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August 26, 2008 by mr_flood.
A nice article comparing our health care system to those of other countries with socialized medicine.
According to an August 2008 study published in Lancet Oncology, the renowned British medical journal, Americans have a better than five-year survival rate for 13 of the 16 most prominent cancers when compared with their European and Canadian counterparts.
With breast cancer, for instance, the survival rate among American women is 83.9 percent. For women in Britain, it’s just 69.7 percent. For men with prostate cancer, the survival rate is 91.9 percent here but just 73.7 percent in France and 51.1 percent in Britain.
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January 28, 2008 by mr_flood.
Once again we learn that these jobs that we are told Americans wont do, they actually will do, once the illegals leave and the companies are forced to raise their wages. From Google News
The effects of the law have been immediate, according to businessmen, workers and rights activists who spoke to AFP, with companies driving up wages to attract labor while being forced to part company with prized employees.
It’s almost funny watching all the lefties do the dirty work for big business when they campaign against immigration enforcement.
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November 6, 2007 by mr_flood.
Surprise, it’s not as bad as the scare-mongers would have you believe:
WITH the health care system at the center of the political debate, a lot of scary claims are being thrown around. The dangerous ones are not those that are false; watchdogs in the news media are quick to debunk them. Rather, the dangerous ones are those that are true but don’t mean what people think they mean.
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July 19, 2007 by mr_flood.
Here’s the gem:
“The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong.” This is reminiscent of the “fake but accurate” defense of CBS’s Bush National Guard hoax. If Thomas were giving a plainer account of what happened, he would have said something like this: Our reporting was guided by our prejudices, and even though the story turned out to be false, we stand behind our prejudices.
The narcissim of these tools is beyond belief.
Read the rest.
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July 6, 2007 by mr_flood.
Via Protein Wisdom comes this out of the Rocky Mountain News:
More bad news for “peak oil” enthusiasts — those wishful thinkers and doomsday peddlers who say the world is running out of oil. BP’s annual “Statistical Review of World Energy” shows “proved oil reserves continue to exceed 1.2 trillion barrels, equivalent to current production levels for more than 40 years.”
Read the rest if you dare!
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June 29, 2007 by mr_flood.
Please head over to his site and read his latest on socialism killing pharmaceutical invention, with the left wanting to do the same here. An excerpt:
Socialism fails. Always has. Always will. And the toll in Europe in so many areas is clear. Here’s what socialized medical systems have done to European pharmaceutical research:
# For over 100 years, Europe has been a powerhouse of pharmaceutical progress and innovation. Over the last decade, however, Europe has gradually lost its leadership in the pharmaceutical sector, with a steady transfer of its R&D to the US - where policies and market conditions are more favourable to pharmaceutical innovation.
# Key benchmarking indicators show that between 1990 and 2002, R&D investment in United States rose more than fivefold, while in Europe it only grew 2.5 times.
# In 1990, major European research-based companies spent 73% of their worldwide R&D expenditure on the EU territory. In 1999, they spent only 59% on the EU territory. The USA was the main beneficiary of this transfer of R&D activity.
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June 22, 2007 by mr_flood.
…which, I suppose, is representative of the Left as a whole.
In The Plank he writes…
But other parts of the article were more personally unflattering. For instance, Kuttner cited Rubin’s “professed concern for America’s downtrodden,” [italics mine] which strikes me as highly uncharitable.
followed by…
But I think it’s worth noting that Rubin, who is enormously rich, has staunchly favored higher tax rates on the rich for years.
I remember listening to an interview with the singer Jewel a few years ago where she professed the exact same belief; that endorsing high tax rates means you care for the poor.
Well, I have two things to say about people who believe this: you don’t care and you’re stupid.
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June 20, 2007 by mr_flood.
From M.J. Rosenberg at TPM Cafe we get an article decrying Richard Cohen’s belief that Libby should be pardoned because there was no underlying crime.
His main point is that since there was “no underlying crime,” lying to the grand jury about it was no crime either.
What’s funny is that Rosenberg goes on to reinforce exactly what Cohen was saying.
No underlying crime!
Scooter Libby was a key part of a group of government officials who lied this country into a war that has cost us 3500 soldiers and destroyed a foreign country.
It is a war we have lost and which we will be paying for decades hence.
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people will never get over the losses they suffered as a result of Scooter (and his buddies’ war). It is sad that Scooter is, at this point, the only one facing jail time. Feith, Perle and the whole bunch should be brought up on charges.
So let me get this right. He disagrees with Cohen’s position that there was no underlying crime to commit perjury on and as his evidence he doesn’t cite any evidence. Rather, he spews BDS vomit all over the place.
I’m sure he’d agree with the statement that Clinton’s impeachment was just, not because he lied to a grand jury, but because he bombed an aspirin factory in Sudan.
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April 16, 2007 by mr_flood.
Is here at Protein Wisdom
From the Kansas City Star’s Jason Whitlock, “Imus isn’t the real bad guy”:
Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.
You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.
You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.
Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.
Please read the rest.
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April 3, 2007 by mr_flood.
****bad language in here****
From a recent post at Protein Wisdom
So, to recap: chocolate Jesus giblets and stallion fucking = edgy, arty, and worthy of “thought experiments” that attempt to “revive the humanity” of their subjects; whereas “under God” in the Pledge = intrusive, while cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed? How dare you question the Otherness of the Other?
What more can be said over what Jeff says in his post?
I suppose I can add that no one has noticed how juvenile it all is. Here they are, grown up, so many years serperated from their parents, from the ’50’s, from any connection to religion at all and still they take so much pleasure, and devote so much effort, in being perceived as a rebel to all they’ve left behind. Look! Look at me everyone! I’m sticking it to Jesus and his whacko followers! How brave I am!
No, you’re just tired.
And old.
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