“A new GAO report says that in fiscal years 2006 and 2007, prescription drug fraud in Medicaid cost more than $63 million in just five states: California, Illinois, New York, North Carolina and Texas.”
And you want the government to take over healthcare? And it’ll only cost $829 billion over 10 years?
Friday, October 09, 2009
WHATEVER
The most annoying term of 2009.
It can be an all-purpose argument-ender or a signal of apathy. And it can really be annoying. The poll found "whatever" to be consistently disliked by Americans regardless of their race, gender, age, income or where they live.Whatever.
IT'S OFFICIAL
Barack Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The world has gone completely insane; the inmates have taken over the asylum.
[Update] Even Richard Cohen is astonished.
[Another update] Why didn’t Obama win the Nobel Prize for Literature? And Instapundit is on a roll ... keep checking.
[Yet another update] Perhaps the Nobel Committee [Committee? or Committed? - Daisy] should rename it the "Good Intentions" Prize.
[Final update] Meet the people who didn't win.
The world has gone completely insane; the inmates have taken over the asylum.
[Update] Even Richard Cohen is astonished.
[Another update] Why didn’t Obama win the Nobel Prize for Literature? And Instapundit is on a roll ... keep checking.
[Yet another update] Perhaps the Nobel Committee [Committee? or Committed? - Daisy] should rename it the "Good Intentions" Prize.
[Final update] Meet the people who didn't win.
WE’RE NUMBER ONE!
Systems Engineers. “Demand is soaring for systems engineers, as what was once a niche job in the aerospace and defense industries becomes commonplace among a diverse and expanding universe of employers ....”
Well, yes. I’ve had a mostly enjoyable career as a systems engineer, but don’t let anyone tell you that it isn’t a very volatile occupation. Read the comments.
Well, yes. I’ve had a mostly enjoyable career as a systems engineer, but don’t let anyone tell you that it isn’t a very volatile occupation. Read the comments.
CONGRESSIONAL “CLAWBACK”
Obama's pay czar proposes taking back monies already legally paid to executives.
Why not try the same thing with our congresscritters?
Why not try the same thing with our congresscritters?
DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND
WARNING: “F-bomb” content.
Democrats: do you really want these people on your side?
And this is in the “Greatest Threads” section.
Democrats: do you really want these people on your side?
And this is in the “Greatest Threads” section.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
DEVASTATING CRITIQUE
CBS foreign correspondent Lara Logan provides a devasting critique of Obama’s (apparent) Afghanistan policy.
Watch CBS News Videos Online
Via Hot Air.
Watch CBS News Videos Online
Via Hot Air.
FACT-CHECKING “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE”
Well, CNN recognizes that most viewers get their news from the comedy channels.
What they don’t recognize is that most viewers get their news from the comedy channels (unless they think CNN stands for Comedy News Network).
Reader Kafir comments: “Hey, fair is fair. Remember all the times the MSM fact-checked SNL skits about Bush? Wait …”
What they don’t recognize is that most viewers get their news from the comedy channels (unless they think CNN stands for Comedy News Network).
Reader Kafir comments: “Hey, fair is fair. Remember all the times the MSM fact-checked SNL skits about Bush? Wait …”
ONLINE TRACKING
”[S]ome two-thirds of Americans surveyed object to their being tracked online by advertisers. Further, once people learn about the various ways marketers can follow their online movements, the percentage climbed even higher.”
Uh, what’s new?
Uh, what’s new?
BLESSING IN DISGUISE
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, March 30, 2006: “The American people ... have to work five days a week. I don’t know why we shouldn’t.”
Politico just reported that the House no longer works 4 days a week. It works 2 1/2 days — a half-day on Tuesday and full days on Wednesday and Thursday.
Missouri Republican Congressman Roy Blunt looks on the bright side: "Two and a half days a week is plenty of time to consider the ideas coming out of this Democrat-led House. Imagine the damage they could do with five-day workweeks."
And from a comment at Don's place: ”[A]s long as the Democrats are in power, a two-day Congressional workweek should be seen as a blessing.”
Politico just reported that the House no longer works 4 days a week. It works 2 1/2 days — a half-day on Tuesday and full days on Wednesday and Thursday.
Missouri Republican Congressman Roy Blunt looks on the bright side: "Two and a half days a week is plenty of time to consider the ideas coming out of this Democrat-led House. Imagine the damage they could do with five-day workweeks."
And from a comment at Don's place: ”[A]s long as the Democrats are in power, a two-day Congressional workweek should be seen as a blessing.”
A ZEPTOSECOND
A zeptosecond is 0.000000000000000000001 second. (10^-21 seconds). Instapundit defines it as “the interval between passage of a tax increase, and legislators starting to think about the next one” but reader Jonathan Bailey corrects him ....
BURDEN OF PROOF
“[Orly] Taitz -- dentist, lawyer, wife of a software executive, mother of three and a leading proponent of the ... birther campaign against President Obama -- walks briskly past her law office, which is conveniently beside the dental practice. Inside the law office is a modest conference room with a table, eight chairs, a couple of abstract paintings and a houseplant. It is here that Taitz dreams of deposing the U.S. president, proving that he is a citizen not of this country but of Kenya, maybe, or possibly Indonesia, perhaps even -- who knows? -- that he is secretly controlled by Saudi Arabia.”
When the “birther” controversy began, I was against pursuing it, citing the presidential order of succession: Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner ... how bad could Obama be?
Now Biden’s beginning to look better and better ....
When the “birther” controversy began, I was against pursuing it, citing the presidential order of succession: Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner ... how bad could Obama be?
Now Biden’s beginning to look better and better ....
STEYN ON OBAMA
Forget the first part: "That’s just his usual narcissistic 'But enough about me, let’s talk about what the world thinks of me' shtick. But the second is dangerous in its cowardly evasiveness: For better or worse, we are defined by our differences — and, if Barack Obama doesn’t understand that when he’s at the podium addressing a room filled with representatives of Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Venezuela, and other unlovely polities, the TV audience certainly [does]."
Read it all.
Some other Mark Steyn favorites: The Long Retreat; The Omnipresent Leader; Where Is Obama’s ‘Center’?
Read it all.
Some other Mark Steyn favorites: The Long Retreat; The Omnipresent Leader; Where Is Obama’s ‘Center’?
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
ON OBAMA’S UN SPEECH
Michael Gerson translates: "I know you adore me because I am better than America’s flawed past. But don’t just stand there loving me, do something."
A late post is Better than none.
A late post is Better than none.
THE EGO HAS LANDED
Crashed is more like it.
The embarrassment over Chicago finishing dead last in Copenhagen was also felt by the multitude of Obama promoters in the media that almost unanimously jumped to the supine conclusion that victory for Chicago was assured once the president announced his plan to bless the International Olympic Committee with his presence.But of course it had to be the Republican’s fault:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz, ... blamed Republican negativity for Chicago's defeat, and then truly lost control of his mental faculties: "They only support America when it's good for their political agenda. What the Republicans did, I think, rivals Jane Fonda sitting on a gun in North Vietnam."Poor choice of imagery, Ed. Just in case you forgot, Jane Fonda was/is a Democrat.
ALFRED E. OBAMA
When you lose Mad magazine ...
... it's all over.
Reminds me of Lt. Gen. Russel Honore's "let's not get stuck on stupid" to reporters following hurricane Rita in 2005.
Via Don Surber.
... it's all over.
Reminds me of Lt. Gen. Russel Honore's "let's not get stuck on stupid" to reporters following hurricane Rita in 2005.
Via Don Surber.
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