Here’s a New Word….Obamapology

The meaning is:

I’m sorry you feel the way you do, but We’re Going To Screw You Anyway.

Hat tip to my Husband!

Something for your after-Christmas Listening Pleasure

I’m about to head out to play the complete (yes, all three parts) Messiah with a church in Seattle. This particular selection is my favorite. I found this very nice rendition on YouTube. Singer is great, and tempo just about perfect. I hope you enjoy it, too.

An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,
I commend you for your success in helping start Facebook, and making it the 600-pound gorilla of social media, used by millions of people all over the world. This has made you a multi-millionaire (billionaire?), who can afford just about anything you want.

Last week, I was reading the Wall Street Journal about your upcoming sale of millions of shares of Facebook stock, expected to generate a taxable gain for you of approximately $2.3 Billion! In the next sentence, however, the Journal pointed out that, between Federal and State taxes, Government will confiscate 53.8% of that gain!

Mr. Zuckerberg, doesn’t it bother you at all that Government takes over HALF of your earnings from the business you started and helped nurture to its behemoth status? Do you even know about this? Do you think that it’s a good thing for you to have to sacrifice that much money that you acquired honestly? Now, I know that what you have left is more money than most US citizens can even imagine having, but it might be worth your while to object to that much evaporating before you even see it.

It makes me very angry that our government thinks that IT can claim that much of anyone’s earnings. But I guess that you Liberals just love big government, and have no problem with them confiscating your money. Maybe you think that the money the government takes from you is used to improve the lot of people less fortunate than you are. Let me disabuse you of that notion. Most of YOUR money goes into the pockets of government bureaucrats, who administer various programs that suck up your earnings, while having little practical effect on society except to do things like dictate what kind of light bulbs you are allowed to buy.

Happy New Year, Mark.

Merry Christmas 2013

Here’s some music I love:

To all my Followers, and Readers Everywhere:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
May next year be better than this year was.

Another Interesting ObamaCare Phenomenon-AIDS

I just finished a very interesting story in the Wall Street Journal relating to health care for HIV-positive and AIDS patients. With previously-available health insurance, people with AIDS pretty much had access to whichever doctors and facilities they needed for their treatment, and all the medicines legitimately prescribed by their doctors (with only a simple per-Rx copay).
Under the new ObamaCare schemes, those insurance companies that agree to offer policies on the state-run and Federal “exchanges” are changing the terms of their policies to reflect the new mandates placed upon them under the law. Insurance companies are not allowed to turn away sick people, and are also prevented from charging them more than healthier people. So, in order to be able to stay in business, health insurance companies are restricting their networks of doctors and hospitals, and instituting high co-insurance for the drugs AIDS patients need to stay alive. They are dividing the available drugs into “tiers”, with the most expensive ones requiring the patient to pay up to 50% of the cost, and some newer classes of drugs not covered at all. (Oh, and those drug makers who offer low-income patients “drug cards” to help them cover the cost of their medicine? Specifically not allowed under ObamaCare).
Well, you can predict that the very powerful AIDS lobby has strongly objected to this “discriminatory” treatment by those evil insurance companies, and they have asked HHS to investigate the companies for illegal activity. In general, the gay community has been VERY supportive of OTL and his “Affordable Care Act” (scare quotes intended), and it is now coming back to bite them. Too many stories to cite here are coming out about the “replacement” plans with premiums doubling and deductibles tripling, causing sticker-shock. Now one of the Liberals’ pet protected classes is finding out that they are not immune from the adverse effects of centrally-planned-and-controlled health care.
It will be interesting to see whether their screams will lead to HHS mandating that insurance companies cover, and pay for, ALL available AIDS drugs on the exchange plans, which will lead to their bankruptcies even sooner (single-payer, here we come).