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With the Labor Force Participation Rate at an all time low, and Food Stamps, Welfare, and Unemployment growing this caller explains welfare with seamless logic in this Off the Internet.
Somebody should read to her Aesop’s tale of the The Ant and The Grasshopper, and explain how it very much applies today.
Maybe the call is a prank set up by the disk jockeys. Maybe there is hope.
Hat tip Fran Coppock
February 24 2014 Omnibit Trivia by William Lawrence Sr.
Michael Mann, the Penn State professor who gave us the “hockey stick” graph that ostensibly proved the world was catastrophically warming, is now learning the meaning of the worm has turned regarding litigation and public opinion
Mann sued Dr. Tim Ball on March 24, 2011 in the Supreme Court of British Columbia alleging libel because Ball said “Mann belongs in the state pen and not Penn State.”
Canada, of course, does not have the First Amendment and libel suits by public figures are, presumably, easier to win up north.
John O’Sullivan, a political ally of Ball, published an article on Feb. 21 on Principia-Scientific.org that because Mann has refused to disclose his “hockey stick graph metadata” in he has all but lost the case. He further said that Ball is no longer being satirical about Mann belonging “in the state pen.”
“In short, Mann failed to show he did not fake his tree ring proxy data for the past 1,000 years, so Ball’s assessment stands as fair comment,” O’Sullivan wrote.
Seventeen-months later (Oct. 22, 2012), Mann sued political commentator Mark Steyn, National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and scholar/commentator Rand Simberg for a comment made by Simberg on CEI site calling Mann the “Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data”.
Steyn at National Review linked to and commented on the column saying:
Not sure I’d have extended that metaphor all the way into the
locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a
point. Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change
“hockey-stick” graph, the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus. And,
when the East Anglia emails came out, Penn State felt obliged to
“investigate” Professor Mann. Graham Spanier, the Penn State president
forced to resign over Sandusky, was the same cove who investigated Mann.
And, as with Sandusky and Paterno, the college declined to find one of
its star names guilty of any wrongdoing.
February 22 2014 Omnibit Trivia by William W. Lawrence Sr.
Trabant Wine TableLeaf Being Retired — The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board announced yesterday, Feb. 21, during an appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee that it would retire the TableLeaf brand, an exclusive label made for our government by a winery in California.
After the existing stocks are sold it is no more.
We never knew that TableLeaf was the in-house government brand albeit we are not surprised. It tasted like something we’d image the citizens of Russia were stuck with drinking circa 1989.
It’s time to retire Pennsylvania’s communistic liquor sale system albeit that’s not likely going to happen until people — from both parties — who are not beholden to getting rich off taxpayers take control of our government.
If you are a Republican consider picking Bob Guzzardi over Tom Corbett during the May 20 primary.
It would send a good message and be a good change.
Newly elected “progressive” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing for more abortion clinics for his city despite the revelation that more black babies are aborted there than are born.
That’s right, in 2012, there were 24,758 black children born in The Big Apple and 31,328 aborted, which was 42 percent of the city’s 73,815 abortions that year. Add in the 22,917 Hispanic abortions and, well, you would think it was the Ku Klux Klan running the city Health and Mental Hygiene Department.
White abortions totaled 9,704. A lot more white babies than that were born.
Here is something for every African-American man, woman and teenager to ponder:
Conservatives want blacks to have guns, good schools and babies.
“Progressives” want blacks disarmed and illiterate, and want to kill their babies.
It’s just one of those things that can’t be denied but is never mentioned.
Obamacare Tortures Disabled
While the negative issues with Obamacare abound, one chronic disease treatment issue reveals the underlying purpose for the existence of Obamacare. It is not universal access to care. It is about the routine, codified inhumane cruelty of denying treatment for the global purpose of skimming money from the sick and the elderly. Jim Angle of Fox News gets close but no cigar. Kudos to Mr. Angle and Fox for reporting this story.
From Fox’s Report: “One of the problems is that drugs for some diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis do not have generic versions so without cheaper alternatives and no help from ObamaCare, patients could face huge personal out-of-pocket bills, forcing some to skimp on their medications”
There will be no out of pocket to face if the cost is so unreachable as to in all practicality deny Obamacare treatment. It comes to MS there is no “skimping on your meds” You are being treated or you are not. There is no inexpensive one-size-fits all treatment. As Mr. Angle reports, there are no generic drugs for MS. Most advances in the treatment of MS have been made in the last 15 years or so. Thus the ONLY real treatments are only a few years on the market or even months. These meds require a regular and consistent administration of the drug. There is no “skimping” in Multiple Sclerosis. A person is being treated with the right drug, at the right dose or they are not. A person will either live happily with treatment or they will live languishing in pain and isolation.
Mr. Angle’s report supports this: “this may drive patients to not buy their medicines, which we know is dangerous. We know MS can be a bad disease when you’re not treating it. When you’re treating it, for most people they handle it pretty well, but we know when you don’t treat (it), it’s the kind of disease where people end up in wheel chairs potentially.”
Multiple Sclerosis slowly takes away a person’s abilities to think, to move, to care for themselves. There is often considerable pain involved. Yet a person does not die from the disease, but from its secondary effects. As helpless as we can become, we live almost as long as a healthy person does with whatever pain and disabilities we have.
This is exactly why the MS drugs have been excluded from the Obamacare formulary. The formularies of many other drug plans have been altered to reflect the cost savings ideology of Obamacare, including the formulary of Medicare D. MS treatment is expensive and it lasts a lifetime. This was not an unconscious move on the part of the authors of the ACAs. It is a targeted move. To the socialist central planner types, it is a gold mine of expenditure denial
Thus denial of treatment of Multiple Sclerosis patients is codified into the Obamacare nightmare.
Since my diagnosis in 2002, many new treatments have been developed with the power to slow the advance of the disease and often improve the quality of life. A new drug called Tysabri gave me new life. Although I was still affected by the disease, it lifted what is known as brain fog, improved my endurance, and lessened the crushing fatigue. I went from frequent use of a walker, to the use of a cane. It was nothing short of miraculous.
I developed antibodies in 2013 that made treatment with Tysabri no longer advisable, even after years of positive results. My physician recommended that I begin taking a new pill, I will call Drug X. Paperwork was submitted the second week in November to the manufacturer who had a program to facilitate start-up treatment.
I was told by my private insurance companies navigator that my coverage by my private insurance had changed because of Obamacare. My private insurance, a benefit gained as compensation during my working years, would cover this drug but so minimally as to be useless. You can’t buy half or a quarter of a pill. In order to be treated, I must come up with approximately 50 grand a year, cash, out of pocket.
It might as well be a million.
My desperate personal trip to the private drug plan web site without “navigator” assistance revealed that I was covered for the cost of the drug minus my co-pay. There may also be a deductible of about 3 grand. I called the navigators for both the drug insurance and the drug’s manufacturer and told them that I had determined that I was indeed covered and sent them screen shots of the on-line determination of benefits.
At this writing, I have since received my first dose with observation (as required by FDA) of Drug X and suffered no detectable side effects. I am feeling much better. However because of the pattern of inaccuracy established by multiple navigators, I cannot be sure of this untåil it is time to check out the drug shipment with the Specialty Pharmacy.
The charge could be one hundred dollars or thousands. I still don’t know with any certainty. If it is thousands, I will simply not be able to be treated. I will remain untreated and be left to the consequences of the disease. I will not bankrupt my family for the “greater good” that Obamacare alleges. I am sadly confident that others will be forced toå make the same choice.
The take away from this narrative is not that poor me doesn’t have access to treatment. The brutal fact is that Obamacare offers NO drugs for the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis. Consequently, all people with MS will by default be denied treatment. Inclusion in the Obamacare formulary is based on per patient per drug, per cost. Multiple Sclerosis? Sorry. Lupus? Any life long disease with only non-generic treatments? Sorry, no help for you. What other treatments does Obamacare deny?
People with MS and other neurological diseases will likely stay alive in spite of the denial of treatment, but they and their families will be burdened with their horrific quality of life. So as untreated patients can anticipate a future that includes visions of some day lying in their own waste, they can be assured that their colonoscopy will be free.
Ms. Carfagno broadcasts and publishes on FreedomRadioRocks.com. She has M.S.
Jay Paterno, the son of late Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno, has announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor. He is a Democrat. The primary is May 20. Five others have also declared they are seeking the Democrat nomination, according to PennLive.com.
Good for him.
His father, a decent man, was made the scapegoat for vile circumstances of which he was completely innocent but for an error in judgment, and considering the response by law enforcement to the first Jerry Sandusky accusation — it was swept under the rug – maybe wasn’t such an error in judgment.
Regardless the sickness in Happy Valley went far beyond Sandusky and the football team, which should be noted Sandusky no longer helped coach as JoePa pushed him out soon after the first accusation.
We are presenting the below video not as a how-to but as a how-not-to-be-done-to.
Hey, all you Obama voters who hit the button just because you didn’t want to be called uncool ponder the quote below from Ben Stein.
By the way, not everyone who voted for 0 did so without thinking. Some are getting rich and powerful off his policies.
Hat tip Laura Lee