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I think it's about time someone from the Republican campaign just took the time to lay it all out there. Just tell the people what is up with what Republicans believe. I'm not Karl Rove or anything, but I think it ought to come from Mitt Romney himself and P.D.Q. Here's what I would say if I were him.
Hello, my name is Mitt, and I'm a rich man. I'm standing before you and I admit it. Yes, my name is Mitt and I AM a rich man. I'll own it.
There is certainly a lot of discussion out there about being rich or poor. That people who are rich will always be rich and that poor people will always be poor. Rich people do nothing for anybody but themselves and poor people can do nothing for themselves. Is that how you see it? Funny, I always thought America was about poor people who thought they could be rich if they really wanted to be and then did. America is where we break through those glass ceilings and say nothing is always the way it is.
Let me tell you about two sons I know. They both worked for Dell Computers way back before Dell was DELL. One man's father was a middle to upper income earner, a CFO, while the other's father came from Mexico as a migrant worker picking watermelons. One day these sons tell their fathers to invest in Dell because they see customized computers as the future. So the dads do this, each father taking what they think they can spend on the investment. Now you might imagine the migrant worker invested less than the wealthier CFO, but we'll never know for sure. He was unable to speak much English and had no idea what a Dell computer was until his son started working there. Some years later, the CFO father grew "un-enchanted" with the computer company and decided to cash out of his slow if not motionless investment. The migrant worker dad on the other hand, out of love and respect for his son, faithfully kept what little money he had in Dell despite his poor means. He just worked harder to make ends meet. A couple years later, Dell Computers turned the whole technology market on its head. Stock price for this company skyrocketed and then split… then split again. The migrant watermelon picker was now a multi-millionaire and the CFO dad was just as moderately wealthy as he always was. In America, both had equal opportunity to be extremely wealthy despite their backgrounds. There was no insider trading- just faith in a good business.
In America, poor people can become rich people and rich people can become poor people. There is no guarantee; there is only the right of pursuit. Now if you take the right of pursuit away, by telling people there is no chance so why pursuit…all you do is guarantee that most people will try less to succeed and try less to pursuit great things. I pursued great things, became rich and now that allows me to help you, uninhibited by my background. I heard a citizen say the other day, to a reporter, "Well Mitt is rich. Why would he want to bother with such a hard job as the President?" And the answer to that is because I can. And I can do this without having to be tempted by corruption. No one could ever pay me enough to do harm to my country. There isn't one thing I need or want in my life more than the opportunity to save this country from ruin.
There are people in charge right now that clearly have no idea what they are doing. The polls show we agree we are not heading in the right direction. I understand the Obama Administration's pride and why they are so frustrated by this failure. They had a revolutionary plan. Unfortunately, it's not a working plan. It never was. It has failed because they don't want to admit when they are wrong and they don't want help. Have you ever seen this show called Kitchen Nightmare's with a chef by the name of Gordon Ramsey? This guy comes in and tells the restaurant owners either that their kitchen is filthy, they are spending too much money, or too little money on good produce, their behavior towards their employees and customers need to change, the food sucks or all of the above. In each case the restaurant is going bankrupt, the owners are in debt up to their ears, they're about to lose their home because that's tied to the restaurant too, but still… because they had such great plans for the restaurant and it was their "dream" they don't want to listen. They get angry. They get violent. They literally hate this guy Ramsey because they think he's all high and mighty. They think he couldn't possibly understand where they are coming from, the whole bit. He comes in, gives them all these alternative options. He makes changes to the menu and the decor. Overnight he makes real physical changes and helps change their attitudes whether they will admit it will work or not and then faithfully waits to see what happens. Suddenly everyone likes the food and surprise, the business grows. The families end up naming their children after Gordon and all live happily ever after. Now Gordon Ramsey isn't an American citizen, so he can't be nominated for President, so don't even try it! Now here's the thing. He goes back six months later to check on them and those owners who decided to be stubborn and go back to their old way and not listen to the expert went under. Those who refused to try and trust someone they thought was "out of touch" with them, lost out big time. Never to be recovered.
I don't want that to be America. I am rich because I'm good at business and we need to change the way we do business in America. Forgive me for saying this but the majority of America's problems right now are about money. We need the poor and the rich working together in America like we used to. Now those who have the money are literally unable to use it. People cannot get the loans they need. Workers cannot get paid. The way America used to do business is no longer possible because of the way the current administration chooses to run it. I'll say it again. They don't know what they are doing. People don't want to do business with us anymore, in other words, people are going to stop coming to our restaurant if we don't get it functioning as a modern, fresh and comfortable place to be.
They are telling you that by doing things right, what the Republicans think is right, that it will put hard working minorities "back in chains." There is no skin color of the Republican Party. Anyone who says there is, is backwards. They want you to look backwards too. Doing it over and over and over again is intolerable. The hatemongering has got to stop! If you took us all and stuck us in a blender we'd be a very nice shade of brown. Our expertise, our experience, our love for our country and the great things about it has no class status. "Wise men profit more by fools, than fools by wise men; for wise men avoid the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the good examples of wise men." – CATO THE ELDER, c. 200 B.C. If you don't want to work with rich people you're missing out. If you don't want to work with poor people, you're missing out. Great educations come from working with both. That is why America has for centuries been so ahead of the curve. Our tolerance of each other, our abilities to make our differences work for us, make us smarter.
As people have actually tried to disrupt the harmony and our strides with civil rights, making us stop to question whether we should continue to keep working together, our country has become stagnate and numb. But here's the trick. It's only on the surface. The real truth about this whole campaign thing is that under all this media coverage of class warfare and anger, we are real people. We are a real country. We don't hate each other. We're angry because we feel we can't make a difference in our financial status or communities. Opportunity has literally been snatched from our grasp. Because of fear, doors- as in opportunity, as well as the real doors to our homes and businesses… like our favorite restaurants are literally closing every day.
Speaking of closing doors. There is something I would really like to stop and that's the bold face lies being told by those working for the Democratic Party to confuse you about the Republican policy. Republicans don't hate gay people and we don't have an ongoing war against women. We will not make it our focus to repeal gay marriage. Nor will we make it our focus to repeal Roe v. Wade. Furthermore, in case you were curious, none of our policies make the environment more polluted or the globe warmer either.
If that's what you are afraid of, then you aren't living in the real world. That's where the Republicans and I live. I'm going to be real honest with you right now. So listen up. Our focus is saving the economy right now. Without an economy, we can't do jack. That's just the way it is. All the smart cars and healthcare in the world won't save us if our economy collapses. This is what Republicans stand for right now. We will fix this problem carefully and methodically. To do this, despite popular belief, Republicans will not throw Granny off a cliff. I don't even know how those actors got that wheelchair with granny up there. No, seriously. In fact, we only plan to cut spending on Medicaid by 3% compared to what Obama wants to spend. That's hardly reducing grandma to eating cat food. In fact, once we get rid of Obamacare we can put the 716 billion Obama's plan steals from seniors back in the Medicare pot. Another fact is that if we continue with Obama's healthcare plan, Medicare for seniors will be completely insolvent in 12 years.
The model we are looking at for offering everyone a healthcare choice is doing better in use than we ever anticipated. It has cost 43% less than what we thought it would cost to implement and young people get to choose whether they want Medicare run by the government or get the equivalent of that cost to use towards a private insurance of their choice. This will drive the cost down with the good old' American way. Competition. Competition means choice for everyone. Competition, in case you were wondering, isn't the same as fighting each other.
If we can hold onto our thoughtless blurts of disgust and spontaneous angry reactions to the little stuff for just a while, we find we aren't that upset after all. When we don't waste the time responding to every word each other say with anger, we listen to the other guy a little more and understand where they are coming from a little bit better. Americans don't ask each other whether we are rich or poor when we are fighting for our country. It's not our style. We may not agree, but a compromise can surely be explored a lot easier on that safer frontier.
We built this country together. It seems like we haven't built anything in a long time. That's what it feels like. I know we can build a great future together. Would you rather let the government say they'll come up with something to help you out and you don't need to worry about what it is or what it costs? Or would you rather be involved by learning from and working with your countrymen to build something you believe in? I know, in fact I will guarantee you, as a successful business man who honestly cares about each and every one of you, if we all work harder, if we all work harder on working together we'll all be a lot richer.
Stand with me. Support me and the other Republicans in your state. Don't let them close more doors on opportunity. Let's make more doors of opportunity! Thank you and God Bless America.
Okay, so I'm not as good as Mitt would be. I'm just sayin'.
It's Adventure Time
There may be something wrong with having a tendency to see life through certain cartoons, but yah, here I go again. Like many Americans out there concerned with how the next election will turn out, I want to know how exactly the opposition to the Democratic Party will go about their plan of battle. I don't know about you but I have battle plans constantly rolling around in my head, because well, I'm more than concerned. I'm borderline frantic. I'm on edge. I'm wondering if Mitt Romney and the campaign leaders will actually have the bollocks to take the gloves off and put forth the effort to beat the Democratic Party at its own game. So far, I think they are behind on getting this show on the road, but I can be patient… Okay, no I can't. Might I relay some of my thoughts on the subject?
Is there anyone on the opposition of the Dems that can think like a liberal? I'm not saying is there a person that thinks this way all the time, just part-time, like on an "on-call" basis? This is very important, because there are certain liberal weaknesses we all enjoy and could be used like a bridge, a corpus callosum if you will, to the casm that spans our right brains and left brains. Weaknesses like our love for movies and cartoons. It's a welcomed weakness, but a weakness none the less because we tend to let our guard down when we are being entertained.
I heard two different references to the movie industry by conservative analysts in relation to how this campaign should be run. I think they are on the right track. Janine Turner made a comment about how actors in a great movie are super talented and feel bonded like one cohesive team. Dennis Miller referred to how Chris Christie running with Romney would be like Kevin Costner and Sean Connery in The Untouchables. Unstoppable. Bulletproof. That just shows how we are as conservatives seeking and longing for a hero. That's thinking liberally in a good way. We know realistically that real heroes don't run for the office of President and Vice President because they're not stupid enough to walk into that burning building, but we are definitely wishing on a star aren't we? I think we should prove to the other side that we haven't lost that sense of wonder. Let's show them we have a sense of adventure by showing what kind of change America can have when individuals like them imagine what can be built with a little hard work and cooperation. Why not think the whole campaign strategy could be a metaphorical representation of our ideal America and get the attention of a lot more of the folks who tend to think that way. Let me give you an example.
Cartoons are an art form and art was created to speak messages to us without having to actually be interested in the message. Even liberals turn on their right brains for anything that is portrayed as a display of "art". I think this is why art can be so powerful.
Cartoons have this wonderful way of keeping our attention to the very end because we are being entertained instead of being brow beat by live people who want to get their point across. Even when they are completely demented, the good ones with a moral lesson intertwined, seem to be the most successful cartoons. Why? Because we want to be better people, we just don't want to be told to be. In my spare time, I like to write children's books and the best ones are those that teach a lesson without seeming like they are teaching anything. SpongeBob is a perfect example of how good moral behavior can be disguised behind strange behavior and be hugely popular. Now if you've never watched SpongeBob, you have no idea what I'm talking about. And if you've never watched SpongeBob you definitely have never watched a fairly new cartoon out there called Adventure Time.
Talk about art, Adventure Time's artistic staff is absolutely stunningly talented. The colors and creativity that goes into each episode is entertainment alone. Then they add original musical pieces that are really quite clever and you have something any one with eyeballs would watch. That is my hope, because Adventure Time isn't just a great cartoon it implies something very important about what kind of people we should all be, heroes in a world of uncertainty.
The problem with being a hero is that it's complicated. That's the main theme. To me that kind of sounds like a story about being American. Hey, this is art. I can interpret it how I want to. We are so powerful as a whole, but as individuals it seems we are losing our grasp of what we really need to do with our lives. Fin and Jake the dog (not his dog) are the heroes of our story who always want to be good and win battles for that which is good. Fin is a thirteen year old young man who metaphorically represents our youthful vision of America and the world. Jake, Fin's best friend and a super stretchy shape-shifting dog represents the ever-expanding opportunity and freedom available in America that is to be taken advantage of in order to win. Princess Bubblegum, who is this super-genius sweetheart, represents the establishment, what is all-good and worth fighting for. It's funny because she tends to create bad things by accident (like our government) and needs Fin's help to get rid of them. One episode she created zombies and had to get Fin to keep it quiet while she worked on a cure or the candy kingdom would destroy itself in panic Essentially he had to make up and partake in what can only be described as a government cover-up while at the same time he righteously fought zombies to keep the unappreciative candy people safe. Tell me you don't see a common theme here.
If you really observe closely you'll see several poignant pieces with very American themes. A hero doesn't mean always killing the foe, but sometimes it does. Sometimes you don't recognize the foe because they are dressed in poor sad case clothing and pull at your heartstrings. Many times, it says you don't know who your foe is until the very end no matter what you do. Sometimes there's a possibility to solve problems with tools and technology and sometimes it takes brute strength to win. Sometimes you have to hold weak people up and sometimes you just have to teach them to turn their weaknesses into strength. Some problems are not your problem and you should stay out of it, but if it's a situation where evil is present, it's always your problem. Sometimes there are blood sucking dead girls that sneak into your house, but they're not necessarily evil. Okay, I don't know what that last one has to do with America, but my point is, this cartoon has some very conservative themes in it that are a joy to absorb. Just don't tell any liberals you watch Adventure Time. Just like kids if they find out you like it they won't watch it anymore.I'm just sayin'.
Once something is labeled as something with a moral backbone, you have to fight harder to make people pay attention. Everyone expects too much of individuals with moral messages all the while not even listening. Like Fin, a hero doesn't always know what to say. Good people aren't 100% good, but it doesn't make us hypocrites either. Good people are sometimes violent and loud, because that's what it takes. Good people plan because they don't always know how to fix things on the fly. When people call you slow or lazy or unprepared in the meantime, do not quit. Never give up. Never surrender. Never be ashamed of being a methodical planner. Remember that Republicans! It's such an adventure to be good.
With the new developments and precedents being set by the powers that be in America recently, I'm positive it is time to start hunkering down and becoming more aware of our hero work. A big part of that is making sure we have an America that can actually produce and house heroes. If we let America crash and worse yet go more towards and entitlement society, where we have to depend on the government for our scraps,individuals will become powerless and it will be too late. We are literally going to have to take advantage of all our tools, technology and tenacity to fight against the evil succubus that is in power today. I don't know if that includes time to watch cartoons, but in light of what I've said about it, maybe you can relax a little knowing liberals and those who do not care about politics are probably sitting and watching something that is good for them too.
President Obama's campaign spent more than $30 million to run TV ads on the subject of Romney being bad for American business for nearly three months even though the allegation that Mr. Romney "shipped jobs to China and Mexico" was called "misleading, unfair and untrue" by the Washington Post fact checker and labeled "bunk" in an editorial. The Annenberg Center's FactCheck.org said it found no evidence to support the claim that Romney shipped American jobs overseas, but still the commercials and "legal slander" continue.
I would imagine that over the next few months they are going to try and go all out to widen the gulf between those who know how to make/save money and those who do not. They are going to try to paint a picture of business people and rich business people in particular as those who use sneaky tactics to make money. They will portray hard work as something only noble poor people do. They will make poor people feel even more hopeless about their attempts at hard work and saving by telling them that both the rich and the government are miraculous staples in this country that can never be matched or achieved or changed by the common man. They will tell us the only difference between the two is that rich people want to remain rich so they do anything, use any and all hidden resources to keep it that way and that in contrast the government uses its "magic" to help the people. They will tell us the only way to change things is to give the government more of our support not the "mysterious" rich business people.
So how do we counter this Cro-Magnon campaign? We can't stay on the level and just keep up with the status quo. So far, Obama and the Dems are the status and we the Republicans, we're the quo. Let's say no to the quo. I say we need to go over the top imaginative. While they use their cash trying to lie and do those things I mentioned above, the Republicans, Independents, Tea Partiers and Dems who give a damn need to spend their money on wowing the hell out of us with a vision of a great future. Show it to us. I don't care if you have to hire Steven Spielberg himself. We need to out liberal mind the liberals. The only thing liberals like more than dwelling in their own sorrow is being distracted from the pain with something spectacularly inspiring.
Show us how private people and rich businessmen with big imaginations turn the world around. Bring as many of these men and women to the table and relay their potential to as many Americans as possible. Show the world that we will not rely on the government to make the leading strides in technology. Show us how innovators like Burt Rutan and Richard Branson are going to go all "X Prize" on our ass. Show us how we will therefore breathe new life back into innovation, breeding business, more engineers and therefore more wealth. All those bridges and wonderful things we have were built by engineers not the government, President Obama. No, I didn't build it, but some regular hard-working Americans did. The government may have given its permission to build the bridge, but they didn't build it or even plan it probably. But you know what? That's all it can do. Obama doesn't want anyone to think about the fact that all the government can really do is give you permission to do something or not do something. Do you really want them to do this in all aspects of your life? You don't even let your mom do that. Do you?
Back to the point. I think if we take the over the top, high energy, high special effect, historical fiction, science fiction-type approach we could really get more of the liberal types to open up their minds a little bit to our cause. That shouldn't be as hard a trick as what Obama and the Dems have to do. They have to try to convince us that the government can do all that inventing and a bag chips too. Well, they have NASA, I guess. Oh, wait, no. They're in the process of dismantling that. Hmm. I don't know how they're going to show us anything positive in motion for the future. The auto industry is doing just fine on its own, without any help from the government and has been for some time now. So I guess the car companies have already burst the government's bubble on taking credit for that one too.
What it comes down to is this. Fight negative pseudos with positive pseudos. You can't fight all Obama's lies with the cold hard truth necessarily. We saw this when Romney had his "Night at the Apollo" as I like to call it. Even though the NAACP was slightly receptive to Romney's speech in which he refused to pander it wasn't exactly something that inspired anyone in the audience to vote for him. What I refuse to do in contrast to many of the commentators I saw who spoke about the speech Romney gave at the NAACP, is imply that the audience members were racist and would not vote for Romney because he doesn't want to speak "their language". That's ridiculous. I think they will if he can inspire them. Remember, many African-Americans who were supporters of Obama are feeling in general, pretty darn used by the Obama campaign.
I think instead of using people or a particular group of people, we need to actually give them something they can use as a constituency to better their cause. If you give them something they need, their support will come. Come to think of it there are a lot of groups that have been used by the Obama campaign. They know they're being used, they just expected something in return. "Dollar make me holler, honey boo boo." Sorry, I had to. Find out what they need and use our imagination to actually give something to that effect to them. Anything is better than empty promises. Anything.
Republicans don't need a miracle. We just need to appeal to liberals' better, let's say more idealistic and prosperous nature. Let's embrace our liberals with tattoos and show them how to be true rebels. Help them surprise the living hell out of employers by showing them how to get skills and education that overshadow how they look. Let's be realistic. Employers are going to have to get used to working with tattoos just like they had to get used to working with women. We can be extremely distracting, but none the less can be invaluable assets to any team if we can bring the skills. Conservative leaders, surprise the hell out of liberals and other conservatives alike by supporting and appreciating the harmless if not good things about being liberal. In fact I think it would behoove the Mitt Romney campaign to recruit as many tattooed conservatives as they could find and publicize the hell out of them. They do exist! It won't be an easy task but I think it's worth it. Tattooed people talk to other tattooed people. That's just a fact. Now you might say, well why don't we just get old Mitt up there in the tattoo shop? Why don't we all get holey faces and ink up our skin? Well, that would just be too contrived wouldn't it and we don't want to do that. I'm not getting a tattoo. I think I get more attention without them. Then again, I won't be as effective at a biker rally as Spike with his Sarah Palin tattoo, will I? Isn't politics exciting? Isn't the whole thing a big dirty contrived mess? Absolutely, so we might as well make it worth our while and win the damn thing. Like I said, it's adventure time!
Mr. Rove, Architect This!
What I'm about to write may be a little presumptuous. My best friend told me when we were kids that someday my mouth would get me in trouble. Honestly, I don't really think this is it.
It kind of reminds me of this horrible semester long research paper I had to write in college, a requirement to graduate called the Capstone Paper. You had to pick a social issue you think something should be done about and propose a solution. The thing was, you couldn't write about any of the red letter subjects like abortion or… abortion. I figure they didn't want us to waste our time writing about something they knew we just weren't equipped to talk about much less find answers for at our level of experience. So, I finally got them to let me write about homelessness. Ha! Hey, I like complicated. I thought I had some pretty good points but the guy grading me didn't exactly see it my way. I couldn't for the life of me understand why he didn't like anything I had to say. I had basically written on the same subject in another course and received rave reviews. This guy wanted to give me an "F" like something awful. Needless to say, I lost my Suma Cum Laude status. Finally, I remembered a moment at the beginning of the course when the professor was trying to get to know everyone. Seeing I was a big fan of automobiles he asked me my opinion on buying a new Corvette and I gave him my honest opinion. I told him Corvettes suck and he should buy a Porsche. Well, at the time it was pretty much true. I don't think he ever smiled at me again after that statement. I learned the hard way that sometimes you just have to keep your mouth shut no matter what you think you know or what you think you'll help by being totally and completely honest. (Hopefully I'm not talking about me at this juncture.) But anyhow, speaking of losing status and people who get kicked to the curb…
Poor Sandra Fluke, just the latest victim of the Democratic National Committee machine. If there was ever a dangerously crazy fraternity on campus it would be the far-left Democrats. Isn't it just like them to sacrifice a child for their own quest for power? Well, maybe not a child, I meant virgin. No, I meant…umm…hmmm…young woman who looks like a virgin, maybe? The point is this young woman may have totally screwed her future by following these people into what is clearly just a cheap attempt to get the vote of the young and the restless. Wow. Was that worth it? Talk about wham bam thank you ma'am. Her image of a serious individual for representing, women's health law has probably been seriously damaged. She clearly doesn't know crap about women's actual needs. I'm not even sure she knows the definition of need. Georgetown Law? Really?
Kind of like that chick who came on Mr. Sean Hannity's show in defense of the latest bus victim, Fluke. Right off the bat Tamara Holder rebuts one of Sean's opening comments with "Well, that's because I'm a smart liberal, Sean." Then throughout the interview she went on to say with little finesse whatsoever, that she readily equates entitlement with our constitutional rights. Despite his disappointment, Sean was very polite I have to say. When you know good and well he wished he could throw that football right at her head.
Another guest on Mr. Bill O'Reilly's Factor proceeded to say how all of the conservative Republicans were spouting language that indicated a "war on women". She emphasized "all of them" several times. But when Mr. O'Reilly asked her to give just one example, she sat there stunned, quiet. Then he gave her an easier question. "Give me one example of Romney saying something against women." Again, cricket sounds. She finally was able to utter something to the effect that she liked Romney …but that he never has spoken out against the Republicans [and their apparent war on women]. Don't they know they are going to be asked to back up their statements? Don't they know they look absolutely ridiculous when they sit there with their mouths wide open aggrandized by their flanking Farrah Fosset hair? If there is a war on women, these women are traitors to our cause. They all by themselves make us look like the weaker sex.
No disrespect to Rosie and Ms. Houston, but what on earth were you girls smoking before you had your little televised tea party? Why would you go out there and say that there is a war on women "in this day and age"? You mean in the day and age where women are freely allowed to live whatever lifestyle as a woman they choose? Seriously, you're going to take up arms and say there is a war on women because you think contraception is too expensive? Did I miss something?
What about a war on women because fertility drugs are too expensive? Fertility treatments or medications to help women get pregnant (whether they need them or not) aren't covered at all by insurance. This is because fertility is viewed as a luxury item, not any kind of medical necessity. Well, I'm here to say that as a woman, I think having babies means just as much to me as not having them. Besides, these "fertility" drugs are a medical necessity in many cases, just as the contraceptives are being argued to be. Wouldn't you think that should be included on this discussion of women's health being neglected and further for that matter, shouldn't we really discuss who is at the bottom of not providing shall we say a more well-rounded form of women's healthcare?
If the Republican Party advisors (huh-hum, Karl) had any sense whatsoever, they would use this blatant misuse of a college kid to their advantage. This is a dodge ball you can catch! Come on, if some people are really going to use women's health as a campaign strategy how about doing something that actually concerns women's health. And if you really want to earn more than just the votes of women and earn the hearts of women, you should use the power of the Republican Party to actually do something to change the way we truly look at women's health so that it benefits us when it is appropriate for us. This is one way they can do that.
Republicans should turn the issue of women's health right back on these entitlement policy pushing people by pointing out that the availability of contraception and abortion to women, especially young ones is not where the government and insurance companies are lacking service. There is a gap in women's healthcare and there does seem to be some pretty anti-woman sentiment going on behind it, but it's not coming from conservative Republicans. It comes from ultra-feminist who want an absolute equivocation between the sexes no matter what the cost. Like I said, I'm not a genius but, I'm guessing they don't belong to the conservative Republican Party.
When I started hearing all this Pseudos about women's health needs not being met because they were not going to be provided contraception drugs through their church-based employer or school, I thought what a ridiculous waste of media attention. Look, I'm not smart enough to get into Georgetown Law but I know that is like the last thing women are really in a pickle about when it comes to their health, specifically. It's especially so when you can go and get those things at alternative locations for little to no cost, insurance or no. Do they want it delivered to their dorm or something …with a cookie no less?
If those who are trying to promote change in America's healthcare in general were so interested in the availability of excellent women's healthcare, why do they no longer equate good health with fertility? For thousands of years the epitome of a healthy woman was a fertile woman. Somehow that's all changed. Specifically in business, specifically in insurance companies and I doubt very sincerely that it has anything to do with cost/profit margin.
Here's an example. If you have a complicated pregnancy, that's one thing, but in general, if you need some help having a baby with fertility drugs, or if you want to have any extra monitoring of a healthy baby during pregnancy, it is absolutely not covered by any health insurance of any brand. It seems the policy is this way because their stand is that if you want children, that is a luxury item and therefore you should have to pay for them. What they fail to realize is by this policy, they are neglecting many young women that need drugs that are considered "fertility drugs" even though they are to treat diseases like endometriosis. The goal is to not have to get pregnant actually, even though the only said "cure" for endometriosis is pregnancy. They're just trying to keep the cancerous-like endometrial tissue at bay until they are someday ready to have surgery or get pregnant.
There is hardly anyone who doesn't know someone who is suffering or has suffered from endometriosis. Scientists don't know if this has always been prevalent among women, but they all concur this is a very widespread and an increasingly more serious disease among women. Not to put too fine a point on this but, this is a real, major health issue among women, especially college age women, and I bet something they would be very interested in their political representatives getting involved in.
Many women like me at that age just want to finish college, but between the pain, the surgeries and lack of coverage it is almost impossible. However, if women do not do something to remove the endometriosis at an earlier stage, it in many cases can cause serious problems and at the very least lead to very low chances of pregnancy later on in life.
At any rate, many college age women with this very common disease are faced with few choices. They can pay full price for these extremely expensive drugs in lieu of tuition, food and rent. Or they could drop out of school and go ahead and start a family if they can find a dude ready and willing (and hopefully with a job). Or they can do nothing and let the disease invade. So why is this issue for insurance companies? What's the big deal? Why won't they just write in a little sub clause thing-a-majiggy (that's the word I'll use to get into Georgetown Law) so that these truly in need women can be covered for these "fertility drugs" when they medically need them?
My theory is that no matter how you make the case, insurance companies will not cover such drugs because in order to do so, they would have to change their definition of fertility in reference to a woman's health. Suspiciously, they are obviously not interested in changing this policy for the benefit of women or for any other reason. I just wonder. Do you think it is coincidental that insurance companies' policies and the policies and views of the far left of the liberal Democratic Party are so much inline? They both take non-religious stands on medical issues. They both seem to treat men and women equally as far as what they are entitled to (which brings up a point I will bring up later). And most recently they also both seem to take the stand that contraception for all is a more pertinent issue to women's health than the actual medical needs and care of women, especially women wanting to have children someday.
I believe this relates directly to the ultra-feminists agenda and directly in opposition to women's civil rights. I know that is a big statement, but scientifically it is a fact that this current policy of having an all or nothing approach to women's health in order to protect a hidden agenda of equality or for any reason is harmful to women. I believe they are harming more than they realize.
This in a way seems to be stunting the growth of families who have mothers who attend college. If young women can't go to college or have to drop out of college they will not have health insurance. Medicare does not cover experts on how to create longevity in fertility. If women continue to wait to have children after college or even after they get their career going, they naturally have a lower chance of conceiving a child. Combine that situation with women who have diseases like endometriosis. If they get pregnant young, but do not go to college they will not have a good income much less health insurance unless they get married. If there is a lot of pain involved and they cannot work or go to college… well, you do the math. You've got a lot of non-educated, not working, pregnant women and you also have a lot of educated successful women, but who have no ability to have children. Instead of going towards a future where we have more freedom to do as we choose we are losing a battle to something we cannot control before we even get started. Again why is contraception our biggest problem here? I think this is a distraction; literally something they pulled out of a sack of things to do to harm the Republican Party. The real issue is and has everything to do with wanting to keep conservatives away from the issue of abortion. If they can get conservative Republicans to tuck tail and run just on the issue of conception there's no way Santorum or anyone else will bring up abortion. I believe someone pulled that because they are scared we are close to figuring something out.
What I'm about to say is not because I think insurance companies will begin to care or will change their "minds" because of what I'm saying. The following has a point in reference to how you get insurance companies to "care" about their business enough to change their policy.
Historically I believe the only effective mediums that ever really change people's cultural perspective is martyrdom, the media or big business. The first one, martyr- well, those are a little hard to come by these days (in America anyway) and let's just say they don't come "on demand". The second isn't really a creative medium and shouldn't be used for political problem solving. Well it shouldn't be anyway if we're talking about real news media, real journalists being the source and most specifically when the subject is the insanely delicate issue of abortion. So news/entertainment media, that's out for convincing us of the truth. That leaves big business. How interesting. What in the world kind of big business could ever change the face of the "thing that appears in a woman after she has sex sometimes" A.K.A. a fetus? If you said insurance companies then yes, you guessed it.
Insurance companies are businesses and they do not speak the language of care. Apparently extreme leftists and feminists or both have been able to communicate with them quite well, but conservatives although a little slow on the uptake, can play that game too. Hey, insurance companies are not politically biased. Good health to them equals good money. If they have good enough reasons to start giving some sort of legal descriptions of the fetus and how the fetus affects a woman's health, good or bad this would indicate a fetus is not just a benign object. This may mean the fetus would no longer be considered something that can just be operated on or elected to be removed as other benign parts of a woman's body are. Insurance companies believe it or not, may be the key to saving millions of unwanted babies from elective abortion.
Many women are harmed physically and mentally by abortions, but do not talk about it, much less report it to anyone. There are some very deep seeded reasons why women are so private and protected when it comes to the functions of their bodies. Who can blame us when our whole menstruating lives we've been told by our fathers, boyfriends and husbands "I don't want to know!" It's definitely complicated and probably never going to change. From the dye in our hair to the corns on our feet, it's all personal. I hate to equate it with this scenario but it's kind of like a woman seeking to have plastic surgery and she goes to this guy that a friend of a friend who says can give her a "deal". You know what happens next. Surprise! You've got malboobification and no, there's no deal on a redo. How likely is she to do anything about it? Sure she may scream at the doctor, but go to the public to warn other women? Not likely.
Unfortunately by the same token women who want to keep their abortion private go to great links to keep it private. Businesses that rely on patients who want abortions for non-medical reasons especially, can count on this silence to run their practice as they please. Is this why Roe v. Wade became the law. We needed abortion to be legal so women could be safer. Wasn't it so women didn't have to worry about going to some shady place, devoid of information and any semblance of real medical care/after care? You're lucky if they remind you to bring a pillow to sit your raw biscuit on afterwards.
Doctors take a Hippocratic Oath to never use their knowledge to harm anyone. The only way abortion is considered ethical and therefore legal is because by current legal statements the fetus remains a "benign" part of a woman's body. In other words, the fetus is regarded as a part of a woman's body that is neither harmful nor beneficial to her health wise, so therefore it is medically ethical to remove a fetus if a woman so chooses. If that perspective were to ever change, however… For example if a non-medical, non-political, non-religious entity were to establish a different perspective that a fetus was not benign, the opposition to abortion may not be seen as a religious/moral issue any longer, but a medically ethical issue as well as a financial issue. Let me explain.
If liberal Democrats want abortion to continue to be referred to as a real medical procedure that benefits women then they need to find a way to make it as such; giving a woman any and all information they can possibly comprehend in order for them to make a choice they can live with.
Ironically "Pro-Choice" Dems don't want this either for several reasons. If you start giving information about abortion a lot of people will stop having abortions. If you show women a sonogram of the fetus a lot more women will elect not to have abortions. But most importantly, and the bottom line will always be this: if ever there is a legal precedent set saying that there are ever different health/based scenarios where an abortion should be legal v. illegal, liberal feminists would lose the argument that a fetus has nothing to do with a woman's health.
If insurance companies start paying attention to fertility they may have to disclose the harmful effects of having an abortion procedure in reference to future pregnancies and also the common mental side effects attributed to undergoing an abortion. They may also inadvertently establish a precedent that having a fetus inside means more to a woman's health than previously thought and therefore an insurance company's bottom line.
There probably will never be a way to change the law to say abortion should only be in cases of medical emergency much less abolishing abortion all together. This may be disappointing to those who do solely base their beliefs against abortion on their religious beliefs, but I say let your heart not be troubled. There is still a way to have some satisfactory success in the real war against women.
So, scientifically speaking…the insurance company asks…does pregnancy actually benefit a woman's health? So I did a little research. The answer is yes and no, but this is a good thing and I'll tell you why. (I should have a white board for this.) Okay. Turns out if you have one baby or more than two babies the answer is no, actually. Three or more kids are not beneficial to a woman's health? Imagine that. Not sure why having one is not so good for your health; other than I can guess there were maybe health and/or financial stresses that were there in the first place. Having three or more children seems to be harder on the body and mind for obvious reasons (with the exception of the breasts being more immune to breast cancer).
Two however, seem to be the magic number. Aside from instinctive good comforting feeling we get from having the chance to pass on our legacy onto offspring, they say two children also add more joy and stress relief to a family than not. More specific to a woman's physical wellbeing, if a she breastfeeds during her pregnancy those two times, it reduces her chances of breast cancer.
Insurance companies therefore, should consider a policy more friendly to fertility than not. Mr. Rove, you could architect a plan for the Republican Party to help. In my opinion a good policy for them would be to simply offer to cover fertility drugs for women with less than two children. This would cover young women who had endometriosis and those women who medically could not get pregnant up to two children without medical help. It would cover women who were truly interested in fertility drugs because they had health problems not because they wanted to have a million babies at once. In essence once you have two babies you are no longer covered for fertility drugs. This would motivate people on two levels, (financially and health wise) to keep their families smaller. More healthy and smaller families? This should make insurance companies drool… in a good way.
This in my opinion is something the Republicans could really use to get their spirit back. A spirit that has been lost I believe, due to the constant rebuke from those who equate people of religious backgrounds as those who argue outside of reality. Conservatives are tired of being beaten in arguments before they even argue simply because of what liberals say is the basis of all conservative beliefs. Religion is not the basis for all conservative beliefs but for some reason red letter subjects like abortion especially, cannot be discussed at all if those on the right are in the discussion. And those on the right don't speak at all about these subjects because they are afraid people will think all they want to do is have the country conform to their religious beliefs. This is the damage of pseudos!!!
So let's not try to fight liberals with emotional pleas. Trust me. They've got the bleeding hearts of America emotional arguments and drama in the bag. If we continue to go that route we will surely lose. Speak the language of the insurance company's and you will find a way to make as much "change" with them as the Dem's apparently are able to make. You can use the young women's disappointment in the insurance companies and government just as leftists have. But you will win with the argument that you really understand what young women are going through regardless of their religion or personal lifestyle. Women deserve more than to be told they need contraceptives to live healthy lives and you realize that they need security for their future. Whether that means contraceptives today or a family tomorrow, they need to know or maybe they do know that there may be nothing left for them as far as Medicare and social security by the time they need it. This may be why they are going towards a more "entitlement" society as they try to get all the free shit they can while they can. which is why they may vote for someone like Obama. Then point out though, that voting for Obama probably won't really lead to any free entitlements and that it will actually only make everything (free shit included) harder and harder to get if not disappear altogether. In fact, voting for someone who insists on encouraging an entitlement society will only cause the quality of women's healthcare to get worse.
Texas OUR Texas…and Arizona
For the sake of all Americans crossed by this border security issue, I'm going to lend you Texas' theme song for the moment. Especially you Arizona as I believe you need it at this moment in history more than ever. Along with Texans singing "Texas Our Texas" they should proclaim with great pride Arizona…OUR Arizona.
"We didn't cross the border. The border crossed us." Humph.
I'm sorry. I just threw up in my mind a little bit. As a native Texan, this more than chaps my hide, it makes me want to hogtie anyone who says it. Okay, I don't really know how to do that, but if I did, boy…
Anyway. Of course it did, idiots…because you lost the war. Only when Texas was about to become permanent property of the United States of America did Mexico say they would concede to the loss and recognize The Republic of Texas in all its glory. Only when they knew the United States could make the border whatever they damn well pleased if a deal was reached did they ever concede to the truth about Texas' victory and where the line was originally drawn. Now Mexican and liberal Americans alike are learning a history steeped in sore loserdom which all began about a decade prior to the second Texas Revolution. It began with a few's desire for money and power not a clash of cultures and racism, as you'd assume, thanks to the liberal left media.
To be kind of specific, when roughly three powerful Americans, sent out on United States business began exploring Texas, they each fell in love with her. They independently discovered that Texas was vast and full of uncovered riches. They also came to realize that the native Mexicans, Texians and Texas colonists of the time virtually ran themselves. At this point, Spanish Mexico was like an estranged step-mother of sorts, mostly concerned with which plastic surgery to undergo next. (You know, always critical of what you do, but not really involved in the whole raising you thing.) The people who actually "governed" Texas were the same as they had always been; a group of quiet Spanish royals who originally planned out the civil matters of Texas; civil law, roads and city planning, how acreage was levied, etc. They lived a peaceful life working with the natives (not enslaving them by the way) building up San Antonio and living a very rich life to say the least.
The Army General, a sleezeball named Edwards (purely coincidence I'm sure) and a minister from the United States Government saw that if these royals were so laid back, not willing to harm even a savage native, they were weak and insignificant. They could easily be gotten rid of. They also noticed something in particular about the youth of these royals. They seemed to be bored with all the wealth and no "real power." Sound familiar?
Maybe their interest in large territories of Texas was purely to drum up votes for John Q. Adams' presidency but let's be real. These American's lived and died by the term manifest destiny. It is no secret that these men had visions of being all-powerful leaders in a place that oozed power and also seemed to be just sitting there waiting for the taking.
American conquests were old news. They began their campaign of pseudos in Texas by talking up an "Independent Texas." They told the young rebel royals and Texians that independence in Texas was all but theirs for the taking. They just had to declare it and take it. When these men were caught literally by surprise by Spanish-Mexican officials and questioned about their "speculating" they pointed their fingers at the rebel royals and said that they had started the whole thing. The men all claimed they had nothing to do with inciting a war they would most heavily gain from. Unfortunate for them, Spain didn't buy it or didn't care; one of the two, your pick. Let's just say they died in a bad way and it involved a donkey.
Those royal rebels specifically, who risked their lives did so not because some Americans got them all riled up and racist. These people wanted to fight because they knew they were being taken for granted by a changing Spainish/Mexican government. Mexico was trying to win independence from Spain and reorganize the individual powers of the Church, military and judiciary system under a more "centralized" government. Sound familiar? The Spanish royals had built Texas so far, did a damn good job of it and were so powerful in their own right it only seemed natural. This is the first time that the Texas independence voice was allowed to be heard. 10 years later that same voice would cry "Remember the Alamo". The royal elders had warned them that the passionate voice inside them that wanted independence for Texas had a time and a place, but they were impatient and did not listen. The first civilians of Texas were therefore systematically hunted down and assassinated by centralists in the Spanish/Mexican government. Every last man, woman and child they could find, to be exact. The Mexican government traditionally takes pride in the way they deal with "traitors". They're freakin' artists at it actually.
Racism is a tool usually used by a majority to suppress a minority and not just a natural born instinct of white people as you may think. During Texas' second attempt at independence, (the one that actually worked out) the minority were those of mostly Anglo heritage and the racism erupted from the majority; those with mostly Mexican heritage. When the settlers began to hear "the voice" they sent the man they knew the Mexican government had trusted thus far to speak on their behalf, Stephen F. Austin. The once absentee government of Texas was now run by the soon-to-be Dictator of Mexico, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. They were confident he would hear their discressions fairly because of their loyalty and cooperation thus far and that they would be granted the right to utilize their already working civil government. Once again they were surprised by Mexico's reaction.
The "President" of Mexico was a president like Hugo Chavez is the "President" of his Venezuela. Now in 1834 Santa Anna had big plans for his new Republic of Mexico. He counted on the Texas being held safe, American-free and built up strong by the nice, quiet, Anglo settlers, loyal to Mexico and virtually hand-picked by the Spanish Crown and Mexican Government up to this point. They never heard a peep from the Germans or Irish, but here come those Americans from Tennessee talking LOUDLY about having their own type of freedom. Personally, I think it was the Anglo lawyers who snuck in illegally not the Anglo miners, smugglers, trappers, jack-of all traders that really pissed the Mexican government off. In response to this unwanted contamination of mass proportions, Mexico tried to curtail this illegal immigration of American Anglos with legislation but it just wouldn't stop them from coming to start afresh. Ironic isn't it.
Having been so busy reorganizing the military, judicial system and the Church, Santa Anna did not realize how quickly so many unappealing American Anglos could spoil Mexico's plan for constructing a well-built, well-greased white-Euro Texas. He now had a perfect opportunity or more truthfully an excuse, to quickly stamp out any thought of rebellion and to do it with style. Remember the donkey? Anyhoo…
The Texans who rebelled this time were literally risking it all when they decided to declare independence from Mexico and they knew it. Maybe they were on crack. Maybe they were a little like the scrappy short kid that picks a fight with the big brut even though everyone knows that it's a really bad idea. Maybe they did get lucky, or blessed, or both- but the fact of the matter and the whole truth of the story is and was decided on that day, when a tyrant, hell bent on shoving the idea of American culture and her ideals of freedom down those who hold it dear's throat, took the lives of over 200 men at the Alamo for pleasure and most definitely for sport. They heard the voice that shouted this cannot be tolerated by you if you are a decent human being, no matter how small your army is! This is what drove the Texans to win independence from Mexico and is what Sam Houston remembered as he went into battle at San Jacinto and what he warned against when we were barreling towards a civil war. He remembered with every breath he took until his death as shall all of us who give a damn about what is right for America. We have to account for the cost whether its men or money.
After the war, those loyal to Mexico moved back to Mexico, and those loyal to Texas stayed beyond the natural southern boundary of the Rio Grande River. The cultures remained entwined as peacefully as it was antebellum. However, a separating and dangerous pride was born by sentiments of the Mexican Centralist government and allowed to be passed on to following generations and so continues to deceive and mislead Mexicans loyal to the ever corrupt Mexican government.
If you look at a modern map of ethnicity in Texas you will see that the border counties are populated by those living in Texas with a lot of Spanish/Mexican heritage. If you look at an old map of ethnicity in Texas you will see that the heritage is still densely of Mexican-Texan or Texian decent. Even going way back to the early 1800's. So it makes absolutely no sense that what the liberal left is selling as their reason for an open border is that a border is unfair. That somehow the people with Mexican ancestry on the US side of the border suddenly become racist against the people of the same decent on the other side of the border and so therefore moved the border too far westward just to be dicks. Huh? That's pseudos. There is nothing between the Rio Grande and the imaginary "real border" that makes Mexico any better of a place. Trust me!
Santa Anna, the devil reincarnate, was a dictator and a war criminal who should have been hung instead of returned to Mexico. But, sticking to their word and ruling their actions by what they had learned from living under civilized American law, the Texan leaders let the murderous dictator go. He continued to come up with ways to strain Texas and the United States' relations. Because he was a dictator and had control of all arms of the government he had no reason to acknowledge or validate the treaties he had willfully signed. Santa Anna's position was that he had signed the documents under coercion as a prisoner, not as a surrendering general in accordance with the laws of war. There, instead of facing the truth, he began an heir of pseudos that is alive and well today throughout Mexico and those who are ignorant in America. So, you can just deny being General and war criminal at any time? I did not know that. How convenient.
In a nutshell: There once was a man who denied having ever signed any legal treaties or having ever committed the atrocities against Texans. The Mexican government as a whole and liberal congress in America concurred against all conservative reason and human dignity. Sound familiar? Santa Anna murdered good, high-spirited, God fearing men at the Alamo to prove a point. He laughed in the face of American determinism and Texians loyal to Mexico. And the icing on the cake is that the liberal Americans in Congress have for years, sided with the pseudos of Mexico for their own political reasons. Sound even more familiar?
Believing Mexicans have any legal, moral or hypothetical right to any portion of the United States is not only disrespectful to the men who died to win Texas' Independence from Mexico, but it is also a slap in the face to those who hold American determinism to be one of the greatest and more permanent assets of a free country.
These Americans that are demanding stricter border laws are not racists as they themselves are in fact some part Hispanic and are proud of it. Telling the Mexican loyalists that they are being hated on is exactly what they are conditioned to hear. It's not the truth and those spouting this are the only ones benefiting from it. Obviously that isn't the mostly white land owners in Texas, California and Arizona. The map shows the truth. It shows that yes, the border was drawn through populations of almost solid Texian and because of the conditions that were legally and verbally agreed upon by the Republic of Texas the wannabe Napoleon of the time, it is what it is. This is the basic history that is accepted by educated people the world over.
Now ask those of Spanish-American, Mexican-American, Texan or Texian heritage if they think we need more border control. Let's ask Robert Vasquez for example. He's the Republican county Commissioner up in Canyon County Idaho. That's right, Idaho and although the invasion he is experiencing is in Idaho and not actually on the dangerous border, the argument from his perspective is just as important. Because one in five residents in Canyon County is already of Mexican origin, he believes we, as a country are in for an "imminent invasion," that will cost us money, cost us our safety, our health and our general wellbeing. Committed like you read about, he has been shall we say "balls to the walls" fighting the liberal left agenda and some of the Republican's big business' alike who want to let as many illegals in as possible. Vasquez says it is a fight that is partyless and completely necessary. "Some people say I'm a racist, that I'm a traitor to my heritage," he said. "There is nothing racial about this. The only color involved is green – for money. Wow. It's like déjà vu, isn't it?
Racism is not the reason the people of Arizona and Texas want better border protection and control. It's because those fuckers keep shooting us and you guys up there aren't doing anything about it! (That's a line from The Negotiator. I think it describes the problem quite nicely.) Racism is a pseudos argument produced mostly by the left, aimed at devaluing the rights of mainly Anglo Americans in these border areas in order to gain the future votes of the majority Mexican-Hispanics who may or may not actually have the right to vote. We don't know.
It's also to make money off of the steady stream of cheap immigrant labor, but they don't talk about that much. I wouldn't either if I owned a fast food chain or many. The whole situation is a mess, really. A steady stream is important due to the types of jobs that they are being beckoned for. For example, one of the major employers of immigrant labor is the meat packing plants. The plants are bigger, running faster and more automated than ever. This means everything must work like clockwork for the plant to remain efficient. Any time there is a breakdown of the line due to an injury, such as loss of a limb or a body part gets stuck somewhere it costs the plant a lot of money. Laborers who tend to not complain about a less than humane standard of work environment, a.k.a. illegal Mexican immigrants, are a necessity at that point. And if they are highly unlikely to sue in case of injury because of questionable legal status which they are, well, that works out just perfectly too.
You know, uneducated, illiterate, non-English speaking immigrants are fine. It's just when they have no intention of being educated, literate or English-speaking that it becomes a problem. The liberal left only enables that problem by defending the big industry. It's not un-American to say that we don't need a steady stream of workers, even though the profit of the big automation becomes unattainable. It's not anti-immigrant. It's only Anti-immigrant and non-American when we're talking about legitimate immigrants. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot paying an immigrant a simple fee per body part lost was un-American and anti-immigrant. Is it more American, or more "pro-immigrant" to be cheap rather than actually following humane business practices? What is this, China? It may be. Big business can afford to make sure congress, Republican or Democrat, not only vote immigration according to what is good for big business, but can also afford to get away with inhumane business practices when they convince you that we cannot survive economically if not voted their way. That's pseudos. Now I don't believe the liberal left is into packing meat, but it sure is convenient for the liberal left agenda don't you think?
One last thing, I almost forgot. Expect the pseudos on the border issue to increase as President Obama prepares to defend his throne. President Obama is a leftist; there is no doubt about it now. He's left and he want's those left votes ASAP. He is not middle left as he originally sold himself as and with this recent issue he is beginning to prove it. With his recent appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he has basically sealed the deal for many immigrants wanting to come here legally and illegally. There is no question many come here for medical care. Dr. Berwick says, with no qualms about it, that our wealth in America should be redistributed specifically through the Medicare system. He says that it is our duty.
Now it is clear that the Medicaid programs that are already bleeding our medical system will continue to hemorrhage as long as this liberal administration endures. Did you know that a child born in this country under 12.8 ounces qualifies for Medicaid regardless of their parents nationality or income level? The medical bill on a child born at this weight runs about $2 million dollars. Want to guess how many underweight babies are born to illegal immigrants in this country each year? Times that number by 2 million and that's how much money you, the taxpayer has doled out this year. I'm all for helping innocent crack babies, but this is ludicrous. It is ludicrous to believe that most of this money is going to people who are fully aware of how to take advantage of our welfare programs and that we can continue to afford to let them. I personally know people who have an impeccable knowledge of the ins and outs of the welfare programs available to them. They know how to apply, what to say, what they can and cannot get away with saying on an application, but yet they do not possess the ability to read.
President Obama is racing down a dangerous road of pandering to illegal aliens, by spreading racist Pseudos about those who are trying to uphold the law and protect the citizens of this country and also now through offering free medical care so that he can mobilize a voting force of historic proportions.
Survival of the Fattest Heads
The base of the Liberal secularist philosophy seems to depict the belief that nothing cataclysmic will ever happen. Please don't confuse this with their hissy-fit over global warming. Global warming is not an eminent cataclysm that will end all life as we know it. It's a marketing theme. These people thrive on bleeding heart stories and pessimism, but have the gall to call a conservative who speaks out passionately about America going to hell in a handbasket, over-reacting. They truly believe if something so bad and destructive were to happen, and if it couldn't be taken care of on the spot with money, they submit to the "we are all f-ed anyway" philosophy. Well, that's just a brilliant plan!
Do you know that there is a new term for people like me? Yes, I just heard it. There's actually a new reality show coming out about people like me. Shows how quick on the uptake I am. I'm called a "Prepper." Yes, that's short for preparer. You know, as in someone who prepares for the America as we know it to collapse. We are a closet-bound bunch, for the most part. Because, A. The term "survivalist" has a lot of negative stereotypes attached to it these days and B. we don't want your punk ass showing up at our farm looking for food because you were too stupid and too proud to PREPARE for yourself. Not lazy, just too proud. Well, if you know me, you know I'm not too proud to tell you you're stupid. I'm used to taking that kind of humiliating action. So here it is.
Go ahead! Live for the moment and don't worry about the consequences of the future. It's not a stretch to think a lot of people live based on what they see in movies. I'm guilty of this in some ideological respects but I'm talking about the sheer imitation of people's behavior in movies. Isn't it funny how you never see anyone in the movies wearing a seatbelt? I hate to call a director irresponsible for such a minor detail in the scheme of making a whole movie and all. And maybe it's just me but, I just want to say, don't they know they are portraying the message over and over again that it is unnecessary to wear your seatbelt and that it also makes you look uncool. Of course they do, because that's what they think. I think that would be an interesting poll question for Hollywood people. "Do you wear your seatbelt?" (Seriously, please wear a seatbelt even if the people in the movies don't.) I kid you not, I still hear the argument that if you were to get in a bad accident, you wouldn't be able to get out in a hurry. Like they're Indiana Jones or something; headed for the Grand Canyon. Uh, on a road that takes two minutes to go fifty feet maybe that's how physics rule in Hollywood. Come on. Squish your boobs in the name of safety! Let me let you in on a little secret of real physics. If you're in a bad accident and not wearing your seatbelt, they're going to have to hose your ass out of the car. This is a fitting metephore for what happens when Democrats in congress try and tweak the rules and pass something that should never have passed regardless of what precedent that sets for the future use of the Constitution's flexibility. Either they don't know or don't care. Both are highly likely.
Don't let anyone tell you you're paranoid or crazy for being safe or prepared for bad things to happen. If there is anything you learn from this book, I hope it is this. Ever hear, "luck favors the prepared"? The message of today towards preppers like me is more like, "What are you? A survivalist or something? Good luck with that." Whatever happened to the romanticism of a "little survival place in the woods"? Now if you call yourself a "survivalist" or just happen to own a gun, (a big one), you're a gun toting', right-wing, white-surpremist, domestic-terrorist, communalist, seclusionist, fundamentalist, f-your-sister red-neck, Bible beater. I once invited all my gal pals to take part in the ladies' night special at the local indoor gun range. I immediately got a Facebook retort referring me to a guns and violence awareness website. Tisk-tisk on me for suggesting such a horridly violent pastime! Who knew surviving or competition was a bad thing? It's not like I said it was Happy Hour and then shooting with .45 calliber weapons! Geez. They totally don't let you do that.
The liberal secularist philosophy says that the modern mode of thought is the only intelligent thought there is. Let me tell you what they're worried about surviving. They learned about the age of reason in History and I guess were tapped out after that. Is that when they started teaching about Henry Marx? Anyway what you may not have paid attention to because it takes a lot of boring patience to learn, is that there have been intelligent people for thousands of years. Not just recently with the invention of the "smart phone." Contrary to popular belief, smart people don't just occur with the advancement of technology. Still, liberal secularists think History and following the laws written by people three hundred years ago (much less a couple thousand years ago) no longer apply to the world of today. They think they know better than those old conservative fogies from so long ago. They believe conservativism is outdated and totally uncool. "A waste of time." "Not living in reality." Those are just a couple of things I hear most often by those living hour to hour. "I just got a tattoo for $10!" That's another one I hear a lot.
I think of it kind of like how a teenager thinks. I can see how living day to day instead can be very exciting and free feeling, but it's not freedom. You know that "falling feels like flying, even for a little while …" Crazy Heart. I can certainly respect that philosophy some days. I'm a wife and a mother and it's hard having to make important decisions every single day, all day long. Whether or not I choose to pay attention to what my kids are up to at any given moment can mean life or death for my toddlers. There's no pressure on earth that can beat that.
Having things taken care of for you like welfare and free healthcare is also not freedom. It's a death sentence. The more you let someone take care of the needs that you are capable of doing yourself only leads you to become reliant upon and subservient to them. In this case, once the government starts feeding you and giving you free healthcare, treating you like the zoo animal you've become; is that when you are really going start working harder? Is that going to make it easier to speak out against your government and/or zookeepers? In both instances the answer historically has been a big fat NO! We work harder when the benefits are as great or greater than the work we put in. No one will work harder if no extra is given for doing so. And if the government were to control say, everything like healthcare, the financial sectors, the automobile industry, the media and education we wouldn't have a single word to say, would we?
But here we are at the crossroads. We have to choose a Republican to lead us through the dark. An old addege about the blind leading the blind comes to mind, however, we can no longer let the Pseudos message rein that conservatives are just poking fun at powerful liberal people. This complaint from the average quiet American is more than just a yapping response to the insolent left. We are hanging by a thread. This is about handing the decision about our entire ability to control ourselves. Are you ready to say you are the old lady who has fallen and can't get up? Are you ready for the liberal Democrats to hand you your new nolife alert button to wear around your neck? Don't worry, it will be intimately involved with all you do, go where ever you go and it's waterproof! It sounds and looks like the most popular thing to do.
No! Wake up, Matilda! Obama wants to put you in a retirement home no matter how spry you think you are! Cut medicare? Why do that when their just going to make the whole damn thing medicare! Give everybody the prune plan! So, your only 25; don't you want to live in an old folks home and have them feed you and tell you when to eat your meds? Why would we voluntarily do this? Has half the country already lost their minds? Well…


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Frequent themes of my life lately.
A fruit.
A mango from Guatemala?
Or a papaya from Mexico?
Confusion: the job hunt. An afternoon trip with the boyfriend to Busboys and Poets (lovely!), laptops in tow. Applyapplyapplyapply. Chatting with a time zone 12 hours away via Skype on Tuesday (!) Wish me luck.
Blurry but evocative photo of the cool vibes at B+P…
Admiring cute signs…
Cappuccino made with almond milk purely for novelty value.
The waitress warned me it would foam insufficiently, but then it arrived with a thoroughly impressive coating!
Steve got a pomegranate lemonade.
Another common theme of my life, tested and over and over found to be true: juice is too sweet.
Also: I fear liquid calories.
Gandhi menu!
What is not too sweet? Fair trade chocolate! Randomly given out for free!
Guys, what is it about evolution or something that makes us UNABLE TO DECLINE FREE FOOD? Things I would never pay money for, would beg people not to include in the family shopping cart, I eat with gusto if it's free.
I mean I am not talking about this though. This is chocolate. Obviously it was great.
Theme bringing great fun to my life: Baker's Guild!
With our little chilluns, we do "guilds": clubs in which they can explore something they like in a little more detail and hopefully rack up some skills along the way. Past options have included soccer, art, songwriting. I am leading BAKING!
And, little third through fifth graders made HOMEMADE BREAD! Yeast, kneading, the whole shebang. I was horribly nervous when I went in, but as the reassuring writer of this exceedingly helpful post pointed out, bread is forgiving.
They made beautiful rolls!
Another theme: I am totally loving on the jam lately.
Artichokes: I just cannot quit artichokes. They are in season, they are kind of sort of affordable ish, they are beautiful, they are delicious, and I love them. I want to eat them every single day.
Same meal: halal, organic chicken from Lebanese Butcher. Special deal on legs/thighs: 99 cents a pound, which is pretty dang good for organic. And they marinated it for you in various intriguing things like garlic and tomato paste and olive oil and I asked if there was harissa and they said "No but something like it".
Broiled instead of grilled cause it was too stinkin' hot.
Another unfortunate theme in my life: I don't cook things that much. Other people take fresh corn and boil it for 15 minutes. I steam it for 3 and call it a day. Cooking things less often does good things for nutrition and chew, both things I support.
However, it becomes a problem with chicken. Fortunately, my mother intervened.
Purple potato salad! Been eating tons of these lately, too. Does anyone know: if the general rule is the more colorful a vegetable is, the healthier it is, does that mean purple potatoes are better than regular? Inquiring minds want to know.
I kind of just assumed that this salad contained mayo and sour cream and then my mom said "No! Greek yogurt and chives from the deck!" and then I ate TONS of it! Which is silly of me, as I should just eat everything in moderation until my body feels full but whatever. That's how I am.
Speaking of deck herbs (another theme in my life lately- it is just absurdly satisfying to go out and pick part of one's dinner. Wish I didn't suck at keeping things alive), tossed some oregano (since the basil's not around yet) with some beautiful farmer's market tomatoes, oil and balsamic, and salt and pepper. My FAVORITE SUMMER SALAD IS HERE IN 2011!
And then my mama made rice salad and oh how I adore my mama's rice salad. It's a delightful use of leftovers and the general guidelines are just take cooked rice, throw on a vinaigrette, and throw in as colorful an assortment of vegetables as possible, something accomplished exceedingly well this particular evening with peas, red onion, and olives.
Smashing dinner. Ate more than this. But then, that's a common theme too.


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Peregrinus finds itself 964 nautical miles NM south of Hvallatur, Iceland; 837 NM west of Guernsey; 1146 NM east of Lumsden, Newfoundland; and 2076 NM north of the Cape Verde islands.
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Welcome Home, San Diego by Michael Shainblaum
Michael Shainblaum have always been mesmerized by extraordinary beauty of his hometown, San Diego. The city has many hidden treasures that have always captivated him, and they continue to do so. He wanted to show the city through his own eyes and artistic vision. Showcasing San Diego from the eyes of somebody who has […]
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Written by David Jackson, Los Angeles In Motion reminds us to remember that the Journey is just as important as the destination. Los Angeles is a city of people, culture, and rich history. Movement and motion surround us everyday. Come along on a Journey to see Los Angeles In Motion.
Marin Headlands, Golden Gate Bridge by Mo Desta
The Marin Headlands is a hilly peninsula at the southernmost end of Marin County, California, United States, located just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge, which connects the two counties and peninsulas. The entire area is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The Headlands are famous for their views of […]
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49 Miles Surrounded by Reality is a visual film shot in and around Northern California with a focus on the Bay Area. The goal of the film was to use it as a visual exploration showcasing how connected to nature that the area really is. I wanted to explore these locations as a way to […]
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Alongside shooting a conference in San Francisco recently Dale Curtis attempted to tear around the city and grab as much timelapse as possible. Special thanks to… Loews Regency San Francisco / for allowing to use their Skydeck. Truly amazing views of the city from up there. Staff were incredibly accommodating.
Exploring Northern California, A Beautiful Video by AirCam Productions
About the Author: AirCam Productions Aircam Productions produces inspiring media content to create unique stories by using the best of today's most advanced technology and editing techniques. It's California Feelings The Best Photos and Videos of California including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, The Big Sur, .. and other popular places and attractions […]
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The story of highly prolific, prodigally talented, Portland-based singer Elliott Smith is one which the majority of us know - a tale beset with an intense creative force, depression, drugs and tragedy. An ideal candidate for a documentary, wouldn't you say?
Which is exactly what Chicago-born Director Nickolas Rossi created with his compelling doc Heaven Adores You.
Doc'n Roll is set to present a couple of UK screenings this month, the first of which takes place in Brighton on Saturday, March 21st 2015, 9pm at Duke of York's Picturehouse. Furthermore, we are delighted to announce our involvement with this date - where we will be hosting a Q&A with the Director after the showing, with The 405's Tim Boddy asking the questions. The night will also see further post-screening fun in the form of some live music.
The London screening on Sunday, March 22nd at Hackney Picturehouse has sold out, and the Brighton date expected to go the same way - so we recommend grabbing tickets as soon as possible.
These one-off showings by the folks over at Doc'n Roll act as the perfect lead-up to the second edition of their Doc'n Roll Film Festival, which takes place from 1st - 4th Oct, at Picturehouse Central, off Shaftesbury Ave in London. If the 2014 line-up is anything to go by, you'll be in for a treat. Watch these pages for further announcements on this.


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|Cascata Waterfall from Trail
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|Cascata Golf Course Driving Range and Clubhouse
|Jug Handle Arch on Mountain Ridge
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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- MGM Resorts International is selling a Henderson casino that was built before the Hoover Dam and contains a vault that once guarded wages for the project's construction workers.
The casino company announced Friday that it would sell the 83-year-old Railroad Pass Hotel and Casino to Henderson-based First Federal Realty.
The new owners say they plan to keep all current employees.
Railroad Pass is located near Boulder City and opened in 1931 as a casino and dance hall. Its operator received the fourth gambling license in U.S. history to run the casino, and the mayor of Las Vegas granted Railroad Pass permission to operate a single roulette wheel.
MGM and First Federal Realty did not disclose the sale price for the 120-room hotel. The deal is contingent upon regulatory approvals.
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NC Sierra Wilderness 50th Celebration
North Carolina Sierra Club Chapter
Friday, September 26, 2014 at 7:00 PM - Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 10:00 PM (EDT)
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Please join the NC Sierra Chapter in
Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act!
Friday September 26 – Saturday September 27
Activities include canoeing, hiking, service, birding, fishing, star-gazing
and a special guided tour of the Kron restoration.
Celebratory dinner Saturday at 5:30pm at the Morrow Mountain Lodge
Barbeque and fixin's or Vegetarian Lasagna
Mixed Green Salad
Wilderness Birthday Cake
Park Ranger Ron Anundson on the History of Morrow Mtn. St Pk
Keynote Speaker - Brent Martin, The Wilderness Society
Backcountry Travelogue with Jerry Weston
Limited cabin and group camping space is available on a first come, first served basis.
Individual camp sites can be reserved here.
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Morrow Mountain State Park
49104 Morrow Mountain Rd
Friday, September 26, 2014 at 7:00 PM - Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 10:00 PM (EDT)
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Sheik Sadiq Khan reassures residents of al-London.
"Today London suffered a horrific attack near Parliament Square which we are treating as a terrorist attack. A number of people have lost their lives and at least twenty people have been injured. My heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones and to everyone who has been affected. Tragically, a Metropolitan Police officer who was doing his duty protecting our city is amongst those who have been killed - and my thoughts are with his family this evening. I want to express my gratitude on behalf of all Londoners to the police and emergency services who have shown tremendous bravery in exceptionally difficult circumstances. I have spoken to the Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Craig Mackey, and national lead for Counter-Terrorism Policing and Acting Deputy Commissioner Mark Rowley - and remain in close contact with them. Londoners should be aware that THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL ARMED AND UNARMED POLICE OFFICERS ON OUR STREETS FROM TONIGHT in order to keep Londoners and all those visiting our city safe. I want to reassure all Londoners and all our visitors not to be alarmed - our city remains one of the safest in the world. London is the greatest city in the world and WE stand together in the face of those who seek to harm US and destroy OUR way of life. WE always have, and WE always will. Londoners will never be cowed by terrorism."


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Why your conservatory should be made from uPVC
January 28th, 2012
When it comes to choosing a conservatory for your home you have three main material options. They are aluminium, hardwood and uPVC. All three have their own advantages and most of the time it depends on which style would most suit your home.
But when it comes to uPVC, many conservatory companies would say there's nothing better. uPVC is a very resistant and durable product that's used in the manufacture of window frames and doors. It's often suitable for modern properties and requires little maintenance.
One of the most important features though is its energy efficiency. Because of its ability to retain heat in the conservatory, you'll save hundreds of pounds annually on your energy bills. This is all money that can be better spent elsewhere.
And remember, uPVC is the cheapest of the three material options. So not only are you saving money on your gas and electricity bills, but you'll have already saved on the installation.
As mentioned, uPVC doesn't require too much maintenance. It doesn't rust and unlike wood it won't rot or require repainting after a couple of years. Dirt and debris can be removed with a quick wipe from a cloth and a touch of soap.
uPVC can also be shaped into any style you desire. A conservatory can be manufactured in a range of styles including Victorian, Georgian and Edwardian. uPVC can accommodate all of these and more. The size isn't a problem either and uPVC can be shaped to be as strong as necessary. For example, fitting a glass roof will just require the frames to be made thicker.
And once it has been built your property will instantly increase in value. In fact, if you're trying to sell your home, building a conservatory and converting it into an open, airy living space could be the key.
With a uPVC conservatory there really are endless opportunities. It's a product you should certainly take note of if you're looking at building a conservatory for the back of your home. They can be converted into kitchens, dining rooms and living rooms, offering a fantastic place to relax in the evening.
Of course, uPVC won't be for everyone and hardwood conservatories are most popular for homes in Conservation Areas or World Heritage Sites. Properties in these areas struggle for planning permission, but hardwood is often eligible.
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Fish Breath Wins Best in Broadcast at ADDY Awards.
When the South Carolina Aquarium came to us last summer to create a TV spot for them, we were thrilled. Finally, an opportunity to work on television. Something we were hungry for. Our first spot turned out to be a beauty. It helped drive new visitors to the Aquarium and this past Saturday it was named "Best of Broadcast" at the 2010 Ad Fed Charleston ADDY Awards. Thanks to the folks at the Aquarium and Brad Jayne and crew for helping us bring the giant penguin to life.
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I enjoy caring for both individuals and families of all ages, and I am passionate about instilling patients with the knowledge and tools necessary to live healthier and fuller lives. I use preventative and integrative medicine, health promotion, women's health, nutrition and acute and chronic disease management to meet the needs of my patients. I also recognize the importance of continued learning and strive to always be a student of the best practices of modern medicine.
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