The Inside Straight

Patrick Kennedy Goes Nuts Over The Media.

Ballew — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:08:46 +0000

Representative Patrick Kennedy in a firey speech went nuts over the media and their choice of what to cover. In a rage he went from a pretty coherent argument on Afghanistan into an incoherent attack on the media and coverage of Eric Massa. What is pretty hilarious about this is how he act legitimately upset at the fact that the MSM is crooked. Hell, we have known about this for years.

Really Patrick, it is good to see a Democrat passionate about our troops but drooling and spitting all over the mic does very little to push your agenda. Instead it makes you look like a raving lunatic even when speaking the obvious.

Here is his rant, enjoy.

Ah the “Kennedy Magic” it never dies. And watching people go nuts like this never gets old.

TIS: Calling Out Sam Stein of The Huffington Post / Palins Health Care in Canada

Max Venom — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:09:31 +0000

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 no Doctor and the closest medical facilities were located in neighboring Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The time period was in the 60’s, and according to Palin’s father they had little choice, given their location in Skagway. “There was no road out of there at that time,” said retired teacher Chuck Heath, reached by phone in Wasilla. “The ferry schedule was very erratic. We had no doctor in Skagway. The plane schedule was very erratic. The winds dictated whether the planes could come in or not.”

And they only went twice for emergency treatment. According to Palin’s father, his family probably boarded the train for the Whitehorse hospital only twice – once when a daughter had rheumatic fever, and once when his son, also named Chuck, severely burned his leg and an infection set in.

So Stein is a liar, the Palin family did not find Canada ‘more alluring’. They found it necessary in times of emergency.

Stein illustrates the problem with amateur journalism on the far left. They do absolutely no reporting of their own, instead they troll the internet for articles, steal the information and regurgitate the parts they like in a pathetic attempt to twist the story in order to dumb down their readers.

And here I sit, a novice journalist with an English 1A class under my belt, who with five minutes to spare on conducting my own credible research (Courtesy AP), has called out a cheap shot rookie who is a total discredit to the values that journalism requires. Because anything else is just sloppy tabloid journalism.

The OttO Show — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:20:06 +0000

Pelosi 09 March 2010… “but we have to pass the Bill so that you can find out what is in it“

TIS: My Email From President Obama on Health Care

Max Venom — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:51:04 +0000

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 the White House). Despite not reading it, Barack Obama replied. Well, his name is on it anyway…. cranked out by some lowly staff member with the painful job of sending out White House spam.

And this is President Barack Obamas response to my email;

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Dear Friend:

Thank you for writing. I have heard from countless Americans struggling to afford health insurance, as well as health professionals striving to provide care, and I appreciate your perspective.

I recently released my proposal to reform our health insurance system. To learn more about this plan, please visit:

www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting and www.healthreform.gov

Reform must provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance; give those without insurance affordable options; and lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government.

I share the sense of urgency that many Americans have voiced to improve health care in our country. Together, we will fix it.

Sincerely,

Barack Obama

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Does the spin ever stop? ’Together we will fix it’…. without any Republicans or the majority of Americans who disapprove of this partisan Bill? My only response to this is Washington is broken, starting with the President. He possess the power to bring both sides together to initiate bipartisan reform that uses the best ideas from both parties. If he truly loved capitalism, he would allow private insurance companies to compete across state lines, he would reduce government red tape instead of adding to it, he would allow our health care system to breathe freely under a free market system, he would insist on it being a voluntary program encouraged with tax credits. He would understand the necessity of keeping government out of the health care business in order to preserve it as the best (albeit not perfect) system the world has ever produced. The USA leads the world in medical technology for a very good reason, and none of it due to government.

Mr. President, tear up the partisan bill that is headed to your desk and start over with bi-partisan reform. That is what most Americans want. If it means showcasing your leadership by eating a slice of Humble pie, well sir, thats what leaders do sometimes, and that would be 100% better than serving most Americans a plate of crap.

TIS: President Obama Breaks Haiti Pledge After 49 Days

Max Venom — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:39:46 +0000

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.”

The World According To Harry Reid: ”Only 36,000 people lost thier jobs today” (By Ballew)

Ballew — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:35:59 +0000

Good news America only 36,000 people lost their jobs. It was quote “a big day in America”. Are you joking? What about those 36,000 people who lost their jobs?

This is the type of thinking that makes me wonder who and why anyone would vote Democrat. Reid, Pelosi, Obama should be working on fixing our unemployment epidemic, not a fake health care epidemic. While Americans are wondering when they will be put back to work people like Reid, Pelosi and Obama push an unpopular and pricey health care plan

I hope this is the nail in the coffin for Reid and his ilk although I doubt Democrats will change their stripes no matter how dirty this crop of Democrats do them. Let’s hope enough Independents and Conservatives step up to beat back this type of ridiculous thinking.

TIS: A Closer Look at Obama’s Doctors in White Coats

Max Venom — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:08:06 +0000

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 in annual premiums, $680,000 of which came from MEDICARE and MEDICAID. They received $32,000 in Government Grants. GHC-Seattle also deals in Marketable Securities totaling $757,569 representing investments in Government Securities, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mutual Funds, Commercial Paper, Equity, and Corporate Debt Securities.

How is it legal for a non-profit, operating as a charity, to collect MEDICARE and MEDICAID premiums, government grants, and then use that money to invest in Mutual Funds, Mortgage Backed Securities and Government Securities? Is this some type of government bonus for not paying any Federal Tax?

No wonder why GHC is lining up behind the President rooting for Obamacare. Under Obamacare, multiply the size of GHC by a factor of 10 (10 X the investments… 10 X the tax exempt status…. 10 X the government grants… 10 X the MEDICARE, MEDICAID and OBAMACARE premiums… 10 X the bureaucracy) and this is the transformation that will improve everyone’s Health Care in America?

This is a socialized health care scam, that by all appearances, funnels government money through healthcare providers and out the other end to buy government securities. The implications are huge, representing hundreds of billions under a single-payer, public option system.

Exactly how big is this government shell game? I don’t think we’ll ever truly know the answer to that question. All we can be sure of is information is being withheld from the public through layers and layers of intelligible legislation. And the deeper we dig, the uglier it gets.

Another oddity is how small GHC really is. Yet they are big enough to stand behind the President in order to make the photo-op appear much bigger than it really is. Small potato’s on a big stage. Now that would be really funny if it weren’t so pathetic and troubling for this great nation that we still call home.

RIA Novosti: Russia Edges Closer to Full-Scale 5th Generation Fighter Production (T-50)

Max Venom — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:20:40 +0000

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.

TIS: To Liberals Everywhere, ‘Government Won’t Save You’

Max Venom — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:21:57 +0000

It often strikes me how Government failure attracts liberals. It’s like watching flies circling fly-paper. That no matter how big the disaster, the solution is always bigger government. And isn’t that the problem of big government, that when government becomes so big it becomes highly bureaucratic and insanely ineffective?

We should learn a few lessons from Katrina, whose aftermath was largely created by big government. The above Katrina poster hangs on my office wall as a constant reminder to me of government inefficiency, that metaphorically, government created the conditions that stranded those people, and the people willingly placed themselves on that bridge. Big government didn’t save them, and it won’t save you. Our government has already failed Social Security, Medicare, and VA health care. Politicians have spent your unborn children’s tax revenue, and have created the worst economic disaster since the great depression (while pointing fingers at everyone else). They have mortgaged your future to the Chinese, and they have bestowed Constitutional rights upon foreign terrorist. And now liberals are claiming government run health care is the best solution to health care reform?

To liberals everywhere: Government won’t save you.

TIS: Obama Reaffirms with Russia – U.S. Missile Shield Will Be Linked to Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty

Max Venom — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:59:08 +0000

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.