Question of the Day

I was just wondering. Why is it acceptable to protest jobs going to foreign nationals in other countries but racist to protest jobs going to foreign nationals in this country illegally? Do the poor in India and China not have as much need to eat as our neighbors south of the border?

You Keep Using That Word...

Liberals and the mainstream media keep using the term "teabagger" to describe people who participate in the Tea Party rallies. The most recent example is Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif) who used the term in a plea to the media to begin acting as thought police. This bugs a lot of members of the Tea Party but personally I find it kind of amusing. You see, I don't think they've really thought things through.

Just what is a "teabagger?" The term originated as slang for a man who likes to lower his testicles into his partner's mouth. It is this definition that annoys people. The thing is, as someone who plays massively multiplayer online video games I know that the term has other connotations as well. Of course these days teabagging goes beyond humiliating video game opponents as anyone who fallen asleep at someone else's house only to wake up and find pictures of themselves asleep with a scrotum pressed to their face posted online can attest. And this is what I think of whenever I hear someone call me a teabagger.

You see, if I am a teabagger then who is the teabaggee? Who do I want to humiliate by dangling my testicles in their face? If you really want the answer look for me at a Tea Party. I'll be the guy with a sign dangling tea bags in the faces of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid. I really must thank the Left. Without them for inspiration I might never have figured what I want to put on a protest sign.

Going Postal On Health Care

So President Obama was addressing a town hall and in trying to address claims that a government plan will drive private insurers out of the market he admitted that the government doesn't do things as well as private industry. Specifically he said that UPS and FedEx do a better job than the USPS.



Here is my question. If the government plan isn't going to be subsidized by tax money, as he appears to be claiming here, how is it going to provide health insurance to people who can't afford it now? That is the whole point of this thing isn't it? To provide health insurance to people who can't afford it? The money has to come from somewhere. If not from the people being insured and not from taxes, where is the money going to come from? Surely they aren't going to charge other people astronomically high premiums to subsidize those who can't pay. That would make the government plan a lot more expensive than any private insurance and so destroy it's competitiveness.

There's only one way the government can come up with the money to provide insurance to the 47 million uninsured. They've got to use taxes to subsidize the insurance. There's no other place for the government to get the money. The second the government plan is subsidized by tax dollars there will be no way for private insurers to compete. Private insurers have to make a profit or they will go bankrupt and out of business. The government doesn't have to make a profit because they can just seize the money they need through taxes. Which means the government can seriously undercut private insurers prices driving them out of business.

I'm a Night Elf Mohawk!

I was talking with a friend this weekend and it came out that he hadn't seen Mr. T's World of Warcraft commercial so I thought I'd post it here along with some of their other celebrity spots.

Don't Tread On Me

Civilized Debate

An unemployed man goes to a health care town hall meeting to try and make an honest buck selling "Don't Tread On Me" flags while learning something about the issue. Want to guess which side's supporters assaulted him?

Wisdom from the Village Elders

Seems an AARP meeting to promote Obama's health care plan didn't go quite the way the organizers planned...