LIve from New York, It's Obamacare

If the lefties on SNL are making fun of it, you know it has to be blatantly obvious just how bad the law is.

The Obamacare Online Video Contest

My pick for the winner:



Lyrics:

What’s hated by unions
has businesses wary
and dropping coverage
like the ‘Skins secondary?

Causing thousands of layoffs
taking it’s toll?
What’s so good for people
that they’re forced to enroll?

What’s a law that’s so good
folks who passed and defended it
see it and got waivers
to be exempted? It’s

like Olestra, at first
it sounded hip
but we quickly found ourselves
dealing with a whole lot of sh…

Obamacare, Obamacare
Unions and businesses both in despair

So to recap, young people,
your hours get cut
and your income goes down
and your premium’s up

"The Sea of Happiness" that is the post-Hugo Chavez Economy in Venezuela

Click here or here for an expose on the consequences of extreme government interference in markets........ the socialist workers paradise.

Dissent From Just Outside the Washington Beltway

Believe it or not, taken just north of Washington Beltway in the People's Republic of Maryland on my drive home from work today. Thanks to #1 son for snapping the photo.

Back to the Future....... Manufacturing Returns to the US

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This config is elementary OS Linux with Wingpanel Slim, elFaenza icons, a stock background that comes with the system, and a custom conky config that displays weather and basic system information.  Who needs windows when the average can create custom look and feels like this?

Quote of the Day: John Adams

Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

~John Adams, 1787