Break from the folly

Thanks to vacations and funerals, the reckless pace of hard-left social engineering has slowed to a crawl in the past few weeks.
But something very significant occurred over the summer. Raised voices from the third of Americans who worship Obama and the third who can’t stand his politics have awoken the middle third. The herd has picked up the scent. No longer is Obama the post-partisan, post-racial, cool guy who represents hope and change. He’s been exposed as just another platitudinous power grabber.
The left has overreached. They have shown their hand. Government health care and manmade global warming never were about lowering costs and fixing things that need attention; they have always been about central government control. And the vast majority of Americans hate the notion of Washington judging them, overtaxing them and interfering in their lives.
And maybe the best part of the summer break has been that the mainstream media no longer directs what we see and hear. Radio, Internet and ordinary people speaking up in public have worked around the filters.
Enjoy the break, because the folly will restart soon enough.

Friedman and Donahue

Milton was brilliant and more relevant than ever today

Watch this so you won't experience it

When you think about it, the greatest risk we take everyday is not Al-Qaida or Obama's latest policy, but getting behind the wheel.
Watch this and share it with those you love.

Warning: very graphic and disturbing!

Pull my finger for the public option

Pictured: writer of the House health care bill

Obama and company are trying to pull off the scam of the century on health care.

Does your employer pay more than 8% of payroll for health insurance (8% is the proposed employer tax for not providing health insurance)? My bet is they do; a lot more.

Would your employer drop BlueCross or whatever plan you now have, and use the savings to either lower the price of their product/service or give employees a raise? My bet is they would.

Do you think a Medicare-like system will be better for your family than the private plan you now enjoy?

Estimates are that Obamacare will cause a hundred million employees and their families to transfer from private insurance to government insurance.

The Dems like to rail on insurance company profits and executive comp, yet those amounts would be a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of government waste, corruption and rationing costs. All Medicare and Medicaid have done is cost-shift by paying a fraction of what private insurers pay doctors and hospitals.

Choice? More competition? Lower cost? Yeah, pull my finger.

The key to improving health care is HSAs that put control and responsibility on individuals.

Reagan had it right

Citizen Ronald Reagan, 1961.

Dems have become the establishment they once scorned

Pictured standing: Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank.
Seated: Barbara Boxer, Al Franken, Al Gore



Back in the seventies, young people did anything they could to rail against what they called the ‘establishment’ – from drugs, riots, and desertion to bad hygiene. They yelled, disrupted, mocked and scorned any and all authority.
Now those youth are the establishment – at least in government, media, entertainment, and academia. We have gone full circle and memories are short.
Today, if you speak out against Obamacare and a government spinning out of control – in a much more mild and sincere fashion than the 70’s – you’re an un-American mob.
Yeah, all we are saying is that it took a village to end up in this mess.

Favorite recipe – the perfect summer treat

I spend little time in the kitchen , so if I offer a recipe, you know it’s going to be delicious, nutritious and easy.

Recipe for frozen grapes

Ingredients: red seedless grapes
Preparation: place in sandwich bags for individual servings; freeze.


Warning: Grapes can pose a choking hazard for children ages 3 and under. Eating more than 75 grapes at one sitting may cause nausea, diarrhea, constipation and swelling of the thighs and buttocks. Do not insert grapes in your nose as this can cause sudden drop in blood pressure, runny nose, shortness of breath and decrease in semen. Placing more than 10 grapes in your mouth at once may cause you to talk like Barney Frank. Not following these directions can cause thoughts of suicide, hearing voices, projectile vomiting, stomach bleeding and an erection lasting more than 4 hours. Eating grapes alone can cause paranoia, infections of the nervous system and skin reactions. Avoid driving or operating heavy equipment while eating frozen grapes. See your doctor if you get a brain freeze or dryness of mouth. Grapes do not provide protection from STDs or homicidal tendencies.

Porked, spent and spun to death

Here's what I understand to be the layers of this year’s federal budget:
1) Basic government services – national defense, welfare for the needy, and infrastructure programs that have been around for decades
2) Entitlement programs – Social Security, Medicare (including prescription) and interest on federal debt - none of which can be sustained at current levels
3) Recent reactive actions – bailout of financial institutions following mortgage crisis, higher unemployment benefits
4) Stimulus – Democrats' special interests and share-the-wealth initiatives passed last spring.
5) In Obama’s pipeline – government health insurance

Government will spend $34,000 per household in 2009. Median income is about $50,000. That’s madness.
I’m okay with 1) and could live with 2) if the bureaucrats would resize benefits. Some of 3) might be needed temporarily to fix past government missteps. Items 4) and 5) are irresponsible.
Do you personally spend money on what you want or what you can afford?
I balance my personal finances, and I’m sick and tired of Washington spending money they don’t have for programs we don’t need.
This economy will not recover until consumers and industry regain their confidence. On a scale of ten, my confidence in Washington is zero.