Actually, I'm blogging these days
on
Thoughts
If What We Candidates Do Can
Actually Be Described As "Thinking" :-)
2008 July 14
I haven't exactly been posting my thoughts
regularly here. Not that I haven't been thinking, but I've been
lazy enough it didn't get to the Web.
Today I read about a New
Yorker caricature of Michelle and Barak Obama that has
everyone all offended. It's actually a pretty funny sendup of the
extreme right-wing fears about Obama.
But every politician from every campaign must pontificate
about the caricature, condemn it as "offensive". Well, yes. Most
well-targeted humor is.
Are you listening from the Great Satellite Radio in the Sky,
George Carlin?
- Jack
Woehr
2008 April 11
The Colorado Assembly is currently debating
making health insurance mandatory for all Coloradans.
I'm one of those people (over 55, pre-existing condition) who
can't afford what the health insurance companies want to charge
me. Imagine my feelings as I hear the Assembly deciding our
fate:
Will we be made
slaves of Big Insurance, responsible for their profit year
after year as they charge us whatever they want?
"Oh, but they won't be able to charge whatever they want to
charge. Health insurance will be regulated!"
Regulated, yes, by the same legislators here and in other states
that Big Insurance finds ways to legally bribe year after year.
Sen. Clinton received (as a senator in past years) over a million
$$ in contribs from the health industry lobby according to
Michael Moore. Sen. Clinton is the leader of the "compulsory
health insurance" movement among federal elected officials. That
pile of money can't possibly have influenced a senator, can
it have? Chuckle!
Something's gotta be done about the allocation and funding of
health care in Colorado and in America. It's a national disgrace.
But making us slaves of Big Insurance ... well, maybe most
Americans are ready to give up on the idea of personal liberty
entirely. Let's all opt for security with Mother Government and
Uncle Big Business. They will cradle us in their tender arms and
wisely arrange everything in our best interest, don't worry! Hah!
Phooey!
- Jack Woehr
2008 April 7
posted
on Colorado Libertarian Blog:
Zero tolerance -- what a philosophy for raising children!
I'm an engineer -- we measure things to tolerances -- no physical system exhibits a tolerance of Zero (0).
Zero tolerance is a fancy way of saying, "Let's demand perfection from our children and punish them harshly when they fail to achieve our expectation of perfection."
Zero tolerance believers are not, I fear, people who actually like children.
- Jack Woehr
Jack Woehr for Colorado House District 25 in 2008