Muzzling of federal scientists widespread, survey suggests. “Twenty four per cent of respondents said they ‘sometimes’ or ‘often’ were asked to exclude or alter technical information in federal government documents for non-scientific reasons. Most often, the request came from their direct supervisors, followed by business or industry, other government departments, politically appointed staff and public interest advocates.”

Luckily, this is in Canada. I’m sure nothing like this could happen in our federal government.

A Miracle Drug Cured Ed Levitt of Stage IV Lung Cancer. Then the FDA Withdrew it From the Market.

I survived Thanksgiving but it was a numbers game.  Elphs outnumber Donks around my families table 9-1.  Christmas is a different story.  There will be up to three gatherings.  One will enjoy the 9-1 advantage.  One will be closer to 3-2 and in one I'll face a 2-1 disadvantage.  So Obama's Thanksgiving "tell your uncle how great Obamacare is" putsch may become relevant.

Byron York nailed it:

But the first floor of the Stasi Museum is not about spying. Instead, it is devoted to the propaganda that East German bureaucrats used to foster socialist consciousness in an unwilling public. One display explains the GDR’s efforts in the 1950s to politicize what in the past had been family and religious occasions. The state sought to transform weddings, confirmations, and other personal events into “socialist celebrations,” to be “committed collectively and aimed at a confession to socialism,” according to the awkward English translation of the exhibit.

The exhibition informs visitors that the project “did not gain popular acceptance.” Amazingly enough, people didn’t want to turn their family holidays into socialist celebrations.

Here at home, this Thanksgiving brings an effort by the Obama administration to turn a day of giving thanks into a day of discussion about the virtues of national health care. On Wednesday afternoon, just hours before Thanksgiving, President Obama’s Twitter account — which has more than 40 million followers — sent out this message: “Make sure everyone who sits down with you for #Thanksgivukkah dinner is covered.” (“Thanksgivukkah” refers to this year’s rare overlap of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.)

The president’s tweet linked to a photo of a young man sitting at a table with a turkey and a menorah. The accompanying text: “Celebrating Thanksgiving. Lighting the Hanukkah candles. Talking about health insurance. Gotta love dinners like these.”

 

I have an qcquaitance wo was audited forthe first time after making his FIRSt and only contribution to a political candidate.  It was Romney.  He is NOT a lone data point. 

Cancer Patient Who Spoke Out Against ObamaCare Now Being Audited. 

you might also read Dissent Is the Highest Form of Tax Bracket

and unrelated, but more Obamacare cruelty: Boy with cancer loses coverage after Obamacare launch: Bureaucrats won’t help unless he is ‘pregnant or an illegal alien.’

QOTD part III!

y'know, Uncle Joe is STILL VP although he's taken a backstage to all of Obama's fiascoe's.  Remember the loan to Fiskar?  According to UJ "This is seed money that will return back to the American consumer in billions and billions and billions of dollars in good new jobs."

They filed for bankruptcy last week.

QOTD part deux and a week late:

Pushing for immigration reform on Tuesday, President Obama said he can spot an immigrant just by looking at him. "As I was getting a tour of DreamWorks, I didn't ask, but just looking at faces I could tell there were some folks who are here not because they are born here, but because they want to be here."

also file under "If a Republican had said this ..."

lot's of folks writing about this ...here's a bit of a roundup.  Here's where it all started:

The NYT acknowledges Obama’s in trouble by reminding us that Bush was really, really bad. Remember?!!

At the website front page the teaser headline — which is also the headline in the paper version — is: “As Troubles Pile Up, a Crisis of Confidence for Obama.” But if you click to the article, the headline becomes “Health Law Rollout’s Stumbles Draw Parallels to Bush’s Hurricane Response.”

Bush's political party didn't design and enact Hurricane Katrina.

2. Bush didn't have 5 years to craft his response to the hurricane.

3. Bush didn't have the power to redesign the hurricane as he designed his response to it.

4. The Republican Bush believed he could not simply bully past the Democratic Mayor of New Orleans and the Democratic Governor of Louisiana and impose a federal solution, but the Democrat Obama and his party in Congress aggressively and voluntarily took over an area of policy that might have been left to the states.

5. The media were ready to slam Bush long and hard for everything — making big scandals out of things that, done by Obama, would have been forgotten a week later (what are the Valerie Plame-level screwups of Obama's?) — but the media have bent over backwards for years to help make Obama look good and to bury or never even uncover all of his lies and misdeeds.

6. If Bush experienced a disaster like the rollout of Obamacare, the NYT wouldn't use its front page to remind us of something Bill Clinton did that looked bad.

tOSU D stayed in Cbus and the 'Bama D forgot the rules for one play.  Here's my look at the top

1.  FSU

2.  Bama.  Still.  It was one PLAY people

3.  Arizona State.  SEVEN games against the Sagarin top 30

4.   Oregon.  Hideous unis, damn fine team.

5.  Baylor.  Video game O

6.  Stanford.

7.  Wisconsin.  Yup, I said it.  tOSU loses that one if it's at Camp Randall.

8.  Oklahoma State

9.  tOSU

10.  Washington.

So, next weekend?  

Baylor over Texas by 3 tds

Missouri over Auburn in Atlanta, by a figgie.

ASU over Stanford at home.

FSU over Duke by 3 tds

 Brutus over Sparty by a figgie

Everyone all excited about Auburn will have to shut up when they lose to Mizzou and OSU will get to play FSU after all.  'Noles by 9 or 10 unless famous Jamis doesn't get his quota of white girls.

Who said it?

The American people want less partisanship in this town, but everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting, the bitterness, and the gridlock will only get worse.

Right now we are faced with rising gas prices, skyrocketing tuition costs, a record number of uninsured Americans, and some of the most serious national security threats we have ever had, while our bravest young men and women are risking their lives halfway around the world to keep us safe.

These are challenges we all want to meet and problems we all want to solve, even if we do not always agree on how to do it. But if the right of free and open debate is taken away from the minority party and the millions of Americans who ask us to be their voice, I fear the partisan atmosphere in Washington will be poisoned to the point where no one will be able to agree on anything. That does not serve anybody's best interest, and it certainly is not what the patriots who founded this democracy had in mind. We owe the people who sent us here more than that. We owe them much more.

Senator Obama.  Eight years ago.

How 'bout this one?

It's part of the fabric of this institution we call the Senate. It was well-known in colonial legislatures before we became a country, and it's an integral part of our country's 214-year history. The first filibuster in the United States Congress happened in 1790. It was used by lawmakers from Virginia and South Carolina who were trying to prevent Philadelphia from hosting the first Congress. Since then, the filibuster has been employed hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times. It's been employed on legislative matters, it's been employed on procedural matters relating to the president's nominations for Cabinet and sub-Cabinet posts, and it's been used on judges for all those years. One scholar estimates that 20 percent of the judges nominated by presidents have fallen by the wayside, most of them as a result of filibusters. Senators have used the filibuster to stand up to popular presidents, to block legislation, and, yes, even, as I've stated, to stall executive nominees. The roots of the filibuster are found in the Constitution and in our own rules.

Harry Reid.  Eight years ago.