The Results of JFK Jr's Mandatory Post-Mortem Drug Screen
Actually, I don't have those results. Are these public records?
After a fatal plane crash the pilot is always autopsied and there is always a drug test. The three victims of this particular tragedy were processed in about four hours. Was a drug test done on JFK Jr. or his wife Carolyn? Do these rules not apply to Kennedys?
Biographer Edward Klein writes, "We don't know for certain why the burial at sea was so rushed, but we can assume the Kennedys did not want to have any publicity regarding the autopsy reports, for fear that the reports might have revealed some illegal substance in the bloodstreams of John and Carolyn Bessette."
In his book Forever Young: My Friendship With John F Kennedy Jr., William Noonan writes about John's fondness for smoking marijuana.
The public has the right to know if Kennedy died while rolling a fatty.
In his book The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years, Edward Klein states, "John once returned to their loft to find Carolyn sprawled on the floor disheveled and hollow-eyed, snorting cocaine with a gaggle of gay fashionistas."
Klein also reports a story told him by a staffer at George magazine who had dinner with Carolyn one evening:
"She made at least a half-dozen trips to the bathroom and came back to the table with white rings around her nostrils," the staffer is quoted as saying.
It occurs to me that here was a couple whose remains were begging for a little drug testing. But when your family has power and has been skirting the law for decades, I'm sure information is easily manipulated and manufactured to produce the desired results... And the almost immediate cremation and burial at sea safely insures Kennedy's reputation for all time.
Too soon? Sorry...
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Race Card Played
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
John McCain is obviously a typical white person. Obama obviously has a problem with typical white people. Maybe Barry is simply a racist... Like his preacher. He certainly talks about race a lot and accuses people - that don't want him elected - of being racists.
I don't want him elected because he is wrong on energy... Wrong on the war... Wrong on judges... Wrong on taxes... And if he was whiter than June Cleaver he would still be the wrong man for the job.
But when Obama suggests that people like me won't vote for him because he's black... Then he presents me with yet another reason not to vote for him: He is a race-obsessed A-hole.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
John McCain is obviously a typical white person. Obama obviously has a problem with typical white people. Maybe Barry is simply a racist... Like his preacher. He certainly talks about race a lot and accuses people - that don't want him elected - of being racists.
I don't want him elected because he is wrong on energy... Wrong on the war... Wrong on judges... Wrong on taxes... And if he was whiter than June Cleaver he would still be the wrong man for the job.
But when Obama suggests that people like me won't vote for him because he's black... Then he presents me with yet another reason not to vote for him: He is a race-obsessed A-hole.
The Presumptuous Candidate
In his closed door meeting with House Democrats Tuesday night, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger, according to a witness, suggesting that he was beginning to believe his own hype.
Obama was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, "this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for."
No tape of the event exists and no one is denying the quote.
But one leadership aide said the full quote put it into a different context. According to that aide, Obama said, "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign -- that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It's about America. I have just become a symbol."
How many times has Barack or one of his apostles said something outrageous, which was immediately followed by a, "What he really meant was..."
I found this story at washingtonpost.com, and in the comment section an outraged liberal wrote, "I can't believe that Fox Freakin' News has taken over the Washington Post!"
(I must pause for a moment and say parenthetically - thus the parenthesis - that I would love it if the most-watched cable news organization changed its name to "The Fox Freakin' News Channel.")
While it is shocking that a Washington Post employee would suggest that Obama is a bit full of himself, I think we can all be thankful that the journalist avoided using the word "uppity."
In his closed door meeting with House Democrats Tuesday night, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger, according to a witness, suggesting that he was beginning to believe his own hype.
Obama was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, "this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for."
No tape of the event exists and no one is denying the quote.
But one leadership aide said the full quote put it into a different context. According to that aide, Obama said, "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign -- that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It's about America. I have just become a symbol."
How many times has Barack or one of his apostles said something outrageous, which was immediately followed by a, "What he really meant was..."
I found this story at washingtonpost.com, and in the comment section an outraged liberal wrote, "I can't believe that Fox Freakin' News has taken over the Washington Post!"
(I must pause for a moment and say parenthetically - thus the parenthesis - that I would love it if the most-watched cable news organization changed its name to "The Fox Freakin' News Channel.")
While it is shocking that a Washington Post employee would suggest that Obama is a bit full of himself, I think we can all be thankful that the journalist avoided using the word "uppity."
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Why Media Bias Matters
The ignorance and lazy complacency of the American people play directly into the hands of the liberal press in this country.
For instance, the media prefers to keep the public in the dark about the John Edwards "Love Child" scandal because he is a liberal Democrat. The American people waddle along, happily ignorant... As this Rasmussen Poll about Vice Presidential preferences reveals:
A new Rasmussen Reports national survey finds that 56% have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, including 21% who view him Very favorably. He slightly edges Senator Hillary Clinton, who is viewed at least somewhat favorably by 51%, with 27% characterizing their view of her as Very Favorable.
56%... Amazing. Maybe 1/3 of the country is hard-core Democrat... The kind that cares nothing of a man's character, as long as he is sufficiently liberal and has a D by his name. But much of this 56% is made possible by the willing, biased accomplices in the mainstream media.
The ignorance and lazy complacency of the American people play directly into the hands of the liberal press in this country.
For instance, the media prefers to keep the public in the dark about the John Edwards "Love Child" scandal because he is a liberal Democrat. The American people waddle along, happily ignorant... As this Rasmussen Poll about Vice Presidential preferences reveals:
A new Rasmussen Reports national survey finds that 56% have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, including 21% who view him Very favorably. He slightly edges Senator Hillary Clinton, who is viewed at least somewhat favorably by 51%, with 27% characterizing their view of her as Very Favorable.
56%... Amazing. Maybe 1/3 of the country is hard-core Democrat... The kind that cares nothing of a man's character, as long as he is sufficiently liberal and has a D by his name. But much of this 56% is made possible by the willing, biased accomplices in the mainstream media.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Shooting Up in Church
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities on Monday said the man charged with murder in a Tennessee church shooting left a four-page letter that detailed his frustration at being unemployed, his hatred of gays and liberals, and his expectation that he would be killed by responding police.
The church, like many other Unitarian Universalist churches, promotes progressive social work, such as desegregation and fighting for the rights of women and gays. The Knoxville congregation has provided sanctuary for political refugees, fed the homeless and founded a chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, according to its Web site.
They founded a chapter of the ACLU and fought for the rights of gays? What sort of New Testament Church is that? Hmm... Maybe they told the Gays to "Go, and sin no more."
Maybe.
I undertand a brave man stood between the nut and the congregation and sacrificed himself... Saving many.
Greater love hath no man than this.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities on Monday said the man charged with murder in a Tennessee church shooting left a four-page letter that detailed his frustration at being unemployed, his hatred of gays and liberals, and his expectation that he would be killed by responding police.
The church, like many other Unitarian Universalist churches, promotes progressive social work, such as desegregation and fighting for the rights of women and gays. The Knoxville congregation has provided sanctuary for political refugees, fed the homeless and founded a chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, according to its Web site.
They founded a chapter of the ACLU and fought for the rights of gays? What sort of New Testament Church is that? Hmm... Maybe they told the Gays to "Go, and sin no more."
Maybe.
I undertand a brave man stood between the nut and the congregation and sacrificed himself... Saving many.
Greater love hath no man than this.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Malott Competes in Bun Run!!!!
The Frankfort, Indiana high school sports teams are known as the Frankfort Hot Dogs. (No, really.) And every year Frankfort has a Hot Dog Festival.
This morning I ran in the Hot Dog Festival "Bun Run" which is a 5 kilometer or approximately 3 mile run. I finished in the middle of the pack of 100 or so runners with a mediocre time of 27m 33s... And I think I was 4th in the my age division.
This is the T-shirt I got.
So now when the inevitable question is asked, I can proudly answer, "Yes, I've done the Bun."
Another Democrat that Loathes the Military?
Barack Obama had plans to visit our wounded soldiers at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, but the military told him that he would not be allowed to bring any of his campaign staff — only one Senate staffer and security. So Obama cancelled the trip.
How revealing is that?
If Obama had a deep and abiding respect for the young men and women who volunteer to protect this country, there would be - nothing - that could have kept him from visiting with these wounded warriors... All by himself. No cameras. No microphones. Just him visiting and thanking these young people that sacrificed so much.
Politically... It was a stupid decision. But it definitely reveals another piece of the puzzle... And gives us further clues as to who this guy really is.
Barack Obama had plans to visit our wounded soldiers at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, but the military told him that he would not be allowed to bring any of his campaign staff — only one Senate staffer and security. So Obama cancelled the trip.
How revealing is that?
If Obama had a deep and abiding respect for the young men and women who volunteer to protect this country, there would be - nothing - that could have kept him from visiting with these wounded warriors... All by himself. No cameras. No microphones. Just him visiting and thanking these young people that sacrificed so much.
Politically... It was a stupid decision. But it definitely reveals another piece of the puzzle... And gives us further clues as to who this guy really is.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Is Winter Coming for the Democrats?
I'm praying for a cold September and a very cold October. One month or two before the November elections it would be good for Americans to form a connection in their minds between the Democrats' stubborn refusal to expand domestic oil and natural gas drilling - and the hefty price involved in heating their homes.
That would be very good.
The Democrats and their environmentalist friends can presently hide behind words of pipe dream windmills and alternative fuels... Buoyed by the support of their accomplices in the mainstream media... But winter is coming.
The American people are foolish, lazy, and ignorant... But they understand heating bills. They understand being cold.
Winter is coming.
I'm praying for a cold September and a very cold October. One month or two before the November elections it would be good for Americans to form a connection in their minds between the Democrats' stubborn refusal to expand domestic oil and natural gas drilling - and the hefty price involved in heating their homes.
That would be very good.
The Democrats and their environmentalist friends can presently hide behind words of pipe dream windmills and alternative fuels... Buoyed by the support of their accomplices in the mainstream media... But winter is coming.
The American people are foolish, lazy, and ignorant... But they understand heating bills. They understand being cold.
Winter is coming.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
The Press, The Dems, And Decency
With husband John at her side, Elizabeth Edwards announced the return of her cancer in March, 2007. Rielle Hunter became pregnant in May or June of 2007. NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporter Alan Butterfield reports that John Edwards met with Ms. Hunter last Monday in a hotel room:
"Once inside, he interestingly bypassed the lobby and ducked down a side stairs to go to the bottom floor to catch the elevator up - rather than taking the elevator in the main lobby. He went out of his way not to be seen."
Meanwhile, Rielle had reserved rooms 246 and 252 under the name of the friend who had accompanied her from Santa Barbara, Bob McGovern. Rielle was in one room and McGovern was in another with her baby. This allowed her and Edwards to spend time alone, a source revealed.
Understand, The Enquirer had published stories about Edwards supposed relationship with Hunter back in December of 2007. If I was John... I think I would have avoided meeting with this woman!
Edwards went out of the hotel briefly with Rielle, they were observed by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and then went back to her room, where he stayed until attempting to sneak out of the hotel unseen at 2:40 a.m. (PST). But when he emerged alone from an elevator into the hotel basement he was greeted by several reporters from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield questioned him about his hookup with Rielle.
Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men's room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.
I really haven't heard anything about this in the mainstream media. I remember hearing about allegations in the New York Times that John McCain was having an affair... But McCain is a Republican... And was therefore asking for it! Obviously the National Enquirer is less concerned with propping up the Dems.
Anyway, I'm not sure what John was thinking when he decided to meet with this woman. But I'm sure he wasn't thinking about his sick wife and his children.
Quoting John Edwards from his famous campaign speech... “Today, under George W. Bush, there are two Americas, not one..."
And under John Edwards we might find not one, but two... Well... Lest I blush...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
A Little Help, Please
"Blessed are the poor in spirit." Matthew 5:3
1) The economically poor are blessed. How are they blessed? Their spirits are blessed, or they are spiritually blessed, or their spirit is heightened.
2) The spiritually poor are blessed... Those lacking in spiritual characteristics, works, or evidences.
3) Those lacking spirit, the depressed... Are blessed.
4) Those lacking spiritual confidence... Those with a deep sense of spiritual futility... Are blessed.
5) None of the above.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit." Matthew 5:3
1) The economically poor are blessed. How are they blessed? Their spirits are blessed, or they are spiritually blessed, or their spirit is heightened.
2) The spiritually poor are blessed... Those lacking in spiritual characteristics, works, or evidences.
3) Those lacking spirit, the depressed... Are blessed.
4) Those lacking spiritual confidence... Those with a deep sense of spiritual futility... Are blessed.
5) None of the above.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
How I Survive Working In A Hospital Full Of Women
Or
How I Deal Daily With Penis Envy
The life of a hospital laboratory technician is not always the sexy and glamorous experience one would suppose. There is plasma, and pee pee, and poo (oh my!).
And when you are male... There is the inevitable mental cruelty, physical abuse, and sexual harrassment... The ugly side of healthcare. Where I work the women sometimes line the hallways, and as I walk by, make crude remarks, paw at me, or pinch my buttocks. (In next week's installment I'll be posting police photos of my black and blue marks.) Imagine my shame.
You say, "Malott! Why don't you just quit?"
Oh sure, quitting would be the easy way. But I have lives to save, my friend. And come Monday morning, I'll once again will be up to my elbows in body fluids and semi-fluids and maybe even some green stuff with pus on it.
And... Loving it.
Or
How I Deal Daily With Penis Envy
The life of a hospital laboratory technician is not always the sexy and glamorous experience one would suppose. There is plasma, and pee pee, and poo (oh my!).
And when you are male... There is the inevitable mental cruelty, physical abuse, and sexual harrassment... The ugly side of healthcare. Where I work the women sometimes line the hallways, and as I walk by, make crude remarks, paw at me, or pinch my buttocks. (In next week's installment I'll be posting police photos of my black and blue marks.) Imagine my shame.
You say, "Malott! Why don't you just quit?"
Oh sure, quitting would be the easy way. But I have lives to save, my friend. And come Monday morning, I'll once again will be up to my elbows in body fluids and semi-fluids and maybe even some green stuff with pus on it.
And... Loving it.
Cluelessness Caught on Tape
I'd have more respect for Obama if he possessed the personal honesty and humility required to simply admit he was wrong about "The Surge."
It's bad enough to elect an unaccomplished, naive, amateur to the White House... But this amateur obviously lacks integrity and character.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Super TomatoesThe old man in the picture... The one desperately trying to hold his stomach in... is 5'9" tall... And just ran 2.5 miles. The tomato plant next to him is 5'9" tall and to the best of my knowledge has remained stationary all morning. It is an Amish-Brandywine Heirloom Variety... (Whatever that means.)
I've never before had a tomato plant outgrow me.
I'm obviously a super-gardener... Who can run 2.5 miles without throwing up, by the way... At least I haven't thrown up yet.... Though the day is young.
Because I am the very essence of humility, I hesitate to draw the obvious comparison...
But the likeness is uncanny.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Gagging Michelle
Turnabout is fair play.
Michelle Obama... Angela Davis with more relaxed hair... Has been sent home to care for the girls. The campaign must have done some polling that suggested Americans didn't approve of an Activist Big Mouth First Lady who saw nothing to be proud of in America's history.
I figure she is totally pissed. (Forgive my French.) Michelle is Jack Nicholson's character in A Few Good Men, Col. Nathan R. Jessep, and is just dying to tell us she called the Code Red... In her case she wants to spit in America's eye and tell us how rotten we are.
I guess she will have to wait until after the election... Something we have to look forward to...
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Passing
When I was in my 30's I read a book by James Michener entitled The Covenant, which was a history of the "South Africa" region of Africa. Michener was quite candid in the way he wrote about the races and the way they were treated there... About the difference between "black" and "colored" in the country of South Africa... About how the blacks in America were not black, by the South African definition, but colored.
As I recall... In South Africa, imported Indians and anything mixed w/ black were considered colored. Blacks were those native inhabitants who had no foreign genes mixed in.
I think it's interesting that Barack Obama is the child of a true black man from Africa and a white woman from the midwest. So, in a sense, he is probably more black than many children of mixed marriages in America.
It's ironic that he has next to nothing in common culturally with African Americans other than the color of his skin, being raised almost entirely by white people. Culturally, Barack is a white man who just happens to have dark skin. His cultural roots are not in the slave - sharecropper - segregated history that influences the average African American to this day.
So basically we have a very bright - white man by culture - half black man by genes, (who is unfortunately tainted by an ultra-liberal upbringing and education...) who is trying to "pass" as the first African American nominee for president of the United States.
If Jesse Jackson, Condoleeza Rice, or Colin Powell had been nominated... They would truly be the first African Americans so celebrated. But all Obama has going is the "skin thing."
The Obama phenomenon... Brouhaha... really is about color... Just color.
Quote of the Day
"The business of exposing bias is a little bit like serving as a parole officer at a juvenile detention facility. The misdeeds seldom change, the miscreants seldom learn, but you still have to do your best to encourage good behavior. And you have to do it in such a way that you don't lose your temper or your mind." --Tony Snow
"The business of exposing bias is a little bit like serving as a parole officer at a juvenile detention facility. The misdeeds seldom change, the miscreants seldom learn, but you still have to do your best to encourage good behavior. And you have to do it in such a way that you don't lose your temper or your mind." --Tony Snow
Monday, July 14, 2008
First Black In The White House
It won't be Barack... He's a mulatto. The first black in the White House will be Michelle.
I'm not sure why, but I think the thought of Michelle bothers me more than the other new resident... The one who will be doing the major damage.
Why is that? Why is the thought of First Lady Michelle more irritating than the thought of President Obama?
I see Senator Obama as a foreigner... Raised outside the Continental United States... And I don't expect him to love our country, its history, or its traditions. I have very low expectations for him.
But Michelle was raised here, and when she gets up and speaks... And scolds... I just want to tell her that she is an annoying, ungrateful twit... And that she should just shut up.
First Lady Hillary wanted to screw up the country with her liberalism, but I still saw her as a patriot.
I think Michelle is unpatriotic... She was taught that this country is bad.
Friday, July 11, 2008
My Favorite Scene from the Tarzan Movies
I'm not sure what it is about this scene from the 1934 Tarzan movie that I find so appealing... Maybe the underwater photography... Maybe the artistic swimming ballet that Maureen O'Sullivan and Johnny Weismiller perform...
Whatever it is... It warms my heart.
Karachi Abuse
Janice has blogged about the now famous "Karachi Kids" here and here.
If these were Christian kids sent to some sort of wacked-out fundamentalist Christian religious school... The courts would call it child abuse and they would be removed from their home.
But we can't do that to Muslim parents... No matter how radical they are.
Janice has blogged about the now famous "Karachi Kids" here and here.
If these were Christian kids sent to some sort of wacked-out fundamentalist Christian religious school... The courts would call it child abuse and they would be removed from their home.
But we can't do that to Muslim parents... No matter how radical they are.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Reverend Jesse Jackson and Obama's Testicles
Well now here is an interesting story...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for saying Barack Obama is “talking down to black people” during what Jackson thought was a private conversation before a FOX News interview Sunday.
Jackson was speaking to a guest at the time about Obama’s speeches in black churches and his support for faith-based charities. Jackson added before going live, “I want to cut his nuts off.”
His microphone picked up the remarks.
When my preacher speaks of nuts, he is usually referring to walnuts, pecans... Nuts like that.
Now, if Jesse had simply expressed a desire to kick Obama in the... Filberts... I think many of us could appreciate those prayerful sentiments. But it seems to me that the "cutting off" of said... macadamias... moves beyond the realm of insightful theology into the sphere of mutilation and sadism. But maybe that's just me.
I think Jesse is worried about losing a bit of his influence if Obama is elected. But just as John the Baptist had to become less once the Messiah arrived...
But I figure the Reverend Jackson sees himself as the true Black Messiah. Even Jesse's promoting of Jesus has always taken a back seat to Jesse's promoting of Jesse.
Well now here is an interesting story...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for saying Barack Obama is “talking down to black people” during what Jackson thought was a private conversation before a FOX News interview Sunday.
Jackson was speaking to a guest at the time about Obama’s speeches in black churches and his support for faith-based charities. Jackson added before going live, “I want to cut his nuts off.”
His microphone picked up the remarks.
When my preacher speaks of nuts, he is usually referring to walnuts, pecans... Nuts like that.
Now, if Jesse had simply expressed a desire to kick Obama in the... Filberts... I think many of us could appreciate those prayerful sentiments. But it seems to me that the "cutting off" of said... macadamias... moves beyond the realm of insightful theology into the sphere of mutilation and sadism. But maybe that's just me.
I think Jesse is worried about losing a bit of his influence if Obama is elected. But just as John the Baptist had to become less once the Messiah arrived...
But I figure the Reverend Jackson sees himself as the true Black Messiah. Even Jesse's promoting of Jesus has always taken a back seat to Jesse's promoting of Jesse.
Obama's Tax Plan
Stephen Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal:
My contacts at the Treasury Department tell me that for the first time in decades, and perhaps ever, the richest 1% of tax filers will have paid more than 40% of the income tax burden. The top 50% will account for 97% of all federal income taxes, while the bottom 50% will have paid just 3%.
But Barack Obama has decided the rich still don't pay enough. He would redistribute the tax burden even more heavily on small business owners and the entrepreneurial class (two-thirds of the tax filers in the highest income tax bracket are small-business owners.)
But... History has demonstrated time and again that raising tax rates on the wealthy in the name of "redistribution" leads to so much income shifting, reduced work and investment, and redeployment of money into tax shelters, that the rich usually pay less, not more taxes, at higher rates.
Economist Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University has shown that in 1970, when the highest tax rate was 70%, the top 1% shouldered 16.7% of the income tax burden. Today the top tax rate is 35% and the same class of taxpayers pays a whopping 39% of the burden. The worst way to "soak the rich," Mr. Hubbard finds, is to raise tax rates.
Ah, so the wealthy small business owners get their taxes doubled and subsequently lay off a few million workers, creating the need for more welfare and government handouts... And sooner or later Obama needs to raise taxes on us middle class folk, too. Unfortunately we don't have the financial options of the rich.
I know we need to elect Obama because he's black, but couldn't we have picked a man of color who isn't a flaming socialist?
Stephen Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal:
My contacts at the Treasury Department tell me that for the first time in decades, and perhaps ever, the richest 1% of tax filers will have paid more than 40% of the income tax burden. The top 50% will account for 97% of all federal income taxes, while the bottom 50% will have paid just 3%.
But Barack Obama has decided the rich still don't pay enough. He would redistribute the tax burden even more heavily on small business owners and the entrepreneurial class (two-thirds of the tax filers in the highest income tax bracket are small-business owners.)
But... History has demonstrated time and again that raising tax rates on the wealthy in the name of "redistribution" leads to so much income shifting, reduced work and investment, and redeployment of money into tax shelters, that the rich usually pay less, not more taxes, at higher rates.
Economist Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University has shown that in 1970, when the highest tax rate was 70%, the top 1% shouldered 16.7% of the income tax burden. Today the top tax rate is 35% and the same class of taxpayers pays a whopping 39% of the burden. The worst way to "soak the rich," Mr. Hubbard finds, is to raise tax rates.
Ah, so the wealthy small business owners get their taxes doubled and subsequently lay off a few million workers, creating the need for more welfare and government handouts... And sooner or later Obama needs to raise taxes on us middle class folk, too. Unfortunately we don't have the financial options of the rich.
I know we need to elect Obama because he's black, but couldn't we have picked a man of color who isn't a flaming socialist?
Monday, July 07, 2008
Medicine is a Crock
...generally speaking. My wild guess is that 75% of all medicine practiced is a waste of money and 25% is detrimental to your health.
Because of TV shows and movies, many of us delude ourselves into thinking that medicine is something other than a business. I feel sorry for people who think that, but once you've drunk the kool-aid...
I know men and women in their 90's who won't eat their favorite foods because they're afraid of cholesterol. I know a couple women in their 90's who have never been in a hospital bed, and whose children are unhealthy and dying because they're sedentary and on 15 different medicines.
While it's true that there are times in life when you may need a doctor... Generally speaking, they're just another bad habit to avoid. Here are a few tips from your Uncle Malott to help you avoid them.
1) If you sit on your butt all the time you're not going to feel good and will likely become depressed. You will age more rapidly. Pills won't help you... They will just get you some attention and put more money into your doctor's pocket and the drug companies' coffers. You need to discipline yourself to spend a half hour, 3 or 4 times per week to walk a couple miles at a fast pace... Whether you feel like it or not.
2) Be a grown-up and give up sugar by the age of 40 or sooner. Don't even go down the candy aisle at the grocery. Believe me, you'll still get plenty of sugar in your diet eating everything from bread to peanut butter.
...And don't look down your nose at the alcoholic or smoker if you're stuffing your face with a more socially accepted poison.
3) If you have health problems... Take only those pills that keep you alive... blood thinners, blood pressure medicine, etc... and pitch the rest.
4) Eat bread once per week. Eat potatoes once per week. Eat chips once per month. Eat less. Get thin. If your metabolism won't allow you to get thin, at least get your heart and lungs in shape by exercising.
5) Have a hard-boiled egg with your morning coffee. Eat a salad for lunch. Eat meat for dinner with lots and lots of green things.
And remember, God made food to sustain us... Not to entertain us. If you're bored - do something... Don't eat something.
6) Drink coke or pop 2 or 3 times per year. Keep a gallon jug of tea in your refrigerator and learn to like it unsweetened. Drink all you want... And then drink some more.
7) If you live in an agricultural area, buy and drink spring water... Especially if you have any cancer in your family history.
8) Stay away from doctors. Aggressive medical care will kill you more often than it will save you - and faster than alcohol and tobacco.
So eat a can of spinach and call me in the morning.
Please feel free to add to my prescription in comments.
...generally speaking. My wild guess is that 75% of all medicine practiced is a waste of money and 25% is detrimental to your health.
Because of TV shows and movies, many of us delude ourselves into thinking that medicine is something other than a business. I feel sorry for people who think that, but once you've drunk the kool-aid...
I know men and women in their 90's who won't eat their favorite foods because they're afraid of cholesterol. I know a couple women in their 90's who have never been in a hospital bed, and whose children are unhealthy and dying because they're sedentary and on 15 different medicines.
While it's true that there are times in life when you may need a doctor... Generally speaking, they're just another bad habit to avoid. Here are a few tips from your Uncle Malott to help you avoid them.
1) If you sit on your butt all the time you're not going to feel good and will likely become depressed. You will age more rapidly. Pills won't help you... They will just get you some attention and put more money into your doctor's pocket and the drug companies' coffers. You need to discipline yourself to spend a half hour, 3 or 4 times per week to walk a couple miles at a fast pace... Whether you feel like it or not.
2) Be a grown-up and give up sugar by the age of 40 or sooner. Don't even go down the candy aisle at the grocery. Believe me, you'll still get plenty of sugar in your diet eating everything from bread to peanut butter.
...And don't look down your nose at the alcoholic or smoker if you're stuffing your face with a more socially accepted poison.
3) If you have health problems... Take only those pills that keep you alive... blood thinners, blood pressure medicine, etc... and pitch the rest.
4) Eat bread once per week. Eat potatoes once per week. Eat chips once per month. Eat less. Get thin. If your metabolism won't allow you to get thin, at least get your heart and lungs in shape by exercising.
5) Have a hard-boiled egg with your morning coffee. Eat a salad for lunch. Eat meat for dinner with lots and lots of green things.
And remember, God made food to sustain us... Not to entertain us. If you're bored - do something... Don't eat something.
6) Drink coke or pop 2 or 3 times per year. Keep a gallon jug of tea in your refrigerator and learn to like it unsweetened. Drink all you want... And then drink some more.
7) If you live in an agricultural area, buy and drink spring water... Especially if you have any cancer in your family history.
8) Stay away from doctors. Aggressive medical care will kill you more often than it will save you - and faster than alcohol and tobacco.
So eat a can of spinach and call me in the morning.
Please feel free to add to my prescription in comments.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
New McCain Ad
Is there a more attractive, compelling, and charismatic political figure than John McCain?
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Conservative and Liberal Judges... And Your "Individual Rights" and "Civil Liberties"
The Supreme Court's decision upholding the Second Amendment right of individuals to own firearms, should finally lay to rest the widespread myth that the defining difference between liberal and conservative justices is that the former support "individual rights" and "civil liberties," while the latter routinely defer to government assertions of authority. The Heller dissent presents the remarkable spectacle of four liberal Supreme Court justices tying themselves into an intellectual knot to narrow the protections the Bill of Rights provides.
Conservative justices... typically vote to limit the government's ability to regulate election-related speech, while liberal justices are willing to uphold virtually any regulation in the name of "campaign finance reform."
Liberals have also been more willing than conservatives to limit the First Amendment's protection of "expressive association." The Court's conservatives held that forcing the Boy Scouts of America to employ a gay scoutmaster violated the Scouts' right to promote its belief in traditional sexual morality. The liberal dissenters thought the government should be allowed to force the Scouts to present a message inconsistent with the Scouts' values.
The Fifth Amendment's protection of property rights presents, if anything, an even starker example of greater commitment to individual rights by the conservative majority. In the infamous Kelo v. New London, the Court's liberal justices, joined by Justice Kennedy, held that the government may take an individual's property and turn it over to a private party for commercial use.
When I was in school I was taught that the Bill of Rights was about my personal rights and freedoms... Not about propping up liberal cultural engineering and big government heavy-handedness.
The Supreme Court's decision upholding the Second Amendment right of individuals to own firearms, should finally lay to rest the widespread myth that the defining difference between liberal and conservative justices is that the former support "individual rights" and "civil liberties," while the latter routinely defer to government assertions of authority. The Heller dissent presents the remarkable spectacle of four liberal Supreme Court justices tying themselves into an intellectual knot to narrow the protections the Bill of Rights provides.
Conservative justices... typically vote to limit the government's ability to regulate election-related speech, while liberal justices are willing to uphold virtually any regulation in the name of "campaign finance reform."
Liberals have also been more willing than conservatives to limit the First Amendment's protection of "expressive association." The Court's conservatives held that forcing the Boy Scouts of America to employ a gay scoutmaster violated the Scouts' right to promote its belief in traditional sexual morality. The liberal dissenters thought the government should be allowed to force the Scouts to present a message inconsistent with the Scouts' values.
The Fifth Amendment's protection of property rights presents, if anything, an even starker example of greater commitment to individual rights by the conservative majority. In the infamous Kelo v. New London, the Court's liberal justices, joined by Justice Kennedy, held that the government may take an individual's property and turn it over to a private party for commercial use.
When I was in school I was taught that the Bill of Rights was about my personal rights and freedoms... Not about propping up liberal cultural engineering and big government heavy-handedness.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Doreen's Hair
Doreen was my college girlfriend, a terrific girl, who finally broke up with me because she figured I wasn't going to marry her... And, almost immediately found my replacement... A guy that worked for her local phone company. My last words to Doreen were long distance when I said, "Oh fine... It's every mother's dream that her daughter marries a doctor, a lawyer, or some guy that works for the phone company!" She laughed out loud... Then she hung up.
Classic.
But back to her hair... This is a story that takes place when I visited her at home in in Maryland and she took me to the National Zoo in Washington D.C.
Doreen was of Swedish descent and she had beautiful, and very thick blond hair... Which was always beaten into submission, and under the strictest control. I don't know how else to explain it.
But the day we visited the zoo was a hot, windy, and very humid day... And her hair went wild! Unshackled and unrestrained, her hair became a beautiful, full, unwieldy, sexy sight... And she looked great!
...to me.
I made a big deal of it and told her how great she looked and she thanked me... And I never saw her hair that way again.
I figure it's like this: A woman doesn't care what a guy likes... At least when it comes to her personal appearance... Especially when it's her hair. A woman knows how she wants to look and it's best if the guy just smiles and goes along...
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