The time for talk is over.  It is clear that the vast majority of Americans do not want this health care legislation passed.

Any sane and logical congress would say, “Ok, thanks for letting us know.  We represent you the people, and you have made your voices clear.  Let’s toss out this 2000 plus stack of paper and get started on something else.”  But nope, not our congress.  Our congress says, “We know you don’t want it, and we don’t care.  We’re going to find every loophole we can so we can slam you with the largest most unconstitutional tax ever created, all in the name of ‘helping the poor.’”

The poor will not be helped by this bill.  Just look at any other country with government run health care.  It’s the poor that suffer.  Only the rich can afford timely and reliable care.  Why does anyone think it will be different in the US?

I’m absolutely going to go bonkers if I keep hearing, “health care is a right.”  It is not a right.  It isn’t a privilege either.  It’s a service.  You are not entitled to the labor of a doctor.  Just like they are not entitled to free oil changes from the mechanic.  We all work for a living, some of us harder than others.  Call me crazy, but I believe that the people that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on education, work 90 hour weeks, and make life and death decisions on a daily hourly basis deserve to be paid more than my mechanic, and I’m happy to pay it.  I am not happy to pay for other people to see that doctor because they spent their money elsewhere.  We all have to make sacrifices.  Deal with it.  And here’s the thing about Americans- for the most part, we are an extremely charitable group.  If someone really was in a bad situation, I bet there would be a doctor somewhere willing to treat them, or benefactors willing to pay for the treatment.

I have faith in the American people.  I have faith in every single person who wants to better their life.  I have faith in the single mom struggling to make ends meet, the newly graduated college student looking for a job, the father of two teens that just got laid off after 20 years.  I have faith in those people to do what it takes to get through these rough patches of life, and I have faith in their friends and neighbors to help them as they’re able.  I do what I can to help those in need.  I’m grateful for all the times others have been there for me.

But oh this congress.  This congress does not have faith in us.  This congress does not want us to feel the triumph of overcoming adversity, the joy of accomplishment.  This congress wants to enable us with the most massive entitlement program our country has ever seen.  We are better than that.

I want this congress to stop taking my money and giving me back a paltry sum and expecting me to jump for joy.  I know what  you took.  Don’t tell me to be grateful for the $10 check when you snuck $100 out of my back pocket.  I’m wise to your tricks.  A lot of us are.  Which is why you will be voted out this November.  This health care bill and any other crap you manage to sneak through in closed-door deals will be repealed.

Who knew that it would take a violation of Constitutional principles by our leaders for America to stand united in a way we haven’t for generations?  Wonders never cease.

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden asked for God’s blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick’s Day — except the elderly lady is very much alive.

“God rest her soul,” Biden said Wednesday night as he introduced Cowen and President Barack Obama. He quickly caught himself and noted that it’s Cowen’s father who is no longer living. Of the prime minister’s mother, Biden said, “God bless her soul.”

Biden then cited the Irish proverb that “a silent mouth is sweet to hear” and yielded the podium to the president.

I bet Dan Quayle is quite amused over Biden’s frequent verbal vomit.

“Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill,And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me, and it will pass. You connect the dots.”

Hmmm… I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats to do that, but this story is already a little bit fishy.  His story keeps changing.  He already hadn’t been planning to run for another term due to recurring cancer.  But then it was due to his “salty language.”  But then it was because he was going to be a no vote on the current health care bill.

Fishy, right?

But wait!  There’s more!

Massa made some pretty interesting remarks about the President’s Chief of Staff:

“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn… He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”

Rep. Massa describes a confrontation with Emanuel in a shower: “I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.”

That’s probably true about Rahm, actually.  But this whole situation is wack-a-delic.  Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck even got into a scuttle about it on his radio program.  She didn’t think we should be giving Massa any air time, and chided Beck for inviting him onto his show on the Fox News Network.  They have since then made up and sent each other virtual hugs and kisses.

And in why-am-I-not-surprised news- it turns out that Nancy Pelosi had known for months about Massa’s inappropriate behavior which included touching and groping of male staff members.  One might hope that the leader of the House could keep her own house in order, but apparently not.

In a related story about coo-coo-crazy-pants liberals in the House, Patrick Kennedy went absolutely bonkers on the house floor yesterday.  It was quite the spectacular melt-down, if I do say so myself.  And I speak with some authority on that, as I live with a toddler.  So what was he so upset about? Massa.  Specifically the media attention being given to him over the war in Afghanistan.  Whether or not he had a valid point, his tantrum poked holes in any arguments he may have had.

As a conservative, I gotta say… it’s pretty fun to kick back and watch the show.  The liberals are imploding like a house of cards.  And the best part is they’re doing it to themselves.  I can’t wait for November 2nd, even if it means I’ll have less entertainment on C-SPAN.  This is politics, not a circus freak show.

Rafraf Barrak is just like any other twenty-something woman trying to figure out what to do with her life.  What to apply her studies to?  What is she good at?  Can she make a living with the skills she has obtained?  Does she enjoy those skills enough that that living will be worthwhile?

Just like any other twenty-something.  Except that Rafraf never would have had those options if she had remained in the country of her birth.  You see, Rafraf might be living legally in America now, but she was born in Iraq.  She was born into a life where the government decided her education for her, her contact with others was decided by her culture, and eventually, her elders probably would have decided her marriage for her.  It’s a way of life that not many Americans can fathom.

Rafraf came to America with the help of a news correspondent.  Having been born and raised in Iraq, she had had no intention of ever leaving there.  In fact, she had never even been outside of Baghdad until she accepted a job as a translator for a news station during the tumultuous time after 9/11.   While working as a translator for NBC, she eventually landed in the care of Don Teague.

Rafraf and Don formed a friendship, and after insurgents in Iraq threatened her life, he helped her flee to the United States.  Having been raised to believe that America was the root of all evil in the world, she was understandably scared and nervous.  She hesitantly stepped off the plane and into the welcoming arms of the Teague family and a new life.

Life in America was a far cry from her life in Iraq.  She could make her own decisions.  She could go where she wanted, speak to whom she chose to, ask questions and get answers.  Men didn’t treat her as an inferior being; they looked in her eyes when they spoke to her, rater than averting their gaze as Islamic men did.  She didn’t even have to wear a headscarf.

Saved By Her Enemy is co-authored by Don Teague and Rafraf Barrak, and it is the tale of their unlikely relationship and Rafraf’s transition from second-class Iraqi citizen to liberated woman in America.  It is an eye opening must read book, detailing a way of life that will make any Smart Girl glad to be living in the land of the free.

I was able to chat with Rafraf about her experiences as a child and young woman in Iraq, and her new American life.  Listen to The Smart Girl Report podcast to hear Rafraf talk about everything from her experiences as an Iraqi living in a city being bombed by night to her dating life in America to her conversion from Islam to Christianity.

Listen to The Smart Girl Report here.

Order Saved By Her Enemy here.

Cyrus Nowrasteh, director of The Stoning of Soraya M., sheds light on the darkness of Sharia law which makes it legal for women to be stoned to death if convicted of adultery.

And now she’s probably dead.

Last week she decided to go for a run after school.  So she parked her car at a park, locked the doors, and probably even stashed her purse in the trunk.  But she never came back.

Yesterday police arrested John Albert Gardner III, after physical evidence led them to believe that Gardner had raped and killed the still missing Chelsea.  This story sucks.  It is the sort of tragedy that is so vile that it’s almost unbearable to think about.  It makes my stomach hurt and my heart twist into a knot and my eyes well up when I think of my two precious daughters.

But it was a punch in the gut to read this part of the story:

Gardner is a registered sex offender convicted of committing a lewd or lascivious act on a child younger than 14, the Union-Tribune said. Details of a 2000 criminal San Diego Superior Court case he was involved in were not available, the newspaper said.

What the heck was a man who committed a lewd or lascivious act on a child doing out of prison?  Child rapists give up their government protected rights when they decide to commit the most disgusting and perverted act known to man.  Lock them up and throw away the key.  What the heck good is requiring them to register and making their addresses known to anyone through sites like Megan’s Law?  A site with a disclaimer that specifically states: Anyone who uses this information to commit a crime or to harass an offender or his or her family is subject to criminal prosecution and civil liability.

I just looked up my neighboorhood, and there’s a man living a mile away from me that’s been charged four times with “lewd of lascivious acts with children under 14,” or “oral copulation with persons under 14 by force.”  Now what am I supposed to do with this information?  Skip his house at Halloween?  It’s not like I can stick a sign in his front yard that says, “Beware of Child Rapist!” That might hurt his feelings or something.

Something is wrong with our system when the sex offenders have more rights than Chelsea King did.  Because of all the protection awarded to convicted sex felons, her young life was unprotected.  A list of addresses is not enough.  Obviously.

The second Meg Whitman says that she supported the bank bailouts, which is resoundly non-fiscally conservative:

Update:

·         Endorsed Barbara Boxer in 2004  –MORE: “Darned good” Republican Whitman endorsed U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer in 2003”

·         Endorsed Al Gore in 2000 – MORE: “The Politics of Technology”

·         Supports Public Funding of Abortion –MORE: Interview With Meg Whitman, Part III – “Extreme On Abortion”

·         Against Across The Board Tax Cuts – VIDEO: “Meg Whitman Supports Higher Taxes”

·         Supports the Government Stimulus – VIDEO: “Meg Whitman Praises Obama Stimulus”

·         Supports the $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout – VIDEO: “Meg Whitman Supports The Bank Bailout”

Just something to make you think.  I’ll be voting for Steve Poizner.