"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."Wednesday, January 06, 2010
IT'S AIN'T JUST HERE: LEFTISTS ON THE RUN IN BRITAIN, TOO
WHY THE BIG SHIFT?
WELL, PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP - IN PART BECAUSE THE SURGE SUCCEEDED, IN PART BECAUSE GLOBAL WARMING HAS BEEN EXPOSED AS A SCAM (THIS HAD A BIG EFFECT IN AUSTRALIA), AND IN PART BECAUSE FOLKS ARE SEEING OBAMA FOR WHAT HE IS: AN INCOMPETENT AND HIGHLY PARTISAN LEFT-WING PHONY.
I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO NOVEMBER 2010 - WHEN WE TAKE BACK AMERICA!
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
OUR HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM AND THE NANNY STATE

The essay below relates an aspect of my personal experience in dealing with our health-care system when Mr. AOW had a serious stroke last fall. He remained in medical-care facilities from September 15 to November 25.
No doubt about it, when Mr. AOW was released from the inpatient hospital stroke rehabilitation center on October 16, he was unable to be cared for at home. In addition to being completely paralyzed on the left side (limbs and trunk), his sense of balance was completely awry: he could fall forward, backward, or to either side at any given moment. His brain didn't know what direction up was! He also suffered from mental confusion. For example, he said, "I know I'm in the hospital here in Virginia, but I feel like I'm in California."
In fact, in spite of the ninety days of coverage supposedly provided by the health-insurance plan the hospital refused to keep Mr. AOW any longer than two weeks or to release him to home. Instead, the hospital and the nursing home teamed up to release him only to a skilled nursing facility, which costs a minimum of $350 per day.
At both the rehab hospital and the nursing home, both of which were in-network facilities of Mr. AOW's health-insurance plan, I was repeatedly advised to obtain Medicare and Medicaid. This mandate, in spite of the fact that Mr. AOW was not eligible for Medicare at the age of fifty-nine and has always had health insurance for, lo, three decades!
When I pointed out to the hospital and the nursing home that Mr. AOW and I had too many assets to qualify for either Medicare or Medicaid, I was advised to liquidate all those assets that Mr. AOW and I had spent a lifetime accumulating, go bankrupt once those assets were consumed by medical care, and become beneficiaries of the Nanny State. By the way, all assets were on the table, including retirement accounts (IRA's).
Looking back, I realize that both the hospital and the nursing home anticipated that Mr. AOW would always be a resident of the nursing home, never mind that he was admitted there for stroke therapy and not as a long-term resident.
After Mr. AOW made substantial progress after several weeks in the nursing home, the day arrived when I informed the health-insurance company and the nursing home that I would be bringing Mr. AOW home in a few weeks. The representative from the health-insurance company again advised me to seek out Medicaid coverage. Talk about having their needle stuck!
Once we established that Medicaid was not an option and that I was indeed determined to bring Mr. AOW home, I was threatened: "We'll have to report you to adult protective services."
So, how did I bring Mr. AOW home without getting arrested? I had in place the necessary paperwork: complete power of attorney and the advanced medical directive, both of which documents gave me conseiderable legal power. I also had on my side our family physician, who was willing to sign the release orders. This last is very important! Had I not placed Mr. AOW under the care of the family physician, the nursing-home physician could have refused to release Mr. AOW, thus forcing us into bankruptcy.
Also of help was a bit of name dropping, specifically, the name of my husband's personal attorney, famous as "the attorney of attorneys." Were he called in, he would own the nursing home by the time he was finished! At that point, the nursing home, recognizing the kind of legal proceedings they could be up against, agreed to starting the necessary paperwork for Mr. AOW's release from the nursing home. The one requirement: that Mr. AOW receive occasional visits from a registered nurse.
I have learned there is some truth in what some of my older relatives used to say: "Once I go into the hospital, I'll never come back home." Hospitals and nursing homes do have the power to hold patients and their families hostage.
Via the necessary legal documents and before illness strikes, arm yourself in advance so that you don't become a victim of the health-care system's trying to push you and your family under the care of the Nanny State. Believe me, the health-care system will try hard to push you in that direction!
And what would have happened under ObamaKare?
KENYA DEPORTS RADICAL MUSLIM CLERIC - OR DID THEY?
Kenyan police say they have deported a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred but have declined to say where he has gone.(More here.)
Abdullah al-Faisal had been sent to a "friendly neighbouring country" despite trouble finding a country to take him, a police spokesman told the BBC.
But a Muslim group later insisted Faisal was still in Nairobi.
Kenyan officials have said Faisal was being deported because of his "terrorist history".
He has served four years in a UK prison after being convicted of soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus.
But the authorities have since given mixed signals over Faisal's whereabouts.
Some reports say Kenya has failed to deport him because no other country is willing to have him.
Other reports quote officials as saying he was sent by road to Tanzania on Monday night.
I HOPE THEY DEPORTED HIM .
WE SHOULD DO LIKEWISE.
THE WHOLE WEST SHOULD.
CLERICS WHO PREACH RADICAL ISLAM SHOULD BE DEPORTED.
IF THEY'RE CITIZENS, THEN THEY SHOULD BE JAILED FOR SEDITION.
MORE RATS FLEE THE SINKING OBAMA SHIP: FIRST SENATOR DORGAN; NOW GOVERNOR RITTER
THEY UNDERSTAND THAT POWER OF INCUMBENCY IS NO MATCH FOR PUBLIC DISSATISFACTION WITH THE DEMOCRATS.
More here.
IRAN SANCTIONS: WHO'S CALLING THE SHOTS, CHINA OR THE USA?
HE GAVE IRAN A DEADLINE OF SEPTEMBERM THEN CHANGED IT TO DECEMBER.
IT'S NOW JANUARY.
AND... IT LOOKS LIKE CHINA IS CALLING THE SHOTS; THEY SAY THE TIME ISN'T RIGHT FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN.
SINCE THE CHINESE DICTATORS HAVE A VETO AT THE UN, THIS EFFECTIVELY MEANS THERE CAN BE NO SANCTIONS.
WHAT OPTION DOES THAT LEAVE?
WELL, LET'S GET IT ON!
IMAGINE A MOVIE 100 TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN AVATAR - AND GUARANTEED TO FLOP: OBAMACARE
JOHN QUINCY OBAMA: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS EVERYONE BY MORE THAN TWO YEARS
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS MADE THE COMPARISON TWO YEARS AGO - (THOUGH WE WERE WRONG ABOUT USING IT AS A PREDICTOR).THEN: “Adams Can Write, Jackson Can Fight.”
Now: “We Need ‘A Commander-in-Chief, Not a Law Professor’.”
WELL BEFORE PALIN OR GLENN OR JONAH GOLDBERG.
I STILL THINK THE CLEMENT ATTLEE/CHURCHILL COMPARISON IS MORE APT, CLICK AND SCROLL).
COKED UP BIRDS OF A FEATHER: FARC AND AL QAEDA
WE POSTED ON A SIMILAR ANGLE A FEW WEEKS AGO.
- LET IT BE A REMINDER THAT THERE'S NOTHING THE LEFT AND THE JIHADISTS WOULDN'T DO TO BRING THE WEST DOWN.
- NOTHING. AND NO ONE THEY WOULDN'T ALLY THEMSELVES TO.
- THAT'S WHY - TO ENSURE A FREE AND PROSPEROUS FUTURE - WE NEED TO COMPLETELY DEMOLISH THEM BOTH.
IN NOVEMBER OF 2010 THEY WILL BE RUDELY AWAKENED - AND SHOWN THE DOOR.
GREENIES AND "INDIGIANS" BLOCK WIND FARM
In a new setback for a controversial wind farm proposed off Cape Cod, the National Park Service announced Monday that Nantucket Sound was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, guaranteeing further delays for the project.WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP.
Known as Cape Wind, the project is the nation’s first planned offshore wind farm and would cover 24 square miles in the sound, an area roughly the size of Manhattan. The park service decision came in response to a request from two Massachusetts Indian tribes, who said the 130 proposed wind turbines would thwart their spiritual ritual of greeting the sunrise, which requires unobstructed views across the sound, and disturb ancestral burial grounds.
The tribes — the Mashpee Wampanoag of Cape Cod and the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Martha’s Vineyard — sought the listing last fall, shortly before a final federal decision on the project was expected. The project has been in the works since 2001 and is strongly supported by Gov. Deval Patrick.
The decision by the National Park Service did not kill the Cape Wind plan, but it erected new hurdles by requiring more negotiations and, possibly, changes to the project, like moving it. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar set a deadline of March 1 for the tribes and the project’s developer, Energy Management Inc., to reach a compromise.
IT'S NIMBY, PURE'N SIMPLE.
THE LEFT HAS NO SHAME.
NONE.
THEY TAKE JETS TO ECO-CONFERENCES.
AND BLOCK WIND-FARMS. KERRY AND TEDDY JO KENNEDY OPPOSED IT, TOO.
THEY ARE ALL SIMPLY TOTALLY FULL OF SHIT.
BREZHNEV SOCIALISTS: THEY WANT THE MASSES TO SACRIFICE FOR THE COMMON GOOD EVEN AS THEY LIVE HIGH ON THE HOG WITH THEIR DACHAS AND CAVIAR AND LIMOS.... AND $9 MILLION DOLLAR HAWAIIAN VACATION HOMES.
THE WHOLE LOT OF 'EM SHOULD BE STRUNG UP.
HERE'S ANOTHER UPDATE ON RIFQA BARY
This is getting very extremely atrocious by now, and is running a very grave risk of violating people's rights. A legal appeal is needed by now to address this problem, and that's why among the things that can be done is to contact the director of children's services in Ohio, Eric Fenner, to ask him to look into this. The e-mail address is edfenner@FCCS.co.franklin.oh.us
2009: A Banner Year for the Jihad Against the United States

Featuring Wafa Sultan!
Erick Stakelbeck is the most underrated reporter and CBN is the most underrated news source in the world. Stakelbeck recaps several under-reported stories of the year, including that of Pvt. Andrew William Long, the Army recruiter who was murdered last June by a prison convert to Islam.
The commentary is also excellent. They discuss political correctness, the civilizational war in which we are engaged, immigration jihad, demographic jihad, and the utter unacceptability of our our elected officials' ignorance of Islam -- basically everything the lamestream media should focus us on but refuse to.
TRANSPARENCY & OBAMACARE: BRIAN LAMB VERSUS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb wants Congress to walk the transparency walk. Democrat majority, we’re waiting…C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb sent the below letter regarding opening Congressional health legislative discussions between the House and Senate to Majority Leader Reid, Minority Leader McConnell, Speaker Pelosi, and Minority Leader Boehner on December 30.
December 30, 2009
Dear Speaker Pelosi:
Representative Boehner:
Senator Reid:
Senator McConnell:
As your respective chambers work to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate health care bills, C-SPAN requests that you open all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings, to electronic media coverage.
The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of these sessions LIVE and in their entirety. We will also, as we willingly do each day, provide C-SPAN’s multi-camera coverage to any interested member of the Capitol Hill broadcast pool.
Since the initial introduction of the America’s Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 in the House and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the Senate
C-SPAN has televised literally hundreds of hours of committee hearings, mark ups and floor debate on these bills for the public to see. And importantly, we have archived all of this video for future generations to study in the C-SPAN Video Archives.
President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation’s editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation’s health care system. Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between the Chambers, we respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American.
We hope you will give serious consideration to this request. We are most willing to employ the latest digital technology to make the cameras, lights and microphones as unobtrusive as possible.
Please contact me if I can answer any questions.
Sincerely,
Brian Lamb
OBAMA PROMISED NUMEROUS TIMES THAT THESE NEGOTIATION WOULD BE PUBLIC AND ON C-SPAN.
IF HE AND REID AND PELOSI BACK-DOWN NOW, THEN THEY ARE ADMITTING OBAMA IS A LIAR AND THAT THEY ARE SCOUNDRELS OF THE SLIMIEST KIND.
More here.
Monday, January 04, 2010
WHAT TO DO ABOUT WOOTON BASSETT?
A radical Islamic group planning a protest march through the streets of a town that has achieved iconic status in Britain for honoring the passing hearses of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan ran into a stiff rebuff from the British government on Monday.I'D LIKE TO SEE A COUNTER-DEMONSTRATION BY THE EDL. NO HOLDS BARRED.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a statement saying he was “personally appalled” by the group’s plan to march through the streets of Wootton Bassett, a town 50 miles west of London where townspeople have lined the sidewalks since April 2007 to mourn the passing corteges of British military casualties flown home to the nearby military airbase at Brize Norton.
“Wootton Bassett has a special significance for us all at this time, as it has been the scene of the repatriation of many members of our armed forces who have tragically fallen,” Mr. Brown said. “Any attempt to use this location to cause further distress and suffering to those who have lost loved ones would be abhorrent and offensive.”
Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who is responsible for the police, said in a separate statement that he would support any request from the police or local government officials to ban the march. “I find it particularly offensive that the town, which has acted in such a moving and dignified way in paying tribute to our troops who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country should be targeted in this manner,” he said.
Plans for staging the march were laid out in a letter sent by Anjem Choudary, the leader of a group called Islam4UK, to the families of the 246 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the toppling of the Taliban in 2001.
The organization describes itself as a “platform” for promoting the views of an extremist Islamic group, Al Muhajiroun, which praised the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States as heroes, but disbanded in 2005 in response to a British government order banning it.
Mr. Choudary, a 42-year-old lawyer, told the BBC his group planned to carry “symbolic empty coffins” through Wootton Bassett to honor “Muslim victims” of the conflict in Afghanistan, primarily Afghan civilians. “It’s to highlight the real cost of the war in Afghanistan,” he said. “The sad reality of the situation is that if I were to hold it somewhere else, it would not have the media attention that it has now.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE BRITS SHOULD DO?
NY GOVERNOR'S RACE: LAZIO TANKING WITHIN GOP; TIME TO DRAFT COLIN POWELL
HERE'S WHY COLIN POWELL IS THE GOP'S ONLY HOPE TO WIN THE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN NY:
NYTIMES: Even in G.O.P., Lazio’s Bid for Governor Is Hard Sell
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Rick A. Lazio is on a tear: ripping into corruption and cowardice in Albany, blasting state leaders’ addiction to spending and taxes, warning that New York is on the verge of losing a generation of job seekers to economic decline.I DISLIKE A LOT ABOUT POWELL. A LOT.
“It breaks my heart,” Mr. Lazio, the former Long Island congressman, tells a few dozen Republicans here in the Finger Lakes.
“People are fed up, they’re disgusted, they’re disillusioned, and they’re scared.”
Now comes the ask. “It is our turn to fix this mess, and not to leave this for our kids and our grandchildren to clean up. Please join me in this great mission.”
Not a hand claps. Political comebacks can be tough, and Mr. Lazio’s exit from the stage, after his disastrous 2000 Senate contest with Hillary Rodham Clinton, was humbling.
But even among New York Republicans, with whom he is personally popular, Mr. Lazio’s fiery pitch for his gubernatorial campaign hasn’t yet ignited any prairie fires.
Many party regulars were deflated by former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s decision not to run. And they seem resigned to the idea that Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo — whose poll numbers are formidable — will overtake Gov. David A. Paterson to be the Democratic nominee, and could be all but impossible to beat.
AND YES: HE ENDORSED OBAMA.
BUT HE COULD WIN THE ELECTION AND HE'D BE BETTER THAN ANDY CUOMO, WHO --- AS SECRETARY OF HOUSING FOR CLINTON --- WAS AS BIG A CULPRIT IN THE HOUSING BUBBLE AND THE DEBACLE AT FANNIE MAE AS FELLOW DEMOCRATS CHRIS DODD AND FRANKLIN RAINES.WITH POWELL FOR GOVERNOR AND PETER KING FOR THE SENATE, WE'D HAVE A FIGHTING CHANCE.
CONGRESSMAN KING IS A PLAIN-TALKING STRAIGHT-SHOOTING CONSERVATIVE. HE'D MAKE A GREAT US SENATOR.
(PREVIOUS POST ON POWELL FOR GOVERNOR HERE.)
HELP DEFEAT HARRY REID
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NPR Insults Taxpayers On Our Dollar
Not safe for work, not safe near kids, not acceptable anywhere, really.
NPR must be de-funded now.
More here.
H/T: Lonely Conservative.
A WARNING TO DEMOCRATS:
VENEZUELA, EAST GERMANY, EAST BERLIN,
MUSSOLINI'S ITALY, SADDAM'S IRAQ, KHOMEINI'S IRAN, ATTLEE'S BRITAIN, KAMPUCHEA, AND SO ON...
SO... ER, UM... WHY TAKE AMERICA DOWN THAT ROAD - AND OVER THE CLIFF?
IT MAKES NO SENSE.
AND CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, BRITAIN, GERMANY, ITALY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, VIETNAM, RUSSIA, AND CHINA ARE ALL MOVING TOWARD MORE MARKET-DRIVEN ECONOMIES WITH LOWER TAXES.
SO, ER . . . UM... WHY HEAD LEFT AS THEY HEAD RIGHT!?
IT MAKES NO SENSE.
NONE.
WE NEED LOWER TAXES AND A SMALLER GOVERNMENT, AND NOT MORE GOVERNMENT MANDATES, NOT MORE TAXES AND NOT MORE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OVER OUR ECONOMY.
THE HOUSING BUBBLE WAS CAUSED BY TOO MUCH REGULATION, NOT TOO LITTLE: BANKS WERE FORCED TO MAKE BAD REAL ESTATE LOANS. WHEN THEY WENT BAD, THE TAXPAYER HAD TO PICK UP THE TAB.
WELL, WE'RE MAD AS HELL AND WERE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
IGNORE US AT YOUR PERIL.
It's On: Even Leftards Figured Out That Leftism Fails
The Bolshevics are getting so desperate that F*ckwaddoglake is trying to make Houston's new Republican mayor out to be a Democrat in order to project some semblance of a future.
BRRRRRRR!: SEOUL BURIED UNDER SNOW - MOST IN 72 YEARS
Seoul residents slogged through the heaviest snowfall in modern Korean history after a winter storm dumped more than 11 inches today, forcing airports to cancel flights and paralyzing traffic in South Korea's bustling capital.NOT ONLY IS THE WORLD A LOT MORE INDUSTRIALIZED SINCE 1937, SOUTH KOREA IS UNBELIEVABLY MORE INDUSTRIALIZED!
The snow and icy roads snarled traffic in and out of Seoul, and at least three people died in traffic accidents. Many commuters squeezed into packed subways to get to work, and a Cabinet meeting was delayed because ministers were stuck in traffic.
The snowfall, which continued through the afternoon, was the heaviest in a single day since Korea began conducting meteorological surveys in 1937, the state weather agency said.
CO2 = BENIGN.
AGW = BS.
ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONSTANT FOR THE LAST 150+ YEARS: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR BY 4 DAYS
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS 4 DAYS AGO.
REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. BLOGROLL US. BOOKMARK US, SPREAD THE WORD.
