Internet Porn in the workplace: One and done

I find this article mind boggling: Is Internet Porn Destroying America?

IMHO, at the workplace, it's one warning and your done. Do your porn surfing at home.

Glenn Reynolds on iPad3: I also noticed that it seemed to run considerably hotter.

That was yesterday. How prescient as Consumer Reports reported today that the iPad3 "hits" 116 degrees.

Measles in Europe

U.S. travelers to Olympics may bring home measles, CDC warns

Measles strikes worldwide but is of special concern in Western Europe, Wallace says. The disease had been under control there until a 1998 paper in the British medical journal The Lancet purported a link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. It also said the vaccine caused gastrointestinal disorders in children.

Vaccination rates fell after the paper gained widespread publicity. It was later revealed that Andrew Wakefield, the main author, had faked his research. The paper was retracted in 2010, and Wakefield was banned from practicing medicine. Vaccination rates are again rising in Europe, but in England and France they remain too low to fully control the disease.

Thanks Mr. Wakefield.

Obama Still Lying About Mother’s Health Insurance Problem

Why oh why am I not suprised that he keeps lying about his Mom and health insurance company in his new campaign documentary edited by Tom Hanks.

Repeat after me: Barack Obama's mother NEVER had an issue with her health insurance paying claims. Barack Obama's mother NEVER had an issue with her health insurance paying claims. Barack Obama's mother NEVER had an issue with her health insurance paying her claims.

Point 1:

President Obama’s willingness to falsify the facts about a personal tragedy in order to make a political point speaks volumes about not only his cynicism but also his character. It’s important to remember that this is no misunderstanding but rather a bald-faced lie.

Point 2:

President Obama never apologized for his original lie. He just assumed, rightly it turns out, that even though this whopper was uncovered by the New York Times, neither that paper nor the rest of the liberal mainstream media would pursue the matter further as they almost certainly would (and should have) had his Republican predecessor been found out in a similar matter. Thus encouraged, he has now repeated the falsehood, albeit artfully recast in an attempt to avoid blame.

Jonathin Tobin concludes:

Having won election and then rammed his ObamaCare bill through Congress in part on the strength of this false argument, he has doubled down on it with the lie now coming from the lips of American’s favorite everyman, actor Tom Hanks as well as in edited clips of interviews with the president and his wife. Kessler gives the performance three out of a possible four Pinocchios on his scale of accuracy. This seems a bit generous but the point is that the story proves that Obama is willing to do and/or say anything, even lying about the death of his mother, in order to gain an advantage. That he thinks repeating the lie will help him get re-elected says a lot about what he thinks of the intelligence of the American people and the integrity of the press that failed to vet him the first time around.

No doubt the local paper will continue to carry Obama's water for him. Ahh, the integrity of the press (and the arrogance that comes with it).

Oh and let's put a plug in for insurance companies while were at it. The individual policy that I personally own has paid for 3 surgeries and 8 hospital stays for my daughter. Well I guess I can't say they have paid for the last surgery as she just got home on Saturday (she's doing fine). Only TWO issues the whole time. One was taken care of before I was aware of a problem, the other did take up some time, but basically came down to an ambulance company and the insurance company not being able to communicate. One PITA cliam and I'm sure well over $300,000 paid out.

How long does it take to drive 80 miles...

if you're traveling at 80 miles per hour.



Oh my....

I can't believe New Yorker's are this stoopid

Food police

DHS Commissioner Seth Diamond says the ban on food donations is consistent with Mayor Bloomberg’s emphasis on improving nutrition for all New Yorkers. A new interagency document controls what can be served at facilities — dictating serving sizes as well as salt, fat and calorie contents, plus fiber minimums and condiment recommendations.

Most likely Michael Bloomberg would be welcomed with open arms in Boulder as this is micromanaging that Boulder Progressives love. Which brings us to the subtitle of this blog...

"So why do intelligent people consistently make such a hash of things? Because they are smart enough to talk themselves into anything. Ordinary mortals don’t engage in fancy mental gymnastics to reach conclusions that defy common sense. But intellectuals are particularly prone to this." (Shikka Dalmia, Reason Mag, 10/4/2011)

Speaking of Polls:

John Hinderaker: Hill Poll Results Grim For Obama

Another question in the survey was whether the Supreme Court will uphold Obamacare. This was not a question about the respondent’s preference, but rather a prediction about what the court will do. The result was striking:

Court will rule Obamacare unconstitutional: 49%
Court will uphold health care law: 29%
Not sure: 22%

I am firmly in the “not sure” camp, but it is interesting to see how many voters both want Obamacare repealed (according to other polls) and expect the Supreme Court to strike it down (according to this one).

Polls, who to belive:

As Health Care Law’s Trial Approaches, Two-Thirds Say Ditch Individual Mandate (Washington Post/ABC)

This ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that Americans oppose the law overall by 52-41 percent. And 67 percent believe the high court should either ditch the law or at least the portion that requires nearly all Americans to have coverage.

OR

Affordable Care Act approaches birthday, Supreme Court challenge

The Kaiser Family Foundation's recent poll on the act showed that on the eve of the Supreme Court hearing arguments against the act, 42 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the reform, while 46 had an unfavorable view.

Waiting for President Obama's phone call

That would be Bristol Palin...

And I totally agree your kids should be able to speak their minds and engage the culture. I look forward to seeing what good things Malia and Sasha end up doing with their lives.

But here’s why I’m a little surprised my phone hasn’t rung. Your $1,000,000 donor Bill Maher has said reprehensible things about my family. He’s made fun of my brother because of his Down’s Syndrome. He’s said I was “f—-d so hard a baby fell out.” (In a classy move, he did this while his producers put up the cover of my book, which tells about the forgiveness and redemption I’ve found in God after my past – very public — mistakes.)

If Maher talked about Malia and Sasha that way, you’d return his dirty money and the Secret Service would probably have to restrain you. After all, I’ve always felt you understood my plight more than most because your mom was a teenager. That’s why you stood up for me when you were campaigning against Sen. McCain and my mom — you said vicious attacks on me should be off limits.

Yet I wonder if the Presidency has changed you. Now that you’re in office, it seems you’re only willing to defend certain women. You’re only willing to take a moral stand when you know your liberal supporters will stand behind you.

But…

What if you did something radical and wildly unpopular with your base and took a stand against the denigration of all women… even if they’re just single moms? Even if they’re Republicans?

No need to worry, that would be called LEADERSHIP

h/t to Ann Althouse.

added 3/19@13:16p

Glenn Reynolds:

Interesting that the Dems thought they had a big winner on this whole “war against women” thing, but it’s the people on the right who are gleefully keeping it alive now . . . .

As Glenn would say, Indeed.

Thought you could keep your (health) coverage?

That IS what Obama said. Think again.

As many as 20 million Americans could lose the health insurance they now receive from their employers under President Obama's new health care reforms, a report released Thursday shows.

But the report from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation said 20 million would be the worst-case scenario and that it's possible that the number of people losing their current employer-provided insurance wouldn't exceed 5 million between 2019 and 2022.

The agencies warned, however, that they can't really be sure how many people will lose their current coverage if the law is rolled out as planned in a few years

In case you forgot... (you only need to watch the first 30 seconds)

Illegal to collect rainwater

So it is.

Bill Whittle on Thailand: "... and if all of this sounds really awful, well it wasn't"

Bill Whittle returns from Bangkok to bring you the truth about world poverty. From prostitution, to the crumbling infrastructure, hear the lessons Whittle learned on his trip to the third world. Notwithstanding the poverty, could the Thai people be experiencing a freedom long lost in the United States? Find out.

Rand Simberg weighs in on the "war on women" and the Left

The Left’s Long-Time War on Women

Concluding...

So when you see a White House staffed with people nurtured in such a radical environment, as Barack Obama himself was, it shouldn’t be surprising at all to see the old Leftist misogyny and sexism (and lies and projection) continue. It’s in the movement’s DNA. So when they talk about a war on women, it should be pretty tough for anyone knowledgeable to take them seriously. Unfortunately, that category probably doesn’t yet include the mainstream media.

Unfortunately

Sarah A Hoyt: Let me tell you what war is, okay?

Excerpt of her rant. Read the whole thing.

War is where the enemy decimates your numbers – like, say in China where abortion is killing mostly females.

War is where you are kept from learning – like in most Arab countries, where women have restrictions placed on their education.

War is where your houses are burned, your children taken away into slavery, your goods looted, and you are dragged away in chains.

In the United States, right now, women have preferential treatment – by law – in any company that gets federal funds (which heaven help us, right now, is most of them.) Women live longer than men. Cancers that affect females get more money and more attention than those that affect only men. Women have the right to be sole deciders on abortion, and if they decide to keep the child and make the man pay, he pays. (This by the way is a complete reversal of the “penalty” of sex which used to fall mostly on women.) And if he doesn’t pay, he goes to jail. Divorce courts award custody to mothers overwhelmingly. Oh, and in college campuses, women outnumber men.

If this is war it is war on men. And I’ve had just about enough of everyone who claims otherwise.

Oh, and she's not done, much more inflammatory rhetoric, at least from the progressvie point of view, follows.

h/t to Glenn Reynolds.

Boulder, time to step up...

Obama’s high-dollar donations lagging

Bummer... or something.

...But from here on in I am looking for ways to help right thinking businesses.

Glenn Reynolds: This seems to be a trend.

I’m a long-time reader who usually has no time or patience for social activists or activism. I find staying out of one another’s way works best. But even I have reached a point where I realize Edmund Burke was right and standing aside is no answer. All I’ve done is cancel my HBO account. But from here on in I am looking for ways to help right thinking businesses.

Sign me up.

Bill Maher: You know, no one at my shows ever objects to me calling Palin a “c*nt”

.. and that, quite honestly, is a real problem.

So why isn’t the mainstream media asking him what he means, that he’s generally proud of our troops?

asks Michael Brown.

"But the feminists didn’t get mad. Favreau was on their team, so he had privileges."

Curious?

Thus the courage of the secular left: If you’re going to be “provocative”, it’s best to do it with people who can’t be provoked.

Mark Steyn...

Thus the courage of the secular left: If you’re going to be “provocative”, it’s best to do it with people who can’t be provoked. Pamela is right. If you want to be treated with respect by The New York Times and the rest of the multiculti establishment, make it clear you’re willing to kill them. That’s an interesting message to send.

Yes... it is.