Clinical trials? We don’t need no stinking clinical trials: “It's possible the government will begin a public [swine flu] vaccination campaign before all of the work of the trials is complete, Dr. Anne Schuchat has said. She oversees the flu vaccination programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
On one hand, the government doesn’t need to complete clinical trials to inject you with an unproven H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine. On the other hand, the government can prevent you from an alternative (i.e., unapproved) treatment even in the face of debilitating pain or certain death.
Makes all kinds of sense, doesn’t it?
Monday, August 10, 2009
MORE CASH FOR CLUNKERS
The first round spent a billion dollars in a week - at $4,000/car, that’s equivalent to 250,000 cars, or roughly a sales rate of 13 million cars/year.
Since US sales have averaged 16.8 million cars/year over the last decade, it follows that 77% of all car sales (roughly 324,000 sales/week) in the first round were clunkers.
Ask yourself: “How many of those so-called clunkers would have been traded in without “Cash for Clunkers?”
Correct answer: most of them.
So now as Round Two (billion) gets underway, take Brian Douglas’s advice: “Benefit from our government's largesse. It's your tax money, might as well try to recoup some of it .... Then you can buy that foreclosed house with an $8,000 new buyers credit [to] park your new government-subsidized car.”
MORE: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Via Don Surber.
Since US sales have averaged 16.8 million cars/year over the last decade, it follows that 77% of all car sales (roughly 324,000 sales/week) in the first round were clunkers.
Ask yourself: “How many of those so-called clunkers would have been traded in without “Cash for Clunkers?”
Correct answer: most of them.
So now as Round Two (billion) gets underway, take Brian Douglas’s advice: “Benefit from our government's largesse. It's your tax money, might as well try to recoup some of it .... Then you can buy that foreclosed house with an $8,000 new buyers credit [to] park your new government-subsidized car.”
MORE: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Via Don Surber.
ABORTION RIGHTS – A HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
Now that Sarah Palin is back in the news with her Facebook statement on ObamaCare, a new round of Palin hatred from the Left seems to be inevitable. Much of this hatred seems to be directly coupled to her obvious love for her newborn son Trig, born with Down syndrome.
Some examples from the past-
Here’s a question I have for the left.
If, as Provenzo claims, “it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome,” and if homosexuality is genetically determined as some on the Left believe, and if that “gay gene” is easily detectable in utero by some procedure similar to amniocentesis for detection of Down syndrome, will the Left continue to support abortion on demand?
Some examples from the past-
At Talking Points Memo, an article sarcastically suggested that Palin resigned because “she wants to spread Down syndrome ... because Down syndrome is just too cute to be reserved for one in 800 births.”
A Paliban Daily article titled “Sarah Palin’s Retarded Platform: More Trigs!” interpreted Palin’s outspokenness on disability rights as a political ploy to win votes. Other articles contained subtle but unmistakable eugenic overtones. More here.
Nicholas Provenzo of the Libertarian Center for the Advancement of Capitalism discussed being “troubled” by Trig’s existence because “it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome.” More here.
Here’s a question I have for the left.
If, as Provenzo claims, “it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome,” and if homosexuality is genetically determined as some on the Left believe, and if that “gay gene” is easily detectable in utero by some procedure similar to amniocentesis for detection of Down syndrome, will the Left continue to support abortion on demand?
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