Sure there was Bogart, Brando, Cagney and Gable; but at his peak (between the late 1950's and early 70's) Heston - who died in 2008 - left a legacy in Hollywood that may go unsurpassed - perhaps forever.

With his versatility, commanding voice, and riveting presence, the brilliance of Heston's performances - in his many, larger-than-life roles - has been vastly underrated.

Tall, with features chiseled in stone, who else but the multi-faceted Heston could have lasted in front of the cameras for 60 years - never seeming to change?

In 1968, he starred as time-traveling astronaut, George Taylor, in the blockbuster "Planet of the Apes." In 1976, he was a US naval flight officer in the war-drama "Midway;" and later that year, an L.A. cop tracking a sniper in "Two-Minute Warning."

In 1978, Heston would again become a US naval officer in the submarine thriller, "Gray Lady Down".

But what if Heston could have starred in an even bigger role - one that would have undoubtedly been his greatest - reprising Reagan in the Whitehouse? Would not Heston - a staunch, red-blooded republican - have made one of the great presidents of all time?

Instead of war-hero Bob Dole - what if cinema hero Charlton Heston had been the GOP's challenger in 1996?

Clinton would have been a one-term wonder; China would still be seeking "most favored nation" status; and "Lewinsky" would best be known as some beer-bellied guy on your Tuesday-night bowling team.

Heston was pure presidential timbre: a conservative's wet dream:

An avowed, staunch defender of the Constitution, the man could give spellbinding speeches. He loved the outdoors; he despised liberalism. Heston stuck up for the rights of the common man - America's modern-day Andrew Jackson.

But one can only ponder why this movie icon never sought the Whitehouse.

On December 20, 1997, Heston would address the crowd at the Free Congress Foundation - perhaps his most riveting performance of all time:

Speaking out against Bill Clinton's cultural war against gun owners, Heston would deliver a remarkable speech- one well worthy of a classic inaugural address, or the keynote of a national GOP convention:

Here is an excerpt:

(QUOTE)..."Bill Clinton’s cultural warriors want a penitent cleansing of firearms, as if millions of lawful gun owners should genuflect in shame, and seek absolution by surrendering their guns!"

"But that’s what happens when a generation of media, educators, entertainers and politicians - led by a willing president - decide the America they were born into isn’t good enough any more! So they contrive to change it through the cultural warfare of class distinction!"

"Mr. Clinton, sir, America didn't trust you with our health-care system. America didn't trust you with gays in the military. America doesn't trust you with our 21-year-old daughters; and we sure, Lord, don't trust you with our guns! "(Unquote)  

Ironically - despite all his cinematic fame - Charlton Heston is perhaps most famous for his "From My Cold, Dead Hands" speech made at the year 2000 NRA convention:

While raising a priceless, hand-made Brooks flintlock rifle over his head, (as only he could ) railing at the top of his iconic voice - said Heston, in reference to presidential candidate Al Gore ...(Quote) "I'll give you my gun when you take it from my cold dead hands!"

Ironically, Charlton Heston - titan of gun ownership - expired in the same year that gave rise to Barack Obama, America's most avowed hater of the Second Amendment - who worked all his political life to undermine it.

While a State Senator, Obama voted for banning ownership of every shotgun, hunting and target rifle - authorizing the Illinois state police to raid homes (Gestapo-like), to forcibly-confiscate all banned guns.

Obama would co-sponsor a bill to shut down gun manufacturers - including Springfield Armory, Armalite, Rock River Arms, and Les Baer. Thus denied, he then sought to prohibit law-abiding citizens from purchasing more than one gun per month.

And now, Obamacare - a covert, sinister assault on the Second Amendment.

And should the Senate vote to pass it, either kiss goodbye to your gun(s) - or else be prepared to pay for them dearly; for Commander-in-Sneak Obama will have won his most prized victory of all.

In 2000, it would be the gun issue that would ultimately be the undoing of the vile Al Gore - resulting in his losing of West Virginia, and even his home state of Tennessee.

But Obama would prove to be no Al Gore:

In perhaps his greatest political 'makeover,' the Obama campaign took deception to an art form: and none worked better than his so-called "endorsement" from the "American Hunters and Shooters Association" - a phony 'front' group - misappropriating its title from a patrician British hunting club - replete with howling dogs and riding jodphurs - who go on controlled foxhunts in merry olde England's shrinking forests. 

In an ad run heavily in the pro-hunting, battleground state of Pennsylvania - Obama (while posing in front of a verdant, pastoral, woodsy backround) promised, "I won't ever take your gun away."

But soon, the IRS will:

While Rahm Emanuel is secretly conducting closed-door negotiations on merging the two congressional chambers' health care bills, the "National Institute of Health" (NIH) has quietly completed its study of the..."health effects of gun ownership."

These two, seemingly disparate activities are, in fact, joined at the hip.

Shockingly, the NIH has a pre-existing position that (quote)..."owning a gun is a public health risk."

The NIH intends to "prove" this theory by investigating..."whether adolescents who consume alcohol and/or carry firearms, and/or...whose daily activities occur in surroundings rich in alcohol and/or firearms - face a differential risk of being shot with a firearm...or injured in a non-gun assault."

In other words, the NIH is going to study "urban" gang-bangers - using them as pretext to support their position that..."firearm ownership is a public health risk."

Private studies (even casual observation) tells us cities, with a higher level of gun ownership, consistently have lower levels of crime, vs. those who pass strict gun-control laws.

Indeed, far more often than not, firearms PREVENT crime - an estimated 2.5 million times per year - resulting in zero bloodshed, and discouraging criminals, who decide to take their business elsewhere.

Based on such overwhelming anecdotal evidence, one could argue that firearm ownership is indeed a health BENEFIT; that it SAVES lives. But Obama, Emanuel, and the NIH have zero interest in this angle whatsoever.

The NIH, using the "Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence" for cover, will apply their "findings" to gun owners across the board; and people applying for mandatory health insurance - required to disclose whether (or not) they own firearms - will be forced to buy liabilty, in lieu of possible bodily-harm, injury/death - ala the auto-insurance argument. 

And of course, by sharing data between federal agencies, the government will already know whether or not you own a firearm. And for those who have flaunted the laws - and never registered their guns - they will go unpunished. 

The 2000 elections taught Democrats the painful lesson that Americans overwhelmingly support gun ownership as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

Hence, rather than accept the will of the American people, Obama has instead sweated blood to get his healthcare initiative rammed through Congress. It will be the crowning achievement in his life's work - his ulterior motives become reality:

-He can begin building his "as-strong-as-the military civilian force." It will then go largely unopposed.

-He can collect his reward (for socializing America) from sugar-daddy Geoge Soros.

A state-appointed Senator -- afforded a six-year term-- could concentrate on the governmental business at hand, completely unencumbered by bribes we innocuously have re-named, "campaign contributions."

Faced with the most corrupt body of legislators the world has ever known, the overriding wisdom of our Founders becomes apparent- but too late. The will of the majority now lies betrayed - a radical leftist Senate now exacts an unprecedented tyranny upon us.

This is why Obama keeps winning: first, a razor-thin stimulus victory; and his socialist takeover of America's medical establishment seems a fait accompli - only because 60 senate tyrants have brazenly chosen to ignore the will of their home state constituents.

But is this what our Founders intended? A corrupt, power-crazed cadre of marxists, who fear not the electorate's wrath at the polls? Most will not be up for re-election for either two or four more years.

Indeed, time is with them: easily-led voters will quickly forget their transgressions; also time enough to amount a war chest for TV "attack ads."

Ask the majority leader himself: Harry Reid has repeatedly bragged to the media..."I will vaporize any republican challengers with 5 million dollars worth of attack ads!"

Recall when Jesus once said..."No man can serve two masters!"

Indeed; our noble senators have taken the Lord's words to heart:

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SWAMP ADDER: "a small, thin, venomous serpent" - native to India; most notable for its exceptional intelligence. Though widely regarded as the deadliest snake in the world, it can be tamed (even trained) if rewarded with a bowl of milk.

Although none of these species is native to America, there now exists a cadre of vicious, sneaky reptiles in our homeland - the most deadly to ever inhabit Earth. Their native habitat is Washington DC - slithering about the halls of the United States Senate.

They crawl about the Capitol, seeking victims; the slimiest, creepiest creatures one could imagine:

Some of the lowest forms of life, they huddle behind the locked doors of their subcommittee offices, their tongues flicking in-out, plotting their venomous undermining of the Constitution.

Bestowed with evil, serpent-like intelligence, these callous creatures are capable of the most cold-blooded lies, and are easily rewarded with money designated as campaign contributions.

Outnumbering their opponents decisively, these senate vipers strike suddenly - their long fangs penetrating their Republican prey, who helplessly succumb to their slithery, majority attacks. 

Nodding their heads to lure their believers, the senatorial vipers make promises of free medicine, lowered insurance costs, and a greatly-improved society from government-run healthcare.

-Removing 500 billion from Medicare: the cowardly biting of the hands that feed them - the millions of hapless senior citizens who now face the inevitable rationing of socialized medicine.

-Requiring both young and old alike for mandatory purchases of health insurance, under actual penalty of heavy fine and/or imprisonment.

-Granting free healthcare to illegal immigrants, to curry favor amongst the largest minority voting bloc.

-Removing the incentives for the best and the brightest to become doctors, and marginalizing all physicians into mere underpaid, run-of-the-mill government workers

-Undermining the jobs of the tens of millions who work at small businesses; whose owners must either take on expensive new health care premiums, or lay off  valued employees.

-Determining but ONE individual, the Health and Human Services Director, that would hold "god-like" power over the entire nation; who adjudicates what everyone pays for health insurance premiums, and the limits of care each shall receive.

And these back-biting vipers care not about those who've elected them- ignoring their expectation that they righteously serve their country. Their only loyalty is to the forked-tongued devil who charms them from his desk in the Oval Office.

Since the beginning of time, snakes and serpents have been used to depict evil:

It was a serpent that represented Satan, who had tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden -and introduced sin into God's perfect creation of Earth.

In the Old Testament, God rescued Hebrews from their bondage in Egypt. Pursued by Pharaoh's army, they escaped across the parted Red Sea; and when they had nothing to eat, God provided manna.

Despite their miraculous redemption, the Hebrews grumbled - hence God sent a plague of poisonous snakes amongst them.

Given all three of these seemingly unrelated human interest stories, what do they share in common? In deference, we now move on to story number four:

A headline breaks in the London Times: "Unknown Alleged Russian Entity Hacks Into Computers of Major Center on Global Warming."

Indeed, hackers had now "exposed" the Hadley Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, England - obtaining 1079 emails and 72 files - containing nearly 4000 documents on global warming - proving it to be the greatest of all hoaxes...EVER!

The Russian hacker(s) released 61 megabytes of confidential files. The site - apparently originating in Tomsk, Siberia - is now down (closed).

Here is a sample of the purportedly hacked material (1079 e-mails) that had been available online:

From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@XXXX, mhughes@XXXX
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement


Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,

I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.

Mike's series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Suspiciously, things began getting a bit shaky when "global warming" was esoterically morphed into 'climate change'. Then, in conjunction, the EPA "reclassified" CO2 as a "greenhouse gas." The stage was now set: the weather itself had become politicized:

- Blizzards in China? Climate change.

- Snow in Saudi Arabia? Excess greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. 

- Volcano eruption in Pago-Pago? Silly fool; it's climate change.

- Atlanta flooded by 11 eleven inches of rain? Yep - it's that nasty ol' climate change thing.

Until the Russian 'saviors' had intervened, UN liberals had been well-poised to use CO2 as a pretext to bankrupt developed countries; they would transfer trillions of their dollars to the "underdeveloped" nations by charging penalties pegged to carbon emissions (per metric ton).

But If Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a such a grave danger (as the EPA tells us) what is it doing in our childrens’ soft drinks? And why has it been delineated as a so-called greenhouse gas?

The IPCC (Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change) had for twenty years been using computer models that ominously had predicted a warming rate in the troposphere; with rises of 1.2* Centigrade per decade, using calculations based upon 'greenhouse-forcing' scenarios.

This implied carbon-tax increases of $14 to $24 per-ton - per DECADE.

At the upper end of the IPCC "warming forecast," emissions' taxes would have reached upwards of $200 per ton of CO2 by 2050, forcing major carbon-emitters into bankruptcy, and a presumptive global shift to "non-carbon" energy sources.

But why not avoid the controversy altogether? Tie all carbon taxes to ACTUAL levels of warming. Both skeptics and alarmists alike would've had their wishes answered - problem solved!

"Climate justice" is about redistribution of money from consumer countries (USA) to poorer countries in South America & Africa (the UN will conference in Copenhagen until December 18 to achieve this noble goal).

In the United States, climate justice says everyone in the middle class shall pay energy taxes; providing money to the welfare leeches (in the urban areas) for their energy needs.

The House Cap 'n Trade Bill provides these energy taxes to be distributed to "historically disadvantaged" urban areas. This same wording also lies in the "Stimulus" package.

The "endangered" coal-fired plants in the Midwest would be forced to double their rates; the energy users (everyone) would effectively be subsidizing the "poor". Hence, the leeches would get free "energy vouchers" to pay for their heating & energy costs.

Farmers would be devastated: cap 'n trade levies a charge of $20 for one sheep, $100 for a beef cow, $150 per head of dairy cattle. Reasoning? Methane output. Future food prices? Up 50%!  

In wonderful Ohio - First Energy, an Akron utility, sent two energy-saving compact flourescent light-bulbs (CFLs) to customers, charging them $21 - whether they wanted them or not. The idea? - to compensate First Energy for future costs relevant to Ohio’s new law requiring utilities to reduce coal consumption 22.2 percent by 2025.

If states require utilities to reduce coal consumption, or use more expensive 'renewable' energy sources, rising rates must make up the difference - meaning less disposable income; more job losses - sending manufacturing jobs fleeing overseas to China.

In West Virginia, if the House cap-and-trade bill became law, 11,000  mining jobs would be gone in less than 15 years, according to a study commissioned by the National Association of Manufacturers.

"West Virginia's coal production would fall 85.1 percent; electricity production by 18.6 percent by 2030." According to the study, the poor would especially bear the brunt: they spend a greater share of their income on energy than people in higher income brackets.

This ‘cap n trade’ nonsense will force a vast majority of Americans to park their transportation, not to mention the conventional energy jobs lost because of the lunacy surrounding the "restructuring" of America into a new "greener" economy.

Global warming; climate change; so-called 'dirty gasoline' automobiles...all a pretext to destroy our freedoms. 

Americans love their conventional cars, and will part with them only as a last resort.

But now that so-called global warming is in question, what happens to GM after all the money poured into developing its new, renewable-energy cars? Small cars, not only expensive and ugly, but inherently dangerous as well!

A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that electric vehicles (and hybrids with all-electric drive mode) are three times more likely to be involved in pedestrian accidents at intersections and crosswalks.

The National Federation for the Blind has been lobbying  automakers and the federal government to address the problem by ensuring that battery-powered cars make some sort of noise that will alert the sight-impaired to their presence.

And it’s not just the blind who have to worry: even slow-moving hybrids can get 40 percent closer to pedestrians than a combustion-engine car before being detected.

This endangers runners, walkers, children and bicyclists alike, who rely on hearing to place traffic around them. Hence, once electric cars become common, far more accidents and fatalities will occur than many realize.

Now, back to that "climate change" hoax, and its incredibly negative consequences: Add up the huge financial losses. The uncertainty and anxiety to be found everywhere. The destiny of so many lives now irretrievably altered.

Jobs departed. Livelihoods endangered. Increasing accidents. Our once-convenient lifestyles...our disposable incomes...our cherished American way of life - gone for what?

Because of some phony scam? - perpetrated by a condescending, desperado group of so-called climatologists? Laughing amongst themselves; arrogantly exchanging e-mails; congratulating one another; supportive of a scheme whereby the UN would control of much of the world's wealth.

But fortuituously, it now seems very much in doubt.

Americans are some of the most civilized, rational, and intelligent people on earth. If climate change truly portended danger, we all would be in unison about fixing the problem, before it could make life on our fragile planet even worse.

When the US Olympians arrived in China last year, they were shocked at the impurity of Beijing's smog-shrouded, filthy, coal-fouled air.

And everywhere, the global warmongers shouted "SEE... it's real! We need controls!"

But climate change is all about obfuscation:

Obfuscating data to show warming in place of actual cooling.

Obfuscating science to condemn harmlessCO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Obfuscating fossil fuel producers as agents of global warming - rather than only polluters. 

John Glenn not long ago had commented that the "blue earth" image he once saw from space was now grayer - much hazier than his original voyage as an astronaut in 1962.

Yes; carbon pollution is real; and the world must unite that it be cleaned up:

But Global Warming is a ruse - used by fear mongers (Gore), Congressional politicians, and the UN con artists of the IPCC - to vacuum money from our pockets.

Oil & coal - like stone - are pertinent to Earth's composition; they are not fossil fuels!

Climate Change is nothing other than a leftist scam to displace our Constitution and Bill of Rights.  To weaken America until it is "equal" to the rest of the world. 

Who has proven global warming even exists? 

The Russian hackers have inadvertently defined Climate Change for what it has been all along: a left wing, world-wide, wealth-redistributionist game - to buy Democratic votes. Nothing more.

There are no accurate ways to measure global warming; nor "increasing  CO2 levels," because carbon dioxide is germane to the air around us.

The attempt to tax us into submission, and destroy the economic base of our great country - making America part of a “One World Nation - has been exposed.

SETTING: Monday, November 2, 2009... 2:41 pm in the afternoon:

SCENE: An 72-year-old man (a lifelong republican) hurriedly clambers up the stairs from the basement, to answer a ringing phone - thinking to himself..."who could this be?" 

It is a fateful "robo-call" - a call that gave the democrats their crucial 218-vote majority in the House on healthcare reform. A vote so crucial, it would alter the course of the nation:

(begin call)

"Hello?"

(a piercing, electronic-sounding voice is heard)

....“Hi, this is Dede Scozzafava calling on behalf of Bill Owens.  And I wanted to let you know that I am supporting Bill for Congress."

...“Since beginning my campaign I have said that this election is not about me, it’s about the people of this district. It’s not in the cards for me to be your representative, but I strongly believe Bill Owens is the only candidate who can build upon John McHugh’s lasting legacy in Congress"

...“In Bill Owens I see a sense of duty and integrity"

..."He will be an independent voice, devoted to doing what is right for New York. To address the tough challenges ahead, we must rise above partisanship and politics and work together."

...“Please join me in voting for Bill Owens on Tuesday."

(end) 

Indeed; this clever message – that comprised the thousands of robocalls to all registered voters in New York's 23rd Congressional district - would swing an election to a liar liberal democrat (Owens), providing the crucial margin that Nancy Pelosi would so desperately need.

The 23rd Congressional district (much of it on the Canadian border) had been Republican for over 100 years. GOP incumbent, John McHugh, was stepping down.

But now, due to the compelling "charm" of Senate cockroach Chuck Schumer (who persuaded RINO Scozzafova to throw her support to a democrat) - plus Rahm Emanuel (who wrote the robocall's "script") - a crucial seat in the House went from red to blue.

Predictably, Owens, the winner - after campaigning he would NEVER vote for a bill with the Public Option - was flown to DC the following Thursday; sworn-in Friday; just in time to cast his fateful "Yea" vote on Saturday night.

A naive, Republican electorate had been conned by someone (Scozzafava) they had trusted implicitly... "In Bill Owens I see a sense of duty and INTEGRITY."

In a debate held only a week before (October 31) Mr. Owens had repeatedly assured these same conservative voters that... "the public option has no place in the House health care reform bill."

TRANSLATION: whenever a liberal swears that they're ENTIRELY against something, it's exactly what they are intending to do!

Not surprisingly, 24 hours had not even passed (after the election) when an Owens spokesman issued a "clarification," saying the new Congressman had..."recanted" his "solid position" against the Public Option: (quote)..."Mr. Owens does not wish it to be a ‘litmus test’ for the Health Reform bill."

Ironically, liar-extraordinaire Owens - campaigning as a moderate - had posted on his website..." I am firmly opposed to cutting Medicare benefits, taxing health care benefits, and increased taxes on the middle class in any way..."

On election night, picture Schumer, Emanuel and Pelosi, rolling on the floor laughing, when fool conservative, Doug Hoffman, was told to concede (too early) at 10 PM - even before 10,000 absentee ballots had been counted!

In retrospect, could the Republicans have done anything different?

Once RNC chairman Michael Steele decided to trash Scozzafava (like last year's calender), did he not realize that hell hath no fury like a RINO woman politicially scorned?

Could he not deduce that she would quickly turn on the party?

And Scozzafava's last-minute endorsement would bear tragic consequences:

How could the Republicans have expected a liberal RINO - with her union boss husband - to not be anything but TROUBLE?

Before the election, Scozzafava had sought and received the endorsement of all eleven Republican county chairmen in the 23rd district.

A skilled campaigner, she had worked hard in the expansive area, gaining funding, putting in her own cash - sticking to a mostly straightforward platform on the issues.

Then along comes the RNC, who now decide - from the outside– that she fails their new 'litmus' test. They engage in a scorched-earth campaign against her, using their inflexible "test" as justification. 

When Scozzafava reads the handwriting on the wall and withdraws, the republican national party (and conservative talk radio) lampoon her for her "liberalism," and immediately embrace newcomer, Doug Hoffman - a naive fool with the political guile of a hibernating squirrel.

And worse, could not the Republicans even have advised the squirrel-like Hoffman to get his stomach-turning, yellowish teeth cleaned? Every time the man shook hands and smiled, it was yet another vote (or more) sure to be cast for the other side.

Campaign rule number one: you must look good on TV! 

Campaign rule number two: your campaign manager must exceed the intelligence level of any one (or all) of the Three Stooges.

On the night of the election - with the whole world watching - Hoffman stood by like a moron, while voter fraud, confusion, and "lost" absentee ballots would once-again steal yet another crucial Congressional election in favor of the Democrats.

In Oswego County - where polls had Hoffman with a huge, 16% percentage point lead heading into Election Day - Hoffman was falsely reported to have led by only 500 votes - with 93 percent of the vote counted, by 9 o'clock on election night.

(due to fraud, Hoffman had actually won by 1,748 votes -- 12,748 to 11,000).

Now steps forward Rob Ryan - Hoffman's stooge-like campaign manager - who, at 10 PM, advises his client to "be a gentleman" and concede the undecided contest - touching off a wild celebration in the Whitehouse!

"I don’t know if we would have conceded on election night," said Mr. Ryan..."an important factor in the decision was the unexpected -- and erroneous -- close vote in Oswego County...."That’s the thing that threw us off" (duh). 

Naturally, the ACORN-tainted Oswego County elections officials blamed the "mistakes" on "chaos" at their call-in center, including a phone system 'foul-up' - voting inspectors who had read numbers "incorrectly" when phoning in results.

NOTE: More votes were cast in Oswego than in any other of the 11 counties comprising the 23rd district. 

In Jefferson - the district’s second-biggest county for voter turnout - four precincts had reported Hoffman receiving ZERO votes - NONE.

And surprise! Sean M. Hennessey, Jefferson County DEMOCRATIC (Acorn) elections commissioner, claimed poll inspectors in the four precincts "inadvertantly" reported Hoffman had tallied no votes - they had read the "wrong line" of the poll system's printout.

Said Mr. Hennesey..."Results in some precincts were either incorrectly relayed by the poll worker, or incorrectly typed by the part-time staff, who were busy answering phones at the county elections department."

Hoffman’s stupid, premature concession -- based on "snafus" in Oswego County and elsewhere - set off a chain of events that echoed all the way to Washington, D.C., and eventually secured passage of Pelosi's historic health care reform bill.

But instead of conceding, what if Hoffman had wisely contested the election?

Owens would have been in limbo. Pelosi would have been tied in knots; and possibly, the final House vote would have been delayed into the next week - plenty of time for wavering blue dogs to be flooded with calls from home constituents -  perhaps postponing the vote indefinitely! 

Yet Hoffman mindlessly concedes, seemingly oblivious to the overt possibility that ACORN would be out en masse to corrupt the election.

And what were the Republican superstars - Palin, Armey and Steele - doing that crucial night? Why did they not have surrogates in place at EVERY polling place to watch out for the inevitable fraud that always takes place in any crucial election?

Being conservative and honest is one thing; but to give an election away on a cascade of easily-preventable mistakes is absolutely unforgivable! How do we "vote the Bums out" when our so-called leaders stand by like imbeciles, and unwittingly encourage and reward fraud?

Again the Democrats had stolen yet another crucial HOUSE seat using their tried and true formula:

Lie- cheat - fabricate; then lie again!  The end always justifies the means: another liberal Democrat, all but guaranteed a life-time tenure in the US Congress.

And for all you Republicans (and Conservatives) out there who think Owens will be vulnerable in 2010 - forget it! Once a Democrat takes over a seat in deep-blue New York, they keep it - for GENERATIONS.

The power of incumbency is insurmountable if the opposition is not only inept in nominating its candidates - but allows robocall propaganda to affect the outcome of a 'winnable' election.

If the RNC would've stayed the heck out and allowed the 23rd district to have voted for their favorite, Dede Scozzafava - would she have signed her political death warrant and voted "Yea" for HR 3269 out of spite toward the rest of her unsupportive party? 

The House vote on the health reform package was historical. Obviously, the Owens vote made a crucial difference- the significance of which is still to be determined.

SETTING: the United States of America

SCENE: The year is 2014. The country has been sliding into a near-depression. Small business owners- engulfed by onerous new healthcare taxes - have laid-off their employees en masse.

The official unemployment rate hovers at 15.8%; but it's actually well-above 20% - considering those who long ago gave up seeking work. Food stamp and welfare rolls are bursting. The national debt is at 18 trillion dollars and climbing.

Besieged by unpopularity, second-term President Barak Obama seldom ever comes out of the Whitehouse.

But even trumping the bad economy, Americans have been blindsided by the shattering effects of socialized medicine, and are demanding answers as to why their government could have misled them so grievously. But answers are not forthcoming - the population is only beginning to realize the unmitigated disaster that has now befallen them:

Case Study # 1: A Johnstown, Pennsylvania couple - wed for 1 year: The wife is 7 months pregnant. The obstetrics department has closed at the only local hospital (funding cuts). Only the hospital's emergency room remains operational. Thus, they have gotten no sonogram of the developing fetus. They are hoping for a baby daughter.

The hospital puts the newly-born on a respirator. The prognosis for the baby is good; she will need intensive care for at least 4-5 weeks until it is presumed she can breathe on her own.

Then after three days, the couple - now living in a nearby motel - receive a call from the hospital with the calamitous news: the Department of Health and Human Services has denied the hospital the funds germane to their infant daughter's survival!

Disbelieving, the couple rush to the hospital, where they are again told of the grim news- their infant daughter will tomorrow be disconnected from the respirator, and that they should make final arrangements. The husband goes into an angry rage, and is removed in handcuffs out to the parking lot. 

A week later, their dream of a baby daughter lies buried in the ground, and the couple's lives are shattered - they will be miserable for the rest of their lives.

Case Study # 2: a 28 year-old graduate student, attending Ohio State, is studying to become an electrical engineer. One morning, he wakes up, and feels a B-B sized lump at the angle of his jawbone on his left side. Alarmed, he palpitates his right side - there is no corresponding lump. He does nothing.

Several days later, the student notices the lump is now the size of a tiny marble. In panic he rushes off to the student health center, but is told they have no way to test him. They recommend he call the Columbus HHS office, that he may be assigned a doctor who specializes in tumors.

Despite his pleading - to his utter dismay- he finds he must wait six weeks for his initial appointment to see a doctor; no other arrangements are possible!

Now, having waited for three more weeks, the lump has grown noticeably larger. The student - embarrassed to attend class  - is forced to drop out for the quarter. He has nothing to do all day now but watch TV, pray, and wait for his assigned doctor visit.

Horribly, by the day of the appointment, the tumor has progressed to the size of a ping pong ball; the doctor immediately pronounces it a cancerous tumor of the parotid gland, and arranges for surgical excision at a hospital the following Monday.

Later, after waking up from the anesthesia, the student notices something is wrong...terribly wrong! The entire lower left side of his face feels "funny." To his complete horror, he looks in the mirror and notices the left side of his mouth is drooping involuntarily!

He is then informed of the nightmarish news. It will haunt him the rest of his life: the inexperienced plastic surgeon has inadvertently cut through the left facial nerve during the tumor's excision from the sponge-like parotid gland.

Now utterly despondent, the formerly-handsome 28 year-old dropout considers taking his own life; a life completely ruined at the hands of an inexperienced, incompetent government doctor.

Case study #3: A young, active, enthusiastic 9 year-old boy - an 'A' student in the fourth grade: For weeks now the boy's complexion has become terribly pale, and the child has lost 10 pounds, and no longer eats his favorite dish - his Mom's homemade fried chicken.

Alarmed, the boy's parents call the local branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, and discover it will be at least one month before the boy can be evaluated by his assigned doctor.

Angered and dismayed, they call their former longtime family physician, but only get a voice mail..." the doctor has recently retired". They are instructed by the recording to... "call the local branch of the HHS."

Finally after a month of sleeples nights, the boy's parents bring the child in for evaluation. After an all-day battery of blood tests, they are told to go home and wait for the biopsies to return from the lab.

Again, after ten more sleepless nights, they get the fateful call: their young son has acute myelogenous leukemia; a malignancy involving the white blood cells - an excessive accumulation of myeloid blast cells (cancer) within the bone marrow.

Diagnosis: Their son will need a bone marrow transplant, or else he will die within the next 3-6 months.

Mercifully, the family is told by the oncologist that prognosis for a young transplant patient is very favorable, and arrangements are made for the procedure to be performed within the next ten days.

But the situation now takes an unexpected turn for the worst.  The family gets a call from HHS ...funding for their son's bone transplant has been denied! In disbelief they rush down to HHS in person, only to be turned away; told again that "there is nothing they can do!"

In desperation, the family appeals to the local TV station; but again they are informed that with HHS in charge of all medical decisions, they are utterly powerless to do anything else.

Despite the family's desperate offer - that they will pay for the operation themselves - the HHS denies them again. It is out of their hands - nothing anyone can do.

Three months later a funeral is held; the surviving parents will be miserable for the rest of their lives.

Case study #4; A healthy, active 82 year-old grandmother, living alone: One morning, the woman falls in the shower - shattering her right hip. After one hour of agony, she manages to drag herself to the bedroom and calls 9-1-1. After being rushed to the hospital, the understaffed emergency room is so overcrowded that she is placed in a wheel chair in a chilly, drafty hallway;

By the time she is seen by one of only two interns on duty, the shivering woman has caught cold, and is suffering immeasurably from the pain in her shattered hip;

She is placed on a gurney, and wheeled into a musty-smelling room where a former patient has just been removed - the bed linen unchanged.

Finally, she gets her next-of-kin on the phone, and they rush to her side. But again the news is grim:

They are told their grandmother will need a hip replacement, and that funding for such operations for anyone over 70 has been drastically curtailed.

The family pleads with the HHS - offering to pay for grandma's new hip themselves; but they are told there is nothing they can do.

Three months later, the old woman - having lived in horrible pain since the accident - has lost her will to live. Within a week she later dies, surrounded by her family, who will forever curse the HHS (and the government) for ruining their beloved grandmother's life.

Case Study #5; A nineteen year old boy is showing-off his new motorcycle to his 15 year old girlfriend, riding on the back. But rounding a sharp curve, the motorcycle's rear wheel hits gravel on the narrow county road, and the bike goes careening into the ditch. Although the driver has survived, his passenger, unhelmeted, lies unconscious.

Finally, after a passing car has called 9-l-l, an ambulance arrives within ten minutes. The paramedics instantly realize the girl has a skull fracture, and will die within hours unless pressure from brain - swelling against the interior of the cranium - is relieved.

But after an emergency call to the regional trauma center, the EMT"s are told the long-running, life-flight helicopter runs were recently canceled, due to federal funding cuts.

Now, there is no alternative but to rush the victim overland to the center, which is two hours away. But in transit, the girl dies in the ambulance -unable to have been treated in time.

The boy's family is sued for two million dollars by the girl's parents. Both families are miserable for the rest of their lives.

Indeed; if the above scenarios seem overstated, then get real America...it's coming, surely as the sun coming up every day in the East. An unsuspecting public - kept in the blind by the liberal, pro-Obama media - will one day discover too late:

But isn't that what everyone wanted? Did we not vote for change? A change that will sentence many to premature deaths; a change that will ruin untold millions of lives for all eternity.

This is the future we all will face under the unyielding, iron fist of socialized medicine: faceless bureaucrats - examining "comparative research" charts - literally deciding who lives, and who shall die.

And such irony!  America, a nation that - above all else - values life, has unwittingly (stupidly) elected an atheist president, who would just as soon let a struggling, abortion-survivor baby die in a dirty closet, as go to the gym every morning and shoot a few hoops.

This is the same president who has instructed his fanatical leftists in Congress to lie, deceive - do anything: tell everyone how governnment-run healthcare will save money and will save lives.

Like social security, we are all about to become numbers. No longer real persons. Mere statistics on charts, held by people equally as cold-blooded as Obama himself .

Yes we can! We can all look forward to that fateful day when Obama-care dawns over America; the country will never be the same.

-Get well soon.