Death Panels in ObamaKare: GUARANTEED.

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First: a bit of self-promotion. I've been writing this blog for six years now. My first post appeared on Saturday, June 19th of 2004. Whilst other much better blogs have, over the years, gone down in flames or been left to languish -- or, like Pasadena Closet Conservative, just disappeared in the middle of the night -- I still somehow manage to persevere.

And trust me -- as you likely well know, some incredible blogs (USS Clueless comes to mind) and bloggers have thrown in the towel and stopped their writing. Or abandoned their blogs. Or deleted them. I have bloggers still in my Usual Suspects list who haven't made a post in a month or more. I don't want to delete them and hope they'll return, but I can't have fallow fields. I like them, but inactivity just kills. I'll be restructuring my The Usual Suspects list shortly -- much to my complete disappointment.

You all know what a life-sapping activity blogging can be. And, further, if you don't have a brain-glazingly FAST connection the internet can literally crush your soul. But I'll write what most other bloggers may not and, as far as I'm concerned, is a True Constant in the world of blogging. . .

. . . and what kills most all other bloggers:

You have to post at least ONCE a day in order to keep a readership.

And that is what, eventually, slaughters the majority of aspiring bloggers.

It's fine for a year or two. Or perhaps even, in extremis, three. But my hat is off to those bloggers who've managed to survive and endure over three + years. You are, literally, the exceptions to the rule. The average blog, it is indicated, is created in seconds and lasts but two or three months, if that.

Ladies and gentlemen: I shall not be going away.

Not for many more years, unless I kak unexpectedly. My trolls can only hope for this.
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DEATH PANELS IN OBAMAKARE: GUARANTEED NOW

Sarah Palin was excoriated and ridiculed in the media when she suggested that Death Panels would be the result of ObamaKare.

Turns out -- oddly enough -- she was correct.

Huh. Imagine that.

Looks like she really can see Death from her window.

Guaranteed, now, by Mr Obama's recess appointment of Dr Donald Berwick. He's only waited 17 months to do so.

From the Canada Free Press (whose masthead unashamedly declares: "Because without America there is no Free World):

Today, President Obama officially made Donald Berwick his recess appointment to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

In 2008 while speaking on the British health care system in the UK, Berwick said wealthy individuals must redistribute their wealth to those less fortunate for health care funding. Also during this speech, he told those in attendance that he opposes free markets.

“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”

Video of that here:



Does this sound, somewhat, like something you've perchance heard before?

Dr Berwick seems to have a "romance" with the UK rationed healthcare system.

Further, he is quoted as saying:

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”

From the CWA:

If Berwick gets his way and the national health care system mirrors that of Britain’s, it will also model Britain’s myriad problems. One such problem is the low survival rate for breast cancer. Along with that, citizens of the UK currently have a lower average life span than U.S. citizens. With such alarming problems, the UK’s health care system is hardly the “world we wished we had.” It’s more like the nightmare we wish to avoid.

Perhaps it's time to take Grandpa and Grandma Nana and set them aside on a glacier floating slowly away from the tribe.

Moreover, it's apparently time to set me on a glacier as well.

But you know what?

Eventually everyone gets old.

Yes; even YOU. And them.

BZ