The Best Kinds of Hangars for a Small Closet
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barney frank confronts woman's nazi health comments
8/21/2009
the ever quotable barney frank (10 Loudest and Most Hilarious Barney Frank Outbursts if you need more)finally brings some cajones to the health insurance reform debate by saying what the 70% of Americans who support a public option wish the dems would have been saying for the last couple weeks:
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Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win
Among other things, Ridge admits that he was pressured to raise the terror alert to help Bush win re-election in 2004.
Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was "blindsided" by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush's re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.
Dave Weigel, writing for the Washington Independent, notes that in the past, Ridge has denied manipulating security information for political reasons. In 2004, for example, he said, "We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security."
"What Tom Ridge disclosed confirms our worst suspicions," said Sen. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who criticized the color-coded system back in 2003. "Just like they did in Iraq, the Bush Administration manipulated intelligence to cause fear in the public to further its political goals."
fight to abolish public firefighting
8/18/2009
For too long we have endured the socialistic nightmare of tyrannical laws that incite our neighbors to call 911 and report us TO THE GOVERNMENT when our homes are on fire.
Americans are so brainwashed that only a tiny, patriotic sliver of us have truly understood the fascist flood that gushes from taxpayer-funded fire hoses every day in these United States. The facts are chilling. So wake up, America!
FACT: When a neighbor reports your burning home to the government, you as the property owner are helpless. The taxpayer-funded sirens come ever closer, whether you like it or not, until finally the trucks arrive on your property. Soon your door is bashed from its hinges, your windows are in shards, your belongings are soaked with the fluoridated poison that passes for a municipal water supply.
FACT: You as the property owner get no say whatsoever as to who is sent to extinguish a blaze in your home. The government DOES NOT CARE about the sacred trust that is supposed to exist between an individual homeowner and the individual firefighter he would select to be the defender of his little piece of the American dream. No. Instead, callous government bureaucrats DECIDE FOR US which masked, helmeted strangers will be dispatched to breach our supposedly sacred homes. Breathing taxpayer-funded oxygen from taxpayer-funded tanks, these strangers even have the authority to snatch our children from their beds. Our children! FROM THEIR BEDS! Again, I say: WAKE UP, AMERICA!
FACT: Government bureaucrats decide which firefighting services will be available and which will be rationed. Under a market-based system, we would be able to contract for firefighting that is tailored to our individual needs. Instead, we get this one-size-fits-all travesty of a system. Just one example: Try calling 911 and asking for a firefighter to come blow out your birthday candles. At best, the bureaucrats will laugh at you. At worst, the bureaucrats will send straightjacket-wielding thugs to your home. All the while, it is you -- the taxpayer, the property owner -- who is paying the salaries of these jackals and hyenas.
FACT: The property owner loses all authority to decide what or whom should be saved from his burning home. The unthinking bureaucratic drones will always choose human life over an inanimate object. Heaven help you if you want the firefighters to save some precious possession and let your house guests burn alive. The bureaucrats refuse to listen.
Even if your house guests are parasites who have overstayed their welcome.
Even if your house guests are the sort of people who write satire.
Even if the precious object is a Bible.
Even if the precious object an American flag.
Even if the precious object is the original copy of the Second Amendment.
Without fail, the bureaucrats will save the parasite, save the satirist. Without fail, they will let the Bible burn, let the American flag burn, let our God-given right to bear arms go up in flames. Can there be any more clear evidence of the tyranny we are up against? NO!
Keep marching.
If we seize this moment, if we maintain this momentum, we can give our children an America free from the totalitarian, communist abomination of public firefighting.
Keep marching!
KEEP MARCHING!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-quigg/abolish-the-nazi-commie-n_b_261731.html
Women cry for 16 months of their lives
Women spend the equivalent of 16 months of their lives crying, according to a new poll.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6013010/Women-cry-for-16-months-of-their-lives.html
Women cry for 16 months of their lives
Women spend the equivalent of 16 months of their lives crying, according to a new poll.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6013010/Women-cry-for-16-months-of-their-lives.html
CIA report on life expectancy in various countries
This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. Life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. It can also be thought of as indicating the potential return on investment in human capital and is necessary for the calculation of various actuarial measures.
#49 Wallis and Futuna
#50 United States
#51 Albania
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
Sebelius: Public Health Care Option "Not The Essential Element"
8/16/2009
without the public option the whole reform isn't going to amount to a hill of beans. if nonprofit health care co-ops were so great wouldn't we just already have them? if the public option is dropped completely my support for obama will drop with it. of all the campaign promises and proposals he made last year name me a few that he has not back peddled on or completely abandoned? Don't ask don't tell, abandoned. transparency in the war on terror, he now asks that reports and evidence of war crimes be suppressed. Guantanamo? still open. incarceration without habeus corpus - he now favors holding detainees indefinitely without charges. i had hopes that he was delaying on those issues in order to pass REAL universal coverage and then once that was accomplished build on the momentum of that success to implement these other changes afterwords. i'm beginning to see him as a do nothing president. besides these private nonprofit co-ops what exactly will the health care reform bill do to change the mess our hodge-podge patchwork health care system has become?
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