On line 17, p. 110, section 222 under “Abortions for which Public Funding is Allowed” the Health and Human Services Secretary is given the authority to determine when abortion is allowed under the government-run plan. The Speaker’s plan also requires that at least one insurance plan offered in the Exchange covers abortions.
What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan. It’s right there on line 16, page 96, section 213, under “Insurance Rating Rules.” The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account - and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services.
Section 213 describes the process in which the Health Benefits Commissioner is to assess the monthly premiums that will be used to pay for elective abortions under the government-run plan. The Commissioner must charge at a minimum $1 per enrollee per month.
A student with an “Obama” haircut at Wright Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin, listens to President Barack Obama speak as he visits the area, November 4, 2009.
White Feather speaks
OBAMA:
...a couple of summers ago… I was adopted into the nation by a wonderful couple, Hartford and Mary Black Eagle. ... Only in America could the adopted son of Crow Indians grow up to be the president of the United States.
[emph mine - e~C]...
We know the history that we share. It’s a history marked by violence and disease and deprivation. Treaties were violated. Promises were broken. You were told your lands, your religion, your cultures, your languages were not yours to keep.
...Some of your reservations face unemployment rates of up to 80 percent. Roughly a quarter of all Native Americans live in poverty. More than 14 percent of all reservation homes don’t have electricity. And 12 percent don’t have access to a safe water supply.
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[flings fresh-printed dollars]
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OBAMA: This is harder than it looks.
11/05 at 08:54 AM •
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Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday approved a sweeping climate change bill without any Republicans present.
Republicans had boycotted the committee’s work on the bill, insisting on a cost analysis of the proposal by the EPA.
[Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)] “I am deeply disappointed by Chairman Boxer’s decision to violate the rules and longstanding precedent of the committee. The Republicans offered a clear path forward to a bipartisan markup, but it was summarily rejected by Chairman Boxer. Instead, she decided to ignore the entreaties of all 6 ranking members from Senate committees with some share of jurisdiction over climate change legislation, as well as leading moderates in the Senate. Her action signals the death knell for the Kerry Boxer bill.”
-- Rare July snowstorm disrupts track-and-field events at Chicago Olympics; police round up global-warming deniers
-- Pennsylvania court faces hate-crime quandary: Muslim immigrant murdered gay-rights activist who opposed construction of mosque
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When asked by CNSNews.com what specific part of the Constitution authorizes Congress to mandate that individuals must purchase health insurance, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) pointed to the part of the Constitution that he says authorizes the federal government “to provide for the health, welfare and the defense of the country.” In fact, the word “health” appears nowhere in the Constitution.
“Well, that’s under certainly the laws of the--protect the health, welfare of the country,” said Burris. “That’s under the Constitution. We’re not even dealing with any constitutionality here. Should we move in that direction? What does the Constitution say? To provide for the health, welfare and the defense of the country.”
That’s not the constitution I knew.
YMMV
Dr. Arnold Klein, who was Jacko’s friend and doctor for years, claims the singer thought it was ‘funny’ to wee in cups in front of an audience.
...there were numerous times when Jackson would pee in the doctor’s home in a cup around groups of people, including children. Klein says Jackson would also pee in front of other people in his office.
11/05 at 08:25 AM •
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Yesterday Glenn Beck left the air abruptly citing he was feeling poorly. Turns out he has appendicitis. Conspiratorialists believe the White House got to the Conservative talk show host. Beck who devotes four hours a day on both radio and Fox New to spreading sunshine on the White House and its Mao/Marist administration.
[GBeck’s Twitter] “I just realized my tonsils are missing. ...”
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. – Vice President Joseph R. Biden rolled through this rural military town on Monday, becoming the latest political heavyweight to weigh in…
...Mr. Biden’s appearance. ...
Some dumb irrelevant snowbilly chick’s FaceBook page.
Not bad for a dumb irrelevant snowbilly chick with a FaceBook page and a third party candidate… and she didn’t even have to leave the pool.
An authentic section of the Berlin Wall, donated in April 1990 by the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group to President Reagan for his unwavering dedication to humanitarianism and freedom over communism throughout his presidency. This segment measures 3.5 feet by 10 feet, and weighs approximately 6,000 pounds.
The concrete wall that divided the city of Berlin for 28 years is suddenly splitting a segment of Los Angeles’ art community just as the 20th anniversary of the wall’s falling nears.
The trouble began earlier this month when the Wende Museum installed several segments of the original Berlin Wall on Wilshire Boulevard.
Kent Twitchell, whose larger-than-life paintings cover entire walls and sides of freeways, said he planned to “bookend” two sections of the wall with portraits of President John F. Kennedy, who denounced the barrier in a Berlin speech in 1961, and President Ronald Reagan, who famously demanded, “Tear down this wall!” shortly before it came down in 1989.
But as he rushed to finish the portraits, Twitchell said he was told by organizers that he could leave one of the paintings in his studio: There was no room for both.
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Twitchell complained that once the project’s organizers ran out of room they indicated they wanted him to show up with Kennedy, not Reagan, when he mounts his work on the 10-foot-high wall across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Saturday…
Declaring there should be “no excuse for mediocrity” in public schools, President Obama on Wednesday pledged to push for recruitment of better teachers, better pay for those who succeed and dismissal of those who let their students down.
When principals are trying to determine which teachers are doing well, he said, they should be able to consider student performance as part of the evaluation.
For instance, whether the little darlings can all carry a tune and stay on key.
Obama will fuck over India soon…
Here are some Repub jackasses who need things ‘splained to ‘em.
NASHVILLE - Supporters of blocking public access to the names and addresses of Tennesseans with handgun carry permits appear to have a hard time keeping their hands off the records. Records obtained and reviewed by The Associated Press show that copies of the state’s database of more than 257,000 handgun permit holders were recently requested by the state Republican Party and a direct mail contractor that has done extensive work for the GOP’s legislative caucus.
Asked about those requests Monday, House Republican Caucus chairman Glen Casada said he opposes using the database for political purposes such as fundraising or get-out-the-vote efforts. “I know they’re going to use it for campaigns, but there’s people that would use it to break into homes and steal guns,” said Casada of Franklin. “And I just wish we could keep personal information like that private.”
The latest effort to close the records came after The Commercial Appeal posted the full database on its Web site last year. No Republican opposed closing the records to the public last session. The bill - which would have closed the records for all uses, including campaign purposes - failed to pass by just one vote in June. State Republican Party chairman Chris Devaney said the party doesn’t take a position on whether the records should be open. ...
Time to find out what’s bein’ done locally.
Oh, yeah, good gun-law stuff’s goin’ on today in Canadia, too.
A powerful subcommittee chairman working on financial regulations didn’t appreciate Rahm Emanuel’s role in trying to change his bill — and he pointedly reminded members of his panel that President Barack Obama’s chief of staff isn’t in the House anymore.
Rep. Paul Kanjorski sounded annoyed when freshman New Jersey Democrat John Adler invoked Emanuel’s name while pushing a controversial amendment to Kanjorski’s investor protection bill.
“What seat does he occupy here?” Kanjorski demanded about freshman Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.), pointing around the half-empty Financial Services Committee room.Kanjorski is chairman of the capital markets subcommittee, and he didn’t like the idea that the president’s chief of staff was a guiding hand on an amendment Kanjorski didn’t like.
“I’m just letting you know that other people … support this position,” Adler replied. He said he met with Emanuel three times to discuss the amendment.
A section of Highway 529 between Everett and Marysville is being designated as a Yellow Ribbon Highway to honor military personnel.
A dedication ceremony is scheduled at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Inn at Port Gardner in Everett with military and Transportation Department officials and local leaders.
The Transportation Commission approved a resolution in July to place Yellow Ribbon Highway signs along an eight-mile stretch of the highway. The resolution was proposed by Everett resident Nathan Olson to honor his older brother.
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on Wednesday suggested that controversial groups such as ACORN and Planned Parenthood could play a role in enrolling individuals in the national health insurance exchange.
Vitter pointed to language in the House’s version of healthcare reform legislation that allows for “appropriate entities” to assist with outreach efforts to “inform and educate individuals and employers about the Health Insurance Exchange and Exchange-participating health benefits plan options.”
Though the language mentions no organizations specifically, Vitter surmises that organizations opposed by conservatives could participate.
“ACORN and Planned Parenthood in health care bill? Nothing says they can’t be. Pg 183 lets ‘appropriate entities’ help in ‘outreach,’” Vitter said on his campaign Twitter feed.
Seems as though the hymns of praise to the Dear Leader thing has gotten out of hand.
I’m afraid to ask about the “Pledge of Allegiance” in these classrooms.
So, I’ve created my own fun little ditty for kids to sing in class (BTF).
Perhaps you have one you’d like to contribute.
oh for christ’s sake. marriage is a civil and human right. keep your religion out of it.
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Pigs not welcome at the Capitol
U.S. Capitol Police have rejected PETA’s plan to bring live pigs to the Capitol because of swine flu fears.
In an Oct. 23 letter to the animal-rights group obtained by The Hill, Capitol Police cited a recommendation from the D.C. Health Department and said it was rejecting PETA’s request “due to significant health concerns about the possible spread of the H1N1 virus.”
The letter also cited “nuisance concerns” with the plan by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to bring a group of pigs and gallons of swine urine and tons of manure to Capitol Hill.
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PETA said it wanted to use giant fans to spread the smells from the animals and their waste across Capitol Hill as a way to draw attention to swine flu and the mistreatment of the animals.
Bill “Bix” Bischel, S.J., 81, of Tacoma, Washington; Susan Crane, 65, of Baltimore MD; Lynne Greenwald, 60, of Bremerton Washington; Steve Kelly, S.J., 60, of Oakland, CA.; Anne Montgomery RSCJ, 83, of New York, New York, were arrested on Naval Base Kitsap- Bangor. They entered the Base in the early morning hours of November 2, 2009, All Souls Day, with the intention calling attention to the illegality and immorality of the existence of the Trident weapons system. They entered thru the perimeter fence, made their way to the Strategic Weapons Facility – Pacific ( SWFPAC) where they were able to cut thru the first chainlink fence surrounding SWF-PAC, walked to and cut the next double layered fence, which was both chain link and barbed wire, onto the grounds of SWFPAC. As they walked onto the grounds, they held a banner saying…… “Disarm Now Plowshares : Trident: Illegal + Immoral”, left a trail of blood and hammered on the roadway (Trigger Ave and Sturgeon) that are essential to the working of the Trident weapons system, hammered on the fences around SWFPAC and scattered sunflower seeds throughout the base. They were then thrown to the ground face down, handcuffed and hooded and held there for 4 hours on the wet cold ground. They were taken, hooded and carried out thru the very holes in the fence that they had made, for questioning by Base security, FBI and NCIS. They refused to give any information except their names, and were cited as of now, for trespass and destruction of government property, given a ban and bar letter and released.
In a joint statement, the group stated that “The manufacture and deployment of Trident II missiles, weapons of mass destruction, is immoral and criminal under International Law and, therefore, under United States law. As U.S. citizens we are responsible under the Nuremberg Principles for this threat of first-strike terrorism hanging over the community of nations, rich and poor. Moreover, such planning, preparation, and deployment is a blasphemy against the Creator of life, imaged in each human being. “
There have been approximately 100 Plowshares Nuclear Resistance Actions worldwide since 1980. Plowshares actions are taken from Isaiah 2:4 in Old Testament (Hebrew) scripture of the Christian Bible, “God will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many people. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. And nations will not take up swords against nations, nor will they train for war anymore.”
The Trident submarine base at Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, is home to the largest single stockpile of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal, housing more than 2000 nuclear warheads. In November 2006, the Natural Resources Defense Council declared that the 2,364 nuclear warheads at Bangor are approximately 24 percent of the entire U.S. arsenal. The Bangor base houses more nuclear warheads than China, France, Israel, India, North Korea and Pakistan combined.
The base has been rebuilt for the deployment of the larger and more accurate Trident D-5 missile system. Each of the 24 D-5 missiles on a Trident submarine is capable of carrying eight of the larger 455 kiloton W-88 warheads (each warhead is about 30 times the explosive force as the Hiroshima bomb.) The D-5 missile can also be armed with the 100 kiloton W-76 warhead. The Trident fleet at Bangor deploys both the 455 kiloton W-88 warhead and the 100 kiloton W-76 warhead.
Are you fucking kidding me????????????????????????????????
Are you FUCKING kidding me???????????????????????
Maine voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in New England, the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage.
Gay marriage has now lost in every single state — 31 in all — in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine — known for its moderate, independent-minded electorate — and mounted an energetic, well-financed campaign.
With 87 percent of the precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes had 53 percent of the votes.
“Maine must have HUGE Mormon population”...
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A Bay Area agency slated to receive Federal Recovery Act dollars has been deemed high risk and may owe the State over half a million dollars in unacceptable expenditures.
“The State’s Department of Community Services Department (CSD), as well as the County and City of San Francisco, have done an exemplary job in identifying serious problems with the Economic Opportunity Council of San Francisco (EOCSF),” said California Inspector General Laura Chick who was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to oversee the spending of the state’s stimulus funds.
The Economic Opportunity Council was due to receive $159,000 is stimulus dollars to perform weatherization projects in the community.
“The CSD has deemed the EOCSF high risk and has taken immediate action to stop the impending transfer of stimulus dollars,” continued Chick. “However, this issue now rests with the Federal Government to determine if the State is required to not only continue to fund this agency, but also to give it Recovery dollars. As we saw on Wall Street, there needs to be a line in the sand when it comes to inappropriately spending taxpayer dollars.”
In designating the EOCSF high risk, the CSD found the following areas of concern:
-- As much as $542,478.47 in disallowed expenditures including co-mingling funds, board of directors retreats at a luxury casino, coffee services, drinking water and flowers
-- Financial management deficiencies with no feasible plan to bring the agency into compliance
-- Ability to complete weatherization work is in doubt
“President Obama and Governor Schwarzenegger have made it clear that the Recovery Act dollars must be maximized for the public benefit and be spent wisely and well. Funding an agency that time and again has been unable to bring itself out of problematic conditions is not in line with this mandate from the President and Governor,” said Chick.
I must admit that, knowing our city’s track record for electing do-nothing politicians, I initially had my doubts about Laura Chick‘s capabilities as L.A. City Controller.
However, when it comes to exposing waste and fraud, installing Chick as our new state Inspector General was one of the best decisions Schwarzenegger ever made.
Laura Chick is proof that not all Democrats are hard party-liners and bleeding-heart socialists.
In years to come Historians will make note of the fact that National ‘Democracy’ took its last breath on 3rd November 2009 in the UK and Europe.
