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2010-02-23 Home Front: Politix

Outlook no brighter for Obama's new health plan

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Posted by ed 2010-02-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Republicans are skeptical about where the money would come from

More taxes possibly? Just a guess.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-23 03:12|| 2010-02-23 03:12|| Front Page Top

#2 We got twenty suburbanite twinkies who are refugees ( for whatever reason) in the Kinai Peninsula woods ( maybe it was a cruise ship went down). It aint your fault Mr. & Mrs. Sprinklersystem.

So we got a problem. They are wet, hungry and in the middle of nowhere and not a Credit Card to just slick their lack of yumyums away.

There is a local boy who has a cabin and a gun who finds them. He has a rabbit which he has just shot. Hooray, we are saved. They all look at the rabbit and ask if they can have some. One rabbit split twenty ways is all they ask.

Guess who has the rabbit AND who has the gun? Its two weeks walk through bear country and no roads to get these people out to Diner's Club.

NONE of these people have boots and the local boy isnt going to share that gun. He might share the rabbit, but dont bet on it. There is only one bed in the cabin and there is no toilet.

The solution to all this is somebody has to get a Trillion dollar loan for all these people who dont have Health Care. And there is only one gun.

And even if the local boy were to "share" the gun nobody among these twinkies knows how to shoot or knows a damn thing about where the rabbits are. And "voting" on sharing that rabbit twenty ways is BS.

Somebody is gonna starve to death...and it aint gonna to be the local boy.

Hold up your Credit Cards for Hope and Change.

Posted by BlackBart 2010-02-23 06:21|| 2010-02-23 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Of those 20 suburbanite twinkies, stranded because their cruise ship wrecked on the shoals of the Pennsylvania woods, it turns out one is a Master Chef who can turn that rabbit into a gourmet meal for fifty using that single can of beer in our local boy's fridge, the wild onions growing alongside the path, and a handful of wild ginger roots. Another of the twinkies is a Master Gardener who specialized in native plants, and adds Spicebush twigs, Spring Beauty bulbs for starch, and pine needles... oh, and noticed the watercress growing wild alongside the creek near the cabin, which is the basis of a nice salad, especially with the addition of fern fiddleheads. He also notices the pokeweed shoots, which can be cooked as a nice substitute for spinach -- the cooking breaks down the something-or-other that is poisonous when raw, so be careful with that, and only do this with new spring shoots, as older pokeweed is poisonous regardless how long it's boiled. Another of the suburban twinkies turns out to be an HVAC engineer, the cruise a reward for the number of furnaces his company sold, and he offers to tune up the cabin heating source, which turns out to be a Franklin stove whose chimney was somewhat neglected, having an unnoticed pinhole leak -- and suddenly local boy's nagging low-grade headache is gone. Another was an Eagle Scout, who whips up a couple of rabbit snares with the laces of his wife's sensible walking shoes, and places them along rabbit trails local boy hadn't noticed, clever though he is with a gun. Another couple are Rantburg's own OldSpook and Mrs. Spook, who not only know everything local boy hasn't learnt yet, but while OldSpook does *something* to the gun to make it near sniper-worthy -- bringing down a number of squirrels for the pot in the process of sighting it in (that is the correct terminology, if I recall correctly) -- Mrs. Spook recalls her spook-running days to organize the ladies in whipping the cabin and grounds out to 100 yards into something sparkling clean, a good deal more homey, and with clear lines of fire, which it hadn't occurred to our clean-thinking local boy was necessary, the black bears being scared off by the pie tins banging together. Our Master Gardener meanwhile lifted some plants from the woods to create a kitchen garden that would both look and smell good, and provide local boy with the fixings for many wonderful rabbit feasts in the future, using the recipe guidelines our Master Chef wrote out on the back of a few old letters.

All in all, our generous local boy got a pay-back much bigger than his offer of one rabbit and some bits of floor for the night, for in the morning the stranded twinkies followed his directions to the town two hours' walk away, where their credit cards were put to good use... And local boy was left with fond memories and ten invitations to dinner in the suburbs over the following months.

As for the new health plan, which is completely unconnected to the scenario above, as far as I can tell, I only hope Ms. Ann Coulter is correct when she opined that President Obama is merely posturing for his base, and will not be able to get it passed. Instapundit links to the video.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-23 07:36|| 2010-02-23 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 --The Dems in the House and Senate weren't even allowed to get into the details of this plan with the administration..

Posted by Tom- Pa 2010-02-23 09:00|| 2010-02-23 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 tw, in the parlor, with a razor...

Posted by Pappy 2010-02-23 21:56|| 2010-02-23 21:56|| Front Page Top

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