*heh*
Freedom of Association
Voted for Obama? Go elsewhere for medical care.
Of course (I say, “of course” because, well, it’s a Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind organ citing an Academia Nut Fruitcake, so, of course), the linked article misses the point, with one “professor of bioethics, law and medical professionalism” misstating the doctor’s notice as simply a free speech issue vs. medical ethics, when rightly the issue is also–and more importantly–one of free association. As one writer, speaking normatively, has put it,
That the Constitution guarantees freedom of association to each of us does not mean that we may each associate with anyone we choose. It means that we may associate with whoever also agrees to associate with us.
Exactly.
Missing the Point
Peggy Noonan is a bright gal, of that there is no doubt, but that she is bright does not stop her from being blinded by her own biases. Case in point: an opinion piece, “The Heat Is On. We May Get Burned,” dated March 27, 2010, published in the Wall Street Journal, in which she says,
The beehive was already angry about a million things a year ago, and most of those things, obviously, were not the fault of the administration. People are angry at their economic vulnerability. They are angry at the deterioration of our culture, angry at our nation’s deteriorating position in the world, at our debts and deficits, our spending and taxing, our threatened security in a world of weapons of mass destruction. Their anger is stoked by cynical politicians and radio ranters and people who come home at night, have a few drinks, and spew out their rage on the comment thread. It’s a world full of people always cocking the gun and ready to say, if things turn bad, “But I didn’t tell anyone to shoot!”
And yes, this mood, this anger, has only been made worse by this yearlong, enervating, exhausting, enraging fight over health care. The administration is full of people who are so bright, and led by one who is very bright, and yet they have a signal failure: They do not know what time it is. They cannot see how high the temperature is. They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it.
Just to be obvious, let me repeat the signal lapse of the article: “They cannot see how high the temperature is. They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it.”
Throwing the bullshit flag on that one, Peggy. From the evidence, it is clear that they do “see how high the temperature is” and do “understand that they raise it.” From Rahm Emanuel’s clearly-stated desire to not “waste a good crisis,” to the shady deals, bully tactics and flat out lies perpetrated by The Ø and his minions and cohorts in crime, the only clear message is that they do understand what they are doing and believe that their tactics will win them their goals of expanded power over the lives of common citizens (known, more than likely, among their circle as “the little, unimportant people” and not The People). The fact that if one were to study the background of the people abusing their power to expand control over our lives and apply Occam’s Razor to understanding the strategy underlying their tactics, one would probably discover that the Cloward-Piven Strategy meets all the criteria needed to analyze the reasons for their tactics.
Cloward-Piven? Yes, Peggy, if you’d been paying attention outside the Beltway circle of “real-to-‘your-kind-ofpeople'” echo chamber, you’d have grasped long since the parrallels between The Ø!’s behavior since the day he took office and now and the plan for radicalizing American society that had a great deal of currency during The Ø!’s Columbia years by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, Columbia professors of sociology. Simply stated, that strategy is,
[T]he strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis…. [T]he “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Every single thing The Ø’s administration and the Dhimmicrappic leadership have done in the last year points to following the precepts outlined in that strategy and hastening its fruition. Indeed, that last part, hastening the fruition of the strategy, has become the chief reason for pushing so hard to implement The Ø!’s Healthscare Bill: the sooner the collapse happens, the sooner The Ø! and his minions can assert draconian control to “restore order”.
The Ø! and his minions must push harder than ever now, they must manufacture more and worse “crises” in order to be able to make the ballot box even more irrelevant than it has already become in these days of blatant Dhimmicrappic cheating and Repugnican’t incompetence (and, not hard to admit, deaf ears of their own to constituents’ right, liberties and calls for representation).
These modern day traitors must poush harder than ever, else their treason will not prosper and they then be called to account for their treason.
Opposition to Obumascare Still Growing
WaPo reports that “more than three dozen states” have some sort of measures either passed or in the works in opposition to the “feddle gummint” takeover of health care:
States opposing health-care legislation
As President Obama prepares to sign the health-care bill into law, Republican legislators in more than three dozen states are seeking to challenge U.S. government authority. They contend that the bill will infringe on state sovereignty and individual freedoms. Many constitutional scholars are skeptical of the challenges: They say federal law and precedents are clear.
Idaho has said not only “No” but (in effect) “H3ll no!” (I think I’ll let that typo stand :-)) In other cases, states’ attorneys general are mounting legal challenges based on 10th Amendment and Commerce Clause issues.
Let’s see… the House “passed” the bill with about a 50.6% majority. What’s 36 out of 50 (or even 60, if one were to use The Ø!’s campaign math)? Hmmm, that’s 72%–why! that’s almost enough right there to ratify an Amendment to the Constitution! (Using The Ø!’s math, 36/60 it’d still be 60%–considerably more than the House’s lame 50.6%.)
It’s about time for the Third American Revolution to reclaim some of the rights and liberties of the First American Revolution that were lost in the Second American Revolution (also known as The Great Unitarian-Baptist Shootout, Mr. Lincoln’s War, The War of Northern Aggression, and to those who have little interest in historical accuracy or honesty, the American Civil War).
About That “Democracy” Thing
50.6% gave House leaders a “mandate” to pull the trigger on the gun held to the head of the Republic. It remains to be seen if the Republic can dodge the bullet fired at so close a range…
As an article at American Thinker reminds us,
“Democracies, says Aristotle, tend to be pulled in one direction: toward a vilification of everything involving merit, hierarchy, inequality, proportion, and worth.”
Aristotle was, of course, simply echoing (hey! if Loony Left Moonbats, Mass MEdia Podpeople, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and at least 50.6% of the House can defy logic, who am I to avoid that train?) my observation that,
“In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history are in the majority and dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance.”-third world county’s corollary to Santayana’s Axiom
But do go and read Aristotle’s Warning.
Found via a comment at Chaos Manor
Suckers!
Pants On Fire, Yet, Ø?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdKmc9aBELM&feature=player_embedded
The One Page Healthcare Bill
Ann Coulter. Smart lady. Just read it.
From the Mouths of Babes
No, not that kind. This kind:
What a Maroon!
Useless oxygen sink. Worthless even as chum (as chum, she’d poison the waters). Pass the healthscare bill in order to find out what’s in it?!?
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