Author: Pharmer

a rural-dwelling, pro-life pharmacist

Tea Party is Working to Retire Senators Lugar and Hatch

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Tea party activists push to retire Sens. Lugar, Hatch.

Both Dick Lugar and Orrin Hatch have stayed too long in Washington and the Tea Party is working to replace them.   Hatch appears to have a better chance of surviving the onslaught.  Indiana Democrats are assisting with the destruction of Lugar over such issues as residency and the cost of his hotel stays in Indiana since he has not been a resident since 1977.  Lugar has responded by returning  some of the cost of his hotel stays, and has changed the address on his voter registration.

Richard Mourdock is closing in on Lugar despite being outspent by the incumbent.

Remember…….. Lugar thought that Sotomayor,  and Kagan were acceptable Supreme Court Justices, and that Kathleen Sebelius was a competent and worthy choice to head the Dept. of Health and Human Services.   That’s an Obamanation !

Arby’s Drops Advertizing with Rush

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Arby’s would be doing better if it didn’t keep shooting itself in the foot all the time. The latest e pic Fail is the restaurant chain’s tardy decision to drop advertizing on the Rush Limbaugh show, in response to Rush insulting sluts and prostitutes by comparing Sandra Fluke to them.
Naturally this decision resulted in negative  responses  from people on Twitter. Arbys decided to shoot its other foot for symmetry, says THIS article on the Blaze:  they blocked those who responded negatively to its decision.
Take time to read HERE.. You’ll be laughing at  Arbys  for pretending that if they can’t see the customer complaints, they must not be happening.

Obama Threatens Supreme Court

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Some believe that Obama has received a leak about the Supreme Court’s initial decision regarding the Obamacare Mandate. Obama has delivered an address attacking the authority of the Supreme Court on the matter of overturning federal legislation. This stance is odd for a person still hoping for judicial favor of his policy.

Said Obama: “Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress” Obama also mentioned the fact that Obamacare would cease to exist without the funding mandate: “I think the justices should understand, in the absence of an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure that people with pre-existing conditions can actually have health care.”

In fact there is no severability clause in the bill, because the framers recognized that it could not function without that means of funding. The pre-existing condition problem has been addressed long ago with the HIPPA regulations. One of those P’s stands for portability. As people go from job to job, there is a mechanism to hold onto health insurance so that future employers cannot deny treatment for pre-existing conditions. The passage of Obamacare was done by flouting many of the usual congressional procedures, and, despite the trickery, no large majority of favor was obtained. A large majority of Americans continue to want the entire bill repealed.

From the past we know that Obama does not really respect the court functions as he flouted a district court regarding his refusal to grant oil rig drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico. He also failed to appear when subpoenaed in Georgia on the matter of his election eligibility.

Here’s Obama’s statement that might cause the Supreme Court Justices to wonder when they’ll be thrown into the truck of a car, or die suddenly, with inconclusive autopsy results, as Andrew Breitbart did.
“For years, what we’ve heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or the lack of judicial restraint, that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law,” he said at a news conference. The health-care case is a good example of just that, he said. “And I’m pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step.”

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has taken a dim view of Obama’s disrespect for the Supreme Court, and lack of respect for the constitutional separation of powers. His Justice Department has been requested to submit a report on the administrations views regarding the authority of the court to rule on the constitutionality of federal laws.

Mourdock Nails Lugar with Gas Tax Ad

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Did Lugar really support a one dollar per gallon gas tax?? Yes… it was an idea coming from the not-really-conservative Charles Krauthammer, which Lugar endorsed in the Washington Post. This was supposedly a tax on gas which would discourage gas usage, but would be offset by a cut in the payroll tax. Lugar claimed that every working American pays this tax.

Pharmer’s understanding is that every American, who is employed by another, pays this tax. This leaves the self employed to be screwed by the gas tax with no offset. This latter group has been abused too much by the government. Also the payroll tax is the funding vehicle for social security. Is it a good idea to raid the mechanism for paying social security (which is already in the hole) without reducing social security outlays first?

Lugar’s solution was for the government to make a sin tax for gasoline use, to discourage our dependency on oil, and to encourage fuel alternatives. Always a government tax solution for every problem …… he has been in Washington too long.

Is Conservatism Our Default Ideology? – Miller-McCune

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Is Conservatism Our Default Ideology? – Miller-McCune.

Drudge carried this story about a “study” implying that when people are under time pressure or cognitively impaired, they default to conservative positions.    As a result, the  Miller-McCune site, which carried the article is being bombarded with conservative views.

The underlying  fault of the study, led by Scott Eidelman at Arkansas University,  is that it works from false premises of what American Conservatism really represents. For example: how can the conservative position that ” production and trade should be free of government interference”    be said to align with “ acceptance of hierarchy, and a preference for the status quo” ??

The problem is that much of what is called conservative thought is the  opposite of the stereotypes heaped upon conservatives by the non-productive, non-inventive, parasitic left wing that infests academia.

American conservatives are preserving a  unique and ground breaking  social policy that recognizes God-given human rights, celebrates and encourages individual  creativity, productivity and responsibility.    Leftists are harking back  (devolving) to the top down system in which the government oversees and regulates  all their efforts.   This springs from a general, overriding  feeling that they cannot succeed on their own.

On Conservative Distrust of Science

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There’s a  ‘study’ which concludes that Conservatives increasingly distrust science, and this group has shown the greatest change from trust to distrust in the last three-plus  decades.    The author  attributes the intertwining of science and public policy as a possible reason.   Left out of the coverage is the issue of rampant dishonesty and fraud, which has become increasingly visible to those outside the research fields.

In the coverage at the Blaze, there is an interesting comment that people don’t really agree on what science is.   It’s a fact that most people, as a result of the dismal failures in education, have no idea that science is a methodology for studying the physical  phenomena.  Many of them erroneously  think that science is an aggregation of information honored as “fact” by consensus.

Retraction Watch   <—– See a blog which monitors science journal retractions. This exemplifies the main reason why there’s a growing distrust of science. People observe and hear of rampant fraud and abuse. An example of this, the Global Warming Hoax (cult religion), has become very expensive to us.

This former researcher, and present day pharmacist is often hard pressed to distinguish what appears in NEJM, JAMA and Lancet from what is written in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.

Among the false intellectuals who dominate academia, there is little sense of accountability. They scoff at the idea that a person has responsibility to others. This is passed on to their students.

The natural result is dishonesty and work product of low quality. Conservatives, who show a tendency to think in a more left brain fashion, would be the first to notice this and register the loss of confidence.

Obama Loves Planned Parenthood

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Some people arrange flowers, and Pharmer arranges videos.

Obama forgets that Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms.

Mammograms are not a money maker, and Planned Parenthood does not offer them.

Planned Parenthood is caught accepting a donation specifically to abort a Black baby.

Live Action Classic films show  Planned parenthood aiding and abetting sex slavery:  Click HERE for the VIDEO SERIES that the launched state and federal investigations, which caused Komen Foundation’s attempt  to withdraw funding.  Unfortunately Komen was not able to shake free of its abuser, and is suffering as a result.   There will be repeated media reminders to Komen that they must stay with their abusive “spouse”.