the last of the few remaining private insurance carriers are folding -- due to employers moving their workers to "the government program."

How will HHS ration for sports injuries? After all, much like the COPD and lung cancer that results from smoking tobacco, sports injuries are largely self-inflicted. In other words, you were asking for it, dude.

Meanwhile, hospitals will be folding, too. Already Medicaid and Medicare payments to these institutions do not cover their costs. The feds can order them to lower their prices, in which case they'll be forced to close.

When Medicaid came to Chicago in a big way, five large hospitals that had served the inner city shut down within about three years. They took so many indigent and welfare and Medicaid patients, and had so few privately-insured patients to carry the load, that the hospitals had no choice but to shut down.

And here's another consideration. I believe this year or next, we'll all be seeing a 2.5% increase in our withholding taxes -- this to pay for healthcare. Your employer will pay much, much more -- either to buy insurance for you from a private carrier, or in penalties for not insuring you at all. Here's a hint: the penalties are a lower amount than the price of insurance. That alone guarantees that only the Executive Suite will be covered by private insurance -- either by the employer or because they're the only ones who will be able to afford it.

So -- over-taxed, private insurance driven out of the market, hospitals closing. Oh, and lest I forget, one doctor announced that according to one or another recent poll, about 35% to 40% of doctors now working are planning to leave practice with the arrival of socialized medicine. They'll either retire, look for teaching jobs, or do something else all together. They aren't fully reimbursed for their services under socialized medicine (or Medicaid and Medicare), and the new socialized medicine law prohibits them from owning businesses outside their practices -- like blood test labs, x-ray services, etc.

So... here we are. Merrily on our way to ruin.

I think of that vicious bitch Pazzo Pelosi and drooling moron Dick(head) Durbin crowing about how the American public is just going to L-O-O-O-O-O-V-E socialized medicine, and I can't find words to express the insult and the rage. They are so stupid they don't understand how very stupid they are.

So thanks, you brainless idiots. Thanks a lot. And may you end up in wrapped in a warm blanket, choking on your own puke. Until you die. And I dearly hope that's before the next election so we can replace you with legislators who will repeal your blockheaded policies.

In other words, Save the Republic.

Romney, runaway train(wreck?)

I'm liking Romney less and less -- all due to his negative advertising.

Has he got nothing positive to run on? Just try to break the legs of the other guys?

No honor? Just run your campaign the same way the democrats do -- by namecalling and lies, generating divisiveness and hatred? How is Romney any different in this than the Comrade?

I don't know if I could support Romney. I think this is a terrible way to run a campaign, And the media and pundits all say, "But the negative ads work,"

Well, if Romney hired a couple button guys and sent them out to just murder all other Republican contenders in their beds -- that would work too, wouldn't it?

But would you vote for the candidate who did that?

Just think about it, that's all.

Beginning to think the anti-Romney people are correct saying that the "establishment" is firmly on Romney's side because he won't rattle their cages. He'll keep everything "business as usual," with mounting debt, no real solutions to anything, politicians sitting on their butts doing not much of anything.

Perhaps they want four more years of socialism and collapse. They've got theirs, after all.

No honor. No real love or respect for the USA.

I'm definitely not in like with those who will stoop so low to conquer.

Save the Republic.