There is no pain like the loss of a loved one: the numbness, the tears, the anguish, the loneliness, the aloneness, the sadness, the anger.
In the beginning there were so many tears, gut-wrenching tears, an unfamiliar howl deep from within. Slowly the world came back into focus; busyness overtook the constant memories and softened the pain ever so lightly…but not really. It was a false sense of return to wellness.
For the first sixty days I ran from here to there from hither to yon moving but going nowhere. I lunched with friends, talked and found my laughter, but inside I had a huge gaping hole that was consuming me.
The crowd of friends that beckoned my door and rang the phone diminished to a handful of special caring friends. I know its not because they’ve forgotten me or my loss, but rather that their lives – their normal lives – moved forward. I understand, but I now know that I, too, have never fully been the friend I should have been to those who have lost their love. (Read More)
Health Care: The Obama administration just inked a $20 million deal with PR firm Porter Novelli to help promote ObamaCare. Why do they need to promote a law that was supposed to get more popular once it passed?
According to news accounts, the multimedia campaign is mandated by ObamaCare as a way to educate the public about how to stay healthy and prevent illnesses.
Right. Like another $20 million will make a difference on top of the avalanche of public health news already out there.
A Health and Human Services official let slip the real reason, telling Roll Call that the PR effort is meant “to inform the American people about the many preventive benefits now available … as a result of the Affordable Care Act.”
In other words, this is more about burnishing ObamaCare’s image before the election than meeting some public health imperative.
WASHINGTON — The economy could relapse into a recession if President Obama and Congress remain at an impasse and allow several big tax increases and spending cuts to take effect at the start of 2013, the Congressional Budget Office reported on Tuesday.
The nonpartisan budget office analyzed the impact of what has come to be called the year-end fiscal cliff. Largely by coincidence, several big tax cuts, including those from the Bush era, will expire as deep across-the-board spending cuts take effect. Many economists say the jolt of tax increases and spending cuts would shock the economy after four years of stimulus measures.
A couple of weeks ago I paid for an ad in the Times Record pointing out the dangers of electing government employees to the state legislature. Electing state employees increases the scope of government by allowing them to lobby for their own special interests while extirpating private citizens from the legislative process. This of course is double-dipping, exploitation, and presents an alarming conflict of interests.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has gone to court to prevent the Colorado-based firm Regenerative Sciences from using stem cells developed in one part of your body (bone marrow) to repair damage in other parts of your body, such as joints. The FDA objects to the fact that these cells are chemicals, the use of which they have the power to regulate even though the cells are taken from your body to later be injected back into your body.
The FDA is accustomed to the process by which it requires that many years and millions of dollars be spent to approve drugs developed in a laboratory before anyone is allowed to use them. Regardless of clinical results that show use of stem cells to be highly effective, the FDA finds it intolerable to let you use the cells in your own body without prior approval by a vast and expensive bureaucracy.
It is a shame that no one told all of those who would benefit from stem cell research that the benefits of such research would not actually be available to patients. Treatment of individuals does not comply with the FDA’s regulatory paradigm. Personalized medicine may work new miracles, but care for the individual must be subordinated to supervision by a multitude of administrators.
Over the past few months, the dismal financial state of the United States Postal Service has been the subject of much derision and contempt in the mainstream media. The massive debt held by the USPS has been the bloody sheet waived by both reactionary Republicans and Wall Street Democrats in order to justify the privatization or even the elimination of such an important service from oversight and administration by the Federal government.
The large debt held by USPS, coupled with exaggerations of wait times and other aspects involved in shipping services, are constantly highlighted as the latest example of how “government is incapable of running anything effectively.” The general public is then subjected to a barrage of “free market” solutions which are, as is almost always the case, nothing more than the fleecing of the taxpayer who will inevitably end up paying more and receiving less while benefiting crony corporations.
Suppose, as a newborn, the government implanted an identification chip somewhere in your body. Suppose that chip constantly fed information about you, your whereabouts, your health, your, uh, well — you fill in the blank.
No this is not a script from the popular TV show “Fringe.” Its much worse. Its from the real life version of “Fringe” known as DARPA.
It’s called MMEA or Multiple Micro Electrode Array. It leaves an ID chip in the dust. And it is scary as hell!
The media and the usual race-mongers made sure that all of America knew about George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26. The local police initially did not arrest Zimmerman because it was an obvious case of self-defense.
There was no such outcry, however, when a month later on March 26 a 50-year-old white man was attacked and beaten with a hammer by two black teens, in Midway, Florida, just six miles from Sanford. The Orlando Sentinel published a description of the attackers, but neglected to mention their race. One of them had just finished a seventeen month prison sentence.
When you look at a presidential candidate, you are faced with the sobering fact that, if elected, he will be the most powerful person on earth for the next four years and have power over not only weapons of mass destruction, but also the economy, foreign policy, social and civil rights issues – and the quality of your life.
New candidates have to run on a limited record of public service, their character, their personality and their believability.
If the person is an incumbent, that person should stand on past achievements and the accomplishments, or lack thereof, in the last four years.
Being a good president requires much more than being a nice and charismatic guy, a good public speaker and looking good for the television cameras.
Mittens Romney’s imitation of Senator John McCain during the 2008 presidential election is going to ensure another Obama victory which will destroy the United States of America for good.
The dismantling of America will not come from a foreign invasion, it will be destroyed by the domestic terrorists from within, and the devastation is presently underway.
Mitten’s political handlers advised him to condemn a plan from a super PAC to use Barack Obama’s influential relationship with his controversial Pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright against him in the 2012 campaign. This will lead the presumed Republican nominee to the same losing fate as senator John McCain in 2008.
What’s up with these dudes?
Their actions would leave a reasonable thinking person to believe that they were throwing the election in favor of their opponent. Talk about losing confidence in your elected officials, now maybe some people will realize why conservatives are opposed to a Romney nomination.
America is under siege, and we have another presidential candidate down on his knees, licking Obama’s boots.
UPDATE: MEDIA WORKS TO SUPPRESS OBAMA ‘BORN IN KENYA’ BIO While the internet buzzed with Breitbart News’ release of a booklet from President Obama’s literary agency circa 1991 describing him as being “born in Kenya,” the mainstream media still refuses to report the story, or plays defense for Obama. (Read Full Story)
THE VETTING – EXCLUSIVE – OBAMA’S LITERARY AGENT IN 1991 BOOKLET: ‘BORN IN KENYA AND RAISED IN INDONESIA AND HAWAII’
Note from Senior Management: Andrew Breitbart was never a “Birther,” and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of “Birtherism.” In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama’s ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him.
It is for that reason that we launched “The Vetting,” an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)–not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences.
It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below–one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review.
It is evidence–not of the President’s foreign origin, but that Barack Obama’s public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama’s anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White – which Obama Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks – beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work – that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn’t.
“The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel was the first major television program to report this incident. Yet this story is not just a Norfolk story, either in what happened or in how the media and the authorities have tried to sweep it under the rug.
All politicians crave power. Many use that power to enhance their personal wealth.
The power of the federal government is greater now than it has ever been in the history of the United States. The Constitution, as envisioned and written by the Founders, seeks to limit the power of the federal government. The Republican and Democrat establishments hate that.
Such a perspective explains why so few in government adhere to their oath of office to “support and defend” the Constitution, except in cases when it can be used to buttress their partisan political arguments. In those situations our hypocritical federal officials self-righteously wrap themselves in its protective cloak. Otherwise, the Constitution gets conveniently thrown under the bus.
Lets do something unexpected! The government seems to want to control us with fear, always something to fear, terrorists, bombs, poisons, bad food etc etc and it goes on and on day in and day out. Are you as worn out with that as I am? Lets change course all together…
We have to make fear turn into fun. Lets dye our hair funky colors and find wagons or carts to pull around town picking up our supplies, laugh with real joy of absolutely not caring what everyone else is doing just gloat in the fact you will be a person who is capable of laughter even in the face of danger.
~ Foreword ~Earlier this week (of May 14, 2012) on ‘Life, Liberty & All That Jazz‘, I referenced the oft forgotten fact, that President George W. Bush signed into law, the U.S. Homeland Security Act during February 2001 – a full seven months before the fateful day now known as 9/11. What did he know, and when did he know it?
In the words of F.D.R. – “In politics, nothing happens by accident.” – or something to that effect. In November of 2001, the following was offered by a dear friend and contributing writer – Karen Lee Bixman – now retired – but the power of her investigative reports is always worth of a revisit.(Ed.)
The most vile, dangerous, deadly enemy Legal American citizens have sits within the bowels of what WAS our government offices in WDC. Our enemy isn’t in the MidEast – it is right in that SWAMP called Washington DC. The sooner that swamp is drained and all predator critters are eliminated – the safer America and the rest of the world will be. Americans fell asleep and listened to the whisperings of the SERPENT and now we are at deaths door. Do we kill the snake or let it finish us off? America and the rest of the world is now being bombed by “Obama’s Toilet Tankers”. – Jackie Juntti
The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio sets a new low for the politicization of DOJ.
Neither President Nixon’s Justice Department during the Watergate era nor the Bill Clinton-Janet Reno abuses of DOJ’s power (e.g., summary firing of all U.S. attorneys, the invasion at Waco, Bill Lann Lee’s Civil Rights Division activism) quite compares with the lengths to which Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez, and President Obama have gone to pursue a political vendetta.
Foremost to keep in mind regarding this misconduct: It’s all about immigration politics.
One can liken the days leading up to the pending collapse of this nation to an appointment with an endodontic for a root canal procedure, the time unto the appointment seemingly lapses with unnerving quickness while the horrific hour and a half in the chair grinds by for an ostensible eternity. Thus it is in regard to the final days of this nation that slip swiftly by in a run up to the pure hell that awaits; an ultimate frantic, terrifying, gut wrenching fall of a once proud republic.
“And I will dash them one against each other, the fathers and the sons, says the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.” – Jeremiah 13:14
In the jagged ignorant minds of a lost people those terminal days will grind by in interminable agony. It will be a hell of a secular humanist making and a just retribution for the evolutionists, atheists, agnostics, sodomites, socialists, communists, and progressives who thumbed their noses at Almighty God and held His name in derision.
Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians, while their villages were destroyed. The destruction of Palestine in 1947-48 ushered in the birth of Israel. Older generations relay the harsh and oppressive memory of their collective experience to younger Palestinians, many of whom live their own Nakbas today.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~ Ronald Reagan
There is no pain like the loss of a loved one: the numbness, the tears, the anguish, the loneliness, the aloneness, the sadness, the anger.
Health Care: The Obama administration just inked a $20 million deal with PR firm Porter Novelli to help promote ObamaCare. Why do they need to promote a law that was supposed to get more popular once it passed?
WASHINGTON — The economy could relapse into a recession if President Obama and Congress remain at an impasse and allow several big tax increases and spending cuts to take effect at the start of 2013, the Congressional Budget Office reported on Tuesday.
A couple of weeks ago I paid for an ad in the Times Record pointing out the dangers of electing government employees to the state legislature. Electing state employees increases the scope of government by allowing them to lobby for their own special interests while extirpating private citizens from the legislative process. This of course is double-dipping, exploitation, and presents an alarming conflict of interests. 
Over the past few months, the dismal financial state of the United States Postal Service has been the subject of much derision and contempt in the mainstream media. The massive debt held by the USPS has been the bloody sheet waived by both reactionary Republicans and Wall Street Democrats in order to justify the privatization or even the elimination of such an important service from oversight and administration by the Federal government.
Suppose, as a newborn, the government implanted an identification chip somewhere in your body. Suppose that chip constantly fed information about you, your whereabouts, your health, your, uh, well — you fill in the blank.
The media and the usual race-mongers made sure that all of America knew about George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26. The local police initially did not arrest Zimmerman because it was an obvious case of self-defense.
When you look at a presidential candidate, you are faced with the sobering fact that, if elected, he will be the most powerful person on earth for the next four years and have power over not only weapons of mass destruction, but also the economy, foreign policy, social and civil rights issues – and the quality of your life.
Mittens Romney’s imitation of Senator John McCain during the 2008 presidential election is going to ensure another Obama victory which will destroy the United States of America for good.
Andrew Breitbart was never a “Birther,” and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of “Birtherism.” In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks – beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work – that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn’t.
All politicians crave power. Many use that power to enhance their personal wealth.
Lets do something unexpected! The government seems to want to control us with fear, always something to fear, terrorists, bombs, poisons, bad food etc etc and it goes on and on day in and day out. Are you as worn out with that as I am? Lets change course all together…
One can liken the days leading up to the pending collapse of this nation to an appointment with an endodontic for a root canal procedure, the time unto the appointment seemingly lapses with unnerving quickness while the horrific hour and a half in the chair grinds by for an ostensible eternity. Thus it is in regard to the final days of this nation that slip swiftly by in a run up to the pure hell that awaits; an ultimate frantic, terrifying, gut wrenching fall of a once proud republic.
Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians, while their villages were destroyed. The destruction of Palestine in 1947-48 ushered in the birth of Israel. Older generations relay the harsh and oppressive memory of their collective experience to younger Palestinians, many of whom live their own Nakbas today. 
