Give Him a Gun and a Chamber, He's Dr. Mengele

One of the heads of the Obama Administration's effort to reform health care says the Hippocratic Oath is to blame for our woes. To wit, we treat patients too well and shun the hard decisions regarding who should live and who should die, and thus our health care costs too much.

Meet Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Svengali Rahm, who together seem on a fascistic mission to take over every industry and service in America. You know, just like Mussolini made the trains run on time, they obviously know better since they're better than you and I, so don't challenge their assumptions and viewpoints.

Zeke is the more transparent of the two since he's been writing about how to whack away old people and save medical costs for a long, long time now. Given the choice between saving a 65-year-old and a 25-year-old in a "cost-effective" health care environment, Zeke has been known to quip, "Well, the 65-year old has already been 25." Time to check out, baby!

Don't take my word for it. The man who would be Health God is quoted and featured extensively in today's Wall Street Journal.

Catch this gem from his lips (or his computer anyway):

"When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged roughly [between] 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated."

Wow, this is precisely what Hitler aimed for--elimination of all who weren't productive for the social machine that was National Socialism. ("Chances" means: "Well, maybe we'll try to save your life if you're younger than 15 or older than 40, but don't count on it. If you can prove you can produce lots of taxes in the future, we'll negotiate. Otherwise, adios."

And how do you like that Orwellian construct--"the complete lives system"? Under this system, the only ones who are guaranteed to complete their lives are the ones running it.

The man also sees "the constant introduction of new medical technologies, including new drugs, devices, and procedures" as evils to be disparaged and contained--to be used only if they are universally applicable as well as dirt cheap.

I think The Good Doctor would, equipped with a harness and a pistol and an end-of-life (read: gas) chamber, fit right into Hitler's Germany.

But then I happen to believe in the Hippocratic Oath.

Poor me. My "chance" is slim under Zeke and Obama. I've already been 25.

There They Go Again: Stripping Nude in Protest

I've exposed you readers before to the nefarious tactics of French workers, who will take employers hostage and threaten to blow up the establishment if they don't get the proper severance package. Now some French workers are exposing themselves in the name of the cause.

Some 13 men from the Chaffoteaux et Maury boiler factory in Brittany have bared it all--save hard hats--for a nude calendar (how many months do they have in France?). Supposedly, they will use the proceeds to journey to the factory's owners in Italy to beg them not to close the facility.

It was not revealed if the male delegation will appear in calendar-ready costume.

Swine Flu Conspiracy: Listen to These People!

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

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.

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.

'Deathfest' Convenes Reps of Fastest-Dying Cities

There was no joy in Mudville, or most of Ohio, in 2008 when Forbes magazine ran an article to out "America's Fasting-Dying Cities."

But representatives from the ten named cities are meeting this week in Dayton, Ohio (one of the ten), for a symposium on "Ten Living Cities." Skeptics are calling it (more accurately, no doubt) a "Deathfest."

What got the cities on the list was a flight of jobs joined by a flight of residents, all resulting in cities decaying both physically and economically.

Four of the ten are in Ohio--Cleveland, Dayton, Canton and Youngstown--and two in Michigan--Detroit and Flint. The others are Scranton, Pa.; Springfield, Mass.; Buffalo, N.Y.; and Charleston, W.Va.

As usual, local observers were able to cut to the quick of the matter in rapid order.

Said student Joe Sack, 22: "It's like a gambling addict [trying] to help an alcoholic. It's hard to see what they can learn from each other."

I'll drink to that.

Nepal Will Pay You to Marry a Widow

Now here's a stimulus plan Obama might consider copying with a variation or two.

Nepal recently passed a law to pay men a $650 bounty to marry one of the country's many widows (what's killing off their husbands?).

Women, especially widows, didn't like the measure too much and took to the streets of the capital of Kathmandu (I love that name) to protest. Protestors carried signs that read, "You can't sell your mother" and "We don't want government dowries."

Rightfully sensing that the payment scheme would turn the men into rats who'd take the money and run after marrying them, the widows instead demanded jobs, education and health care.

A sensible demand, I'd say.

However, we could easily apply this idea to the U.S. and pay working men and women to marry unemployed men and women (I'm speaking only of heterosexual unions here, but in some states, same-sex could be subject to the subsidy as well).

Or how about a subsidy to marry the unmarriable (or is it un-marry-able?).

Now, let's stretch it a bit more: If you can trade in clunkers for cash, how about unwanted spouses for cash?

That last one gets my vote.