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Obamacare – A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words
Month: August 2009
HealthScamWow
Last night I fell asleep in front of the TV. The infomercials were flying and at about 4am I woke up in a cold sweat after a nightmare. I dreamed that instead of putting ads on Craigslist to pay people $10 to $15 an hour to promote Obamacare, that the Obama Administration hired Vince, the ShamWOW guy to sell it for them. It went something like this.
Hi I’m Vince for Obama care. You’ll be saying wow everytime you need medical care. It’s like Dr. Kevorkian, Nurse Ratchett and President Obama all rolled into one. You’re gonna be smiling all day because change you believe in is going to take all your pains away.
You ever cut yourself?? No problem for Obamacare. You just take a Shamwow, cut to the appropriate size, apply direct pressure to the cut and make your way to the hospital emergency room. Once there just take a seat and wait 12 to 18 hours for them to call your name. At that point slowly peel back the Shamwow and voila, your cut is almost healed. Who needs to actually see a doctor?
Are you over 50 and looking for a hip or knee replacement? Obamacare’s got you covered. Instead of going through a risky surgery and a long painful recovery, just rely on Obamacare’s three step plan. Step one, take a really strong painkiller. Step two, take a couple of tablespoons of Arsenic. Step three, take a nose dive into a shallow grave. Stop having boring surgery and stop having a boring life when you can anesthetize, euthanize then fertilize. Easy as 1, 2, 3. No other healthcare plan is going to do that.
Are you a man with a testicular problem? Obamacare is gonna love your nuts because it has what I affectionately call the Slapchop solution. First we’ll remove your pants, then we’ll grab your nads, dip them in alcohol and then amputate them. Are you following me camera guy? Thats rip, grip, dip and snip.
Are you suffering from that annoying condition known as pregnancy? No problem. Obamacare will spare no expense and get you the best doctors that middle class American tax dollars can buy.
How painless will Obamacare be? This is the best part. You won’t need to read countless insurance plans to decide what’s best for you. It’s the same process our congressman and senators took to pass Obamacare.
See what I’m telling ya? You’ll be saying wow everytime you need healthcare.
Disclaimor: Side effects of Obamacare include more national debt, excessive diagnostic wait times, rationing of services, higher taxes, stronger healthcare unions, higher mortality rates.”
A LA CARTE!! A LA CARTE!! A LA CARTE!!
Across the nation our local TV networks have been waging a war against the cable carriers, and Rogers in particular. The battle has basically been over Rogers taking the free air signals of local TV stations and broadcasting them over cable without compensating the local stations.
Well it looks like Rogers is going to up their rates by 1.5% in an effort to compensate for additional costs of carrying these free stations and people are EM AY DEE … MAD!
I blogged about our lack of priorities a few weeks ago but the bottom line is that EVERYONE should be raising their dander up and demanding A La Carte station ordering. i.e. There should be a base cost (say $10 or $15 a month) for delivery of service and then we should be able to order whatever channels we want. Why should an anglophone Canadian pay for 3 or 4 French stations to be piped directly into his home? Why should a good God fearing Christian need to pay for stations that promote Muslim or Jewish religious beliefs? Why should a piano lesson taking uber geek be forced to pay for not one, not two, but three sports stations that he/she will never watch? It simply does not make sense.
The only thing that DOES make sense is A La Carte station ordering. If I had to pay $2 or so per station, I would likely have a $40 to $50 a month cable bill.
Demand A La Carte!
ACORN Tentacles Growing In Canada
Tuesday night on local Ottawa CTV news there was a piece about a small group of citizens living in sub standard housing. In the middle of the clip I hear the war cry of ACORN… “What do we want…Justice….When do we want it….Now.” And my heart sank because I knew immediately that the tentacles of the Rathke brothers and Saul Alinsky have reached into our fair nation. Up until tonight I had not heard a peep out of them. But now that has all changed.
After decades of sucking the life (not to mention billions of dollars) out of the USA, ACORN has set it’s sites on global targets and Canada is a target.
From the website of ACORN Canada.
Don’t miss a thing; enter your email address to stay up to date with ACORN Canada’s work organizing Canada’s low income communities for social justice!
The redistribution of wealth is their ultimate goal. With lines like “organizing low income communities for social justice” it won’t be long until the voter fraud starts. In the USA the name ACORN has been getting such a bad reputation that they are changing their name to avoid the negative connotations associated with being (pardon the pun) a little nuts.
ACORN now has offices in Toronto (HQ), Ottawa, Surrey/Vancouver and Hamilton.
To quote from The Fly, “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
OS Calendar Of Events
In an effort to help provide timely information on upcoming conservative oriented events, we have added an event calendar to the OfficiallyScrewed.com site. Our “Get Your Butt Here” section is to the right of this post and includes the event, link to the event site, date, time and countdown to the event.
We encourage anyone out there with information about upcoming events to share the information with us and we will do what we can to make sure we get it up in a timely fashion.
Simply email me at mulder[at]officiallyscrewed[dot]com.
Ottawa Blogger Gathering – "Like Conclave … But With Beer"
Mark your calendars. After such a long stretch between Ottawa Blogger gatherings, we have tentatively set the next gathering and the details are below.
Date: Saturday August 22nd
Time: 1pm start (end time is up to you)
Location: Mexicali Rosa’s at Dow’s Lake Pavillion – 1001 Queen Elizabeth Drive. Ottawa, Ontario.
Parking: Pay Lot available across the street
All bloggers and friends of bloggers welcome. We encourage everyone to help promote the event on their blog. There is also a facebook group which you can RSVP with. The address for this group is accessible by Clicking Here.
Map To Location:
Aww, The Montreal Ballerinas Needs To Sell Some Fudge
Many of you recall the trimming of a couple of inefficient government programs that helped pay for artists to tour the world. Well I have good news for those of us who pay our own way when we travel. Minister James Moore has stuck to his guns and will not be extending the programs as they are inefficient.
Art groups are upset the government refuses to reinstate two funds — the $7.1-million Trade Routes program and the $4.8-million Arts Promotion program — that helped with international travel and marketing.
The government maintains the programs were inefficient.
Trade Routes spent $5 million paying people to “push paper” and only $2 million went to the artists, said Heritage Minister James Moore’s spokeswoman Deirdra McCracken.
What many people should pay attention to is the addtional fact in this article that the Conservative government is not trimming arts funding. They are in fact spending over $540 million on arts and culture over two years in the middle of a recession to help these areas. What they are NOT doing is blowing cash on wasted paper pushing and free world travel.
Alain Dancyger, the executive director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, said he had to beg donors in Egypt this spring to make up a $250,000 travel budget shortfall for the company’s historic Middle East tour.
“It was embarrassing,” he said. Donors were asking why they should give if the Canadian government was refusing to help, he said.
Newsflash: When my daughter’s volleyball club was looking to raise funds for travel or some new equipment, the girls on the team went door to door selling maple fudge. I wonder if Mr. Dancyger has thought to try this. I am willing to bet he has not. With countless people not even travelling these days because of the recession, I am ecstatic that this boondoggle has been put to rest.
Minister James Moore gets a gold star in my grading book.
Only In A Government Town
Considering:
a) I am located in Ottawa
b) this blog is titled what it is
c) the sixth image below is an accurate depiction of what this blog is all about and
d) it just made me laugh,
I had to post this image I came across while surfing at Failblog.org. I am thinking the person in the front is a taxpayer.
Making The Bloc Irrelevant
When I blogged about altering the party funding formula a couple of weeks ago, I garnered a bit of interest but not quite the wave I would have liked to see. Well it seems that I am not the only one who feels that regional parties should be marginalized.
U of T Professor Andrew Stark had a piece in the Globe and Mail today that is worth reading which also addressed regional parties like the Bloc Quebecois.
Of note, their is a Bill passing through the system now that would give Ontario and a few Western Provinces more seats while holding Quebec to 75. This would go a long way towards taking away some of the strength that the Bloc have but ultimately party funding is the way I think this issue needs to be addressed.
Stossel's Piece On Canadian HealthCare Finally Airs
After being postponed not once but twice, ABC finally aired the John Stossel piece on our healthcare system. It has some pretty eye-opening facts about wait times that humans have compared to those that cats and dogs have for major diagnostic testing.
You can view it via YouTube by clicking the image below once.