Teddy Kennedy goes to Hell

(Hat tip: People's Cube)

The ugly face of Obamacare

Mark Steyn on how government health care works out in the real world:

The problem with government health systems is not that they pull the plug on Grandma. It’s that Grandma has a hell of a time getting plugged in in the first place. The only way to “control costs” is to restrict access to treatment, and the easiest people to deny treatment to are the oldsters. Don’t worry, it’s all very scientific. In Britain, they use a “Quality-Adjusted Life Year” formula to decide that you don’t really need that new knee because you’re gonna die in a year or two, maybe a decade-and-a-half tops. So it’s in the national interest for you to go around hobbling in pain rather than divert “finite resources” away from productive members of society to a useless old geezer like you. And you’d be surprised how quickly geezerdom kicks in: A couple of years back, some Quebec facilities were attributing death from hospital-contracted infection of anyone over 55 to “old age.”
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I had an elderly British visitor this month who’s had a recurring problem with her left hand. At one point it swelled up alarmingly and so we took her to the emergency room. They did a CT scan, X-rays, blood samples, the works. In two hours at a small, rural, undistinguished, no-frills hospital in northern New Hampshire, this lady got more tests than she’s had in the last decade in Britain — even though she goes to see her doctor once a month. He listens sympathetically, tells her old age often involves adjusting to the loss of mobility, and then advises her to take the British version of Tylenol and rest up. Anything else would use up those valuable resources. So, in two hours in New Hampshire, she got tested and diagnosed (with gout) and prescribed something to deal with it. It’s the difference between health “care” (i.e., going to the doctor’s every month to no purpose) and health treatment — and on the latter America is the best in the world.

Is it a guy or a girl?

No, not South African runner Caster Semenya who has "a muscular build, wispy facial hair and a deep voice." This uncertain gender case was spotted much closer to home getting out of a US government limo:

Joker Obama shows up in Canada

A poster on FR reports that Joker Obama has made it to the great White North:

So there I was, on my way to the grocery store this morning to pick up a nice one and three quarter inch thick T-bone for a BBQ this weekend. The store is on the corner of Bank and Somerset - pretty much the nexus of all things left wing in Ottawa. With construction shutting down car traffic on Bank Street all summer, various stores are offering up promos to help with business. Just as I turned to enter the store, [a] Quiznos sign caught my eye - or rather, something *on* the Quiznos sign. Dear Leader! Blasphemed!

A commenter on the thread notes the resemblance of the Obama Joker meme to one a few of us oldsters still remember, "Kilroy Was Here."

 

 

It's the same idea - annoying fascists.

Obama calls out his thugs to silence the citizenry

Here comes Barack Obama to save the day for Congressional Democrats suffering from Constituent Derangement Syndrome(CDS) . It seems that he's calling out the Obama "Organizing for America" army of taxpayer supported "community organizers" and far left radical shock troops to silence the citizens who have been complaining to their elected representatives about Obamacare and the profligate spending going on in Congress.

They are a fun bunch for sure, but just in case, Obama is also calling out the union goons who like nothing better than beating up the citizens.

Barack Obama gets more like Hugo Chavez every day doesn't he?

Constituent Derangement Syndrome (CDS) spreads unchecked among Congressional Democrats

The sight of their constituents is apparently triggering panic attacks among Congressional Democrats and they are dealing with it via delusional rants about violent mobs (albeit "well dressed").  See if you can spot the "mob" in this group of constituents who wanted to talk to Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX) about Obamacare:

It's pretty scary alright, but I'm not talking about the constituents petitioning for redress of grievances.

Obama Joker Photos - put them everywhere

 

Some unknown genius has caught the spirit of the Obama regime in startlingly clear fashion - a Heath Ledger style Joker. The Obama flying monkeys are are already screaming so keep putting them everywhere so folks will be reminded of the real face of ole Hopey Changey.

Here's a 150 pixel wide version for side bars:

I'm shocked! The Germans are stocking up on those nasty incandescent light bulbs!

Germans Hoarding Traditional Light Bulbs:

As the Sept. 1 deadline for the implementation of the first phase of the EU's ban on incandescent light bulbs approaches, shoppers, retailers and even museums are hoarding the precious wares -- and helping the manufacturers make a bundle.

The EU ban, adopted in March, calls for the gradual replacement of traditional light bulbs with supposedly more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs (CFL). The first to go, on Sept. 1, will be 100-watt bulbs. Bulbs of other wattages will then gradually fall under the ban, which is expected to cover all such bulbs by Sept. 1, 2012 (see graphic below).

Hardware stores and home-improvement chains in Germany are seeing massive increases in the sales of the traditional bulbs. Obi reports a 27 percent growth in sales over the same period a year ago. Hornbach has seen its frosted-glass light bulb sales increase by 40-112 percent. When it comes to 100-watt bulbs, Max Bahr has seen an 80 percent jump in sales, while the figure has been 150 percent for its competitor Praktiker.

"It's unbelievable what is happening," says Werner Wiesner, the head of Megaman, a manufacturer of energy-saving bulbs. Wiesner recounts a story of how one of his field representatives recently saw a man in a hardware store with a shopping cart full of light bulbs of all types worth more than €200 ($285). "That's enough for the next 20 years."

Not when you are going to sell the incandescent bulbs on eBay. Speaking of which, have you heard how the ecoweenies banned the inhalers used by asthmatics and replaced them with "earth friendly" substitutes that don't work and are more expensive? You can apparently still buy the old fashioned kind of inhalers that work on eBay.

Obama gets a nice old fashioned tea party welcome in Raleigh

Our national disgrace, Barack Obama, was in Raleigh yesterday flogging Obamacare and was greeted by throngs of fervent tea partiers. My vote for favorite sign is this one with a pithy summary of Obamacare:

Señor Citizens Get FREE Healthcare. Senior Citizens Can Drop Dead!

Second prize goes to this one:

Not a protester in the 60's. Now a protester in MY 60's!

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - another affirmative action mediocrity

I really like ole Henry Gates' job description:

Gates said in a phone interview from his other home in Martha’s Vineyard. “If he apologizes sincerely, I am willing to forgive him. And if he admits his error, I am willing to educate him about the history of racism in America and the issue of racial profiling … That’s what I do for a living.”

Translation: Gates is an affirmative action hack who along with his fellow academic travelers make good coin off white liberal guilt in institutions of "higher learning" across the USA with a pretense at scholarship. Roger Kimball elaborates:

Two points. The first cannot be properly investigated in the present climate of racial hypersensitivity, so I bequeath it to a future historian of American culture. You can scarcely find a mention of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. that does not assure you of his eminence and scholarly distinction. Don’t believe it. To call him second rate is a calumny upon respectable mediocrity. He is a desperately pedestrian scholar who, except for the accident of skin color, would be lucky to be teaching at the University of Southern North Dakota, Hoople. Instead he is the Yada-yada-yada Professor of racial grievance &c &c at Harvard. Some future anthropologist will set the record straight.

The second point concerns Gates’s favorite (really his only) intellectual gambit: playing the race card. His scholarship is concerned with nothing else, and he has just demonstrated that his academic interests are all of a piece with his amour propre. Gates claims to want to push beyond racialism, but his every move, personal as well as intellectual, depends upon and reinforces it.

I would also observe that a more pernicious effect of  "academics" like Gates is the crop of students they produce that claim a college education after sitting about whining for four years. No wonder the Obamas like him.