Monday, September 13, 2010

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Barack Obama To Send $60B in Advanced Weaponry to Saudi Arabia, the Largest Single Arms Deal in History

Well, this certainly seems like a foolproof plan.

In the largest US arms deal ever, the administration of US President Barack Obama is ready to notify Congress of plans to offer advanced aircraft to Saudi Arabia worth up to 60 billion dollars...

...the administration was also in talks with the kingdom about potential naval and missile-defense upgrades that could be worth tens of billions of dollars more.

...The 60 billion dollars in fighter jets and helicopters is the top-line amount requested by the Saudis...

...the administration will authorize the Saudis to buy as many as 84 new F-15 fighters, upgrade 70 more, and purchase three types of helicopters -- 70 Apaches, 72 Black Hawks and 36 Little Birds, The Journal noted, citing unnamed officials.

Earlier media reports said that to assuage Israel's concerns, the Obama administration has decided not to offer Saudi Arabia so-called standoff systems, which are advanced long-range weapons that can be attached to F-15s for use in offensive operations against land- and sea-based targets.

It's fortunate that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is such a tolerant society; much more accepting of different religions and cultures than, say, those Militant Quakers.

I suppose, though, that after the Clintons equipped Red China with guided missile technology in exchange for a measly $50,000 or so in campaign donations, President Obama couldn't stand being one-upped again by Bubba. This deal makes the PRC's technology acquisitions look like child's play.


Helpful Progressive Pundits Nate Silver and HuffMo's Bill Scher Quite Concerned About 'Insurgents' Who Could Cost the GOP a Senate Majority

Gee, they've been right about so very much. They backed TARP. Barack Obama for President. The Stimulus Package (or, as I like to call it, "Lotto for Unions"). The Omnibus Spending Bill. Deficit spending from here to eternity. Oh, and lookie here: Gitmo's still open; troops are still in Iraq; and MINC actually approved a Bush-style surge in Afghanistan.

Yes, these are real genius prognosticators at work.

2 Insurgents Could Hurt G.O.P. Chances for Senate Takeover


Mike Castle: Give Him a Pink SlipThe first race in Delaware, where Christine O’Donnell, a political activist and commentator, is running against Michael N. Castle, who has held elected office in Delaware for 30 years as its governor, lieutenant governor and lone United States representative. The contest originally appeared to be a mismatch...

...Mr. Castle – a moderate who is unambiguously a member of the establishment – was next on their target list. And so Ms. O’Donnell, who already had the support of the Tea Party, last week received endorsements from Republican thought-leaders like Ms. Palin, the National Rifle Association and Senator James DeMint of South Carolina.

In contrast to Alaska, however, where Mr. Miller is the favorite to be elected unless Ms. Murkowski finds her way onto the ballot as a Libertarian or write-in candidate, Delaware is a blue state, and the electoral prospects of Mr. Castle and Ms. O’Donnell there are wildly divergent. Whereas Mr. Castle is nearly a 95 percent favorite against the Democratic nominee, Chris Coons, according to last week’s FiveThirtyEight forecasting model, Ms. O’Donnell would have just a 17 percent chance of winning a race against Mr. Coons.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If we have a GOP with more Mike Castles in it -- that can't agree on unimportant principles like the DISCLOSE Act (it's only the First Freaking Amendment) -- I'd just as soon have one less Senator.

But Silver and Scher are wrong about pretty much everything, so I strongly suspect that should Christine O'Donnell pull the upset, she'll have an excellent chance of edging her Democrat challenger.

By the way, Nate -- I'm still waiting for my apology from you and Keefus ("Sunday NFL Games Are Watchable Now") Olbermann over Dealergate. After all, Obama's "Car Czar" has admitted that politics played directly into decisions over which facilities were closed.

But I understand your dilemma: you're wrong about so very much -- where would you begin your apology tour?


Tim Geithner Shocked as Cuba's 50-Year Stimulus Program Comes to an Abrupt End: 500,000 Public Sector Workers About To Say Adios

The final chapter for Communism in the Caribbean is about to be written. The Miami New Times reports that Fidel Castro wasn't joking when he renounced his life's work of communism, poverty and misery.

Fidel Castro now claims that his statement claiming that the Cuban model of communism no longer works was misinterpreted and taken out of context by an American journalist, but actions speak louder and words as the island nation has announced a major layoff of state workers. At least 500,000 workers will lose their state jobs in the next six months. That means just under five percent of Cuba's total population and 10 percent of the work force will be out a of a job, but the government plans to grow the private sector to replace the jobs.

Raul Castro promised to cut 1 million jobs over the next five years in August, but surprisingly sped up the process by announcing that more than half of those jobs will be axed in the next six months.

"Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities and services with inflated payrolls and losses that damage our economy and result counterproductive, create bad habits and distort workers' conduct," the CTC, Cuba's official labor union, said to the government press.

Cuba has labor unions? Who are they protecting the workers against?

...The news is the latest in small but significant developments signaling that Cuba is now more than ever willing to experiment with some characteristics of capitalism.

Would that the White House embrace the same experiment.

Of course, history, facts, logic, reason and human experience mean nothing to the current administration, which is wedded to an ideology that has failed in every time and every place it's been tried.


Image adapted from: Reuters.

Paul Krugman graduates to writing campaign slogans for the GOP

James Taranto observes that Paul Krugman has finally walked towards the light, albeit inadvertently.

Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, writing from Tokyo, reflects on the upcoming elections and comes to this cheery conclusion: “Americans, understandably, are disappointed over, frustrated with and angry about the state of the economy; but disappointment is better than disaster.”

"Disappointment is better than disaster." It's a bit long for a bumper sticker, but otherwise not a bad election slogan: honest, pointed, yet not promising too much.

Just one question: Why is Krugman writing slogans for the Republicans?

Doh!


Hat tip: Ben.

Larwyn's Linx: The Coming Wave; Flunking the Leadership Test

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Nation

The Coming Wave: Ace
In Search Of: People Of Color: NewsBusters (Parks)
Why No Interest In Mike Castle's Corrupt Lobbyist Problems?: Riehl

9/12: America's Monumental Shame: Malkin
ObamaCare's Fatal Flaw?: AT
"A rabat in the heart of Manhattan": Wizbang

Obama Flunks the Leadership Test: AT
Rule of Law Suffers Another Blow from DOJ: Adams
Nut-case Senator: Men better legislators than women: BlogProf

Economy

Senate Could Vote on Partial ObamaCare Repeal This Week: Ace
How Obama Thinks: Forbes (D'Souza)
Curious: No Interest In ObamaCare's High-Risk Insurance Pools: Ace

Reagan’s recession was worse, Barry: Surber
Shedding Light on Incestuous Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying: RWN
Cramer Wrong on Death Tax: RWN

Climate & Energy

Wasting Clean, Cheap Power: AT

Media

Let the Pre-Postmortems Begin: Driscoll
Fish Wrap Whines About John Boehner’s Ties To Lobbyists: RWN
White House pitching the heck out of NYT hit piece: Malkin

The Great Media Blackout: ModCon
ABC's Amanpour Continues Crusade to Smear America as Islamophobic and Tout Rauf’s Cause: NewsBusters
Bonus Automotivators this week: the Krugmotivator!: Troglopundit

Nicholas Kristoff Wouldn't Know The Truth If It Hit Him In The Face And Then Sat On His Head: LegalIns
'America’s Chickens Have Come Home to Roost': MOTUS
Tea Partiers Say, ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It!’: BMW

World

If only mosques would settle for burning books: ModCon
Ground Zero Mosque Financier Hisham Elzanaty Also Big Donor to Hamas: Moonbattery
Imam Rauf More Extreme Than Reverend Jones: HNN

Wilders' Month in the Dock: GoV
An Alternate History Nightmare: Rhymes With Right
Sharia Degradation of Women: AT

Report: Taliban Using Children As Human Shields…: WZ
Mystery Man Celebrates 9/11 By Self-Detonating in Copenhagen Hotel: JWF
On Dhimmitude And Incitement: Hindenblog

SciTech

Following the Money in the Social Media Advertising Boom: Mashable
Robotics breakthrough: Scientists make artificial skin: Breitbart
SugarCRM Wins Bossie Award for Best Open Source Application: TMCnet

Cornucopia

What would happen if you turned 100 cats loose in an Ikea?: Ace of Spades
How to look like Joan Jett: Like Totally 80's (h/t: Instapundit)
Monday Motivation: CBullitt

Images: Maktoob
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Send Mike Castle Packing in Delaware--Support Christine O'Donnell

QOTD: "So the United States is required to protect the lives of its troops serving in Afghanistan by:

1. Making sure that no Americans burn Korans, and
2. Burning Bibles.

Hmm… What’s wrong with this picture?" -- Baron Bodissey


Sunday, September 12, 2010

Photos of Afflicted--11 Abandoned American Hospitals and Asylums

A few creepy photos from a large collection of abandoned insane asylums and sanitoriums at Nile Guide.


Somehow gargoyles don't strike me as soothing the mood-swings of the insane.


When Public Sector Unions Attack: 'Left-Wing Terrorism Surges In Europe, As Governments Dismantle Social Safety Net'

If Europe is any indicator, the demise of the left's unsustainable, Utopian welfare state won't come without significant pain.

Spain, Greece and Italy reported a total of 40 attacks by left-wing and anarchist groups for 2009... This constitutes an increase of 43% compared to 2008; the number of attacks more than doubled since 2007.

As in previous years, most attacks were carried out successfully and mainly targeted government and business interests. The majority of these attacks were arsons, reported by Spain, and caused only property damage.

The percentage of IED attacks decreased from 43 % in 2008 to 20 % in 2009; the majority of these bombings occurred in Greece. In Greece, six left-wing terrorist organisations carried out a total of 15 attacks in 2009.

In Greece -- and much of Europe -- unsustainable public sector union wages and benefits will have to be cut. These vaunted "austerity measures" come decades late; but that hasn't stopped public sector union bosses from fighting the laws of economic physics.

Hundreds rioted in Athens yesterday, throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at police, who responded with tear gas at a May Day rally against austerity measures being enacted by the cash-strapped government to secure foreign loans to stave off bankruptcy...

Responding to calls from the country’s two main labor unions, several thousand people marched in major Greek cities against the anticipated spending cuts and consumer tax hikes.

In Athens, groups of black-clad anarchists in hoods and motorcycle helmets smashed three shop and hotel windows and set up barricades of burning trash bins. Around 17,000 people took part in the march, according to police estimates.

The social safety nets here in the United States will have to be cut as well. The federal government's own actuaries and planners have warned us for decades that the massive entitlement programs are melting down.

And what does the modern Democrat leadership do? They ladle on new entitlements, new 'Stimulus' programs and new deficit spending -- all of which can legitimately be called child abuse.

Rather than leaving our children and grandchildren federal inheritances, Democrats have instead left them immense mortgage payments.

As Europe melts down, alarm klaxons in Washington are going off, unheeded by the Obama Democrats. If we don't start turning this around in November, the results could be very ugly indeed.


Linked by: Michelle Malkin. Thanks!

'Secure as it's ever been': Gun Battles--in Arizona--Now Breaking Out Between Mexican Drug Smugglers and Federal Agents

Gee, this Democrat border security strategy is really working out well. Nogales International confirms the impeccable law enforcement credentials of the Obama Democrats.

Border Patrol agents returned fire after being shot at by unidentified assailants west of Nogales last Sunday, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office reported.

The Border Patrol notified the Sheriff’s Office of the exchange of fire shortly before 6 p.m. on Sept. 5 and deputies responded to Bellota Canyon, northeast of Peña Blanca Lake and 5 1/4 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Raoul Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez said agents were patrolling the canyon on foot when three or four armed individuals began shooting at them.

“Luckily the agents were not injured and were able to return fire,” Rodriguez said.

Border Patrol saturated the area with aerial recon and also deployed its special response team, while sheriff’s deputies also searched for the shooters.

Janet "The Border's As Secure Now As It Has Ever Been" NapoliReno could not be reached for comment.


Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.

Awesome: Jerry Brown admits he's been a complete screw-up for the last 40 years; promises taxpayers he'll turn over a new leaf

In the latest chapter in its coverage of the California gubernatorial race, The Sacramento Bee reports that Jerry Brown has repented. He knows what mistakes he's made in the past and "vows not to repeat them if elected again".

[Brown] acknowledges several miscalculations of enduring impact during his two terms in the Governor's Office, from 1975 to 1983... Now he has the benefit of hindsight and a chance to try again. What Brown says he learned offers a glimpse into how, at age 72, he would govern differently from his younger self.

...The mistake with perhaps the greatest political impact on Brown's career was his controversial 1981 decision to forgo aerial spraying against the Mediterranean fruit fly, which was threatening California's important agriculture industry... The 43-year-old governor ignored the warnings of federal regulators and instead followed the advice of a UC Berkeley entomologist who assured him that the flies would die off once winter set in... That prognosis proved wrong, and Brown finally OK'd spraying after several states and nations threatened quarantines on certain California produce...

...Brown suffered another setback on the environmental front when voters in 1982 repealed legislation he had signed that would have built a peripheral canal delivering water from the Sacramento River straight to the start of the California Aqueduct in Tracy... Nearly 30 years later, the state has yet to build such a canal, and fish stocks, water quality and other environmental factors in the Delta have only worsened.

Blind adherence to the eco-Statists' agenda? Check.

[Another controversial area was] the state's "determinate sentencing" law, which scaled back judicial discretion in prison sentences. Brown now says he didn't foresee its dramatic impact on the growth of California's prison population and has called for revising the law...

"The prisons started building up about the time I was leaving," Brown said in the recent interview. "But they didn't stop. They just kept on going. We see now that the determinate sentence, which I signed, needs substantial revision..."

...Brown said he's seen other laws – such as the California Environmental Quality Act and the launch of the state Fair Political Practices Commission – take similarly unpredictable paths.

Blind adherence to central planning? Check.

"As governor, Jerry Brown increased state government spending by 120 percent," [Meg] Whitman told the state GOP convention last month. "And he left the state with a budget deficit. He took a $6 billion surplus and turned it into a $1 billion deficit."

..."I am very frugal, very efficient, lean, and I am going to run this campaign in a way that every dollar counts," he said in June, "and that's the same way I'm going to run the state of California."

Yes, Brown -- a far Left Democrat Statist -- promises California voters he'll be "frugal" this time around. And that he won't offer blind adherence to the cult of central planners.

Anyone in California who believes that and votes for Brown despite his abysmal record deserves what they get.


Weekly-Beltway-Cocktail-Circuit-Standard Publishes Al Qaqaa-style Hit-Piece on Christine O'Donnell That Alleges She... Once Sued Someone

The most incompetent state Republican apparatus in the nation is Delaware's GOP, which reportedly conspired with Democrat insiders to let Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Beau Biden, run unopposed for Attorney General.

Further, the Delaware GOP has gone so far as to partner with Mike Castle's campaign, filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that alleges Tea Party conservatives illegally colluded with Christine O'Donnell in the Senate Primary.

Well, that should engender lots of grass-roots support.

Now Mike Castle's Beltway cocktail buddies at The Weekly Standard have pulled The New York Times' old Al-Qaqaa trick: publishing a lengthy, seemingly "scathing" assault on Christine O'Donnell that contains two allegations:

• O'Donnell once sued an ex-employer for gender discrimination.

• O'Donnell is said to have claimed she took classes at Princeton.

Shocking.

Now, I'll tell you what Christine O'Donnell didn't do:

She didn't vote for the DISCLOSE Act, the goal of which is to suppress free speech by conservatives, while leaving unions and other Democrat support groups unscathed.

She didn't vote with the most liberal Democrats over the issue of guns and earn an F from the NRA.

She didn't vote with Barack Obama 60% of the time including for Cap-and-Trade.

No, Christine O'Donnell didn't do any of those things. Rep. Mike Castle (R-INO) -- who The Weekly Standard calls a "moderate" -- did.

If by "moderate", they mean that Castle doesn't believe in the Bill of Rights' First, Second or Tenth Amendments then, yes, Castle is a moderate.

The Weekly Standard really hurts its credibility and reputation with tripe like this. As Erick Erickson tweeted earlier, "Sorry folks, but if we need Mike Castle for a Senate majority, we do not need a Senate majority."


Update: Dan Riehl: "Why No Interest In Mike Castle's Corrupt Lobbyist Problems?"

Related: Mike Castle is a staunch supporter of 'the right to choose'; should help him cope with having his political career aborted by Christine O'Donnell.

The Press Secretary Who Re-Tweeted the New York Times' Hit Pieces

Total politicization of the Executive Branch is officially complete.

• Another* anonymously-sourced hit piece on a Republican (who is poised to damage Democrats in November) by the fish-wrap of record? Check.

• Key snippets of the Times' hit-piece instantly re-tweeted by Robert Gibbs, using the official White House Twitter account? Check.

• Further confirmation of the Media-Democrat Complex? Check and mate.

Downright embarrassing.

But it's not unexpected, seeing as how this White House possesses all the class of a bunch of Chicago aldermen on a 20-month power bender.

It's amazing: the White House doesn't even realize that its open collaboration with the Times' anonymously-sourced hit pieces -- disguised as 'news stories' -- is downright embarrassing.

The unholy alliance of legacy media and the Democrat Party is now obvious to even the most obtuse observer.

Which hopefully will hasten the demise of both entities in November.


Linked by: Michelle Malkin and NewsBusters. Thanks!
* See New York Times' Anonymously-sourced John McCain Lobbyist Affair Hit Piece

Larwyn's Linx: America Speaks -- 9/11 Rally Draws 40,000

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Nation

America Speaks: 9/11 Rally Draws 40,000: Atlas
9/11 Memorial, Ground Zero Mosque Protest, NYC: Urban Infidel
Geert Wilders' Speech at the 911 Rally of Remembrance: Atlas

Oh Really, Mr. President?: Gormogons
Sharia vs. Freedom: AT
'Anti-Extremist' Dearborn Muslims Burn Pastor in Effigy: BlogProf

Report From Ground Zero, September 11, 2010: AmPower
The Dying Liberal Revolution: CMR
An Apologetic 9/11?: Hanson

Economy

Bribing the public with the public's money: Tapscott
Obama's Favors to Unions: GWP
Obama, the Economic Illiterate: WashExam

Why only repeal the Bush tax cuts?: RWN
Gee, Our Old LaSalle Ran Great: Driscoll
Shredding the First Amendment: TigerHawk

Climate & Energy

Figures: Commie-Truther Green Czar Van Jones Behind 9/11 as Community Service Day: GWP
Oh, that’s gotta hurt – Obama denies solar panels: WUWT

Media

NYT runs anonymously sourced hit piece on John Boehner: WashExam
Daily Scoreboard: Don Surber
At Last: A Use For the New York Times in Print: NewsBusters

Angle vs. Reid: John Ralston Thinks It's All About Him: LegalIns
Remember 9/11: GM's Place
Saturday Night Card Game (What Brings Us Together): LegalIns

World

They Still Blame America First: JRubin
When is the "Muslim world" not ready to "explode"?: Malkin
Bomb Blast in Copenhagen: Jyllands-Posten Offices Targeted: GWP

Muslim Religious Tolerance: Surber
Another tipping point?: Dinocrat
Saudi diplomat seeking asylum: ‘My life is in danger’: iOTW

Exclusive Interview: Lauren Walker Works With North Korean Refugees in South Korea: RWN
What Islamophobia Really Is: Gormogons
Imagining Islam: NRO

SciTech

An Open Letter to Mr. Bill Gates: WUWT
Apple relents on Flash-derived iPhone, iPad apps: CNet
Mad Mechanical Men: edgelings

Cornucopia

Bumped as a Contest: USDA Giveaways: iOTW
Obamas #99: If At First You Don't Succeed: iOTW
Dam Sheep!: SondraK

Images: Atlas Shrugs.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010

A Revolt Among Equals: A Play in One Act

The curtain opens to reveal a dark, window-less chamber where a dozen recognizable faces are seated around a large, pentagon-shaped table. The walls of the chamber are paneled in a dark wood, perhaps mahogany. Framed posters of faces by Shepard Fairey provide a bit of color on an otherwise drab background. The posters are red (Lenin), yellow (Stalin), purple (Khrushchev), white (Castro), green (Ahmadinejad), brown (Che) and others who we cannot so easily identify.

James Carville (sitting near the center of the stage, gravely bangs the gavel, then intones): "I call this, the seventy-eighth Plenary Planning Session of the Democrat Party, to order!"

Katie Couric: "In the interest of expediting our first order of business, I move that we forego the reading of the minutes and the review of the agenda."

Tom Brokaw: "I second."

Carville: "So moved. All in favor, say aye." (a chorus of 'ayes' are heard). "Any nays?" (silence -- the gavel sounds) "The motion carries."

Carville: "Comrade Obama, the floor is yours."

Obama: "Thank you, Comrade. As many of you know, the Clinton wing of our party appears to be staging a revolt against the Obama wing --" (a chortle is heard from the area where Bill and Hillary Clinton are seated. Obama glares in their direction, and after a pause, continues) "Dammit! My iPad Prompter app is out of synch now." (he slides his hand back and forth a few times on the iPad)

Hillary: "Comrade Barack, you have no evidence to suggest that there is any form of revolt brewing in our party of brothers and sisters, unified as one in our fight to advance socialism."

Obama: "Then, what the hell is... this?" (He rips a computer page, a printout of a website, from the binder in front of him, and holds the page up for all to see.)

Obama: "This, comrades, is an article by Lee Cary of The American Thinker that accurately describes what you and your sorry band of nineties nincompoops are up to."

Hillary: "American Thinker? Why not just rip a page off Free Republic or, better yet, Michelle Malkin's site?"

Obama: (slams hand down on table) "That's enough! I have hard evidence, and I do mean hard. Emanuel, unleash the tape."

(a loud click is heard and the scratchy voice of Bill Clinton sounds, seemingly from all over the room): "...Dammit, girl, stop ticklin' me... I'm tellin ya' for real... we're running in '12... and I'm gonna sneak your cute little behind into the White House and show you the old cigar trick...")

Hillary (unflustered): "That's proof of absolutely nothing. Any computer technician could have simulated that voi--"

Obama (soberly raises a wrinkled, size sixteen black cocktail dress on a hanger. A prominent beige stain can be seen at center body mass).

Hillary (glares at Bill and her eyes, at least for a moment, appear to glow red. Maybe we imagined it. She shrieks, a horrid, terrifying noise): "Son of a---!!!" (Calmer) "Fine. Yes, we're running, you clueless n00b! You've come as near to destroying our roadmap as anyone since the Rabbit Killer..."

(All eyes turn to Jimmy Carter, who is asleep in a rocking chair in the corner, the floor around him covered with peanut shells).

Obama: "What the hell are you talking about, you wrinkled, old shrew? I passed more of our agenda in 18 months than you and Lester did in 8 freaking years!"

Hillary: "You sure did, and look where it got us. We're in for an utter disaster in November, thanks to your complete lack of diplomatic skills. Not only that, people are talking about the Constitution and the Declaration! They're forming grass roots armies of voters to turn back the clock on the New Deal and our entire agenda!"

Hillary: "You didn't even try to pretend to tack to the center, like Bill and I did. What's the harm in inviting a few Republicans into some committee meetings? Would it hurt you to stop campaigning and vacationing for a week or two? And actually govern? Didja learn that at Community Organizer school?"

Obama (his eyes are cold and his face filled with disdain): "I passed socialized medicine. I passed the Stimulus and Omnibus spending bills that will bankrupt our country, just as Cloward and Piven instructed. I passed --"

Hillary: "You did no such thing. Pelosi and Reid did all the heavy lifting. You just bloviated. It's apparently your only skill. And besides, we're the ones that touched off the housing crisis. It's beautiful. No one ever suspected that Jamie Gorelick, Andrew Cuomo and Janet Reno were put in place to detonate the biggest economic meltdown in history."

Hillary: "See, Community Organizer, that's the way you do it. You overwhelm the system, the way Cloward and Piven laid it out. But you don't get your entire party destroyed!"

Obama: "Why you little Madeline Albright look-a-like, we'll take you apart in the primary -- "

Hillary: "With what? The nine people left in Organizing for America?"

Carville (sternly bangs gavel and everyone jumps in their seats): "Shakespeare wrote, 'The course of true love never did run smooth.'"

Carville: "We all have the same mission. True, we diverge on the approach to dismantle the Constitution. We shall resolve this quibble as we did the disputes between Bill Clinton and Vincent Foster... as well as Sandy Berger and Ron Brown."

Carville (He opens up the box resting in front of him and displays two fine dueling pistols) "Gentlemen, we shall resolve this situation in November."

(The curtain is closed).


How ObamaCare Rapes Medicare and Puts America's Seniors At Risk

Campaign commercials funded by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) denounce Republicans for their efforts "to end Medicare as we know it."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has attacked his GOP challenger Sharron Angle, claiming that she wants to "gut" Medicare.

But Medicare's Chief Actuary has revealed the sorry truth: ObamaCare is in the process of raping Medicare:

• Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals will be slashed by 30% over the course of the next three years.

• By 2019, Medicare payment rates will have been slashed below those of Medicaid. What this means is truly shocking: Seniors who have paid into Medicare their entire lives will be treated worse than the poverty-stricken and illegal aliens, many of whom have never paid a dime into the system.

• By the end of the ObamaCare projection period, Medicare payments will be one-half of equivalent Medicaid payments.

• ObamaCare slashes $818 billion from Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) from 2014 to 2023 -- the first 10 years of operation. Combined with Medicare Part B cuts (doctor fees and related services), ObamaCare cuts $1.05 trillion in the first ten years and $5 trillion over the first 20 years.

• Medicare Advantage will also be dramatically curtailed by ObamaCare; Medicare's Actuary estimates that half of all seniors with Medicare Advantage will lose their coverage.

The implications of these cuts are as ominous as they are obvious.

Thousands of doctors will stop seeing Medicare patients altogether. Many hospitals will either go out of business or dramatically raise rates on private insurers (two-thirds of hospitals already lose money on Medicare patients, according to the Chief Actuary).

And seniors will suffer most. There will be fewer doctors, surgeons and specialists because of ObamaCare's draconian price controls.

If you're a senior, you better get your ass to the polls in November.

Obama's bald lie -- "If you like your health plan, you will be able to keep it" -- does not apply to any American, least of all seniors.

ObamaCare must be repealed. And for seniors, it's November or never.


Based upon: How ObamaCare Guts Medicare.

The Dreams That Fly Away


All mankind will pass before You

like members of the flock.

Like a shepherd pasturing his flock,

making sheep pass under his staff,

so shall You cause to pass, count, calculate, and consider the soul of all the living;

and You shall apportion the fixed needs of all Your creatures

and inscribe their verdict.

For Your Name signifies Your praise:

hard to anger and easy to appease,

for You do not wish the death of one deserving death,

but that he repent from his way and live.

Until the day of his death You await him;

if he repents You will accept him immediately.

It is true that You are their Creator and

You know their inclination,

for they are flesh and blood.

Our origin is dust and our end is dust.

At the hazard of our life we earn our bread.

We are like a fragile vessel,

like the grass that withers

the flower that fades,

the shadow that passes,

the cloud that vanishes,

the wind that blows,

the dust that floats,

the dreams that fly away

Verily.

The dreams that fly away.

Your kingship is an eternal kingship.

Your dominion is for all generations.