U.S. District Court federal judge Henry Hudson's allowing the state of Virginia to continue a lawsuit to stop the new health care law from taking effect. He said "No court has ever ruled on whether it's constitutional to require Americans to purchase a product."
In a 32 page decision, he went on to write, "While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate -and tax- a citizen's decision not to participate in interstate commerce. Given the presence of some authority arguably supporting the theory underlying each side's position, this court cannot conclude at this stage that the complaint fails to state a cause of action,"
The bill was rejected by all congressional Republicans but signed into law by President Obama earlier this year.
I'm bringing this up today because it's another example of government plowing ahead into areas where it hasn't a clue and ramming through legislation for the sake of fulfilling a ridiculous campaign promise regardless of the damage it will ultimately cause. If we're lucky, Virgina will win this case and other states will follow their lead, one by one putting our health care system back together.
I've addressed this issue many times in prior entries, so I won't go back step by step and reiterate what's been written, but, toward the end of the original debate prior to health care's passage several Republicans stated that the health care issue is far too large and involved to be treated in one fell swoop. And that's certainly true.
An approach that made the most sense to me, was that the first steps should have been to address the major issues affecting and disrupting everything else, then try to fix them properly, one at a time. But, the way things stand now a bunch of politicos who haven't a clue about health care management or program design have run over the best health system on the planet with a bulldozer.
From the git-go, for example, the issue to be addressed immediately should have been malpractice insurance. Because, if that one gets remedied a lot more subordinate problems will fall into place. But, since congress is packed with lawyers, the ambulance-chasers were critical to protect. However, if you blow those dirtballs out of the equation, health care costs would probably drop by half.
In my own case, over the past four years I've had some very serious health issues and major work performed on me. Thus, I've seen and gone through many, many scenarios myself. What's more, I was in supposedly one of the finest medical facilities on Earth.
So, let's begin with my basic check-ups. Good doc's know what they're looking for right from the start by the symptoms. They can quickly prove their suspicions by running the appropriate tests. But, today they can't simply do that because what if they missed something else? And what if what they missed resulted in further consequences and the patient developed complications or maybe croaked altogether? The answer to that one is, a line of slick, fast-talking mouthpieces show up bearing a carload of lawsuits, hoping to score a homer every time they get to the plate.
Well then, what do the doc's have to do? They have to buy malpractice protection. And the more cases there are the more premiums rise until you get what we have today. Many doctors have to work nine months a year before they see a quarter for themselves because the insurers scam so much of their earnings.
And what happens to the patients while the doc's are covering their legal tails? We're put through tests, many extremely costly, having no real purpose at all except to become part of some doc's files so he can later say he took every diagnostic step known to man if he's sued.
Beyond that, from the patient's side of the issue, we wind up getting examined, probed, pinched, shot up with serums and drugs and kicked from doc to doc like soccer balls. Then each of these clowns does their thing, sends you a bill, and moves you on to the next one in line. And, one of the worst things about that is when you're a patient and feeling ill, you go through this malpractice avoidance routine because you're to weak to just dump these doc's on their tails and go home.
Having had two major surgeries performed on me in the last four years I think I'm somewhat qualified to offer an opinion about the way many of these doc's rate as medico's. And, frankly I think they're pretty much like all professionals in any other endeavor. The two, three or four percent at the top are real "pro's" and excellent at what they do, and the rest are basically shlubs. It's like a question a good friend always asks. What do they call the guy who graduated number one in his class? The answer is: You call him doctor. And what do you call the bozo who graduated last in his class? The answer is: You call him doctor.
So, since the chances of having a really good doctor work on you at all are pretty slim, what happens to patients as they're forced to go though this series of examinations and tests by a parade of schlemiels who're all simply covering their collective malpractice tails? My answer to that one is, you're lucky if they don't kill you in the process.
So, how do you really reduce medical costs, streamline the system and continue to provide Americans with the best health care in the world? It's simple. Kill all the lawyers.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
BloggeRhythms 8/2/2010
Going back to the presidential campaign two years ago in discussions with friends, I kept mentioning how obvious it was in regard to what Soros was doing that he wanted to insure his puppet's election by providing billions of campaign dollars, but I didn't know the specific reasons why he wanted to own the White House.
After the election, many of Soros' goals became clearer, such as having the administration try to insure that all drilling for oil cease in the Gulf of Mexico, which somehow conveniently followed his receiving a two billion dollar loan U.S. government guarantee for his developing his wells in Brazil. Then there was the disastrous socialization of health care, the governmental subsidizing of major businesses through bailouts leading to the Feds owning the largest auto maker in the world, the largest insurer, and most of the banks and investment banking firms, among others.
But, there was a fly in that ointment because so much was stolen so fast that even the American people woke up and started asking pointed questions about what was going on. When they received nothing but the usual double-speak gobbledygook from their "leader," they pushed harder, going so far as to threaten the reelection of every incumbent in office. And that means that the Dem's in particular are in danger because they'll likely lose their congressional majority edge.
So what do they do if they'll need every vote they can get next November? Well naturally they'll use Chicago's old Mayor Daley's trick and recycle the dead one more time, moveon.org and Obama have been using that one for years. But today there's one more avenue for votes I've mentioned before but I'll let a blurb found on the Fox website give you the current score.
"Sen. David Vitter, R-La., on Sunday said he and his colleagues are still looking for answers on whether the administration has seriously considered mass legalization for illegal immigrants, after an administration memo surfaced outlining ways to grant legalization without going through Congress.
The draft memo, first obtained by Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley's office from the U.S. Customs & Immigration Services, outlines ways the administration was exploring to legalize swaths of illegal immigrants 'in the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.' The memo describes how to, 'reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization.'
Several Republican senators wrote a letter to President Obama regarding the memo, and they are waiting for a response. Vitter expressed frustration Sunday.
'The first letters were in June. We had heard rumors about this sort of activity; no answer. We followed up in July; no answer,' he told Fox News. 'Then this 11-page memo has gotten out, and it's not alleged anymore. It's right there in black and white. So, again, we're reiterating our strong concerns, and still no answer.'
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.., also said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that he was 'very disturbed" to see the memo discussing "non-legislative ways to achieve amnesty.'
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs addressed the issue Friday to Fox and Friends, 'The White House doesn't support amnesty and I think people that support comprehensive immigration reform don't support amnesty either. What we need to do again is try to figure out how we're going to secure borders, deal with those that are here, but do it in a comprehensive way and do it at a federal level, because as frustrated as Arizonans are, and we understand that we can't have a patchwork of immigration laws throughout each of the 50 states.'
The memo isn't dated, but appears to be from earlier this year. A Homeland Security official told Fox News the memo was never signed."
So, what do we have here? A "Catch-22" conceived by the administration to do nothing about illegals, because they'll likely vote Democrat, topped off by a prevention of the states having huge immigration problems by trumping their attempts to seal the borders themselves. As the old saying goes, "Only in America."
The pity of it all is that in recent years, people have become so used to being ripped off, lied to and hosed by governement that they no longer pay attention to much that goes on. And if a star jock or starlet isn't involved they likely don't look at the news at all. So, unfortunately this time around, their lack of knowledge and understanding is going to cost them whatever they've still got left.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
After the election, many of Soros' goals became clearer, such as having the administration try to insure that all drilling for oil cease in the Gulf of Mexico, which somehow conveniently followed his receiving a two billion dollar loan U.S. government guarantee for his developing his wells in Brazil. Then there was the disastrous socialization of health care, the governmental subsidizing of major businesses through bailouts leading to the Feds owning the largest auto maker in the world, the largest insurer, and most of the banks and investment banking firms, among others.
But, there was a fly in that ointment because so much was stolen so fast that even the American people woke up and started asking pointed questions about what was going on. When they received nothing but the usual double-speak gobbledygook from their "leader," they pushed harder, going so far as to threaten the reelection of every incumbent in office. And that means that the Dem's in particular are in danger because they'll likely lose their congressional majority edge.
So what do they do if they'll need every vote they can get next November? Well naturally they'll use Chicago's old Mayor Daley's trick and recycle the dead one more time, moveon.org and Obama have been using that one for years. But today there's one more avenue for votes I've mentioned before but I'll let a blurb found on the Fox website give you the current score.
"Sen. David Vitter, R-La., on Sunday said he and his colleagues are still looking for answers on whether the administration has seriously considered mass legalization for illegal immigrants, after an administration memo surfaced outlining ways to grant legalization without going through Congress.
The draft memo, first obtained by Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley's office from the U.S. Customs & Immigration Services, outlines ways the administration was exploring to legalize swaths of illegal immigrants 'in the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.' The memo describes how to, 'reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization.'
Several Republican senators wrote a letter to President Obama regarding the memo, and they are waiting for a response. Vitter expressed frustration Sunday.
'The first letters were in June. We had heard rumors about this sort of activity; no answer. We followed up in July; no answer,' he told Fox News. 'Then this 11-page memo has gotten out, and it's not alleged anymore. It's right there in black and white. So, again, we're reiterating our strong concerns, and still no answer.'
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.., also said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that he was 'very disturbed" to see the memo discussing "non-legislative ways to achieve amnesty.'
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs addressed the issue Friday to Fox and Friends, 'The White House doesn't support amnesty and I think people that support comprehensive immigration reform don't support amnesty either. What we need to do again is try to figure out how we're going to secure borders, deal with those that are here, but do it in a comprehensive way and do it at a federal level, because as frustrated as Arizonans are, and we understand that we can't have a patchwork of immigration laws throughout each of the 50 states.'
The memo isn't dated, but appears to be from earlier this year. A Homeland Security official told Fox News the memo was never signed."
So, what do we have here? A "Catch-22" conceived by the administration to do nothing about illegals, because they'll likely vote Democrat, topped off by a prevention of the states having huge immigration problems by trumping their attempts to seal the borders themselves. As the old saying goes, "Only in America."
The pity of it all is that in recent years, people have become so used to being ripped off, lied to and hosed by governement that they no longer pay attention to much that goes on. And if a star jock or starlet isn't involved they likely don't look at the news at all. So, unfortunately this time around, their lack of knowledge and understanding is going to cost them whatever they've still got left.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
Sunday, August 1, 2010
BloggeRhythms 8/1/2010
Sometimes it just doesn't get any better. And this is one of those mornings. Because yesterday I was so frosted about the Rangel scandal that I did a whole tirade on corrupted, worthless politicians. Then, lo and behold, along comes a story that not only proves my point, but casts it in stone.
Just this morning I was at my desk and my wife says something about the Clinton wedding yesterday, so I went and looked it up. And what do I find out? The guy their kid married is the son of a former State Representative and here's a blurb that was listed about the daddy: "Edward "Ed" Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937 is a former congressman and a convicted fraudster. A Democrat, he represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977. In 2001, he was convicted of several dozen charges of fraud. He was released from federal prison in 2008. However, he remains on federal probation and still owes almost $9.4 million in restitution to his victims."
It seems all these political folks are like moths drawn to a flame. If there's anything out there worth stealing they're going to reach out to grab it with both hands. And nobody on earth is better at that than both Clintons. And apparently they did well in teaching their daughter, because she obviously learned well from both role models and then sought someone likely to have the same characteristics as them. Perhaps there's an on-line search engine like "Crooks Are Us" where you can find a mate-match that fits by selected criteria, such as fraud, theft, larceny, perjury, lying under oath, misrepresentation,or whatever else you like.
Of course not all politicians are simply crooked. There are some far better than that. Like that one who flunked out of Harvard then went out, drowned his date, fled the scene and swam home. He may have tried to apologize but was so drunk for the rest of his life that nobody understood a word he said.
These days I spend my time writing fiction about bodyguards, cops and crooks. And, above all, I try to make my stories believable because as a reader myself I don't like stories that seem far-fetched. But, if I sat here and typed for a thousand years I couldn't outdo what these politicos do in the real world. They're truly beyond belief.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
Just this morning I was at my desk and my wife says something about the Clinton wedding yesterday, so I went and looked it up. And what do I find out? The guy their kid married is the son of a former State Representative and here's a blurb that was listed about the daddy: "Edward "Ed" Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937 is a former congressman and a convicted fraudster. A Democrat, he represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977. In 2001, he was convicted of several dozen charges of fraud. He was released from federal prison in 2008. However, he remains on federal probation and still owes almost $9.4 million in restitution to his victims."
It seems all these political folks are like moths drawn to a flame. If there's anything out there worth stealing they're going to reach out to grab it with both hands. And nobody on earth is better at that than both Clintons. And apparently they did well in teaching their daughter, because she obviously learned well from both role models and then sought someone likely to have the same characteristics as them. Perhaps there's an on-line search engine like "Crooks Are Us" where you can find a mate-match that fits by selected criteria, such as fraud, theft, larceny, perjury, lying under oath, misrepresentation,or whatever else you like.
Of course not all politicians are simply crooked. There are some far better than that. Like that one who flunked out of Harvard then went out, drowned his date, fled the scene and swam home. He may have tried to apologize but was so drunk for the rest of his life that nobody understood a word he said.
These days I spend my time writing fiction about bodyguards, cops and crooks. And, above all, I try to make my stories believable because as a reader myself I don't like stories that seem far-fetched. But, if I sat here and typed for a thousand years I couldn't outdo what these politicos do in the real world. They're truly beyond belief.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
Saturday, July 31, 2010
BloggeRhythms 7/31/2010
Same old boring same old in the news, but in discussing the Rangel issue, Ann Kirkpatrick, Democrat Representative of Arizona said: "Too many politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have fallen victim to the idea that they are 'different' than regular folks and nothing could be further from the truth."
I noted her comment because I think she's 180 degrees wrong. I believe most politicians are very different than "regular folks" in almost every way imaginable.
For starters, I believe most regular people are honest, hard working, family-oriented, caring folks who spend their lives trying to do the best they can for and with those they deal with in all aspects of their personal and professional lives, and naturally, for themselves as well. Conversely, however, I believe that politicians of every stripe are low-life, thieving, weasels interested in only themselves and totally untrustworthy in every aspect of life. As the old saying goes, you can tell when politicians are lying whenever their lips move.
Our problem is that politics is such a foul and dirty way to spend one's life that most competent, trustworthy people wouldn't agree to what needs to be done to first get elected and then stay in office. And, if one should be unlucky enough to actually wind up being elected they then have to deal with all the other slime-buckets that populate or feed off all political positions. Then, if you don't join them in their self-serving, larcenous games you're ostracized into oblivion.
So, considering the way our system works, I believe the reason we wind up with all the stooges, dunces, and thieves that we do is because they're the dregs of our society and the only one's willing to stoop to that low an occupational level in the first place. I think you can easily see the proof of what kind of quasi-literate flea brains hold political office by spending a few minutes watching the daily broadcasts from the House and Senate. The level of incompetence, absence of intellect and abject ignorance among these people is scary.
I guess in the last analysis though, politics is a pretty good thing. Because we all know about the employment problem in the "private" sector. So, if these flea-brains were not in office they'd have to look for real jobs and aren't likely qualified for almost any worthy occupation. Even 75% of the toll booths have automated baskets for collection which is one of the few things I think the average politician might qualify for. Consequently, with all these brain-dead boobs getting turned down for real jobs, the unemployment level would skyrocket out of sight.
Then again, if you had a guy like Chuck Schumer in a toll booth, it might take forty-five minutes of listening to worthless wind just to get your change back.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
I noted her comment because I think she's 180 degrees wrong. I believe most politicians are very different than "regular folks" in almost every way imaginable.
For starters, I believe most regular people are honest, hard working, family-oriented, caring folks who spend their lives trying to do the best they can for and with those they deal with in all aspects of their personal and professional lives, and naturally, for themselves as well. Conversely, however, I believe that politicians of every stripe are low-life, thieving, weasels interested in only themselves and totally untrustworthy in every aspect of life. As the old saying goes, you can tell when politicians are lying whenever their lips move.
Our problem is that politics is such a foul and dirty way to spend one's life that most competent, trustworthy people wouldn't agree to what needs to be done to first get elected and then stay in office. And, if one should be unlucky enough to actually wind up being elected they then have to deal with all the other slime-buckets that populate or feed off all political positions. Then, if you don't join them in their self-serving, larcenous games you're ostracized into oblivion.
So, considering the way our system works, I believe the reason we wind up with all the stooges, dunces, and thieves that we do is because they're the dregs of our society and the only one's willing to stoop to that low an occupational level in the first place. I think you can easily see the proof of what kind of quasi-literate flea brains hold political office by spending a few minutes watching the daily broadcasts from the House and Senate. The level of incompetence, absence of intellect and abject ignorance among these people is scary.
I guess in the last analysis though, politics is a pretty good thing. Because we all know about the employment problem in the "private" sector. So, if these flea-brains were not in office they'd have to look for real jobs and aren't likely qualified for almost any worthy occupation. Even 75% of the toll booths have automated baskets for collection which is one of the few things I think the average politician might qualify for. Consequently, with all these brain-dead boobs getting turned down for real jobs, the unemployment level would skyrocket out of sight.
Then again, if you had a guy like Chuck Schumer in a toll booth, it might take forty-five minutes of listening to worthless wind just to get your change back.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
Friday, July 30, 2010
BloggeRhythms 7/30/2010
If no news is good news, everything must be okay, cause there ain't no news worth keystrokes.
Last I saw, the house committee investigating Rangel seems to be leaning toward a reprimand, the mildest of penalties, which is the same as doing absolutely nothing. I remember "reprimanding" my puppies when they had accidents in the house during training. And now that I've typed this last sentence, that's just what Rangel is -an accident in the House. Looks, smells and acts exactly the same too.
Nevertheless, I don't think congress can just sweep this under the rug because they've buried so much there already, I doubt there's any more room. No wonder political favorability ratings are averaging about thirty percent. And it's likely the thirty favorable percent is made up mostly of illegal aliens.
So, now back to important matters. I wrote here yesterday that my humongous DP reorganization was finished and the result was a faster, smoother, simplified process for handling just about any task we could think of computerwise. Data management, customer bases, financial management, banking, print and web based advertising, communication systems, email programming for individual and bulk transmission, automated updating of programming and on and on and on.
I was extremely happy when my task was finished having put in five twenty hour days, but that's how I work. If anything's unfinished there's no point in my getting in bed, because I can't and won't sleep, so I may as well just keep going at my desk. So, that's what I did.
Now, I was sitting back at four o'clock this morning, reviewing the whole reprogramming job I'd just finished, and as a last step I tried a simple process within one of our more sophisticated programs. The task worked, but I thought it was too cumbersome and slow and then a light went on in my cranium. Gee, this is an older program, I said to myself -I wonder if there are updates on-line, because although our programs update automatically, sometimes there's something worthwhile that might have been missed.
Well, lo and behold, there's this 17 megabyte update available that's never been sent to us. So, in a pretty simple couple of keystrokes, zap, the download arrived in my machine. Nothing left to do now but let it run and install. I sat back and watched as my machine sucked the data in and it took almost no time at all, less than two minutes all told. My machines not the greatest but its pretty fast.
The program in question is a database manager and its huge. There's twenty years of combined customer information in it covering several different businesses, so there are thousands upon thousands of accumulated records. Well, after I installed the update, and went back to check the results, I found the desktop icon no longer worked and the program wouldn't open. I searched my machine every way I know how, and that's a lot, but there was no new or replacement icon to be found, and no other way into the program. When I realized what had happened, that I'd actually lost twenty years of accumulated customer, vendor, personal and whatever else information I did the only thing I could think of. I went totally ballistic.
After I calmed down and took a patient approach to the matter, through a combination of original program re-entry and a number of different back-ups I'd thankfully done, just in case, five hours later I'd corrected the problems and now am right back at square one. Oddly enough though, after my scary ordeal and reprogramming efforts, the slowness I was trying to fix in the first place somehow got solved. Not only is every KB and pixel of our data back, but the program itself is running at warp speed, without the kiss of death update that I'll never go near again.
I guess one could look back at this tale and say, now there's a careful and thoughtful guy, insuring that he could recover whatever need be in the event of disaster. But, that's not the case here at all. It's just that I've done this to myself so many times in the past that I've programmed my machines to insure that they take care of what needs to be done by themselves, regardless of how badly I screw things up.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
Last I saw, the house committee investigating Rangel seems to be leaning toward a reprimand, the mildest of penalties, which is the same as doing absolutely nothing. I remember "reprimanding" my puppies when they had accidents in the house during training. And now that I've typed this last sentence, that's just what Rangel is -an accident in the House. Looks, smells and acts exactly the same too.
Nevertheless, I don't think congress can just sweep this under the rug because they've buried so much there already, I doubt there's any more room. No wonder political favorability ratings are averaging about thirty percent. And it's likely the thirty favorable percent is made up mostly of illegal aliens.
So, now back to important matters. I wrote here yesterday that my humongous DP reorganization was finished and the result was a faster, smoother, simplified process for handling just about any task we could think of computerwise. Data management, customer bases, financial management, banking, print and web based advertising, communication systems, email programming for individual and bulk transmission, automated updating of programming and on and on and on.
I was extremely happy when my task was finished having put in five twenty hour days, but that's how I work. If anything's unfinished there's no point in my getting in bed, because I can't and won't sleep, so I may as well just keep going at my desk. So, that's what I did.
Now, I was sitting back at four o'clock this morning, reviewing the whole reprogramming job I'd just finished, and as a last step I tried a simple process within one of our more sophisticated programs. The task worked, but I thought it was too cumbersome and slow and then a light went on in my cranium. Gee, this is an older program, I said to myself -I wonder if there are updates on-line, because although our programs update automatically, sometimes there's something worthwhile that might have been missed.
Well, lo and behold, there's this 17 megabyte update available that's never been sent to us. So, in a pretty simple couple of keystrokes, zap, the download arrived in my machine. Nothing left to do now but let it run and install. I sat back and watched as my machine sucked the data in and it took almost no time at all, less than two minutes all told. My machines not the greatest but its pretty fast.
The program in question is a database manager and its huge. There's twenty years of combined customer information in it covering several different businesses, so there are thousands upon thousands of accumulated records. Well, after I installed the update, and went back to check the results, I found the desktop icon no longer worked and the program wouldn't open. I searched my machine every way I know how, and that's a lot, but there was no new or replacement icon to be found, and no other way into the program. When I realized what had happened, that I'd actually lost twenty years of accumulated customer, vendor, personal and whatever else information I did the only thing I could think of. I went totally ballistic.
After I calmed down and took a patient approach to the matter, through a combination of original program re-entry and a number of different back-ups I'd thankfully done, just in case, five hours later I'd corrected the problems and now am right back at square one. Oddly enough though, after my scary ordeal and reprogramming efforts, the slowness I was trying to fix in the first place somehow got solved. Not only is every KB and pixel of our data back, but the program itself is running at warp speed, without the kiss of death update that I'll never go near again.
I guess one could look back at this tale and say, now there's a careful and thoughtful guy, insuring that he could recover whatever need be in the event of disaster. But, that's not the case here at all. It's just that I've done this to myself so many times in the past that I've programmed my machines to insure that they take care of what needs to be done by themselves, regardless of how badly I screw things up.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
Thursday, July 29, 2010
BloggeRhythms 7/29/2010
Finally finished inter-computer data transfers, program updates, file merges, re-routing from on-line partners, reconfiguring email destinations, downloads of latest program data, selection of program versions, removal of duplicated files and about a hundred other miscellaneous steps and procedures involved in streamlining, securing and managing files. I still can't believe how many gigs of stuff there is, even after removing everything obviously unnecessary.
The good news is, every program and file is up to date, backed-up two ways and the system hums. I don't know why, but my system now contains twice as much stuff yet runs faster than before. And it wasn't slow to begin with. Maybe I'll call Balmer and suggest that now that Bill's gone, perhaps they need a new head DP weenie. I got a lot done that their support folks couldn't figure out -and those guys are pretty good, they've been helping me out here and there for years.
On to good old politics. As far as Arizona's concerned, the governor said the Fed's haven't helped the state an iota in border control so she's going to appeal yesterday's court decision regarding four sections of the new immigration law and go all the way to the Supreme Court if she has to. So, I guess the Dem strategist was a bit premature in suggesting a parade be held to celebrate D.C.'s "huge" win yesterday in court.
Aside from that, there's Charley Rangel who they say evaded taxes, misrepresented financial information and faces about fourteen violations of the law. He was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, but stepped down "temporarily" while the court cases are going on.
Allegations include, that he broke House gift-ban rules by taking corporate-sponsored Caribbean junkets in 2007 and 2008, not paying taxes on rental income from a villa in the Dominican Republic and not disclosing more than $500,000 in assets on financial disclosure forms. Additionally, he was involved in an alleged sweetheart deal in which he leased four rent-stabilized Lenox Terrace apartments in Harlem and used his congressional office to raise money for the City College center named after him.
Now, this is one of those cases that drive me nuts. Because, I don't care a whit about Charley Rangel one way or the other, but evidently he's another example of our so-called "leadership" that's corrupt up to their eyeballs. And, I don't even care about his being corrupt. This guy can steal from anybody dumb enough to let that happen, and that's okay with me. But at the same time, don't do it when you're supposed to be a representative of the "people," parading yourself around as their representative in congress, and a man of the law. They ought to blow him out of congress, lock him up, and forget about him.
That reminds me of Mel Brooks' description of Robin Hood. Brooks said Robin didn't steal from the rich and give to the poor -he stole from everybody and kept it.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
The good news is, every program and file is up to date, backed-up two ways and the system hums. I don't know why, but my system now contains twice as much stuff yet runs faster than before. And it wasn't slow to begin with. Maybe I'll call Balmer and suggest that now that Bill's gone, perhaps they need a new head DP weenie. I got a lot done that their support folks couldn't figure out -and those guys are pretty good, they've been helping me out here and there for years.
On to good old politics. As far as Arizona's concerned, the governor said the Fed's haven't helped the state an iota in border control so she's going to appeal yesterday's court decision regarding four sections of the new immigration law and go all the way to the Supreme Court if she has to. So, I guess the Dem strategist was a bit premature in suggesting a parade be held to celebrate D.C.'s "huge" win yesterday in court.
Aside from that, there's Charley Rangel who they say evaded taxes, misrepresented financial information and faces about fourteen violations of the law. He was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, but stepped down "temporarily" while the court cases are going on.
Allegations include, that he broke House gift-ban rules by taking corporate-sponsored Caribbean junkets in 2007 and 2008, not paying taxes on rental income from a villa in the Dominican Republic and not disclosing more than $500,000 in assets on financial disclosure forms. Additionally, he was involved in an alleged sweetheart deal in which he leased four rent-stabilized Lenox Terrace apartments in Harlem and used his congressional office to raise money for the City College center named after him.
Now, this is one of those cases that drive me nuts. Because, I don't care a whit about Charley Rangel one way or the other, but evidently he's another example of our so-called "leadership" that's corrupt up to their eyeballs. And, I don't even care about his being corrupt. This guy can steal from anybody dumb enough to let that happen, and that's okay with me. But at the same time, don't do it when you're supposed to be a representative of the "people," parading yourself around as their representative in congress, and a man of the law. They ought to blow him out of congress, lock him up, and forget about him.
That reminds me of Mel Brooks' description of Robin Hood. Brooks said Robin didn't steal from the rich and give to the poor -he stole from everybody and kept it.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
BloggeRhythms 7/28/2010
Got down to the last few steps of data transferal yesterday, and like always, the glitches are simple software procedures that blow up if you miss a keystroke. None of the fixes are difficult, they just consume humongous, repetitive time. Consequently, for the first time I missed my blog entry deadline.
Anyway, I did see an item in the news that I wanted to address, so I'll note it now.
Flipping news channels I saw some guy being interviewed and a blurb go by that seemed favorable to the administration in the court ruling on Arizona's immigration law. The message went on to highlight some key words that I thought were confusing. Because, as I understand it, what the judge said was that four issues were to be pended until the various open cases are adjudicated in court. The interviewee, however, evidently was stating that the judge's decision was a flat-out, exciting and critically important win for the administration.
So I was about to turn the sound on when another blurb goes by saying the interviewee is a democrat consultant who served in the Clinton administration. So, then it all made sense. Here's this biased flack going on and on about a victory when all that was won was the right for both the administration and Arizona, and whoever else has filed a suit, to make their cases in court. And true, until then four sections of Arizona's new immigration law have been put on hold, but they haven't been completely overruled. And that's not for this judge to even decide, each case and potential later appeals will take place in specific other venues.
So, I guess my point is that you have be very careful when people are throwing their version of spin at you, and be sure to learn the real truth before you swallow their stories. Because if you don't, you'll start believing all the hype and noise that gets broadcast whether its true or not. In fact, you might even be led to believe that Donald Trump is worth more than a quarter.
That's it for yesterday folks.
Adios
Anyway, I did see an item in the news that I wanted to address, so I'll note it now.
Flipping news channels I saw some guy being interviewed and a blurb go by that seemed favorable to the administration in the court ruling on Arizona's immigration law. The message went on to highlight some key words that I thought were confusing. Because, as I understand it, what the judge said was that four issues were to be pended until the various open cases are adjudicated in court. The interviewee, however, evidently was stating that the judge's decision was a flat-out, exciting and critically important win for the administration.
So I was about to turn the sound on when another blurb goes by saying the interviewee is a democrat consultant who served in the Clinton administration. So, then it all made sense. Here's this biased flack going on and on about a victory when all that was won was the right for both the administration and Arizona, and whoever else has filed a suit, to make their cases in court. And true, until then four sections of Arizona's new immigration law have been put on hold, but they haven't been completely overruled. And that's not for this judge to even decide, each case and potential later appeals will take place in specific other venues.
So, I guess my point is that you have be very careful when people are throwing their version of spin at you, and be sure to learn the real truth before you swallow their stories. Because if you don't, you'll start believing all the hype and noise that gets broadcast whether its true or not. In fact, you might even be led to believe that Donald Trump is worth more than a quarter.
That's it for yesterday folks.
Adios
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