tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50637166836394517152024-03-13T08:46:55.068-07:00BOIL LANCERBOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-7046376388663480082010-04-08T06:30:00.000-07:002010-04-08T06:27:53.781-07:00The Evils of Socialism, Father John Corapi<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Father John Corapi, SOLT</span></font></b> <<a href="mailto:newsletter@fathercorapi.com">newsletter@fathercorapi.com</a></p> <h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>The Evils of Socialism</span></font></b></h2> <p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>An excerpt from Father's latest book, <a href="http://emarketing.ridgefieldgroup.com/c/10016091/1575/Je1itu1/vglG?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fathercorapi.com%2FLetters-A-Collection-of-Short-Letters-P455.aspx%3Futm_source%3Demail_marketing_system%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_content%3D10016091%26utm_campaign%3DFather%2520Corapi%2520on%2520Socialism">"Letters."</a></span></font></i> </p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>At a time when it surely seems that capitalism has run amuck and poised the world on the edge of economic ruin, the temptation is very strong for the pendulum to swing too far left into the <b><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight: bold'>failed</span></font></b> and <b><font color=red><span style='color:red; font-weight:bold'>immoral</span></font></b> territory of <b><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>socialism</span></font></b>. Historically pure <b><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>socialism</span></font></b> <b><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>has never worked</span></font></b>, philosophically it cannot work, and <b><font color=red><span style='color:red; font-weight:bold'>morally it is inherently evil </span></font></b>(because it undermines the right of private property ownership, an inherent human right) and hence should not be given a chance to work. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The response might be that what we have at the moment isn't pure socialism. The problem is that the moment is incredibly fluid and the direction toward a more radical form of socialism is under way with frightening speed. Unless, of course, you believe the politicians and their appointees whose stock-in-trade has become lies, deception, and self-interest. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The common error is to think that socialism helps the poor and disenfranchised. As Pope Leo XIII pointed out as long ago as 1891 in his Encyclical <i><span style='font-style:italic'>"Rerum Novarum"</span></i>, <b><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>socialism does not help the poor. Rather, it reduces everyone to the same lowest common denominator of poverty and misery, while at the same time drying up the very sources of capital. </span></font></b></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-64516078164512009902010-03-22T05:42:00.000-07:002010-03-22T05:39:40.164-07:00OBITUARY<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>LIBERTY</span></font> was stabbed to death by her care takers 219 times while she slept during the night of March 21, 2010. Liberty had two children, TRUTH and VIRTUE. TRUTH and VIRTUE died of broken hearts upon hearing of their loss. Also surviving LIBERTY are a Niece and Nephew, GREED and SLOTH who are presently celebrating their triumph by feeding on LIBERTY’S lifeless body.</p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-4066832517604596182009-11-24T12:55:00.000-08:002009-11-24T12:53:37.690-08:00Blacks hit hard by economy's punch<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><br> 34.5 percent of young African American men are unemployed</span></font></p> <p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>By V. Dion Haynes<br> </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Washington</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Post Staff Writer<br> </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tuesday, November 24, 2009</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p><b><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general </span></font></b><b><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>U.S.</span></font></b><b><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'> population.</span></font> </b>And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment in the District, home to many young black men, rose to 11.9 percent from 11.4 percent, even as it stayed relatively stable in Virginia and Maryland. </p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112304092_pf.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112304092_pf.html</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Thanks for the help Barry…</span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>STIMULATED YET???</span></font></b></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-42550975268867432662009-11-24T08:45:00.000-08:002009-11-24T08:43:04.010-08:00McCain in a toss up to keep his seat!!!<div class=Section1> <p class=NormalWeb4 style='line-height:12.75pt'><font size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'>Senator John McCain’s future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought. </span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb4 style='line-height:12.75pt'><font size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'>A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in </span></font><font size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'>Arizona</span></font><font size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color:#333333'> finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie with potential challenger J.D. Hayworth. <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>McCain earns 45%</span></b> of the vote, while <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Hayworth picks up 43%.</span></b> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Dump this RINO loser!!! He’s a menace!!! Draft Hayworth!!!</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_senate_gop_primary">http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_senate_gop_primary</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.jdhayworth.com/">http://www.jdhayworth.com/</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-44395304096831307612009-09-25T10:25:00.000-07:002009-09-25T10:23:18.849-07:00Have you no shame? Have you no decency?<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yesterday the President of the USA stood at this very podium, spewing his latest anti-USA, Pro-dictator rants. Just a few days earlier, he again claimed his deity.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>But to NBC, CNN CBS ABC MSNBC who gave this third world thug want-to-be a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, God loving, and freedom loving people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency? A mere 10 months after the Election, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the God given nature of our liberty, destroys our economy and binds under the bondage of unemployment, poverty and debt us as servants to the state; merely to exist to pay tribute to the government. What a disgrace! What a mockery of the Constitution of the United States! <br> <br> Perhaps some of you think that this man and his odious regime threaten only the Conservatives. You're wrong. History has shown us time and again that what starts with attacks on the Conservatives eventually ends up engulfing many others.</span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-29945270219097223942009-09-16T09:37:00.000-07:002009-09-16T09:35:39.844-07:00Ask these Questions of your so-called representatives:<div class=Section1> <h3><span class=uistorymessage><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='font-weight: normal'>1) What is the schedule for re-privatizing General Motors and Chrysler? </span></span></font></b></span></h3> <h3><span class=uistorymessage><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial'> </span></font></span></h3> <h3><span class=uistorymessage><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='font-weight: normal'>2) Why are the TARP funds being used by a revolving door slush fund to essure government controll of the banking industry inperpituity.</span></span></font></b></span></h3> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <h3><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>3) If we are sooo "Rich" why are we printing money like it is going out of style and borrowing the rest from China. </span></font></b></h3> <h3><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'> </span></font></b></h3> <h3><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>4) If GM borrows money from the US and the Government sees a legitimate need to exercize control over it, why then does the government expect that China will not attempt to exercise control over us. What will the cost be? Taiwan? Will the Chinese have the power to fire the Chairman (Obama) and the board of Directors (Congress)?</span></font></b></h3> <form> </form> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-9872637818945557872009-09-16T05:23:00.000-07:002009-09-16T05:22:05.346-07:00Is Obama a Narcissist?<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=homeblogdate1><font size=2 color="#999966" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>September 16, 2009</span></font></span><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>By</span></font></b></strong><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/robin_of_berkeley/"><strong><b><font color="#0033cc" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; color:#0033CC;text-decoration:none'>Robin of Berkeley</span></font></b></strong></a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Many of us are asking ourselves the million dollar question: are Obama and his crew narcissists?<br itxtvisited=1> <br> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>(Translation: What in God's name is wrong with these people? Are they on medications? Are they off their medications?</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Are we being unknowingly subjected to some new reality show, Extreme Alien Invasion?)</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Now as a newby conservative, I have a long way to go to herald myself as an expert on conservatism, neoconservatism, paleoconservatism (whatever that is), and the like.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>But one thing I do know is crazy -- and that's not just because I've been a licensed psychotherapist for over 20 years. It's because for almost 30 years I've been eating, sleeping, and living with crazy, what I have dubbed the Psycho Network.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>There are plenty of nice folks around these parts (although mention the words Sarah Palin or Tea Parties and they'll morph into Linda Blair in the Exorcist). But we also lots of Bernadine Dohrn look-alikes who appear to have just crawled out from some prehistoric rock. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>So, let me take a stab at the burning question of Obama's mental health status. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Is Obama a garden variety narcissist? Probably, but that's the least of our problems. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Most highly successful people have some level of narcissism. Generally it's the narcissists -- charming, self serving, deficient in morals -- who rise to the top. The nice guys and gals who aren't willing to step on their grandmothers for fame and fortune are usually us worker bees.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Obnoxious and madly in love with themselves, narcissists are a pain in the butt to have as a friend, spouse, in law, or boss. They are self absorbed, and mesmerized by their own image. They love to be around people, and are genuinely puzzled when others find them a turn off. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>But while they can be major thorns in your side, they're too busy swooning over themselves to try to control the planet. They think they're hot stuff, but not the Messiah.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Now Obama, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, the Emanuel bros -- we may be talking something way more worrisome than your everyday narcissist. Let's take a look at other character defects, as well as examine another disorder entirely.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>A more serious type of character disorder is a paranoid person. Paranoids think that everyone is out to get them. Nothing is ever their fault. They are Gripe Central, and vividly recall every single insult or offense. Paranoids are unhappy, suspicious, resentful, and mistrustful.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Ringing any bells here?</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>At the extreme end of the continuum is the sociopath (also known as a psychopath). These are dangerous people who are not completely human, in my book. They lack a conscience and view themselves as above the law. They don't like people, and are devoid of empathy.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>It would be nice if sociopaths looked deranged and so were easy to spot. No such luck; they can be the pillars of the community. (Think OJ or Scott Peterson, who killed his pregnant wife Laci.)</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Interestingly, many sociopaths can easily pass a lie detector test -- they are that good at lying. While nonsociopaths will sweat during the grilling and set off the detector, sociopaths remain calm, cool, and detached.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>There's also another whole classification -- delusional disorders. These people look perfectly fine but have fixed beliefs that don't mesh with reality. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>If you've ever wrangled with an anorexic, you've dealt with someone with a delusion. Though she is emaciated, faints from hunger, and weighs 90 pounds, she insists she's fat.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Or a delusional addict believes he doesn't have a problem with coke and can stop at any time. Meanwhile, he's clocked some serious jail time, lost his job, and his fed up wife has flown the coop.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>A great example of a delusional disorder? Members of a cult. They believe the leader has special powers, and that they are the chosen ones. (Sound famliiar?)</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Now, when people ask whether Obama is a narcissist, they may not be talking about a garden variety narcissist. M. Scott Peck in his brilliant book, <em itxtvisited=1><i><font face="Times New Roman">People of the Lie</font></i></em>, describes the malignant narcissist (MN), a term coined by Erich Fromm. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Peck is describing a very dangerous creature capable of great evil -- the Hitler's of the world, as well as the SS guards. His MN is a witch's brew of psychopathology: a narcissist, sociopath, and paranoid, with a generous dollop of delusional disorder thrown in. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>While I'm not in a position to offer a definite diagnosis about Obama, there are reasons to be concerned about his character and his ability to look reality squarely in the face. Here are some of my impressions and observations.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>To become well functioning adults, humans need to have completed two tasks: 1. to have learned to attach to people, thereby developing empathy and 2. to have formed a firm and soild identity via healthy role models. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Yet, Obama was raised with an odd assortment of characters who seemed to have no clue about the emotional needs of a child. Obama was dragged like a rag doll all over the place, and subjected to conditions that had to be disturbing and alienating.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Abandoned by both his parents, Obama's life circumstances were unstable and ever changing. According to half sister Maya, they were "untethered. . . .drifting in and out of worlds, here and there."</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Obama Sr. deserted them to return to his other wife in </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Kenya</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> (you read this right). Little Barry lived with his mother, then was shlepped to </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Indonesia</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> to live for several years with mom and new step dad and half sister Maya.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Step dad turned out to be an alcoholic like dad, and mom ferried the kids back to the States. Then she decided to return to </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Indonesia</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>, though Obama refused to go. He ended up living in </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Hawaii</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> with his grandparents.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Obama had this to say about moving in with his grandparents: "I was to live with strangers." And: "I'd arrived at an unspoken pact with my grandparents; I could live with them and they'd leave me alone so long as I kept my troubles out of sight."</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Feel the love?</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>His grandpa, Stanley, sounded like he had a few screws loose. He was likely damaged goods from his hellish childhood. First, his dad abandoned the family. When </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Stanley</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> was 8, he discovered the dead body of his mother, who had committed suicide. He was shipped off to his grandparents and got himself expelled from school for punching the principal.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Stanley</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> drifted along himself, eventually joined the military, and married Madelyn. He was disappointed when she produced a baby girl (Obama's mother) rather than a son. In a bizarre and grandiose act, he named her "</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Stanley</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>." Sick and tired of getting grief for her name, </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Stanley</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> ended up going by her middle name, Ann.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Stanley and Madelyn raised Obama from around age l0 through high school. Stanley, an impulsive and hard drinking man, made one of the most twisted of parental decisions -- to have Barry mentored by the elderly Frank Marshall Davis, purportedly a Communist who worked on behalf of the Soviet Union; a pedophile who wrote a book entitled "Sex Rebel: Black," an alcoholic, a racist, and a misogynist. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Well regarded bloggers have <a href="http://neoneocon.com/2009/04/03/obama-and-the-disturbing-influence-of-frank-marshall-davis/">raised</a> the provocative question about whether </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Davis</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> violated Obama, perhaps by molesting him. (Read Obama's college era poem Pop, especially the lines, "Pop. . . points out the same amber stain on his shorts that I've got on mine, and makes me smell his smell, coming from me," and see what you think.) </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Obama himself has said, in his autobiography, that "Frank" made him feel uncomfortable. Grandpa Stanley and Davis would sit around getting loaded, talking trash about women, and making up smutty limericks. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Whether </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Davis</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> sexually abused Obama or not, </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Davis</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> made a lasting impression on his young psyche. </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Davis</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> blamed racism and capitalism for all of the problems in society and instructed young Barry, "Don't fully trust white people," and "Black people have a reason to hate." </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Obama's identity was ever in flux until he linked up with </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Davis</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>. Now he had beliefs he could rap his mind around -- rage at the system. Obama apparently became filled with resentment and anger even though he lived a privileged life in </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Hawaii</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>As an adult, Obama sought out other people who reinforced and hardened this world view: black nationalists, like Rev. Wright; 60's terrorists, such as Bill Ayers; wife Michelle, who never felt pride in this country, regardless of a Princeton education, cushy attorney jobs, and a million dollar mansion. Chillingly, some of these people, like Rev. Wright, anointed Obama a messiah, which may have only magnified Obama's false pride and delusions of grandeur.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Obama could have gone down one of two roads. One was to face the truth about his life, regardless of the shame, hurt, and grief this would evoke. But Obama chose another path, the one that allowed him to save face; he made the personal political. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>His father didn't choose to desert him; racism was at fault. His mother didn't abandon him; the system was to blame. Obama's grandparents didn't corrupt him by giving a creepy guy like </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Davis</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> personal access to him; they were acting like typical white people.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Obama, I think, created another reality by blaming white American for his family's faults. It's a pattern he's continued his whole life, and his associates are also allergic to personal accountability.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I picture Obama as a man crying out that he's thirsty although he's standing knee high in a fresh water stream. He's been blessed by the fortunes of a king -- prestigious private schools and universities, a lavish home in Chicago, two healthy little girls, state Senate and US Senate appointments, and now the Presidency. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>And yet deep down, I beileve that Obama is still the wounded, angry little boy whose parents abandoned him and, years later, died. Rather than resent and mourn them, he's turned his rage on a more convenient target -- the entire </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>United States</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> system -- even though it's that very same system of largely White Americans who elected him President.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Is there anything more to Obama et al. than their righteous indignation? Their seething anger? Their leftist dogma?</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>These are crucial questions because "People of the Lie" eat, sleep, and drink rage. They are dangerous people because they are soulless, and the soul is where love, forgiveness, and truth live. They're like fallen angels; there is no there. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Are Obama and his closest advisors, "People of the Lie" -- malignant narcissists? God, I hope not. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Here are some words of wisdom from M. Scott Peck, and you can rein in on the diagnosis.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br itxtvisited=1> <br> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; color:black'>The evil are ‘people of the lie', deceiving others as they build layer upon layer of self-deception. . . . Forever fleeing the light of self-exposure and the voice of their own conscience, they are the most frightened of human beings. They live their lives in sheer terror. They need not be consigned to any hell, they are already living in it.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; color:black'>Evil may be recognized by its very disguise.... We see the smile that hides the hatred, the smooth and oily manner that masks the fury, the velvet glove that covers the fist....</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; color:black'>The evil hate the light -- the light of goodness that shows them up, the light of scrutiny that exposes them, the light of truth that penetrates their deception.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Information on Obama's childhood drawn from the books, <em itxtvisited=1><i><font face="Times New Roman">The Case Against Barack Obama</font></i></em>, and <em itxtvisited=1><i><font face="Times New Roman">The Obama Nation</font></i></em>, as well as Wikipedia</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-35223885631981589402009-09-14T09:29:00.000-07:002009-09-14T09:27:26.279-07:00Get you "NOBAMA" gear here<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.antiobamashop.com/">http://www.antiobamashop.com/</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-89537322544275509262009-09-10T07:57:00.000-07:002009-09-10T07:55:39.572-07:00Interesting Health Care Speech Analysis - and Funny!<div class=Section1> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Bill O'Reilly / Dennis Miller -</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><a href="http://newsclipper.org/#95639">http://newsclipper.org/#95639</a></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-6012096669139101492009-09-10T07:48:00.000-07:002009-09-10T07:46:45.211-07:00Thank Representative Joe Wilson for telling the truth<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Thank Representative Joe Wilson for having the guts to tell the truth about Obamacare. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Send a contribution to his re-election campaign.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><a href="https://www.completecampaigns.com/public.asp?name=Wilson&page=2">https://www.completecampaigns.com/public.asp?name=Wilson&page=2</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-8358249392459360542009-09-03T09:43:00.000-07:002009-09-03T09:41:54.052-07:00NO to Government Health Care, NO to Cooperatives, NO compromise, NO kidding.<div class=Section1> <p style='line-height:160%'><b><u><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:160%;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Send this to your representative and Senators:</span></font></u></b></p> <p style='line-height:160%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:160%;font-family:Arial'>NO to Government Health Care, NO to Cooperatives, NO compromise, NO kidding.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Let me be so bold as to provide some questions and my thoughts.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1)</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Cooperatives especially Government Sponsored Enterprises never work. Note the current debacle of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Both GSE’s, both failed, both run by political hacks as a reward for years of service to their parties (yours BTW) both now heavily subsidized by the US Government, unfortunately, in-perpetuity I suppose. I should note that the first Cooperative tried in the </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>US</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> was at Jamestown Colony. It failed because all products produced were shared equally. This resulted in starvation and near destruction of the Colony. Captain John Smith ended this practice, privatized land ownership and voila, success!!! We are here now as a vibrant and independent country… Should we be destined to repeat this very same mistake with the same miserable results? I don’t think that we should.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2)</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Why can we not deduct our health coverage if procured as an individual while businesses can deduct these expenses? This seems patently unfair to me. An individual deduction would make the net cost to the consumer lower, thereby enticing more people to contract for insurance.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3)</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Why is it that we cannot buy health insurance from out of state providers? This would increase competition which always lowers cost.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>4)</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Why should we be compelled to buy insurance that covers nose jobs, abortions, sex change operations when we have no need for them or we find the act repugnant and unholy? This type of coverage causes an additional unnecessary expense to the consumer.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>5)</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Why should a 55yr old couple be forced to buy coverage that covers childbirth when they are beyond their procreative years? Again another unnecessary expense to the consumer.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>6)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Why should we be forced to pay for people who willfully choose not to have health insurance? This is like saying I should be entitled to all Government Benefits, but refuse to pay my taxes. You know like Charlie Rangel and Tim Geithner. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>7) What about the legal lottery system? Unnecessary lawsuits cause doctor’s mal-practice insurance to be an exorbitant expense. In some cases physicians pay $200,000 per year for this coverage. If you divide this figure in the 2080 hours for a normal work year, this expense is $96.15 per hour. If the physician sees 4 patients in an hour the per patient cost is $24.04. This expense is passed to the insurance companies and from them to the person or business that contracts for this insurance. This does not include the cost of defensive medicine the physicians are forced to perform. If you are serious about making health insurance more affordable and more available to all stop feeding the parasitic trial lawyers in this legal lottery system. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>8)</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Where in the constitution is the Federal Government authorized in Article 1, Section 8 to impose compulsory health insurance? The simple answer; The Federal Government does not have the constitutional authority. Thereby this legislation is un-constitutional.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Choose liberty. We are endowed by our creator with unalienable rights. These powers are not assigned to a ruling class (you) to be meted out to the governed masses (us).</span></font></p> <p style='line-height:160%'><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:160%;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'> “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” </span></font></i></p> <p style='line-height:160%'><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:160%;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'> “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security”. </span></font></i></p> <p style='line-height:160%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:160%;font-family:Arial'>Choose wisely. Choose liberty. Choose the blessings of liberty. NO to Government Health Care, NO to Cooperatives, NO compromise, NO kidding.</span></font></p> <p style='line-height:160%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:160%;font-family:Arial'>Remember you swore an oath on the bible before God to Uphold and Protect the Constitution of the </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>United States</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>. You did not swear an oath to an individual, a party or an ideology. You work for us; we do not work for you!!! </span></font></p> <p style='line-height:160%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:160%;font-family:Arial'>Respectfully,</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-70040205191675644722009-09-01T12:18:00.000-07:002009-09-01T12:16:53.026-07:00President Obama's Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=5 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'>Take your kids out of school for the day in protest!</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=5 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>This is an insult and an outrage!!! They are attempting to corrupt your children.</span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009">http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama’s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-23293144833630248832009-09-01T07:25:00.000-07:002009-09-01T07:23:39.392-07:00The Government Can<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Good Video – Pass it on!!!</span></font></b></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-24800885756567142592009-08-31T09:16:00.000-07:002009-08-31T09:14:19.828-07:00Czar<div class=Section1> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Originally, the title <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Czar</span></i> (derived from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)" title="Caesar (title)">Caesar</a>) meant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor" title=Emperor>Emperor</a> in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman</a> <b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red; font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>emperor,</span></font></i></b> with the approval of another <b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight: bold;font-style:italic'>emperor </span></font></i></b>or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope" title=Pope>Pope</a> or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarch" title="Ecumenical Patriarch">Ecumenical Patriarch</a>).</span></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Could the Ecumenical Patriarch be “The One”?</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>DID WE KICK OUT THE KING OF </span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>ENGLAND</span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> SO WE COULD ADOPT CZAR’S???</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>STIMULATED YET???</span></font></i></b></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-18532522933023738332009-08-31T08:58:00.000-07:002009-08-31T08:57:04.757-07:00Fascism<div class=Section1> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>pronounced </span></font><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><span class=ipa1><font face="Arial Unicode MS"><span lang=EN><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English"><span class=Hyperlink1><font color=blue>/</font></span><span class=Hyperlink1><font color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>ˈfæ</span></font></span><span class=Hyperlink1><font color=blue face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>ʃɪ</span></font></span><span class=Hyperlink1><font color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>zÉ™m/</span></font></span></a></span></span></font></span><span lang=EN>, comprises a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_radicalism" title="Political radicalism">radical</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism" title=Authoritarianism>authoritarian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism" title=Nationalism>nationalist</a> political ideology<sup id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-0#cite_note-0">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-1#cite_note-1">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-2#cite_note-2">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-3#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup> and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism" title=Corporatism>corporatist</a> economic ideology. <sup id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-4#cite_note-4">[5]</a></sup> Fascists believe that nations and/or races are in perpetual conflict whereby only the strong can survive by being healthy, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism" title=Vitalism>vital</a>, and by asserting themselves in conflict against the weak.<sup id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-5#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup> Fascists advocate the creation of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-party_state" title="Single-party state">single-party state</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-6#cite_note-6">[7]</a></sup> Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement.<sup id="cite_ref-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-7#cite_note-7">[8]</a></sup> Fascism opposes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">class conflict</a>, blames capitalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy" title="Liberal democracy">liberal democracies</a> for its creation and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism" title=Communism>communists</a> for exploiting the concept.<sup id="cite_ref-books.google.com_8-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-books.google.com-8#cite_note-books.google.com-8">[9]</a></sup> In the economic sphere, many fascist leaders have claimed to support a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way" title="Third Way">Third Way</a>" in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism" title=Individualism>individualism</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire" title=Laissez-faire>unrestrained capitalism</a> and the severe control of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_communism" title="State communism">state communism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-9#cite_note-9">[10]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-10#cite_note-10">[11]</a></sup> This was to be achieved by establishing significant government control over business and labour (Mussolini called his nation's system "the corporate state").<sup id="cite_ref-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-11#cite_note-11">[12]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-12#cite_note-12">[13]</a></sup> </span></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism</a></span></font></p> <p><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>SOUNDS FAMILIAR???</span></font></i></b></p> <p><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>STIMULATED YET???</span></font></i></b></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-43877430305593718922009-08-31T06:39:00.000-07:002009-08-31T06:37:31.112-07:00Blood Money<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Watch the trailer & sign up in support.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><a href="http://bloodmoneyfilm.com/">http://bloodmoneyfilm.com/</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-9019721689816090692009-08-26T09:11:00.000-07:002009-08-26T09:10:06.496-07:00The Great Escape<div class=Section1> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>By Thomas Sowell </span></font></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=100 style='width:75.0pt'> <tr> <td width=10 nowrap style='width:7.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height=15 style='height:11.25pt'> <td nowrap colspan=2 height=15 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:11.25pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><!-- printer --> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p><!-- attribution --><b><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#3366FF;font-weight:bold'>http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |</span></font></b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> 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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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." </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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." </span></font></p> <p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'><br> 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." </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-42988869858788259132009-08-26T08:38:00.000-07:002009-08-26T08:36:13.203-07:00BREAKING NEWS!!!<div class=Section1> <p class=NormalWeb9><font size=1 color="#444e5c" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#444E5C'>Ted Kennedy is still dead!!! </span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb9><font size=1 color="#444e5c" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#444E5C'>To be preserved in a pickled state. </span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb9><font size=1 color="#444e5c" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#444E5C'>Kennedy family is at a loss to find enough gin, tonic and olives and a great big fat jar to shake.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-44001631688372903642009-08-26T07:30:00.000-07:002009-08-26T07:28:59.142-07:00Moments in the life of "Our Teddy"<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ted+kennedy+obama+osama&www_google_domain=www.google.com&hl=en&emb=0&aq=0&oq=ted+kennedy+OBAMA">http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ted+kennedy+obama+osama&www_google_domain=www.google.com&hl=en&emb=0&aq=0&oq=ted+kennedy+OBAMA#</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hdhLG0g6A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hdhLG0g6A</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4OtiZpAYFY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4OtiZpAYFY</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8j3lsArmrE&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8j3lsArmrE&feature=related</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-47791635062194604032009-08-20T07:37:00.000-07:002009-08-20T07:36:10.531-07:00DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE THE POWER TO ENFORCE "NATIONAL HEALTH CARE" ON US?<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE THE POWER TO ENFORCE “NATIONAL HEALTH CARE” ON US?</span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>THE ANSWER IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE THIS RIGHT. </span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>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 </span></font></b><b><font color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight: bold'>LIBERTY</span></font></b><b><font color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'> IN THE PROCESS!!!</span></font></b></p> <p><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Arial'>Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution lists the powers as:</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style: italic'>Section 8:</span></font></i></b><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'> The Congress shall have power</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial;font-style:italic'>To <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxing_and_Spending_Clause" title="Taxing and Spending Clause">lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare</a> of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial;font-style:italic'>To <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt" title="United States public debt">borrow money on the credit of the United States</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial;font-style:italic'>To <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause" title="Commerce Clause">regulate commerce with foreign nations</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormant_Commerce_Clause" title="Dormant Commerce Clause">among the several states, and with the Indian tribes</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>4)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial;font-style:italic'>To establish a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law" title="United States nationality law">uniform rule of naturalization</a>, and uniform laws on the subject of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_in_the_United_States" title="Bankruptcy in the United States">bankruptcies</a> throughout the United States;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>5)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial;font-style:italic'>To <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint" title="United States Mint">coin money</a>, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology" title="National Institute of Standards and Technology">standard of weights and measures</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>6)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial;font-style:italic'>To provide for the punishment of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeiting" title=Counterfeiting>counterfeiting</a> the securities and current coin of the United States;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>7)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial;font-style:italic'>To establish <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service" title="United States Postal Service">post offices</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_roads" title="Post roads">post roads</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>8)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial;font-style:italic'>To <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause" title="Copyright Clause">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</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>9)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial;font-style:italic'>To constitute <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_I_tribunals" title="Article I tribunals">tribunals inferior</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>10)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>To define and punish <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy" title=Piracy>piracies</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony" title=Felony>felonies</a> committed on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_waters" title="International waters">high seas</a>, and offenses against the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_international_law" title="Public international law">law of nations</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>11)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>To <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war" title="Declaration of war">declare war</a>, grant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque" title="Letter of marque">letters of marque and reprisal</a>, and make <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_court" title="Prize court">rules concerning captures on land and water</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>12)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>To raise and support <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">armies</a>, but no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation_bill" title="Appropriation bill">appropriation</a> of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>13)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>To provide and maintain a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">navy</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>14)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>To make rules for the government and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Justice" title="Uniform Code of Military Justice">regulation of the land and naval forces</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family: Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>15)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>To provide for calling forth <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_the_United_States" title="National Guard of the United States">the militia</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act" title="Insurrection Act">execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions</a>;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>16)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>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;</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>17)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>To exercise <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_home_rule" title="District of Columbia home rule">exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever</a>, over such <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_district" title="Federal district">District</a> (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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort" title=Fort>forts</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine_(artillery)" title="Magazine (artillery)">magazines</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal" title=Arsenal>arsenals</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipyard" title=Shipyard>dockyards</a>, and other needful buildings;—And</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>18)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>To make all laws which shall be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_and_Proper_Clause" title="Necessary and Proper Clause">necessary and proper</a> 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.</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-57544663914426250252009-08-19T09:50:00.000-07:002009-08-19T09:48:50.725-07:00Obama to rally grass roots backers on health care<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=articledatetime1><b><font size=1 color="#555555" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Aug 18 </span></font></b></span><span class=articledatetime1><b><font size=1 color="#555555" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>07:20 PM</span></font></b></span><span class=articledatetime1><b><font size=1 color="#555555" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'> US/Eastern</span></font></b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=articledatetime1><b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> </span></font></b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=articledatetime1><b><font size=1 color="#555555" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1bfe7d88cc04be0c6b8b82ca22888343.df1&show_article=1"><span style='font-weight:normal'>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1bfe7d88cc04be0c6b8b82ca22888343.df1&show_article=1</span></a></span></font></b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=articledatetime1><b><font size=1 color="#555555" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=lingoregion><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>President Barack Obama will Thursday hold a live online and telephone strategy meeting to rally devoted grass roots backers </span></font></span><span class=lingoregion><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>(BROWN SHIRTS)</span></font></i></b></span><span class=lingoregion><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> as a backlash over his health reform plan spreads to liberal media commentators. </span></font></span></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://topics.breitbart.com/David+Plouffe/" style='cursor:pointer' rel=nofollow _old_href="http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.breitbart.com%2FDavid%2BPlouffe%2F">David Plouffe,</a> who ran Obama's triumphant 2008 election campaign, and now steers the Organizing for America </span></font><span class=lingoregion><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>(BROWN SHIRTS)</span></font></i></b></span><span class=lingoregion><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></span><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'>supporter network, said Obama wanted to lay out his strategy and message, as controversy stalks his major reform plan. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>"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, </span></font><span class=lingoregion><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'>(BROWN SHIRTS)</span></font></i></b></span><span class=lingoregion><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></span><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'> soliciting questions for the president. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>Obama mobilized the greatest army of grass roots activists </span></font><span class=lingoregion><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red; font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>(BROWN SHIRTS)</span></font></i></b></span><span class=lingoregion><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></span><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'>in </span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>US</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'> history during his capture of the Democratic nomination and the presidency last year. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>But so far, it is not clear if those legions of supporters </span></font><span class=lingoregion><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red; font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>(BROWN SHIRTS)</span></font></i></b></span><span class=lingoregion><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></span><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'>are prepared to turn out in their millions to help him push key legislation through <a href="http://topics.breitbart.com/Congress/" style='cursor:pointer' rel=nofollow _old_href="http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.breitbart.com%2FCongress%2F">Congress.</a> </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://topics.breitbart.com/White+House/" style='cursor:pointer' rel=nofollow _old_href="http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.breitbart.com%2FWhite%2BHouse%2F"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>White House</span></font></a> 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 <a href="http://topics.breitbart.com/health+care/" style='cursor:pointer' rel=nofollow _old_href="http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.breitbart.com%2Fhealth%2Bcare%2F"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>health care</span></font></a> and to widen access. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>A flurry of media accounts on Sunday interpreted remarks by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and <a href="http://topics.breitbart.com/Health+and+Human+Services+Secretary+Kathleen+Sebelius/" style='cursor:pointer' rel=nofollow _old_href="http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.breitbart.com%2FHealth%2Band%2BHuman%2BServices%2BSecretary%2BKathleen%2BSebelius%2F">Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius</a> as stepping back from the "public option." </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>"As I've said, now, yesterday and earlier today, the administration's position is unchanged," said Gibbs on Monday. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>"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." </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>The administration argues that having a federal component is still a key part of the <a href="http://topics.breitbart.com/health+care+plan/" style='cursor:pointer' rel=nofollow _old_href="http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.breitbart.com%2Fhealth%2Bcare%2Bplan%2F">health care plan,</a> but says Obama is open to any option that will foster choice and competition in the health care market. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>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 </span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Montana</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'> and </span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Colorado</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'> at the weekend. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>"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. </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'>Eugene Robinson, of the Washington Post, added that "giving up the public option would send many of Obama's progressive supporters </span></font><span class=lingoregion><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red; font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>(BROWN SHIRTS)</span></font></i></b></span><span class=lingoregion><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></span><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'>into apoplexy, yet the administration has sent clear signals that this is the path of less resistance it's prepared to take." </span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black'><br> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 11.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-91236454880192843612009-08-19T09:23:00.000-07:002009-08-19T09:21:19.546-07:00Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver due to government under funding, leaked paper<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span class=name2><b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.5pt'>By Darah Hansen, </span></font></b></span><span class=name2><b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size: 8.5pt'>Vancouver</span></font></b></span><span class=name2><b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.5pt'> Sun</span></font></b></span><span class=timestamp2><font size=1 color="#999999" face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.5pt'>August 18, 2009</span></font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>VANCOUVER</span></font> — Vancouver <b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>patients needing neurosurgery</span></font></i></b>, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures <b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>can expect to wait longer</span></font></i></b> for care, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said Monday.</p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Dix said a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority document shows it is considering </span></font><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>chopping more than 6,000 surgeries</span></font></i></b> <b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red; font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>in an effort to make up for a dramatic budgetary shortfall that could reach $200 million. (CAN’T HAPPEN HERE??? – THINK TWICE!!!)</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>“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.”</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>The health authority confirmed the document is genuine, but said it represents ideas only.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>“It is a planning document. It has not been approved or implemented,” said spokeswoman Anna Marie D’Angelo.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style: italic'>Dr. Brian Brodie, president of the BC Medical Association, called the proposed surgical cuts “a nightmare.”</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style: italic'>“Why would you begin your cost-cutting measures on medically necessary surgery? I just can’t think of a worse place,” Brodie said.</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>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.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>The plan proposes cutbacks to neurosurgery, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, and 11 other specialized areas.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>As many of 112 full-time jobs — including 13 anesthesiologist positions — would be affected by the reductions, the document says.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style: italic'>“Clearly this will impact the capacity of the health-care system to provide care, not just now but in the future,” Dix said.</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Further reductions in surgeries are scheduled during the Olympics, when the health authority plans to close approximately a third of its operating rooms.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>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.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>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.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>In all, Fraser Health is looking at a $160-million funding shortfall.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>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.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Vancouver Coastal performed 67,000 surgeries last year, an increase of 6,500 surgeries over 2007.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>“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.”</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Brodie acknowledged surgical waiting times have dropped significantly in recent years, particularly for patients needing hip and joint replacements.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>He said the proposed cuts threaten those advancements.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><b><i><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style: italic'>“It sounds like we are going backwards here,” he said.</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Total health spending in </span></font>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.</p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>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.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Elsewhere in </span></font>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.</p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Ramsden has said his decision to retire is not related to financial problems faced by the authority.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb6 style='background:white'><i><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-style:italic'>dahansen@vancouversun.com</span></font></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>© Copyright (c) The </span></font><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Vancouver</span></font><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'> Sun</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size: 6.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size: 6.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=5 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'>ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO HEALTH CARE RATIONING? RATIONING MEANS UNNECESSARY PAIN AND SUFFERING… FOR YOU!!!</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=5 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=5 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'>STIMILATED YET?</span></font></i></b></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-11892988624708781522009-07-30T09:16:00.000-07:002009-07-30T09:14:45.844-07:00May-June Joblessness Up In 90 Percent Of Metro Areas<div class=Section1> <div align=center> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in'> <tr> <td width="99%" colspan=2 style='width:99.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=5 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>WASHINGTON (AP) - Labor Department data show that more than 90<br> percent of the nation's largest metropolitan areas saw their<br> unemployment rates climb in June, compared to the previous month.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>An Associated Press analysis finds unemployment rates rose in<br> 348 of more than 370 metro areas from May to June.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The Labor Department says that's the sixth month in a row the<br> largest cities saw their jobless rates rise.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Some of the biggest increases hit college towns, where the<br> summertime exodus of students causes bars, restaurants and other<br> businesses to cut staff.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>And then there's the </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Detroit</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> area, which was hit hard by<br> manufacturing layoffs tied to the beleaguered auto industry.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The overall </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>U.S.</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> unemployment rate reached 9.5 percent in June.<br> It's expected to hit 9.7 percent when the July numbers are released<br> next week.</span></font></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br> <i><span style='font-style:italic'>A.P.</span></i><br> <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Copyright: AP <br> Thur Jul 30, </span></i></span></font><i><font color=black><span style='color:black;font-style:italic'>7:57:25 AM EST</span></font></i><i><font color=black><span style='color:black;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>AREN’T THE MERTOPOLITAN AREAS RUN BY DEMOCRATS???</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN STORE FOR US???</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>STIMULATED YET??</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="http://apnews.fimc.net/showarticlewptf.asp?id=827352&url=www.wptf.com&site=wptfam&catg=Triangle&headlines=1&show=10&w=400">http://apnews.fimc.net/showarticlewptf.asp?id=827352&url=www.wptf.com&site=wptfam&catg=Triangle&headlines=1&show=10&w=400</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-19474855616514017022009-07-14T04:42:00.000-07:002009-07-14T04:40:38.565-07:00Obama snubbed in Moscow (video)<div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1C_NWMRs8Q&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eamericanthinker%2Ecom%2Fblog%2F2009%2F07%2Fobama%5Fsnubbed%5Fin%5Fmoscow%5Fvideo%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1C_NWMRs8Q&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eamericanthinker%2Ecom%2Fblog%2F2009%2F07%2Fobama%5Fsnubbed%5Fin%5Fmoscow%5Fvideo%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded</a></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=2 color=red face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:red;font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'>THIS IS PROCELESS!!!!</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=2 color=red face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:red;font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=2 color=red face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:red;font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'>STIMULATED YET???</span></font></i></b></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5063716683639451715.post-45560212612570181362009-07-13T07:05:00.000-07:002009-07-13T07:04:00.129-07:00Swiss tax rules lure McDonald's from UK<div class=Section1> <p class=NormalWeb29 style='background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4534cacc-6f18-11de-9109-00144feabdc0.html">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4534cacc-6f18-11de-9109-00144feabdc0.html</a></span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb29 style='background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb29 style='background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>By Philip Stafford in London </span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb29 style='background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Published: July 12 2009 20:41 | Last updated: July 12 2009 23:05</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:MCD">McDonald’s</a></span></font></b><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'> is to leave London for Geneva, joining the growing ranks of US companies moving their European headquarters to take advantage of preferential intellectual property tax laws.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The fast-food group, which will open its head office in the Swiss city in the autumn, said the move had been almost a year in the planning.</span></font></p> <h3 style='background:white;vertical-align:top'><b><font size=4 color="#213c89" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#213C89'>EDITOR’S CHOICE</span></font></b></h3> <p class=Heading458 style='background:white;vertical-align:top'><b><font size=3 color="#213c89" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#213C89'><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f0f05d54-6f2c-11de-9109-00144feabdc0.html">Morgan Stanley unveils $250m securitisation</a></span></font></b><span class=pub-date3><font size=4 color="#213c89" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#213C89'> - Jul-13</span></font></span></p> <p class=Heading458 style='background:white;vertical-align:top'><b><font size=3 color="#213c89" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#213C89'><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ed35f7aa-6f2c-11de-9109-00144feabdc0.html">Intellectual property trade stirs up interest</a></span></font></b><span class=pub-date3><font size=4 color="#213c89" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#213C89'> - Jul-13</span></font></span></p> <p class=Heading458 style='background:white;vertical-align:top'><b><font size=3 color="#213c89" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#213C89'><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1c9d27c-54ff-11de-b5d4-00144feabdc0.html">Indonesian franchisee to sue McDonald’s</a></span></font></b><span class=pub-date3><font size=4 color="#213c89" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#213C89'> - Jun-09</span></font></span></p> <p class=Heading458 style='background:white;vertical-align:top'><b><font size=3 color="#213c89" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#213C89'><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/971a8eac-5452-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html">McDonald’s benefits from budget-conscious climate</a></span></font></b><span class=pub-date3><font size=4 color="#213c89" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#213C89'> - Jun-08</span></font></span></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Swiss tax regime, particularly for intellectual property, has become increasingly attractive for foreign companies, particularly the regional European headquarters of US multinationals. </span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:KFT" symbol="us:KFT">Kraft</a></span></font></b><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'>, <b><span style='font-weight: bold'><a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:PG" symbol="us:PG">Procter & Gamble</a></span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight: bold'><a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:GOOG" symbol="us:GOOG">Google</a></span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:ERTS" symbol="us:ERTS">Electronic Arts</a></span></b> and <b><span style='font-weight: bold'><a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:YHOO" symbol="us:YHOO">Yahoo</a></span></b> have switched from the UK to Switzerland in recent years, while <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=uk:INF" symbol="uk:INF">Informa</a></span></b>, the UK publisher, is <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a40e25c6-3678-11de-af40-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html" target="_blank"><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.0pt;background:white'>changing its tax domicile</span></font></a> to the country.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>McDonald’s said its decision was not prompted by changes in the UK taxation of foreign profits from intellectual property rights made by Alastair Darling, the finance minister, this year. However, the company said the move “enables us to conduct the strategic management of key international intellectual property rights, including the licensing of those rights to our franchisees in Europe, from Switzerland”.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>McDonald’s has spread much of its operations around six or seven cities in Europe, but its headquarters has long been in London, where it opened its first outlet in <a href="http://www.mcspotlight.org/company/company_history.html" target="_blank"><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.0pt;background:white'>1974</span></font></a>.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The growing success of Switzerland, Luxembourg and Ireland at attracting multinationals is <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/44eed9e4-3684-11de-af40-00144feabdc0.html" target="_blank"><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.0pt;background:white'>causing disquiet</span></font></a> in European centres such as London, although the Swiss lifestyle and efficient transport have also been cited as contributing factors behind corporate decisions.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Under the UK tax rules that came into force at the start of the month, McDonald’s would be paying tax on foreign profits relating to intellectual property twice over.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The group, which said its UK business would remain unaffected, also said it expected its overall British annual tax rate to remain unchanged at about 30 per cent.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Several senior members of McDonald’s Europe’s management team will relocate to Geneva, including including Denis Hennequin, president of McDonald’s operations in Europe.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The issue of companies moving their main centre of operations outside the UK has dogged the UK Treasury.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mr Darling last year <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4e2e3dfe-56bc-11dd-8686-000077b07658.html" target="_blank"><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.0pt;background:white'>bowing to pressure</span></font></a> and scrapped reforms to the taxation of foreign profits that threatened to provoke an exodus of companies from the UK.</span></font></p> <p class=NormalWeb30 style='background:white'><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Since the start of 2008, WPP, Shire, Regus, Henderson, Charter, Beazley, Brit Insurance and UBM have all announced that they are moving their tax base out of the UK.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>MAKES YOU WONDER HOW MUCH INVESTMENT WE WOULD SEE HERE IN THE </span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>USA</span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> IF WE DID NOT HAVE THE 2<sup>ND</sup> HIGHEST COPRORATE TAX RATE IN THE WORLD!!!</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>MAYBE WE WOULD HAVE JOBS RATHER THAN BE FORCED TO BECOME WARDS OF THE </span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>NANNY</span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>STATE</span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>…</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>THE POLITICO’S IN </span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>WASHINGTON</span></font></i></b><b><i><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> WILL HAVE NONE OF THIS… MORE TAXES… MORE REGULATION… MORE GOVERNMENT… LESS JOBS… LESS FREE ENTERPRISE… LESS FREEDOM…</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>STIMULATED YET???</span></font></i></b></p> </div> BOIL-LANCERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18039697278478129342noreply@blogger.com0