New Health Care Deal - They're On the Run

In this article, Conservative analyst, Dick Morris, states the following: "First, a brief congratulations to all on having seemingly killed the public option. Without our efforts, it would be en route to becoming law. Now there will not be a government owned, government run and government subsidized insurance company that will put all others out of business."

"But the current proposal Reid is loudly trumpeting.....has all of the old flaws (minus the public option) in that the government, through the Secretary of Health, will decide who gets what treatment at what cost."

If you think this issue might strike hard at your purse strings, you're right. Read Dick Morris' preliminary analysis HERE.

You won't be sorry you did.

A must see video!

I just go this from a friend with the following posting:

"I received this outstanding incredibly satisfying and motivating web video from my long time Barbershop friend Larry Gassman who along with his twin brother John have been blind from birth and an inspiration to myself and everyone who has ever met either of them. This has nothing to due with being a USC fan (which I am) but what a little encouragement and love can do for anyone."

Click HERE to watch.

ClimateGate - A Scandal

So, where have I been for three months? I'm sure you all have been asking: yea, right!

Since you asked, I tell you. I've been to Toronto, Canada and back. Went there for a Bris, and it turned out to be two girls instead. Either my friend in Toronto was doing some heavy wishful thinking (and praying), or the doctors made a big mistake.

On the return trip, I was a bit under the 'Jet lag' umbrella both literally and politically. I just haven't been able to muster the energy to post anything since it all looks so bad on the political stage that is.

The above was true until I ran across the linked to article below that a friend's email led me to. I read it and realized that no one is telling the story: SO!!!
Here it is if you care to read beyond what the regular media wants you to.

Here goes:

"12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal
President Obama will be at the climate change summit in Copenhagen next week, but the network morning and evening news shows continue to ignore leaked e-mails that suggest ‘manipulation’ of climate data and other unethical behavior by alarmist scientists." Read about the British University that's involved up to its you know what in this one by clicking on link HERE.

Innovation Tax

"Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Companies Fee. Under this proposal, an annual fee of $2.3 billion would be imposed on the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector beginning in 2010. The fee would be allocated by market share.

"Medical Device Manufacturers Fee. Under this proposal, an annual fee of $4 billion would be imposed on the medical devices manufacturing sector beginning in 2010. The fee would be allocated by market share.

"Clinical Laboratories Fee. Under this proposal, an annual fee of $750 million would be imposed on clinical laboratories beginning in 2010. The fee would be allocated by market share, except for small businesses.

"Regardless, the talking points are a strong signal to life sciences innovators that the health care reform dialogue in Washington is heading in a direction that will directly harm innovation......" and "we can be sure that this will contribute to increasing costs of healthcare, contrary to the national objective.

"However, from every possible perspective, this proposal is a zero-sum gain to the Federal government, and a raw deal being offered to innovators in life sciences."

Read more HERE>

The Peasants Are Revolting

"Elites in politics, journalism discover that people have the power and the world is changing."

So says Dan Gainor at:
The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
Business & Media Institute
8/19/2009

"The Internet revolution is inflaming political activists and politics may never recover. It’s less messy than the guillotine, but the tech rebellion is severing ties with old media just as cleanly.

"The new tools enable voters of both sides to speak out and organize more easily. Whichever side is in power will discover that opposition can form even when the media ignore an issue."

Check out this most interesting overview and assessment of "PEOPLE POWER" by clickiing HERE.

How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?

"I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to...

"They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq.....

"I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject....

"We are not responsible for the operation of the universe, and what happens to us is not terribly important. God is real, not a fiction; and when we turn over our lives to Him, He takes far better care of us than we could ever do for ourselves. In a word, we make ourselves sane when we fire ourselves as the directors of the movie of our lives and turn the power over to Him....

"I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters. This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin...or Martin Mull or Fred Willard--or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them....

"But I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help)...

"Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will."

For the entire areticle, go HERE.

Though the article was written cir. 2004, it still speaks about the wisdom that time brings, unfortanately, not to all of us.

No Global Warming Since 1998 As Planet Cools Off

"According to man-made global warming advocates, CO2 emissions are the main driver of climate change and natural weather patterns caused by sun activity and other native contributors play second fiddle.

"But here we have UN climate scientists admitting that natural climate change contributors have eclipsed the effect of CO2 emissions for the past 10 years, even as carbon belchers like China and India have increased CO2 output at record levels!...

"On the whole, the world is getting colder ...., which is why "global warming" suddenly became "climate change" when temperature levels since 2003 started to prove the alarmists wrong."

The URL for this article has several supporting charts. Go HERE.