Monday, August 31, 2009

Czar

Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch).

Could the Ecumenical Patriarch be “The One”?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar

 

DID WE KICK OUT THE KING OF ENGLAND SO WE COULD ADOPT CZAR’S???

 

STIMULATED YET???

Fascism

pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/, comprises a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology[1][2][3][4] and a corporatist economic ideology. [5] Fascists believe that nations and/or races are in perpetual conflict whereby only the strong can survive by being healthy, vital, and by asserting themselves in conflict against the weak.[6] Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state.[7] Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement.[8] Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalist liberal democracies for its creation and communists for exploiting the concept.[9] In the economic sphere, many fascist leaders have claimed to support a "Third Way" in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state communism.[10][11] This was to be achieved by establishing significant government control over business and labour (Mussolini called his nation's system "the corporate state").[12][13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

SOUNDS FAMILIAR???

STIMULATED YET???

 

 

Blood Money

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The Great Escape

By Thomas Sowell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Many of the issues of our times are hard to understand without understanding the vision of the world that they are part of. Whether the particular issue is education, economics or medical care, the preferred explanation tends to be an external explanation— that is, something outside the control of the individuals directly involved.


Education is usually discussed in terms of the money spent on it, the teaching methods used, class sizes or the way the whole system is organized. Students are discussed largely as passive recipients of good or bad education.


But education is not something that can be given to anybody. It is something that students either acquire or fail to acquire. Personal responsibility may be ignored or downplayed in this "non-judgmental" age, but it remains a major factor nevertheless.


After many students go through a dozen years in the public schools, at a total cost of $100,000 or more per student— and emerge semi-literate and with little understanding of the society in which they live, much less the larger world and its history— most discussions of what is wrong leave out the fact that many such students may have chosen to use school as a place to fool around, act up, organize gangs or even peddle drugs.


The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior. Differences in infant mortality rates provoke pious editorials on a need for more prenatal care to be provided by the government for those unable to afford it. In other words, the explanation is automatically assumed to be external to the mothers involved and the solution is assumed to be something that "we" can do for "them."

 

While it is true that black mothers get less prenatal care than white mothers and have higher infant mortality rates, it is also true that women of Mexican ancestry also get less prenatal care than white women and yet have lower infant mortality rates than white women. But, once people with the prevailing social vision see the first set of facts, they seldom look for any other facts that might go against the explanation that fits their vision of the world.


No small part of the current confusion between "health care" and medical care comes from failing to recognize that Americans can have the best medical care in the world without having the best health or longevity because so many people choose to live in ways that shorten their lives.


There can be grave practical consequences of a dogmatic insistence on external explanations that allow individuals to escape personal responsibility. Americans can end up ruining the best medical care in the world in the vain hope that a government takeover will give us better health.


Economic issues are approached in the same way. People with low incomes are seen as a problem for other people to solve. Studies which follow the same individuals over time show that the vast majority of working people who are in the bottom 20 percent of income earners at a given time end up rising out of that bracket.


Many are simply beginners who get beginners' wages but whose pay rises as they acquire more skills and experience. Yet there is a small minority of workers who do not rise and a large number of people who seldom work and who— surprise!— have low incomes as a result.


Seldom is there any thought that people who choose to waste years of their own time (and the taxpayers' money) in school need to change their own behavior— or to visibly suffer the consequences, so that their fate can be a warning to others coming after them, not to make that same mistake.


It is not just the "non-judgmental" ideology of the intelligentsia but also the self-interest of politicians that leads to so much downplaying of personal responsibility in favor of external explanations and external programs to "solve" the "problem."


On these and other issues, government programs are far less likely to solve the country's problems than to solve the politicians' problem of getting the votes of those whose think the answer to every problem is for the government to "do something."

 

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Ted Kennedy is still dead!!!

To be preserved in a pickled state. 

Kennedy family is at a loss to find enough gin, tonic and olives and a great big fat jar to shake.

 

Moments in the life of "Our Teddy"

Thursday, August 20, 2009

DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE THE POWER TO ENFORCE "NATIONAL HEALTH CARE" ON US?

WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE THE POWER TO ENFORCE “NATIONAL HEALTH CARE” ON US?

 

THE ANSWER IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE THIS RIGHT.

 

ANY SENATOR OR REPRESENTATIVE WHO VOTES FOR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE IS DEFYING THEIR OATH OF OFFICE AND SHOULD BE THROWN OUT!!!  THE CONGRESS IS EXCEEDING THEIR AUTHORITY UNDER THE CONSTITUTION AND STEALING YOUR LIBERTY IN THE PROCESS!!!

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution lists the powers as:

Section 8: The Congress shall have power

 

1)     To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

 

2)     To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

 

3)     To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

 

4)     To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

 

5)     To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

 

6)     To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

 

7)     To establish post offices and post roads;

 

8)     To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

 

9)     To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

 

10) To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

 

11) To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

 

12) To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

 

13) To provide and maintain a navy;

 

14) To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

 

15) To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

 

16) To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

 

17) To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;—And

 

18) To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

 

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Obama to rally grass roots backers on health care

President Barack Obama will Thursday hold a live online and telephone strategy meeting to rally devoted grass roots backers (BROWN SHIRTS) as a backlash over his health reform plan spreads to liberal media commentators.

David Plouffe, who ran Obama's triumphant 2008 election campaign, and now steers the Organizing for America (BROWN SHIRTS) supporter network, said Obama wanted to lay out his strategy and message, as controversy stalks his major reform plan.

"This is a critical time in this president's administration and in the history of our country. I hope you can join us," Plouffe wrote in an email to supporters, (BROWN SHIRTS)  soliciting questions for the president.

Obama mobilized the greatest army of grass roots activists (BROWN SHIRTS) in US history during his capture of the Democratic nomination and the presidency last year.

But so far, it is not clear if those legions of supporters (BROWN SHIRTS) are prepared to turn out in their millions to help him push key legislation through Congress.

The White House has spent the last two days attempting to dismiss reports that it is softening its proposal to create a government entity to compete with private insurers to bring down the cost of health care and to widen access.

A flurry of media accounts on Sunday interpreted remarks by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as stepping back from the "public option."

"As I've said, now, yesterday and earlier today, the administration's position is unchanged," said Gibbs on Monday.

"I think the suggestion somehow that anything that was said Saturday or Sunday as being new administration policy is just not something that I would agree with."

The administration argues that having a federal component is still a key part of the health care plan, but says Obama is open to any option that will foster choice and competition in the health care market.

Some top lawmakers have expressed doubts that there is sufficient support in Congress for a public option, and are pushing a plan for non-profit co-operatives to be introduced into the health insurance market instead.

Obama's health care reform drive, his top domestic priority, has been assailed in recent weeks by Republicans and angry opponents disrupting town hall meetings held by Democratic lawmakers.

The president, trying to contain the damage to his plan, held two town hall meetings of his own on health care in the western states of Montana and Colorado at the weekend.

But on Monday, he faced the wrath of normally supportive liberal newspaper columnists, who fear he is toning down what had been billed as a generational domestic reform drive.

"If we manage to get health care 'reform' this time around it will be the kind of reform that benefits the very people who have given us a failed system, and thus made reform so necessary," said columnist Bob Herbert of the New York Times.

Eugene Robinson, of the Washington Post, added that "giving up the public option would send many of Obama's progressive supporters (BROWN SHIRTS) into apoplexy, yet the administration has sent clear signals that this is the path of less resistance it's prepared to take."


 

 

Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver due to government under funding, leaked paper

 

 

By Darah Hansen, Vancouver SunAugust 18, 2009

 

VANCOUVER — Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures can expect to wait longer for care, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said Monday.

Dix said a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority document shows it is considering chopping more than 6,000 surgeries in an effort to make up for a dramatic budgetary shortfall that could reach $200 million.  (CAN’T HAPPEN HERE??? – THINK TWICE!!!)

“This hasn’t been announced by the health authority … but these cuts are coming,” Dix said, citing figures gleaned from a leaked executive summary of “proposed VCH surgical reductions.”

The health authority confirmed the document is genuine, but said it represents ideas only.

“It is a planning document. It has not been approved or implemented,” said spokeswoman Anna Marie D’Angelo.

Dr. Brian Brodie, president of the BC Medical Association, called the proposed surgical cuts “a nightmare.”

“Why would you begin your cost-cutting measures on medically necessary surgery? I just can’t think of a worse place,” Brodie said.

According to the leaked document, Vancouver Coastal — which oversees the budget for Vancouver General and St. Paul’s hospitals, among other health-care facilities — is looking to close nearly a quarter of its operating rooms starting in September and to cut 6,250 surgeries, including 24 per cent of cases scheduled from September to March and 10 per cent of all medically necessary elective procedures this fiscal year.

The plan proposes cutbacks to neurosurgery, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, and 11 other specialized areas.

As many of 112 full-time jobs — including 13 anesthesiologist positions — would be affected by the reductions, the document says.

“Clearly this will impact the capacity of the health-care system to provide care, not just now but in the future,” Dix said.

Further reductions in surgeries are scheduled during the Olympics, when the health authority plans to close approximately a third of its operating rooms.

Two weeks ago, Dix released a Fraser Health Authority draft communications plan listing proposed clinical care cuts, including a 10-per-cent cut in elective surgeries and longer waits for MRI scans.

The move comes after the province acknowledged all health authorities together will be forced to cut staff, limit some services and increase fees to find $360 million in savings during the current fiscal year.

In all, Fraser Health is looking at a $160-million funding shortfall.

D’Angelo said Vancouver Coastal’s deficit is closer to $90 million — almost a third of which ($23 million) has already been absorbed through reductions in non-clinical administration efficiencies.

Vancouver Coastal performed 67,000 surgeries last year, an increase of 6,500 surgeries over 2007.

“What has now happened is that now our wait times are about 25 per cent lower than the provincial average,” D’Angelo said. “We have put a dent in that wait list.”

Brodie acknowledged surgical waiting times have dropped significantly in recent years, particularly for patients needing hip and joint replacements.

He said the proposed cuts threaten those advancements.

“It sounds like we are going backwards here,” he said.

Total health spending in British Columbia was $15.7 billion this year, up about four per cent over last year’s total of 15.1 billion, according to figures provided by the ministry of health.

Health Minister Kevin Falcon was unavailable for comment Monday on the proposed health-care cuts. A ministry spokesman said Falcon is away on his honeymoon until the end of August.

Elsewhere in British Columbia, the province will look to replace the head of the Interior Health Authority, Murray Ramsden, after he announced he will step down at the end of the year.

Ramsden has said his decision to retire is not related to financial problems faced by the authority.

dahansen@vancouversun.com

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ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO HEALTH CARE RATIONING?  RATIONING MEANS UNNECESSARY PAIN AND SUFFERING… FOR YOU!!!

 

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