Take your golf clubs and.....

A friend sent this to me.
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NEW SPORTING EQUIPMENT LAW: ARTICLE 3759.5.(e).1 (Golf Clubs)

The administration has passed a new law titled: "The Affordable Golf Club Act" declaring that every citizen must purchase a new set of golf clubs, before April 2014.

This law has been passed, because until now, typically only the wealthy or financially responsible have been able to purchase new golf clubs without the assistance of their government.

This new law ensures that every American can now have "affordable" golf clubs of their own, because everyone is equally entitled to new golf clubs. And if you want to keep the golf clubs you already have, you can do that, until April 2014.

These affordable golf clubs will cost from $1,000 to $3,000 each depending on your income level. This does not include taxes, pull cart, electric cart fees, green fees, membership fees, balls, tees, gloves, range finders, storage fees, maintenance, or repair costs.

In order to make sure everyone participates and purchases their affordable golf clubs, the costs of owning golf clubs will increase 50% each year up to 400% by year 2018. This way, wealthy people will pay more for something that other people don't want or can't afford to maintain. People who can't afford or refuse to maintain their golf clubs will be fined. However, children under the age of 26 can use their parents’ golf clubs until they turn 27 at which time they must purchase their own golf clubs.

If you don't want or think you don't need golf clubs, you are still required to buy them. If you refuse to buy a set or make claims that you can't afford them, you will be fined $800 until you purchase a set or face imprisonment.

People living in farming areas, ghettos, inner cities, Wyoming, or areas with no access to golf courses are not exempt. Age, health, prior experience or no experience are not acceptable excuses for not buying, maintaining, and using your golf clubs.

A government review board that doesn't know the difference between a hook and a slice will decide everything. This includes when, where, how often and for what purposes you can use your golf clubs along with how many people can ride in your golf cart. The board will also determine if participants are too old or not healthy enough to be able to use their golf clubs.

They will also decide if your golf clubs have outlived their usefulness or if you must purchase specific accessories, like a range finder with slope adjustment or a newer and more expensive set of golf clubs.

Those that can afford memberships at expensive golf country clubs will be required to buy memberships. If you are already a member and you like your membership you can keep your membership. After April 2014, a different country club will be assigned for you to purchase a membership.

Government officials are exempt from this new law as they and their families and some of their friends and a few of their friends friends can obtain golf clubs at taxpayers’ expense.

Teen questionnaire

This morning I was reading an article on WND entitled Homeschooler's Neighbor Sparks Social Services Case. The topic of the article aside, I found this fascinating attachment in the comments following the article. It's called Teen Questionnaire, 13 to 18 Years Old:

Apparently this is a Kaiser Permanente insurance form. Because the screenshot is so small, I transcribed the questions as follows:

1. Do you always wear a seatbelt when riding in a car?
2. Do you ever use a bike, scooter, skateboard, skis/snowboard, or rollerblades WITHOUT a helmet?
3. Have you ever had a sunburn?
4. Do you play sports or get at least 60 minutes of active physical play each day?
5. Do you eat five or more servings of vegetables or fruits every day?
6. Do you usually drink more than one soda, juice, or sports drink each day?
7. Do you usually spend more than two hours a day watching TV or movies, playing video games, or using the computer?
8. Are you using supplements (such as creatine, andro, or steroids)?
9. In the past year, have you used laxatives, diet pills, or made yourself vomit to try to lose weight?
10. Have your grades been dropping at school?
11. Are you having any problems at school?
12. Do you, your parents, or any of your friends have a gun?
13. Have you ever been physically abused by an adult?
14. Have you ever been forced or pressured to have sex?
15. Have you ever been in trouble with the law?
16. Are your close friends gang members?
17. Does anyone smoke in your home?
18. Have you smoked cigarettes or chewed tobacco during the past year?
19. Do your close friends drink alcohol or get high?
20. Have you ever been in a car with a driver who had too much to drink or was high?
21. During the past year did you drink any alcohol?
22. Have you ever tried drugs (such as marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, glue, or meth)?
23. During the past few weeks, have you OFTEN felt sad, down, or hopeless?
24. Have you seriously thought about killing yourself, made a plan, or tried to kill yourself?
25. Who do you live with?
26. Do you feel safe at home?
27. Have you had sex (including oral, vaginal, or anal sex)?
28. Do you sometimes have sexual feelings for someone of your own sex (gay or lesbian feeling)?
29. If you have any other concerns, please write them here.

Here are a couple of comments left after this attachment:

One person writes: This is the form that is given out at the doctor's office. They want the child and the parent to fill out separate forms in order to compare answers. We have refused these questionnaires each time they have been given to us. The receptionist admitted to me when I questioned the form that this for does not affect our insurance or the care my children receive. She said that the doctor wanted the information, but my doctor said that the clinic wanted it. Too much information!

Another person writes: Questions #1, 2, 12, 17 are looking for obedience. Question #20 calls for speculation by an unqualified individual. Questions# 22, 24, 28 can be construed as enticement. Question# 27a is simply asinine

I've never seen such a form from our doctors, but then we don't have Kaiser. Has anyone else seen something like this?

All I can see is the start of a slippery slope....

Consider this story from Belgium:

Deaf twins who discovered they were going blind and would never see each other again are euthanized in Belgian hospital

"A pair of identical twins, who were born deaf, have been killed by Belgian doctors after seeking euthanasia when they found out they would also soon go blind.

In a unique case under the country's euthanasia laws, the 45-year-old brothers, from Antwerp, chose death as they were unable to bear the thought of never seeing one another again.

They were euthanised by doctors at Brussels University Hospital, in Jette, on December 14 by lethal injection after spending their entire lives together.

Euthanasia is legal under Belgian law if those making the decision can make their wishes clear and are suffering unbearable pain, according to a doctor's judgement... But this case was unusual as neither twin was suffering extreme physical pain or was terminally ill."

And later in the article: "Just days after the twins were killed, Belgium's ruling Socialists tabled a legal amendment which would allow the euthanasia of children and Alzheimer's sufferers."

Slippery slope... slippery slope... that's all I can see... coming soon to a country near you.

Socialized medicine - fifty years ago

A friend sent me this YouTube link to an advertisement from the 1950's narrated by a young(er) Ronald Reagan, warning against the evils of socialized medicine. I found it fascinatingly prescient.

What could POSSIBLY go WRONG?

A reader sent these words of wisdom from Maxine.
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Let me get this straight....

We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before ANY benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!

What the hell else could possibly go wrong?

Maxine on health care

Let me get this straight. 

We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who also  smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,

and financed by a country that's broke. 

What the hell could possibly go wrong?

"Are you serious?"

So it seems a reporter finally - finally! - asked the most simple and logical question of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”

Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a "serious question."

“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

Yes, Madam Speaker, it IS a serious question. In fact, it is probably the most serious question anyone could ever ask. The reason you're flustered, dear Madam Speaker, is because you know exactly what the answer is...namely, NONE. There is NO authority in the Constitution to require people to buy health insurance.

Then to top things off, CNSNews also asked Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy a similar question, and Mr. Leahy was similarly flummoxed.

Leahy...was asked by CNSNews.com where in the Constitution Congress is specifically granted the authority to require that every American purchase health insurance. Leahy answered by saying that “nobody questions” Congress’ authority for such an action.

CNSNews.com: "Where, in your opinion, does the Constitution give specific authority for Congress to give an individual mandate for health insurance?"

Sen. Leahy: "We have plenty of authority. Are you saying there is no authority?"

CNSNews.com: "I’m asking--"

Sen. Leahy: "Why would you say there is no authority? I mean, there’s no question there’s authority. Nobody questions that."

When CNSNews.com again attempted to ask which provision of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to force Americans to purchase health insurance, Leahy compared the mandate to the government’s ability to set speed limits on interstate highways--before turning and walking away.

CNSNews.com: "But where, I mean, which–"

Sen. Leahy: "Where do we have the authority to set speed limits on an interstate highway?

CNSNews.com: "The states do that."

Sen. Leahy: "No. The federal government does that on federal highways."

Although Sen. Leahy said that "nobody" questions that Congress has the authority to force Americans to buy health insurance, Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee did question whether Congress had that authority when the health-care bill was being debated in their committee. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) tried to offer an amendment that would expedite judicial review of the bill were it enacted, but Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D.-Mont.) ruled that Hatch's amendment was out of order.

In making his ruling, Sen. Baucus said the issue should not be considered by the Finance Committee because it came under the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee--the panel chaired by Sen. Leahy.

"If we have the power simply to order Americans to buy certain products, why did we need a Cash-for-Clunkers program or the upcoming program providing rebates for purchasing energy appliances?" Hatch asked on Oct. 1 when trying to offer his amendment in the committee. "We could simply require Americans to buy certain cars, dishwashers or refrigerators."


Ha. Caught.