David Rivkin, an attorney for the
plaintiffs, said the ruling meant the
26 states challenging the law must halt implementation of pieces that
apply to states and certain small businesses represented by plaintiffs.
[...]
But the Obama administration said it has no to
plans to halt implementation of the law.
"We will continue to operate as we have previously," a senior
administration official said. [Judge
Rejects Health Law]
”
Exemplifying the
in-your-face attitude Obamunists have displayed from day one.
That official should be standing in front of Judge Vinson tomorrow finding out what contempt will cost him/her. Oh how I wish we had taken the Senate last Nov. There would be a whole lot of impeaching and Congressional investigations going on shortly. I have resolved to live long enough to see the look of fear and humiliation on the Uhbamunists caused by the appearance of looming justice. Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
Meanwhile the govenor of Wisconsin, for one, has stated that since the Judge ruled the law not constitutional it will not be followed in his state. Not reported is if he told Obama, "So there, what are you going to do now Mr. Used Toilet Paper, neener, neener, neener."
Meet the man who says he can heal the sick with his faith.
Is he the real deal? You’ll hear from
believers and skeptics...
MoSup
called me in to the Inner Sanctum to watch "something." It was
this Dr. Oz.segment from today's show, Is This
Man a Faith Healer? Although Dr. Nemeh is Roman Catholic, religion
isn't the key component, and he has atheist "patients." If you or
a loved one have a medical crisis, what the hell, right? Nemeh's
practice is in Ohio; here's his website.
"It's (Choosing a Republican candidate) like Sophie’s Choice if Sophie didn’t really like either of her kids."
Anon-- ***
The medieval practice of bleeding hung around for centuries because patients sometimes got better. This does not mean that bleeding the patients had any good effect.
A charlatan preying on people who are in dire straights can gain the same credibility bleeding got simply through random odds, and by not publicizing his failures.
Rodge: I'm sure he's a good con artist. He may even believe his own patter.
Still needs a whippin'.
Ralph: The ones that live for damned near forever ain't bleedin' anymore ... they stopped around age 40. In fact, that's why women have menopause, so they don't die in childbirth while they are raising their last sprog.
Kristopher, you're a savvy dude. There was nothing to dispute, and nothing being sold. That's how I know you did not watch the show before commenting, and still haven't. Oui?
JFC, I'm a bit gobsmacked by the visceral negative response here to something that people I know in real life view in a positive light. That "faith healings," or alternately the "placebo phenomena" occur are matters of fact not disputed, even if not understood, by science. Having faith in something - even if it's gaia or a rusty nail, aka having a soul - is indicated however. Yeesh.
Rodger, I'm with you. In part II when he's explaining things, he sounds very much like Edgar Cayce, and he was no fake.
It's simplest to condemn what we don't understand, that's why the world is flat, don't you know. Now let's hang those bastards Copernicus & Galileo, and get on with life.
Kristopher, I see amputees walking all the time. They are using prosthetics, which is a miracle. Remember, we are also part of God's creation and he uses his creation to work his miracles. My Dad, an anesthesiologist, puts it this way. It used to take a miracle to cure leprosy, now God has given us the ability to work those miracles, (and many others) for him. Those that have eyes to see and all that, you know.
The knee-jerk hostility to anything even remotely religious isn't very attractive.
Just my 2c. (maybe my 2nd or 3rd post in the past 8 or 9 years)
Prosthetics aren't miracles, Anonymous. Not in the religious sense of the word. They're products of human reason in the pursuit of a solution to a problem. There's far more spirituality in a single human being engaged in that process than all the religions put together.
I like Edgar Cayce even if he was a little too dualistic for my taste.
One story has it that Edgar and a friend were waiting for an elevator. The doors open, Edgar took one look inside and said "Let's take the stairs." The elevator crashed and all aboard died. His friend asked him why he had not gotten on the car. Edgar said he looked at the passengers and saw that none of them had a future and decided to walk.
There are many levels of reality and I ain't good on any of them.
On Dec. 21, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to pass net
neutrality rules for a "free and open Internet." Ironically, it wasn't
until the day before Christmas that the public could actually see the
rules that the FCC voted on. Now the FCC says that Internet service
providers that don't like the law can't sue just yet, because the FCC
hasn't published its rules in the Federal Register. According
to CNET, the commission is also reluctant to allow lawsuits filed by
Verizon and MetroPCS to be heard in the D.C. District Court of Appeals,
because the agency isn't sure it "is the appropriate venue for the
case." For those keeping score: The D.C. Court of Appeals is the same
court that told the commission it had "overstepped its authority when
it sanctioned Comcast for violating the agency's net neutrality
principles." [FCC moves
to dismiss Net neutrality lawsuits]
"It's (Choosing a Republican candidate) like Sophie’s Choice if Sophie didn’t really like either of her kids."
Anon-- ***
Until the bozos are arrested by federal marshalls they'll keep on keeping on. Even if you canceled their paychecks their good buddy Soros would support them. I'm really liking the Jefferson solution more and more.
I don't know, since the beginning this seems to benefit only the isp's and nothing that I have seen has changed my mind on this. I briefly worked for a telco and they were saying how the structure is overwhelmed and it will continue to be so. How does the FCC benefit by this? It seems that the telco's are feigning outrage while quietly cheering it on, regardless of lawsuits.
The
Daily Caller today features What
you should know about Mohamed El Baradei, who is positioned to lead
Egypt after Mubarak is beheaded. If you're in too much of a hurry
to read the article, like me, this is all you really need to know,
although I'm sure DC piles it on.
Mohammed El Baradei joins Jimmy Carter, Al
Gore and
Barack Obama as winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for no discernible
reason other than being vocal critics of the United States.
The Nobel Peace Prize medal has become the equivalent of certain gang
tattoos/biker "colors" that are earned by killing someone; and should
therefore (in both cases) be considered actus reus for an
"arrest on sight" warrant, and be targeted by drones armed with
Hell Fire missiles (except where prohibited by law). That goes
for every person with anyassociation with the Muslim
Brotherhood. Semper Jihad!
"It's (Choosing a Republican candidate) like Sophie’s Choice if Sophie didn’t really like either of her kids."
Anon-- ***
You learn all kinds of things when you read what the opposition has written. I suggest that people read Soros' and Obama's books. You will see what they have planned for us.
In that same vein, I suggest you read Sayyid Qutb's manifesto "Milestones" written in 1963. You will find that the Muslum Brotherhood sees a Manifest Destiny for Islam. They believe that the European West is corrupt and impotent. It is therefore the duty of Islamists to replace Western European culture and create a caliphate extending from Spain to Indonesia.
Don't worry, they haven't forgotten about the U.S. They want to wage a non-violent jihad on the U.S. from within so that the culture of the U.S. is co-opted rather than destroyed outright.
Can we replace those Hellfires with a couple of 100kt tactical nukes? Might come in handy when the Brotherhood starts to march on the rest of the world...
My job is so fucking unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:
First, there is this supermodel wannabe chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on make-up. She is extremely self-centred and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.
The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store she moans like a cat in heat.
But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober any time in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonald's and Burger King, every single fucking day.
Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.
"My bill will shrink Washington's job-crushing agenda and grow
America's economy," said Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from
Wyoming and skeptic of climate change who is leading the effort.
"I will do whatever it takes to ensure that Washington doesn't impose
cap-and-trade policies in any form."
[...]
The Obama administration counters that a shift to green energy would
help both the planet and the economy by creating a new source of
high-paying jobs. [...]
I'm taken aback by Brietbart's use of "skeptic of climate change" to
describe Barrasso. It's like calling me a "Holocaust
Denier"
skeptic. Has any Liberal initiative ever been so thoroughly
debunked
as man-caused climate change? I'm surprised Alinsky's
Rules For Radicals doesn't include:
#13 When the enemy
factually proves you lied, ignore it as though it never happened. The
tactic will drive the enemy crazy, and give your media allies a pivot
point to keep control of the argument.
If you analyze the left's argument for funding manufactured crises (the
asbestos scam is a
good example) -
that it creates new sources of high-paying jobs - you'll see "redistribution of your wealth."
Chuck M.: What kind of exposure to asbestos does it seem is enough to make it likely that one would get mesothelioma? Or is it genetically programmed? tom
A one time exposure generally won't do it. It generally takes a prolonged exposure to significant amounts of airborne dust.
You generally see it in people who mined materials containing asbestos, processed the material, or installed the material. If you worked in one of those industries for a few months, there is a high possibility that you may have a critical exposure to asbestos.
A good example is vermiculite mined in Libby, Montana. Libby vermiculite is contaminated w/ asbestos. W.R. Grace engineers and execs knew it was contaminated when they started selling the "popped" vermiculite as insulation. As a consequence, numerous older homes and now-abandoned factories are contaminated with asbestos.
Ask the residents of Libby, Montana if asbestosis and mesothelioma is a "scam".
Back when I was bulletproof and immortal, kids used to smear mercury on dimes and quarters to make ‘em shiny. Next day, of course, the surface had become dimmed by the top layers’ having become oxidized, so another fresh mercury coating had to be applied.
When I became a teenager, still impervious to everything except Kryptonite, my friends and I would wrap asbestos around leaking mufflers and tailpipes to keep the sheriff and his minions off our butts.
I began smoking around 1954 or 55 and got really good at it by the time I retired from the Navy in 1984. I drank too much, ate the wrong foods, hung around in smoky bars and on Navy ships, went through shipyard assignments where the air was full of particles and dust and gases and fumes from who-the-hell-knows where.
Today, tho, I can’t eat meat and have to take 80mg Lipitor to keep my cholesterol under control ‘cause my LDL/HDL ratio is inverted, and the bad stuff wants desperately to coat the insides of my pipes and shut down my main circ pump.
But, I’m now 70 and still walkin around with this nasty habit of breathin. Yeah, genetic predisposition is a pretty safe assumption.
Chuck, I in no way meant to imply that asbestos, like lead, coal dust, etc. can lead to disability and death. I referred to the issue being used by the tort lawyers and politicians to remove asbestos from every home, building and outhouse, at a cost to the owners of $billions of dollars. You can stand aside any concrete highway and be exposed to more asbestos then school kids ever received from attending class in old school houses. That was the scam.
One more crime. Asbestos tort lawyering allowed Peter Angelos to scam enough money to buy the Baltimore Orioles and destry one of the great franchises in American sports.
Boco, I'm glad you don't have asbestosis or mesothelioma.
Rodg, I'm equally glad that my house (1941) and my parents' house (1888) don't have vermiculite insulation. The hard question to answer is what to do with the buildings insulated w/ Zonolite™ when it's time to tear them down or significantly renovate them.
The financial cost of containing the vermiculite/asbestos dust will be high.
"Has any Liberal initiative ever been so thoroughly debunked as man-caused climate change..." well it hasn't actually been debunked, but then again, it hasn't been proven yet. That's the big problem, I think... they are (were, hopefully) trying to push through a series of solutions to a problem that we don't know if it was actually a problem. If 99% of the input of the global warming were due to sunspots, it is pretty useless to hope that carbon certificates can help raise the remaining 1% (or the minimal portion of that 1% that can actually be improved... if of improvement one can hope) to a level that influences the other 99. But no one understands yet if the AGW is 90% external or 10% external, and they don't care, if they can earn something by claiming it is 99% human influenced (isn't that the real meaning of egocentric?).
Alinski-Chomsky have been VERY successful with AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES!!!
You are bashing "liberals", aren't you? Capitalists are called "liberals" with the rest of humanity.
Republican-conservative states are called "Red States", just like Mao's "red Army"
"They" are naming themselves the blue states (The seaboards states that Goldwater advocated sawing off) while the "Big Blue Machines" always meant conservative parties for the rest of civilized world!
You guys have to quit "crossing the aisle" and stop playing by Alinski-Chomsky's rules!
And asbestos is just as harmless as silicates!Those that got cancer where working in asbestos dust refusing to wear breathing apparatus until their lungs where filled with asbestos wool... you'd get cancer from road dust in the same conditions, like cowboys commonly did.
Where I came from, ALL children played with asbestos woolly rocks and NOBODY ever got cancer.
Asbestos is just part of the trial lawyers racket...the base of Alphonse Goregast's religion.
Wabano, you do know that the "red state for Conservatives" "blue state for liberals" titles were labeled by the media during the 2000 elections. If you look at election history you will find that red was assigned to Clinton during his elections. At one point the colors switched back and forth depending on the election cycle. At one point liberalism meant freedom, but the progressives took that over and turned it into a leftist movement.
Last
year I wrote an article about how Swedish society is disintegrating and
is in danger of collapsing, at least in certain areas and regions. The
country that gave us Bergman, ABBA and Volvo could become known as the
Bosnia of northern Europe. The “Swedish model” would no longer refer to
a stable and peaceful state with an advanced economy, but to a Eurabian
horror story of utopian multiculturalism, socialist mismanagement and
runaway immigration. Some thought I was exaggerating, and that talk of
the possibility of a future civil war in Sweden was pure paranoia. Was
it?
[...]
It is interesting to note that these Muslim
immigrants state quite openly that they are involved in a “war,” and
see participation in crime and harassment of the native population as
such. [Swedish Welfare State
Collapses as Immigrants Wage War]
If you allow primitives to immigrate in to do manual labor, and they cause trouble, you ship them back.
You don't give them a vote, put them on welfare, and make excuses for them when they break shit, burn things, and try to force their neighbors to participate in their primitive tribal customs at gunpoint or at vote point.
Their kids can become citizens when they prove they aren't primitives anymore.
presents
According
to CNET, the commission is also reluctant to allow lawsuits filed by
Verizon and MetroPCS to be heard in the D.C. District Court of Appeals,
because the agency isn't sure it "is the appropriate venue for the
case." For those keeping score: The D.C. Court of Appeals is the same
court that told the commission it had "overstepped its authority when
it sanctioned Comcast for violating the agency's net neutrality
principles." [
