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Voting Democrat is Bad for Your Health

Jan 2, 2008 Political

Everyone of the Democrats wants some kind of universal health care that is paid for by taxpayers. They want ever person in this country covered (citizen or not) and they want to ensure that the government has its grubby little hands in the mix from beginning to end. What they want is to be able to make all the decisions for you. Over weight? You don’t get treated. Smoker, no treatment for you. Eat meat, you can’t be treated. Drink alcohol, too bad, so sad. The only people who will get great health care are those in Congress who abuse the military health care system that they claim does not take care of the troops (but there is a private floor just for them).

Michael Moore filmed his little lie about the health care industry and he tried to make it look as if the countries in the world with socialized medicine have it better than we do. I am no film expert so I will not tell Moore how to make movies (though I would tell him to stop) but I do have quite a bit more experience in health care than he does so I can speak to that. In America we do not see the wait times and denials that they have in other countries. Many people from those social Utopias come here for treatment. I have never had a patient who needed cardiac catheterization be denied or wait. They got sent to the cath lab and were treated. Surgeons came in at all hours of the night to operate on people regardless of their status and none were denied because they were fat, smoking, meat eating alcoholics. Michael Moore is wrong.

The cost of care in this country is high because the government is involved in it. Medicare is very expensive and is not a good bargain. They make it look good because none of the administrative costs are included in the program. Those are paid for by taxpayers and not reported so we cannot see how much it really costs. Government is extremely inefficient and if we allow it to take over health care more people will die.

Here is what we will get if the government takes over. A woman from Canada was here on vacation and she suffered a ruptured appendix (a medical emergency) and she was taken to a California hospital where she received all the care she needed including the surgery to correct the problem. She needs to be transferred to Canada, one of the places Moore says has better health care. She is still waiting in California because there are no beds available for her in her home country. Yep, her socialized medicine gurus cut the number of ICU beds so one is not available.

I have transferred patients all over my state and we had to wait for beds in specific hospitals but if we needed an ICU bed we could find one in the state. We could certainly find one in the entire country and when we waited it was not very long.

The fact is, America has the best health care in the world and the delivery would be even better and not cost as much if ambulance chasing lawyers like John Edwards didn’t file frivolous lawsuits or the nannies in Congress did not regulate everything to death. Health care would be cheaper if the government did not mandate unnecessary items and if companies and consumers were free to do business without government intervention.

Michael Moore is a blow hard who does not know his rectum from a hole in the ground and those running for the Democratic nomination only understand socialism. They think they know better than we do how to best run our lives.

If you vote for one of them you will be putting your health at risk.

Tags: canada, health care, michael moore, socialism

Can Islam Take Over?

Jan 2, 2008 General

In Pat Buchanan’s latest book, “Day of Reckoning” he makes the argument that Islam poses little threat to the US because they share the same religious ideology but are very diverse otherwise. He also indicates that we could be attacked, as we were on 9/11, but that we could weather those attacks and that Islam, or Muslim nations, could not come into the US and take over. He likens the potential attacks to our dropping nuclear bombs on Japan. They are smaller and yet they were able to recover and become a productive nation. Of course, this idea is only tolerable if you or your family are not caught up in the attack. I imagine that while Japan recovered many family lines were eliminated and no amount of recovery will ever change that (not that I have a problem with what we did back then).

I agree that the nations that are Islamic could not waltz into the US and fight us. We would slaughter them as millions of gun owners took liberties with the enemy’s lives. However, Buchanan seems to base his conclusion on them coming here as aggressors and taking us by force. In reality, they could take over much the same way the Mexicans are retaking the south. They can continue to arrive here and then when they are sufficient in number (their birth rates are way up and ours is barely sufficient to sustain our population) they can exert political pressure in order to achieve their goal of imposing Sharia Law on the world.

Interestingly, Buchanan, in his book “State of Emergency”, discussed the take over of America by our neighbors to the south and he discussed at length how they could eventually retake the south unless we did something to stop the flow. However, he seems to ignore that this very thing could happen with the Muslim population as well. They are well rooted and have their advocacy arm in CAIR, a group that is hell bent on making the mere thought of something bad toward Islam a criminal offense.

Buchanan addressed the heavy Muslim population in Europe and discussed how they are taking over and yet he seems to think this is not something that can happen here. One can argue whether it was wise to go to war over there but the fact remains that they can, and will if we let them, take over this country. It is one thing to say that they cannot beat us in a fight but it is another to ignore the plight of Europe and say it could not happen here. One only needs to listen to the Imams, Clerics and other leaders to realize that world domination is their goal.

Cleric Irshad added: “I’m ready to become a suicide bomber and lay down my life for Islam. My friends are already doing this to the invading British forces in Afghanistan.

“Democracy is wrong. I hope Britain and the rest of the world will have sharia law this century. We will continue to sacrifice our lives to achieve this.” The Sun UK

These are not isolated words. One hears them again and again coming from Mosques all around the world. Some of those very Mosques are right here in America. When one has an enemy it is wise to listen to what the enemy says it wants to do. Failure to pay attention or absolute ignorance leads to complacency and eventually to defeat.

One other thing that is important to remember; our enemies have help from inside the US. The Democrats are invested in our defeat and liberal activist courts continue to make rulings that cause more and more Americans to fear saying anything about suspicious activities that involve Muslims. We continue to placate them so as not to offend them at the expense of the non Muslim people in this country. The Democratic Party is full of socialists and they were full of Communists over 50 years ago. It was, after all, that party that allowed the Communists to get into our government. It is not a stretch to say that the very same party would allow Islam a foot in the door and would help them all in the name of diversity and understanding.

I respect Pat Buchanan and I think he is a great writer with very good insight. However, he misses the boat on this issue and that is dangerous. We should be ever vigilant and work hard to protect this country from those who would hurt us including the enemy within.

Tags: complacency, enemies, europe, islam, terror, war

Gun Control Would Prevent This

Jan 2, 2008 General

Here is a story from the Sun UK. I copied the entire piece because there is no link to it. It tells of several shooting and a couple of deaths because of gun violence. If only there were gun laws to prevent this sort of thing…

A MAN was killed and another critically injured in a suspected gangland shooting on New Year’s Eve.

The murder victim, 26, was sitting in a parked car with three men when the killer strode up and fired a hail of bullets at them.

A third man cheated death when a bullet grazed his head and a fourth emerged unscathed.

The terrified pals drove to hospital following the 5.30pm carnage in Crumpsall, Manchester. The 26-year-old died shortly afterwards. His 27-year-old pal was seriously ill in hospital last night with wounds to his back.

The gunman, who fled the quiet suburban road on foot, was still at large last night. Another man aged 42 was blasted in the back in an unrelated shooting at 6.30pm on New Year’s Eve in Trafford, Manchester. Four men were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

A 23-year-old reveller also survived being stabbed in the throat in the city’s Rusholme area.

And in Anfield, Liverpool, a man aged 28 was shot in the stomach.

Oh wait, the UK has very strict gun laws. My friends over there told me how they had to turn their guns in (they were reimbursed) so that gun crimes would drop. Looks like the people who break the law did not get the memo or they ignored the law. Imagine that!

Gun control laws do not stop gun crimes because people who would obey the law are not the ones who would use guns to commit crimes in the first place. Too bad people are not bright enough to see this. Politicians know it is true but they also know that an armed citizenry is a free one and they want to be able to impose their will on us so they are trying to get rid of the guns. This is particularly true of Democrats who want to have us work to provide money for them so they can administer every aspect of our lives.

The UK, gun free and even more dangerous.

Tags: crime, gun control, murder, UK

Clinton Campaign Lies to Cover Her Inexperience

Jan 2, 2008 Political

Senator Joe Biden had a few words about a recent gaffe by Hillary Clinton with regard to Pakistan. Clinton made comments about Pakistan having a presidential election and Biden pointed out that Musharraf was already elected and the upcoming event is a parliamentary election. Biden probably has the most experience of all the Democrats running (even though he does not have that valuable experience of being a First lady) and he is strong on foreign affairs. I don’t care for Biden’s politics but if the argument is for experience then he has it, hands down, over any of the other Democrats and many of the Republicans.

Clinton’s campaign responded by stating that the candidate was speaking about Musharraf’s party and not him in particular. Her exact words were (two different occasions):

Clinton’s comments came in an interview with ABC Sunday, in which she said, “[Musharraf] could be the only person on the ballot. I don’t think that’s a real election.”

The New York senator also made similar comments during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer last week, saying then, “If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election, then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow.” [emphasis mine] CNN

These statements make it pretty clear that Hillary was speaking about the presidential election and about Musharraf. She was not speaking about his party or using general terms. The fact that her campaign would make such blatantly false statements shows that it is either ignorant of the facts or is willing to ignore the truth in order to win.

Biden was correct on this one. Hillary Clinton, the “most experienced” candidate was very incorrect and showed her ignorance with regard to Pakistan. Her foreign experience is no where near as honed as Biden’s and she is not as accomplished as she would like people to believe.

The reality of the situation is that we once again see the Clinton crime gang saying anything and disregarding the truth. She is already viewed as someone that cannot be trusted and this will not make that impression any better.

Perhaps when they were sending her on all the dangerous missions that no one else went on she skipped Pakistan…

Hillary is Satan.

Tags: biden, Clinton, foreign policy gaffe, inexperience, lies