'Politics' Category
Socialized Medicine
“If this program passes, one of these years we will tell our children and our children’s children what it was like in American when men were free.” — Ronald Reagan discussing Medicare in 1961 Apparently Reagan’s prediction did not come true since the GOP is now claiming that Obama’s health care plan will remove our [...]
American Conservatives
I thought this was so funny that I had to post it. I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE! This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal [...]
Good Healthcare Will Kill Us All!
From an editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD): People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. The only problem is that the Investor’s Business Daily seems to not [...]
Maybe socialized medicine isn’t so bad
Circulatory disease deaths per 100,000: Canada: 219 United States: 265 Child maltreatment deaths per 100,000: Canada: 0.7 United States: 2.2 Digestive disease deaths per 100,000: Canada: 17.4 United States: 20.5 Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births Canada: 5.08 United States: 6.3 Intestinal diseases death rate Canada: 0.3% United States: 7.3% Proability of not reaching [...]
Happy Bastille Day
Today is Bastille Day, the holiday honoring the overthrow of the monarchy in France. It is celebrated much like Independence Day in the US with fireworks and parades. On this day in 1789, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille, a prison/fortress which represented all that was evil with the French monarchy. The storming of [...]
Bill O’Reilly – Murderer?
On Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago, a policeman was killed when a bomb was thrown during a labor protest. The identity of the bomb thrower was never discovered but five men who had organized the rally and spoke of the need for the protesters to defend themselves were tried and [...]
My Senator and Torture
My senator, Chuck Schumer, has often spoken out against torture committed by the Bush administration. But recently he clarified this view with the “what if the guy knows where the atomic bomb is” logic. It is this logic that the Bush administration used to justify torture in the first place. It may not have been [...]
The Wisdom of Our President
President Obama was speaking to some reporters in Turkey when he said this: I’ve said before that one of the great strengths of the United States is, although as I mentioned we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We [...]
Gay Marriage
If you had to guess which state would be the next to have gay marriage would you have guessed Iowa? I have to admit that after California voted down the rights of gays to marry, I didn’t expect Iowa to be the state to jump in to replace those liberal commie Californians. But it happened. [...]
Fox News Can’t Find a Brothel
As many of you probably know, there is a proposal to build a high speed rail from Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. A high speed rail would reduce traffic, reduce energy use and pollution, and would be reasonably cost efficient. The proposal is to use an existing rail station near Disneyland on the [...]
