The ACLU is an EXTREMELY destructive force in my America. The Alliance Defense Fund is trying to fight this extreme organization!
If a Christian cross exists on "so called" government property, it harms NO-ONE! When the ACLU and those that support their agenda agree to remove every scrap of Christianity from our soil, you then have an agenda! Atheism is its own religion; non-religion is its own religion.
Christians do not demand that you embrace the Lord but non-religious entities, backed by the ACLU demand that He is not mentioned or evidenced anywhere in society.
I disagree VEHEMENTLY with non-religious types that churches are getting an entitlement by NOT paying taxes. So an entitlement becomes the “absence” of taxes! That is amazing! To my way of thinking, an entitlement occurs when the government is giving away my hard earned dollars. Not the absence of but the handing out! How can you call it an agenda when others are trying to remove something that exists? Symbols in our society (that have been in place for many, many years) are being removed because a tiny microcosm of society and the ACLU finds them offensive? When society is trying to shove “NEW” thinking into my life that is an “agenda”! When my America is attempting to cling to something that has been in existence for more than 200 years, I do not consider it an “agenda”!
Until the government took over our daily lives, churches were the “businesses” that helped the needy and fed the hungry. It was called "charity"!
Church missionaries travel the world helping the needy.
We each look at things from a different frame of reference, non-religious people seem to believe that religious people are bullying by fighting against the removal of everything religious from our society. I see bullying by the ACLU demanding that everything religious be removed from society.
Thank God we live in America and still have the freedom to disagree, even within our chosen party.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Boycott Media for 7 days
Back in the late sixties, I was immersed in fighting bussing in Pontiac Mich.
The Pontiac newspaper, (I think it was called the Free Press) was as leftist back then as the newspapers are today. We only got the black or left side of the bussing fight.
I was one of the original organizers of a group called “NAG” or National Action Group, eventually headed up by Irene McCabe. We COULD NOT get our side of the issue in front of the complacent masses. We went door to door, trying to get the word out that bussing was going to happen, but we were not believed. People laughed at us. We had regular meetings to plan strategies but at the most, we would get about 20 people to show up. All thought that the idea of bussing was so ridiculous that it could not happen. They believed that the courts would rule against it!
Well, as you know, it did happen! The following meeting, (after the judicial decision to allow bussing), became a frenzy of hundreds of concerned parents showing up at our little meeting place. There was no room for so many angry citizens! We needed to find a larger meeting place but it was too late!
There were fights in the mixed schools, angry parents, mobs, attacks on us and attacks in the schools against our children. It was awful and the newspapers made it sound like a racial situation instead of an issue of putting our little children on a bus and sending them miles from their homes. Not many couples had 2 cars back then, so if your little one got sick or forgot lunch, too bad.
My husband and I rented our home based on the school system and the fact that I could stand at the end of our block and watch my baby girl walk to kindergarten.
NAG got so frustrated at the lack of news on our side of the issue that we took drastic steps. We boycotted the newspaper. The word spread like wild fire to stop the paper until they agreed to tell our side on the front page. We also picketed and many would not cross the picket line.
After about a week or two, (that was a long time ago and my old brain just can’t remember specific details), the newspaper came to NAG and asked what we wanted to get the presses rolling again. We said we wanted equal time with the NAACP and black leaders.
(By the way, some of the “leaders” back then, arousing anger and attacks were Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby (!) and Martin Luther King!)
The newspaper caved to our demands and put a dividing color line down the center of the front page, (I cannot remember if it was red or green) and put both sides of the issue and we released the boycott.
The reason I am relating this story to you is to let you know the value of a boycott. I think we would cause a major problem for our local newspapers if we put our subscriptions on vacation-hold for 7 days, November 23-November 30th. Just think, that is during the biggest advertizing time of the year! Remember, November 27th is the biggest shopping day of the year!
Many people, including my husband, enjoy the sports and local events so they do not want to stop their local newspapers for good but maybe if we hurt them at a crucial time they would wake up to the unfairness of their left wing agenda and start vetting lefty’s that the Pompous POTUS is surrounding himself with. Maybe the thrills up their legs at the sight of him would send shivers down their spines when all advertizing went away!
Please, put your news papers on vacation for just seven important days, November 23rd through November 30th!!!!
Hmmm, lets add ABC,NBC,CBS AND CNN!!!!!!!
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Letter from the Boss, who to layoff?
This is so funny! I actually stopped using certain vendors because of their support for this Marxist administration, so I really could relate to this!
Letter from the Boss...
As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%.
But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead. This has really been bothering me, since I believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who would have to go.
So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lot and found six Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem.
They voted for change; I gave it to them.
I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.
Letter from the Boss...
As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%.
But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead. This has really been bothering me, since I believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who would have to go.
So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lot and found six Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem.
They voted for change; I gave it to them.
I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Silent majority apathy
I was very involved in politics when I lived in Phoenix but 11 years ago, I moved to Scottsdale and dropped out after a few months of rino's. I was a precinct committeeman for years in Phoenix but it was too demeaning in Scottsdale. Hopefully things have changed, but Carolyn Allen is still there. I would get active again if true conservatives became committeemen. That is truly the grass roots of taking our country back. That is where all the favors and wheeling and dealing take place in order to become a delegate and control the candidates.
The Dems are much better at it than we are because conservatives are busy living our lives and do not have the time to become full time activists. I have been there, done that and not sure how active I want to be again. I hate the direction our country has taken and expecially the apathy of the forties generation, including my children. They just do not see the big picture.
The Dems are much better at it than we are because conservatives are busy living our lives and do not have the time to become full time activists. I have been there, done that and not sure how active I want to be again. I hate the direction our country has taken and expecially the apathy of the forties generation, including my children. They just do not see the big picture.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Lefties will boycott Whole Foods for conservative CEO Righties to the Rescue!!!!!
Righties to the Rescue!!!!! Let's all go grocery shopping at Whole Foods this week!!!!
Calls to boycott Whole Foods Market are growing louder and more sophisticated following a Wall Street Journal opinion article by the company's chief executive, John Mackey, in which he criticized President Obama's health care plan and offered his own alternative.
Mackey's article first prompted individuals to threaten taking their business elsewhere. But now the Progressive Review, an online alternative publication, is calling for a formal boycott, and campaigns are popping up all over, including on Facebook, a popular online social networking site.
Protesters are hoping a boycott will cut into the success of Whole Foods, the 10th largest food and drug store in the U.S., which reported sales of $1.8 billion for the last quarter, a 2 percent increase from the previous quarter.
As of Saturday, the Whole Foods Internet forum had more than 4,000 postings. One commenter thanked Mackey for revealing his political views.
"While it was a horrible business move, it was a great courtesy," a commenter identified as boycottwf wrote. "Now, I know that my dollars spent at whole foods are going to fund your misguided conservative views."
The commenter added, "Until you publically apologize to the nation and pledge that you will provide better benefits to your employees, I will not spend another dime at your store."
Another commenter identified as Betrayed, who claims to have been a customer for nearly 20 years, said, "I was so shocked to read Mr. Mackey's horrible, horrible opinion in the WSJ. I hope this severely hurts his profits. His customer base is mostly liberal Democrats who will, like me, be horrified at what we have been supporting all this time."
Phone messages left Saturday seeking a comment from Whole Foods were not immediately returned.
In the opinion article, published Wednesday, Mackey offered eight reforms for the health care system and outlined Whole Foods' employee health insurance policy.
Click here to read the Wall Street Journal article.
Whole Foods pays 100 percent of the premiums, but not the deductibles, for all employees who work 30 hours or more per week, or about 89 percent of its workers, and gives each employee $1,800 per year in "health-care dollars" that can be used for health and wellness expenses, according to the article.
Among the recommendations he made: equalizing tax laws for health insurance benefits; repealing all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines; repealing government mandates regarding who they must cover; and enacting tort reform and Medicare reform.
Mackey argued that health care is not a right, noting that neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution guarantees it.
"While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter?" he wrote.
"Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges," he continued.
Mackey's opinion article started with a quote from former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
Mackey's article appeared to be consistent with the views of dozens of doctors and business executives who have weighed in on the controversial bill. But Mackey's comments have drawn a much harsher reaction and is being compared to an "organized campaign to defeat a single payer health insurance system."
Yet Mackey did draw supporters as well on the forum who said they would start shopping at Whole Foods because of Mackey's article. A commenter identified as Guns & Liberty wrote that he will start shopping there to "support this man who understands the real needs of this country and it isn't paying for doctors for a bunch of lazy smelly hippies who need a bath."
Calls to boycott Whole Foods Market are growing louder and more sophisticated following a Wall Street Journal opinion article by the company's chief executive, John Mackey, in which he criticized President Obama's health care plan and offered his own alternative.
Mackey's article first prompted individuals to threaten taking their business elsewhere. But now the Progressive Review, an online alternative publication, is calling for a formal boycott, and campaigns are popping up all over, including on Facebook, a popular online social networking site.
Protesters are hoping a boycott will cut into the success of Whole Foods, the 10th largest food and drug store in the U.S., which reported sales of $1.8 billion for the last quarter, a 2 percent increase from the previous quarter.
As of Saturday, the Whole Foods Internet forum had more than 4,000 postings. One commenter thanked Mackey for revealing his political views.
"While it was a horrible business move, it was a great courtesy," a commenter identified as boycottwf wrote. "Now, I know that my dollars spent at whole foods are going to fund your misguided conservative views."
The commenter added, "Until you publically apologize to the nation and pledge that you will provide better benefits to your employees, I will not spend another dime at your store."
Another commenter identified as Betrayed, who claims to have been a customer for nearly 20 years, said, "I was so shocked to read Mr. Mackey's horrible, horrible opinion in the WSJ. I hope this severely hurts his profits. His customer base is mostly liberal Democrats who will, like me, be horrified at what we have been supporting all this time."
Phone messages left Saturday seeking a comment from Whole Foods were not immediately returned.
In the opinion article, published Wednesday, Mackey offered eight reforms for the health care system and outlined Whole Foods' employee health insurance policy.
Click here to read the Wall Street Journal article.
Whole Foods pays 100 percent of the premiums, but not the deductibles, for all employees who work 30 hours or more per week, or about 89 percent of its workers, and gives each employee $1,800 per year in "health-care dollars" that can be used for health and wellness expenses, according to the article.
Among the recommendations he made: equalizing tax laws for health insurance benefits; repealing all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines; repealing government mandates regarding who they must cover; and enacting tort reform and Medicare reform.
Mackey argued that health care is not a right, noting that neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution guarantees it.
"While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter?" he wrote.
"Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges," he continued.
Mackey's opinion article started with a quote from former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
Mackey's article appeared to be consistent with the views of dozens of doctors and business executives who have weighed in on the controversial bill. But Mackey's comments have drawn a much harsher reaction and is being compared to an "organized campaign to defeat a single payer health insurance system."
Yet Mackey did draw supporters as well on the forum who said they would start shopping at Whole Foods because of Mackey's article. A commenter identified as Guns & Liberty wrote that he will start shopping there to "support this man who understands the real needs of this country and it isn't paying for doctors for a bunch of lazy smelly hippies who need a bath."
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The real grass roots to win back freedom in America
Become a Precinct Committeemen in your neighborhood
Why and How to Become a PC
Page 1 of 3
Who Is A Precinct Committeeman?
A PRECINCT COMMITTEEMAN IS THE ONLY PARTY OFFICIAL DIRECTLY ELECTED BY THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS.
A committeeman and his or her fellow committeemen represent the Republican party to the people. He or she is a primary contact between voters, candidates and elected officials. It is his or her job to make sure the Republicans in their assigned precincts are informed and prepared to get their vote to the ballot box.
What Are The Responsibilities Of a Precinct Committeeman?
A precinct committeeman has many varied responsibilities.
You may be asked to circulate petitions for Republican candidates and/or to walk your precinct with an elected official so that he or she may be introduced to your neighbors. The work you do in your precinct WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS can make the difference in an election!
Every precinct is different. That is why it is so important to have active precinct committeemen working with neighbors to obtain the best results. If you live in rural Arizona, the nature of your work will be quite different from the work to be done in urban areas. There are, however, some basic items that need to be covered no matter where your precinct is located. Elected committee persons (by ballot) are eligible to vote for official party officers at county and/or state functions where official balloting for officers takes place.
THE BASIC TASKS FOR PRECINCT COMMITTEEMEN
Elect a precinct captain to assume overall precinct leadership.
Divide your precinct into geographical areas and assign portions of the precinct to each precinct committeeman.
Recruit precinct volunteers and assign specific blocks (or areas) to them for door-to-door and telephone work.
Have REGISTRATION FORMS available in your precinct. Regularly check for newly moved-in Republicans and also for families who will have members turning 18 years of age before the next election.
Maintain up-to-date records of the current REPUBLICAN residents of your precinctAttend precinct meetings. These are called for updating records, planning strategy and other organizational purposes.
Attend district and or county Republican meetings. These will be great places to share information and ideas. Assist your precinct captain in recruiting election board workers.
Assist your precinct captain in establishing election day GET-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) committees and a Precinct Election Headquarters.
Distribute election information and candidate literature to the voters in your precinct.
Frequent contact with your neighbors is the secret to success in a political campaign. Large media campaigns have a place in the political process, but it is GRASS ROOTS organization that gets the votes in the ballot box!
Precinct Committeeman's Important Assets
· Block workers are volunteers who help you by keeping track of a small geographical portion of the precinct, usually their own block of neighbors. Good precinct committeemen find good block workers!
· Election Board Workers are individuals working as inspectors, judges or clerks at the polls on election day. They are recommended by you or your precinct captain through the district and county chairmen for appointment by the County Division of Elections/Board of Supervisors. The County Boards of Supervisors fix the compensation for these workers.
· Precinct Committeeman's Glossary
· Official Roster This is THE list of registered voters in a precinct as provided by the Voter Registration County Recorder's Office.
· Perfect List This is a list of voters in a precinct that has been called or contacted to correct any incorrect information (such as phone numbers, etc) or having moved into or out of the precinct.
· Walking List This is a list either on computer sheets or on cards that is organized by street numbers. This information is available from District officials · Yellow Sheets This is a copy of the list of all persons who have cast a ballot on election day. This list is available at the polling place with proper identification and is often prepared by the clerk of the election board.
· Block worker This is a volunteer who is assigned a small geographical area to work in a precinct.
· Phone Bank This is a group of volunteers or paid workers who make a large number of phone calls into targeted areas, usually to get out the vote, to identify problems or to establish name identification. · Precinct Captain A Precinct Committeeman who is chosen to lead the other precinct workers in organizing the work in a precinct.
· Absentee or Early Ballot This is an election ballot which may be requested by mail and voted by mail. Some voters may need assistance from precinct workers to properly complete the absentee/early voting process. No reason is necessary to vote by absentee/early ballot.
Why and How to Become a PC
Page 1 of 3
Who Is A Precinct Committeeman?
A PRECINCT COMMITTEEMAN IS THE ONLY PARTY OFFICIAL DIRECTLY ELECTED BY THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS.
A committeeman and his or her fellow committeemen represent the Republican party to the people. He or she is a primary contact between voters, candidates and elected officials. It is his or her job to make sure the Republicans in their assigned precincts are informed and prepared to get their vote to the ballot box.
What Are The Responsibilities Of a Precinct Committeeman?
A precinct committeeman has many varied responsibilities.
You may be asked to circulate petitions for Republican candidates and/or to walk your precinct with an elected official so that he or she may be introduced to your neighbors. The work you do in your precinct WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS can make the difference in an election!
Every precinct is different. That is why it is so important to have active precinct committeemen working with neighbors to obtain the best results. If you live in rural Arizona, the nature of your work will be quite different from the work to be done in urban areas. There are, however, some basic items that need to be covered no matter where your precinct is located. Elected committee persons (by ballot) are eligible to vote for official party officers at county and/or state functions where official balloting for officers takes place.
THE BASIC TASKS FOR PRECINCT COMMITTEEMEN
Elect a precinct captain to assume overall precinct leadership.
Divide your precinct into geographical areas and assign portions of the precinct to each precinct committeeman.
Recruit precinct volunteers and assign specific blocks (or areas) to them for door-to-door and telephone work.
Have REGISTRATION FORMS available in your precinct. Regularly check for newly moved-in Republicans and also for families who will have members turning 18 years of age before the next election.
Maintain up-to-date records of the current REPUBLICAN residents of your precinctAttend precinct meetings. These are called for updating records, planning strategy and other organizational purposes.
Attend district and or county Republican meetings. These will be great places to share information and ideas. Assist your precinct captain in recruiting election board workers.
Assist your precinct captain in establishing election day GET-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) committees and a Precinct Election Headquarters.
Distribute election information and candidate literature to the voters in your precinct.
Frequent contact with your neighbors is the secret to success in a political campaign. Large media campaigns have a place in the political process, but it is GRASS ROOTS organization that gets the votes in the ballot box!
Precinct Committeeman's Important Assets
· Block workers are volunteers who help you by keeping track of a small geographical portion of the precinct, usually their own block of neighbors. Good precinct committeemen find good block workers!
· Election Board Workers are individuals working as inspectors, judges or clerks at the polls on election day. They are recommended by you or your precinct captain through the district and county chairmen for appointment by the County Division of Elections/Board of Supervisors. The County Boards of Supervisors fix the compensation for these workers.
· Precinct Committeeman's Glossary
· Official Roster This is THE list of registered voters in a precinct as provided by the Voter Registration County Recorder's Office.
· Perfect List This is a list of voters in a precinct that has been called or contacted to correct any incorrect information (such as phone numbers, etc) or having moved into or out of the precinct.
· Walking List This is a list either on computer sheets or on cards that is organized by street numbers. This information is available from District officials · Yellow Sheets This is a copy of the list of all persons who have cast a ballot on election day. This list is available at the polling place with proper identification and is often prepared by the clerk of the election board.
· Block worker This is a volunteer who is assigned a small geographical area to work in a precinct.
· Phone Bank This is a group of volunteers or paid workers who make a large number of phone calls into targeted areas, usually to get out the vote, to identify problems or to establish name identification. · Precinct Captain A Precinct Committeeman who is chosen to lead the other precinct workers in organizing the work in a precinct.
· Absentee or Early Ballot This is an election ballot which may be requested by mail and voted by mail. Some voters may need assistance from precinct workers to properly complete the absentee/early voting process. No reason is necessary to vote by absentee/early ballot.
Killing freedom of speech and politcal opinion
the following is from a blog on http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/
RedState
Barack Obama’s brownshirts are after Glenn Beck.We can’t let them win. If they win with Beck, they’ll be emboldened to go after even more people.A while back, Glenn Beck called Barack Obama a “racist.” Given all the terrorists, thugs, and racists Barack Obama has chosen as close personal friends (see e.g. Rev. Wright), it’s not a stretch to say it.In fact, Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, the convicted felon and self-declared communist Van Jones, has direct ties to the organization that’s trying to shut down Glenn Beck. Jones’s group has hired a big Hollywood PR firm and they are pressuring Glenn’s advertisers to stop advertising. If not, they’ll lead a boycott.We need to strike back and boycott these groups for ditching Beck. If they are going to fold so easily in the face of Obama brownshirts, we must push back. If not, who’ll be next?Here’s the list of the groups that have boycotted Glenn Beck. Let them know you disagree. Let them know you will boycott them for kowtowing to Barack Obama’s worshippers, brownshirts, goons, and thugs.SC Johnson:Fisk Johnson Chairman & CEOPhone: (262)260-2000
Petrell OzbaySenior Global Public Affairs ManagerPhone: (262) 260-2114pmozbay@scj.com
Progressive Insurance:Glenn Renwick, President & CEO- (440)461-5000
Linda Harris, Advertising & SponsorshipsLinda_J._Harris@progressive.com
Geico:Tony NicelyChairman, President & CEO, Insurance OperationsE-mail: tnicely@geico.com(301) 986-2462
Chris Tasher, GEICO Media Relations301-986-3271ctasher@geico.com
******************************************************************************************Letter I sent
I don’t quite think you get that 59 million people did NOT vote for this President. Glenn Beck talks to a large portion of those 59 million through his radio show and his 5PM EST show on FOX. That you made your decision to stop supporting the show says more about you then about Glenn. I do believe you need to rethink succumbing to the left in this country when you make monetary decisions about your company. I will note that Glenn gets over 2 million viewers each night on his show you couple that with those people chatting with their friends about his show and you end up with quite a few Americans who agree with Glenn. I personally will not buy your products again until your company acts like a independent company who makes their business decisions based on hard cold cash and not the “feelings” of progressive left.Thank you.At the end of the day this kind of stuff helps Beck. Same as we’ve seen with Michelle Malkin’s book sales, Rush’s audience numbers, etc.
RedState
Barack Obama’s brownshirts are after Glenn Beck.We can’t let them win. If they win with Beck, they’ll be emboldened to go after even more people.A while back, Glenn Beck called Barack Obama a “racist.” Given all the terrorists, thugs, and racists Barack Obama has chosen as close personal friends (see e.g. Rev. Wright), it’s not a stretch to say it.In fact, Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, the convicted felon and self-declared communist Van Jones, has direct ties to the organization that’s trying to shut down Glenn Beck. Jones’s group has hired a big Hollywood PR firm and they are pressuring Glenn’s advertisers to stop advertising. If not, they’ll lead a boycott.We need to strike back and boycott these groups for ditching Beck. If they are going to fold so easily in the face of Obama brownshirts, we must push back. If not, who’ll be next?Here’s the list of the groups that have boycotted Glenn Beck. Let them know you disagree. Let them know you will boycott them for kowtowing to Barack Obama’s worshippers, brownshirts, goons, and thugs.SC Johnson:Fisk Johnson Chairman & CEOPhone: (262)260-2000
Petrell OzbaySenior Global Public Affairs ManagerPhone: (262) 260-2114pmozbay@scj.com
Progressive Insurance:Glenn Renwick, President & CEO- (440)461-5000
Linda Harris, Advertising & SponsorshipsLinda_J._Harris@progressive.com
Geico:Tony NicelyChairman, President & CEO, Insurance OperationsE-mail: tnicely@geico.com(301) 986-2462
Chris Tasher, GEICO Media Relations301-986-3271ctasher@geico.com
******************************************************************************************Letter I sent
I don’t quite think you get that 59 million people did NOT vote for this President. Glenn Beck talks to a large portion of those 59 million through his radio show and his 5PM EST show on FOX. That you made your decision to stop supporting the show says more about you then about Glenn. I do believe you need to rethink succumbing to the left in this country when you make monetary decisions about your company. I will note that Glenn gets over 2 million viewers each night on his show you couple that with those people chatting with their friends about his show and you end up with quite a few Americans who agree with Glenn. I personally will not buy your products again until your company acts like a independent company who makes their business decisions based on hard cold cash and not the “feelings” of progressive left.Thank you.At the end of the day this kind of stuff helps Beck. Same as we’ve seen with Michelle Malkin’s book sales, Rush’s audience numbers, etc.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Down in the dumps
I cannot believe it took me so long to find AZteaparty website! I have been asking on Twitter for weeks if any Arizonans know of an AZ site organizing protests but finally found this on my own.
Unfortunately, I am unale to help financially. My husband is a "1099" and has not had work since October! My business is down about 50% and we are struggling like never in my lifetime! I am 67 years old, almost all my savings are GONE, not down, GONE!
Just seeing the comments on this site give me hope that there are those that will fight this administration.
The thing I feel most hopeless about is the media. they control the thinking of the masses. The AZ Repugnant's editorial page makes me angry and very sad. The letters to the editor show the ignorance of the readers. The headlines make me throw the paper in disgust. My educated, bright children believe movies about politics are real and that CNN is news.Sorry to sound so depressed, but this website shows me that there are fighters out there.
Yesterday I was getting my nails done and my sweet little Vietnamese technician commented "how wonderful the "cash for Clunkers" program is". I sadly looked at her and asked her if she thought it was ok to take her hard-earned money and give it to someone else so that they could buy a car. She looked at me in surprise, she did not think that was ok and had not realized that her tax dollars are paying for it.
I then asked her how much she pays in taxes and she naively told me that her boss pays the taxes! How do we educate the masses when they do not even believe they are paying taxes and do not know how much?
I then explained the rationale of the program to her and she thought it was a good idea anyway because it took gas guzzlers off the road. The media should be educating her! How the hell do they sleep at night! They are so liberal or must we now say "progressive" so that people will understand the new terminology.
Oh well, thank God there are those out there that do "get it". May God Bless America once more!
Unfortunately, I am unale to help financially. My husband is a "1099" and has not had work since October! My business is down about 50% and we are struggling like never in my lifetime! I am 67 years old, almost all my savings are GONE, not down, GONE!
Just seeing the comments on this site give me hope that there are those that will fight this administration.
The thing I feel most hopeless about is the media. they control the thinking of the masses. The AZ Repugnant's editorial page makes me angry and very sad. The letters to the editor show the ignorance of the readers. The headlines make me throw the paper in disgust. My educated, bright children believe movies about politics are real and that CNN is news.Sorry to sound so depressed, but this website shows me that there are fighters out there.
Yesterday I was getting my nails done and my sweet little Vietnamese technician commented "how wonderful the "cash for Clunkers" program is". I sadly looked at her and asked her if she thought it was ok to take her hard-earned money and give it to someone else so that they could buy a car. She looked at me in surprise, she did not think that was ok and had not realized that her tax dollars are paying for it.
I then asked her how much she pays in taxes and she naively told me that her boss pays the taxes! How do we educate the masses when they do not even believe they are paying taxes and do not know how much?
I then explained the rationale of the program to her and she thought it was a good idea anyway because it took gas guzzlers off the road. The media should be educating her! How the hell do they sleep at night! They are so liberal or must we now say "progressive" so that people will understand the new terminology.
Oh well, thank God there are those out there that do "get it". May God Bless America once more!
Friday, June 26, 2009
Man caused global warming scam!!!!
Hopefully when the public sees this for what it is, the senate will kill it. Man caused global warming is a theory, not a fact. No matter what we do, the rest of the world will not follow. This old earth has warmed and cooled for millions of years. How arrogant to think that we could change the climate with vehicles, good grief. There is a petition signed by 32,000 scientists that doubt.http://www.petitionproject.org/
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The teen brain
Teen risk-taking: blame immature frontal lobes; one of the last areas of the brain to develop fully.
Issue Date: May 18, 2003
Science
The teen brain
Surprise: It grows long past childhood. So chalk up some of that baffling behavior to neurobiology, not hormones.
By Tim Wendel
Until scientists began to employ MRI imaging a few years ago, the teenage brain was thought to be largely finished. After all, brain size usually doesn't change that much after childhood. Many assumed it only required fine-tuning in preparation for adulthood.
"Now we're finding out how wrong we were," says Richard Restak, a neuropsychiatrist and author of "The Secret Life of the Brain". "The teenage brain is a work in progress that we're only beginning to understand."
From the thickening and then thinning of gray matter to the development of the all-important frontal lobes, the brain undergoes dramatic change during adolescence. What parents once blamed on hormones is actually "a grand upheaval of the brain," says Barbara Strauch, a medical science editor and author of "The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids".
This upheaval affects everything from schoolwork and sleep patterns to teens' propensity for taking risks.
Risk-taking: Blame immature frontal lobes
All parents want their children to explore the world. But what if the family curfew has become a joke? What if a teenager exhibits behavior that not only worries an adult but also can be dangerous to the kid?
Ron Dahl, a pediatrician and child psychiatric researcher at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, says a desire for thrills and taking risks is a building block of adolescence. The frontal lobes help put the brakes on such behavior, but they're also one of the last areas of the brain to develop fully. Located right behind the forehead, the frontal lobes actually grow larger than adult size in puberty. But the process is far from complete; refinement of the frontal lobes can continue into the early 20s.
"This is a crucial stage of development," says Mel Levine, director of the University of North Carolina's clinical center for the study of development and learning, "because the frontal lobes enable a person to know where they're heading as opposed to having no idea of what the consequences will be."
In calm situations, teenagers can rationalize almost as well as adults. But stress can hijack what Dahl calls "hot cognition" and decision-making. The frontal lobes cannot cope.
Dahl points out that studies are far from complete, but he and other experts contend that higher levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine make teens hungry for stimulation, including risky behavior.
Academics: "Wow! It suddenly makes sense"
Besides the frontal lobes, other key areas of the brain are transformed during adolescence. The corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain, enlarges. The anterior cingulate gyrus, which helps us stay focused, matures, as do key areas in the cerebral cortex that recently have been linked to language development and spatial reasoning. Such development may explain why things will suddenly click for a struggling geometry student: The brain finally can make sense of the subject material.
Several experts contend that music, math and sports can help structure the brain faster and better than simply hanging out or watching television. "The adolescent brain exhibits a tremendous plasticity," Restak says. "Indeed, the adolescent's choices determine the quality of his brain."
Time: Teens really do need extra sleep
But even the best choices, inside or outside of the classroom, will do little good if a teen is too tired. Levine recommends that parents set up a daily schedule at home and stick to it. Instead of telling a teen he can watch television after he does his homework, try saying, "First, spend two hours every evening on brain work. After that, you can watch TV."
Early research indicates that too many timed deadlines, at school or at home, reward impulsive behavior and do little to accentuate the frontal lobes and develop other crucial areas of the teen brain.
Melatonin, an important brain chemical, can wreak havoc in an adolescent's world. Melatonin helps make us drowsy, and in teens it's secreted later at night. Sleep specialist Mary Carskadon, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, says such changes in melatonin production push teens to stay up later. Her surveys and field studies show that teens average 7 1/2 hours of sleep a night. She maintains that for brain development, nine hours should be the goal.
"Most teens are very sleep-deprived," Carskadon says. "That's when problems in the development of the frontal cortex and many of those synapses emerge. We are only now learning about the [effect] of sleep on learning and memory. And what's more important during adolescence than learning and memory?"
Parents: You can help new brain cells connect
In childhood, brain cells grow quickly, like new stalks on a plant. As adolescence accelerates, there's an overabundance of new connections in the brain. As teens mature, some connections are pruned away, increasing the brain's efficiency. The chance to help shape this pruning makes parents more crucial, not less.
"This is a sensitive time, when feelings are becoming linked with rational thought," Dahl says. "The stakes are very high, and parents need to feel that it's OK to be monitoring what their adolescents are doing."
When Strauch was researching her book, Primal Teen, she often brought her two teens along. As a result, she found herself more empathic.
"There's so much going in the brain, and it should give us hope," she says. "We should not really give up on any kid. They may be sitting in a lump and sleeping until noon and have pink hair, but there are all kinds of changes going on under that pink hair."
Tim Wendel, the father of one teenager, is the author of "The New Face of Baseball", a look at 100 years of Latino baseball players, to be published next month by HarperCollins.
Science
The teen brain
Surprise: It grows long past childhood. So chalk up some of that baffling behavior to neurobiology, not hormones.
By Tim Wendel
Until scientists began to employ MRI imaging a few years ago, the teenage brain was thought to be largely finished. After all, brain size usually doesn't change that much after childhood. Many assumed it only required fine-tuning in preparation for adulthood.
"Now we're finding out how wrong we were," says Richard Restak, a neuropsychiatrist and author of "The Secret Life of the Brain". "The teenage brain is a work in progress that we're only beginning to understand."
From the thickening and then thinning of gray matter to the development of the all-important frontal lobes, the brain undergoes dramatic change during adolescence. What parents once blamed on hormones is actually "a grand upheaval of the brain," says Barbara Strauch, a medical science editor and author of "The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids".
This upheaval affects everything from schoolwork and sleep patterns to teens' propensity for taking risks.
Risk-taking: Blame immature frontal lobes
All parents want their children to explore the world. But what if the family curfew has become a joke? What if a teenager exhibits behavior that not only worries an adult but also can be dangerous to the kid?
Ron Dahl, a pediatrician and child psychiatric researcher at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, says a desire for thrills and taking risks is a building block of adolescence. The frontal lobes help put the brakes on such behavior, but they're also one of the last areas of the brain to develop fully. Located right behind the forehead, the frontal lobes actually grow larger than adult size in puberty. But the process is far from complete; refinement of the frontal lobes can continue into the early 20s.
"This is a crucial stage of development," says Mel Levine, director of the University of North Carolina's clinical center for the study of development and learning, "because the frontal lobes enable a person to know where they're heading as opposed to having no idea of what the consequences will be."
In calm situations, teenagers can rationalize almost as well as adults. But stress can hijack what Dahl calls "hot cognition" and decision-making. The frontal lobes cannot cope.
Dahl points out that studies are far from complete, but he and other experts contend that higher levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine make teens hungry for stimulation, including risky behavior.
Academics: "Wow! It suddenly makes sense"
Besides the frontal lobes, other key areas of the brain are transformed during adolescence. The corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain, enlarges. The anterior cingulate gyrus, which helps us stay focused, matures, as do key areas in the cerebral cortex that recently have been linked to language development and spatial reasoning. Such development may explain why things will suddenly click for a struggling geometry student: The brain finally can make sense of the subject material.
Several experts contend that music, math and sports can help structure the brain faster and better than simply hanging out or watching television. "The adolescent brain exhibits a tremendous plasticity," Restak says. "Indeed, the adolescent's choices determine the quality of his brain."
Time: Teens really do need extra sleep
But even the best choices, inside or outside of the classroom, will do little good if a teen is too tired. Levine recommends that parents set up a daily schedule at home and stick to it. Instead of telling a teen he can watch television after he does his homework, try saying, "First, spend two hours every evening on brain work. After that, you can watch TV."
Early research indicates that too many timed deadlines, at school or at home, reward impulsive behavior and do little to accentuate the frontal lobes and develop other crucial areas of the teen brain.
Melatonin, an important brain chemical, can wreak havoc in an adolescent's world. Melatonin helps make us drowsy, and in teens it's secreted later at night. Sleep specialist Mary Carskadon, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, says such changes in melatonin production push teens to stay up later. Her surveys and field studies show that teens average 7 1/2 hours of sleep a night. She maintains that for brain development, nine hours should be the goal.
"Most teens are very sleep-deprived," Carskadon says. "That's when problems in the development of the frontal cortex and many of those synapses emerge. We are only now learning about the [effect] of sleep on learning and memory. And what's more important during adolescence than learning and memory?"
Parents: You can help new brain cells connect
In childhood, brain cells grow quickly, like new stalks on a plant. As adolescence accelerates, there's an overabundance of new connections in the brain. As teens mature, some connections are pruned away, increasing the brain's efficiency. The chance to help shape this pruning makes parents more crucial, not less.
"This is a sensitive time, when feelings are becoming linked with rational thought," Dahl says. "The stakes are very high, and parents need to feel that it's OK to be monitoring what their adolescents are doing."
When Strauch was researching her book, Primal Teen, she often brought her two teens along. As a result, she found herself more empathic.
"There's so much going in the brain, and it should give us hope," she says. "We should not really give up on any kid. They may be sitting in a lump and sleeping until noon and have pink hair, but there are all kinds of changes going on under that pink hair."
Tim Wendel, the father of one teenager, is the author of "The New Face of Baseball", a look at 100 years of Latino baseball players, to be published next month by HarperCollins.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
FACES OF THE LEFT
FEARLESS LEADER OF THE LEFT, MR. NARCISSIST
God help us, second in command?
Barney F....... Frank
Henry Nostril Waxman
Leader of the House! Pelosi!
Nancy Botox Pelosi, if she doesn't know that she is a clown, how can she run anything except her makeup!!!
Nancy Botox Pelosi, if she doesn't know that she is a clown, how can she run anything except her makeup!!!
Can you smile for the camera?
Doddering Dodd
Teddy "splash" Kennedy
Dingy Harry Reid
Good old Charlie
Good old Charlie
Many of the liberals that I run into on a daily basis tell me that we need to change our way of life.
One of my customers supports no drilling, giving cash for clunkers and believes rock star prez labumba is helping the economy!
She thinks it would have been a lot worse if he had not stepped up to the plate to save us!!!.
Why do I not understand the way that their brains works? Why is their way of thinking so opposite of mine? I believe "smaller government" makes perfect sense. What makes them support bigger government? Why can't they see what these faces are doing to ruin our freedoms, our way of life? Are these faces that yo trust with the future of this once great country?
Do you know who your senator or representative is?
Do you care?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Do you want your child to be happy,smart, successful or good
I am not a regular listener to Dennis Prager, once in awhile, I tune in during commercials on my other talk shows. Somewhere around June 8 or 9th, Dennis taked about a survey. I only heard the end of it so I cannot tell you who did the survey or when, but the following were the some of the very profound questions asked.
If you could only choose one, would you most want your child to be happy, smart, successful or good?
So if your child got into an elite college by cheating, that would be ok if it made him happy?
If your child stole “starter money” and became a success in his new business, which made him very happy, would that be ok?
If your child was happy dealing drugs but was successful, had an IQ of 160, and very well educated would that be ok?
If you could only choose one, would you most want your child to be happy, smart, successful or good?
So if your child got into an elite college by cheating, that would be ok if it made him happy?
If your child stole “starter money” and became a success in his new business, which made him very happy, would that be ok?
If your child was happy dealing drugs but was successful, had an IQ of 160, and very well educated would that be ok?
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Photos I restored
These are my maternal grandparents, 1906, before restoration
These are my maternal grandparents, 1906, after restoration
This is my paternal grandmother, 1905, before restoration
This is my paternal grandmother, 1905, after restoration 
This is my Sunnyslope grade school graduation picture before restoration 
This is after restoration 
These are my maternal grandparents, 1906, after restorationThis is my paternal grandmother, 1905, before restoration 
This is my paternal grandmother, 1905, after restoration This is my Sunnyslope grade school graduation picture before restoration This is after restoration
Thursday, April 09, 2009
beetles do it too
I was hiking up in the Mcdowell mountains near my home in Scottsdale Arizona, taking beautiful photos when I came upon this buggy bedroom scene! Red-eared Blister Beetles or Meloidae.
Socialized medicine in Denmark
I had a young, beautiful customer today from Denmark. In December of 2007, she had a debilitating stroke from a genetic disorder, a hole in her heart. She was living and working, legally in Arizona. She did not have insurance.
Her ability to communicate is seriously impaired; her right hand has no feeling and is curling up.
She had to return to Denmark as there was no one to care for her after she was released from hospitalization and she needed physical therapy to learn how to function and talk again.
Denmark socialized doctors decided that it was not life threatening to leave the hole in her heart as long as she took aspirin.
A friend helped her to visit here and get into Mayo for an opinion. She was advised to get the hole in her heart closed to alleviate the danger of another stroke but since she has no insurance, this simple surgery would cost $200,000 at Mayo. Denmark considers the surgery unnecessary. This is what socialized medicine looks like, folks!!!!!!! Medical care is RATIONED! She still cannot communicate or use her hand but they have also decided her physical therapy needs to be reduced.
Her ability to communicate is seriously impaired; her right hand has no feeling and is curling up.
She had to return to Denmark as there was no one to care for her after she was released from hospitalization and she needed physical therapy to learn how to function and talk again.
Denmark socialized doctors decided that it was not life threatening to leave the hole in her heart as long as she took aspirin.
A friend helped her to visit here and get into Mayo for an opinion. She was advised to get the hole in her heart closed to alleviate the danger of another stroke but since she has no insurance, this simple surgery would cost $200,000 at Mayo. Denmark considers the surgery unnecessary. This is what socialized medicine looks like, folks!!!!!!! Medical care is RATIONED! She still cannot communicate or use her hand but they have also decided her physical therapy needs to be reduced.
Monday, April 06, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
makeupmagic: Need to argue your point about who caused the housing market collapse? This is a MUST SEE
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
By Ed Barnett, What do we REALLY pay in taxes?
Dear IRS,
I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April
15, but all is not lost.
I have paid these taxes: accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL
tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog licence tax, federal income
tax, unemployment tax, gasoline tax, hunting licence tax, fishing licence
tax, waterfowl stamp tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, liquor tax,
luxury tax, medicare tax, city, school and county property tax (up 33
percent last 4 years), real estate tax, social security tax, road usage
tax, toll road tax, state and city sales tax, recreational vehicle tax,
state franchise tax, state unemployment tax, telephone federal excise tax,
telephone federal state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage
surcharge tax, telephone state and local tax, utility tax, vehicle licence
registration tax, capitol gains tax, lease severance tax, oil and gas
assessment tax, Colorado property tax, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma
and New Mexico sales tax, and many more that I can't recall but I have run
out of space and money.
When you do not receive my check April 15, just know that it is an honest
mistake. Please treat me the same way you treated Congressmen Charles
Rangle, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and ex-Congressman Tom Dashelle and, of
course, your boss Timothy Geithner. No penalties and no interest.
P.S. I will make at least a partial payment as soon as I get my stimulus
check.
Ed Barnett
Wichita Falls
I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April
15, but all is not lost.
I have paid these taxes: accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL
tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog licence tax, federal income
tax, unemployment tax, gasoline tax, hunting licence tax, fishing licence
tax, waterfowl stamp tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, liquor tax,
luxury tax, medicare tax, city, school and county property tax (up 33
percent last 4 years), real estate tax, social security tax, road usage
tax, toll road tax, state and city sales tax, recreational vehicle tax,
state franchise tax, state unemployment tax, telephone federal excise tax,
telephone federal state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage
surcharge tax, telephone state and local tax, utility tax, vehicle licence
registration tax, capitol gains tax, lease severance tax, oil and gas
assessment tax, Colorado property tax, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma
and New Mexico sales tax, and many more that I can't recall but I have run
out of space and money.
When you do not receive my check April 15, just know that it is an honest
mistake. Please treat me the same way you treated Congressmen Charles
Rangle, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and ex-Congressman Tom Dashelle and, of
course, your boss Timothy Geithner. No penalties and no interest.
P.S. I will make at least a partial payment as soon as I get my stimulus
check.
Ed Barnett
Wichita Falls
Monday, February 23, 2009
You do not have to be a genius to spread the word!
I am 66 years old, high school graduate, entrepreneur, less than one year of college, Real Estate education, one time avid reader of historical novels, ie., War and Remembrance, Exodus, Michener books, Sho Gun and many many more. I was raised in extremely abusive circumstances in roach infested shacks. I was the first in my family to graduate from High School.
The reason I mention all of the above; ANYONE can write a blog! The reason I blog and twitter is to hopefully inform those that have never cared about the life outside of their little world.
The youth of today were raised in such an easy life and do not seem to care about what goes on outside of their circle of comfort. Since they are so electronically engaged, maybe I can wake up awareness in them that they must get involved if they are to continue in a free society in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
Not only are the youth not interested in world events but I have attempted getting my peers interested in the politics of today and typically they are not interested! They are too busy "cruising", living in Sun City enjoying "the good life", golfing and in general, just enjoying the fruits of their labor with no concern about the up and coming generation. The typical comment I hear about their children and grandchildren is that "whatever makes them happy" is ok by me. After all, "who am I to judge?"
It is not “judgmental” to want to pass on your values to your future generations; it is wise to do so!
Well, I have wandered afar from my original thought as to why I was writing this particular blog.
Original thought is not terribly important in enticing your friends and family on face book to follow your blogs. Whatever it takes to wake them up to the events that will directly have impact their way of life is relevant. I am not the “master” of original thought, I am limited in my education; therefore, I plagiarize interesting points of view and paste them into my blogs!
You can do the same, just investigate further than the headlines associated with mass media, (newspapers and CNN) and copy/paste into Face Book so that others can see what is happening to our way of life!
Get a little daring and allow yourself to be open to ridicule by developing principles that you wish to live by! Share those principles with your circle of influence.
Well, that is all for now, I vented, I guess.
The reason I mention all of the above; ANYONE can write a blog! The reason I blog and twitter is to hopefully inform those that have never cared about the life outside of their little world.
The youth of today were raised in such an easy life and do not seem to care about what goes on outside of their circle of comfort. Since they are so electronically engaged, maybe I can wake up awareness in them that they must get involved if they are to continue in a free society in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
Not only are the youth not interested in world events but I have attempted getting my peers interested in the politics of today and typically they are not interested! They are too busy "cruising", living in Sun City enjoying "the good life", golfing and in general, just enjoying the fruits of their labor with no concern about the up and coming generation. The typical comment I hear about their children and grandchildren is that "whatever makes them happy" is ok by me. After all, "who am I to judge?"
It is not “judgmental” to want to pass on your values to your future generations; it is wise to do so!
Well, I have wandered afar from my original thought as to why I was writing this particular blog.
Original thought is not terribly important in enticing your friends and family on face book to follow your blogs. Whatever it takes to wake them up to the events that will directly have impact their way of life is relevant. I am not the “master” of original thought, I am limited in my education; therefore, I plagiarize interesting points of view and paste them into my blogs!
You can do the same, just investigate further than the headlines associated with mass media, (newspapers and CNN) and copy/paste into Face Book so that others can see what is happening to our way of life!
Get a little daring and allow yourself to be open to ridicule by developing principles that you wish to live by! Share those principles with your circle of influence.
Well, that is all for now, I vented, I guess.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
World wide experiments in socialism
Socialized medicine is a failure! When you are associating with socialist liberals, and they declare that socialized medicine works in other countries, I have news for them. It might have been true several years ago but as the European societies lost their youth, the system broke down! Europeans tossed out religion and therefore morality. Many chose not to marry or have children. Those that did reproduce had far fewer children than their ancestors and therefore, European countries do not have enough young people paying taxes to support aging societies! Where do you suppose the wealthy Europeans come to get their medical needs taken care of? America…..of course. So far, we have the greatest healthcare system in the world! If you are voting to allow these liberals in control of our country to nationalize healthcare, please, please, I beg you to give Europe a closer look. Once we go in that direction, I do not know that we could ever go back. I am seriously afraid for my grandchildren. I am 66 so the socialists believe I am elderly, so my care is secured. Those under 55 should be afraid!!!!!
Here are some sites to go to:
Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) was created on July 5, 1948. As with all government programs, bureaucrats underestimated initial cost projections. First-year operating costs of NHS were 52 million pounds higher than original estimates1 as Britons saturated the so-called free system.
Many decades of shortages, misery and suffering followed until 1989, when some market-based health care competition was reintroduced to the British citizens2.
Unfortunately for those requiring care, a mostly socialist health care system still has problems. The articles and commentaries listed below are only a few of the disasters caused by government intervention in the British health care system.
Only five out of 51 hospital trusts pass hygiene test, say inspectors- Sarah Boseley, November 24, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]
Heart patients dying due to poor hospital care, says report- Sarah Boseley, June 8, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]
NHS dentistry loses almost a million patients after new dentists' contract- David Rose, June 6, 2008 [The Times]
Private healthcare managers could be sent to turn round failing NHS hospitals- Philip Webster, Political Editor, and David Rose, June 4, 2008 [The Times]
Cancer patients ‘betrayed’ by NHS- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]
NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]
Pensioner, 76, forced to pull out own teeth after 12 NHS dentists refuse to treat her- Olinka Koster, March 26, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]
Dental patients face care lottery- March 26, 2008 [Metro(UK)]
Lung patients 'condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too expensive drugs'- Jenny Hope, March 24, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]
Other European countries:
Sweden Edges Toward Free-Market Medicine- A. Wess Mitchell, August 31, 2001 [NCPA]
Netherlands aims to tackle health divideSocioeconomic inequalities remain similar to those in the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, despite a sustained effort over 20 years. - Tony Sheldon, October 13, 2001 [British Medical Journal]
A Hard Lesson About Socialized MedicineEuropeans are now learning some hard facts of life about socialized medicine: there's no such thing as a free lunch.- September 23, 1996 [CATO]
Paying The Price For Drugs In EuropeWhether they admit it or not, those who advocate 'making drugs more affordable for American seniors' are actually headed down a slippery slope to price controls, free-market analysts charge.- Stephen D. Moore, July 21, 2000 [NCPA]
Canada
Parliament unanimously passed the Canada Health Act in 1984 and established a single-payer, publicly-financed health care system. To ensure a true government monopoly (is there any other kind?) Canadian provinces outlawed private health insurance.
Chaoulli v. Quebec UPDATE (June 9, 2005): In a 4 to 3 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down Quebec's law that prohibits private medical insurance.
Surgery postponed indefinitely for 1,000 Kelowna patients- Cathryn Atkinson, April 8, 2008 [Globe and Mail]
Majority of Que. dentists quit health-care system- March 27, 2008 [CTV.ca]
Why Ontario keeps sending patients south- Lisa Priest, February 22, 2008 [Globe and Mail]
Will Socialized Health Care in the US Kill Canadians?- Don Surber, March 3, 2008 [Acton Institute]
Wait times for surgery, medical treatments at all-time high: report- October 15, 2007 [CBC News (Canada)]
The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care- David Gratzer, Summer 2007 [City Journal]
Cancer patients question why PET scan not covered- May 28, 2007 [CBC News]
BC Medical Association: Waiting Too Long
New Zealand:
Surgical waiting lists numbers come under twin attacks- November 15, 2004 [stuff.co.nz]
Hospital Waiting Lists Under Serious Pressure- October 26, 2004 [Scoop New Zealand News]
Hundreds on waiting list as hospital pleads for help- August 23, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]
Private hospitals offer help with waiting lists- August 12, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]
Alarm over GP shortage- July 5, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]
Hospital urges patients to stay away unless really ill- March 6, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]
Australia:
Public patients wait longer for surgery- June 29, 2005 [The Sydney Morning Herald]
Painful wait for care- Luke McIlveen, February 17, 2005 [Herald Sun (Australia)]
Hospitals crippled by poor planning- Ruth Pollard, December 1, 2004 [Sydney Morning Herald]
Operating theatres shut to save cash as thousands wait for surgery- Nick O'Malley, November 23, 2004 [Sydney Morning Herald]
Private funds creating 'two-tier' health system- David Uren, November 3, 2004 [The Australian]
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