Well kids, Fingersmalloy.com has been in limbo for a while. We have been working hard (by we, I am referring to Melanie Hall) to get the Snark Factor podcasts on iTunes and loaded onto Fingersmalloy.com. I think Melanie has most of the bugs worked out, so the official launch of the podcasts has arrived! By the end of this week, we should have the last 4 Snark Factors on the website for your listening pleasure.

But wait, there’s more! I am now contributing to Parcbench.com. What is Parcbench you ask? Well, I would describe it as a pop culture and lifestyle website for smart people. My first column is about Brad Pitt and his odd comments in Wired Magazine. Check it out at www.Parcbench.com.

Stay on the home page for a second to see the banner ad they have with my picture on it. I believe it will make your day. I mean come on, have you seen me? I am a good lookin SomBitch!

So, look at this as the rebirth of Fingersmalloy.com. If only we could do the same for Billy Mays……….

Originally posted on January 26th, 2009 by Fingers Malloy

You ever have government cheese? It looks gross. It smells gross. It comes in a big block, because the government can’t figure out how to slice it efficiently. It’s like Velveeta’s red headed step child(my apologies to red headed step children, and to cheese lovers for referring to Velveeta as cheese.)

We have a new liberal president. So naturally the national debate will now turn to health care. The libs want national health care and they want it now. It sounds wonderful. The government will pay for your health care. The government can do it, right? Well to get a better feel for what national health care looks like, let us look to our red headed step child to the north, Canada (my apologies to red headed step children for comparing them to Canadians.)

This is from the CBCNEWS.CA; “Despite government promises and the billions of dollars funnelled into the Canadian health-care system, the average patient waited more than 18 weeks in 2007 between seeing their family doctor and receiving the surgery or treatment they required,” said Nadeem Esmail, director of Health System Performance Studies at the Fraser Institute and co-author of the report, in a release( www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/10/15/fraser-report.html. )”

Here are more fun facts from the Frasier Institute report(a non-partisan group.) What if you need an MRI? That’s a 10 week wait. If your doctor thinks you may have a brain tumor and sends you off for a CT scan, that’s a 5 week wait.

How would you like be a part of this conversation? “Hey Mr. Johnson, we think you may have a brain tumor. We will know more in 5 weeks, have a nice day.”

National health care is great, until you get sick.

But it’s free, the government pays for it. Well that means we all pay for it. “The average tax rate in Canada is higher than in the United States. In Canada total tax and non-tax revenue for every level of government equals about 37% of GDP, compared to the U.S. rate of 27%( www.diffen.com.)”

So long waits, rationed service and higher taxes. Sounds like a great plan! I know some will say that we can do it better. But name me anything the government does better than the private sector?

Social Security (going bankrupt.)

Medicare (soon to be bankrupt.)

Disaster relief (there are still people on roofs in New Orleans.)

Blowing up other countries (okay, they are good at that.)

There is no doubt something needs to be done about health insurance. Too many people don’t have it, and those that are insured are struggling to pay high premiums and co-pays. But there is one thing that will bring costs down, competition. And that my friends can only be possible if it stays out of government hands. The private sector can provide good health care and make better cheese.

Well gang, here is the announcement you have all been waiting for! The Snark Factor is now available for you to listen to whenever your little heart desires. You can download the show that was originally aired on www.rfcradio.com July 14Th.

We are working to make it available for you to subscribe on  iTunes. They need to do what they do to approve it, then you can subscribe to the Snark Factor through iTunes. God bless us one and all!!!!

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The House will introduce a bill that would make health care a “right.” This is no surprise and if it passes it will most certainly be a disaster. As it has proven so many times, the government can not run anything efficiently( see Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and VA hospitals).

I will spare you the details. For more on the plan you can read about it here; http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090715/D99EO8BO0.html

What is odd about this bill is the other things that it guarantees as rights. There is a list on page 996 of the legislation. If passed, we will all have the right to;

Not fight for the right to party

To rip the tags off of your mattress

To save up to 10% on your auto insurance

To bite into the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop after just 3 licks

To call Michael Moore “Tubby”

To remember the Alamo

To let your freak flag fly

To hate the Jonas Brothers

To smell like teen spirit

To Party like it’s 1999…………

Dear America,

Hey there chum, it’s your pal Fingers. You know I love you right? We have had some great times together. No, I don’t always agree with you. I still don’t understand why you voted for a community organizer with next to no experience to be the leader of the free world. But hey, nobody is perfect (well, almost nobody).

But this Michael Jackson thing, it needs to stop. I understand that he was the “king of pop.” I know that he meant a lot to you. But it has been two weeks now. Two weeks of turning on the TV and seeing almost non-stop coverage of the death of a man that had not done ANYTHING in years.  But yet all it took was a heart attack to turn a pariah into a national hero.  Yes a pariah, too strong of a word? Would you have felt 100% secure letting your kids stay overnight with our new national hero? MMMM probably not.

I know what some of you are saying; “Fingers, it’s just the media. It’s not the whole country.”

I agree that it is not everyone, but go log into Facebook. How many of your friends have taken the What Michael Jackson Song Are You Quiz?(On a side note, all Facebook quizzes make me want to vomit. I don’t care what kind of crayon you are, what kind of tree you should be or if you are a Ross or a Rachel.)

It’s not just Facebook, take a look at Twitter. Today two of the top 10 trending topics are Michael Jackson related. Talk to someone at work and his name still comes up. This is an intervention America, STOP IT! Stop! Stop! Stop!

This just in, he is still dead! If your last name is not Jackson and you are not one of his parents, siblings or one of his kids, it is time to let it go. While you have been mourning North Korea fired more missiles, Iran and China rolled protesters and the House of Representatives passed a large piece of garbage named Cap and Trade.

So please move on. We can do it together. I promise to watch 1 hour of America’s Got Talent in exchange for you to watch 1 hour of C-Span. Come on. It will be fun!