Month: August 2013

Truth, redux

Oh, my.

Ace. Of Ace of Spades HQ fame.[*1]

Ace comments:

I never doubt the equality of the sexes until I read Feminists.

Yeah. I’m there. I’m totally down with the equality of the sexes thing, until I get a snootful of doctrinaire, activist “feminist” rhetoric, which is nothing but tiresome, warmed over politics-of-envy and Marxist dogma (but I repeat myself).

See, that’s why Ace is firmly ensconced in the second or third tier of big-time bloggers, and I’m . . . well . . . I post stuff, every once in a while. He’s able to pound out a thousand-word-plus post inspired by this nonsense, and I am–significantly more taciturn. Sometimes I think I have an insufficiently disdainful view of my fellow men. And women.

OK, I often think my view of mankind in general is insufficiently disdainful. Hey, what can I say? I’m an optimist . . .

Truth

Watch this.

Now.

And watch this too.

You are being lied to. Constantly. Repeatedly. By people who have no honor or shame, and who believe totally that “the ends justify the means.”

And the ends they seek are nothing less than re-instituting a sort of 12th-Century feudalism–with themselves as the feudal lords, and you, the “middle class” as the serfs. Of course, this is all for your own good, or so they say.

Slavery is always a good idea if you’re the one holding the whip and the end of the chain. Those who wear the shackles and feel the whip on their backs may, at some point, come to have a differing and politically incorrect, non-MSNBC/DNC-approved opinion, however.

Obamacare: Bottom Line

Item 1: My personal health care insurance premium will be 20.79% more expensive next policy year (starting September 1, 2013) than it was this past year. And since it is an individual policy (I’m retired and not a member of a group) it was already plenty expensive.

Item 2: The official name of the Obamacare legislation is “The Affordable Care Act.” Raising insurance rates by over 20% is an exotic and novel application of the word “affordable” that I myself would not have thought of. That’s probably why I’m not a politician. I can’t lie smoothly enough.

Item 3: My personal physician a dedicated health professional who started as a nurse before getting a medical degree and becoming a general practitioner, is abandoning general practice of medicine to go into the specialty of bariatrics. She had previously been an independent physician but that independence was impossible to financially sustain and had to seek affiliation with a physician’s network. That network–in no small part because of the requirements of the Affordable Care Act–is now in the unenviable position of essentially requiring its member physicians to abandon general practice and go into specialties.

It’s every bit the disaster I thought it would be. No politician who voted for this monstrosity should ever be considered for public office again (and should probably be investigated by appropriate grand juries or special prosecutors–but you can say that for most every politician, regardless of their view on Obamacare, can’t you?)