The Monday Nut

A letter to the media.

You’ve become chattel. 

There has been talk for years about how liberal leaning media have become less and less objective in their reporting, often going to the limits of journalistic integrity in order to manipulate opinion toward their beliefs.  Whether it be faulty reporting about social issues, politics, junk science and the environment; there has been a definitive lack of ability to simply tell the story without editorializing. 

As a matter of fact, editorializing has become the new journalism, especially with the advent of instant worldwide communication.  At no other time can a lie be spread so quickly and so many people believe fabrications at such speed.

This aside, your very integrity (despite your beliefs) is so far removed from any definition of journalism that the Obama administration believes that you are its personal property.  Since the word “chattel” is derived from “cattle” it makes sense to tag you with this moniker.

Stay in line.  Eat your food. Come to the barn when called. Give birth to calves when I tell you to. Stand at the milking machine and wait until I’m finished. Don’t talk back, or you’ll be put on a truck headed for the processing plant.

Do you understand that in telling you to decry Fox News, Obama’s cronies (and therefore him) threatened you?  Are you afraid or are you simply standing in line and waiting for your turn at the milking machine?

To stay with the whole bovine theme, we need more bulls out there.  Someone not afraid to run the farmers around the field and stick their horns in soft places every once in a while.  We need fewer cows that just stand and do as they are told.

It’s been a long time since I last wrote; but the Health Care Dilemma has me very concerned and I’ve been taking some time to actually read through the current legislation brought forward by the House of Representatives and entitled “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.”  I’m going to cover different parts of the legislation as often as I can in the hopes that you will learn what is happening and hopefully can make your own informed decisions.  I cannot claim absolute journalistic integrity, but I will not lie about what I find.  So, let’s get started.

If you want to see (and save) a copy of the bill, you can find it here.

On page 30 of the document, in Sec. 123, the bill outlines the Health Benefits Advisory Committee. This “private-public” committee is charged with creating the baseline health standards for Americans and passing these standards on to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.  Here’s how the membership breaks down.

1. Surgeon General of the United States (Chairperson)
   1. Nominated by the President of the United States (President Obama nominated Regina Benjamin on July 13, 2009)
2. Nine (9) members who are not Federal employees or officers and are appointed by the President
3. Nine (9) members who are not Federal employees or officers and are appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States.  The Comptroller General is the head of the Government Accounting Office, which is charged with keeping Government in check. Comptroller Generals serve a 15 year term and are nominated by the President.  Our current Comptroller General is an “interim” fill-in for a recently resigned CG and will continue to serve until President Obama nominates someone else to the post.
4. An even number (not to exceed eight) of Federal employees or officers which the President will appoint.

Is anyone seeing a trend here?

The makeup of the committee (Page 32 – Line 25)  is interesting.  It includes all the people you would expect to serve in such a post…experts in health care financing, labor reps (unions), health insurance providers, etc.  Two things caught my eye though… First,  ”experts in racial and ethnic disparities” and second, “at least one practicing physician or other health professional.”  If we are to provide health care for all Americans, why the ethnic and racial disparity people.  And for that matter, why do unions have to be involved?  And why in the world would you write “at least one practicing physician?”  Wouldn’t it make much more sense for a panel deciding medical benefits to be stacked with practicing physicians?

THE SIMPLE TRUTH
President Obama, through this legislation, is given the ability to completely control who will sit on this panel.  He will succeed in this through a combination of straight appointments, and his ability to nominate and push through a majority Congress the Surgeon General and Comptroller Generals of his choice.  There is too much power in his hands to stack the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to his liking, and too much power granted to the Committee itself to decide the baseline of standards.  And as if we aren’t moving a little too fast for comfort right now, once the legislation is passed into law, this committee will be completely staffed in less than 60 days and has 12 months to establish all the baselines for care.

Read it.  Understand it.  Make your decision, do something about it.

Oh, and please comment on what you see here.

Saw Obama lie ouright yesterday in statement about the Energy bill the House so foolishly passed yesterday. Said that he wanted to follow California’s example for EPA standards on pollution.

Then he said…”California’s economy is on par with the rest of the country,” in justifying the idea that these standards will create economic health and save the Earth Mother simultaneously.

CALIFORNIA IS ON ECONOMIC PAR WITH THE REST OF THE COUNTRY? Last I heard, California’s economy is a squirrel’s whisker away from total collapse. They’ve created so many regulations out of junk science and liberal idealism that they are literally bankrupt.

What is wrong with everyone? We watch as they follow FAILED historical economic policies, and now they want to follow FAILED environmental policies that have neutered what was once the greatest state in the nation?

ARGH. Don’t even get me started on the fact that all the fuzzy feel good sources of energy DON’T WORK! Look, when one of the top researchers in the country from Cornell University tells you that the current state of wind and solar cannot possibly meet even the slightest energy needs…YOU SHOULD LISTEN AND FIGURE SOMETHING ELSE OUT!

Lemmings…all of you.

Just wanted to share a little pun-ishment.  Two cases…

First, I had sent a short story to my friend Ruxx Deluxx and the base of the story was pooh (not the teddy bear).  Here’s his reply which had me in tears.

“While I normally find poo stories corny & beneath me, this knocked me
off my stool.  Bowled me over, you could say. It’s amazing what one
squeezes out when inspired.”

The second comes from a comment on the Christian Science Monitor’s The Vote Blog.  Although the story was about Joe Biden being shuffled off to Siberia after his flu comments…the one commenter said this:

“Remember before November when someone said Obama would win the election ‘when pigs fly?’ Well, Obama won and the swine flew.”

Share your favorite puns with me!  One of my fondest memories was when my friend Ron Solomon (rest in peace, my friend) told our 6th grade teacher that his joke about the dentist “deserved a plaque.”

Ali Soufan’s editorial in the NY Times today brings about another question in the whole “torture” debate  for me.  Soufan poses midway through that”…it is in our national security interest to regain our position as the world’s foremost defenders of human rights…”

First, we don’t need to REGAIN anything.  Name another country that has done more for human rights than the U.S.  There’s been no slippage in ranking, Mr. Soufan.  No other country even comes close to matching the financial and human resources outlay of the United States when it comes to defending the rights of humanity as a whole. 

Second, I would strongly suggest that “human rights” belong to the innocent, not to those who would perpetrate evil.  In assigning such rights to the most heinous of our species, you deny the truth to those who deserve it.  A man hell-bent on destroying thousands of lives, who dreams of increasing that number tenfold and thereby securing a place in history and heaven does not deserve to be afforded the same human rights as a child in Darfur.

As the human race, we MUST assign certain labels to the basest of our humanity.  We must point to one end of the spectrum and say “good” while pointing simultaneously to the other end, saying “evil.”  Assigning the same rights to both ends of the spectrum is morally unconscionable, Mr. Soufan.

Prediction:  The stimulus package currently awaited by President Obama will be his ultimate undoing.  The main reason being (IMHO), he is trying to use it to make good on his myriad campaign promises in one fell swoop. 

We can discuss ideology all we want. He is, we are, they are… But to me, the simple fact is that his liberal support network (the Soros’s of the world) have been pressuring him since he was declared the winner and he has some serious debts to pay off.  Nothing like millions (and billions) to pay off what you owe, and always be able to say later “I did!  I DID!”

I learned long time ago, you can’t drive a roofing nail with one swing of the hammer.  But you can with a coffin nail.

Anyone who shuts down (or severely restricts the use of) the electricity in the home of a 93 year old man, in the middle of winter, in MICHIGAN deserves to go straight to hell.

Check this story out.

Most wonderful part…coroner says he probably died quite painfully.  Let’s put Bay City Electric Light and Power on our bobsled to Satan list.

More cases in the future.  Let’s do everything we can to make sure these people pay.

Oh man.  I am on another roll with the language…  I gotta stop writing at 1 AM, but, have at it.

President Obama signed an executive order last Friday to send $460 million to third world (sorry, “developing”) countries for family planning.  In other words, condoms, the pill, and abortions are being paid for worldwide by our tax dollars.

I don’t have anything original to say about this.  Suffice to say, it sucks and he has certainly pandered to his crowd by releasing this “much needed aid.”  Being broke doesn’t mean you can’t share, right?

Anyway…here’s where the fun comes in.  The Dems wanted to use part of the stimulus package to provide more financial support for family planning (for the poor) right here in America.  And, according to some reports, the President has asked his colleagues on the left to remove this part of the stimulus package in the spirit of bipartisanship. In other words, he’s afraid the Repubs are gonna kick up a big stink and he might lose a half a percentage point on the Love Scale.

It’s all so confusing, but here’s how I figure it.

According to the Democratic Majority, vaginas and uterii stimulate the economy and need a bail out.  President Obama agrees, but only if the vaginas and uterii exists elsewhere than in the United States due to the current conversion rate that shows American female parts are worth less than those in, let’s say… Zimbabwe.

Republicans remain on the hill, trying to figure out the penis conversion rate, hoping they don’t come up short.

Hey guys…the Even the FrenchOuiOui is outperforming you.  Where’s Smiling Bob when you need him?