I've been fairly skeptical about the swine flu and even more so about the vaccines being developed against it.
However, my skepticism is nothing compared to what these people opined about the Centers for Disease Control and its plan to vaccinate the totality of the U.S.
They say it's all a conspiracy to reduce the population and swell profits for the laboratories and pharmaceuticals. Scarily, they may be at least partially--if not wholly--correct on one or both of the charges. (The last time there was a massive swine flu vaccination program--in 1976--25 people died and many more developed Guillan-Barre Syndrome, not a pleasant thing to have.)
READ WHAT YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS FEEL ABOUT THE H1N1 VACCINE PROGRAM
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Double Dipping: I Earned You, You Can't Do It
As is true anywhere politicians ply their so-called trade (if lying and cheating can thus be called), Albany, New York, the state's capital, is rife with hypocrisy.
Taking advantage of quirky state law (which they themselves authored), Albany politicians can retire one day and return the next, collecting both their pension and their salary. The only loophole in the law is they have to be off the payroll for one day, so many just wait until the end of one term in office (on Dec. 31), retire, and then return to work on Jan. 1 for the new term. Bam--two paychecks, or what's called double dipping.
This is how Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg engineered his double dip at the end of last year. He now earns $101,500 in salary and $72,000 in pension funds.
And catch this? Last year, the 75-year-old Weisenberg sponsored legislation to outlaw double dipping at the local government level.
When asked about the seeming contradiction in his own actions and his sponsorship of the measure, he quipped: "I don't see this as that [double dipping]. This is something I earned."
The arrogance and hypocrisy are typical of our ruling class, which is now conspiring to set up one health care system for us Average Janes and Joes (read: "public option") and another VIP (read: privatized) health care system for themselves.
Not only is that not "change you can believe in"; it's just business as usual, with the public being played for suckers.
Taking advantage of quirky state law (which they themselves authored), Albany politicians can retire one day and return the next, collecting both their pension and their salary. The only loophole in the law is they have to be off the payroll for one day, so many just wait until the end of one term in office (on Dec. 31), retire, and then return to work on Jan. 1 for the new term. Bam--two paychecks, or what's called double dipping.
This is how Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg engineered his double dip at the end of last year. He now earns $101,500 in salary and $72,000 in pension funds.
And catch this? Last year, the 75-year-old Weisenberg sponsored legislation to outlaw double dipping at the local government level.
When asked about the seeming contradiction in his own actions and his sponsorship of the measure, he quipped: "I don't see this as that [double dipping]. This is something I earned."
The arrogance and hypocrisy are typical of our ruling class, which is now conspiring to set up one health care system for us Average Janes and Joes (read: "public option") and another VIP (read: privatized) health care system for themselves.
Not only is that not "change you can believe in"; it's just business as usual, with the public being played for suckers.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Get Vaccinated or Go to Prison
The World Health Organization (WHO) is rapidly morphing itself into something akin to the first world government. It recently directed 200-plus nations to vaccinate all its citizens for the H1N1 (swine flu) virus--or else.
It's not clear what the "or else" is, but Nicolas Sakozy of France wasted no time in directing the military to forcefully vaccinate the entire French population.
Canada is mulling the same and talking about issuing certificates of vaccination, without which one cannot return to work or school or receive health care.
Seems we're on the verge of the Nazification of so-called health care--line up, folks, and submit to the government or else.
Maybe the military will just bayonet you if you refuse the vaccination.
Everything is evidently on the table when there's no proof that the swine flu will even return, let alone return in a more virulent form.
Meanwhile, Austria is investigating drugmaker Baxter for bioterrorism after reports that the company created and spread the H1N1 virus this past spring, launching it in South America.
The Obamacrats have yet to announce their vaccination plan, but the military option--like the public option in health care reform--is alive and well and under consideration.
My thanks to Gorilla Radio for providing a comprehensive survey of all things swine flu, from which I drew this encapsulization.
It's not clear what the "or else" is, but Nicolas Sakozy of France wasted no time in directing the military to forcefully vaccinate the entire French population.
Canada is mulling the same and talking about issuing certificates of vaccination, without which one cannot return to work or school or receive health care.
Seems we're on the verge of the Nazification of so-called health care--line up, folks, and submit to the government or else.
Maybe the military will just bayonet you if you refuse the vaccination.
Everything is evidently on the table when there's no proof that the swine flu will even return, let alone return in a more virulent form.
Meanwhile, Austria is investigating drugmaker Baxter for bioterrorism after reports that the company created and spread the H1N1 virus this past spring, launching it in South America.
The Obamacrats have yet to announce their vaccination plan, but the military option--like the public option in health care reform--is alive and well and under consideration.
My thanks to Gorilla Radio for providing a comprehensive survey of all things swine flu, from which I drew this encapsulization.
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