Senator Chuck Schumer doesn't know the 3 branches of government

The House, the Senate and the Presidency. Sigh. And this man is allowed to make decisions that create laws that rule my life. But why should I be surprised. Our President doesn't know how many states are in the U.S. or how long he's allowed to serve and our Vice President doesn't know how many letters is in the word "Jobs".

Toning it down and a tone of civility by Liberals

It’s Art… Madison Theater Kills Off Right-Wingers For Fun In Latest Play
Original Post: Gateway Pundit

Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 7:09 PM

Here’s more on that new national tone…

A Madison Theater is running a play where right-wingers are invited to dinner and then murdered.
It’s art.

620 WTMJ and The Daily Page reported:

Five lefty graduate students in Iowa City gather for weekly dinners to revel in their shared (and sometimes smug) world view. The first dinner we witness ignites a surprising shared mission when one of the students invites the truck driver who offered him roadside assistance to join them. This young man, a patriotic Desert Storm vet, first startles the group when he insists on saying grace before the vegan meal and then goes on to praise Hitler, alarming and repulsing the other dinners. Threats and violence ensue, and one of the hosts stabs him.

As he lies bleeding on an area rug, the quintet, after some debate and initial hand-wringing, decide that they have done society a favor by eliminating him and silencing his dangerous words. They also decide that since participating in protests and sit-ins has been a futile way to fight the power, this new dinner party/murder method may be a more effective technique in coping with right-wing adversaries.

Soon a parade of special guests is invited to dine, and when their dinner conversation proves repellent, they are given poisoned wine and buried in the backyard. Our smarty-pants grad students toast themselves for making a difference each time and feel vindicated when they learn that their first victim, the trucker, was implicated in a heinous crime. The death toll grows, and the tomato plants seen through the patio door flourish.

Just blow up global warming skeptics
Original Post: Daily Mail

October 1, 2010 by Don Surber

From the You Tube citation: “Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis — you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief — and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly present their explosive new mini-movie No Pressure. The film stars X-Files’ Gillian Anderson, together with Spurs players past and present — including Peter Crouch, Ledley King and David Ginola — with music donated by Radiohead. Shot on 35mm by a 40-strong professional film crew led by director Dougal Wilson, No Pressure celebrates everybody who is actively tackling climate change… by blowing up those are aren’t.”

Ho ho ho.

And you people who think that blowing up people you disagree with isn’t funny are squares.

It’s just jelly and bananas.

But it is not humor or satire. It is frustration. It is the fact that global warming believers cannot make a sane, logical and rational argument for their position. They call skeptics :deniers” as if we are a bunch of Nazis denying an event that actually occurred.

There is not a single prediction made by global warming believers that has come true in the last 25 years.

Not one.

And so they resort to violence.

Couched as humor — but not really funny.

No matter how smug they are.

By the way, don’t explosives release carbon into the air? Doesn’t the harvesting and transportation of bananas release carbon? I wonder what the carbon footprint was of this film.

From Anthony Watts: “What were they thinking? They weren’t, because this is going to have the exact opposite effect they intended it to have. I don’t have words to describe my disgust with the video.”

UPDATE: The organization has since made it a “private” video. Bluck, bluck, bluck. Well, they are Chicken Littles. But you can see how they made the film:

UPDATE II: A reader sent a new link. We shall see how long this lasts.

In light of the Arizona shooting the media/left has been telling us how our rhetoric is too heated, how we have to tone it down. It's the right wing speech that has caused the shooter to do this, even though everyone who knew him called him a left-wing nut job. But no, it's the violent right wing speech that has caused this and certainly not the compassionate, tolerant, open minded speech of the liberals.

I apologize for this but it's too funny.

Secret Service embarrised to investigate political dissent

Jacob Volkmann, UFC fighter, gets visit from Secret Service after saying he wants to fight Obama
Original Post: NY Daily News

By Nina Mandell
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

John McCain's not the only one in Washington a little down on Ultimate Fighting.

The Secret Service doesn't seem to be big fans either.

Jacob Volkmann, a UFC lightweight, got a visit from the agency after declaring in a post-fight interview that he wants to fight President Obama because he disagrees with his health care policy.

What happened next shocked the 30-year-old Minnesota-based fighter.

After an unknown source reported his remarks to the Secret Service (who decided it was legit enough for a follow up), an officer was sent to pay Volkmann a visit, he told MMA Weekly.

When the officer showed up on Tuesday, Volkmann was busy coaching a youth practice.

"One of the other coaches that was helping me out, they said there was a cop and another guy out there waiting for me," he told the website.

When he went outside, a Secret Service agent was waiting -- with a picture of the fighter and his exact quotes on a piece of paper.

"He was like 'is this what you said?' and I said, 'yes it is.' He's like 'I want to let you know I'm a little embarrassed for coming here and doing this because obviously nothing happened.' He actually apologized for coming, but he had to come. He wanted to make sure I wasn't going to D.C to hurt the President," Volkmann said.

Volkmann told the website he thinks that a member of Obama's campaign team sent him an email threatening to tell the Secret Service and FBI about his controversial remarks.

But the outspoken fighter, who works as a chiropractor when he doesn't have people in choke holds, said he doesn't mind speaking out on what he believes in -- and won't let a visit from the Secret Service stop him.

"People were misunderstanding the point of view I was going for with the health care plan," he told MMA Weekly. "I'm thinking about the provider, I'm a chiropractor, so I'm thinking about my point of view, not everyone getting insurance. They don't have to worry about getting denied, which is good I guess, just not good for health care providers."

Four year old recites Presidential Oath of Office

In doing research for my post on the Washington Post reporter and MSNBC contributor who can't read I came upon this little gem.

Now we have four year olds who can recite the Presidential Oath of Office better than our President!

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"...under the gaze of more than two million crowded onto Washington's National Mall and millions more around the world, Obama said: "I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president of the United States faithfully, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States.

"So help me God."

As specified in the US Constitution, the word "faithfully" precedes the phrase "execute the office," but the chief justice, in his first presidential inauguration, read that part of the oath incorrectly...."

Washington post reporter Ezra Klein can't read

"You can say two things about it [the Constitution], one that it has no binding power. And two. The issue with the Constitution is not that people don’t read the text and think their following. The issue with the Constitution is that the text is confusing because it was written more than a hundred years ago and what people believes it says differs from person to person."

You can say that it has no binding power, but you'd be wrong.

Wow, just wow. No wonder he finds it so confusing. He doesn't know what it says. The Constitution is indeed binding. In fact, all other laws are subservient to the Constitution. He is one of the liberal intelligentsia elite, the wise the smart. Yet he can't figure out the language of the Constitution? Yes, it's a touch old. It's not really that hard. Just get yourself a dictionary for some of the more archaic terms and there you go. If you have an ounce of critical thinking skills you can infer the definitions from the context (that means what's going on in and around the sentence.

So I suppose if a document is to hard to read you can just make up what it says. But he has a job. Someone paid him to say that and other people (including myself) watched him say it. Oh, and I'm also given to understand that he's a Political Science Major. I'd get my money back if I were him.

Well, this is for the Ezra Kleins of the world who have a hard time reading.

And.

Apparently there is also a two year old child with greater comprehension of the Constitution than Ezra Klein

We all knew that there were two year olds with greater comprehension than Washington Post reporters, now we have proof. astoundingly

Superman vs. Aliens

Obama pays doctor's to tell patients to kill themselves

Original Post: NY Times

Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: December 25, 2010

WASHINGTON — When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1. Because if Obama can't use the legislative process, he can just use his dictatorial powers to add to the law after it has already been written.

Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment. ie. the government will pay doctors to try to get patients to kill themselves.

Congressional supporters of the new policy, though pleased, have kept quiet. They fear provoking another furor like the one in 2009 when Republicans seized on the idea of end-of-life counseling to argue that the Democrats’ bill would allow the government to cut off care for the critically ill. I thought we needed this bill to stop insurance companies from cutting off care for the sick? I guess it's just ok with the government does it.

The final version of the health care legislation, signed into law by President Obama in March, authorized Medicare coverage of yearly physical examinations, or wellness visits. The new rule says Medicare will cover “voluntary advance care planning,” to discuss end-of-life treatment, as part of the annual visit.

Under the rule, doctors can provide information to patients on how to prepare an “advance directive,” stating how aggressively they wish to be treated if they are so sick that they cannot make health care decisions for themselves.

While the new law does not mention advance care planning, the Obama administration has been able to achieve its policy goal through the regulation-writing process, a strategy that could become more prevalent in the next two years as the president deals with a strengthened Republican opposition in Congress. Or, Obama doesn't need congress and we no longer have separation of powers. Obama can just write regulation and make his well done. Between that and the power usurping Czars, we might as well not even have Congress anymore.

In this case, the administration said research had shown the value of end-of-life planning.

“Advance care planning improves end-of-life care and patient and family satisfaction and reduces stress, anxiety and depression in surviving relatives,” the administration said in the preamble to the Medicare regulation, quoting research published this year in the British Medical Journal.

The administration also cited research by Dr. Stacy M. Fischer, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who found that “end-of-life discussions between doctor and patient help ensure that one gets the care one wants.” In this sense, Dr. Fischer said, such consultations “protect patient autonomy.”

Opponents said the Obama administration was bringing back a procedure that could be used to justify the premature withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from people with severe illnesses and disabilities.

Section 1233 of the bill passed by the House in November 2009 — but not included in the final legislation — allowed Medicare to pay for consultations about advance care planning every five years. In contrast, the new rule allows annual discussions as part of the wellness visit.

Elizabeth D. Wickham, executive director of LifeTree, which describes itself as “a pro-life Christian educational ministry,” said she was concerned that end-of-life counseling would encourage patients to forgo or curtail care, thus hastening death.

“The infamous Section 1233 is still alive and kicking,” Ms. Wickham said. “Patients will lose the ability to control treatments at the end of life.”

Several Democratic members of Congress, led by Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, had urged the administration to cover end-of-life planning as a service offered under the Medicare wellness benefit. A national organization of hospice care providers made the same recommendation.

Mr. Blumenauer, the author of the original end-of-life proposal, praised the rule as “a step in the right direction.”

“It will give people more control over the care they receive,” Mr. Blumenauer said in an interview. “It means that doctors and patients can have these conversations in the normal course of business, as part of our health care routine, not as something put off until we are forced to do it.” So, this was necessary because patients and doctors couldn't discuss end of life treatment before? I don't think that was the case, in fact I'm pretty sure such conversations were prevalent. They were even prevalent with out the financial incentive for doctor's to advise patients to end themselves.

After learning of the administration’s decision, Mr. Blumenauer’s office celebrated “a quiet victory,” but urged supporters not to crow about it.

“While we are very happy with the result, we won’t be shouting it from the rooftops because we aren’t out of the woods yet,” Mr. Blumenauer’s office said in an e-mail in early November to people working with him on the issue. “This regulation could be modified or reversed, especially if Republican leaders try to use this small provision to perpetuate the ‘death panel’ myth.” It's not a myth if it's happening.