A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH

"We are God's partner in matters of life and death..."

So said President BO at a conference call Wednesday with more than 1,000 rabbis.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reported: "(he - President BO) already has completed a call this morning with rabbis that he was invited to join as they get ready for their important holidays and the messages that they and their congregants will have; the importance of, for faith leaders, the importance of health care and health care coverage for millions of Americans."

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the alleged purpose of the call was for President Obama to enlist the rabbis to support his health-care reform efforts: “I am going to need your help in accomplishing necessary reform.”

The reference to the “who shall live and who shall die” prayer was strange in two respects.

First, as Paul Bedard noted, the Jewish New Year won’t take place until September 18th.

In fact, today marks the beginning of the month of Elul, the last month before the New Year begins. And yet the president said “shanah tovah [happy new year] to all of you.” This is kind of like wishing people “Merry Christmas” on Thanksgiving.

Second, and more surprisingly, is this really the context in which he wishes to discuss health reform — a powerful and unseen being making determinations of life and death? One would think that he would want to avoid anything that could raise the specter of rationing, death panels, or the like.

Following that, there was this White House Release: "The High Holy Days are a time when Jews are called to reflect on our spiritual lives, and what our beliefs call for when it comes to the challenges confronting us as a society. As preparations for Rosh Hashanah begin, President Obama was grateful for the invitation to join an annual conference call with Rabbis to offer his thoughts on why health insurance reform is so crucial. There will certainly be rabbis and congregants on all sides of the debate, but one thing common to all Jews is Tikkun Olam -the commitment to making the world around us a better place - and today no issue is more central to that work than making our health care system work better for all Americans."

How interesting that President BO, who up to now has done nothing...absolutely nothing to encourage or support the Jewish community or their mother country, Israel, suddenly knows about their faith when he needs them to support his agenda.

This disciple of Jeremiah Wright, this "One " who after a 20 year friendship with Rev. JW, who did not know what Rev. JW stood for, but who used him to officiate his wedding and to baptize his family, expects the Jewish community to believe that he is on their side and us to believe that he suddenly understands faith.

Lucky for him we are too stupid to see through this blatant bit of Barbra Streisand.

Right.

The more I watch this guy, the more he reminds me of former President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa.

Only he seems to prefer SEIU.

Pretty much the same thing.

Their attitude is "If somebody disagrees with us, we hurt them."

Real Americans, those guys.

I have absolutely no idea how any thinking American could fall for President BO's line.

"We are God's partner in matters of life and death..." is a paraphrase of a specific Jewish prayer, but is really, really out of context as BO used it.

This really a very scary stuff, because the much denied "death panel" provision of HR3200 and its cousins, still exists in the form of a "committee" that will oversee the end-of-life affairs of the elderly.

If the bill, or one of its successors, passes (and I'm certain it will, given that the likes of Barney Frank, ET. AL. don't give a rip about what their constituents think), look for a drop in health care availability, an increase in costs (including taxes on you and me), an increase in waiting time for needed care, the refusal of needed surgical treatment for elderly sick and much more.

The government will indeed become partners in matters of life and death, but it won't be with God.


SPECIAL ADDENDUM FOR READING CHALLENGED:

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I HAD A DREAM

I dreamed that President BO woke up.

In my dream, President BO called a special, unscheduled press conference at which he promised to make a special announcement.
When the press conference began, President BO stepped to the dais and stood looking over the reporters present.

He spent a few uncomfortable moments looking first to the left and then to the right, moving his head slowly, almost roboticly.

There was, I thought, a small tear in his right eye.

Then he spoke.

His speech was uncharacteristically slow and deliberate.

His tone was sad.

He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, after much introspection and much consideration, and having witnessed the unparallelled reaction of the people of the United States of America to recent plans and proposals coming out of Washington, and having witnessed members of Congress demean and ridicule their constituents at Town Hall Meetings, going so far as to ignore the questioner in order to speak on the phone, and hearing them tell the voters in their districts that they would vote for an unpopular health care plan whether the voters liked it or not, I have decided that current efforts to wrest control of the health of Americans from their hands and to place it in the hands of the federal government is contrary to the Constitution, against the will of the people whom we serve, and not in the best interests of the country, should be laid aside. I am therefore recommending to congress that they withdraw consideration of a health care reform act at this time."

A great murmur flashed over the crowd and people who had never been called on for questions at one of these types of meetings held up their hands and were recognized by President BO.

"Did we understand you to say that you are backing off of your efforts to reform health care?"

"Yes." replied the President, "Given the wishes of the people, and recognizing that I have been much too arrogant, prideful and...yes, even bull headed about the health care issue, I am backing off of my efforts to reform health care."

"Mr. President!" The rich, sonorous voice was from a mature reporter who bore the scars of the war in which he had been embedded years ago. "Mr. President, I must say that in all of my years of reporting I have never had such esteem, pride and emotion about a decision by a sitting leader of the free world."

President BO spoke. "I want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for the consternation I have caused, the extreme expense I have gone to trying to pass this hellacious health care package. I am embarrassed that it ever came up and I promise that in the future I will only suggest legislation that will follow the dictates of the Constitution and will be in the best interest of the American people.

"I will embark on a course to encourage all students of every race to take advantage of the education offered to them, whether in private or public schools, to graduate from high school able to speak proper English and to engage in productive contributions to society, going on to learn a trade or to attend college, work hard and make something useful of themselves."

"I will never again try to perpetrate on the American people any form of political hoax, nor will I be anything but honest with them. I will answer questions from you and other members of the press directly, honestly and in language that will leave no doubt as to my meaning. I will no longer parse my words to make them seem like answers when they are not."

And then.....

And then.....

I woke up.

WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

I wear a seat belt when I drive.

I always have, ever since they came out, that is.

At first there were only lap belts, which had a tendency to cut people in half when they were in serious accidents.

Then came the full belt with shoulder restraints, which more or less cured the cut-in-half issue.

Now that they have been "perfected," they work using the principle of inertia by which a certain level of force or motion causes them to lock and hold the wearer in place.

As I said, I wear them.

But I wear seat belts as a choice, quite apart from any law requiring me to do so, as evidenced by the fact that I wore them before the law was enacted (here in Florida, anyway).

Seat belts are a good thing, and there is ample evidence that they save lives in severe accidents.

In airplanes, seat belts have been required for much of the history of commercial aviation, although there is absolutely no evidence that seat belts help much in a fall from 30 thousand feet, or the collision and explosion of two aircraft, whether in the air or on the ground.

Here is a PBS report on the ground crash of a KLM 747 with a Pan American 747.

The issue, though, is one of individual LIBERTY.

People should be free to wear seat belts if they want to.

The government has no business requiring it.

"But...but...they save lives!" I hear you shouting.

No doubt.

So would staying home and not venturing out for any reason.

Why not petition the government to make a law that requires people to stay home and not venture out for any reason?

Of course, there would still be the occasional leaking propane gas tank, like the one across the street from where I lived in Midwest City, Oklahoma. It blew the house right off of its foundation and landed it (in remarkably good shape, considering) in its own front yard.

So the government should step in (being careful about what it steps in) and outlaw propane gas tanks.

The government should control the air we breath, the water we drink, the car we drive, the clothes we wear, the tools we use, the things we make, the food we eat, the farms we till, the health care we get, the electricity we use, the job we are allowed to have, the thoughts we think, the things we say, the way we use the Internet, the books we publish, the church we attend, the tobacco we smoke (yuck), the alcohol we drink, the businesses we can own, the air conditioning we use, the fuel we put in our cars, the people we associate with, the guns we own, the soldiers we let in our houses, the things we have to reveal about ourselves, the lawyers we use, and every other aspect of our lives they can think of.

There are countries where the government does all of those things and more.

They are called dictatorships.

We're not supposed to be living in one.

Not if we really believe in "...liberty and justice for all."

IT WAS NEVER A DEAL BREAKER!

That's what President BO said. Here's a video from CBS YouTube in which he once again dons his lecture garb and explains to us why it was not that important, after all. There is also information about another plan "they" are considering to take its palce.






Here's the deal.

It is high time the Administration swollows its pride, admits that it does not have sufficient public backing and get out of this health care business altogether.

That is unlikely to happen.

In a press conference, Press Secretary Gibbs, in his snide, snarky, condescending, arrogant way, tried to give the impression that the "Public Option" is not as important as it once was, even though it is the prefered goal of President BO.

Will somebody please clear all of this up for me.

Here is a video from Politico where Gibbs slips, and sidesteps and even gets testy with a reporter. What a guy!

NOTHING FISHY ABOUT THESE GUYS

Well, well, well! It seems that the old flag@whitehouse.gov site has run aground.

Amid fears that the White House was compiling a list of those who oppose their policies, and Press Secretary Gibbs' inability to put together a coherent sentence explaining why the whole thing was so fishy, they've decided to "deactivate" the program.

And I was having so much fun!!

According to Politico.com, if you use the old email address you get the following message: “The e-mail address you just sent a message to is no longer in service. We are now accepting your feedback about health insurance reform via the website at http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck.”

So there! I can still have fun sending fishy information that the administration puts out to them.

It's a little more complicated, but it can still be done.

The black helicopters are still circling my house, the black limousines are still driving around and around my block, and the electrical power in my home is still going bright, then dim, but hey!

Here is my latest message to the White House:

Press secretary Gibbs erroneously stated that you do not keep a list of people who sent emails to the now defunct flag@whitehouse.gov. This, of course, was fishy, disinformation, as the law requires that all correspondence with the government be kept.

Please use the power and influence of the White House to instruct Mr. Gibbs to answer questions in complete sentences, honestly and forthrightly, instead of thinking he is fooling the people with vague misdirection.

TAKE A PILL!!

It was at a July 22nd TV interview. President BO made a reference to a doctor faced with a child who has had a number of sore throats. She is supposed by President BO to reason within herself that she makes "a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out"—even if the child might not need surgery.

I have been going to doctors for 67 years. The first one ceremoniously slapped me on my bohonkus, and I, fortunately, cried.

That's the last time any doctor has hinted in any way that my welfare was not his highest priority.

Maybe they do it differently in Chicago...I have never been to a doctor there.

In my mind, the thought that a doctor might choose a tonsilectomy over medicine because he can make more money is both outrageous and unthinkable.

President BO obviously cannot think of a real life situation that illustrates the need for his health care hopes and changes.

Responding to a woman whose spry 100-year-old mother was given a needed pacemaker despite her age, the president said a few weeks earlier (at an ABC News town-hall event at the White House) that doctors should let patients know that sometimes "you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller."

And now we have this:



Like a father instructing his children, President BO tells us how we should "...lower our voices, listen to one another and talk about differences that really exist."

He invokes Kennedy, but instead of inspiration he gives us a lecture.

I cannot figure out who this guy thinks he is.

Can you?

By the way...did you notice his right eye and general demeanor?

Something is not right.

FEATURED flag@whitehouse.gov EMAIL FOR TODAY:

Dear White House,

In his weekly radio address, President BO lectured us on how we should "...lower our voices, listen to one another and talk about differences that really exist."

Turns out that it is not the job of the president to lecture the citizens as though he is our righteous father.Please infom him that we do not appreciate the condescension in his voice and on his face when he delivered this message.

Sincerely,
Joe Scoggins

THE TROUBLE WITH PLAYING HARDBALL

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASKING HARD QUESTIONS AND DOING AN INTERVIEW.

I guess he and Chris Matthews have convinced management that this is the way to do an interview.

I have been in radio since 1982 and have conducted hundreds of interviews.

It would never have occurred to me to have interrupted the guest before he had finished a sentence, or thought.

Constantly challenging the respondent before he/she finished a thought would have gotten me fired.

Do you know what I think?

I don't think the boys of HardBall know how to interview people.

I don't think they know that they don't know how to interview people.

TODAY'S EMAIL TO flag@whitehouse.com

Dear White House,

At a recent town hall meeting a member of SEIU told a lady that if President BO fails to change health care it will be because some senators were bought off by conservatives.

This is fishy disinformation, because there is not a shred of evidence that ANY senator has been bought off or offered to be bought off by any conservative.

Something else fishy is the number of SEIU members showing up at town hall meetings around the country and using physical force and violence to quell the voices of the protesters.

This may be fair tactics in Chicago, but in the rest of the country it is considered strong-arm thuggery, something with which President BO seems to have no problem.

Sincerely,

Joe Scoggins