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People who have never faced an unpleasant unraveling walk around with a notion that danger would be exotic, fun and adventurous. You get to be Bilbo Baggins, and beat out Gollum at a game of riddles. The end of the world will unspool like those awesome Indiana Jones movies and everyone should get their popcorn and gun collections ready. This isn’t how it works. Bad history becomes tedious, painful, depressing and confusing instead.

Such is very much the case with the current Healthcare Debacle which, as Peggy Noonan has astutely pointed out, “he’s (President Obama) been promising for a year will be passed next week.” While we spent that year waiting for next week, we spent that year essentially paralyzed. The economy, the banks, the business leaders all held up on all but the most essential activities until The Scalpel of Damocles has either been withdrawn or has made its grievous cut. No knew risks were taken, no risky investments in high-tech start-ups got made. The animal spirits of Keynesian fame have all been taken to the pet shelter until we know what the rules will be next week.

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel, and said to him, "Make us a king to judge us like all the nations."

And the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed the voice of the people; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them."

So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people: "This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants. And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants. And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day."

Nevertheless the people said, "No, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."

So the LORD said to Samuel,"Heed their voice, and make them a king." (excerpts of I Samuel 8:4-22, KJV)

Fast forward to 1787.

But first..... a minor detour to 1775, then 1783. Read this with 2010 in mind. That's where we're headed.

Promoted because it's a good question

To the Justices of the Supreme Court:
This is no time for taciturnity. Many millions of us believe this president, and the Democrat House and Democrat Senate, are openly subverting—ignoring—the dictates of the Constitution. It is my understanding your Branch can tell an overreaching Executive Branch that its actions are not allowed by the Constitution; that you can tell the Congress that a law it passed violates the Constitution and, therefore, ceases to be a law; that you can even tell a state’s government that one of its laws breaks a rule in the Constitution.

Tell us at this critical hour that you’ll execute your duty to be the final judge in every case involving laws of Congress, and of the ultimate law of the land: the U.S. Constitution.

I’ve just about written this blog before. We learn nothing from history and increasingly become a nation that dies in a state of ill-grace. The chimerical magic of “American Exceptionalism” is not going to deal the American People a “Get Out of Stupid Free Card.” Toyota’s closure of a US facility should serve as a wake-up call. But alas….

Toyota has built itself into an amazing company. Never you mind the new Toyota Inertia. I know it has break problems, so the Inertia in motion will tend to remain in motion, etc… Yet still, Toyota remains one of the most visionary corporations in existence. Thus, like most other intelligent people, Toyota has decided to pull up stakes and leave California.

The other day, I was reminded of one of the lies we've been fed about the Health Care Takeover the Democrats are desperately trying to pass through the Houses of Congress: The Individual Mandate, which would be just like your mandated automobile insurance. This specious line of reasoning has been almost forgotten amidst the arguments over abortion funding and the Constitutionality of reconciliation and trying to "deem" a bill passed by rule.

The individual mandate would require every American to purchase health insurance, or to pay a penalty (I call it a fine, because that's what it really is) if they choose to go without. Proponents of this insurance mandate argue that it is like automobile insurance, where we are required to purchase liability insurance for our automobiles before we can drive them on the roads. They say that this mandate protects individuals from the financial harm of medical bills they cannot afford.

In this limited line of reasoning, they are correct, but that isn't the whole story.

We all thought that the myth of Manbearpig was finally settled after the Climategate. It showed what many of us have known all along but could not prove, that much of the Global Warming Climate Change Manbearpig data was suspect and most likely altered or skewed to a certain outcome.

But give some props to AlGore for his stubbornness. I am serial. He is still out there still trying to say any kind of weather phenomenon is because of Manbearpig:

“[T]he odds have shifted toward much larger downpours,” Gore said. “And we have seen that happen in the Northeast, we’ve seen it happen in the Northwest – in both of those regions are among those that scientists have predicted for a long time would begin to experience much larger downpours.”

This is preposterous on its face. We have had Nor’Easterns before and will have them in the future. Just as we will have some summers hotter than others and some colder. Just as the Sahara will one day be green again, as it has been several thousands of years ago.

Lady Libertas is pleased to announce my all out Endorsement for Brian Reilly for US Congress in Florida District 20.

Readers of Lady Libertas will remember me mentioning Brian Reilly last summer when I met him at the Tea Party Rally in Fort Lauderdale on July 4. ( See original post here )

Lady Libertas was impressed with Brian last summer and, certainly now, we need a GREAT Conservative & national grassroots support to beat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz-the-Pelosi-Clone and the Democratic war chest that she will have access to!

Nobody likes living through that early, painful Bushmills-soaked morning after. It doesn’t matter why you drank the Bushmills – career failure, relationships, etc. You’ve hit bottom, broken a coccyx and aren’t really sure you care what happens next. You’d just like the whole darn thing, whatever that particular disaster may be, to just unwind and stop.

Such was the fatalistic defeatism in the words of Bart Stupak when he was interviewed concerning his Pro-Life stance on the Healthcare reform package. As a career-long Democratic legislator, he had helped bring a monster to power that was about to devour something he actually cared about. I’m supposed to somehow buy the Pro-Life Movement’s newfound respect for Congressman Stupak. But, as much as I agree with eliminating abortions of convenience, I just can’t get all misty over Bart Stupak.

Bart Stupak has inflicted just this sort of liberalism on his constituents and the American People his entire legislative career. It was only when it overdetermined one of his priorities that he described it as “a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.” To quote some old, French folk wisdom, Bart Stupak has been hoist upon his own petard.

We are at war and I am not talking about just Afghanistan. The war we are fighting is not on foreign soil, nor claims the lives of brave American soldiers who fight to defend our freedom. This war is on our own soil and though not a single shot has been fired has the potential, if lost, of devastating our country more than many wars in which we have fought before.

The war we are fighting is waged by protest, phone calls and e-mail as we the people of The United States take a stand against the tyrannical take over of our health care by Barack Obama and the leadership of the Congress. This one issue alone has consumed all of the air in Washington DC. It has taken most of the time and effort of the Congress and the President.

Though low on the list of priorities with most of the American people it is the subject of many conversations and consumes more than half of news coverage. This one issue has the potential of taking away a considerable amount of freedom from every American eliminating much of the choice that we have in determining our personal health care as government becomes the intermediary in all of our lives over delicate and costly decisions about our health.

by Rose Pedenko