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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CAX3aJCoDg

I have to thank a dear freind for sending this to me, and the one thing I need to add, "Three years plus some months is already too much!"

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Saturday, August 01, 2009 

Current mood:  annoyed
Category: News and Politics
that we as humans, Americans, have allowed this to happen. This line is the most sickening thing the United States Government has ever come up with. What kind of person thinks of this?: “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from the Government." Excuse me????? The government will Order you to die? Revolt. Revolt now. What type of human can support this crap? Drop me if you oppose me. This is gone too far and the nonsense coming from Washington is pathetic.

When you read this, you will want no part of the Obama Health Care Plan. Hopefully.

The Health Care bill is over 1000 pages long. No wonder most of Congress haven't read it. But Right Soup has put together a look at some provisions in the bill. They are from Peter Fleckstein, who is reading the entire bill and tweeting provisions that we might want to think twice about.

Scratch that.

We might want to FREAK OUT about.

Pg 22 of the Health Care Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self-insure.

Pg 30 Sec 123- THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.

Pg 29 lines 4-16 - YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED.

Pg 42 - The “Health Choices Commissioner” will choose your Heathcare Benefits for you. You have no choice.

PG 50 Section 152- Heathcare will be provided to ALL non-US citizens, illegal or otherwise.

Pg 53- Severability (KEY GEM)

“If any provision of the Act, or any application of such provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of the provisions of this Act and the application of the provision to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected.”

Pg 58 - Govt will have real-time access to individual’s finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued.

Pg 59 lines 21-24- Govt will have direct access to your bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations (ACORN).

Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Govt is creating an Healthcare Exchange to bring private Healthcare plans under Govt control.

Pg 84 Sec 203 - Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private Healthcare plans in the Exchange.

Pg 91 Lines 4-7- Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example: Translation for illegal aliens

Pg 95 Lines 8-18 The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt Healthcare plan.

PG 85 Line 7 - Specs of Benefit Levels For Plans. #AARP members- Your Health care WILL be rationed

PG 102 Lines 12-18- Medicaid-Eligible Individual will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.

pg 124 lines 24-25 No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt Monopoly.

pg 127 Lines 1-16- RE: Doctors- The Govt will tell YOU what you can make.

Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST auto-enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE

Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for Healthcare for part time employees AND their families.

Pg 149 Lines 16-24 ANY Employer with payroll $400k & above who doesn’t provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll.

PG 150 Lines 9-13- Businesses with payroll between 251k & 400k who doesn’t provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll

Pg 167 Lines 18-23 ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable Healthcare according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income.

Pg 170 Lines 1-3 Any NONRESIDENT Alien is EXEMPT from individual taxes. (Americans will pay)

Pg 195 -Officers & employees of Heathcare Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans financial/personal records.

PG 203 Line 14-15- “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it actually says that.

Pg 239 Line 14-24-Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor will be affected. Expendable.

Pg 241 Line 6-8- Doctors, doesn’t matter what specialty you have, you will all be paid the same.

PG 253 Line 10-18 Govt sets value of Doctor's time, professional judgment, etc. Literally sets the value of humans.

PG 265 Sec 1131-Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries

PG 268 Sec 1141- Fed Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs.

PG 272 SEC. 1145- TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!

Page 280 Sec 1151- The Govt will penalize hospitals for what Govt deems “preventable re-admissions.”

Pg 298 Lines 9-11- Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a readmission? Govt will penalize you.

Pg 317 L 13-20-PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells Doctors what and how much they can own.

Pg 317-318 lines 21-25,1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating hospitals cannot expand.

pg 321 2-13: Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input required.

Pg335 Lines 16-25, Pg 336-339 - Govt mandates establishment of outcome based measures. Heahcare the way they want. Rationing.

Pg 341 Lines 3-9: Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Adv Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt plan

Pg 354 Sec 1177 - Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people.

Pg 379 Sec 1191- Govt creates more bureaucracy - “Telehealth Advisory Committee.”

PG 425 Lines 4-12 Govt mandates “Advanced Care Planning Consultations.”

PG 425 the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with "end of life counseling."

Pg 425 Lines 17-19: Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!

PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death.

PG 427 Lines 15-24: Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends.

Pg 429 Lines 1-9: An “advanced care planning consult” will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates

PG 429 Lines 10-12: “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from the Government.

Pg 429 Lines 13-25 - The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

PG 430 Lines 11-15- The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.

Pg 469 - Community Based Home Medical Services = Non profit organizations. Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?

Page 472 Lines 14-17: PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORG. 1 monthly payment to a community-based org. Like ACORN?

PG 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy.

Pg 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services.”

This is only half the bill so far.

Get ready. The left is going to use August to lie and spin this health care bill: but labor leaders and other administration allies told POLITICO that they’re gearing up to spend millions on television advertisements and grass-roots organizing. And, judging by spending already reported by some of these groups, they are off to an impressive start.

Don't be fooled. Learn more about the healthcare bill. The more we know, the more certain it is that this would be the absolutely wrong way to reform healhcare. Americans need to make Congress reform in a way that helps consumers, not give the government more power!
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 

Current mood:  blah
I have added a small commentary at the bottom of this...

The American Spectator
July 24, 2009
By Ben Stein

We've Figured Him Out
Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?
Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:
The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.
They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.
The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.
Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.
The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.
Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.
The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.
These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.
Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.
There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American Spectator.

My Commentary:
For the record, he has NOT had 1 original idea thus, nor has he kept one solemn promise...this alone reads as "Fraud and liar!" The stimulus was modeled after what FDR had done during the depression for the most part, and according to financial experts and top economists had FDR let the situation alone the depression would have ended prior to the 8 years it took. Obama accpets zero responsibility for the shape of this country...remember as senator running for US President how much he encouraged the Bush Administration to hurry up and bailout the auto industry? Citizenship...is he really? His own grandmother said he was born in Kenya, and despite the lawsuits seeking proof it was released today by a hospital official in Hawaii that the original B/C was destroyed, but yet this administrator had seen the medical records of Obama's birth...PROOF, substantial evidence, not hearby rhetoric is an answer...is that everything that Washington DC has given us already while breaking this country under Obama's Regime? Change...where is change when a failed administrations majority is back in office (The Clinton's). Check your data people and you will note that it was under that administration for which Freddie and Fannie, along with the banking and real estate markets began their coverups, bad accounting, and handing out loans they knew were going to come back and collapse the economy. Lets also note that Obama's cutting of his teeth in politics was learned by a corrupt pilitical machine and these same people make up his cabinet today...Illinois politicians, politics. We also need to realize that no senator or congressman will read a document thats over 1,000 pages by the time this administration wants their healthcare bill passed. For your information the start up is projected at 1 trillion plus, and estimated yearly cost is 147 billion a year...funny that wasn't mentioned until today on the news? If you want to know what this health care plan is like and even modeled after we merely need to look at the failed system that Massachusett's has today. Do you realize that that there are great numbers of people that cannot see a doctor for over a year? Yes, thats their appt. times. Also lets take a look at the cost of that service, and how its costs are far beyond everything they forsaw. Its time both houses, take back control of this country, the truth be known about that guy in the whitehouse, and people contact politicians from local to national, and remind them...who's country this real is!
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Saturday, July 25, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEh3Z56v8UQ

If you have a good surround sound system hooked up to your pc...go ahead and crank it up!

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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 

Current mood:  betrayed
Category: Life
This blog was written by a close freind of mine (Thomas):
www.myspace.com/thomasofeastmilton
All being said we have similar backgrounds and probably more times than not with dwelling into details and long emails back and forth we understand one another, and have walked similar roads. But what he wrote and posted today caught my attention about friends, people I know, the choices they make, I have made, and despite everything still staying forward focused enough to fight everything around us if need be. Before putting his blog out here I ask that you read this quote I proudly have posted on my page, think about everything you've recently done, the choices you've made both today and yesterday, and without lying to yourself or avoiding the truth ask yourself..."Am I really doing everything right that I can be doing? Have a made positive influence for those around me, done the right things for my kids? Am I being a great example of whats right?"
My quote from my profile page:  "YOUR THOUGHTS, become YOUR WORDS. WORDS, become YOUR ACTIONS. ACTIONS, become YOUR HABIT(S). HABIT(S), become YOUR CHARACTER. CHARACTER, then becomes YOU and YOUR DESTINY. Its YOU and YOUR DESTINY for which others will know you, and its this for which you will always be KNOWN and REMEMBERED, even by YOUR FAMILY and CHILDREN!"
Thomas' Blog...
April 7, 2009 - Tuesday 



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Category: Religion and Philosophy
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The Reality of A Lie


The first breath of air rushes into the lungs as the child gasps for it's first breaths, the slate is clean...innocence prevails for a little while. The child isn't born knowing how to behave in a good way, but it isn't born “evil” either. The baby's “unwritten operations program” doesn't remain blank long as the child takes it's world in. A child begins a journey of observation and learning from the very onset of life. It is beyond the reach of our comprehension to understand exactly what is going through the mind of a young child who isn't able to speak it's thoughts to us. Even for a newborn, learning is the first order of business.

As my daughter and I approached the intersection of Davis Highway from the I-10 exit ramp, I observed a homeless man in a wheel chair sheltering from the rain under the cover of a shut down restaurant porch. A day earlier I was thinking of buying a round of hamburgers for the whole gaggle of homeless folks there; but due to “time constraints”, I had to be on time for an appointment. I knew on this day, I had time. I detoured over to McDonald's and grabbed three hamburgers. I drove back and fed the man. His exact words were; “I love you”. He was obviously intoxicated, but that wasn't any of my business. Sure, I was obedient to the Godly directives I've learned, but I wondered...how? How did this happen to him. Somewhere along the line this guy was lied to, no doubt about it! He obviously believed this lie; and, OH...the circumstance!

I wonder what kept me off the streets? What lie did I not heed to avoid such a fate? I further thought; What lie did I listen to that prevented me from owning the 5 bedroom custom built home home on Scenic Highway with the black Vette in the driveway? 



Philippians 4 (King James Version) 




8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. 



Philippians 4 (The Message) 




8-9 Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.





The Biblical reference above is basically instruction on how to live a good, peaceful life. The thoughts and ideas focused upon in our minds have a HUGE bearing on how we live our lives.





The quote below is from Bobby Lepinay of Harvest Outreach Church of Pensacola, Florida.





My inner thoughts form my true 'belief system'. These thoughts WILL produce FRUIT or “results” in like kind, which direct my life.





Your inner thoughts; or heart thoughts, eventually surface in some degree, and if those thoughts are sinful, that's bad news! 



Proverbs 18 :20-21 ( NIV)




20 From the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied. 21 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.



Proverbs 18:20-21 (The Message)




20 Words satisfy the mind as much as fruit does the stomach; good talk is as gratifying as a good harvest. 21 Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit—you choose.





Inner “HEART” thoughts are pretty much what we operate by! Most of our heart thoughts are learned. The words we speak to people often sink in deep, especially if the words come from people that we trust and look to for guidance. Godly minded words that are found in our bible also have power. The Biblical words have power to change our lives.



The “Label” Lie



“Your STUPID” exclaimed the angry father as he disgustedly signed the report card. The man's angry countenance and facial expression communicated disgust as he looked into his son's eyes across the dinner table. As the boy's shaking hand reached out for a glass of tea, he tips it over. The angry dad hurls another barrage of insults.



Words like: Worthless, pathetic, and you'll never amount to anything, carve a spot deep inside a child's mind. The labeling words issued by parents, friends, and other adults are taken to heart by the child; therefore, the child will begin to 'believe' that they are who others say they are.



I wonder what was said to the man holding up the sign; “please help, I need food”, when he was a child? DO you think that the majority of the homeless had supportive, encouraging parents...I sure don't! I often wonder how many times the dirty, hairy homeless guy was told he was worthless during childhood. Outside of messed up childhoods, I wonder what lies the homeless are told that create an imaginary barrier that prevents them from joining society? Most of the homeless want to be where they are because of the words of others. Many people are LIED to and tossed away as if they were garbage. Labels are another example of a LIE which originates from evil!



Heart Thoughts That Originate From Self “stinkin thinkin”



These are just a few of many examples of sinful thoughts and meditation:



violence, revenge, anger, sexual fantasy, plotting theft, planning a lie, and covetous pondering.



Sometimes we conjure up our own heart thoughts by living by our personal standards. Since we learn to operate by observation, the thoughts that were spoken to us by others evolve as we traverse life. We begin to set up our own way of living. Think about it; if we take in garbage, and then pile some of our own stuff on it, the pile get higher and stinks even more! We need to look no further than the word of God to find the way to clearer thinking.



Romans 12 (King James Version)



2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.



Our thoughts become our belief system.



The below truths are also originally derived from Bobby Lepinay of Harvest Outreach



Ungodly Beliefs v/s Godly Beliefs



ACCEPTANCE BELIEFS:



Ungodly



I am unloved.



Godly:



Romans 8:38-40 (King James Version)



38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.



SECURITY BELIEFS:



Ungodly:



I am alone.



Godly:



Philippians 4:19 (King James Version)



19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.



SIGNIFIGANCE BELIEFS:



Ungodly:



I have no purpose.



Godly:



phesians 2: 4-6 ( King James Version)



4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:



Conclusion



We get lost somewhere in the middle between right and wrong. I know I have landed in this very place from time to time. To this day I still get lost in the fray of life. What I am trying to bring to you is hope...the same hope in Christ that I have. Hope for a better tommorow.  Hope for clearer thinking. Hope for a real change.  We don't clean up and go to Jesus...we go to Jesus and he begins to change us. I'm not where I want to be yet, but I'm being changed from the inside out.


 





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Sunday, April 05, 2009 

Current mood:  betrayed
Category: Life
1)  Does it make any sense at all to replace a CEO that took on a sinking ship (GM) and decided to recieve a $1.00 a year salary, with another thats making sure he is taking his 1 1/2 million dollar a year salary of this still sinking ship?
2)  Did we notice there was no fanfare at all when the Chicago bears let go of Rex Grossman?
3)  Has anyone noticed that since Obama has taken office and even passing his losing so called stimulus package that we have lost an average of 650,000 jobs per month in this country since he has taken office?
4)  The "Stimulus Package" was supposed to create jobs so how is it that Chicago's Mayor Daley added a new computer system at O'Hare Airport thus, eliminating 12 jobs?
5)  Join the National Rifle Association ASAP if you are even considering owning a gun or already own one. Ala the Clinton Administration Ways this Administration now too is using the drug problems of Mexico as another way of again infringing on our rights and freedoms. Criminals will not ever give up their guns, and these laws only take away rights from those that abide by the laws. This administration is also side stepping the fact that the problems are drugs and revenue, and we need better enforcement of our drug laws here as well as being hardline on drug rehabilitation, illegal sales/trafficing, as well as all drug related crimes and the gangs here. Mexico's drug problems now have known links to terrorist groups, and even those addicted to drugs here in this country need to realize the help/funding they are giving these organizations by using narcotics. Guns do not kill...people kill PERIOD!
6)  If you cannot be honest, love, respect, or face yourself then how can you give those things to anyone else? A lie is a lie, a sin is a sin, whether its little or big...it is what it is, and if you thought it! You have sinned!
7)  I am for licensing for certain things...internet access and Parenting!
8)   We now have Jay Cutler from the Denver Bronco's and Santa Claus, Indiana. as The Chicago Bears new Quarterback. We also have perhaps 1 new burnt out defensive player Orlando Pace to protect this new QB. Cost for the new QB...1 progressing and learning QB Kyle Orton, 2 first round draft choices for the Bronco's, and 1 - 3rd round draft choice for the Bronco's, all for the cost of 1 person. Now whats the point when we have an offense that maybe able to put 35 points on the board with good receivers (do we have those?), but at the same time we have a Defense that gives up 41 points in a game? My prediction...Bears will still be the Bears for alot longer now giving up their draft choices. Denver maybe in the playoffs this year the legit way (by earning it this time), and the Bears will be at home watching the game! I say, "Bah Hum-Bug!"
9)  Are we having fun yet?
10)   Why do we celebrate Columbus Day when this man began genocide against the real owners and founders of this country...The Native AMERICAN Indians. "The North American Indian population is estimated to have been 12 million in 1500 and was reduced to barely 237,000 in 1900!" That to me represents a vast genocide and when you read C. Columbus' own journal notes from that journey, he freely admits the slaughter and torture of men, women, and children for fun, and even the rape of the women...this was a sick, sick, very sick man, and if a Bible had only been opend and read he would have realized that a part of the reason for his journey about debunking the theory of the earth being flat vs. was round was answered in  Isaiah 40:22. Obviously this man had no Christian or human qualities to begin with...he was a moraless rogue!
11)   Do we notice that King Obama has kept his word about not raising taxes and in fact lowering them? The individual States are doing that for Him just as I said right from the start!
12)  Stop waiting on your $500.00 Stimulus Check...this is rumor, has been a rumor, and will remain a rumor! There is none, and never was there one aside from the Reagan years...thats been the only true "Stimulus Check!"  What you recieved the year before last you also paid right back to the government last year when you filed your taxes, and do you know where your stimulus money went from the Bush year? It went on Asian Electronics, and the Oil Companies respectively...boy aren't we a smart lot of free people?
13)  There are currently 10.1 million unemployed people here in the US of A...the lie behind this number is the fact that it does not include those workers past their benefit allowances, and are recieving no help or support. It would be safe to add at least another 5 million plus perhaps to that number, if not even an equal or greater?
14)  I am now using Facebook just a little bit more, but admit I feel the applications are a nuisance, and I find it difficult to support a site that seems to drags it feet on removing pedifiles, registered sex offenders, and other such predators from its site. If you want to add me or find me on Facebook please do get a hold of me as some of us are already friends there now too.
15)  I want to ask continued prayer for Sarah for whom I posted a prayer request out here for earlier in the week...I also ask for continued prayers for several others right now that I will remain silent on as for their names. Please raise up a silent prayer request for these others.
16)  Think about these words (readers/people) and really read them, look at them...Obama on N. Korea:  "Now is the time for a strong international response, and North Korea must know that the path to security and respect will never come through threats and illegal weapons," Obama said to applause. "All nations must come together to build a stronger, global regime ... we must stand shoulder to shoulder to pressure the North Koreans to change course." Pay close attention to the words of the very last sentence and the words "global regime,"...A one world power? You voted for him...I didn't, and I say that proudly!
17)  American pop icon Madonna left Malawi Sunday after a court rejected her application to adopt a second child from the southern African country, an airport official said. For once money couldn't buy a child in this world...Madonna, donate equal funds to a homeless shelter, feeding center, or save a family here first...thats going to be out on the streets in foreclosure tomorrow!
18)  Run-DMC was installed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past week...aside froma remake of Walk this Way with Areosmith, name me one other "Rock" song they ever recorded, or did the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame change its name to the Rap and Roll Hall of Fame?
19)  I see we are finally down to our teams for the national college basketball champioship game...seems to me like every team big, small, and in between is now in March Madness, or a Bowl game of some sort when it comes to college football too?
20)  If a turtle has not a shell, is it naked or homeless? And...if a little person falls in the woods, would anyone hear them?
 
 
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Monday, March 16, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Life

Category: Religion and Philosophy
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I AM A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR
I'VE DONE MY TIME IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
CURLED UP IN A BALL ON THE FLOOR
AFTER HIS RAGING TEMPER WAS SPENT

ON MY HANDS AND KNEES I HAVE PLEADED
PLEASE DON'T BEAT ME ANYMORE
BUT ALL MY PLEAS WENT UNHEEDED
AS HIS FISTS ROCKED ME TO THE CORE

I WAS ALWAYS ACCUSED OF CHEATING
HE TIMED ME WHEN I WENT ANYWHERE
WHY WOULD I RISK ANOTHER BEATING
BY HAVING AN AFFAIR

HE CHECKED THE MILEAGE ON MY CAR
AND EVEN TOOK MY CAR KEYS AWAY
I WASN'T ALLOWED TO GO VERY FAR
BUT TO MY PARENTS A MILE AWAY

THE BEATINGS GOT WORSE WHEN I WAS PREGNANT
AT A TIME WHEN MOST WOMEN WERE PAMPERED
EVERY LITTLE THING SENT HIM INTO A RANT
HE DIDN'T EVEN CARE IF HIS MOM OVERHEARD

HIS PARENTS GAVE US THEIR OWN BEDROOM
SO WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF PRIVACY
I HAD TO WAKE HIM UP TO GO TO THE BATHROOM
AT NIGHT I WAS UNDER LOCK AND KEY

SOMEHOW HE APPOINTED HIMSELF MY JAILER
HE CONTROLLED EVERY PART OF MY LIFE
IF I DIDN'T OBEY A BEATING WOULD OCCUR
I WAS HIS PROPERTY...HIS LOWLY WIFE

WHILE I WAS IN LABOR IN THE HOSPITAL FOR HOURS
HE THREATENED OUR UNBORN CHILD AND ME
IF THE CHILD DIDN'T HAVE BLACK HAIR LIKE OURS
HE'D WAIT TIL' THE NURSE LEFT TO THREATEN ME

I THANK THE LORD FOR WATCHING OVER ME
I COULD HAVE BECOME ANOTHER STATISTIC
I AM SO BLESSED BECAUSE HE PARDONED ME
HE RESCUED ME FROM A MIND THAT WAS SICK

©COPYRIGHTED 2008
DEBBY HARRIS
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IF YOU ARE A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, PLEASE GET OUT.  WHEN KIDS WITNESS THIS, THEY GROW UP THINKING IT IS ACCEPTABLE.  I DID.  I THOUGHT BEATINGS WERE NORMAL BECAUSE I WITNESSED THEM AS A CHILD.  IF I'D HAVE GROWN UP DIFFERENT, I WOULD HAVE HAD RESPECT FOR MYSELF AND NOT PUT UP WITH IT.

I THOUGHT I ASKED FOR EVERY BEATING I GOT BECAUSE I WAS TOLD THAT SO OFTEN.  I LOOK BACK AND I AM ANGRY THAT I LOVED SOMEONE WHO TREATED ME LIKE THAT.  HE DIDN'T UNTIL, AFTER HE JOINED THE NAVY.  HE CHANGED DRASTICALLY AFTER THAT.  I COULD HAVE DIED AND IT IS BY GRACE THAT I WAS SAVED.

PLEASE SUPPORT VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.  MEN ARE ALSO VICTIMS SOMETIMES.  THEY GET EMBARRASSED TO GO TO THE COPS BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY WILL BE LAUGHED AT.  THERE IS ALOT OF STIGMA ATTACHED TO BEING A VICTIM.
THIS IS BEING RE-POSTED BECAUSE SOME OF MY FRIENDS ARE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.  RIGHT NOW THEY ARE STILL AFRAID AND HURTING.  THIS IS DEDICATED TO YOU, AND YOU BOTH KNOW WHO YOU ARE.  LOVE, DEBBY


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Sunday, March 08, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
Enclosed is a copy & paste on AIG and where "OUR" money has gone. I don't know about you, but I sure as hell didn't want a penny of my money to be used for this. Notice the lack of disclosure and this is just one major player that has their hand out for more, more, more. Why did the Feds report a few weeks back that our banks were safe and secure, and then turnaround and decide to "Stress Test," the banks just two days later, if in fact they were stable and safe? This came right after the "so called" stimulus was passed. Now being just one company we are looking at what about Bank of America, CitiGroup, GM, Chrysler, etc, etc...are we paying attention that everyone of these companies after being handed over billions in so called loans reported billions more in losses. Personally, I say its enough with the bailouts for everyone, forget chain reactions, the fact is that even with this new mortgage bailout that only 20% of those introuble will qualify, and yet on the other side of the coin the Whitehouse realeased stats saying that by 2020, 16% of all homes in the United States will be foreclosed on. Lets also not foget that we have yet been given Bernake's plan for the "4th" Financial Institutions Bailout Plan...yes, the FOURTH since Bush and now Obama, and lets keep a very clear persepective on the fact that Obama was pushing this legislation through all along as a US Senator! Also lets for once stop saying the republicans or Bush did this...this all began with Clinton Administration. Count the years people..it takes on average 12 years for a administrations financial plan/policies to take effect. The problems in the mortgage industry were already known in that administration as were the possible downfall of Freddie and Ginnie. The Clinton Adiminstration years allowed mergers, free trade with narrower exports, and whitehouse order to approve mortgage loans destined for failure, and a smoke and mirror economy by never raising interest rates...we were losing jobs and saw companies fail then in record numbers. This Bernake plan was disclosed the Tuesday Morning of which Obama addressed the nation on television. Bernake said that day, "That bailout may well be 2 tillion dollars in itself!"
That Tuesday and the address or shall I say "Song and dance to the nation," was a week earlier in a interview with Bill Clinton precisely scripted by the Obama Administration. Billary Clinton said, "I believe the administration has said enough about the gloom and doom to pass through the legislation (stimulus package), now its time he speaks the good to come of and bring back hope to the people!" So yes folks, its all a staging, a show, a smoke and mirror thing...thats politics, and thats all we end up with people in Capital for any real length of time. Out of touch politicians. I know every Asian country has to be cringing when Hilaary went to Asia to express that all our trade agreements will remain and less than a few days later Obama addresses the nation and says, "Our trade agreements will also need to be changed and balanced!" We are actually lucky to not have another world war happening right now, and theres alot of inexperience showing right now thats cutting this country's throats for generations to come.
As for that Tuesday night address to the people...I sat there praying that someone please throw a damned shoe already. Better still everyone in the house throw both shoes at the podium fast!!!!!!! If not at Obama then please some throw then at Nancy Pelosi. That insane woman stood up applauding every 15 seconds...they should have drug tested that psycho after the first 15 minutes, because she had to smoke $1,000.00 worth of crack for the psychotic behavior and energy she had, when she doesn't even know how many Americans are in the US Population!!!!!!
Go back to a few blogs back and see the count of the money being handed out just a few days prior to the stimulus bill being passed, and lets add these numbers to that now...400 billion Obama is giving to cities for Capital projects (Daley's 50 million for a runway when flights are down 63%, and that project is 120 million in the hole right now, a $800,000 dog park for San Jose, CA that will create 1 job, but lets not forget it added 14 police officers in Ohio...God, I feel so safe now!), God knows how much that "stress testing of the banks will cost us, an undisclosed amount of federal funding now for brain stem research, which reminds me that Obama is overturning the moral and ethics bill that Bush signed into effect prohibiting doctors and nurses that for whatever moral and ethical personal beliefs would not be forced to perform abortions...now they will have to against their own personal moral, ethical, and religious beliefs! National Healthcare ala Socialism, think people?!?!! Hillary also pledged Gaza 4.5 billion to rebuild it...excuse me? Did we bomb or destroy Gaza, do they provide anything we need such as oil...let Isreal pay to rebuild it, they destroyed it AGAIN. I guess we will pay for more terrorists in the long run, AGAIN!
The article from Reuter's News Agency:


NEW YORK (Reuters) – Where, oh where, did AIG's bailout billions go? That question may reverberate even louder through the halls of government in the week ahead now that a partial list of beneficiaries has been published.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that about $50 billion of more than $173 billion that the U.S. government has poured into American International Group Inc since last fall has been paid to at least two dozen U.S. and foreign financial institutions.
The newspaper reported that some of the banks paid by AIG since the insurer started getting taxpayer funds were: Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Deutsche Bank AG, Merrill Lynch, Societe Generale, Calyon, Barclays Plc, Rabobank, Danske, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Banco Santander, Morgan Stanley, Wachovia, Bank of America, and Lloyds Banking Group.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. Bank of America, Calyon, and Wells Fargo, which has absorbed Wachovia, could not be reached for comment.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has refused to publicize a list of AIG's derivative counterparties and what they have been paid since the bailout, riling the U.S. Senate Banking Committee.
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn testified before that committee on Thursday that revealing names risked jeopardizing AIG's continuing business. Kohn said there were millions of counterparties around the globe, including pension funds and U.S. households.
He said the intention was not to protect AIG or its counterparties, but to prevent the spread of AIG's infection.
The Wall Street Journal, citing a confidential document and people familiar with the matter, reported that Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank each got about $6 billion in payments between the middle of September and December last year.
Once the world's largest insurer, AIG has been described by the United States as being too extensively intertwined with the global financial system to be allowed to fail.
The Federal Reserve first rode to AIG's rescue in September with an $85 billion credit line after losses from toxic investments, many of which were mortgage related, and collateral demands from banks, left AIG staring down bankruptcy.
Late last year, the rescue packaged was increased to $150 billion. The bailout was overhauled again a week ago to offer the insurer an additional $30 billion in equity.
AIG was first bailed out shortly after investment bank Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail and brokerage Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America Corp.
Bankruptcy for AIG would have led to complications and losses for financial institutions around the world doing business with the company and policy holders that AIG insured against losses.
Representative Paul Kanjorski told Reuters on Thursday that he had been informed that a large number of AIG's counterparties were European.
"That's why we could not allow AIG to fail as we allowed Lehman to fail, because that would have precipitated the failure of the European banking system," said Kanjorski, a Democrat from Pennsylvania who chairs the House Insurance Subcommittee.
TOXIC ASSETS/TOXIC WASTE
As part of its business, AIG insured counterparties on mortgage-backed securities and other assets. The collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market, which triggered a global financial crisis, left the insurer and some of its policy holders facing possible ruin as the value of assets declined.
U.S. regulators failed to recognize how much risk AIG was piling on in credit-default swaps, and by the time they understood, they had no choice but to pour in billions of public dollars, Kohn and other officials told the Senate panel.
Senators were outraged by the lack of details about where the bailout money has gone.
"That we find ourselves in this situation at all is ... quite frankly, sickening," said Senator Christopher Dodd, the Democrat who chairs the committee. "The lack of transparency and accountability in this process has been rather stunning."
Eric Dinallo, superintendent of New York State's Insurance Department, railed on Friday against AIG's failed business model, likening its insuring credit-default swaps as gambling with somebody else's money.
"It's like taking insurance on your neighbor's house and even maybe contributing to blowing it up," he said at a panel sponsored by New York University's Stern School of Business.
U.S. lawmakers have said they are running out of patience with regulators' refusal to identify AIG's counterparties.
On Thursday, Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the banking committee, said: "The Fed and Treasury can be secretive for a while but not forever."
(Writing Toni Reinhold; Additional reporting by Juan Lagorio in New York; Editing by Clive McKeef)

 
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 

Current mood:  apathetic
I just want to acknowldge those friends of mine that acknowledged my past Birthday and say thank for the comments, and emails of good wishes. I do know whom my real freinds are and a personal note to Wayne: Trust me I am not mad or disappointed that you did not leave a comment or anything. I know some people do have things to do aside from Myspace or complete self indulgence, etc. As for my bithday I want to share one thing about it, and it kind of shows you the more things change the more they stay the same.
Friday evening when I got back to my aunt's, and just prior to bed. My aunt says to me,  "Oh! Since tomorrow's your birthday (now keep in mind I was with my parent's all that day) we are going to Warsaw Inn for dinner for you. We have those gift certificates from Christmas and we'd figure we'd use them." Now, I turn around and say, " Must be expiring soon, and how can that be for my birthday when they are gift certificates that the 3 of (mom, dad, and my aunt recieved from my one brother at christmas) got at Christmas. I was there all day and no one said a word about tomorrow, so why bother or start acting like its a big deal now, when nothings been a big deal for the last 8 1/2 years?" My aunt just kind of had a look on her face that told the whole story...I wasn't too far from the truth! She finally said, "Ok, lets forget it!" off to bed I went.
Saturday I am by the folks, not a happy birthday, etc, so that was already the usual day. Now about 3:30pm I hear the doorbell ring and I knew someone was over visiting. For my own lack of getting aggrivated over things, I can be here, but I've learned how to detach from the whole situation over the years. Now about 4pm they call me and tell me that dinner is ready...I walk downstairs to see my oldest brother sitting at the table, and mom and dad have homemade sloppy joe's they are serving. Okay, still no big deal but the pieces fell into place.
My oldest bro. whenever he graces them with his presence will call ahead and they will make or have whatever he wants. Everyone here knows that although far from a fussy eater...sloppy joe's are just boring to me despite them being good, from that recipe. But heres the real scenerio which I mentioned to my aunt, and heard not a word back to deny what I said wasn't true. My folk's probably had that dinner arranged for Saturday from midweek at Warsaw Inn, a guise to make it sound different than what it was and being dinner for him was saying it was my Birthday. I know Mom well enough where she'll someone else do her dirty work. and used my aunt to bring up the whole dinner thing in honor of my Birthday...yeah right, I knew/know better after 8 1/2 years.
So in closing...yeah it was just anothe day just like most holiday's, birthdays, and such! Thus the new heading thats been there since Saturday. Games. lies, self indulged people...day by day I seperate from them more, and thank God for giving me the courage and strength at times from where there can only be one place that helps me to carry through at times. I mean hell, even my buddy from Colorado called me both Friday and Saturday to say happy birthday at least, and will be here next month the 4th thru the 11th to celebrate. So hey, Happy Birthday and Wayne theres no reason at all to be upset with you for anything. Family should mean more, but they do mean less, and I even had a one or two friends that wereascloseasthis, that were too self absorbed to really remember aside from the next day or very last minute after seeing the comments. I guess from 1-2  I expected just a little more as they really do know me heart and soul, but like I say, "The more things change, the more they do stay the same!' God bless peeps.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009 

Current mood:  blah
I have warned people repeatedly to be careful of what you post...pics, things said in anger, accusations, all out lies, threats to other people, etc. Now early last week and no one seems quite sure when it was done in the first place, but last week it was discovered in the agreement for Facebook that they "Own all licenses to their site," which is totally legit as its your choice to use that kind of forum. Fact is even if it were a paid site, whoever owns the site would still most likely own all licenses...You the user are their a part of their license when clicking that "Agree" button.
Now I have seen personally pics of all kinds imagineable posted, police reports posted, read and saw more then enough threats of bodily harm to other people, have seen all sorts of slander and deformation of character out of shear spite or anger. Need I remind everyone that future employers check these sites, family, your children, neighbors, your children's teachers, parole officers, police departments, current employers, spouses, ex spouses, lawyers and law offices in letigation for cases, etc. Do you get the picture just yet?
As per every news channel I saw concerning the  use of Facebook, and I remind you this too is a site just like Facebook, but a site that has done great strides in eliminating predators, spammers, hackers, flamers, etc. It is their site, and not yours regardless of what people think. This same thing could happen at anytime as it had with facebook. Facebook had actually removed the capability for you to delete and remove things from your own profile that you had posted, be it pictures, blogs, comments, etc. under their licensing agreement, but reversed their policy once it became public and was aired on network news. They did release a public statement to the affect as something like this..."After review we have removed our policy until a later time in which we can work out some deatils, and clear things with our legal department," which means it will come back and whatever you put out there, stays out there, as you will not even be able to delete your own profile once its out there. Now imagine the the pic that your grandchildren would see 15 years from now, that threatening blog you wrote about your neighbor that you intended to delete in a week and its still there, the things you said that were untrue about your ex when you first broke up, etc. All these things people are public rcord and if they can own your profile through licensing agreements it too is public record and forget about "private profiles." Its their, they can do what they want, just as MySpace or any other social networking site. Imagine a few pics you throught were harmless a year ago, and today after 7-8 real good interviews you never even get a call back. That blog you wrote is finally seen by a friend of the ex or your nieghbor and you are charged with internet threats, etc.
Not let me also share with you about this current administration and whats going on in many states. They do and do want policing of the internet, and they also want lost revenues from out of state taxes, they want to control what can be bought and sold, and even what can be viewed...lets face it, and yes its something that WAS/IS needed....more and more states are passing criminal laws against threats made over the internet, and under these laws slander and such are open doors for lawsuits. General Rule of thumb is, "if its the truth, " then it is what it is...if it is assumption, written without fact just to defame someone , lies, jealousy, envy beased upon ignorance and anger then that generally that falls into a catagory of slander and all out lies. The thing is those things will NEVER disappear once these policies are applied. They can turn right around and bite you right in the ass, be it a year from now, or 20 years from now under these sort of policies. Remember that person you hated and had beat up? Well they find out 2-3 years later you set them up, and suddenly you are sitting behind bars because you made the threat here that happened, and they heard from a friend of the person that you had do that to them!
I firmly believe under this administration today and seeing a deep mix of socialism being hidden within policy changes and laws, that we will be seeing more of so called "Big Brother,"monitoring the people even more, Keep putting it out there about the cash jobs you do on the side, keep slandering everyone because of shear spite and ignorance, and go ahead and threaten that neighbor again. The times and stresses are more than enough today, and the people around us seem to get no better. But we all do not have to be like everyone else, take care of you and eachother so long as you get the same in return. Included is a little video about Facebook that does need to be seen: If the link below is higlighted simply click on it, if it is not highlighted copy and past into your browser, the video is about 10 minutes in length...

http://blip.tv/file/1613641
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