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Co-ops a Good Idea Whose Time Has Come

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:27:38 PM
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Co-ops are the best option for health care reform. The nation's stated goal is to bring all age groups and income levels on board. This can best be accomplished at the local level. Co-ops have a proven track record which includes such enterprises as Land O'Lakes creamery in Minnesota, and Kimberly-Clark in Wisconsin before it became privatized, agricultural and food distribution, student accomodations at colleges and universities, and the numerous credit unions throughout the world. Cooperatives have also been successful in the medical field and competitive with private health insurance in a number of states.

The advantage of the co-op is that it can meet local needs and is more adaptable. The very fact that the members have some ownership and control in the enterprise is itself a big plus for quality control.

Medical co-ops, in addition to meeting local needs, could focus on specific age groups to better serve the community. Thus seniors could have their own medical structures which would not be taking away scarce medical resources from younger members of society. Part of the funding could still come from public sources, especially for economically depressed areas.

It will take time, but with everyone's participation, things will improve. The role of government will be indispensable to get the cooperatives functional and off the ground.

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Let's Have Some Real Health Care Reform

Posted by Mike on Friday, August 14, 2009 4:35:22 PM
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The Obamaites in the media continue to repeat the mantra that the Obamacare proposal will not force American taxpayers to pay for abortions. Yet it was the same Obama administration that scuttled the Mexico City Policy so that they could fund abortions abroad with our tax dollars. How can any intelligent American believe that this plan drummed up by Rahm Emanuel will not lead to government coercion to kill the terminally ill and elderly among us? Rahm's brother Ezekiel, chairman of the department of bioethics at the National Institute of Health, has himself made the point that the bill will use a person's age as a basis for denial of health care benefits because older Americans theoretically will have had greater access to health care when they were younger and able to work. Rahm again is only looking out for Israel where abortion is against the law, and he is trying to weaken America so that Israel will not be left out in the cold after decades of dependency on America.

This health care plan amounts to treason by Obama and the liberals in Congress. America cannot wait until the killing of our senior citizens, and citizens with serious disabilities, becomes commonplace. We must act now to bring the traitorous scoundrels to justice. America must act independently in order to promote good in the world. This isn't just about grandma anymore. It is an attack against America.

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Obamacare Only Tip of Iceberg

Posted by Mike on Thursday, August 13, 2009 7:22:31 PM
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Health care is only the tip of the iceberg. Anger and contempt for federal and state government have been building up for decades, and all because of betrayals and mismanagement of the few in government which were distorted by mass media outlets.

Take for example the case of Terry Schiavo. There was absolutely no reason for her to die. The courts promulgated a grave injustice equal to, if not worse than, racial segregation. President Kennedy used federal marshals in 1963 to stop racial segregation despite objections by governor George Wallace standing outside the classroom door in Alabama. Why could not something similar have been done for Terry Schiavo? Either of the Bush brothers could have acted to save a woman's life. If anyone was ever deprived of constitutional rights, she was. Yet there was no action forthcoming either in Florida or at the federal level. So why should Americans believe that the government cares about their health or well-being, and stand back idly while Congress and the President set up another Draconian nightmare of bureaucratic red tape? Has this socialistic approach ever worked in the past?

John McCain brilliantly began to tap into this groundswell in nominating Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. The trouble was that he didn't follow through. McCain was overly committed to the neo-conservative agenda of Randy Scheunemann and Joe Lieberman who perceived Palin as being a major threat to war funding for Israel. McCain refused to allow her to let the genie out of the bottle by addressing the pro-life gathering in Minnesota outside the convention. Taking this subject off the table in 2008 only unleashed the anger expressed at town hall gatherings in 2009. Today, most Americans feel betrayed by Congress, the President, and the Courts, and rightly so.

It may well be that this betrayal is a manifestation of the stage of capitalism in which we are now living. Any society that takes selfishness to the extreme to which America has done, and has deliberately shunned religion and morality from public life, will be faced with big problems.

Liberals in government have dug themselves into a deep hole. Like their predecessors during the French Revolution, they are now forced to either accept a flawed agenda of more and more government sponsored killing, or put their own careers and lives in danger because their past actions are criminal and punishable by any just standard of law. Let us hope that our nation can resolve these conflicts and not fall into the cycle of reprisals for past misdeeds.

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Pennsylvania Senate Race Hinges on Health Care

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:12:35 PM
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It was interesting watching Pat Toomey on Hardball last week for more reason than one. At the moment, it looks as though Toomey will easily win the upcoming Pennsylvania senatorial election against incumbent Arlen Specter because of Specter's wavering stand on national health care. This will be a classic battle between the conservative suburbs and rural areas against the big city liberals. This will prove in 2010 that liberals miscalculated the extent to which the nation's majority is angry and disaffected over health care issues.

Chris Matthews of Hardball has expressed interest in running for this Senate seat. He would have a tough time against Toomey. Toomey is very smart. The other Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey is Democrat and pro-life.
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Challenges Facing America

Posted by Mike on Monday, August 10, 2009 8:06:41 PM
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The majority of Americans are learning the hard way how to conserve non-renewable resources, protect the environment, and to share the wealth with others who are less fortunate. This is being done not by altruism, but rather by default. The unholy alliance between the super-rich, government, media and academia has given rise to ever bigger demands being made by fringe elements and minorities, with ever growing attempts to marginalize and disenfranchise the white majority. The upshot of all this is that everyone is forced to settle for less in terms of material goods and to cut down on unnecessary consumption which is often detrimental anyway.

Globalization will necessitate tougher economic and financial controls and regulations. This is already happening with increased regulation of credit card companies to protect debtors from unscrupulous, usurious lending practices and perhaps also from identity theft.

Quality health care is gradually being extended to all strata of society. For this to work, government must wisely uphold an ethic based upon respect for all human life to insure that medical services are not reduced to a mere commodity to be sold to the highest bidder. The frustration and anger over the proposed health care reforms is genuine. The majority of working Americans are tired of subsidizing those who are not loyal American citizens and those who refuse to work and are only interested in tearing down the majority culture.

Our greatest challenge is to uphold our true values of charity and justice against the prevailing tide of selfishness and greed. This will require real reform in knocking the self-proclaimed nabobs, gurus and elites off their imaginary pedestals.
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Media Distorts Reality in Gates Incident

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:55:52 PM
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Lucia Whalen the emergency 911 caller has accused the media of racial distortion. There is obviously a concerted effort being made by some in the media to make the majority of citizens apologetic for being white. One cable TV commentator, obviously upset by the negative attention Whalen was getting for placing the call, made the observation that "she is not White, she is Portuguese...".

To my recollection, Portugal is in the far western part of the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Although there were Arabs and Jews who settled there in the Middle Ages, the population is still overwhelmingly European. Both of Lucia's parents were from Portugal, although she was born in the US. Do these pundits now believe that some Europeans or Americans of European descent are no longer white? Is this to help minorities overthrow the racial power structure in America?

Officer James Crowley specifically identifies the person with whom he spoke at the residence who made the 911 call as a "white female" in the incident report. Obviously, the TV commentator has some serious issues with race that she cannot even report accurately what happened.

Then there is Chris Matthews and his black sidekick who were amazed and incredulous that the wiseguy black Harvard Professor "Skip" Gates could have possibly made the statement "ya I'll speak with yo mama outside" and thereby insinuating that Officer Crowley was indeed a racist as Gates accused him of being, and a liar to boot.   I hope they enjoy their beer at the White House.

Is it any wonder that someone who received a college education and job promotions based upon racial characteristics could act like such an idiot?

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Pundits Damn Palin Either Way

Posted by Mike on Friday, July 24, 2009 5:01:38 PM
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Even before releasing her resignation announcement on July 3, the media pundits had already written Governor Sarah Palin's political obituary. In their view, Palin had already lost the 2012 Republican presidential primary because of her husband's past separatist tendencies in Alaska. Was this guilt by association?

After she announced that she would be stepping down beginning next week, the pundits were outdoing each other to drive the last nail into her coffin.

Maybe Palin does not want to run in 2012. If she does run, her decision to resign will not stop her.
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Why All the Furor Over Wagner?

Posted by Mike on Friday, July 24, 2009 1:27:53 PM
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The Los Angeles City Council earlier this week resolved a dispute concerning the upcoming Wagnerian festival next spring celebrating Wagner's "Ring" cycle. An objection was raised by Council Member Mike Antonovich on the basis that Wilhelm Richard Wagner was in his day racist and anti-Semitic. In reality, Wagner was a Christian composer who struggled for most of his life over the question of what it means to be German. Any tinges of anti-Semitism probably stem from the antisemitism of Martin Luther.

I personally find listening to Wagner's Walkürenritt more tortuous and tedious than water-boarding. His musical composition tends to be heavy, dull and moribund, filled with Sturm und Drang. It was used by Hitler after Wagner's death because of its appeal to the Völkisch mentality. Today its appeal is to a culturally debased group of neo-pagans. The real question is who would pay money to listen to Meyerbeer or Mendelssohn today?

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The Palin Factor

Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:25:15 PM
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The philosophical error that brought about the French Revolution was based upon Rousseau's idea that humans are born basically good and then become evil by corrupt social institutions. This overlooks the constant struggle between good and evil which is the real condition of man as a creature with free will.

The denial of free will is the form of this struggle in the modern world. This is why in America the majority of citizens are grossly under-represented in government. The majority is forced to tolerate racial and ethnic minorities who then clamor for more and more free government services. The struggle plays itself out as the citizenry reasserts its power through an act of free will, rejecting the false premises of tyranny.

Sarah Palin represents the true American type of liberty and independence from oppressive government. Her mixed racial family proves that the problem is not whites against blacks or other people of color, as some would have us believe. The challenge for America over the next decade will be to peel away minority support for Obama, while giving the mainstream majority a clear alternative to bureaucratic government.

The majority will have to claim power at the local level, and in so doing, attract minority constituents to join forces in solidarity. When people realize that they don't really need federal and state subsidies, the need for more and bigger government will disappear.
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Helping People Help Themselves

Posted by Mike on Monday, July 20, 2009 11:10:55 PM
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Democrats begin with a misconception or flawed premise that diversity in government and in industry is always good. This may derive from flaws within the capitalist economic system.

It does no good to elect or appoint people to run a nation or enterprise based upon their ethnic differences. Individuals of minority status bear the burden of offering something of value to the majority culture. If they have nothing good to offer, they should not be given a free handout. That only results in dependency.

It is the responsibility of the people to secure peace, tranquility and happiness. Government at the local level can always offer assistance for people genuinely trying to help themselves. This is subsidiarity. Simply sending out more welfare checks doesn't solve anything. Federal and state government must therefore be reduced to only handling problems too complex to be handled at the local level.

The reform of health care is a local issue, not state or federal.

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The Time Is Now

Posted by Mike on Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:56:19 AM
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Sonia Sotomayor's pathetic confirmation hearings typify everything that is wrong with America. Judges including Sotomayor use as an excuse for withholding or denying justice that they are just applying the law as though law were some abstract mathematical construct. Does Sotomayor think that she is fooling the American people? Does she think that it is funny that hard working firefighters have to jump through legal hoops to obtain justice because judges like her don't care about justice, but only follow a skewed and exaggerated interpretation of precedent? Before judges can even comprehend what precedent means they must have a firm grasp of the particular civilization of which these cases are only a reflection. Being outside of the cultural mainstream, they have no depth and can only add wrong precedent. The Supreme Court did not change precedent in ruling against Sotomayor and the other appellate court justices. The lower court did not know what it was doing, or they deliberately chose to deny justice to American citizens.

Senator Dodd boasts that he and his colleagues have excessively exquisite health care at essentially zero cost, while everyone outside the federal system must pay both taxes and insurance premiums for substandard, costly job-related medical coverage. I suppose Dodd thinks it's a big joke that he and his ilk in government are giving people outside the mainstream free health care and using them as a club against the majority in society, and acting as though they don't get that killing has consequences.

Well we have got news for you Chris Dodd. All groups of people outside the mainstream of society are there for a reason. They are the people whose time has already come and gone. The future of America belongs to those who stand up for truth. Stop spending our tax money to kill babies, Senators. Stop playing around.

Sarah Palin is hated by the liberal boneheads because she represents mainstream America. There will be a just accounting for each and every arrogant mistake, rebuff, and injustice taking for granted the majority of American citizens. The minorities outside the mainstream have been allowed sufficient time to show whether they are loyal or disloyal. We have allowed fools to run the show for too long and it is time for a day of reckoning in which the power of the majority will have to be used to the extent necessary to bring minorities into the mainstream, or if they still choose to destroy the majority, they will end up destroying themselves. Our patience is at an end.

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Pope's Social Encyclical Spells Good News for Economic Recovery

Posted by Mike on Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:11:37 PM
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Benedict XVI recent encyclical Caritas in Veritate heralds a global economic recovery in the near future. The encyclical's completion was delayed over a year because of the world financial debacle. Benedict offers helpful suggestions for restructuring the world's economy which will benefit rich and poor alike.

The gist of the message is for man to organize business and financial activities using a holistic approach which takes into account all aspects of the person, not just material gain or profit. The State no longer has as much sway in the global economy. The traditional divides between the private and public sectors, and between enterprises for profit and for non-profit, are to a large extent no longer applicable. New forms of business organizations involving cooperative agreements are now competing within the market economy.

Benedict warns of catastrophic results unless the world economy becomes structured to serve man through authentic integral human development. This means that workers must themselves have a sense of ownership with regard to their productive resources. Furthermore, there must be a deep respect for the dignity of the person and of human life, as well as staying in touch with spiritual values to make the system work.

In a nutshell, it does not do any good in the long run to allow the rich to draw profits at the expense of the poor or the world's environment. Economic growth is a shared responsibility at all levels. Charity is needed within the framework of accepting the truth about man's nature and existence in accordance with a providential plan.
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Family Ties

Posted by Mike on Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:14:27 PM
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Even supposing that Joe Jackson was abusive toward Michael Jackson and others in the family, does this necessarily mean that he is not a good grandfather today?

It is often the case that people mellow out as they get older. Sometimes the most severe and demanding parents become the most loving toward their grandchildren. There should be no presumptuousness on the part of the court. Let the other grandchildren testify as to whether Joe is a good grandfather before making a decision on whether to award custody of Michael's children to Katherine Jackson.

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Was it In-Vitro?

Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:35:43 PM
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In the garden of Eden, the serpent first spoke to Eve and assured her that she would have knowledge of Good and Evil if she just ate of the forbidden fruit. Eve was deceived and then convinced Adam to eat of the fruit.

This pattern took place again in the case of Deborah Rowe and Michael Jackson. Deborah was deceived by the allurement of riches. She knew that he wanted children badly. She then offered to bear the children in exchange for money, to be conceived by artificial insemination using the seed of an anonymous sperm donor. Jackson then agreed to the proposal. This set in motion a series of events bringing about sorrow and grief.

Deborah has been quoted as saying that she conceived both children through a process which was the same as the way she would inseminate one of the mares on her horse ranch in Palmdale. Presumably this would be by extracting live sperm from one of the stallions and then injecting it into the vagina of the mare either directly using a syringe without a needle, or by way of a tube inserted into the vagina. This is ethical as a breeding technique for thoroughbred horses. However, it is totally unacceptable as a way to bring human beings into this world.

Although it was Deborah's idea initially, Deborah and Michael are in pari delicto which means that they are equally at fault. They both suffer the consequences of these sins. In law, when two parties are in pari delicto, the one in possession has the better right. Applying this rule to the Jackson children, they were in the custody of their father at the time of his death and are now in the custody of their grandmother. The law favors her to continue having custody.
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More on Jackson Custody Battle

Posted by Mike on Monday, July 06, 2009 11:28:49 PM
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As shown in the picture at right, it is becoming more and more evident that Michael Jackson was not the biological father of the two oldest Jackson children. The obvious similarities to Debbie Rowe substantiate her claim that she is the biological mother of the two.

There was no need for Jackson to adopt either of the two. He is the father of the two by virtue of his being married to their mother at the time of birth.

Debbie Rowe's claim that she is entitled to custody is weakened by the fact that she apparently conceived both children for the motive of financial gain, and the fact that there was no consummation of the marriage. Since Michael had sole custody of the two oldest children after the divorce in 1999, and the youngest was conceived thereafter, his mother Katherine is the grandmother and should be considered next of kin and awarded custody on that basis.
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