Drinking a cup of coffee and voicing an opinion, Quintessentially American

There are some things, which are mutually exclusive in their current state. A truth & a lie. A Christian & an Atheist. An American & an Obama supporter. IF you were to mutate the American, I suppose they could exist as an Obama supporter, however the principles of Socialism contradict the Rights enumerated in the Constitution, so there is no way a "loyal American" could ever support a "Socialist president", therefore it becomes an oxymoron.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

America's Health Care

Currently America is on the verge of socializing the health care industry. Just another step up the ladder towards a more Socialist America.

Americans have allowed the insurance companies to dictate their medical needs and the insurance companies have been playing God with our lives ever since. Due to government programs like allowing illegals to have free health care, the health care system in this country is broke. Americans are being blamed and through the new reforms, punished. But it is the government that is to blame. Fat cat politicians taking bribes in the form of contributions, by lobbyist and pharmaceutical companies should carry the bulk of the blame.

Every program taken over by the government sector becomes bloated, and wasteful. It isn't the people who drive up the cost but the over charging by medical professionals through Medicaid, doctors and hospitals over charging those who do have insurance as a way to recoup money lost by those patients who can't pay and politicians who pork out funding bills.

It is like a dog chasing it's tail. People need health care, but they can't afford it. The doctor offices won't take payments so they go to the hospital emergency rooms. They can't pay so the hospital gets stuck with a bill, which is probably inflated to begin with, in an attempt to recoup money lost by others who couldn't pay. Forget dentist. That is a luxury item for most Americans.

Government funded programs are slow to pay or don't pay if there is any technicality in the submission of the program forms. So the provider loses again, and the people lose the most.

However, with all the ills in America's health system, it is still better than what you find in other countries.

We hear the Canadians and British horror stories of rationed health care. Is that what you want for your loved ones?

My daughter is currently in the Philippines as a missionary. The island she is on has no doctor so the missionaries use a book Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook as a manual, a medical bible, to treat what they can. If it is too severe, the patient is taken by boat to the main island. The missionaries have to pack food because hospitals don't provide food for patients. And she said, there is no guarantee you'll been seen. What she is experiencing is very different from what you'll find written about health care in the Philippines

"...most of the well-trained doctors in the Philippines are serving government hospitals. What differs the Philippine government hospitals from the Philippine private hospitals is simply the facilities. Most of the public hospitals in the Philippines are not equipped with the latest technologies in medicine. But then, most Filipinos seek for advice from these government hospitals because charges are not implemented." -- Health Care in the Philippines

Notice the government hospitals have the least to offer in technologies. What happened to the open end check book of the government? You would think a government run anything would have the best. If the politicians kept their fingers out of the cookie jar, perhaps it would.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Telltale Signs of A Scarier America

Some folks just don't have a sense of humor. Or maybe some folks have a selective sense of humor.

Within the Findagrave.com discussion forums last night, as a thread where an enthusiastic discussion over Obama's proof of eligibility (or the lack thereof) was dieing down, the admins saw fit to lock it. I didn't care as it was fast coming to the point of "we must agree to disagree". This was a thread I started by posting a comment about the fact that a thread I had started minutes before had been deleted, after about 2 comments. In that thread I had posted a link to my previous blog entry, "Obama Truth Seekers to Get Day in Court?"

People have the right to disagree with my views. I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem with the lack of tolerance for other points of view. I'll come back to this, the bigger picture.

This morning I posted a "news story" from carbolicsmoke.com, a satire news site. The headline read, 'Obama Says Sotomayor's "Castrate White Males" Comment Taken Out of Context'. Posting a satirical piece, as others have done WITHOUT reprisals, was just an attempt on my part to be funny. I guess not.

When did we get to this point of such intolerance in even the smallest areas in our lives? The Lounge in the Findagrave "Discussion" Forums is the proper place to post anything. I can understand not posting slanderous and out-right hate mongering topics. I am not without reason.

So now I have joined the ranks of those (discussion participants) who have been punished for their views and outspoken nature. My understanding is, even a few have been locked out more than once.

Agreed, it is not my site and they can do as they wish, but when you create an environment whereby people are invited to appropriately discuss anything as long as you aren't calling people names, etc. then WHY be so sensitive? It really is baffling to me.

The Bigger Picture

There was a time in Nazi Germany when to disagree with the State was to invite the SS into your life. Are we on the brink of this lack of tolerance for free thinking? Are we seeing the fringes of such a mass acceptance of intolerance, started in the most unassuming places only to have it spread out into all areas of our lives?

Getting locked out of a discussion group is, by itself, a nothing issue but step back and look at the bigger picture. The topics were directly or indirectly about Obama.

This small and seemingly insignificant act points to a much larger and scarier image of America to me. It is an image of an America I do not like.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Obama Truth Seekers to Get Day in Court?

Funny how most people will say, "If you have nothing to hide, why are you hiding it?" when it comes to the average suspect in any crime. Go to court, plead your case and let the jury decide...be done with it and move on.

Since Obama took the Oath of Office, people have been asking to see the proof of his qualification to hold the Office.

WND has reported that a wide range of Obama documentation – along with Obama's birth certificate – are not available, including Obama's kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and his adoption records. See: WND: Now White House joins 'birth hospital' cover-up

It appears now, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, of California, who just happens to also be an ex-Marine, may have agreed to hear the case, filed by attorney Orly Taitz.

In all fairness, why were these questions NOT raised when he announced his candidacy?

The truth is, these questions WERE raised...and dismissed. Dismissed by the courts, the media and the sleeping public. One example from the past:

A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States. -- by Jeff Schreiber, America's Right, Obama Sued in Philadelphia Federal Court on Grounds he is Constitutionally Ineligible for the Presidency Thursday, Aug 21, 2008

Had the courts and the media done their jobs at the time, we would not be sitting on a powder keg today. Had the courts and the media done their jobs at any juncture along the path leading to this point, perhaps we would not be sitting on this powder keg at all!

There are people in America who care deeply for the Rule of Law, who understand the Constitution is the "tie that binds" us together as a free nation and who could care less about a candidate's bloodline as long as that candidate meets the qualifications.

Then there are the people who do not like the Rule of Law, but want the law to favor them because they feel they are at a disadvantage due to their background (status, race, birth origin, etc) or because they are at an advantage due to their backgound (status, race, birth origin, old money, etc).

And then, there are the people who just want things given to them because they feel they are entitled to it for some previous injury, real or imagined. Because they have been told they somehow deserve it, and they will vote for any one, regardless of whether the candidate qualifies or not, just so long as they believe that candidate will give them more and more.

And when their candidate is challenged, they see that as proof of their continued discrimination. They don't care that he isn't qualified, all they care about is the perceived attack on THEM as a whole. This can be a race issue or a party issue.

IF there is a court hearing to force the viewing of documentation to prove ONCE & FOR ALL, that Barrack Hussein Obama meets the qualifications set out in the Constitution for his holding the office of President of the United States of America, and IF that documentation fails to provide such proof and he is removed from office, the 3rd group of people above will never believe it was done solely because "their guy" failed to meet those qualifications. They will see this as evidence of continued discrimination against their race or their party and I predict all those people who have been arming themselves to the teeth will NEED those freshly bought protection mechanisms as there will be a "Rodney King redo" across the nation.

Be aware, be prepared, be forewarned.

Friday, July 3, 2009

American Independence Day?

America has been celebrating it's independence from British rule since 1777 although this day wasn't officially called "Independence Day" until about 1791.

I find it ironic that so many Americans continue to celebrate a holiday they evidently do not value or understand.

Take the fireworks for example. Why do people celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks? The fireworks are a symbol of the rockets, cannon fire, and of the gun fire proving we were the still in the battle for our freedom. It was a win all or lose all proposition.

America would either win it's complete freedom from King George or the colonist would be under a "heavier boot" from the British. There was no going back, no saying "I'm tired, lets just wait a while longer", or "this whole ordeal is more than I bargained for, why don't we take another vote before we continue with this blood bath."

What has happened to the American people that has made them forget their past? Made them forget their history? Where is the pride in the sacrifice of so many ancestors?

We are a sorry lot. We celebrate a holiday that should condemn us for our weakness. We have voluntarily put back on the chains so many men bled and successfully fought to remove.

If the people we descend from, those of us who have lineages going back to the American Revolution, were to stand before us today, would they pat us on the back and say "Job well done!" Or would they turn from us in disappointment, even shame at how we have protected the gift of liberty and freedom they handed to us?

We did not earn it, they did. We did not bleed for it, they did, and we will not hand it over to our children like they did. Instead we hand our children heavier chains than we wear and do it with a smile!

We have no business celebrating Independence tomorrow, for we are not independent. We are very dependent but not on King George. We are dependent on Washington DC.

We have handed the responsibility for our freedoms and the duties of defending it over to people with no conscience or morality. Since the 1960s we have allowed the people who lead us to be the instruments of our demise.

We have allowed the courts to tell us we don't need God and faith in our lives or in our schools or in our laws.

Our Founders would never believe we could fall so far and so fast. They knew it was man's relationship to God and man's placement in that relationship, which told them they had no choice but to become independent of a system which did not respect this relationship. The British system was evidence of how the King saw man in the relationship. God--->King---->then everyone else.

Here is a portion of "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at their request,on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837." by John Quincy Adams.

...At the root of all this there was a plausible theory of sovereignty, and unlimited power in Parliament, conflicting with the vital principle of English Freedom, that taxation and representation are inseparable, and that taxation without representation is a violation of the right of property. Here was a conflict between two first principles of government, resulting from a defect in the British Constitution: the principle that sovereign power in human Government is in its nature unlimited: and the principle that property can lawfully be taxed only with the consent of its owner. Now these two principles, carried out into practice, are utterly irreconcilable with each other. The lawyers of Great Britain held them both to be essential principles of the British Constitution. – In their practical application, the King and Parliament and people of Great Britain, appealed for the right to tax the Colonies to the unlimited and illimitable sovereignty of the Parliament. – The Colonists appealed to the natural right of property, and the articles of the Great Charter. The collision in the application of these two principles was the primitive cause of the severance of the North American Colonies, from the British Empire. The grievances alleged in the Declaration of Independence were all secondary causes, amply sufficient to justify before God and man the separation itself; and that resolution, to the support of which the fifty-five Representatives of the One People of the United Colonies pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, after passing through the fiery ordeal of a six years war, was sanctioned by the God of Battles, and by the unqualified acknowledgment of the defeated adversary.

...In recurring to those principles, let us remark,

First, that the People of the thirteen Colonies announced themselves to the world, and solemnly bound themselves, with an appeal to God, to be One People. And this One People, by their Representatives, declared the United Colonies free and independent States.

Secondly, they declared the People, and not the States, to be the only legitimate source of power; and that to the People alone belonged the right to institute, to alter, to abolish, and to re-institute government. And hence it follows, that as the People of the separate Colonies or States formed only parts of the One People assuming their station among the powers of the earth, so the People of no one State could separate from the rest, but by a revolution, similar to that by which the whole People had separated themselves from the People of the British Islands, nor without the violation of that solemn covenant, by which they bound themselves to support and maintain the United Colonies, as free and independent States. ...

Thirdly, the Declaration of Independence announced the One People, assuming their station among the powers of the earth, as a civilized, religious, and Christian People, – acknowledging themselves bound by the obligations, and claiming the rights, to which they were entitled by the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.


How far we have fallen. We have allowed God to be removed from our government and now our liberties are being removed from us.

How can I celebrate what is now a lie? I mourn instead for the death of a great nation.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. -- Patrick Henry