READ THIS

PLEASE.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/2000000000000_more_in_debt_you.html

Then fire something off to your Congressman.

Offsetting Carbon

Senator Wyden (D-OR) assures me that:

"I respect the right of everyone to form their own opinion about global climate change. As a U.S. Senator, however, it is also my job to make decisions based on the best scientific evidence available -- the overwhelming majority of which suggests human actions do impact the world’s climate. While I am concerned about recent revelations of potential data misuse by a university in the United Kingdom, decades of peer-reviewed research has consistently shown that climate change is real and is a critical threat to our planet."

So, in my humble effort to wean myself from Canadian Natural Gas (Oooohh: bad, eh?) and hydroelectric heat ( Oooohh: fish die! Feed the Seals!) I have vowed to use only renewable energy this winter to heat my home: my woodstove. Oh, it smokes a little, but I'm proud to do my part to save mother earth. Popcorn, anyone?

Like Sands Through an Hourglass...

Click over (in a new tab, of course) to:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

and watch your livelihood go up in smoke. BTW, you may notice in the right hand column, the "official unemployed/ actual unemployed" numbers: the ratio of unemployed to taxpayers is now at 24.3%.

" I'LL TAKE RAISE MY TAXES AGAIN FOR $2000, ALEX."

Thank you, Mister President, may I have another?

Square Dancing in Afghanistan

According to news sources, the "rules of engagement," for our troops in the Afghanistan war, which, by the way, President Obumble has described as "a neccessary war" have been altered ummmm, slightly to be more PC:

"The actual ROEs are said to be classified U.S. and NATO secrets, but based on individual soldier accounts, those restrictions include the following:

No night or surprise searches

Villagers are to be warned prior to searches

Afghan National Army, or ANA, or Afghan National Police, or ANP, must accompany U.S. units on searches

U.S. soldiers may not fire at insurgents unless they are preparing to fire first

U.S. forces cannot engage insurgents if civilians are present

Only women can search women

Troops can fire on insurgents if they catch them placing an IED but not if insurgents walk away from where the explosives are."

Alamand left, and away we go, suhwing your partner to and fro...

Somebody tie Obumble to a chair and force him to watch him to watch "300."

The Stimulus Works!!

From the American Thinker Blog, the stimulus works, as long as you want to be employed by the Federal Government: the gray bars are the "recessionary periods," you know, when businesses close and workers lose their jobs.

Christmas Fieplace

If you don't have, or don't want, a fireplace, meander on over to:

http://fauxfire.com/#

and listen to some music and warm your tootsies without fear of an adverse carbon footprint.

Cool Sunday Morning

It is definitely a coool Sunday morning, 28 degrees on my back porch, but that's a heat wave compared to last week.  Getting ready for the "Pineapple Express," that stream of warm and unceasing rain sent to us with Aloha from the Pacific Isles.

Listened to Roger Hedgecock on KXL last night while on a mad dash to Freddie's/Kroger's because "we forgot to get (fill in the blank)?"

In 1994, during the, ahem, historic Clinton administration, Medicare and Medicaid would reimburse hospitals and providers (docs, therapists, etc.) at a rate of 104%.  Meaning a doctor or hospital would get repaid by these two systems for the actual cost of service, plus 4%.  That's called profit, and Congress abhors profits by anyone other than themselves, so laws limiting repayment were enacted.

Currently, M&M (how sweet, but they're having a meltdown) pay only 81% of actual costs, 9 months or so after billing.   This means your doctor loses 19% of his actual cost to treat Medicare patients, plus the cost of "carrying" the debt interest-free, and your local hospital loses 19% for treating the various illegals whom they are forced by law to treat, plus the same interest loss as your doctor.  Gee, I wonder who will have to cover that 19%? 

Hospitals and providers recover that 19% by upcharging the private insurance companies for services.  That means your premiums go up, your deductible goes up, and your co-pay goes up and the general "healthcare costs" go up because Congress mandated it!!   That's right, boys and girls, Congress helped "break" our current healthcare system by their inept tinkering, of which there is no equal, and now they blame "private insurance" for the mess they themselves created!!  I am shocked, I tell you, shocked that politicians would lie to us just so they can control more and more of our lives.  Of course I love Big Brother!  Don't you?

Guy Fawkes Day is Nov. 5, just in case you'd like to celebrate somehow.  I'm open to suggestions.