Jul/100
Doctors are killers
The number of physicians in the U.S. is about 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by physicians are 120,000 per year. That is .171 deaths per physician per year.
The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. Yes 80 million. The number of accidental gun deaths per year is 1500. That is .000188 deaths per gun per year.
Statistically doctors are something like 9000 times more likely to kill you than gun owners. Remember “Guns don’t kill people, doctors do.” By the logic of the left, shouldn’t we then be banning doctors?
I have statistics on lawyers but the stats might enrage you and cause unnecessary retaliation against lawyers.
Jul/100
Un-fu**ing believable
On an ABC News interview the liar in chief tried to tell the American people that he feels our economic pain too. He says his finances have suffered in these economic times as well and he knows what it’s like to worry about retirement, college education for the kids and so on. Boo fricking hoo you pompous ass. He is now worth $7.7 million dollars according to his own financial paperwork. He and Michelle were making a very nice living before he became the vacationer in chief.
Now comes word that Michelle is going to take one of the girls on a mother daughter trip; to Spain where they will meet with a few close family friends. For this we are paying for 350 hotel rooms, travel for Secret Service, meals… you get the idea. And did you know that on the recent family vacation we paid for the family dog to be flown on it’s own plane? And Obama announced his 8th vacation; they will be heading back to Hawaii for a week or 2 weeks next month.
He has no idea what it’s like to live our lives; what a pompous ass.
Jul/100
Solving illegal immigration
Harry Reid was speaking to a convention in Vegas this week and said it would be “physically and fiscally” impossible to find and deport the estimated 11 million illegal aliens that are currently in the U.S. Reid also said that he was not proposing amnesty but “fairness” in supporting a plan that would allow illegal aliens to stay in this country. Quite simply he is wrong on both counts and we now have proof.
Illegals in AZ are leaving by the hundreds if not thousands and heading for New Mexico. They are scared that they will be caught and deported under AZ’s new law. So there you go. Make it very public, very well known that you are going to support the law and if you are here illegally and we find out, then you are going back to your homeland. Whether it is Mexico, Brazil, Yemen, Russia or Canada. The problem will then take care of itself. Now you have to actually catch a few and send them home but the rest will find somewhere else to go; like San Francisco. Which now that I think about it solves all problems; we get rid of illegal aliens in our state but the libs are happy because San Francisco takes them as a sanctuary city and the illegals get to stay in the U.S.!
Jul/101
$8 a gallon gas and…
A great post from Redstate: Imagine if the government required automobile drivers to purchase liability insurance against the Worst Case Accident: totalling a 2010 Maybach Laundalet with four newly-minted orthopedic surgeons aboard. Worst case liability: $50 million or so.
With a $50 million liability insurance requirement, who would drive? Only the wealthy.
The Deepwater Horizon incident pointed up the inadequacy of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990’s $75 million economic liability limit for operations involving high pressure, high-volume deepwater oil.
Some Congressional Democrats would like the liability cap to be set at $20 billion; some want no cap at all. They don’t even acknowledge the fact that shallow water operations are orders of magnitude less risky than deepwater oil; to them, an offshore well is an offshore well.
Independents, small to large, will have no way to insure against a liability of this magnitude. Without insurance, they will cease operations, leaving the Gulf to the only companies with sufficient assets to self-insure. That group would include Exxon, Shell, Chevron and BP among the private companies, plus the National Oil Companies of Brazil, China, Spain and others.
But one thing Vladimir doesn’t point out is the jobs lost. By most estimates if you kill U.S. drilling in the Gulf you will kill 150,000 jobs. Jobs in drilling, support services, manufacturers, restaurants and so on. It constantly amazes me how much the liberals talk about “hating” big business and wanting to protect the jobs of the average Joe; but their policies consistently favor big business, big banking, big auto, big oil and cost U.S. jobs in every industry.
Jul/102
“We won’t ration healthcare”
That’s what Glorious Leader said. We won’t tell people what treatment they can or cannot get. We won’t get in between the doctor/patient relationship. All things promised by GL when he shoved health insurance reform down our throats. But now here comes another warning shot. The FDA is taking the anti-cancer drug Avastin “off-label” which means Medicare and now most insurance plans won’t pay for it. Avastin is a late stage drug used to treat several types of cancer by blocking growth of blood vessels that feed tumors. It has been very effective in treating some types of cancer but not as effective in treating breast cancer. Generally it will extend the life of a late stage breast cancer sufferer 5 months or a bit more.
So what does this mean? A couple of things: right now even if you meet the criteria to be treated with Avastin unless you can pay for it out of pocket, you won’t get the drug and you’re life won’t be extended. What happened that things changed? Dr Richard Pazdur, the FDA’s cancer czar, altered the criteria used to judge the effectiveness of a drug. Traditionally the FDA has made decisions based upon the effectiveness of the drug or treatment and have not included cost. Now Dr. Padzur is using the standard known as “Clinically Meaningful.” It is much more subjective and does include a cost/benefit analysis.
Basically Dr. Padzur is telling patients and their families that 5 months of additional time with your mother, sister, daughter suffering from breast cancer is not clinically meaningful; does not meet his cost/benefit analysis and thus he will not pay for the drug. I wonder how you put a price tag on the additional time a family member gets to spend with their loved ones? Now we have an idea.
Quite simply, this is exactly what we said was going to happen under Obamacare; a bureaucrat determining what treatment you would receive. Sadly this time we were right.
Jul/100
What could possibly go wrong?
Tampa Florida: 2 men live next to each other for 10 years; they do not get along. One guy plays his music too loud; the other drinks and yells across the fence. That was their life until early this year when the music lover decided he’d had enough and the words turned into fists. Judge Paul Huey presided over the trial of Mr. Alli, the music lover, this past week. He sentenced music man to 50 hours community service and 6 months probation. But that of course was not all.
Judge Huey ordered the neighbors to get together for a pot luck once a month for 6 months. Kids, family, even Alli’s attorney. Judge Huey thinks this will create a little United Nations in Tampa; because the UN has worked so well in creating global peace. (sarcasm) Judge Huey didn’t tell Alli to play his music softly or the other guy to quit getting drunk and yelling obscenities; no just have a pot luck… check back in 3 months when we tell you about the guy from Tampa who killed his neighbor over bad brownies.
Jul/100
I think they call this a teachable moment
What lesson shall we learn today boys & girls? How about the word of the day is hypocrisy. Or shall we talk about fairness or equal treatment or maybe how the rules don’t apply to everyone. I’ll let you decide the lesson, I’ll just tell the story. The yacht shown above is John Kerry’s new toy. A 76 foot New Zealand built sloop with 2 VIP cabins, wet bar, cold wine storage and every amenity the average public servant would want. You may recall that John Kerry is the senior Senator from Massachusetts but for some reason the Senator did not take his boat to Nantucket MA where he and Teresa maintain a “cottage.”
No Senator Kerry has decided to berth his yacht in Newport RI. I wonder why? (sarcasm alert) Maybe it’s because RI repealed their Boat Sales and Use tax back in 1993 but cash strapped MA has not. John Kerry’s home state collects a 6.25% sales tax as well as an annual excise tax on yachts. The Kerry’s paid about $7 million for this little boat saving themselves $437,500 or so in sales tax and $70,000 annually in excise tax. Not a bad business decision.
Yet Senator Kerry continually preaches about the rich having to step up and pay their fair share; as per my post yesterday he is also pushing the carbon tax that will affect all of us and we don’t have the ability to hide anything like he does and avoid the tax. I’d say lesson #1 is hypocrisy but you decide.
Jul/100
Just make crap up part two
Barack signed the financial sector overhaul into law this week. He promised the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s mistakes. There will be no more tax payer funded bailouts. Period. How many times have you heard a politician say we aren’t going to do this again? Immigration reform in the 90’s? Bailout of Chrysler in the 70’s/80’s? I’m sure it will happen again.
But we will still be paying for the failures; Obama’s plan is to charge banks and financial institutions a fee to fund bailouts in the future. OK boys and girls, where to banks and all other companies get their money? From the consumer. You and I will pay this fee one way or the other as banks have to pass the extra expense on to us.
AND remember the big one? Obama’s not going to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. When the Bush tax cuts expire in January here’s what’s going to happen:
The tax hikes will hit every income level. The top bracket would rise from 35 percent to 39.6 percent; the 33 bracket will rise to 35; 28 will rise to 31; 25 will rise to 28; and the lowest bracket, 10 percent, will rise to 15 percent — a 50 percent hike. Capital gains taxes will rise from 15 percent to 20 percent, and the tax on dividends will skyrocket to 39.6 percent, which is a far cry from the current 15 percent rate. The marriage penalty will return, and the child tax credit will be cut in half from $1,000 to $500.
Those taxes will hit everyone. Even those making $50,000 or less a year. But some of you will try and make a case that Obama didn’t raise taxes on us…
Jul/100
Just make crap up…
Enough people will believe it because they are ignorant or lemmings. John Kerry claims we will have an ice free Arctic in 5-10 years. On Thursday Kerry was promoting the climate change legislation and said that “instead of waiting until 2030… we will have an ice-free Arctic in five to ten years.” Kerry cannot provide the scientific source of his assertion but his office has said in the past that they use information provided by NOAA. So what do you do? You go to the NOAA website and see what they have to say.
NOAA does say that the Arctic could be nearly ice free in the summertime within 30 years. J.E. Overland and Muyin Wang say their computer models predict an expected value for a nearly sea ice free Arctic in September by 2037. That is the most likely scenario of 6 computer models they ran. The earliest sea ice free summer could be the late 2020’s but that is not mathematically probable. When asked about an ice free summer in 5-10 years, Wang said that would be remote and extreme. Wang said there will always be ice in the winter as well as glacial ice in the summer.
No surprise that Kerry is not responding to requests for information regarding his current claim. And no surprise that many people will believe him, panic and decide we need to enact ruinous legislation to save the planet.
