tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70496774456840854662024-03-13T00:12:04.533-07:00Summa Contra Improbos et PlumbeosLatin for "A work to refute the evil and the stupid". This is a forum supporting intelligent, conservative political and religious discourse. An examination of the short sighted, shallow, destructive and sometimes evil ideals of modern liberalism. A defense against its attacks on religion, freedom, conscience and personal responsibility.
God, country, family, liberty and community are supported here. An understanding that neither a house, nor a country, can stand on a rotten foundation.Summa Contra Improboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516516858457143672noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049677445684085466.post-71556904137062675382011-07-02T00:28:00.000-07:002011-07-02T00:28:11.725-07:00RADIO DEBATE CONSERVATIVE VS. LIBERTARIAN<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsldrIhLDOZu8R87Sp_33339iySSNLai7kT95M8jhd9vCa9ST0jlmwDtBNQtsXRcm7Qzfi_IPGUL3TU3SF2ZIDPltJfsOg1lk6Hgo937pmHohBMGGh9UKqQT5lq131FBdqyEPTiEb7HE/s1600/263756_10150230340738720_44864548719_7297848_736850_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsldrIhLDOZu8R87Sp_33339iySSNLai7kT95M8jhd9vCa9ST0jlmwDtBNQtsXRcm7Qzfi_IPGUL3TU3SF2ZIDPltJfsOg1lk6Hgo937pmHohBMGGh9UKqQT5lq131FBdqyEPTiEb7HE/s320/263756_10150230340738720_44864548719_7297848_736850_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Listen to a lively debate between friends. Michael Barton, PhD, Cascade Policy Institute board member (Libertarian), locks horns with yours truly. Are conservatives wishy washy non-committed control freaks? Are Libertarians amoral pot smoking hooker loving idealist nuts? Go to the link and hit the podcast for 07/01/2011 and find out.Summa Contra Improboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516516858457143672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049677445684085466.post-15036514760810725772011-07-02T00:16:00.000-07:002011-07-02T00:16:52.570-07:00THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CANADIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8n-qHnVBX49_cABrhPFoQsv1My9b6Q9chfGbo-ro4ZDugPtCtM0owPZqJewse4eSPd9U_6M57a1dLdnDtO7tU1DByijTeIjUmY0MgsIr3-Lx0E18it_KHTrPg4y5903kO16l2VbTaYro/s1600/Total_health_expenditure_in_constant_1997_dollars.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8n-qHnVBX49_cABrhPFoQsv1My9b6Q9chfGbo-ro4ZDugPtCtM0owPZqJewse4eSPd9U_6M57a1dLdnDtO7tU1DByijTeIjUmY0MgsIr3-Lx0E18it_KHTrPg4y5903kO16l2VbTaYro/s320/Total_health_expenditure_in_constant_1997_dollars.png" width="320" /></a></div>President Barack Obama and supportive members of Congress were able to get the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) passed, in part by extolling the virtues of the Canadian health care system. In speech after speech, Obama has touted the alleged lower cost, “universal coverage” and better medical care of that system. All of the mentioned supposed benefits are untrue, but the most disconcerting fact is that Mr. Obama has never discussed any deficiencies of the Canadian system.Summa Contra Improboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516516858457143672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049677445684085466.post-89378489922252833752010-07-26T22:22:00.000-07:002010-07-26T22:22:24.843-07:00The Ant and the Grasshopper<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlbxZFODRaOlSmFqMLHBPIrxbq8bq7DSv0UVw16UpfSXBkyl4HRi-y3OdofMke8WVZ-Dax2lvpL2wU3hp0nnrJ7hG5bwkNepCd7W8BHaFuoYPSuQ2LZ1uTYNniE1jCWvCum-VvmmeXIw/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" hw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlbxZFODRaOlSmFqMLHBPIrxbq8bq7DSv0UVw16UpfSXBkyl4HRi-y3OdofMke8WVZ-Dax2lvpL2wU3hp0nnrJ7hG5bwkNepCd7W8BHaFuoYPSuQ2LZ1uTYNniE1jCWvCum-VvmmeXIw/s200/3.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER <br />
This one is a little different .... <br />
Two Different Versions ... <br />
Two Different Morals ... <br />
OLD VERSION <br />
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. <br />
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. <br />
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. <br />
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MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself! <br />
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MODERN VERSION <br />
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. <br />
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. <br />
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. <br />
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. <br />
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? <br />
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...' <br />
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. <br />
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake. <br />
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. <br />
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. <br />
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of <br />
the summer. <br />
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, with nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. <br />
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. <br />
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. <br />
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken <br />
over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood. <br />
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. <br />
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MORAL OF THE STORY: <br />
Be careful how you vote in 2010. <br />
I've posted this for you to read because I believe that you are an ant, not a grasshopper! <br />
Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. <br />
Don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it, anyway<br />
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Author Unknown (But I would like to shake his or her hand.) FRSumma Contra Improboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516516858457143672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049677445684085466.post-4240936761212410112009-12-20T09:23:00.000-08:002009-12-20T09:33:50.588-08:00OBAMA'S CURE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvJgKdVwG9yjPRcsiivJoAu0brESdqZ1ZJkqibUR2aYvLEwPKQR87S_XqUZOm9VUzPu8rEPluVTAV-OhV0eNkDFhAcjOdlHB5U2-SqD1JSQFHGwB-rqEeVJxW5YwxIt2QkCFotbZdSNg8/s1600-h/rip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ps="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvJgKdVwG9yjPRcsiivJoAu0brESdqZ1ZJkqibUR2aYvLEwPKQR87S_XqUZOm9VUzPu8rEPluVTAV-OhV0eNkDFhAcjOdlHB5U2-SqD1JSQFHGwB-rqEeVJxW5YwxIt2QkCFotbZdSNg8/s200/rip.jpg" /></a><br />
</div>As we count down to the final Senate vote on a government-mandated health plan that will cripple and then bankrupt the American health-care system, we must reacquaint ourselves with the results of past government intervention in the health-care system and in other areas, such as the financial meltdown. <br />
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</div>The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.<br />
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My confession: <br />
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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees... I don't feel threatened.. I don't feel discriminated against.. That's what they are, Christmas trees. <br />
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It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away. <br />
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I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. <br />
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Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to. <br />
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In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking. <br />
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Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina)... Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?' <br />
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In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.<br />
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Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about.. And we said okay..<br />
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Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.<br />
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Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' <br />
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Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. <br />
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Are you laughing yet? <br />
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Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. <br />
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. <br />
Pass it on if you think it has merit. <br />
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If not, then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in. <br />
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My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully, <br />
<br />
Ben Stein<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Dr. David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar , Senegal .. He attended Harvard University, graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976.<br />
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He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College. He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University. Kaiser's latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard University Press.<br />
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History Unfolding:<br />
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I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.<br />
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Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.<br />
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We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?<br />
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We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.<br />
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We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?<br />
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We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?<br />
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We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?<br />
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Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.<br />
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And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska .. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.<br />
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Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?<br />
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I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.<br />
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This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.<br />
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And that is only the beginning.<br />
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As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.<br />
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And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course, <br />
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How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ..... . change. And the people surely got what they voted for.<br />
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If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.<br />
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So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.<br />
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Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.<br />
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As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..<br />
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I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me; others will laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.<br />
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I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.<br />
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David Kaiser, PhD <br />
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Jamestown, Rhode Island<br />
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</div>Some months ago I wrote a column entitled "Liberalism is a malignancy." I reviewed the way in which liberals spoil the cities and states in which they live. Then, unable to exist there anymore, they metastasize to other places. However, unable to understand that the policies they support are the cause for the misery from which they have fled, they persist in trying to remake their new homes in the same way. <br />
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</div>The passing of Senator Edward Kennedy was truly the end of an era. He had been extolled as the "lion of the Senate." Understandably, given the impact of his life, the news media were filled with stories about Kennedy, his family, his trials and tribulations and his contributions. I was most surprised to read that a month before his death Senator Kennedy had written a letter to Pope Benedict XVI, which was delivered to him by President Obama. As a practicing Catholic, I took great interest in Kennedy's thoughts about his Catholicism at the end of his life.<br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Salient points:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">(a) the median wait-time for the entire country is just over 16 weeks, ranging from Ontario (lucky me, 12.5) to Newfoundland (unlucky me at the family cottage, 27.3)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">(b) despite having substantially increased the amount of money being poured into the national health care system over the same number of years, wait times have not substantially changed since the Institute's report of 2001.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Read 'em & weep.</span><br />
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“I am of course frustrated and disappointed. However, we need to look ahead. We must make very drastic changes and recapture the conservative values we lost. Many felt it was better to elect a liberal who is really a liberal than a conservative who is really a liberal. Authenticity counts. (Click on title to read full article)<br />
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</div>The opening words of H.R. 3200, Mr. Obama's solution to the manufactured health care "crisis" in the United States reads: "A Bill to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and... <br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">A certain town in southern Newfoundland is home to one of the handful of good small regional hospitals in the province. However, the nearest CT scanner is in St. John's, at the province's only major-league hospital -- a four-hour drive away. So you come to the regional hospital with chest pains, and the attending physician wants to give you a CT scan to check out your heart. You'll have to get an appointment in St. J</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ohn's, and then travel. If they send you home from the hospital to wait your turn, you'll wait three weeks or more. But if you've been admitted to the hospital, the wait is only a matter of days. So what should the doctor do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Of course: the doctor admits the patient, for no other reason than to move him ahead in the queue. He spends the better part of a week trundling aimlessly up and down the hospital hallways in his bathrobe, taking up a bed an</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">d using hospital supplies and services on the public dollar -- all to game the system into cutting down his wait-time for a necessary diagnostic procedure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">But hey -- it's </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 180%; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FREE!</span></span> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Not long ago, over at the </span><a href="http://winefredswell.blogspot.com/2009/08/home-again-home-again-jiggety-jig-back.html" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mother Blog</span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">, I sounded off about medical care in Canada, to this effect:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">There are many comments and criticisms one could make about any single-payer [government] health insurance system, such as Canada's. But on that subject, I am fond of making this factual (not critical) observation: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">The Canadian Health Care System is a gift from the American t</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">axpayer and their national military.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Why? Because if Canada invested in its own defense to the extent required to genuinely protect its people and territory without dependence upon</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> the United States, the country wouldn't have a hope in Hades of affording socialized medicine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">The U.S. military is 2,300,000 strong (regular plus reserves), with plans for another 750,000 to be added within the next three years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">The Canadian military is less than 100,000 strong (regular plus reserves), with no plans for increase. The number has already increased from its nadir in 2001 [having fallen by </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">one third</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> in the dec</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ade since 1991].</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Canada's population is approximately one tenth [10%] that of the U.S., and its land mass is larger.<br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Canada's military population is <span style="font-weight: bold;">less than one half of 1%</span> [.043] of that of the U.S. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">[Feel free to help me with the math if I've screwed this up.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Canada is essentially defended at the expense of the United States, with Canadians secure in their knowledge that the U.S. would never permit any military threat to their northern neighbour, becaus</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">e it's just too close to home and would leave America vulnerable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">So Canada's far (</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">FAR</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">) from perfect health care system is even more expensive than anybody is letting on. In at least one sense, it has cost Canadians their sovereignty.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">I would only amend these remarks by emphasizing, because it needs to be said, that in the Good Ol</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrqJM8mqDTq7r3f14QRsre4lY2rgMFzKKllQ-jD62uDfj3yH0rpSgcMHEmzDuC3z-W11zYuAyjMXCy8Atbs1e5stiu-C6kK1OV0aqcrPgbLWsIvGssDMpJxSbB63uYNqTcZVOkg7rppVs/s1600-h/Canadian+soldier.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392356064494960082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrqJM8mqDTq7r3f14QRsre4lY2rgMFzKKllQ-jD62uDfj3yH0rpSgcMHEmzDuC3z-W11zYuAyjMXCy8Atbs1e5stiu-C6kK1OV0aqcrPgbLWsIvGssDMpJxSbB63uYNqTcZVOkg7rppVs/s200/Canadian+soldier.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 133px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">d Days before Trudeaupia infected the land, Canada had a proud tradition of punching WAY above its weight in joining the community of nations for the preservation of the civilized world.<br />
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Proportionately to its population, Canada's military contribution to b</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">oth World Wars was substantial -- almost staggering. KIA's ran at 10%, if memory serves. Another member of the British Commonwealth, the then-independent mini-country of Newfoundland, made an even larger proportional contribution: for example, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in the Great War, Newfoundland casualties came to </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">90%</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> -- but they stayed in, kept joining up, and felt themselves born as a nation.<br />
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Today's Canadian Forces, ridiculously undersupplied and undersupported, and ever at the mercy of political winds, has acquitted itself with honour in Afghanistan, its ranks still heavily populated with the sons and daughters of the Maritime provinces -- as well as Québèc, amazingly enough [their storied Royal 22nd Regiment called "The Vandoos", for</span> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">vingt-deux</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">].<br />
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Historically, Canadian support for the military cratered in an inverse ratio to the rise of the statism and universal entitlements of Trudeaupian socialism (under which the military branches were forcibly amalgamated in 1968, into the generic "forces", sporting</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> a dull airline-pilot-style service dress). The numerical nadir of the forces was reached around 2001, but has crept upward since then (with distinctive uniform restoration too).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">As a percentage of GDP, Canada's military budget ranks </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">one-hundred-and-eleventh in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">So, despite their valiant character and record, today's Canadian Forces lack sufficient numbers [IMHO] to single-handedly beat back a serious invasion of even their youngest province [that would be Newfoundland], much less the whole country [the second largest national land-mass in the world].</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Tf2AkwBUUakpmdhI7rlLM3lyVThJp7sitZSdMmRmPaTggTIfiAcXINNQ9ffRoPqPQ1xy7uW9LqGODcAdlf70hW6xhMd26O7C-yVh9BM_bxObQWE52BHUsmpmKYvD03sd1GJvo610Pctg/s1600-h/band-aid.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392360199866097762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Tf2AkwBUUakpmdhI7rlLM3lyVThJp7sitZSdMmRmPaTggTIfiAcXINNQ9ffRoPqPQ1xy7uW9LqGODcAdlf70hW6xhMd26O7C-yVh9BM_bxObQWE52BHUsmpmKYvD03sd1GJvo610Pctg/s200/band-aid.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 122px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" face="verdana">But it's a small price to pay for universal health-care.<br />
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*ObamaCare will not promote abortions.<br />
*It is true that there are no provisions in the current plan specifically providing for abortions. However, there are provisions in the plan for "family planning." Given his record, many conservatives rightly suspect that to Mr. Obama family-planning means a lot of planning, and fewer people in order to reduce the amount of carbon producing biological units. This health care plan gives the Commissioner of Health Choices the power to determine future benefits within the plan. The promotion of abortion can be easily added once the bill is passed. This is another example of liberal incrementalism at its finest.<br />
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