The Car Crash Scenario

Imagine this scenario in the near future under Obamacare: You are driving your GM car and you lose control and crash into a tree. Your Onstar contacts a gov't Onstar agent (because the gov't now owns GM). While you are in your car injured the bureaucratic process starts (the agent looks up the info about you):

• If you are a Congressman, the President or his wife, an illegal alien, or even a friend of the President no problem. You will get care.
• If you are an elderly person--no care. After all you are going to die pretty soon, so you are not worth the cost.
• If the car sends a signal to the agent that you weren't wearing a seatbelt--that will count against you.
• If you were talking on your cell phone--not good for you.
• If the agent sees in your online medical file (everything medical will be on that file) that you are overweight--not good.
• If your file says you have an incurable disease--not good. You're going to die soon so why spend the money on you.
• If the agent finds out you were listening to Rush Limbaugh or any Conservative radio talk show before the crash--not good. (Okay, I'm being silly. Then again...)
• If there are any anti-Obama or anti-big gov't bumper stickers on your car--not good.
• If there are any anti-Obama or anti-big gov't books in your car--not good.

  One other thing...

• If the tree you hit is on the endangered species list and you hurt it--definitely not good.

Keep in mind this scenario is pure "fiction."

The Ten Commandments According to Obama

I wish I could take credit for the following commandments but I can't. The list comes from The Patriot Update website:

1. Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me. For we are no longer a Christian nation and, after all, I am the chosen One. (And like God, I do not have a birth certificate.)
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, unless it is my face carved on Mt. Rushmore.
3. Thou shalt not utter my middle name in vain (or in public). Only I can say Barack Hussein Obama.
4. Remember tax day, April 15th, to keep it holy.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother until they are too old and sick to care for. They will cost our public-funded health-care system too much money.
6. Thou shalt not kill, unless you have an unwanted, unborn baby. For it would be an abomination to punish your daughter with a baby.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery if you are conservative or a Republican. Liberals and Democrats are hereby forgiven for all of their infidelity and immorality, but the careers of conservatives will be forever destroyed.
8. Thou shalt not steal, until you've been elected to public office. Only then is it acceptable to take money from hard-working, successful citizens and give it to those who do not work, illegal immigrants, or those who do not have the motivation to better their own lives.
9. Thou shalt not discriminate against thy neighbor unless they are conservative, Caucasian, or Christian.
10. Thou shalt not covet because it is simply unnecessary. I will place such a heavy tax burden on those that have achieved the American Dream that, by the end of my term as President, nobody will have any wealth or material goods left for you to covet.

How to Drive a Liberal Crazy

Or if you want how to mess with a liberal's mind. You might think to yourself how can you drive someone crazy if they are already in that state (especially if they are on the far left). Good question. Well, you still can try. Here are the ways (although not all the ways):

• Call them Liberals. They like to go by the name Progressives to hide their real agenda.
• Don't use their political-correct labels for things. Use the old un-politically correct names. For example, the Left calls jungles rain forests now. You still the label jungle. Undocumented workers should be called illegal immigrants--the old term, etc.
• Make up funny politically-correct names. For instance, call dead people breathing challenged people.
• When asked about if you support gay marriages say you are always in favor of happy marriages, or
• When asked if you support gay marriages say sure you see nothing wrong with a lesbian marrying a gay guy.
• Ask a liberal if they support group, tri-ads, polygamy, or polyandry marriages. If they don't then accuse them of them being a bigot. After all if you change the definition of marriage then just about anything goes.
• Ask a pro-choice person what he or she thinks of a woman aborting a homosexual baby. Is the woman a homophobe?
• Ask a pro-choice person if a woman can sacrifice herself for her unborn baby? After all isn't that a choice she has?
• Ask an animal rights militant to imagine this scenario: If an endangered predator is to about to kill an endangered prey do you kill the endangered predator to save the endangered prey?
• When asked if you in favor of water-boarding you reply that you have nothing against surfing.
• Tell a liberal that your favorite form of torture is tasers and cattle prods.
• When asked about the death penalty say they should bring back the guillotine.
• Ask a Obama worshiper if Obama can fail. Not that he will or won't.
• Tell someone on the Left who believes in man-made global warming that it is called by the elderly especially AARP. The elderly like it warm you know.
• Tell a gun control fascist that when firing a gun your firing hand should not be shaky. After all you want to hit your target.
• Tell a liberal that you're a militant like our founding fathers were. Then quote Thomas Paine's remark about gov't being an "necessary evil."

If the Liberal looks at you perplexed, gets mad, or calls you names then you have succeeded in your quest.

Miscellaneous Thoughts Part 13

• The difference between a conservative and a liberal is that a conservative throws a life line to a drowning person. A liberal jumps in the water and drowns himself to have empathy with the drowning person.
• You think Barack Obama used a teleprompter to do his vows at his wedding?
• You never want to see an energetic upbeat funeral director.
• Mob rule is like a wildfire. It is unpredictable. Being out of control it can be dangerous even destructive.
• If a polygamist or polyandrist has an affair is he/she really cheating on his/her spouse? I mean couldn't the "cheater" use the excuse he/she was just "test-driving" another spouse? I don't know I am just asking.
• I was watching a show about the Incas on TV. The show said the Incas thought without human sacrafice the sun would stop rising. Isn't that a funny belief?! What a second. Some people think today we can control global warming by sacrificing the free market system. Hmmm...
• If a president or Congressman says a Congressional bill has a time limit and an optional clause in it, read the bill yourself. If it doesn't have either one then it will be whatever is missing. If no time limit then it is eternal. Social Security was supposed to be optional and temporary.
• Gov't should not be requesting people too spend or save for that matter. What the people do with their money legally is none the gov't's business. They do not know individual circumstances.
• The government competing against the private sector is like an elephant competing against an ant. The gov't has all the power and money to make it hard on a business if it wanted too.
• Obamacare in a nutshell: Your health insurance company on steroids. At least if you don't like your health insurance you can drop them and get another. You cannot drop Obamacare. You have no choice but to sign-up. And since it is a gov't pgm it will last forever.

Russia, China, Brazil Push for New Global Currency

From Money News.com (July 7):

ROME -- China, Russia and Brazil will use this week's G8 summit in Italy to push their view that the world needs to start seeking a new global reserve currency as an alternative to the dollar, officials said on Tuesday. [read more]

And Barry Obama nods his head in agreement. Not!? Can you say New World Order? I wonder what will be the motto on the global dollar: In Big Gov't We Trust? Nah, that's too many words.

In other news, Algore said "It is the awareness itself that will drive the change, and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governnance and global agreements." The awareness Gore is talking about is global warming, er I mean climate change. Isn't that nice.

Suing Doctors under Obamacare

If America has universal health care (God forbid) then that means the doctors and other people in the medical community are now gov't employees because the gov't is now paying their salaries. So, if a surgeon screws up during surgery and you want to sue him you have to go to and only to the US Court of Federal Claims to file a complaint which will cost you by the way $250.

Something to think about especially when doctors will be underpaid, overworked and not having enough tools to do their jobs properly. Not to mention having very little control over their practice. Talk about bedside manner being shot to hell.

Group Warns Obama Administration on Nuclear Deterrent

From NIT.org (July 6):

WASHINGTON -- A think-tank report issued last week warns the Obama administration against rushing into reductions to the U.S. nuclear deterrent in a follow-on agreement with Russia to a major arms control treaty (see GSN, July 1).

The report, U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st century: Getting it Right, was issued Wednesday by the New Deterrent Working Group, a panel of experts sponsored by the conservative Center for Security Policy.

"What this report asks the administration to do ... is 'Don't get caught up in a moment; don't go for arms control for arms control sake. Think about not only the world today, but of the world tomorrow,'" Paula DeSutter, a working group member who served in the State Department during the Bush administration, said at the document's roll-out event at the National Press Club. [read more]

This report is pretty much a no-brainer. Yea, King Emperor (can't seem to get it right) President Obama is gung-ho to unarm America when the rest of the world is not unarming (like N. Korea). Makes sense to me like dropping a brick on your foot. Here is another quote from the article:

"The administration is rushing to take major, unexplored, high-risk actions" to achieve that goal, Robert Monroe, a former director of the Defense Nuclear Agency, said without elaborating. "It's one thing to have a visionary goal ... but it's quite another to take drastic actions to reach that visionary goal; actions which may well make today's problem's far worse and expose us to much higher risks."

Are you listening Obama? Probably not. He is rushing into disarming America, like he is rushing into universal health care, and global warming mandates, sorry I mean climate change or whatever it is being called nowadays. Both universal health care and climate change mandates will destroy this country's economy. But Obama knows all. Or at least he (and his followers) thinks he does.

The Border Fence Argument

The argument that a border fence is useless because illegal aliens will find a way around it is a weak argument. You can use the same argument about not having a firewall on your computer. After all a hacker will just find a way around it. Or not lock the windows and doors on your house because a burglar will just break in anyway. Come on! Anything is better than nothing. There is no perfect solution.

If a border fence or wall (or even the National Guard on the border) makes it hard for the illegal aliens to come across is good. An obstacle is an obstacle. At least the Cubans have to build a raft or some flotation device to get over to America.

Obamacare Rationing Choices

Under Obamacare the question how will health care be rationed (and it will be rationed)? Here's my idea how different groups of people will stand in line to get their health care (from first to last):

• Obama's family, friends and staff
• Biden's family, friends and staff
• The various secretaries (like Secretary of State) etc. and their staff
• Congress and their staff (always remember the powers that be always take care of themselves first.)
• The Supreme Court
• The elite Left (eg Labor Union bosses, movie stars, etc.)
• Women and minorities*
• Young people*
• Middle aged people*
• Old people*
• The terminally ill*
• Fetuses
• Pets (Canada has health care for pets. PETA may lobby to move pets ahead of fetuses or even ahead of the elderly.)

What this could mean is that more elderly people will be running for Congress, so they can move up the line.

If you are a Liberal (er a Progressive) and are part of the * group, you get to move ahead the line. I don't know what political persuasion fetuses or pets are.

Also, the terms "young", "middle age" and "old" will be defined by a gov't created health board.

Enjoy your health care while it lasts!

Empathetic Supreme Court Judges

Imagine this scenario: An umpire for whatever reason (the reason doesn't matter) calls the same baseball player (and only that player) safe on every call no matter if he is safe or not. Like I said the reason does not matter. The baseball player and umpire could be friends, they could be family, the umpire could have been paid off. The reason does not matter. The umpire is not upholding the rules of the game. Even if the player was having a bad day the umpire has to uphold the rules. The rules make the game fair to both sides.

When a Supreme Court Judge makes a ruling he or she has to follow the laws of the Constitution just like the umpire has to follow the rules of a baseball game. Supreme Court judges cannot create their own laws just like the umpire cannot create rules of the game. That's anarchy. A judge has to treat the parties involved impartially and fairly. Justice is blind after all. He cannot and must not take sides.

When Obama talks about emphatic Supreme Court judges what does he mean? Emphatic to who? Women and minorities? Is that fair? Judges should not let their emotions or personal experiences rules them.

When your a district judge being emphatic could be alright. For instance not letting a terrified child be in the same court of law with its attacker. If this case the guardians of the child could represent the child's interest. Even then a district court judge has to stay within the guidelines of the law.

God and Liberalism

In Dean L. Overman's book A case for the existence of God (2009) he talks about why would an all powerful God allows evil to exist. He gave an analogy of a parent to a child. Why would a good parent allow a child to ride in an automobile? After all the auto may get into an accident and harm or even kill the child. A parent could be overprotective and not allow the child in the car at all. But then this would not be fair to the child. You can expand this analogy to not letting the child cross the street or ride his/her bicycle. Again this would not be fair to the child.

This is what God has done. He has given us free will to decide between good and evil. He also have given us a mind to make (hopefully) wise decisions. To be totally good we would have to have no free will and be completely programmed by God. He wants people to experience life even if it is dangerous.

What's this have to do with the Left? Most on the Left believe in big gov't control. They want the citizens of America to be totally protected by gov't. Not safety-nets or guard rails. Totally regulated. After all to the Left people are like little children who have to be always protected and told what they can and cannot do. I'm not talking about just morals mind you but being dictated in everything in people's life. Therefore the Left cannot understand why a God would not interfere in the life of man to protect him. After all that's what they think government's main role is. To protect mankind in every aspect of his life. Big Gov't = An all-power God. Why need a god when you have big gov't.

Saudi 'Killer Chip' Implant Would Track, Eliminate Undesirables

From Fox News.com (May 15):

German media outlets reported last week that a Saudi inventor's application to patent a "killer chip," as the Swiss tabloids put it, had been denied.

The basic model would consist of a tiny GPS transceiver placed in a capsule and inserted under a person's skin, so that authorities could track him easily.

Model B would have an extra function — a dose of cyanide to remotely kill the wearer without muss or fuss if authorities deemed he'd become a public threat. [read more]

Talk about George Orwell's 1984 on overdrive! Then again this device is what an oppressive gov't (like Iran, N. Korea, Venezuela, etc.) would love to have. And if the Saudi gov't suspects you of being a homosexual they could implant that chip in you. Once they think you're a homosexual--you're dead. Good thing the chip was denied.

On a side note, Venezuela's dictator is making a $14 cellphone for the people of Venezuela. You know because they lack cell phones and he wants to listen in on their conversations. Then again I could be wrong about that.

Oops! Pirates Captured After Threatening Wrong Ship

Fox News.com on May 4 reported that a bunch of Somalia thugs pirates had mistaken a French naval ship for a merchant ship. The French ship hid its identity by sailing in the sun. Then it had its support helicopter fire warning shots at the pirates. The so-called pirates then promptly surrendered.

Gotta love that! I love it when the bad guys screw up. It's too bad the French naval ship did not just sink the three boats but oh well.

IBM's 'Watson' to Take On 'Jeopardy'

From PCMag.com (April 27):

IBM said Monday that it plans to produce "Watson," a computing system designed to parse questions intelligently and respond in the manner in which it was intended.

The goal? To knock off human contestants in "Jeopardy," in much the same way IBM's "Deep Blue" computer beat Garry Kasparov in chess.

Watson will be forced to interpret the question, process puns and other word games, search through its database and determine the correct answer, all within less than a second -- the reaction time of "Jeopardy" players. The machine will not be connected to the Internet, but will have to parse its own database of content. [read more]

Interesting. If this works it will be a big milestone for AI.

IBM could write a similar program for the "Wheel of Fortune" game although a little bit trickier. They could program the computer to know the frequency count of letters and use its knowledge base to "guess" the phrase. The tricky part is that IBM would have to build a robot to spin the wheel or have a person do it.

One of these days computers are going to take over tech support. The electric companies already has automated systems that respond to your voice commands over the phone. At least mine does.

The DREAM Act in the 111 Congress

The DREAM Act has been reintroduced in both the House (H.R. 1751, by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA)) and the Senate (S. 729, by Sen. Dick Durban (D-IL). Several cosponsors of the legislation have referred to the DREAM Act as a "narrow" proposal to deal only with the children brought here illegally by their illegal-alien parents. Unfortunately, the facts belie that claim. Here are the essentials of what the bills would do:

• They retroactively repeal the federal ban on in-state tuition for illegal aliens, so individual states would decide whether to grant this subsidy to illegal aliens at the expense of U.S. citizens and legal residents.
• They require DHS to award amnesty to every illegal alien claiming to meet minimal criteria: 1) present in the U.S. for the last five years; 2) a U.S. high school diploma or GED, or admitted to a U.S. institution of higher learning; and 3) of good moral character with no more than 2 misdemeanor convictions.
  • The Senate version also requires that amnesty applicants be under 35 years of age and not be subject to a final order of removal or exclusion.
  • Neither version requires specific documentation or other proof that amnesty applicants actually meet these minimal criteria.
• Once an alien files an amnesty application, he or she cannot be removed from the United States for any reason until the application is fully processed and a final decision to grant or deny amnesty has been made.
• All amnesty applications go to the front of the line for processing, thus bypassing millions of people around the world who have applied to come to the United States the right way.
• In order to deny any amnesty application, the federal government has the burden of proving an illegal alien's ineligibility for amnesty.
• There are no numerical limits to the amnesty and there's no end date for the application process.
• Amnestied aliens are required to complete two years of college or military service during their first six years of legal residence, but DHS can waive the requirement or grant additional time to comply for those who do not.
• At the end of the six years, amnestied aliens can apply for citizenship and petition to bring their extended relativesóincluding the parents who brought them here illegallyóto the United States.
• Amnesty beneficiaries are eligible for certain federal student loans and work-study programs.

Hat tip to NumbersUSA.com for this info. Notice there is nothing in this bill about border control. With the Swine Flu about to be pandemic according to the WHO it is now more important to get control of the border. Who knows who is crossing the border with that disease or any other disease. Not to mention drug gangs and terrorists that could cross over too. No, just about every politician is catering to the Hispanics like they want diseased people or dangerous people in their town. It's about safety and law and order.

The Home Builder-Economy Analogy

The following analogy is taken from Meltdown (2009) by Thomas E. Woods Jr. The author says this a summary of what the Austrian theory says:

Imagine a home-builder who believes he has 20% more bricks than he actually has. He will build a different kind of house than he would if he had an accurate count of his brick supply. (Assume he can't buy any more.) The dimensions will be different. The style may even be different. And the longer he goes without realizing his error, the worse the eventual reckoning will be. If he finds out his error, only at the very end, he'll have to tear down the whole (incomplete) house, and all those resources and labor time will have been squandered. Society will be that much the poorer.

The economy is like the home builder. Forcing interest rates lower than the free market would have set them makes economic actors act as if more saved resources exist than actually do. Some portion of their new investment is malinvestment---investment in lines that would have sense if the saved resources existed to sustain and complete them, but which do not make sense in light of current resource availability.

An adept analogy. Basically information affects what your actions are. Incorrect information or beliefs will take you down the wrong path.

Here is what the author says should be done about the current economic crises:

• Let the big companies go bankrupt. It's capital equipment doesn't disappear. Someone will come along and buy them and run the business.
• Abolish Fannie and Freddie. These are zombie companies according to the author.
• Stop the bailouts and cut gov't spending.
• End gov't manipulation of money.
• Let's have a debate about whether the Federal Reserve (Fed) is helping or hurting the economy.
• The Fed should abolish its Term Auction Facilities and return to making loans at its discount window only to its traditional customers. Interest rates should be allowed to float.
• End the monopoly money.

Good ideas. I like the zombie term for Fannie and Freddie. Basically they are companies run by the gov't. In other words they are in between a free-market company and a gov't agency. Weird. I think the Fed does more harm than good, because there is a lot of power to control the economy. And power corrupts. This is the same reason I am anxious about having a National Sales Tax--it would allow the gov't too much power to control how much you save and spend.

N. Korea Threatens S. Korea

From UPI.com:

SEOUL, April 22 (UPI) -- North Korea warned South Korea against joining a U.S.-led anti-proliferation program during talks Wednesday in Kaesong, a North Korea border city.

The North Korean delegation at the meeting said South Korea's joining of the Proliferation Security Initiative would lead to an inter-Korean "confrontation," officials told the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

South Korea's Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyon confirmed the issue was raised. Previously, Pyongyang has warned joining the anti-proliferation campaign would be considered a "declaration of war." South Korea said it still intends to join the initiative. [read more]

Scary. Add to this N. Korea resumes its nuclear operations and they tested a missile that could reach Hawaii. Then N. Korea warns of a second nuclear test. This dangerous N. Korean dictator has to be taken seriously.

The question is if a war happens between the two Koreas will Japan get involved and be an ally with S. Korea. Japan feels threatened by that crazy dictator of N. Korea too. Japan not too long was thinking about what their constitution would allow to protect itself from N. Korea.

Chinese spies may have put chips in US planes

From India Times.com (April 17):

WASHINGTON: The Chinese cyber spies have penetrated so deep into the US system — ranging from its secure defence network, banking system, electricity grid to putting spy chips into its defence planes — that it can cause serious damage to the US any time, a top US official on counter-intelligence has said.

“Chinese penetrations of unclassified DoD networks have also been widely reported. Those are more sophisticated, though hardly state of the art,” said National Counterintelligence Executive, Joel Brenner, at the Austin University Texas last week, according to a transcript made available on Wednesday. [read more]

And The Great Appeaser Obama administration is worried about right-wing extremist groups (you know the ones who support third-party candidates) doing terrorist attacks? Geez.

Israel Preparing for Attack on Iran, Officials Say

From NTI.org (April 20):

The Israeli military is increasing its readiness to conduct air strikes on nuclear sites across Iran, should the new government in Jerusalem decide such action is necessary, the London Times reported Saturday (see GSN, April 17).

"Israel wants to know that if its forces were given the green light, they could strike at Iran in a matter of days, even hours," a high-level defense official said. "They are making preparations on every level for this eventuality. The message to Iran is that the threat is not just words." [read more]

Israel as a nation has a right to self-preservation. I don't blame them for preparing for an attack. What you do if you lived next to a crazy, dangerous dictator who wants to see your nation destroyed?

If Israel defended itself I am afraid that other nations would say the attack was unwarranted and just wanted to start a war. Then these countries would attack Israel. Even the Bible states this in so many words:

The Russian leader then "devise an evil plan" and marshal Iran, Libya, and these other countries to form a military coalition to surround Israel and try to destroy her (Ezekiel 38:10)

Thoughts and Stats on Guns

First here are some stats on gun laws from a Wikipedia article:

• New Jersey adopted what sponsors described as "the most stringent gun law" in the nation in 1966; two years later, the murder rate was up 46% and the reported robbery rate had nearly doubled.
• In 1968, Hawaii imposed a series of increasingly harsh measures, and its murder rate tripled from a low of 2.4 per 100,000 in 1968 to 7.2 by 1977.
• In 1976, Washington, D.C., enacted one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Since then, the city's murder rate has risen 134% while the national murder rate has dropped 2%.
• Among the 15 states with the highest homicide rates, 10 have restrictive or very restrictive gun laws.

And here are some gun stats around the world:

• Violent crime accelerated in Jamaica after handguns were heavily restricted and a special Gun Court established.
• While having a large amount of civilian owned guns, Norway has a low gun crime rate.

And here are some things to think about:

• OJ Simpson, Lizzy Borden (the OJ Simpson of her time--she wasn't convicted either) and the killer of the Moore family in Villisca, Iowa in 1912 never used guns in the commission of their crime. Simpson used a knife, Borden used an axe, and the killer of the Moore family who never was caught also used an axe.
• Most serial killers (like Jack the Ripper) don't use guns when they kill. If memory serves me right the only serial killer to use a gun was Son of Sam.
• Schools that put up signs that read "no guns allowed" will not stop a crazy nut with a gun. It's like sending a signal to all the unbalanced killers--come on inside we are unarmed.

I respect anyone who owns a gun. Our founding fathers put the right to bear arms in the Bill of Rights because they were afraid of an oppressive gov't. Remember for a dictator to keep the population oppressed all he needs to do is control the press & keep everyone illiterate, make everyone poor, and ban all firearms. If the Jews during Hitler's time had guns maybe there wouldn't have been a holocaust.