Last night I saw this video :

In it, the woman speaking to her Senator, Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, tells him that her husband has a traumatic brain injury and was basically kicked out of a nursing home and told they were on their own. This poor man has a feeding tube, can’t speak… and has insurance that is denying him the coverage he deperately needs.

Senator Coburns response is shocking to me. He tells her not to look to the government for help, but to look to her neighbors. Are you kidding me? Because we all have nurses and doctors living next door that are going to just “drop in” and assist this woman for free right? “Why on earth would you expect your government to have compassion and caring towards the “little people” lady. We don’t care about you.”, seems to be the message Senator Coburns is conveying. “Go see if there’s some bleeding heart liberals in your neighborhood to help you out and leave me alone!”

The irony is, he knows he’s been put on the spot and offers to help her and her husband. He tells her to get in touch with his office and he will see what he can do. I have to wonder how hard that was for him. To show fake compassion because he’s on tape and his constituents can all see how much of a heartless prick he really is if he doesn’t offer her some kind of help publicly.

So now, the government we shouldn’t turn to for help, that isn’t there to solve our problems.. Senator Coburn is offering to help her. So does that mean that every other person in america should call up Senator Coburn when their insurance companies deny them desperately needed help?

Maybe that’s just what should happen and then Senator Coburn may get a better idea of how many people are truly in desperate need of help. Maybe that’s what every american who’s been denied health care should do. Call your senators and ask them to hook you up with a doctor at their expense. Since the government isn’t the answer to your problems and you should turn to your neighbors.. and who do you know who’s more powerful in your neighborhood than your elected officials.

Somewhere along the line, the people we elect need to realize that they work for us and not the banks and insurance companies that give them huge contributions to help them get re-elected.

The same companies that charge us outrageous fees and deny us when we come to them for help. Everyone is yelling about the death panels in the governments health care bill, but didn’t this womans husband already face one from their insurance company? And they decided he wasn’t worth helping and sent him home with a feeding tube and absolutely no help.

Who are we supposed to turn to for help when these things happen? I was sure it was our elected officials. The people we gave big paychecks, tons of perks and oh yeah.. free health care paid by us. Not the guy who lives next door, that’s for sure.

Help thy neighbor is a noble cause, but when it comes to needing a kidney transplant, somehow I don’t think the auto mechanic next door is the best choice for me to turn to for help.

So this is to our Senators and Representatives who are against this health care bill… Get your heads out of your asses. The american people need your help and it’s your job to provide it. Quit bending to your corporate masters and do the job you were elected to do.

There’s an old proverb.. I think it’s russian about 2 neighbors. One has a goat and the other does not. He hates his neighbor for having a goat while he goes without. One day he’s blessed by finding a genie who offers to grant him one wish. So obviously you’d think since he admires his neighbors goat so much, he’ll wish for his own, right? Wrong. He wishes that his neighbors goat will die. He wants his neighbor to be as miserable as he is. Lately I think that should be an american proverb.

What is wrong with us? We voted a guy into office to help fix the huge mess the last guy made and now it seems every time I turn on the tv all I hear is criticism of everything the guy does or wants to do. He wants to take his family on vacation and you’d think it was the worst thing any president had ever done. No one cares that Bush was on vacation something like 1200 days out of his presidency. Maybe that’s why he messed up so much shit? To busy cutting brush and throwing back a few beers.

But it seems like Obama can’t do anything right anymore. He wants to fix healthcare. Something we need desperately. But omg, they are going to unplug grandma. (something completely false) The gov’t failed running a brothel in nevada, what will it do to your health care? (omg…the gov’t never ran a brothel. Hello fact check) The gov’t could never run a successful health care plan… funny since the military get one and the seniors get one and the poor get one.. it’s just the rest of us in the middle who aren’t entitled? What’s up with that?

I keep hearing how all the stimulous money that’s out there to help us rebuild america.. ya know.. the crumbling roads and bridges that plummet into the rivers they are supposed to carry us over, is a huge waste and the gov’t should just cut us all a check for $10k. THAT will stimulate the economy! Really? And how are you going to get to the mall when the bridge near your house is out? Be sure to save some of that $10k to put new tires, shocks and do alignments on your car as you drive down the pot hole filled streets.

Oh but then everyone will cry that the gov’t isn’t doing enough for them. I want my $10k check AND a new bridge and I don’t want to pay 1 cent in taxes for it either!

Ok. Now you’re bordering on delusional.

I keep hearing about the cash for clunkers. Something like 650,000 cars were sold under that program. Sounds like a success to me. But then you have all these dealers crying because the money fairy didn’t appear with their reimbursement checks the next day. Especially after they filled out the paperwork incorrectly. One guy was crying about how he couldn’t meet payroll. Now wait a minute. You had 50 unsold cars on your lot. You sold them.. and now you can’t make payroll? How is that possible?

The average citizens complaining about it really crack me up because you know they are just people who didn’t qualify for the program. “I think it’s a waste of money”, they say on the news. Well, I guess no one in your family relies on getting a paycheck from the auto industry, right?

We gave trillions of our money that evaporated to banking institutions that have been raping us with high interest rates and bullshit fees for decades, and people are crying because the gov’t made it a little easier for middle class people to buy a car? Guess it’s lucky a car can’t die like a goat can or there would be a lot of dead cars if these people had their way.

Is there anything your gov’t can do to make the average american happy anymore?  Short of sending them a million dollar check every year so they can live in a mansion, drive a lexus and take lavish vacations… all while paying no taxes, it sure doesn’t seem like it.

Ya know.. when this country was founded, people sent money to help run it voluntarily. Today, you’d think the gov’t was asking for your first born to be able to provide you with schools for your kids, police to protect you and a road to get to the mall so you can buy another pair of crocs to jam your feet in.

Get your priorities in order people. Without a gov’t, where would you really be today? Would you even be able to read? You certainly wouldn’t be reading this because it was the gov’t that funded the internet and said it was important for all of us to be connected. But you’ll never hear something like that on fox news.

Quit wishing for your neighbors goat to die already. It’s embarrassing.

So the past few weeks, there’s been a huge uproar about “obamacare” or what the rest of us call health care reform. If you’ve ever gone without insurance, or had insurance and couldn’t get them to pay for a procedure you needed, then you realize that something has to be done to rectify this situation.

We claim to be the best nation on earth, yet we have the worst access for health care in all the industrialized nations. We have the highest infant mortality rate, lower life expectancy and it’s all pretty sad when we pound our chests and say we have the “best” health care in the world.

Now, don’t misunderstand. I’m not out to bash the health care professionals here. That isn’t what this blog is about. It’s about the blood sucking insurance companies that have driven up costs, denied sick people care and lowered the standard of care people with insurance receive. Take for instance giving birth. When my mother had me, she stayed in the hospital for a week. Got extra care, advice on taking care of me, you name it. When I had my son, I popped him out at noon and was checked out the next day.  He almost died when I was giving birth to him as he was compressing his cord. Yet they couldn’t wait to kick me out the door… and I had insurance.

Imagine working a job, having health care and then getting diagnosed with diabetes or high blood pressure. Then your company down sizes and you get laid off. Ya know what is going to happen to you when you find a new job? You’re going to be denied insurance coverage because of “pre-existing conditions”. Congratulations. You just became one of the 50 million+ americans that are now without any coverage and it’s not going away unless someone as big and powerful as the government makes it happen.

I’ve been listening to all these people carry on about how they don’t want to pay more taxes, that we should all make our own way in the world and quit looking for a hand out. Is access to safe, affordable health care really a hand out? I didn’t realize it was.

I hear people screaming that it’s socialism, but these same people are on medicare or social security. Drive on a street paved by the state that receives money from the gov’t to pay for it. Have kids or grand kids that go to public schools. Drink clean water. Ride a bus, subway or even a plane. I bet you didn’t realize those things were subsidized by the gov’t too. Maybe they got a grant or a low interest rate on a student loan. Got a housing loan through FHA or the VA because they proudly served our country. Put money in a bank account that is federally insured or any number of things that we take totally for granted when we go through our every day lives.

The government does so much for us that we take for granted. Things that improve our lives and make them better. Why would them forcing insurance companies to quit raping consumers be so bad? Oh that’s right. It’s not. It’s just that all the right wingers want to see this president fail so badly, that they make up outright lies about the health care bills currently being discussed in washington.

Did you know sarah palin was complaining about how she didn’t want to have to go before a death panel to see if she would be entitled to a hip replacement or open heart surgery when she’s older? Well.. unless she’s planning on starting her own death panel, the current bills don’t contain anything of the sort. No one’s going to die because the gov’t won’t pay for a medical procedure. That’s what insurance companies do.

Insurance companies are spending $1.4 million dollars a DAY on lobbiests to go to washington and try to defeat this bill. I wonder. How many americans could get health insurance for that amount of money? I would have to think after you add all that money up, it’ll be quite a lot of them.

So honestly, when you sit down at night to watch the tv and drink your tasty beverage of choice, don’t believe the talking heads on tv telling you gov’t health care would be a horrible, socialist program that turns us into russia. American citizens already enjoy many programs that are ’socialist’ and no one is in the streets screaming about them.

If we can’t all have health care and it’s only for the rich, then this isn’t the country I thought it was when I was growing up. It’s become about greed instead of doing the right thing.. and it’s a shame.

So since 9-11 I’ve been a huge conspiracy buff. Up until that point, I never really paid much attention to what the US gov’t was up to. I was much younger and was busy living my life. I just plain didn’t care what was going on unless it impacted me personally.

After 9-11, there were a ton of videos showing mysterious explosions, debunking the offical reports on what actually happened.. and quite frankly, there was so much about that day that didn’t and still doesn’t add up that I still don’t know if I should believe what we were told. It’s just this huge clusterfuck that makes little to no sense and points to a lot of government involvement, or just plain negligence.

That’s not what this post is about tho. It’s just what got me started visting websites like infowars and prison planet. Watching videos about Fema camps and Plastic coffins. It was the beginning of a long, dark period in my life where I was convinced that rich, powerful people were looking to control us, enslave us and basically kill us.

Lately, it’s all been bordering on insanity. The republicans lost the last election and since then they’ve seized on every crazy conspiracy theory and they’ve convinced their base that it’s all true.

President Obama isn’t an american.

The gov’t is building camps to gas and dispose of mass amounts of americans.

Government engineered flu has been released into the population to kill millions of us.

The list goes on and on.

But yesterday I watched a video where Glenn Beck was telling all his viewers not to log into the cars.gov website because there’s some disclaimer, that he didn’t actually show on his program, saying the gov’t will take over your computer, know everything about you, see all your computer files.. especially that huge porn collection you’ve been amassing. Don’t try to hide it. We all know you’ve got one.

Here is a screen cap so you can all see this horrifying disclaimer :

Now.. the best part. That isn’t part of the cars.gov website. It’s for when the dealers log in to process a cash for clunkers vehicle. It’s a standard disclaimer that is put there to ensure they can’t get sued for anything.

With a little internet digging, a few links came up where I saw this exact same disclaimer mentioned. Here’s a forum post from November 11th 2002..

Because I’m a science geek in my spare time, I went here :

http://www.steelforge.com/infoservic…c/periodic.htm

I was innocently reading the entry on Vanadium, when I followed the big underlined link text “Isotopes”.

I ended up on a page for the Los Alamos National Laboratories, with this warning on it :

Notice: This is a Federal computer system and is property of the United States Government. It is for authorized use only. Users (authorized or unauthorized) have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy.
Any or all uses of this system and all files on the system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized Department of Energy, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign. By using this system, the user consents to such at the discretion of authorized site or Department of Energy personnel.

Unauthorized or improper use of this system may result in administrative disciplinary action and civil and criminal penalties. By continuing to use this system, you indicate your awareness of and consent to these terms and conditions of use. LOG OFF IMMEDIATELY if you do not agree to the conditions stated in this warning.

So now I’m sure I’ve just added another page to my FBI, CIA, and NSA files.
I’m also curious what’s so special about other Vanadium Isotopes. Time to investigate.

Here are two more gov’t websites showing the exact same disclaimer..

http://www.hps.org/notice.html

http://www.orau.gov/disclaimer.htm

Where was Glenn beck to protect and inform me that foreign governments were checking out my collection of midget porn 7 years ago? Oh that’s right… it didn’t fit his agenda then. What agenda you ask? To discredit the Democratic controlled governement of course.

See, the cash for clunkers program burned through $1 billion in less than a week. That’s a hell of a lot of cars being sold. And you know what that means? The car companies might actually start showing a profit again. They can hire more people to build more cars, and the companies that supply them with tires and windshields and carpeting, will also be hiring people to make more products.. then unemployement will go down and the economy will improve and then.. *gasp*.. Obama won’t have failed like Rush Limbaugh and all the other republicans want him to. Once that happens.. Horror of horrors.. Obama might actually get re-elected!!!!! OH NOES!

So why not scare people into thinking that if they go to a website set up to help them trade in their 1988 rusted out pick up truck, for a nice shiny new one for an incredible price, that they will have malware placed on their computers and forever be monitored by a gov’t with nothing better to do than watch you surf for chocolate cake recipes on a saturday afternoon.

I’d like to believe they have better things to do with their time than monitor the average american checking sports scores or wondering if it’s going to rain next tuesday.

So please, the next time you hear Glenn Beck or Alex Jones telling you the end is near… remember that there have always been people who were convinced the world was going to end next week and we were all going to die, yet here we are.