“I’m a lot more hard-core against health care than Scott is: Scott voted for RomneyCare,” he said. “But those people who are against ObamaCare are not throwing their vote to me in any way shape or form.”

via 3rd-Party Candidate Named Kennedy Could Tip Senate Race in Massachusetts – NYTimes.com.

So if Joe Kennedy really said the above, then he isn’t remotely qualified to be a politician. What kind of politician in their right mind says they are against health-care? “I prefer that people just die!”

The handgun Brown carried was capable of killing 17 people without reloading, Huftalen said, and there was a fanny pack full of extra bullets on the kitchen table.

via N.H. tax evader gets 35 years for standoff – The Boston Globe.

That’s of course a much more loaded way to say “the handgun has a 17-round capacity”

Elaine Brown — American hero.

Why are health care stocks booming? Because the government is about to expand coverage to tens of millions more Americans, and the White House has assured Big Pharma and health insurers that their profits will soar.

via Robert Reich: Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000 While Everyone Else is Cutting Back.

But then why did he say here that big pharma and insurance companies are opposing the govt takeover of healthcare?

It’s certainly true that there are principled people who railed against Bush when it was his turn to destroy the country and there are principled people who continue to agitate against the war now that Obama is in office, in general, I will grant that people are very partisan and are blinded to their loyalties.

This works in the government’s favor.

The whole division into two teams, the red team, the blue team. The left and the right, the dems and the repubs, it’s all a big sham. Not that there aren’t two teams. There are two teams. The key thing to realize though is that Bush and Obama are on the same team. They are NOT on YOUR team.

The two teams are not the left and the right, but the government and the people. The government is not on your side. The government is our ENEMY. The government is “everywhere and always” your enemy. It doesn’t matter if the republics or the democrats control it. It’s your enemy. It always has been, it always will be.

If you dispute this, consider that Obama’s “science czar” is a proponent of mass forced abortions and involuntary sterilization:

Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.

It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society.

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.

via ‘Science Czar’ John P. Holdren’s disturbing beliefs about America, capitalism and humanity.

You might think that the scene in D9 where the evil UN bureaucrat is smiling at the thought of “aborting” a bunch of alien babies with a flamethrower is kind of funny, but your government is being run by THE EXACT SAME SORT OF PEOPLE. They will abort babies if they are the wrong color. These people are “progressives.” It is simply another word for evil. If you don’t think that progressive == evil, just look up Margaret Sanger and eugenics.

They claim that people who don’t support Obama’s health care plan are racists. I think they are doing that so that the word racist doesn’t mean anything. Then when I say that you are a racist because you plan to kill all the black babies, that statement will have no meaning anymore.

UPDATE: Some random reading has led me to discover that people have defended Holdren by saying he was just describing other people’s views. I have been reviewing the full-size scans of pages of his book over at zombietime and it is plainly clear that while he may be describing other people’s views, he is also endorsing them. Here is a choice quote from page 786, clearly speaking in the author’s voice, describing the author’s views:

The third approach to population limitation is that of involuntary fertility control. Several coercive proposals deserve discussion, mainly because some countries may ultimately have to resort to them… [emphasis added]

Note that he says, “some countries may have to resort to them”. He does not say “some countries may resort to them” which is a statement without any moral baggage. By adding the phrase “have to” it is clear that he is saying that under certain circumstances, forced sterilization is the only available option. Evil should never be an option.

Another statement from the same page:

severely repressive economics measures…should be considered only if milder measures fail completely

He’s not claiming that severely repressive measures are the first option, but he is certainly claiming that they are an option, if maybe the last one.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she is “committed” to keeping a $400 million program that reimburses states for jailing illegal immigrants, a task she called “a total federal responsibility.”

like, for real.

via It’s Official, We’re Living in France Now | Coyote Blog.

History repeats itself. I was just at a presentation by Morgan Stanley this morning at Courant and they are opening up hiring in Montreal specifically for the purpose of hiring people that they are not allowed to hire because they are recipients of TARP funds.

It plainly clear to anyone with a brain that if you don’t let firms hire the people they want in the United States, they’ll hire the people they want elsewhere. How is this good for Americans?

America’s Independence Day Tea Party

The proposal, which was announced officially on Monday, has provoked many responses and questions. Can banks that received government bailouts use taxpayer money to bid on toxic assets, in the hope of making a profit? Would that be bad, given that the point of the exercise is to stir up a bit of greed and animal spirits, the lack of which has been holding the economy back?

via Dissecting Bank Plan for a Way to Profit – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com.

I posted a little while back a scheme whereby a bank could commit fraud by buying up assets via this new program. I had assumed that it would be fraud, because I assumed that the program would naturally prevent banks from buying these assets, and that they’d have to create some sort of seperate vehicle to do so in order to get around whatever restrictions had been put in place to prevent them from buying the assets and artificially bidding up the price (past the already artificially-high price caused by the non-recourse loan side of the equation). I had no idea that it was actually possible that banks could take part in this program completely open and non-fraudulently?

This is so obviously a scheme to allow the banks to transfer the assets to the taxpayer at their current holding value rather than their actual value, so that we see yet another massive transfer of wealth from ordinary Americans to the people who caused this mess in the first place.

And what does Geithner have to say: “It is not a question of ability, it is a question of will.”

Close your eyes and click your heels and repeat after me Timmy.

Hm, can I get access to some of this free money the govt. is handing out, or will it go only to Geithner’s buddies on Wall Street? I think I already know the answer.