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This is the organ chart of socialized medicine.  It has kidneys, spleens, liver and onions and a whole lot of other organs your body does not. 

Congressmen must be very good engineers.  The reason I say this is because as an engineer I feel there is very little chance I could mathematically model the chances of success.  In fact more often than not when machines are this complicated they fail often and hard.  Thus I can only conclude that congressmen are smarter than I am.  In fact they must be demigods.  A god something bigger than Mercury and less than Jupiter.  And on a final note you maybe wondering where you are on this map of the corpus governmentus.  You reside on the rings around Uranus.  And thus you can assume the worse.  The flavor of the day will never change.

….. or you could be being hornswaggled.

Appears to me that the Canadian health care approach is to just deny care for all but gaping bloody wounds in the philosophy that most minor things take care of themselves when they do not develop into full blown melanoma. 

Robert McNamara has died.  Unfortunately his brand of social engineering is alive and well.   You may know a couple of Roberts "innovations".  They include the F-111.

 And the ever jamming M-16 rifle.

His life demonstrates the abject failure of when the unwashed hands of government apparatiks touch the inner workings of our society. 

Read George Wills Article to understand better how McNamera introduced his own particular version of errors into the system. 

The apogee of McNamara’s professional life, in the first half of the 1960s, coincided, not coincidentally, with the apogee of the belief that behavioralism had finally made possible a science of politics. Behavioralism held — holds; it is a hardy perennial — that the social and natural sciences are not so different, both being devoted to the discovery of law-like regularities that govern the behavior of atoms, hamsters, humans, whatever.

This sort of social meddling has not ceased.  Unfortunately it has found a new home in the left.  Unable to fathom the mathematics of chaos they straddle the bucking bronco wild horse proclaiming over and over it will end differently this time.  This time we can break this wild horse called human reality.  This from the people who claim there is no god on one hand but on the other purport to have god like qualities of to-the-core understanding.  I think that is unlikely.

I guess all we can do is wait for Obama to be tossed off this pitch black mare with the bewitching eyes.  It will come sure as the sun rises.

Your liberty past present and future.  A very good presentation explaining why the marketplace of ideas and values is infinitely better than using a government to impose values.

Welcome to the new dictatorship.

I saw a picture of Reagan today and I cried.  A man who cared more for his country than he did his personal career.

Then there is Obama.  Cheap African style dictator right next to Robert Mugabe in the Sears catalog.  Print money and grab power.  Run flat over those that oppose you.

Yes I saw a picture of Reagan today and I cried.

We are accustomed to thinking of Germany as the bad guy as afterall this is the country that brought us Hitler. A tyrant and a lout. 

However turnabout is fairplay and now we have Angela Merkel acting in the name of freedom and the small guy everwhere.  She is holding firm against a third wave of stimulus.   This appears to have the lefties in a tizzy as it stands to make Obama look bad.  Germany by taking its knocks stands to recover sooner than the USA.  In addition the huge wave of inflation that will hit the USA when the economy finally does recover will not hit europe as hard.  I grieve for what Obama and the left are doing to the republic.   It is clear after the boy-king with sagging man boobs our country will never be the same.

I am however proud of the USA in one respect.   We successfully turned Germany into a country with a leader that is confronting Obama’s tyranny of the money printing press.   This printing press is taking us into slavery and corroding the bonds of interpersonal trust that make us a cohesive society.  Obama is the American Robert Mugabe complete with dellusions of grandeur.

 See the related video on how people lived under serfdom.  http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/everywhere-i-look-i-see-a-feudal-society-complete-with-lords-landowners-and-serfs.htm

 A related video "America: Freedom to Fascism" below:

Obama is refusing to accept repayment of TARP monies by  banks trying to repay them.  This of course leaves Obama with a stick to wield over these same banks heads.   But imagine if a single banker were to load of his repayment cash into an armored car and personally drive it up to the federal reserves doors?   With a little news coverage pressure would be immense on Obama to accept repayment.   It is a situation Obama can only lose and the banker would over night become a folk hero and gain an entry in the history books.  Free us from this madman Obama’s clutches.   This child will run the country into the ground.

Thus I ask where are all the heros? 

Historian Michael Wood delves through medieval court records to follow the fortunes of a village in Hertfordshire and, more particularly, the family of peasant Christina Cok. The 14th century was a perilous time in British history, shot through with famine, plague and war. It was a time of climate change, virulent cattle diseases and, above all, the Black Death. But it was also the time when modern mentalities were shaped, not just by the rulers but increasingly by the common people. It was the beginning of the end of serfdom, the growth of individual freedom and the start of a capitalist market economy. Michael chooses an everyday story of a medieval country family through which to illustrate the bigger picture of how the character and destiny of ordinary British people was being shaped. It is history told not from the top of society but from the bottom – and especially through the eyes of the forgotten Michael brings to life the story of a 14th-century extended family: peasant Christina Cok, her father Hugh, estranged husband William, and her children John and Alice. Michael shows us that though their lives might at first seem quite alien, you only have to scratch below the surface to find uncanny connections with modern-day Britons. In them, you can see our beginnings as a nation of shopkeepers and the roots of the British love affair with beer and football. Perhaps more importantly is the triumph of that sturdy and cussed streak of individualism that has been a characteristic of ‘Britishness’ down the centuries.

Take Away:    As you watch this video you should be asking yourself if things are different in any real way from the feudal days of the middle ages.  Just as today the law is used more to obfuscate and thwart rather than attain justice.  The critical fault of the left today is its religious belief in the power of government.  Yet is it not clear that government is used more to enslave than any other single function?    Can  you imagine what the governments at the time would have been able to do with a database?   The english have been steeped in  bureaucracy for a millenia.  Now that is hard to fathom.  I am forced to posit that mankind can not thrive in this circumstance and that the world was fortunate many other regions were free from this sort of government.  As we enter an age of every last bit of the world coming under the unwanted embrace of bureaucracy how will the spirit of mankind react ?   It is a dower grey fog that looms ahead of mankind.

Growth in the money supply.