Lester Grinspoon (Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School)

"I'd have no hesitation giving a youngster with ADHD a trial of oral marijuana...For some kids, it appears to be more effective than traditional treatments. And marijuana certainly has fewer potential dangers than Ritalin."

- Commenting on a report that medical marijuana is being prescribed for kids in California.

**Pot may or may not have "fewer potential dangers than Ritalin," but it's hard to believe anyone would defend the use of marijuana in kids...If anything, it should make parents a little leery about using Ritalin and other psych meds on their kids.

"Let me count the ways in which prescribing marijuana for teens with ADHD is a bad idea...The active ingredient in pot, THC, causes short-term memory problems and inattention, the very same things you want a medicine for ADHD to help alleviate." - Stephen Hinshaw (Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley)**

Jonathan Chait (BS'us Maximus)

"A public plan does not provide a new entitlement. It just doesn't. It's a different form of providing an entitlement."

**If I didn't know better I'd think Chait was doing his best Bill Clinton impersonation with that line of crapola.

Last I checked an "entitlement" is an "entitlement" no matter how it is triangulated...I'm sure this makes me a 'radical Right winger,' though.**

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D - Louisiana)

“I will correct something. It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of it and will keep fighting for it."

- Commenting about the amount of money Majority Leader Harry Reid threw into the Senate health bill specifically for the state of Louisiana in order for Landrieu to agree to vote with the Democrats.

**3 words: Votes For Sale!

3 more words: Senate Vote Whore!**

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)

"(USPSTF) Recommends against routine [mammogram] screening for women 40 to 49; recommends mammograms every 2 years for women 50 to 74; insufficient evidence to conclude benefit or harm of mammograms for women 75 and older."

- USPSTF is funded and staffed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

**I guess we can all take the 'pink ribbons' and "Save the Ta-Tas" bumper stickers off our cars.

"This is outrageous. I wonder if it has anything to do with the healthcare legislation that is being jammed through the House and Senate? Coincidence? I'd say not." - Cheryl Middleton

"With its new recommendation the [task force] is essentially telling women that mammography at age 40 to 49 saves lives; just not enough of them." - Dr. Otis Brawley (American Cancer Society)

This is rationing at its finest! HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has come out with a wish-washy statement that this is 'just a recommendation,' but make no mistake about it the foolio's in the HHS are going to be stripping Americans of many, many services we are used to receiving if (when?) they get ObamaCare passed.

By the way, ladies, have you called your senators yet to let them know you don't want to be stripped of your mammograms? How about you, gentlemen? You may not have to worry about your ta-tas, but you can only imagine what they're coming after you for.**

Harvey Weinsten (Hollywood Idiot)

"Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion."

**When I think of Hollywood I know I always think of a "moral compass"...a "moral compass" which has been destroyed.

Honestly, though many people are star-struck and live vicariously though Hollywood's personalities, I can't believe there are many who think Hollywood stands for anything other than debauchery and degeneracy...Maybe I'm wrong, however, and the drugs, alcohol, sexual deviancy, etc., have finally become the norm and what used to be normal America has become abnormal.

I'm not a religio, but if Hollywood is the new "moral compass," we deserve to go the way of Sodom and Gomorrah.**

Philip Alston (U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions)

"The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law."

**You mean to tell me our Nobel Peace Prize winning Commander-in-Chief might be a war criminal? I wonder if the World Court will attempt to try him for such crimes?

Or is this Special 'C'Rapporteur just another idiotic U.N. mouthpiece with nothing better to do than to shoot off his holier than thou mouth any time the U.S. projects military strength?

Here's wishing Obama would change his strategy of expanded Predator use, all together...I'd much rather he use Tomahawk cruise-missiles, B-2 Stealth-bombers, and B-52 Stratofortresses to bomb the AfPak toilet-bowl into oblivion.**

Chris Matthews (Jihadi Apologist)

"That's not a crime to call up al Qaeda is it? Is it?"

- Question asked about Nidal Malik Hasan contacting people closely connected to al Qaeda prior to killing and injuring almost 50 U.S. soldiers.

**In Normalville, calling up your nation's enemies is a crime. But not in Liberalville, U.S.A...No, no, no. You can do anything in the Lunatic Fringe known as Liberalville. Well, except be NORMAL, that is!

Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy...This guy is an all around putz all the time, but the amount of triangulation he's performing trying to get the few people who actually watch his show to believe the Fort Hood Murderer isn't a monster is beyond belief.**

Mayor DICK Daley (Democrat, Chicago)

"Unfortunately, America loves guns. We love guns to a point where that, uh, we see devastation on a daily basis. You don't blame a group."

- Excuse the mayor has for the Fort Hood Massacre.

**I suppose the problem with 9/11/01 was 'America loves planes'...What an idiot.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist, and no amount of politically correct buffoonery can make the real problem go away: 10% of Muslims are Jihadi-wannabe lunatics! There's over a billion Muslims on the planet = 100 million Jihadis in the making...I'm sure the nutter who was screaming "Allah Akbar" who killed 13 American soldiers isn't the only Jihadi in the military, let alone the U.S.

The sooner we admit this is the case the sooner we'll be able to handle the problem...Or not.**

Gov. Joe Manchin III (D - West Virginia)

“Right now, my belief is that they’re trying to kill off surface mining through regulation what they cannot get done through legislation.”

- Complaining about Environmental Protecting Agency moves attempting to stifle the West Virginia coal industry.

**Just wait till the Democrats get around to passing their 'Cap & Tax & Tax & Tax' bill...All of the nation's energy industries will be crushed; none more so than the coal industry, however.

I don't know why this governor is crying, though. Obama has never pretended to be a friend of the coal industry. In fact he's often said how he plans to kill it...It's Manchin's own fault he supported Obama for president. He should have known better.

America should have known better! Obama said what he wanted to do (RADICALLY TRANSFORM IT), but only those who wanted to help him do so listened...As such, we're all going to pay dearly; this is just one of the ways.**

No Post Today

The massacre at Fort Hood has me too wound up.

Say a prayer for all of our soldiers; especially those suffering most on this awful day.

Dr. Vanessa Cullins (Planned Parenthood V.P. for Medical Affairs)

"In terms of sexually transmitted diseases, expect to have HPV once you become sexually intimate. All of us get it."

- HPV = human papillomavirus = leading cause of genital warts = leading cause of cervical cancer in women and a cause of anal cancer in homosexual men.

**"All"? Really?

According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 1/3 to 1/4 of American women have HPV. Heterosexual men have it much less regularly than women. Homosexual men have higher rates due to anal sex, but not as high as women...By these estimates, 2/3 to 3/4 of American women don't have HPV, and neither do most men.

"The best way to protect yourself from HPV is to not have sex or to only have sex with one uninfected partner who also only has sex with you (i.e., a mutually monogamous relationship)." - eMedTv

"All"? Hardly; not even close to "All"...Anyone who is sexually active is at risk of catching any of the various STD's, but those who are at least a little selective about their sexual partners and use common sense (in other words, those who aren't promiscuous) have a much lower risk of becoming STD statistics. Those who skank around (male or female) or have gay sex have a much higher risk of joining the "All" crowd.

In other words: Not "All" who have STD's are skanks or homosexuals, but "All" who are skanks or homosexuals run a much higher risk of having STD's.**

Commisar Hilrya Rodhamovich Clintonov (Secretary of State)

"We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move."

**This lady is a realy beauty...Since she's ugly as hell I'm assuming you know what I mean.

It's bad enough she's commenting about how the U.S. government steals money from the American people in every imaginable way (or is planning to), but the entirety of this comment is actually worse.

This is part of a statement she was making to the Pakistanis, lecturing them for not being able to account for a large portion of their population; particularly those who are hiding Al Qaeda operatives...She was not only telling them they need to do a better job of taxing their population, but more importantly, they need to use the tax system as a way of tracking and monitoring their people; LIKE THEY DO IN THE U.S.!**

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (House Triumvir)

"The [House health care] bill is fiscally sound, will not add one dime to [the] deficit as it expands coverage."

**Looks like the Democrats are finally going to charge up their Frankenstein and set it loose on the American people...All 1,990 pages of it.

That said, Nancy's flat out lying about the cost. The projections are a joke, and anyone who thinks this plan will be any more "fiscally sound" than Medicare and Medicaid is a joke themselves...It's well accepted both are bankrupting the country, and it's almost impossible to believe another government health care plan will be any different.

Keep this figure in mind: In 1965, Congress projected Medicare to cost $9 billion in 1990. It actually cost $66 billion...Expect ObamaCare to have similar discrepancies in its real cost.

Lets pretend for a minute that the American people are willing to go out on a very long, weak limb, and give Pelosi the benefit of the doubt on the bill not adding to the deficit [a massive leap of faith, I know]. How on earth are the Democrats going to pay for such a monstrosity without running up the deficit?

There are only two ways to do it: Raise taxes significantly on every taxpaying American [all 40% of us]. Or, drastically cut services...I'm afraid if we ever get to look at the bill [another huge assumption], we'll find the only way they can make it "fiscally sound" is to raise taxes AND cut services.

August was only a couple months ago. Here's hoping the American people have it in them to return to the anger of August, when they first realized what the Democrats were trying to do to them and their children...If not, we'll have another boondoggle on our hands which can't be stopped [like Medicare and Medicaid], and over time we'll look back on this couple of months and wonder why we didn't stop it before it came into being.**

Greg Craig (Obama Mouthpiece)

"We recognize that it is theoretically possible that a president could create new positions that inhibit transparency or undermine congressional oversight. That is simply not the case, however, in the current administration."

- Comment made about Obama's czars, and the administration's denial of requests to make them available to Congress for questioning.

**What a joke! So far Obama's created 18 'czars,' and has done so with the absolute intent of keeping them from being under congressional oversight; above the law.

The problem is these 'czars,' which should actually be called 'commissars,' aren't just presidential advisers, but are policy makers. As such, they should fall under the oversight of Congress. Instead, Obama is creating these positions and setting them loose to do his dirty-work, effectively making them unelected, unimpeachable, 'super legislators.'

Can you imagine if Bush had done this? Liberals would have been howling mad, and the mainstream media would be running 24/7 news coverage on how Bush was undermining American government...With Obama, however, we hear nothing!**

Hugo Chavez (Communist Dictator)

"Some people sing in the shower half an hour...three minutes is more than enough. I've counted, three minutes, and I don't stink."

**1. Venezuela is blessed with an abundant amount of running water due to its rivers, but it is a notoriously filthy country with awful sanitation standards, so I'd be surprised if most Venezuelans have a shower, let alone take one very regularly...I'm sure 'King Hugo' does, though.

2. Man! I bet Barack Obama is jealous as hell over Chavez's ability to force this on his people. Chairman-MaoBama-in-the-making has to go through all the hassle of votes and judges, slowing down his radical transformations...FOR NOW!**

All Nippon Airways (Full of Shhhhhhhh....)

'Please go pee-pee and poo-poo before boarding.'

- Not an direct quote, but a good representation of what ANA is going to ask its passengers to do.

**I get it that everyone is looking for a way to save a buck, and by asking people to potty before entering the plane ANA will save some dough on toilet paper...They also claim they'll save money in fuel costs, though I can't imagine 150 passengers voiding a pound or so of waste per flight will save them millions of dollars.

I also get it that ANA is trying to save the planet by shrinking their 'carbon footprint'; they claim this policy could save five tons of carbon emissions over a 30 day period.

But, really? Are they serious? What if a passenger gets stage fright and can't go? What a joke...This is nothing but political correctness run amok, and the 'pee-pee/poo-poo plan' is nothing but a ridiculous pile of poo-poo.**

Majority Leader Harry Reid (Senate Triumvir)

"He talked about CBO saying that there would be $54 billion saved each year if we put caps on medical malpractice and put some restrictions - tort reform - $54 billion. Sounds like a lot of money, doesn't it, Mr. President? The answer is yes. But remember, were talking about $2 trillion, $54 billion compared to $2 trillion. You can do the math. We can all do the math. It's a very small percent."

**Reid was trying to make the point that tort reform wouldn't do much good when it comes to the overall cost of health care...Amazingly, he finds $54 billion not worth trying to save. Couldn't be that he and his party are in bed with trial lawyers (tort scum), could it? Nah.

Interesting as it is, tort reform isn't what caught my attention in this statement...$2 TRILLION?!?!

We've been told ObamaCare will cost around $1 trillion/year. Reid's comment must be one of three things:
1. He's just a moron who should never be put in front of a podium, because he has no clue.
2. He made a 'Freudian Slip,' and accidentally let the cat-out-of-the-bag about the 'real cost' of ObamaCare...Which is likely a low-ball guesstimate in actuality.
3. He's floating a trial balloon to see if the American people will accept $2 trillion...Even though they've been adamant that $1 trillion is a problem.

Says here, the answer is ALL OF THE ABOVE...Harry's an idiot, he accidentally stated an amount the Democrat leadership knows is closer to the truth, and is looking to see how nuts this 'new number' will make people.**

Michael Moore (Pied Piper of the Left)

"To the Democrats in Congress who don’t quite get it: I want to offer a personal pledge. I – and a lot of other people – have every intention of removing you from Congress in the next election if you stand in the way of health care legislation that the people want. That is not a hollow or idle threat. We will come to your district and we will work against you, first in the primary and, if we have to, in the general election."

**Now there's a strong threat. I believe Mikey plans to make good on it too...What is his end-game?

"If a true public option is enacted — and Obama knows this — it will eventually bring about a single payer system, because the profit-making insurance companies won’t be able to compete with a government run plan and make the profits they want to make."

Make no mistake, Moore and his Liberal pals have every intention of using the 'public option' to destroy the American health care industry, take away your health care choices, and establish the U.S. government as the nation's only insurance provider...Which is why Americans who are opposed to such a scheme need to repeat 'Michael Moore's Threat,' with a twist:

If Democrats or Republicans in Congress pass this monstrosity "I want to offer a personal pledge. I – and a lot of other people – have every intention of removing you from Congress in the next election if you (pass health care reform with a public option). That is not a hollow or idle threat. We will come to your district and we will work against you, first in the primary and, if we have to, in the general election."

Question is, do those who are against the 'public option' have as much desire and strength as those who want it? DO YOU HAVE AS MUCH DESIRE AND STRENGTH AS THEY DO? Or are you willing to let your country be turned upside-down in order to avoid a fight?

I bet I know the answer to my question...If I'm right it will lead to a sad outcome.**

Pero's Going Camping

I'll be back Monday, the 19th.

Cecil Roberts (United Mine Workers Labor Union President)

"It is imperative that the process for approving or rejecting (mining) permits be clarified so that everyone can know what to expect...Dragging things out only adds unnecessary pressure to coal miners, their families and their communities and makes it much more difficult to meet America's energy and economic needs."

**Maybe this union should have paid more attention when it decided to back Obama for president. Maybe they should have opened their ears so they could have heard him all but promise to destroy the coal mining industry...Maybe they should pull their heads out of their ass and realize the Democrat Party cares more about 'saving the Earth' than they do about American workers.

And maybe the workers who are in this union should think about a little payback against the union bosses who care more about their own political and financial power than they do about the actual workers in the union...Maybe, just maybe, it's time to drop the union as well as their fealty to the Democrat Party.**