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- Tar and Feathers Alert: It’s Good to Have A Friend Named Pelosi
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Obamacare Scatter Tuesday Edition
- Even if Detroit Had Jobs, No One Could Take Them
- If the World is Devoured By A Giant Space Squid on Saturday, Blame NASA
- The Camping Heresy: Why the World Won’t End This Weekend
| Tar and Feathers Alert: It’s Good to Have A Friend Named Pelosi Posted: 17 May 2011 07:43 AM PDT When I chose the latest massive Obamacare wavier dump as the main topic of today’s Clearing the Browser Tabs post, I didn’t take a close look at the list of companies and groups that got a Get Out of Stifling Bureaucracy Free card. Matthew Boyle at The Daily Caller, however, did and he found something veeeeery interesting:
What sets these 38 waivers apart from the rest, aside from their existence in Nancy Pelosi’s feifdom, is that they aren’t financial institutions, health care providers, or labor unions (the groups that have usually benefitted from the administration’s favor). These groups are high-dollar restaurants and hotels in which you and I likely couldn’t stay unless we robbed a bank or sold a couple internal organs. Oddly enough, none of the companies the Daily Caller contacted for comment were willing to explain why they needed a waiver from a health care law their representative to Congress forced upon them before any of them had time to read it. Nevertheless, these are the places with money in Pelosi’s district and I’m posititive that some of them have hosted fundraisers. I imagine a little digging would find just how many of these businesses have owners or management on Pelosi’s donor list. Maybe she could show some of that often-promised transparency and show us just how these waivers came about.
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| Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Obamacare Scatter Tuesday Edition Posted: 17 May 2011 03:10 AM PDT At some point, you’d think the MSM would twig to the fact that the Obama administration has now granted almost 1,400 waivers to its super-awesome government-run health care program. The latest round of waivers, announced on Friday to avoid the big news cycles, came to 221 and included many labor unions. You might recall how much money unions spent nationally to get Obamacare passed in the first place. Now, they’re getting their payback — exemptions from the ridiculously expensive provisions of the plan so that they don’t have to insure their employees the way less politically-connected companies will have to once the law goes into full effect. The wavers aren’t going to slow down, either. Nursing homes around the country are coming together to lobby for their own exemptions so they can simply stay in operation. That should tell you just how damaging Obamacare will be once the Democrats’ big plan comes to fruition. Remember to be in your place for The Delivery tonight at 9:30 PM Eastern. I have plenty of notes and I’m in fine fettle. You won’t want to miss it! And now, links!
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| Even if Detroit Had Jobs, No One Could Take Them Posted: 16 May 2011 08:02 PM PDT I have no idea how any resident of a city who has even a smidgen of pride in themselves and where they live can allow this to happen without staging a revolution.
What it really means is even if businesses swarmed into Detroit looking to hire by the thousands, they’d find almost half the city unemployable. No one should accept that and those people responsible, the Democrats who have run the city government for decades upon decades and the teachers’ unions that spent far more time lining their pockets than educating children, need to be run out of town on a rail. Then the parents of Detroit must own up to their responsibilities, not just as overseers of an education system that rightfully belongs to them but also as parents. Detroit’s children desperately need love and discipline. It’s time the grown-ups stepped up. (via ORlibertygal’s Twitter feed)
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| If the World is Devoured By A Giant Space Squid on Saturday, Blame NASA Posted: 16 May 2011 01:16 PM PDT
Let me say that again. We sent a squid into space today. Now, when I say “squid”, I don’t mean an old sailor or some sort of WWII vintage weapon. I mean we sent a ten-armed marine cephalopod into space. Oh, and it’s not just any squid. It’s a glowing squid whose glowing is critical to the reason its tentacles will go where no tentacles have gone before.
Read the whole thing, as they say, because the experiment itself is pretty cool and I don’t know how it could be done here on Earth. I suspect, though, that the genesis of this experiment was not entirely rooted in sound and sober science. I have no definitive proof for this, but a bottle or two of vodka might have been involved/ How else, but a panicky and hangover-related explanation to NASA a day later, , could you come up with such a scienc-y reason why NASA would put a glowing, betentacled horror from the briny depths in a position to be bombarded with cosmic rays so that it could be horribly mutated with a taste for human souls? Okay…come to think of it, maybe the world will end on Saturday.
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| The Camping Heresy: Why the World Won’t End This Weekend Posted: 16 May 2011 11:30 AM PDT
There is a man named Harold Camping who says, essentially, that the world will end in just a few days, on May 21, 2011. What makes Camping’s prediction different from the other nutjobs who found some mathemagical formula in some old texts of the Bible that he has a platform that reaches hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people every day. Camping founded Family Radio, which broadcasts from stations across the United States and, to the best of my knowledge, around the world. As well, he has access to enough money to buy quite a few billboards to spread his apocalyptic message. Let me say this as clearly as possible: Harold Camping is wrong. The rapture will not happen on Saturday, May 21, 2011. It could happen Friday. It could happen Sunday. It could happen in a hundred years (and yes, that means I do believe there will be a Rapture). It will not happen on Saturday. I can say that because I’m capable of reading a Bible. Now, I didn’t spend long years poring over obscure texts in distant libraries to learn that. I simply remembered the answer Jesus gave his disciples to answer a very similar question. In the book of Matthew, the disciples asked Jesus about the end of the world. They were curious because he had mentioned that the Temple in Jerusalem would be utterly destroyed. They were understandably upset — the Temple was a center not only of their national pride but also of their daily civic life. I imagine any of us would have wanted to know when the center of our known world would come crashing down about our ears. So they asked Jesus to tell them when the Temple would fall and what they could expect to happen before the disastrous event.
Here is the conclusion of his answer (Matthew 24:36-44). I don’t imagine it gave the disciples much solace, but it was the only answer Jesus could give them.
He said the same thing again just a few verses later:
Now, I’ve never met Harold Camping, but I’m pretty sure he’s a man, which would disqualify him from knowing when Jesus will return, according to Jesus’ own words. But heck, don’t take just Jesus’ word for it (after all, Harold Camping didn’t). Let me add the words of Paul the Apostle, Christianity’s first and perhaps foremost theologian.
Peter said almost exactly the same thing, though he added a little more post-second coming commentary.
I don’t imagine a “thief in the night” will show up clanging pots and banging drums, nor is that thief likely to leave us a cleverly-coded note that will reveal the exact day of his arrival. The thing about thieves is that they show up unannounced, when no one’s looking for them. Camping has simply gotten to smart for his own good. He’s managed to convince himself that the plain language of the Bible doesn’t actually apply to him, that his learning and devotion has made him different from the rest of the Bible-believing world. This makes him dangerous. See, there are going to be otherwise good Christians who hear Camping and look at his decades of experience and will take him at his word. Then, when May 21 passes without incident, they’ll get mad or discouraged, except they won’t be discouraged with Camping but with the Bible and with God. After all, he said this was all in the Bible and that God Himself had helped him come up with this prophecy. They won’t know that Camping tried the whole end of the world prediction before and was miserably wrong. All they will know is that a respected Christian teacher steered them wrong and they will have reason to doubt their faith. That’s wrong and Harold Camping ought to be ashamed of himself.
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We sent a squid into space today.
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