By Max Venom, on March 10th, 2010 | 1:09 am Sam Stein (Huffington Post) is a far-left radical liberal who practices sloppy tabloid journalism. And here is the proof.
Stein wrote an article titled ‘Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care‘. In it, Stein asserts the following as fact,
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.
… she and her family once found it more alluring than, at the very least, the coverage available in rural Alaska. Up to the age of six, Palin lived in a remote town near the closest Canadian city, Whitehorse.
The first misstatement of fact is that Canada wasn’t under a single payer system when Palin was six years old. The Canada Health Act wasn’t passed until 1984. Prior to that, Canadian Medicare only covered 50% of medical costs which wasn’t passed into law until 1966.
Stein hasn’t the courage to explain why the Palin family crossed over into Canada. The Palin family lived in the rural southeast Alaska town of Skagway. Their town had [Continue...]
By Max Venom, on March 9th, 2010 | 1:51 pm Yesterday I emailed the White House on the subject of heath care. It started out, “Dear Mr. President”, and went on to discuss the issue of Presidential legacies, specifically that great leaders write their own legacies, and that if the President is insistent upon ramming obamacare down our throats ‘at all costs’, to include imploding the democratic party, well that isn’t a very good legacy at all.
This isn’t the first time I have emailed the White House, perhaps over the past year this would be my 10th piece of correspondence asking them what the heck is happening to our country, with strong conservative overtones. I have always checked the block ‘Do you want a response?’, but this is the first response I have ever received. These days with health care hanging by a thread, I guess any email the White House gets on health care merits a response to ALL Americans, not just liberal messages of support. Granted, the President didn’t read my email. In fact, no one did. I know this because the response didn’t address any of my concerns (especially the one recommending Obama fire Rahm Emanuel on behalf of all decent Americans who are disgusted by Chicago Mob-style politics in [Continue...]
By Max Venom, on March 8th, 2010 | 1:39 am Only 49 days after making a pledge that could only rival God of the Old Testament, “You will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten,” President Barack Obama told the people of Haiti. “In this, your hour of greatest need, America stands with you. The world stands with you” (said on January 15th), the President is now withdrawing a large majority of U.S. troops from Haiti. A move that has some Haitians fearing the departure of American troops as a sign of dwindling international interest in the plight of the Haitian people following the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake.
According to Gen. Douglas Fraser, head of U.S. Southern Command, which runs the Haiti operation, “Our mission is largely accomplished”
Now that is impressive, in a record 49 days the U.S. has largely accomplished its mission in Haiti, after an earthquake leveled the capital city killing 230,000, injuring another 300,000, and leaving an estimated 1,000,000 homeless. Good Job Mr. President.
Now we can refocus our energy and hope and pray that the Lord God hasn’t accomplished His mission here on planet Earth…
Joshua 1:5 “… (God) I Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You.”
By Max Venom, on March 4th, 2010 | 11:08 pm
Zoom in on the doctors standing behind President Obama (White House briefing on Obamacare; 3 March 2010) and you will see three letters embroidered on the white coat right breast pocket: GHC. On the Seattle based GHC website, Group Health Cooperative describes itself as follows; ”Founded in 1947, Group Health Cooperative is a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system that coordinates care and coverage. Based in Seattle, Wash., Group Health and its subsidiary health carriers, Group Health Options, Inc. and KPS Health Plans, serve more than half a million residents of Washington state and Idaho.” In addition to Seattle, other GHC’s operate throughout the country as non-profit managed health care providers, e.g. (GHC-SCW) (GHC-Eau Claire).
It comes as no surprise that non-profit health care providers would support Obamacare since a sizable share of their funding is paid by MEDICARE, MEDICAID, and government grants. However, what is somewhat surprising is how a healthcare provider can qualify as a non-profit organization under IRS Section 501(a), operating as a TAX-EXEMPT charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3), and be allowed to invest government dollars in Marketable Securities.
According to GHC-Seattle consolidated financial statements for 2008, this “Charity” collected over 2.5 million [Continue...]
By Max Venom, on March 1st, 2010 | 4:20 pm Russia’s fifth-generation jet fighter, the T-50, is to undergo more than 2,000 flight tests before full-scale production starts, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday. “Before the jet’s serial production is launched, it should complete over 2,000 test flights,” Putin said. Russia has been developing its newest fighter since the 1990s. The current prototype was designed by the Sukhoi design bureau and built at a plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Russia’s Far East.
Side-by-side comparison of Russian T-50 and U.S. F-22
A word from Max: This development in Russian Fighter technology places Russia on an equal footing with U.S. Fighter capability. What makes this truly ALARMING is President Obama’s decision to halt F-22 production, cease all funding, and cap the USAF inventory at 187 aircraft. A decision that was soundly criticized by Retired Gen. Merrill McPeak. There is a real danger here, and that is we are surrendering air superiority to those who would challenge it. Bad idea? You can count on it.
By Max Venom, on February 26th, 2010 | 6:59 am In a TIS followup (to this article), President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev reaffirmed by telephone Wednesday that U.S. Missile Shield Plans will be directly linked to the Russian – U.S. Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty scheduled to be finalized this April.
This comes after President Obama scrapped the Bush Missile Defense Shield in Europe (Poland and the Czech Republic) because the plans had infuriated the Russians. Prior to its scrapping, the Pentagon was working up a deal with Turkey as a potential site for Advanced SM-3 U.S. Missiles to target potential Iranian missile threats. However, in an embarrassing repudiation to White House foreign policy, Turkey rejected the offer leaving the U.S. with no place to base its missiles. Subsequent talks with Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic to accept a scaled down version of the Bush Missile Defense Shield by basing ship-based SM-3 Interceptors are ongoing. Poland and Romania have accepted the new plan amidst stiffened Russian opposition who believe that any system threatens their security.
By Max Venom, on February 23rd, 2010 | 1:16 am U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a speech Monday that Russia had nothing to worry about from NATO. “While Russia faces challenges to its security, NATO is not among them,” she said, disagreeing with Russia’s new military doctrine that lists NATO’s eastward expansion as a threat to the country’s security. This is an all too familiar scene, the Obama Administration is no better at convincing the Russians NATO is nice, than they are at convincing Americans that Universal Health Care won’t bite. Failed domestic policies are one thing, but can the U.S. really afford to fail at foreign relations and missile defense?
In an attempt to appease Russian fears over NATO, Clinton also said the U.S. wants “a cooperative NATO-Russia relationship that produces concrete results and draws NATO and Russia closer together.”
Russia has long opposed NATO expansion of former Soviet States. Russia’s new military doctrine approved by President Dmitry Medvedev earlier in February also includes the possibility of using of nuclear weapons by Russia and lists U.S. anti-missile shield plans as a national threat. This change to Russian doctrine comes five months after Obama scrapped the European Missile Shield without a single Russian concession. In [Continue...]
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