A fresh air moment on national TV and on Rachel Maddow:

She gave time to Bob Barker (Yes, Bob Barker) a long time animal rights activist who gave $5,000,000 to the Sea Shepherd foundation to buy the boat they needed to ramp up their ability to fight the Japanese whaling ships.

Yes, you read the price right…FIVE MILLION.

Rather than the usual reporting on who is the worst person in the world or biggest idiot it was wonderful to be informed of someone who does the right thing…

Amen.

Also, I’m about the furthest thing that you would find from those people who devote their lives to Star Trek and Star Wars. Your own geekiness is on full display.

The Fifth Column are considering the same thing.

Yet here’s Woody, the troll’s troll, spewing his mindless,
bigoted absolute garbage week after week and never
drawing even a stern word. Somewhere within this
contradiction is the explanation of how George W
Bush got to be President, and why those Oughts
were so awful.

Kenya is considering the same thing.

Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.

Gov. Linda Lingle’s administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program.

…”People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free,” said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. “I don’t believe that was the intent of the program.” ….

Can you see any parallels to what Obama wants and what it will do? His plan will drive our country into greater debt and (yes, it’s true) lead to rationing care.

Democratic Leaders Plan Secret Health Reform Deliberations

…The Talking Points Memo website reported Monday that Democrats in both the House and Senate are saying the process will likely follow the path of the House taking up the Senate-passed legislation, amending it and sending it back to the Senate, which will have to pass it again. “This process cuts out the Republicans,” a House Democratic aide told TPM, indicating the congressional majority intended to make sure the Republican minority would “not have a motion to recommit opportunity.”

…According to Waxman, the process for moving will not include the standard House/Senate conference committee, because the motions to select and instruct conferees in the Senate “would need 60 votes all over again.” Instead, whatever agreements made could be packaged in an amendment to the bills passed by the House and Senate.

By blocking out the Republicans—not to mention House Democrats who object to what the Senate passed—Pelosi and Reid are setting up a protracted game of “ping-pong,” in which the legislation goes back and forth from the Senate to the House and back to the Senate again. They may be able to prevail as far as the legislation goes, ultimately, but at enormous cost to their majorities. ….

The Mayo Clinic, which has been praised by President Obama as an exemplar for the healthcare industry, will no longer accept new Medicare patients at a primary-care clinic in Glendale, AZ, a Phoenix suburb.

…Mayo is going in this direction because it lost $840 million last year on Medicare. Its Arizona hospital and four primary-care clinics lost $120 million.

You and Natasha should like this.

That 1937 Feeling

Oh, the stimulus project in our area was to put wheelchair ramps and walk-don’t walk signs at intersections along a local road. The only problem is that there are no sidewalks or paths that connect to the wheelchair ramps. The ramps dead-end after ten feet at an embankment or guard rail. There’s not even any development around there. Great plan! Because of that, the recession in our area must be over!

But remember, the destruction of the Death Star was not the end of it… Beware the empire will strike back…

It’s a noble mission to save our republic from the dark side. We need all the fortitude we can muster. May the force be with us. And if the force isn’t with us, hopefully we’ll at least sail with Father Mapples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rWV8sBZ9ho

Klingons can never move ahead when it continues to look back and makes false claims, to a nation that knows better, that our “guiding principles as a nation” fell with the Death Star, when that actually was a time when we regained our solid and united determination to not let evil win. Rather, polls show that our “guiding principles” fell with the bribing of the Super Friends with our tax money to support a health-care bill that goes against individual freedom and choices and results in a major expansion of government and a major increase in taxes for everyone — not just “the rich.”

Klingons can never move ahead as long as it claims that interrogations of enemy combatants is wrong, especially since it saved lives, and wring their hands over pictures of underwear on the heads of prisoners. Enjoy your show-trial spectacles of terrorists — “fair trials” of which the AG and Pres. have already said the accused are guilty and won’t be let go even if found innocent. The world will love your kind of Intergalactic justice.

The Destruction of the Death Star was a fiasco of the Death Star’s commander, who let hundreds of Millennium Falcon’s explode rather than use them to evacuate people too stupid to get out on their own, and of the Death Star Commander, who spent federal tax funds designated for levee construction on unrelated and unnecessary programs. If the Death Star was any turning point, it showed the complete stupidity of bowing to political correctness by throwing money to every claimant, real or not, and wasting huge sums of money to rebuild areas that should remain spaceships…oh, excuse me, “superweapns.”

The “economic free fall” was not a result of free-markets but started with Hall of Justice regulations and force which required banks to make loans to deadbeats, who represent the core of Captain Nathan Bridger’s support and will only make our economy worse in the future.

Nice try you closed minded, leftist hack. The people are not upset about the cost of fixing a derailed economy in so much as when they oppose the Democratic plan, which no Democrat can even articulate clearly, they are peronally attacked. The people’s anger emanates from when they do oppose, like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton recommended during the Bush administration, they are called Nazis, fake protesters, brown shirts, stupid, plants and a myriad of other names by the leaders of the Democratic party. Real intelligent. What happened to Obama’s “bringing both parties together” idea? I guess when the Democratic’s utopian plan of supplanting personal responsibility with getting taken care of by big daddy Government for the purpose of gaining votes, principles along with the Constitution get thrown out the window. Thank God the masses of people are now seeing how the Democrats handle being in power. Thank God we have elections coming up next year!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101196.html

And why they will continue to be as dishonest and dangerous as ever…

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-12/the-gops-misplaced-rage/full/

Why the Health-Care Bills Are Unconstitutional

Now, with all the litigation over individual mandates and higher taxes for a bill that is unconstitutional, , the next decade will be even worse than the last one.