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Pelosium Discovered

A major research institution has just announced the discovery of the densest element yet known to science. The new element has been named Pelosium.

Pelosium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311. These particles are held together by dark forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. The symbol of Pelosium is PU. Pelosium's mass actually increases over time, as morons randomly interact with various elements in the atmosphere and become assistant deputy neutrons within the Pelosium molecule, leading to the formation of isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to believe that Pelosium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical Morass. When catalyzed with money, Pelosium activates CNNadnausium, an element that radiates orders of magnitude more energy, albeit as incoherent noise, since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons as Pelosium.

Paint It Black

Here is an interesting view of unemployment figures by county in the US over the past 3 years. Note that the color black is unemployment over 10% and purple is 7%-9.9% and 2009 appears to be the onset of a blackout in way too many counties while many are bruised in purple and trending to black.

As the "Healthcare Summit" approaches Thursday and threats of reconciliation loom it might help congressional leaders to note that Americans without jobs question the wisdom of focusing so much time on health care reform when the economy is in the toilet.

Look at all the red states turning black and purple. When my kids where little I would play Mick Jagger singing You Can't Always Get What You Want. The would ask for something and I would inquire, what does Mick Jagger say? To the majority party as you watch your red states turn black I would point you to Micks lyrics from Paint It Black below

Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts.
Its not easy facing up when your whole world is black.

Politicians better start facing facts before they face the voters in November or their seats will be fading away.

Merry Christmas From Congress

Support for Health Care Reform Falls to New Low

Rasmussen poll shows Americans are not drinking the Kool-Aid on health care/insurance reform.

Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan. That’s down five points from two weeks ago and down eight points from six weeks ago.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that opposition to the plan has increased to 53%, up nine points since late June.

More significantly, 44% of voters strongly oppose the health care reform effort versus 26% who strongly favor it. Intensity has been stronger among opponents of the plan since the debate began.

Sixty-seven percent (67%) of those under 30 favor the plan while 56% of those over 65 are opposed. Among senior citizens, 46% are strongly opposed.

The Left Is Self-Destructing Over Health Care reform

Everyone should read Camille Paglia's post on The Obama Healthcare Horror.

Obama seems to be surrounded by juvenile tinhorns, bumbling mediocrities
and crass bully boys.
Case in point: the administration's grotesque
mishandling of healthcare reform, one of the most vital issues facing the
nation. Ever since Hillary Clinton's megalomaniacal annihilation of our last
best chance at reform in 1993 (all of which was suppressed by the mainstream
media when she was running for president), Democrats have been longing for that
happy day when this issue would once again be front and center.

But who
would have thought that the sober, deliberative Barack Obama would have nothing
to propose but vague and slippery promises -- or that he would so easily cede
the leadership clout of the executive branch to a chaotic, rapacious,
solipsistic Congress? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom I used to admire for her
smooth aplomb under pressure, has clearly gone off the deep end with her bizarre
rants about legitimate town-hall protests by American citizens. She is doing
grievous damage to the party and should immediately step down.

The president is promoting the most colossal, brazen bait-and-switch
operation since the Bush administration snookered the country into invading Iraq
with apocalyptic visions of mushroom clouds over American cities.

You can keep your doctor; you can keep your insurance, if you're happy
with it, Obama keeps assuring us in soothing, lullaby tones. Oh, really? And
what if my doctor is not the one appointed by the new government medical boards
for ruling on my access to tests and specialists? And what if my insurance
company goes belly up because of undercutting by its government-bankrolled
competitor? Face it: Virtually all nationalized health systems, neither
nourished nor updated by profit-driven private investment, eventually lead to
rationing.

I just don't get it. Why the insane rush to pass a bill, any bill, in
three weeks? And why such an abject failure by the Obama administration to
present the issues to the public in a rational, detailed, informational way? The
U.S. is gigantic; many of our states are bigger than whole European nations. The
bureaucracy required to institute and manage a nationalized health system here
would be Byzantine beyond belief and would vampirically absorb whatever savings
Obama thinks could be made. And the transition period would be a nightmare of
red tape and mammoth screw-ups, which we can ill afford with a faltering
economy.

As with the massive boondoggle of the stimulus package, which Obama
foolishly let Congress turn into a pork rut, too much has been attempted all at
once; focused, targeted initiatives would, instead, have won wide public
support. How is it possible that Democrats, through their own clumsiness and
arrogance, have sabotaged healthcare reform yet again? Blaming obstructionist
Republicans is nonsensical because Democrats control all three branches of
government. It isn't conservative rumors or lies that are stopping healthcare
legislation; it's the justifiable alarm of an electorate that has been cut out
of the loop and is watching its representatives construct a tangled labyrinth
for others but not for themselves. No, the airheads of Congress will keep their
own plush healthcare plan -- it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown
to the wolves.