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Comment by CCR on March 26, 2010 at 10:38pm

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159300.html

Comment by CCR on March 26, 2010 at 10:37pm

Obamacare taxes tanning beds at 10%. that mean they will soon tax beaches / boats? Hey, the logic follows! And, Libs want to get boaters off the water anyway. When you let the camel get its nose under the tent, you soon get humped.
I think its reverse discrimination, where's the ACLU?

Comment by Mommacat on March 25, 2010 at 9:20pm

Pamela, that is one more piece of evidence that the inmates are running the asylum.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on March 25, 2010 at 12:48pm

Let me get this straight. We're going to be gifted with a health care plan
written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it,
passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it,
to be signed by a president who also hasn't read it and who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes,
to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,
and financed by a country that's broke.

What could possibly go wrong?

Comment by Mommacat on March 25, 2010 at 7:16am

Deborah, you will go in my prayers. Have the same situation with all three of my siblings. They are very arrogant and sure they are extremely enlightened and I am supposed to just wait on everyone when they are here and keep my ignorant mouth shut. But I don't ;-). Understand that you want your Mom to have a peaceful time during your visit, though. Prayers for your furry kids. I still feel sad when I look out and don't see my corgi and she died a year ago of a heart condition.

Comment by Mommacat on March 24, 2010 at 9:08pm

Someone sent me a message saying BO worships in the White House with his muslim friends. Any truth to that? Figured you ladies here are pretty astute and might know if there is truth in this. nothing about that man would surprise me. I guess nothing about the people in this country would surprise me any more. But you take a couple of generations of kids and tell them there is no God, that they are animals and then...Hmmm. They start acting/thinking(if you can call it thinking)like animals. It's scary. And the younger generation are the ones who voted for this guy (not the only ones, I know) and it makes me afraid of the future. These kids are our future? The ones sitting in their parents basements playing computer games or whatever. Wow.

Comment by Mommacat on March 23, 2010 at 9:01pm

Sorry to hear about your dog, Barbara. Had to bury both my son's lab mix and our little corgi last winter. Saved two newborn corgi/beagle pups. Now have one corgle, a rescue shepherd/husky and a lab/?. All great dogs. Dropped right out of heaven along with two more cats. The lab has been my therapy in a lot of ways since our oldest went into the Navy. You will be in my prayers.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on March 22, 2010 at 11:40am

‘Nil desperandum” — never despair. That is a sentiment that conservatives need to take to heart now that Congress has narrowly passed a bill that simultaneously undermines life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It takes some ingenuity to add to the costs, inefficiency, and dysfunctions that government has already bequeathed to our health-care system, but the Democrats have proven themselves up to the challenge. Almost nothing about this legislation is free of dispute, but we are convinced that it will increase taxes, increase premiums, and increase debt, while decreasing economic growth, job growth, and the quality of health care.

The Democrats had no mandate to take these steps. In 2008, the president campaigned both against forcing people to buy insurance and against taxing their benefits. The legislation runs counter to the campaign on both points. The president promised to change Washington. He has made its stench more noisome, winning this vote by using every kind of deceit and (legal) corruption, and over the objection of a bipartisan coalition representing most Americans.

We are now being told that the campaign to repeal this legislation is over before it has even begun, that Americans will come to appreciate the benefits that a bountiful government is giving them, and that the growth of the welfare state can never be reversed. We understand the odds against repeal. We understand, indeed, that complete repeal of every provision of the bill is impossible. The doughnut hole — a gap in Medicare’s prescription-drug coverage designed to encourage seniors to economize — has been filled, and it is not going to be re-opened.

But the larger thesis seems as superficially plausible, and as ultimately convincing, as were earlier predictions that state socialism or secularization were our inevitable future. It is quite possible that the majority of America that rejects this legislation will get its way in the next few years — if it is given the right leadership. And it is worth the effort to try.

It is possible, for example, that the results of the legislation will turn out to be unpleasant more quickly than most observers realize. The bill requires insurers to charge people with pre-existing conditions the same as everyone else, and the only reason for people not to game the system — dropping their insurance until they get sick and the insurer has to take them — is because the law requires them to buy insurance or pay a fine. For many people, the fine will be a cheap price to avoid premiums that could run around $8,000 a year for a family of four. The effect of the legislation could be to cause the number of healthy people with insurance to fall dramatically — and for premiums to rise, which would cause more people to drop their insurance. If this happens, we can expect liberals to agitate for a single-payer system; but we can also expect the public to blame the Democrats whose health-care system it will now be. A less lopsidedly Democratic Congress is not going to respond to this chaos by enacting single payer or strengthening the fines.

For that matter, the lengthy legislation could turn out to have little time bombs, the nature of which cannot currently be guessed. Nothing about the process that produced the legislation, after all, suggests that it was put together with careful consideration. Conservatives will be able to capitalize on the discrediting of Obamacare, however it takes place, only if they campaign this fall on a pledge to replace this government-heavy system with true reform. Republicans running against Democrats who voted for this legislation will have the easiest task. But even Republicans running against Democrats who voted against it can advance the cause by challenging those Democrats either to advocate repeal and replacement themselves or to expose themselves as false opponents of Obamacare.

Nor have pro-lifers lost the war. Pro-lifers should campaign this fall on a pledge to make the Hyde amendment — the partial ban on government funding of abortion, which now applies to portions of federal spending and has to be renewed each year — a permanent feature of law that applies to all federal spending. The Obama administration and most of liberaldom have pretended over the last year to favor both the principle in general and the Hyde amendment in particular. And the principle is popular. Their posturing, disingenuous though it was, has handed pro-lifers a winning issue.

The Democrats have abused the system, ignoring both the Founders’ design and public opinion. The first step toward undoing that abuse is to make them pay a political price for

Comment by CCR on March 22, 2010 at 11:07am

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Pentagon Aims to Make Troop Vote Count
We'll see. We've been around this block before. We know how that turned out.
I have to say I am saddened by that picture of the statue of liberty.
But the American Spirit struggles, we persevere.
My very own boss is living in a travel trailer behind her son.
Many of my co-workers are married with kids, living in their parents homes, ashamed, with low morale and hope. But we continue to fight the fight, and do what we can to keep from falling down that well.

I need to count my blessings this morning. Instead of being jaded.
Off to work. Have to work 8 - 9 months to pay for the fencing to stop the rich land developer (who got rich off our labors of the last 12 years) .
I just THOUGHT I was paying off my doctor bills, Rx's, gas and groceries for the last year.

Comment by MV (Ensign Boone's mom) on March 21, 2010 at 3:45pm

The vote is scheduled for about 8:30 PM EST tonight, so we all still have time for emails, faxes, and calls --- and for fervent prayer with hope!

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