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What should pro-life democrats do?
How many times do we hear that the democratic party isn’t the party of death? They falsely claim they are the party of choice. Well, once again we can show that they are only for the choice as long as they agree with that choice.
Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”
Kathleen Sebelious made the network interview rounds last week and said specifically that abortion would not be funded by Obama’s healthcare plan. She wouldn’t answer why they wouldn’t put that in writing. Lies are the change we get … I’m afraid to see what the hope is.
Let’s give condoms to rapists
UPDATE: The Smoking Gun was kind enough to post the brochure that is being passed out. They go through the top 10 things to do for safer use. #’s 1-8 talk about the actual use of Heroin – they wait until # 9 to tell users to get help for depression and # 10 to tell users to stop using. Don’t you think those should have been the first 2 if they are serious about helping users? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to say those things before going into the complete details of how to prepare and shoot up the drug?
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Why not? Why do you look at me like that when I say lets give condoms to rapists? It will make it not only safe for the predator but safer for the victim as well. And making illegal activities that harm the body safer is the liberal way isn’t it?
A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users offers information on how to prepare drugs carefully and care for veins to avoid infection.
The state’s top official with the Drug Enforcement Administration calls the “Take Charge Take Care” guide a “step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison.” DEA special agent-in-charge John Gilbride says the handout is disturbing.
The Bully Government
The Dems are getting desperate to get the Deathcare reform passed. They are so desperate that they are now threatening one of their own:
(Nebraska Senator Ben) Nelson’s demand that taxpayer money not be used to fund abortion has still not been met. According to a Senate aide, the White House is now
threatening to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn’t fall into line.
Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As our source put it, this is a “naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson’s vote.” They are “threatening to close a base vital to national security for what?” asked the Senate staffer.
Offutt’s closure would be a huge problem for the state of Nebraska’s economy along with the fact that it is in the middle of nowhere for a good reason – STRATCOM is there.
So, I guess the deal is if you disagree with the Democrats your states economy will be affected. Nice, huh?
Change of subject, as I was just thinking about the Dems in congress, I began to think about one of the most liberal cities in our country. How is San Francisco doing now a days?
Teacher’s, Teacher’s everywhere and no Children Taught
One of the Democratic’s favorite union, the Teachers Union, is causing some problems and they seem to be getting some help from the local governments:
Narrow political interests stand in the way of improving our schools and easing New York taxpayers’ burdens, says Marcus A. Winters, a Senior Fellow with the Manhattan Institute.
States must develop data sets that track the individual performance of students over time and match those students to their teachers. Unfortunately, New York has deliberately refused to take that step, says Winters:
- The state already has a sophisticated system for tracking student progress,
but it doesn’t allow this statewide data set to match students to their teachers.
- No technical or administrative factors prevent the state from doing so, only political obstacles stand in the way.
- The premise underlying the policies favored by the teachers’ unions, which govern so much of the relationship between public schools and teachers, is that all teachers are uniformly effective.
- Once we can objectively distinguish between effective and ineffective teachers, the system of uncritically granted tenure, a single salary schedule based on experience and credentials, and school placements based on seniority become untenable.
Private vs Public Sector
I’m not sure what to make of this report. What are your thoughts?
A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy….. 432 cabinet members in all.
When one considers that public sector employment has ranged since the 1950s at between 15 percent and 19 percent of the population, the makeup of the current cabinet—over 90 percent of its prior experience was in the public sector—is remarkable.
Mammie Grams
I just thought I should update everyone on the governments want to change when women should get mammograms.
From the Wall Street Journal “A Breast Cancer Preview – The mammogram decision is a sign of cost control to come.” 11/19/2009 page A20
As recently as 2002, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force affirmed its
recommendation that women 40 and older undergo annual mammograms to check for breast cancer. Since regular mammography became standard practice in the early 1990s, mortality from breast cancer—the second leading cause of cancer death among American women—has dropped by about 30%, after remaining constant for the prior half-century. But this week the 16-member task force ruled that patients under 50 or over 75 without special risk factors no longer need screening.
So what changed? Nothing substantial in the clinical evidence. But the panel—which includes no oncologists and radiologists, who best know the medical literature—did decide to re-analyze the data with health-care spending as a core concern.
(A)ccording to its review, because there are fewer cases of breast cancer in younger women, it takes 1,904 screenings of women in their 40s to save one life and only 1,339 screenings to do the same among women in their 50s. It therefore concludes that the tests for the first group aren’t valuable…..
Let it Begin
The government is showing us some signs of what life would be like when they are in control of our healthcare:
A government task force said Monday that most women don’t need mammograms in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50 — a stunning reversal and a break with the American Cancer Society’s long-standing position.
What’s more, the panel said breast self-exams do no good, and women shouldn’t be taught to do them…….
For most of the past two decades, the American Cancer Society has been recommending annual mammograms beginning at 40, and it reiterated that position on Monday. “This is one screening test I recommend unequivocally, and would recommend to any woman 40 and over,” the society’s chief medical officer, Dr. Otis Brawley, said in a statement.
But the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government panel of doctors and scientists, concluded that such early and frequent screenings often lead to false alarms and unneeded biopsies, without substantially improving women’s odds of survival.
“The benefits are less and the harms are greater when screening starts in the 40s,” said Dr. Diana Petitti, vice chair of the panel.
Goodbye Fuzzy Math!
Say goodbye to the days of fuzzy math. We will never have to deal with that again! Goodbye fuzzy….we will not miss you. Because we now have…….wait for it…..
In response to the so called “news” that the stimulus has created or saved 1 Million jobs (White House said 640,329 – no wait, it’s one million):
So let’s see. Assuming their number is right — 160 billion divided by 1 million. Does that mean the stimulus costs taxpayers $160,000 per job?
Jared Bernstein, chief economist and senior economic advisor to the vice president, called that "calculator abuse."
He said the cost per job was actually $92,000 — but acknowledged that estimate is for the whole stimulus package as of the end of 2010.
Dang nabbit! Looks like that fuzzy math isn’t really gone!
So, what about the jobs created or saved?
Brian Schmidt, director of planning and programming for the commission (for a California project that received $5 Million) said that his staff originally reported to the Obama administration that the stimulus money saved 250 jobs. Then, realizing they had mistakenly double credited, they later changed that to 125 jobs. Tuesday, they updated it again to 74 jobs.
“Why I attended a Tea Party (an abbreviated autobiography)”
Dear Olde Dad sent me a presentation he gave to his local Inquisitors Club. It is so good, I wanted to share with everyone. (Gee, I wonder whose Dad he could be? hmm….) – I removed personal information.
John Goodman, explaining the town-hall protests in a Wall Street Journal article: “Why are they so angry? The reasons are manifold, but the single biggest reason is the arrogance of our elected officials in Washington. Think about it. For the past seven months a small group of politicians has been meeting behind closed doors with powerful special interests to decide whether
· You will be able to keep your current (health) insurance,
· Where you will be directed to get new insurance and at what price,
· What fines you and your employer will have to pay if you don’t conform,
· And how they’re going to get your doctor to change the way he or she practices medicine.
In the process, they never asked you what you thought about anything. If you are not mad about this, odds are you don’t understand the situation.”
The truth about the uninsured
I saw these statistics this morning on the Fox News program Fox and Friends and have spent most of the morning verifying their numbers. I verified this information at the National Center for Policy Analysis(NCPA), Business and Media Institute, The Census Bureau, Employment Policies Institute, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Whew. 
So here it is:
We hear it all the time, that there are approximately 47 Million people uninsured. This number is true, but extremely misleading. The problem is they don’t tell you what qualifies as an uninsured person. The CBO report has the definition of uninsured as “uninsured at some point in time”. This is how long a person actually goes without insurance. If a person switches jobs and there is a 1 week gap between the Cobra insurance ending and the new jobs insurance beginning, that counts as one of the millions of uninsured.
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