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January 30, 2010
Lil' O-Bama! 1-31-10 from TFMo!
Part 2 of "The Lose Brothers!"
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January 28, 2010
Lil' O-Bama! 1-29-10 from TFMo!
Part 1 of a brand spankin' new Lil' O mini-series!
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January 26, 2010
Lil' O-Bama! 1-27-10 from TFMo!
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January 23, 2010
Sunday Funnies from TFMo!
Like it was even a question.
For those not in the know about "Ellie Light", Ace O' Spades has the straight shizzle.
Whatever the hell that is.
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January 21, 2010
Supreme Court v Campaign Financing
From the AP:
A bitterly divided Supreme Court vastly increased the power of big business and unions to influence government decisions Thursday by freeing them to spend their millions directly to sway elections for president and Congress. The ruling reversed a century-long trend to limit the political muscle of corporations, organized labor and their massive war chests. It also recast the political landscape just as crucial midterm election campaigns are getting under way. In its sweeping 5-4 ruling, the court set the stage for a wave of likely repercussions -- from new pressures on lawmakers to heed special interest demands to increasingly boisterous campaigns featuring highly charged ads that drown out candidate voices.
Perhaps it's my own naivete, but why in the hell are BUSINESSES contributing to campaigns? Do businesses vote? Do they have voter registrations? Does some guy go to the booth and say “Hi, my name is Wal-Mart. I'll be voting today.”?
PEOPLE vote. PEOPLE have driver's licenses. PEOPLE register.
If a guy owns a business or several businesses, he is still ONE VOTE. The people who work for him are their own individual votes.
End the limitation on PEOPLE contributing to campaigns, and remove BUSINESSES from it altogether. If I want to contribute a million dollars to a candidate, then I should be able to do so. Restricting me to $2500 while allowing Soros to divert millions from his various businesses, unions extorting millions from their members then handing it to whomever THEY choose, regardless of the wishes of the members themselves, makes no sense. If Soros wants to contribute a million dollars, let it come from his own pocket.
No tax deductions, no loopholes, no BS. Make it a straight transaction, just like buying groceries.
Here's my CFR: Give as much as you want, if you are a human being and a legal citizen of this country, and not currently serving a prison term. Period.
If anyone out there can make a legitimate argument in favor of businesses contributing to campaigns, I'd love to hear it.
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January 19, 2010
Massachusetts No Longer The Mass. Grave Of Our American Society.......
Hey chairman Zero....can you hear us silly patriots now?
Congratulations America...the founding fathers are no longer spinning in their graves but Ted "The swimmer" Kennedy is.
2010 is going to be very very interesting.......break out the popcorn, there are going to be a lot of socialist heads exploding.
And Nancy? Kiss your ass good bye.....the San Fransisco treat you aren't...
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January 18, 2010
We Must Stop The Health Care Bill At All Costs!
Yes, I am biased at this point. I was never for the *health care* bill in any form but now I have seen what it would truly mean for everyone.
We have all joked that if it passes, health care in this country would be like the twisted love child of the DMV and a free clinic in the mission district.
But actually...it would be far worse.
It would be the enabler of the bad doctors and nurses...and they exist in far too many numbers now, and the good nurses and doctors are not shy about telling you that if this travesty of a health care bill passes they will quit.
And I don't blame them.
I had trouble being in the same room with some of the bad employees without doing bodily harm.
And it never failed that the horrible ones were proud members of the SEIU. The lousy doctors could barely speak English and came from countries where life was already cheap....and they had no problem wanting it that way here too.
The doctor that wanted to pull life support from my son on the second day was one of them... he was more interested in harvesting organs than keeping people alive.
And on a side note... I know I will piss some people off with what I have to say next, but please hear me out.Do not put organ donor on your license if you are young and healthy. Do not let your children do it either...especially not your kids. Have a legal document in the care of someone you really trust if you want to be an organ donor [which is a great thing to be] but you don't want the hospital making that decision for you or your loved one.
We have the best insurance money can buy so that wasn't the reason either.
You may be sitting there thinking that you don't have a special needs child or an adult child with traumatic brain injury......but you might some day. And if this bill passes their lives won't be worth spit.
And the TV show "House" will be even more of a fantasy than it is now.....and your life when you get sick will be much more of a nightmare.
Trust me....I just spent a month in Hell, I know what I'm talking about............
Massachusetts...it's up to you now, don't let the rest of the country down.
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January 17, 2010
There Are Miracles....
As many of you know my son was in a terrible car accident in early December. It was a freakishly cold night and he hit black ice on a very rural road , his car struck a tree at about 60+ miles per hour, then traveled up the oak tree snapping it off and then ,according to the CHP, corkscrewed through the air for 30 feet before landing on it's top and sliding to a stop in a pasture. He was discovered by a passing driver but he was not breathing, hanging upside down in the seat belt harness and bleeding badly. When the rescue crews arrived he had been without oxygen for between 8 to ten minutes as far as any of them could tell. They had trouble prying him out of what was left of his car but once they did he was life flighted to the nearest trauma center where they gave him the lowest survival score possible. His body temperature was only 90 degrees.....
We got the call that every parent dreads at about 2 in the morning, and at that time his brother ,who called us, didn't know if his brother was alive or not. The hospital had simply called him and asked him to come in and "identify his brother". Since he was brought in without any ID.....there was such a large "debris field" at the accident scene they didn't find his wallet till later that night..... he came in to the hospital as a John Doe.
We called a friend to take care of the animals and jumped in our truck and started driving. I can't even really explain how surreal the drive was as we live five and a half hours away and there is no cell service for most of the way, so we drove, mostly in silence, thinking our middle son was dead. It had begun to snow and it would have normally been a beautiful sight....but that night it just seemed ominous.
When we were about an hour out we had enough bars for cell service and both of us were afraid to make the call, but we did, and our youngest son told us that his brother had survived and was on a ventilator in the trauma intensive care unit, but that he was not expected to live through the night.
All I kept thinking over and over in my head was that he was ALIVE and that's all that mattered.
Most mothers will tell you that they can "feel" their kids and know if there is something wrong or not, and I am no exception. And what had really frightened me the whole drive down was that I couldn't get any sense of my son....he just, all of a sudden, seemed not to be there. And when I went into his room in the TICU I still couldn't feel him at all...even though he was laying right there in front of me.
The neurosurgeon was blunt and to the point, she said that he would not live till morning and that we should prepare ourselves for that fact. She opened his right eye [the other eye was down in his sinus cavity] and used a flashlight to check his pupil reaction....there was none. When I saw his eye I realized why I couldn't 'feel' him...he simply wasn't there.
I cannot tell you what it feels like to be looking at your son's body and know that there was nothing there except a body that machines were keeping alive. All the life and laughter that you are used to seeing ,and taking for granted, were gone. Simply gone. In a moment, one second, one patch of ice and the oh-so-fragile life is simply gone.
The neurosurgeon was extremely kind and explained all of his injuries to us...the crushing chest injury, the compressed skull fracture the size of the palm of my hand to the left temple area, the massive bleed that was going on in his brain combined with the lack of oxygen for an extended period of time she said did not warrant any chance for recovery. Plus the fact that he was 'posturing'...a term referring to autonomic body movements.
We sat and held his hands all night and talked to him telling him to hang on.
And he did.
Miracle number one.
There was an English nurse there that was, to put it mildly, a saint. She bent all the rules so that we could stay with him but she also was very blunt in telling us that in 32 years of working in TICU she had never seen anyone 'come back' from these injuries. She would come in every half hour and do a sternum rub on him and yell at him to wake up. There was no reaction.
But we kept talking to him, his brother kept talking to him and all of his friends [posing as his brothers] rotated in and out and talked to him.
I cannot explain how strange it is to sit in a room with your son with machines keeping him alive, clicking and whirring, at 3 in the morning. To look at him swollen and mangled beyond recognition in the blue glow of the monitors. Or what it is like to have the alarms go off and to watch people run in and start working on him and you sit there frozen, helpless. Or what it is like to step out of the room, silently crying, and look down the hallway at all the other parents doing the same thing.
It makes everything else seem so trivial, so pointless.
The second day the day shift doctor told us that we needed to have "a talk"....then he went on to say that someone else could use the bed. I pointed out that "someone" already was using the bed and he shrugged and left the room. We knew that time was running out. We kept talking to our son, telling him what was happening and that he needed to hang on and to wake up. The third day I noticed his nose wrinkle up, something he had not done before and I squeezed his hand gently and kept calling his name and telling him that if he were in pain that he needed to squeeze my hand.
The second miracle....he did. It was faint but it was there. My husband got the nurse and told her what had happened...and she of course thought it was just wishful thinking on our part. She stood on the other side of the bed from me, did a sternum rub and yelled at him to squeeze her hand...and he did. Weakly, but he did.
Her face lit up like a Christmas tree and she gave me a thumbs up sign. She then ran out of the room and got on the phone to the neurosurgeon and we could hear her laughing and saying "you won't believe this but...."
Up until this point they had not dealt with any of the many fractures to his face and skull because he wasn't stable enough, and they told us, frankly, that there was no point.
Now that he was showing "signs of life" they called in a reconstructive surgeon who worked with the neurosurgeon to repair our son's face and head. Because his brain was still swelling and bleeding they didn't want to touch the massive skull fracture...yet. It was just too risky, they didn't want to open up his skull if they didn't have to. We were told that his skull would be deformed, but we also were told that they could deal with that much later when he was more stable.
And he was ALIVE.
The surgery went well although at some point he had a stroke. I sat by his bed holding his hands and watching the monitors measuring every bit of his life. He began to bleed out of his nose and eyes and that scared the life out of me, but the doctors assured us it wasn't that unexpected. But he still wasn't waking up.
The next morning the doctors told us that they wanted to try taking him off the meds that were keeping him in a coma to see if he would 'over breathe' the machines. At first he didn't but they kept trying every hour or so and by the early afternoon he was trying so they made us leave the room and wait in the waiting room with all the other half-dead-with-fear people.
I have never been so afraid in my life.
When the nurse opened the door an hour later she motioned us in and then smiled and said "he couldn't wait for us..... he ripped the vent right out before we had a chance to deflate it."
Miracle three.
And then the really hard part began.........he was transferred to the traumatic brain injury unit where he began initial therapy.
He was released from there two days before Christmas and we all spent a very quiet but happy time together at his house. He has a group of therapists that come in every day; cognitive, physical, neuro-psychologists [they can tell by testing how his brain is healing..it's pretty amazing] and occupational...they help him re-learn things like eating three times a day. Because of the location of his brain injuries he doesn't have any sense of hunger and most likely never will. Long term and short term memory are also affected as is his left side from the stroke.
And biggest miracle of all? He keeps beating their predictions for best case scenario every time....he is getting better.
Thank you to all of you that sent emails and prayed for him. It worked.
And for those of you that doubt that there is anything past this life ,think about this; the first thing he asked us when he could talk was why hadn't mike and grandpa been able to "come through with him?" He was very insistent and upset that they weren't with him "anymore". He had been in a gray a place and a green place with them, they talked to him and were there with him.
Mike has been dead since 2000 and grandpa has been dead for over forty years....he didn't know mike well at all and he never met his grandpa.
And then there is this: he wanted to know what happened to the person that was in the car with him at the time of the accident. There was no one in the car with him.
Even the jaded nurses were fascinated by this.....so were the doctors.
But I know someone was looking out for him or he wouldn't be alive. If it hadn't been so cold and he hadn't been hanging upside down his brain would have died from the lack of oxygen, if someone hadn't of come along that lonely road...the road that the CHP pointed out usually had no traffic on it at that time of night, and called the accident in he would have died. One small change and he wouldn't be alive today.
I thank God for my son every day...
And we all owe a huge debt to his younger brother, they are and have always been the best of friends...and youngest son really showed everyone what he is made of; honest steel and a great heart.
And he looks like Vince Vaughn......
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MLK Day Cartoon from TFMo!
Somehow, I don't think calling yourself post-racial while your cronies pull the race card to silence opposition to your policies is what Rev. King had in mind, MISTER President.
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January 10, 2010
Hope And Game Change
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Hopenchangin' in Copenhagen! from TFMo! AGAIN!
Finally got a condensed version of the Hopenchangin' miniseries up. Not the best quality, but I'll fix that when I get my regular laptop up and running again. Hope y'all giggle!
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January 09, 2010
MA Senate Seat-Dems 1, Voters 0
This in from Frank Quaratiello at the Boston Herald:
It looks like the fix is in on national health-care reform - and it all may unfold on Beacon Hill. At a business forum in Boston today, interim Sen. Paul Kirk predicted that Congress would pass a health-care reform bill this month.“We want to get this resolved before President Obama’s State of the Union address in early to mid-February,” Kirk told reporters at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast.
The longtime aide and confidant of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who was handpicked by Gov. Deval Patrick after a controversial legal change to hold Kennedy’s seat, vowed to vote for the bill even if Republican state Sen. Scott Brown, who opposes the health-care reform legislation, prevails in a Jan. 19 special election.
“Absolutely,” Kirk said, when asked if he’d vote for the bill, even if Brown captures the seat. “It would be my responsibility as United States senator, representing the people and understanding Senator Kennedy’s agenda. . . . I think you’re asking me a hypothetical question but I’d be pleased to vote for the bill.”
Once upon a time, the Governor of Massachusetts would pick an interim replacement for a Senator, should something happen to the original Senator. The “Lion of the Senate” Ted Kennedy had that changed back when Mitt Romney was governor, presumably to make sure that the Republicans could never get a toe-hold into the Senate. Of course, that was no longer needed once Deval Patrick, a fellow Democrat, got the office. So once Sen. Kennedy shuffled off this mortal coil, the Democrats desperately needed to make sure the interim Senator would maintain their 60 vote super-majority. So the law was changed once again and Paul Kirk got the seat.
But now there is a special election, and there is a decent chance that Republican contender Scott Brown may defeat state AG Martha Coakley, which would end the super-majority and jeopardize ObamaCare.
Naturally, the Dems can't have that.
They will do whatever they can to blunt the will of the people and drag out the confirmation process until well after the State of the Union Address, the deadline imposed to get this bill passed. Never mind the fact that Brown would most certainly be elected for the specific purpose of defeating ObamaCare, by thusly refusing to allow Brown to cast his vote, they will cheerfully stomp all over the will of the people.
But oh, it's just the rules, right? There's no way the Dems would ever allow a candidate to be rushed through for a crucial vote, right?
In contrast, Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) was sworn in at the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 18, 2007, just two days after winning a special election to replace Martin Meehan. In that case, Tsongas made it to Capitol Hill in time to override a presidential veto of the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Uh huh. Double standards and hypocrisy. And with Reid and the other Communists running our Senate, pushing through a cloture vote to end debate before it even starts, and now deciding that 40% of the Senate and the people they represent are not worthy to participate in legislation that will effect one-sixth of the economy and every man, woman, and child in the US...except, of course, the Senators, Congressmen, and President who are cramming this down our throats.
Crossposted at JBYP
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January 06, 2010
Dems Bailing-Not A Good Thing
This week, we've had three Democrats saying they're out; Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan, both Senators, announced they will not seek re-election in November. Unfortunately, we're still stuck with them until November, and Dodd has announced that he plans on making the health care overhaul-slash-nosedive into socialism his legacy, in the memory of his good buddy Ted and all the waitresses they sexually assaulted.
This is not a good thing.
The Dems know this bill is wildly unpopular, and they know it's going to be a nightmare. Why else would they insist on closed-door deliberations, refusing formal conference, midnight weekend meetings, and telling C-SPAN to go pound sand? And lest we forget, none of the people voting on this monstrosity, from either side of the aisle, will be forced to participate.
Unlike you and I.
By announcing that they are not seeking re-election, they announced to us all that they have nothing to lose. Worse than lame ducks, they are Kamikaze pilots; fully intent on sacrificing their political careers for their socialist ideology. They are now free to dive headlong into any insane legislation they can imagine, and the voter be damned.
It's great to see fewer Dems, don't get me wrong. But please, do not allow yourself to be lulled into a false sense of security. We must be even more vigilant now. It's a long road to November, and the Dems are playing Wile E. Coyote with the signs.
Crossposted at JBYP
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January 05, 2010
Amnesty-BOHICA
This from Christina Bellantoni at TPM:
Lawmakers who want to extend health coverage to illegal immigrants will not block the passage of the final health care reform bill so long as the White House offers a substantive promise to start pushing comprehensive immigration legislation this year.Democrats who want a comprehensive bill that reforms immigration law but also offers a pathway to citizenship have threatened to vote against health care if illegals aren't included in the new system, making immigration one of the sticking points as Democratic leaders negotiate the final details.
Whether or not illegals are covered under HOPERcare is a complete dodge. For one, they can promise all they want that illegals will not be covered, but it means little when there is no means of verifying citizenship in the bill, nor is there any mention of a penalty should an illegal make the attempt. As a matter of fact, the Dems have repeatedly shot down amendments to these various HOPERcare bills that WOULD include some form of ID check.
It doesn't matter, though, since the Dem's goal is to grant Amnesty to all the illegal immigrants. What does it matter if the bill says “Why, no! No illegal can participate!” if there ARE no illegals anymore? I assume hobgoblins and Klingons are not allowed in this either; shall we put that in the bill too?
Of course they're going to make a sneak-run for this. When Amnesty reared its ugly head a couple of years ago, We The People made it abundantly clear that there would be hell to pay. 70% of Americans were vehemently against it. As best as I can tell, the majority of Americans are STILL against the idea of rewarding criminals, and make no mistake: that is exactly what this is.
A big reason our medical system, from the insurance companies to the emergency rooms, are in such a mess is because illegal aliens are allowed to take advantage of our services, then skip out on the bill. Those costs must be made up somewhere, and it is those of us who DO pay for services who suffer, as those costs are reflected in what the rest of us must pay, both in the cost of the services and with out tax dollars. There are hospitals across the land that are dangerously in the red right now because of these “dine-and-dash” leeches.
But the Dems are desperate to stay in power. They have their agenda to push, and this is the only way they can do it. They know that their actions over the past few years has left a foul taste, and they are in danger of losing their jobs. The logical solution would be to quit trying to ram such unpopular bills down our throats, but logic is hardly something the Left is familiar with. No, instead of representing the will of the people, commonly referred to as THEIR JOB, they want to grant Amnesty, and thus the ability to vote, to a group that tends to vote Democrat by no less than 60%. This gains them several million additional votes, which goes a long way towards replacing the votes they've lost by their actions.
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January 04, 2010
Smashing Light Bulbs
More from the Most Transparent Administration EVAR. And no, I'm not linking. You'll see why in a moment.
Now that both the House and Senate have passed health care reform bills, all Democrats have to do is work out a compromise between the two versions. And it appears they’re not about to let the Republicans gum up the works again.According to a pair of senior Capitol Hill staffers, one from each chamber, House and Senate Democrats are “almost certain” to negotiate informally rather than convene a formal conference committee. Doing so would allow Democrats to avoid a series of procedural steps--not least among them, a series of special motions in the Senate, each requiring a vote with full debate--that Republicans could use to stall deliberations, just as they did in November and December.
Let's not be mistaken on this: The Democrats are going to completely shut out the GOP in this. In that they are “not about to let the Republicans gum up the works again”, the Democrats are going to refuse to allow nearly half the Senate a say in legislation that will affect one sixth of our economy and all but a handful (mostly elected officials) of our ENTIRE POPULACE.
Imagine if you will, if the roles were reversed. Can you picture the screams of outrage if the Left were excluded from so much as a vote between pizza or Taco Bell for lunch?
“There will almost certainly be full negotiations but no formal conference,” the House staffer says. “There are too many procedural hurdles to go the formal conference route in the Senate.”One reason Democrats expect Republicans to keep trying procedural delays is that the Republicans have signaled their intent to do so. On Christmas Eve, when the Senate passed its bill, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell memorably vowed in a floor speech that “This fight isn't over. My colleagues and I will work to stop this bill from becoming law."
“I think the Republicans have made our decision for us," the Senate staffer says. "It’s time for a little ping-pong."
In other words, they know the Republicans are going to try to force them into the light, so the Dems are taking a sledgehammer to the light bulbs. The biggest “hurdle” they seek to avoid is a forced reading of the bill (note the hack that wrote this article never mentions THAT little tidbit.) That's right, kids. They still refuse to allow ANYONE to know what it is that is being voted on, not even the people who are supposed to be voting for this thing and certainly not the people they allegedly represent.
In the most recent polling, about half the country is dead-set against this HOPERcare (That's Harry/Obama/Pelosi-Economically Retarded, for those who haven't been reading my articles. Shame on you!). And yet here we are, about to have the biggest jump to socialism crammed down our throats since FDR.
Whatever form the final discussions take place, a decision to bypass conference would undoubtedly expedite the debate, clearing the way for final passage (if not signing) by the end of January. And, as long as both chambers still get their say, that's a good thing.
Yes, Republicans are sure to complain that they're being excluded from deliberations. But given their repeated efforts to block not just reform but even mere votes on reform, it's not clear why Democrats are obligated to include them in discussions anymore.
Gee, maybe it's because by by doing so, they rob all the people that 40% of the Senate represents of a say in legislation that is going to directly affect them...unlike the elected scum voting on this, who will not be required to participate, who are getting the absolute best health care coverage in the country which is also coming out of our pockets.
This article comes from Jonathan Cohn, who claims to be a journalist.
THIS IS NOT JOURNALISM. Journalism is a presentation of the facts, devoid of the opinion of the person presenting said facts. A journalist holds the public trust; we expect FACTS from a journalist, unbiased and uncolored. Cohn is trading on his credentials as a journalist to push Obama's agenda. This is not journalism, this is blatant FRAUD. He has betrayed that sacred public trust for the sake of an agenda, and thus ruined his credibility.
I will not reward a fraud with the effort of setting up a link to his bile. But you can check the article at Memeorandum. Pack hip-waders; their link sends you to New Republic.
Crossposted at JBYP
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