Rush Limbaugh read this analysis, from Classical Ideas that explains some relevant passages from the bill.  In sum, more government control, much less personal freedom. Here are some of his observations.  Please read the entire article at the website. 1.  WILL THE PLAN RATION MEDICAL CARE? This is what the bill says, pages 284-288, SEC. 1151.

Speaking of history — some months ago I wrote a piece about the ongoing efforts of right-wingers to redefine socialism. The title of my piece, written with tongue firmly in cheek was, “ That Socialist Pinko, Otto von Bismarck ” and included the observation that using the right’s current broad definition of socialism: 18th and 19th century Prussia (which, as William Shirer pointed out in his history of the Third Reich, regarded its economy as an instrument of military policy) was “socialist” and therefore, according to 21st century rightwingers, a buncha commie leftists – something that I’m sure most 19th Century Prussians would vociferously deny.

Roger Pielke, Jr. says that this is evidence that the mainstream climate debate has lost touch with reality. Indeed, it has: Speaking in Korea at the World Environment Forum 2009 UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has given a speech that is remarkable for its over-the-top rhetoric and also its disconnect from anything resembling reality. He starts with an apocalyptic warning: Moon tells us that time is short: If we fail to act, climate change will intensify droughts, floods and other natural disasters.

Does Ezekiel Emanuel’s “Communitarian” perspective also include slob hunting? by Bill Levinson We previously compared Obamacare to the German Aktion T4, in which “life unworthy of living” was to be eliminated through denial of medical care or even palliatives such as Zyklon B. In fairness to the health care bill HR 3200, of which we downloaded a complete copy, the section on end of life counseling does not mandate or even encourage euthanasia.

From the Hill’s Blog Briefing Room: Vandals paint Nazi symbol on signs/doors of Congress members supporting health care reform – starcityharbinger.com 08/12/2009 Rep. David Scott: Healthcare debate getting ‘very, very dangerous’ From The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room : The debate over healthcare reform is getting “very, very dangerous” when it reaches the point of swastikas being painted on lawmakers’ offices, Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) said Wednesday.

I am currently on the 3rd day of a 4 day trip to western South Dakota in between the minutia otherwise known as my paying job and a couple of thoughts on the so called debate on healthcare have come to mind while reading through my RSS feeds. I have no idea on how the final version of the healthcare reform bill will look nor am I ready to say I am for the current legislation (it is over 1000 pages long afterall).