h/t Mark Levin
Friday, June 29, 2012
Expiration Date
"In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with
all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general
Government necessary for us, and there is no form of
Government but what may be a blessing to the people if
well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to
be well administered for a course of years, and can only
end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it,
when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic
Government, being incapable of any other." Benjamin Franklin to the Federal Convention, Sept. 17, 1787
h/t Mark Levin
h/t Mark Levin
Welcome to More Taxes
In addition to stealing about $500 billion from Medicare, which is already staggering as it is, here is a brief breakdown of what Obamacare was predicted to cost in 2010 and what it now predicted to cost. Costs will, of course, keep spiraling upward.
Add to that little tidbits like an excise tax on medical equipment (including walkers, pacemakers, wheelchairs, etc.) and I still am a bit puzzled as to how this makes good healthcare affordable.
The best comment I've seen on the stupidity of the economics of this was posted by Moogie yesterday:
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Oh, by the way...
What got declared Constitutional today, in addition to the other immoralities in it, also includes eventually gathering all of our medical records into a central database. Currently, the patient is considered the owner of their medical records, the doctor the custodian. Let me see, who would I rather own my records, me or a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy? Decisions, decisions.
Today's Decision
In the end, what the Supreme Court says today will tell us not about justice or right but only about how hard we are going to have to fight going forward on this particular issue. If the Court were infallible then Plessy v Ferguson and Dred Scott would never have happened.
Much is wrong in our culture and our government. Obamacare is just one facet of it. There is a much, much bigger battle that needs to be waged to take back the rights that have been eroded and to destroy the nanny state mentality that is leading us down the path to becoming Europe.
Much is wrong in our culture and our government. Obamacare is just one facet of it. There is a much, much bigger battle that needs to be waged to take back the rights that have been eroded and to destroy the nanny state mentality that is leading us down the path to becoming Europe.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Getting Loaded
No, not this kind of loaded:
This kind:
I have some suggestions for Lee, the primary one being to give more detail in the setup instructions. Not all parts are visible in the little photos and as a consequence it's not always clear what to do with them until after stumbling about for a bit. Also, it would be nice if these were mentioned/shown somewhere:
They came in the little baggie. I have no idea what to do with them...
Entertainment value: Well, the press has a nice little catch basin and tube for the primers as they are knocked out. The problem is that there is a much bigger groove on the opposite side that encourages the primers to pop out on that side instead. I think 5 out of 100 actually went where they were supposed to.
Annoyance value: The nice wood knob handle for the end of the press lever lasted about 5 cartridges. After that it got tossed onto the table because I was tired of it coming off in my hand.
I've got 50 .30 carbine and 50 9mm cartridges de-primed and ready for the next step. I went through and measured each one quickly and found that while the 9 mm shells are within the tolerances given in the Lyman book, the .30 carbine shells are too long:
And what they've given me to deal with it seems to be this:
Which they show being used by hand to grind down the casings to tolerance. Um, maybe someone with much stronger hands than me. I just managed to ding it a little. I may be ordering .30 carbine until ML gets a little free time and can come over and demonstrate for me.
Next adventure this weekend is the rest of the steps with the 9 mm, since they are sized correctly. There's the whole figuring out and measuring gunpowder thing yet to come.
This kind:
I have some suggestions for Lee, the primary one being to give more detail in the setup instructions. Not all parts are visible in the little photos and as a consequence it's not always clear what to do with them until after stumbling about for a bit. Also, it would be nice if these were mentioned/shown somewhere:
They came in the little baggie. I have no idea what to do with them...
Entertainment value: Well, the press has a nice little catch basin and tube for the primers as they are knocked out. The problem is that there is a much bigger groove on the opposite side that encourages the primers to pop out on that side instead. I think 5 out of 100 actually went where they were supposed to.
Annoyance value: The nice wood knob handle for the end of the press lever lasted about 5 cartridges. After that it got tossed onto the table because I was tired of it coming off in my hand.
I've got 50 .30 carbine and 50 9mm cartridges de-primed and ready for the next step. I went through and measured each one quickly and found that while the 9 mm shells are within the tolerances given in the Lyman book, the .30 carbine shells are too long:
And what they've given me to deal with it seems to be this:
Which they show being used by hand to grind down the casings to tolerance. Um, maybe someone with much stronger hands than me. I just managed to ding it a little. I may be ordering .30 carbine until ML gets a little free time and can come over and demonstrate for me.
Next adventure this weekend is the rest of the steps with the 9 mm, since they are sized correctly. There's the whole figuring out and measuring gunpowder thing yet to come.
Friday, June 22, 2012
No No No!
This is NOT a baby, it's a fetus, and therefore not human.
So doctors absolutely did not operate to remove a tumor from the mouth of Lyna Gonzales at 17 weeks gestation. The child Lyna Gonzales did not exist until the moment of her birth - up until then she was just a choice. They removed a tumor from an animal who could equally have been cut into pieces and sucked into a garbage bucket.
Lucky Planned Parenthood didn't get hold of the case - Lyna is the wrong sex.
Full story here.
So doctors absolutely did not operate to remove a tumor from the mouth of Lyna Gonzales at 17 weeks gestation. The child Lyna Gonzales did not exist until the moment of her birth - up until then she was just a choice. They removed a tumor from an animal who could equally have been cut into pieces and sucked into a garbage bucket.
Lucky Planned Parenthood didn't get hold of the case - Lyna is the wrong sex.
Full story here.
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