SEIU Voters for Scott Brown

Here's an interesting photo (courtesy of Michelle Malkin) of SEIU members flouting the will of Union Czar Andy Stern in yesterday's Massachusetts vote for U.S. Senator:

WHO Flu Pandemic a Colossal Hoax

The question remains, "Who paid off the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to push a influenza pandemic hoax on the world?"

It's not that there weren't enough warning signs that the pandemic declaration was at best overstated and at worst a downright fraud.

First, ABC did an investigative piece on the evidence and discovered that only a very small percentage of so-called swine flu victims even had any sort of flu. Most had the sniffles. That story went largely unreported by the Obamaniacal liberal media.

Now, buried in the CDC's FluView is the faint admission: "The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza was below the epidemic threshold."

Hats off to Poland for refusing to buy into the hoax and enrich Big Pharma by stockpiling vaccines that could still end up producing horrendous side effects down the road.

As it turns out, because those exposed to the swine flu develop an immunity to the seasonal flu, flu deaths worldwide will be lower this season than before H1N1 was declared a worldwide threat.

As health and science journalist Michael Fumento has written:

The media are finally beginning to admit that the World Health Organization's "pandemic" -- made possible, as I've argued before, only by completely redefining the definition for political reasons -- is the mildest ever. Several European countries have cut back their vaccine orders, and the chairman of the influential health committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, who is an epidemiologist, has asked the body to investigate what he calls the WHO's "false pandemic" and "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century."

Health Care Reform=Mandates and New Taxes

Happy New Year, or should I say welcome to the year of many new taxes?

Let's start with so-called health care reform. Whether or not the final, reconciled House-Senate bill includes a tax on so-called "Cadillac health plans" or a tax on so-called "wealthy individuals" (who make $250K or more, which is hardly wealthy), the Medicare portion of your Social Security taxes is set to leap. If you work for yourself, the Medicare portion goes to 3.8 percent (up from 2.9); if you employ others, your employer share of Medicare taxes rises to 2.45 percent from 1.35.

Starting in 2014, if you don't have a qualifying health insurance plan (the individual mandate that candidate Obama opposed but now embraces as president), you will be assessed a fine of up to $1,485.

Now, here's a real job killer: If you own a company that doesn't offer health insurance, and if even one of your employees qualifies for a government health care subsidy, you'll have to pay a $750 assessment to the government for every worker on your payroll.

And this is just the beginning. Blogger Wintery Knight has more details.

Health Care Reform Becomes Insurance Mandate

After all the hullabaloo about public options, socialized medicine, death panels, and employer mandates, yada yada, it all comes down to this, judging by the bill the U.S. Senate is poised to pass:

You must buy health insurance or go to jail. Or pay a fine. Or get a government subsidy. Or thumb your nose and see what happens (probably nothing).

WINNERS: Insurance companies.

LOSERS: Just about everyone, as this will no doubt raise premiums sky high even as services are reduced to cover new, unserviceable demand.

PREDICTION: If Obama and the Democrats survive in power after 2012, look for the public option to come back in full force as they once again demonize the insurance companies, when in truth it's Medicare and Medicaid that are driving the system bankrupt and unaffordable.

Canada Supreme Court Sides With Wal-Mart

After its outlet in Jonquiere, Quebec, Canada, voted to unionize, Wal-Mart acted quickly and shut the damn place down. Predictably, the union sued and vowed to hold its breath and turn blue until justice prevailed.

Justice did prevail--on the side of Wal-Mart. In a 6-3 vote (I can't understand the stupidity, er, rather, I fully understand the stupidity of the three dissenters), the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that there is no law requiring companies to stay in business.

Justice Ian Binnie, citing previous case history, said no law can forbid a business from shutting down, even if it does so for "socially reprehensible" reasons.

Full story here.

Holder Lets ACORN Continue Receiving Funds

Remember when the big to-do about the videotapes of officials with ACORN advising people how to set up prostitution rings forced Congress's hand? Politicians of both stripes voted quickly to cut off ACORN from public funding.

ACORN immediately sued because it claimed Congress was passing an unconstitutional bill of attainder (laws can be written to single and punish out either individuals or individual groups).

That lawsuit is still in the legal mill, but it appears that it doesn't really matter. Attorney General Eric Holder has ruled that Congress's ACORN law is unclear (huh?), so the federal tap remains open.

Let James Simpson explain it all:

The actual ban reads as follows: "None of the funds made available from this joint resolution or any other prior Act may be provided to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries or allied organizations." (Emphasis added.)

The Justice Department has decided that the phrase "provided to" is unclear and "has no established meaning in appropriations law." They cite terms more frequently used, such as "obligate" and "expend," that have widely accepted meaning in spending legislation. They go on to arduously defend their point by exhaustively listing the many definitions of "provide" given in Websters, Oxford and American Heritage dictionaries and even Roget's Thesaurus. Like Bill Clinton, they probably could have found as many definitions for the word "is..."

In short, ACORN is still getting the funds--and probably still advising people on how to avoid taxes and set up prostitution rings.

Endless Tax Hikes to Pay for Health Care Reform

The Americans for Tax Reform site has a great collection of all the taxes coming our way if Obamacare is enacted.

The list is endless.