The elite's bogus appeal to 'authority'
Tom Rowan
One of the ruling class's favorite propaganda points is that they are smart and if you disagree with them you, in fact, are dumb.
Historian Paul Johnson pointed out the liberal ruling class's penchant for self puffery when he wrote Intellectuals. To give you an idea of where Johnson was going, chapter 1 is titled - Jean-Jacques Rousseau; ‘An Interesting Madman.'

Thomas Sowell exposes the "intellectual" ruling class who, as National Review put it, "Exalt themselves by denigrating our society - and are working to destroy it."

Liberals are self described authorities on everything.

Persuasive speech writing technique implores that the speech giver make an "appeal to authority" to persuade his audience. This is why Algore tells his audience that they don't have to take his word for it, just ask the experts. Ask the scientists, they are the authorities!

The "top nine authoritative science phrases in print media" are: science tells us we should, science requires, science dictates, science compels, science commands; science says we should, science tells us we must, and science says that we must. The print media makes science out to be a dictatorial prima donna or spoiled child actor.
This technique is used by Obama relentlessly. He implores us that "most leading economists" agree with him on everything. The only problem with that theory is that economists like Keynes are never held into account for their disastrous prescriptions. Algore can tell us that he invented the internet, was the original muse for Love Story, and that he is not bound by any "controlling legal authority" yet he is to be given a pass by the media. Being part of the ruling class means never having to say you are sorry or having to be proved to right about anything.

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Palin, Limbaugh, and Reagan are to be mocked as less than intelligent. The left's assault on Palin is not in the battle of ideas, where the left always loses; it is on her appearance and her propagandized lack of intellect. Limbaugh was once again correct in his analysis of the Gulf oil spill. Time magazine's putrid Michael Grunwald gave credit to Rush by noting that the "obnoxious and anti-environmentalist" Rush Limbaugh was right. And who can forget the "amiable dunce" president we had who defeated the Soviet Union and created the largest peacetime economic expansion in the history of mankind?

One thing is for sure: When it comes to the issues that face the US, Palin has been right on where Obama has only floundered.

Bernice: Someday the "P" will stand for "President"

Bernice: Read my lips, "NO NEW BUSHES"

Bernice: I looked up google...."P" stands for Prescott.

Ferris Bueller: "P" stands for ....who knows...I don't....I just heard that he had eyes on running for Gov., then the white house.

Ferris Bueller: ummmmm he is the son of GW Bush's Brother.....are you in america? I would have thought you would have known that.

Bernice:  Who is "George P Bush"?  And what does the P stand for?  LOL

Artful Dodger: makes for another record LOL...3 times misery....ROFL

Bernice: He has promise. Imagine, another Bush in the White House. ;)

I asked this further down the board but didnt get any reaction.....so I will try again.

George P Bush for president???

Ferris Bueller: And anyway, in this case SPAM means

SuPremely
Accurate
eMail

Ferris Bueller: Hey, I picked on Palin so I had to pick on the dems too.

Artful Dodger:  That's real old spam forwarded through email.  Exterminate your junk mail.  LOL

Here's a short spelling lesson:

The last four letters in "American" = I Can

The last four letters in "Republican" = I Can

The last four letters in "Democrats" = Rats

End of Lesson. Test to follow in November. November will be set aside as rodent extermination month.

I do like Sarah Palin but even so, this is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. After her latest blunder with vocabulary, it was said that she finds her words in a "fictionary."

Trident submarine renewal costs are no longer to be paid for by the Treasury. The Mod has been told it'll have to pay for the £20 billion out of it's budget, half it's budget for 2010-2011 new 'kit'.

Some say if the middle east goes all nuclear we could be in a new arms race...
... I heard that between the USA and Russia there are still enough nuclear weapons to 'kill' the world.

The SNP wants Trident scrapped and the money spent on the rest of the armed services.

Do we need nukes in the UK?? We got the Vulcan.. after that every thing else just doesn't live up to that beautiful plane.

..... Apart from Concorde

Northwest Airlines is to plead guilty and pay a $38m (£24m) fine for its role in fixing air-cargo prices, the US Department of Justice has said.

The department said as part of a plea deal Northwest would co-operate with an ongoing anti-trust investigation.

Northwest Airlines Cargo, which is no longer operating, conspired to fix air-cargo rates from July 2004 to February 2006, the department added.

Northwest was taken over by Delta Air Lines in a £1.7bn deal in October 2008.

Northwest has agreed to plead guilty to a single offence, said the DoJ.

So far a total of 16 airlines have pleaded guilty or agreed to do so in an ongoing investigation into price-fixing in air cargo, it added.

More than $1.6bn in criminal fines has been paid by airlines, and four executives have received prison sentences.

OMB nominee got $900,000 after Citigroup bailout

The most honest, the most transparent administration in history has another ethics problem with one of its key nominees.

Jacob Lew has been tapped to replace the departing OMB chief Peter Orszag:

President Obama's choice to be the government's chief budget officer received a bonus of more than $900,000 from Citigroup Inc. last year -- after the Wall Street firm for which he worked received a massive taxpayer bailout.

opps

Jim Dandy: John Stewart.

Artful Dodger: Are you speaking of Basil Marceaux?

Ferris Bueller: I was falling off my chair. It doesn't matter who he picks on, he can make anyone laugh. His humor, facial expressions, quick wit, and everything else he does is just too good. Glad you liked it.

It seems the major concern about the switch over in the NHS system by a number of GP's is the possibility of management of the new system is outsourced by GP's to private companies. Why... because a private company might favour a sister company. Plus a tendency of private companies to boot services into a higher price band. Eg.. calling having stitches in at birth as a "complication".

GP's here know that with private care costs can be heightened. Independent healthcare providers have been noted going for easy fix treatments such as hip op's and turn down complicated healthcare such as mental illnesses. When shareholders come before care there is a major conflict in interests.

What's more.. this new service is not being brought into service by a socialist government. We have in the UK now a Conservative led coalition.

No matter what (from reading several articles) the doctor's here do not want privatisation.

Artful Dodger:  Jon Stewart is priceless.  He gets a shot in at everyone. LMAO.  Good post.

Pedro Martínez:  He's gonna be a great comedy relief!  

Jim Dandy:

Pedro Martínez:" Except violating a citizen rights this would be a special punishment"

Artful Dodger: “VOTE FOR ME AND IF I WIN I WILL IMMUNE YOU FROM ALL STATE CRIMES FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE!”

Artful Dodger: same thing,I'll check it out later

Jim Dandy:  How about this:  http://www.thedailyshow.com/videos/tag/Shirley%20Sherrod

Artful Dodger: that link doesn't work for m.I would need to go to the website that carries it here in Canada, and that's a shlep I'm not motivated enough to make right now

Jim Dandy: 

Artful Dodger: no drivers license or social security number?

Artful Dodger: I'm with Bernice, intelligence comes to mind when listening to Basil

Bernice: He's probably a democrat pretending to be a Republican. He kinda reminds me of Joe Biden by the way he says things.

Jim Dandy: sure as hell has a lot of intelligence....

Basil Marceaux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCY99-Y540&feature=related

Another point it seems the USA conservatives here do not mention.

... why is it that someone close to the Canadian border pays $250 for a check up in the USA yet only $50 over the border in Canada??

Is it transportation costs? Taxes??

Or just plain greed???

Isn't it interesting how the Conservatives in the USA distort and lie through inaccurate and basically ignorance.

The NHS is being simplified. The GP's are being given the ability to decide on how the money is spent.. after all they know their patients the best.

BP.... the major lawyers being involved in cases with the company in the USA let loose on how BP is responsible for 97% of recent on shore criminal and disasters based on their negligence and lack of care.

.... Something the USA conservatives do not mention.. you can't blame Obama for a companies continual lack of care.

... more so today... wikkileaks open up on Afghanistan. The main man of the organisation does tell on how under the Bush admin telling the truth was criminal, yet Obama has changed that.

Snoopy: I don't trust most politicians. And the more I learn of the reckless spending of the Bush administration, the more I dislike his policies too. Obama is worse. He's a liar. A slick willie. He doesn't keep promises and he'll tell you what you want to hear and then he'll do whatever he likes. Biden is a liar too.

Artful Dodger: i guess the bottom line is you CANNOT spend your way out of a recession
every man woman and child in the UK will paying for the past Labour governments mistake for the next 30+ years

Snoopy: American's need to wake up. People won't like this but many blacks that voted for Obama expected him to help them buy a house and get back on their feet. They expected "stuff." They didn't get it. Obama is a big talker but he is only a talker. He can't deliver. What he's bringing to the American people will not work, and will cost trillions and there will be no benefits.

Artful Dodger: been broken for years
been underfunded for years
and your quite correct in saying it depends on your post code alot of the time whether you get the treatment needed
esp cancer drugs

http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=1459

Tuesday: You tell me.

Did you know that not all people will be covered? Even in 10 years there will still be 21 million people that are NOT covered. So much for universal health care.

Britain's national health care system is broken.

Some of the most common operations - including hip replacements and cataract surgery - will be rationed as part of attempts to save billions....

There are plans to cut hundreds of thousands of pounds from budgets for the terminally ill, with dying cancer patients to be told to manage their own symptoms if their condition worsens at evenings or weekends.

The closure of nursing homes for the elderly.

Medicare chief Donald Berwick - said that rationing is the wave of the future and there''s nothing that can be done except have government determine who gets what as far as health care is concerned.

Rationing. That's what death panels do. They tell you that you can't have this procedure because you're too old or it's too costly etc. It will happen.

Britain Decentralizing National Health Care
by NB Staff


Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England's $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers. The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government's goal to effect $30 billion in "efficiency savings" in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.

Isn't it embarrassing that as European nations realize their socialist programs are bankrupting them we have a President and an entire political Party trying to emulate here what is failing there?