Conservative Summary of Health Care Bill

Pick whichever health care bill you want to talk about and apply this man's statement. Everything the politicians have been doing to develop legislation affecting our free markets in the health care sector is a complete waste of time (as Sen. Rogers puts it: "a missed opportunity." The only benefit we will gain is to have a few more million people covered by lousy health care insurance in a high cost market. Brilliant. Again: why can we buy insurance that will pay $100,000 when we die for $60/month when we can't get health care coverage for $1700/month that is riddled with high deductibles and big chunky co-pay percentages? Ask the question! It's the free market, stupid! It doesn't exist, never has. They've never tried a free market with health care and they're telling you it doesn't work! Wow. The worst part is, you're buying what they're selling, America. Think about it.

Why I Am

Seeds planted generations past
Emerge strangers as though
Planted by some alien hand.
How to engage this counter force
Which is foreign
And yet runs freely in the blood.

My own, who contain secrets
I cannot claim
Trust the blends they carry,
Can in some mysterious way
Blossom to total happiness.

A wish from what I am.

Martha Cooprider

Why Bush Didn't Win a Nobel Peace Prize

Obama is so pathetic. Rush calls him the man-child President, and he couldn't be more right. What a putz. Now, George, ya know he wanted to say it...



Say "NO" to net neutrality. Who wants a neutral net? God, what a bunch of idiots.

ACORN And Our Economy

I almost hate to make a new post because I love the video from the Tea Party for Two Million that you can visit on my September posts. View the video because its great! Now, on to more serious matters.

If you get the chance, watch the Fox Report on Acorn done by Megyn Kelley. She presents a very balanced report on ACORN and gives Rathke (the founder of ACORN) plenty of good press. The problem with Rathke is that he is a socialist. As human beings who care about other human beings, our consciences want to believe that Rathke is a good person because he's trying to help the "poor," but his value system presupposes that those who are poor need community organizers or they will remain poor forever. Those who are poor need help, but it is usually in completing educational programs, escaping violence or drugs, or bridging a gap that helps to avoid homelessness; not in receiving government handouts in the form of home loans where the principal on the loan payment is more than 50% of their take-home pay. Yet, that's what ACORN did for us. They lobbied for and got the Community Reinvestment Act which Barney Frank supported (as did Chris Dodd), and this is the act that is solely responsible for the devaluation of the mortgage-backed security market.

Hmmm, doesn't that sound familiar? That's because when the mortgage-backed security market tanked, everything else that depended on its stability tanked with it (AIG, etc.). It is the reason that my small business is in serious trouble today. ACORN is directly resonsible (along with some really stupid legistlators) for the economic woes of this small family in Montana, and yet the left (Michael Moore, et. al.) we wants us to believe that it is "Wall Street" or "Capiatlism" that is to blame for our fate. Instead it is the socialist contingent of our society who constantly demand restrictions in the free market who screwed this one up. I'm sick of them and I want them to go back to their caves and stay there. We're not the Neanderthalls' Congressman Wright, and frankly the Neanderthalls were smarter than most of you in Congress today! Leave the free market alone. Let the health insurance providers practice business like everyone else in America (across state lines), allow people to purchase catastrophic illness medical policies just like we can purchase life insurance policies today, and this so-called problem with the 45 million (12 of which are illegal) will magically disappear.

How can we purchase life insurance policies that pay out huge sums of money when we die for less than $100/month when we cannot manage to insure families for less than $1,200 month (and no amount of insurance is available for those with pre-existing conditions)? Current political policies delineats the operating practices of medical insurance companies and make this paradox possible. Ask your Congressman why life insurance is so inexpensive!! Because we have regulated the hell out of the medical insurance services industry and they cannot offer us Catastrophic plans at decent rates because they have a complex noose of regulations around their neck in each and every state in the union! Ronald Reagan proposed a Catastrophic Insurance program for every American, and the Democrats voted it down. Ask the questions! I can get life insurance for $60/month, but I can't buy a catastrophic health insurance plan AT ALL because I take a drug that is on the NO CAN DO list and therefore insuring me is a matter of going through my state plan and paying $1,700/month just because I take a drug that is sometimes used in drug addiction programs (to help people get off Oxycontin) for lower back pain relief. It's synthetic for God's sake and I'm paying a fortune for it! I digress...

So, think about it. ACORN and its ilk work to put limits, caps, ceilings, floors, etc. on our perfectly good capitalist system and then scream bloody murder and want to revolutionize our system when a tiny percentage of our population cannot get insurance because we have also managed to put restrictions on the delivery of THAT service as well. It is a seriously mucked up situation, and it is time to let your legistlators know that we must leave the market to its own devices. Protect those who need protecting, defend our country against our enemies, both domestic and foreign, but STAY OUT of our free market economy, and let some of the things that should take place, take place!

I want my Catastrophic and prescription health insurance, and by God, I want it now. But I want the free-market version; not the ACORN on steroids version that Baucus is currently proposing. And Sen. Baucus? I are not an iDioT; I can read any bill you can; and I can probably do it better! Simplify! Cut back, cut down, CULL! Get rid of the thousand page bills and start small because, DOGGON IT, that's all we've got! We don't have enough money for what you want to put in place because no matter what you say you can pay for? We don't believe you. Your claims that programs are revenue neutral and that there are "offsets" in place for spending are, if not disingenuous, certainly naive. We already know that these programs have lives of their own and when they're in place, there are no checks and balances that are present structurally in capital ventures.

Wake up people! We're on the way down the road of socialism, and it is paved with ACORN bricks that will crumble and fall away when you need them most.

Megyn Kelley's Report can be seen on Hulu at: I'll put it up as soon as Hulu posts it

Obama Unaware...Yeah, We Know

The White House said Friday it was unaware of the rally. President Obama has traveled to Minneapolis, Minn., to promote his health-care plans at a rally there.

Hmmm, when close to 2 million people show up on your doorstep and you are "unaware," you may be a communist dictator. See Marxism 101.

Stalin was unaware of the 60 million Christians he murdered too...maybe Obama needs a "Rally Czar" to keep up on current events.

Obama's Request that Vets Pay Own Health Care

I received this in my gmail this morning. My comments on it follow:

Bad press, including major mockery of the plan by comedian Jon Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated $540 million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to military personnel received during their tours on active duty.
The President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the opposition to his proposal.
"Look, it's an all volunteer force," Obama complained..
"Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn't compute..."
"I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country," Obama continued. "I wasn't asking for blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation's deficit. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."

I'm all for slamming this moron, but Snopes has researched this trying to find the direct quote. There wasn't one. It came from a satirical dialogue and Obama never actually uttered the words. I was curious about this because I didn't believe that his "handlers" would have made such a mistake with the "Massiah." I was right. They are never going to let him say what he probably actually believes. This is his attitude, to be sure, but he'll never stand in front of the American people and admit it. He's WAY too much of a coward for that. I thought Snopes reporting on this was dead-on; people are wondering whether or not he actually said this because of the fact that he brought up vets having to pay for health care AT ALL. My suggestion is that we as conservatives do not fall into the trap of trying to quote him on something he has not actually said. This is always going to backfire. You can hear the liberals now: "you guys are just lying liers who lie." Just the FACT that he has suggested this method of saving money while spending it on ridiculous things like government-run health care, Cap and TAX, and an agenda that does not address the collapse of the housing market in the U.S. should be sufficient fodder for us to argue that he is a lousy president and should be removed from office as soon as humanly possible.

Hitting Stance for Softball

This is one of my all-time favorite screw-ups:

This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, one of the largest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside it's hangar in Toulouse, France, without a single hour of airtime on the clock....





Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi .

The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.

Then they took all Four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having Read the run-up manuals, they had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 really is.

The take-off warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit because they had All 4 engines at full power.

The aircraft computers thought they were trying to take off, but it had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc.)

Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm. This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air.

The computers automatically released all the brakes - and set the aircraft rocketing forward !!
With the following result..........





The Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technology crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $200 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totalling it.

The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the news blackout in the major media.

This was because coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.

Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

£200 million aircraft meets wall. Wall wins.

I love a good-looking guy with a gun...nothing better. OK, maybe a whole bunch of good-looking guys with guns who know how to handle them! Those pirates never had a chance.

Simple Explanations

I couldn't have said it better myself; leave it to a marine!
And he is...

J. D. Pendry - Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired, Semperï Fi.

Thank you for your service, sir.

'THE Axis of Idiots'

Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the runner-in-chief.

Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the U.S. S. Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.

John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You're a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it.

John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa . Okinawa, John ? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's butt. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John .

Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot , who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.

Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqi's torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news, Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated another beheading for you. If you truly supported our troops, you'd show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You're a bloated, drunken fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.

American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.

You are America’s 'AXIS OF IDIOTS. Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.

Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.

Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.

Kailee was recently promoted to first violin in her 7th grade orchestra...here she is playing at her Spring Concert! This is Arabian Nights...

I'll have to ask Kailee what this one is, but I wanted to get it posted...

And more from the Spring Concert:

Custom Home In Missoula, Montana

I thought, "Let's buy a lot and split it; then we can build a great big custom house! Cool." Then the market tanked. What a nightmare! From interest payments that could have bought a small condo to bankers who are sharks in suits, it has been one of the most illuminating experiences of my lifetime (giving birth being the other).

The actual building of the home is a blast. You know, having carpenters who cost tons of money at your beck and call; yeah, lot's of fun. The rest is enough to kill you. I need a magic wand that finishes the project on time, kills the banker, makes subcontractors want to get their work done on time and wait forever to get paid, and then sells the house to some rich Californian (oh yeah, there aren't any left) at the last minute. And in the meantime, maybe someone who reads this will want to actually purchase the house and dig me out of my biggest blunder (but most beautiful creation) ever!

OK, it's not as bad as all that. At least I had a benefactor; from whom I have drained all her retirement funds from 30 years of teaching. Maybe the money is better off sitting in this monstrosity than in the stock market, but I'm sure she would rather have had the choice. They say the Missoula housing market is safer than the stock market; they said we'd get to Dow 30,000 too. How about we just finish it, move in, sell it in 24 months and get our money back? Or maybe I'll publish my futuristic romance novel and someone will pay me loads of money for it. Or maybe I'll fly to the moon on deorcael energy...

Ok, maybe someone will buy my really cute idea for kid's shoe storage. That's probably a little more in line with reality. For all my MBA buddies out there, I really don't want to hear about your success stories right now. Save it until after my book hits #1 on the NYT best sellers list.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to save our billiard retail business from going under, keep my kids in line, sell the house next to this one, and find a job (did I mention keep my sanity?). I promised to post the 1st chapter from my new book, but I'm still thinking about it. Camping World stole my Shoe Buddy even though it was patent pending, so I'm assuming someone will also steal the subject matter from my mind. I might risk it though, just to see if someone else thinks its as good as I think it is.

If you're interested in buying a custom home in Missoula, Montana and you have $649,000 (and no, I can't bargain with you...I'd rather move into it) to spend, let me know. I've got a great house you should see! The lot is a beautiful 1/2 acre in a private valley about 5 minutes south of Missoula with access to hunting and fishing, so check it out and save my sorry a**! See ya!

Blake