Finally, It’s Put-Up or Shut-Up Time on Healthcare - by Robert Ringer: The Republican’s initial offering for an Obamacare replacement has a lot of people very nervous, especially those who have to run for office again in 2018. Everyone acknowledges that the bill doesn’t come anywhere near close to accomplishing what Republicans have been promising for seven years — replacing the much-hated Obamacare with a cost-effective solution …
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Ringer comes up with a lot of good stuff, but this isn't one of his better efforts. You can have ideology making an otherwise intelligent person stupid. Oh, by the way, "groupthink" is being blamed for failing to predict a Trump victory. But the media and the left promote groupthink. Anybody who knows what is meant by the term could see it coming a million miles away.
Update:
The thing I forgot to mention is that Ringer may be following in the footsteps of what you see a lot of these days. He surrounds himself with fellow travelers who reinforce the notion that he is a genius. They are a bunch of lackeys who reinforce his notion that he is infallible.
Here's a news flash to some of you out there: we are ALL fallible.
Al Fin: "Cowboy Commentary", aka "Eat your veggies" The Flag banner is posted in order to defy those who would make patriotic symbols illegal or disreputable.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Hardy-har-har
Jokes can spun off of this one, even while the story itself is good for a yuk or two. Talking about moral compasses pointing the way.
Here's a video I want to put up:
Here's a video I want to put up:
Whither Obamacare
It might seem the depth of ingratitude for me to want to see the demise of Obamacare, when I am about to benefit from it greatly.
Yet I wonder if it is good policy overall. Even if it benefits me personally, I do not see that as a good enough reason to support it.
But now I see that there could be some value in it, after all. Again, let's not be ungrateful.
The GOP seems to be considering a bill that would give refundable tax credits as opposed to subsidies. If one policy really is superior to the other, then let them compete. Give people the option of the GOP plan or Obamacare. If Obamacare is going to collapse, this may well help collapse it.
It sure would be better than cutting off the knees of people who are in the middle of difficult and expensive treatments, and may have no options.
Know what I mean, Vern?
Yet I wonder if it is good policy overall. Even if it benefits me personally, I do not see that as a good enough reason to support it.
But now I see that there could be some value in it, after all. Again, let's not be ungrateful.
The GOP seems to be considering a bill that would give refundable tax credits as opposed to subsidies. If one policy really is superior to the other, then let them compete. Give people the option of the GOP plan or Obamacare. If Obamacare is going to collapse, this may well help collapse it.
It sure would be better than cutting off the knees of people who are in the middle of difficult and expensive treatments, and may have no options.
Know what I mean, Vern?
Civil War videos
These have been lying around for several years. Sometime back when I bought these videos, I decided that I didn't like them, and so I haven't seen much of them.
But, it sometimes becomes a bit boring around here, so I started watching them recently. What got my interest was that both Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson believed that God was on their side.
It is an interesting proposition to consider when you think about something like that. But if God chose a favorite in that war, it is obvious that he didn't favor the South.
Yet the North was not so virtuous, in my opinion. As opposed to the South, leaving aside slavery, the South may well have been more virtuous. The better society lost.
A commercialized America is what we ended up is my point. In my opinion, we are all too consumed by money in this so-called commercial republic. On the farm, you have what you need. However, in the city, you will have the breeding ground for crime and corruption of all sorts. Again, in my opinion, the love of money is what corrupts men and women, and it is this corruption that is corroding the character of the people of this nation. Indeed, the lack of character is the core of our problem.
If there were any character left, we wouldn't have placed such leaders as William Jefferson Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama in the White House. But you have Nixon, too. It isn't one sided on the partisan level. Both parties are corrupt. The difference is that the GOP pretends to care, and the Democrats obviously could care less about such concepts as integrity and honor.
So the nation slowly "Slouches toward Gommorah", as the GOP pretends to be a speed bump on the road to hell.
While I think that Trump is far superior to Hillary, and therefore we are better off; he is no antidote to the poison that is killing this society.
There may not be a happy ending to this story.
But, it sometimes becomes a bit boring around here, so I started watching them recently. What got my interest was that both Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson believed that God was on their side.
It is an interesting proposition to consider when you think about something like that. But if God chose a favorite in that war, it is obvious that he didn't favor the South.
Yet the North was not so virtuous, in my opinion. As opposed to the South, leaving aside slavery, the South may well have been more virtuous. The better society lost.
A commercialized America is what we ended up is my point. In my opinion, we are all too consumed by money in this so-called commercial republic. On the farm, you have what you need. However, in the city, you will have the breeding ground for crime and corruption of all sorts. Again, in my opinion, the love of money is what corrupts men and women, and it is this corruption that is corroding the character of the people of this nation. Indeed, the lack of character is the core of our problem.
If there were any character left, we wouldn't have placed such leaders as William Jefferson Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama in the White House. But you have Nixon, too. It isn't one sided on the partisan level. Both parties are corrupt. The difference is that the GOP pretends to care, and the Democrats obviously could care less about such concepts as integrity and honor.
So the nation slowly "Slouches toward Gommorah", as the GOP pretends to be a speed bump on the road to hell.
While I think that Trump is far superior to Hillary, and therefore we are better off; he is no antidote to the poison that is killing this society.
There may not be a happy ending to this story.
Shoring up some weak points
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This post will go into the Construction sub-series of the off-the-grid main series of posts. These posts can be accessed from a table of contents and watched individually or in series from beginning to end.
Well, I have returned from Dallas, and I'm going to wait a week or longer to go back to stay for a couple months. This morning, I felt a bit energetic, so I started to beef up my sliding door to the bedroom area of the trailer.
After cutting a few pieces of wood and screwing them down, it looks to be sturdy enough for regular use. However, it is not sturdy enough for traveling, most likely It may need a few more touches.
Since the bedroom is only about eight by eight, it reminds me a bit of the "coffin" concept. This will enable a low power device to more easily climate control the small area. I'm thinking of passive solar in the winter, and swamp coolers in the summer.
My carpentry skills are not that hot. This thing looks like hell. But I don't care. As long as it works and doesn't fall apart, I'm okay with it. Just doesn't look pretty, that's all.
Update:
Did a few more improvements. It looks a tiny bit better, and is better insulated. However, there is more room for improvement in terms of insulation. Appearance wise, just not that important.
This post will go into the Construction sub-series of the off-the-grid main series of posts. These posts can be accessed from a table of contents and watched individually or in series from beginning to end.
Well, I have returned from Dallas, and I'm going to wait a week or longer to go back to stay for a couple months. This morning, I felt a bit energetic, so I started to beef up my sliding door to the bedroom area of the trailer.
After cutting a few pieces of wood and screwing them down, it looks to be sturdy enough for regular use. However, it is not sturdy enough for traveling, most likely It may need a few more touches.
Since the bedroom is only about eight by eight, it reminds me a bit of the "coffin" concept. This will enable a low power device to more easily climate control the small area. I'm thinking of passive solar in the winter, and swamp coolers in the summer.
My carpentry skills are not that hot. This thing looks like hell. But I don't care. As long as it works and doesn't fall apart, I'm okay with it. Just doesn't look pretty, that's all.
Update:
Did a few more improvements. It looks a tiny bit better, and is better insulated. However, there is more room for improvement in terms of insulation. Appearance wise, just not that important.
Friday, March 10, 2017
Can you spot the PR BS in this "news" piece?
Sex Orgies, prostitution, porn: Allegations shake Catholic Church in Italy
According to the media, the "Pope" is blameless. It is his faithless flock that is to blame. Do you recognize the pattern? Did we not have the same with Barak Hussein Obama? Obama could never do wrong their eyes. Whatever went wrong was always somebody else's fault. If you ever said anything, you were called a "racist".
Notice however, how these people turn back to tradition and blame the man on top when a GOP guy is in the White House.
The media has become nothing but a group of political hacks hellbent on destruction of this country. Maybe something can be done about them. Something needs to be done about them.
This "Pope", from what I can hear, is probably egging this stuff on. Instead, the media won't report it that way. No, to them, this "Pope" is really "strict", with high standards. That is most likely a load of BS.
Stuff like this is what makes me wonder how intelligent people can fall for what these people say.
Whether it is "climate science" or this, just about everything coming from them reeks of falsehood.
According to the media, the "Pope" is blameless. It is his faithless flock that is to blame. Do you recognize the pattern? Did we not have the same with Barak Hussein Obama? Obama could never do wrong their eyes. Whatever went wrong was always somebody else's fault. If you ever said anything, you were called a "racist".
Notice however, how these people turn back to tradition and blame the man on top when a GOP guy is in the White House.
The media has become nothing but a group of political hacks hellbent on destruction of this country. Maybe something can be done about them. Something needs to be done about them.
This "Pope", from what I can hear, is probably egging this stuff on. Instead, the media won't report it that way. No, to them, this "Pope" is really "strict", with high standards. That is most likely a load of BS.
Stuff like this is what makes me wonder how intelligent people can fall for what these people say.
Whether it is "climate science" or this, just about everything coming from them reeks of falsehood.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
This amazes me when I see it
From Instapundit, Disney boss says there's no media bias. This leads me to believe that there some cognitive deficiency that prevents these people to recognize how they are behaving against any kind of standard.
If you look objectively at the situation at all, you have to conclude that there is bias. A person cannot help but biased in terms of their own point of view. To deny this is to claim that you have no point of view at all, or that you don't care about anything at all.
For instance, these people tend to favor AGW theory. So, if you believe that to be true, how can you be objective about it? Once a thing becomes emotionalized, reason leaves the picture. If they were objective about it, they could listen to "climate sceptics". Instead, they want to shut them up. That ain't being objective, ya'll. Don't tell me you are objective about it when it is an article of faith for you. It like asking a Christian if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. It is an article of faith. If the Christian truly believes it, he's not going to objectively listen to arguments against it. Reason has left that arena. You believe in what you believe, or you don't. But AGW isn't supposed to be religion. It is supposed to be science, and should not have anything to do with emotions.
Science is about logic, reason, and evidence. It isn't about how you feel about it.
So, when one of them says that he isn't being biased, you have to wonder if there's something not working right upstairs. It is a cognitive deficit. Or that they are lying through their teeth. It is really tempting for me to believe that they are lying. At times, it starts to piss me off a bit.
So, I am amazed when a seemingly intelligent person could say something completely ludicrous as saying that there is no media bias. It is like, do you think I am stupid or something?
If you look objectively at the situation at all, you have to conclude that there is bias. A person cannot help but biased in terms of their own point of view. To deny this is to claim that you have no point of view at all, or that you don't care about anything at all.
For instance, these people tend to favor AGW theory. So, if you believe that to be true, how can you be objective about it? Once a thing becomes emotionalized, reason leaves the picture. If they were objective about it, they could listen to "climate sceptics". Instead, they want to shut them up. That ain't being objective, ya'll. Don't tell me you are objective about it when it is an article of faith for you. It like asking a Christian if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. It is an article of faith. If the Christian truly believes it, he's not going to objectively listen to arguments against it. Reason has left that arena. You believe in what you believe, or you don't. But AGW isn't supposed to be religion. It is supposed to be science, and should not have anything to do with emotions.
Science is about logic, reason, and evidence. It isn't about how you feel about it.
So, when one of them says that he isn't being biased, you have to wonder if there's something not working right upstairs. It is a cognitive deficit. Or that they are lying through their teeth. It is really tempting for me to believe that they are lying. At times, it starts to piss me off a bit.
So, I am amazed when a seemingly intelligent person could say something completely ludicrous as saying that there is no media bias. It is like, do you think I am stupid or something?
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