Thursday, October 01, 2009

Happy New (Fiscal) Year!

Rep. Alan Grayson was at it again yesterday, comparing American health care to the Holocaust.  Garrison Keillor wants to take all health care away from Republicans.

 

The Senate Finance Committee defeated an anti-abortion amendment to ObamaCare yesterday (which means that Obama lied), but they will waste $50 million per year on abstinence education.

 

The Heritage Foundation seems to believe that there might be a way for Senate Democrats to pass a bill with the government option by next week, while Jamie Dupree says that it would be difficult for Democrats to get anything passed this year.

 

Medicare already rations health care (which means that Obama lied), and Canadians are trying to teach us the lessons of their health care system, which is seeing the private sector become viable again thanks to the failings of their government-run system.

 

With everybody worried about dying of the swine flu (which is less deadly than the normal seasonal flu), it turns out that almost one in every three swine flu deaths are not from the swine flu.

 

As Hollywood rallies around a child rapist, how about two stories of children not being raped due to heroics?  One is from Stone Mountain, where an off-duty DeKalb County Sheriff's Lieutenant and a GBI agent stopped a man from raping a 13-year-old girl, and the other is from Colorado, where a man tackled a would-be child molester by jumping out of his wheelchair.

 

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), who knows a thing or two about prostitutes, is offended by the fact that the Department of Homeland Security gave a nearly $1 million grant to ACORN for fire prevention and safety.  Really, is "offended" the best you can do?

 

Today is the first day of Fiscal Year 2010, and Reason has some statistics about how we closed out FY2009.  It's not pretty.

 

The Patriot Act is very flawed, but it has had some successes, like helping to stop the New York Islamic terrorist plot.

 

The governor of Tokyo says that the 2016 Olympics could be the last Olympics ever because of global warming.

 

The Cato Institute has a new website that you should check out:  Downsizing the Federal Government.

 

The City of Los Angeles has decided that, since they can't protect citizens' property, the citizens must now have anti-graffiti coating on all new buildings.

 

Even South Africa wouldn't take "Crazy Aunt" Cynthia McKinney.

 

A woman gave birth in a restroom at Houston Medical Center and then abandoned the baby.

 

Don't go into the Ocmulgee for a while, because Macon spilled sewage into the river for a few hours this morning.

 

Lots of panties are in a bunch over the fact that some cheerleaders made a banner with a Bible verse on it for their football team to run through.  If cheerleaders are today what they were when I was in high school, they have much more important things to worry about.

 

The state can't afford to clean up an illegal tire dump because most of the revenue taken from the tire recycling tax goes to other projects.

 

Jeremiah Wright will be back in Macon this month.

 

Beer gives you gonorrhea, and candy puts you in prison.

 

The number of car accidents caused by deer is increasing.  Hunters, get your rifles.

 

Looking at women's breasts is as good as going to the gym for men, but only if they're big.

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