From Ann Coulter's blog, by PA Electric Man
In honor of the 44th President of the United States ,
Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream has introduced a new flavor: " Barocky Road ."
Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate, and surrounded by nuts and flakes.
The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts and flakes are all very bitter and hard to swallow.
The cost is $100.00 per scoop.
When purchased it will be presented to you in a large beautiful cone, but then the ice cream is taken away and given to the person in line behind you.
You are left with an empty wallet and no change, holding an empty cone with no hope of getting any ice cream.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
It’s Worse Than a Lie; It’s…It’s…Déclassé!
By John Fielding
An obscure congressman from South Carolina has now become a cause célèbre. Joe Wilson has become the face of the faceless forgotten people showing up at tea parties and in Washington by the thousands. Calling the President out in the middle of his address to a joint session of Congress, Congressman Wilson could not stand to hear the lies and half-truths issuing forth from Obama since he sits on a committee that deals with the subject being addressed in the speech.
Joe Wilson lost it for a second. He is like ordinary people when pushed too far by falsehood and threats to their well-being. Now he is the national face for all of us who are tired of Washington grabbing too much for itself and treating the Constitution as if it is not worth the paper it’s written on.
And what has been the response from the “brie and Chablis” crowd? "Tsk, tsk, how rude." "Sniff, sniff, how distasteful; pass me another canapé, dahling." We all know them because they belong to both parties.
Here in Berks County, they got Tom (the terrible) McMahon elected mayor of Reading twice. Through their party organ, the Reading Beagle, they even managed to cover up a deficit and unfavorable crime statistics until after Mayor McMuffin’s reelection.
On the Republican side, they wander in from the skeet ranges to support liberal Democrats for office simply because they belong to the same country clubs. One must never allow ideology or truth or principle to intrude on good manners.
They are simply the local inhabitants of the upholstered play pens of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Northeast Liberal Establishment.
I remember a few years back, I was running for office. I had a late custody negotiation in a judge’s chambers. The judge said, “Gee, John, I didn’t expect you here this late. I thought you’d be out shaking hands with the shift workers as they got off work.” I replied, half-joking, “Nah, Judge, I’m a Republican. I go station myself outside the country club clubhouse to catch the blow-dries as they come in from the 18th green to graze on martinis."
The blow-dries think they control the local GOP. However, parties need foot-soldiers as well as those who write checks without getting their hair mussed. And the present and future foot soldiers of the GOP are in the tea parties and the demonstrations here, and in Washington. And Joe Wilson is the voice of that wing. And it is a large wing. And it exists in both parties. And the reaction of the blow-dried “brie and Chablis” toffs in both parties was the same: “It is worse than a lie; it is gauche.”
The judge was half-right. I have more in common with the workers getting off their shifts than I do with the blow-dries. The President was lying, and everybody knows it. Joe Wilson’s voice was my voice and the shift-workers’ voice. The blow dries in both parties are just going to have to get used to it.
An obscure congressman from South Carolina has now become a cause célèbre. Joe Wilson has become the face of the faceless forgotten people showing up at tea parties and in Washington by the thousands. Calling the President out in the middle of his address to a joint session of Congress, Congressman Wilson could not stand to hear the lies and half-truths issuing forth from Obama since he sits on a committee that deals with the subject being addressed in the speech.
Joe Wilson lost it for a second. He is like ordinary people when pushed too far by falsehood and threats to their well-being. Now he is the national face for all of us who are tired of Washington grabbing too much for itself and treating the Constitution as if it is not worth the paper it’s written on.
And what has been the response from the “brie and Chablis” crowd? "Tsk, tsk, how rude." "Sniff, sniff, how distasteful; pass me another canapé, dahling." We all know them because they belong to both parties.
Here in Berks County, they got Tom (the terrible) McMahon elected mayor of Reading twice. Through their party organ, the Reading Beagle, they even managed to cover up a deficit and unfavorable crime statistics until after Mayor McMuffin’s reelection.
On the Republican side, they wander in from the skeet ranges to support liberal Democrats for office simply because they belong to the same country clubs. One must never allow ideology or truth or principle to intrude on good manners.
They are simply the local inhabitants of the upholstered play pens of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Northeast Liberal Establishment.
I remember a few years back, I was running for office. I had a late custody negotiation in a judge’s chambers. The judge said, “Gee, John, I didn’t expect you here this late. I thought you’d be out shaking hands with the shift workers as they got off work.” I replied, half-joking, “Nah, Judge, I’m a Republican. I go station myself outside the country club clubhouse to catch the blow-dries as they come in from the 18th green to graze on martinis."
The blow-dries think they control the local GOP. However, parties need foot-soldiers as well as those who write checks without getting their hair mussed. And the present and future foot soldiers of the GOP are in the tea parties and the demonstrations here, and in Washington. And Joe Wilson is the voice of that wing. And it is a large wing. And it exists in both parties. And the reaction of the blow-dried “brie and Chablis” toffs in both parties was the same: “It is worse than a lie; it is gauche.”
The judge was half-right. I have more in common with the workers getting off their shifts than I do with the blow-dries. The President was lying, and everybody knows it. Joe Wilson’s voice was my voice and the shift-workers’ voice. The blow dries in both parties are just going to have to get used to it.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE SPEECH
Posted by Michael Connelly at http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/
Last night President Obama made what was touted by much of the media as a major address to Congress and the American people on healthcare. I’m not going to write a lengthy response to the speech because first, there was really nothing new in it, and secondly, he did not address the Constitutional issues. In fact, most of the health care bill supporters are running like mad from having to respond to questions from Americans on those issues.
Instead, they take the arrogant and elitist approach that the President took last night; accusing all who oppose the enlightened paternalism of the left of either being evil or just too dumb to know that we have to be taken care of by “Big Brother”. In other words, there was little in the speech that I have not already addressed in my previous articles posted here.
There is one issue that I need to address however, since not only have the President and members of Congress been making a point of it, but I have received several e-mails asking me about it. That is the question of whether illegal immigrants will get medical care under the provisions of HR 3200. My answer is clearly yes. This is disputed by those who point to Section 246 of the bill that is titled: “No Federal Payment for Undocumented Aliens”.
That seems clear enough, but what does it really say in the section. There is only one sentence in the section and it states:
“Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.”
All that says is that affordability credits to help them get insurance are not available to illegals. It does not say that they can’t participate in the overall program and get reduced cost insurance under the so-called “public option”. Nor is there anything in the bill that requires someone to verify their citizenship to get benefits from the Insurance Exchange in the program. Any enforcement provisions were specifically excluded in the House Committee. The bill also doesn’t limit the care currently being provided for free at emergency rooms and government clinics. You can read this section and the rest of the bill for yourself by going to the following link: http://thomas.loc.gov/
The access of illegal aliens to the system has been verified by a recent report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. This service works for Congress and the report was released days before President Obama made his speech, yet he continued to deny that illegals will get coverage. There is also a movement among some members of Congress to grant illegal immigrants full rights to participate in all government programs including Social Security, even if they have never paid a penny into the system.
Is it Constitutional to require American taxpayers to pay for medical coverage of those who have broken our country’s laws by sneaking across our borders? Nobody in the Obama Administration seems to care.
Last night President Obama made what was touted by much of the media as a major address to Congress and the American people on healthcare. I’m not going to write a lengthy response to the speech because first, there was really nothing new in it, and secondly, he did not address the Constitutional issues. In fact, most of the health care bill supporters are running like mad from having to respond to questions from Americans on those issues.
Instead, they take the arrogant and elitist approach that the President took last night; accusing all who oppose the enlightened paternalism of the left of either being evil or just too dumb to know that we have to be taken care of by “Big Brother”. In other words, there was little in the speech that I have not already addressed in my previous articles posted here.
There is one issue that I need to address however, since not only have the President and members of Congress been making a point of it, but I have received several e-mails asking me about it. That is the question of whether illegal immigrants will get medical care under the provisions of HR 3200. My answer is clearly yes. This is disputed by those who point to Section 246 of the bill that is titled: “No Federal Payment for Undocumented Aliens”.
That seems clear enough, but what does it really say in the section. There is only one sentence in the section and it states:
“Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.”
All that says is that affordability credits to help them get insurance are not available to illegals. It does not say that they can’t participate in the overall program and get reduced cost insurance under the so-called “public option”. Nor is there anything in the bill that requires someone to verify their citizenship to get benefits from the Insurance Exchange in the program. Any enforcement provisions were specifically excluded in the House Committee. The bill also doesn’t limit the care currently being provided for free at emergency rooms and government clinics. You can read this section and the rest of the bill for yourself by going to the following link: http://thomas.loc.gov/
The access of illegal aliens to the system has been verified by a recent report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. This service works for Congress and the report was released days before President Obama made his speech, yet he continued to deny that illegals will get coverage. There is also a movement among some members of Congress to grant illegal immigrants full rights to participate in all government programs including Social Security, even if they have never paid a penny into the system.
Is it Constitutional to require American taxpayers to pay for medical coverage of those who have broken our country’s laws by sneaking across our borders? Nobody in the Obama Administration seems to care.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Life under ObamaCare
John Fielding
Want to know what life will be like under ObamaCare? Read the rather rueful and remorseful article by Robert Heilbroner, Socialist professor from the New College for Social Research at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Socialism.html.
Want to know what life will be like under ObamaCare? Read the rather rueful and remorseful article by Robert Heilbroner, Socialist professor from the New College for Social Research at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Socialism.html.
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