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Aptos Psychologist: Here’s how to repeal the Trojan Horse of Obama-Care …

jaj48 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:31:04 +0000

Obama-Care a Trojan Horse

Everything Obama can do we as voters can do better.

And do so with more honesty, courage and consistency than Obama has shown as President.

Obama has the bully pulpit. And he already is spending Obama-Care billions:

“The Obama administration will announce soon as much as $1 billion in funding to hire, train and deploy health-care workers, part of the White House’s broader “We Can’t Wait” agenda to bolster the economy after President Obama’s jobs bill stalled in Congress.”

Voters likewise can take up the bully pulpit. And, very importantly, join together with other like minded souls.

How voters can use their bully pulpit: First of all, start a blog and join other blogs who oppose Obama-Care. Use either WordPress.com or WordPress.org.And blog religiously — that means regularly.

Make the blog’s title clear that you oppose Obama-Care: No More Obama & repeal Obama-Care is the message. There are political Web Rings which you can join.

Several years ago, the conservative talk show host Rush Linbaugh started a campaign to slow down the crowning of McCain as the Republican candidate. That strategy is still valid for 2012.

As long as there is more than one candidate in the race Obama and his crew cannot focus a negative campaign on just one person. So, do what you can do so Rick Santorum and Ron Perry remain as viable candidates for as long as possible And they are viable, strong candidates. And they just might even win though considerably behind right now as of Feb. 2012.

Second, whatever your political leanings, if you oppose Obama-Care, go register as Republican. That way your vote counts in the primary.

Third, write (after appropriate professional consultation with your doctors)an End of Life Medical Directive stating that: a) you reject and want no part of Obama-Care; b) that you reject Obama-Care’s method of the rationing health care for the elderly; c) that you reject the use of ‘death panels’ making medical decisions for you or your loved ones.

Fourth, put a brief statement up on your blog stating that you oppose Obama-Care in its entirety. Send a copy to your Congresspersons.

Fifth, take a liberal/progressive neighbor out for coffee. And tell them how you as a neighbor feel about Obama-Care. Converse and listen to what they have to say. Get the message out to your neighbors and friends. Send e-mails.

Sixth, if you have not already, join a religious/ spiritual group in your community which has evangelism — the zealous advocacy of a cause — as an integral part of its’ Judeo-Christian mission. It’s easier to spread the word when you join with other who are like minded. And through that group, start a Health Care discussion which includes discussion of books and speakers.

Have you noticed that liberals/ progressives vilify ‘the evangelicals’ as an entity with extreme ideas which are out of keeping with modern values? Newspaper columnists typically talk about ‘the evangelicals’ as if they were one coherent group.

You might find “The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind” an interesting read. It’s available on Amazon.com and elsewhere. Written by Carl Trueman, a conservative theologian, Trueman pokes holes in the notion that there is any coherent evangelical mind. So, Carl Trueman a conservative theologian thinks that the entity does not exist what the progressives and liberals vilify.

In my view, evangelicals are part of many if not most religious groups.

Some newspaper columnists poke fun at Rick Santorum for holding core values which include opposition to homosexual marriage. For those who oppose Obama-Care it’s important that Santorum has core values and that he is willing to state what they are.

Think about where Obama formed his core values: Obama spent twenty some years in Rev. Wright’s congregation wherein the Rev. preached many ‘god damn America’ sermons.

Different from evangelism, the definition per Google of ‘evangelicalism’ is “the missionary, reforming or redeeming spirit evident throughout the history of Christianity in various guises or emphasis”.

Obama seems to lack the core beliefs in the Judeo-Christian principles that under gird America’s basic political documents — the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Voters via blogs can focus on Obama’s core values which are antithetical — opposite to — the core values of the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Whereas our political documents look to God as the source of our freedoms, Obama looks to government as the source of people’s freedoms. And what government gives — government can take away. Obama never uses the words “endowed by their Creator” when he talks about basic individual freedoms.

Christian morality is steeped in belief and adherence to the Ten Commandments which include: ‘thou shalt have no other gods before me’ i.e., the worship of God is primary; ‘honor thy father and mother that thy days may be long ‘ i.e., that the children who honor their parents will themselves live to be elderly and frail; ‘thou shalt not bear false witness” i.e., don’t lie and ‘thou shalt not steal thy neighbor’s wife or ox’.

Obama’s behavior as President does not show adherence or belief in these basic Commandments. >

Does Obama honor the elderly and infirm? No. Obama puts no value on the life of a 95 year old grandmother who wants a pace maker. Obama said its better to just give old people pain pills rather than quality health care that is expensive.

Does Obama steal? Obama’s low interest money policies hurt savers and those living on fixed incomes. Who is that? The old. Obama in effect ‘steals’ from the old who saved for their retirement. Obama took [stole?] $500 million from Social Security to fund Obama-Care. That is taking from the elderly.

To summarize: Yes we can repeal the Trojan Horse of Obama-Care.
DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

Big unions opposed to automated checkout lanes spend lavishly on CA Rep. Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco

jaj48 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:01:24 +0000

no automatic union dues

Follow the money that flows from the Big Unions to CA politicians. It’s time that CA voters pass a law that stops automatic removal of union dues by employers who then pay the unions.

Change the law so the unions have to get the union dues directly from members.

That would sever the stream of money that flows into the politicians pocket book via unions. DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
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Baptists & bootleggers won’t let kids buy booze in the self checkout line by Katherine Mangu-Ward 1-9-2012

http://reason.com/blog/2012/01/09/baptists-and-bootleggers-wont-let-kids-b

One of the 40,000 new regulations that went into effect on January 1 was a California rule prohibiting the sale of alcohol in self-checkout lines, sponsored by state Rep. Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco). Why? For the children, of course!

Will the ban prevent the kids from getting their Bartles & Jaymes on? Let’s go to the numbers:

The study quoted in Ma’s literature was undertaken in 2009 at UCLA. If you can look past the obsequious photos, the data is interesting. Ma’s money shot is this passage:

…participants were able to override a locked self-checkout machine or purchase alcohol without an employee’s assistance and thus bypass the system 19 times out of 97 attempts (about 20 percent of attempts).

Another study, from San Diego State, found an even lower percentage of young people—of a sample pool more than twice as large — were able to make off with booze in the self-checkout line: 8.4 percent.

Meanwhile, another set of numbers about Rep. Ma— unions love her, it seems, almost as much as they hate automated labor saving technologies!:

By the by, does the name Fiona Ma ring a bell? It should. She’s the source of one of my favorite lines in recent memory from a reason.tv video. Of her effort to crack down on raves in California, she says: “I found out later on that constitutionally you cannot ban a type of music.” Oops.

conservative writer Laura Bramon Good on God’s Love – about her marriage breakup

jaj48 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:47:48 +0000

Faith, Hope & Charity

Laura Bramon Good lives in Washington, D.C. and writes on human trafficking issues. Below Laura Good writes a post titled God’s Love which concerns her marriage breakup.

In keeping with what she says each brought to their marriage, did she first eviscerate him and therefor he had to abandoned her? Were what she writes the reality of my marriage I might write about it but not under my real name. For sure, Laura Bramon Good’s ex-husband needs privacy to heal.

Laura’s post reminds one of I Cor. 13 on faith, hope and charity. “And the greatest of these is charity…” Perhaps privacy at times is part of charity. Laura Bramon Good creates strong, visual images.

God loves garbage?

Does God [only] love garbage?

To read go to: http://imagejournal.org/page/blog/gods-love

Trojan Horse of Obama-Care in 2012 – who best to slay it? Romney with Romney-Care,Gingrich with individual mandate, MD Ron Paul or ??

jaj48 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:46:15 +0000

Trojan Horse Obama-Care

Let’s keep focused on the ball: repeal Obama-Care. That is the goal. And all sorts of things will flow from the repeal.

With no Obama-Care the government cannot wipe out private health insurance. With no Obama-Care the takeover of one sixth of the economy ceases.

Remember, Obama-Care — a Trojan Horse in hour midst — already spends big bucks.

Who best will slay the Trojan Horse of Obama-Care? Romney the business man who pragmatically solves problems? Romney on the surface talks like a conservative but … Visionary Newt who defended Reagon and his policies on C-SPAN in the early 1980s for hours in the evening with the cameras rolling and nobody except a handful freshman Republicans there? Energetic and no baggage Rick Santorum who socked it to Romney on Romney-Care and who strongly opposes Marxist and socialists world wide?

You got to admit that the MD old man Ron Paul knows from personal experience how government has harmed the practise of medicine. Ron Paul is worth 2-3 million and has zero money in stocks. Paul has his money invested in gold.

So more than likely Paul would support a strong dollar and return to the gold standard. What about a Ron Paul and Rick Santorum ticket?

biovocational ministry (part time pastors) is wave of future for small churches & models committed Christian participation says Carl Truman

jaj48 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:33:10 +0000

Conservative writers include Carl Trueman, a theologian who writes astutely about the American political scene.

Below, Trueman writes about “biovocational ministry” as the wave of the future for small churches.

Trueman asks, if there are a 100 poor family can they only have a poorly paid full time pastor? Truman plans to match actions with words and — if called in February, 2012 — to take a part time position as a pastor. You can find Carl Truman’s writings at www.reformation.21.org See link below. written by DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

http://www.reformation21.org/articles/an-important-and-positive-lesson-from-the-liberals-which-you-might-not-hear-else.php

Firenze Sage: Hell no, he won’t go! [danger to kids NYC teacher collects 100 K plus benefits for 10 yrs]

jaj48 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:36:10 +0000

no more teacher tenure
Teacher tenure keeps bad teachers on the payroll?

Disgraced New York City typing teacher has collected 100 K a year plus benefits for the last 10 years.

In a defiant raspberry to the New York Department of Education — and to taxpayers — disgraced teacher Alan Rosenfeld, 66, won’t retire.

Deemed a danger to kids, the typing teacher –with a $10 million real estate portfolio — hasn’t been allowed in a classroom for more than a decade.

He continues to still collect $100,049 a year in city salary. And he gets health benefits, a growing pension nest egg, vacation and sick pay.

New York City Mayor Bloomberg and New York Gov. Cuomo can call for better teacher evaluations until they’re blue-faced.

But Rosenfeld and six peers with similar gigs costing about $650,000 a year in total salaries remain untouchable.

Under the New York City system, shackled by protections for tenured teachers, they can’t be fired, says the Dept. of Education.
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Why is it harder to fire a teacher than a lawmaker?

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Dog owners are positive force on Santa Cruz beaches

jaj48 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:44:26 +0000

Live Oak Beach Club
Frolicking dogs at beach

I live at the beach in Live Oak, CA and am very aware of some of the problems associated with dogs on the beach and understand the concerns addressed in a recent article.

I also believe the incidents are infrequent and in the 10 years I’ve lived here, I have seen a positive change in the attitude of the local dog owner community.

The beach here has long been recognized as an off-leash haven, despite the law, which also prohibits fireworks, littering, glass containers, alcohol and bonfires. I have never seen efforts by the county to monitor activities that include these.

Why punish an entire community of happy frolicking dogs and responsible dog owners for the actions of a few rotten tomatoes? There are other ways to address this issue such as off-leash hours or joining community efforts to promote public awareness and pro-active measures in keeping our beaches and parks clean and safe for everyone.

One such group is Live Oak Beach Club for which information can be found on Facebook.

It’s not unusual to see a group of these local dog owners picking up the trash and broken glass left in smoldering bonfires by drunken revelers from the night before. And no, they don’t leave their waste in bags.

Letter by Marion Morris, member of Life Oak Beach Club, published 1-29-2012 in Santa Cruz Sentinel, B2

FirenzeSage: Open wide and get defrauded … [dentist & paper clips]

jaj48 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:06:07 +0000

paper clip root canal

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.— A former dentist in Massachusetts has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud. He used paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals.

Michael Clair is scheduled to be sentenced next Monday. He plead guilty last week in New Bedford Superior Court to a variety of charges, including defrauding Medicaid of $130,000 assault and battery, illegally prescribing prescription drugs and witness intimidation. Paper clips which cause pain and infection are cheaper.
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He ought to be sentenced to getting all his teeth root canaled.

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Firenze Sage: Who are the cheapstakes? [charity donations by Al Gore? Joe Biden? Obama? Gingrich? Romney?]

jaj48 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:38:44 +0000

worst cheapskate politicians?

Romney raked in about $42 million in 2010 and 2011. His effective tax rate was just below 14 percent, lower than that for many American taxpayers. Romney paid $6.2 million to the taxman and donated a staggering $7 million to charity, including $4.1 million to the Mormon church.

In fact, in those two years, Romney paid 16 percent of his income to charity, compared to, er, 2.6 percent by Newt Gingrich.

And what about President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the run-up to their 2008 campaign?

USA Today broke it down here. In 2007, the Obamas gave more than $240,000 to charity, about 5.7 percent of their income. The Bidens gave an average of $369 to charity a year for the decade before he moved to the Naval Observatory – about 0.3 percent of their income. Back in 1997, then veep Al Gore and his then wife Tipper gave $353.

Since becoming veep, Biden hasn’t become much more generous. In 2010, Biden gave $5,350, about 1.4 percent of income. That same year, Romney gave some $3 million. The national average is about three percent.

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Did you hear the one about Biden giving the homeless guy a cup of coffee. Never mind, no one did.

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Firenze Sage: Take your children and RUN …[away from teachers]

jaj48 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:22:03 +0000

teach basic grammar?

A passage in Enid Lee et al.’s “Beyond Heroes and Holidays” reads: “We cannot afford to become so bogged down in grammar and spelling that we forget the whole story. … The onslaught of anti-human practices that this nation and other nations are facing today: racism, and sexism, and the greed for money and human labor that disguises itself as ‘globalization.’”
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This of course is the excuse for not teaching.

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