Ed Morrissey has the quote of the week. Concerning Obama’s pitch for the Olympics in Chicago:
In short, this is a microcosm of the entire administration. They entered into a situation about which they knew nothing and put the prestige of the presidency on the line without bothering to listen past themselves and the Daley Machine in Chicago.
Two things today.
1. This column from the NYTimes where two brothers decide not to donate a kidney to their dad lest they be dropped from their own coverage leads to the columnist deciding we MUST pass this health reform bill.
I believe that one of the Republican ideas about health insurance reform is disallowing the dropping of coverage once a condition pops up.
1000 pages of unreadable reform is not the ONLY route for fixing this particular problem.
2. This column about how insurer discrimination is surely going to continue even after reform is pretty clear.
While the author apparently wants to convey that there will be ways to get around the new system, aren’t health insurance companies mean? What I get out of the article is different.
Reform – as it currently stands – will end up destroying private health insurance.
UPDATE: Be sure to read the WSJ John Mackey interview regarding Whole Food’s health insurance ideas.
Scott notes what might or might not be happening in NJ this November.
I agree, it’s going to be interesting. Which way is the pendulum swinging now that people actually have gotten to know President Obama. And his ilk. And the left.
In my hometown – we too are going to be greeted with an election this November which will be telling for my little town. Last election our council swung far to the left. This election we could potentially swing right.
And just like the nation Longmont is a microcosm of what’s going on. People on the left decided that “civility” should be in order for everyone. (now that their man is in office anyway – please don’t ask them how civil Bush was treated)
They created an advisory board and even convince two people of the right to join in, just to keep this election here civil. Before even a second complaint could be read, the two on the right have realize what a big mistake they made. Civility for the left means not accusing anyone of anything. Even when it’s the truth.
Even if you’re a private citizen and want to share your views. If you have seen wrong doing of the left and you want to bring it up, the left will accuse you of being “uncivil”.
Nicolle Pratt-Unger and Russ Stacey resigned from the committee Thursday, saying it wasn’t functioning the way they had hoped and fearing that the direction it is heading will do more to keep people quiet than to keep candidates civil.
“I think it created more controversy and incivility than it cured,” Stacey said of reactions he has heard from the community.
Guess what happened this week?
The house voted to block GITMO transfers to US proper.
The farmers daughter took one down with his own weapon.
As they say in some parts “You go girl!”
UPDATED:
Senator Kerry gives government a bad name as he (who should have visited Honduras long ago) disallows a trip by Senator DeMint until/unless DeMint agrees to ok a couple of posts for Obama.
The article doesn’t say what DeMint’s problem is with these 2 people, but this is is straight out quid pro quo. (not playing nice)
Good news from the US Government:
OAS consensus on how to handle the Honduran crisis fell apart this week when the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Bahamas and Peru proposed dropping Zelaya’s return to power as a precondition for legitimate elections.
And finally, LaGringa notes that while removing Zelaya from the country might not have been legal, the courts IN Honduras are determining this AND based on what has happened since then, it probably was the only decent thing that could be done to save lives.
She also notes:
Please also remember that Hugo Chávez threatened invasion of Honduras even before June 28. This was reported in local news as well. While it is easy to dismiss Chávez as a blustering buffoon in the US or Europe, it isn’t so easy when you are his target and you a small country with a huge unprotected border, relatively weak defenses, and apparently not another friend in the world. Neither the UN or the OAS chastised Chávez for his threats against Honduras.
Read that again. I know you skimmed it.
Please also remember that Hugo Chávez threatened invasion of Honduras even before June 28. This was reported in local news as well. While it is easy to dismiss Chávez as a blustering buffoon in the US or Europe, it isn’t so easy when you are his target and you a small country with a huge unprotected border, relatively weak defenses, and apparently not another friend in the world. Neither the UN or the OAS chastised Chávez for his threats against Honduras.
Update: DeMint made it to Honduras with a little help from Mitch McConnell and the Defense Dept.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) denounced Kerry’s move on the Senate floor and sought the intervention of the minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The Republican leader appealed to the Defense Department to provide an aircraft for DeMint’s trip and the Pentagon agreed to do so, according to the South Carolina senator’s office.
Excellent. Of course…..
Six US House democratic leaders sent a letter to the president of the Honduran Congress today warning that the Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) delegation to Honduras did not represent the views of the White House or Congress.
My heart went out to this fellow and his family this morning.
23 year old man in the service. Gets sick one day and 10 days later he’s dead. (funny how the example the NYTimes uses in a story titled “Swine Flu Spreading Widely; Worry over Pregnant Women” uses a young and not pregnant man.)
Scientists at the disease centers also looked at lung samples from 77 fatal swine flu cases and found that in about a third of the cases, the patient had died not from flu alone, but from bacteria that infiltrate when flu inflames the lungs.
How can it be that we can’t nurse someone through the flu? What is killing them?
Turns out in many cases it’s bacteria in the lungs. Perhaps because we keep creating superbacteria by killing all the good ones? (Streptococcus pneumoniae is common, is found in HIN1 victims and is becoming resistant) Me – down on antibacterial anything.
It’s job is to create laws.
If a law is created and it’s not being followed and no one believes it ever will be, what is the answer?
Create another law.
In LA there is a bill up to protect consumers against mortgage counselors.
So you go to a mortgage counselor. He/she promises to re-negotiate your mortgage to something affordable if only you’ll pay him/her X. You do. Three months later you find your house has been sold.
That’s just plain fraud
But since some mortgage counselors continue on this road, the CA govt wants to create a new law to outlaw it.
