Sunday, March 18, 2012
The Flight of Old 666
A BIT OF HISTORY.....THAT I WAS UNAWARE OF
THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST
Flight of Old 666
Amazing video!
So long
ago.... and war is never pretty, but the great bravery by
these
guys definitely was
an important chapter in defeating Japan !
Culture of Death
'Wrongful Birth'
An Oregon couple won a wrongful
birth lawsuit last Friday and was awarded nearly $3 million. What is
"wrongful birth," you may ask? The couple convinced a jury that their
daughter should not have been born because she has Down syndrome, which the
woman's doctor assured her was not the case while the girl was in utero.
The couple contends that they would have aborted their daughter and now face
the financial burden of raising her. It is appalling that a jury voted 12-0 and
awarded this couple $3 million for the admission that they would have killed
their child if they had only known. Granted, raising special needs children can
be expensive, but we mourn the fact that the culture of death is so pervasive
-- at least in Oregon -- that a human being can be legally declared to have
been wrongfully born.
www.patriotpost.usU.S.S. Enterprise's Final Deployment
The aircraft carrier USS
Enterprise (CVN-65) departed on its 22nd and final deployment this week. When
the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier returns later this year, it will be
deactivated and eventually decommissioned, marking the end of more than 50
years in service. We certainly hope CVN-65 doesn't share the same fate as the
previous Enterprise -- the World War II carrier CV-6 was dismantled for scrap.
There are possible plans to preserve the island of the carrier, but nothing is
finalized.
With the decommissioning, the Navy
will no longer have a ship named "Enterprise," unless that name is
bestowed upon CVN-80. The unfortunate tradition now is to name carriers after
undeserving politicians -- the USS Ronald Reagan being an exception. Jimmy
Carter and John Murtha happen to serve as the most offensive examples. Indeed,
ship names have become little more than political cookies. We mean no
disrespect, but naming a ship the USS Gabrielle Giffords after the former
Arizona Democrat representative is not terribly appropriate. She has bravely
persevered in her recovery after being shot in the head last year, but how
about a ship named after a Founding Father first?
www.patriotpost.usObamaCare Lie #3
Lie Number 3: "Under our plan, no federal dollars will be
used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place."
--Barack Obama in the aforementioned September 2009 address
The Department of Health and Human
Services finalized a rule this week establishing state health care exchanges,
and those plans will collect from each premium payer a $1 surcharge to fund
abortions. Obama's HHS will use accounting gimmicks to circumvent the Hyde
Amendment, which prohibits direct taxpayer funding of abortion. Former Democrat
Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan and other Democrats made a grand show over this
issue in 2010, refusing to vote for the health care takeover until Obama
included a ban on funding abortion. They got their wish, but Obama hasn't
upheld his end of the bargain.
It's becoming more and more
important that this unconstitutional atrocity be either struck down by the
Supreme Court or repealed by our alleged representatives. The White House has
already mapped out a desperate strategy to boost public support. Perhaps
it's no wonder that the law's supporters are organizing a prayer vigil as the
Court hears arguments March 26. To whom they will be offering prayer is another
matter.
ObamaCare Lie #2
Lie Number 2: "If you like your health care plan, you can
keep your health care plan." --Barack Obama in August 2009, but repeated
often
Obama and his fellow Democrats
insisted that ObamaCare was not a government takeover of health care, and that,
while all the uninsured would be cared for, none of the currently insured would
lose coverage. However, The Hill reports, "Four million Americans can
expect to lose their employer-provided healthcare by 2016, according to the
revised figures, far more than the 1 million people estimated last year."
You can check our math, but that's approximately four million more people than Obama
promised in his 2009 speech. By 2022, the CBO says that number could reach 20
million. More employers dropping coverage in favor of paying the penalty means
a revenue increase, too, improving ObamaCare's bottom line.
As if to make good news out of
broken promises, CBS headlined, "CBO lowers health reform cost estimate." This bit
of deception referenced the provision meant to cover the uninsured when the
real news was about the overall cost increase. It's true that the coverage cost
was revised lower, but that's only because some two million fewer people will
be insured than originally estimated, not because of any great savings.
www.patriotpost.usObamaCare Lie #1
Lie
Number 1: "Now, add it all up, and the plan I'm proposing will cost around
$900 billion over 10 years." --Barack Obama in a September 2009 speech to
a joint session of Congress
The Congressional Budget Office at the time did confirm Obama's numbers, but the CBO scores legislation only as written, without any assumptions or reality checks, and therefore accounted for just six years of spending because most provisions of the law don't kick in until 2014. There were other revenue and cost games, too, since it was paramount that the cost be less than the Iraq War so Democrats could sell it as saving money. We weren't fooled then and neither were millions of Americans, but Democrats rammed it through anyway.
This week, the CBO released an updated report that includes three more years of ObamaCare inside that 10-year window. The estimated cost over a decade is now an eye-popping $1.76 trillion, or nearly twice what Democrats told us in 2009. Not only that, but it won't be until next year that we get a truer 10-year cost estimate, assuming the law isn't repealed or overturned by the Supreme Court. That estimate will surpass $2 trillion. Let's hope Justice Anthony Kennedy wakes up on the right side of the bed the day he makes his decision.
The Congressional Budget Office at the time did confirm Obama's numbers, but the CBO scores legislation only as written, without any assumptions or reality checks, and therefore accounted for just six years of spending because most provisions of the law don't kick in until 2014. There were other revenue and cost games, too, since it was paramount that the cost be less than the Iraq War so Democrats could sell it as saving money. We weren't fooled then and neither were millions of Americans, but Democrats rammed it through anyway.
This week, the CBO released an updated report that includes three more years of ObamaCare inside that 10-year window. The estimated cost over a decade is now an eye-popping $1.76 trillion, or nearly twice what Democrats told us in 2009. Not only that, but it won't be until next year that we get a truer 10-year cost estimate, assuming the law isn't repealed or overturned by the Supreme Court. That estimate will surpass $2 trillion. Let's hope Justice Anthony Kennedy wakes up on the right side of the bed the day he makes his decision.
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