Kathleen Sebelius Is Batshit-Crazy....

...but I suppose you have to be, to say something along the lines of this - via Politico:

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says patient outcomes in the United States are like those in “a developing country” – and that they’ll stay that way if the health care reform law is repealed.

“The delivery system changes are what will affect underlying costs, and that impacts everybody,” Sebelius said Thursday. “We pay 2 1/2 times what anybody else pays in the world, and our care outcomes look like we're in a developing country.”

Interesting how the Politico article rebuts her instantly:

The United States actually ranks well above developing countries on multiple health indicators, coming in right above the European Union on infant mortality and slightly below Portugal on life expectancy, according to the CIA World Factbook

Maybe it's just the panic talking here. After all, Sebelius will become the most powerful person in America once ObamaCare goes into full effect. She will decide who gets ObamaCare "waivers", and who gets forced to pay the full freight for everyone else's health care. She will become Doyenne of the Death Panels as well; with one whisper into a commissioner's ear she can change the course of treatment for a certain "preferred patient" so that they may live, while other, less fortunate folks - perhaps those belonging to a different political party - are told they best get their things in order.

And this is all slipping away from her, as the public remains markedly opposed to this "historic" legislation and an invigorated Republican House majority chips away at funding where ever and whenever they can. So Sebelius has no choice but to resort to hysterical rhetoric - comparing our health care system to, say, a lost Amazonian tribe - in a desperate attempt to hold onto her position and power.

A modern American maternity ward, or an Amazonian hut? Kathleen Sebelius, pioneer of "smart medicine", is uncertain...

She may yet get her wish, though. Give the Democrats control of our health care system for, oh, fifteen minutes, and who knows what the hell it will look like...

The Zen of Tina Brown, and Newsweek...

Mickey Kaus reports:

Newsweek Maintains Meaningful Silence: The Newsweek with the “Apocalypse Now” cover (featuring a giant wave) is apparently a double issue, meaning it will sit on the stands this week while competitors produce fresh editions....

I can think of circumstances in which an editor might find skipping a week appealing enough to justify missing some news–say, if printing and distributing each issue put you many thousands of dollars further in the hole. … P.S.: In fairness, Brown more or less told us she wasn’t going to be newsy. She did promise “an insight or synthesis that connects the crackling, confusing digital dots.” You’d think that would be hard to do if you don’t come out. But Newsweek’s silence is even more eloquent, in its own way. …

Wow. So Tina Brown really has elevated the level of discourse coming from liberal America. By shutting the f*ck up.

Or perhaps, she's just a Zen genius:

Do not speak - unless it improves on silence
~Buddhist Saying I

f you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
~Zen Proverb

Ah, I'll think I'll go with the former explanation, as opposed to the latter...

Seems as if the Palestinians don't enjoy being treated like Jews...

The gods have forever delved deep into the chasms of irony, as the Palestinians are about to find out. After leading the charge to blame the Israeli people for all the ills of the Middle East for the better part of the last three decades, they stare slack-jawed and frozen like the proverbial deer in the headlights as they suddenly find themselves...Jew'd! And by their former "friends", no less! From the J-Post:

Palestinian officials on Wednesday appealed to Arab leaders to stop inciting against them by accusing them of instigating unrest in their countries.

The appeal came after the Syrian authorities claimed that Palestinians were behind the recent wave of violence that hit the country.

Buthaina Shaaban, an advisor to Syrian President Bashar Assad, said last week that Palestinians had joined Muslim Brotherhood supporters in attacking residents of the cities of Latakia and Deraa.

The Libyan authorities had also made similar charges against Palestinians.

Government officials in Tripoli claimed that opposition forces have recruited many Palestinians living in Libya as mercenaries to fight against the regime.

Is it true? Who knows? Since when does the truth matter as far as the Palestinians are concerned? Did the matter of truth ever stop these people from making the most outrageous, libelous, baseless claims claims if they thought it could advance their anti-Semetic agenda one freaking inch?

Can you say, "Jenin"?

Their counter-charges are a bit...familiar:

Hafez Barghouti, editor of the PA funded Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda newspaper, said that the Syrian charges against the Palestinians were a sign of “political bankruptcy.”

“The Arab regimes have turned the Palestinians into a scapegoat. The Palestinians have nothing to do with the Arab revolutions, although they have 1,000 reasons to intervene to settle scores with the Arab regimes.”

Palestinian political analyst Adel Abdel Rahman warned that the Palestinians have become the “rack on which Arab leaders hang their cowardice and collusion against each other...."

If that rack looks familiar, it's because you have used it for a generation in an attempt to hang the Jews.

The Palis will survive this; without them, the UN would lose its raison d'être. Can't have that. But the question is, when the smoke clears from this "Arab Spring", or - depending on how it all turns out - this "Arab Midnight", will the Palestinians, having tasted the cruelty of their own lash, have second thoughts about using it again against the Israelis?

Are you kidding me?