ObamaCare

Life...regrettably...often seems to be just a long series of regrets. We regret things we did when we were younger and less....mature. We regret things we did when we're older and should have known better. We regret things, when we're young and old, that we should have done when we had the chance and didn't because were were scared, naive, stubborn and set in our ways or were just plain to lazy to make waves. Sometimes they are little regrets. "I shouldna had that extra piece of pecan pie!" "I wish I hadn't got that Black Sabbath tatoo. It's gonna look like crap when I'm sixty."

Sometimes they are bigger. "I wish I'd spent more time with the kids over they years on Sunday instead of watching six hours of football." "I wish I'd called a taxi instead of trying to drive home." "I wish...I wish (you fill in the blank). I have my own blanks. More than I care to admit. For some, those regrets eat at you your entire life and ruin any chance you have of happiness. Most times, you try to do better or act differently or act at all, and you get on with your life.

Pretty soon I fear, in a year, or two or ten, a vaaaaaaaaaaaast majority of America is going to look back regretfully and think, "I wish I'd done more as a citizen to stop government funded health care."

We're gonna regret we didn't stop the government from spending between 870 billion and a trillion dollars over ten years when our national debt is already 11 trillion dollars.
We're gonna regret allowing the governments dirty little hands into the health insurance industry with their "consumer option."
We're gonna regret allowing the government to offer all these "free" benefits to people who didn't immigrate here legally but snuck into the country in the dead of night or in the back of a truck, ship, or plane.
We're gonna regret that we didn't learn from the failure of TennCare and other government run health care programs.
We're gonna regret that we didn't make the government prove they could cut 500 billion in waste from Medicare before we gave them another health plan to incompetently mismanage.
We're gonna regert we destroyed our country and sold our soul for a $10 co-pay because we wanted to run to the doctor every time we got a runny noise instead of take responsibility for our own health.
And perhaps worst of all, we're going to regret that we allowed our money, against our own moral objections, to be used to as "reproductive services" that terminates (you know...kills?) a human life growing in its mother's womb because it was "unplanned," or "inconveninent," or "a woman's right to choose."

It's still not too late to avoid your regrets. You can still make your voice heard by contacting your representatives and senators. Takes about five minutes.
http://www.house.gov/ http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Or...or you can sit back and let the government take more and more control of your life. All for a $10 co-pay.

A new Afghanistan strategy. Win the War!

Today marks the eight anniversary of the beginning of the ummm….foreign contingency operation, intervention, whatever it’s being called now, in Afghanistan. Eight years. That’s approaching Vietnam length. (1964ish- 1973) It’s also approaching Vietnam stupidity. Washington and President Obama (who incidentally is the Commander in Chief, not the President of the US Olympic Commission) are currently debating a new strategy in their approach to the ‘shhhhhhhhh’ war.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599192893500
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=abDn9jDzhIMA
I have a simple strategy for you Mr. President; defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda and win the war! Do you want to know why the polls say for the first time less than 50% of American’s support escalating the commitment to Afghanistan? Because American’s hate to lose.

Speaking as a veteran (unlike the majority of congress and the executive branch) as a veteran of Afghanistan (2003-2004), and as a current member of the armed forces, I can tell you why it has been eight years and we’re still mired in a guerrilla war. Because beginning since oh…about the time Harry Truman fired General Douglas Macarthur, America has tried to win wars doing it on the cheap, by winning hearts and minds, and by avoiding the very ugly, but very truthful fact, that sometimes civilians get in the way of bombs and bullets. We have forgotten the one sure, time proven and effective way to win. When you decide to use deadly force (i.e. when you go to war) the quickest way to defeat your enemy and ensure he never returns, is to use everything thing your military has at its disposal, every troop, tank, plane, bomb and bullet available, and kick the bloody crap out of him until he throws down his weapons and begs for mercy or until he is stone, cold, motionless dead, clutching his one way ticket to hell!

In both Afghanistan and Iraq we defeated the enemy (the Taliban, al Qaeda and Saddam’s army) in about two to three months. At the same time we were repeating endlessly and ad nauseam that “we aren’t at war with the Afghan/Iraqi people, but with the Taliban/al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.” After it was over, after the Taliban fell (and Osama bin Laden escaped) and Saddam was captured, we were left in control of two countries, but without the ability to control the population. We couldn't control Iraq then or can't Afghanistan now because we were so concerned with playing nice, leaving a small "foot print" and not unleashing our full wrath, that Osama escaped and most of Saddam's Army simply disappeared into thin air.

We almost lost Iraq in 2006. Doing one of the few things he got right in the later years of his second term, President Bush orderd a surge of 30,000 troops and a change of strategy. Today Iraq is almost…almost ready for us to leave them to their own devices again.
My advice to the president, as a soldier who has walked the very ground most troubled in Afghanistan today; Paktia, Paktika, Kandahar, Zabol, and Helmand Provinces, is to give General McCrystal the extra 30,000 troops he wants, do what it takes to seal the Pakistani and Iranian border (from the air, electronically, and with troops on the ground) and give Pakistan and Iran an ultimatum. “Pakistan must stop the constant border crossing of insurgents and root out al Qaeda and the Taliban in the tribal territories, or we will. Iran must stop the supply of weapons coming across their border, or we will.”

It’s very simple, after the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, (leaving the county in chaos) we stopped all aid and basically forgot about Afghanistan; the mujahidin we had trained and armed became the Taliban and al Qaeda and it led finally to the destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11. If we leave before stomping the Taliban into dust and making it so al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden can only be found in the pages of a history book, we will end up with another 9/11. Only the next time, New York City or Washington, D.C. will be a smoking, radioactive hole.
Either we remember the smoldering ruins in New York and Washington, remember why we are there, and remember that “We will not falter. We will not tire. We will not fail.” Or we surrender to radical Islam, to al Qaeda and the Taliban, and we wait for the mushroom cloud on Fox News and CNN. It’s your choice Mr. President.

The Declaration of an Independent thinking American

(With respect to and I would like to think, the approval of Thomas Jefferson)

The Declaration of an Independent thinking American.

When, in the course of continued unacceptable, and unbelievable events, it becomes necessary for a thinking person to dispute the political bonds which have loosely connected him with his elected official(s), and to proclaim among the powers of the earth, the separate and apparently uncommon common sense to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitled him, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that he should declare the causes which impel him to the rant against the stupid, naive, and counter productive actions contrary to good of this Republic and his country. To wit, that the recent history of the President of the United States and his democratic cronies and sycophants and all too often spineless and voiceless republicans (Oops…I mean the House of Representative and US Senate) is a despicable litany of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over free and decent states. As evidence to this:

1) Attempting and allowing the attempt to impose taxes on us without our consent (See Clean Engery and Security my A$$)
2) Erecting and allowing to be erected a multitude of new offices and appointing un-scrutinized communists, Marxist, radical environmentalist, wacko leftist and perverted LGBT sickos to subvert our republic from within (See Once Upon a Czar)
3) Attempting to entice our fellow citizens to be sneaky spies on their neighbors and report “fishy” stories about proposed big government policies (remember flag@whitehouse.gov?)
4) Attempting and allowing the attempt to render the military impotent and unable to protect American citizens by scraping missile defense in Europe, cutting it back in Alaska and California, vowing to close Guantanamo Bay, ignoring the blatant Iranian government involvement in killing American soldiers in Iraq, not wanting to hear that commanders in Afghanistan want more troops, Generally trying to defeat our enemies on the cheap and so on, and on, and on, and so on….
5) Combining with others and failing to subject us to jurisdiction contrary to our constitution by nominating and confirming that wise Latina to the Supreme Court even though she believes she “and other’s like her” make law and not enforce it
6) The hurried, “emergency?” passage of obscene deficit “stimulus” spending with treasonous lack of due diligence and criminal lack of oversight (See Stimulus or National Suicide)
7) The blackmail and takeover of private auto companies and banks
8) The attaching of an amendment in the dead of night to a defense appropriations bill against free speech and falsely calling it “hate speech” which also inexplicably designated Pedophilia as an protected sexual deviancy
9) The takeover of all student loans
10) The ignoring of the porous southern border and allowing the ongoing invasion of illegal aliens to continue unchecked (See Borderland)
11) Continuing to perpetrate the lie that carbon dioxide (exhale now please) is a poison gas destroying our planet.
12) Continuing to proselytize the arrogant belief that man, in his omniscient wisdom and omnipotent power, can arrest “climate change” and control the natural forces of the earth
13) Allowing the destructive and separationist propagation of political correctness and hyphenism
14) Failing to explore and make use of our own natural and abundant resources while continually attempting to mandate and subsidize with taxpayer money so called “green” technologies
15) And lastly (for today) attempting to take over one sixth of our free market economy by implementing government controlled and mandated “health care” (See Health Care Crisis?)

In conclusion, I (and a swiftly growing number of Americans) are becoming more and more convinced that the President of the United States and an overwhelming majority of congress is unfit to govern our country. I furthermore once and for all categorically deny that we oppose the president’s policies because he’s black, we oppose them because he has surrounded himself with a cabal of Marxist, Socialist, Communist, LGBT wackos who are seeking to “change” America from the republic that was founded by courageous and freedom loving patriots into a country where government is my mommy, daddy, provider, savior and sole decider of what’s “best” for me. Furthermore, because you, nor the liberal whiners of the “Blame America First” crowd cannot stop apologizing for America being a “City of light on a high hill” and amazingly (you as president and they as our elected leaders) seem to have ceased believing that we are indeed the greatest country ever formed upon the earth and our Judeo-Christian ideals and values are superior to every other government conceived by imperfect man, I do hereby declare that until the 1st Amendment to the Constitution is rendered null and void, I will endeavourer to do everything within my Creator endowed, constitutional supported power to see that the money wasting, nanny state loving, elitist, I know what’s best for you, leftist, common sense ignoring officials who currently reside in Washington, D.C. shall be voted out of office in 2010 and unless after that day you suddenly remember the oath you swore on 20 January 2009, you’ll follow them out the door in 2012.

Now how are oaths supposed end? Oh, yeah. “So help me God.”

A republic, if you can keep it.

September 17th 1787…It is a date more important than July 4th 1776, December 7th 1941, June 6th 1944, July 20th 1969, and September 11th 2001 combined.

September 17th, 1787 is when the Constitution of the United States of America was formally adopted as the supreme law of the land by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and ratified by conventions in each state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution

I mention this because in a recent survey conducted by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day (today) only 28% of 1000 high school students surveyed correctly answered that the Constitution was the supreme law of our country.
http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=11141949
What is even more disturbing is the fact that only 3% of the students surveyed correctly answered 6 of 10 questions (which coincidentally is a failing grade in 100% of American Public High Schools) drawn from the exam used by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services which immigrants must pass to become a citizen of the United States.

Therein lies the source of all that is currently, dare I say it, “wrong” with our country and is at the heart of just about every debate and policy fight currently underway in Washington D.C and across the land, from Nationalized Health Care, Immigration Reform, Cape and Trade, Government Czars and well…you name it.

That pesky Constitution molded a diverse group of British Colonies who had just won a bloody war of independance into a Republic. It did not…I say again…did not, create a democracy. Whilst in both cases the government is elected by the people, in a Democracy the majority rules according to their whims, (italics added) whilst in a Republic the Government rules according to law. This law is framed in the Constitution to limit the power of Government and ensure some rights and protection to minorities and individuals.
http://www.albatrus.org/english/goverment/govenrment/democracy%20versus%20repubblic.htm

“According to their whims.” Does that sound familiar to the current thinking of a democrat controlled House and Senate and democrat President who seem with every breath to say, “We know best. You are wrong. We are in charge. We’ll do what we want.” That is in indeed how a democracy operates; majority rules. But it is not how a republic conducts government. Our founders established a constitutional republic to prevent the majority from ruling over the minority without regard to law. The source of all contention now in Washington, D.C. and across the country comes down to this: under our constitution, government “should not” be able to mandate it’s citizens must purchase health care or pay for the health care of others, take over private auto companies and banks, contemplate taxing legal energy companies out of business, decree that the very breath you exhale is poisonous to the environment, force one state to accept disagreeable laws passed by another state (i.e. same sex marriage) or restrict the free expression of religion, speech, assembly or the right of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms to protect their families, homes or their Creator endowed rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That is our problem! Because no matter how much the majority may wish it, they do not have the right to create laws contrary to the constitution. But though apathy and ignorance “We the People” have allowed government “should not’s” to become, “the government did WHAT?”

Thankfully it is still not too late to save the republic. As a citizen of the United States of America, you still have time to insist your congress and senate and president obey the constitution and follow the law, not just the simple whim of the majority. However, if you do not? One day soon you will wake up to the horrible fact that sometimes the “whims” of the majority are radically different from your own. And when that day comes, it will be too late for you to do anything about it except comply.

9-11-09

I want to take a break from my usual complaining about big government and the slow suicide of the republic to reflect on September 11th, 2001. It's been called by some a day that changed America and the world. That will be left to historians to decide, but I do know it was a day that changed the path of my life.

On September the 10th, I worked in a factory, and was a part time soldier. I'd served on active duty in the army with the 82nd Airborne and had been to Iraq for Bush 41, but that was almost 10 years past. On 09/10/01 I didn't think much about my service except that it was an added paycheck once a month and occassionally I had to spend a weekend on the range and two or three weeks a year in Georgia or California "playing soldier." That changed the next morning sometime around 10AM.

Like most everyone else, I stopped what I was doing and watched the news (even at work) after the second plane hit the Twin Towers. During my lunch break, I watched in disbelief as the news replayed the horrific scene of the towers collapsing. Watched the smoke fill downtown New York. Watched the people on the street, in shock and covered with white dust. Saw the gapping hole in the Pentegon and heard about Flight 93 that had crashed in Pennsylvania (perhaps shot down by our own Air Force). On the way home from work driving down I-40, I saw one of those roadside alert signs, you know, the ones that say, "Road closed" or "Expect Delays." Except this one said, "God Bless America." That's when it finally sank in. I cried for the next thirty miles. At home I dried my eyes and took comfort in family, like most Americans, trying to make sense of what had happened and wondering, worrying, what the future would hold.

The days that followed went by for me in a numbed haze, watching the smoking hole in the heart of New York, watching the death toll numbers climb and the stock market tank, wathcing the news point fingers at a group of Islamic terrorist called al-Qaida and their leader Osama bin Ladin and some hard core Muslims in Afghanistan called the Taliban who were his hosts and protector. As September stretched into October, my anger silently grew. When the United States invaded Afghanistan to drive the Taliban from power and punish bin Ladin, I realized that I was no longer satisfied being a factory worker and "weekend warrior." I realized that the United States (and western culture in general) was now at war with radical Islam and it wouldn't be over until one defeated the other. And I realized I wanted, "needed" to do my part. Not because I wanted leave my family and go be a hero or a killer, but because I was an American citizen. Although I was a father and husband and approaching 40, I knew in my heart that it was not just the single, 18 year kids that should go off to protect our liberty and prevent further terror. It was my responsibility as well. From then on I began seeking for opportunities to do what needed to be done to protect my family, and by extension, my country.

Eight years later, I now serve full time in the Tennesee National Guard. From September 2003 thru July 2008 I spent a total of 31 months away from home. A year of that time was spent training and fighting along side Afghans against the Taliban and al-Qaida. Another year and a half serving on the Southwest Border in Arizona. I won't lie to you and say that there aren't times when I wonder if my life would be different (better?) if I'd just decided in September 2001 to give blood and slap an American flag on the back window of my truck and call it a day.

I won't be so vain as to say that the small part I played has made a difference in the war against terror, but I will say, if 100s of thousands of other Americans had chosen the easy path along with me, the world would be a totally different place on September 11th, 2009.

Our country isn't perfect. There won't be a perfect government until Jesus returns. But the United States of America is still by far the greatest nation that has ever been upon the Earth. It is a country worth fighting for, worth dying for, and certainly a county worth taking a little time out of our busy lives and remembering those who died eight years ago today and the 5,000 or so service men and women who have died since to protect our republic.

God Bless them all. And God Bless America.

Once Upon a Czar

Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616)

There’s a curious section of our government that presidents, beginning with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, have used to help run this country which is outside our normal ability to choose, approve, or even control. They are the “Czars.” Wikipedia describes a governmental czar in the US as “a high-level officials who direct or oversee federal operations on a given topic or who coordinate policies between different departments on a given topic.” I prefer the dictionary version. 1) Emperor or king 2) autocratic ruler or leader 3) any person exercising great authority in a particular field. Like I said, since FDR, each president has employed the service of “czars” to varying degrees. FDR had 10. JFK and Ronald Reagan each had only 1. George W Bush had the most at 35 (stretched over a period of eight years from 2001-2009) Barak Hussein Obama has appoint (in less than 10 months) 32.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars

BHO’s list of czars include “experts” (italics added) appointed to oversee areas from Afghanistan and Aids to Cars and Domestic Violence, the Great Lakes and Green Jobs, to Science and the Sudan. http://www.puma08.com/2009/08/15/list-of-obamas-czars/
With so little really known about President Barak Hussein Obama; (including exactly were he was actually born—but that’s something for another day) here’s some insight into the mind of BHO through the trusted advisors and “experts” he’s appointed to help him rule…..I mean…govern.

Van Jones: Green Jobs Czar. Admitted Black Nationalist and radical communist. September 12, 2001 he attended a vigil to express solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans and to mourn the civilians killed in the terrorist attacks "as well as the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world.” Founding member of STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) an organization described as having a commitment to the fundamental ideas of Marxism-Leninism. Associated in past with an organization advocating the overthrow of the government. Most recently came under fire for referring to Republicans in congress as (pardon my French) Assholes.
http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-c-2009-09-01-237897.112112_Van_Jones_and_STORM_should_scare_the_daylights_out_of_every_American.html http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108545
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108553

John Holdren: Science and Technology. Once penned a 1000 page book that suggested how to control global population by utilizing forced abortion and involuntary sterilization. Also thinks trees should have a right to sue humans. (No, I’m not kidding)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/21/obamas-science-czar-considered-forced-abortions-sterilization-population-growth/
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obamas-science-czar-suggested-compulsory-abortion-sterilization-50783612.html
http://stopsocialism.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/obama%E2%80%99s-science-czar-advocated-giving-trees-the-right-to-sue/


Harry Knox: (Full Disclosure Not a full Czar but a member of )Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Homosexual rights activist who accused Pope Benedict of hurting people in the name of Jesus because the Pope advocated abstinence as a way to curb AIDS in Africa rather than passing out condoms. Once director of HRC (Human Rights Campaign) The HRC describes itself as “America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/47845

Mark Lloyd: Diversity Czar. Disciple of radical socialist Saul Alinsky and fan of Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez. Thinks we make too much of our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and the press. His job is to silence conservative opposition to BHO’s agenda by shutting up town hall protesters and making conservative talk radio so expensive it’s driven from the airwaves.
http://lornakismet.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/diversity-czar-mark-lloyd-threatens-free-speech/
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/07/meet-the-fcc-diversity-czar/
http://conservativehideout.com/wordpress/?p=1159

And perhaps most important due to the health care debate...Dr Ezekiel Emanuel: Health Policy Czar (brother to BHO’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) Zek thinks doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously. Thinks they should consider “social justice” and that effort and money spent on the terminally ill should go to more deserving patients. Dr Zek is also for denying health care to the elderly, persons with dementia and neuropsychological services to children with learning disabilities. This is the monster who will preside over the “Death Panels”
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_doctors_180941.htm http://www.wizbangblog.com/content/2009/07/26/ezekiel-emanuel-deny-coverage-to-elderly-and-disabled-for-the-greater-good.php

The list goes on and on. A great numver of these wacko, radical socialist, communist, environmental freaks report directly to BHO. They have no congressional oversight and just possibly, hold positions that are not constitutional.
http://townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/06/15/senior_democrat_says_obamas_czars_unconstitutional

You want to know Barak Hussein Obama's ulitmate plan of "Hope" and "Change" will bring? I submit (like Miguel de Cervantes) “you are known by the company you keep.”

God Bless America. God save America King Barak's Czars.

Health Care Crisis?

Okay....let's examine this from a common sense point of view. Putting aside politics, red state/blue state, and any conservative/liberal disagreements; regarless of whether you have private health insurance, medicare, medicad and or whether you have any health insurance at all; if you are injured in any way, shape form or fashion, (break a leg jumping rope, cut off a finger playing mumbly peg, get hit in the head by a foul ball, so on and so forth) or suffer a heart attack, stroke, or acute explosive diarrhea, if you go to a hospital emergency room, you'll get treated by the best trained medical personnel in the history of mankind. The quality of care will vary depending on whether you are in Bayou Cleutus, Mississippi or St Louis, Missouri, but you will get the best care available. After the doctors and nurses have stopped the bleeding, sewn you up, set your leg, stabilized your heart rate....whatever....and your life is judged no longer to be in danger, you'll be discharged and informed to do a follow up with your PCP (Primary Care Provider). If you have some form of health insurance (according to 2006 census bureau numbers it's 85% of America)

http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/070828/record-number-of-americans-lack-health-insurance.htm

what follows will be a....ummm....discussion between your insurance provider and the hospital on exactly what will be covered and what percentage they are going to pay for ( depending of course, upon your particular plan) If you don't have insurance....well, you're likely to get a big fat, bill totalling thousands of dollars. You'll either set up a payment plan, declare bankruptcy, or....or you fill out a stack of forms stating you can't pay any of it and it'll be written off. If you happen to be an illegal alien, you won't be asked to pay a dime...but that's another discussion altogther.

Bottom line is...you get treated. So...where is the crisis? Oh....you want to talk about the 15% of America that doesn't have health insurance? Oh, I see. Then...we're talking about a Health INSURANCE issue. Well that's totally different.

According to the Obama Administration and various other sources, the number of uninsured Americans range roughly between 35 and 47 million (depending on whose numbers you trust)

Sounds bad until you begin to break those numbers down. Again, depending on whose numbers you look at, 10 million or so are foreign nationals (read...not American's at all) 10 million are between 18 and 30 and don't buy insurance (but most have cell phones and cable TV, I'll bet) about 15 million are listed as "chronically uninsured" (most for pre-existing conditions) Roughly 10 million qualify for either Medicare or S-Chip, but don't bother to apply, and another 9 to 10 million (a very low estimate) are illegal aliens.

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49986

http://www.irnnews.com/news.asp?action=detail&article=26725

Take away foreign nationals, illegals, people who would rather spend their money on iPods or Comcast, and those that are just too damn lazy to apply for government help at all and...you're left with that "chronically uninsured" list. Where's the crisis?

I'm not setting out to settle the health care/health insurance/health whatever reform debate in one afternoon...just trying to put it into prespective.

Couple of other facts and I'll be done.

You have auto insurance? Pays for a collision, right? Maybe even a rental while your ride is at the body shop? But does it pay for oil change, new tires, tire rotation, blown transmission? Bet it doesn't.

You have home owners insurance? Pays for a fire, right? Wind damage? Probably even pays for a rental/appartment/hotel while your house is being rebuilt after a tornado. But does it pay for new carpet? Paint in the living room? Termite damage? Bet it doesn't.

Hell....join a skydiving club and see if the best State Farm coverage will pay for your broken leg when you land in the trees. Bet it won't.

Last time. Where's the crisis? Where's the reason to scrap health insurance that 85% of Americans have in order to spend a trillion dollars on a government public "option" that will eventually turn into a government single payer plan?

In the words of Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, "Never allow a crisis (itallics added for sarcastic effect) to go to waste. "