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by rayharvey on September 8, 2009
It seems like a joke, but it’s actually not — or, at any rate, not an intentional one: in his latest propaganda film, Michael Moore is attacking capitalism in the form of a huge and wide-release corporate studio-film, a film for which he’s also serving as the producer.
It’s difficult to know if Michael Moore is actually this ignorant, or if he just thinks his viewers are.
“Capitalism is evil,” says Michael Moore. And by capitalism he means bourgeois socialism, which is also known as crony capitalism.
True capitalism is a social system based upon private ownership of the means of production and the preeminence of the individual over the group. The word capitalism was actually coined by Karl Marx. Marx used it to denigrate private ownership of the means of production and the autonomous workings of the free market.
Capitalism is an entire political theory – not, as is sometimes supposed, merely economic. In this regard – and only in this regard – it is akin to communism.
The exclusively economic component of capitalism may be described as the right to life, liberty, and property applied to commerce and industry.
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 Posted by rayharvey on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 2:43 am
by rayharvey on August 29, 2009
Diane Watson is a racist Congressional Representative from California’s 33rd District, in Los Angeles. Just over a year ago, she chastised Ward Connerly for his having the nerve to wed a white woman.
She’s telling us now that the only opponents of Barack Obama and his move to socialize America are those who object to socialism because, in her words, “[Barack is] the first President who looks like me.”
In the same breath, she sings the praises of Marxist murderer Che Guevara and Marxist murderer Fidel Castro (who ousted Che).
Hear it for yourself:
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Posted by rayharvey on Saturday, August 29th, 2009 at 10:00 am
by rayharvey on August 18, 2009
 Fish It has resurfaced.
And if you smell something fishy in this latest wave of methyl mercury talk, the reason is that there is something fishy in it — very fishy — and it stinks to high heaven. Please don’t be lured in.
Here are the relevant facts:
In this country, there hasn’t been a single scientifically documented case of fish-related mercury poisoning.
The only semi-recent medically documented cases come from Japan in the 1950s and 1960s, and that was right after a massive industrial spill of mercury into their fishing waters. Current mercury levels, in fish and in people, do not approach those mid-century Japanese levels. Not remotely.
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Posted by rayharvey on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 1:43 am
by rayharvey on August 17, 2009
Right now, there are roughly 800,000 physicians in the United States of America.
Approximately 25,000 physicians complete their medical training every year.
To keep abreast of current medical demands, the U.S. each year requires about 30,000 new physicians.
Now take 40 million uninsured and dump them into this system, and do you know what you get?
Rationing.
There’s simply no way around it, all democratic-socialist, welfare-statist, wishful-thinking propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Posted by rayharvey on Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 2:36 am
by rayharvey on August 14, 2009
The following letter is from Doctor Max Stanley Chartrand, of Rye, Colorado. It’s longish, but brilliant (even if I don’t agree with every word of it). Please forward it along:
Dear All:
Recently, some of my letters to the editor in papers across the nation have generated requests from people who want to know what they can do to stop the steamroller juggernaut we call ObamaCare. This is offered in response to them and some of you who may not have requested this information. It is my sincere hope that every thinking, breathing, freedom-loving American will step up the plate on this issue and speak with one voice: This, and any variation of it, is bad medicine for America and we want no part of it.
To give you the background you need to be armed with facts that our legislators say they are too busy to analyze, we’ve highlighted some of the 1,018 pages of the bill. There are entire organizations and think tanks who have analyzed this bill down to the nth degree. Some of the sites featuring there work can be found at www.nationalcenter.org, www.myheritage.org/, and www.freedomfirstsociety.org
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Posted by rayharvey on Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 2:46 am
by rayharvey on August 11, 2009
Here’s a brief breakdown of HR-3200 in its own language. This analysis comes from Professor John David Lewis of Duke University:
1. Will the PLAN ration medical care?
This is what the bill says, pages 284-288, SEC. 1151. REDUCING POTENTIALLY PREVENTABLE HOSPITAL READMISSIONS:
(ii) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN READMISSIONS.—For purposes of clause (i), with respect to a hospital, excess readmissions shall not include readmissions for an applicable condition for which there are fewer than a minimum number (as determined by the Secretary) of discharges for such applicable condition for the applicable period and such hospital. and, under “Definitions”:
‘‘(A) APPLICABLE CONDITION.—The term ‘applicable condition’ means, subject to subparagraph (B), a condition or procedure selected by the Secretary . . .
and:
‘‘(E) READMISSION.—The term ‘readmission’ means, in the case of an individual who is discharged from an applicable hospital, the admission of the individual to the same or another applicable hospital within a time period specified by the Secretary from the date of such discharge.
and:
‘‘(6) LIMITATIONS ON REVIEW.—There shall be no administrative or judicial review under section 1869, section 1878, or otherwise of— . . .
‘‘(C) the measures of readmissions . . .
EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGES:
1. This section amends the Social Security Act
2. The government has the power to determine what constitutes an “applicable [medical] condition.”
3. The government has the power to determine who is allowed readmission into a hospital.
4. This determination will be made by statistics: when enough people have been discharged for the same condition, an individual may be readmitted.
5. This is government rationing, pure, simple, and straight up.
6. There can be no judicial review of decisions made here. The Secretary is above the courts.
7. The plan also allows the government to prohibit hospitals from expanding without federal permission: page 317-318.
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Posted by rayharvey on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 3:26 am
by rayharvey on August 9, 2009
 Economist Paul Krugman On August 6th, 2009, the New York Times published an Op-Ed piece by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, about whom I’ve recently written. In this Op-Ed piece, Paul Krugman postulates that the tea party movement is racially motivated.
Krugman writes:
There’s a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled “Freedom of Speech,” depicting an idealized American town meeting. The painting, part of a series illustrating F.D.R.’s “Four Freedoms,” shows an ordinary citizen expressing an unpopular opinion. His neighbors obviously don’t like what he’s saying, but they’re letting him speak his mind.
That’s a far cry from what has been happening at recent town halls, where angry protesters — some of them, with no apparent sense of irony, shouting “This is America!” — have been drowning out, and in some cases threatening, members of Congress trying to talk about health reform.
Some commentators have tried to play down the mob aspect of these scenes, likening the campaign against health reform to the campaign against Social Security privatization back in 2005. But there’s no comparison. I’ve gone through many news reports from 2005, and while anti-privatization activists were sometimes raucous and rude, I can’t find any examples of congressmen shouted down, congressmen hanged in effigy, congressmen surrounded and followed by taunting crowds.
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Posted by rayharvey on Sunday, August 9th, 2009 at 2:14 am
by rayharvey on August 4, 2009
What is now termed modern medicine actually began in the early 1920s when science — in particular, germ theory — culminated to a point that sickness and disease were at last being treated reliably. It was then that doctors and hospitals got much better at the business of saving lives. This more highly developed service and expertise raised the value of their work, and they charged accordingly for their increased skill and labor.
That’s when the situation started: for when lives can be saved and health can be gained because of developments in technology, everyone suddenly believes that it’s their right to have that thing. We see the same principle at work in, for example, the platitude “No one should go hungry when Americans are throwing away food.”
The error in both cases is the fraudulent notion that survival should be assured. This notion neglects the singular fact that abundance and technology are produced — and produced, moreover, by individuals.
No one has the right to the life and labor (i.e. production) of any individual, including the life and labor of doctors.
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Posted by rayharvey on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 3:51 am
by rayharvey on August 1, 2009
Before the Great Depression of the 1930’s and 1940’s, there were a number of depressions and recessions in this country, the two most notable being the Panic of 1819 and the depression of 1837.
In every instance prior to the Great Depression, the government policy was a policy of hands-off.
Which was exactly as it should have been, since depressions are not caused by the private sector but by government interference in the marketplace, and only that.
What were the results of these hands-off policies prior to the Great Depression?
Answer: a drastic reduction in the amount of time the depression lasted.
Let us reiterate and emphasize that the only way to create wealth and jobs is through production.
That is why capitalism, true laissez-faire capitalism, is the only possible way to end an economic depression or recession.
Government spending will always compound problems. Why? Because government can only obtain money by taxing or borrowing or printing.
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Posted by rayharvey on Saturday, August 1st, 2009 at 8:57 pm
by rayharvey on July 25, 2009
According to the Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Department, between 1988 and 1991, Barack Obama received 17 parking tickets, only two of which did he pay during his time there as a law student.
According to Susan Clippinger, the office’s director, Barack Obama didn’t pay the other fifteen tickets until decades later, two weeks prior to launching his presidential campaign.
In January of 2009, the Boston Globe started asking around about Obama’s time at Harvard. Among their questions were questions concerning any possible law violations. At that same time, not coincidentally, someone who was representing Barack Obama called the parking office and inquired into his old unpaid tickets.
“On January 26, the remaining $375 in fines and fees were paid by credit card using the city’s website,” Susan Clippinger said.
Ms. Clippinger also said that she didn’t know precisely who paid them, and then added: “I just think it’s fabulous he finally paid them. I think others who owe us money should pay us, too.”
So do I, Susan. So do I.
From the Boston Globe:
Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign, said last night that the senator paid for the tickets out of a personal account.
She would not comment on why it had taken him so long to pay the tickets and fees. “All I can do is confirm that he paid all the tickets and late fees in full,” she said.
Clippinger said her records show that Obama received the tickets between Oct. 5, 1988, and January 12, 1990, for violations including parking in a resident-only area, blocking a bus stop, and failing to put money in meters.
He received most of the tickets in fall 1988, in his first year at Harvard Law School, a grueling trial for many of the students. A meter violation then cost only $5; the penalty for not paying promptly tacked on another $15. At times, he received multiple tickets in the same day for exceeding the time limit at a meter.
In total, he incurred $140 in fines and $260 in late fees. In February 1990, he paid two of the tickets, one for $10 and the other for $15.
“He’s certainly not our worst ticket scofflaw,” Clippinger said. “Unfortunately, it’s not that abnormal. It’s actually pretty run of the mill.”
Obama’s payment of the Cambridge tickets was reported yesterday by The Somerville News.
The Globe reported in January that in Somerville, where Obama lived while attending Harvard, the senator still owed the city $73 in excise taxes and $45 in late penalties for parking in a bus stop in 1990 and in a street-sweeping zone in 1991. Both of the tickets had been paid.
Tom Champion, a spokesman for the city of Somerville, said he called Obama’s office after receiving a query about the late fees from the Globe in late January.
By the next Monday, January 29, he said, the penalties were paid.
“He had no idea he had outstanding charges,” Champion said. “The Globe, by raising the issue, called it to his attention, and then he paid them immediately” (source).
Ray also heads up the Tea Party of Northern Colorado, where the rubber meets the road. If you have any doubt about that, drop on by.
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Posted by rayharvey on Saturday, July 25th, 2009 at 2:48 am
by rayharvey on July 23, 2009
Two days ago, on July 20th (2009), Barack Obama met with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin in the Oval Office.
Among a number of other phony things, Obama said the following:
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Posted by rayharvey on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 3:35 am
by rayharvey on July 21, 2009
Only Barack evidently doesn’t know it. Quoting his own words:
Obama, June 11: “And so what you’ve got is a situation where, for example, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is famous for some of the best quality and some of the lowest cost. People are healthier coming out of there, they do great.”
Obama, June 24: “Well, I think what’s important is to say to the American People that you should get the best possible care to make you well. And that the measure of the quality of care is not quantity, but whether or not it is making you better. Now, what we’ve seen is that there’s some communities and some health systems that do this very well. Mayo Clinic, a classic example. In Rochester, Minnesota. People go there. They– spend about 20-30 percent less than some other parts of the country, and yet have better outcomes.”
Obama, July 1: “There are some places, like the Mayo Clinic — many of you have heard of — provides outstanding care, some of the best in the world. People fly in from everywhere to go to Mayo Clinic to get treatment. It turns out Mayo provides care much more cheaply than a lot of other health systems, even though it’s better care.”
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Posted by rayharvey on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 11:35 am
by rayharvey on July 19, 2009
 In February of 2009, Barack Obama and his administration told us that the $787 billion Recovery Plan had to be rushed through Congress so that unemployment would not rise above 8 percent.
On July 2nd, 2009, the Labor Department released statistics which showed that the United States unemployment rate had soared to a new high of 9.5 percent.
On July 5th, 2009, Joe Biden said that Obama and his administration had “misread how bad the economy was.” Days later, when asked about this, Obama said it wasn’t a misreading but “a lack of information” from the early weeks of his presidency.
He is wrong. It was no misread. It was sheer unadulterated ignorance.
On July 7th, 2009, Vice President Joe Biden, speaking in Cincinnati to a crowd of protesters, implored the patience of that angry crowd:
“Remember,” Biden said, “we’re only 140 days into this deal. It’s supposed to take 18 months.”
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Posted by rayharvey on Sunday, July 19th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
by rayharvey on July 17, 2009
 Lt. Colonel David A. Earl-Graef USAFR MC The following letter was written by Lt. Colonel David A. Earl-Graef USAFR MC to the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates:
Dear Honorable Robert M. Gates,
Enough is enough! You must be aware at this point of the tempest brewing among the Rank and File. I am writing you in an effort to appeal to your sense of concern for the Military; a concern we share not only for the Military as a whole but for each and every individual who wears the Uniform in the Service of our Country. I am in this regard specifically asking you for your help. I implore you to not wait until the “pot boils over” and we find ourselves in total disarray.
I am convinced, beyond any doubt, that the moral well being and efficiency of our fighting forces to defend our Country is soon to be hanging in a precarious balance if not already. In my humble estimation this is NOT a theoretical possibility to construct a thesis or a contingency plan about. It is a reality and is happening right now. Resolution of this issue must be accomplished in the most expeditious manner available at your disposal to gain immediate relief to those of us who are struggling to fully comply with our sworn Oath to the Constitution while being conflicted by questions relating to the qualifications of the POTUS to hold the office in full and absolute compliance with the Natural Born Citizen Clause.
Regardless of differences in the color of our uniforms, the color of our skin, religion or gender WE are Brothers and Sisters in Arms and our family is being torn apart. Are you not looking and listening to what is happening around you? How can anyone of good conscious stand by and let this happen to us? I for one cannot! You must care enough to intercede to stop this. Is this not within your power to do so? Why have you not acted already? What is it that you are waiting for?
If you have any doubts of what I am saying is true you need look no further than the comments made on the Military.com site regarding the actions of Lt. Scott Easterling who in my opinion is an absolutely courageous young Army Officer. Irrespective of your personal opinion of his actions, one thing is abundantly clear; the horrible, hateful and demeaning things that were being said about him and one to the other among my Brothers and Sisters in Arms were things that I have NEVER experienced in ALL my years of military service. It is no less than gut retching to see this happening. The wounds that are being inflicted will NOT be healed by any Medicine I have at my disposal. There is nothing I learned in Medical School or in my training as a Flight Surgeon that can fix this; save the absolute power of Truth. The POTUS must stop concealing the documents once and for all and the issue of his qualifications must be addressed. Make no mistake; any adverse consequences to the troops as a result of your failure to act responsibly will be in large part directly on your head.
Have you considered the legal ramifications for our fighting forces if for any reason the POTUS is not qualified. Are they in Iraq illegally? If so does this make them terrorists under International law as the Islamic radical elements have been calling them? Have they given up their Geneva protections and do not even know this? If so when captured can they be killed or tortured without International legal ramifications? Have they been stripped of the legal protections by the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief act? Are you willing to allow this risk to them when they are fighting for us?
Once again I find myself at a loss of words to try to explain the abject and total dismay I have at the administration to include the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to allow the painful division now occurring in our military to proceed unabated. I hope that do not need to remind you that you as well took an Oath to support and defend the Constitution. As a point of honor you are either willing to do this or you are not. If you are not then preserve your honor, resign and let someone who cares more about us than that do what is right.
I again respectfully implore you to act within your powers and help us. It is absolutely true and is my Prayer to my Creator to allow me to suffer the slings and arrows of being thought a fool rather than to have my convictions realized that persons of responsibility have allowed through negligence to have the Office of the President of the United States to be USURPED; it is self evident however, that whatever the outcome we must know the truth.
V/R
Lt Col David A. Earl-Graef USAFR MC
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Posted by rayharvey on Friday, July 17th, 2009 at 1:20 am
by rayharvey on July 16, 2009
America’s putatively high infant mortality rates are (along with life expectancies) among the most trumpeted healthcare canards going. The purpose is to try to convince you that American medicine is not actually the best medicine in the world but would only be such if the healthcare system in America were nationalized — a move, incidentally, from which America as we know her would almost certainly never recover.
Without a proper context, the statistics on infant mortality, with all their devilish intricacies, are, to say the least, misleading. Quoting Doctor Robert J. Cihak (M.D.), a Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Discovery Institute and past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons:
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Posted by rayharvey on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 12:37 am
by rayharvey on July 12, 2009
In light of Barack Obama’s disastrous decision recently to release five Islamic terror-masters — one of whom, a leader of the Iran-backed Asaib al-Haq terror network in Iraq, is a jihadist responsible for the 2007 murders of five American troops in Karbala — it seems well worth pointing out, for those who still don’t know, that there are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world today. Of those, a conservatively estimated 10 to 15 percent are radical Muslims, or Muslim extremists, who regard the United States as the Great Satan — by which is meant: the United States should be expunged from the face of the earth, and the Koran should replace our Constitution.
To spare you the math, 15 percent of 1.2 billion is 180 million. That means there are more Muslim extremists in the world than there are people in all of America’s fifty biggest cities combined.
These Muslims are spread everywhere across the globe.
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Posted by rayharvey on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
by rayharvey on June 29, 2009
The Greek word skopein – from which the English word scope derives – means “to observe, aim at, examine.” It is related to the Greek skeptesthai, which means “to look out.” Skepsis and skeptikos are also both Greek and mean “to look; to enquire; to aim.” Those are the etymological roots of the word sceptic.
Sceptic – or if you’re in the United States, skeptic, the difference purely one of form and not substance – has its origins in the Ancient Greek thinkers who developed arguments which purport to show that knowledge is either impossible (Academic Scepticism) or that there is never sufficient data to tell if knowledge is possible (Pyrrhonian Scepticism).
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Posted by rayharvey on Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
by rayharvey on June 21, 2009
 WAL-MART: THE MOBY DICK OF AMERICAN CORPORATIONS Over the years, Wal-Mart has been described to me as a number of different things, none of them very flattering.
For example, I’ve been told that Wal-Mart is “evil.” It is “anti-American.” It is “nightmarish”; “hellish”; “white-trash heaven” — this latter thing explaining, perhaps, why I fit right in there.
Here, though, are the real facts:
Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day at Wal-Mart. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute.
Wal-Mart will sell more From January 1st to St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
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Posted by rayharvey on Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 7:11 pm
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