I am The Mob.

I am a daughter, sister, wife, mother. I am a proud Christian holder of conservative beliefs.

My great-great-grandfather was a Pawnee indian. He saw many of his tribesfolk sold down the path of government care, both health and finance, when they signed their treaties. He saw first hand the freedoms one loses when one travels that path. He chose to not live a life paid for by others and choices made by government officials and worked his tail end to the bone to pay his family’s way in life, refusing to move westward with the bulk of his tribe. He taught his children that true freedom comes from less government involvement. His children taught their children, and one of his grandsons taught me.

I refuse to see a nation where we are telling our children and our children’s children what America was once like when men were free. (Ronald Reagan, 1961)

At the very least, if the bill is too large to read, it should be too large to vote on!

I am The Mob!

Cross-posted at my blog.

I’m starting to think science fiction afficionados are running the world. Or at least those who don’t take the warnings outlined in almost every sci-fi genre possible seriously. I am not making this up.

You have people reverse engineering dinosaurs ignoring the warnings of Jeff Goldblum. (Who is not dead, if you believe his very young girlfriend.)

You have aircraft firing tactical lasers. (Red leader, go for launch.) Also, warbots being run by Xbox controllers. (The search I did for these two came up with Ebay links. Sort of scary.)

They’ve even begun to work with what could be a new bioskin for robots, making them more pleasing to the human eye when they become our servants and then our masters.

Even a light saber used for surgery because it is much cleaner than steel scalpels.

Now, when you are at war, the harsh reality is that there are bodies. How do you keep your battlefield clean? Why with MAN-EATING-ROBOTS, that’s how!

File this one in the “what could possibly go wrong” file. You know, like the real possibility that it finds a soldier who is merely wounded and decides to nom on him. “I’m sorry, Mrs. Smith, but your son Johnny was accidentally eaten alive by one of our EATRs. Many apologies, and all that. Won’t happen again.” That’s what they’ve called it: Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot.

Seriously, when SkyNet goes live, we’re gonna be sorry. Except California, who is run by the Governator.

I am of the belief (and I’m sure I’m not alone here) that socializing, nationalizing, whatever you want to call it, health care is the absolute worst thing for America, and I feel my story is a good example why.

Nine years ago was the worst summer of my life. I was pregnant and due to other medical conditions, was high risk. I was put on bed rest for the last trimester, even.

I was also on Medicaid. I was limited in which doctor I could see, what medicine he could prescribe, and my caseworker was quite irritated that I was unable to do any work at all. I was a drain on the system, you see.

Now, the worst part of my story wasn’t because of the caseworker. It was some other persons that made decisions they were not qualified to make. There were complications shortly after midnight of the 29th after they induced labor. The placenta detached from the uteran wall, cutting off my daughter’s oxygen and causing internal bleeding for me. The people in charge of monitoring the machines I was hooked up to, made the decision not to inform the doctor. My daughter was born in severe distress, and she survived but eleven days. The severity of my condition wasn’t discovered right away. My complaints of pain went mostly ignored. Simply upping the doses of morphine wasn’t helping, and after six hours, my husband demanded the doctor be paged. When the full picture of what happened dawned on these persons, I was rushed to the OR, and we were told I was roughly five minutes from a double tragedy.

It took seven years and massive head banging against walls to find any of this out. We had to go the legal route to get any information from the hospital. They kept “losing” my records. In the nurses’ depositions we discovered that the hospital’s unspoken rules to save money cost me my daughter and almost my own life. The nurses and aides didn’t contact the doctor when they should have because I was a Medicaid patient. I didn’t deserve the medical attention. This was confirmed when the hospital’s paper pushers were deposed.

Very rarely, in my experience, will a bureaucrat understand unique conditions. They see things in dollar signs. While my experiences may not be the norm, it has the real potential to be that under Obamacare. Eventually, the human factor gets removed from the decision making process, and lives are lost.

Persons who know nothing about the situations should not be making the decisions. This is the real argument against Obamacare.

P.S. I err on the side of caution when it comes to legal matters. It took me six months to make the decision to file in the first place. I simply wanted to know what happened so I could continue to heal mentally as well as physically. If the hospital had been up front about what happened that night, there is a chance (although small if they were honest) I wouldn’t have taken to legal solutions.

P.P.S. Remembering Ianna.

As a female wanting to break into the online journoblogger world, how am I supposed to take the recent Playboy article? I can do this, but because I fall to the right of center, I better be expecting this kind of stuff? Or better question, how am I supposed to take the mostly silence to the Climate of Hate that was displayed?

From the left, there came but one voice that defended women but more precisely those hit by the Playboy article. Tommy Christopher. There were other voices from the left, but they mostly prevaricated the “They were clearly asking for it.” defense that I thought went out of style in the 90s. Feminists were quick to denounce those who would dare to defend any rapists with that tripe. But now, here we have those that denounced it using that same excuse! Bonnie Erbe’s response to the clear denouncing she correctly received for attempting to use this line,

“I also want to note that at least one woman on the list is so venom-spewing, she unfortunately invites venom to be shot back at her: Michelle Malkin. Her posts and her “routine” are so venomous and predictable, in fact, I stopped paying attention to her years ago.”

was “Does that need any more explanation than a plain reading of the language offers?” Nobody distorted what you said, Ms Erbe. We used the exact quote in context.

Today, Tommy Christopher was fired for (what we can only assume) his response to the Playboy hit piece. So, I can write my opinion pieces, but if I dare disagree with anyone, they have the right to put out hate pieces on me, and if anyone dare defend me, they will suffer the consequences. Good to know.

Playboy removed the article not because of the hate, but because the message was misunderstood. We didn’t get the joke, you see. If the politics in this whole mess were reversed, I would wager a good deal that the women hit wouldn’t see that joke either.

Update (as I wrote this) h/t Amanda Carpenter:

Elizabeth Hasselbeck received a reply (and a good one finally) from NOW.

Cross posted on my blog.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

I was driving to my sister’s house to spend the holiday doing stuff with her, and I had to take a detour around four blocks of my small town’s four block downtown section because they were having a parade. About 95% of the town residence (approx. 3,000 reside here) were in attendance, either marching or watching. When veterans or current military personel passed, they recieved a standing ovation. To the point where those watching spent a good deal of time on their feet over the course of the parade. (But, wait, you say, you said you detoured to get around, so how do you know? Well, this is always the case with parades here, and my neighbors inform me that it was the case yesterday.)

After picking up my sister, we headed out toward the mall of our choice. We passed another parade. This one was also about four blocks long. (My sister’s town is considerably larger than my small one.) The attendance was about 100 people watching and 100 marching, roughly 6% compared to my town. Compared to the population of her town (roughly 36,000), the difference in attendance for the parades is massive. On top of all that, the marching bands for the schools recieved more applause than the vets and current soldiers.

When we first moved away from her town three years ago, I worried that I was moving too far away from family and civilization in general. I do not worry about that anymore. I’m proud of the place I live now. The people are friendly, generous, and kind of old fashioned.  They have values that are shared with everyone who passes through.

Today, I noticed a change. Let me be straight, I don’t like change, even when it comes in the form of slow-motion to be hardly noticed. In fact, it is the slow-motion as to be hardly noticed until it is too late change I hate the most!

For about a year, the fellow who sold our two vehicles to us has been calling us daily with the “new incentives” GM has for existing owners. These ranged from simple coupons for cheaper oil changes to cash back for GM trade ins to the latest “recession incentives.” (Recession incentives would be the “if you find yourself on hard times, the company agrees to make your car payment for 6/9/12 months and if you’re still in hard times after that they will accept your vehicle back with no negative marks on your credit.”) Every day! Sometimes twice if my husband or I were not available to take the call.

Now, I like Tony, the car dealer. I feel like in the three years we’ve done business with him that I’ve watched his kids grow through his pictures in his office. These calls seemed to expose a desperation for our business to continue, and up to last month, had our credit score been better, we may just have helped him out, just because he’s been a great acquaintance. We do like helping out those in need, after all. It’s part of what makes America a great place!

Today, I realized I hadn’t heard from Tony in about a month. It didn’t register because my life has been sort of (read: VERY) hectic as of late. (Story for another blog entry later.) But, as things sort of settle down enough for me to breathe, the calls’ absence is deafening.

GM has to lower its debt burden and employee costs in the government restructure.

The possibility of Tony’s dealership being closed down is looming over his head. Little wonder why the man has stopped being so forward with his business practices.

Edit: This has been cross-posted on my blog.

Hot Air has the story.

Money quote:

Frank charged that conservatives aim to shift blame for the market meltdown away from Wall Street and toward minority-lending laws like the federal Community Reinvestment Act.

“The bizarre notion that the Community Reinvestment Act . . . somehow is the cause of the whole problem, (conservatives) don’t mind that,” the lawmaker said. “They’re aware that the affordable-housing goals of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (and) the Community Reinvestment Act (aim to help) poor people. And let’s be honest, the fact that some poor people are black doesn’t hurt either from their standpoint.”

This card is getting over played. Period.

Ever notice how hungry the Obamabus gets? Every time someone mildly associated with Obama gets called out for radical viewpoints, “nom nom nom” goes the Obamabus. It loves the radicals! Very stringy, but very meaty!

Jeremiah Wright

Franklin Raines

Jim Johnson

Tony Rezko

Fr. Michael Pfleger

Samantha Power

“Had Barack Obama kicked her off of his advisory panel (rumored to number 300) after making remarks like this, it could have assuaged fears about his intentions towards Israel. Instead, he invited Power to advise him after making these remarks. She resigned only after calling Hillary a monster and after insinuating that Obama may not retreat from Iraq in 16 months if the ground situation changed — which Obama later adopted as his own position after the primaries.” Ed Morrissey, Hot Air

The list goes on.

“You are judged by the company you keep.” I’ve heard. OK, hard to make the guilty by association claim. Suppose we give them that.

But, and it’s a big but:

What does it say about his judgement of character if he is constantly shocked SHOCKED that so many of his associates and cronies are crooked??