Sadly, the life I enjoyed as a kid, my sons will never know…
Sadly, the life I enjoyed as a kid, my sons will never know…
I never realized until the last few years, how fortunate we were to grow up in the Antelope Valley. I use to complain about how boring life was there. Oh how I wish I could re-life my life, knowing our fate. Maybe I’d be better prepared today.
The talk on 1120am kpnw during the afternoon, says all school kids are being brainwashed the same way the german kids were before hitler took control.
No more saluting the flag or singing the national anthem, but plenty of that praising obama the new messiah.
The silent majority is now a non-issue, there silence has ended in suicide.
“IMMIGRANTS, …MUST ADAPT.. Take It Or Leave It.”
It took a lot of courage for this man to speak what he had to say for the world to hear. The retribution could be phenomenal, but at least he was willing to take a stand on his and Australia ‘s beliefs.
Whole world needs a leader like this!
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd- Australia
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks..
Separately, Rudd angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation’s mosques. Quote:
‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.. Take It Or Leave It.
I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians. ‘
‘This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom’
‘We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!’
‘Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.’
‘We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.’
‘This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, ‘THE RIGHT TO LEAVE’.’
‘If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.’
Maybe if we circulate this amongst ourselves in Canada & USA , WE will find the courage to start speaking and voicing the same truths.
If you agree please SEND THIS ON and ON, to as many people as you know.
ACLU suing Arizona in federal court over new immigration law
ACLJ against the ACLU
Protect America: Defend her borders!
The securing of America’s borders is not a constitutional crisis. But the ACLU says differently. They’re suing Arizona in federal court — alleging the new immigration law “encourages racial profiling, endangers public safety and betrays American values.”
Nothing could be further from the truth! It does NOT invite racial profiling — it expressly prohibits it. It does NOT conflict with federal immigration law — it actually mirrors it!
The Arizona law is clearly designed to protect and secure the state’s borders without putting the constitutional protections of Americans at risk.
It’s time to take action immediately. We MUST meet the ACLU’s challenge in federal court. In fact, we’re willing and ready to go all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States if necessary.
Stand with us today with your generous contribution: Help us fight the ACLU, support Arizona, and defend America’s borders — all while we continue our legal and legislative work throughout the nation!+
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District of Columbia Gun Law was defeated, spent large tax dollars
Outside Counsel Worked Landmark Gun Case Pro Bono
Lawyers for the District of Columbia who are fighting an effort to expose the time and money the city and its outside attorneys spent in its ultimately unsuccessful defense of the city’s handgun ban said this week that the private counsel who helped the District all served pro bono.
The District’s Office of the Attorney General does not want to provide billing record information to the attorneys who defeated the firearm ban in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. Those attorneys, including Alan Gura of Alexandria, Va.’s Gura & Possessky, said information about the city’s effort is relevant to the plaintiffs’ request for more than $3.5 million in fees.
The plaintiffs’ team, led by Gura and financed by the Cato Institute’s Robert Levy, said in court papers in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that they clocked at least 3,273 hours in District of Columbia v. Heller.
On April 26, the District’s lawyers filed for a protective order to keep its records out of the hands of the plaintiffs’ attorneys. “The District of Columbia was required to defend a law it viewed as critical to its exercise of its police powers for the protection of public safety,” government attorneys Ellen Efros and Andrew Saindon said in the court papers. “Its motivations and interests simply cannot be compared to those of a private litigant.”
Efros and Saindon said the “feared precedential value of the Heller decision was a matter of a profound concern to the District.” The fact that the city may have “expended far greater effort and time in defending its law, potentially more than private counsel would invest in defense of a similar case, is of no moment.”
In court papers May 12, Gura wrote in response: “It is well-established that the government’s attorney billing records, and other basic information about attorneys engaged to represent the government, are subject to disclosure under public records laws.” Among other things, he said, the city’s records are relevant to assist the trial judge in evaluating the city’s claims about the quality of the plaintiffs’ billing records.
But District attorneys said in court papers filed Wednesday that Gura’s “ultimate proposition is based on a flawed premise—that the District retained paid counsel in this matter.” The city said all of the outside counsel—including attorneys from Covington & Burling, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and O’Melveny & Myers—worked pro bono.
Typically, the city receives voluntary services through a “donation retainer agreement” that does not require the law firm to maintain billing records of time spent, the District attorneys said. The city did not request billing records from any of the pro bono counsel.
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ACLU sues to allow nude photos of teenage sluts
Student’s Privacy Rights Violated in Pa. ‘Sexting’ Case, ACLU Suit Says
Shannon P. Duffy
The Legal Intelligencer
May 21, 2010
The hot-button issue of “sexting” is coming back to court and this time the ACLU is setting out to establish that high school students have a right to privacy that includes the contents of their cell phones.
A team of lawyers from Cozen O’Connor has partnered with the ACLU of Pennsylvania to sue on behalf of a student who claims her constitutional rights were violated when the principal confiscated her cell phone, found nude images she had taken of herself and turned it over to prosecutors.
ACLU legal director Witold Walczak said the issue is an important one because many school officials incorrectly believe they have the right to search through cell phones whenever a student is misusing one.
“We try to explain to them that they have the right to confiscate it, but they don’t have the right to look through it,” Walczak said in an interview.
Once again, the case stems from the wave of sexting discovered among students at Tunkhannock junior and senior high schools in Wyoming County, Pa., and the reactions it sparked in school officials and prosecutors.
In a previous lawsuit that was aimed only at the Wyoming County prosecutors, three students won an injunction that barred any prosecutions of students on child pornography charges for the nude and semi-nude images found on their phones.
According to that suit, school officials turned over the students’ phones to former Wyoming County District Attorney George Skumanick Jr., who responded by targeting 13 girls and three boys with threats of criminal charges if they did not agree to take a class he had designed on the dangers of sexting.
Most agreed to take the class to avoid prosecution, but three of the girls and their parents instead enlisted the help of the ACLU to challenge the threatened prosecutions. Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania won an injunction from U.S. District Judge James Munley that was later upheld by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Now, in a second suit, a student identified only as “N.N.” claims the school officials and prosecutors illegally searched the contents of her phone even though she intended the racy photos to be “seen only by herself and, perhaps, her long-time boyfriend.”
Named as defendants in the suit are Tunkhannock Area High School District and principal Gregory Ellsworth, as well as Skumanick and Wyoming County’s current district attorney, Jeff Mitchell.
The plaintiff is one of the girls who took Skumanick’s class to avoid prosecution, but now claims that the initial search was illegal.
“I was absolutely horrified and humiliated to learn that school officials, men in (the) DA’s office, and police had seen naked pictures of me,” the plaintiff, now 19, said in a statement released by the ACLU.
“Those pictures were extremely private and not meant for anyone else’s eyes. What they did is the equivalent of spying on me through my bedroom window,” the plaintiff said.
Mitchell and Superintendent Michael J. Healey declined to comment Thursday, saying they had not seen the suit. Ellsworth and Skumanick did not immediately return phone messages.
The suit was filed by attorneys Jacob C. Cohn, Ilan Rosenberg, Micah J. M. Knapp, David M. Albert, Kathryn M. Rutigliano and Andrea Cortland of Cozen O’Connor, along with ACLU attorneys Walczak and Valerie Burch.
In the opening paragraphs of the suit, the plaintiffs team set out to frame the constitutional issue, contending that cell phones have become one of the most important storage devices for private material.
“In today’s age,” the suit says, “cellular telephones store large amounts of personal and often very private data, including lists of contacts, text messages, photographs and videos. A search of the device is akin to browsing through someone’s address and appointment book, opening and reading letters sent by U.S. mail, and rummaging through a family photo album or viewing home videos.”
Cell phones belonging to high school students, the suit says, cannot be searched without “reasonable suspicion.”
Plaintiff N.N. also claims that her First Amendment rights were violated when she was punished for storing nude and seminude photographs of herself on the cell phone.
The suit alleges that after N.N.’s phone was confiscated, she and her mother met with David Ide, the chief detective for the Wyoming County District Attorney’s Office, who told them he had seen the photos and that the phone had been sent to a crime lab in Delaware.
When N.N.’s mother stepped away, the suit says, Ide told N.N. that “it was a shame she had not waited until after her eighteenth birthday in April 2009, because, instead of getting into trouble, she could have submitted the photographs directly to Playboy magazine.”
Soon thereafter, the suit says, N.N. received a letter from Skumanick threatening felony child pornography charges if she did not complete a five-week re-education course on violence and victimization offered by the District Attorney’s Office and the Victims Resource Center. According to the suit, N.N. reluctantly agreed to take the course rather than face prosecution.
“Ironically N.N. was forced to take a class about victimization by the very people who were victimizing her,” said Cohn.
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But if a teacher kept this photo he would loose his job and go to prison and be forever labeled a sex offender. She is the offender.
Info you need to know about TOYOTA
Toyota, drive by wire, and our failure to learn from experience
There simply is no systematic approach to ensuring the quality of an integrated hardware/software system.
posted by By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor of: http://www.edn.com/embeddedmaster/article/ca6720350.html, on 3/4/2010
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I see from the morning news that Toyota’s adventure into the world of embedded software is going badly. The company’s second attempt to find a quick fix for unintended acceleration in its conventionally powered vehicles is barely under way, and evidence is already emerging that the underlying problem is likely in the engine controller, not in the pedal’s mechanical assembly. Now we hear from Japan that the Prius, Toyota’s golden child, has a problem with its brake-by-wire control system.
Decades ago, Audi accidentally introduced drive by wire with its advanced cruise control on the Audi 5000. The cars were allegedly subject to spontaneous acceleration, a problem the company blamed on operator error. At the time, researchers at another European high-end auto company claimed to have uncovered a problem in Audi’s engine-control firmware and reproduced the acceleration without requiring a driver to mistake the gas pedal for the brake. The ensuing liability litigation, however, extinguished all hope of diagnosing and documenting the problem so that the rest of the real-time-software community could avoid it.
All this came to mind when I attended a panel on achieving quality closure at last month’s DesignCon in Santa Clara, CA. Despite the subject of the panel—achieving quality closure—the issue of software sat like an elephant in the corner of the room, awaiting notice. One of the panelists pointed out that the most serious quality problem in IC designs now is not the quality closure on the hardware but the integrity of the firmware and software that will run on the chip. There simply is no systematic approach to ensuring the quality of an integrated hardware/software system.
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This situation is a tragedy. Work was well under way 30 years ago on the problem of formally proving software correctness. One company had designed a completely deterministic microprocessor that made it possible to mathematically prove all of the possible trajectories of a code set. Computer scientists such as Edsger Dijkstra were making strides in a method for creating formally proven software. But along came C, Unix, and the cult of the hobby programmer, and the entire notion of formal correctness vanished under a smokescreen of hacking.
Now, after decades invested in metrics-driven verification, formal verification, and methodology management, designers find that their chips don’t work as expected because the software is still being “verified” by feeding it test cases until the schedule expires. Consumers find that their cars run into these problems for the same reason, and the press blames the problem on “electronics.”
Once again, as in Audi’s day, it is safe to conclude that a gag order as part of a class-action settlement will screen whatever accurate diagnostic work takes place on the Toyota problems so that no one in the industry can benefit from what Toyota engineers learn. In that way, we can repeat the situation with the next generation of software-governed systems, a new set of executives can avoid blame for the tragedies, and a new set of lawyers can make their fortunes from the resulting litigation.
The only parties in this little tragedy with an interest in improving the state of the art are the engineers, whom no one will consult, and the victims, whom the lawyers will silence. It would be better for everyone if it were a principle of civil law that, when a failure inflicts damage, the vendor and independent parties must place all of the diagnostic information they find into the public domain, and the courts may not use this information to assess or assign damages. Such a notion might somewhat restrict the income opportunities of litigators, but it would unquestionably assist the engineering community in learning from its mistakes.
Contact me at ronald.wilson@reedbusiness.com
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’
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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
Losing your rights, ‘Miranda’, not the USA I grew up in
‘Miranda’ Dealt One-Two Punch by High Court
Tony Mauro
The National Law Journal
February 25, 2010
It has not been a good week for the famed Miranda warning at the hands of the Supreme Court.
In decisions issued on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Court ruled that confessions should be admitted at trial even when police interviewed suspects in circumstances that lower courts viewed as Miranda violations.
The Court on Wednesday issued Maryland v. Shatzer (pdf), establishing new, more permissive rules for police who want to question a suspect for a second time after the suspect invokes Miranda’s right to remain silent.
The Maryland case came down a day after the justices decided Florida v. Powell (pdf), in which a 7-2 majority Court said that Florida’s alternative wording of the Miranda warning is acceptable, even though it does not explicitly state that a suspect has a right to have a lawyer present during questioning.
Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey Fisher said the rulings continue the Court’s trend of “extreme hostility toward constitutional rules that require the exclusion of evidence — especially confessions and the product of illegal searches — from criminal trials.” Fisher, who heads a National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers committee that files amicus briefs at the high court, said, “In short, this Court sees the costs and benefits of rules designed to curb police overreaching entirely differently than the Court did a generation ago. ”
Sidley Austin partner Jeffrey Green, who also assists NACDL and other defense lawyers in high court arguments, added, “At this rate, what’s left [of Miranda] will be only what we see on TV.”
But Lauren Altdoerffer of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, which supports law enforcement officials in Miranda cases, said the rulings don’t weaken constitutional protection against compelled self-incrimination. “The Court is allowing states and police to draft rules that fit their needs but still fit the requirements of Miranda.” She added that the crucial question is whether the interview of the suspect is compelled or voluntary.
In the Maryland case, which was argued on the first day of the Court’s term last October, the ruling weakens the so-called Edwards v. Arizona rule, which states that, once a suspect invokes Miranda, any subsequent waiver of the right triggered by a police request is deemed involuntary — making further police questioning improper.
July 2009 federal regulators saved Toyota at least $100 million
Toyota Motor Corporation President and CEO Akio Toyoda
Diego M. Radzinschi/NLJ
Lawmakers grill Toyota execs over lobbyists, liability
David Ingram
February 24, 2010
Lawmakers fired questions Wednesday at two Toyota executives about whether the company’s lobbyists are too cozy with government regulators and whether those relationships slowed down the response to complaints about the automaker’s safety record.
The hearing, the second on Capitol Hill this week, also served as a forum for lawmakers to debate proposals related to the U.S. tort system. One Democrat warned Toyota Motor Corp.’s president, Akio Toyoda, that the automaker should expect significant losses as a result of products liability lawsuits.
“You will be called upon under our system to pay compensation,” said Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.). Customers, he added, cannot “just forgive these companies and let them kill our people.”
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) pressed Toyoda and a second company executive, North American president Yoshimi Inaba, about whether the company would pay the medical bills of people injured in accidents. Inaba replied, “We will leave it to our legal counsel.”
The two executives did not otherwise address the potential losses or the investigations into the company being conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Instead, they asked for forgiveness from consumers and echoed earlier testimony from an executive with Toyota’s U.S. subsidiary, James Lentz, who said Toyota had mismanagement and communication problems.
The executives did, however, respond to concerns about Toyota’s lobbying in Washington. Lawmakers cited a slide show produced for internal Toyota use and obtained by investigators for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The slide show from July 2009 says that company officials “negotiated” with federal regulators over a recall related to sudden acceleration in Camry engines, saving Toyota at least $100 million.
Members of both parties expressed outrage that Toyota officials were able to negotiate the extent of recalls with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “Toyota’s own internal documents indicate that a premium was placed on delaying or closing NHTSA investigations, delaying new safety rules and blocking the discovery of safety defects,” said Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the oversight committee.
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) asked the executives, “How could you possibly put this in writing?” The slide show, he said, has “done a great injustice” to U.S. car dealers and others who rely on the company’s leadership.
Inaba said that lawmakers misinterpreted the slide show. He said another Toyota employee created the document shortly after Inaba assumed his current position in June 2009 in order to familiarize Inaba with U.S. operations. “Our staff wanted to give me orientation material,” Inaba said.
“Negotiation,” Inaba said, is not a precise word for the company’s interaction with safety regulators. “There’s a good discussion, yes,” he said. And he denied that the company’s officials have a relationship with regulators that is too “cozy.”
Toyoda, who said he was not familiar with the document, downplayed its importance. “The substance and contents of such documents does not affect the entire company in a way to cause drifting of the company itself,” Toyoda said through a translator.
Lawmakers did not publicly identify any of the lobbyists who advocated for the company before the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. But Bloomberg News reported this month that two former employees of the regulator helped to end at least four investigations into unintended acceleration in Toyota engine speeds. The report named Christopher Tinto, vice president for regulatory affairs in Toyota’s Washington office, and Christopher Santucci, who works for Tinto. They joined Toyota directly from NHTSA — Tinto in 1994 and Santucci in 2003.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who oversees NHTSA, faced questions from lawmakers about the agency’s interaction with lobbyists. He touted rules in the Obama administration limiting the hiring of former lobbyists into policy jobs.
Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) said she still couldn’t understand how “negotiation” with safety regulators might be allowed under government ethics rules. “Can you tell us more about that?” Watson asked LaHood.
“Not on my watch, Ms. Watson,” replied LaHood, who became transportation secretary in January 2009. “We take this work very seriously, and we do what’s in the interest of the people who own these automobiles, particularly as it relates to safety.”
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) said he was concerned about the role played by former regulators who now work in the private sector. “The appearance is what the people are very concerned about,” Burton said.
Since the public revelations about Toyota’s safety problems, and two recalls of more than 8 million vehicles, the company has hired additional lobbying and public relations help. Its outside advisers have included Washington’s Glover Park Group and, until a week ago, Quinn Gillespie & Associates. Toyota spent $5.2 million on its in-house lobbying shop in 2009, according to federal disclosure records. It spent another $1 million on contract lobbyists, including those from Brown Rudnick and Greenberg Traurig.
The latest Toyota hearing took place just hours after the FBI raided the offices of three auto parts suppliers, at least one of which supplies Toyota. U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman Gina Talamona said that antitrust investigators are looking at “the possibility of anti-competitive cartel conduct of automotive electronic components suppliers.”
A third congressional hearing on Toyota’s safety record is scheduled for March 2 before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee. A witness list has not been released.
David Ingram can be contacted at dingram@alm.com.
What happened to Japanese Honor? by readthisor.wordpress.com
According to recent news, I must ask: What happened to Japanese Honor?
In ancient days, those responsible for something like the recent auto deaths, then bragged that they actually saved money by cheating the families effected, would commit “Seppuku”. (What were the Japanese pilots expected to do in the line of duty?) I’m not saying anybody should but they could forfeit all they own.
In America it is just another black eye for Corporate America and the D.O.T.
Taken as a whole with events of the last few years, I am reminded that every great civilization in history has fallen when the citizens revolt and eliminate those that take perverted advantage of the public.
I never want to witness that but simply ask will history repeat itself?
I want to know how the American Head Representative of this import, can look at his own wife, kids and parents and think he can justify the decisions that killed or injured MORE people AFTER the problems were not only reported but addressed by our government.
And why not hold our government complicit in the cover-up?
Maybe if those convicted big shots that now reside in special privileged prisons or are ordered to stay home under house arrest… maybe if we took the guilty and hung them on crosses, next to freeways for everyone to see for 48 hours before returning them to jail… just maybe other big shots and politicians would see that they are no better than you or I.
They too, should be subjected to discomfort that they cannot buy their way out of. They should realize that they personally have to feel some effect for the decisions they make.
Golden parachutes, Bonuses…where is the downside or risk in anything they do? They feel no pain.
Enron execs; millions of dollars await them after they spent a few months in jail. I think I would trade my life for theirs under those circumstances, they are not in some filthy dangerous prison.
When Top Execs see there is no real personal price to pay for conviction or the cost/risk analysis of spending 5 years in a vacation jail, they see the risk as well worth it. Let’s put a stop to it now. I’d much rather that happen than see our country dissolve.
I want to say, I do love the Japanese people.
I hate greed and disregard for the public, from any source.
When I owned businesses, I felt the successes or failures of my decisions in my wallet and in my life. Why should corporations insulate careless leaders?
Lets not forget that there are tens of thousands of Americans that will lose jobs related to this importer, through no fault of their own. Those families deserve an award of ten years severance pay. God bless them.
by:
readthisor.wordpress.com 2/24/2010 7pm pst
House & Senate have voted themselves $10,000 raises, meanwhile you lose $3,200
The following was sent to me today:
++++++++++++++++++
Your U.S. House & Senate have voted themselves $4,700 and $5,300 raises.
1. They voted to not give you a S.S. cost of living raise in 2010 and 2011.
2. Your Medicaid premiums will go up $285.60 for the 2-years
and you will not get the 3% COLA: $660/yr. Your total 2-yr loss and cost is -$1,600 or -$3,200 for husband and Wife.
3. Over 2-yrs The House & Senate each get $10,000 raises
4. Do you feel SCREWED?
5. WILL your cost of drugs – doctor fees – local taxes – food,
etc., increase? You better believe they will!
WILL THEIRS…NO WAY . They have a raise and better benefits. Why care about you? You never did anything about it in the past.
You’re obviously too stupid or don’t care. No offense; just making a point!
6. Do you really think that Nancy, Harry, Chris, Charlie, Barnie, et al, care about you?
SEND THE MESSAGE– You’re FIRED.
IN 2010 YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO GET RID OF THE SITTING CONGRESS AND Up to 1/3 OF THE SENATE, AND 100% OF THE HOUSE.
MAKE SURE YOU’RE STILL MAD IN NOVEMBER 2010 AND TELL THEIR REPLACEMENTS NOT TO SCREW UP.
It is ok to forward this to your sphere of influence if you are finally tired of the abuse. Maybe it’s time for the…….. Amendment 28
“Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United
States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .”
Let’s get this passed around, folks – these people in Washington have brought this upon themselves!!! It’s time for retribution. Let’s take back America .
If you don’t forward this to all your friends you’re just part of the problem of national apathy.
IT’S TIME!!!!!!!
JUST DO IT!
Watch this video of airline bomber last month
obama administration fails to protect the public again
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34640745#34640745
Republican Scott Brown wins the Massachusetts U.S. Senate Seat !!!!!
By GLEN JOHNSON and LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writers Glen Johnson And Liz Sidoti, Associated Press Writers – 2 hrs 38 mins ago
BOSTON – In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leaving President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.
Addressing an exuberant victory celebration Tuesday night, Brown declared he was “ready to go to Washington without delay” as the crowd chanted, “Seat him now.” Democrats indicated they would, deflating a budding controversy over whether they would try to block Brown long enough to complete congressional passage of the health care plan he has promised to oppose.
“The people of Massachusetts have spoken. We welcome Scott Brown to the Senate and will move to seat him as soon as the proper paperwork has been received,” said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin said he would notify the Senate on Wednesday that Brown had been elected.
The loss by the once-favored Democrat Martha Coakley in the Democratic stronghold was a stunning embarrassment for the White House after Obama rushed to Boston on Sunday to try to save the foundering candidate. Her defeat on Tuesday signaled big political problems for the president’s party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.
Brown’s victory was the third major loss for Democrats in statewide elections since Obama became president. Republicans won governors’ seats in Virginia and New Jersey in November.
“I have no interest in sugarcoating what happened in Massachusetts,” said Sen. Robert Menendez, the head of the Senate Democrats’ campaign committee. “There is a lot of anxiety in the country right now. Americans are understandably impatient.”
Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president’s health care legislation. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters. The trouble may go deeper: Democratic lawmakers could read the results as a vote against Obama’s broader agenda, weakening their support for the president. And the results could scare some Democrats from seeking office this fall.
The Republican will finish Kennedy’s unexpired term, facing re-election in 2012.
Brown led by 52 per cent to 47 percent with all but 3 percent of precincts counted. Turnout was exceptional for a special election in January, with light snow reported in parts of the state. More voters showed up at the polls Tuesday than in any non-presidential general election in Massachusetts since 1990.
One day shy of the first anniversary of Obama’s swearing-in, the election played out amid a backdrop of animosity and resentment from voters over persistently high unemployment, Wall Street bailouts, exploding federal budget deficits and partisan wrangling over health care.
“I voted for Obama because I wanted change. … I thought he’d bring it to us, but I just don’t like the direction that he’s heading,” said John Triolo, 38, a registered independent who voted in Fitchburg.
He said his frustrations, including what he considered the too-quick pace of health care legislation, led him to vote for Brown.
For weeks considered a long shot, Brown seized on voter discontent to overtake Coakley in the campaign’s final stretch. His candidacy energized Republicans, including backers of the “tea party” protest movement, while attracting disappointed Democrats and independents uneasy with where they felt the nation was heading.
A cornerstone of Brown’s campaign was his promise to vote against the health care plan.
Though the president wasn’t on the ballot, he was on many voters’ minds.
Coakley called Brown conceding the race, and Obama talked to both Brown and Coakley, congratulating them on the race.
The Democrat said the president told her: “We can’t win them all.”
Brown will be the first Republican senator from Massachusetts in 30 years.
Even before the first results were announced, administration officials were privately accusing Coakley of a poorly run campaign and playing down the notion that Obama or a toxic political landscape had much to do with the outcome.
Coakley’s supporters, in turn, blamed that very environment, saying her lead dropped significantly after the Senate passed health care reform shortly before Christmas and after the Christmas Day attempted airliner bombing that Obama himself said showed a failure of his administration.
Days before the polls closed, Democrats were fingerpointing and laying blame.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, head of the House Democrats’ campaign effort, said Coakley’s loss won’t deter his colleagues from continuing to blame the previous administration.
“President George W. Bush and House Republicans drove our economy into a ditch and tried to run away from the accident,” he said. “President Obama and congressional Democrats have been focused repairing the damage to our economy.”
At Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel, giddy Republicans cheered, chanted “USA” and waved the “tea party” version of the American flag.
Even before Brown won, the grass-roots network fueled by antiestablishment frustrations, sought credit for the victory, much like the liberal MoveOn.org did in the 2006 midterm elections when Democrats rose to power.
GOP chairman Michael Steele said Brown’s “message of lower taxes, smaller government and fiscal responsibility clearly resonated with independent-minded voters in Massachusetts who were looking for a solution to decades of failed Democrat leadership.”
Wall Street watched the election closely. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 116 points, and analysts attributed the increase to hopes the election would make it harder for Obama to make his changes to health care. That eased investor concerns that profits at companies such as insurers and drug makers would suffer.
Across Massachusetts, voters who had been bombarded with phone calls and dizzied with nonstop campaign commercials for Coakley and Brown gave a fitting turnout despite intermittent snow and rain statewide.
Galvin, who discounted sporadic reports of voter irregularities throughout the day, predicted turnout ranging from 1.6 million to 2.2 million, 40 percent to 55 percent of registered voters. The Dec. 8 primary had a scant turnout of about 20 percent.
Voters considered national issues including health care and the federal budget deficits.
Fears about spending drove Karla Bunch, 49, to vote for Brown. “It’s time for the country, for the taxpayers, to take back their money,” she said. And Elizabeth Reddin, 65, voted for Brown because she said she was turned off by the Democrat’s negative advertisements, saying: “The Coakley stuff was disgusting.”
(culled from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100120/ap_on_el_se/us_massachusetts_senate )
Vote every incumbent out in both the Senate and Congress
I just received this email:
“Please don’t just delete this as another dumb political item. It is non partisan and it is time we act rather than whine and preach to the choir. Take the time to read it all.
According to the Trustees for the Social Security Administration,
” THERE WILL NOT BE A COST OF LIVING INCREASE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS.
ADDITIONALLY THEY WILL RAISE YOUR CO-PAY FOR YOUR RX MEDICARE BENEFITS ” !
They, the Congress (BOTH “REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS TOGETHER”) say no increase is warranted because of the losses in gross national product and other cute things..
NOW SPORTS FANS
THIS IS THE ONE THAT WILL FLIP YOU OUT!!
THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IS FUNDING TWENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS– LET ME REPEAT THAT AMOUNT SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT…. $ 24,000,000.00 DOLLARS FOR NEW ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS PROCESSING FOR OUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS !!
THEY ARE OBTAINING THESE FUNDS and I QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM THE SOCIAL SECURITY WEBSITE,
“THIS MONEY WILL BE COMING FROM THE SAVINGS TO BE GENERATED
FROM WITHHOLDING COST OF LIVING INCREASES FOR 2010 and 2011
in SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR THE ELDERLY AND A $2.00 INCREASE ON ALL MEDICARE RX BENEFIT CO-PAY.
Please pass this to ALL your friends and have them
“PROTEST TO THE IDIOTS WE ELECTED TO CONGRESS”, who by the way, have just voted themselves ANOTHER 3% SALARY INCREASE!!!
We must put a stop to this outright thievery! It is THE CONGRESS AND THE SENATE, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS.
WE CAN’T FIRE THEM, BUT WE CAN SURE NOT RE-ELECT THEM, and WE CAN IMPEACH THEM or DEMAND RECALL ELECTIONS!!!
HOW ABOUT WE ALL GET TOGETHER AND DUMP THESE CLOWNS.
Just watch.
They will spend this money and find the software doesn’t work,
dump the whole thing and go back to the old steam driven system
just like they did with air traffic control several years ago.
Don’t worry though, they’ve got health care all worked out.
So here is what we CAN do….
All I ask is that you consider the suggestion here.
The entire Congress of the United States is corrupt.
And I mean both Houses and I mean both major parties.
I realize that a few Members of each House are trustworthy, but,
as a group they are absolutely the most corrupt bunch
to ever disgrace our Nation. In November of 2010
the entire House of Representatives will stand for re-election;
all 435 of them.
One third of the Senate,
a total of 33 of them, will also stand for re-election.
Vote every incumbent out.
And I mean every one of them.
No matter their Party affiliation.
Let’s start all over in the House of Representatives with 435 people
who have absolutely no experience in running that body,
with no political favors owed to anyone but their own constituents.
Let’s make them understand that they work for us…
They are answerable to us and they simply have to run that body with some common sense.
Two years later, in 2012,
vote the next third of the incumbents in the Senate out.
We can do the same thing in 2014 and, by that time we will have put all new people in that body as well.
We, the People,
have got to take this Country back and we HAVE to do it peacefully.
That’s what the Framers of our Constitution envisioned.
I am also suggesting term limits on the new bunch–
8 YEARS FOR REPRESENTATIVES AND 12 YEARS OF SENATORS.
NO EXCEPTIONS. THE LONGER THEY STAY IN OFFICE THE MORE POWER THEY GET AND THEY LOVE IT AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET RE-ELECTED.
WE HAVE TERM LIMITED THE PRESIDENT – NOW LET’S TERM LIMIT THE LEGISLATORS.
Please,
if you love this Country,
send this (as I have done) to absolutely everyone
whose email address appears in your address book..
This thing can permeate our Country in no time.
Let’s make it happen. “
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