Archive for Behind Enemy Lines

“It’s Not Hillary-care”

Posted by: Jason | August 21st, 2007 · 10:22 PM

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Governor Romney has finally begun talking up his abysmal healthcare program lately, where under it, all Massachusetts state residents were required to purchase private health insurance. Before I comment, a few choice quotes from the Romney camp:

“We can’t have as a nation 40 million people — or, in my state, half a million — saying, ‘I don’t have insurance, and if I get sick, I want someone else to pay.”

- Governor Romney, USA Today, July 5, 2005

“It’s a conservative idea,” says Romney, “insisting that individuals have responsibility for their own health care. I think it appeals to people on both sides of the aisle: insurance for everyone without a tax increase.”

- Governor Romney, USA Today, July 5, 2005

The health of our nation can be improved by extending health insurance to all Americans, not through a government program or new taxes, but through market reforms.

- General Statement, Romney website

One hardly needs to debate the laughable quotes above as serious fodder for conservatives choosing their candidate this year. But let’s break a few of these quotes apart shall we?

“It’s a conservative idea, insisting that individuals have responsibility for their own health care”. So one might ask the inevitable question after this… How does a state government forcing its citizens to buy private health insurance comply with this very statement?

“Insurance for everyone without a tax increase”. Fiscally, for the government, Romney’s plan may make sense. He’s basically saying that, before, we spent x-amount of dollars on free emergency room care for the poor that didn’t have health insurance. Instead, to solve the problem of why these people can’t afford to pay their own way, the state bought them private health insurance, saved money, and acted like those participating were utilizing free market solutions.

Umm… no. Sorry Mr. Governor. That’s not how the free market works. If you’re interested in “conservative ideas”, here’s one for you. Allow, really allow, individuals to pay for what they get. Healthcare prices are being raised in America today for two basic reasons.

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New Jersey: A Bastion of Nonsense

Posted by: Jason | May 9th, 2007 · 9:58 AM

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Fifty years from now, when New Jersey residents are looking back on how their state became a Communist country, they will surely add this to the list of idiotic proposals when asking why.

As the state’s government has been busy in Trenton lately protecting us all from trans-fats, insuring that cigarette and cigar smokers are treated as common criminals, and same-sex couples are partying like it’s 1999, NJ lawmakers are now considering abolishing the death penalty. If they succeed, NJ will be the first state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstatement of 1976 to reverse the practice.

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Radical Islam In My Hometown

Posted by: Jason | May 8th, 2007 · 10:28 AM

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Being a resident of the state of New Jersey, I suppose I’m the most qualified to talk about this story today, at least from the standpoint of our website. I’d like to address the facts, and then give my opinions on the realities of the situation.

Close to my place of residence is a town called Cherry Hill, NJ. It’s a quiet, family-oriented place, the furthest destination in America where you would expect to foil a terrorist plot.

It is there where six men of Yugoslavian descent where arrested this morning. Their crime? They were caught in the planning stages of a plot to illegally purchase AK-47 assault rifles (so much for gun control), in hopes of storming nearby Fort Dix to “kill as many soldiers as possible”, federal authorities said Tuesday.

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McGreevey’s Art Show

Posted by: Jason | April 23rd, 2007 · 11:41 AM

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My partner in crime at PP mailed me an interesting take on McGreevey this morning. We both agreed; this man has to be the most despised political figure in America today. With every new bit of information that surfaces concerning his private life, you just marvel over the fact that he was actually the governor of a state, New Jersey or otherwise.

So the New York Post has information out on the latest McGreevey story, this time of his ex-wife Dina taking issue with a 50 by 60 inch print of a nude man standing on a beach, currently hung up in the bedroom of the former governor and his partner Mark O’Donnell. The issue? Apparently she finds it inappropriate for their 5-year old daughter to view gay nude artwork on the walls during her visits. The nerve of such prudish people today…

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A Stroll Through Liberalville

Posted by: Jason | April 21st, 2007 · 1:50 PM

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One of the things that you Southwesterners, Florida-folk, and southern Californians have little experience with is the absolute joy in finding the season of Spring again. See this is all too familiar to we of the great Northeast. An average one of your daily temperatures could send us into fits of overnight lifestyle transformation. At the sign of our first 80 degree day, we drop the dark attitudes and scurry through our basements to find that old Bob Marley CD, or seek out the closest deck to drink pina coladas on. As if we suddenly live in the Caribbean. Case in point, I just may wear my white suit tonight into the city.

Today is such a day up here. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and it’s our first Saturday of grand weather in a while. So I took a stroll downtown this morning, I’ll call it Liberalville. The Nivea, as Lee would call them for their overly groomed looks, were all out in full glory, following their wives into antique shoppes, drinking lattes and soaking in the sun. The old gray sweaters turned to overly ambitious summer gear. I even saw a pink Lacoste shirt already. But my point to all of this is that the Liberals looked different today, they were happy.

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School Safety Drill Features Social Conservative Terrorists

Posted by: Ion | April 2nd, 2007 · 6:52 AM

Here’s your head shaker for the day. A school in New Jersey has decided it’s important to illustrate the grave dangers of right-wing “Christian terrorism” to their students. It’s sort of the end run of the liberal predilection for equilibrating American social conservatism, with salafist jihad.

A local paper reports that a drill at Burlington Township High School in New Jersey involved police portraying mock gunmen, described as “members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the ‘New Crusaders’ who don’t believe in the separation of church and state.” The fake gunmen were said to have been “seeking justice because the daughter of one [member] had been expelled for praying before class.”
(ONN)

Burlington Twp’s students will doubtlessly be well prepared to confront a world where we’re menaced daily by terrorist attacks from fanatical Methodists. Now, if we could just find some…

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Close Encounters of the Liberal Kind

Posted by: Jason | March 25th, 2007 · 3:57 PM

I’ve always said that if I were taken away from this beautiful earth prematurely in life, at least I could say one thing… Thank God I wasn’t a liberal. Whether overhearing casual restaurant chatter or schmoozing at the bar, you can always tell a liberal female by their intensely frustrated appearance. To think… men actually marry these dreadful creatures.

I have a funny story that I would like to share. It happened to me around 11am this morning.

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Back from Bah-ston

Posted by: Jason | · 10:04 AM

My apologies to the PP readers. Just 3 short days after returning home from a vacation in Florida, I had to attend to some business in Boston, MA.

But… all wasn’t lost in my time away. I drew much “interest” in Kennedy-country for my elephant tie and Reagan cufflinks, attended a Celtics game, said “wicked hard-core” a few times, took a stroll through Harvard, made it rain on a Bostonian club dancefloor (don’t worry… they were all $1 bills), and got to drink some nice Boston ale.

More to come on the post front later. Thanks again for your patience.

Jason

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Behind Enemy Lines: Civil Unions Begin in NJ

Posted by: Jason | February 20th, 2007 · 11:02 AM

New Jersey became the fourth state yesterday to allow civil unions. The term civil union implies that same sex couples be granted the same legal rights as married couples without the actual title of marriage.

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