Obama’s Vision for Healthcare Should Scare You

Backgr0und with respect to healthcare either side of the US/Canada border.

Calgary:

[T]he largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and high plains, approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The city is located in the Parkland region of Alberta. Calgary is the third largest civic municipality, by population, in Canada. As of the 2008 civic census, Calgary’s population was 1,042,892.[3] The metropolitan population (CMA) was 1,162,310 in 2008

Great Falls, Montana:

Great Falls is a city in and the county seat of Cascade County, Montana, United States.[1] The population was 56,690 at the 2000 census

Montana(state):

As of 2006, Montana has an estimated population of 997,670

In terms of population, Calgary, Alberta is a major city.  In fact population of Calgary is larger than the entire State of Montana.   This blogger did not research the respective populations of sheep.  

Canada.com, “Calgary’s quads: Born in the U.S.A:”

A rare set of identical quadruplets, born this week to a Calgary woman at a Montana hospital, are in good health and two of them were strong enough to be transported back here Thursday.

Pundit of Poca, Don Surber:

This summer, Karen Jepp of Calgary was told there was no room at the inn when she was about to deliver quadruplets this summer, and so she flew 325 miles to Great Fall, Montana.

I have no problem with having the Jepp quadruplets being born eligible in some thirty-three years to run for President, and not Prime Minister.  However it ought to give pause that a mother would travel over three hundred miles from a major metropolitan city to give birth in a cow town.

Michelle did blog BO’s speech.

So qustion what i the difference between Barack “BO” Obama and Captaion Chesley “Sully”: Sullenberger”   Captain Sullenberger walked away from his crash.

New poll from John Zogby:

However, President’s Obama’s approval ratings tell a different story. Just 49-percent say the president is doing an excellent or good job while 50-percent rate his performance as fair or poor. These numbers are down from the beginning of the month, but what does this mean?

BO is now losing his base.   His support is less than his popular vote percentage.

Look, let’s face it; if the teleprompter actually had anything major to give us, he’d have been leaking it for the last week and a half now. The precedes that we saw, the White House at around 1800 eastern told me all I needed to know about tonight’s non-event.  The fact of the matter is he’s after the propaganda value tonight, and frankly I’m not interested in becoming a spreader of that.  Particularly when demonstrably what key is feeding us should be enough to make the noses on half the faces on the East Coast grow to three times their normal size. 

On that basis, I spent time on other things.  More productive things for both my future and the country.

Cleaning out my garage for one thing.  My guess is my trucks going to be spending a good deal of time and it until this moron is out of the white house. 

Working on my manuscript. 

Cleaning the dust bunnies out of Pony, my tape server. 

Shaking my head over the losses to my 401K that Mr. Obama as policies helped bring to pass.

And, shaking my head over the number of people that will believe this bloody fool they elected president. 

Article I, Section 8. Constitution of the United States:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof

Gateway Pundit:

Obama promised during the campaign to create a Socialist National Civilian Security Force similar to what they have in other Marxist regimes. Yesterday, the US House took the first step in organizing Dear Leader’s dream youth service corp.

 Reaction from Cassy Fiano:

The more plans I hear about from the Obama administration, the less like America this seems to be. And it terrifies me, quite frankly. I’m 24 years old. I’m barely old enough to have had any effect on this political system (although I try my hardest to make a difference) yet look at what I will inherit. Look at what my children will inherit. You see what kind of future you’re handing us, and you wonder why us young people don’t pay attention to politics? It’s depressing. It becomes harder and harder to have hope that this country can be saved… that we can remain that shining city on a hill. It makes us angry. It makes me angry, anyways.

Barack Obama claims to have been a professor of constitutional law.   Quite frankly, I don’t believe Obama.   If Obama had actually read the Contitution, he would know that Congress has no authority to raise any kind civilian service corp.   Good luck Mr. Obama   You have no authority under the Constitution to raise such a civilian force.   No citizen has any obligation to serve in such a force and no citizen, in or out or unifrorm, has any obligation to aid and abet you in such a cause.

Welcome one and all to the most intense night read anywhere on the ‘sphere The Bitsblog Nightly Ramble

This is the “Turn Right Here” edition.

• I think, therefore….I really ought to start linking The American Thinker more. Here’s a couple of ’em:
  • Do nothing: Today, Jon Hall over there, suggests having a  ‘do nothing Congress’ isn’t all that bad a deal, particularly as compared to what we have at the moment.
  • See no Evil: Also at Thinker today is a piece by James Simpson :
    

    Allegations that presidential pal Bill Ayers was involved in the murder of a San Francisco policeman appear to be running into something of a gag order from at the Department of Justice.

    According to the San Francisco Chronicle , the Justice Department and the San Francisco Police Department have contacted the San Francisco Police Officers Association and told them not to talk about the Ayers case.

     Boy, that was fast!

    Cliff Kincaid’s March 12 National Press Club press conference apparently hit a nerve.

    I’ll say. Look, Ayers and Dorn, the evidence says, are guilty as hell, and  buddy Barack Obama being in the White House is their guranatee of freedom, despite the evidence.  Eric Holder, given his background is the perfect guy to effect that White House policy. (Indeed, in my view may have been chosen by Obama for specifically that reason.) Simpson asks who it is they’re trying to protect, but the answer should be obvious to anyone having two brain cells to rub together. (Which would seemingly eliminate most Obama Supporters) 

• I’m not stupid, but I play one in the White House:  Boortz asks this morning if Obama knows who the president of France is, incidental to his overtures to Chriac instead of Sarkozy.
  

  Now if, say, Sarah Palin had done this the press would be full of outrage.

  He’s right, of course but buried in that statement is the idea that Obama’s simply being stupid.

  It’s a fair cop, of itself, and stupidity on some his part of of some lower level flunky is certainly the more benign explainiation on the list of possibles. As Good Americans, we’d like to think that our President is  working to better our place in the world, to solve the problems on our plate and just generally to make things a bit better for America and Americans, and thereby, the world as a whole.  When things don’t work out that way, the easiest thing to say is ‘oops’ and move on, the first few times, and perhaps after those first few ‘flubs’, question the intelligence of the Administration and of the president himself. Already we’re starting to see folks look at that issue. In discussing this, Bruce McQuian points to  a Goodwin quote, which seems to take the less sinister tack:

  He is the most radical President of our times, far outside the mainstream of our political philosophy.

  He is not a reformer who fixes things. He fancies himself “transformative,” a man who reshapes and reorders. It apparently begins with smashing the existing order under the pretext of managing the crisis he inherited.

  During the campaign, a fellow journalist confided that “I know Obama is a Manchurian candidate, I just can’t figure out what for.”

  I laughed then, but no more. Obama represents a secular religion that believes, no matter the malady, Washington is the antidote. More government is the chicken soup of his tribe.

  Frankly, I don’t think stupidity is the issue here. Apparently, Goodwin agrees, at least that far. I have to wonder, though if it’s not going deeper than this, and dangerously so, and yes, possibly to the Manchurian level.  So much of what he’s been doing is so demonstrably damaging to the people he claims to be helping… and I doubt he’s so blind as to not see it.

  I think what’s going on in the case of the Chirac letter in particular, is Obama sending a less than subtle snub to Sarkozy, the man who dared question the overt socialism of Chirac. He’s sending the French the unquestionable signal he’d prefer working with a socialist in their Presidency. That snub is of a like with the snub given the Brits recently and for the same reasons. On that basis, the whole things seems a matter of intentional action by Obama, and by his administration. Apparently, Obama, as with the whole of the Democrat party,  wants us to be more like the French… only so long as the French are socialist.

  In looking over the record of this administration thusfar, I find I must echo the question the record itself begs; Are Obama’s motives the destruction of everything he come in contact with?  Before you start writing me off as just another nutcase, think; On any point, domestic policy, foreign policy, whatever; can you point to any more destructive path than the ones Obama has invariably chosen?  Working so perfectly against our interests cannot be a product of stupidity. Certainly, stupidity, were that the issue, would usually work against us.  But not always, and ‘always’ is the category that Obama inescapably falls into.  In case I’m not being clear, here, I’ve long since begin to suspect that what we have in the White House is someone who is actively and intentionally working against our interests. Thing is, I’ve yet to see evidence he’s working FOR our interests.  On every occasion you can name, the case can be made that the outcome works against them.

  I suppose at this point, the argument takes on one much like Babe Ruth’s ‘called shot’.  To this day, there’s still argument if the Babe actually knew where he’d be hitting the ball. Giving credit to the story that he did in fact know however, is the idea that he’d done it so often, to date.

•  So, now we know: Turns out that Chris Dodd’s wife was running an AIG controlled company, and was due one of those bonuses.  Heh. Now, maybe we understand why Dodd was so involved in that process.  But why do I get the feeling that Dodd’s being tossed to the wolves here in the hopes they’ll be sated by his departure? I’m telling you, folks this goes well beyond one Democrat… no matter how corrupt he may be. I still say the AIG bonuses should have gone out, and the government doesn’t have thing one to say about it, at least constitutionally. But now at least we understand why Dodd was bucking his party on their populism, don’t we? Oh… and of course that Dodd is a liar.
• It’s made by WHO? The Nano is the world’s cheapest car. Frankly, the thing looks it. Remember that the previous holders of that title include the Yugo. The Nano is  made in India. And I’m not even going to comment on the idea that it’s made by Tata Motors, except to liken the marketing issue to the one GM had years ago of selling the Nova to hispanics, to whom Nova is ‘No Go”.  Granted, the conntotations of “Tata” in the western world are somewhat more pleasant, (particularly in pairs… betcha can’t eat just one…), but I can see the company having a bit of a problem with the logo, can’t you?  Ok, I know, I know… back to the car.   The design makes it look like it’s trying to be a Prius… (the Prius being an outstandingly and painfully fugly car to begin with…)  and moves downhill from there. In the end, it looks like a go -cart, with asperations of being a real live riceballmobile when  it grows up. No wonder. Sheet metal and plastic held together with Glue, and the 33hp engine sounds like a blender.  It also looks like it has all the crashworthiness of a Vespa Moped… without the helmet. Now, those points aside, and being the size and weight it is, it already gets better MPG than most motorbikes. You’d think that would please the most ardent of environmentalists.    But, alas, no… that doesn’t stop the enviro-whack-job crowd from calling it an impending environmental disaster. In readng this article, I’m left with yet another point of proof that the Environmentalists are not pro-environment, they’re anti-human.  And by the way, the White House pays attention to these nut jobs.
• It’s number one on Amazon, already: You’ll want to check out Mark Levin’s new book.
• I was too busy: Simon Cowell has redeemed himself.
• There’s numbers and numbers:  I Rambled yesterday about polling data showing Republicans gaining ground, nationally. Barone suggests that it’s not so much the Republicans doing better, it’s the Democrats doing worse. Yeah, that seems about right. After all, there’s not been anything overt by Republicans to change that numerical relationship of late. As I’ve been sayng, they’re sitting back for the most part and letting the Democrats slit their own throats… and the Democrats for their part are only too happy to cooperate. That does suggest though that once the Republicans start making moves, the Democrats will still be quite vulnerable, and possibly moreso than today.
• Even Money: Along those same lines, I note that Obama’s approval ratings are no better than 50/50 as of today. Maybe if he’d just learn to deal with reading that teleprompter better….

Jessica was  Albert and Cynthia’s only child.   She hanged herself last July 3, at the age of eighteen.   Horrid.   Losing an only child is tough.   As in some many of these sad cases, the Logans have converted their daughter death into a crusade.   Yet heart rending cases do not necessarily make for wise legislation.

In the interest of safe messaging I offer the following tip:   Do not put anything into a message you not willing for the whole world to see.

First the good news, Jim Mann,Daily Inter Lake reports the death of Algore’s pet theory, anthropogenic global warming:

The prevailing conclusion at the New York conference, according to Berry, is that “the global warming hypothesis is dead, scientifically

Now the bad news, the Obama administration never got the memo, Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post:

The Environmental Protection Agency sent a proposal to the White House on Friday finding that global warming is endangering the public’s health and welfare, according to several sources, a move that could have far-reaching implications for the nation’s economy and environment.

John Steele Gordon, Commentary Magazine, on the effects of Cap and Trade:

That means that any increase in overall demand will increase the price of energy, and thus, in a feedback loop, nearly everything else. That will damp down demand. The more the economy tries to speed up, the more the carbon tax will work to prevent it from doing so

Anthropogenic global warming is a hoax.  The carbon tex will kill the economy.   No perosn would propose killing the ecommoy to fix a problem then simply does not exist, unless they were stark raving mad or punch drunk.

It matters not what Barack Obama says.   His rhetoric is mere words and all of BO statements come with expiration dates, John Steele Gordon, Commnetary Magazine, reports on what BO says he intends to do:

On February 9th, President Obama visited Elkhart, Indiana, the American community with the country’s highest unemployment rate, 15.3 percent. (It had been only 4.7 percent the year before.) He was there to sell his stimulus bill, then moving through Congress and since signed. He noted that the bill would provide help for the workers who had lost their jobs and, more important, help them get their jobs back by reviving the economy.

The jobs that have vanished in Elkhart are predominantly in the recreational-vehicle industry, which is concentrated in the city of 52,000. With the severe recession the country is now experiencing, it is hardly surprising that this industry has been devastated

Versus what BO actually intends to do:

Cap-and-trade will have a profound impact on the recreational-vehicle industry in Elkhart, whose pain Obama professed to feel. The cost of manufacturing the vehicle will rise because of the new tax, which will in turn increase the retail price of RV’s and thus inevitably decrease sales. The cost of operating them will also rise substantially as the tax raises the price of gasoline, further limiting demand. Nor will the tax’s effect on Elkhart and its environs be limited to RV’s. The entire mid-section of the country, where Elkhart is located, will be especially hard hit, because the region is far more dependent on manufacturing and coal-fired electric generating plants than the continent’s two coasts.

BO fully intends to kill Elkhart’s economy, much like did to Caterpillar.   Like in Elkhart, BO promised to save jobs.   Then after BO signed Porkulus into law, Caterpillar laid off over two thousand.

Welcome to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… em>The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the “Goin’ Mobile” edition.

Yes, that pic is taken outside the Jake in Cleveland, just before a wind gust knocked it over, wiping out the sidewalk Hot Dog cart parked behind it.  It was quickly set back on it’s wheels by three 12 year olds hopped up on cotton candy and Mountain Dew. Later that same day, the sign was given the “Best looking sign on a truck” award by three bums and a street-walker polled by your intrepid blogger.  Amazing what $1.42 in loose change will buy you. (The lawsuits against this blogger by the hot dog vendor are still pending.)

• Salesmanship: By way of Bruce, I note Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Politico remarking:
  

  Of all the pitfalls Barack Obama might face in the presidency, here is one not many people predicted: He is struggling as a public communicator.

  As I remark to Bruce, you’re only as good as your material. The best communicator in the world won’t be able to sell what Obama’s policies offer.That’s why W, who is unquestionably less proficient verbally, had an easier time of getting his points across and then Obama does now ; people just aren’t buying what Obama is selling. 20 years ago, yeah… possibly he’d have been more effective. As it is, we’ve seen these tricks before… and rejected them.

• One of our newspeoeple is missing: If you haven’t heard about George Webber (77/WABC)  being murdered, you may want to stop over at Scott Fybush’s place and catch up.
• Government now to control all pay? Jason Pye notes the move from the White House to cap ALL CEO pay. I note the story being tracked also, in The International Hearld Tribune.
  

  WASHINGTON: The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, government officials said.The outlines of the plan are expected to be unveiled this week in preparation for President Barack Obama’s first foreign summit meeting in early April.

  Increasing oversight of executive pay has been under consideration for some time, but the decision was made in recent days as public fury over bonuses has spilled into the regulatory effort.

  Here we are. The Marxian claim that your money isn’t yours, but the government’s to use as they see fit. All in the name of ‘fairness’. Of course, they are the ones who get to decide what is fair. So, in this case as in all others since BO almost got sworn in, we see the Democrats using a crisis of ther making to further socialist aims.  Don’t tell me that this wasn’t on the agenda all along, people. It’s now down to a question of us letting them get away with it.

• The real cause: Speaking of getting away with it, Darrel Issa  has a report out you should see, linking Countrywide Financial’s treatment of Democratic pols and their reluctance to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Here is the locus of the blamefor our finacial conditon, folks. For all the redirection of blame and anger about all this, the fact remains none of it would have been a problem without the government’s involvement in the housing markets, and the corruption Democrats brought to the party. Gee, I can’t imagine why the Democrats would want to duck the blame on this one, can you?
•  Almost Justice: Jim Corzine is in trouble
  

  Clearly, Corzine is in trouble. And he’s starting to act like he knows it. Three years of people complaining about high taxes, the need to rein in unions and his failure to do enough on ethics reform didn’t get through to him. The prospect of losing his re-election bid might.

  Maybe, maybe not.  Thing is the problems you see listed in the article, are not unlike the problems we see with the Democrats in Washington. And the outcome there, I suppose, wil be the same. But the real reason Corzine is in trouble? He’s got Republicans out there RUNNING as Republicans… and not hiding their conservatism behind a ‘go along to get along’ mask. 

• Numbers, we’ve got numbers: That trend we see in the Corzine thing, is getting fairly well universal, and doesn’t bode well for Democrats.  Comes Charlie Cook to add to the bonfire:
  

  Republicans have pulled even with Democrats on the generic congressional ballot test, according to a survey by a respected pair of firms.In the new National Public Radio poll conducted by the Democratic polling company Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and its Republican counterpart, Public Opinion Strategies, 42 percent of the 800 likely voters surveyed March 10 to 14 said that if the next congressional election were held today they would vote for the Republican candidate; an identical percentage of respondents said they would vote for the Democratic one. For several years, Democrats held a substantial lead on this question.

  Democrats still outnumbered Republicans in terms of party identification in this poll by 6 points, 45 percent to 39 percent. Democrats also favored their own party’s congressional candidates 83 percent to 7 percent. But voters who call themselves independents gave GOP candidates the edge by 14 points, 38 percent to 24 percent. And self-identified Republicans supported their own party’s candidates 85 percent to 3 percent.

  I’d say, that at least part of these numbers are a product of the samplers, and the sampled, particularly in the case of the NPR polling.  I’ll say further, that this shift is incidental to the overt attacks on Limbaugh. Perhaps Limbaugh being the face of the GOP was more of a nightmare for the Democrats than they knew.  Again, the key is overt conservatism. Conservatives… real conservatives, have afar more support than Democrats ever did… and if the Republican party wants to get going again, they’ll best do it by embracing conservatism.

• The Diosaurs, meanwhile, should resign over Obama’s failure, says Roger Simon over at Pajamas Media. I can’t say I disagree. Roger dares use the phrase “manchurian candidate”. Funny he should do that. I’ve got an article coming online over there in the next day or so that looks at this.
• Four cops dead: Sorry to see this bit in Oakland. Maybe it’s time to, you know, start training these guys a little better. The recent history of this PD  and others in the Oakland area such as the Transit cops, would seem to confirm this on all points. Look; One guy taking out two uniforms, I can understand. But two SWAT guys as well? Sorry, I don’t buy that something wasn’t totally screwed up there.  My take is it falls directly in the lap of one Ron “Red” Dellums, the Mayor of that besotted berg. And yes, take my word, the second swat guy is dead also. We have another Natasha Richardson on our hands. Same conditions apply, sadly.
• Bye, Natasha: Speaking of Richardson, they had her funeral over the weekend.  I’m with David on this one; the charges that the canadians muffed her resue and her healthcare work is likley false. No, I’m not sauing they didn’t screw up… they did.  I just doubt that in the end it made much difference. Still, I can’t fault people for asking the questions. Has anyone noticed, though, that in the face of that incident, we’ve not heard Jack about government healthcare of late from the Obama administration?  Almost like they know this thing’s going to be exemplary in the national debate on the idea of government run healthcare.
• Suicide: There’s gotta be something genetic, here.
• Driving a thimble apparently isn’t all that popular: You know those small ‘cars’ the government keeps trying to get the car companies to make… the ones we’re told would sell if the car companies would just make them?  They’re not selling. The WSJ:
  

  Practically every small car in the market is stacked up at dealerships. At the end of February, Honda Motor Co. had 22,191 Fits on dealer lots — enough to last 125 days at the current sales rate, according to Autodata Corp. In July, it had a nine-day supply, while the industry generally considers a 55- to 60-day supply healthy.For other models the supply situation is even worse. Toyota Motor Corp. has enough Yaris subcompacts to last 175 days. Chrysler LLC has a 205-day supply of the Dodge Caliber. And Chevrolet dealers have 427 days’ worth of Aveo subcompacts. At the current sales rate, General Motors Corp. could stop making the Aveo and it wouldn’t run out until May 24, 2010.

  “I don’t think Americans really like small cars,” said Beau Boeckmann, whose family’s Galpin Ford in southern California is the country’s largest Ford dealer. “They drive them when they think they have to, when gas prices are high. But we’re big people and we like big cars.”

  Gee…. ya think? Quick; Someone tell Obama and his greenie minions. The government has car makers closing factories and retooling the ones left to make cars nobody will buy. Does that sound to you like that’ll help the economy?

• They’re called Toxic for a reason: So after being leaked all weekend, the WSJ puts up an op-ed bylined to Tim Geithner, trying to sell the toxic asset plan. As I’ve said before this isn’t going to sell… any better than small cars are selling. After being told how evil the rich are since the day Obama came on the horizon, we’re now expected to think that these same ‘evil’ rich are going to buy into this toxic asset nonsense simply to win favor from Obama?  Trust me, folks, this good cop bad cop routine isn’t working. Oh, and yes, I did notice Obama trying to re-label toxic assets to something more sellable. Rather reminds one of a Monty Python skit. ‘Course, about everything these morons do, does that, anymore.
• Chinese Rubber: So, if the Stimulus is all about helping American industry, how is it we’re buying Chinese?
• OOoooohhhh..  Tingles gets a contract extension. They deserve each other.
• I don’t much care for OReiliy, ither, but face it, Amanda; Anything that isn’t in lockstep with your nrrow mind is ‘harrassment’. Get it outta the sunshine, all right?

The “American Party Tea Anthem” has become an internet sensation just 4 days after it was posted online at the popular YouTube video sharing website.

Written by Lloyd Marcus (a spokesperson for the Our Country Deserves Better Committee and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People of Color) the video clip featuring the song has attracted almost 30,000 views at YouTube and earned 4 Weekly YouTube Honors.

Here tis:

Ever wonder what happened to that plane they pulled out of the Hudson river a few scant weeks ago? So did I.
I happend to run across some photos of the thing being towed down the 150 block of Park Ave in East Rutherford, NJ. A sight not many people will ever see in real life. Most planes, after a crash, don’t look this good.
Just think of the RV you could make.

Drill the pics to get full size.

Did the rationed Canadian healthcare system  kill Natasha Richardson?   The American Spectator says it did.    I am going to say no.  However, the degree of culpability aside, it is clear that Canada does not have a First World medical system:

The province of Quebec lacks a medical helicopter system, common in the United States and other parts of Canada, to airlift stricken patients to major trauma centers. Montreal’s top head trauma doctor said Friday that may have played a role in Richardson’s death.

“It’s impossible for me to comment specifically about her case, but what I could say is … driving to Mont Tremblant from the city (Montreal) is a 2 1/2-hour trip, and the closest trauma center is in the city. Our system isn’t set up for traumas and doesn’t match what’s available in other Canadian cities, let alone in the States,” said Tarek Razek, director of trauma services for the McGill University Health Centre, which represents six of Montreal’s hospitals.

There is a reason that sick Canadians who have the time and money travel south of the border to seek medical care.  Canadians like to live.   Healthcare in the United States is simply better than it is in Canada.   President Barack Obama wants to replace our system, which works, with one resembling the Canadian system, which does not work.    Are you willing to bet your life that Obama’s healthcare system will actually work?

Frank Rich, New York Times, is asking for the real Barack Obama to stand-up and speak out:

A CHARMING visit with Jay Leno won’t fix it. A 90 percent tax on bankers’ bonuses won’t fix it. Firing Timothy Geithner won’t fix it. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans’ anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed. It would be foolish to dismiss as hyperbole the stark warning delivered by Paulette Altmaier of Cupertino, Calif., in a letter to the editor published by The Times last week: “President Obama may not realize it yet, but his Katrina moment has arrived.”

Memo to Frank:  There is no there, there.   Barack Obama doesn’t have a arsenal of policy smarts.   Obama is a moron.   Obama does have political gifts.   He has a teleprompter.    A smart politican with policy smarts and political gifts would done the Gridiron dnner.   BO  ducked it.

In endorsing Obama last year, the Washington Post described the next president as “a man of supple intelligence, with a nuanced grasp of complex issues and evident skill at conciliation and consensus-building.” This would be a good time to employ those talents. A show of leadership, including a firm pledge to veto any punitive tax legislation that reaches his desk, could help calm the storm that threatens to make the current crisis much more destructive

James Taranto, Wall Street Journal.

Alas James, if it were but true.

• @Lileks Is there a Dr. Gepetto who does Rinoplasti, I wonder? in reply to Lileks #
• @jimtreacher does she know how to use them, I wonder? in reply to jimtreacher #
• Rereading @michellemalkin col “Whitewashing Helen Thomas” Let me just say that a fresh coat of paint would do Helen a world of good. #
• @VodkaPundit You doTV before, Stephen? in reply to VodkaPundit #
• @rogerlsimon I’ve used a clip of your writing about Ron. @michellemalkin , too. This loss is and should be a shared one, I think. #
• @VodkaPundit heh. I’m hip… in reply to VodkaPundit #
• @seedubya two, actually in reply to seedubya #
• @mattmargolis You in here just now? in reply to mattmargolis #
• would GOP be wise to try to get out front of the tea party lynch mobs and turn it into a parade? #
• @ instapundit Frank had best be thankful his states voters reward failure else he’d be doing his gay prostitution ring off back bay somewher #
• really starting to enjoy this palm treo. remaining in touch with all your i-net connections a real help #
• @allahpundit Well SOMBODY has to…. #
• I think I need a beer #
• @allahpundit Frum is all about seperating the conservatives from the Republican party thereby rendering both impotent #
• @ michellemalkin re Aig.. note my comments in last night’s ramble… http://bitsblog.theconservativereader.com/?p=18064 #
• @jimtreacher You d know ‘frozen donkey weheel’ has a few different meanings, right? in reply to jimtreacher #
• @MelissaTweets Cat: Yeah, funny how not many dinosaurs, if any, have said anything about that in reply to MelissaTweets #
• Can we limit government bonuses? #
• @HeyTammyBruce Gee, I wonder why Congress isn’t complaining about the teone deaf nature of that party, eh? #
• @lashawn Nice. It,s always the personal victories that drown out the corporate failures, isn’t it? #
• @chucksimmins isn’t a day goes by i’m not glad my wife thought so….:-D #
• @PatrickRuffini That’s been the meme prety much all over. I can’t imagine it going past the USSC, myself in reply to PatrickRuffini #
• @newtgingrich Because I know Omaha would be the first place I’d think of seing penguins. Aside from Hoboken, of course. in reply to newtgingrich #
• @mattmargolis wow… you got a late slot, didn’t you? in reply to mattmargolis #
• @mattmargolis I hear ya in reply to mattmargolis #
• One thing about having a bad memory is that you have a clear conscience. #
• Why is the New York Sun the only publication on the planet, making note of the alliance between the American left and the Islamic right? #
• How is it that so many Democrats, who have been all over President Bush’s slips of the tounge, are so ready to defend Barrack Obama for his? #
• @mattmargolis (snort… mppphhhfff…) I’m awake, I’m awake in reply to mattmargolis #
• So does this bus have Geithner’s name on it? #
• RT @mattmargolis: What’s your favorite conservative movie? Call in (646)716-6735 to share! http://tinyurl.com/dlqta7 #
• @mattmargolis Nice job, Matt in reply to mattmargolis #
• Headed for beddie bye #
• @mattmargolis It was.I hope I didn’t overstay the welcome. I get my head into conv and forget the time in reply to mattmargolis #
• @mattmargolis That was a huge problem for me when I was doing talk radio. I’d forget the clock in reply to mattmargolis #
• @mattmargolis I was kinda thinking that. OK, I’ll catch you tommrow in reply to mattmargolis #
• @mattmargolis matt drop me an email ya get a chance. [email protected]. #
• @arthursmith I take umberage at the line the writer draws between journalism and blogging. Seems to me a move of self preservation. #
• @melissatweets expert: Former drip #
• @melissatweets should he live that long….. #
• @mattmargolis 4 years? Well, only two to midterms in reply to mattmargolis #
• @allahpundit How about faux mockety? in reply to allahpundit #
• @allahpundit who would we make fun of, then? You’re no fun in reply to allahpundit #
• @allahpundit NEw Olympic event: TYossing supporters under the bus in reply to allahpundit #
• @jimtreacher Have ’em play ” Well I think I’m going out of my head” in reply to jimtreacher #
• @mattmargolis I’ll tell ya, Matt.. the guy has all the practiced smoothness of an impacted wsidom tooth in reply to mattmargolis #
• @mattmargolis Remember when the left used to make fun of verbal slipups by W? Watch them clam up, here in reply to mattmargolis #
• @jimtreacher poleish in reply to jimtreacher #
• @jimtreacher loolish in reply to jimtreacher #
• @mattmargolis getting to look that way, ain’t it? See, though? I told you some subject would pop up b4 next wk in reply to mattmargolis #
• @mattmargolis I figured… OK< we’ve got Obama, now… at least I won’t run outta things to blog about in reply to mattmargolis #
• RT @mattmargolis: @EricFlorack Obama will go home to Teleprompter and promise never to leave it behind ever again. #
• @EricFlorack Trouble is, who writes into his teleprompter? in reply to EricFlorack #
• @allahpundit Tim Geithner… an obvious special olypics alum. (Did I really say that?) in reply to allahpundit #
• Ah, what the bleep. Works for the prez, right? #
• Anyuone need a couple Sun Enchilada motherboards? Never used. #
• @chucksimmins I guess they’re trying to figure what version your server is running in reply to chucksimmins #
• @allahpundit The FannieMae crisis Dartboard in reply to allahpundit #
• @chucksimmins Mostly China, right? in reply to chucksimmins #
• @chucksimmins redirect calls to that page to your index in reply to chucksimmins #
• @chucksimmins At least then you get the hitcount in reply to chucksimmins #
• @chucksimmins heh… that’s also truye. LOL. in reply to chucksimmins #
• @chucksimmins Why do I never think of that. Money, money, money in reply to chucksimmins #
• @chucksimmins really screw ’em up. PUt ’em on MY front door in reply to chucksimmins #
• Rumor mill: If Gethner gets the hook as seems likely, someone with the initials JPMC may be missing a CEO. #
• is it just me or do you laugh when you notice the octuplates mother nicknamed for a james bond movie? #
• @eddriscoll send ’em to rio for a few years…. #
• @eddriscoll yeah… brazillian music is usually odd time sigs. Lee rittenour was into braz msc for long time. #
• @eddriscoll look up a cut called ‘cats in rio’ on the disk he did w dave grusin #
• @EdDriscoll Kinda took care of the chosing process, didn’t it? in reply to EdDriscoll #
• My mail server just melted. Had a script get away from me #
• @McQandO Where ya goin NOW? I thought I traveled a lot in reply to McQandO #
• Happy Birthday to Jonah Goldberg. http://bit.ly/RO5dz #
• @divadoll123 I figure it has to do with all trhe wealth envy coming from DC in reply to divadoll123 #
• @Lileks Hey, ya never know… might be a hottie there somewhere in reply to Lileks #
• @seedubya For one thing I’d expect someone like that to be less willng to bend over for evil in reply to seedubya #
• All the world seems in tune On a spring afternoon, When we’re poisoning pigeons in the park. #
• Ev’ry Sunday you’ll see My sweetheart and me, As we poison the pigeons in the park. #
• When they see us coming, the birdies all try an’ hide, But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide. #
• @chucksimmins You obviously haven’t had the coffe they make in my office in reply to chucksimmins #
• @seedubya And by extension, is clueless about what constitutes good, as well. Agreed. in reply to seedubya #
• RT @MelissaTweets: I keep hearing about the Right’s populism…but it’s the Left getting on buses and threatening the rich people. #
• xMelissaTweets Eactly so. So often, projection appears to be their defense. #
• @GreggJarrett None of it would ahve been possible with government enabling it, Gregg. in reply to GreggJarrett #
• My mail server is back online, all seems well #
• RT @Laura_H108 pray and beg libs to charge bush make it an hearing that will divide the us and bring civil war and the end to the dem party #
• @michaelemlong Won’t happen, now. THeir anger is starting to get redirected at The Chosen ONe. in reply to michaelemlong #
• RT @EdDriscoll: “Dodd Man Walking” Heh. Indeed. Read the whole thing.  http://bit.ly/Y9I5K #tcot #teaparty #hhrs #
• @allahpundit If the girl’s name is ‘Eva” you’ve got real proof… in reply to allahpundit #
• @allahpundit Duke LaCrosse… if you’re the DA in Raliegh in reply to allahpundit #
• If I’m at 69 followers, does thta mean I don’t know which end is up? #
• @allahpundit I can’t help but wonder if bankrupting us wasn’t what he’s had in mind all along in reply to allahpundit #
• @allahpundit Call it what you will, but can you postulate any path toward bankruptcy that’s more effective than what Obama has done? in reply to allahpundit #
• RT @allahpundit: Video: Judd Gregg warns that Obama’s budget will bankrupt America http://is.gd/oqmq #
• @MelissaTweets You see what I mean, though? in reply to MelissaTweets #
• @roddymcorley Morning, Rick in reply to roddymcorley #
• BITSBLOG!!!! (Sniffle) (Scuze me) http://bit.ly/4zXbqC #
• “Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-a meat-free diet’s six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage #
• Dennis Kucinich is a vegan, as I recall. Much is explained. #
• @MelissaTweets Always facisnated me; Sending flowers to someone dealing with nasal congestion. in reply to MelissaTweets #
• @Lileks Headline: Lileks’ World is tilted, details at 11′ in reply to Lileks #
• @ infidelsarecool RE: Reforming Islam; Wanna call yr attn to this older piece on the topic: http://bit.ly/vDDG #
• Why the Feminist Silence Over the Abuses of Women Under Islam? http://bit.ly/162EVQ #
• @newtgingrich Hey knows that, Newt. Why u think he turned down Meet The Press? in reply to newtgingrich #
• RT @newtgingrich:Someone should explain to WH being on leno is not a substitute for knowing what is going on with bonuses and pass throughs #
• @5Dinars What does WHAT have to do with it? in reply to 5Dinars #
• @Linc4Justice And yet she wanted MJ? What’s up with that? in reply to Linc4Justice #
• @Linc4Justice grin in reply to Linc4Justice #
• @Linc4Justice But if everything you know is wrong… but…. but,,, but..(Doctor Mobius, call your office… doctor August Mobius…) in reply to Linc4Justice #
• @jaketapper Exploding phne, Jake? in reply to jaketapper #
• @infidelsarecool You think he’s look in the mirror and save himself some trouble. #tcot in reply to infidelsarecool #
• @Linc4Justice No, just the odd man. in reply to Linc4Justice #