. We all ate horsemeat here and
overseas for centuries. It's good meat. Why only in this country do we
seem to be hesitant? It's anthropomorphism. The concept of attaching
human traits to animals. I know I'll
get feedback, but it's unrealistic to not eat what is available... and
believe me there is a lot of horse on the hoof that is lost because of
regulation and ideas like the author of this article writes. I was born
on an indian reservation, dig down deep, puppy in the bottom was often
said over a nice pot of stew. Culture is a strange thing. A lot of
things we don't eat and think are gross are common in other parts of the
world. Don't believe me? Go to China, Korea and Japan and eat among
those who live there. You'll soon figure it out. Go to middle Africa.
Go to India. This horse meat ban in the USA is strictly cultural. How
will you ever reach the nations if you are squeamish about such things?
I am thankful I have lived and worked around the world. They are
animals, not humans...even if you love them. Animals.
Saturday, November 02, 2013
"The
Griffins, who live near Philadelphia, pay $770 monthly for their
soon-to-be-terminated health care plan with a $2,500 deductible. The
cheapest plan they found on their state insurance exchange was a
so-called bronze plan charging a $1,275
monthly premium with deductibles totaling $12,700. It covers only
providers in Pennsylvania, so the couple, who live near Delaware, won't
be able to see doctors they've used for more than a decade."
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Just for Grins, let's fire up the old Way Back Machine
IF you are old enough, you know what that was... and the dog's name. How a little truth might have just set our nation free...as Jesus said it would.. but believe a lie and it will put you in bondage, it has to the USA.
Let's dial back to October 1, 2012. A bit over a year ago. In my dreams a truth telling President steps to the podium and without guile says:
My fellow Americans. I have not been forthcoming with the truth. The fact is I don't even know what's going on. But before you re-elect me to a second term I thought you deserved some honesty.
First, the whole idea that with the Affordable Care Act, that I said you would be able to keep your insurance if you want to? Nope. That was a lie.
Second, the idea that this will mean less money, lower premiums, and more affordable. That was a lie.
Third, the whole business about the video causing the Bengazi affair where three of our brave citizens and our diplomat were murdered. That was a lie.
Fourth, the fast and furious affair where we gun walked violent weapons across the border to criminals in Mexico that got our border patrol killed, when I said it wasn't us.. That was a lie.
Fifth, when I proclaimed that the Snowden Revelations were not true and that the Wikileaks things were all fabrications.... That was a lie.
There are several other things I have said that aren't true, how I was against same sex marriage, how I was not for homosex in the military, how I would be good for international relations ... but if you re elect me my fellow American's, you will get a better President... and that was a lie
Let's dial back to October 1, 2012. A bit over a year ago. In my dreams a truth telling President steps to the podium and without guile says:
My fellow Americans. I have not been forthcoming with the truth. The fact is I don't even know what's going on. But before you re-elect me to a second term I thought you deserved some honesty.
First, the whole idea that with the Affordable Care Act, that I said you would be able to keep your insurance if you want to? Nope. That was a lie.
Second, the idea that this will mean less money, lower premiums, and more affordable. That was a lie.
Third, the whole business about the video causing the Bengazi affair where three of our brave citizens and our diplomat were murdered. That was a lie.
Fourth, the fast and furious affair where we gun walked violent weapons across the border to criminals in Mexico that got our border patrol killed, when I said it wasn't us.. That was a lie.
Fifth, when I proclaimed that the Snowden Revelations were not true and that the Wikileaks things were all fabrications.... That was a lie.
There are several other things I have said that aren't true, how I was against same sex marriage, how I was not for homosex in the military, how I would be good for international relations ... but if you re elect me my fellow American's, you will get a better President... and that was a lie
Monday, October 28, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
The democrats war on the freedom of speech
....look out Americans... they really are that evil
Sen. Feinstein's Proposed Bill Would Incriminate Anyone Speaking Against NSA's Spying and Courts
thestateweekly.com
by
Ali Papademetriou California lawmaker and member of the United States
Senate committee, Diane Feinstein has let it be known that she strongly
supports the Nationa
Stupid Government Tricks
The
same idiots who couldn't manage to make a front end for Obamacare also
killed Pontiac. My dad was a Pontiac dealer in a small town. I wonder
if there is an ounce of common sense in the whole administration?
This is the most encouraging thing I have read recently
This
is the most encouraging thing I have read about the state of our
Government, House, Senate and Presidency. They are all three branches
trying to govern like it's 1966. This is the last gasp of a failed
strategy. President Obama came promising to be a new kind of leader...
he has demonstrated that he is an antique. One that according to this
writer will be put on the shelf. If you are a policy
wonk, this is a satisfying read. If you love things the way they are
going... live long and prosper, but the rug is about to be pulled... not
a second to soon:::
TRANSFORMATION
The recent political deadlock and government shutdown, and the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare, show that something is seriously wrong in Washington, D.C.
What’s going on?
America is going through a transformation, on a scale that few people now realize. The last such fundamental change was from the rural and agrarian society of the Founding era (America 1.0) to the urban and industrial society which is now coming to an end (America 2.0).
Today’s political regime is like legacy software, built for an earlier world.
That transition was disruptive and painful, but ultimately led to a better America.
We are now making a similar transition to a post-industrial, networked, decentralized, immensely productive America, with a more individualistic, voluntarist, anti-bureaucratic culture (America 3.0).
Today’s political regime is like legacy software, built for an earlier world.
Institutions of the 20th Century welfare state that once looked permanent are crumbling. The old operating system has been kludged so many times it won’t work much longer. It has to be replaced.
The time-worn liberal-progressive wisdom is simple: See a problem, create a government program to fix it.
ObamaCare proves this approach no longer works.
Social Security lasted many years before it was structurally doomed to insolvency.
Medicare experienced cost overruns from the beginning, but was initially self-sustaining. Yet it now faces $22 trillion in future unfunded liabilities.
Unlike Social Security and Medicare, which were viable when they began, ObamaCare failed before it even got started.
ObamaCare had 82 legally specified start dates, but missed half of them. Waivers have been granted to four million Americans, according to an arbitrary, opaque and politicized process.
The employer mandate has been delayed for a year, in violation of the express language of the law.
Congress got a taxpayer funded bailout of their ObamaCare premiums.
Despite Mr. Obama’s assurances, the Congressional Budget Office found that 14.5 million Americans will lose their insurance plans.
The failed rollout is only the tip of a vast iceberg of failure.
Further, ObamaCare primarily benefits insiders, like insurance companies, who are equipped to play the Washington game.
ObamaCare is simply beyond the scope of anything the Federal government can accomplish. Health care takes up over 17% of US GDP, about $2.8 trillion annually. Attempting to centrally govern a complex economy of this size and complexity was always hopeless.
Unfortunately, while liberal-progressive thought is trapped in the 20th Century, there has been an egregious dearth of creative alternatives from the other side of the political divide.
The Republican party is engaged in a civil war between an institutional wing that shuns controversy, and insurgents who fiercely oppose ObamaCare.
But mere opposition is not enough.
Viable alternative, and a vision of a transformed public sector, and a transformed America are sorely needed.
True reform will embrace the existing trends in our society and in technology, facilitating competition and broad consumer choice.
Health care decisions belong in the hands of citizens, even when they receive government assistance For example, the law should promote health savings accounts that roll over from year to year.
Means-tested subsidies on a sliding scale should be provided to purchase qualified health insurance plans attached to HSAs.
Preexisting conditions would be covered by high risk pools in states, backstopped by block granted Federal funds.
Radically decentralizing decision-making will lead to competitive cost savings and innovation, rather than rationing care to cut costs.
The government shutdown, and the failures of ObamaCare, are dramatic symptoms of an old systems reaching its end.
But this is a time of transition, not decline. It is up to us to begin building the free and prosperous America which will be ours, if we do the work to make it happen.
http://www.foxnews.com/
TRANSFORMATION
The recent political deadlock and government shutdown, and the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare, show that something is seriously wrong in Washington, D.C.
What’s going on?
America is going through a transformation, on a scale that few people now realize. The last such fundamental change was from the rural and agrarian society of the Founding era (America 1.0) to the urban and industrial society which is now coming to an end (America 2.0).
Today’s political regime is like legacy software, built for an earlier world.
That transition was disruptive and painful, but ultimately led to a better America.
We are now making a similar transition to a post-industrial, networked, decentralized, immensely productive America, with a more individualistic, voluntarist, anti-bureaucratic culture (America 3.0).
Today’s political regime is like legacy software, built for an earlier world.
Institutions of the 20th Century welfare state that once looked permanent are crumbling. The old operating system has been kludged so many times it won’t work much longer. It has to be replaced.
The time-worn liberal-progressive wisdom is simple: See a problem, create a government program to fix it.
ObamaCare proves this approach no longer works.
Social Security lasted many years before it was structurally doomed to insolvency.
Medicare experienced cost overruns from the beginning, but was initially self-sustaining. Yet it now faces $22 trillion in future unfunded liabilities.
Unlike Social Security and Medicare, which were viable when they began, ObamaCare failed before it even got started.
ObamaCare had 82 legally specified start dates, but missed half of them. Waivers have been granted to four million Americans, according to an arbitrary, opaque and politicized process.
The employer mandate has been delayed for a year, in violation of the express language of the law.
Congress got a taxpayer funded bailout of their ObamaCare premiums.
Despite Mr. Obama’s assurances, the Congressional Budget Office found that 14.5 million Americans will lose their insurance plans.
The failed rollout is only the tip of a vast iceberg of failure.
Further, ObamaCare primarily benefits insiders, like insurance companies, who are equipped to play the Washington game.
ObamaCare is simply beyond the scope of anything the Federal government can accomplish. Health care takes up over 17% of US GDP, about $2.8 trillion annually. Attempting to centrally govern a complex economy of this size and complexity was always hopeless.
Unfortunately, while liberal-progressive thought is trapped in the 20th Century, there has been an egregious dearth of creative alternatives from the other side of the political divide.
The Republican party is engaged in a civil war between an institutional wing that shuns controversy, and insurgents who fiercely oppose ObamaCare.
But mere opposition is not enough.
Viable alternative, and a vision of a transformed public sector, and a transformed America are sorely needed.
True reform will embrace the existing trends in our society and in technology, facilitating competition and broad consumer choice.
Health care decisions belong in the hands of citizens, even when they receive government assistance For example, the law should promote health savings accounts that roll over from year to year.
Means-tested subsidies on a sliding scale should be provided to purchase qualified health insurance plans attached to HSAs.
Preexisting conditions would be covered by high risk pools in states, backstopped by block granted Federal funds.
Radically decentralizing decision-making will lead to competitive cost savings and innovation, rather than rationing care to cut costs.
The government shutdown, and the failures of ObamaCare, are dramatic symptoms of an old systems reaching its end.
But this is a time of transition, not decline. It is up to us to begin building the free and prosperous America which will be ours, if we do the work to make it happen.
http://www.foxnews.com/
Old Guy remembers
Old
Guy remembers... Lou Reed.... dead...71 years old. Some of us had his
sound track in our life... Don't judge those of us who are children
of the 60-70s. You got rap, we got Reed
A nation of Blanche DuBois
We
now have more takers then makers in our economy. This is the death
spiral we all warned against. Prepare for impact. The real victims will
not be those able to take care of themselves, it will be those who have
become accustomed to largess on the
part of others. A nation of Blanche DuBois: Whoever you are, I have
always depended on the kindness of strangers". The system will collapse
and the kindness of strangers will be hard to find. You can only pick
the American System's pocket so long before it is empty. I feel
actually sorry for those who will starve on the street believing someone
will come to bail them out. It's not going to happen.. It will be
brutal. It would have been far better to have allowed the beast to live a
little longer before killing it dead.
Sad
Will
these four guys ever get out of Jail? I actually don't know. What is
the penalty for this kind of crime in Mississippi. What a waste of
lives....Shine Thornton and the four young men. What were they
thinking???
Transformation
This is the most encouraging thing I have read about the state of our Government, House, Senate and Presidency. They are all three branches trying to govern like it's 1966. This is the last gasp of a failed strategy. President Obama came promising to be a new kind of leader... he has demonstrated that he is an antique. One that according to this writer will be put on the shelf. If you are a policy wonk, this is a satisfying read. If you love things the way they are going... live long and prosper, but the rug is about to be pulled... not a second to soon:::
TRANSFORMATION
The recent political deadlock and government shutdown, and the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare, show that something is seriously wrong in Washington, D.C.
What’s going on?
America is going through a transformation, on a scale that few people now realize. The last such fundamental change was from the rural and agrarian society of the Founding era (America 1.0) to the urban and industrial society which is now coming to an end (America 2.0).
Today’s political regime is like legacy software, built for an earlier world.
That transition was disruptive and painful, but ultimately led to a better America.
We are now making a similar transition to a post-industrial, networked, decentralized, immensely productive America, with a more individualistic, voluntarist, anti-bureaucratic culture (America 3.0).
Today’s political regime is like legacy software, built for an earlier world.
Institutions of the 20th Century welfare state that once looked permanent are crumbling. The old operating system has been kludged so many times it won’t work much longer. It has to be replaced.
The time-worn liberal-progressive wisdom is simple: See a problem, create a government program to fix it.
ObamaCare proves this approach no longer works.
Social Security lasted many years before it was structurally doomed to insolvency.
Medicare experienced cost overruns from the beginning, but was initially self-sustaining. Yet it now faces $22 trillion in future unfunded liabilities.
Unlike Social Security and Medicare, which were viable when they began, ObamaCare failed before it even got started.
ObamaCare had 82 legally specified start dates, but missed half of them. Waivers have been granted to four million Americans, according to an arbitrary, opaque and politicized process.
The employer mandate has been delayed for a year, in violation of the express language of the law.
Congress got a taxpayer funded bailout of their ObamaCare premiums.
Despite Mr. Obama’s assurances, the Congressional Budget Office found that 14.5 million Americans will lose their insurance plans.
The failed rollout is only the tip of a vast iceberg of failure.
Further, ObamaCare primarily benefits insiders, like insurance companies, who are equipped to play the Washington game.
ObamaCare is simply beyond the scope of anything the Federal government can accomplish. Health care takes up over 17% of US GDP, about $2.8 trillion annually. Attempting to centrally govern a complex economy of this size and complexity was always hopeless.
Unfortunately, while liberal-progressive thought is trapped in the 20th Century, there has been an egregious dearth of creative alternatives from the other side of the political divide.
The Republican party is engaged in a civil war between an institutional wing that shuns controversy, and insurgents who fiercely oppose ObamaCare.
But mere opposition is not enough.
Viable alternative, and a vision of a transformed public sector, and a transformed America are sorely needed.
True reform will embrace the existing trends in our society and in technology, facilitating competition and broad consumer choice.
Health care decisions belong in the hands of citizens, even when they receive government assistance For example, the law should promote health savings accounts that roll over from year to year.
Means-tested subsidies on a sliding scale should be provided to purchase qualified health insurance plans attached to HSAs.
Preexisting conditions would be covered by high risk pools in states, backstopped by block granted Federal funds.
Radically decentralizing decision-making will lead to competitive cost savings and innovation, rather than rationing care to cut costs.
The government shutdown, and the failures of ObamaCare, are dramatic symptoms of an old systems reaching its end.
But this is a time of transition, not decline. It is up to us to begin building the free and prosperous America which will be ours, if we do the work to make it happen.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/25/transformation-usa-here-comes-america-30/
TRANSFORMATION
The recent political deadlock and government shutdown, and the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare, show that something is seriously wrong in Washington, D.C.
What’s going on?
America is going through a transformation, on a scale that few people now realize. The last such fundamental change was from the rural and agrarian society of the Founding era (America 1.0) to the urban and industrial society which is now coming to an end (America 2.0).
Today’s political regime is like legacy software, built for an earlier world.
That transition was disruptive and painful, but ultimately led to a better America.
We are now making a similar transition to a post-industrial, networked, decentralized, immensely productive America, with a more individualistic, voluntarist, anti-bureaucratic culture (America 3.0).
Today’s political regime is like legacy software, built for an earlier world.
Institutions of the 20th Century welfare state that once looked permanent are crumbling. The old operating system has been kludged so many times it won’t work much longer. It has to be replaced.
The time-worn liberal-progressive wisdom is simple: See a problem, create a government program to fix it.
ObamaCare proves this approach no longer works.
Social Security lasted many years before it was structurally doomed to insolvency.
Medicare experienced cost overruns from the beginning, but was initially self-sustaining. Yet it now faces $22 trillion in future unfunded liabilities.
Unlike Social Security and Medicare, which were viable when they began, ObamaCare failed before it even got started.
ObamaCare had 82 legally specified start dates, but missed half of them. Waivers have been granted to four million Americans, according to an arbitrary, opaque and politicized process.
The employer mandate has been delayed for a year, in violation of the express language of the law.
Congress got a taxpayer funded bailout of their ObamaCare premiums.
Despite Mr. Obama’s assurances, the Congressional Budget Office found that 14.5 million Americans will lose their insurance plans.
The failed rollout is only the tip of a vast iceberg of failure.
Further, ObamaCare primarily benefits insiders, like insurance companies, who are equipped to play the Washington game.
ObamaCare is simply beyond the scope of anything the Federal government can accomplish. Health care takes up over 17% of US GDP, about $2.8 trillion annually. Attempting to centrally govern a complex economy of this size and complexity was always hopeless.
Unfortunately, while liberal-progressive thought is trapped in the 20th Century, there has been an egregious dearth of creative alternatives from the other side of the political divide.
The Republican party is engaged in a civil war between an institutional wing that shuns controversy, and insurgents who fiercely oppose ObamaCare.
But mere opposition is not enough.
Viable alternative, and a vision of a transformed public sector, and a transformed America are sorely needed.
True reform will embrace the existing trends in our society and in technology, facilitating competition and broad consumer choice.
Health care decisions belong in the hands of citizens, even when they receive government assistance For example, the law should promote health savings accounts that roll over from year to year.
Means-tested subsidies on a sliding scale should be provided to purchase qualified health insurance plans attached to HSAs.
Preexisting conditions would be covered by high risk pools in states, backstopped by block granted Federal funds.
Radically decentralizing decision-making will lead to competitive cost savings and innovation, rather than rationing care to cut costs.
The government shutdown, and the failures of ObamaCare, are dramatic symptoms of an old systems reaching its end.
But this is a time of transition, not decline. It is up to us to begin building the free and prosperous America which will be ours, if we do the work to make it happen.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/25/transformation-usa-here-comes-america-30/
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