Strike The Root Blog

Health insurance is a mess. Indeed. I’m watching Michael Moore (and moore and moore) on Leno. Interesting mention of the bonus plan in England: Doctors get bonuses at the end of the year, based off of how well their patients improve. Also, Moore made some interesting admissions that Hillary and the Democrats are just as complicit in the health care debacle as are the Republicans.

Wonderful. An excuse for socialized medicine? No doubt. Never mind that there are so many other aspects to the problem: deliberate limited competition among doctors (causing price increases), ludicrous lawsuits and awards based on sympathy (creating ludicrous doctor insurance costs), costs signed off by a consumer that never sees them, and excessive government bureaucracy, to name a few. The government itself created many, if not most, of the problems in health care today.

It all leads to cries again for socialized medicine (aka “universal health care”). The government should handle it, says Moore. It’s a “human right.”

Here’s one simple argument against: I work hard to live a healthy lifestyle. I resent the notion that I should be helping pay for someone who does not—for example, an X-games motocross competitor, or, say, an unhealthy tub like Moore.

Ahh, the arrogance, to try and force one’s moral system onto the rest of us.

“I will sacrifice myself, oh great and powerful Moloch, to rid the world of the Muslim menace and kill for Jezus.”

To communicate, you just have to talk at a level they understand:

Only the amoral state would send children to look for unexploded ordinance:

Jack booted thugs form a conga line:

Coming soon to a battlefield near you- robots to remove the dead and maimed:

The Emperor is concerned whether his power cord is long enough to power his electric car:

It’s all about priorities - Another soldier boy abandons his family to kill for the state:

Leave it to the war-loving state to ruin a sporting event.

It’s Flag Day- nationalistic education to indoctrinate the young with the ideology of the state:

TSA breakdown. At least they stopped the Sippy Cup-Packin’ Mama:

Driving from downtown Chicago back to my place on the city’s north side this afternoon, I spotted a car directly in front of me westbound on Irving Park Rd. from Lake Shore Dr. with bumperstickers that said such things as: “Ron Paul: President 2008,” “The 1st Amendment Guarantees Freedom of Speech and So Dose the 2nd,” “The Opposite of Progress is Congress,” “Don’t Steal - The Goverment Hates Competition,” “If It Ain’t Broke, The Government Will Fix ‘Til It Is.”

I’m a natural rights anarchist, so I don’t have any intention to vote for Paul, a constitutionalist minarchist, or any candidate of the Libertarian Party, but there was a lot of anti-state sentiment on several stickers that I could certainly get behind.

For a second there, I almost thought I had stumbled into some parallel universe. To see anything remotely resembling pro-libertarian political messages in Chicago was a bit of a shock, to say the least. It would be like seeing bumper stickers promoting market anarchy in downtown Washington, D.C.

The car had Florida license plates.

Queen Hillary promises new jobs for the future. How about a position for a sign maker who can spell?

Christians need to start thinking outside the box:

The Emperor checks the pulse of Africa. Are more bombs on the way?

Living in the Land of the Free- How long before the Browns‘ are Waco-ed?

Criticism and dissent will not be tolerated:

In jail, out of jail, back in jail…….. Paris just isn’t going to take this #!*% anymore:

I caught an interesting story this morning on CBS Sunday Morning about the recent annual Makers Faire held outside San Francisco. The event is a kind of Woodstock for tech geeks and eccentric inventors. The creator of the faire says it best; “It’s not like institutions. It’s not companies bringing stuff. It’s really individuals just saying, “Here’s what I do.”

Photos can be seen here, here, and here.

Dallas police have finally arrested a man responsible for robbing local convenience stores by throwing hot coffee in the face of cashiers and than grabbing money from the cash register.

Maybe it’s long past time for our heroic legislators to offer remedies for such crimes. Obviously, cups must be registered by the state and given traceable serial numbers even before attempting to pour said coffee. A “C-chip” could be required in all coffee dispensing machines that would not deliver the hot product into any cup that is not legally registered. Perhaps proposing a three day waiting period for hot coffee purchases. This period would give time for a complete background check of the potential customer. Let’s make a law requiring that coffee be dispensed cold (temperature to be checked periodically by ATF&C spot inspection) and requiring that said coffee be reheated by the customer outside the boundaries of a “hot coffee-free zone;”  being anywhere within 500 feet of a convenience store cashier.

There are endless possibilities for “doing something” to end such crimes. All of them bring endless opportunities to restrict individual freedom. But hey, our masters say we have too much of that freedom stuff, anyway.

Today’s lesson- how to prepare and execute an ambush:

Not everyone is high on Rudy:

Queen Hillary’s book, Living History includes illustrations for the simple minded voter (who could that horse‘s ass be?):

Mr. Bush, tear down this wall (and that one….and that one…..and that one….and that one……)!

The IDF takes aim at the Palestinians:

A Gore-tista listens closely to Mother Earth:

Here is a cool amateur video.  If only human herds had the courage and organization of these water buffaloes facing the predators in Washington, D.C. more children could be saved from its clutches.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1760908