Monday, October 21, 2013

The War on Thanksgiving

Before the Fox News Network gets the chance to gin up hysterical indignation over their patented, annual "War on Christmas," I would like to address a more pressing issue that needs immediate attention, and that's the War on Thanksgiving. The War began two years ago when our Muslim president gave a three minute Thanksgiving speech without mentioning the word "God." He did mention that "Love your neighbor stuff," and say "God bless you" at the end of the speech, but where were the biblical references? Enraged religious conservatives took to the airways and social media to rail against the secularization of our sacred commemoration of the marriage between Miles Standish and Sacajawea by the shores of Gitche Gummi, after which, they threw a party that made Plymouth rock. The director of the website Christian Newswire wrote, "Thanksgiving (is) the one American holiday originating within Christian culture. God's providence was demonstrated when the Pilgrims discarded socialism after a year of absolute failure and embraced capitalism. Redefining Thanksgiving as anything other than a call to give thanks to the one true and living God is an attempt to remove God from America's one true Christian holiday." He liked the adjective "true" a lot.

After the president's Godless address, he went outside to the Rose Garden and pardoned a fat Thanksgiving turkey. Who is Obama to interfere with our nation's annual turkey genocide? And if turkeys start getting pardons, what's to keep them from seeking revenge? We need tryptophan to combat the onslaught of annoying relatives' endless questions about what we've been up to. It serves as a natural sedative and combats the desire to tell them to go and do impossible anatomical contortions. Ben Franklin claimed a preference for the turkey as our national bird, and I'm certain that old Poor Richard never sat down to a Thanksgiving dinner of bald eagle. In fact, Franklin invented the phrase, "Let's talk turkey." This year, Obama's past failure to mention "God" by name, accompanied by the Christian Newswire's declaration that capitalism is holy, has emboldened parade-sponsor shylock, Macy's, to break with their one hundred and fifty-five year tradition of closing on Thanksgiving. They used to give their employees the day off because someone had to blow up all those balloons, but the only Miracle on 34th Street this year will be an accident free parade. They now will have fewer employees on the street to make sure a wayward balloon doesn't hit a light pole and fracture someones skull, like the giant Cat In The Hat balloon did to a female bystander in 1997. Now that Macy's has thrown down the gauntlet, can Dillard's be far behind? And if capitalism is next to Godliness, what becomes of cleanliness? Has the lust for consumer goods caused us to lose the desire to clean ourselves?

Commercialism is destroying our faith-based custom of devouring oversized meals before attending after-dinner worship services that feature the age-old morality play of the Cowboys versus the Redskins. And speaking of Native-Americans, or Indians, as they called them back in the Puritanical days, I wonder how they celebrate Thanksgiving? It's been a few years now since that first shindig when the Pilgrims had the Wampanoag over for Thanksgiving supper, but unfortunately, that was the last act of kindness by the new settlers towards the indigenous population. Why should Native-Americans still be sore at the sons of English refugees? They gave us maize, weaving techniques, and planting advice, and we gave them syphilis, whiskey, and smallpox. Isn't it time to squash the grudge? This year, the Judaeo-Christian day of Thanksgiving is threatened by encroaching Judaism. For the first time in over a hundred years, the first night of Hanukkah, or Chanuka, falls on the same day as Thanksgiving. Personally, I never could get too excited over a holiday where there's a discrepancy over how to spell it, but Hanukkah is a celebration of the Jewish victory over the Greeks in 165 BCE, when Judah and his merry band of Maccabees arranged Olympic-style games for young Jewish athletes and the Olympic flame burned for eight nights. I'm being facetious, of course. The eight day celebration is in reference to the Beatles' song, "Eight Days a Week," because some ultra-Reform Jews believe that the Lord created the earth and the heavens in seven days rather than six, and on the eighth day, He created the Beatles.

This cosmic convergence has even been given a name- "Thanksgivukkah," which was created and trademarked by a Jewish mother from New England named Dana Gitell, who has also snatched up the Twitter handle, created a Facebook page, and started selling tee shirts. Boston Mayor Tom Menino has proclaimed November 28th, "Thanksgivukkah," in the traditionally Irish-Catholic city, saying, "This is an once-in-a-lifetime event. It's a day to celebrate the diversity of our city and the spirit of working together to make Boston a better place." What kind of heretic does he think he is? Just because the event won't repeat for another 79,043 years, is that any reason to sacrifice our traditional values on the alter of political correctness and declare the day as "special?"  Let's return the heavily religious connotations that Lincoln recommended back to Thanksgiving, then we can put the "cai" back in Chanuka. However, if you don't say "Happy Thanksgiving" to me, I won't answer you. None of this "Merry Turkey Day," or "Happy Gobble Day," and if we don't nip this "Thanksgivukkah" business in the bud, the next thing you know, the Jews will be trying to claim Jesus and we'll all be lighting turkey-shaped menorahs. In fact, a nine-year-old New York City boy has patented a turkey-shaped menorah, called a "Menurkey."  At my house, we will still be having our traditional holiday meal of Bar-B-Q Turkey and chopped liver with fried latkes served over cheese grits- and for dessert: small, mesh bags of chocolate coins. Then we'll make burnt offerings to Hanuman, the monkey god, and pray for an end to the sequester just as the Founders intended. Until then, happy pre-holidays to all y'all. Now let's discuss this War on Halloween.

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good grief, Randy, lay off the electric kool aid BBQ sauce for a few days. Instead, why not focus on the threat the Grambling football players' strike would have on the Bayou Classic? If the classic does not go down this year, the people of New Orleans will be forced to converge on their other annual option, the Thanksgiving races at the track. In essence, Grambling could force innocents to the sin of betting on the horses.

Anonymous said...

Nice article until too many attempts at "humorous comments" took it down the drain like water. HaHa

Anonymous said...

He's still funnier than you can ever hope to be, Jerry.

Dumbass...

Jerranymous said...

One of the problems with so many anonymouses is that I catch hell for things that I didn't say. This is my first post in regard to this commentary. Anon (Mon., Oct. 21 at 11:30 AM) you need to work on your discernment. Also, the 'dumbass' remark makes you appear to be a petulant child bereft of intellectual depth. Want to debate some time? If you are man enough, I will accept your apology...but I seriously doubt that you are much of a man. You sound like a snide teenager...am I close? Parenthetically, I also like Sput's low key brand of humor. Are you happy now? My only other comment is that the way Sput denigrates religion (especially Christianity) makes him appear to have special gnostic knowledge that is superior to the more traditional paths. Care to share your special knowledge on the beginnings of the universe and all things therein, your eschatology, etc.? You don't appear to be a Christian or a Jew. Is New Age your religion? Shamanism? Voodoo? Secular humanism? Animism? Everyone has a god, even if one's god is his very self. Everyone has a theology even if it is believing that the universe is a mind-blowing random accident and that we all die like dogs. Do you believe in reincarnation and the evolutionary perfecting of man till he becomes divine. I know worlds about that bullshit. I could probably teach a lot of people on this blog a lot about New Age 'theology'. I was a rabid devotee for a number of years. Long story a little bit longer, I am just interested in Sput's theology.

Anonymous said...

Dumbass,

None of your generalizations are even close. It is simply that you are an insufferable blowhard, who talks way too much without saying anything remotely of substance.

You're not interested in anything but your own blather.

Anonymous said...

rando !!
you lean to the genius
are beautiful
attract an interesting crowd
are kin to the fabulous
and are encouraged to continue.
much love.

Your Tutor said...

Anon (Oct.21 1:53PM),your last comment confirms my suspicions. How come liberals would rather slander those with whom they disagree? Like I said you seem to be bereft of any intellectual depth. Why not debate issues rather than stick your tongue out at me and call me names? Liberalism is truly the abode of those who suffer from arrested development. Any more inane insults, skippy? Come to think of it, why don't you post a comment that shows some slight degree of intellect? My challenge to a debate still stands, but my bet is that you are at least smart enough to try such a thing. I am not guessing now. I have you pegged...poorly educated, and seemingly proud of it. Do you know any polysyllabic words?

Anonymous said...

I have to hand it to Obama. He is one of the most bold-faced, adroit liars that ever incarnated into this world. But then, lying is a valuable asset to politicians. All of them. They would get no where if they told the truth, because the people would stop them. The faulty enrollment software is just the tip of the iceberg. John McAfee (founder of McAfee Security Systems) said that the underlying architecture of the software is so flawed that it can not possibly work. He said that he could produce a superior software product for around $5 million and about 15 good programmers. I don't believe that McAfee is a conservative or a Republican. He just told the truth which is extremely difficult or impossible in Washington. Our inefficient government paid hundreds of millions of dollars for a useless piece of crap. When it comes to government, that is just par for the course. Just wait till the full-blown horror of this misguided legislation reaches its zenith. It is going to be a nightmare that will destroy the world's best healthcare delivery system and will wreck the economy to boot. No need to argue now. All we have to do is to witness the unfolding of the train wreck. We should know the full horror of this legislation by this time next year.

Anonymous said...

The spineless Republicans could have developed a more private sector solution to the health care situation when they were in power. But, the fools did nothing and allowed the Democrats to create a plan to further their push of this country to socialism, and I am afraid eventual Marxism. Keep growing the government and the private sector will eventually be squeezed out. This means total government, better known as totalitarianism. Now the Republicans are running around like men with their hair on fire. It seems impossible to me that a large political party can be so spineless and ineffectual. Our choice seems to be whether we wish to be shot to death by a gun or stabbed to death by a knife. The smart money says that elements within the two parties are colluding toward the same goal. I am inclined to agree. Someone likened the farce that is being played out to professional wrestling. It is all pre-planned. A half-wit should realize that the Democrats didn't get the country into the mess that it is in all by themselves. They had a bunch of infidel Republicans to play the foil.

Anonymous said...

Government that enforces its policies through central planning (top down or Marxism) rather than through the free market (bottom up), tends to create horrible situations for the citizenry, simply because measures are coerced rather than freely chosen by the populace. In effect, this is an 'eat this or die' approach to governance. In some cases this approach can result in the deaths of millions. This is especially true of a Marxist governmental in regard to agricultural planning. If the idea doesn't work, millions starve like they did in Russia after the Communist takeover and in China during Mao's reign of terror. The same thing is happening in regard to our healthcare. It was conceived and forced upon the public by the elites, whether they wanted it or not. Rather than starvation, this state of affairs could wind up lowering the quality of health care for all, harming many more folks than it will help. The government just throws some poorly planned legislation upon the citizenry and says, 'Deal with it'. That approach to governance breeds rebellion. That is why Obama is creating a civilian army within DHS. It gets around posse comitatus laws, but it also might result in a lot of deaths. Most free people do not give up their freedom easily (except for liberals) and Obama knows this. His enemies are old-fashioned patriots and Christians, most of whom are quite old now. Imagine maligning people who merely want our government to be re-established upon out currently trashed Constitution.

performs said...

Jerry, I wonder if the vision of the future described in this essay holds any similarity to your own?
http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/posts/the-new-dark-ages-amerika-2020/

Anonymous said...

performs, the author of that piece of shit is clearly crazy. For one thing, there is no such thing as a murderous Christian with designs of taking over the world militarily. That is a complete perversion of what Christianity is. A huge problem that has always plagued Christianity is the effects of Christians-in-name-only. These are the ones who are guilty of all atrocities committed in Christ's name. A Christian will defend his family and property, but if they advocate violence, they are no more Christian than the Muslim jihadists who enjoy decapitating 'infidels'. This is a wild guess, but I think that up to half, maybe more ,of those who profess Christianity are not Christians at all. They are cultural Christians just like there are cultural Jews. This creates monumental problems, because they turn people off of Christianity. It sure turned me off when I was a heathen. I had to wade through an ocean of bullshit to find the Truth of the matter. Much of what this author ascribes to Christianity is actually the work of the global Oligarchy. Performs, you are right on when you say that politics is a shell game for the super rich to extend and perpetuate their wealth and power. Their goal is to own and control the world's resources and to make of the common man the modern day equivalent of serfs...mere cattle on the farm that you maintain to get work out of them. Central control of the Earth and mankind is the Holy Grail of the Oligarchs. Politicians and governments are their paid-for puppets. They are masters of perpetuating the ruse that they care about the welfare of the 'little man'. This is merely a way of drawing the gullible into their snare. My contention is that arguing over these issues is fruitless. We are to the point now where we can sit back and watch the plans of the Oligarchy unfold. Don't you ever wonder why Obama is in bed with Wall St.? You people apparently know nothing about the U.N. Agenda 21 Treaty, which is the master blueprint for establishing world Communism. This is a product of the Oligarchy...the U.N. is another one of their puppets. If any of you bother to seriously look into Agenda 21, you will find that Obama is following the plans for the Oligarchy step-by-step. To be honest, practically all politicians, both Democrat and Republican are behind this. This is why I despise the Republicans almost as much as I do the Democrats. They are both leading us to eventual perdition. Here's one to watch, if we live long enough. America should completely implode before too much longer, barring a miracle of biblical proportions. My bet is that America will never survive eight years of a Hillary Clinton presidency. With America out of the way, the Oligarchs can proceed with their plans with impunity. The world will first be subdivided by the Oligarchs into regional governments patterned after the European Union. There will be a North American Union, a South American Union, and so on. After that, at some point the regional governments will be coalesced into a One World Government, the Nirvana of the Oligarchs. Sometime after that all hell will break loose. Well, hell has already been unleashed upon the Earth. It will just intensify ad infinitum or, there will be divine intervention (I do believe this). Should their be no divine intervention, hell will be made manifest on Earth. The 'thing' is already upon us. All we have to do is sit back and watch the horror show. I hope I am wrong, but thousands of years of prophecy have pointed to the very age we live in. I wish that I were wrong, but I can't deny what I see going on all around me.

Guru For The Low Information Crowd said...

Today's topic for meditation...do any of you realize how many of the super rich capitalists in the world (Soros is a good example) are all for Marxism? That doesn't seem to add up, unless they have an ulterior motive. Why would a rich man want a governmental system which confiscates their wealth? Meditate on that and see what you come up with.

Guru For The Low Information Crowd said...

English historian and moralist Lord Acton made the famous quote that 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. Few have heard the rest of the quote which is, 'Great men are almost always bad men'. Here is a clever quote from an unknown source, 'It appears that the second oldest profession (politics) bears a remarkably strong resemblance to the oldest profession (whoring). These are good truisms to keep in mind.

Guru For The Low Information Crowd said...

Those who despise Obama should consider the following. He is merely a negative consequence of affirmative action. His way was paved for him. The American Marxist patriarchs learned of him from his childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis, a well-known Communist and self-professed sexual pervert. Davis started the Obama phenomenon. You can't blame a man for taking advantage of what is offered to him. Unfortunately the consequences of his disastrous presidency will be felt for generations and maybe forever.

Tommie Lou said...

Why is everyone anonymous?

Don Abel said...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Anon #1 said...

Tommie Lou, if you haven't figured it out what difference does a name make here? I assume that posts to this blog come people from a wide range of localities. What difference does it make if someone says that he is Joe Blow from Toad Crossing, Ms.? The ideas that are expressed are what is important, regardless of whether they come from the Pope or Marilyn Manson, or Billy Joe Barbell. If it would help, maybe I will designate myself as Anon #1. Most can tell just by reading my posts. Maybe you are new around here.

Guru For The Low Information Crowd said...

It was reported that Obama has been repeatedly shouting, "Son of a glitch, son of a glitch!!". All kidding aside, are you aware that we are witnessing political theater at its best (or, worse depending upon your viewpoint). The Obama Regime has planned all along to force everyone into a single-payer government health care system. So in effect, Obama sabotaged Obamacare. Here is how it will work. The problems with implementing Obamacare, as it is now presented, will someday be declared to be inoperable, but the government, riding in on a white charger, will present a simple and easy cure to all of the technical problems...a single-payer system. Remember Rahm Emmanuel's advice...never waste a crisis, because they enable the gov. to do things which ordinarily can't be done. In effect, the problems that Obamacare is currently having (there will be worse ones to follow) were planned by the Obama Regime itself in order to pull this ruse off. See if this doesn't eventuate. We will know within a year. Obama is going to continue to destroy the country and he knows at some point there will most likely be resistance from the non-liberal segment of the population as his Marxist agenda unfolds. I can all but guarantee that Obama is militarizing the DHS to impose his will on America through violence, if necessary. Anyone who can't see his obvious move toward dictatorial power has not been following his moves to empower the Executive Branch very closely or to check out the content of his countless Executive Orders, designed to get around Congress. This is why he doesn't just want to beat the Republicans, he wants to destroy them, giving the Democrats virtually dictatorial powers for many years to come. Wait until Hillary gets her fangs in us. Ever heard about her absolutely demonic temper. They had better take the 'red phone' from her, especially if one of her favorite girlfriends break up with her. Or, maybe one of the demons (posing as great departed personalities like Eleanor Roosevelt from whom she seeks guidance) that she channels during meditation may instruct her to do something crazy. And, she will be 77 at the end of her second term...a doddering old Marxist, bisexual (by Bill's admission), necromancing skank. All of America should look like Detroit when the Dems are finished with us.

Guru For The Low Information Crowd said...

The mother of David Axelrod was a journalist and wrote for a Communist newspaper in New York when David wad growing up. Van Jones is an unapologetic Communist and when this was revealed the Obama Regime had to find a less visible job for him. Valerie Jarrett, Obummer's chief advisor, said that they have been following Jones since he was as Communist agitator in Oakland and that they (the Regime) had been watching him with approval (I watched a film clip in which she said this). Anita Dunn, another Regime operative, gave a speech at an all girls' school and told them that one of her favorite political advisors was Mao. The Regime had to sweep her under the rug for this indiscretion. Another Regime operative said on camera before an audience (I heard it) that they all knew that the free market system was a joke...he was swept under the rug. A Christmas ornament of Mao was hung from the White House Christmas tree during Obummer's first year in office. I saw the photo. Al Smith, an honest former Democrat governor from New York, tried to warn the American public that the Democrats had taken a turn toward Marxism back in the 1930's. His speech is available on the Internet. I will post it if anyone wants to read it. If you really want your mind blown, read Trevor Loudon's (a New Zealander) new book entitled 'Barack Obama and The Enemies Within'. It is a 600 page product of his multi-year research into Obama and the American Left and it is impeccably foot noted. He has the goods on Obummer and his regime. He said that he took the trouble to write the book, even though he is not an American, because he is afraid that when America falls, freedom and private property will be lost on the entire planet forever. Needless to say, the book has been trashed by socialists, Marxists, Communists, most liberals, and of course all progressives, which nowadays is just another name for Communist. Case in point, I love to read the history of the Old West. I have a number of books on the Donner Party. A liberal author wrote another one recently. I bought the book before I knew that the author was a liberal. In the book he makes the outrageous and laughable claim that the pioneers moving West had nothing to fear from hostile Indians. He went so far as to say that they were all PACIFISTS!! When someone suggested that the author was re-writing history to suit his liberal world view, the guy was absolutely crucified by the Leftists. For one thing it showed that they were completely ignorant of the true history of the West, but I suspect that some went on a tirade just because a liberal brother's integrity was being questioned. I have read numerous first person histories of the plains Indians (some by the Indians themselves through an interpreter) and they were anything but pacifistic. In fact, they took great pride in being fierce warriors. They would consider the author's insistence that they were pacifists to be extremely demeaning to them...as though they were a bunch of hand-wringing liberal fairies. They were ferocious and I don't blame them. They were just trying to keep their land from being stolen. The author would have done so much better if he hadn't told a liberal lie. Most educated people know that his contention was preposterous. I threw the book away without finishing it.

Guru To The Low Information Crowd said...

It was Gennifer Flowers, Bill Clinton's backdoor whore for 12 years, who blew the whistle on Hillary's bisexuality during a recent interview. Here is the substance of one of her quotes , "Bill Clinton confided to me that Hillary is bisexual and that he couldn't care less about that". Well, their marriage has all been about the acquisition of wealth and power. Who cares if they share a lust for muff-diving? He likes girls and so does Hillary...even steven. It may be one of the few things that they have in common. Speaking of Bill 'the satyr' Clinton, who likes to taste cigars after he has stuffed them in a vagina, here is a jaw-dropper...I saw Gennifer on Larry King Live years ago. She discussed his rabid appetite for sex and illustrated it. She said that when Clinton was Governor, he had invited her to a black tie affair at the governor's mansion. The room was packed with people and Bill took her by the hand and led her into a restroom where they had sex standing up. She said that she was a wreck worrying about Hillary finding them out, but Hillary was probably muff diving on one of the waitresses at the same time. I just hope that she flossed and used mouth wash afterward.

performs said...

OUCH! ICK! That, I’m certain, is the common response when confronted with the three heaping, spewings of vile, hateful nonsense from the Guru. Perhaps, Guru, you might wish to consider some counseling that could suggest other careers beside that of an internet troll. Dealing with an addiction like this could surely benefit from some help. By now there must be 12 -step programs and specialized psychologists for this disorder.

In the mean time, please replace the spewings with comments that express your loving, charming side that you have shared here in the past.

Guru said...

performs, I challenge you to show me one false statement in my post about Gennifer Flowers. I read a transcript of the interview in which she divulged Hillary's bisexuality. If this were not true, she would be sued to the max for libel. I saw with my own eyes her interview with Larry King. Every word about her sexual encounter with Bill Clinton at the governor's mansion can be verified. Clinton said nothing in his own defense in this matter. Millions of people saw this interview. OK, so I went over the top about Hillary's muff diving. I have a strange sense of humor. I just wanted to share some facts. Personally, I don't care what anyone is into sexually as long as they leave me alone. I am NOT anti-gay. I believe that they can do nothing about their sexual orientation. None of us can. I am just glad that I am hetero, because it makes living easier. But, show me where I erred in the last post.

performs said...

"Personally, I don't care what anyone is into sexually as long as they leave me alone." --Guru

Talk about a weird sense of humor--this is HILARIOUS!
You wrote of little else as if it were of some importance to someone.

Guru, you may not be lying to the readers here, but you are VERY dishonesty with yourself. Slow down, Brother, and try a little self-examination.

Guru said...

performs, how do you know that my post was of no interest to anybody? Are you omniscient? Can you elaborate on the dishonesty and self-examination issues? I didn't mean to be funny when I said that I didn't care what anyone was into sexually as long as they leave me alone. This is a very liberal blog and I at least wanted folks to know that I am not a homophobe. We all tend to paint with a broad brush when it comes to politics. Many liberals assume that all conservatives are homophobic. That is patently untrue. I am not amongst them. In fact, I am a conservative (libertarian) and am in favor of legalizing pot and prostitution. I believe in a safety net as long as it doesn't become a hammock. I have no argument with some socialistic measures as long as it doesn't progress to Marxism. Don't be too quick to pigeon hole people that you don't know. All I know about Sput is that he seems to be a progressive. Everyone has a bias filter to one degree or another. We tend to filter out that which does not comport with our most deeply held beliefs. No one is without bias or prejudice of some sort. Much of what I write is tongue-in cheek. I like to spar with ideas. Believe it or not, I am a big pussycat with a tender heart, especially for animals. I personally could never turn down health care for the sick or food for the hungry. But, there are some things about liberals that pissed me off, just as many liberals are pissed of at conservatives about their ideas. There is an unsurpassable divide between the two world views. Dr. Sowell wrote a scholarly study of this issue in a book entitled 'A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles'. To further dispel some delusions (some think that I am a racist), my heroes are conservative blacks. I would rather replace our entire government and put it under the governance of honest, conservative blacks than to have the whores that now runs our country. Actually, American politicians have been whores and backstabbers for many years now. Put all of the character in Congress in one person and he would become an axe murderer. I have already admitted that every American war of the 20th century was a false flag affair on OUR part. America is not as squeaky clean as some have been led to believe. But, it is not our Constitution that it is problem. It is that the gutter tends to seize power and wealth wherever they can find it, especially in our government. It is easy for politicians to screw the government and the people and become rich and powerful. America, with a few exceptions has been run by crooks for at least 100 years.

Anonymous said...

Obamacare is an unfolding horror show on a number of differing levels. Right now the horror is the start-up software. It has come out now that Michelle was a college classmate of a girl who is highly placed at C.G.I. Why should we be surprised that gross cronyism is involved? Now we know that Obama lied when he said that everyone could keep their insurance and that premiums will come down. Next will come the breath-taking rise in premiums and deductibles. As yet unnamed horrors will be exposed one after the other. Now we know better what the hypocritical, ignorant skank Pelosi meant when she prophetically said that we have to pass the monstrosity in order to find out what is in it. When will you deniers finally wake up and admit that the Obama presidency is a horror show? He is the biggest fake that ever strode the political stage and everyone knows it but Democrats . He is the penultimate empty suit. he knows nothing but community organizing. Dems talk about other candidates' experience. What about Obama's? He was a part-time, untenured constitutional professor (what a laugh) and a Marxist rabble rouser. And the half of the nation that can now be collectively called fools put this joke in the White House. I do hope that an effective health care program can be developed, but it will have to be built over the failed Obamacare. Sput, I want you to get your medical care, but the way Obamacare is set up, you may get caught in the rationing trap because of your age. Actually, I think that Obamacare will die on the vine die to incompetence. That may turn out to your advantage.

performs said...

Here is a portion of this week's blog by James Howard Kunstler:
The ObamaCare piece of the picture is a mere pathetic soap opera compared to the first two quandaries. The 2000-page law did nothing to address the core tragedy of medicine in America — namely, that it has evolved into a hideous hostage racket. You go to a hospital with a terrifying illness and you are susceptible to fleecing by the so-called “care-givers” for the promise that you may get to live. No prices for treatment are never discussed. They are presumed to be astronomical — but who cares if you end up dead, and if you do get to live, you’ll figure that out later. If you hold an insurance policy, these charges will be subject to a fake negotiation between grifting insurance companies and grifting hospitals, physicians, and drug companies. The price “settlements” are only slightly less a joke than the actual charges, and are obfuscated in documents designed to bewilder even well-educated policy-holders.

Even if you are insured, the charges may bankrupt you. A typical one-day charge for “room and board” in a non-specialized hospital in-patient bed runs $23,000 at my local hospital. For what? Half a dozen blood-pressure checks and three bad meals? You can be sure that ever-fewer families will be able to fork over $12,000-a-year for basic coverage. The ObamaCare legislation and its laughable rollout of a useless website is just a punctuation mark at the end of the soap opera script. The result eventually will be the complete implosion of the medical racket and a return to a very primitive clinic system, with payment in chickens or cords of stove-wood. The smaller number of surviving humans will surely enjoy better health, and greater piece of mind, when this monster racket expires of inertia, bad faith, and deceit.

Anonymous said...

performs, the health care industry is indeed a racket. Obamacare pretends to offer a solution, but it is actually a major system of control of the populace. Control government, education, health care, and energy and a country can be 'transformed' quickly, as we have seen. Marxists have always been about control. The last thing that they want is a truly free citizenry, because trying to coerce a free people is like trying to herd cats. That means that they can't force their bogus vision of utopia down our throats. To them, individual freedom (and, private property) are intolerable, because these factors produce social stratification. To prevent this, egalitarians must exert constant coercion to maintain their artificial utopia. In fact, another definition of these control freaks is 'the coercive utopians'. Egalitarianism can only be brought about and maintained through governmental tyranny. Back to Obamacare. Unfortunately, government is always increasingly more expensive and increasingly inefficient by its very nature. They can't fix anything without bankrupting the country, because they are all drones who can't be fired and are promoted when they screw-up...the epitome of the Peter Principle. Obama is a prime example of the Peter Principle in action. I will admit that the blame lies with the Republicans. They could have instituted a more free market approach to health care, but the fools did nothing and allowed the Democrats to develop a purely socialistic health care system. Nobody here wants to believe that Democrats are socialists (surely you jest, though), but I can show you a speech made by a good Democrat who was a former governor of New York named Al Smith. He tried to blow the whistle on the fact that the Dems were taking a turn toward Marxism back in the 1930's. Bottom line, it will eventually become obvious that Obamacare is an unworkable mess and that an alternate will have to be built on its ashes. If Obama is caught in any more shenanigans, he risks impeachment. Investigators are uncovering lies and graft like crazy in his regard. I can't believe that impeachment hasn't happened already. At some point, the few honest Dems may abandon him. The really crazy thing is that Hillary may be elected to carry on Obama's depredations against what used to be our constitutional republic. We get the government that we deserve and right now we deserve to be lorded over by Communists. America has become fatally stupid and unwise and immoral. Oh, I forgot that liberals believe that morality is passé. That explains a lot.

Anonymous said...

Two things have come to light during the past few days.
1) It has been revealed by an internal IRS document that the Obama Regime knew three years ago that millions would not be able to keep their health insurance. Obama lied like a dog anyway. If it weren't for all of the lies, Obamacare would never have been passed. It is getting hard to keep up with all of the lies, beginning with the one that not a dime of Obamacare would be used for abortions. That lie is how they got Stupak to finally sign on to the bill.
2) It has been revealed that CGI, the bogus software company who gave us the current unworkable software for a measly $635 million dollars has as secret of their own. Two different America software wizards said that the job could have been done for from one to five million. Where did all of the excess money go? To Obama's Marxist Canada cronies. This is where Michelle Obama comes in. She was a college classmate of a lady who is now a top executive of CGI. She and the CGI executive were active together in radical causes at Princeton. Liberals are the only ones who can't smell a rat here. Hell, they are fellow rats.
Just wait till there are further mind-blowing revelations about this crap that our shyster government is foisting upon the citizenry. Not only will the software prove unworkable. The entire ill-conceived law will implode eventually. Wait and see.

Anonymous said...

You would have a better chance of getting a thousand chimps randomly typing the entire Encyclopedia Britannica than to get the government to do anything that truly works the way that it was intended. For instance, Social Security was sold to our gullible citizenry with the promise that it would never cost individuals more than 1%/year of their income. The rest, as they say, is history...the history of a corrupt government conning and bankrupting its citizenry. There is no end in sight. Dems insist that debt means nothing and that we can spend money ad infinitum. Just wait until the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency. We won't be able to counterfeit any more and that spells certain death for America. We stay afloat financially through counterfeiting and borrowing from nations who hate us. We are on thin ice indeed. As soon as it suits their purpose, our creditors will pull the rug out from under us. Debt doesn't matter. That could only be of spoken by an idiot or a subversive who is trying to buy more time to run the country into the ground. Our is our current foreign relations stance seems to be if we are nice, the bad guys will give us a break..ha,ha,ha!!

Anonymous said...

It's a crying shame, but America's first black President is in the process of reenforcing all kinds of negative stereotypes that many hold in regard to blacks. You've heard them...blacks are jive-ass hustlers, blacks can't run anything, they are incapable of telling the truth, they steal, everything that black's get involved in turns out badly, etc, etc. It is particularly shameful, because there are lots of blacks who could have done an excellent job, but unfortunately they are all conservatives. If there is any good in this, it is that the Democrats have finally taken their masks off. Pundits said some time ago to look for the Democrats to come out of the closet and basically say,"We are Marxists, so what?" Now that we know that, if Hillary is elected it will mean that America as a constitutional republic is dead. The majority of the citizenry has been converted to either socialism or outright Marxism. Actually, America as it was intended to be has been dead for quite a while. The Constitution, through the discerning of 'penumbras and emanations' by our bogus Supreme Court has been rendered virtually useless when it comes to the separation of powers, state's rights, and confining the federal government within its constitutional bounds. Politicians point to it when it serves their purposes, otherwise, they use it for butt-wipe.

Anonymous said...

"If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan...period...guaranteed. Now we know that the White House knew for three years that this is a blatant lie. And, they told the lie anyway, over and over again. Everyone's health insurance costs will be reduced by $2500... guaranteed. Premium and deductibles will go down...guaranteed. All lies. Of course the spin from the Dems is that he merely misspoke and should have been clearer on these issues. Bullshit! They were all calculated lies...pass Obamacare by hook or by crook. They say that Obamacare is saving those who have non-employment related health care from sub-standard policies. Never mind the millions of intelligent people shopped and chose the policies that THEY liked. But, Obama puts a gun to their heads and says, "You will do as I command...I know what is best for you"...authoritarianism on the hoof. It was known that the sign-up software was inoperable before it went into effect, but Obama said to go ahead with it anyway. Typical destructive Marxism...throw some unworkable, misconceived idea from the elites on the public and tell them to deal with it. It wouldn't surprise me if Obama wrote an executive order which commands the entire country quit using fossil fuels and use only renewable sources, even though 99% of our energy needs are supplied by fossil fuels. That would be an instantaneous way to destroy the country. Other Communists have made similar snafus in regard to agricultural issues resulting in the starvation of millions. All of the Obamacare stuff is bullshit and a ploy to gain greater control of the populace. Obama knew that it wouldn't work, because he has planned all along to force a single-payer system on the citizenry. Being a lying, Marxist criminal at heart, he is using criminal means to deceive the citizenry. In the end, his ill-conceived plan will wreck our entire healthcare system and destroy the economy as well...just what he hoped to do when he took office. Liberals are so damn gullible. Will you pay for all of our needs from cradle to grave, master? If so I will vote for Democrats forever. We are becoming a nation of deadbeats.

performs said...

Delusional thinking, aka ignorance is as simple as not looking at the whole picture:
http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/29/the-great-american-ripoff-the-high-cost-of-low-taxes/

Anonymous said...

performs, we must have a telepathic connection, because that is just what I was about to tell you!! Only I was going to say that you are one of the most deluded people that I have come across in my lifetime. In fat, you are extraordinary. I was just about to suggest that you call yourself Swami Deludenansa, in honor of this fact. Please cast us more pearls of unwisdom. Oh, care to point out my delusions?

Anonymous said...

performs, have you ever considered the issue of the high cost of too much spending? Oh, you didn't know that there are two sides to the issue. Why am I not surprised? Low information voters are deadly to the republic. Politicians feed on them.

SpokGuru For The Near Future said...

Red alert from the White House...Our lies are being found out. We can never succeed in our agenda to fundamentally transform the formerly free America into a Marxist state if the public is not sufficiently deceived. We must all be on the same page in regard to the bullshit that we feed the public. Therefore we are commanding all of our forces, from the liberal members of the Supreme Court on down to the liberal dog catchers, to carefully replicate the lies just as they are spoken by our Liar and Future Dictator-In-Chief. Offenders will be Alinskyed out of existence, just like we do to anyone who dares to tell the truth...and, that includes God Himself. We already have Him and His disgustingly upright followers on the ropes. We must continue until His name is extinguished from the Earth and we are able to devour any righteous person that we might find. All of this is paramount to our success..."Onward, go for the kill, Comrades, America and the entire the Free World are almost ours. The Oligarchs who pull our future dictator's chain have promised us great reward if we can deliver a moribund America to them".

Guru For The Low Information Crowd said...

As you know, Obama's bogus stimulus bill which enabled the food stamps rolls to increase (and to pay off his union bosses and various cronies) has now been spent and Congress is reducing money for food stamps as a result. The average reduction is around $7.60 per household. Of course the Dems are predicting riots in the streets over this miniscule reduction. Dig deeper, give our slothful (see below) constituents more freebies so that they will vote for us forever. Here are some sobering facts...
Able-bodied adults under the age of 50, who have no children on food stamps, grew by 163.7% from 2007 till 2011. Don't the fool Dems want able-bodied people to work for their living and pay taxes? Or, do they want government-dependent serfs? Any honest person can tell you it is the latter. And, public welfare spending has increased 16-fold since LBJ's Great Marxist Society back in 1964. The poverty rate hasn't budged. And, you guys think that we should pay even more...pour enough money on the problem and it will go away. Truly liberalism is a mental disorder.