Our Dear Leader is so far above ordinary people in
brilliance, he has trouble empathizing with them. It is hard for the One We All Were Waiting
For to understand the frustration inherent in the Web Site We All Are (Still)
Waiting For. The Smartest President Ever
is trying to explain that he knows what's best for ordinary people of more
limited intelligence than himself, even though he can't really empathize with
them because of the difference in mental capability. If only the complainers were smart enough to
see the superiority of the carefully crafted Obamacare law and regulations! Then they would see that their false
impression that they could keep their plan was just a failure on their part to
comprehend the nuances of the promises he made.
http://www.suntimes.com/23607315-761/sweet-obama-tries-to-empathize-over-health-insurance-cancellations-but-is-that-the-best-hes.htmlTranslate
A Call for Healing
Democrats Call for Healing the Country
Nov 13, 2013
Iran: False Equivalence
Liberals like to ask why Israel is
allowed nukes but Iran is not. Countries
need to sign treaties to be bound by them. Israel never signed the
Non-Proliferation treaty. Iran did. Also, Israel does not have
government orchestrated demonstrations organized around the slogans "Death
to America" and "Death to Israel." Iran does. Israel
is not the world's leading sponsor of terrorism. Iran is. Israel is
no threat to the United States. Iran is. I could go on at length,
but willful ignorance is hard to break through. However Liberals, answer me this.
Where would you rather be a citizen, Israel or Iran? Have you ever
been to either one or even talked to anyone who lived in either place?
Global Cooling, The Big Climate Threat of the 70's
I'm old enough to remember Global Cooling being
touted as a big threat in the 1970's. The cooling was supposed to occur due to
man made changes in the upper atmosphere. (Check wikipedia. I am not
making this up.) Now popular reports of weather science have switched to Global
Warming, the latest fad in weather. However, most of the current models do not
predict into the future with any accuracy. I think the sun's energy output has
much more to do with climate than atmospheric conditions. When I visited Exit
Glacier, near Seward, Alaska, I noticed that the glacier has been receding
since 1815. Park Service personnel recently discovered evidence of a
buried forest dating back to at
least 1170 AD near the current
glacier’s edge. I don't think the cooling of the Little Ice Age between
1300 and 1870 had much to do with a switch to renewable energy. Basing
predictions of weather trends over geologic time scales using the last 150
years of data is statistically ridiculous. Imposing costs on society
based on Global Warming hysteria will only harm the poor, who benefit most from
cheap energy.
http://www.eh-resources.org/timeline/timeline_lia.html Little Ice Age Article
Nov 7, 2013
Obamacare Hearings: Government by Anecdote
There is an unintentionally funny article today by
Dana Milbank which complains about “Government by Anecdote.” His specifics have to do with letters from
complaining constituents that Republicans read during the Obamacare Congressional
hearings. Democrats have been governing
by anecdote since the New Deal 1930's, with great political success for their
programs. Now that the Republicans are
using government by anecdote to bash Democrats, Mr. Milbank wants Republicans
to stop doing it. If Republicans have
learned anything from Obama, it's to fight as dirty as possible and use the
entire Democrat playbook against them.
Since Obamacare was built on lies and anecdotes, it really seems like
poetic justice to attack it with truth and anecdotes. Sow the wind, reap the
whirlwind.
Brietbart.com quotes
Harry Reid’s comments on the Senate Obamacare hearings. “My Republican colleagues, why don’t they
just – let’s number their 1 through 50 criticisms and giving all these
speeches, just give us a number, and we would all – because we’ve heard these things
so many times – we would immediately laugh because they’re jokes, too. With this comment, Harry Reid seems to have admitted that there
are at least 50 complaints that can be made against Obamacare. However, since
Mr. Reid usually underestimates the cost of government programs, it's likely he
underestimated the number of possible complaints as well. It seems to this
ignorant red neck in fly over country that Mr. Reid is himself the biggest joke
of all. Further, I am really enjoying the consequences, for Mr. Reid and his
party, of the Obamacare” joke” he perpetrated on all of us. It seems to have backfired.
Some Obamacare critics say our Dear
Leader and friends messed up on an easy web site. I don’t think this project was easy, even
though The Smartest President Ever seems to have thought so. I've been a professional programmer for over
40 years and this is a very difficult, complicated application. In order to
verify eligibility, the web site has to retrieve information from a lot of
different databases, each with its own format and access methods. The sources
of information include 36 states and several federal departments. Worse, the
web site has to do all of this while the customer is waiting. Each piece of
information retrieved introduces another chance of delay or failure. As hard as
all of this is, HHS made it even harder by hiring 55 contractor firms to do
various pieces of the project with no general contractor to manage integration
and end-to-end testing. With HHS serving as its own general contractor, a Pearl
Harbor style disaster was locked in. I don't see any way this thing is going to
be ready by November 1, 2014, let alone the end of November this year.
Some Liberal
commenters say that the number of insured will justify Obamacare by 2020. What happened to the fierce urgency of
now? This argument reminds me of the
famous economist John M. Keynes’ saying, “In the long run, we’re all dead.” With any luck, Obamacare won't make it to
2020. Given my comments above, it's not
clear that the Obamacare web site will be up by November 1, 2014. As a result, Obamacare will be lucky to
survive until the end of 2017. To the
commenter’s point, it's not entirely clear that the net increase in people
covered will exceed the number of people dropped from the existing plans that
they liked better. While other
administration scandals can be covered up, many, many people will have first-hand
experience with the effects of Obamacare.
No amount of spin from the Pravda Press is going to convince people that
they are better off now than they were before Obamacare.
A liberal author’s article comments
got erased earlier today. In response to
suspicious Conservative commenters,the author promises the technical glitch
will be fixed. And I believe his promise
is just as likely to happen as our Dear Leader's promise of better healthcare.
Liberal promises always boil down to, "Trust us to do the right
thing for all of you." What this really means is "Trust us and
we'll do the right thing for us to expand our power." Helping the
downtrodden is such a Liberal desire, they want to create more downtrodden.
Obamacare has succeeded in taking relatively self-sufficient people and
making them dependent on and subservient to the Liberals. If we don't
vote Liberal, there will be consequences to our healthcare. That's
the Chicago way.
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