You actually can’t choose anything for your children without dis-empowering them.
“Parents can’t choose the mates of their children or the behavior of their children. You actually can’t choose anything for your children without dis-empowering them. — Abraham”.
To my sons. This statement is true BUT you would not let a 6 year old fly an airplane with 100 passengers. Kids lack maturity, reason, patients and experience.
I have learned a lot in the last few years, which I truly wish I knew while raising my kids; I would have done a much better job.
For example, I would have had your mom stay home to raise you until you were 8 years old and baptized. Those first 8 years are the time when the kids computer is programmed, “Train a child in the way he should go and he will not depart front it.” Not a fact but close.
Every society has rules on what is acceptable in their community, their land their rules… For example, if the Iraqis think marrying off their 14 year daughter is normal, that is not acceptable in the USA. But do we have the right to kill or go to war over those differences in ideas? I don’t want my son legs blown off to fight over that. Free speech to change minds is slow but better. After all, that is how the communists and socialists have been reprogramming my kids friends during public school. Hence the need for the 8 years of close parental attention.
I know now how important family is and would have insisted on family home evenings, sports and campouts. The LDS church has it right on those points.
Mexicans and People of South America have it right on families too, they have grandparents living with them, not in retirement homes. I have talked to enough Mexicans to gain a new perspective.
However, realizing now, that you are a powerful creator as all humans are, I would have been more allowing in letting you make decisions you could prove using your logic and may even let you make more mistakes if they didn’t hurt. No two kids mature equally, so the key to independence would be your logic.
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On a separate issue, I have been looking a world price of overseas investments and homes. I see a clear danger that the US dollar is falling faster than it is in the US. What does this mean? The cost of a house in South America is now 3 times more valuable then it was 3 years ago, whereas the US home is worth ¼ of what it used to be. Foreign prices are NOT affected by our problems. Brazil requires Americans to have $2000 per month of guaranteed pension before they can stay in their country, up from $1000 not long ago. That is scary.
Illinois Hospital Loses Tax-Exempt Status for Not Being Charitable Enough
by: Tresa Baldas The National Law Journal March 19, 2010
In a decision that could having a chilling effect on nonprofit hospitals, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Catholic hospital wasn’t charitable enough, so it took away the hospital’s tax-exempt status.
The ruling upheld a state tax review board’s 2003 decision to end Provena Covenant Medical Center’s tax-exempt status after the state learned that the center’s charity care equaled less than 1 percent of revenue. Now, the hospital is liable for a multimillion-dollar property tax bill.
The Illinois decision comes as lawmakers in that state and in the nation’s capital, as well as the Internal Revenue Service, are watching hospitals more closely with regard to their charitable giving. The IRS is scrutinizing hospitals’ year-end tax filings, while lawmakers are talking about legislation to mandate a certain minimum level of charity care to justify tax-exempt status.
The Illinois ruling could bolster those efforts. “My biggest concern is that this will really drive more challenges to property tax exemption status for hospitals and other charities nationally at a time when they really can’t afford it,” said Elizabeth Mills, senior counsel to the Chicago office of Proskauer Rose.
Mills questioned the court’s finding that the hospital wasn’t charitable enough, noting that Illinois law sets no particular level of charity care linked to tax-exempt status.
In its decision, the high court concluded that Provena had failed to show “that it dispensed charity to all who needed it and applied for it.” State lawyers had argued that only 302 patients at Provena received free or discounted care out of more than 100,000 admissions in 2002. Those patients cost the hospital a mere $831,724, or about 0.7 percent of its $113 million in revenue.
“The record showed that during the period in question here, Provena did not advertise the availability of charity care,” Justice Lloyd Karmeier wrote for the majority. “Patients were billed as a matter of course and unpaid bills were automatically referred to collection agencies.”
Karmeier’s opinion was joined by two judges in full and two judges in part. Two others did not vote.
Patrick Coffey, a Chicago partner with Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell who represented Provena, was unavailable for comment.
In a written statement, the hospital said it was “deeply disappointed” by the court’s decision. “Provena Covenant Medical Center cares for all in our community who need health services, regardless of their ability to pay,” the hospital stated.
And the American Hospital Association blasted the ruling. “The court is out of step with the broader view shared by the federal government and the majority of other states about what it means to be a charitable organization,” Melinda Hatton, general counsel of the association, said in a statement. “We don’t expect that the Illinois court’s decision about the property tax exemption will be embraced by other states.”
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, on the other hand, applauded the court for concluding — as her office had argued — that just 0.7 percent of revenue spent and 302 people receiving free care “is not substantial.” Madigan said in a statement, “This decision is good news for the nearly two million uninsured Illinoisans who lack access to affordable health care.”
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One percent is not enough. The church, all churches expect at least a 10% tithing, then building funds and missions….then volunteer work…
Out of the 0.7% I wonder what percentage of that went to white families? Equal to all others I would hope!
The judges got it right!
Hawaii considering law to ignore Obama ‘birthers’
Q. How do you build a Dictator? The plan for the house to pass health care without a vote is one way. What about this one?
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Hawaii considering law to ignore Obama ‘birthers’
AP
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By MARK NIESSE, Associated Press Writer Mark Niesse, Associated Press Writer – Wed Mar 17, 2:48 am ET
HONOLULU – Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here.
As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama’s birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won’t give up.
“Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy,” said Lorrin Kim, chief of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development.
So-called “birthers” claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States, and therefore doesn’t meet a constitutional requirement for being president.
Hawaii Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino issued statements last year and in October 2008 saying that she’s seen vital records that prove Obama is a natural-born American citizen.
But the state still gets between 10 and 20 e-mails seeking verification of Obama’s birth each week, most of them from outside Hawaii, Kim said Tuesday.
A few of these requesters continue to pepper the Health Department with the same letters seeking the same information, even after they’re told state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest. Responding wastes time and money, Kim said.
Both Fukino and the state registrar of vital statistics have verified that the Health Department holds Obama’s original birth certificate.
The issue coincides with Sunshine Week, when news organizations promote open government and freedom of information.
“Do we really want to be known internationally as the Legislature that blocked any inquiries into where President Obama was born?” asked Rep. Cynthia Thielen, R-Kaneohe-Kailua. “When people want to get more information, the way to fuel that fire is to say, ‘We’re now going to draw down a veil of secrecy.'”
Nobody at the hearing questioned the fact that the president was born in Hawaii.
Attorney Peter Fritz asked why the state would pass a law punishing repetitive requests for open records. Instead, the state could simply say it would only answer each person’s question once.
If the measure passed, the state Office of Information Practices could declare an individual a “vexatious requester” and restrict rights to government records for two years.
The committee will schedule a vote on the measure, said Chairman Jon Riki Karamatsu, D-Waipahu-Waikele.
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The measure is SB2937.
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On the Net:
Hawaii Legislature, http://capitol.hawaii.gov/
c/p from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_birth_certificate
The Veteran
It is the VETERAN, not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the VETERAN , not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the VETERAN , not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the VETERAN , not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is the VETERAN , not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the VETERAN , not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the VETERAN who salutes the Flag,
It is the veteran who serves under the Flag,
ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.
I’d be EXTREMELY proud if this email reached as many as possible. We can be very proud of our young men and women in the service no matter where they serve.
God Bless them all!!!
A Veteran- whether active duty, retired or discharged, national guard or reserve is someone who , at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to ” the United States of America” for an amount of” up to and including their life” regardless of when he or she served their country!
That is honor and there are way to many people in this country who no longer understand it.
As an example of patriotism do you stand at attention when the national anthem is played with your hand over your heart?
Do you stand when the flag passes before you during a parade?
The blood of thousands of Americans has been shed over the years fighting for our country and everyone should be proud of these countrymen and women who gave all!
Next time you see the flag passing in front of you think of the blood of all who gave their lives for you to be safe and secure.
Do you have pride in your country?
-anonymous
Get even with your bank!
A 98 year old woman in the UK wrote this to her bank. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the Times.
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three nanoseconds must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it. I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my Pension, an arrangement, which, I admit, has only been in place for a mere thirty eight years. You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account £30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.
My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and letters, when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, pre-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become. From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person.
My mortgage and loan payments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank by cheque, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate. Be aware that it is an offence under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope. Please find attached an Application Contact Status which I require your chosen employee to complete. I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative. Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Solicitor, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof.
In due course, I will issue your employee with PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modelled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service. As they say, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
Let me level the playing field even further. When you call me, press buttons as follows:
1. To make an appointment to see me.
2. To query a missing payment.
3. To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.
4. To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.
5. To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
6. To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home.
7. To leave a message on my computer (a password to access my computer is required. A password will be communicated to you at a later date for the Authorized Contact.)
8. To return to the main menu, and to listen to options 1through to 8.
9. To make a general complaint or inquiry, the contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service.
While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.
Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement.
May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous, New Year.
Your Humble Client,
Myrtle J Watson.
(Remember: This was written by a 98 year old woman……………….DOESN’T SHE MAKE YOU PROUD!)
What’s Moral, greedy 911 survivors or Dead Heroes ?
“I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound.
No one is really talking about it either, because you just don’t criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can’t let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country.
If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you’re going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4~7 million.
If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.
Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there’s a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.
Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining that it’s not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers. (Actually, soldiers are put in harms way by politicians and commanding officers.)
We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now asking for compensation as well.
You see where this is going, don’t you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It’s just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?
However, our own US Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of you don’t know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn’t have to pay into the system. If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an E-7, they may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed them in harm’s way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.
I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
“When do we finally do something about this?” If this doesn’t seem fair to you, it is time to forward this to as many people as you can. ” ”
Reportedly By Rush Limbaugh:
Why aren’t the Clinton’s Criminals?
Nixon resigned over same issues. Why did it take half a lifetime to get to now? Waiting for someone to die? I vote the Clinton’s and their lap dogs go to hell in the next life.
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Filegate Suits Against Clinton White House Finally Dismissed
Fourteen years after they began, a federal judge today dismissed the lawsuits over Filegate, closing the book on a scandal that became an ongoing thorn in the side of the Clinton White House and helped launch Larry Klayman into temporary national prominence.
The plaintiffs sued the FBI, the Executive Office of the President, and a smattering of White House figures, including then first lady Hillary Clinton, in 1996 after the administration revealed that it had mistakenly ordered up the FBI files of more than 400 Bush I and Reagan administration officials. The case, spearheaded by Klayman and his conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, led to parade of high profile depositions, but seemed to sputter as the years dragged on. Hillary Clinton was dismissed as a defendant last year.
Today, in a colorful 28-page opinion (it includes the phrase “bureaucratic babushka doll”), Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found that the plaintiffs had failed to provide any evidence that the files were sought as part of a White House conspiracy. Rather, he said, they had shown that the incident was little more than a “snafu.”
“After years of litigation, endless depositions, the fictionalized portrayal of this lawsuit and its litigants on television, and innumerable histrionics, this Court is left to conclude that with this lawsuit, to quote Gertrude Stein, ‘there’s no there there,’ ” Lamberth wrote.
Upon being informed that the cases had been dismissed, former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who was also named in the suit, exclaimed, “No kidding.”
“The judge said it best. There is no there, there. And there never was any ‘there there,’ ” Nusbaum said. “It is sad that in that day and age, and in this day and age, the politics of personal destruction continues.”
Posted by Jordan Weissmann on March 09, 2010 at 04:29 PM |
culled from http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/03/filegate-suits-against-clinton-white-house-finally-dismissed.html
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