Monthly Archives: October 2013

When Bureaucrats Condemning Innocent People to Death is Considered Praiseworthy

     An Canadian court in Ontario ruled that doctors can not withhold treatment from a patient if the patient’s family does not want it.  However, the court ruled that a quasi-judicial board of bureaucrats can overrule the family!  Canada has Death … Continue reading

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Happy Halloween! (2013)

     Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror), the classic silent masterpiece.      May it be a happy respite from the real world horrors of Obamacare… Tweet

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America Has Been Warned

     M.E.P. Daniel Hannan spoke at the Free Market forum at Hillsdale College speaks about the economic idiocy and bureaucratic overreach of the European Union, and warns America that it is on the same path.      Alas, that warning was ignored last … Continue reading

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Common Core: Creating the NEW Soviet Person

     The 1987 miniseries Amerika depicted life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union.  A scene, near the end, depicts a young American boy in a Komsomol style uniform wax poetically about the wonders of … Continue reading

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The Perfect Description of the Left’s Mindset

     Gov. Moonbeam (AKA Jerry Brown) of the Fools’ Golden State of California has unwittingly summarized perfectly the very description of the Left’s core mindset: Jerry Brown: "Government can best solve the problems that it, at first, creates." #CAP10 — daveweigel … Continue reading

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Paid To Kill; Paid To Die

     “Free” healthcare provided by the government ex nihilo is touted as a fundamental human right by the Left.  But TANSTAAFL — There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lobotomy, so as to speak…      Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is … Continue reading

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Vice Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness

     In the role playing game Paranoia, set in the future where an insane all-powerful computer runs a domed city, fun and happiness are mandatory.  In the game, one player can be assigned the mandatory bonus duty of being the Happiness … Continue reading

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Socialized Healthcare: Rodents Eating Your Face

     The quality of socialized medicine is yet again demonstrated in Canada: “A patient immobilized in bed, waking up to find mice eating her face. “It has the makings of a health-care horror story — Friends of Medicare says the night-time … Continue reading

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Obama Summarized in a Single Speech

     Commentator “mysterian” suggested in a previous post about a modern day parallel of the Praetorian Guard and the Roman Emperors Commodus and Pertinax, that perhaps Nero would be a better analog for Obama.      The following speech from Quo Vadis, then, … Continue reading

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News of the Week (October 27th, 2013)

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