I received this letter from a friend and I really think it hits the nail on the head as to why we are in such difficult times. Thanks for allowing me to use it Ron.
OBAMA'S "CZARS"-- Read who is really running our country and realize what their job positions are :
OBAMA'S CZARS
CZAR Position Summary
Richard Holbrooke
Afghanistan Czar
Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment
Ed Montgomery
Auto recovery Czar
Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.
Jeffrey Crowley
AIDS Czar
Radical Homosexual.. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, including complete free health care for gays.
Alan Bersin
Border Czar
The former [failed] superintendent of San Diego Pub. Ed. Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno – to keep borders open to illegal’s without interference from US
David J. Hayes
California Water Czar
Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, “Progress Policy”. No training or experience in water management whatsoever.
Ron Bloom
Car Czar
Auto Union worker. Anti business & anti nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen?
Dennis Ross
Central Region Czar
Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti gun and completely pro abortion.
Lynn Rosenthal
Domestic Violence Czar
Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist. Supported male castration. Imagine?
Gil Kerlikowske
Drug Czar
devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs
Paul Volcker
E conomic Czar
Head of Fed Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy.. Member of anti business “Progressive Policy” organization
Carol Brower
Energy and Environment Czar
Political Radical Former head of EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.
Joshua DuBois
Faith Based Czar
Political Black activist-Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti gun ownership lobbyist.
Cameron Davis
Great Lakes Czar
Chicago radical anti business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for “Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink.” No experience or training in water management.
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Who's really in charge?
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ENJOY YOUR BREAST CANCER
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All of you younger females can now enjoy the thrills of Breast Cancer as a courtesy of the modern government. Now you are told that you do not need to have as many exams because the modern governmend thinks you do not need to do so. LOOK this is a fine example of what to expect with modern government running everyone's medical care. The next step is to cut down on other expences deemed unnecessary by the modern government. GO ahead and allow government to control your future health and let them tell you that they don't want to spend money on anything that they deem unnecessary. Next let them tell you that your cancer has progressed so far as to be a waste of money to try to treat it. This will save more money to treat illegal aliens. GOOD LUCK
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98 BILLION ? ? ?
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98 BILLION IN WASTE Social Security, Medicare, Mecidaid, are WHAT BROKE ??? Oh I suppose it is not the governments fault. NOW the facts show 98 BILLION DOLLARS in bail out waste. What are the big shot executives in the whitehouse going to do about it. Pass another law. Oh that's right, they have no respect for laws anyway. ( especially our constitution ) Should the Idiots that allowed this to result not be responsible fot the recovery of the 987 Billion ?? AND some of the stupid citizenry actually thinks that the government can handle health care. We have many and I mean many politicians that must be and again must be kicked out of office and ASAP. By the way that is ASAP NOT AARP.
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Why this Healthcare bus tour i
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This healthcare tour is absolutly rediculous from all and any aspect of its vast media coverage
First off, none of us, the media or american citizens have any idea what is in this bill.
So we are essentially acting on what other "believe". Again causing problems amongst each other upon beliefrs, speculation, and leaked drafts.
So how can you be in protest of something you essentially don't have the facts on.
If you are in support of it, how can you be? You don't know whats involved.
And why do we have insurance????? What is the purpose of health insurance, its a HUGE money making scam.
Say the government free healthcare was essentially, forced health insurance.....even tried to not pay, or under pay taxes??? hmm????
Talk about busy process servers!!!!
Well here it is folks, and God help me for throwing this out there.
Medical Billing and Insurance Cartel Network
Insurance coverage- $500-$1000 deductible (this means you have to spend at least this much even to recieve and coverage, or waved costs.
$20 co-pay, so you poay $20 bucks for nothing, not a damm thing. Especially when your just going to get a bill for doctor visit and any meds (even samples) that were pedaled to you.
Beyond your deductible you aree covered for lets say 80% of your bill.
This is where the Insurance aspect of the cartel comes in.
Agreements are made inititally about costs of all procedures, whatever they didn't think of they make up later with full correspondence with the hospital or doctors office. That is why it may take up to two weeks to recieve your bill. And if you demand you bill immediatly you will have a rediculously high charge to ensure that the mark-up is there......
THE MARK UP
example: Pocedure Total: $2000 (printed amount) Real fair market ($350)
Coverage 80% = $1600 credit....you pay $400
The insurance company turns around and gives medical office pre-negotiated amount ($150-$300)
These moneys recovered quickly. And who is screwed, everyone who gets hurt or sick, or falls victum to a GENETICALLY PREDETERMINED DISEASE/CONDITION.
So any of insurance should be squelched, whatever you lose, at one time you have gone without. So one cannot say recovery is impossible.
There should be an additional type of bankruptcy for natural disasters, not a punishment, but a reasoning.....we are human, we have always been human. We are not really any more clever than any other 2 legged fool that has come before us.
Humanity came along way before "modern medicine". Instead of disease culling the weak and the sick, we have had world wars. And all the while in the good ol USA the sick, the fat, th ugly, the physically inept, have passed along thier bad genitics and passed old money to worthless idiots.
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Description:It seems to be coming more clear as each day passes, that the much maligned Joe Wilson, from South Carolina, was more correct that anyone could possibly know.As the Obama Administration continues to make statements of "Fact" about Health Care Reform and disclose "Jobs Saved or Created Figures":Jobs "created" in Congressional Districts that don't even exist. Jobs saved when only pay increases were given. Where's the Truth?"No medical care plan coverage for immigrants - no we'll just give them a "pass" toward citizenship. No problem! Remember, the end justifies the means.President HAS SAID:"Will not accept Health Care Reform that adds one dime to the the deficit!" All Bills INCREASE the Deficit! Increases the size of government, Increases cost of Medical Care!"If we don't sign Stimulus Bill right now "unemployment will increase above 10%" - Congress Rushed Stimulus and now UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TO 10.2% REALLY 17% Is someone blindly throwing darts to determine what happens next?"Will not raise taxes on incomes less than $250,000 - all incomes will suffer because of tax increases on Medical Devices, and other government mandated programs being forced on everyone."Cap and Trade legislation will Increase the cost of energy, of all kinds, significantly". - This may have been his only "Truthful Statement"Has promised a change to "Transparency in Government" - Just the opposite has occurred at unprecedented levels.Has said we Need to win the war in Afghanistan - "this is America's War" - Now, he will not follow the request of his appointed Generals.It appears, so far, the elected officials in power today are truly intent on destroying the private enterprise form of business, that has produced the wealth of the world for decades, in favor of a government dominated structure which employs as many people as possible to supervise the rest of the citizens. The government workers would be Union Represented, as a pay back to the SEIU and other unions supporting the Democrats. Think of the potential power this represents in future elections.The Big Multi-National Corporations are caving to the administration and regulators of their industries, or face the onslaught of threats by Congress, tax investigations, organizer marches, fear of added regulations, loss of future government contracts or down right "take over", if executives Refuse to Go Along.Where do we find any TRUTH OR TRUST in the current administration and the Progressive Democrats that make up the majority in the Senate and House of Representatives. Each majority in both Houses seems intent to "stuff" Progressive legislation in the form so-called Health Care Reform and Cap and Trade down the "We Don't Want It Throats" of the the voters.All of this turmoil just to increase the size of the Federal Government and provide more Union Jobs for political purposes. All of this to seize more individual liberty from the American Citizen. All of this so that the Federal Government will exercise more control over every single individual from the cradle to the grave. When the government can regulate your education, your job, your health care, your medication, your method of transportation, your retirement, what you watch on Television, what you listen to on the radio, where you can drill for oil and gas, dig a hole or cut a tree - if the government has taken those decision from us, what's next?Why has the small business owner of America been neglected in favor of large Wall Street Corporation and the "Fat Cats" that have cut special deals with the Executive Branch of the Obama Administration. Big Salaries, Big Bonuses, Big Takeovers and Big Corruption all have been the order of the day. Small business has been "hug-out-to-dry" and, all but ignored, as the administration has pronounced that the Stimulus would be the infusion needed to create the needed jobs. Where did the Stimulus go? Most of what was spent seems to have gone to state and municipal governments to shore up balance sheets and take care of short term projects. A very small amount, if any, was allocated to long term capital expenditures for creating new or improved "widgets" that build jobs and creates future wealth for ten of thousands.What you we done?If the above were not bad enough think about this:I am becoming more concerned with the USA continuing to allow more immigration from potential radical groups. Think what could happen if groups of radical Muslims, and others that have not been educated and truly believe in the Founding Fathers view of America joined forces, as voting citizens. Eventually, a group such as this could affect federal elections for Congress and then the President. I would suggest that anyone reading this, look up (Google) and read about Shariah Law. Their goal is to take over the world, no holds barred!Why do we have Labor Unions representing employees of the federal government? This does not make sense to me.Why do we have Term Limits on the President and not on members of Congress? Points out the need for Term Limits on CongressWhy do we have a Tax System that basically applies only to 50% of the population?Did you know 10% of the population pays 70% of the taxes? Illustrates need for larger base and a fair system - Thus the Fair TaxWhy do we not use the Rights of the States to call for Constitutional Conventions to overturn legislation passed by Congress that may be Unconstitutional.Why do we allow our State Rights to be stripped from us and our tax dollars to be used as pork and waste to feed the reelection of members of Congress in other States like CA, PA, MD, MA, NY, NJ, CT, MI, IL, WA and OR.Why do we allow Congress to pass legislation that mandates how we educate our children, how we pray, how we celebrate holidays, how we eat, how we save for health care, what kind of health care we purchase, and possibly which physician we select to keep us healthy. They've gone wild in Washington.We Must Do Better - We Must Begin to Change the Game Now!With our cell phones, it cost only pennies, if anything, to make calls to members of Congress. If you need a number let me know and I'll get it for you. Most members of Congress have an email address on their web site. I suggest we all make it a habit to change from a passive attitude, toward our elected officials. It is time to start letting them hear from us. That means every elected member of Congress, not just those in your state. I promise you, you'll feel better after you make your opinion known.Do Something!As always, it's my humble opinion
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RATION HEALTH CARE
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cancer experts fear new U.S. breast imaging guidelines that recommend against routine screening mammograms for women in their 40s may have their roots in the current drive in Washington to reform healthcare.
Critics of the guidelines, issued on Monday by the U.S. Services Task Force, an independent panel sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Quality, say the new guidelines are a step backward and will lead to more cancer deaths.
Here are some of their concerns.
* Dr Carol Lee, chairwoman of the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Commission, said she fears insurers -- both private and public -- will use them to pare back health costs.
"These new recommendations seem to reflect a conscious decision to ration care," Lee said in a statement.
She said since the onset of regular mammogram screening in 1990, the death rate from breast cancer, which had been unchanged for the preceding 50 years, has decreased by 30 percent.
* Dr Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said the influential group will not change recommendations for routine mammograms for women starting at age 40.
But he is worried that women will become so confused by the conflicting recommendations they will stop getting mammograms altogether. "Frankly, from our point of view that would be the worst possible outcome," Lichtenfeld said in a telephone interview.
* Lichtenfeld and other doctors are worried that insurance companies and government insurers will seize on the recommendations as a way to control rising health costs.
"What is going to happen is insurers are going to say, 'The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force doesn't support screening. We're not going to pay for it,'" said Dr Daniel Kopans, professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and a senior radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
"There were no new data to assess. One has to wonder why these new guidelines are being promulgated at a time when healthcare is under discussion and I am afraid their decision is related to saving money rather than saving lives," Kopans said.
* "The USPSTF recommendations are a step backward and represent a significant harm to women's health," Dr W. Phil Evans, president of the Society of Breast Imaging, said in a statement.
"At least 40 percent of the lives saved by mammographic screening are of women aged 40-49. These recommendations are inconsistent with current science and apparently have been developed in an attempt to reduce costs. Unfortunately, many women may pay for this unsound approach with their lives."
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About Gay Marriage in DC...
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC announced Wednesday that if DC passes a same-sex marriage law, they'll pull their social programs."The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness and health care.
Under the bill, headed for a D.C. Council vote next month, religious organizations would not be required to perform or make space available for same-sex weddings. But they would have to obey city laws prohibiting discrimination against gay men and lesbians.
As of May 6, 2009, four states Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, and Maine, currently allow Same-Sex Marriages. Vermont has passed a law making gay and lesbian marriages legal that takes effect in September. Those States that have and will promote the perverted union, have spit in God's face! Judgment has already come in the form of AIDS to many who dishonor their bodies, and Almighty God!
What is Same Sex Marriage?
An "Abomination" to Almighty God;
Leviticus 20:13
Romans 1:21-32:Here is the true definition of Same Sex Marriage!
"A sinful union between two Homosexuals before Satan in marriage."Same Sex Marriage will never be accepted as a family by Almighty God, nor will the children they raise live under a Godly parental roof! For Homosexuality is, and will always be in the eyes of God, a sinful perverted union no matter what States, Legislators, Politicians, and our Government believe or do to promote the Homosexual agenda!
Power to the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC for taking a God viewed stand on what God calls "An Abomination"
Yes! The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC is free to take its ball and go home when God is being disrespected and not obeyed!
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Health Reform and the U.S. Con
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Our Imperial Congress now pretends to the authority to force Americans to buy Health Insurance, whether they want it or not.
The House of Representatives passed the measure - the full 1,990 page bill the Speaker sponsored (one can't say "presented", as no one was afforded the time to examine the bill in detail) - in a rare Saturday night session this past weekend, with 220 Ayes - 3 key swing votes, including one Republican, being the deciding factor.
To their credit, some in the media have begun to ask the central question of this totalitarian scheme: how does Congress pretend to such unconstitutional authority?
CNS News reports the following exchange with Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson:
CNSNews.com: “Specifically, where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority to mandate that individuals purchase health, health insurance?”
Sen. Ben Nelson (D.-Neb.): “Well, you know, I don’t know that I’m a constitutional scholar. So, I, I’m not going to be able to answer that question.”
Nelson then deftly moved to the next reporter's question. This can be termed evasion at best, arrogance perhaps not worst. Perhaps more experienced politicians are more thoughtful on the topic, as CNS offers the following on a conversation with Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch:
In a recent interview with CNSNews.com, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), a longtime member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that it was “not constitutionally sound” for Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance.
“But here would be the first time where our [federal] government would demand that people buy something that they may or may not want,” said Hatch. “And, you know, if that’s the case, then we didn’t need a 'Cash for Clunkers,' all we had to do is have the federal government say you all got to buy new cars, no matter how tough it is on you. You know, they could require you to buy anything. And that isn’t America. That’s not freedom. That’s not constitutionally sound.”
Hatch said that if we let the federal government begin forcing us to buy things we may not want to buy without having a clear constitutional justification for doing so “we’ve lost our freedoms, and that means the federal government can do anything it wants to do to us.”And so it seems. One can only wonder what could be next. A commenter on the CNS story had this to offer, quoting from a 1935 case at the high court:
“The catalogue of means and actions which might be imposed upon an employer in any business, tending to the satisfaction and comfort of his employees, seems endless. Provision for free medical assistance, nursing, clothing, food, housing, and education of children, and a hundred other matters might with equal propriety be proposed as tending to relieve the employee of mental strain and worry. Can it fairly be said that the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce extends to the prescription of any or all of these things? Is it not apparent that they are really and essentially related solely to the social welfare of the worker and therefore remote from any regulation of commerce as such? We think the answer is plain. These matters obviously lie outside the orbit of congressional power.” (Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad Co, 295 U.S. 330 (1935))
One might expect the President, a former constitutional lawyer by his own account, to solicit the high court's opinion on a matter of such Constitutional weight.
Don't hold your breath.
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Justice Dept. Asked For News S
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*Another bully tactic from the White House....idiots!
In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.
The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.
Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the Justice Department's subpoena. (The Independent Media Center is a left-of-center amalgamation of journalists and advocates that – according to their principles of unity and mission statement – work toward "promoting social and economic justice" and "social change.")
The subpoena (PDF) from U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison in Indianapolis demanded "all IP traffic to and from http://www.indymedia.us" on June 25, 2008. It instructed Clair to "include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information," including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers' Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on.
"I didn't think anything we were doing was worthy of any (federal) attention," Clair said in a telephone interview with CBSNews.com on Monday. After talking to other Indymedia volunteers, Clair ended up calling the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, which represented her at no cost.
Under long-standing Justice Department guidelines, subpoenas to members of the news media are supposed to receive special treatment. One portion of the guidelines, for instance, says that "no subpoena may be issued to any member of the news media" without "the express authorization of the attorney general" – that would be current attorney general Eric Holder – and subpoenas should be "directed at material information regarding a limited subject matter."
Still unclear is what criminal investigation U.S. Attorney Morrison was pursuing. Last Friday, a spokeswoman initially promised a response, but Morrison sent e-mail on Monday evening saying: "We have no comment." The Justice Department in Washington, D.C. also declined to respond.
Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, replied to the Justice Department on behalf of his client in a February 2009 letter (PDF) outlining what he described as a series of problems with the subpoena, including that it was not personally served, that a judge-issued court order would be required for the full logs, and that Indymedia did not store logs in the first place.
Morrison replied in a one-sentence letter saying the subpoena had been withdrawn. Around the same time, according to the EFF, the group had a series of discussions with assistant U.S. attorneys in Morrison's office who threatened Clair with possible prosecution for obstruction of justice if she disclosed the existence of the already-withdrawn subpoena -- claiming it "may endanger someone's health" and would have a "human cost."
Lucy Dalglish, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of The Press, said a gag order to a news organization wouldn't stand up in court: "If you get a subpoena and you're a journalist, they can't gag you."
Dalglish said that a subpoena being issued and withdrawn is not unprecedented. "I have seen any number of these things withdrawn when counsel for someone who is claiming a reporter's privilege says, 'Can you tell me the date you got approval from the attorney general's office'... I'm willing to chalk this up to bad lawyering on the part of the DOJ, or just not thinking."
Making this investigation more mysterious is that Indymedia.us is an aggregation site, meaning articles that appear on it were published somewhere else first, and there's no hint about what sparked the criminal probe. Clair, the system administrator, says that no IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are recorded for Indymedia.us, and non-IP address logs are kept for a few weeks and then discarded.
EFF's Bankston wrote a second letter to the government saying that, if it needed to muzzle Indymedia, it should apply for a gag order under the section of federal law that clearly permits such an order to be issued. Bankston's plan: To challenge that law on First Amendment grounds.
But the Justice Department never replied. "This is the first time we've seen them try to get the IP address of everyone who visited a particular site," Bankston said. "That it was a news organization was an additional troubling fact that implicates First Amendment rights."
This is not, however, the first time that the Feds have focused on Indymedia -- a Web site whose authors sometimes blur the line between journalism, advocacy, and on-the-streets activism. In 2004, the Justice Department sent a grand jury subpoena asking for information about who posted lists of Republican delegates while urging they be given an unwelcome reception at the party's convention in New York City that year. A Indymedia hosting service in Texas once received a subpoena asking for server logs in relation to an investigation of an attempted murder in Italy.
Bankston has written a longer description of the exchange of letters with the Justice Department, which he hopes will raise awareness of how others should respond to similar legal demands for Web logs, customer records, and compulsory silence. "Our fear is that this kind of bogus gag order is much more common than one would hope, considering they're legally baseless," Bankston says. "We're telling this story in hopes that more providers will press back and go public when the government demands their silence."
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml?tag=mncol;txt
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It is a shame that an orgination that has done and can do so much good for the senior citizens has to be so politically controlled. AARP in spite of all of the undermining pages of the health care plan promotes it knowing how destructive it is. Instead of telling Pelosi that we are not and will not bow to ILLEGAL aliens they back her and all of the other poison in the health bill. DO NOT and I say DO NOT resign from the AARP. If you do not support their agendas they would prefer to be rid of you. The AARP laugh about the people that resign by bragging about how many members that they have and they could'nt care less. PAY THEM BACK. Throw out every publication that they have to pay to have printed. Mail out everypostage paid envelope that you receive empty. Attack their sponsers by cancelling their services, and not buying their products. Tell everyone you know about how they support the illegal and immoral activities in washington. When a Motel asks you if you have a AARP card say hell no I wouldn't dirty up my wallet with their crap. YOU know what to do DO IT.
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Lawmakers Detail Obama’s Pitch
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Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens’s election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.” !
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/lawmakers-detail-obamas-pitch/
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Obama Ignores Terror Threat at
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November 09, 2009
Obama Ignores Terror Threat at His Own PerilCommunism is gone but Islamic radicalism and jihadism are with us. President Obama will have to find an effective way to deal with this new threat or the American people will find someone else who can.
In the wake of “11/5,” the attack at Fort Hood, Barack Obama faces a tough choice--like it or not.
The 44th president must choose to confront an unpleasant reality, head on--or else it will run him over. The issue is the threat of terrorist violence, here on the homefront.
Terrorism, and the debate over how to respond to terrorism, was the defining issue of the 43rd presidency. And now it’s apparent that Obama, too, will spend the bulk of his presidency confronting terror, from Afghanistan to new battlezones, such as central Texas.
Obama and fellow Democrats would rather, of course, talk about health care. But over the next few years, the Fort Hood shooting is going to be a bigger story, since it is connected to our relations, good and bad, with the entire Islamic world, including nuclear Pakistan and almost- nuclear Iran.
For his sake, and for ours, Obama needs to understand that sometimes even presidents don’t get to decide the agenda -- the agenda is decided for him. In such a situation, the question is whether or not the president can adapt to the new era and its new challenges.
So this president needs to launch an aggressive investigation, digging into every aspect of Thursday’s shooting rampage that left 13 dead and dozens injured. How did it happen? Who bears responsibility? And, most importantly, what must we change now? Otherwise, if Obama simply talks about health care and “cap-and-trade” and “don’t ask, don’t tell” and all the other staples of his 2008 agenda, he will be left in the dust by the cyclonic events of 2009 and beyond. And in the wake of the 11/5 shootings, his presidency could be blown away by a whirlwind of damaging leaks, embarrasing reports, and well-justified fears.
Obama will always have his base of support, of course, especially in the media. Taking their cues, as ever, from the siren song of secular liberalism, the Mainstream Media would rather talk about health care, with an occasional digression into gay marriage. As documented by the Media Research Center, MSM reporters are mostly loathe to draw anything outher than politically correct conclusions about the religious and ethnic dimensions of the Fort Hood mass murder.
Thus the MSM is likely to be left in the dust by more fearless, more energetic media. Columnists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann were blunt in their e-mail headline: “Ft. Hood Attack Was Terrorism.” And also on Sunday morning, the top dozen headlines at WorldNetDaily, a popular conservative Web site, dealt forcefully with Fort Hood. So while the MSM is bemoaning “stress,” “PTSD,” and “over-extension,” WorldNetDaily is offering an entirely different narrative, featuring headlines such as “Muslims: ‘America’s chickens have come to roost,’ U.S. Islamic street preachers declare Fort Hood victims got just desserts,” and “Shooter advised Obama Transition: Fort Hood triggerman aided team on Homeland Security task force,” and “Military jihadists fill ‘every branch’: Ultimate 5th column penetration, warns best-selling ‘Muslim Mafia’ [author]” One additional piece was penned by Joseph Farah, the Arab-American editor of WND, whose headline blared, “PC sickness killed our soldiers.” How will the commander-in-chief react to that?
Having bungled his first public remarks after the news of the killings at Fort Hood, Obama is already on the defensive. So, most likely, he and his staff will seek to change the subject as quickly as possible.
But if they try doing that, getting back to, say, “the public option,” they will fail. Because the issue isn’t going away. As Georgetown University terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman said over the weekend:
“I’m not saying it’s part of an organized campaign or a systematic strategy, but we're seeing a sea change when we have once a month a plot that is related somehow to Afghanistan, Iraq or what these people see is a war against Islam. It's too easy to dismiss them as unstable individuals when they have expressed strong religious beliefs with politics. That's the essence of the radicalization we're facing.”
In other words, Fort Hood was not a random event; it was part of a pattern.
The irony is that Obama could dominate the counter-terrorism issue, if he wanted to. The president has the governing tools that might really make a difference; he oversees the entire Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Justice Department -- including the FBI. If he uses his vast authority to force a thorough, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may investigation, demanding full accountability while chasing down every last lead and angle, the American people, most of them, will feel reassured.
But if he allows the bureaucracy to cover its own collective posterior, if he fails to force meaningful reform on the system, if he accepts a “lone gunman” thesis, then America will be convulsed with mistrust, even paranoia. Unfortunately, Obama, whose resume includes no executive experience before becoming president, seems singularly ill-equipped to ride herd over a sprawling bureaucracy.
And if the bureaucrats mislead Obama, and if he passes along their misleading conclusions to the American people -- it will be Obama who gets blamed. The buck stops with him. He won’t be able to hide behind his TelePrompter.
Meanwhile, others, more determined to find answers, and less worried about upsetting the apple cart, will be pressing ahead. One such person who is already leading the charge is Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. He has already announced that he will be launching his own investigation. Lieberman, a former Democrat and now an independent, endorsed John McCain in the election last year, in large measure because he mistrusted Obama on national security. And for their part, the Obamans probably dislike Lieberman more than any politician this side of Joe Wilson. So expect a rancorous inquiry.
But to the American people, the issue isn’t Lieberman, or any politico. The huge looming issue is security for America. We went through a period similar to this in the 1940s, when Americans started to fear that the establishment, led by a Democratic president, was not being sufficiently vigilant about the threat posed by communism. Those concerns, rational and irrational, soon cost the Democrats the presidency; indeed, they vexed American politics for the next four decades.
Now communism is gone, but Islamic radicalism and jihadism are with us. Obama will have to find an effective way to deal with this new threat or the American people will find someone else who can.
James P. Pinkerton is a Fox News contributor.
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Infrared sauna is a sauna powered by the infrared rays. Infrared rays are rays with a high wavelength, greater than the normal red light’s. This leads to a number of benefits including therapeutic, health and beauty advantages.
These saunas come in different models, including small portable ones that you can keep in a tiny corner of a room, till large ones that will occupy a room by itself. And there are intermediate sizes. The small portable sauna is cheap and nice for one person, so cheap compared to its benefits that it is gradually becoming almost a household item in many parts of the USA. The bigger one – the far infrared sauna – retails the benefit, is more expensive, but can fit in anywhere from 1 to 5 persons depending upon the model you select. These are items of ultimate luxury.
The top 5 benefits of an infrared sauna include:
1. Blood quality and circulation improvement: You improve your quality of blood as well as flow of blood tremendously over time; hence your vital organs get a much-desired boost for longevity.
2. Detoxification: Most people believe this is the best benefit of the infrared sauna, be it portable, or a far infrared sauna (FIR). It promotes the elimination of toxins from your muscles and skin, including slow-gathering poisons that manifest long way down the line but let you live peacefully for now, lactic acid, excess sodium associated with hypertension, free fatty acids, subcutaneous fat associated with aging and fatigue, and uric acid which causes pain.
3. Injury and pain removal: The infrared sauna is an excellent pain and injury remover; in particular it can produce amazing results for joint pain removal.
4. Improved metabolism and weight loss: An infrared sauna, portable or FIR, can improve your metabolism by a noticeable degree and produce non-water sweat to remove a lot of your fat. One can gain the effect of running 2-3 miles simply by an hour in the FIR sauna.
5. Skin improvement and beauty: Infrared saunas do deep-cleansing for your skin and remove all the toxic substance just below your skin surface. As a result one feel the inner glow of the skin rise to the surface. The improved blood and skin quality leads to a high improvement in beauty and perception.
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"From Michael Connelly – Retired attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor, Carrollton, Texas
Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.
To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularl y where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.
The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled.
However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn’t have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.
This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.
If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed “acceptable” to the “Health Choices Administrator” appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a “tax” instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn’t work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is “definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of law”.
So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn’t stop there though. The 9th Amendment that provides: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;” The 10th Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.
I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the Constitution. If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the American
people would hold me accou ntable.
For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult the source. Here is a link to the Constitution: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
And another to the Bill of Rights:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.
Michael Connelly
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The Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Through on Saturday, But Sunday’s Coming
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We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country.The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business.
Despite Americans’ decisive message last Tuesday that they reject the troubling path this country has been taking, Speaker Pelosi has broken her own promises of transparency to ram a health “care” bill through the House of Representatives just before midnight. Why did she push the 2,000 page bill this weekend? Was she perhaps afraid to give her peers and the constituents for whom she works the chance to actually read this monstrous bill carefully, if at all? Was she concerned that Americans might really digest the details of a bill that the Wall Street Journal has called “the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced”?
This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our economy, our small businesses, and our personal liberty. It will slam businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates – the highest we’ve seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don’t have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market.
Make no mistake: we’re on course to have government commandeer one-sixth of our economy. The people who gave us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now want to run our health care. Think about that.
All of us who value the sanctity of life are grateful for the success of the pro-life majority in the House this evening in its battle against federal funding of abortion in this bill, but it’s ironic because we were promised that abortion wasn’t covered in the bill to begin with. Our healthy distrust of these government leaders made us look deeper into the bill because unfortunately we knew better than to trust what they were saying. The victory tonight to amend the bill and eliminate that federal funding for abortion was great – because abortion is not health care. Now we can only hope that Rep. Stupak’s amendment will hold in the final bill, though the Democratic leadership has already refused to promise that it won’t be scrapped later.
We had been told there were no “death panels” in the bill either. But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.
Look closely at provisions addressing illegal aliens’ health care coverage too.
Those of us who love freedom and believe in open and transparent government can only be dismayed by midnight action on a Saturday. Speaker Pelosi’s promise that Americans would have 72 hours to read the final bill before the vote was just another one of the D.C. establishment’s too-common political ploys. It’s broken promises like this that turn people off to politics and leave them disillusioned about the future of their country.
But despite this late-night maneuvering, many of us were paying close attention tonight. We’ll keep paying close attention. We need to let our legislators in Washington know that they still represent us, and that the majority of Americans are not in favor of the “reform” they are pushing. After all, this is still a country “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” We will make our voices heard. It’s on to the Senate now. Our legislators can listen now, or they can hear us in 2010. It’s their choice.
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Whoops! Just when we thought they had already given us enough ammunition Pelosi and her liberal buddies do the unthinkable. They passed the one thing that the people of this country actually were adamantly against, the Democratic Health Care Bill. Thank God we still have the Senate to put some commonsense into the package. What’s that you say? You’re laughing, we can only hope that these 100 people want to keep their jobs, if this bill passes they will be joining the House Members in the unemployment lines come 2010. Reid is in trouble here in Nevada already, he is spending a fortune on feel good ads all over Nevada for the last few months.
The one thing we as a people need to do is to eliminate the power of Congress by only electing people who will sign off on eliminating the special benefit package and retirement program that these clowns have put in for themselves. When I say eliminate I mean past and present. They could care less what we think, when they have somehow not only made millions as public servants but have a full life of benefits when they are booted.
The special retirement for the Congress is like a constant supply of golden eggs and we are the goose. They jumped on the word CHANGE and that’s what we need to do starting right now. I would like to see recall petitions from each State for anyone who voted for this behemoth of a bureaucracy. As a small businessman who has always provided medical insurance for my employees even, when we have not been able to show any profit, the odds are that I will close my shop rather than capitulate to this government takeover. That will be another 50 some people for you liberal supporters to feed and take care of. Excuse me, 53, I forgot my family, might as well live the good life too.
Ms Pelosi and her husband Charlie Tuna, along with Harry Reid and Barack Obama will eventually run out of other peoples money to spend. When that happens the country will be about equal with Uganda in stature. Anarchy is a terrible thing; remember what happened to Marie Antoinette. God help us if we don’t stop this cancer before it spreads any further.
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