The Price Is Far Too High

Anyone who thinks government-run healthcare is a good thing, that it's just what we need, should take a very close look at the scandal rocking the Veteran's Administration right now, as well as other socialized medicine programs around the world. Believe it or not, liberals, those of us who speak out against government-run healthcare have our reasons.

Just today, the Inspector General's report on the VA scandal was released, which confirmed that veterans were made to wait ridiculously long times for appointments at the Phoenix VA hospital for an average of 115 days. The “official” VA data, by the way, showed that those vets waited an average of just twenty-four days. I don't know how you look at it, but my non-Common Core math says 115 days is over four times more than 24 days. Some veterans waited for an appointment as long as 155 days!!! The IG's report also said that the problems are “systemic” throughout the entirety of the VA.

The veterans of the United States military have been treated abysmally. The men and women who have written a blank check to the nation they love should be the first to receive healthcare: Before welfare recipients, before government bureaucrats, before anyone in either house of Congress, before anyone in the White House or the Supreme Court. I cannot emphasize that enough. Yet, as the IG report states, at the Phoenix VA alone there are as many as 1700 veterans in danger of being lost to the system due to not being on the Electronic Waiting List, or EWL, as well as up to 1400 veterans who are on the EWL but not yet received an appointment for their primary care physician.

Our veterans have left parts of themselves all over this planet. My own grandfather lost a leg fighting Nazi Germany. My father left a part of his soul in Vietnam fighting the spread of communism, not to mention the health issues he's had from being exposed to Agent Orange. Veterans having to wait for the care they were promised is disgraceful and reprehensible in the extreme. And for veterans to be basically denied care, most likely because the “official” EWL is the standard for VA worker's bonuses, it's unconscionable.

I understand that the problems at the VA didn't start with this administration, but King DingleBarry made multiple campaign promises to fix the issue during the 2008 campaign. He didn't “find out through media reports” as they've recently claimed, yet the majority of the mainstream media remains silent on this aspect of the story. It's true that the VA's budget has been essentially doubled over the last few years, but the VA also rolls over any unused funds from one year to the next. Approximately $450 million was rolled over from last year to this. Why was this money not used to get the waiting vets the healthcare they needed and deserved?

This scandal is stunning in its depth and breadth. The VA system is socialized medicine, and the problems inherent in the VA system will be multiplied, and amplified, across this country once Obamacare is fully and completely implemented. All one needs to do is look at nations with government-run healthcare to see that.

We're heading down a path that has already been trod upon, and right now, our veterans are paying a price they should never had been made to pay, and soon, we will all be paying that price. ~ Hunter

Video Games And Movies Aren't The Issue

How about we blame the actions of a CLEARLY disturbed individual ON THE INDIVIDUAL, instead of the old, and very tiresome, excuses of violent video games and movies.

Those things aren't the issue. The issue, to my mind, is PARENTING. Video games, for example, don't lead to shootings if - and here's the important part - parents teach their children to divorce FANTASY from REALITY.

My own son was playing Goldeneye on Nintendo 64 at a VERY young age, but I taught him that it WAS NOT REAL, nor was it something that should even be contemplated in real life.

The UCSB shooter was clearly unbalanced. All one need do is watch his YouTube video for evidence of that. He believed that women OWED him love and/or sex simply because he was, well, him. He had the CLASSIC entitlement mentality. He was the result of what's STILL going on in our screwels today - the "nobody wins, get a trophy just for participating" self-esteem social experimentation engineered by the Leftists that have hijacked our education system.

What happened in Isla Vista has everything to do with the shooter and his upbringing, and nothing whatsoever to do with video games or movies.

Let's stop giving the bad guys all the outs and start calling things like they are - EVIL.

A Reminder Of What Memorial Day Is, Or It Isn't About The Barbecue And Fireworks

In the midst of the holiday celebrations you'll have or attend this weekend, please make sure to remember why we have this holiday, and those who made, and still make, it possible for you to celebrate. Remember our honored dead.

All gave some: Some gave all.

The beginnings of Memorial Day are shrouded in the mists of time. There are many different versions of the “official” start of the holiday, but the two most prominent versions are wildly different.

The most commonly accepted version of the story begins in Waterloo, New York. In early May, 1866, Waterloo druggist Henry Welles finally got his oft-repeated wish to set aside a day to honor the nation's fallen soldiers.

According to the legend, General John B. Murray, a celebrated hero of the Civil War, supported Welles' cause and cajoled the town to hold a formal ceremony with music, a parade, and the draping of wreaths and black mourning clothes upon soldier's graves.

On 30 MAY 1867, the event was held again. In 1868, Waterloo invited neighboring towns to participate. As more and more towns began honoring their own fallen soldiers, thus the Memorial Day holiday was born.

Another origin story, slightly less well-known, is that Memorial Day started as “Decoration Day” in Charleston, South Carolina. Initiated by black Americans as a way to honor those Union soldiers who fought and died for the freedom of the former slaves.

On 01 MAY 1865, approximately ten thousand people took part in disinterring 257 Union soldiers from a mass grave. After giving them all proper burials in a cemetery setting, then cleaning and decorating the graves, Decoration Day was then filled with speeches by representatives and supporters of the Union, music, and marches. The new cemetery, named “Martyrs of the Race Course,” was prepared by the men of the town, mostly former slaves, ten days prior, complete with a large fence, as well as an entrance archway welcoming those who wished to honor the fallen soldiers.

Whether one origin story is more “true” than the other will probably never be known, at least not to anyone's satisfaction. What we do know to be true is the sentiment behind the holiday – to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the God-given freedoms guaranteed under our Constitution.

It's true that the barbecues, parties, family reunions, and fireworks displays that typically accompany Memorial Day are fun times, but if you don't teach your kids why this holiday even exists, the price paid in blood, you're shortchanging your children and your nation. Remember not just that this nation is still free, but also who has kept it free since its inception.

"It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing less than the absolute truth. ~ Hunter

Every Tom, Dick, Rose, Or Susie

Ladies and gentlemen, today I bring to you a rare treat – a guest post from none other than Cupcakes, a personal friend of mine. Formerly of Things Liberals Hate, she now posts on Liberals are Hypocrites, plus she has her own page – The Shenanigans of Cupcakes and Friends. If you haven't checked it out yet, you're missing a lot. She uses some colorful, but clean, language, and her style is a refreshing difference from my own. Please show her some For Love Of Country love. ~ Hunter

The mass shooting in California will be yet another reason libturds will be screaming for gun control. This is a sad story and I blame the modern day libturd for it. Our society has become a selfish one, people only caring about themselves ...and what they can get for free.

We have also become an immoral society...thinking sex with any Tom, Dick, Harry, Sally, Rose, or Susie is normal and expected. Well, take a hard look into Elliot Rodger's privileged eyes and know he was one sick puppy that was only a product of his environment. He felt as though he was being cheated because he couldn't find a girl that would screw him. Yuuuuup, that is what the murder of seven people boils down to...a 22 year old that couldn't get laid. Our society is sick, really sick. We stepped onto a slippery slope and our decline just gets faster and faster.

Want to know what the true fruits of abortion are? The devaluing of human life is the fruit of abortion. Life just isn't important in our society.

And here is another point to ponder: Why was this man's goal to get laid rather than be successful at some career. Could it be that daddy gave him everything and he felt as though that was the way it should be...getting something for nothing? I mean look at the guy's car and lifestyle he lived.

The bottom line is our society is producing mentally ill whackadoodles who all feel that the world should revolve around them and if it doesn't, they are going to at least get their five minutes of fame by doing something crazy and making at least a few people suffer.

We have gone full-blown topsy turvy!!! ~Cupcakes

'I will slaughter every single blonde s*** I see': Lonely killer posted chilling video warning of 'retribution' because he was still a virgin at age 22.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638049/7-dead-drive-shooting-near-UC-Santa-Barbara.html#ixzz32iswfQej



When Narcissism Meets An Inferiority Complex

***WARNING:  This video is creepy and disturbing on more levels than I care to count.  Viewer discretion is STRONGLY advised.***
This is the full video of the suspected UCSB shooter.
I didn't realize that it was possible to have an inferiority complex coupled to a god complex, but this scumbag manages to pull it off.
The narcissism is strong with this one. ~ Hunter
Elliot Rodger CHILLING videos just days before Go…: http://youtu.be/t-jCSZh2tMk

If Obama Had A Son Who Ran For Class President

Everyone remembers President Obama's ridiculous comment during the Trayvon Martin incident - "If I had a son, he'd look a lot like Trayvon Martin." - or something to that effect. Naturally, and totally keeping in character for him, he made this statement without really knowing the particulars of the case. Whether he was right or wrong about it is immaterial.  Here's a story about someone who seems much closer to what I imagine the son of the Great and Wondrous King DingleBarry would be like.

If President Obama had a son, and he was running for class president, he might just be like one young man who recently ran for class president at St. Peter’s Prep, in Jersey City, NJ.

In May, it was reported that a black student at the school received four racist text messages warning him to drop out of the race.

“We have NEVER and will NEVER have an (n-word) to lead our school,” was one of the messages supposedly sent to the 16-year-old student, who at the time, was a resident in Jersey City. The message went on to call President Obama by his middle name Hussein and used a racial slur in referring to Obama, a police report said. “We will never make that mistake again. Drop out right now . . .” it continued, a police report said.

A second message read “Whites! Your a waste on this earth, a waste at this school, and most importantly a Waste for this campaign.” That message called the student government candidate a “slave” and used a racial slur, a report said.

The third message texted to — and as it turns out from — the student, contained a warning to drop out of the race and the fourth read, in part, “COMEONE your black!!! lol your a joke for even trying to run,” according to a police report.

Michah Onditi, 16, who eventually lost the election, and became class Vice-President, no longer attends St. Peter’s, but the entire incident has been thrown into a new light with the revelation that the student who sent the vile text messages was……..Michah Onditi.

“The entire Saint Peter’s Prep community is relieved that this extremely distressing incident has found closure, and we commend the various law enforcement officials for their diligent work on this case over the past months,” said school spokesman James Horan, who confirmed the results of the probe after its disclosure by a police source.

At the time Onditi received the texts, he notified his parents and school officials, who in turn reported the incident to the police. The police, however, were unable to immediately to identify the sender due to the texts being sent through a smartphone app called TEXTME.

In an interview with The Jersey Journal at the time the texts were sent, the boy’s father said his son was “extremely nervous and feels threatened” and did not want to be interviewed.

“He is the type of boy who does not want any kind of trouble,” the father said. “It’s so sad. He doesn’t want the image of the school to be tainted.”

“It is a predominantly white school and there may be a few sections of the school who are fearful of a new face trying to get in office,” the father also said at the time.

There has been no comment from the family since the hoax was revealed, and Jersey City police spokesman, Bob McHugh, has also refused to comment due to Onditi being a minor.

Sex Ed For Kindergartners, Or What's Left For The Left To Destroy?

Chicago has a lot of problems, as if having Rahm Emanuel as mayor wasn’t enough.

Out of over 500 murders in 2012, 443 were committed by firearms despite the city having a near total ban on guns, giving the city a higher murder rate than New York City, which has nearly TRIPLE the population of Chicago. The third largest public school system in the nation, with approximately 431,000 students, had a $1 BILLION (yes, you read that correctly) budget shortfall, which forced the layoffs of 2,968 total school employees - 1,456 of those were teachers - as well as the closings of fifty schools. Seriously, the list could go on and on.

The latest curriculum addition from the wondrous and wonderful public school district, instituted at the beginning of this school year (and remember, they were expecting to be $1 billion in the red this year): Sexual education for all children in the school district. Every child, every grade – even kindergartners. I very much wish that was a joke, but sadly, it isn’t.

None of the educators or politicians seemed to have a big problem with this, either. After all, they tried, and failed, to pass a bill for the entire state when President Obama was just lowly state senator Obama. SB99, which is, as far as I can tell, as similar to these new regulations as to be virtually identical, pushed for eliminating all references to marriage in the Illinois sex education code, and required that all material used in classrooms be age – and developmentally appropriate and medically accurate. It would also have expanded sexual education to students in kindergarten through fifth grade and mandated that students be taught the age of consent, positive communication skills, and that they [the student] have the power to control behavior.

I’m quite sure that the school district, as a whole, has the best of intentions. The problem is whether or not sexual education is a role the State should have in the lives of our children. Will parents be allowed to decide whether or not their kids are exposed to this until the parents believe the time is right? Remember, we’re talking about children as young as five.

I’m not against sexual education. I just happen to believe that parents, and parents alone, should make the determination when that education should begin. It should certainly not be mandatory for a child in kindergarten. I went to Catholic schools for most of my formative years, and even there we had some form of sexual education. It wasn’t much, given the teaching source, and it certainly focused more on abstinence than anything else, but it got the job done. My parents filled in the gaps, and therein lies the point of this blog post.

We can debate the usefulness of sex-ed courses, and the role it does or doesn’t have on teen pregnancy, teen sexual activity, the transmission or prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, etc., and that is a worthy debate, but when 79% of students in your school district can’t read at their own grade level, is teaching sex-ed to 5-year-olds really the best and most cost-efficient use of money for an already cash-strapped school district?

One thing I’d really like to know – are they going to teach the kids that abstinence is the only tried-and-true, 100% guaranteed method to prevent pregnancy and STD’s? I’m not going to hold my breath…

This is just one, glaringly obvious example of why conservatives say there's more indoctrination than education in the public school system. ~ Hunter