SCHLAPP: And government itself, let me tell you, the language here right, the language is different. They made the language worse, instead of doing this once every five years, now the Obama administration is allowing this to happen every year and actually reimbursing doctors to do it every year. So, that’s quite a slight of hand. And doesn’t government — aren’t they a little conflicted here? They have to find this huge health care savings for seniors at the same time they’ve become the counselors to seniors in their end of care decisions?
POWERS: Where was your outrage in 2008 when the Bush administration said that Medicare would reimburse end of life counseling?
SCHLAPP: It was a veto that was overridden by the Democrats. So, I give President Bush credit for vetoing that bill.
POWERS: No, it was a 2008 law. I mean, I don’t know what are talking about.
SCHLAPP: Yes, that became law over the president’s veto.
Kirsten Powers says in this interview/debate that Bush made this law, GATEWAY PUNDIT has this correction:
Republican analyst Matt Schlapp corrected this latest lie [right around the 6:40 mark] by the Obama Administration. Bush vetoed the end of life provision that went into law in 2008.
What The Hill’s Jason Millman forgot to mention in his article was that President Bush VETOED the 2008 bill and the Democrats, along with some “good-willed” Republicans OVERRODE Bush’s veto forcing him to sign the legislation into law. The bill dealt with doctors’ reimbursements and more, but the Democrats slipped in the end-of-life planning by opening up the Social Security Act, which I have stated many times is dangerous, because once changed, it is difficult to amend again and allows for tinkering with the Medicare fee schedule and covered services definitions and requirements.
The fact that the Obama Administration claimed that the Bush Administration supported the end of life provision is a complete lie. And, they know it.
The 2010 Cable News ratings are out, and, as usual, Fox dominated! Taking the first 12 spots, and then spot 14. Awesome job! If I were Fox, I would put someone else in for Studio B, please! (My two favorite shows are emboldened, a third would be Red Eye):
The O’Reilly Factor – Fox
Hannity – Fox
Glenn Beck – Fox
Special Report with Brett Baier – Fox
On the Record with Greta van Susteren – Fox
Fox Report with Shepard Smith – Fox
Your World with Neil Cavuto – Fox
The O’Reilly Factor (11pm Repeat) – Fox
America’s News Room – Fox
Studio B – Fox
America Live – Fox
Happening Now – Fox
Countdown with Keith Olbermann – MSNBC
Fox & Friends – Fox
The Rachel Maddow Show – MSNBC
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell – MSNBC
Nancy Grace – HLN
Larry king Live – CNN
Anderson Cooper 360 (10pm) – CNN
The Ed Show – MSNBC
Countdown with Keith Olbermann (11pm Repeat) – MSNBC
Algerian Christians Appeal Against Prison Sentence Four Christian men of a small Protestant church in Algeria are appealing a court decision to hand them suspended prison sentences for worshiping without a state permission.
The verdict was the latest in a series of cases targeting converted Christians in the country. »
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Rebel Group in Bangladesh Prevented Christmas Worship One of the two main political parties of the indigenous people in Bangladesh’s southeastern hill tracts prevented Christians from celebrating Christmas, sources said.
The United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), which has demanded that Christian converts return to Buddhism, threatened tribal Christians of at least seven churches in Khagrachari district, some 300 kilometers (180 miles) southeast of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. »
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) — A female suicide bomber carried out a Christmas Day attack in northwest Pakistan that killed 46 people, a local official said, as the UN food agency caught up in the blast closed centers that had fed 41,000 families.
The burqa-clad woman aged between 18 and 22 lobbed grenades and detonated an explosive vest near a World Food Programme distribution center after being stopped by security personnel, Mustaqeem Khan, a government official in the tribal region of Bajaur, said by phone today. At least 96 people were injured in what Dawn newspaper said was Pakistan’s first suicide bombing known to have been carried out by a woman.
Will straight service members that can’t or won’t accept service alongside open homosexuals be given honorable discharges like homosexuals were given for violating “Don’t ask don’t tell”? Or will they be thrown out under “Other than honorable” or even “Dishonorable discharges” and be labeled as haters because of their personal beliefs?
“I now find that many environmental groups have drifted into self-serving cliques with narrow vision and rigid ideology…. many environmentalists are showing signs of elitism, left-wingism, and downright eco-fascism. The once politically centrist, science-based vision of environmentalism has been largely replaced with extremist rhetoric. Science and logic have been abandoned and the movement is often used to promote other causes such as class struggle and anti-corporatism. The public is left trying to figure out what is reasonable and what is not.” ~ Read more: RPT Quotes
I posted a debate on this subject via Lou Dobbs in January 2009 (great video). Take note that with the dropping of the weather stations (MUST SEE) in suburban areas most likely got the temperature to where it needed to be — commenting on the first debater in the linked video of Lou Dobbs.
You read about those record cold temperatures hitting Europe and the northern United States and you say, “Well, sure, but winter’s just a few days away so it’s not that strange.”
australia-snow
This looks like one of those “What’s wrong with this picture?” pictures from back in grade school
Hmmm. Then how do you explain snow in Australia a few days away from summer?
News.com.au has the frigid factoids:
THONGS and board shorts gave way to beanies and scarves yesterday as summer gave way to a wintry blast of snow and icy temperatures in the country’s southeast.
While the bitter freeze in Europe continues, Victoria and NSW have had a cold snap of their own, with off-season ski slopes transformed into winter wonderlands.
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Will the environmentalists admit that they were wrong? That’ll be a cold day in hell. And in Australia.
I recommend watching a documentary linked in my “Global Warming” section of my “VIDEO/AUDIO ROW” of the right hand column. The documentary you want to watch there is the movie called “The Great Global Warming Swindle.”
