About the “historic” nature of the vote
Bookworm on Mar 20 2010 at 2:11 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
One of my conservative friends (yes, there are other conservatives here in Marin) commented on the fact that Pelosi and Co. keep saying the health care vote will be “historic,” as if that’s automatically a good thing. Herewith a short list of historic events (in no particular order) that I’d prefer not to see replicated:
1. The Black Death
2. The Spanish Inquisition
3. The Hundred Years War
4. The Thirty Years War
5. World War I
6. World War II
7. Kennedy’s Assassination
8. MLK’s Assassination
9. The Tiananmen Square Massacre
10. The Armenian Genocide
11. The York Massacre
12. Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
13. The Battle of Antietam
14. The Bataan Death March
I’m sure you can readily think of other “historic” events that weren’t automatically good simply by virtue of being historic.
Our country is being run by idiots. I hope Americans have memories long enough for a solid November backlash. In an MTV world, where so many people boast a 10 second attention span, I worry.
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Book says,
> Our country is being run by idiots. I hope Americans have memories long enough for a solid November backlash.
Well, they’re not merely idiots, they’re big government idiots who want to intrude upon and control many or all aspects of your daily lives. Let me roll with this a little, I do have a point…
First a quote from a recent article, wherein a liberal activist wrote a book damning other liberals – those of the Vegan diet persuasion – for destroying the earth, and the Vegans responded at one of her speeches by throwing pies at her.
The link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/17/BAGI1CGM1H.DTL
The article begins: An ex-vegan who was hit with chili pepper-laced pies at an anarchist event in San Francisco said Tuesday that her assailants were cowards who should direct their herbivorous rage at the powerful – not at a fellow radical for writing a book denouncing animal-free diets.
I’m going to assume the woman did actually use the word “cowards”. So what do we have here?
- We have a liberal who is the target of protesters.
- The liberal calls the protestors names (cowards).
- The liberal claims the protests are illegitimate and should be directed only against those whom THAT LIBERAL believes should be protested against. Not her, and not anyone else, but only against her personal targets, whom she believes to be legitimate.
- The liberal does not acknowledge, in any way, that protestors against her might have a point.
Now all that is fine for a mere private citizen. But she is a huge-government leftist, who wants government ever larger, and ever more intrusive into your daily lives, controlling you with that government power. And as you can see via her sentiments, once someone like her gets into power, they will use that power for their own personal goals and beliefs. All other “protests” or “goals” are illegitimate compared to her own, as you can see in her reaction against other liberal protestors against her. Therefore only her own grievances will be enacted upon.
And that, in a nutshell, is what is driving the far-left liberals over the cliff on ObamaCare. They can only see their own goals. They can’t even see or acknowledge the widespread opposition to their health care goals, because their goals are legitimate, and everyone else’s goals are illegitimate and wrong. They refuse to acknowledge; they are blinded; they will not see. They refuse to see.
As a final note, no one’s focused much on the role the IRS has to play in ObamaCare. The IRS is a tax collection and tax enforcement agency. Do you really want the IRS to have an intrusive role in your health care? Here’s what’s coming. I do not want the IRS involved in my health care!
* IRS agents verify if you have “acceptable” health care coverage;
* IRS has the authority to fine you up to $2,250 or 2 percent of your income (whichever is greater) for failure to prove that you have purchased “minimum essential coverage;”
* IRS can confiscate your tax refund;
* IRS audits are likely to increase;
* IRS will need up to $10 billion to administer the new health care program this decade;
* IRS may need to hire as many as 16,500 additional auditors, agents and other employees to investigate and collect billions in new taxes from Americans; and
* Nearly half of all these new individual mandate taxes will be paid by Americans earning less than 300 percent of poverty ($66,150 for a family of four.)
If you want to see another round of idiots, check the reactions to these videos out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiIK8jh3ZCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPCtobsUTp4&feature=related
This not only encapsulates the feeling about Obama in the past, but it also shows you how many useful. idiots and active trouble makers there are in this world.
We will need a lot of firepower to suppress their shenanigans.
Two history making events: Election of first black president – Barack Obama, Election of first woman House Speaker – Nancy Pelosi. Yeah, that all worked out well. A country run by idiots or the least qualified is called “Kakistocracy,” though I prefer the term made famous, ironically, by Hollywood, “Idiocracy.”
Idiocracy was good. But one should look at the screenplay writer and the director’s background for proper context. Even Hollywood lets some things slip that they really shouldn’t: Serenity.
I wonder what a civilization ruled by ‘those that need killing’ is called in Greek/Latin.
I don’t know. Texas, until recently, had a legal defense for homocide known as the ‘he needed killing’ defense.
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