Barack forces taxpayers to own Government Motors, Banks, have health insurance whether they want it or not, Michele forces our kids to eat healthy, and now a cardiologist from the UK wants MacDonalds to hand-out statin pills with each Big Mac they serve.

Next, someone will be forcing Nathan’s to serve up Viagra with each hot dog.

We have become a nation of government run nincompoops with no rights or ability to make our own decisions under a Constitution that only works the way Obama wants it to work, like building a Mosque next to Ground Zero and not enforcing immigration laws and Allah forbid if a State wants to uphold the law, Obama will sue them.

If all of this wasn’t so serious it would be funny.

Can you imagine going out for a hot dog and your wife looks at you and says,”Honey not now, the kids are in the back seat.  You should have had a hamburger, at least that would have raised your HDL’s.”

Life is getting so intrusive these days, a neighbor left his computer on overnight and Microsoft downloaded an update.  When he got up in the morning he was notified of the download and the restarting of his computer.  There was a message that said he could click on the icon and find out what was downloaded.  He did, and the message was encrypted.

A few days later Obama’s Health Patrol, a spin off of the Death Panel, called and requested my neighbor go to the doctor.

The doctor had a full report from the Health Patrol on my neighbor’s sleep patterns and excessive snoring.  They diagnosed sleep apnea.  He now wears a mask at night and shuts down his computer.

It is so confusing today that what is left is right and what is right is wrong.

The suggestion from the cardiologist about a burger and a statin was actually based upon a study.  You see statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs and they do prevent heart attacks and strokes and this study calculated that the reduction in heart disease risk offered by a statin could offset the increase in risk from eating a cheeeseburger and a milkshake.  Statins do lower the bad cholesterol and raise the good cholesterol.

Statins have something in common with Viagra, both raise and lower something.

You see when people engage in risky behaviors like driving or smoking they’re encouraged – no that’s wrong the word today is forced – to take measures that minimize their risk like wearing a seat belt or stopping smoking, or not talking on the cell phone when driving.

We also have something in common with the Brits, because there is socialized medicine on both sides of the pond now.

When I was a kid I had a dog, a black and white cocker spaniel named Pudgy and even he had more rights then, than I have now.  When the Vet recommended we give him some pills to prevent worms he suggested that we put the pill inside some hamburger meat and that he would swallow the pill while eating the meat.

Pudgy ate the meat and spit out the pill.