It should come as little surprise, as many of us already were saying that the massive federal grab of health-care would usher in a bevy of new taxation. Now Obama admits it, too.

When will people learn that the government is not there to help you, they want to control you and your earned money. they see your earnings as theirs. Any money you get to keep is because of their good-will. No wonder the TEA party movement is taken off…

So it is friday, notorious day for political hacks to drop documents or negative stories. What do you think will happen today? Anything on the Obama front, or just more delightful infighting?

There is nothing as annoying and wrong as the Death tax. The government has already taxed the money once and they then double dip after you die, in some cases destroying companies and farms that you spent your whole life building. Thankfully, George “The Boss” gets to avoid this evil by dying in the right year. The Democrats plan to relaunch the tax, back to the 45% rate of years ago.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Steinbrenner-Family-Exempt-From-Estate-Tax-98418909.html

We must stop them, but we cannot because this is what you voted for America. You wanted change, and change we got. More taxes, less helpful government and more civil rights violations by Obama than even Bush imagined.

Just wondering, is there anything that the White House will not blame on race? According to reports, they are now trying to paint al Queda as a bunch of racists. I guess in their minds that is much worse than just being a bunch of murdering terrorists out to kill Americans…

I thought Obama said that he wanted to move past and fix race relations in this country? If that is so then, once again he has surely failed.

Race relations is always a difficult subject. It divides the people and causes bitterness and anger. It also can be used as a wedge to damage political enemies. That is the way that the Obama people seem to be acting.

Michelle Obama, the First Lady no less, has spoken at the annual NAACP conference and has stoked racial fires. This is should be beneath a woman that has clearly not been held back due to her race. She is married to the first black man in the office of The President of the United States. She graduated from an Ivy League school and did quite well as a lawyer in her own right. Even though she has succeeded in this country, she harbors a deep bitterness that shows its head every so often, usually in political rallies. This is definitely beneath her office, which is sullied every time the administration seeks to divide the people instead of uniting us.

In fact, the whole Obama movement has thus far been one of division, attack and payback. As his personal approval ratings drop, his people have been on the attack. They are going after the Tea Party movement, trying to paint the members as racists, while at the same time they are trying to stop any investigation into the Black Panthers from violently blocking the voters in Philly.

We need to get past the vile racism that poisons our politics, I just wish the left would leave it like the right has.

I have been light blogging for a while due to the fact that I am a new father and I wanted to spend as much time with her as possible. Yet, as she gets older and more independent I now have more time to blog books and to go after Obama. As the election year gears up and the administration is more clumsy and autocratic than ever, now is the time to engage.

Shit My Dad Says

When I picked up this book I did not really know what to expect. I do believe that many of us have fathers that express outlandish things in quite embarrassing times. Yet I was quite entertained by the degree in which the author’s father would go to express his views. These made for a great little book.

I am always in awe of people that are bold enough to actually tell a small child that they are being an asshole. I have ban accused of being blunt and having a tact deficiency myself, but I never would intentionally make a small child cry just for being annoying. I say good job to the man for doing what clearly needed to be done.

This book started out as a twitter feed. A quite popular twitter feed at that. The idea that this could expanded into a good book was doubtful, but it worked. I could say that I annoyed people with my out-loud and constant laughing to the point of tears.

Zev Caffetts has written a new biography of Rush Limbaugh. Entitled Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, Chaffetts retells the life of the most successful radio host in the history of the medium. All of the ups and downs of Rush’s life are covered. It seems that there were no topics off limits. We are provided insight into the drug abuse, failed marriages and deafness that Rush has had to overcome to maintain his status as the greatest force in radio and an unstoppable force in the political arena.

Rush was born into a wealthy and locally powerful family, but he walked away from a sure and easy life to follow his love – radio. He was the black sheep born amongst a family of lawyers. He was certainly assured a position at the family firm – just as his younger brother who did follow the family way. Rush set out to the beat of his own drum and has reshaped the world of radio.

Even if you are not a fan, Chaffetts has provided the story that shows the undeniable truth that Rush did change the AM dial, which was once considered a dying format, but is now more profitable in certain markets than FM music radio. Rush basically created the talk show format as we know it today – freed from the tyranny of “equal time” and the vile “fairness doctrine” that hampered conservative thought from being expressed on the airwaves.

I belong to a non-fiction book club that meets every two months. We have a range of books that is quite diverse. It seems the non-fiction world has many subgenres and a lot of excellent books. This was my time to put forth a book and I chose The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. This is the best book we have so far read.

The book is wonderfully written and quite approachable, especially since this is a story that intersects biography and genetic/cellular science. Miss Skloot was able to really mold a story that did not get bogged down in the minutia that many biographies suffer. The story was told in a tight and entertaining way that keeps the story going and allows the reader some real level of excitement.

The story of Henrietta Lacks concerns the HeLa cells that are the foundation of our understanding of cellular reproduction and the basis for many of our lab testing on disease and possible cures. These cells were taken from at Johns Hopkins hospital from a poor black woman without her consent or knowledge. These cells were harvested from a cancer cluster in her uterus. Furthermore other cases of unethical research is examined.

Skloot spent an amazing amount of time and conducted many interviews of principals of the story that are still among the living. There are woeful tales of the lives that Henrietta left behind, her children living in continued poverty unable to afford health care – even though their mother’s cells have become a billion dollar business.

For all of the sadness of the book, it is a refreshing surprise to see that this is the first book the author has written. The book is so well done that I cannot wait to read more of her work in the future,

From Breitbart. Can you imagine if this were a GOP congressman? Where has the democratic principle of questioning authority gone? With the constant facist actions of the Democrat party, this comes as little surprise: