In Context
The Zero did say if his administration (well, himself, in his own words) couldn’t turn “this thing” (referring to the economy) around in 3 years then he’d be a one-term president. It’s been about 2.4 years, now…
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But then, American sheeple are almost too stupid for words, and the Dhimmicraps have grand masters at vote fraud, so maybe he really doesn’t have to worry about being turned out of office by the voters.
Do we really have to wait until his term ends? Couldn’t the House just impeach his ass? I mean, take their pick of his illegal actions and just go to town on him?
Chicago White House Rules
Well, at least the kids in The Zero’s White House pay off co-conspirators who come through with the goods for them:
AARP Cashes In On Obumacare “Waiver” (Payoff)
Yeh, yeh, so I retitled the weenie, “AARP latest to receive Obamacare break” to reflect the simple fact that AARP and The Zero and their Dhimmicrappic congressional co-conspirators colluded together to make bribing shills like AARP (among others) to support the unconstitutional Obumacare something of a textbook case of Chicago White House Rules.
Finally, Crazy Uncle Joe Does Something That Makes Sense
Biden fell asleep during The Zero’s Speech?
Looks that way. I may have to revise my opinion of Crazy Uncle Joe upwards a wee tad…
Hoist With Their Own Petard
Nanny-nanny-boo-boo@The Zero, “Nazi Pelozi” and “Hairy Reed”.
😛
*heh*
I noted this on FB yesterday, but it’s worth a “real” post.
“I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that, ‘If a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house,’” Judge Vinson wrote in a footnote toward the end of his 78-page ruling Monday.
Not only that, but the dumbasses Reid and Pelosi failed to put a severability clause in their multi-thousand-page monstrosity, so,
“Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”
Hoist with their own petard, indeed.
Play and repeat twice:
[audio: What-a-maroon.mp3]A Little Healthy Skepticism
Now, understand that I know the following is just one data point, and anecdotal at that, but nevertheless, for reasons that will become apparent, I view it as an important data point. And yes, I promise I will wander far afield from that data point before the post is over. Deal with it. 🙂
How many years now have we heard the litany that
- cholesterol-clogged arteries lead to atherosclerosis and that leads to heart attacks and strokes AND that
- ingesting cholesterol-rich foods leads to cholesterol-clogged arteries, etc.
Well, I’m not sure how many years that’s been, but I’m pretty sure it’s on the close order of four decades.
Now, here’s the anecdote.
40 years or so ago, I received an invitation in the mail from a county health department to be part of a cholesterol survey. Note: this was not a scientific study, but simply an epidemiological survey. Big difference between the two, although many conflate them. I dutifully responded, went in and had blood drawn and filled out a survey that detailed my diet.
I got called back to have my whole thing done all over again because, it turned out, my results did not match up with the expected results. Why? I’m not sure, but I have some ideas. You see, my diet was laden with butter, red meats, whole Guernsey milk (with at least a quart of cream per gallon), etc.–all the things that did not match up with the expected model, since my blood cholesterol levels were very low.
Now, I have no idea what they finally did with my data, even though in the retest my results on blood cholesterol levels were the same as before, but I have my suspicions. *heh*
My ideas on why my data did not match their expected outcomes are many, but a significant factor could well have been my age (early 20s) and activity levels (a couple of miles running and over 10 miles biking per day–minimum–in addition to a WSI class, working 30+ hours a week and full time school and social life).
But no. All the survey was interested in was cholesterol intake and lipid blood levels.
Even now, though, at a more *cough* advanced age, with a sedentary life style and food intake that wouldn’t satisfy the normal cardiologist, my cholesterol levels are only very, very slightly above the even more restricted levels sought today (yes, they do keep moving the goal posts, although doing so has demonstrated no significant effect on heart attack and stroke occurrences), well within the modern medical industry’s “OK” levels.
I suspect that, in addition to the activity levels and age I believe played some part in baffling the study’s sponsors ~40 years ago, some genetic component may also be at play. It’s interesting that my doctor asked, on initial survey, only whether my parents or grandparents had had heart trouble, NOT when. When I noted that half my grandparents had had heart trouble, I qualified it with, “One grandfather developed heart issues in his early 80s and the other, after 40 years of diabetes, eventually died of a heart attack at 88.”
A different spin on things once the conditions were defined more clearly.
Of course, my dad has had heart/circulatory issues for the past ten years. He’s 87, now. My mom’s had electrical issues with her heart for years, but since I’ve never shown any signs of similar issues, that’s a non-issue as well.
If I do develop issues when I’m in my 70s or 80s, so what? It’s called old age.
This one size fits all approach to health issues based mostly on epidemiological studies is simply stupid. But guess what? The “feddel gummint”–the same folks who apparently believe that the U.S. is Lake Woebegon and all children can be above average–wants to force folks into the world of Harrison Bergeron, where some sort of statistical average is all that’s allowed. Watch out for “Height Panels” to come along after Death Panels are well established, in order to literally reduce everone to the lowest common denominator…
Some Comedy… Isn’t
That is, some comedy is neither humorous nor funny. This TEA Party attendee illustrates:
(Stolen and modded from GM’s Place)
Unintended Consequences Usually Result From Thoughtless Actions
Well, thoughtless or uncaring or both. I really despise arrogant stupidity. Case in point today: the FDA. Anyone with more active brain cells than a head of cabbage could have foreseen this:
A centuries-old drug [colchicine] used to treat excruciating gout pain had cost just pennies a tablet—until last year. Now, the retail price has skyrocketed to more than $5 and some of the manufacturers have ceased production amid a battle over marketing rights.
You see, the FDA decided a few years ago that in order to bring “grandfathered” drugs under its umbrella, it’d offer exclusive marketing rights to market such drugs to pharmas that would place them in FDA-approved clinical trials to establish FDA-approved dosages, side-effects and what not–despite the fact that such grandfathered drugs all have long enough histories of use to establish such things already.
Long enough histories? Well, for colchicine, that’s certainly the case!
The price increase is an unintended consequence of the FDA’s nearly four-year-old initiative to regulate unapproved drugs. These medicines were sold before the FDA was established, and therefore weren’t required to undergo approval. After decades of use, the medicines are considered safe by doctors, but haven’t been proven to satisfy the agency’s standards. Colchicine’s use has been traced back to the sixth century, according to the FDA.
URL Pharma did just that with colchicine and now is charging a price for the drug that is commensurate with its need to make a profit–and recover the costs of the FDA-approval-process clinical trials it paid a third party to run.
Anyone with even one active brain cell more than a head of cabbage could have foreseen that result. Since I assume there must be more than one active brain cell at the FDA, then “unintended consequences” simply means that the one (or perhaps more–hey! it could happen!) active brain cells at the FDA either just didn’t care about “unintended consequences” or any active brain cells at the FDA are simple too stupid or immoral (not giving a damn about the consequences of one’s actions is definitely immoral) to be classed as human.
The same government that gives us the Post Office, the EPA, the Department of “Education” and the FDA is going to determine what you can and can’t do regarding your health care on a much, much more intimate basis come soon. Now, isn’t that rally good news?
Imagine how much aspirin would cost if the FDA lures some pharma into this procedure–IF it could even pass FDA-approved clinical trials given all its negative side effects!
Just shoot me.
Oh, Thank You, Mr. “Deemed President”*
Thanks to the lying, dishonorable Dhimicraps and The Ø!, our medical insurance is increasing both our deductible and our rates substantially.
Energy Star Award: Gasoline-Powered Alarm Clock
As Jerry Pournelle says (at the link),
“Now the government that approves an Energy Star Certificate for a gasoline powered alarm clock will now in essence take over administering the Health Care System in the United States. Good luck, America.”
Be sure to follow the link to the NYT article from the comments at Pournelle’s site.