Trivia!

Dec 03, 2008 - I love random trivia, so here's one for you. What is the Monopoly mans FULL name (Hint - it's 4 words). - 14 Comments

Atheists are good people too

Nov 15, 2009 - Bill and Melinda Gates with Warren Buffett, the three biggest charitable donors in history and not a religious thought between them. Not everybody needs a religion to do good. “All religions lie to people in some form; the big lie is that those who do not follow the religion are not good people.” “There are good people everywhere. - 53 Comments

Obamacare...a personal look.

Oct 25, 2009 - I am going to give you my personal look at Obamacare from a perspective which may seem a bit strange but in reality it should be alarming.  The interesting thing is that most of all of my childhood I went without even some of the basic things people assume most everyone has.   The only healthcare I had as a child was Medi-cal...which is the program upon which Obamacare was designed.     My father worked several part-time jobs as well as his full-time job as a Baptist minister.  He did everything possible to provide for us, worked his fingers to the bone and still managed to comfort the people in our church and help them deal with their own problems.  Not once did any congregation we served bother to possibly consider that making sure the minister and his family had any healthcare or even some of the basic necessities in life was one of their priorities. They did however call at any time of the day or night for his help and he was there for them.    Sometimes our whole family was there for them.  I was a very experienced babysitter, cook, and housekeeper before I was even 11.  This is not bitterness I speak from---it is my attempt at revealing to you that many who are among the uninsured are hardworking people often working in service-oriented positions which simply aren't offered healthcare.   So....let me get back to Medi-cal......the mentor of Obamacare.  When I hear people on the Obamacare bandwagon I think they probably don't really understand what they are supporting.   Many have never been on medi-cal. - 4 Comments

Dems go after anti-trust exemption for insurers

Oct 21, 2009 - House committee votes to repeal antitrust protections for health insurers  By Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 21, 2009; 1:58 PM The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to strip federal antitrust protections shielding health insurers from investigations into price fixing and other business practices, the first step in a legislative bid to clamp down on the much-maligned industry. Although Democrats have led the repeal push in recent weeks, the committee's 20-9 vote came with the support of three Republicans. The legislation would repeal portions of the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act that allows states to regulate health insurance providers without federal intervention. - 6 Comments

Sunstein: Americans too racist for socialism

Oct 08, 2009 - Defends communism, welfare state but says 'white majority' oppose programs aiding blacks, Hispanics   By Aaron Klein October 07, 2009 WorldNetDaily   JERUSALEM – The U.S. should move in the direction of socialism but the country's "white majority" opposes welfare since such programs largely would benefit minorities, especially blacks and Hispanics, argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.   "The absence of a European-style social welfare state is certainly connected with the widespread perception among the white majority that the relevant programs would disproportionately benefit African Americans (and more recently Hispanics)," wrote Sunstein. - 2 Comments

Peggy Noonan to Lead Harvard Study Group

Sep 25, 2009 - http://gawker.com/5367203/harvard-students-stop-whatever-youre-doing-and-register-for-peggy-noonans-class-now You do not want to miss the weekly festival of swooning self-regard and misty incoherence that will be Peggy Noonan's "Study Group" for undergrads this year, during her fellowship at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Let's read the syllabus. For some ungodly reason, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government saw fit to make Noonan a fellow this year. - 0 Comments

Tom Brokow's World Implodes

Sep 15, 2009 - http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/   Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM Tom Brokaw. With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press. - 15 Comments