The path led through the camp entrance bearing the inscription “Arbeit macht frei” (work will make you free). The over-dimensional motto on the roof of the maintenance building announced: “There is a path to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, honesty, cleanliness, sobriety, hard work, discipline, sacrifice, truthfulness and love of thy fatherland.”
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Dachau is a mirror into the dark part of each of our souls we wish we did not have. Everyone should see it, know it’s there, and know what the most civilized of people are capable of doing given the right circumstances.
islam insanity defense
Atty: Fort Hood suspect may use insanity defense
Nov 23 09:41 PM US/Eastern
By ANGELA K. BROWN
Associated Press WriterFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – An Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during an attack on his Texas post will likely plead not guilty to the charges against him and may use an insanity defense at his military trial, his attorney said Monday.
Islam and the insanity defense – now there’s a reach.
Dusseldorf 2009 Impressions
Senate socializtas
As the Senate considers socialized medicine for the U.S. today, consider what the concentration of government funding for socialized medicine throughout Europe has done for the business of health care. See Medica 2009 in Dusseldorf. It’s simply enormous. Floor space for the 4-day event costs around $20,000 for a 10′ x 10′ square. That’s $2M for a 100′ x 100′ space. The opulence is palpable. Massive displays of every medical device, machine, and product stretch for acres and acres in multiple linked buildings. Thousands of beautiful women and sharp dressed men represent their products with panache, elan and requisite sex appeal. The Medica show began around the same time governments began pouring public money into health care in the 60’s and 70’s. If you want more of something, subsidize it, and the evidence seems beyond doubt that public health care dollars have had this effect. It is puzzling, however, that the business of health care seems to be doing so well while the actual provision of health care seems to be in a state of crisis and in need of further socialization, more subsidy, and more government control. Is there really a disconnect here? Or is the argument for socializing health care in America a myth propagated by a leftist congress intent on perpetrating an extreme device to transfer more wealth and power to government forces? If the U.S. House and Senate get their way, we’ll definitely get more health care business. Ironically, we’ll also get health care rationing, scarcity of providers, and enormously increased taxes. Imagine how our economies would look without governments confiscating enormous wealth and directing it into favored industries, and instead, people directed the spending of their own wealth toward goods and services they actually wanted? Would we buy these fantastically expensive trade shows? I seriously doubt it.
czarism
OBAMA’S CZARS |
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CZAR |
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 . 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. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?) |
Van Jones |
Green Jobs Czar |
(since resigned).. Black activist Member of American communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party who said Geo Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. Black activist with strong anti-white views. |
Daniel Fried |
Guantanamo Closure Czar |
Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans. |
Nancy-Ann DeParle. |
Health Czar |
Former head of Medicare / Medicaid.. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times. |
Vivek Kundra |
Information Czar |
Born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (hello?) |
Todd Stern |
International Climate Czar |
Anti business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supportrer of the Kyoto Accord. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity. |
Dennis Blair |
Intelligence Czar |
Ret Navy. Stopped US guided missile program as “provocative”. Chair of ultra liberal “Council on Foreign Relations” which blames American organizations for regional wars. |
George Mitchell |
Mideast Peace Czar |
Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into “2 or 3 “ smaller more manageable plots”. (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual “special rights” advocate |
Kenneth Feinberg |
Pay Czar |
Chief of Staff to TED KENNEDY. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs. (horribly true) |
Cass Sunstein |
Regulatory Czar |
Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the “common good”. Essentially against 1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times –like private gun ownership and right to free speech. |
John Holdren |
Science Czar |
Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, Anti business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training. |
Earl Devaney |
Stimulus Accountability Czar |
Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico . Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico . |
J. Scott Gration |
Sudan Czar |
Native of Democratic Republic of Congo. Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations |
Herb Allison |
TARP Czar |
Fannie May CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings. |
John Brennan |
Terrorism Czar |
Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military |
Aneesh Chopra |
Technology Czar |
No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Gov. health care plan |
Adolfo Carrion Jr.. |
Urban Affairs Czar |
Puerto Rican born Anti American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire “slum lord” of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from “sweetheart” deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and health care |
Ashton Carter |
Weapons Czar |
Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America .. No Other “policy” |
Gary Samore |
WMD Policy Czar |
Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other “policy”. |
FLL 2009
political marketing
The Script: (for causing legal and cultural changes to occur without benefit of reasonable fact-based analysis)
Desensitize by changing the terminology. Examples: homosexual–>gay, abortion–>choice, socialized medicine–>affordable health care. Do this until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome and the new terms merit no more than a shrug of the shoulders.
Jam and silence the opposition with widespread intimidation and misrepresentation of their motives. Example: Matthew Shepard was robbed, beaten and later died. Subsequent investigation showed that he was targeted for his money, not his homosexuality. Nevertheless, Christian Coalition, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family were all widely accused of fomenting an anti-homosexual climate and were associated with Shepard’s murderers.
Conversion of the negative into the positive. Hate is love, lies are truth. Positive elements are magnified, negative elements are completely suppressed. Classic propaganda techniques here.
Rewrite history. Revisionism including fabricating new historical figures, giving new motives and new behaviors to existing historical figures, and creating historical outcomes that never existed. For example, many of the early Nazis were homosexual, however, anyone daring to criticize homosexuality today is labeled a Nazi.
This is from David Kupelian’s, The Marketing of Evil. It illustrates the brain washing techniques issuing from the Obama administration with each new day. No matter the issue, the subjects are interchangeable, and the script remains the same.
If the thousands of pages of new federal legislation Obama has inspired don’t succeed in killing off the last remnants of America’s constructive capacity, surely the tedium of the left’s non-stop propaganda war against America will bore the country to death.
revenuing
A friend came into my store yesterday having just come from traffic court where she was fined $340 for going 47 in a 50-to-25 transition zone. She’s a single mom, widow, no spring chick, raising two adopted kids who are in elementary school, by doing patient care for elderly people in their homes. She drives an older car. She’s one of the people who make Elbert County livable for elderly people.
A hat tip to the revenuing Elbert County Sheriffs and a complicit court system for another injustice. Did anyone else notice that the measure to repeal term limits for the Sheriff went down by a substantially bigger margin than all of the others?
Speeding, Parking Tickets on Rise as Government Revenue Source
Tuesday , February 10, 2009
By Joshua Rhett MillerDrivers across the country, beware — a heftier fine could be coming to a dashboard near you. Faced with rising deficits and dwindling revenues, many states and local municipalities are turning to increased traffic and parking fines to fill their coffers. [Read more…]
Obama and Islam
YouTube: Obama and Islam
This compilation video drives the sensitivity police insane–a hop skip and jump, to be sure, from their normal mental state.
Fall sky
Headed South…
term limit removals voted down
Unofficial 2009 Election Results for Elbert County ballot measures to repeal term limits by county office.
1A Assessor 66% Keep term limits
Yes 1886
No 4106
1B Clerk 64% Keep term limits
Yes 2163
No 3839
1C Coroner 64% Keep term limits
Yes 2801
No 3195
1D Sheriff 73% Keep term limits
Yes 1641
No 4360
1E Surveyor 60% Keep term limits
Yes 2426
No 3569
1F Treasurer 68% Keep term limits
Yes 1894
No 4109
Did you hear the people this third time Commissioners?
Maybe we could save a few sheckels and leave this one off the next ballot.
“alienated” Repub record turnout
Ugly Douglas County GOP campaign alienated Republicans – The Colorado Independent
but see:
Douglas County school board races bring record turnout – Denver Post
Just how independent is the Colorado Independent?
known by the company he keeps
Skewed Priorities
Posted 11/02/2009 07:04 PM ET
SEIU’s Stern: A standing invitation?APView Enlarged Image
Leadership: What are we to make of a White House visitors list that includes 22 swiftly scheduled appointments with a union boss at a time when Gen. Stanley McChrystal can’t get face time with the commander in chief?
Late Friday during the idle hours of the news cycle, the administration released the names of 100 White House visitors in 481 visits. It wasn’t exactly the transparency the president promised. It was simply in compliance with two court rulings that ordered the names to be made public record. Unable to admit misconduct, the White House insisted its disclosure was voluntary.
It didn’t intend to make this easy. Instead of just releasing all the logs, the White House released only a partial list. It asked the media and public to play a guessing game of “name that visitor.” If an inquiry was made and the White House had a record, it would be confirmed.
Only about a quarter of all names have been disclosed, showing a lucky 42 meeting President Obama personally. But even the incomplete information says a lot about the White House’s priorities — and they aren’t good.
The list reveals visits from activists, left-wing foundations, the feminist lobby, union bosses and noted anti-capitalists whose ideas would put the U.S. economy into the ground. The list also shows the White House had little exposure to policymakers on the frontlines of some of the most important decisions the president must make.
In the former category, there’s Service Employees International Union boss Andy Stern, who told the Wall Street Journal that if the power of persuasion didn’t work, then the persuasion of power would have to do. The records show Stern had 22 meetings, many face-to-face with the president, more than anyone else known so far. Stern might as well borrow a White House bedroom.
And that may be why the president has been so solicitous of union demands at the expense of the economy. As the jobless rate hits 9.8%, unions have managed to persuade the president to impose tire tariffs, violate the NAFTA treaty with Mexican truck restrictions, place protectionist “Buy American” limitations on federal contracts, and ice Colombian, Panamanian and Korean free trade treaties. Stern’s union has also harassed banks that took bailouts, making one wonder if a sort of Cuban or Venezuelan revolutionary mob activity against business has the White House imprimatur.
While Stern gets what he wants from the White House, the released visitors list shows no record of huddling with U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, whose trade pacts could create 600,000 jobs if ratified, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Then there’s another eminence grise: financier and philanthropist George Soros, who got at least two blocks of face time according to White House records. Like the sociable Stern, administration records show Soros’ appointments were officially scheduled within hours of his actual visit. It looks like fast service.
Soros not only has made statements critical of free-market capitalism, he’s also a philanthropist whose hobbyhorse MoveOn.org tried to smear Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus as “Gen. Betray-us” in a full-page ad in the New York Times.
It’s a disturbing coincidence to know that as Soros gets fast-service face time, these same months have seen news reports of Defense Secretary Bob Gates struggling to get appointments with Obama. Afghanistan commander McChrystal has had just two meetings with the president.
The most important task a president has is tending to affairs of war. This one does nothing of the sort. As he dithers on sending troops to Afghanistan, the record shows he has endless time for people with economically toxic notions and anti-victory ideas. Now that it’s obvious that people such as Soros and Stern have his ear, it’s getting less mysterious why he seems [so] inattentive to the authentic requirements of responsible presidential leadership.
November in Kiowa colors
a cult of personality
THE DAILY BLADE: Never Mind Marxism. Will An Obama Administration Be Totalitarian?: Part II
Examining President Barack Hussein Obama’s ubiquity – when your favorite TV show has not been pre-empted yet again by one of his prime time speeches or press conferences, you can still watch his Public Service Announcement (video link) about national service that gets heavy rotation, even on FOX – an unabashedly worshipful article by Jennifer Senior in New York magazine noted: “Since occupying the White House, Barack Obama has hosted fifteen town-hall meetings; appeared in more than 800 images on the White House Flickr photo-stream; and held four prime-time press conferences, the same number held by George W. Bush in his entire presidency.” [Read more…]
church and state
“The Malaysian constitution provides for freedom of religion. The country has a dual-track justice system, in which Islamic courts operate alongside civil ones. Rulings by the Islamic, or sharia, courts are directed toward the country’s Muslim, who make up 60 percent of the population. But they worry non-Muslims who see them as Islamism seeping into the moderate nation’s fabric.
In November, the National Fatwa Council — the country’s top Islamic body — banned Muslims from practicing yoga. It said elements of Hinduism in yoga can corrupt Muslims. The council also bans short hair and boyish behavior for girls, saying they encourage homosexuality. In northern Malaysia’s Kelantan state, authorities have forbidden bright lipstick and high-heeled shoes, saying the bans will safeguard Muslim women’s morals and dignity, as well as thwart rape. And last month, an Islamic court judge in the eastern state of Pahang upheld a verdict to cane a Muslim woman for drinking beer in public.
The country has been mired in inter-faith disputes as well in recent months. In those cases, many non-Muslims complain that the civil courts generally cede control to Islamic courts. Muslims cannot convert to other religions without the permission of the Islamic courts, which rarely approve such requests. In relationships in which a Muslim parent has converted children to Islam over the objection of a non-Muslim parent, the sharia courts usually have upheld the conversions. And earlier this year, a Sikh family lost a court battle to cremate a relative after officials said the man had converted to Islam years before his death, though the family said he hadn’t.”
from:Malaysian Sharia
Now, the king told the boogie men,
you have to let that raga drop.
The oil down the desert way
has been shaking to the top.
The sheik he drove his cadillac
he went a cruisin down the ville.
The Muezzin was a standing
On the radiator grille.chorus:
Shareef don’t like it.
Rock the Casbah. Rock the Casbah.
Shareef don’t like it.
Rock the Casbah. Rock the Casbah.By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound.
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound.
But the Bedouin, they brought out the electric camel drum.
The local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb.
As soon as the Shareef had cleared the square,
They began to wail.Chorus
Now over at the temple
Oh, they really pack em in.
The in crowd say it’s cool
To dig this chanting thing.
But as the wind changed direction
and the temple band took five
The crowd got a whiff
Of that crazy casbah jive.Chorus
The king called up his jet fighters,
He said, you better earn your pay.
Drop your bombs down between the minarets
Down the casbah way.
As soon as the Shareef was chauffered out of there,
The jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare.
As soon as the Shareef was outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed.
PJ Proudhon and Obamacare
“To be governed is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so…. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality. And to think that there are democrats among us who pretend that there is any good in government; Socialists who support this ignominy, in the name of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; proletarians who proclaim their candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic! Hypocrisy!”
General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, was first published in French as Idée générale de la révolution au XIXe siècle.
Feint Hearts Halloween Show
the change we got
Kiowa color
Anatomy of a passing hysteria
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October 23, 2009, 4:00 a.m.
America’s Obama Obsession
Anatomy of a passing hysteria.
By Victor Davis Hanson
For 30 months the nation has been in the grip of a certain Obama obsession, immune to countervailing facts, unwilling to face reality, and loath to break the spell. But like all trances, the fit is passing, and we the patient are beginning to appreciate how the stupor came upon us, why it lifted, and what its consequences have been.
HOW OBAMA WON
Barack Obama was elected rather easily because, in perfect-storm fashion, five separate trends coalesced last autumn.
1) Obama was eloquent, young, charismatic — and African-American. He thus offered voters a sense of personal and collective redemption, as well as appealing to the longing for another JFK New Frontier figure. An image, not necessarily reality, trumped all.
2) After the normal weariness with eight years of an incumbent party and the particular unhappiness with Bush, the public was amenable to an antithesis. Bush was to be scapegoat, and Obama the beginning of the catharsis.
3) Obama ran as both a Clintonite centrist and a no-red-state/no-blue-state healer who had transcended bitter partisanship. That assurance allowed voters to believe that his occasional talk of big change was more cosmetic than radical.
4) John McCain ran a weak campaign that neither energized his base nor appealed to crossover independents. McCain turned off conservatives; many failed to give money, and some even stayed home on election day. Meanwhile, the media and centrists who used to idolize McCain’s non-conservative, maverick status found Obama the more endearing non-conservative maverick.
5) The September 2008 financial panic turned voters off Wall Street and the wealthy, and allowed them to connect unemployment and their depleted home equity and 401(k) retirement plans with incumbent Republicans. In contrast, they assumed that Obama, as the anti-Bush, would not do more bailouts, more stimuli, and more big borrowing.
Take away any one of those factors, and Obama might well have lost. Imagine what might have happened had Obama been a dreary old white guy like John Kerry; or had Bush’s approvals been over 50 percent; or had Obama run on the platform he is now governing on; or had McCain crafted a dynamic campaign; or had the panic occurred in January 2009 rather than September 2008. Then the trance would have passed, and Obama, the Chicago community organizer and three-year veteran of the U.S. Senate, would have probably lost his chance at remaking America. [Read more…]
mornin’
“One perceives as if by a flash of lightning in the night why, in the twentieth century, the Nazi and Communist tyrannies could snatch power from the nerveless hand of the old order. Hobbes wrote that the life of the savage, the man in a state of nature, is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Therefore, seeking safety and creature-comforts, men submit themselves absolutely to the power of the state.” Kirk, The Roots of American Order.
And what geo-convulsions will our children endure to kill the 21st century Leviathan unleashed by the Left in America?
thrashing Olkjer’s oats
democide not divisive
Limbaugh’s So ‘Divisive’ The Left Had To Make Up Lies About Him
By MARK STEYN
Posted 10/16/2009 07:54 PM ET
Here is a tale of two sound bites. First: “Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”
Second: “The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is: You’re going to make choices. … But here’s the deal: These are your choices; they are no one else’s.
“In 1947, when Mao Tse Tung was being challenged within his own party on his own plan to basically take China over, Chiang Kai-Shek and the nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army. … They had everything on their side. And people said ‘How can you win? How can you do this against all of the odds against you?’
“And Mao Tse Tung says, ‘You fight your war and I’ll fight mine.’ You don’t have to accept the definition of how to do things. … You fight your war, you let them fight theirs. Everybody has their own path.”
The first quotation was attributed to Rush Limbaugh. He never said it. There is no tape of him saying it. There is no transcript of him saying it. After all, if he had done so at any point in the last 20 years, someone would surely have mentioned it at the time.
Yet CNN, MSNBC, ABC, other networks and newspapers cheerfully repeated the pro-slavery quotation and attributed it, falsely, to Rush Limbaugh. And planting a flat-out lie in his mouth wound up getting Rush bounced from a consortium hoping to buy the St. Louis Rams.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the talk show host was a “divisive” figure, and nondivisive figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson expressed the hope that, with Mr. Divisive out of the picture, the NFL could now “unify.”
The second quotation — hailing Mao — was uttered back in June to an audience of high school students by Anita Dunn, the White House communications director. I know she uttered it because I watched the words issuing from her mouth on “The Glenn Beck Show” on Fox News. But don’t worry. Nobody else played it. [Read more…]
government at the people
Dems Go Nuclear
Posted 10/16/2009 07:54 PM ET
Health Care: Democrats seem set to use the “nuclear option” to ram their government health takeover into law. Bipartisanship already looked dead; now it looks extinct.
The health care revolution the Democratic Congress has planned — with its inevitable medical rationing, thousands of dollars in increased insurance premiums, and coverage of illegal aliens — may get placed on the familiar fast track used to spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars this year.
Instead of the 60 votes needed in the Senate if proper parliamentary rules were followed, passing this reshaping of the medical system as a “budget reconciliation” measure would mean only a simple majority was needed.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., accused of cheating on his taxes, last week held a hearing to let the House version of the health reform bill be passed this way. As the Washington weekly Human Events reports, Democratic leaders “have apparently invoked the ‘nuclear option’ to shut out Republicans and ensure the bill is passed before the end of the year.”
So all those “town hells” during the summer, where senators and congressmen were given an earful about passing secretly written thousand-page bills without reading them, will be ignored. [Read more…]
another canvas to paint a day on
sunrise today
a hard frost
cpt needs citizen oversight
Child Protection Team [CPT] really needs citizen oversight. I’m not doing it anymore because I ended up getting poached on by the sheriffs department for revenue and the only way I could send a message to the powers that be that poaching on citizens is wrong was to withdraw my services as that citizen. It wasn’t a great solution but you don’t always get to make perfect choices.
Anyway, my problem has nothing to do with the necessity of having a citizen sit on that weekly committee. The CPT committee must have a citizen representative who is personally outside of the system. That means one who is not in any law enforcement agency, not in the provision of mental health services, not in the department of social services, not in the child advocacy program, not in the district attorney’s office, not a school counselor, and not a local physician. CPT is the nexus where all of those powers cooperate, and taken together, they can bring a tremendous amount of power–force–to bear in citizens’ lives. [Read more…]
Senator Hank Brown
Senator Hank Brown spoke at the monthly Elbert County Republican breakfast October 10th. Check out the short video clips linked below the following pictures.
Hank Brown on Republican Solutions
Hank Brown on Democrats and Deficits
DC and Pittsburgh
I’m sure everyone who reads this blog is familiar with the “Tea Party” protest in Washington DC last month. It was an adult response to overbearing government, expressed within constitutional parameters by people strongly vested in the American dream. On the surface it stands in stark contrast to the anarchist G20 protest in Pittsburgh a couple weeks later where all hell broke loose and riot police acted to disburse demonstrators.
The DC protest was a perfect picture of order, and the Pittsburgh protest was extreme disorder. While DC was a mature and law-abiding exercise in civil dissent and Pittsburgh was an adolescent riot that provoked a violent response, both events constituted dissent from current governance and power structures. [Read more…]