The Binary Circumstance

The Democrats are determined to “reform” health care whether you want it or not and have just released the specifics of the bill they hope to ram through Congress this weekend without any Republican support.

I stated on more than one occasion that the only way to reform health care is to make it a free market. Over time, this will produce results similar to what has happened in telephones and computers over the last 30 years where market forces have caused quality and innovation to soar while prices have plunged.

I’m not going to say more on that or discuss how forcing businesses to provide health insurance could be a big job killer when unemployment is already very high.

I just wanted to point out what nobody else is pointing out about the whole process now taking place in Congress. Millions of Americans are about to be enslaved to those who want to force a particular view of health care on them. How can a health care system that forces the will of some people on others be considered good for the health of those who don’t want it? Is battering good for the person who is being battered in a relationship? Of course not. So why is it healthy when it’s done politically?

While I admire the quality of relentless determination, it would be nice if it was focused on increasing individual liberty rather than further restricting it. This bill forces individuals to subsidize the insurance industry, doctors, hospitals, drug companies, health care unions and many other related industries. If you don’t subsidize them by buying mandatory insurance, you have to pay a fine.

Jay Leno shows off his 1909 Baker Electric car in this video. It’s range was comparable to the electric cars of today.

Did you know that 90% of cars were electric in 1900? Just imagine how different the world would be if this technology had been developed and improved upon over the past 110 years.

There are a growing number of “Hitler Finds Out” videos popping up on YouTube and other sites. They are based on footage from the German movie “Der Untergang” / Downfall (2004). People add subtitles to the same segment of the film creating their own story out of it. The original movie is in German.

I wrote the subtitles for Hitler Finds Out His Dog is Pregnant.

The director of the movie, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has gone on record about the clips. “Someone sends me the links every time there’s a new one. I think I’ve seen about 145 of them… Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I’m laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn’t get a better compliment as a director.”

This story sounds like it’s out of the Dark Ages. Once science gets married to religion or politics, it ceases to exist. This is yet another reason why I don’t want the government messing around in my health care, although it’s obviously already too late to stop that. They’ve been doing it for decades.

This article makes you wonder how many other possible cures they’ve suppressed.

From Alternet.org:

Most Americans don’t know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no major U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb. 29, 2000.

The ominous part is that this isn’t the first time scientists have discovered that THC shrinks tumors. In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice — lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.

The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the events in his book, “The Emperor Wears No Clothes.” In 1976 President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out — unsuccessfully — to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the “high.”