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As a Republican do you believe a Democratic administration would deny health care to Republicans?

April 16th, 2011 24 comments

GOP hints Dems would deny Republicans health care
From Associated Press
August 28, 2009 1:42 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – The Republican national party has mailed a fundraising appeal suggesting Democrats might use an overhaul of the health care system to deny medical treatment to Republicans.

A questionnaire accompanying the appeal says the government could check voting registration records, "prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system."

It asks, "Does this possibility concern you?"

Katie Wright, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said the question was "inartfully worded."

But she said people should worry because government officials would have access to personal financial and medical data.

"The RNC doesn’t try to scare people," said Wright. "We’re just trying to get the facts out on health care. And that’s what we do every day."

Jon Vogel, executive director of the Democratic House campaign organization, called the GOP letter "shameless fear-mongering."

In a fundraising e-mail of his own seeking to raise $100,000 by Aug. 31, Vogel wrote the Republican accusation was "just a preview of the falsehoods, fabrications and outright lies Republicans will be pushing when Congress returns in September."

The allegation is the latest instance in which some critics of the health care effort have made inflammatory unfounded claims – such as conservatives who claimed the legislation would create "death panels" that they said could lead to euthanizing elderly people.

The suggestion that Republicans might not receive care is included in a "Future of American Health Care Survey" containing 13 questions, most of which are critical of the Democratic health care effort. The technique, referred to as a "push poll," is used often in political campaigns by both parties and is designed to spread negative information, not to sample public opinion.

Another question asks, "Do you believe it is justified to ration health care regardless of whether an individual has contributed to the cost of the treatment?"

The survey is accompanied by a two-page letter signed by Michael Steele, chairman of the national Republican party. The letter accuses Democrats of "moving swiftly to bring European-style socialized medicine here," but makes no mention of the possibility that Republicans might be denied coverage.

Wright did not immediately respond when asked who had crafted the wording of the survey questions, and which GOP officials had signed off on it.

The questionnaire was first reported by The Washington Independent, a progressive-leaning nonprofit news and politics Web site based in Washington.

No I do not but however it is an intriguing idea not without merit.Its obvious appeal would be that self-professed sturdy REAL AMERICANS
could put into practice values of self-reliance which they so cherish.Unless these exponents of LIBERTY have not noticed medical care is already rationed by INSURANCE COMPANIES whose only allegiance is to profit realized by denying health care and treatment.

AGW Deniers: Are FIVE exonerations enough to get you to stop whining about "Climategate"?

March 21st, 2011 3 comments

I’m guessing you didn’t hear about this on Rush or Glenn’s shows:

"The new review was the fifth investigation to reach similar conclusions about the e-mail messages sent by Dr. Jones and other scientists"

British Panel Clears Climate Scientists
By JUSTIN GILLIS

A British panel on Wednesday exonerated the scientists caught up in the controversy known as Climategate of charges that they had manipulated their research to support preconceived ideas about global warming.

But the panel also rebuked the scientists for several aspects of their behavior, especially their reluctance to release computer files backing up their scientific work. And it declared that a that graph they produced in 1999 about climate in the past was “misleading” and should have contained caveats.

The researcher at the center of the flap, Phil Jones, a leading climatologist who had temporarily stepped down from his position at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia pending the results of the inquiry, was immediately reinstated to a job resembling his old one. The university solicited and paid for the new report.

The Climatic Research Unit, often referred to as CRU, has played a leading role in efforts to understand Earth’s past climate. Embarrassing e-mail messages sent by Dr. Jones and other scientists were purloined from a computer at the university in November and posted to the Internet. The e-mail messages led to a deluge of accusations from climate-change skeptics.

Some of the scientists were forced to admit that they had been guilty of poor behavior, such as chortling in the e-mail messages about the death of one climate skeptic. But were the researchers, as the skeptics charged, guilty of scientific misconduct?

"On the specific allegations made against the behavior of CRU scientists, we find that their rigor and honesty as scientists are not in doubt," said the new review, led by Muir Russell, a retired British civil servant and educator.

The Russell panel also found little reason to question the advice the scientists had given to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body that produces a major review of the science of global warming every few years. The new report said that "we did not find any evidence of behavior that might undermine the conclusions of the I.P.C.C. assessments."

The new review was the fifth investigation to reach similar conclusions about the e-mail messages sent by Dr. Jones and other scientists, though it was the most comprehensive and eagerly awaited. “We have maintained all along that our science is honest and sound and this has been vindicated now by three different independent external bodies,” Dr. Jones said in a statement.

Last week, the second of two reviews at Pennsylvania State University largely exonerated Michael Mann, a scientist there who had also been a focus of the controversy.

The latest report was by no means a complete vindication for the British scientists or for the University of East Anglia, however.

Echoing the findings of an earlier report by a parliamentary committee in London, the reviewers criticized "a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness" in responding to demands for backup data and other information under Britain’s laws governing public records.

On the single most serious accusation that was raised against the researchers, the Russell panel did find some cause for complaint, but it did not issue the robust condemnation for which climate skeptics had been hoping. The issue involved an effort to reconstruct the climate history of the past several thousand years using indirect indicators like the size of tree rings and the growth rate of corals.

The CRU researchers, leaders in that type of work, were trying in 1999 to produce a long-term temperature chart that could be used in a United Nations publication. But they were dogged by a problem: since around 1960, for mysterious reasons, trees have stopped responding to temperature increases in the same way they apparently did in previous centuries. If plotted on a chart, tree rings from 1960 forward appear to show declining temperatures, which scientists know from thermometer readings is not accurate.

Most scientific papers have dealt with this problem by ending their charts in 1960 or by grafting modern thermometer measurements onto the historical reconstructions. In the 1999 chart, the CRU researchers chose the latter course for one especially significant line on their graph.

In an e-mail message, Dr. Jones described this technique as a “trick” meant to “hide the decline” shown by the tree rings.

The Russell panel concluded that the procedure itself was acceptable in principle, as long as it was described clearly. This the CRU researchers had failed to do for that particular iteration of the graphic, the panel said, leading to its conclusion that the

That’s all you’ve got?

They will now claim the investigation was biased. In fact they already have. No amount of evidence will sway them. It’s sad really, as they call liberals sheep but they ONLY believe what Fox and their pundits tell them.

What do you guys think of this e-mail?

April 7th, 2010 3 comments

ok so i got this e-mail a few weeks ago and im wondering what you guys might think of it. it reads:

I’m 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce for a six-month period, when i was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, ever since i was 18. Despite some health challenges, i still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in for seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but i didn’t inherit my job or my income, and i worked to get where i am. Given the economy there is no retirement in sight, and i’m tired. Very tired.

I’m tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.

I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.

I’m tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of China , the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela .

I’m tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.

I’m tired of being told that "race doesn’t matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it’s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.

I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.

I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush’s military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

I’m tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough.

I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don’t think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I’m tired of harassment from cool people treat

Im 20yo and a kid (james) i went to school with broke his back at work and is now paralyzed waist down, (somthing fell off the roof oh the house he was working on)
he got a 3million dollar payout plus installments every yLil which doesn’t bother me (sides the fact i wish i had that money lol)

But there is another kid (Curtis) that i went to school with, was dealing drugs all through school (i know cause i did it with him) and he still does (i dont)
but he had a bad back claim and got a $400,000 payout he had been working there for 7 months WTF!!!

See i dont mind giving money to honest workers like james but F**K these others

I need Don Francisco address or e-mail to tell him my story about obtaining my US passport ?

March 30th, 2010 1 comment

I was born in Mexicali, Baja California Mex. in 47 but got my US citizenship through my father. In 1967 I received a US ID from the American Consulate here in Mexicali. Now they no long make them so I just pass the border saying US CITIZEN have been doing so for the past 43 years of have been living here in Mexicali and cross to Calexico, Ca. Where I use to work, took care of my parents till their death. Now that I need a US PASSPORT the American Consulate in Tijuana says I have to prove my dad’s citizenship through my grandmother who was born in the 1880’s and died in the 1950’s. I never new her but I found out while searching Ancestry my dad’s WW1 DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD OF 1918 where it has that my grandmother was in the STATE HOSPITAL PHOENIX, MARICOPA ARIZONA IN 1918. I called the hospital but all those records are long gone. Mr Wallace there told me to check with the VITAL RECORDS in PHOENIX to find her birth and death certificate. It’s been 6 months and so far they have found out nothing yet. I’m am very worried because a custom officer said my ID from the American Consulate will not be accepted in January 2009. I don’t know what to do next year I’ll be able to get my social security check but in november on my 62nd birthday what will happen with the money I worked hard for my old age.??????
Please a friend told me Don Francisco knows a Lawyer that could inform me what to do. They say (US CUSTOM) "That it’s a privilege to get a passport to cross the border". But I think "It’s more an HONOR being a US CITIZEN and having a US passport to prove it:"I am 61 year old and I am fighting for my right’s as a citizen which I believe to be. So please if I may have Don Francisco’s address or E-mail I will greatly appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Cecilia Cisneros Davis

You have the necessary US ID issued by an embassy to prove your citizenship. Nothing is more acceptable than that. You have worked and paid taxes (I presume) through all those years. You have an ssn card. What else do they need? Get an immigration lawyer to help you out.

Michigan Genealogy?

January 2nd, 2010 3 comments

I am looking for Genevieve the lady who answered my question about Jacob Spoor of NY childrens names are Horace and Ruth Spoor, came to Michigan in 1850’s. I was wondering how she found Horace’s Death record online and what searches and websights she used to find all the information that she gave me.

thanks Jessie

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Wrongly accused and stuck with the Public Defender?

December 21st, 2009 6 comments

I’ve been wrongly accused of a crime, but I do have a criminal record (drug paraphanalia). The police and DA believe that I’m a drug dealer (that’s what the Public Defender told me), so I think that’s why they’re trying me with anything they can.

My problem is that I’ve had the Public Defender several times before and he consistently failed or was totally incompitent. Now I’m facing two years in state prison and I’m scared to death that he will screw this up for me.

Is there any reason other than conflict of interest that would qualify me for a court-appointed attorney in Pennsylvania?
I’m poor and have horrible credit, but if I could I would definitly hire an attorney. If I knew of some way that I could get a large enough loan I’d take it. I’d rather be in debt up to my elbows for the rest of my life then in state prison for two years.

"Belief" is insufficient grounds to persue any charge, it takes "probable cause" in general that means strong evidence.

I don’t doubt your claim of wrongful accusation for a second, i’ve seen it many, many times. If your claim is true, and you know best, then there is onlly one logical conclusion; your being bulldozed by the legal system itself. Unfortunately, this means NO lawyer or any amount of money can stop it. But that doesn’t mean nothing can stop it, you and only you can do that. I’m here to tell you its actually relatively easy, if you merely have basic skills(read & write) i know you can. Just e-mail me and i’ll gladly help you, if you simply give me a chance i’ll show you that you can defend yourself far, far better than any freaking lawyer.