From MSNBC.com (April 26):
A super thin computer just two molecules thick can solve complex problems and, somewhat like the human brain, can evolve to improve and perform many operations simultaneously.Interesting, but a little unnerving.This molecular processor can also heal itself if there is a defect, researchers added. [read more]
If most of the above fits you then congrats. You probably are a Marxist.
From OneNewsNow.com (April 18):
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - Residents and a school official say militants in Somalia have banned school bells in one southern town because they say they are un-Islamic.Well, that's different. A school bell freaking out militant Jihahists. Although, it does sort of make sense. Christian churches use bells in steeples, so naturally they would think a bell from a school would be like a Christian church. Psychologists call that classical conditioning. I wonder if the terrorists would have the same reaction if they heard London's Big Ben?One resident in the town of Jowhar, Mohamud Aw-Abdi, says the terrorist group al-Shabab told school principals the bells sound like church bells. No churches are known to operate openly in Somalia.
One school principal says teachers now beat tables and doors to signal the start or end of class. [read more]
That might be interesting test to see if a Muslim is a militant Jihadist or not. Ring a bell in front of them and see if they react negatively. If they do they might be a militant Jihadist. Since classical conditioning is more or less a reflex action it would be hard not to fake a reaction.
From WSJ.com (April 12):
It's a myth. FDR did not get us out of the Great Depression—not during the 1930s, and only in a limited sense during World War II.Not stated in the article, right after FDR died the Congress passed a presidential term-limit law. Why? Because he accumulated way too much power.Let's start with the New Deal. Its various alphabet-soup agencies—the WPA, AAA, NRA [the author might meant the NIRA] and even the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)—failed to create sustainable jobs. In May 1939, U.S. unemployment still exceeded 20%. European countries, according to a League of Nations survey, averaged only about 12% in 1938. The New Deal, by forcing taxes up and discouraging entrepreneurs from investing, probably did more harm than good.
What about World War II? We need to understand that the near-full employment during the conflict was temporary. Ten million to 12 million soldiers overseas and another 10 million to 15 million people making tanks, bullets and war materiel do not a lasting recovery make. The country essentially traded temporary jobs for a skyrocketing national debt. Many of those jobs had little or no value after the war. [read more]
Just think during his campaign Senator John McCain said this president he admired. Then he wonders why he lost the election. McCain still would have been better president than Obama.
What? Never heard of that depression? It only lasted one year. Certainly not a great depression. What more info? Read on. From Wikipedia.com:
The recession lasted from January 1920 to July 1921, or 18 months, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Estimates for the decline in Gross National Product also vary. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates GNP declined 6.9%, Nathan Balke and Robert J. Gordon estimate a decline of 3.5%, and Christina Romer estimates a decline of 2.4%Why was this depression so short? Because a Republican named Warren G. Harding was elected. As Cato writer Jim Powell says in his article:The recession of 1920–21 was characterized by extreme deflation — the largest one-year percentage decline in around 140 years of data. The Department of Commerce estimates 18% deflation, Balke and Gordon estimate 13% deflation, and Romer estimates 14.8% deflation.
Unemployment rose sharply during the recession. Romer estimates a rise to 8.7% from 5.2% and an older estimate from Stanley Lebergott says unemployment rose from 5.2% to 11.7%. [read more]
Harding had a much better understanding of how an economy works than FDR. As historian Robert K. Murray wrote in The Harding Era, the man who would become our 29th president "always decried high taxes, government waste, and excessive governmental interference in the private sector of the economy. In February 1920, shortly after announcing his candidacy, he advocated a cut in government expenditures and stated that government ought to 'strike the shackles from industry. . . . We need vastly more freedom than we do regulation.'"Wow! I like this guy. He sounds sort of like Ronald Reagan. But there is more from the same article:One of Harding's campaign slogans was "less government in business," and it served him well. Harding embraced the advice of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and called for tax cuts in his first message to Congress on April 12, 1921. The highest taxes, on corporate revenues and "excess" profits, were to be cut. Personal income taxes were to be left as is, with a top rate of 8 percent of incomes above $4,000. Harding recognized the crucial importance of encouraging the investment that is essential for growth and jobs, something that FDR never did.
In 1922, the House passed a veterans' bonus bill 333-70, without saying how the bonuses would be funded. The senate passed it 35-17. Despite intense lobbying from the American Legion, Harding vetoed the bill on September 19— just six weeks before congressional elections, when presidents generally throw goodies at voters. Harding said it was unfair to add to the burdens of 110 million taxpayers. [my emphasis]I definitely like this guy. But Andy, you might say, what about the Teapot Dome scandal? Yea, that wasn't too good. But if the land was privatized this bribery wouldn't have happened. The scandal doesn't change how well President Harding's economic policy worked though.
Rules- "if-then" statements that translate your beliefs into actions.
Results:
This model I borrowed from Hyrum W. Smith's 1994 book called The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management. Except he had a Behavior Patterns element in the model.
Your behavior is a reflection of what you truly believe. Below is a reality model of the Left:
Needs --> Belief Window --> Rules --> Results
The --> means flows or feeds into.
Needs:
Belief window- what you believe to be true about the world, yourself, and other people.
These beliefs may not be complete but they are the main ones. The next blog entry will cover the Rules and Results of their Reality Model.
College & Church:
Career:
The following facts below are from Glenn Beck's website. He also mentioned these on his TV show.
Barack Obama Sr. (Dad)
Stanley Ann Dunham (Mom)
Mentor
From NTI.org (April 6):
The Obama administration today issued its Nuclear Posture Review, swearing off creation of new nuclear weapons and significantly limiting the circumstances under which such armaments could be used, according to news reports (see GSN, March 24).I like Bush's national security better. So, let me understand what Emperor Obama's policy is: If you attack America and don't have nuclear weapons and kill millions of people with another weapon he won't retaliate? Why does the method of attack matter? I mean if someone strangles you to death instead of stabbing you to death--you are still dead. That is like giving a murder a different sentence based on the weapon he used. Makes so sense to me.The document pledges the United States not to conduct nuclear strikes on non-nuclear states, a change in policy from the Bush administration stance that allowed for an atomic response to a biological or chemical strike, Reuters reported (Stewart/Spetalnick, Reuters, April 6).
President Barack Obama told the New York Times that the new policy does not apply to "outliers like Iran and North Korea" that are in noncompliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty or have withdrawn from the pact. [read more]
Also, why is Obama announcing his national security policy to the world anyway. That's like a football coach telling his opponent his game plan. Jimmy Carter did that and it did not help him at all.
I know Obama wants the world to be nuclear free. It's noble, but naive. I heard on the news that countries are increasing the nuclear arsenal. I rather have countries have peaceful governments. After all it takes is a world leader to give the order to use the nuclear weapons.
What do you think about these characteristics: Loving resistance fighters are people who
Final thoughts from the author:
A resistance fighter understands that technology must never be accepted as part of the natural order of things, that every technology--from an IQ test to an automobile to a television set to a computer--is a product of a particular economic and political context and carries with it a program, an agenda, and a philosophy that may or may not be life-enhancing and that therefore require scrutiny, criticism, and control.In short, a technological resistance fighter maintains a epistemological and psychic distance from any technology, so that it always appears somewhat strange, never inevitable, never natural."
From WND.com (March 29):
President Obama's reported pick to run Medicare and Medicaid, Donald Berwick, has argued for a "radical transfer of power" in the health industry and claimed patients' quality of care in the U.S. medical system is currently measured by the "color of their skin," WND has learned.What's this?! Emperor Obama has appointed another radical to a gov't position? Stop the presses! This is news! (Not!) How can this be? Oh, yea, right, now I remember. He's a radical himself.The blog [Health Beat] points out Berwick noted, "There's a myth that American healthcare is the best in the world."
"It's not," he continued. "It's not even close."
A 2004 extensive Boston Globe profile of Berwick, meanwhile, labeled the physician and activist a health-care "revolutionary" who wants to "blow up" the system. [read more]
From Wmd.com (March 25):
The executive director of an activist organization modeled after Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky and described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation was part of the team that developed and delivered a group of volunteers for President Obama's 2008 campaign, WND has learned.Obama not a Marxist huh? He sure hangs around people who are.Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, was on the team that developed and delivered the first Camp Obama training for volunteers aiding Obama's campaign through the 2008 Iowa Caucuses.
Also, in 1998, Obama participated on a panel discussion alongside Midwest Academy founder Heather Booth, an extremist organizer and dedicated disciple of Alinsky. [read more]
Here is how to recognize bad legislature:
The White House is a character crucible. It either creates or distorts character. Few decent people want to subject themselves to the kind of grueling abuse candidates take when they run in the first place. Many of those who run crave superficial celebrity. They are hollow people who have no principles and simply want to be elected. Even if an individual is balanced, once someone becomes president, how does one solve the conundrum of staying real and somewhat humble when one is surrounded by the most powerful office in the land, and from becoming overwhelmed by an at times pathological environment that treats you every day as an emperor? Here is where the truth strength of the character of the person, not his past accomplishments, will determine whether his presidency ends in accomplishment or failure.
Or at least to sociologist of science Robert K. Merton and me:
Too bad the global warming scientists don't follow these especially the last four norms which are the most important I think.
From NTI.org (March 18):
The terrorist organization al-Qaeda has not ceased its efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb or other unconventional weapons to use in a strike against the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 16)."Al-Qaeda remains committed to its goal of conducting attacks inside the United States," Mueller warned a House Appropriations subcommittee, according to Newsmax. "Further, al-Qaeda’s continued efforts to access chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear material pose a serious threat to the United States." [read more]
From Wired.com (March 17):
More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.The auto center manager said the hacker "was pretty good with computers." No kidding. If he had hacked into an OnStar computer system he could not only make the horn honk, but make the lights flash and unlock the doors with cars that have the service.Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots.
The dealership used a system called Webtech Plus as an alternative to repossessing vehicles that haven’t been paid for. Operated by Cleveland-based Pay Technologies, the system lets car dealers install a small black box under vehicle dashboards that responds to commands issued through a central website, and relayed over a wireless pager network. The dealer can disable a car’s ignition system, or trigger the horn to begin honking, as a reminder that a payment is due. The system will not stop a running vehicle. [read more]
From Wired.com (March 15):
The bacterial communities that live on human skin may form a bacterial fingerprint on the items that you touch.Isn't that nice to know! Ha! I expect to see this technology used in a upcoming CSI episode.In a new study led by microbiologists Rob Knight and Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado, Boulder, researchers swabbed three different keyboards and nine mice for bacteria, then compared the genomic variation between the communities to deduce whose hands had been touching what. The people were clearly identifiable from the bacterial communities they’d transferred to their computer input devices.
“The results demonstrate that bacterial DNA can be recovered from relatively small surfaces, that the composition of the keyboard-associated communities are distinct across the three keyboards, and that individuals leave unique bacterial ‘fingerprints’ on their keyboards,” wrote Knight and his colleagues at the University of Colorado, Boulder in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [read more]
Actually if you believe most of the following you are most definitely a Communist. Beliefs 5, 8, and maybe 9 resonates with the far-Left. The Left may believe #1. They definitely don't want to reduce the inheritance tax. The rights 6 through 9 by the way are taken directly from the Soviet constitution.
As for belief #2, we do have the Federal Reserve in America. That is like a central bank. It does control different kinds of banking rates.
The right to work sounds like a nice idea doesn't it? But the USSR made you work. I mean if you did not work you were considered a parasite to the mother land and were punished. The gov't gave you tests to find out the best job for you in society and then assigned you to that job. Your personal needs or wants did not matter. That's where "from each according to ability to each according to need" is all about. Still think it sounds neat?
One final note, Karl Marx the father of the Soviet constitution, wanted a heavy graduated income tax (does that sound familiar?) and free education for school children. Of course the free education was more like brainwashing.
From Science News.com:
For better or for worse, science has long been married to mathematics. Generally it has been for the better. Especially since the days of Galileo and Newton, math has nurtured science. Rigorous mathematical methods have secured science’s fidelity to fact and conferred a timeless reliability to its findings.Combining studies is just plain laziness. Chalk it up to human nature I guess. But what if one of the studies is wrong? A scientist can just make up results (see Jan Hendrick Schön and Woo Suk Hwang for instance) or miscalculate or mismeasure for whatever reason. Maybe they got sloppy because of a deadline. Or maybe they get a lot of money if they produce a certain result. Who knows. Whatever the reason, wrong experimental results could skew your results. It is better to test the results yourself. Yea, I know this takes time and effort but you know personally if the results fit the experiment.During the past century, though, a mutant form of math has deflected science’s heart from the modes of calculation that had long served so faithfully. Science was seduced by statistics, the math rooted in the same principles that guarantee profits for Las Vegas casinos. Supposedly, the proper use of statistics makes relying on scientific results a safe bet. But in practice, widespread misuse of statistical methods makes science more like a crapshoot.
Replicating a result helps establish its validity more securely, but the common tactic of combining numerous studies into one analysis, while sound in principle, is seldom conducted properly in practice. [read more]
A possible vote for ObamaCare:
My logic for the predictions is simple. The more progressive or liberal you are the more you will tend to vote for the Senate version of ObamaCare. The two "possible votes" could switch to no. They are more moderate than the rest. Childers even voted no for the House version. The likely voters for ObamaCare who voted against the House version with life ratings close to 40 could swing there vote to no. Even some Dems who say they are voting for Senate version that voted against the House version could be persuaded by their constituents to vote no. It is interesting to note that their ratings of last year are a lot lower than their life ratings. ACU only shows scores for the last year and the year before so I am not sure why the major difference between the two.
According to the Code Red website where I got the "undecided" Dems, the Yes count is 19. The No count is 27. So, 19 declared yes + 24 predicted yes = 43. I hope I am wrong about my predictions. I was hoping that there would be "undecided" Dems with ACU ratings of at least 50 or higher. I was disappointed but not surprised.
205 House members are voting no on the bill, or at least they are saying no. All the Republicans say they are going to vote no. 198 are voting yes. 28 are "undecided." Only 216 no votes can kill the bill. The "undecided" are they key here. So, it does not look too good by my calculations, but it only takes eleven "undecided" to switch to the no side to kill the bill. And maybe some people who are voting yes to switch too.
The ACU ratings by the way are from ACU's Congress ratings website.
From BBC News (March 10):
Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff.Does Obama know about this phone? Maybe he can get people to use it so he could possibly know how they vote in elections. Just joking! Although he wants to track people's phone's whereabouts as I mentioned in an earlier blog.Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has developed technology that tracks even the tiniest movement of the user and beams the information back to HQ.
It works by analysing the movement of accelerometers, found in many handsets.
Activities such as walking, climbing stairs or even cleaning can be identified, the researchers say.
The company plans to sell the service to clients such as managers, foremen and employment agencies. [read more]
From NTI.org (March 10):
North Korea announced yesterday that it would continue to build up its nuclear forces and accused the United States of doing everything in its power to "bring down" the Stalinist regime, Reuters reported (see GSN, March 8).I thought once Obama was elected all the dangerous nations would like the US and not cause trouble anymore. I'm so shocked. Sarcasm aside, this little pip-squeak of a dictator would probably not like the US no matter who is in power.An unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman said that "the U.S. is leaving no means untried to bring down the D.P.R.K. including military threat, economic sanctions and ideological and cultural poisoning."
"(The North) will continue bolstering up its nuclear deterrent as long as the U.S. military threats and provocations go on," the spokesman said. [read more]
I am not sure who is more dangerous. This nut job or the nut job leader of Iran. At least Kim Jong-il doesn't want to start another world war. I don't think anyway he does.
From Telegraph.co.uk (March 9):
Patients’ confidential medical records are being placed on a controversial NHS database without their knowledge, doctors’ leaders have warned.The article goes to say the database is not hacker proof. What else is new. I read somewhere that 1 in 3 businesses in the US don't use firewalls. It's probably worse than that for the gov't.Those who do not wish to have their details on the £11 billion [$16.47 billion] computer system are supposed to be able to opt out by informing health authorities.
But doctors have accused the [British] Government of rushing the project through, meaning that patients have had their details uploaded to the database before they have had a chance to object.
The scheme, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will eventually hold the private records of more than 50 million patients. [read more]
That kind of database would eventually come to America if ObamaCare is passed.
From NTI.org (March 8):
Iran appears to have worked with North Korea in preparing a new rocket launchpad under construction east of Tehran, an independent defense analysis firm asserted Friday (see GSN, June 12, 2009).Iran and N. Korea sure aren't intimidated by Obama that's for sure. When Reagan was president countries feared and respected him. Not with this administration sadly.Iran seems poised to do additional work on the launch site, located near the city of Semnan, the group IHS Jane's stated. With about 30 feet in additional scaffolding, the facility could be used for the Middle Eastern nation's recently announced Simorgh space launch vehicle, Agence France-Presse quoted the organization as saying.
"The development of the Semnan facility and the Simorgh SLV both demonstrate the likelihood of collaboration with North Korea in Iran's missile program," the group said. "The platforms seen on the new gantry tower resemble those seen on the gantry tower at North Korea's new launchpad at Tongchang. A drainage pit [560 feet] directly in front of the pad also mirrors one at Pyongyang's new west-coast launch site. [read more]
The article goes on to say that Iran on Sunday started building a new type of cruise missile that could eliminate objects as heavy as 3,000 tons. Nice. To put that amount of tons in perspective, that's almost the same weight of the Titanic.
From NTI.org (March 3):
No fewer than 40 nations are seeking to develop or acquire unmanned aerial vehicles [(UAVs)], which raises the specter that the proliferation of the technology could enable extremists to obtain the drone aircraft and use them in a terrorist attack, according to the latest issue of Newsweek (see GSN, July 17, 2009).Scary, but not surprising. The militant Jihadists could fly one of those UAVs from the Mexico's border into the US or even from Canada's border.Drones have already been used by extremists. In 2005, the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah flew an unmanned surveillance plane into Israel.
An assessment by the U.S. Air Force recently found that UAV systems would be "an ideal platform" for deploying biological, chemical or radiological "dirty bombs," the unconventional weapons most likely to be acquired by terrorists, stated P.W. Singer, head of the 21st century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. [read more]
No, I am not saying I am an abortionist. What I am saying is this:
This is what I learned about how world leaders can lose their power when I took a Cultural Anthropology course in college:
In autocratic countries like Iran, China, and Venezuela a revolution has to happen. Then the leader either gets exiled or gets killed.
From ScienceDaily.com (Feb. 4):
Self-propagating worms are malicious computer programs, which, after being released, can spread throughout networks without human control, stealing or erasing hard drive data, interfering with pre-installed programs and slowing, even crashing, home and work computers. Now a new code, or algorithm, created by Penn State researchers targets the "stealthiest" of these worms, containing them before an outbreak can occur.Interesting. Hope the code works."In 2001 the 'Code Red' worms caused $2 billion dollars worth of damage worldwide," said Yoon-Ho Choi, a postdoctoral fellow in information sciences and technology, Penn State. "Our algorithm can prevent a worm's propagation early in its propagation stage." [read more]
From news.cnet.com (February 11):
Even though police are tapping into the locations of mobile phones thousands of times a year, the legal ground rules remain unclear, and federal privacy laws written a generation ago are ambiguous at best. On Friday, the first federal appeals court to consider the topic will hear oral arguments (PDF) in a case that could establish new standards for locating wireless devices.The article does not state why the Obama administration wants to track cell phone locations. For national security for instance? Who knows. It's good to see the ACLU concerned about this issue. At least they are being consistent.In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls. [read more]
On a side note, your cell phone can still be tracked even when it is off.
From Wired.com (February 5):
The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.This sounds like a SyFy movie script. I hope that "kill switch" doesn't fail. Any complex weapon or even tool should be an open system. That is the user should be able to control it. Or else you could possibly have a nightmare scenario. Think Frankenstein.As part of its budget for the next year, Darpa is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating “the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement.” The plan would assemble the latest bio-tech knowledge to come up with living, breathing creatures that are genetically engineered to “produce the intended biological effect.” Darpa wants the organisms to be fortified with molecules that bolster cell resistance to death, so that the lab-monsters can “ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely.” [read more]
From Freep.com (Feb. 5):
WASHINGTON, DC -- British intelligence agencies have reportedly monitored terrorist communications bragging that women suicide bombers have already undergone surgery to hide explosive bombs in their breast implants.Actually, that is pretty clever of the terrorists. Who would think of checking the breasts for explosives? And if the scanning devices don't detect the explosives then what? What will be next explosives in women's buttocks?"You could certainly put a liquid of any kind in a saline device, and a gel implant theoretically could be opened and replaced with a different type of gel," said Maryland plastic surgeon Dr. Craig Person.
"I believe that any liquid in a breast implant, or any gel with a silicone-type of implant would be hard to detect with a body scanner," Person told 9NewsNow. [read more]
I just hope the terrorists keep failing in their homicide bombing attempts. But hope is not enough. All it takes is just one successful attack.
Since militant Jihadists don't respect woman they would have a woman explode rather than a man anyway.
Here are the questions that Democrat senate candidates are supposed to ask their Republican opponents. If a Republican answers "no" to any of the questions then the Dem is to make his or her "primary opponent or conservative activists know it." My answers follow the questions.
All these questions are meant to be gotcha questions.
From NTI.org (Jan. 26):
The terrorist organization al-Qaeda continues to work to acquire weapons of mass destruction to use in a large-scale terror attack on the United States, according to a report released yesterday (see GSN, Jan. 20).If America keeps treating terrorists as common criminals, and not doing enhanced interrogation then another attack could happen. God forbid that ever happens."Their WMD procurement efforts have been managed at the most senior levels, under rules of strict compartmentalization from lower levels of the organization, and with central control over possible targets and timing of prospective attacks," according to former high-level CIA official Rolf Mowatt-Larssen (Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs report, Jan. 25).
The report came even as a congressionally mandated panel issued a "report card" saying the federal government has not done nearly enough to prepare the United States for an act of biological terrorism (see related GSN story, today). [read more]
From the National Right to Work Committee's newsletter:
From July 1, 2008 through July 1, 2009, a net total of more than 339,000 Americans moved from forced-unionism states to Right to Work states.I am not against or for anyone who wants to join a union. That's a personal decision. But if you are pressured or coercised to join a union that's a different story. That's similar to what what happened in the old Soviet Union. You were forced to be a Communist. You did not have the right to choose to join or not.And since April 1, 2000, there has been a net transfer of nearly five million Americans to Right to Work states.
And multi-year data supplied by the Statistical Information Service (SIS) of the IRS show that tax filers who move to a Right to Work state consistently report higher adjusted gross incomes than do tax filers moving out of a Right to Work state. [read more pdf]
Sen. Harry Reid believes (and other Liberals believe) that health care is a right. Then under socialized health care I should be able to sue the gov't if I feel I don't get good service under that plan. Correct? I mean no service even the gov't can take that right away and interfere with my right to health care.
I believe that health care is not a right. It's not in the Constitution and not even in the Declaration of Independence. Americans have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They also have the Bill of Rights.
What socialized medicine (ObamaCare) does do is interfere with your right to liberty. You don't have the choice to pay the doctor out your own pocket. You have to choose an insurance company or go with the gov't plan. Or you go to jail. Your right to life and pursuit of happiness will probably be interfered with too especially if you have to wait in line months at a time for medical service.
From Space.com (Sept. 2008):
As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered.I know this blog entry is old, but I only heard of this phenomena in October 2009 issue of Popular Science. No-one knows for sure why the phenomena is happening. One theory is that a parallel universe is causing the motion.Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can't be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon "dark flow."
The stuff that's pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude. [read more]
Change cards:
READING RAILROAD. Price: n/a. This railroad was nationalized, and is not for sale.
INCOME TAX. Player with the most money pays 70% to player with the least.
ELECTRIC COMPANY. Price: $150 Plus $500 carbon tax.
BOARDWALK. Price: $400 (Free for low income families).
From PopSci.com (July 7):
Soon the hum of high-voltage electric towers will come from the electricity they produce, not just what they conduct. The Wind-it, a design by French architects Nicola Delon and Julien Choppin and engineer Raphael Menard, inserts a vertical turbine inside the towers. Large wind farms need lots of land; Wind-it could be installed anywhere along the 157,000 miles of high-voltage aboveground wires in the U.S. The turbines also plug right into the grid, saving the cost of stringing cable to remote areas. The inventors are currently looking for an industrial partner to turn their scale model into a 330-foot-tall tower, which their computer simulations suggest could generate up to a megawatt of electricity—enough to power 400 homes. “The Midwest needs new power lines,” Menard says, “and because the towers will cross high-wind fields, it could be perfect for Wind-it.”Now, I am not a wind-energy zealot, but if you are going to harness wind-energy this is not a bad way to do it. It uses existing technology (those electric towers--you don't have to build those huge wind turbines) and because you don't have to build those turbines you don't need lots of land to place them. I applaud the cleverness by the engineer and architect. Although, they should have the turbines the same color of the towers so it isn't so obvious that the towers are using wind-energy. Just a suggestion.
The following list below is from Glenn Beck's book Arguing with Idiots. Interesting book. His Adventures in Capitalism cartoons are funny.
Below is excerpts from an email correspondence of October this year from one climatologist to another:
Kevin, But what you said was "we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment". Now you say "we are no where close to knowing where energy is going".
Tom.
Hi Tom > How come you do not agree with a statement that says we are no where > close to knowing where energy is going or whether clouds are changing to > make the planet brighter. We are not close to balancing the energy > budget. The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the > climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless > as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a > travesty! > Kevin
>>> The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the >>> moment and it is a travesty that we can't. The CERES data published >>> in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even >>> more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is >>> inadequate.
Kevin
ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2009):
In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions -- the major cause of global warming -- cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses [my italics] or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day. [read more]I like the word "provocative." Any theory I guess that questions global warming or as it is called now climate change ideology is heresy. I serious doubt CO2 emissions are the major cause of global warming. My bet is still on that yellow star in the sky called the sun.
Then the author of the article has to mention the "global warming deniers" using the scientist's theory for their own purposes. Again, I guess you can't question science anymore? Science is about finding the truth. If you can't question a scientist's methodology or theory to find a kernel of truth then you don't have science anymore. You have a cult.
Section 552 says there will be an excise tax of 2.5% on medical devices. Yea, another tax. This country needs another tax like it needs another "stimulus" bill.
The bill requires the employer to give his/her name, date, and employer identification number to the following gov't people: the Health Choices Commissioner, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of the Treasury. Also, the employee has to give his/her name, address, and TIN to those same gov't people. What the social security number isn't good enough for id purposes? (See Sect. 412 (a)(3))
The employee has 30 days to choose if (s)he wants socialized medicine or his employer's private health plan. No other choice. If the employee does not make a choice then the employer chooses the one with the lesser premium. (Sect. 412 (c)(1) & (2)) If the employer does not pick a plan for the employee then he is fined $100 a day until he does. (Sect. 806)
If an employer has an annual payroll of more than $750,000 then he has to contribute 8% of the average wages of his employees. Otherwise, if the employer has an annual payroll of less $500,000 annual payroll he does not have to contribute anything. In between the two amounts is a progressive rate up to 6%. (Sect. 413)
If the Commissioner thinks you are not covered properly then you have to pay 2.5% of your gross income. (Sect. 59B)
In any bureaucracy, individual differences are for the most part ignored. This is done for efficiency and so that every one is treated the same way. People are classified according to what group you are in. Socialized medicine is no different. Even worse, because the bigger the bureaucracy the more individual differences are ignored.
For example, let's say a person has a deadly genetic defect that runs in his/her family. This genetic defect causes an aggressive form of stomach cancer. First, the person has to be screened for the mutant gene. Then if the person has the mutant gene has to have surgery done or medication has to be given. In socialized medicine the person has to wait to be screened if the test exists. The wait could kill the person if (s)he gets the cancer. If (s)he is lucky to be screened then (s)he would have to wait for the operation or drug if she is found positive for the gene.
What could be worse is if the system decides the person is not worth the screening because the mutant gene is really rare.
When you go see your private doctor (s)he can look at your individual differences. Then make a diagnose and a prescription that fits closely to your individual bodily make-up. The examining and diagnosing can take time especially if the medical condition is unknown or complex to the doctor. The prescription can even take time if there are more than one option for the patient and the options are about equal. The patient would have to decide what to do. Under socialized medicine examining and diagnosing time is not under the doctor's control and prescription option would not be under the patient's control.
Like Dick Morris says and I agree these are steps to socialism. Any bank or financial institution that takes TARP money is a fool. They are asking to be a puppet. But I can understand if they are desperate. After all they are "too big to fail" or so we are told. Maybe that is the plan. Set up a situation (ie oppressive regulations) where a big corporations (eg Big Oil, Big Pharma, etc.) have a hard time succeeding economically. Once they start failing, declare them "too big to fail." Then offer them a "TARP" deal. Then follow steps 2) through 8) above. Also, if you make the corporations enemy of the people then you can get away with the oppressive regulations and say you are doing it for the "good" of the country.
From Telegraph.co.UK (Nov. 9):
Everyone in Britain should have an annual carbon ration and be penalized if they use too much fuel, the head of the Environment Agency will say.This global warming or climate change (whatever it is called now) mania is way out of control. God help America if it comes here. I agree with the economist Ruth Lea in the article this definitely is Orwellian.Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
It would involve people being issued with a unique number which they would hand over when purchasing products that contribute to their carbon footprint, such as fuel, airline tickets and electricity. [read more]
I agree with what Col. Ralph Peters said in his New York Post column that this was a terrorist attack. Not just someone who had a breakdown or went crazy. The attack was definitely not caused by combat stress reaction. The attacker never was in combat. That diagnoses is just plain stupid. Look at the facts we have now. Hasan yelled out "God is great" in Arabic when he shot those soldiers. He said was Muslim first, then American. He called homicide bombers heroic on his Facebook page. Getting rid of his personal possessions and going to a strip joint too suggested an attack of some sort. Those two actions were also done by the 9/11 terrorists. The 9/11 terrorists were preparing to get their virgins and I believe so was this militant Jihadist. He thought he was going to die. Add to this fact he tried to contact Al Qaeda. It does not matter if they did not reply. Plus, on his business card he put the initials "SOA." SOA stands for Soldier of Allah. This attack is not related to Islam? Really?
This terrorism should never had happened. Thanks to the Left the military has become a political correct mess (the terms "War on Terror" are not allowed in military documents anymore. Geez!). Diversity is one thing, but allowing someone who is so dangerous is another. You DO NOT screw around with the military. It is not a social experiment. These brave soldiers put their lives on the line to defend this country. Getting shot at in battle is one thing. Getting shot at by a fellow soldier stateside is another thing all together.
To prevent this from ever happening again a thorough background check should be done on every Muslim in all branches of the military not just the Army. Any militant Jihadist should be kicked out. The POTUS Barack Obama could issue this directive. He is the commander-in-chief of the military. The question is would he do it. My guess is no. Would this directive be profiling? Possibly. Is this racism? No. It's a security measure. You want to know something. Any Muslim who is a militant Jihadist probably wouldn't care if was kicked out. He might miss the money though.
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