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Do you really want universal healthcare just like Cuba?

Investors Business Daily editorializes about the lucky Cubans and their universal healthcare system. Everyone is treated equally, which is apparently a Spanish word that means “poorly.”


Ahhh, the glories of the Democratic People’s Republic of Cuba.

Investors Business Daily editorializes about the lucky Cubans and their universal healthcare system. Everyone is treated equally, which is apparently a Spanish word that means “poorly.”

… CNN is presenting Cuba’s socialized health care system as “a model for health care reform in the United States,” according to a report on the cable network last week. The report credits low cost and universal coverage.

“How does Cuba do it?” gushed the CNN anchor. “First of all, the government dictates salaries. Doctors earn less than $30 per month — very little compared to doctors elsewhere. And priority is given to avoiding expensive procedures, says Gail Reed (a contributor to the Cuban communist party propaganda organ Granma), who’s lived and worked in Cuba for decades.”
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Far right anti-Muslim bigot speaks out against theology of hate

Finally someone in the Muslim world speaks out against the religion’s murdering lunatics. Abdullah Saeed, head of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at Australia’s Melbourne University.

Abdullah Saeed espouses some very unpopular points of view
Abdullah Saeed espouses some very unpopular points of view

Wait. We stand corrected. The following comments weren’t made by an anti-Muslim bigot. They were made by Abdullah Saeed, head of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at Australia’s Melbourne University.

Finally someone in the Muslim world speaks out against the religion’s murdering lunatics:

The silent majority (of Muslims) should strengthen its campaign of undermining the militancy and hatred advocated by the extremists. This campaign should begin at Friday sermons, in mosques, at homes, through lesson at Muslim weekend and day schools, in study circles and youth camps. This is no doubt happening but more needs to be done in view of the present situation.
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The real story of Slick Willy’s excellent adventure
in Pyongyang

London Daily Mail that reveals details about the so-called Bill Clinotn “rescue” of reporters imprisoned in North Korea that have been conspicuously absent in the American media.

"Just me and two hot Asian chicks," the former President mused, "alone in an airplane for fifteen hours."
"Just me and two hot Asian chicks," the former President mused, "alone in an airplane for fifteen hours."

Last week was like old times for the American media. According to the template, former President Bill Clinton flew into enemy territory and used the power of his charm to free two innocent American journalists who had been unlawfully arrested by the evil North Koreans.

Unfortunately, none of it is true.

Luckily, Sunday’s London Daily Mail that reveals details about the so-called “rescue” that have been conspicuously absent in the American media:

…Bill Clinton has found it increasingly hard to reconcile himself to life on the sidelines. When asked to undertake a ‘sensitive’ mission to ‘rescue’ the pair, he jumped at the chance.

He was picked up at an airport near his home in the bucolic New York suburb of Chappaqua by a private jet laid on by the Dow Chemical company. It flew him 3,000 miles to Burbank, California, where he boarded a Boeing 737 provided by Steve Bing, one of his best friends and a generous contributor to the Clinton Foundation, the charity with which he has been occupying his post-Presidential years.
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Town hall hypocrisy: The liberal media’s protest dictionary

If you’re having trouble separating the hypocrisy in coverage of town hall anger, we’ve prepared this handy guide designed to help you recognize the difference between people who protest and people who cause disruptions.

We apologize for the horrifying photo, but the image of a "two-faced pig" just came to mind when we thought about the media
We apologize for the horrifying photo, but the image of a "two-faced pig" just came to mind when we thought about the media

The media has a problem with all these people showing up to townhall meetings and voicing their dissent. Dissension, after all, is only praiseworthy when its target is a Republican President or conservative lawmakers.

You may remember a few protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Bush years. (By the way, whatever happened to war protests?)

Then there was the infamous shoe-chucking incident that was reported in a kind of a jokey way.

If you’re having trouble separating the hypocrisy in coverage of town hall anger, we’ve prepared this handy guide designed to help you recognize the difference between people who protest and people who cause disruptions.
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If you take a photo of me eating a cheeseburger today, I’ll gladly return your camera on Tuesday

Warning: Do not attempt to take a photograph of the First Lady eating a cheeseburger. Fellow patrons had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevent pictures from being taken.

Careful, MIchelle. The Surgeon General warns against those awful transfats.
Careful, MIchelle. The Surgeon General warns against those awful transfats.

Warning: Do not attempt to take a photograph of the First Lady eating a cheeseburger.

Here’s an odd Obama report from the New York Post:

Michelle Obama, like her husband, enjoys a good burger, but not as well done. The first lady brought daughters Malia and Sasha to former “Top Chef” contestant Spike Mendelsohn’s Good Stuff Eatery in DC for cheeseburgers, onion rings, fries, and milkshakes. “They got the burgers medium,” says a spy. (President Obama was mildly ridiculed after ordering a burger medium-well in January.) “Three starving Secret Service guys were literally standing over the grill as Spike made the burgers, but didn’t eat,” our source adds. Fellow patrons had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevent pictures from being taken.

Michelle had better remember the old adage, “A moment on the lips, forever on the hips.”

Or as we say here at IHateTheMedia.com, “No second helpings for the First Lady.”

Source: New York Post

Quote of the Day:
“Left to it’s own devices with our tax revenues the Congress and Obama administration are like heroin addicts arguing over the last speedball that’s already been shot up.”

“Left to it’s own devices with our tax revenues the Congress and Obama administration are like heroin addicts arguing over the last speedball that’s already been shot up.”

Source: Burning Toast

Democrats reveal the truth about ObamaCare and your private insurance

Here is the truth about Obamacare, as spoken among friends by Barack Obama, NPR’s Julie Rovner, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Yale professor Jakob Hacker, the architect of the ObamaCare sham.

Here it is. The truth as spoken among friends by Barack Obama, NPR’s Julie Rovner, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Yale professor Jakob Hacker, the architect of the ObamaCare sham.

In the words of VerumSerum.com, “Jacob Hacker has been a key player in the formation of the public plan strategy, dating back over 5 years. We thought it was time someone shined some light on the ulterior motives embedded within his plan. The mainstream media has been well-aware of the historical players and developments related to the public plan option, and the fact that they have not been bringing all aspects of this to the public’s attention is yet another clear illustration of liberal media bias.”

Hoisted on their own petard. (We’ve always loved that phrase and would like to thank the Democrats for giving us this opportunity to use it).

Source: Verum Serum

Glass half-full: The positive side of the economic downturn

Harvard had a $36.9 billion endowment, the largest in academia. The endowment has imploded, and the university faces the worst financial crisis in its 373-year history.

Hard times at Harvard: The endowment is going down
Hard times at Harvard: The endowment is going down

Unemployment is at record levels and growing. The tsunami of commercial loan foreclosures still hasn’t begun. The “stimulus” money is sitting unspent in bank vaults across America. The national debt is spiraling out of control. Yet there is a ray of sunshine.

“Only a year ago,” Vanity Fair says in its latest issue, “Harvard had a $36.9 billion endowment, the largest in academia. Now that endowment has imploded, and the university faces the worst financial crisis in its 373-year history. Could the same lethal mix of uncurbed expansion, colossal debt, arrogance, and mismanagement that ravaged Wall Street bring down America’s most famous university?

One can only hope.

Source: Vanity Fair

The worst argument ever for ObamaCare: It will be like the post office

Let’s just ignore all the stuttering and stammering from the Wizard of Uhs. Let’s concentrate on his contention that ObamaCAre will be good because it’s like the post office.

Let’s just ignore all the stuttering and stammering from the Wizard of Uhs. Let’s concentrate on his contention that ObamaCAre will be good because it’s like the post office.

  1. The post office has no competition. It has a monopoly on first class mail. Much like ObamaCare will have a monopoly on healthcare.
  2. Despite that monopoly, they lose money hand-over-fist every year. Much like ObamaCAre will have a monopoly on healthcare.
  3. Fedex and UPS eat the post office’s lunch where they actually compete. Much like insurance companies…uhhhh…well, there won’t really be any insurance companies to compete with ObamaCare.

The Greatest President In History, who has never worked in private enterprise, shows absolutely no understanding of how that real world thing works.

Where’s the ‘turf? ObamaCare supporters versus ObamaCare opponents

“Astroturfing” is a word created by Obama puppetmaster David Axelrod. Look at these photos and tell us just which side is astroturfing.

Handmade signs versus professionally designed and printed signs. Which side of this debate is astroturf?
Handmade signs versus professionally designed and printed signs. Which side of this debate is astroturf?

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We’d like to nominate “astroturfing” as the next word to be eliminated from the English language. After this story, we hope to never hear or see the word again.

“Astroturfing” is a word created by Obama puppetmaster David Axelrod. It refers to an artificial grassroots movements. That is, highly-organized demonstrations rather than spontaneous ones.
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Hillary Clinton is the Secretary of State. And don’t you forget it, damn it.

A Congolese translator, struggling to translate a Congolese student’s question, imply that Hillary is merely Bill’s puppet. She didn’t like that.

Looks like Hillary’s feeling a bit insecure about Bill’s recent adventure in North Korea.

A Congolese translator, struggling to translate a Congolese student’s question, made the mistake of asking, “What does Mr. Clinton think through the mouth of Mrs Clinton…?”

What’s that? Did that translator imply that Hillary is merely Bill’s puppet?
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The War on Terror is over, but the War on Mobs has just begun

Homeland Security announced that the United States is not engaged in a “War on Terror.” At the same time, President Obama and the rest of the Democrat party declared war on American citizens, calling them “angry mobs,” “hooligans” and “civic vigilantes.”

In a strange juxtaposition of events, the Obama administration proudly announced on Thursday that the War on Terror is over and simultaneously announced that the War on Mobs has begun.
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Bad timing: Cuba runs out of toilet paper just as its economy goes into the toilet

Cuba’s economy sucks donkey. In layman’s terms, fifty years of Communism has brought them to the latest in a long series of serious economic crises. For god’s sake, man, they’re running out of toilet paper.

Unfortunately, the law of supply-and-demand is the first thing repealed in a Communist country
Unfortunately, the law of supply-and-demand is the first thing repealed in a Communist country

We are highly-trained economists here at IHateTheMedia.com. So we apologize if you’re confused by our use of this technical jargon: Cuba’s economy sucks donkey.

In layman’s terms, fifty years of Communism has brought them to the latest in a long series of serious economic crises.

For god’s sake, man, they’re running out of toilet paper. And officials on the Communist-ruled island say the situation might not improve until the end of the year.

Reuters reports from the People’s Paradise of Cuba:
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Barney Frank as the Joker. Or maybe just on a weekend in Martha’s Vineyard

First Barack Obama, Barney Frank as the Joker? Or maybe just on a weekend in Martha’s Vineyard

Barney Frank Joker by Drudge Potato Al

C’mon, it’s Barney. One doesn’t even want to contemplate why he might be made up this way. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Our favorite European politician describes the horrors of European healthcare

European Member of Parliament Daniel Hannan appeared on the Glenn Beck Show last week and told the sad plight of European-style single payer healthcare.

You may recall Daniel Hannan, the European Member of Parliament who delivered a blistering (and hilarious) speech condemning British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a few months ago.

Hannan appeared on the Glenn Beck Show last week and told the sad plight of European-style single payer healthcare.

If you support ObamaCare, you need to hear what Hannan has to say.

If you don’t support ObamaCare, same instructions.

Global Warming Update
Quietest start to hurricane season in 32 years

The 2009 hurricane season now qualifies as the quietest hurricane season in 32 years and the fourth quietest in the last 50 years. What happened to Al Gore’s global warming?

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Update: Excitement is running rampant at the Gore compound. We may be getting close to our first storm of the season. According to the National Hurricane Center, that orange #1 off the coast of Africa has a 30-50% chance of becoming a tropical storm during the next 48 hours. Would someone please inform Al Gore.

The suicide alert at Al Gore’s house has gone to Level Red. While the Goracle insisted that global warming would bring us more and more destructive hurricanes, the reality has been considerably different.

We’ve now completed the first ten weeks of 2009’s hurricane season and we’ve not yet had a hurricane. Nor a tropical storm. Nor a tropical depression.
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Quietest start to hurricane season in 32 years”

Quote of the Day:
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
– Jane Porter

A Jane Porter quote on “The Mob.” Just a little something for the Democrats to remember as they ridicule “the mob” that objects to ObamaCare.

Just a little something for the Democrats to remember as they ridicule “the mob” that objects to ObamaCare.

Boondoggle of the Year: 10 members of congress blow $500,000 on global warming “fact finding mission”

Ten members of Congress spent $500,000 – according to Wall Street Journal estimates – on an 11-day global warming fact finding mission over New Year’s 2008.

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Ten members of Congress spent $500,000 – according to Wall Street Journal estimates – on an 11-day global warming fact finding mission over New Year’s 2008.

Naturally, they couldn’t study global warming without their wives, so six spouses also went on the trip to Antarctica, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and Hawaii.

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Congress wants 8 new private jets, introduces More Debt-for-New Jets program

Those luxurious private jets currently sitting in the Congressional fleet simply aren’t luxurious enough, simply aren’t fast enough, simply aren’t friggin’ imperial enough.

Toilet aboard one of the luxurious new Congressional jets, where "the throne" is actually a throne
Toilet aboard one of the luxurious new Congressional jets, where "the throne" is actually a throne

Those luxurious private jets currently sitting in the Congressional fleet simply aren’t luxurious enough, simply aren’t fast enough, simply aren’t friggin’ imperial enough.

So Congress took a look at its Cash-for-Clunkers program and introduced a related program called More Debt-for-New Jets.

Let’s just compare and contrast the Cash-for-Clunkers congress passed for you and the More Debt-for-New Jets program they passed for itself.

With Cash-for-Clunkers, you have to turn in an older car that gets lower gas mileage. With More Debt-for-New Jets, congress simply adds to the number of luxurious, fuel-sucking private jets in its fleet while giving up nothing.

With Cash-for-Clunkers, the government pays $4500 toward the purchase of your new car but you have to make the monthly payments yourself. With More Debt-for-New Jets, congress laughs at the $80 million price tag on a new jet and sticks you with the monthly payments.
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Florida man says he’s innocent, his perverted cat downloaded that child porn

Keith Griffin has been charged with 10 counts of possession of child porn after detectives found more than 1,000 child pornographic images on his computer. He says the cat did it.

Blurring the line between kiddie porn and kitty porn
Blurring the line between kiddie porn and kitty porn

Keith Griffin has been charged with 10 counts of possession of child porn after detectives found more than 1,000 child pornographic images on his computer. He says the cat did it.

Griffin says he made the mistake of leaving his cat in the same room as his computer. The cat, he claims, jumped on the keyboard, stepped on some random keys, and voila! Child porn was downloaded by the perverted cat.

Far as we can tell, this is evidence that Griffin is not just a scumbag, he’s a stupid scumbag.

Griffin is being held in the Martin County Jail. The cat is free on bail and is currently living in a witness protection program.

Source: Sun-Sentinel

Democrats get you going and coming: propose taxes on toilet paper and every mile you drive

A few weeks ago Blumenauer proposed a tax on toilet paper. Now he’s introduced a bill that to study vehicle miles traveled (VMT) as a supplement or possible replacement for the current per-gallon fuel tax.

Earl Blumenauer has figured out how to get around his mileage tax, but still hasn't figure out how to get around the toilet paper tax
Earl Blumenauer has figured out how to get around his mileage tax, but still hasn't figure out how to get around the toilet paper tax

You have to give Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer credit for being creative. He’s introducing tax concepts that no one else in Washington, DC has the guts or stupidity to propose.

A few weeks ago Blumenauer proposed a tax on toilet paper. Now he’s introduced a bill that to study vehicle miles traveled (VMT) as a supplement or possible replacement for the current per-gallon fuel tax.

Of course, the bill doesn’t specify what happens to the existing fuel tax if a VMT program were adopted. But we’re willing to go out on a limb here and guess that the VMT will somehow end up as an additional tax, not a replacement tax.

Not everyone is enamored with the idea. In fact, we’d guess that most people hate it. For example:

“The current system of levying federal taxes on trucks is as discriminatory as it can be to small business, and harmful, but there are lots of unanswered questions with a VMT. And those questions need to be resolved before we start launching down that path,” said Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) Executive VP Todd Spencer said.
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Sacre Blue! Universal healthcare going broke in France

The French system’s fragile solvency shows how tough it is to provide universal coverage while controlling costs, the professed twin goals of President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul.

Gratuitous, completely unrelated photo of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France's hot First Lady
Gratuitous, completely unrelated photo of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France's hot First Lady

One quick disclaimer: We hate France. We hate the French. We hate Napoleon. We hate DeGaulle. We have Charles Aznavour. We hate Jerry Lewis just because the French love him. We like Carla Bruni, but only because she’s hot.

That being said, France’s friggin’ healthcare system has been held up as the perfect example, the ideal, the epitome of what America’s healthcare should look like. So it is with great pleasure that we pass along this report from the Wall Street Journal:

“… soaring costs are pushing the system into crisis. The result: As Congress fights over whether America should be more like France, the French government is trying to borrow U.S. tactics.

In recent months, France imposed American-style “co-pays” on patients to try to throttle back prescription-drug costs and forced state hospitals to crack down on expenses. “A hospital doesn’t need to be money-losing to provide good-quality treatment,” President Nicolas Sarkozy thundered in a recent speech to doctors.
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Do not question Lord Vader Congressman David Scott

Some ObamaCare proponents in congress have shut down their town hall meetings. Some have run from their constituents. Others, like Georgia Democrat David Scott from Georgia, have gotten a little hot under the collar.

Democrats are testy these days. They just didn’t expect opposition to their hairbrained healthcare scheme and they don’t know how to handle it. They thought the lemmings would quietly and compliantly step off the cliff.

Wrong.

It’s been quite a week. Some ObamaCare proponents have shut down their town hall meetings. Some have run from their constituents. Others, like David Scott, the distinguished Democrat congressman from Georgia, have gotten a little hot under the collar.

One of his constituents, a physician, had the temerity to ask the Congressman about ObamaCare. The congressman responds by erupting in anger and accusing him of “hijacking” the town hall, despite the fact that attendees had been told that no subjects were off limits during this open question-and-answer session.

They’re disintegrating, folks. Falling apart at the seams.

It’s is a joy to watch.

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