LIARS AND THE MEDIA SYNCOPHANTS who enable them.

Expect more of this.

IN THE RUN-UP TO OBAMACARE, our President lambasted (greedy) insurance company ripoffs as a reason to promote government intervention.

After participating in last Saturday’s Tea Party protest on the Capitol steps, my wife and I stopped at the National Museum of (the) American Indian for some refreshments before returning home. We paid $8.97 for two bottles of water ($2.95 ea.) and a cookie ($2.25).

Its the insurance companies who are ripping us off?

ARE THE SECULAR HUMANISTS getting religion?

OBAMACARE: it’s not a death panel; it’s an SRR (shovel-ready review).

Mine’s in about 7 months.

POSTSCRIPT: I wish I could claim originality for the comment, but it was overheard at the Tea Party protest last Saturday.

POST-POSTSCRIPT: It’s also a matter of some amusement to me that in defense contractor parlance, an SRR is a System Readiness Review, which fits right in with ObamaCare.

OBAMACARE IN ONE IMAGE


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LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICS

“Under the headline ‘Costly Bill Seen as Saving Money,’ the San Francisco Chronicle last week began a front-page story with these words: ‘Many people find it hard to understand how the health care legislation heading for a decisive vote Sunday can cost $940 billion and cut the horrendous federal deficit at the same time.’”

“It's not hard to understand at all. It is a lie.”

PLAYING THE VICTIM. Follow the link and then ask yourself: “Doesn’t this describe the Democrats’ reaction to America’s rejection of Obamacare perfectly?”

WE DON’T PAY NO STINKIN’ TAXES. Especially if we’re a black, politically correct, politically connected politician in D.C.

Taxes are for little people.

A QUESTION FOR OBAMACARE: according to our president, purchasing health care (insurance) will be mandatory for everyone; denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions will be banned; and premiums will be subsidized for anyone who cannot afford them.

Correct?

Then why allow “students” an additional three years on their parents’ coverage?

Cynical answer: so they’ll vote in the 2012 presidential election before they realize they’ve been duped.

I’M ON THE SIDE OF HOWARD STERN? He is done with democrats. He now sees them as communists.

Hat tip Instapundit for the link.

THE LATEST POSTING FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT shows the National Debt has increased over $2 trillion since President Obama took office. In only 421 days. That’s a mere $4.75 billion per day. And that’s without ObamaCare.

We have Johannes Gutenberg to thank.

ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT GLOBAL WARMISM kills people.

But that’s what environmentalists want, isn’t it? Let the little people freeze and starve in the dark so they can keep their heat, lights, telephones, cars , ... , airplanes for themselves.

RECENTLY THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE has been advertising regularly on the local radio station promoting reducing dropouts and providing more college education as the cure-all for improving productivity.

I have a contrarian view: perhaps it is not a lack of education that’s contributing to a loss of US productivity; it’s too much education. Maybe, just maybe, it’s the dropouts who are maintaining U.S. productivity despite a “lack of education.” Consider this example, quoted in full:

...pointless test... in school, i was average at best. There was no teacher for what i was interested in... intelligence is the ability to uphold opposing ideas, examine it's spectra, and develop the mind. Example; This Vs. That, to the untrained mind it means 'victory' as the goal. To a trained mind, it is This IS That; understood. Einstein taught that Space is Time; relativity. He may have been wrong. Why, quanta is impermanent. The idea here is that the mind can be developed so any IQ test is short-sighted. Last I checked, my IQ was way over 140, yet i can't figure out percentages, i always look it up. As Socrates wisely said, 'I'm the wisest man in the World; I don't know anything at all.' And the Buddha said 2,700 years ago, 'to know is Not to know. Knowing not to know is wisdom.' LOL, you have been reading my blogs. Good. Meditation means 'mental development' Later

This was the first comment on the Popular Mechanics web quiz “What's Your DIY [do it yourself] IQ? PM's Ultimate Fix-It Quiz.” about your knowledge of popular do-it-yourself tools and techniques. The commenter above clearly thinks he/she is educated. He or she may well be a university graduate, I don't know for certain. I do know for certain is that he/she isn’t productive.

I also know for certain that I’ll go for productivity over education every day of the week.

Instapundit link to the PM quiz.

Oh, by the way, I scored 20 of 25 on the quiz. And I only have a PhD.