"This was their idea... of a townie mullet, 94 feet long and powered with an "88" hairdresser. Just what you need, right after a Beverly Hills Cop movie."

They should install these things above the Hudson River, just in case. And props to Don King, his hairdressing secret is finally revealed.

Liberal Lies About National Healthcare: Fourth in a Series
Ann Coulter
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

(12) Only national health care can provide "coverage that will stay with you whether you move, change your job or lose your job" -- as Obama said in a New York Times op-ed.

This is obviously a matter of great importance to all Americans, because, with Obama's economic policies, none of us may have jobs by year's end.

The only reason you can't keep -- or often obtain -- health insurance if you move or lose your job now is because of ... government intrusion into the free market.

You will notice that if you move or lose your job, you can obtain car and home insurance, hairdressers, baby sitters, dog walkers, computer technicians, cars, houses, food and every other product and service not heavily regulated by the government. (Although it does become a bit harder to obtain free office supplies.)

Federal tax incentives have created a world in which the vast majority of people get health insurance through their employers. Then to really screw ordinary Americans, the tax code actually punishes people who don't get their health insurance through an employer by denying individuals the tax deduction for health insurance that their employers get.

Meanwhile, state governments must approve the insurers allowed to operate in their states, while mandating a list of services -- i.e. every "medical" service with a powerful lobby -- which is why Joe and Ruth Zelinsky, both 88, of Paterson, N.J., are both covered in case either one of them ever needs a boob job.

If Democrats really wanted people to be able to purchase health insurance when they move or lose a job as easily as they purchase car insurance and home insurance (or haircuts, dog walkers, cars, food, computers), they could do it in a one-page bill lifting the government controls and allowing interstate commerce in health insurance. This is known as "allowing the free market to operate."

Plus, think of all the paper a one-page bill would save! Don't Democrats care about saving the planet anymore? Go green!

(13) The "public option" trigger is something other than a national takeover of health care.

Why does the government get to decide when the "trigger" has been met, allowing it to do something terrible to us? Either the government is better at providing goods and services or the free market is -- and I believe the historical record is clear on that. Why do liberals get to avoid having that argument simply by invoking "triggers"?

Why not have a "trigger" allowing people to buy medical insurance on the free market when a trigger is met, such as consumers deciding their health insurance is too expensive? Or how about a trigger allowing us to buy health insurance from Utah-based insurers -- but only when triggered by our own states requiring all insurance companies to cover marriage counseling, drug rehab and shrinks?

Thinking more broadly, how about triggers for paying taxes? Under my "public option" plan, citizens would not have to pay taxes until a trigger kicks in. For example, 95 percent of the Department of Education's output is useful, or -- in the spirit of compromise -- at least not actively pernicious.

Also, I think we need triggers for taking over our neighbors' houses. If they don't keep up 95 percent of their lawn -- on the basis of our lawn commission's calculations -- we get to move in. As with Obama's public option trigger, we (in the role of "government") pay nothing. All expenses with the house would continue to be paid by the neighbor (playing "taxpayer").

To make our housing "public option" even more analogous to Obama's health care "public option," we'll have surly government employees bossing around the neighbors after we evict them and a Web site for people to report any negative comments the neighbors make about us.

Another great trigger idea: We get to pull Keith Olbermann's hair to see if it's a toupee -- but only when triggered by his laughably claiming to have gone to an Ivy League university, rather than the bovine management school he actually attended.

(14) National health care will not cover abortions or illegal immigrants.

This appeared in an earlier installment of "Liberal Lies About Health Care," but I keep seeing Democrats like Howard Dean and Rep. Jan Schakowsky on TV angrily shouting that these are despicable lies -- which, in itself, constitutes proof that it's all true.

Then why did Democrats vote down amendments that would prohibit coverage for illegals and abortion? (Also, why is Planned Parenthood collecting petition signatures in Manhattan -- where they think they have no reason to be sneaky -- in support of national health care?)

On July 30 of this year, a House committee voted against a Republican amendment offered by Rep. Nathan Deal that would have required health care providers to use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program to prevent illegal aliens from receiving government health care services. All Republicans and five Democrats voted for it, but 29 Democrats voted against it, killing the amendment.

On the same day, the committee voted 30-29 against an amendment offered by Republican Joe Pitts explicitly stating that government health care would not cover abortions. Zealous abortion supporter Henry Waxman -- a walking, breathing argument for abortion if ever there was one -- originally voted in favor of the Pitts amendment because that allowed him, in a sleazy parliamentary trick, to bring the amendment up for reconsideration later. Which he did -- as soon as he had enough Democrats in the hearing room to safely reject it.

If any liberal sincerely believes that national health care will not cover illegals and abortion, how do they explain the Democrats frantically opposing amendments that would make this explicit?

>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^therealblankman:
Men, do yourself a favor and find a good Barber (not a hairdresser) to cut your hair.
Or save yourself some money and do what I did... go bald.


As my Grandfather used to say "God made only a few perfect heads... the rest he covered with hair".

>> ^therealblankman:
Men, do yourself a favor and find a good Barber (not a hairdresser) to cut your hair.

Or save yourself some money and do what I did... go bald.

It's a poor Barber who uses electric shears rather than scissors to give a haircut. Men, do yourself a favor and find a good Barber (not a hairdresser) to cut your hair. When you find a good one, keep going back until either he or you dies. After moving back to Vancouver it took me years to find a good guy, but Brian of London- you're my man.

I'm all for usability and the interface etc. And I would actually like an iPhone... However.

I too have a Viewty, and know that it's a clunky ol' thing. BUT. I like to spend sweet f all on my phones, and this costs me nothing on a $20p/m plan, so it fits that bill.

Then it can play Divx... nice, I put a bunch of movies and things on it, and can distract the kids when waiting at the hairdressers or the like.

Then the camera... seriously, I've seen photos from the iPhone, they are god awful, really, that is such a shite camera. The Viewty is no camera substitute by a long shot... but it takes nice photos and great videos, and man the 120fps video is fun. Having said all that... it really is a clunky little bastard of a phone but I really like it, it works for me.

So I laugh when Apple fanbois go apeshit when they announce it has a 3Mp camera and oooh... video and oooh MMS. Like, things that pretty much every other phone has had for years.

But... like I said, I would like one, I love how they feel and work, I love the apps... I just don't love the fact that they seriously treat inclusions that are quite low end as the second coming of Christ... gives me the irates.

Pictures, or it didn't happen.

And on the torrid love affair part, I have it on good authority that you're coming to Europe..

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
wow, a torrid love affair sounds like a blast! unfortunately all my lady shaped love affair parts reside in a different continent.
however, i did let the hairdressers at my salon give me a white girl fro today and im super excited about it!

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Hehe, good on ya. You should get your charter back, I got mine pretty fast.

I'm gonna be a bit harsher with my votes this time around; with a second chance, I can undo the folly of youth!

I'm still looking for someone to have a torrid love affair with, though. You game?

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
im alive and kicking sir.
downvoting some crap for the crap that it is
and discovering some gems that were lost in the madness.
my charters gone now though, i dont know if it ran out or got lost
i think i still had a week or so left

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Hey bea, did you survive the siftocalypse?

wow, a torrid love affair sounds like a blast! unfortunately all my lady shaped love affair parts reside in a different continent.
however, i did let the hairdressers at my salon give me a white girl fro today and im super excited about it!

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Hehe, good on ya. You should get your charter back, I got mine pretty fast.

I'm gonna be a bit harsher with my votes this time around; with a second chance, I can undo the folly of youth!

I'm still looking for someone to have a torrid love affair with, though. You game?

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
im alive and kicking sir.
downvoting some crap for the crap that it is
and discovering some gems that were lost in the madness.
my charters gone now though, i dont know if it ran out or got lost
i think i still had a week or so left

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
Hey bea, did you survive the siftocalypse?

Top ten things I know of rasch based soley on the first 20 pages of an advanced search involving all of his comments from 8 months ago forward...
1. Koreans creep him out.
2. He will vote for anything that involves magical turtles.
3. He agrees that the essense of male thinking is "why don't we fly up to the moon and drive around?"
4. He has a demented friend named Philip Fry.
5. He advocates caucasing in moccasins.
6. "Gay Karate Man" is his definition of "wtf"
7. He actually assumed that peguins could fly based on a clip whos announcer was a guy from "Monty Python".
8. He believes in a frivilous litigious society. ("He should sue his hairdresser")
9. He's sympathetic to furries who jump onto handrails and effectively bust their own balls.
10. He likes some kind of noxious weed.

What can we say about such a person? I don't know, but I think he's really the guy in this clip.

I'm waiting for her garbage truck driver, septic system cleaner, gardener, housekeeper/s, manicurist, hairdresser and valet to decide to stop helping her and go to college to work hard and get real jobs.

>> ^BillOreilly:
>> ^kronosposeidon:
"I should be home by 6:00, honey. I gotta pick up the dry cleaning, take the kids to soccer practice, go to the hairdresser's, and if I have a few extra minutes I'll get an abortion. I won $500 on the scratch-off lottery tickets, so why not?"

If it was such a "tough" decision to have an abortion, the woman wouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place to force her to make said decision. It seems that keeping their pants on is the real decision women have to make, eh?
So yes, I call bull crap. Of course, that's pretty much what comes out of Obama's mouth all of the time anyway...


You'll have to excuse bill. He hasn't really had to make a choice. You'd have to get laid before you were ever included in that discussion

>> ^kronosposeidon:
"I should be home by 6:00, honey. I gotta pick up the dry cleaning, take the kids to soccer practice, go to the hairdresser's, and if I have a few extra minutes I'll get an abortion. I won $500 on the scratch-off lottery tickets, so why not?"


If it was such a "tough" decision to have an abortion, the woman wouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place to force her to make said decision. It seems that keeping their pants on is the real decision women have to make, eh?

So yes, I call bull crap. Of course, that's pretty much what comes out of Obama's mouth all of the time anyway...

"I should be home by 6:00, honey. I gotta pick up the dry cleaning, take the kids to soccer practice, go to the hairdresser's, and if I have a few extra minutes I'll get an abortion. I won $500 on the scratch-off lottery tickets, so why not?"

No problem I prefer it culled now rather than to get lots of votes

cheers!

BEHOLD MY MIGHTY DIAMOND!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
^Persephone is right. Better *discard it now before it gets sifted. Sorry.