This choice piece will give you a peek into the maw of your upcoming personal hell.

Dr. Sanity

Shining a psychological spotlight on a few of the insanities of life

MEDICAL SPIN OR MEDICAL CARE? IT’S YOUR CHOICE
Last year I wrote a piece for this blog that expressed my feelings about the Democrat’s unsubtle plan to nationalize health care (”This Time I Don’t Care Anymore, Let the Zombies Take Over Medicine“). Well, I have a confession to make.

I care. I care a lot.

You see, I have personal knowledge as a physician of how awful government medicine is; all the restrictions on physicians’ clinical judgments; all the decisions made for supposedly “scientific” reasons, which are really made because of cost and cost alone. If you want to know how things will work out under Obama’s health care debacle, you need look no further than the VA Health Care System, which I judge to be many years behind the standard of care demanded in private settings; and even more backwards than most County and State Health Programs.

They mean well, of course. Reality-deprived morons do-gooders like Obama, Pelosi, and most of the Democratic party (and not a few Republicans) always do.  [snip]

 As to the part about the VA, I can personally speak to that situation. The daily operations are getting worse. The people are wonderful.

The Government needs money now so badly, that they are using the VA to fund Obama’s boondoggles. This isn’t redistributive; this is pure plunder governing. This mentality showed up early in Obama’s term.
Of course you remember our wonderful CinC address to the troops about the VA,

“Look, it’s an all volunteer force,” Obama complained. “Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn’t compute..” “I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country, “Obama continued “I wasn’t asking for blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I’d have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation’s deficit.. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans.”

 He proposed that veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated $540 million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to military personnel received during their tours on active duty.
It’s part of their FAIR SHARE, you know.
Yeah, all of us vets are just selfish inconsiderate ingrates who now want FREE health care.
Hotspur, when the VA gets through poking you, remind me to tell you you’re a selfish pig. It’s been too long since somebody told you. You too OP.

The ¼ architectural scale model of the Cordoba Mosque is available for viewing at the actual site.

The image of the building and grounds was made available and is presented here for your edification.

The problem of Freedom of Religion and Religious Tolerance in the United States has not to do with Religion but with the First Amendment to that Constitution expounding,

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

and is taken as written to mean that there will be no Official Religion of the State. Agreed and SCOTUS has also.

Islam, unfortunately for those wishing to lump it with other practicing faiths, is a State Religion, with a set of governmental laws controlling all facets of quotidian Muslim life. To avoid Apostasy, all Muslims must subscribe to the law of Shari’a as found in the Q’oran.

Everything is covered from sanitary habits to how and when to beat your wife plus honor killings, proper method of stoning,  beheadings, apposite disposal of homos, Jihads, lawyer free divorces and winking at sheep. That’s just a few of the high points.
Proper and improper display of chattel (women), religious tours (mandated), Usury, and schooling offspring (males) are described and proscribed.

This link will give you the moderate Islamic methodology of dealing with unbelievers.

This is not the sum of all controlling authority. To insure a more harmonious society, religious police perform nanny duties with great vigor.

Given all this, explain how THIS “RELIGION” fits the First Amendment prohibition of Establishing an Official State Religion, the one that wishes to erect a mosque in lower NYC as an act of ‘healing’.

 Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts

The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records. A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media” [snip]

You too can LEARN EBONICS in just one month.
Get that job and be somebody…

The only reason you are getting this clear reporting is this isn’t from an American paper.

Millions of jobs created and/or saved!
Hope and Change for the MASSES!
As Obama promised, HE won’t TAX you.
Now you know why!

Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many

[snip]
Just how badly the great recession has struck this fragile New Jersey city, which is currently the poorest in America, was recently spelled out to Gaines. In happier times – whatever that might mean for a city as destitute as Camden – local businesses on Haddon Avenue could at least rely on a bit of trade from those who made their money on the street.

Young men bought flashy clothes and got sharp haircuts and always paid in cash. But no longer. The economy is now so bad in Camden that even the criminals are struggling and going short. “Even the guys who got money from illegal means really don’t want to spend it,” Gaines said. [snip]

America appears to be a society splitting down the centre, shattering the middle class that long formed the cultural bedrock of the country and dividing it into a country of haves and have-nots. “A once unthinkable level of economic distress is in the process of becoming the new normal,” warned Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman in a recent New York Times column. Or, as Steven Green, an economics lecturer at Baylor University, put it to the Observer: “We are really in a tough spot right now.”

There is a new name for those falling down the black hole of joblessness that has opened up in America’s economy. They are the 99ers.

It is a moniker that no one wants. It refers to the 99 weeks of benefits that the jobless can qualify for in America. Government cash helps those laid off keep a tenuous grip on a normal life. It keeps a roof over their heads, pays a phone bill, puts food on a table and petrol in a car. But once the 99 weeks are up the payments stop – as is happening now for millions of people – and they are 99ers. [snip]

In a city that has had it tough for decades these are hammer blows to its residents. One woman who has watched in dismay as the recession unfolded outside her door is Dorothy Allen, 81, who has lived near Haddon Avenue for almost four decades. Known by almost everyone as “Mom”, she calls herself “the mother of the block”. She has never known anything like the area’s current troubles. “I have been here since 1971 and it’s the worst it’s ever been,” she said. Yet to listen to America’s politicians many would think recovery is just a matter of time. Yes, they say, the recession has been hard, but America will pull through and everything will be as it once was. Last week New Jersey senator Robert Menendez visited Camden, stopping at a local health clinic. He spoke of the achievements of the Democrats in staving off economic disaster.

Job creation was coming, he told his audience of health executives: “It is not going fast enough to get people back to work but it’s a dramatic turnaround.“(emphasis added)
It does not feel that way for millions of Americans all across the country. Camden is far from unique in slashing its services. In Colorado Springs more than a third of street lights have been switched off to cut the municipal electricity bill. The city has also sold off its police helicopters.

Are you not rejoicing that the Jackass Party finally understands what’s wrong! Our DEAR LEADER will fix the problem soon, probably by 2014, if and only if, you reelect the entire batch of fumblenuts currently in power.
I don’t think we can take any more of this “dramatic turnaround.”

The Country is swooning from ecstasy NOW.

This short clip explains the Broken Window Fallacy so favored by Progressives and Keynesian theory believers.

This quick peek also shows the demise of Obamanomics and of the U.S. if we continue to listen to his crap.

Meanwhile, the idiot “Greens” in
Congress shove corn into our gas tanks

[snip]
…[]…Confronted with a severe drought, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, this week sowed panic in world commodity markets when he banned grain exports for the rest of the year. At a time when the global consumer economy is still in the doldrums, a surge in the cost of wheat, milk, meat, cocoa and other staples of the world’s daily diet is increasing the pressure on manufacturers and retailers to pass the rises on to cash-strapped consumers across the US, Europe and parts of Asia.

According to the British Retail Consortium, in-store food costs rose 2.5 per cent in July from a year earlier, up from a 1.7 per cent rise the month before. In the US, the deflation the Department of Agriculture was projecting as recently as July 25 for cereals and bakery products such as wheat will need to be put under review. It is forecasting inflation of 2–3 per cent this year for meat as well as sugar and sweets. For milk, cheese and eggs, which fell in price last year, it predicts 1.5–2.5 per cent increases.

Futures Markets Here are all the listings and the news.

Big producers are beginning to disclose mark-ups in some cases rather steeper than those. J.M. Smucker is, for instance, imposing an across-the-board rise of 9 per cent for its coffee sold to US supermarkets under brands including Folgers, Dunkin’ Donuts and Millstone. On Friday Kraft Foods followed with rises of more than 10 per cent in the US market on coffee brands including Maxwell House.
Will consumers countenance all these increases? “Household food budgets don’t go up,” says Paul Weitzel, managing director at Willard Bishop, a retail industry consulting firm in the US. Instead, “people change their shopping behaviour”. [snip]

The pricing increases will eventually be passed along to shoppers, predicts Susan Anderson at Citigroup, but it will not happen quickly. “There will be a six-month lag instead of a one- to two-month lag,” she says. If nothing else, that provides some reassurance for Christmas. (emphasis added)
Rising commodity prices in early 2008, led by oil, resulted in significant price boosts for a variety of food products, almost all of which were passed on to consumers two years ago.
But after the run-up peaked, the decline in input prices and the sharp economic downturn precipitated by the financial crisis led to stable and even deflationary pricing in the US and elsewhere. As a result, shoppers encountered something almost never seen in supermarkets and grocery stores: declining prices over an extended period of time.

But suppliers adjusted, leading to what we see now. Notably, flagging demand for beef in 2008, combined with high grain prices, led the large US cattle companies to reduce their herds over the past two years, which created an undersupply of beef and the consequent rise in price tags at supermarket meat counters. [snip]

Right at the time food costs rise, Obama figures to let the Bush tax cuts expire Jan 1 2011, giving the public colic.

In 2008, during the last big run-up in food prices, the price of pasta in the US jumped by more than 20 per cent. Nonetheless, unit sales crept up slightly, leading to a 22 per cent gain in the dollar value of pasta sales across most US supermarkets. “At the very bottom of the consumption chain there’s no place to hide,” Mr Rand says. “You end up with pasta or rice. People have very few alternative bulk products that are going to be cheaper than that. It doesn’t matter if the cost of spaghetti has gone to $1.19 from 99 cents. But if you take my beef from $6 to $9, that’s a different deal.” [snip]

So enjoy the ethanol in the gas even as corn prices drop for now.
That is only the vagaries of the weather moving prices lower. Some flooding, high winds or cold temperatures change prices fast.

This is an example of proper security, why Israel doesn’t have cretins blowing up their planes.

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala was detained and interrogated for two hours at Ben-Gurion Airport last month, according to The Chronicle for Higher Education’s blog The Ticker. [snip]

American VIP Humiliated at Airport, Ynet reported

TEL AVIV, August 6, 2010 (WAFA)- Prof. Donna Shalala, Clinton’s secretary of health, arrives in Israel in order to fight academic boycott against Israel, claims she was held at Ben-Gurion Airport just because she has Arab last name, Ynet reported Friday. [snip]

An IAA spokesperson reported in response: ‘This incident is unknown to us. We performed a thorough check. There was no contact made with us or any other body. No unusual events were registered at Ben Gurion Airport, and we have no idea about this incident, which, from our perspective, never happened.’  [snip]

KUM-BA-YA  BAY-BEE!

Any translation has to contain some choice words about the economic direction like smelly, stinkeroo, Obamalike, horrible or deathly.

The Administration loses the chairwoman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers in early September. Bailing out, she is, despite the spin coming from the Ovful Office.

Christina Romer, Top Economic Adviser to Obama, to Step Down

[snip]
Romer, head of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, has been one of the administration’s most prominent voices on the economy, making frequent appearances on TV and at White House events to promote Obama’s policies. She also was reported to have butted heads with other members of Obama’s economic team, in particular Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council.

In December, the she sand Summers even seemed to contradict each other — in interviews conducted on the same day — on whether the recession had ended. [snip]

Lets see what the unemployment numbers look like, they’re due out today. And the numbers are:

Jobs Picture Worsens With 131,000 Losses; 9.5% Rate

[snip]
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.5 percent in July, just below market expectations for a rise to 9.6 percent. The steady jobless rate largely reflected a drop in the labor force as discouraged workers gave up the search for jobs.Job growth has taken a step back after fairly strong gains between February and April, putting in jeopardy the economy’s recovery from its worst downturn since the 1930s. [snip]

Last month, the dominant service sector added 38,000 jobs after June’s 34,000 gain. More disturbing, temporary help services, seen as a harbinger of future permanent hiring, fell 5,600 after increasing 11,200. Temporary employment gains had averaged 45,000 per month from October 2009 to May.State and local governments, struggling with huge budget deficits, purged more workers last month, combining with mass layoffs of temporary federal census workers to push government payrolls down by 202,000 compared to a 252,000 drop in June. [snip]

So much for that Bull**it of jobs created or saved. Talk is cheap; Obama has lots of that, all of which starts BLAME BUSH.
We’re just about two years into his desire to change 234 years of U.S. existence into Zimbabwe.

Following in the Messiah’s footsteps isn’t going to get the U.S. back to any HOPE of future growth or CHANGE in economic fortunes.
You need a new God to follow, one that doesn’t carry a hammer and sickle and promise FREE LUNCH.

In the scheme of the working day, you put in the hours and expect recompense for your labors. Is it your money? Obama doesn’t think so. Neither does the Congress. Together they’ve spent your money faster than all combined can earn it to cover the incurred debt.
Obama’s belief is the government prints it so that makes it the owner of it anyway.

To prove this premise January 1, 2011, the roll back of the Bush tax cuts take place which absolutely rip the individuals making less than $50,000 a year. Their tax bill doubles.
Thank the Jackass Party for that, and yeah the RINO’s too. The GOP is as complicit in this mess as the Donkeys.
Brace for a real mess in the economy, even Bernanke said leave the Bush tax cuts in place.
Obama won’t. He wants to wreck the country.

The Tax Tsunami on The Horizon

Fiscal Policy: Many voters are looking forward to 2011, hoping a new Congress will put the country back on the right track. But unless something’s done soon, the New Year will also come with a raft of tax hikes — including a return of the death tax — that will be real killers.
Through the end of this year, the federal estate tax rate is zero — thanks to the package of broad-based tax cuts that President Bush pushed through to get the economy going earlier in the decade.

But as of midnight Dec. 31, the death tax returns — at a rate of 55% on estates of $1 million or more. The effect this will have on hospital life-support systems is already a matter of conjecture.

Resurrection of the death tax, however, isn’t the only tax problem that will be ushered in Jan. 1. Many other cuts from the Bush administration are set to disappear and a new set of taxes will materialize. And it’s not just the rich who will pay.
The lowest bracket for the personal income tax, for instance, moves up 50% — to 15% from 10%. The next lowest bracket — 25% — will rise to 28%, and the old 28% bracket will be 31%. At the higher end, the 33% bracket is pushed to 36% and the 35% bracket becomes 39.6%.

But the damage doesn’t stop there.

The marriage penalty also makes a comeback, and the capital gains tax will jump 33% — to 20% from 15%. The tax on dividends will go all the way from 15% to 39.6% — a 164% increase.

Both the cap-gains and dividend taxes will go up further in 2013 as the health care reform adds a 3.8% Medicare levy for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and joint filers making more than $250,000. Other tax hikes include: halving the child tax credit to $500 from $1,000 and fixing the standard deduction for couples at the same level as it is for single filers.

Letting the Bush cuts expire will cost taxpayers $115 billion next year alone, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and $2.6 trillion through 2020. [snip]

Not all Americans may fully realize what’s in store come Jan. 1. But they should have a pretty good idea by the mid-term elections, and members of Congress might take note of our latest IBD/TIPP Poll (summarized above).

Fifty-one percent of respondents favored making the Bush cuts permanent vs. 28% who didn’t. Republicans were more than 4 to 1 and Independents more than 2 to 1 in favor. Only Democrats were opposed, but only by 40%-38%.

The cuts also proved popular among all income groups — despite the Democrats’ oft-heard assertion that Bush merely provided “tax breaks for the wealthy.” Fact is, Bush cut taxes for everyone who paid them, and the cuts helped the nation recover from a recession and the worst stock-market crash since 1929.

Maybe, just maybe, Americans remember that — and will not forget come Nov. 2.

Plugged the hole; stopped the flow.Now we need to get Jennings or friends to plug the hole in the Oval office.

You’d think that Obama would be one of the first to honor these workers.
Not a peep from him or from Bernie Sanders, a great paladin of the United Workers Party.

How strange that the socialist Germans
would honor the deaths of 125 workers killed
be the government in putting down these protests in 1953.

 

Germany commemorates 1953 workers’ uprising

BERLIN (AP — Germany is marking the anniversary of a failed worker-led uprising against East Germany’s communist rulers that was crushed by Soviet tanks.[snip]

Overall, more than 1 million people took part in some five days of pro-democracy unrest. Historians estimate that some 125 protesters were killed — shot or crushed by tanks — and as many as 15,000 arrested.

The uprising peaked on June 17, with street battles in East Berlin between the workers and Soviet troops and East German police.

How uncaring of the Bamster not to walk the walk after he flaps those lips in pious speechifying. A true liberal er, ah Proggy liar.

Obama promised this from the moment he started campaigning; so did the prevaricatory pair leading Congress.
Transparency was to be the operative word in all thought and deed, so much for that blather.
Substitute faces as you desire, Pelosi or Reid work just as well in the Portrait of Dung.

Perhaps cards like the old Topps Baseball Cards is are in order; the Horse Pucky League, with a picture on the front, stats on the back works.

List the peccadilloes, assaults, DUI’s, ethics violations, diddling interns, you know minor infractions that the media can’t be bothered covering.To make the packaging Politically Correct, include sugar free gum.

Today’s kids need HEROES, where better to find them than the duly elected Democrats in Congress.

From someone whose every high school speech is scripted, this isn’t a slip up. TOTUS is there, everything is right and proper.

Where are the FLAGS?

Go here for photos of real Presidents for comparison to this rat bastard.

Corrigan did his trip deliberately!
Obama has NO excuse.

Spill reveals Obama’s lack of executive experience

 In mid-February 2008, fresh from winning a bunch of Super Tuesday primaries, Barack Obama granted an interview to “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Croft. “When you sit down and you look at [your] resume,” Croft said to Obama, “there’s no executive experience, and in fact, correct if I’m wrong, the only thing that you’ve actually run was the Harvard Law Review.”

“Well, I’ve run my Senate office, and I’ve run this campaign,” Obama said. [snip]

Now we have this juggernaut heading out to “kick some ass” somewhere, probably some 9-year-old kid in a wheelchair on his on front porch.

What one gets with a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER with absolutely no experience with WORK!