Perfect... Injured Thug Who Beat Ken Gladney Asks For Workman's Comp From the SEIU For His "Work" Injury. Follow the links to 24th State posts as well.
Talk about chutzpah ....
Saturday, September 05, 2009
OBAMACARE'S PUBLIC OPTION?
President Obama wants everyone to have health insurance "as good as federal employees have." Well, here's the federal plan.
But guess what? It's (a) private insurance, the same as my current employer-provided insurance, (b) just as expensive, and (c) poses serious risks to beneficiaries if applied to Medicare (who don't get a very good deal to begin with).
But guess what? It's (a) private insurance, the same as my current employer-provided insurance, (b) just as expensive, and (c) poses serious risks to beneficiaries if applied to Medicare (who don't get a very good deal to begin with).
OBAMATURF RALLY IN DENVER
Organizing for America, the president’s perpetual campaign organization, stages a show in Denver.
MORE ENVIRONMENTAL INSANITY
Let’s see ... the wildfire in southern California has now killed two firefighters, destroyed at least 76 homes and burned nearly 242 square miles of the Angeles National Forest.
”Months before the huge blaze erupted, the U.S. Forest Service obtained permits to burn away the undergrowth and brush on more than 1,700 acres of the Angeles National Forest. But just 193 acres had been cleared by the time the fire broke out .... [C]ritics suggested that protests from environmentalists over prescribed burns contributed to the disaster, which came after the brush was allowed to build up for as much as 40 years .... Biologist Ileene Anderson with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental organization, said burn permits should be difficult to get because of the potential damage to air quality. Clearing chaparral by hand or machine must be closely scrutinized because it can hurt native species.”
Uh, huh. Now over 200 square miles of “biological diversity” is gone. And the air quality? Well, let’s see ... 1700 acres permitted for controlled burning is bad; 155,000 acres actually burned is ....?
But not to worry, the environmentalists know what the real problem is – global warming. “[H]igher temperatures lead to both reduced snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas and an earlier melt, which in turn produces a longer and drier fire season. Result: more and bigger fires.”
Uh, guys, it’s really pretty simple: no fuel, no fires.
”Months before the huge blaze erupted, the U.S. Forest Service obtained permits to burn away the undergrowth and brush on more than 1,700 acres of the Angeles National Forest. But just 193 acres had been cleared by the time the fire broke out .... [C]ritics suggested that protests from environmentalists over prescribed burns contributed to the disaster, which came after the brush was allowed to build up for as much as 40 years .... Biologist Ileene Anderson with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental organization, said burn permits should be difficult to get because of the potential damage to air quality. Clearing chaparral by hand or machine must be closely scrutinized because it can hurt native species.”
Uh, huh. Now over 200 square miles of “biological diversity” is gone. And the air quality? Well, let’s see ... 1700 acres permitted for controlled burning is bad; 155,000 acres actually burned is ....?
But not to worry, the environmentalists know what the real problem is – global warming. “[H]igher temperatures lead to both reduced snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas and an earlier melt, which in turn produces a longer and drier fire season. Result: more and bigger fires.”
Uh, guys, it’s really pretty simple: no fuel, no fires.
PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
Jules Crittenden, a journalist and 2003 embed with A Co., 4/64 Armor, 2nd Bge, 3rd ID in Iraq, writes on the incident in which The Associated Press decided to go against the wishes of a young Marine’s family and publish a photograph of him taken after he was mortally wounded in Afghanistan.
Crittenden’s analysis is evenhanded with respect to both sides of the “publish or not” dispute, and worth a read for his insight.
Don Surber also posted his thoughts, initially putting up the photo, then on second thought, removing it.
Ignoring whether or not the publication was in violation of the embed agreement AP signed with DoD, my feeling is that the picture of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard should not have been published. Not so much because it added to or detracted from the story, but simply in respect to the wishes the family, whose remembrance of him will be forever affected by that single picture.
I still recall my father’s body in his casket, 30 years ago, and I still have trouble remembering him as he was before his untimely death.
Crittenden’s analysis is evenhanded with respect to both sides of the “publish or not” dispute, and worth a read for his insight.
Don Surber also posted his thoughts, initially putting up the photo, then on second thought, removing it.
Ignoring whether or not the publication was in violation of the embed agreement AP signed with DoD, my feeling is that the picture of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard should not have been published. Not so much because it added to or detracted from the story, but simply in respect to the wishes the family, whose remembrance of him will be forever affected by that single picture.
I still recall my father’s body in his casket, 30 years ago, and I still have trouble remembering him as he was before his untimely death.
SARAH PALIN VS. DR. DEATH
Not Dr. Jack Kevorkian, but Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the president's health care czar.
Clayton Cramer thinks that the column “overstates Sarah Palin's role ... and the actual role of section 1233, but still does a cute job of reminding us that one of the big differences between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats are elitists, convinced that their superior educations allow them to ignore issues of morality....”
I agree with Cramer and would add only that I think the column accurately and precisely describes the “progressive” view as it is taught in the colleges of liberal arts at America’s universities.
One day he was vacationing in the Italian Alps, a top-level government bureaucrat and Democrat insider enjoying the fruits of his labors on behalf of the common good. Government health care was cruising and Zeke was the guy Time magazine predicted will build the most "equitable and ethical" health care system north of Cuba. Marty Peretz, his friend and publisher of The New Republic, described him as quintessential Harvard, "very impressive" and stuffed with "gravitas."
And then he got the call: Sarah Palin had done the unthinkable. She had read the health care bill. Mainstream journalists hadn't read the bill. Congress hadn't read its own bill. But Sarah Palin did. Sarah Palin! He has a medical degree and doctorate in political philosophy from Harvard. The only Harvard she's knows is the chunk of ice off Prince William Sound, Harvard Glacier.
Then she writes something on Facebook -- Facebook, for Obama's sake! -- and suddenly the president, congress, the media, and everyone who is anyone inside the beltway is scurrying for cover. Palin wrote that she wanted nothing to do with Obama's "death panel," the collection of bureaucrats who Zeke was so proudly putting together to assess the "level of productivity" that would determine individual access to medical care.
Clayton Cramer thinks that the column “overstates Sarah Palin's role ... and the actual role of section 1233, but still does a cute job of reminding us that one of the big differences between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats are elitists, convinced that their superior educations allow them to ignore issues of morality....”
I agree with Cramer and would add only that I think the column accurately and precisely describes the “progressive” view as it is taught in the colleges of liberal arts at America’s universities.
WRONG TURNS
How Obama's Health-Care Push Went Astray. The complete Wall Street Journal article is interesting and well worth reading, but here is the key graf:
In their infinite wisdom, the liberals have it wrong (again). The people didn’t come with talking points from from talk radio; talk radio got its talking points from them. That’s the difference between grass roots and astroturf.
Rep. Peter Welch, a liberal Democrat from Vermont, had his epiphany during a meeting in a Mini Mart parking lot in Derbyline, a small town on the Canadian border. Over 50 people crowded around a couple of Dumpsters to berate him. “It was stunning,” Rep. Welch said. “They came with talking points’ gleaned from talk radio.”
In their infinite wisdom, the liberals have it wrong (again). The people didn’t come with talking points from from talk radio; talk radio got its talking points from them. That’s the difference between grass roots and astroturf.
EXOSKELETONS ARE ON THE MARCH
An army of exoskeletons is coming. And according to their inventor, Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, in Japan, they’re making a difference in the lives of disabled people.
As Glenn Reynolds likes to say when discussing technology advances in health care, “Faster, please.” With something like this, my mother, who is wheelchair bound, could possibly use a walker.
As Glenn Reynolds likes to say when discussing technology advances in health care, “Faster, please.” With something like this, my mother, who is wheelchair bound, could possibly use a walker.
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