The Bader Blog
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The Health Care Reform plan Republicans should push at the summit.
Where is Tom Nelson?
The Wisconsin Legislature is about to take the "nanny-state" to a new level.
The hysterical left really looks silly now that the "Tebow" ad has run
An inconvenient truth about School Choice.
With the White House feeling it "won" the Q&A with House members recently, President Obama used the Super Bowl pre-game yesterday to announce a "health care summit" with Republicans later this month. He also said he rejects Republicans calls to scrap current plans and start from scratch, which means this is really an effort to paint Republicans as obstructionists to a bad deal, and not a sincere effort to include Republican ideas. Further, I believe it's an effort to paint Republicans as having no ideas on health care reform. Republicans should ignore Obama's refusal to start from scratch and have a comprehensive plan of their own.
I still believe the best plan I've ever heard is this one from Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal in August. We analyzed it extensively at that time. Perfect? No. A great starting point, yes. Republicans need to be ready with a free market response and make the case that it can meet the same goals than any government plan and do so more efficiently.
I suppose if your CBS, you're not going to say no to this, it was an exclusive, of sorts. Funny how the left was screaming how inappropriate the Tebow ad was for Super Sunday; President Obama capitalizing on the huge Super Bowl pre-game audience to make a political announcement isn't out of place?
The most surprising Super Bowl spot was really a CBS promo. I don't know, as I read this explanation in the L.A. Times, I'm still struggling to understand how NBC/Leno thought his inclusion in this was a good idea...
This debate has raged since this law was implemented 15 years ago. This comment from a public defender gets to the heart of the matter:
Gene Bartman, the supervisor of the Appleton office of the State Public Defender, said the civil commitment process is tilted clearly in favor of prosecutors.
Expert opinions are at the heart of the law, which puts sex offenders at a decided disadvantage, he said.
"These cases are all about predicting future human behavior and determining if a person poses a risk," Bartman said. "The way it's structured, there's no incentive to be perfectly objective about the determination — the error is always going to be on the side of safety.
"Predicting what any of us will do in the future is problematic."
Yes it is. And if you want some perspective on how problematic predicting future behavior is, see the post immediately preceeding this one, "We don't have a crystal ball..."
Did you really need one to see what would happened if these kids were returned to their parents? Despite warnings from pretty much everybody involved in this case, the judge returned the twins to the biological parents and then says he couldn't have possibly seen this coming. The deference the system gives to biological parents who abuse children is nothing short of scandalous.
That you figured out how to mate doesn't, in my mind, give you an automatic right to keep your children once you've illustrated to society you're not a capable parent. I believe the next step should be SOLID evidence you are now a capable parent; something this judge clearly did not have before him. And this case is far from isolated.
The AP is right, this was unexpected.
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The importance of "Corpse-man"
Why do we still need black history month?
Should 911 call recordings be kept from the public?
Toyota woes continue
The war of words over abdulmutallubs words
And support for The Superbowl teams split along idelogical lines
You know the drill: just imagine ANY Republican, I don't care, pick one, ANY Republican, making the same mistake President Obama makes here. The "conservative as moron" template would have been engaged in every newsroom in the country, print, broadcast or otherwise. But Obama, of course, will get what I have dubbed the "Coakley cloak of protection" from the media, named after Massachusetts dimwit Martha Coakley. This is similar to the Harry Reid Ring of racist protection. Just as a liberal can't be a racist, they also can't be stupid, by the MSM's reckoning, whatever evidence to the contrary may surface in either case.
So "corpse-man" which is infinitely more sophomoric a mistake than "potatoe" will go largely unreported by the MSM. Just once, just once you'd like to see...nah, it'll never happen.
Loyal Listener John, who sent me the first "Mean Girls" story, sends this follow-up, and the title I used for this post is also his.
The line about the elementary school boy crying "help Mommy" into his cellphone as he's being beaten is disturbing, but then again this whole story is disturbing. I know a good teacher who is close to walking away from the profession because he's not allowed to keep order in his classroom. This is insane.
