Who Dat ??????????????

Obama's Health Care Czar - "It Takes A Village"

                                                                           

     President Barack Hussein Obama's new appointee, Dr. Tseste Fly as Health Care Czar is unfazed by the stir he is causing in both conservative and liberal camps. Critics are quick to point out that Dr. Fly has no experience with the health care system in the US. In addition, allegations are surfacing that the Kenyan National's Witch Doctor's license had been revoked after an investigation revealed he had been administering performance enhancing drugs to the Kenyan Olympic Track and Field team.

    "Dems jus vicious attacks", Fly stated in an interview with the Kenyan Kronicle. "I have entered de lion's den", Tseste said, "De big insurance companies ah like de mother lion and de mother lion is jus tryin to protect her cubs. Dey tink I am goin to kill away all de cubs but dey doan see dat in ahda to save de pride de weak ones must die."

    That philosophy is adding fuel to the fire over Obama's purported "Death Panel", where government will decide who get's the life or death treatment they need.

    "Dat is jus crazy screams from de hyenas", Dr. Fly continued, "Dare is no one mon or no one panel who will make de choices". Borrowing a line from another failed proponent of Universal health care Fly went on to state, "It takes a village, ahl peoples mus come togetha to make dis wok. Dare ah many hungry animals in de jungle and we mus fight dem wit our spears and minds"

    It remains to be seen if Dr. Fly can summon the right voodoo chant to bring everyone together on this issue. The chasm between the two sides at this point certainly seems unbridgeable. Dr. Fly will be flying in to address a gathering of health care professionals in New York next week. The minutes of that meeting will be forwarded to the Congressional Subcommitee for Socialist Healtcare Reform sometime in January.

UPDATE:  PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE CZAR DR. TSESTE FLY, WAS TRAMPLED AND KILLED TODAY BY A ROGUE ELEPHANT. DOCTORS WERE UNABLE TO SAVE MR. FLY IN TIME SINCE REDI-HUT WAS SHUTTERED ON THE HEELS OF GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE, AND THE EXPRESS EMERGENCY HUT WAS ELIMINATED IN FAVOR OF THE PREVENTATIVE CARE CAMP. THE WHITE HOUSE IS EXPECTED TO BE NAMING A REPLACEMENT BY THURSDAY.

  

Bridge to Babylon

                                                                             

    The Verrazano Bridge linking Staten Island to Brooklyn will soon become my bridge back home. At the foot of it, on the Brooklyn side, lie both my childhood and my future. As I travel back in time across it's span over turbulent waters,  I will walk forward , side by side, with my friend, my lover, my partner, Betty.

Betty, I can't wait to come home.

French Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan

    Three French soldiers have been killed in a violent storm in north-eastern Afghanistan the BBC quotes French military officials as saying. The soldiers, serving with a parachute regiment, "died accidentally" at night in Kapisa province, officials said. Army spokesman Christophe Prazuck said one of the soldiers was hit by lightning and the other two were swept away by a fast flowing river.


                                                                          

    The rest of the French regiment appears to be ok after immediately surrendering to a local DOPPLER RADAR station.

Weekend Music

Barack Hussein Obama Heads UN Security Council

What Could Possibly Go Wrong ?

Study Finds Most NYC Cabbies Illegal Aliens

    Having trouble communicating with your cab driver lately? Well, we're not alone. Up to 85% of NYC cabbies are aliens, many of them illegal. Ben Better, a clinically depressed out patient at Bellvue Hospital is not surprised. "I'm bummed," Ben said. " The other day I was having a particularly bad day. It was raining and I was really tired, I've been sick you know, and well, I just didn't want to go outside but I had to because I had an appointment with Dr. Gladly. Dr. Glady says he's always happy to see me but I don't believe him. Anyway, I hailed a cab and it was one of these, these aliens, you know, and I ask him to take me to Bellvue. Next thing I know I'm in Philly standing in front of the Liberty Bell with a bunch of school kids from Iowa asking me where the bathroom was. Do you think these shoes look OK? I don't like them. They're too tight and and the laces,... oh I can go on about the laces!"

    Unfortunately, Mr. Better's experience is not unique. On any given day, thousands of New Yorkers are either taken to the wrong address or forced to endure extended rides because the alien cabbies don't understand the directions. Gad Zooks, an alien cabbie from the Libera Galaxy thinks the aliens are getting a bad rap. "I think rap is bad", Zooks said. "All us Liberals want to do is come to your place here and qualify for free health care. In our Galaxy, we have to pay for our own health care but I heard that your President is giving out Universal health coverage to everyone, even aliens. So we come for that. I'm especially interested in the dental coverage."

    The study didn't address whether or not the situation would change should Universal Health Care be defeated in Congress. Researchers are currently trying to determine if the influx of aliens will help expedidite former President Bush and NASA's plan on moving the rest of us to Mars by 2012. Meanwhile the current administration is going ahead with plans to build a spaceport since financing has already been approved as part of the Stimulus Bill in the Galaxy Recovery Act.

Lose in Afghanistan ????? (huh, what, why, what did I miss? ...Or to put it another way, What did THEY forget?))

    Lately there has been alot of talk about the war in Afghanistan and polls showing that most Americans now believe that it is a fruitless endeavour. Some are even suggesting that we cut and run, we have no business being there. Oh really.

 
    If we shouldn't be in Afghanistan, then where should we be? I have an opinion. Not one most people like or care to hear but I believe it to be true. You know, hindsight is both the arguement of fools and the best teacher. It's easy to look back on an event and find fault, then lay blame at the feet of the men and women who HAD to make the tough decisions. Men and women who stand on both sides of the aisle. Men and women who believe in their heart, just as strongly as you and I believe,that they are doing the right thing. Our press today is content eating caviar ladened toast points washed down with champagne with one hand while the other hand writes about the disparity between the rich and the poor. They decry every manuever our leader's make to try and keep us safe, but are the first to cry that more should have been done when a tragedy (or the inevitable) happens. Imagine if Wolf Blitzer did a live remote from the beaches of Nornandy on June 6th 1944 when THOUSANDS of American kids (men) lost their lives. I suppose the arguement may be made that if we'd have had the type of instantanious news coverage we have today, Hitler would have been stopped in Poland. Perhaps, but I doubt it.

    We stand by idly today and watch the murder of hundreds of thousands from every corner of the globe on cable then scramble to the store to make sure we have enough Parmesan cheese for tonight's meal. We are spoiled. We, despite the loss of 2996 innocent people on 09-11-2001, have again become complacent. It's brutally apparent in the threads on many websites and in conversations, or  lack of them,  at social gatherings. For months after we were attacked, finding dissent or complacency in a thread with any relevence to 9/11 would have been almost impossible. Now, the few that do participate in a dialogue are so polarized that the only way they will ever reunite will be over the bodies of more innocent dead Americans, in the days following the next attack.

    So what do we do? Where should we be fighting? Why fight? After all, fighting is bad isn't it? War is evil, isn't it? Of course it is. However, unfortuntately, to quote a cliche, "Those that don't remember history are doomed to repeat it". Whether we want to fight or not, we have to because there are forces in the world that are intent on our demise. Unless we can summon the courage those kids had on the beaches of Normandy, unless we in the homeland can lend them the support they need to carry out and win the fight, wherever our enemies are, we will lose, because our enemies will be coming for us again,.....in hindsight.

First Day of Fall

    Today is the beginning of a new season. Some say it's the end of Summer, the end of good weather, vacations, planted fields and gardens. The end of the the robin's songs riding the warm summer morning breeze as it brushes past the curtains of open windows. However for each end there is a new beginning and Fall is a season replete with a myriad of wonderful experiences. It is the sound of children's voices as they head back to school, eager to meet new friends, teachers, and discover new things. It is the season when nature's canvas turns from emerald green to blazing red, yellow and orange. It is the season when the chill in the air brings us a little closer together on walks we take with the ones we love. It's the season of harvest and a time for thanksgiving.

    I decided to start this blog today because this change of seasons mirrors changes in my life. You see, I'm about to embark on a journey through another season in my life, and despite the warmth and beauty that I leave behind, I look forward to being part of a vibrant, colorful season in my life where the chill in life's air is is warmed by the gentle embrace of the one I love, and for that, I am thankful.

I Love You Betty