Liberals: Believe Our Way or Shut UP!

Just after my last post congratulating Mr. Biden on his showing at the Vice-Presidential debate against Paul Ryan I was informed that not all Liberals are as snarky, mean-spirited, and rude as he was in his appearance.

Well, I got to thinking about it: true, not ALL Liberals are rude, nasty, individuals who do not want, nor will tolerate any view but their own. There are the few who will allow you to voice your opinion without interrupting you, without shouting you down, and ridiculing both you and your opinion… but, I have to say that the other 99.99% of Liberals give these few people a very bad name.

Now, do not get me wrong: the Right has its share of vitriolic moments. Rush Limbaugh’s characterization of Sandra Fluke as a slut for her self-admitted promiscuous lifestyle(and let’s get real here for a minute – anyone, Liberal or Conservative that is having sex as much as she reported that she was… THAT is leading a very high-risk, and somewhat questionable lifestyle.) is one example.

Compare that to Sarah Palin being called a “dumb tw*t” and “c*nt” by Bill Maher, Ed Schultz’s rant on Laura Ingraham as a “right-wing slut”, Liberals constantly calling Tea-Party members “tea-baggers”, and I will NOT repeat any of the Left’s comments on Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissenting vote on the Obamacare individual mandate ruling. And do I REALLY have to remind anyone of how President Barack Obama comported himself in debates 2 and 3…?

So… you say that these comments are not indicative of how the common everyday Liberal thinks or acts… read the comments section of ANY article on anything in the news lately? After just a few comments you begin to see the venom start to flow.

And how do Liberals act towards those who oppose them and their views?

Does anyone remember the gay Black Tea Partyer SEIU activists harassed in Denver?
How about berating and beating a black man in a St. Louis suburb for exercising his right of free assembly and attempting to ask HIS elected representative to explain their position on pending legislation? And most recently – here’s one you probably will not see mentioned on the evening news either: a volunteer for the Wisconsin GOP House candidate Chad Lee, was hospitalized for injuries suffered during what he said was an assault at his home. Kyle Wood, was reportedly attacked and beaten by an allegedly fellow gay male for supporting and working for the Chad Lee campaign – it seems that same as blacks, gays are NOT allowed to stray from the Liberal reservation. The punishment is a good beatdown and warning that worse is yet to come if they don’t get back in the fold.

Now to take this down to a personal level: when was the last time you tried to engage a Liberal in a serious discussion of the issues? What was the result? After telling you about just how fair and open-minded they were, at the first hint of your dissenting opinion they quickly and not so calmly reverted to anger, followed closely by raising their voice to shout you down , explain how your views were completely without a whit of validity, and in a rare case or a dozen, telling you that you were an abject idiot for trusting anyone but Keith Olbermann for your news.

I remember an eighth grade teacher I had who believed in Saul Alinsky’s Radical Rule #5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”. She was quick to proudly tell anyone who she did not like that “even if the person was right – ridicule them and they will shut up and when you make them shut up, other people who think like them will be afraid to say anything because they will not want to be made fun of too”.

I understand standing up for what you believe, but in no way does this allow you to shout your opponent down, tell them to be quiet, physically threaten, intimidate, or assault them because you do not want to hear their views. If I remember my history, that was the kind of thing that went on in Hitler’s Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin’s USSR, Pol Pot’s Cambodia… should I go on to mention Fidel Castro’s post Batista Cuba, Mao’s China, Iran of today(where women are nothing more than chattel and homosexuality is a crime with only one sentence – death)?

Yeah, go on and tell me all about how tolerant Liberals are, and I will remind you of Ted Turner’s latest comment about how “it’s better that US soldiers are committing suicide than dying in war”, Samuel L. Jackson’s latest filth-ridden diatribe, or our President’s calling his opponent “a bullsh*tter”.

And most Liberals are proud of, and vehemently defend this behavior…

Joe Biden was an OUTSTANDING Success in the debate!

Ya know, after I got to thinking about it – I think Biden was a success in the debate: he successfully showcased the liberal mentality of condescension to ANYONE who does not embrace the liberal agenda.

He was rude, in not only his demeanor, but his repeated interrupting and shouting Paul Ryan down, his continued lying, his attempts to scare the American people are all worn out classic liberal tactics…

When the liberals cannot defend their records, ideology, or “successes” (Obamacare, Record unemployment, Record deficits, Stealing from Medicare… the list goes on…) they turn to attempting to scare, lie, obfuscate, and ridicule their opponent. Just like biden tried doing to Ryan.

Anyway, excellent show Joe – you gave the American people a true view of how you and your fellow liberal travelers view them: with contempt, and not worthy of the truth.

Thanks Joe for showcasing the American left.

How many of us really just want to be mediocre?

How many of us really just want to be mediocre?

Who among us harbors dreams of being in the middle off the pack and never having the best there is possible for themselves, their children, and their loved ones?

Who is it that just wanted to be forgettable?

We all have dreams of bring recognized a “The Best”. They don’t give Oscars for ho-hum performances. Athletes don’t get paid phenomenal salaries for not excelling on their sport.

No one ever remembers who the second place person was. They are usually considered to be the first loser. Growing up in rural New Mexico I came to love rodeo at an early age. In any rodeo event if you do not put out every thing you have reach time the chute gate opens – you get to buy a ticket and go sit in the stands. And unless you had a spectacular dismount or crash, don’t think that anyone will remember you.

How many parents tell their children that it’s “ok not to try”, and to let the other kids win any games they might play because their little cupcake either isn’t worthy of winning our just doesn’t deserve to win.

Oh, they don’t deserve the nicest toys, clothes, education, or anything else life has.

Remember back to the last time you were wandering around your local bookstore: notice the section on self-help and how to get the most out of your life? An entire section of books on how to do everything from understanding yourself better to living life beyond your wildest dreams.

Ok, now you’ve seen all of these books, and you might have even purchased one or two from time to time.You might have bought enough to have a small section of your home library devoted to success and living life to it’s fullest. But when was the last time you saw a book explaining how to be average or how not to excel at life – how you can be average and that you will never amount to anything?

I for one have NEVER seen the “don’t worry, you’ll never be worth anything so just give up and quit trying” books in a bookstore.

If it were the case that you are to settle whatever is handed to you – where would you be?

* What would your life look like?
*Would you care if you lived in whatever house, trailer, tent, or box under a bridge that was issued to you?
*Your spouse – would you be content with the first person who came into your life?
*Your job?
*Your car?

We are forever being bombarded with ads for weight loss – should you care what your weight is and if you should drop a few pounds to look and feel better? Let me say this: if you are satisfied with your weight and appearance – good for you, but what if you are not and would like to change that? What is wrong with deciding – on your own, making your own choice – to change this and anything else in YOUR life?

Well, according to the attitude being touted by Mr. Obama the answers to all these questions are: you are what you are and you will never be better. Feel good about your mediocrity and forget about striving to improve your lot in life because you don’t deserve to be more than what you are.

What say you – would you be happy to be average, a middle-of-the-road nobody? Or do you want the very best for yourself and those around you? Think about it…

US House Votes to Repeal Obamacare

Since the house voted to repeal Obamacare I have seen a number of people crying and wailing about “how cruel and ridiculous the republicans are” for trying for 33 times to repeal this. “Give it up you fools” these people cried.

“The Republican controlled Congress attempted to overturn the health bill – again. Hang it up and quit trying to hide the money you stole by your unscrupulous capitalist thievery.”

“We are the only first world country that does not have a health program for its poor. When will these selfish pukes ever learn, honestly, this is pathetic!” *And the fact that we DO NOT have a predominately state-run health-care system is precisely why people the world over are flocking here from those other first world countries.

“In fact, most second world countries have health care programs for their poor.” *Ahhh… it’s part of the reason they are second tier countries. Oh, did getting those health care programs (MOST of which are paid for and maintained by the United States of America) make them into first world countries… Has it elevated them above the levels before the US went in and started rationing their health care? Lemme give you the answer so you don’t have to struggle with it – NO! Show me one country that has seen a marked improvement in its healthcare after the US has gone in and ‘helped’ them with their healthcare – has not happened.

And since we are wringing our hands and all so concerned with the healthcare of our poor, let’s take a look at the level of healthcare the average British citizen gets.

Now before I go into the highly touted National Health Service of Great Britain, let me say that alongside the NHS there is a private healthcare system available to those who wish to opt-in to it. Along with the number of large private insurance companies providing private health insurance to those who’d like to have it (or whose companies want to offer it), there are private hospitals that are available throughout the country.

Under Obamacare this is NOT an option.

In England the stories are rampant of how shoddy the NHS is:

In a recent survey, the United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA) found that “Elderly people are being put in danger after councils ordered care agencies to complete vital home visits in 15-minute time-slots to save money”. “Councils ordered care agencies…” can anyone say “Death Panels”…?

Seems that while people on the left were excoriating Sarah Palin for her ‘Death Panels” remark, there has been a lot of solid proof of them and their effects on healthcare in Great Britain. These “Death Panels” have caused long waiting periods for surgery due to the de facto rationing system that has been imposed on medical treatment there.

In one of the most detailed surveys of hospital deaths ever undertaken, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine study found that “Almost 1,000 patients are needlessly dying in NHS hospitals each month as a result of poor patient care”.

An online publication – BMJ Quality and Safety Journal, published the new study which reported “that mistakes occurred because hospital staff made wrong diagnosis or gave out wrong drugs.”
The study also reported that “In some cases they failed to adequately monitor patients – such as failing to check a pulse or blood pressure – or react when their condition deteriorated.”

Just under a year ago, the National Health Service computer system was scrapped after years of work on installation and implementation. A little too late, and at a cost of £12.7billion, they found that the “One size fits all” model does not work.

Dame Julie Mellor, the parliamentary and health service ombudsman for England, told the Financial Times the NHS and other public service providers, “The top 10 complaint causes include poor records management, clinical care and treatment and failure to diagnose.”

And the complaints and failings of England’s state-run National Health Service boggle the mind.

Seems that a lot of British citizens never saw the Michael Moore movie “Sicko” to find out just how ‘good’ they have there because record numbers of them are going abroad and paying out of their own pockets to obtain better health care. An estimated 200,000 “Health tourists” traveled to places like India, Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Poland and Spain in 2010. The British government will not even guess as to how high that number has risen since.

So why did I go into such detail on only one state-run healthcare system – because the United Kingdom National Health Service is something that I know a bit about on a personal level as I used to work in the healthcare IT field and the company I was working for bid and lost said bid to be the provider for their Unified Architecture healthcare system.

The United Kingdom’s NHS is also supposed to be the benchmark for which the Obamacare system is to be based upon – and it has long since been thrown on the ash heap of really bad ideas.

Ok, so when was the last time any of these caring, compassionate people called a hospital, doctors office, or their local church asking about playing someone’s medical bill? Have they talked to their pastor about how they could provide for those who the republicans have shut out from being healthy?

Nope, and do not think they ever will.

Instead, they will fall back and tell us that it’s the government’s responsibility.

Well, let’s think about that one for a minute shall we: who is it that funds the government? You and me and every other citizen of the country.

So what these people are saying is that they don’t want to do anything that involves their money, but they will come up with this grandiose idea – that uses YOUR money, and then when you cry foul, they scream that you are uncaring and greedy and… I won’t go into the disgusting names they call us because we don’t fall into lock-step with their money stealing schemes employed through the vast number of taxation vehicles built into this albatross.

What are Some of the Implications of the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Obamacare?

Was I surprised when I read the headlines that obama’s legacy legislation was approved as Constitutional? Not really.

Was I dismayed? On one hand – for what this decision does to the Constitution: yes, I was. On the other – for the energy it will bring to the American populace to end the Liberal agenda and begin putting this country back on the track that the Founding fathers had designed for it -I am elated!

The decision by the Court has a wide range of ramifications:

1) It changes the manner in which the federal government, ANY government for that matter, can regulate and tax us, the American citizens.

2) The government cannot force us, the American citizen, through the Commerce Clause to purchase any good or service.

3) It just gave Romney a couple of very good planks for his platform.
A) Repeal Obamacare!
B) Obama just gave the American people the largest tax increase in history.

4) It just took away a couple of Obama’s running points:
A) He cannot use Romneycare for his benefit.
B) He cannot beat the Court up and disparage “Rich white folk & Uncle Toms” as “not wanting everyone to have insurance”.

5) Finally, this will so anger an already energized populace – both Right and those on the left who understand the true ramifications and precedent that this sets.

One of those precedents that this sets is that there is now no limit, none what-so-ever, on what the government can tax. How is that? Weeell… The federal government now has the power to tax behavior, and with that comes the fact that there is no end to what can be taxed.

This alone effectively rewrote the United States of America Constitution in that now the government can dictate what you have, eat, drink, drive, where you can live, how much you will pay for anything and everything – all by falling back on the health benefits or detriments associated with whatever it is that is in question. Welcome to a totalitarian state the likes here-to-fore unheard of.

But guess what – that is exactly what Obamacare was always about. Obamacare has never been about health care for the uninsured. Neither was it about improving health care. It was not even about insurance. From the very beginning it was always about

1) The limitless expansion of the federal government

2) The federal government’s ability to exert behavioral control over the American people.

And the reason the left used health care as the vehicle for that is that you can virtually tie any expense, any behavior to health care expense.

Now on Thursday, I watched as all number of people on the left touted this as such a victory for Obama – funny, this gloating has tapered off dramatically as the days have passed into the weekend. Could it be that everyone has come to understand just what Justice Roberts has wrought?

This ruling solidly supports states rights by stopping any retribution on the part of the Federal government on states which ‘opt-out’ of the statute. This in and of itself is a blow to the left’s bone-deep statist ideal.

Another aspect of this ruling presents itself is a two-edged sword in that while Chief Justice Roberts actually ruled the mandate, relative to the commerce clause, was unconstitutional, he institutionalized the government’s power to tax at any and all levels. Simply said, while no government can force it’s citizenry to purchase any good or service, it can punish through taxation, that same citizenry for it’s NOT purchasing those goods or services – and by extension: any behavior said government deems undesirable.

Because the Roberts Court ruled that no government can force the people to purchase goods or services under the commerce clause he forced the left to own up to the fact that Obamacare is funded by tax increases. That’s right – the mechanism that funds Obama-care is a tax. In fact, the largest tax increases in the history of the world. Tax increases brought to the American people by President Barack Obama and the Left.

Obamacare raises taxes and adds 17 new taxes or penalties that will affect all Americans.

History tells us that after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Admiral Yamamoto is quoted as having said “We have awakened a sleeping giant and have instilled in him a terrible resolve”. Osama bin Laden was said to have believed that the American people were weak and would crumble in fear after the Islamic terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.

Instead of trembling in fear and changing the face of America the way he envisioned, oh America did react… just as it did in 1941: it came out swinging and swinging HARD!

The same is about to happen again, only this time, Conservative America is preparing to make a stand and take the fight to every Liberal(Democrat or Republican) who has any fingerprints on the Obamacare ‘health’ bill.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

Bank of America bonuses, ATM charges, and Struggling to Endure the Dodd-Frank Bank Attack Bill

Let me start this, my first post in a long while, by saying that because of my experiences with Bank of America, I am definitely not a fan of Bank of America.

In short, I found their customer service to be non-existent. Their tellers are… condescending at best, and more times than not – just plain rude. And don’t even think of applying for a loan from them unless you have enough money to buy the bank.

All of this said, I am completely on their side in this idiotic onslaught of the media and these “protesters” (read George Soros and MoveOn.org rent-a-mob morons).

What has Bank of America done wrong? They are paying bonuses that they are legally obligated to – and if they didn’t follow through on those contracts? They would be faced with litigations that would cost them millions to defend and they would still have to pay those bonuses. These are bonuses which were legally negotiated to bring high quality people to Bank of America, and in turn those people earned Bank of America a lot of money. Money which made Bank of America a more viable institution and better investment for all the various entities who invested in Bank of America. I hope I am not loosing anyone yet.

Ok, well I will forge on – wanna guess who some of those investors are? Union pension plans, teachers’ pension plans, government pension plans… wanna guess whose IRA’s and 401K’s are taking a hit and who, when they figure this out, won’t put two and two together and realize they are the cause of their own destruction? The very teachers, union members, IRA, and 401K owners who are screaming about how vile Bank of America is for paying these bonuses. I doubt that they were bitching when Bank of America’s stock was leading those same investment instruments.

This brings me to another issue that the business of any company is to make a profit, and as Bank of America is a business entity; its primary mission is to show a profit. Without a profit the employees won’t have jobs, the shareholders (those teachers, union members, government employees, retirees… whose pensions have been invested in business entities like Bank of America) will not have anything more than what they have been able to stuff into their mattresses.

Where am I going here?

Well, like I said: Bank of America is in business to make money and how they do that is operating as a financial institution.

Now, let’s look at one of the latest problems facing the US banking and financial system: HR 4173 – Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

In a nutshell, this is legislation that is completely detrimental and harmful to the banking system and ultimately, by extension – the US banking consumer.

How?

Well, this “financial regulatory reform act” imposes all kinds of new charges and taxes on the banking system while at the same time forcing it to reduce charges to its consumers. Now, one of the amendments included in the Dodd-Frank bill was placed there by when it hit the Senate by Illinois Senator Richard Durbin. This amendment mandates a reduction in transaction fees and 44¢ to 24¢ every time a credit card’s swiped.

What was the expected cost to banks for this reduction to the US banking system? 14 Billion dollars a year.

And it is specifically this cost that caused Bank of America to institute a monthly $5 charge to use their debit card.

So what happened when Bank of America tried to recoup these costs?

Everyone begin whining and complaining about how Bank of America is mistreating their customers – let’s get real, Bank of America is only doing what it is SUPPOSED to be doing : protecting its revenue flow, protecting its shareholders, and protecting the investments pension plan managers have made on behalf of their clients.

Senator Dick Durbin even went to the floor of the US Senate and called for the customers of Bank of America to “Get outta that bank! Go to a smaller community bank where they’re not charging you these fees and ripping you off,”.

Which is real sad when you think back and realize that it was his amendment that brought all this about in the first place.