12/15/09

It Must Suck to Be a Climavangelist

Hat Tip: Doug Giles – Big Hollywood (My long-time hero… )

Wouldn’t you hate to be a Climavangelist? What are the global warming grunts going to do now that the Apostles of the Holy Church of Climatology have been busted for cooking the “truth” (I believe the exact word they used was “tricking” us) so that we the sheeple would step-n-fetch to their Chicken Little crap?

12/15/09

The Hard Truth Concerning Health Care – Responsibility is a B**tch

Awww… Just in time for the holidays, Zombie writes a tremendous post on healthcare and wrapped it in hard-core truth with a blunt bow and put it under my tree. It’s probably the best present any of us could or will get this year and we don’t even know it. Read it all – stunning…

In this post Zombie spells out the real reason America hates universal healthcare – each of us down deep wonders why we should have to pay for the poor choices of others and the massive irresponsibility brazenly displayed by a ‘gimme society’ who demands that they be taken care of.

I long for the days when a doctor could charge a fair fee and we could pay with the money we earn or barter in exchange for services. When a doctor would operate out of his home or a small office. Healthcare never got into trouble in this country until insurance companies, pharmaceutical giants and the government stepped in and said that they collectively knew what was best for us and that they would ‘take care’ of Americans. Right… All the government has managed to do is bankrupt the US and her citizens, break the spirits of our most esteemed physicians and rape the system of every dime they can get while coveting ever more power in the name of the elite. Trust me – those said elite will never have to worry about healthcare, money, slaves, expenses or any of those other sordid details that the rabble worry about. Let them eat cake! Then the government will pay for their diet and liposuction thus enslaving the slaves even more.

Zombie bluntly spells it out and it’s about damn time someone did. Key excerpt:

Since it’s nearly impossible to sort out who is personally responsible for which ailments, the only logical solution is to let each person pay for their own care, because that way there’s nothing left to argue about. But if we share costs, we share blame, and that’s the origin of resentment and anger that the average American feels about socialized medicine.

Instead of bankrupting the country to pay for foolish people’s foolish decisions, I want to take a giant Sunderhaus finger and poke each American in the thigh and shout: “Shape up!”

So instead of crying, “I deserve it!” and looking for the next handout or place in line at the government teat, why don’t we all do what our founding fathers did and handle it ourselves? Isn’t that what Capitalism is? Isn’t that the American way? As far as I’m concerned, the government can stuff their healthcare, their taxes, and their suppressive, power-grabbing, liberty-sucking laws right where the sun don’t shine. I’m proud to be a God-loving, gun-toting Tea-Partying redneck. This is one redneck who has read history and appreciates the parallels between our current government and the French Revolution. Viva la Independence!

12/15/09

Nevada News & Views – December 15, 2009

By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views

TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES

  • Happy Bill of Rights Day from the Libertarian Party! (Wes Benedict) – Today is Bill of Rights Day. I don’t know how much we’ll hear about it in the media, but you and I know how important the Bill of Rights is. The Founders recognized that it was important to be specific about what government must not do.
  • Danny Tarkanian Has Some ‘Splainin’ to Do (Chuck Muth) – In a Channel 3 interview with television station mogul and former university system chancellor Jim Rogers, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian had this to say:
  • Taking Over a Political Operation is No Tea Party (Chuck Muth) – Swadeep Nigam, now former Treasurer of the Clark County Republican Party (CCRP), confirmed for us yesterday what had been predicted and widely suspected since Tea Party activists took effective control of the CCRP during last June’s elections.
  • Your Highly Trained Government Workers in Action (Chuck Muth) – OK, Nevada News & Views reader Robert Smith didn’t actually go to Carson City, but he did send a rather simple question to the Secretary of State’s office, currently being mismanaged by Democrat SoS Ross Miller, in the state capital. Here’s the question Mr. Smith submitted via the SoS website:
  • Reid Dishes Out $100 Million Worth of Earmarks (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced he has secured nearly $100 million for projects in Nevada through the passage of the Transportation Omnibus Appropriations Act.

Click here to read these stories at the Nevada News & Views site!

MUTHS TRUTHS

Could Gay Marriage Help Save Nevada’s Economy?

The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law released a new study this week which “estimates that extending marriage to same-sex couples would boost the New Jersey economy by almost $200 million during the next three years, creating approximately 1,400 jobs and generating over $15 million in revenues for the state budget.”

Can you just imagine what it would do for Nevada? I mean, what gay couple in their right mind wouldn’t rather to go to Las Vegas than New Jersey? And talk about economic diversification – all without raising taxes!! Vunderbar!

If wonder if, when Sen. Bill Raggio says “everything is on the table” to address Nevada’s budget crisis, he means this? Maybe I’ll ask him the next time we have lunch together – which, if he has his way, will be the day after hell freezes over.

OTHER NEWS & VIEWS

  • Nothing left to cut, huh? Even the Las Vegas Sun editorial page, no friend of limited-government conservatives, is outraged by THIS ginormous waste of taxpayer dollars.
  • Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) didn’t let the opportunity to taunt Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford (D-Las Vegas) over Horsford’s brush with a public relations black eye for parking in a handicapped spot. Read all about it HERE

TUBE TIPS

Sam Shad’s guest today on the Nevada Newsmakers program: Bob Crowell, Mayor of Carson City, Nevada. The program airs on KRNV-TV Channel 4 at 12:30 pm in Reno and on Cox Cable Channel 123 at 4:30 pm and 11:35 pm in Las Vegas. http://www.nevadanewsmakers.com/

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

  • “Sharron Angle has a 3-point plan to begin restoring America’s economy and renew consumer and business confidence in America’ future: Shut down and return all of the remaining TARP funds for national debt reduction. Shut down the failed stimulus program and use all remaining funds to reduce the national debt. Freeze the 2010 federal budget at the 2009 level, not including the $787 billion failed stimulus.” – From fundraising appeal distributed by NewsMax.com for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle
  • “(Jon) Ralston says he’d be astounded if (Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sue) Lowden can reach the $1 million mark in her first campaign report, but if she can show she’s raised $500,000 or so, which would be close to twice what (fellow GOP candidate Danny) Tarkanian first reported, it might send a signal to GOP honchos and rank-and-file that she is the candidate to beat in the crowded Republican primary.” – George Knapp, CityLife, 12/10/09
12/15/09

Financial News Update – 12/15/09

Citigroup to Repay TARP But Still on Government Dole

Senate Democrats move to cut Medicare buy-in

Harry Reid’s Ticking Entitlement Time-Bomb

House Democrats discard larger debt limit

ACORN’s ‘constitutional right’ to your money?

The Three Senators Who Could Save You From Government-Run Health Care

Live From Copenhagen: The Full Story Behind the G-77 Walk-Out

Putting Party and Vanity Above Country

Obamacare Is The Public Option

Morning Bell: They Can’t Even Run A Conference, Let Alone the Global Economy

Live From Copenhagen: A Matter of Sovereignty

Code Red Rally in D.C. today; Update: What will Nelson’s payoff be?; MoveOn to hold counter-protest; Lieberman: “We’re heading in the right direction;” Coburn: “This bill must be stopped!”

Baltimore: Our city sucks and it’s all Wells Fargo’s fault

Here comes Cash for Caulkers (again!); Update: Obama: “Insulation is sexy”

CODE RED RALLY at Claire McCaskill’s St. Louis Office

Change!… 20 States Cut Mammograms After Government Report Released

Collection of doctors’ prescription records: Ban not in bill

OBAMA: ONE LAST SCARE

Lieberman indicates support for health bill

Schwarzenegger: Congress Must Rethink Health Care Legislation

Producer Prices Rise on Energy Prices

EMAC: Should Wells Fargo Pay Back TARP?

SurvivalBlog:

Democrats plan nearly $2 trillion debt limit hike

Cleaning up after real estate debacle

Greece ‘faces sinking under debt’

Bankruptcy of US Now Certain

Gold and the Last Real American Dollar

Hedge Against Hyperinflation, Hard Assets Should Continue to Appreciate During 2010

Marty Weiss: Stock Market, Gold, Commodities, and Economic Forecasts for 2010

Darryl Schoon: Deflationary Economic Depression 2010, Ready or Not, Here it Comes!

Foreign Demand for US Long-Term Assets Slows

Greece Defies Europe as EMU Crisis Turns Deadly Serious

NS&I withdraws all its fixed-rate savings bonds

The new underground economy and the avoidance of bank accounts.

D-Day nears for Dubai’s $3.5 billion debt hurdle

Peak oil: Problems and possibilities

World Stocks Up on $10 Billion Dubai Rescue

Citigroup to Repay $20 Billion in Bailout Money

Oil Near $69 as OPEC Signals No Output Cut

US Recession “Not Over Until Job Rates Rise”

White House Economist Sees Jobs Growth By Spring. JWR Adds: They “Visualize World Peace”, too.

Federal Reserve Likely to Repeat Low-Rate Pledge “We’re still a long, long way from normal.”

The Future of Gold, The Dollar, and More

12/15/09

Links to Visit – 12/15/09

Gateway Pundit – It’s Official! Media Matters Morphs Into One-Stop Fisting Information Clearinghouse

Gateway Pundit – Fistgate VIII: Safe School’s Czar Jennings’ Org Promoted Book Detailing Gay Sex Between First Graders

Michelle Malkin – Code Red Rally in D.C. today; Update: What will Nelson’s payoff be?; MoveOn to hold counter-protest; Lieberman: “We’re heading in the right direction;” Coburn: “This bill must be stopped!”

Michelle Malkin – Democrat introduces SEIU-backed illegal alien amnesty bill

Mudville Gazette – Home Grown (Part Two)

Examiner.com – CIA briefs law enforcement on possible WMD attacks

The Anchoress – Pondering and Rating Obama

CNS News – FCC Official Says He’s Not Carrying Out ‘Secret Plot Funded by George Soros to Get Rid of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck’ Hmmm – who could be that ‘obscure blog’ be that is referred to in the article:

“Andy Schwartzman [president and CEO of MAP] was the first to warn me about an obscure, right-wing blog that was distorting my views about the First Amendment,” Lloyd said. “The blog continued and spread different exaggerations and distortions.”

Atlas Shrugs – Coptic Christians Rally in New York against Egypt Government’s Islamic Persecution: “killings, destruction and looting of their property, displacement from their homes and the forced Islamization of their minor daughters.”

Atlas Shrugs – Where is Our Elliot Ness?

Don Surber – Lefties boycott breast cancer research to spite Joe Lieberman (Hat Tip: Larwyn)

American Thinker – Sen. Landrieu’s deep thoughts on national health insurance (Hat Tip: Larwyn)

Ace of Spades – Obama: You Stupid Bankers Ruined The Economy With Risky Loans, Now I Expect You To Grow Economy With More Risky Loans (Hat Tip: Larwyn)

Fox News – Indiana School Removes ‘Allah’ From Holiday Show After Protests

Jerusalem Post – US missile defense drill to simulate an Iranian attack

YouTube – Video: Gore once again refuses to answer journalist’s questions

The Washington Times – Immigration bill backers try again despite jobless rate

BREITBART – SEIU-backed legislation would give undocumented legal status

Fox News – Israel Claims Iran Close to Nuclear Weapon

Fox News – With Special Forces in Afghanistan