April 6, 2010
Briefly…
…I was watching Obama Hatchetwoman Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius give her spiel on C-Span this morning and was struck by the wideness of the spectrum encompassed by Obama’s “Health” Care program.
Unsurprisingly, the thin lipped, angular featured (I don’t want to make disparaging remarks about anyone’s appearance, but she did kinda’ sorta remind me of a hatchet, come to think of it) cabinet member managed to incorporate education, “acceptable” foods, corporate salaries and a few other items in there that I simply couldn’t relate to health care, per se, but maybe that was just me.
My own impression was that she was laying the groundwork for the mega-agenda distribution of the soon-to-be voluminously increased taxes we will behold as the Obama Administration and its Pelosi led, Congressional marxist contingent do their unconstitutional best, under the blanket misnomer of “health care”, to strip us of our liberty and as much of our hard earned money as they possibly can.
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April 6th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Last year they DOUBLED taxes on pipe tobacco. Was $16 a can, now $34. You worry about your Dr. Pepper and loaded fries, Seth…I gotta find me a Tennesee
guy wid a still and some tobaccy….
..now Sibelius, well she ran a pretty good gov’t in one of the weirdest state of the Union. Never recovered from Quantrill’s raiders, apparently. At one point they wanted to ban science from their textbooks,
know what I mean?
April 6th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
BB –
Hussein Obama, Sebelius’ current boss, added a buck to the price of a pack of cigarettes on April 1st of last year, but alas and alack, it was no April Fools joke, and that was followed by a flurry of taxes added on by tax-hungry politicians in various states and, in some cases, cities as well. A pack in N.Y.C. is something like $11.50 now.
Pipe tobacco didn’t go up as much, pound for pound, as cigarettes, so I hear that now there are companies selling loose cigarette tobacco in pouches labelled “pipe tobacco”. Go figure, obscenely high taxes lead to the finding of ways around obscenely high taxes.
Sebelius’ gripe with the schools’ teaching of evolution was that they were obviously allowing a creationism alternative, which all anti-God lefties deplore.
Since the school board members were elected by the voters, they were going in the direction the voters wanted. As we know from the healthcare bill, the left does not believe that the people are competent enough to decide, as the Constitution instructs, what the government should do.
That’s why Obama and company, Sebelius included, are pointing us in a communist direction.
Ah, Quantril: They came to brn Lawrence …
April 7th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
“Sebelius’ gripe with the schools’ teaching of evolution was that they were obviously allowing a creationism alternative, which all anti-God lefties deplore.” I suppose I sound like a broken wheel, but
just one of the reasons only 6% of scientists vote GOP.
BTW, just hearsay, but I heard William Quantrill was a big Glenn Beck fan…:)
April 7th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
BB –
…only 6% of scientists vote GOP.
On the other hand, many scientists also consider themselves above the faith-based beliefs and politics of the majority of the world’s peoples, and are also subject to the vagaries of the lucrative “government research grant”, thereby having to choose their alliances and stated political beliefs verrrry carefully.
It’s hard to imagine Glenn Beck “drunken with powder and wine”, though, let alone galloping on a horse through a haze of gunsmoke, so he’d've made Quantril a lousy role model.
April 7th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
True, many scientists consider themselves above, etc.
True, the ‘government research grant’ is highly sought.
Shamefully (I guess) I personally used such funds in the development of the primer for the GAU-8 system..and my oldest girl taught Grant Writing at both Gonzaga and West Point. My other daughter received an NFS grant for the study of viral “Effects of Charged Cluster Mutations on the Function of HSV-I UL34 Protein” If you happen to read Journal of Virology. Basic research; leads to cures and stuff.
That aside, yes, there are some goofy grants..recall
Senator Proxmire’s ‘Golden Fleece Awards’..back to ol
Quantrill, the 1958 movie was directed by E. Bernds, who had graduated from directing the Three Stooges movies. I guess if we give Quantrill a break, we can say he honestly thought he could convert the New England settlers in Kansas to being slave-owners, mostly by killing them…and he DID mentor Jesse and Frank James. Aw heck, where were we?
April 7th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
BB –
Quantrill would probably have gotten along well with a jihadi or two, religions aside.
Speaking of Scientists:
Who invented nuclear, biological and chemical warfare agents?
a) the GOP
b) scientists
c) Burger King
d) one of the above
April 7th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Gotta admit, last time I ate there. Burger King?
Hearsay has it that poisoning wells goes back into prehistory (precludes GOP, scientists & Burger King)
and the handing out of smallpox blankets, Greek Fire,
and poor Madame Curie, the first victim of a nuclear
agent. Your test reminds me of college zoology tests, the prof listed 6 potential answers: they could all be true, none be true, some be true…so ya penciled in what you thought. Had to be careful, because any wrong answers were subtracted. Met my wife in Zoology lab and she STILL has nightmares about Prof Gingerich’s
tests. I like to think that scientists invented everything that is good: engineers made the bad stuff.
You buy that?
April 8th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
BB –
I like to think that scientists invented everything that is good: engineers made the bad stuff.
You buy that?
Ah, yes, scientists have given us a lot of good things, including cinnamon apple flavor exterminator candles and, I suppose, the process for manufacturing frozen microwaveable burritos, but…
…but don’t engineers engineer products of the scientist’s scientificness? In order, for example, to create a weaponized mumps virus, wouldn’t an engineer need a spreadable mumps product from the scientist to work with?
April 8th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
True. There was Baron von Frankenstein. Weaponry is a good example; Oppenheimer wanted a bomb to end a war,
von Braun wanted to go to the moon. Like the song says, “put em together and what have ya got?” MIRVs,
I worked with a bunch of swell engineers - the joke was always a version of “A scientist is an engineer with his brains knocked out” or vice versa. Both integral to R&D teams. BTW, of the 6% scientists that lean conservative, I’d guess 80-90% are in the defense industry. I was often introduced at meetings as “our token liberal”. Like breaking barriers, you know?
..and no, I was NOT involved in cinnamin apple flavor exterminator candles. Sat through a lecture on germ warfare vectors one time- they had a secret tiny generator whirling in the back spreading UV florescent particles. Turned out the lights at the end, and turned on ‘black light’. We all had glowing mouths and nostrils. Shades of Al Jolson….
April 9th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
BB –
Oppenheimer wanted a bomb to end a war,
von Braun wanted to go to the moon. Like the song says, “put em together and what have ya got?” MIRVs
LOL!!!!
One could make much of that, wondering if, in reality, Oppenheimer was actually laughing maniacally in the privacy of his lab, you know, “muahahahahah!” and thinking “I wanna blow the &#!% out of something!”
Who’d'a thunk they’d do a psychedelic blacklite thing at a germ warfare lecture! Groovy, man, Lysergic scientific diethylamide 25!