My Health Care Proposal

Here's my proposal to reduce health care costs and I'm serious:

No government plans of any kind including Medicare and Medicaid.
No private insurance of any kind.
It is illegal to buy, sell or carry any form of health insurance.
No malpractice insurance.
No malpractice lawsuits.
No lawsuits against patients for making public poor or negligent care - the public would be encouraged to report this.
No prescription or health care related advertising allowed on any media - except over the counter things available at any retail outlet.
Medical providers may provide service to anyone they choose based on ability to pay or any other basis. Medical providers are not required to treat anyone.

In short, a complete supply and demand transaction between the medical provider and patient:

Patient pays entirely for any service from their own personal resources.
No interest bearing financing allowed from the medical provider.
Patient may seek a personal loan if needed from the general banking community based on their ability to repay like a home mortgage or auto loan.

The costs will come down or the existing medical system will simply disappear.

ABC News Targets CBS News in Lowest Ratings Quest

ABC announced that Diane Sawyer will replace retiring Charles Gibson as the "World News" Anchor on the ABC evening news show.  Obviously, ABC wants to replicate the success that the CBS evening news has enjoyed in continually finishing in last place in the network ratings since naming liberal darling Katie Couric as its anchor. (Not that it matters anyway since the major networks newscasts already have become mostly irrelevant for a large number of viewers who prefer cable stations.)

However, your humble Topcat is always on the prowl for the most important aspect of any story and in this announcement we find it here:

"With Sawyer's new role, two of the three major network's evening news broadcasts will now be anchored by females, a first in television history."

My gosh. We just get our first black president (who is actually half white) and now two of the three major network's evening news broadcasts will be anchored by women!

Ratings are no longer important. What matters is the march towards the new America led by women and other minorities where white males are invisible. Don't be surprised when NBC names a minority anchor next to show that they too embrace "diversity" and "progress".

Let's Pass the Kennedy Final Destruction of America Act of 2009

Yesterday, I posted this comment on Old Atlantic Lighthouse's Blog regarding the death of Senator Ted Kennedy:

"I won’t be surprised to see an attempt to fast-track health care “reform”, immigration “reform”, or some other nation destroying “reform” to “honor” the late Senator. He is dangerous even in death."

Of course, there is nothing greatly insightful about that as we all knew it was coming. Yet, today there are calls to - surprise! surprise! - pass health care reform and immigration reform to honor the late Senator.

Why don't we just roll those into one bill, add some more funding for abortion, gay rights and other leftist causes and call it the Kennedy Final Destruction of America Act of 2009.

Welcome to College from Your Multicultural Assistant!

My son is now a freshman attending classes and living on campus at a state university out here in the heartland of Kansas. The people of the Sunflower State are generally regarded as conservative except for liberal strongholds in Lawrence (home of the University of Kansas - no, my son is not there) and mainly the Kansas City area. Life is good except for being chased by a renegade tornado now and then.

Anyway, my wife and I moved our son to his dorm room last week and were enjoying the view from his window when a young Asian woman entered the room (the door was open) to officially welcome our son to the university.

Before I could prepare myself from committing face crime, she launched into her introduction that she was: "...the dorm "Multicultural Assistant" ... and how the university values diversity ... and that a number of diversity events were being held to celebrate various diverse groups including various ethnic foods ... and how it wasn't just about diverse cultures, but also about gender and special needs and other diversity ... and more diversity ... and still more diversity..."

Whew! She must have used the word "diversity" about 15 times!

Well, the last thing I wanted to do was get my son off on the wrong foot with the diversity police so I rallied around by making sure I was wearing a smile and saying how nice and wonderful it all sounded. What I really wanted to ask was what diversity activities were being held to celebrate young, white, heterosexual, Christian males like my son but I wasn't prepared to see the empty, speechless stare I'm sure I would have received back.

It appears that nowhere is safe from the diversity police especially on college campuses - even out here in flyover country.

Of course, this obsession with diversity and the war on white males will need to be stopped and its effects reversed to save whites in America and to restore traditional Western Civilization.

Maybe a first step is to replace the campus "Multicultural Assistant" with a "Western Civilization Assistant".
Continue reading...

Government Employment Equals High Fertility?

The state governmental organization where I am employed has hired seven professional staff within the past year - five women and two men. This percentage of women hired (71%) matches the 70% women to 30% men ratio that has existed here for at least the last ten years or so. Many of the remaining men are becoming retirement eligible so it would not be surprising to see that difference increase further in the coming years.

Of the five women recently hired, three became pregnant almost immediately after being hired and one of these may have been pregnant when hired. A fourth was just recently married so we'll see if she joins the group soon. All of the soon-to-be moms were eligible for full maternity benefits under our health plan and I expect that they would all have taken advantage of that because of the very low cost.

Typically, women are on paid leave, if they have available sick leave, or unpaid leave for 3-6 weeks after delivery before returning to work. Other staff cover their duties during this time of absence.

Two of the three have now delivered. One has chosen to bring her baby to work under a program where a child from birth to six months of age can come to work and stay with the parent (it's always the mother). To do this you have to have several other employees serve as backups if the parent has to attend a meeting or otherwise is not available to tend to the child's needs. I don't know if the third mother plans to bring her child to work.

In summary, our already highly feminized workplace continues to hire mostly women who are becoming pregnant immediately after being hired, are given low cost health (maternity) benefits, one using the workplace and other staff as daycare, all before we even know if they are competent workers who should be retained.

And to think our staff was probably 80% men when I was hired nearly 30 years ago. The business practices of our organization have been feminized as well (e.g. work the responsibility of teams, consensus building, etc.). However, that is a discussion for another day.

Besides, I gotta run! The baby needs a bottle and mommy is making a presentation! Continue reading...

Multicultural Phonetic Alphabet

If you remember the old NATO Phonetic Alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc.) you'll also remember that it is full of cultural bias. Seriously, it uses exclusive terms like Golf, Romeo, Juliet, Foxtrot and the like. Because it is so seriously flawed I am proposing the following revised, less offensive phonetic alphabet to take it's place. Feel free to suggest further improvements!

• African
• Burka
• Culture
• Diversity
• Equality
• Fair
• Gay
• Hispanic
• Inclusive
• Jihad
• Kharma
• Lesbian
• Minority
• Naturalize
• Orientation
• Preference
• Quota
• Racist
• Socialist
• Transgendered
• Utopian
• Veil
• Whitey
• Xenophobia
• Youth
• Zero (the President)

Continue reading...

Five Steps to Persecution - Whites and Christians Pay Attention!

Because hostility toward whites and Christians is increasing in America and Europe we would do well to recognize the five steps to persecution as identified from the experiences of Jews in Nazi Germany and Christians under communist regimes. This is spelled out in an article at These Last Days Ministries and quoted below. I think whites and Christians (and particularly home schoolers and patriot types) are sitting on step three and we may be moving to step four quickly under the Obama administration. Be prepared!

There are five steps leading to persecution, which are identifiable in both the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the Communist persecution of Christians. The first step in the progression toward the persecution of persons or groups is identification. The second step is marginalization--pushing a group to the margins and out of the mainstream culture and community, making them vulnerable to prejudice, discrimination, and persecution. The third step is vilification--making an entire group, because of their beliefs and practices, to be uncivilized, dangerous villains who, if unchecked, will pose a serious threat to the rest of the community. The fourth step is criminalization--passing unjust laws which takes away all freedom for this group. Finally, the fifth step is persecution.

AWARE - LA

If you are in need of a speaker or a workshop at your next KKK rally, might I suggest contacting the Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere - Los Angeles (AWARE-LA)? This appears to be a group of white anti-whites living in Los Angeles dedicated to eliminating white racism.

I know what you're thinking! There are no more whites in Los Angeles! They all left years ago! Well, apparently that is not the case.

Maybe this organization is the final resting place for self-hating whites who have totally absorbed the "whites are evil" rhetoric that has been delivered on a daily basis in every way possible over the past 40 years.

But I could never do these fine folks justice with my own words. So let's let them speak for themselves!

Here is who they say they are!

"AWARE-LA is an alliance of white anti-racist people working together to combat racism within ourselves, our communities, and the world. We collectively develop our anti-racist practices and tools for nurturing anti-racist practice among white people and working in transformative alliance with people of color. We take collective action to build white anti-racist and multiracial alliances to challenge the white supremacist system.


Mission Statement:


AWARE-LA’s mission is to work toward the abolition of the White Supremacist System and all systems of supremacy through building communities of Radical White people in solidarity with people of color in the larger movement for racial, social, economic, and environmental justice. We will only use non-violent, peaceful means for achieving our mission and goals."

And here is what they do!

"AWARE-LA’s work is rooted in the belief that racial, economic, and environmental justice will be achieved through a multiracial movement. AWARE-LA uses a multiple entry point approach to build a base of white anti-racists who are self-reflective and prepared to take action alongside other white antiracists and in alliance with social justice organizations led by people of color.


The work we do ranges from monthly Saturday Dialogues for the Los Angeles white anti-racist community to a planning committee that offers workshops locally and nationally. A significant component of our work takes place in our organizing arm which explicitly seeks to drive a strategic wedge into the white communities of Los Angeles, forcing white people to confront white privilege and the White Supremacist System. We support sister organizations looking to utilize regular white anti-racist dialogues to base-build. Members of our leadership team participate in and help coordinate a Racial Justice Alliance which develops and practices a groundbreaking model for multiracial alliance building.


Below you can find more information on our various components, all of them volunteer-led, sustained by mindful leadership development practices, and connected through a Coordination Team."

And here is one of the ways they do it - by creating white space! (I really couldn't make this stuff up!)

"The Saturday Dialogue series is a monthly gathering for white anti-racists who want to discuss issues of identity, community, privilege and racism in our lives with the intention to strengthen our practice as anti-racists in alliances and friendships with people of color. Regular, recurring workshops throughout the year focus on the intersections of multiple identities, namely Race and Class, Sexuality and Race, and Gender and Race. Other workshops focus on relationships, Radical White Identity, Radical White Community and issues such as police and the prison industrial complex, immigration and gentrification...


...But why a white space?
For many, it sounds contradictory: “It’s racist if just white people to get together. Isn’t that segregation?” The following are our reasons for gathering as a white anti-racist community:


1. People of color shouldn’t always have to be the ones to educate white people about racism and oppression. We are taking responsibility for learning about racism, our own white privilege, and how to challenge it as white people.


2. In order to challenge racism and dismantle white supremacy, white people need to unlearn racism and discover the ways we enact white privilege. This is a long, difficult, and sometimes painful process. It’s helpful to have a space where other white people engaged in this process can support and challenge us, without having to always subject people of color to further undue trauma or pain as we stumble and make mistakes. Having a community of white anti-racist people gives us hope, helps us grow our practice, and gives us strength to stay in it for the long haul.


3. A commitment to anti-racist identity and practice as a white person can sometimes mean increased alienation and conflict in our lives, especially with other white friends and family who disagree with us. AWARE is a space where we can get support from people who are experiencing similar struggles as anti-racist white people.


4. It’s a space for us to figure out what it means to be an anti-racist white person and challenge racism in all areas of our lives. We cannot expect people of color to have all of the answers for how us on how to transform ourselves and other white people. As white people we are well equipped to understand what it means to be white.


5. It’s a place where we can begin to build a new culture of white anti-racism, and learn the skills needed to transform the larger white community.


6. AWARE is a supplement to, not a replacement for, multi-racial dialogues between white people and people of color. It’s important that white people give space in their lives to learning from and bearing witness to people of color’s experiences of racism.


7. A white space serves as a resource to people of color who want to work with white people but don’t want to have to spend all their energy dealing with the racism of white people."

Well, there you have it. The path to world peace and prosperity is to eliminate white racism - which I predict will just simply become eliminate whites themselves. Continue reading...

Minority Groups Seemingly Make Same Demands as Islam

Islam requires one of three things from non-believers (i.e. infidels) - conversion to Islam, dhimmitude (i.e. living subordinate to Islam) or death.

Is it just me or do virtually all minority groups essentially make the same demands of the American majority that Islam does of non-believers?

Hispanics, blacks, Muslims, feminists, gays, pro-abortionists, multiculturalists to name the major ones (sorry if I missed anyone) all seem to be demanding that Americans comply with - or should we say submit to - their various demands and standards for "justice" and "equality".

In effect, we must choose from the same three choices that Islam offers. We must accept and embrace their various demands and standards as the highest virtues and norms of society ("conversion"), or remain silent and be submissive as they establish these news norms in society ("dhimmitude") or, perhaps when they reach a critical mass in numbers, be eliminated for being unsubmissive non-believers ("death").

Something More Important than Less Government

I attended a seminar recently to help people prepare for retirement. One thing the seminar did was reinforce my extreme distaste for the deferral of personal income to delay paying federal income tax.

The idea behind deferring income as it relates to retirement is that people during their working years will be making more money resulting in a higher tax bill.  Deferring income until the retirement years when people are no longer employed or only working part time results in a lower tax bill. This in theory results in lower federal taxes being paid overall. The deferred income must be placed in some kind of account or held by your employer to accrue until your eventual retirement.

I see the primary problem as instead of paying the government when the tax is due and being done with them, you defer it and now have become beholden to the government.  The more you defer income, the more you owe the feds and the more you become beholden. I often wonder if this is what it is all about in the first place. If the government doesn't need the money then and there then they shouldn't be taxing us for it.

As you might expect, all of this is controlled by a huge bureaucracy with a myriad of rules as to when and how you can use the money either for retirement or non-retirement purposes and when you must pay the tax. To me, any money you save in taxes is negated by the complexity of following all of the rules over the rest of your lifetime.  In fact, many people are forced to hire professionals such as tax preparers, financial planners and the like to avoid any missteps that might result in penalties being assessed by the IRS.  If not, one has to become a virtual tax wizard during the golden years when, how shall we say, one is no longer quite as sharp as one used to be.  This is all further complicated by Social Security and Medicare requirements which we won't dare touch here but are very important pieces of the retirement puzzle. (DISCLAIMER: all of this talk of retirement is based on the idea that the USA continues as a functioning nation and society which of course is very much in doubt even in the short term.)

Back to the story. Towards the end of the day after we had been presented with all of this mind-boggling information, I turned to the fairly young, intelligent looking gentleman next to me and presented my case for changing the system to eliminate deferred income so we can make things simpler and prevent unnecessary government intrusion into our lives. He listened thoughtfully, nodding in agreement much of the time.

After I had finished, he paused for a moment - seemingly in deep thought - and said,"You know what gets me? They've spent nine billion dollars in Iraq, but they won't fix Social Security!"

Well, yes. Evidently, I had lost sight of something more important than reducing the amount of government in our lives. Continue reading...