MORNING INTELL: Mumbai Madness and Rosie O's Turkey

BLOGOSPHERE NEWS:
November 28 2008



THE SCOOP:
* USA Blamed for Mumbai Attacks
* Sharia Law in the USA
* Obama Two-Fer
* Why the MSM is Palin-Obsessive
* Financial Crisis Solution?
* 'The Most Dangerous Woman in the World'
* Rosie O'Donnell's Turkey

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1. MURDER in MUMBAI: Five hostages killed in Jewish center, chaos at hotel
   
   
2. The CLUB of TWO: Deepak Chopra Blames Washington For Mumbai Terrorist Attacks ...Update: Iran Agrees
   
   
3. ONE OBAMANATION UNDER GOD: Since DBKP's participating in the traditional press honeymoon (for another day or two weeks or whatever) with the new president-elect, the term "megalomaniac" will not be employed to describe the following remark by BHO to Barbara Walters.
   
   “This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for. I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
   [From You lucky bastards have now me to inspire you!]
   
   
4. TWO-FER: 1) To ensure that those who do not have (or may choose not to buy) health care, where's the best place to look for "change"? How about all those other socialized health care systems that make Europe--and now Australia--look like third-world countries! Obamacare 2) Obamessage makes one give thanks the day after Thanksgiving--that we bought a skid of No-Doze two years ago from Sam's Club.
   
   
5. MySharia: The first billboard warning of Sharia Law has been seen in America: Campaign warns Americans about looming Shariah code. It appears there's more wrong with the Motor City than the murders, corruption, the Lions and the failing Big Three automakers.
   
   
6. Like the vidoe game, Doom; like the movie Underworld with scarier characters: Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, The Global New Left, and Radical Islam
   "The West is also threatened by a fifth column of global, radical Leftists with ideological connections to Russia and the theo-political-legal ideology of radical Islam."

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QUICK HITTERS

• MEMO TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO WANT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO TAKE OVER HEALTH CARE, BANKS and the AUTO MAKERS: Stop and Think.
  
  
• KILLER, NO FILLER: Peggy Noonan: The media wants to make Palin the face of the GOP. At least it's the rare face without Botox.
  
  
• STEP RIGHT UP: Let's say you are the biggest economy on Earth--and let's say you are going through a financial crisis. What's a super-power to do? Borrow. Spend. Panic. Repeat.

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SEE ALL, KNOW ALL



* BRAG TIME: Shortly after 7 pm on Thanksgiving day, November 28 2008, DBKP.com got it's 1,000,000th visitor to our new site (http://deathby1000papercuts.com). THANKS go out to readers!

1. CLINTON PROBLEM SOLVED?: Arguments abound over whether it's a good move or a bad move for Obama to name Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.
   

   Sorry, I'm not buying it. It seems simple to me: She can't do him much damage from the Senate, where she doesn't rank. She can do him a lot of damage through self-interested leaking from the State Department. (Here's Exhibit Z, if you needed it, from Elizabeth Drew.) If he fires her she can then run against him and make more trouble.

   
   Mickey Kaus says, "Gird Your Loins".
   
   
2. ISRAEL-PALESTINE: Is there a MSM news bias for one side over the other? None Dare Call it News Coverage. Is Bill Gates a geek?
   
   
3. COLD CRUNCHY CREDIT GOODNESS: Iceland: They're Not Gonna Take It The good people of Iceland are ready to rumble--or riot.
   
   
4. SO MANY CHOICES: If you're Paul Volcker, which would you rather do: let people keep more of the money they earn (tax cuts) OR move closer to a Soviet-style economy (take the money from people, recycle it through the Federal government bureaucracy, then send a portion of it back to the peasants)? Kudlow on Mundell

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MEATY LINK FUNK GOODNESS

• Blanca takes a break--and then returned: The Bitch is Back. Batteries not included.
  
• Who is 'The Most Dangerous Woman in the World'? The Germans know.
  
• A PRE-THANKSGIVING TURKEY: NBC's Rosie O’Donnell variety show disappoints
  

  "There's a notion that the climate is right for the genre to make a comeback," emailed one executive at a rival network. "I guess we now know what not to do, thanks to Rosie."

  
  
• From the U.K. comes a universal quesiton: Whatever Happened to the Idea of an Honest Days Pay for an Honest Days Work?
• Plucky David vs. Googliath story: "SANDBOXED"/ BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE
• ONE SCRIBE'S PLEE: Stop Challenging Obama's Birth Certificate, okay? The writer's picture indicates that he probably was too young four years ago to advise readers on the Dan Rathergate memo.

by Mondo Frazier
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EU Healthcare: Bringing the US Care as Good as Any Third World Country

A 2-Pack of 3-Wood






Van Halen: Somebody Get Me a Doctor
US Festival, 1983

Shalom, Feral Nation!

Today's topic is the EU healthcare-o-rama and why you should care.


I strongly advise that voters in the US pay careful attention to what is going on with the socialized medical care system in the EU, cause that is very likely what you will get if Obama ends up in the White House.


Therefore, the latest in the EU is this:
In an effort to shift around the service delivery problems inherent in a socialized medical care delivery system, the EU is now going to allow medical care tourism.

EU plans cross border healthcare

"The European Commission is poised to unveil a healthcare package that could give patients new rights to seek medical treatment elsewhere in the EU.

Patients would not have to get their doctor's approval for non-hospital care abroad, officials are quoted as saying."

Bottom line is, if the que by you is too long, you can go elsewhere for treatment. Of course, the real issue boils down to payment.

"Only costs similar to those in a patient's home state would be covered. About 1% of operations performed in the EU involve people from other countries.

Non-hospital care would be reimbursed by the home state up to the level the patient could expect at home, according to reports.

But the state would not reimburse expensive treatment received abroad that was unavailable in the patient's home country."

So what you will have is people shifting to service delivery areas that run more efficiently and probably overwhelming it. Then when the service delivery site goes to get paid the problems will occur. I expect that the service delivery site will either get stiffed and eventually cut services offered or will go after the patient for the difference.

Again, keep an eye on this situation folks, this is what many politicians have in mind for the US.

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MORE 3-wood? Try these on for size: * 3 Wood: Indonesia's Sharia Compliant Banking AT DBKP.com: * U..S. Economy: Housing Starts, Construction UP * Mainstream Media: Good U.S. Economic News Drives Them Up the Wall

by 3-wood
Source: EU Healthcare-O-Rama
images: Outraged Spleen of Zion

Children's Health Care & The Veto Showdown: Recalling When Workers Took Home 98% of their Paycheck

FDA concerned?
With adults making up half the insured in some states,
Truth in Labeling laws are being violated.
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"You may remember that we tried to do that [pass her health care bill] in 1993 and 1994. We weren't totally successful, but I did not give up." --Hillary Clinton

by Mondoreb

As recently as 1962, the average American received 98% of his paycheck. Only 2% was taken out in various taxes, fees, charges and whatnot. There would be a lot of stunned American workers if they opened their paychecks and found that they had gotten 98% of what they had earned.

A showdown over SCHIP and no end in sight to what the bill is or would do. One thing is for sure: it would make it harder than ever for workers to receive more on their paychecks.

From CNN:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Congress and President Bush are headed to a showdown with no sign of compromise on a popular children's health care bill.

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to override Bush's veto of a plan expanding the state-run Children's Health Insurance Program.

Though Democrats have pounded Republicans over the issue for two weeks, House GOP leaders predict they will have the votes needed to uphold the veto.

But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Wednesday, "We are still in this fight."

Harry Reid was answering questions about whether a deal might be reached on the bill, but he just as may have been answering questions on whether American workers might be able to keep more of their hard-earned wages.

"No. No. No," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said this week when asked if he was open to a deal on the measure that would provide $35 billion for children's health care.

Even though the bill was dressed up in the usual kids' clothing that Democrats have found so appealing, Americans are getting harder to fool. Perhaps it's because they remember that quote from Hillary Clinton on the piecemeal expansion of government.

Maybe even some still dream of those not-so-long ago days of the 98% paycheck.

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Graeme Frost, HillaryCare, and "Meanies":Questions & Super Bugs in the System

[graphic:RidesAPaleHorse]
"You may remember that we tried to do that [pass her health care bill] in 1993 and 1994. We weren't totally successful, but I did not give up."

by Mondoreb

The headline didn't have the sensationalist bite that "Brain-Eating Microbes Kill Boy in Arizona Lake", but it did catch my attention.

Super Bug Kills 90 in UK

From CNN:
LONDON-- Nurses who didn't wash their hands and left patients lying in soiled beds were cited in an official report blaming mismanagement for the deaths of 90 people who contracted a bacterial infection in hospitals in southern England.

"Significant failings" at all levels contributed to infections of more than 1,000 patients at three hospitals, the Healthcare Commission said Thursday.

The patients were infected with Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, which can cause diarrhea, colitis and other intestinal problems, officials said.

"The Healthcare Commission has passed the copy of the report to us and that is being reviewed," said a spokesman for Kent Police, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with force policy.

One notices the "Healthcare Commission", is a government entity in the U.K. charged with providing Britons with the English version of HillaryCare. While reading the story, a question arises: Why would trial lawyers support socialized medicine? One of the plaintiffs' bar's most lucrative scams is endlessly suing members of the medical profession over every unfortunate outcome even slightly connected with medicine.

Socialized medicine will substitute Il Duce Hillary for Doc Jones. When Clostridium difficile strikes in the U.S., where will the loved ones of the deceased turn for succor under HillaryCare 2.0? Trial lawyers won't be able to pay their 'faux-expert witnesses' on what they'll make attempting to sue the United States government. No answer quickly came to mind as to why the ambulance-chasing community would continue to write checks to a candidate taking the food off their table.

Back to Super Bug:

The report into the spread of the highly contagious bacterium said nurses at three hospitals run by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust were often too busy to wash their hands and left patients in their own excrement.

In recent years, Britain's superbug infection rates of bacteria like Clostridium difficile and MRSA have skyrocketed. In the 1990s, only five percent of in-hospital blood infections were from MRSA, the deadly bacteria resistant to nearly every available antibiotic. In past years, that figure has jumped to more than 40 percent.

A single snapshot from the European system that HillaryCare, EdwardsCare and other Democrat socialized health care schemes would have Americans believe is the latest ticket to a Socialist Workers Party paradise. And to any who offer evidence that government is not a solution here: the same dreary, droning chorus about how such evidence is the product of malevolence personified. Scratch the surface of any person questioning Dem poster child, Graeme Frost, and you'll find a--what? Another question?
Scratch the surface and perhaps you'll find Michelle Malkin:

To review quickly: We are now “meanies,” “hypocrites,” “slimers,” and “mobsters” for challenging the wisdom of taking money away from taxpayers of lesser means who are responsible enough to buy insurance before a catastrophic event in order to subsidize two-property, three-car families with four children in private schools and two parents who work “intermittently” and “part-time” who didn’t have the foresight or priorities to purchase insurance before a tragic auto accident.

Malkin couldn't possibly differ philosophically with the goose-stepping, "it's-my-right" hordes of lazy-thinking HillaryCare toadies. There are no questions here to be answered. One advantage of voting Democrat is that all your thinking is done for you: reduced into easily-remembered sound bites for the mainstream media. When you have the Left writing the rebuttal to any argument in American politics today, the script leans heavily on invective, inventive and otherwise.

Ultimately, it boils down to that same old questions, "Can the federal government run my life better than I can?" and "Why does anyone think that a government that has trouble delivering Uncle Frank's birthday card can deliver Uncle Frank's kidney operation?" As Mark Steyn put it:

Ultimately it's a reductive notion of liberty to say a free-born citizen can choose his own breakfast cereal and DVD rentals and cable package and, in the case of the Frosts, three premium vehicles, but demand the government take responsibility for all the grown-up stuff.

This week, stories of Super Bugs, trial lawyers, Graeme Frost, and left wing pejoratives provoked questions. But all one heard in the mainstream press was the music of the merrily-marching minions of socialized HillaryCare and its clones.

Don't look here for answers to those questions: a college football game beckons this afternoon and pigskins, not polemics, will be the main concern. No answers, but two more quotations will join the quote opening this post. One, by Hillary Clinton, is about how politics works. The other, by Tennessee Williams, is about how magic works.
Read them both and the reader may arrive at his own answers.

"The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."

"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. [A stage magician] gives us illusion that has the appearance of truth."

[HillarySlash graphic:Salon]
Hillary quotes & more here.
Tennessee Williams quote
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HILLARYCARE 2.0-More Government -More of the Time More Stealthy than Ever!

by Mondoreb

The latest edition of "HillaryCare" is not the full-facial frontal blast that her last attempt was. This is a more sneaky version, hoping to snare more of the unaware.

Last time, Hillary went for the whole enchilada, for a "radical overhaul". This time it is different.

This time, Hillary is going for the usual "Government squeeze". The 'Little at a time', "this won't hurt a bit" approach. Let's just nationalize the parts we have now, only when they're looking the other way.

The Hill says the plan is "sparking a fenzy of action". But that's because the publication covers Washington; any suggestion of more government regulation, and Washington reacts like a teen-age boy with two dates on Prom Night.
That kind of frenzy.
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Daily Cox & Forkum: HillaryCare Back from the Grave

Cox & Forkum

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HILLARYCARE PART DEAUX: Lots of Choices-- And No Choice Whatsoever

by Little Baby Ginn

It’s deja-vu! If you guys remember, I, Little Baby Ginn, had a chance to do a mock interview with Johnny Edwards and his “plan” for American’s healthcare. One word summed it up: MANDATORY.

Today Hillary has released her version. If elected she will unleash it on Americans. One word summary: MANDATORY.

The proposal, Clinton's first major effort to achieve universal health coverage since an ill-fated 1994 plan, carries a price tag of about $110 billion per year. The centerpiece of her "American Health Choices Plan" is an "individual mandate" requiring everyone to have health insurance -- just as most states require drivers to purchase auto insurance.

Sweet! Everyone will be required to have health insurance. Except… you know… the other estimated 13 plus million illegal aliens who reside here. They don’t have to have driver’s licenses either. But I digress.

Here is Clinton’s spin on her “plan.”

“It puts the consumer in the driver's seat by offering more choices and lowering costs," said Neera Tanden, Clinton's top policy adviser.
"If you like the plan you have, you keep it. If you're one of tens of millions of Americans without coverage or don't like the coverage you have, you will have a choice of plans to pick from and you'll get tax credits to help pay for it."

We will have “more choices”. Hoorah! If we don’t have coverage we will have a “choice of plans to pick from.” Awesome! Plus we’ll get tax credits to help pay for it. Wow! Sounds terrific!

She’s worked out all the details. Everyone will be covered! Well, maybe not everyone. I doubt the millions of illegals will be covered but then… they already are covered… by the largesse of the American taxpayers. Who, get this, if Hillary is elected, will be mandated… which means… you will have NO CHOICE but to obey. Or else. What the “or else” is I have no idea cause well, nobody’s saying.

See, in Hillary’s world, everyone will run out and get the health insurance. In my world, it won’t happen. Some of us out here have an aversion to our government running our lives. Some of us feel we are adults and that the government is actually there to serve us especially those of us who pay the bulk of the taxes in order to support our government.

What do you suppose will happen if you do not get the health coverage mandated by Hillary and the Dems? Hillary says she will help you out with tax cuts… sweet… enough to cover the cost of the insurance? I really doubt it. Don’t you? We are mandated to pay taxes. We are mandated to have driver’s licenses and car insurance. Now we will be mandated to have health insurance. Can everyone afford it especially those living paycheck to paycheck?

We’ll be paying for the new government bureaucracy set up to run this “plan.”
But what about those who choose not to get it? Mandatory means no “choice.” Hillary says her plan is full of choices; everyone will have a choice. But the biggest “choice” of all, the one where we get to decide if we want to participate in her plan--it’s been taken away.

By Hillary.


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RED PLANET REMINDS US: Note to the Democrats-Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!

Reprinted from Red Planet's excellent presentation:

“I’ll tell you what your rights are. You have a right to live free, and to the results of your labor. I’ll also tell you that you have no right to any portion of the life or labor of another.

“You may, for instance, think that you have a right to health care. After all, Hillary said so, didn’t she? But you cannot receive health care unless some doctor or health practitioner surrenders some of his time - his life - to you. He may be willing to do this for compensation, but that’s his choice. You have no “right” to his time or property.” -Neal Boortz, from his famous undelivered commencement speech.

Do you have a “right” to something which someone else must provide?

From Capitalism Magazine, Dr. Walter Wlliams, Rights vs. Wishes

As human beings, we all have certain unalienable rights. Of the rights we possess, we have a right to delegate to government. For example, we all have a right to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate it to government. In other words, we can say to government, “We have the right to defend ourselves, but for a more orderly society, we give you the authority to defend us.”

By contrast, I don’t possess the right to take your earnings for any reason. Since I have no such right, I cannot delegate it to government. If I did take your earnings for housing and medical services, it would rightfully be described as an act of theft. When government does it, it’s still theft — the only difference is that it’s legalized theft sanctioned by a majority vote.

Decent housing, good medical care and decent jobs are not rights at all, at least not in a free society — they’re wishes.

David Kelley of the Objectivist Center.

Health care does not grow on trees or fall from the sky. The assertion of a right to medical care does not guarantee that there is going to be any health care to distribute. The partisans of these rights demand, with air of moral righteousness, that everyone have access to this good. But a demand does not create anything. Health care has to be produced by someone, and paid for by someone.

Artist’s note: The role of the democrat party during the American War Between the States seems to be disappearing from many history books these days. Make up your own mind as to why, but every once in a while a reminder is needed.

For more on congressman Clement Vallandigham (D, Ohio), visit this page.

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American vs. Euro Health Care: GERMAN MAN LOSES SKULL BUT WINS COURT CASE

by MONDOREB

MEMO
COPIES TO:
All Democratic shills for socialized health care;
All the props at Dem Debates, whining that "nobody takes care of me";
All in Congress laboring for expanding the government's role via SCHIP.

Please refer to the following story.

A German court awarded a man 3,000 euros ($4,100) after he lost the top half of his skull because of faulty hospital equipment. The man’s skull had to be replaced with plastic because the cold storage where doctors placed the top of his head during surgery turned out to be defective.

Since the head was not kept cool enough by the faulty fridge, it could not be reattached. The man now has a plastic prosthetic skull.

He sought compensation of 20,000 euros on the grounds that the prosthesis gave him headaches, adversely affected his balance and made him extra-sensitive to the weather.

This is a perfect modern fairy tale about socialized medicine that you won't see in a Michael Moore movie. It's one reason that Canadians flock to the U.S. for many surgical procedures.

Those on the Left will complain that this is a "cherry-picked" moment: and so it is. Just as Democrats cherry-pick those poor souls who have been "left behind by the American health care system". They are the exceptions, yet they get their 15 minutes of fame carping about the injustice of it all.

The next time you see a Democratic candidate on television shilling for more government control of our health care sector, remember the story of the poor German guy. They lost the top of his head, and he got 3000 Euros. Lose your skull, collect $4100. Maybe a good deal, maybe not. Just a reminder that the battlecry of those fighting against the socialization of American health care could be:
"Dude, give me back my head!"

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