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United Nations - US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said. (Snip) ''My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law,''
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Monday, November 2, 2009
US drone strikes may break international law: UN
Power Derives from Lawful Authority
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The President of the United States has no more legal right to sign a treaty that turns legislative, executive, and judicial functions of our national government over to the United Nations than he has to declare the United States an Islamic Republic and its people henceforward subject to Sharia.
Nevertheless, that would be the effect of the proposed United Nations Climate Change Treaty awaiting Mr. Obama's signature in Copenhagen this coming December.
The proposed treaty authorizes the establishment of a "government" to transfer wealth from industrial nations to non-industrial nations in payment of a "climate debt" which, the treaty 'declares', the industrial nations owe on account of burning carbon-based fuels.
The newly created international government is to have the authority to decide issues relating to carbon emissions in signatory nations, the power to levy what amounts to carbon taxes on signatory nations, and the power to enforce its levies without reference to the will of the people who live in the signatory nations.
Thus, the proposed Climate Change Treaty demands that: [specifics, all a transfer of sovereignty - snip]
So, given what the treaty portends, the obvious question is, does it pass constitutional muster?
The answer is rooted in American constitutional history, which is that no President, even with the advice and consent of the Senate, has the power to transfer legislative, executive, or judicial authority to any body in derogation of the manner in which such authority is granted by the United States Constitution.
A presidential signature and senatorial ratification is merely the process by which a treaty takes on the outward garments of lawfulness. The substance of the treaty must also be lawful. as defined by the tenants of our Constitution.
- "The ... powers of the national government are limited by the constitutional grants. Those who act under these grants are not at liberty to transcend the imposed limits because they believe that more or different power is necessary."
- "The Constitution provides that 'All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States' (and the) ... Congress is not permitted to abdicate or to transfer to others the essential legislative functions with which it is thus vested [3]."
To be lawful under our Constitution, a treaty may not impinge on the constitutional grant of powers to the President, to Congress, or to the Judiciary... [snip]
In the end, the question is whether the 200+ page Climate Change Treaty oversteps the constitutional limitations on the delegation of powers that are allocated to the various branches of our federal government. We can find out for certain only by a vote of five or more members of the United States Supreme Court - which history has shown to be an unreliable safety net for the preservation of America's constitutional democracy.
That's why it's critical we hold our Senators' feet to the fire on this issue.
We don't need another national trauma, and we can avoid one by making sure our Senators withhold their consent to the proposed Climate Change Treaty when Mr. Obama signs and submits it...
[Read the above skipped 'specifics' to know what we're in for should we fail >
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"DENY SENATE CONSENT of CLIMATE CHANGE 'TREATY' "
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The Founding Founders established a Republic under a written Constitution with the clear intent of protecting individual freedom. However, the role of our government has been grossly perverted over the last century to the point where politicians now violate individual rights routinely and without batting an eye. Most violations occur under the banner of providing for the public good, and they call upon the virtues of charity and sacrifice to garner support.
Fortunately, charity and sacrifice in a free society are individual and personal undertakings. As a rule, they cannot be subject to coercion if liberty is to be maintained. The current President and various members of both political parties do not abide by this rule, and as such, they are positioning themselves as tyrants. Servitude will be the price we pay unless we stand up today and boldly defend our rights. It is time to educate the broader public on the proper role of charity and sacrifice in a free society... [snip]
In his authoritative work on freedom, The Constitution of Liberty1, F.A. Hayek explained the role charity plays in a free society:
"By common opinion our chief concern...[is] the welfare of our family. But we also show our appreciation and approval of others by making them our friends and their aims ours. To choose our associates and generally those whose needs we make our concern is an essential part of freedom and of the moral conceptions of a free society. General altruism, however, is a meaningless conception..."
Ayn Rand was less loquacious in her explanation:
"Only individual men have the right to decide when or whether they wish to help others; society -- as an organized political system -- has no rights in the matter at all."
Now ask yourself: regarding how your tax money is collected and spent for public services, do you get to decide what and whose needs appear most important to you or do politicians? It's a rhetorical question, but it emphasizes an important point -- that when politicians position themselves as the purveyors of charity, the values with respect to each member of society are disregarded as the values of one group or special interest win over those of others...
Many individuals will still ask, What of the poor and those who can't provide certain necessities for themselves? The answer in a free society is clear: you will not be stopped from helping them.
Therein lies the essence of charity - and its distinction from tyranny...
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AFP California Tours State with Tea Party Express
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Dear friends of AFP California,
This week I had the great pleasure of participating in the Tea Party Express tour that launched in San Diego, followed by stops in Los Angeles, Bakersfield and Fresno. At each of our stops, there were great crowds of patriots deeply concerned about the direction our country is taking. I was encouraged to see so many Californians actively working to take back our government from tax-and-spend politicians.
In each city I met AFP supporters—many of whom heard about these events through our emails! This was evidence that AFP California is building a network of grassroots activists throughout our state. Together, we can hold our elected officials accountable.
I shared with the Tea Party participants that California was once the land of great opportunity and prosperity. The only thing that has changed since then is an increasingly irresponsible legislature. The people of this great state haven’t changed. It’s up to you and me to ensure our future is as bright as our golden past. I’m confident that we can continue to spread the message of prosperity and freedom, and in doing so, reclaim California.
Please take a moment to visit our Facebook and Flickr pages to see photos of the Tea Party Express rallies.
State Chairman, Americans for Prosperity of California
P.S. The Tea Party Express continues its tour of the country. Please forward this email to your friends and family and encourage them to attend a local Tea Party Express event in their area.
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USSR Humor and the Jobless Recovery
A story from the old Soviet Union helps us understand claims that a jobless recovery is underway.
Once upon a time four of the historic leaders of the old Soviet Union were on a train going across the Siberian wilderness: Lenin, Stalin, Kruschev and Brezhnev. (Suspend your understanding of time.)
Midway across the wilderness, the train reached the end of the tracks. Construction works were huddled around fires trying to stay warm. They said track supplies were short.
Lenin said he’d take care of it. He climbed down the steps of the plush private care the leaders were traveling in, had workers build a simple platform, mounted it, and started giving a rousing speech. He exhorted the crowd to revolutionary effort to advance the cause of the people. They all shouted and went back to work.
In a couple of hours the train moved down the track about a quarter mile. Then it stopped.
The leaders looked at each other. Stalin said he’d take care of it.
He climbed down from the private railcar and ordered that all the track foremen be shot and new ones appointed.
Work resumed. The train started up again. Went another quarter mile and stopped.
This time Kruschev said it was his turn. He descended from the railcar and ordered that the track behind the train be pulled up and laid in front of the train. He pounded his shoe on Lenin’s platform for emphasis.
Later the train began to roll again. This time it went further than before. But then it stopped again.
Brezhnev said he’s fix things. He scrambled down the ladder, gathered the new foremen around him, and said, “Comrades, divide your workers into two groups. Line one half along one side of the train, and the other along the opposite. Rock the train from side-to-side so that it feels like we’re moving.”
And they did. Inside the railcar Lenin, Stalin and Kruschev marveled at how Brezhnev had been able to get so much track laid in so little time, and at all the distance they were moving across the wilderness.
Outside, Joe Bidenchev, a new foreman, encouraged the workers saying, “Look, Comrades, at how many foremens’ jobs we’ve saved.”
Okay, the last part wasn’t part of the original telling.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Pelosi Health Bill Sets Stage for Contentious Negotiations with Senate
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She said the bill will lower patient costs and reduce the national deficit. [Today's insult]
The bill would require everyone by 2013 to sign up through their employer, a government program or a new kind of purchasing pool called an exchange. The plan also calls for a significant expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people. And it would impose a requirement on employers to offer insurance to their workers or face penalties.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday released a report saying that the House bill will have a net cost of $894 billion over the next decade. [Not counting the 1/4 Trillion "doctor fix" price tag that has been removed to pay separately, or the fact it calls for increased taxation for years before any benefit is paid out. It's the course accounting deceit they've employed to force CBO to conclude the {utterly false} numbers claimed in the bill result in deficit 'reduction'. ][snip]
"Americans' health care is too important to risk on one gigantic bill that was negotiated behind closed doors,"
said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich.
"Not only will the Democrats' government takeover of health care lead to increased costs, higher taxes, and cuts to Medicare, it also feeds into the emerging narrative that Nancy Pelosi and her puppets are more interested in creating government even if it comes at the expense of creating jobs,"
said NRCC communications director Ken Spain.
"The lasting image coming out of today's press conference is one of dozens of House Democrats standing proudly behind an incredibly unpopular Nancy Pelosi as she prepares to lead them off a political cliff."
[Only if the American people hold them accountable for the maleficence. Meanwhile...]
Pelosi wants to have the legislation on the floor next week -- with a final vote before Veterans Day, Nov. 11 -- which would give President Obama a bill to sign by year's end.
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"OPPOSE ANY/ALL GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE"
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POLL: Most don't see insurance companies as 'villians'
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared last week that health insurance companies are “villains,” and 25% of U.S. voters agree with her.
However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% disagree with the speaker and don’t believe health insurers are “villains.” Virtually the same number (38%), are not sure, a finding which should give insurers pause as the health care reform debate intensifies.
Fifty percent (50%) of Republicans disagree with Pelosi, as do the plurality (45%) of voters not affiliated with either major political party. Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Democrats share her view, with only 19% not.
Still, 80% of those with health insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent. That’s up 10 points from May.
POLL: 48% Say It’s Too Easy To Sue Doctors, 44% Favor Caps on Jury Awards
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Just 19% say it is too hard to sue for medical malpractice, while 18% believe the current legal situation is about right. Sixteen percent (16%) are undecided.
Perhaps one explanation for the plurality support for caps is that 56% of voters think most money won in medical malpractice lawsuits goes to lawyers rather than the defendants. Only 19% say the defendants get most of the money won in such lawsuits. Nearly one-out-of-four voters (24%) aren’t sure.
Seventy-five percent (75%) say medical malpractice lawsuits are an important factor in the rising cost of health care. Thirty-three percent (33%) say they are very important. Just 16% say malpractice lawsuits are not very important in terms of increasing the cost of health care, and only one percent (1%) says they are not important at all.
[Yet none of the bills before either chamber of Congress address this aspect at all.]
POLL: Competition Wanted: 65% Favor Removing Anti-Trust Exemption for Health Insurance Companies
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Sixty-five percent (65%) of voters nationwide say laws should be changed so that health insurance companies are subject to anti-trust regulations. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 12% disagree, while 23% are not sure.
Anti-trust laws are intended to prevent companies and other business entities from working together in ways that limit competition.
Support for putting the health insurance companies under the anti-trust umbrella is consistent with another survey finding: 66% say free market competition between insurance companies will do more than government regulation to reduce health care costs. Just 23% believe more government regulation is the way to reduce costs, and 10% are not sure.
Seventy-three percent (73%) also favor another measure designed to spur free-market competition by allowing people buy health insurance across state lines. Just 20% are opposed to that measure.
[Yet none of these aspects are addressed by any of the 'plans' currently under congressional consideration.]
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Hazardous to Your Health
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As U.S. lawmakers mull over whether to restructure the nation’s health-care system via a “public option,” even the biggest advocates of government intervention should be careful what they wish for.
Just look at Europe — not only the widespread health-care rationing, but also the European Union’s new chemicals policy, which was first enacted in 2005.
It promised public health benefits at a reasonable price, but is likely to produce the opposite...
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[Again, the time is now, and silence will be interpreted as consent:
"OPPOSE ANY/ALL GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE"
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.LET THE MARKETS REGULATE
The uneven playing field, created by Washington, distorts the economy and handicaps a healthy recovery
- The targeted "pay czar" approach gives select financial firms even more insulation from market discipline.
- The marketplace understands that the more intricately entwined the government becomes with these firms, the more the government will support the same firms in the future.
- Lenders, then, will continue to offer firms like Citigroup and A.I.G. money at artificially low interest rates, as they did in the years leading up to the credit crunch, when "too big to fail" was already part of the landscape.
- The firms will continue to have an advantage over other companies and industries, and government-guaranteed failures will crowd out entrepreneurial start-ups.
Washington should be working to make large or complex financial firms more accountable to market discipline by creating a way in which big, complex financial institutions can fail in an orderly fashion...
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His propaganda has seeped into everything
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Remember that time President Bush interrupted the Emmy telecast to tell people we should support reform of Social Security before it bankrupted the country?
Neither do I.
Yet when I tuned in to watch "Monday Night Football" this week to check out the Miami Dolphins’ Wildcat offense, I didn’t expect to see President Obama taking the direct snap and trying to pound his political message into the end zone.
Where’s the flag for illegal procedure?
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Not socialism; Gangsterism
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Wherever you come down on this issue, there is no denying the straight line from Obama's Chicago roots and ways of getting things done to the White House. I wrote about it a while back when Chrysler dealers were being closed down, in a post I called "Not Socialism: Gangsterism:"
Since I wrote that, the Obama Mob has come down like a ton of bricks on numerous other targets, using tactics not seen since the Nixon administration - and some that Nixon would never have dared to try.
I think a big problem about countering this administration is that most of us are in a state of shock that an American president would use such tactics - and as Strassel says - use them so openly, so brazenly...
Kim Strassel at the Wall Street Journal channels the now familiar dialogue from The Untouchables to explain what the administration is doing...
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HuffPo's New Obsession: Take Down the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Earlier this year when CNBC personalities criticized the Obama administration, the Huffington Post and other components of the left-wing noise machine watched every word said on the financial network - an effort that has since petered out. The Huffington Post also asked readers to supply reports to undermine the credibility of the tea party protests that were critical of the Obama administration.
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CNBC, Reuters fall for climate hoax
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In a dramatic shift, the Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that it is throwing its support behind climate change legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate.
Only it didn’t.
An email press release announcing the change is a hoax, say Chamber officials.
Several media organizations fell for it.
A CNBC anchor interrupted herself mid-sentence Monday morning to announce that the network had “breaking news,” then cut away to reporter Hampton Pearson, who read from the fake press release....
[They believe what they want to believe.]
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The Nation's Climate Change Solution: 'Make the Recession Worse'
A lefty magazine editor has come up with a list of brilliant solutions to the planet's purported climate change problem: make the recession worse, make goods more expensive, and restrict all intercontinental travel to blimps.
So said Emily Douglas, web editor for The Nation, who, when asked Wednesday how we could "reverse our culture of consumerism," replied immediately "make the recession worse."
She later claimed that her response was a bit "tongue-in-cheek," according to CNS News, but admitted that her magazine "never shies away from doomsday scenarios."
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POLL: Most Americans Doubt Catastrophic Global Warming, Consider Economy More Important
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65% of Americans say creating jobs is more important than taking steps to stop global warming. Fifty-six percent (56%) aren’t willing to pay more in taxes and utility costs to generate cleaner energy and fight global warming.
The partisan divide is predictable. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Democrats say the U.N. must act to avoid catastrophe, while the identical number (57%) of Republicans reject that view. Unaffiliated adults are narrowly divided.
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China's push for oil in US waters
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The state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, reportedly is negotiating the purchase of leases owned by the Norwegian StatoilHydro in U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the source of about a quarter of U.S. crude oil production.
[Everyone but U.S.]
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Unscientific American
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Scientific American used to be a great magazine but like any publishing venture headquartered in New York, it has gradually drifted into liberal never-never-land.
Over the years the magazine has run several lead stories encouraging complete nuclear disarmament. At one point it had O.J. Simpson's attorney explaining why DNA technology would never be accurate.
Now it's become a shameless, uncritical cheerleader for a world run on renewable energy, all scientific (mathematic, economic) evidence be damned...
[Too true; former subscriber.]
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Burning the home fires is a crime on bad air nights in Bay Area
CALIFORNIA
Light a fire at home, pay a $400 fine. Burning wood fires in home fireplaces and stoves on bad air nights in the Bay Area becomes illegal again as of Sunday, when the region enters its second cold-weather season with lighting up banned during Spare the Air alerts. The crackdown, aimed at protecting public health from smoke, has two significant changes this year, the Bay Area Air Quality Management announced Wednesday:
- The district will slap a fixed fine of $400 on second-time violators, who received a written warning the first time they burned on a dirty-air night. Violators last year were subject to an indeterminate fine that could have been in the thousands of dollars. In the end, only person in the region — a Santa Rosa resident — ended up with a $400 fine.
"We don't want to stomp on people's Norman Rockwell experience, but one neighbor's smoke can end up causing another neighbor's visit to the hospital. Smoke can trigger an asthma or heart attack," said Mark Ross, a Martinez city council member on the nine-county air pollution board. "Wood smoke is a public health threat."
The air district also will give the public more advance notice this year of no-burn alerts — 10 hours instead of two hours. [So we should all be grateful.]
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CALIFORNIA'S ENERGY POLICY NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR REDUCED CONSUMPTION
More than 75 percent of the touted benefits of California's costly energy policies are actually attributable to factors other than the policies
A study from Stanford University analyzes factors that lead to California's lower per-capita electricity consumption. Proponents of regulation and cap and trade often point to the "success" California has had reducing per-capita electricity consumption. The study finds that the vast majority of the difference in electricity use is explained by factors other than policy:
- For instance, the mild weather and California's relatively higher use of natural gas for space heating, led to a 15.8 percent reduction in per-capita residential electricity use.
- Differences in household size (more people per household = lower per-capita use) and its higher urban/rural ratio (urban households live in smaller dwellings that use less energy) reduce per-capita residential electricity consumption another 21.4 percent.
- California's different mix of industrial users, by itself, accounts for a 38 percent drop in per-capita industrial electricity use.
- Less commercial floor space per capita reduces per-capita commercial electricity consumption by 27 percent.
When it is all added up, the authors conclude that California's policies account for no more than 23 percent of the difference in per-capita electricity consumption.
Since they haven't even looked at the direct impact of California's 50 percent higher electricity prices, that 23 percent could be grossly overestimating even this reduced policy impact.
The basket-case economy that California has woven for itself is further confirmation that the effectiveness of its energy policies is almost certainly the exact opposite than the dogma being spouted by the political elites that run the state...
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POLL: AMNESTY WILL INCREASE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATIONhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
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Over half of Mexican nationals polled in a recent survey by Zogby International say that amnesty would create a massive influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico. With Mexico being the major source nation for illegal immigrants, this should serve as a wake up call to those in Congress calling for amnesty. Yet, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and others continue to claim that legalization measures within comprehensive immigration reform are the answer to the illegal immigration problems of the United States. Apparently, the pro-amnesty camp is not worried about letting history repeat itself. For example:
- After the last amnesty bill in 1986, the United States did indeed see a flood of illegal immigrants crossing the border.
- Numbers soared from an estimated 3 million illegal immigrants in the country to 20 million today.
It should come as no surprise that upon seeing those already in the country being handed legal status and a path to citizenship, others sought to come to the United States and simply wait out their chance.
By granting another amnesty, we will not solve the illegal immigration problem, but simply put the country in the same place in another twenty years...
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S.F. to ease up on unlicensed drivers
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Call it sanctuary on wheels: San Francisco is about to give a big break to people, many of them illegal immigrants, who are caught driving without a license. Beginning Sunday, cops will no longer impound cars the first time drivers are pulled over without a license. The reason: Many such drivers are in the United States illegally - and thus unable to get a license - and impounding their cars is an unfair hardship...
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Woman acts like dog to scare off potential burglar in Athens, Georgia
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Athens, Ga. - Athens-Clarke police are investigating after an Athens woman scared off a would-be burglar by acting like a dog. The Athens Banner-Herald reports Monday that the woman scared off the suspect around 11 p.m. Saturday. According to police, the woman got on the floor and began scratching at the door and acting like a large dog when the suspicious man tried turning the woman's door knob.
[Smart dog.]
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Senate Plan Would Explode Number of Uninsured Americans
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The senate bill would create an incentive for individuals to drop their health insurance and pay the relatively small fine.
[Exactly the plan: 1) destroy private insurers, 2) enslave us to a government run plan, 3) do whatever they want {what will you do when you're told any tax decreases will effect your family's health care?}]
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Health Insurance Company Profits 'Anemic'
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In today's Fact Check ("Health insurer profits not so fat"), the AP writer ripped into what has seemingly been a mandatory talking point any time a Democrat brings up health care: the supposedly excessive profits of health insurance providers.
Woodward found that the Democrats' claim doesn't survive even cursory scrutiny:
Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th on the Fortune 500 list of top industries.
Nevertheless, Democrats continue to cynically exploit public ignorance about the size of profit margins achieved at companies in general and in the insurance industry in particular.
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Health Care Bill Favors Marijuana and Cocaine Smokers Over Tobacco Users
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...insurance issuers selling policies to individuals could only vary premiums based on three characteristics: tobacco use, age and family composition.
[Despite the fact that smokers cost our health system less than 'healthy' seniors, who can have their lives extended by nearly a decade - at extremely high cost. Social engineering + junk science = insane policies.]
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The Left’s World of Fairy Tales
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The answer is religion. The left has made its views a form of religion.
Examples of left-wing dogmas that transcend reason are as numerous as any religion’s catechism. One example is the belief that men and women, boys and girls, are basically the same, that the vast majority of characteristics we ascribe to male and female natures are in fact socially induced. This irrational dogma was virtually universally believed and taught by the left-wing faculty when I attended college, and remains so today... [snip]
Dogma explains why it is useless to point out to the left how the left has economically crippled California, once the most prosperous, most adventurous, most successful “country” in the world (it has an economy that would make it about the seventh largest country in the world).
Likewise, it does not matter to blacks what Democrats have done to their cities. As they watch their cities crumble, they will once again vote overwhelmingly for the party that oversaw this destruction.
None of these facts matters because religious-like dogmas are not derived from facts...
[Highly Recommended > ]
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FLASHBACK:
Beware of Ideological Teamism
"Ideological teamism" refers to people's desire to belong to a team representing that they want to believe, which corrupts their judgment in determining what to believe... "
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Leader of Detroit mosque killed, 11 charged in FBI raids
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A complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit names Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, as "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group." He was killed in a gun battle during one of the raids, according to a joint statement by federal officials.
Abdullah, 53, also known as Christopher Thomas, was the local leader of a black Muslim group that calls itself "Ummah," or the brotherhood, and wants to establish a separate state within the United States governed by Sharia law, Interim U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg and Andrew Arena, FBI special agent in charge in Detroit, said in a joint statement.
[GWOT]
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Lawyers want admitted al-Qaida member released
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Former Bradley University student Ali al-Marri, a 44-year-old native of Qatar, pleaded guilty in May to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
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Guantanamo prisoners to get swine flu vaccine
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Even as some Americans await the arrival of their swine flu vaccines, the Pentagon has decided to vaccinate both soldiers and terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ..
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Paralysis
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The Obama administration’s protracted share session on an Afghanistan troop buildup is turning into a debacle. The commander in chief looks weak and hapless. With Rahm Emanuel making the case for further dithering as Afghan elections get sorted out, and Robert Gates calling for a decision regardless of Afghan leadership, the president’s lauded “team of rivals” is now fractious and incoherent. He has lost the confidence of our allies. He’s losing (lost?) the confidence of his military and, frankly, at cross purposes with his commanders. Consider this:
“A perception that our resolve is uncertain makes Afghans reluctant to align with us against the insurgents.” — Gen. Stanley McChrystal, in his submitted assessment of the Afghanistan war
“I’m not interested in just being in Afghanistan for the sake of being in Afghanistan or saving face or, in some way — you know, sending a message that America — is here for — for the duration.” — President Barack Obama, Meet the Press
Mission accomplished.
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MSNBC: Obama Should Follow Woody Harrelson's Advice on Afghanistan
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Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's "Hardball," invited on former Cheers star Woody Harrelson to talk Afghanistan war policy. The Zombieland actor announced that he was opposed not only to the war in Iraq, but also to the fight in Afghanistan as he compared it to Vietnam and advised that Barack Obama should "pull those troops out," to which Matthews chimed:
[audio available here]
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"It doesn't look like he's pulling out. He's not gonna follow the recommendation of Mr. Woody Harrelson it looks like...although he might be better off doing that."
[audio available here]
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Muslim student refuses to remove face covering for school
A burka-wearing student has been banned from enrolling at a college after staff claimed the Muslim garment was a barrier to ‘safety and communication’.
Shawana Bilqes, 18, refused to remove the head-to-toe gown which reveals only her eyes.
She had been asked to show her face as a check to avoid identity fraud in case she was posing as someone else
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Flying Imams Victory
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Homeland Security: A suspect Islamist group is gloating that a cash settlement in the so-called Flying Imams case is a ''victory for civil rights.''
It's a victory for future hijackers...
‘The Simpsons’, Islamophobia and CAIR: The Price of Freedom
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As anyone who morbidly follows this sort of thing (as I do) knows, enraging Muslim fanatics is hardly an accomplishment of Halley’s Comet-like rarity. It doesn’t take much: books, cartoons, teddy bears named Mohammad, posters of puppies, piggy banks, a Burger King ice cream swirl and the Nike logo (both of which apparently too closely resembled the Arabic script for “Allah”), are just a few of the recent Western offenses that have sparked their frothing outrage worldwide.
Yet despite the Daily Star’s perversely hopeful tone, there was no violent reaction in the UK from said fanatics, nor was there one in the United States after the episode originally aired here last Thanksgiving weekend (in a grimly ironic twist, the same weekend as the devastating mass murder and mayhem committed in Mumbai by a band of – wait for it – Muslim fanatics, or as the culturally sensitive media preferred to call them at the time, “gunmen”).
So why no Muslim fury over The Simpsons?
Because the moral of the toon: coming forward to protect your community from a possible terrorist attack by Muslims, even with an abundance of probable cause, marks you as a buffoonish bigot.
So, contrary to the Daily Star’s claim, the episode did not poke fun at Islam, but at Homer. Simpsons creator Matt Groening explained to Sky1:
“Cartoons deal in stereotypes. We try to be sensitive.”
Well, sensitive to the murderous rage of Islamists, anyway, since the episode ridicules the stereotyping of Muslims as terrorists, while stereotyping Homer as an Islamophobic, paranoid, ignorant American... [snip]
“The price of freedom,” said Thomas Jefferson, “is eternal vigilance.”
Not willful blindness, not political correctness, not naive complacency, but vigilance. While the current administration has its hands full demonizing its critics, winning the praise of dictators worldwide, and embracing anti-American radicals and Sharia supporters, radical Islam continues to wage war against us on our own soil.
It’s up to each one of us ordinary Americans, us Citizen Soldiers, to throw off the yoke of political correctness, disregard trumped-up accusations of Islamophobia or racism, and help law enforcement protect our communities and our country from the enemy among us.
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Dismantling America
[HT:LDot: "When Thomas Sowell is alarmed we are in some kind of trouble..."]
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
Does any of this sound like America? ... [snip]
Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question-- and the biggest question for this generation....
[Highly Recommended > ]
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Financial Regulator Calls for Crackdown on Facebook, Text Messaging
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Recent problems with the financial system could be used as a reason for regulators to have authority policing social networking sites like Facebook and other types of electronic communication like text messaging. If Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) CEO Richard Ketchum has his way, that's exactly what will happen.
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ABC Worries About Carbon Footprint of Food
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"you're eating oil when you're eating a burger: You need oil to make the fertilizer to grow the corn. You need petroleum to make the pesticides to grow the corn. You need oil to move it all around the country."
"What it tells you is that the carbon footprint of that burger is really big," ... "The result is a product that takes a huge environmental toll and obviously takes a health toll as well."
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Biofuel Production Increases Greenhouse Gases In Atmosphere
Subject: txt grn - Study:
A new study by the Marine Biological Laboratory raises series questions about this premise.
According to MBL's Thursday press release,
"Carbon emissions caused by the displacement of food crops and pastures may be twice as much as those from lands devoted to biofuels production."
Nice. So rather than acting as the well-touted global warming panacea, biofuel production is anything but. Given pending cap and trade legislation currently before Congress, one would think this study would be of great importance... [Alas, evidently not...]
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State to launch 'cash for appliances' program
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The state has been allocated $35.2 million in federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to participate in the State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program.
[I.e., trash more functioning equipment, at taxpayer expense, in the name of the false god of AWG.
Religious dogma + junk science = bad policies.]
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