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Time to
bake the fruitcake, egg the nog
feed the flaming yuletide log
baste the beast and grog the grog!
(Just don’t let the G-men find out –you’re undoubtedly in violation of some reg or other)
Merry Christmas
Happy [Festival of Lights that I can’t spell] Holiday
And Kwanza is a communist plot
Setting policy by basing one’s policy assumptions on the prescriptions of a true believing evangelical type is fairly characterized as a sure and certain way to failure, speaking of failures. In any case, if this were indeed “the biggest opportunity we’ve ever had from an economic point of view” there would be no need to subsidize the activity whatsoever, as it would of its own crush any possible competition. But in fact, it cannot now do so precisely because it is not economic, let alone the biggest opportunity from an economic point of view.
It never ceases to amaze me that open admissions such as this don’t gain as much traction with the public as what will henceforth be known as Haley Barbour’s secret KKKLan-loving past.
I mean, for all the fuming on the left about “Faux Nooz”, I didn’t see them airing this clip either…
In other bad news; San Fran Nan can’t get a makeover appointment.
Whoa, newrouter on the previous thread links the Obama admin’s efforts to Kill Texas
Pushing Alinsky’s #8, “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. Until you fully squash ’em.
(Love the blog header quote at ‘Never Yet Melted’. But I suggest that the quintessential American Souls, the few that remain strong, proud and who want to stay free, the ones who haven’t suffer the meltdown we’re now seeing exploding at a near-exponential rate across these fruity plains, are now just scant remnants afloat in the rising tide of overwhelming moocherocrity.)
@Darleen:
That’s a neat trick the EPA is trying to pull with Texas…”Do what we say voluntarily, or we’ll make you do what we say anyway.”
Does anyone here think Texas will put up with that? I wonder what the EPA can do if Texas refuses to comply. My guess is they depend on local governments voluntarily knuckling under to their demands.
My Christmas wishes to all ( http://tiny.cc/5x1nt ).
Is the notion that we should spread the good cheer around implicitly socialistic?
Seriously though, Merry Christmas or Happy Chanukah to all. May you enjoy the warmth and fellowship of your family and friends, the good cheer of the season, and of course, a few quality pops; and I mean the good stuff too! I mean, after all, it is Christmas!
May God bless you all, both our gracious host, all the commentariat, and your families; and may He continue to bless the United States of America.
My warmest regrads.
Justice Thomas explains:
That’s because Beck is on vacation. If it’s on The Blaze, it will be on Fox News.
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cranky, speaking as someone who lives in TX, it’s time to turn “Anyone associated with EPA” into an endangered species.
While we’re on the subject of overreach:
(link: http://tiny.cc/a74i9 )
Dan Collins, myself, and several others here among the commentariat predicted this long ago; clearly though we were being unhelpful, asserting that such a good man like Obama would have bad intent, and circumvent congressional authority to appoint other good men like Berwick as the henchman who would shepherd their solution to fruition.
But, you know, that’s like saying life and death decisions would be made by death panels; or viable cancer medicines banned…
Richard Epstein tackles Net Neutrality and the FCC. In this analysis we can see an analog to the difficulties Van Jones’s presuppositions embrace. In sum, price fatuity.
urging the government to force Catholic hospitals in the U.S. to perform abortions
Whilst I’m not surprised in the least, it still boggles the mind. Despite the fact that Catholic hospitals clearly, right-up-front, don’t do abortions, (Our slogan: “Why would even ask?”), they’re suggesting forcing them to do so anyway. Or better yet, force them to simply cease to exist — less competition for Government as sole provider of healthcare.
It’d be like demanding that my local pharmacy also provide transmission repair/rebuild services. It’s a basic human right!
Bob Reed
I was reading about that and it’s just not abortion, but all manner of euphemistically labeled “reproductive health” issues – including sterilization.
What is it that “Catholic Hospital” that some people refuse to understand? And even non-religious hospitals do not offer all services. Many refuse to have ER’s. The regional med center my eldest works at doesn’t offer cardiac surgery at all. (something that illegals seem not to know … they smuggled desperately ill people up from Mexico then dump them in the ER thinking heart surgery, even transplants, will then be given to them “free”)
How long will Obama allow non-Federally run hospitals at all?
Wait. What?
The ACLU? The group we’ve been told over and over and over is dedicated to the preservation of our civil liberties (it’s in their name!), is demanding the government force people to violate their religious beliefs and personal consciences?
I have got to stop putting off getting my rifle sighted in.
(That last was just a random, unrelated thought. Really. Pinky-swear.)
The word they fail to understand is “Liberty”.
Come to think of it, that tree is looking mighty parched.
As a proud Texan, I would like to give a rousing FUCK YOU! to the unelected bureaucrats at the EPA, and remind them that we used to be an independant nation, and could be again, if they keep messing with us. Since Texas is not a pauper state, and consistently sends more to Mordor on the Potomac than we get back, do they really want to lose all that shiny, shiny tax money? NO? Then sit down, shut up, and let the grownups run the economy…
Darleen,
Oh God, that is really sad.
I feel bad for those poor misinformed people, because I’m sure they’re in desperate straights, but whoever put that idea in their heads needs to be punched in the face repeatedly.
It’s not clear “revocation of its status as a Catholic institution” means anything really as far as real-world consequences go. Also we learn mores things here:
It looks like the hospital followed procedure. But pulmonary hypertension doesn’t sound like a big deal.
oh. That lady’s probably very lucky the bishop wasn’t her doctor or else she would very likely be dead like Kurt Cobain and Elizabeth Edwards.
Yeah, you’d probably be better off with a plumber or something than a Bishop.
union or non-union?
Definitely non-union. You know how much a union plumber costs? And he doesn’t even have to worry about keeping his job.
I heard they were real expensive. I think I saw it on tv.
The real world consequence will be that whatever portion of their funding came from the Catholic Church will be withdrawn and sent to the other hospitals that still qualify. That’s probably at least a third.
‘feets, you have the soul of a tyrant, and are too stupid to realize it.
do not
dutu.
…
give zono
soul back.
They never give up, like the Terminator, with the same goal in mind;
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/us/politics/26death.html?_r=1&hp
Re: Happyfeet’s comment 22 of 12/24 @ 2:13 pm
If You’re Going to be Catholic, BE Catholic
and
This Ain’t the Bells of St. Mary’s
In case anyone care’s for the other side of the story.
Happyfeet isn’t a would-be tyrant. He’s a nihilist.