Time for Thorns

The 5,300-year-old  corpse found in the  permafrost of the Italian Alps in 1991  had a few health challenges,  including Lyme disease and a bad ticker,  according to a new report.   As technology continues to advance,  we may one day be able to determine definitively whether he was murdered.

This is new science I’m happy to report.  It appears that  doing short bursts of  intense effort is nearly as beneficial for you as longer,  more moderate workouts.  I have done this for years,  especially in the high heat and humidity of summer in the South,  so I’m thrilled I’ve been doing the right thing in ignoring the  ”no pain,  no gain” methods.

Scientists have  discovered the gene  responsible for how long we sleep.   It’s not necessarily a pure blessing,  and not because we share the gene with fruit flies.   Now if they could find a way to disconnect the gene from heart problems and diabetes,  I could cut my sleep time down.

Chocolate really  is good  for you!  And of course the food health cops don’t want us to actually eat any until they have determined why it’s good for you.   God forbid we should actually be able to enjoy what we eat.

As if I ever needed  another excuse to eat more chocolate!

Now that His Oneness has released his own  outline of a health reform bill,  Charles Hurt characterizes it perfectly as  outlawing reality.    It is merely the meat of the  previous Democratic bills,  and contains their flaws  and worse,  while providing insufficient detail for it to be scored by  the CBO.    More importantly,  its appearance proves that the upcoming  summit is nothing more than political theater.   It provides an opportunity for  the President to claim  bipartisanship while being completely partisan,  because his real goal is to damage the GOP.   He is interested in its destruction,  not in  any compromise on health legislation,  and you’ll note that he has already begun  substituting “reform” for “change.”    ObamaCare 2.0 is either a disease  or a sympton,  or perhaps a  movie character.    Rich Lowry has  some observations on the reasoning behind all this.

The final wake-up call for anyone foolish or naive enough to believe the summit is any sort of discussion should absorb the fact that the White House is now supporting the use of  reconciliation to jam through a health reform bill if Republicans don’t roll over and play dead.     Indeed, Rep.  James Clyburn is already out on the hustings claiming that reconciliation is the regular,  ordinary course of business and that anyone who refers to it in this instance as a “nuclear option” is a lying Republican who would rather do nothing.   There is an interesting symposium  here on whether this option should be selected.

Obama need not actually address anything of substance,  because the House and Senate leadership can simply agree on verbiage and pass whatever they like,  and no one else,  including Democrats not in leadership positions,  will be aware of what the bill says until he signs it.

I will the summit,  but mostly to see if I have underestimated the amount of deception and lying which will occur.

It seems I’m not the only one thinking  the H1N1 panic is a creation of the Obama Administration.

Do you know anyone who has actually had H1N1?   I don’t.    Do you even know anyone who knows someone who has had it?   Me neither.

At what point do you put out a sign which reads  “Pandemic government hysterics barred from the premises”?   And we’re supposed to think the same fools who screamed PANDEMIC!!!! and couldn’t check in with manufacturers often enough to know how many doses would be available can be trusted with the management of everyone’s health care?    (Except,  of course, Congress and all federal employees,  who will continue to enjoy their taxpayer funded,  gold-plated Cadillac care.)

Now that we have Pelosi’s 1990 page epic plus Reid’s pile,  call your Congress critters and tell them NO.   Suggest they do something inexpensive and effective,  such as clamping down on frivolous lawsuits,   allowing health insurance sales across state lines, making health savings accounts easier to navigate- — you know the drill.   Get to it.

Yuval Levin has a  post at The Corner which sums up the hideous health bill beautifully.

Now to that add the hordes of new bureaucrats which will be needed to administer this hellish legislation.

The Democrats have been utterly deceitful with this bill,  and are now touting it as deficit neutral.    It is a word game,  and we are being played for fools.

David Broder practically ties his  keyboard in knots, and no doubt his brain as well,   in trying to claim he really doesn’t know where His Oneness stands on health care,  and  of course none of the mess is really Obama’s fault anyway.

He does admit that Obama “skillfully skirted” the issue of whether he was a moderate or a liberal.   No, he didn’t — he flat out lied about it,  just as he lied about the depth of his connection with Bill Ayers,   his true position on the born-alive legislation when he was an Illinois senator,  and his admiration for the America his wife was never proud of.

Broder should be embarrassed by carrying so much Obama baggage and trying to blame Republicans for it — but then,  he’s just following his idol’s lead, isn’t he?

Philip Klein got more of the New Hampshire town hall,   and points out a hell of a gaffe by His Oneness,  wherein he states that UPS and FedEx are doing just fine — it’s the Post Office that’s always in trouble.   Watch the embedded video.

For a man who’s supposed to be such a genius,  he certainly screwed up royally by telling the truth.    The same thing is wrong with the postal service that’s wrong with Medicare and every other government-controlled program —  THEY DON’T WORK!!  Medicare-Part D  was set up to actually allow free market competition,  which is why it’s one of the rare government-sponsored  programs which actually does work and has cost less than anticipated.   No wonder Obama hates it.

He also went after greedy doctors for amputating feet instead of treating the diabetes with medication and weight control.    The AMA is probably having third thoughts by now,   and I know more than a few who have resigned from that organization in protest.  And why doesn’t a man with Ivy League degrees know that a doctor doesn’t operate,  a surgeon does?