A Perspective on News, politics and Current Events From the Right Side of the Left Coast
Feb 27
Rihanna must like being a human punching bag. The beating that Chris Brown put on Rihanna is incomprehensible even to criminal at large 50 cent. “Fitty” said even he can’t imagine doing that to a woman. Just goes to show you how incredibly stupid these people are. JD
Feb 27
Washington D.C. It seems that the Democrats are at it again with “universal healthcare.” The democrats seem to be blinded by socialism and the removal of personal freedoms of the individual. How does this equate to “progressive” politics? If anything it is regressive.
This country was created because Europeans decided that they did not want to live under a repressive system of government that striped away personal freedom and taxed the people into the poor house. They came to this mostly empty continent to escape their own oppressive governments back in Europe.
It went this way for the first 150 years on America’s existence. What has happened in the last sixty years is a slow progression to socialism that is being foisted on Americans by a democratic party that disguises it as progressive politics.
Once again the American population finds itself caught in the cross hairs of the socialist machine gun. We are being taxed out of existence and it is the poor and the lazy that are behind it. People that have only recently immigrated to America, some illegally, that are all for the government takeover of health care. It’s one more way to get something for nothing and these people know it.
Trust me when I say this. There will be no “universal Healthcare” under President Barack Obama. Like during the Clinton Administration, socialized medicine will go down in a flaming defeat. It died a horrible death under the Clinton administration because the hard working democrats are not socialists. There are actually very few hard core socialists in the democratic party.
President Obama’s universal health care will be met with fierce resistance from within his own party. The democrats in congress remember what happened in 1994 after the Clinton health care debacle. The congressional power shifted back to the republicans. Not to mention the fact that we cannot afford it, especially right now with a major recession going on. This is America, not China. JD
Feb 26
The people of America don’t know how bad it is here in California and how much worse it has become under our own socialist “governator” Arnold Schwarzenegger. For those of you that think you want “change” under the Obama administration, I invite you to move here to California. We are under martial law here where the state wants to know every little detail of your personal business, even down to the color of your turds.
This lump of crap we call California has been overrun by lazy welfare recipients and socialist transplants from New York that flunked out of society back east. They have come here and have run this state into the friggin toilet. This is your future under the Obama administration. Get ready to pay for your “change.” JD
Feb 26
The Obama Administration is about to unload yet another attempted takeover of the private sector in the form of “Universal Healthcare.” There are several groups that want the government to pass universal health care. The first group is the elderly and the fat and lazy. They want socialized medicine so they can eliminate one more responsibility that they won’t have to worry about anymore.
The second group of is big business that will no longer have to pay for health insurance for their employees. This will save corporate America billions in employee overhead.
The only problem with this idea is how it will be funded. The Obama administration and democrats intend to fund this new entitlement with a new tax on gasoline. There are some enormous problems with this idea. First, poor people don’t drive. They use public transportation. Second, the vast majority of Americans live in big cities and don’t own cars but do use health care.
This is completely unfair to the working middle class that own cars and will be forced to subsidize the health care for everyone else that does not own a motor vehicle. How is this fair? It’s yet again an attempt by democrats to redistribute the wealth of America for the fat and the lazy.
My prediction is that like the Clinton administration, universal health care will go down in a flaming defeat. It will also cost the democrats the house and the senate in 2010.
So why the picture of the fat guy on the scooter? Out here is Los Angeles we have these great commercials from a company called “The Scooter Store.” This wonderful company tells people that the government will pay up to $10,000.00 for a “power chair” so they can get around easier. Now I ask you, do you think that the obese man pictured above is a working, productive member of society? Most people see a fat guy riding a power chair. I see a fat guy riding around on my wallet.
Here is the problem I have with The Scooter Store. They get these chairs paid for by the taxpayer and give them to fat people when what they should be giving these people is a treadmill ! For those of you that have jumped on the “anti-smoking” bandwagon, for every one person in the hospital for cigarette smoking related illness, there are nine people in the hospital for obesity related illness. Some food for thought when it comes to socialized medicine and the burden on our health care system. JD
Feb 25
When Will President Obama learn. Every time Obama speaks of more control over the private sector Wall Street sinks farther into the abyss. Poll numbers have shown time and time again that this is not the “Change” that America wants, Yet President Obama continues to try desperately to take over more of the private sector and expand the roll of the federal government in the everyday life of the average American.
If we look close at his first month in office, it has been one embarrassment after another. One blunder after another. There isn’t a doubt in my mind that the “history” that we are witnessing may be history repeated . . . The history of Jimmy Carter.
We have a situation here in America that parallels France and Germany. We have half of the people working and the other half sucking off of the tit of society. If I have to sponsor a fellow American the least my government could do is send me a picture of the person I am being forced to support financially. Sally Struthers sends me pictures of the little South American kid I pay for. It’s only fair. JD
Feb 25
Earth to Al Sharpton. Earth to Al Sharpton. This is America. You cannot tell anyone what they can and cannot say. You cannot tell people what they can and cannot own either. Al Sharpton is nothing more than an extortionist. If Rupert Murdock wanted to make Al Sharpton go away, Murdock would simply give Sharpton a million dollars.
Spike Lee and Al Sharpton are the real racists here. By calling attention to the New York Post cartoon pictured above, Al Sharpton and Spike Lee are telling people that they think black people look like monkeys. Again, The question here is not what the picture implies. It’s what the picture causes an individual to think. It’s the reader’s thought process that is bigoted. In this case the reader is Al Sharpton. If a person thinks that Barack Obama is a monkey, then that will be the first thought in that persons mind. JD
Feb 25
The pilots of a Turkish Airlines jet that crashed at Amsterdam airport today were among nine people killed in the disaster, it has emerged.
At least 84 passengers were injured, six of them critically and 25 severely, when the Boeing 737-800 smashed into a ploughed field three miles short of Schiphol airport.
“There are still three crew members in the cabin. I’m sorry to say that they are dead,” said one of the investigators, at a press conference at Schiphol.
Times Archive, 1985: 54 die at Manchester airport
Fifty-four passengers on a holiday flight to Corfu died yesterday when the cabin of their jet was turned into an inferno of burning fuel
“We are leaving them there because we have to investigate the cockpit before we take the cockpit apart.”
Passengers today told of the panic that broke out as Flight TK1951 from Istanbul apparently stalled on approach to Schiphol.
“All of a sudden the back end of the plane dropped and then the plane crashed down on its front end and broke into three pieces,” a male passenger told Dutch television.
“I was OK because I was in the middle, it was the people towards the tail and at the front who couldn’t get out. I heard screaming.
“Near the tail there was a man with his feet stuck, and people were kicking him to try to get his feet out.”
Another passenger said: “For the first ten seconds it was silent, and after that we heard crying and screaming. There was a lot of panic and a lot of wounded people.”
Witnesses on the ground spoke of their surprise as, within seconds of the jet skidding to rest, 10 or 15 people who had been able to free themselves quickly from their seats stepped out into the mud.
“Almost immediately 15 people walked out,” marvelled Henk Dijkshoorn.
Huseyin Sumer told private Turkish NTV television that he had crawled to safety out of a crack in the fuselage.
“We were about to land, we could not understand what was happening, some passengers screamed in panic but it happened so fast,” Mr Sumer said. He said the crash was over in five to ten seconds.
A British mother and her two daughters were been rescued from the wreckage, The Times can reveal.
Susan Lord and her daughters, Sofia and Lisa, who were freed after the aircraft broke up near the airport today, are not thougt to have suffered any injuries in the crash.
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Ms Lord was believed to be using her maiden name but travelling with her Turkish husband, Jakavus Labeij.
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office said that it appeared that no Britons were among the dead or injured.
Robbert Smit said that some of the survivors who climbed free ran away, while others went back in to help. Inside the aircraft, several people were trapped, some of them badly hurt.
One of the first rescuers on the scene was John Ansgar, who was driving past towards Haarlem when he saw the aircraft’s nose drop and the aircraft fall from the sky.
“Fourteen people got out of the plane almost straight away. When I got inside all the oxygen masks were hanging down. There were people stuck in the back and we just couldn’t help them,” said Mr Ansgar. “There weren’t enough stretchers for everybody.”
Five hours after the aircraft hit at 0931GMT the emergency services had managed to remove all the wounded from the fuselage, but the bodies of some of the dead remained at the front end of the plane.
Video from the scene showed that the craft landed in a ploughed field a couple of hundred yards outside the airport perimeter. Traffic roared past only tens of metres away. Emergency services treated passengers in the mud at the scene.
Tractors were used to ferry the wounded away, the only vehicles able to cope with the sticky mud of the ploughed field, which was saturated after days of heavy rain.
That the aircraft crash-landed in a muddy, ploughed field may have contributed to making the accident less deadly by absorbing the force of the impact, experts said. It may also have helped to dampen sparks and absorb aviation fuel leaking from ruptured tanks and lines on the underside of the fuselage, which appeared to have suffered very heavy impact damage.
One analyst said that the engines appeared not to have been turning at the time of impact, adding weight to the theory that the aircraft somehow stalled.
Injured survivors were being transported to Spaarne hospital in Haarlem and other nearby clinics, while other survivors were taken to a sports hall to be reunited with relatives, who had been taken from the arrivals lounge by bus, shocked and weeping.
The Turkish Ambassador to the Netherlands, Selahattin Alpar, told the Anatolia news agency there were 72 Turks and 32 Dutch people on board. An official said that at least four of the remaining passengers were Americans who worked for Boeing, the aircraft’s manufacturer.
Times Archive, 1985: 54 die at Manchester airport
Fifty-four passengers on a holiday flight to Corfu died yesterday when the cabin of their jet was turned into an inferno of burning fuel
Earlier, amid conflicting reports, it seemed that the 127 passengers, including a baby, and seven crew on board may all have survived, as both the Turkish Transport Minister and the chief executive of the airline proclaimed that all were safe.
“The good news is that there was no loss of life in the accident” said Binali Yildirim, the Transport Minister. As news of the deaths emerged, however, he said that it was a miracle that no more had been killed.
All flights in and out of Schiphol, the fifth busiest airport in Europe, were suspended for a few hours, though traffic was this afternoon said to be returning to normal. The A9 motorway taht runs near the crash scene was also closed.
The 737-800 is a new aircraft, the re-engineered and redesigned next generation of the original 737 which has for several decades been renowned as the workhorse of the skies.
“We have checked the plane’s documents and there is no problem concerning maintenance,” said Candan Karlitekin, the head of the airline’s board of directors. Visibility had been good at the time of landing, he said.
Temel Kotil, the chief executive of Turkish Airlines, said that Hasan Tahsin, a former air force pilot who was captaining the crash plane, was very experienced.
Today’s accident is the most catastrophic at Schiphol since October 1992 when an El Al Boeing cargo aircraft crashed into an apartment building in the Bijlmer neighbourhood of Amsterdam. Forty-three people were killed but health agencies believe that the aircraft had been carrying radioactive cargo.
In April 1994 a Saab 340B on a KLM Cityhopper flight from Cardiff crashed in a ploughed field near Schiphol, cartwheeling as its wing tip dug into the ground and killing three people on board, including the pilot.
Turkish Airlines is said to operate a modern fleet of aircraft with well-trained staff, but its record is not unblemished. In January 2003, a Turkish Airlines flight crashed while attempting to land on a fog-covered runway in the city of Diyarbakir, killing 75 people. Five people survived with injuries.
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