Obamacare’s next act: Force

Here’s what we get for the ball-less RINOs who promised to overturn Obamacare but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

After trying what amounted to an offer to Americans to volunteer for a government-run health insurance system and seen it fail (of 24 Obamacare co-ops, only nine have survived), President Penandphone is going all in for single-payer. Joining him will be the Hildabeast who owes him her non-prosecution.

That is government health insurance (with death panels) for all whether they like it or not. Except for Wormtongue and the rest of the ruling class, of course. They will have private options.

Fortunately it still depends on the Congress to pass single-payer. They refused in 2010.

Via WSJ

Rule 5: Ashley Graham

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What better balm for a troubled soul than more of our beauteous Ms. Graham?

Couldn’t make E-4 in six years?

The telling thing about the Dallas murderer (to anyone who has ever served, but I realize that is a diminishing number of Americans in the age of never-served Obama) is that he couldn’t make E-4 in six years in the Army reserves.

E-4 ain’t surgery. It ain’t quantum physics. It’s normally a pro forma boost from PFC. No big deal. E-5 is a big deal. But not E-4. But Micah Johnson, Mr. “I -want-to-kill-white-people” was too fuckin’ dumb, or more likely too fuckin’ lazy, to do it.

And now we get to hear Miss Alabama (the first black woman voted Miss Alabama) call him a martyr. A martyr to stupidity, maybe. A martyr to poor shooting. Yes he killed five and wounded seven. It took him a reported sixty rounds to do it. And he hit a black woman. That is really piss-poor shooting.

As Kurt Schlichter, the retired Army infantry colonel-turned-conservative columnist (who reminded me that Johnson couldn’t make E-4), says: It’s time to step back folks. 1968 remix will not be fun. The angry blacks who keep marching and rioting (and spiking cops’ food in North Carolina) aren’t going to get what they want, least of all through the barrel of a gun. There simply aren’t enough of them. Nor do they have enough allies.

And probably most of the armed ones are as poor shots as Miss Alabama’s too-dumb-to-get-E-4 martyr. It’s too late for Wormtongue to walk it back from his rabble-rousing racism of almost eight years. It would be too out of character, what character he actually has, for the most anti-law enforcement presidential administration in memory.

And it’s probably impossible for Wormtongue to even imagine hanging the Hildabeast by her thumbs for her obvious crimes. But if the ruling class won’t do it, and we know the protesters can’t do it, as riotously as they may try, 1968 2.0 is going to be hell. Keep your head down out there.

Don’t like Trump? 1968’s black riots were disastrous for the Democrats. Nixon won.

Monte Verde’s Central Texas cousin

Monte Verde in Chile caused an earthquake in modern archaeology. The site is an ancient (Paleoindian) small camp of about 30 people, just about 30 miles inland of the Pacific Ocean. It has produced stone tool artifacts that reliably date a millennium before the accepted 11,500 13,000-years-old first establishment of human occupation of the Americas. Some Monte Verde artifacts could be as old as 33,000 years.

The Gault Site, about 20 miles northwest of Georgetown in Central Texas, and about 250 driving miles inland of the Gulf of Mexico, was a larger and apparently more permanent Paleoindian site. It has yielded many tools and other artifacts that make it a close cousin to Monte Verde. A few artifacts have been found to be 15,000 years old.

Tours are your best bet since the Gault is on secured private property administered by Texas State University. Archaeologist Mike Collins, formerly of the University of Texas, is the boss and he generally conducts the infrequent tours that run $10 a person to help pay for the scientific work at the Gault Site.

Via Instapundit.

 

Feds crushing small business

This time they’re going after the boutique cigar business, all in the dubious name of public health.

“If you are still buying the anti-smoking crusaders’ propaganda that second-hand smoke is killing many thousands of people every year just ask them to point to a single study that tells you what level of exposure to second hand smoke is dangerous. They can’t tell you because it has never been measured in any of the so called ‘scientific studies’ which for the most part are simply surveys of people who have lung cancer and can remember being exposed to second hand smoke at some point in their life. It’s not science, it’s propaganda.”

The ruling class will always be able to find premium cigars. They just don’t want it to be easy for you.

Via Self Reliance Central.

Rule 5: Ashley Graham

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Time for a break from all the seriousness. And who better than our bud Ashley?

Prerogatives of the ruling class

To wit, sub-Queen Nancy Pelosi, the once and very probably future Speaker of the House of Representatives. So called. When she is shopping.

“The U.S. Capitol Police and the U.S. Secret Service provide dignitary protection for certain high-ranking members of the Federal Government, and this protection comes with the discretion to violate some state and local laws (illegal U-turns, parking in a red zone) under the guise of providing the best possible protection to the dignitary. In the case of Congresswoman Pelosi, she receives her protection detail from the Capitol Police. As the Chief of Police in St. Helena I can assure you we don’t like or condone their behavior, but I can tell you from personal experience that while they sympathize with the position they put us in, they will not alter their tactics to appease us.”

All animals on the farm are equal, we are told. But, clearly, some animals are more equal than others. Something tells me this will not end well.

Via The American Mirror & Instapundit.