DAVY CROCKETT has died. I had the pleasure of meeting Fess Parker once - on an airplane flight many, many years ago. He spent nearly the entire flight in the coach class, signing autographs and chatting with passengers.

A decent man.

OOPS!

OK, the ellipsis dots at the end tell you that the headline [California Teacher Arrested for Allegedly Teaching ...] was truncated to fit in the space available.

But still ...

“PRESIDENT BUSH called the attitude embodied in President Obama’s new [education] policy the ‘soft bigotry of low expectations.’ I think he was wrong about the soft.”

BEST PRACTICES - for whom? “Throughout the behemoth legislation are countless new boards, commissions and oversight bureaus designed to assess quality of care, design “best practices” and force – through incentives and penalties – the implementation of the government’s idea of beneficial health services. Those “best practices” will not necessarily reflect the desires of doctors and patients, but the treatments that pass the government’s cost/benefit analyses.”

IT’S NOT ABOUT CONTROL



“The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.”

Nope. It’s not about control. Pay no attention to what he said.

Link from Michelle Malkin.

IN SEVEN MONTHS, I’ll get (some of) mine. You, dear reader, will get the bill.

2010: CROSSING THE RUBICON. Victor Davis Hanson thinks America has done so already; Thomas Sowell believes the point of no return for America will be the 2010 Congressional elections.

Certainly the time is near.

BUT, BUT, ... healthcare will be different.

Yeah, right.

EVERY TIME YOU USE A SUPPOSITORY, think of this health care vote.

HEALTHCARE FOR THEE, but not for me.

Hypocrites ....

YOU’RE HARSHING MY MELLOW: “The young people will be furious because when they voted for Obama with unicorn dreams, they didn’t imagine having to actually pay for health care with money that could be used to buy beer.”

JUST FRED

A cop stops a Harley for traveling faster than the posted speed limit, so he asks the biker his name.

'Fred,' he replies.

'Fred what?' the officer asks.

'Just Fred,' the man responds.

The officer is in a good mood and thinks he might just give the biker a break and, write him out a warning instead of a ticket. The officer then presses him for the last name.

The man tells him that he used to have a last name but lost it. The officer thinks that he has a nut case on his hands but plays along with it. 'Tell me, Fred, how did you lose your last name?'

The biker replies, 'It's a long story, so stay with me.' I was born Fred Johnson. I studied hard and got good grades.

When I got older, I realized that I wanted to be a doctor. I went through college, medical school, internship, residency, and finally got my degree, so I was Fred Johnson, MD. After a while I got bored being a doctor, so I decided to go back to school.

Dentistry was my dream! Got all the way through School, got my degree, so then I was Fred Johnson, MD, DDS.

Got bored doing dentistry, so I started fooling around with my assistant and she gave me VD, so now I was Fred Johnson, MD, DDS, with VD.

Well, the ADA found out about the VD, so they took away my DDS.

Then I was Fred Johnson, MD, with VD. Then the AMA found out about the ADA taking away my DDS because of the VD, so they took away my MD leaving me as Fred Johnson with VD.

Then the VD took away my Johnson, so now I am Just Fred.'

The officer walked away in tears, laughing.

Sometimes a laugh is really needed.

WE’VE CROSSED THE RUBICON argues Victor Davis Hanson:

President Obama has crossed the Rubicon with the health care vote. The bill was not really about medicine; after all, a moderately priced, relatively small federal program could offer the poorer not now insured, presently not on Medicare or state programs like Medicaid or Medical, a basic medical plan.

We have no interest in stopping trial lawyers from milking the system for billions. And we don’t want to address in any meaningful way the individual’s responsibility in some cases (drink, drugs, violence, dangerous sex, bad diet, sloth, etc.) for costly and chronic health procedures.

No, instead, the bill was about assuming a massive portion of the private sector, hiring tens of thousands of loyal, compliant new employees, staffing new departments with new technocrats, and feeling wonderful that we “are leveling the playing field” and have achieved another Civil Rights landmark law.

Read it all to see our future in Obama’s vision. It ain’t pretty.

ARIZONA “CRIMINALIZES” illegal immigrants for “coming to the United States illegally".

Huh?

'DEEMOCRACY' in action. Mark Steyn comments: “Obamacare will result in the creation of at least 16,500 new jobs. Doctors? Nurses? Dream on, suckers. That's 16,500 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents, who'll be needed to check whether you - yes, you, Mr. and Mrs. Hopendope of 27 Hopeychangey Gardens - are in compliance with the 15 tax increases and dozens of new federal mandates the Deemocrats are about to "deem" into existence.”

THE FUTURE OF OBAMACARE:


Courtesy of John Mcpherson (Close to Home cartoon).

OBAMA TO AMERICA — I win, you lose.

UPDATE: a Stupak payoff? I don't believe in coincidence.

THIS IS A GREAT COUNTRY. There were three protest rallies around the Washington Mall on Saturday. A Tea Party rally against health reform on the Capitol steps:

A “Coffee Party” rally for jobs and education in Lafayette Park behind the White House:

And an antiwar display on the Ellipse in front of the White House.

In what other nation could all that happen – without violence – within a half-mile radius?

THE “COFFEE PARTY” LIBERALS want an end to war, more ‘edjumakation’ and jobs.




The “protestors” numbered at most a hundred or so, a few aging hippies mixed in with a largely young (college-aged?) crowd. For a while, the Secret Service and Park Service police nearly out-numbered the protestors.

My sense is that if these were indeed college students, more education would be a waste of time, and based on dress and attitude, I can understand why they’re unemployed.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES from the Tea Party healthcare protest rally at the Capitol steps on March 20, 2010.

Congress’ end game; control everything.

We deem you fired.

We want our country back.

You can’t fix stupid.

How many billions to buy a sleazy liberal?

Luckily, I’ve already had ccncer.

Tear down this bill.

Use the “back” buttion - change it back.

Beck: faith, hope, and charity.

Jefferson, on elective despotism.

Pork payoffs: some pigs are more equal.

Lay off Congress instead.

The Constitution is more than a piece of paper.

A self-evident truth.

For the most part, the signs were hand made; a fact that did not go unnoticed.