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Death Panels – Who is Next?

Even with massive deductibles almost half of the Obamacare exchanges have failed.  As United Health Care has reported almost a billion dollars of loss in the last two years, they are pulling out of most states next year.  Add this information to the already plentiful signs that Obamacare is imploding and you have a picture that represents the future of government run healthcare in the U.S.

There are two fixes.   Return the majority of healthcare services to the private sector without the expanded bankrupting provisions of Obamacare, or continue to let the government manage healthcare services.

Given how the poor have been actually cared for under Obamacare ($5000 deductible) we have added huge financial burdens they would not have had under the prior system.  Many had low deductible health insurance that got destroyed by government intervention.  Even ER visits which were never collected on are now managed by the government.   The picture of continued government run healthcare looks like this:

Massive shortages of medications.

Cut off of care for the elderly as they are not considered “contributing” members of society.

Limits on cancer care.

Reduced research and development.

More death people, sooner.

Who decides?

Like the IRS scandal.  The government will target its enemies to withhold care.  Already a microcosm of this occurs with the VA care.  Those who speak up may never see someone. What do you think those waiting lists really were.  The government, with well meaning policies has destroyed healthcare in this country.  The suffering will increase each year if the government is allowed to continue to control the 6th of the American economy.

Hold Your Pee, the New Target Superstore

Target, the massive department store chain that claims to want your shopping experience to be enjoyable and exciting, has now made sure that it is exciting.  This is especially true if you are a female.   Now, any guy that says they feel like a woman can hang out in Target store bathrooms.  The man who assaulted women in San Diego Big Lots would be allowed into the women’s bathrooms at Target without his even donning a Barbie outfit.  Just saying you feel like a women now opens the door to any Target women’s restroom.

In an effort to be “inclusive” Target has said that you can use the restroom for the sex with which you identify.  Men that feel like women can go into the women’s bathroom.  Just think how many curious teenage boys could use this to become voyeurs.  They just felt like women that day.  The reverse is true as well, women that feel like men can go into the men’s restroom.  It too opens the door for problems.

If we lived in a world where everyone told the truth and where there were no predators this might not be so bad.  That is not reality.  There are predators and there is evil.  Target has just made it easier for evil to prevail.

If you are a daughter,  grand daughter, wife, mother or single woman I would highly encourage not going to Target,  or if you do, making sure you do not use the restroom.  If you do not mind sharing your restroom with men, go ahead and go to Target.  Of course,  you could just go to Target and hold it.    Just don’t drink too much water first.

 

 

I Want A Helicopter

Last year after a knock down drag out fight with his now ex wife, Governor Robert Bentley stormed out of the house without his wallet.  He stormed all the way to his beach house on the Gulf.     Next, realizing he had left his wallet back in Montgomery his did the only thing possible.  He had Alabama Law Enforcement bring him the missing wallet by helicopter.  heli

Remember when he ran for governor the first time,  he was going to work for a dollar until Alabama had more jobs.  He was a faithful Christian.  He was just like us, a normal hard working physician just wanting to help his state.  Doesn’t everyone want to be that normal?  Doesn’t everyone rip off the state for millions while having an affair.  Of course we all have helicopters available to deliver lost wallets, keys, groceries on demand.

As a taxpayer of Alabama I demand my own helicopter!

Rodents and Quiet Time

James Winslett loved the few minutes of peace he got each morning as he enjoyed his coffee and watched 20 to 30 minutes of news before taking a shower.  Those few minutes were his morning meditation and quiet time.   It was a time when neither of the dogs, his wife nor his son were awake.  It was just him, a cup of coffee and local news.den

His house was split level, that is one of those houses where almost as soon as you enter the foyer you are faced with a decision, go strait to the main level, go up to the third floor and the hall with the bedrooms or go down into the den.  The den in  his house was carpeted and paneled with the TV mounted in front of a very worn and comfortable couch. Peaceful would best describe it.

Today however, as James watched Matt Lauer drone on about some global warming theory James saw, out of the corner of his eye a wisp of a gray thing going around the corner where the stairs headed up to the foyer.   For a moment he thought it was a shadow, a trick of his sleep filled eyes.  Still, curiosity got the best of him so he followed it. Running to the stairs then around the corner he saw that same  gray unidentified wisp turning to go to the next level.  Whatever it was,  it had reached the 3rd floor.  As he topped the 3rd floor stairwell and looked down the hall and saw the tail go into his son’s room.

At this point James knew  3   things.  First, the tail was real, it was a squirrel.  Secondly, it was in his sleeping 4 year old son’s room.  Third, that a good number of wild squirrels carry rabies or other diseases.  It was that third thing that moved James from sleepy eyed stupor and curious to hero father mode.  Sprinting down the hall and into his son’s room he scooped up the sleeping boy in one arm and carried him out the door, while shutting the door to prevent the escape of the vicious disease ridden creature.   squirrel

He deposited the now confused and sleepy child in his bedroom and started on a plan.  Going downstairs into the garage he found just the right tools.  He picked up  a 6 by 9 inch Tupperware container and thick work gloves.  In his mind he had decided to trap the creature under the Tupperware, put something under it and carry it squirrel back outside where it could live happily ever after while not endangering more children.

He got one of his dogs, the 70 lb white German Sheppard, Klink, named after the  Colonel from Hogan’s heroes. (And about that smart.)   The goal was to have Klink flush out the squirrel, then fast as he could, capture it with the Tupperware.  If things went south, he had the thick work gloves to keep himself from being bitten.  Things did not quite go as planned.

Klink did his part.  He barked and scared the squirrel out from under the bed, then out from under the desk.  That is when the squirrel made a mad dash across the open floor.  There was no where to hide.  James took that Tupperware  container and slammed it down.  The squirrel was lightening fast.  Strike and miss!

By now Klink was fully on duty and once again the squirrel made a mad dash across the open space.  This time James was ready.  BLAM!!! The container slammed down onto the floor catching the squirrel.  Actually, it had only caught the back end of beast.  James’ first instinct was to hold the creature there and push him back under the container with his gloved hand.  Sadly,  there was no need.  The Tupperware had been lethal.  James’ catch and release program had turned into an impromptu squirrel memorial service.  He carried the carcass outside, said a few words and returned it to the thickets from whence it most likely originated.

I am sure there a many lessons to be learned from this.  Best laid plans, how not to use quiet time, etc.  It has been over ten years so I think PETA will no longer be able to come after James for animal cruelty.  Actually, it was quick so the squirrel did not suffer. No complaint was filed.  In the end one child was saved from having rabies and the dog got some exercise.  So it was a good day for mankind. Less so for squirrel kind.

 

Is Your I-Phone Safe

According to the FBI, they can hack an iPhone and get your data.  Other law enforcement agencies are asking the FBI to hack the iPhones for their cases as well.   It is quite possible that the FBI has put this out as a huge ruse, to stir doubt about the security of iPhones and to make criminals and everyone else worry about the  security of their data.  Are you worried yet?

Apple would not play nice with the FBI and unlock the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone for the FBI.  Since Apple would not create a back door to the operating system so the FBI could hack any phone, the FBI has told the world the iPhone is hackable and not secure. It could be revenge clear and simple.  Who thinks that under Obama our FBI is capable of seeking revenge on those who don’t bend to their will?   Our government is so much better than that, don’t you think.

WHAT IF IT IS NOT REVENGE!!!

Apple will now have to revamp the iPhone, just in case the FBI is telling the truth.  In the meantime I would suggest not keeping anything on your phone you don’t want the government to have, or anyone else to have either.  If the FBI can hack the iPhone, then it won’t be long before every hacker out there can do the same thing.

Perhaps we should return to using face to face meeting with no recording devices.

 

 

 

Impact Your World

One of the arguments put forward to justify the abortion mills that are still very much a part of modern day Americana is that these facilities provide safe, easy access to abortion.  This was not true for Lakisha Wilson.  Her second trimester abortion procedure resulted in her death.  From the history of the Gosnell Clinic in Philadelphia to this case the botched abortion, the maiming and death of young women continues to this day.

So what can you do to stop this carnage?  Yes, amazing enough you can help! I am sponsoring a team for the walk for zero for Shelby   Sav-A-Life.  We are striving for zero abortions in Shelby county by 2020.   If you will pledge for the team and come out an walk at Valleydale Church on April 9th you can have a huge impact on reducing the death and damage done by abortions in Alabama.   You don’t have to walk, but there are raffle prizes if you do.  The pledge will be huge.

Please contact me  at 205-585-9244 or message me to make a pledge.  It is the most important thing you can do to help young women choose life and your contribution will preserve the life of both mothers and babies.

 

True Christians Massacred

Two stories about life in Saudi Arabia, one about life there and one specifically about Christians in Saudi Arabia tell a story about our government’s attitude toward Christians. As Obamacare tears into Christians’ right to maintain their beliefs or as the NFL talks about banning Atlanta from hosting the Super Bowl because Atlanta wants to let vendors choose not to support activities where they have religious objections.

It becomes clear that being a believer in Christ is no longer a easy choice.  No matter were in world you are, believing in Christ has a potential cost, up to and including an ultimate cost.  From a earthly standpoint, why would anyone subject themselves to the bigotry against those that actively profess a belief in Christ?   The truth of the resurrection and belief in Christ provides an eternal reward.  Believers that die live forever.

If Christ did not return from the dead and ascend to the Father, all of us Christians are idiots and our beliefs false.  If he did, no price is too great to pay in this world for the hope of Christ.

Living in Fear

That is what the media wants from you, to live in terror, to fear that the oceans will rise and wipe out Hawaii or that there is a rash of crime and you are the target.  Compounded with legitimate fears it is amazing that any of us function at all.  I was recently  impressed by a friend of mine facing potentially terminal cancer, but he was not fearful.  To be more accurate he was not worried about death.  He was more worried about the discomfort  of chemo than he was about the prospect of dying.

I have noticed that believers who have accepted Christ as their savior generally face potentially fatal events with far less trepidation than those that are in any other religion. There a grace and peace that believers in Christ have that provides an assurance of what will occur after death.  That assurance is not one of a mental understanding but one of a heart understanding that is often described as from the holy spirit.  Beyond the indisputable events of Jesus’s death and resurrection that to me is proof of that reality.  It is the impact of that reality on this world.

GOP Hubris – Fascism

According to Wikipedia fascism is a form of authoritarian nationalism.  I am not sure what you call what has gone on with the political parties, now obvious with Trump, but clearly not new.  Our constitution and our democracy no longer exists. Our ability to vote in our own best interest is gone.  The big donors are willing to destroy the people’s choice, (whether or not you like Cruz or Trump) to put their own candidate in the place of either.  That is not democracy.  This is the new fascism.  It’s the authoritarian rape of pillage of America at the expense of the vast majority of Americans.

Unless we want to continue to get poorer and less capable of living in this country I would suggest that everyone email the Republican National Committee and tell them that the voters have the say, not them, not the donors. Unless you want to live in dictatorship under Hilary or a republican puppet you need to email these people today.

ecampaign@gop.com

Tell them you won’t stand for their destruction of democracy and that already their policies have reduced the standard of living in this country.  That reduction is not acceptable.  Flood their email, stop their destruction of everything that makes this country great.  Please share this as much as possible as our future is at stake!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Empire State Building – Evolution

If the Empire State building were to be demolished it would create a pile of debris 20 stories high and half a block wide, give or take.  That pile of debris would in include concrete, dust, wood, asbestos, nails, metal supports, smashed office furnishings, plastics, electrical wiring, circuit boards, piping,  air conditioning chemicals and so on.

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Construction Debris

 

Ok, now lets leave that debris hanging around for a billon years.  I would bet that a billion years from now, it would not have assembled itself into anything resembling a building. Even more unlikely, it would not have grown legs, and created more little buildings walking around.  That is the theory of evolution.