For Greensboro's "business as usual" crowd

Pay attention.



We're watching you.

Closely.

VERY closely.

(Hat tip: Instapundit)

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More confirmation: Health care "reform" will cost more, reduce services

So says, "unofficially" of course, the Obama Administration itself, from analysts at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Noteworthy:

"A new report from government economic analysts at the Health and Human Services Department found that the nation's $2.5 trillion annual health care tab won't shrink under the Democratic blueprint that senators are debating. Instead, it would grow somewhat more rapidly than if Congress does nothing.

More troubling was the report's assessment that the Democrats' plan to squeeze Medicare for $493 billion over 10 years in savings relies on specific policy changes that 'may be unrealistic' and could lead to cuts in services. The Medicare savings are expected to cover about half the nearly $1 trillion, 10-year cost of expanding coverage to the uninsured.

In still more bad news, the report starkly warned that a new long-term care insurance plan included in the legislation could 'face a significant risk of failure' because it would attract people in poor health, leading to higher and higher premiums, and eventually triggering an 'insurance death spiral.' "

The Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" reaction?

Prediatable:

"Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., brushed that aside, pointing to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that found the program would be solvent for 75 years."

Here's a question for you.

Who would you expect to have the more reliable assessment?

CBO, whose people have no particular real world operating experience in this field?

Or the HHS actuaries, who know all the ins and outs of how these things work in reality?

These "reform" rocket scientist cheerleaders are so heavily invested in their monstrous creation that the fail to see the death spiral they've created for their worldview and its agenda.

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Christmas Greetings from the Climate Alarmist gang

Here's how Climate Alarmists deal with dissent

As PowerLine says "When you're out of arguments, call in the heat".

And yet there are many lunatics who STILL insist that the "science is settled" about the "scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming". Fortunately, the great majority of the non indoctrinated public knows better than to believe this outrageous abuse of science.

The pertinent question concerns whether and when our political class, the ruling elites, and the media will start to understand the realities about the nonsense.

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Remembering William Henry "Bill" Scott

Martinsburg (WV) Journal:

Story

Obit

Hagerstown (MD) Herald Mail story.

Bill (and former partner Tom Milner) hired me in 1980 to be their first Directer of Public Relations at Summit Point Raceway (now known as Summit Point Motorsports Park).

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Obama's set to play the fool over Climategate

Pretending that the fraud that is the essence of "climate change" alarmism doesn't exist is rapidly fading. But that doesn't stop our Resident from practicing "business as usual" in Copenhagen.

Noteworthy:

"Yet the global warming hucksters continue, as if the cooked and contrived data records and suppression of inconvenient facts debunking the notion of rising global temperatures were never uncovered. These eco-alarmists are compelled to do so. They have too much invested in this fraud, and it has been far too lucrative for them in the past to simply abandon it merely because it has been wholly discredited.

But their seemingly confident public front belies an undercurrent of panic and desperation. Keep a straight face, continue demanding "funds" for further research and advocacy, and hope for a perpetuation of the revolving door of government monies and increased political power to continue business as usual.

Barack Obama is attending the Copenhagen climate summit on that very premise. Were he actually concerned with the best interests of this country, he would immediately empanel an investigative team to determine the truth of 'climate change.'

But in light of the recently publicized evidence, such a course would certainly find 'global warming' to be a myth, and thus would dispel the incentives for bigger and more powerful governments to invade and manage every detail of the lives of their citizenry. And such a world, in which the state acquires unbridled power, has emerged as the true Obama agenda.

When a political movement uses lies and fraud to advance a stated cause, it should be self-evident that the 'cause' is of no real concern, but only a means of gaining leverage for an ulterior agenda. Such is the only plausible conclusion that can be drawn from this revelation of total fraud at the highest levels of the 'global warming' advocacy."

As well we now know, Obama is NOT concerned with the best interests of our country and its citizens. Barack Obama is only interested in what's best for Barack Obama, his "progressive" accomplices, and the destructive and repressive world view agenda that drives their malfeasance, incompetence, and thirst for absolute power and control over all things political, social, and economic in this land.

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The "Fake but Accurate" Climategate Denial

And, as always, the rationale for the scandal is that it's really no big deal anyway.

Noteworthy:


"JOE SCARBOROUGH: This ClimateGate issue, where you've got scientists connected with Gore--I guess they're very important scientists in this field--that were apparently sending emails that made it look like they were playing with the numbers. Tell us: what's your take on that? Because you've got the right and the left fighting each other and the rest of us are in the crossfire.

JEFFREY SACHS: This is pretty serious. Not what happened, but how it's being responded to. Because this is really trying to Swiftboat science.

SCARBOROUGH: What happened is not important? These guys saying let's juice the numbers?

SACHS: What happened is not a very big deal, no. And what happened is a tiny piece of a huge, global, independent scientific enterprise which has found for decades that we have a very serious environmental crisis."

As if.....

The appellation of "deniers" on this issue is now permanently and forever transferred to the Alarmists.

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The State of the Media, 2009

Hat tip: theblogprof

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Climategate, without words

"You not only have a constitutional right for abortion, but you have a God-given right.”

Unbelievable!

Red State has details, and asks:

".....where, exactly, does this guy get his information that there’s a 'God-given' right to an abortion? It certainly isn’t in the Bible. It isn’t in any recognized religious tradition I’ve ever heard of (and I am at least relatively well-versed on this subject). Apparently, this 'minister' Veazy feels that he has the plenary power to declare what God-given rights are, based on whatever he feels politically at the moment. In this case, he has declared, based on his (self-professed) ultimate authority to speak on behalf of God Almighty, that God has given women an inherent right to kill children growing in their wombs."

Who's the REAL imposter?

Hat tip: Patriot Post US

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