Sunday, January 5, 2014

Romney accepts MSNBC host's apology

MSNBC host apologizes for jokes about Romney baby     
 Bailey comment:  "Seems like someone up there in the ranks has a little class"!

A day after MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry issued a tearful on-air apology to Mitt Romney for joking about his adopted black grandson, the former Massachusetts governor accepted it as "clearly heartfelt."
“I recognize that people make mistakes," Romney said on "Fox News Sunday." “And the folks at MSNBC made a big mistake. They’ve apologized for it. And that’s all you can ask for.”
On her show last week, Harris-Perry showed the Romney family Christmas card: a photo of the family and his grandchildren — including Kieran, an African-American child adopted by one of Romney's sons. Harris-Perry and her guests then joked that it was the 2012 Republican nominee's "token" attempt at diversity.
On Saturday, Harris-Perry apologized. "Showing the photo in that context, that segment, was poor judgment," she said. "Adults who enter into public life, implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families, especially their children, should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly. My intention was not malicious, but I broke the ground rule that families are off-limits. For that I am sorry."
“People like me are fair targets," Romney said on Sunday. "If you get in the political game, you can expect incoming. But children, that’s beyond the line. And I think they understand that."
He added: “I think it’s a heartfelt apology. And for that reason, we hold no ill will whatsoever.”
Also Sunday, Romney, who managed the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, said he's confident the upcoming games in Socchi will be safe from a terrorist attack.
"I'm convinced, the case of a nation like Russia, they have the resources to do their very best to protect people from that kind of attack," Romney said.

I’m madder than hell and I’m not going to take it anymore

I’m yelling at the top of my lungs, I’m madder than hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. We all should know this little refrain. Yet how many of us are so damn fed up we are throwing open our windows, shouting into the street, and telling the world, this is insanity—we as a nation do not deserve this!
How anyone in their right mind, not some hallucination of smoking marijuana and retarding their minds ability to think, cannot and is not beyond screaming about the attack occurring on this nation is beyond me. Today, thanks to not only the leadership of the dumbest man to ever walk upright on this planet, but a congress that has no more idea of this nation’s design that----? There is no one anywhere else on the face of this planet that doesn’t understand this nation more than the absolute ideocracy of the actions and proposals of this nation’s political parties. I mean ‘both’ political parties, the communist dyed in the wool Democrats, and the damn ignorant communist light of the Republicans.
When I think of this nation’s wonder, I wonder what in the hell are the people, the citizens of this nation thinking. How can any society, of people who profess to be civilized, who make the façade they are homo sapiens—with the ability to think and reason—elect the cause of our demise, the political parties that are politically motivated for their own self-interest than this nation’s wonder.
Every American, who is part of our society—you work providing goods and services—trading you wealth…your life…in exchange for earnings, exchanging your life for currency wealth of transfer can sit idly by while the government is stealing all they can is inconceivable. The government in every way possible uses the corruption of economics to steal from each and every individual every single second, of every hour, of every day and year of your life. While the government is indebting, your progeny into debt they will never be able to pay!  Reducing our society to slaves of the government, and the citizens, the people of this nation do not react is beyond the reasoning of rational man.   
This nation isn’t ignorant, or are we? The man who developed the communist design of destroying this nation—John Maynard Keynes—told us how it works. ‘The design is simple, for the process engages all the hidden force of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose!’  What tripe, anyone, any man or woman who has watched the absolute debauchery, the destruction of the value of wealth by this administration and this congress that cannot identify how it destroys is in cognitive of reality? Who in the hell is so ignorant to not realize that the prices of groceries hasn’t been going up exponentially since this absolute disgrace has been elected. Your electric bill, has it gone down? I won’t even mention the absolute fiasco of the medical servicing destruction occurring, for if you don’t know that you can qualify as a Coloradan—worrying about legalizing marijuana so you can destroy your ability to think—than the reality of living in this world.
It ain’t even begun. The bureaucratic communist attack of central planning on the books designed for initiation this year will make the last 5 years of tragedy seem like an interlude of serene calm.
Well I’m not going to take it! I’m going to do everything in my power—shout at the top of my lungs, refuse to acquiesce, lie down like the spineless Republican Party and imitate a door mat. I’m standing with Dwayne Stovall.
You see, Dwayne Stovall as Texans do, has followed the path first identified by Colonel Travis at the Alamo. Travis’s request was simple, while identical with the same position that Swayne Stovall is taking today, ‘if you stand with me, you stand for Texas, and you stand for this nation cross this line and join me.’
We don’t have to meet in San Antonio and man the walls, but what we must do is just as important. We must become the agents for this nation’s preservation. We must be the campaigners to wake up the ignorant, the naïve, and the complacent to the danger this nation is in. We also must open our wallets; contribute our wealth, of our exchange of life for currency, to fight the powers of the political parties. For the political parties only put up their puppets for the political parties self-interest, the hell with Texans, the hell with this nation. As long as their greed, their crony capitalism, their debaucher of the monetary value of this nation satisfies their wants—and their wants only.
You have a choice; you can stand idly by and watch the government through taxation steal the wealth in your wallet. Alternatively, you can become pro-active and cross that line, stand with Stovall, and do every damn thing you can to insure the ‘Preservation of This…WONDROUS…Nation.’
Cross that line, learn “HOW TO KEEP THE GOVERNMETN FROM STEALING FROM YOU!’ Remember that after March 4th, if we don’t succeed, this nation will once again have a senator from Texas not for Texans, but for the Political Party of acquiescence, the door mats of the current communist intrusion destroying this nation.
http://texansforstovall.com/12_steps_to_beat_government_theft.pdf  
My names Dan Short,
I not only approve this message, I wrote it.
I’ve not gained any position of our society by government dictate advancing inequality. I’ve not been allowed into Harvard where I smoked marijuana, and studied Marx. However, I’ve learned that the last thing this nation requires is any damn fundamental transformation.
I also know, that I stand with any American who stands for the ‘Preservation of this Nation.’ For if you don’t you are as much of an enemy to me—as any other enemy this nation has, foreign or domestic. 

Exposing the world's great lie about ObamaCare and socialized medicine




In health care, 2013 was a year of great irony. In the United States, the Obama administration bullheadedly forged ahead in advancing the most controversial and expensive law in recent memory, the deceptively named Affordable Care Act.
The law, opposed by a clear and consistent majority of citizens, immediately caused millions of Americans to lose their health insurance along with their choice of doctor and hospital, and millions more to pay far higher insurance premiums.
While the focus has been on the embarrassing roll-out that, at a minimum, demonstrated both the incompetence and the poor judgment of this administration, the true harm of this law is still to come as new government authority over U.S. health care dramatically increases.
Concurrently, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), the paradigm of government-controlled health care, turned 65 years old in 2013 and officially entered senior citizenship.
The NHS received its review by the British press this past year on an almost daily basis.
Headlines blared across the UK, endlessly documenting scandalous patient care, shameful waiting lists, catastrophic hospital practices, and financial debacle.
Directly undermining those who advocate for an even stronger role for government in U.S. health care, the British press has instead been documenting the disgraceful state of the NHS.
Despite what Americans are led to believe about nationalized health systems, including the claims that everyone is insured and care is free under such systems, the facts about what’s really important in health care --- actual medical care access and quality -- showed the harmful impact of government control on health care.
One critical distinction generally lost amid the naïve but passionate backers of nationalized insurance is the difference between being insured and having access to care.
Despite the chest-thumping that everyone is insured, U.K. citizens relying on the NHS experience unconscionable problems with access to care, problems not even remotely found in the U.S.
How poor is access to care in socialized systems like the NHS? Access problems are so widespread that the government was compelled to issue England’s 2010 “NHS Constitution” in which it was declared that no patient should wait beyond 18 weeks for treatment.
It is noteworthy enough that the UK government felt so much pressure from the systemic failures of its NHS that they were forced to issue “rights” to patients about receiving medical care.
But should it not bring chills that the government of free people, in the 21st century, had the authority to define those rights about seeking and receiving personal medical care? And even more Kafkaesque is the government’s boldness to define lengthy target times and then to claim that standards have been met. Indeed, designed to propagate the illusion of meeting quality standards, the government decreed that targets were met, even if patients waited a full four months after the diagnosis was made for treatment to begin.
What is the current status of access to care, now that the rights of NHS patients to medical care were enumerated?
At the end of June, the number of people waiting in England to start NHS treatment was 240,000 higher than the same time last year.
NHS England figures for July showed that 508,555 people in London alone were waiting for operations or other treatment to begin — the highest total for at least five years.
Almost 60,000 more patients were waiting for treatment at the capital’s 34 NHS hospitals than one year ago. According to NHS data released in August, hospital waiting lists soared to a five-year high, with almost 2.9 million patients with a known diagnosis in the queue for treatment.
In Wales, the number of patients waiting more than nine months for hospital treatment in November had more than doubled in six months. The Welsh government also reported their NHS is still failing to treat 8 to 13% of the most urgent cancer cases within 62 days – two full months after diagnosis.
Even given a laughably long leash of an 18 week standard, the number of patients not being treated within the target of 18 weeks soared to 39,145 — up 16 per cent on the previous month -- in London alone.
The BBC discovered even more scandalous news back in February --  many patients initially assessed as needing surgery were subsequently re-categorized by the hospital so that they could be removed from waiting lists to distort the already unconscionable delays.
Royal College of Surgeons President Norman Williams, calling this “outrageous,” publicly charged that hospitals are cutting their waiting lists by artificially raising thresholds.
Though long proven by facts documented by the UK government and in scientific journals, these shocking waits for care, whether for specialist appointments, heart surgery, stroke treatment, diagnostic scans, or cancer care go virtually unreported by the U.S. media.
Ironically, U.S. media outrage was widespread when time to appointment for Americans averaged 20.5 days for five specialties in 2009. Escaping American media coverage was that those requests were for healthy check-ups in almost all cases, by definition the lowest medical priority.
It remains unreported that the U.S. wait for routine check-ups was significantly less than for sick Brits needing heart surgery (57 days), or Canadians with “probable cancer” of the gastrointestinal tract (26 days) or proven GI bleeding (71 days).
Even for purely elective routine physicals, U.S. waits are shorter than for seriously ill patients in countries with nationalized insurance.
The disgrace of nationalized insurance systems extends far beyond limited access to care.
Comparing data for cancer, heart disease, and stroke, the most common sources of serious illness and death in the U.S. and Europe, and the diseases that generate the highest medical expenditures, we see the overt failure of the NHS and its socialist relatives compared to the U.S. And the same bottom line is true for the most important chronic diseases that portend long term morbidity and mortality, including high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol.
All have better access to care and better treatment results in the U.S. than in the U.K., proven by studies in the world’s leading medical journals.
Adding to those undeniable facts is a long list of inexcusable scandals in NHS hospitals that were repeatedly discovered, investigated, and catalogued with promises of change this past year.
These outrages were epitomized in 2013 by the Staffordshire Trust debacle, where between 400 and 1,200 neglected and abused patients died in squalid and degrading circumstances, where patients were left so thirsty that drinking from the pots of watered plants was necessary.
Although unreported here in the U.S., the 2013 Francis report about Staffordshire NHS hospital, containing more than one million pages and 64,000 documents, and costing British taxpayers about $20 million, caused outrage even for those wedded to government-controlled health care.
While forcing the resignation of the NHS chief, the report more importantly officially called out the insidious negative culture in the NHS, involving a tolerance of unacceptably poor standards and patient neglect , a preoccupation with cost-cutting, targets and processes while losing sight of its fundamental responsibility to provide safe patient care.
Yet, the greatest deception of all about NHS-style socialized medicine, the silly canard that it provides “free” health care for everyone, was visible for anyone interested in facts in 2013.
The cost to British patients and taxpayers for their dismally performing NHS has been enormous and has increased by 94 per cent in real terms between 1999-2000 and 2009-2010. And even in the face of such outrageous money-wasting as reported in September that millions of non-existent “ghost” patients were registered at NHS surgeries costing taxpayers £750 million over five years, Secretary of State for
Health Jeremy Hunt intransigently argued against any restraints on the 2014 NHS budget of £114 billion ($175 billion), despite its shameful performance and lack of accountability.
And that cost still does not prevent a growing number of British taxpayers from looking elsewhere for medical care. About six million Brits now buy private health insurance, including almost two-thirds of Brits earning more than $78,700.
According to The Telegraph, the number of people paying for their own private care is up 20 percent year-to-year, with about 250,000 now choosing to pay for private treatment out-of-pocket each year.
Isn’t it notable that more than 50,000 Britons travel out of the country per year and spend £161 million to receive medical care due to lack of access, even though they are already paying for their NHS insurance?
Despite all of these realities, just as in America, many in positions of power refuse to accept the facts and continue to deceive the public.
Even the hard-hitting 2013 Staffordshire report still insisted near the top of its list of summary points that “the NHS is a service of which the country can be justly proud, offering as it does universal access to free medical care, often of the highest order.”
In a truly offensive effort to further manipulate the public about their failing system of socialized medicine, the NHS in London separately spent even more taxpayer money -- almost £13 million, or about $20 million -- on public relations in the last three years, as reported by the BBC.
Eerily echoing that disgraceful waste of hard-earned taxpayer money, our own Obama administration will spend about $684 million, as cited by the Associated Press, mainly on a massive campaign to convince young people to sign up for ObamaCare exchanges and purchase unnecessarily bloated, highly expensive insurance they don’t need or want.
Finally, the system often heralded as the model for US health care reform, offers access and quality of care so poor that Britain is now experiencing a serious brain drain of their young doctors.
The NHS has become hugely reliant on doctors trained outside the UK. An estimated 94,833 of the 259,719 doctors of all doctors registered with the General Medical Council, 36.5% of the total, are from foreign medical schools. And what is the solution to the disastrous waiting lists and disgraceful care in the NHS in the face of a considerable outflow of UK medical professionals?
The U.K. government is now considering sub-contracting operations to private firms from other countries.
Is anyone in the U.S. government watching this socialized medicine debacle unfold?
Yet, the stubborn pursuit of an overtly failed system like the NHS, where government controls medical care, is the model for ObamaCare, so the inexorable progression towards what we see in the U.K. should be in the minds of American voters as more components of the law unfold in 2014.
Ultimately, the only way out is for taxpayers and all U.S. citizens who care about choice, access, and quality of health care to make their voices heard.
Thankfully, another election is approaching.

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