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Do, as they say, read the whole thing.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

November 6, 2008

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Environmental Jacobinism

The biggest surprise?  It’s published in the Vancouver sun.

It is, of course, not new to have a highly qualified scientist saying that global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon with many precedents in history. Many have made the argument, too, that it is rubbish to contend human behaviour is causing the current climate change. And it has often been well argued that it is totally ridiculous to suppose that changes in human behaviour — cleaning up our act through expensive slight-of-hand taxation tricks — can reverse the trend.

But most of these scientific and academic voices have fallen silent in the face of environmental Jacobinism. Purging humankind of its supposed sins of environmental degradation has become a religion with a fanatical and often intolerant priesthood, especially among the First World urban elites.

Not sure what environmental Jacobinism might be?  Well, go to the Amazon.com page for the book under discussion, and read the 1 star reviews.  Most of them start out something like “I haven’t read the book, but….” – and then proceed to bash the book and its author as “non-believers”.

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Free Health Care!

We has it.  It sux. Srsly.

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Are you an ‘Merican?

Then click here and puke. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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I Believe the Answer Would be “Canada”

Censoring unpopular ideas?  You betcha – we got that in spades here in the great white North – official censors decide what is, and isn’t acceptable.

What kind of country is America becoming when we believe that certain ideas should be marginalized and suppressed because they are unpopular or incorrect thought?

No one seems to realize that the beauty of free speech is that stupid and vile opinions are out there in the open for all to see and appreciate for what they are—much like a pile of dog poop in the living room.

Today it’s a girl in shorts – tomorrow it’s a redneck in a cowboy hat.  But eventually, conform or be punished.  If I may steal 1 graphic from the now “objectionable” content:

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Fear the Insatiable Belching Bovine

Of Free Health Care.

The “not for profit” lie is so bold, so obvious, so outrageous, that it’s difficult to understand how it’s survived this long.

The truth is precisely the opposite. Everyone in the Canadian health-care system, from top to bottom – from doctor, to nurse, to bureaucrat, to cleaner, to kitchen staff – has a guaranteed profit, guaranteed payment, often in wages that eclipse those in the private sector, regardless of quality or timeliness of patient care.

And even this isn’t enough for some – they demand guaranteed patients, through the eradication of what private sector competition there is.

The only participant who lacks a guaranteed return under this “not-for-loss” monopoly is the one paying the bill, the patient whose assets are involuntarily seized through taxation to keep the hulking, insatiable bovine alive and belching. The most powerful check and balance of all – the ability of the customer to refuse payment to protest inadequate service – has been removed from the equation.

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Best Headline of The Week

Ironic, No?

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The Death of A Party

No, not the Republican Party this time.  Fine – let the Democrats ram nationalized health care through down purely partisan lines. That way, there will be no doubt about who to blame when it bankrupts the US economy.

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Inlitterati Lumen Fidei

I stumbled across this blog today – sensuous.  And curmudgeonly! A match made in heaven.  The basic gist of the post is that the Sensuous one would like the creationist freaks to quit stinking up the Right side of the political spectrum.  This is a sentiment with which I whole heartedly agree.  As you can tell from my humble blog’s content – I will never be accused of being a leftist.  But I’m an atheist, believe that sex is healthy and good for you, and don’t really care who you do it with as long as everyone’s of legal age, consenting, and you leave me out of it (unless, of course, I ask to be included).

Why don’t all of you anti-science theocrats find yourselves another political party — you’re destroying the GOP. This should be the start of a golden age for the Republicans. There’s a raving socialist in the White House, a totally crazed Congress, the economy is in free-fall, and our foreign adversaries grow increasingly emboldened. But still the GOP isn’t poised for a return. Why? Because you guys are turning the Republican Party into the Noah’s Ark Stupidity Society.

I think a majority of Americans would support conservative principles of GOVERNMENT if they didn’t feel like they had to adopt young Earth, Discovery institute nonsense – or at least be associated with people who do.  And you know what – I have no problems with you being a true believer and a Conservative – just separate the 2 when it comes to governing our country, will ya?

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Conservative Girls ARE Hot!

But that’s not the point I want to talk about.  Canadian health care is.  So, go here, watch this, and then get back to me if you have any questions.  Watch the whole thing, especially if you’re American – and then fight, fight with all your might against the abomination of socialized medicine.

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