top 100 TV shows

I don't agree complete about the list

so i will post what i dont agree with...


Full List
A - F

1. The Abbott and Costello Show
2. ABC's Wide World of Sports
3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
4. All in the Family
5. An American Family
6. American Idol
7. Arrested Development-----NOT------
8. Battlestar Galactica
9. The Beavis and Butt-Head Show------Defintly NOT-------
10. The Bob Newhart Show
11. Brideshead Revisited----???----
12. Buffalo Bill
13. Buffy the Vampire Slayer----NOT----
14. The Carol Burnett Show
15. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
16. A Charlie Brown Christmas
17. Cheers
18. The Cosby Show
19. The Daily Show
20. Dallas
21. The Day After
22. Deadwood
23. The Dick Van Dyke Show
24. Dragnet
25. The Ed Sullivan Show
26. The Ernie Kovacs Show
27. Felicity
28. Freaks and Geeks---NOT-----
29. The French Chef
30. Friends

G - M

1. General Hospital
2. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
3. Gilmore Girls
4. Gunsmoke
5. Hill Street Blues
6. Homicide: Life on the Street
7. The Honeymooners
8. I, Claudius
9. I Love Lucy
10. King of the Hill
11. The Larry Sanders Show
12. Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)
13. Leave It to Beaver
14. Lost
15. Married... With Children
16. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
17. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
18. M*A*S*H
19. The Monkees
20. Monty Python's Flying Circus
21. Moonlighting
22. MTV 1981-1992
23. My So-Called Life
24. Mystery Science Theater 3000

N - S

1. The Odd Couple
2. The Office [American]
3. The Office [British]
4. The Oprah Winfrey Show
5. Pee Wee's Playhouse---NOT---
6. Playhouse 90
7. The Price Is Right
8. Prime Suspect
9. The Prisoner
10. The Real World
11. Rocky and His Friends
12. Roots
13. Roseanne
14. Sanford and Son
15. Saturday Night Live
16. Second City Television
17. See It Now
18. Seinfeld
19. Sesame Street
20. Sex and the City
21. The Shield
22. The Simpsons---NOT---
23. The Singing Detective
24. Six Feet Under
25. 60 Minutes
26. Soap
27. The Sopranos
28. South Park---NOT---
29. SpongeBob SquarePants---NOT----
30. SportsCenter
31. Star Trek
32. St. Elsewhere
33. The Super Bowl (and the Ads)
34. Survivor

T - Z

1. Taxi
2. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
3. 24
4. The Twilight Zone
5. Twin Peaks
6. The West Wing
7. What's My Line?
8. WKRP in Cincinnati
9. The Wire
10. Wiseguy
11. The X-Files
12. Your Show of Shows


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The New $300 Million Louisiana Purchase

The $300 million new Louisiana Purchase at the cost to tax payers.

Hopefully most of you remember the real Louisiana Purchase when the US purchased from France land encompassing all or part of 14 current U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.

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Harry Reid, it will cost you $300 million for Mary Landrieu’s vote

However, sadly on Saturday night once again we were witness to a government payoff to Democrat Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu to secure her vote so that Harry Reid could get 60 votes and begin the debate on Obamacare in the Senate. $300 million payoff for her vote! Hell, the original Louisiana Purchase only cost $15 million. Can you say quit pro quo, payoff!

In the end the Senate vote was 60–39 to further the debate on the governemnt take over of healthcare.

On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state.

And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote — and to trumpet the financial “fix” she had arranged for Louisiana. “I am not going to be defensive,” she declared. “And it’s not a $100 million fix. It’s a $300 million fix.”

It was an awkward moment (not least because her figure is 20 times the original Louisiana Purchase price). But it was fairly representative of a Senate debate that seems to be scripted in the Southern Gothic style. The plot was gripping — the bill survived Saturday’s procedural test without a single vote to spare — and it brought out the rank partisanship, the self-absorption and all the other pathologies of modern politics. If that wasn’t enough of a Tennessee Williams story line, the debate even had, playing the lead role, a Southerner named Blanche with a flair for the dramatic.

Stop the ACLU brings up a point that I have pondered myself with regards to the Democrats praise of Obamacare. If this bill is met with such wide spread support as they claim, then why is it so difficult for Democrats to even begin the debate? Arms had to be twisted, back room deals made and Senators paid off with pork. If moderate Democrats like Lincoln, Landrieu, and Nelson and Independents like Lieberman are sincere in their comments against agovernment run option plan, federal paid for abortion and increases in taxes … how can this bill get 60 votes to end the debate and move to a final vote?

“If the bill remains where it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage,” Sen. Joseph Lieberman said. “I’m prepared to vote against moving to the next stage of consideration as long as a government-run public option is included,” said Sen. Blanche Lincoln. “My vote to move forward on this important debate should in no way be construed by the supporters of this current framework as an indication of how I might vote as this debate comes to an end,” said Sen. Mary Landrieu. And Sen. Ben Nelson said he will “oppose the second cloture motion — needing 60 votes — to end debate, and oppose the final bill” if major changes are not made.

MSM liberal bias alert courtesy of the Washington Post … “With all 40 Republicans in lockstep opposition, …” Excuse me WAPO, why is the 60 Democrats in favor of the government take over of healthcare not also considered “lock step”? Hmm?

However, supposedly Sen. Mary Landrieu told Reid no triggers, no public option. Oh really, Senator beholden Landrieu. Are we really supposed to believe that you are going to say good bye to the $300 million you just fleeced America out of for Louisiana? Hardly! Most likely, Reid will have to up the ante to $600 million for your next vote of “yea” for a public option.

“I believe it’s going to be very clear at some point very soon that there are not 60 votes for the current provision in the bill, and that the leader and the leadership are going to have to make a decision and I trust that they will figure out how to do that,” Landrieu told reporters.

How much will it cost to buy Senators off to get them to vote for a Reid bill with the public option? The fact of the matter is that the single most important part of Obamacare is the public option. That is what ultimately enslaves Americans to agovernment run, single payer system.
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this is a great quote!!

I saw the following and feel its very good!! please repost in your blog or facebook or twitter ..etc


The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. ~ Frank Pittman ~

Words to live by!!

I took a class some time ago and learned the advice from a great motivational speaker by the name of Lou Tice!!

here is a sample of his works!!

"Self Blame"

There is no better way to assure an ample supply of pain in your life than the destructive habit of self-blame.

Unreasonable expectations and self-blame can make our lives miserable. For example, how often do you hear yourself say something like, "I left the car lights on. How could I be so stupid?" Or, "I really put my foot in it that time. I guess I'll never learn."

Sound familiar? Self-blaming statements like these are commonplace for far too many of us. Now, there is nothing the matter with the first part of these statements. They are just simple facts. But it is the second part, the judgmental blast, that keeps us feeling miserable.

What if we get rid of the judgments and substitute something more positive? For example, "I left the car lights on. What an inconvenience! The next time I'll be more careful." Or, "I really put my foot in it this time. That is not like me. Next time, I will handle it another way," and then you define that way.

See the difference? You're acknowledging that your behavior could stand changing, but you are also recognizing your competence and stating a clear intention for the future. Even better, you should be creating a new "picture" of what you will do "the next time."

So, instead of judging, why not allow yourself to make mistakes without making a big deal over it. Then, give yourself a positive goal to shoot for. Your self-esteem will grow as a result, not to mention your effectiveness.

Lou Tice
The Pacific Institute
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The effects of The Pacific Institute's education are reverberating around the world. For weekly updates, go to www.TPIGlobalNews.com

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Attention please!! This Boy needs you to open your christmas heart early!!

Noah Biorkman is a 5 year old boy in MI who is in his last stages of a 2 and a half year battle with Neuroblastoma cancer. This year, his family is celebrating Christmas early, and Noah loves to receive cards.

Please take some time to send Noah a christmas card:

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my take on the healthcare bill

I am reading as much as I can in each day and taking notes!! when done i will post my findings in an abbreviated form here!!

I would not blame you if you did not want to browse all nearly 2000 pages of the bill!!

I would like some encouragement from you all if you want to have the Cliff-notes version from my take on the bill!!

My plan is to give you the url to the bill and the page numbers that stick out in my mind as interesting and or may have issues!!

I can tell you right now you may want to do you own research on the bill in case I miss something that is important to you. also what i am reading is not the final version ((which will be a combined version of the Senate and house bills)) but this will hopefully give you a birds eye view of key points in this important change in our current healthcare system that we all should be taking seriously!!

i will give you the URL now should you wish to pounce on this early yourself!!

http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf

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Important CDC update regarding H1N! received by email

I have not posted much from these updates lately because I felt it was quieting down some...well I was wrong and here is the latest email that got my attention..

please take the time to read this!!!




Key Flu Indicators

Each week CDC analyzes information about influenza disease activity in the United States and publishes findings of key flu indicators in a report called FluView. During the week of September 13-19, 2009, a review of the key indicators found that influenza activity continued to increase in the United States compared to the prior weeks. Below is a summary of the most recent key indicators:

* Visits to doctors for influenza-like illness (ILI) are increasing nationally. Visits to doctors for influenza-like illness are higher than what is expected during this time of year and have increased for six consecutive weeks now. This is very unusual for this time of year.
* Total influenza hospitalization rates for adults and children are similar to or lower than seasonal influenza hospitalization rates depending on age group, but are higher than expected for this time of year.
* The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) based on the 122 Cities Report was low and within the bounds of what is expected at this time of year. However, 49 pediatric deaths related to 2009 H1N1 flu have been reported to CDC since April 2009, including three deaths reported this week.
* Twenty-six states are reporting widespread influenza activity at this time. They are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington. Any reports of widespread influenza activity in September are very unusual.
* Almost all of the influenza viruses identified so far are 2009 H1N1 influenza A viruses. These viruses remain similar to the viruses chosen for the 2009 H1N1 vaccine, and remain susceptible to the antiviral drugs oseltamivir and zanamivir with rare exception.

Learn more >>

U.S. Situation Update

Weekly Flu Activity Estimates



U.S. Patient Visits Reported for Influenza-like Illness (ILI)

U.S. Influenza-like Illness (ILI) Reported by Regions
U.S. Influenza and Pneumonia-Associated Hospitalizations
and Deaths from August 30 – September 19, 2009
Posted September 25, 2009, 11:00 AM ET
Data reported to CDC by September 22, 2009, 12:00 AM ET
Cases Defined by

Hospitalizations

Deaths
Influenza and Pneumonia Syndrome* 8,392 822
Influenza Laboratory-Tests** 690 114
Totals: 10,082 936

*Reports can be based on syndromic, admission or discharge data, or a combination of data elements that could include laboratory-confirmed and influenza-like illness hospitalizations.

**Laboratory confirmation includes any positive influenza test (rapid influenza tests, RT-PCR, DFA, IFA, or culture), whether or not typing was done.

This table is based on data from a new influenza and pneumonia hospitalizations and deaths web-based reporting system that will be used to monitor trends in activity. This is the third week of data from this new system. The table shows aggregate reports of all influenza and pneumonia-associated hospitalizations and deaths (including 2009 H1N1 and seasonal flu) since August 30, 2009 received by CDC from U.S. states and territories. This table will be updated weekly each Friday at 11 a.m. For the influenza season, states are reporting based on new case definitions for hospitalizations and deaths effective August 30, 2009.

CDC will continue to use its traditional surveillance systems to track the progress of the influenza season. For more information about influenza surveillance, including reporting of influenza-associated hospitalizations and deaths, see Questions and Answers: Monitoring Influenza Activity, Including 2009 H1N1.

The number of 2009 H1N1 hospitalizations and deaths reported to CDC from April – August 2009 is available on the Past Situation Updates page.

For state level information, refer to state health departments.

International Human Cases of 2009 H1N1 Flu Infection
See: World Health Organization.

For more information about the U.S. situation, see the CDC H1N1 Flu U.S. Situation Update page.

International Situation Update

This report provides an update to the international situation as of September 25, 2009. As of September 20, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) regions have reported at least 318,925 laboratory-confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 with more than 3,917 deaths, which is an increase of at least 22,454 cases and more than 431 deaths since September 13th. The laboratory-confirmed cases represent a substantial underestimation of total cases in the world, as many countries focus surveillance and laboratory testing only on people with severe illness. The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus continues to be the dominant influenza virus in circulation in the world. From April 19 to September 12, 2009, 60.6% of influenza specimens reported to WHO were 2009 H1N1 viruses. In temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere, disease due to 2009 H1N1 is largely declining. In tropical regions, there is still substantial disease due to 2009 H1N1. In temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, there is increased influenza like illness (ILI) activity due to 2009 H1N1, including in most of the United States, parts of Mexico and some countries in Europe.

For more information about the international situation, see the CDC H1N1 Flu International Situation Update page.

CDC Launches H1N1 Flu Mobile Texting Pilot

Get info on H1N1 flu & more. Text 'Health' to 87000. www.flu.gov Sign up now to have important CDC information about H1N1 flu and other topics delivered directly to your mobile phone! In September 2009, CDC launched a three-month text messaging campaign pilot to share important, timely health information directly to users.

To subscribe to the pilot, text HEALTH to 87000. Subscribers can expect to receive about three health messages a week during the three-month pilot. Standard text messaging rates will apply. For more information about the pilot, visit http://www.cdc.gov/mobile.

Recent Updates of Interest

* Flyer: 2009 H1N1 and Seasonal Flu: What To Do If You Get Sick (PDF)
* UPDATE: Brochure: CDC Says “Take 3” Steps To Fight The Flu (PDF)
* Weekly FluView Map and Surveillance Report for Week Ending September 19, 2009
During week 37 (September 13-19, 2009), influenza activity remained stable in the United States; however, there were still higher levels of influenza-like illness than is normal for this time of year.
* Questions and Answers: Use of Antiviral Medicines for the Treatment and Prevention of Flu among Pregnant Women for the 2009–2010 Season
Pregnant women who are healthy have had severe illness from the 2009 H1N1 flu (also called “swine flu”). Compared with people in general, pregnant women with 2009 H1N1 flu have been more likely to be admitted to hospitals. Some pregnant women have died. For this reason, CDC advises doctors to give antiviral medicines that treat 2009 H1N1 flu to pregnant women who have symptoms of flu.
* 2009 H1N1 Flu: International Situation Update
This report provides an update to the international situation as of September 25, 2009. As of September 22, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) regions have reported more than 318,925 laboratory-confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza virus (2009 H1N1) with at least 3,917 deaths.
* U.S. Influenza and Pneumonia-Associated Hospitalizations and Deaths from September 13-19, 2009
As of 11:00 AM ET on September 25, 2009, CDC is reporting 10,082 hospitalizations and 936 deaths. This is the third week of data from this new system. This reports all influenza and pneumonia-associated hospitalizations and deaths (including 2009 H1N1 and seasonal flu) since August 30, 2009 received by CDC from U.S. states and territories.
* Update: Translations for Action Steps for Parents if School is Dismissed or Children are Sick and Must Stay Home
Arabic, French, and Russian translations added.
* Update: Translations for Preparing for the Flu: A Communication Toolkit for Institutions of Higher Education
Arabic, French, and Russian translations added for "STOP! Do You Feel Sick?" poster.
* Update: Translations for Emergency Use Authorization of Tamiflu (oseltamivir)
Arabic, French, and Russian translations added for Fact sheet for patients and parents.
* Update: Translations for Action Steps for Parents to Protect Your Child and Family from the Flu this School Year
Arabic, French, and Russian translations added.
* Update: Translations for Action Steps for Parents of Children at High Risk for Flu Complications
Arabic, French, and Russian translations added.
* UPDATE Translations for School-Located Vaccination Planning Materials and Templates
Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Vietnamese translations added.
* H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu): Preparedness Tools for Professionals
This page provides resources to help hospital administrators and state and local health officials respond to the H1N1 flu pandemic.
* Update: Questions & Answers: Antiviral Drugs, Flu Season
On September 22, 2009 CDC updated its recommendations for the use of influenza antiviral medicines to provide additional guidance for clinicians in prescribing antiviral medicines for treatment and prevention (chemoprophylaxis) of influenza during the flu season. These recommendations are intended to help clinicians prioritize use of antiviral drugs for treatment and prevention of influenza.
* CDC Launches H1N1 Flu Mobile Texting Pilot
Sign up now to have important CDC information about H1N1 flu and other topics delivered directly to your mobile phone! In September 2009, CDC launched a three-month text messaging campaign pilot to share important, timely health information directly to users.
* Brochure: "2009 H1N1 Flu and You"
How does 2009 H1N1 flu spread? How long can a sick person spread 2009 H1N1 flu to others? How severe is illness associated with this 2009 H1N1 flu virus?and more...
* Influenza Season: Information for Pharmacists
As of September 18, 2009 influenza activity is increasing in most of the United States with 21 states reporting widespread influenza activity. So far, most influenza viruses isolated are 2009 H1N1 flu (sometimes called "swine flu"), the virus that has been declared pandemic by the World Health Organization. CDC expects both 2009 H1N1 flu and seasonal flu to cause illness, hospital stays and deaths this influenza season and while influenza is unpredictable, it’s possible the United States could experience an early, prolonged and severe influenza season.
* Updated Interim Recommendations for the Use of Antiviral Medications in the Treatment and Prevention of Influenza for the Season
Includes updated guidance on the use of antiviral agents for treatment and chemoprophylaxis of influenza including 2009 H1N1 influenza infection and seasonal influenza.
* H1N1 Clinicians Questions and Answers
Who is recommended to receive the 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine? How should providers prioritize among the initial target groups recommended by ACIP? How will the 2009 H1N1 vaccine flow from manufacturers to providers? More...
* Updated: Questions & Answers Novel H1N1 Influenza Vaccine
New question added: What will be the recommended interval between the first and second dose for children 9 years of age and under? What will be the recommended interval between the first and second dose for children 9 years of age and under? Can seasonal vaccine and novel H1N1 vaccine be administered at the same time?

Additional Updates on the CDC H1N1 Flu Website

To learn about other recent updates made to the CDC H1N1 Flu Website, please check the "What's New" page on the CDC H1N1 Flu website.

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Check this Family Tree information out!!!

If anyone either wants to get the paid membership to http://www.onegreatfamily.org or give me a gift subscription then you or myself can get full details of what the website has been able to add to my family tree that I added a few years ago!!!

I recently logged on and found this additional information as seen when you go to the link provided by onegreatfamily below

its exciting because through one of the sample names added to the tree I been able to trace back to abraham and issac of the bible. by using www.familysearch.org this is no joke..the name that struck gold for me all the way back to Adam and Eve is Alberic Narbonne and there is many more names that have been added but in order to see the complete family tree beyond what i have personally inputed myself there needs to be a paid membership... either through my current free membership being upgraded or if someone wants to join and have their own membership upgraded I will give you all the information I have so that onegreatfamily will add on to your file the same information that was recently added to mine

if your interested then call me and we can get the details together!!

P.S. this would be a great gift to my father to give him more details then he has been able to find on his own!!!

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This is Paul's First Header Photo Challenge Go Ahead and Accept the Challenge

this was Labor Day Parade up in Parowan Utah..

I challenge you to guess my motivation for this particular Shot!!

Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN

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This Article was on Forbes Website!! Please Read!!

If you rather read this off Forbes website go here please

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/10/health-care-speech-obama-economics-opinions-columnists-shikha-dalmia.html

Obama's Health Care Plan: Put Up And Shut Up
Shikha Dalmia, 09.10.09, 06:50 PM EDT
The president's speech was the policy equivalent of the middle finger.


For several months now, the American people--as if exhorted by the ghost of William F. Buckley (no particular hero of mine)--have been standing athwart the Democratic agenda of socialized medicine, yelling, "Stop!" But President Barack Obama showed them the policy equivalent of the middle finger Wednesday night.

If there was anything bipartisan about the speech it was that he embraced every bad big-government idea from both sides. If he prevails, the American public won't get "choice and competition" as he proclaimed, but a one-size-fits-all government-prescribed health care plan that it dare not refuse and dare not challenge.
Perhaps the most striking--and disturbing--thing about the speech was the unblinking confidence Obama exuded while breaking key campaign promises he made to voters. He had raked poor Hillary Clinton over the coals for admitting that her road to universal coverage was paved with an individual mandate. "Everyone would be forced to buy coverage, even if you can't afford it," warned Obama in an ad. "You pay a penalty if you don't."

Yet, there he was last night scolding "individuals who can afford coverage but game the system by avoiding responsibility." Never mind that the prime gamers are not the uninsured (whose unpaid bills cost "the system" less than $40 billion every year) but the underinsured covered by Medicare and Medicaid (whom private insurers cross-subsidize to the tune of over $90 billion annually because the government refuses to pay the full cost of their care). Still, he hectored: "Improving our health care system works only if everybody does their part."

Obama didn't say exactly how he would make "everyone do their part"--a question he posed repeatedly to Hillary. But his buddy Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has some rather well-developed ideas on that score. Baucus has proposed a bill that would force the uninsured to pay fines on a sliding scale of income, with those making 300% of the poverty level having to cough up as much as $3,800 a year. In short, Americans would have to pay Uncle Sam for the privilege of remaining uninsured. If there were truth-in-labeling laws for Congress, it would be required to call this bill TonySopranoCare.

Which brings us to the second promise Obama broke Wednesday night: That he would impose no new taxes on anyone making less than $250,000. The penalties that the uninsured--all of whom, I would wager my grandma's life support, make under $250,000--would face are certainly a tax.
He also endorsed a business tax--err, fee--on employers who don't provide adequate coverage that, under a House bill, would be about 8 % of payroll. They will pass this on to their employees in lower wages. And he signed up for an excise tax on high-end insurance plans--many of which are enjoyed by plain union folk, not those rich and famous making over $250,000. Under the Baucus bill, this tax would be as much as 35% of the cost of the plan. One would have thought that if the shame of breaking an explicit promise didn't prevent Obama from imposing this last tax, then the logical absurdity of trying to reduce soaring insurance costs by taxing insurance plans would.

It gets worse. In exchange for these bitter tax pills, Obama promised Americans would get eternal health care "security and stability." To deliver that, he would of course ban insurance companies from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions--tantamount to forcing fire insurance companies to write coverage on a burning building. He would also prohibit insurers from putting any limits on the coverage they offer and cap what they can require patients to pay out-of-pocket.

In other words, Obama would encourage unlimited health care consumption by patients while eliminating the last vestige of price consciousness. But the reason America is facing unsustainable health care cost increases is precisely because its third-party system of insurance doesn't encourage prudent consumption by patients. Indeed, if Obama really can tame health care costs by making patients even less cost-conscious, I have an even better idea for him: Simply pass a law banning anyone from falling sick and mandate good health for all. If he can suspend the laws of economics, perhaps he can also transcend the laws of physiology.

The fact of the matter is that not too many health care underwriters will survive such crippling mandates. Many of them will fold, causing further consolidation in the insurance marketplace--not more competition and choice. Last night the president declared--in the spirit of grand compromise--that he would be willing to wait a few years to give private insurers a chance to make more affordable plans available to all Americans. Only if they fail would the so-called public option, the government-run insurance plan so beloved of the left, be triggered. But that's a rigged deal: The same legislation that sets up the trigger is putting in place the conditions that will eventually pull it. Obama is not backing off on his goal of eliminating private insurance--only offering a brief deferment.

The one Republican idea that Obama did endorse--caps on medical malpractice awards or tort reform--will actually hurt rather than help patient choice. Big medicine has long blamed the unnecessary tests and procedures these awards encourage for rising health care costs. But several studies have shown that this so-called practice of defensive medicine is a smaller driver of costs than excess physician salaries. By capping these awards, Obama will leave patients even less recourse against physician negligence--hardly the American way.

Obama lambasted the critics who claim his reform plan amounts to a government takeover of the health care system. But the plan he laid out Wednesday night will control every aspect of the medical transaction. It will tell patients when, what and how much coverage they must buy; it will tell sellers when, what and how much coverage they must sell. This is not a government takeover of health care? Then Tony Soprano is just a decent, hard-working businessman.

Shikha Dalmia is a senior analyst at ReasonFoundation and a biweekly Forbes columnist.

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Military to receive mandatory swine flu vaccines

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If the folks in the Medical field refuse to take H1N1 Vaccination can we really trust the Government telling us to take it!!

Why swine flu vaccines just don't add up: Doing the (fuzzy) math by Mike Adams the Health Ranger

Why swine flu vaccines just don't add up: Doing the (fuzzy) math by Mike Adams the Health Ranger

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Swine Flu: Natural Pandemic or Man-Made Pandemonium?

by Lila Rajiva

Recently by Lila Rajiva: Anti-Sinitism...and All That



The latest in the barrage of media reports on swine flu is a Bloomberg news report (August 25, 2009) that it might hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the US and over-burden hospital intensive care units.

This comes from a planning scenario released by the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology

The Bloomberg story cites some theatrical numbers:

* Half of the US population infected (that is, over 150 million people)
* 300,000 people in hospital intensive care units
* 30–90,000 people dead
* By-pass surgery emergency operations disrupted

But hidden in paragraph 5 of the Bloomberg piece is the most pertinent part:

These numbers are only "scenario projections" that were "developed from models put together for planning purposes only," says a Centers for Disease Control spokesman.

So.

* Statistical projections.
* Projections from models of past pandemics. (And not the past, as in 1968 or 1957, but way back, as in 1918.)
* Projections developed for planning purposes only.

That's three stages removed from anything you could call reality.

But perish this tenuous link with facts, PCAST wants Obama to rush through vaccine production so that 40 million people can be infect – er – injected by mid-September.

And who should make that decision?

A doctor? The surgeon-general? A medical team?

Why, the homeland security adviser!

That's John Brennan, a former CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia, deputy executive director of the CIA under George Tenet, and the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (CTC) from 2004 to 2005 during the exact period when the CIA became most heavily involved in torture practices in Iraq and elsewhere.

(Question: Why not Janet Napolitano, Secretary for Homeland Security?)

Item: The results of the first trials of the vaccines will be available only in mid-October...

Item: According to UK's Daily Mail, a letter was sent by the UK government to about 600 neurologists on July 29 expressing concern that the vaccine itself could cause serious complications, specifically, the deadly nerve disease Guillain-Barre syndrome. GBS was one of the side-effects when a similar swine-flu vaccine was used in the United States in 1976.

Item: More people died from vaccine-induced GBS than from the 1976 flu.

Item: The current vaccine, which is going to be given to children, hasn't been specifically tested on infants.

Question: Why the rush?

Also hidden way, way down in the Bloomberg piece is the opinion of the chief medical officer of a New Jersey university hospital. He says the PCAST estimates are "overblown."

Also hidden is the admission that normal flu season kills about 36,000 people anyway. And that the normal flu shot is taken by 100 million people.

Question: Then why all the hysteria?

The answer seems to boil down to two things:

* H1N1 targets healthier and younger (12–17 years) people.
* H1N1 seems related to the Spanish flu of 1918, which, reportedly, killed 50 million people – a flu that was displaced by other strains some fifty plus years ago.

(Note: What caused the deaths is not undisputed).

On the surface, at least, it looks like we've got ourselves a plague not seen around for half a century... and it goes in for kids.

Talk about intelligent design. If someone wanted a Friday-the-13th horror story to stir up panic in the population, they couldn't have done better.

Children are already the easiest part of the population to target. Mom and dad might not scare on their own behalf, but let junior sneeze and every parental gene jumps into action.

How hard is it for the government to get involved when most of a child's life is lived on government property anyway, under the eye of government employees – teachers, counselors, nurses, principals, supervisors?

Still, it's a giant step from finding something suspicious to proving it's fraudulent. And that goes double when the thing you suspect is a virus. But while we should hesitate to play amateur virologist, there's no reason at all why we shouldn't question the bureaucrats behind the viruses.

Who are they and what's in it for them?

The first part is easily answered.

The President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, the creators of the swine-flu scenario, has three co-chairs:

1. John Holdren (Director, White House Office of Science & Technology)

2. Eric Lander, head of the Broad Institute (MIT)

3. Harold Varnus (CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center, NY)

A little digging fills in the details.

1. John Holdren:

Holdren isn't just any old scientist. He's a climate change expert who holds the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

(The 'Teresa' is, of course, John Kerry's wife when she was spouse of Ketchup king, John Heinz)

The support for climate change policies goes hand in hand with support for nuclear technology, which Holdren believes is needed for those policies. He also believes all nuclear energy should be under the monitoring of the International Atomic Energy.

Note: Climate change and "peaceful nukes" have been the beneficiaries of a huge PR effort over the last twenty odd years, largely stemming from the Pentagon, specifically, from Andrew Marshall, a charismatic theorist of American dominance whose Office of Net Assessments is the most influential outfit you never heard of.

This PR typically derides any dissent from climate orthodoxy and downplays the enormous costs and risks involved in the global move to nuclear energy. It also involves a lot of fear-mongering over states with "ancient rivalries" (read, India-Pakistan, Israel-Palestine) that carries a sub-text of racial anxiety. The underlying horror is masses of starving people (read, brown and black people) threatening the resource-rich (read whites).

That's also the subtext of much population alarmism, including Holdren's.

As early as 1969 Holdren teamed up with neo-Malthusian doomsdayer Paul Ehrlich to advocate population control to "fend off the misery to come." In 1977, he and Ehrlich, as well as Anne H. Ehrlich, co-authored a textbook ("Ecoscience"), in which they discussed "a wide variety of solutions to overpopulation from voluntary family planning to enforced population controls."

Ehrlich, with whom Holdren associated until as late as 2003, is known to have advocated compulsory birth control and to have been part of FAIR, deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. (To be fair to Ehrlich, some people think the SPLC is something of a hate-monger itself.)

For a run-down of the most alarming comments in "Ecoscience," check this webpage.

"Ecoscience" approvingly describes a "planetary regime" that would use a "global police force" to actively control people who "contribute to social deterioration."

An example of Holdren's eco-alarmism:

In 2006 he claimed that global sea levels could rise by 13 feet by the end of the century, whereas the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 4th Assessment Report (2007) suggested a potential rise in the same period 0.6–1.9 feet.

2. Eric Lander:

Lander's work is also suggestive. The Broad Institute, which he heads, has for its goal the mapping of the human genome, with an eye to linking specific genetic markers to diseases in the population.

Put that next to the ongoing rush to digitalize medical information, the rapid development of an "electronic police state" in the US, and the increasing dominance of the insurance industry over all markets (recall the global fall-out when insurance giant AIG threatened to collapse), and you have to wonder whether health insurers wouldn't find genetic markers very, very useful in creating insurance policies...and whether Homeland Security couldn't find uses for that information too.

3. Harold Varnus:

The third co-chair, Harold Varnus, is a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology who's also done work in genetics. As director of the National Institute of Health, Varnus is credited with doubling its budget

More worrisome, Varnus is on the advisory board of something called the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, a group that actively opposes the influence of the religious right on science and policy. He's also on the board of "Scientists and Engineers for America" (SEA), another group which advocates for "sound science."

But though SEA is a non-profit and calls itself non-partisan, it appears to be no more than a revamp of an outfit created in 2004 to support John Kerry's election.

["Scientists and Engineers for Change" – please note the word, "change."]

SEA is far from being non-ideological.

As Wesley Smith writing in The Weekly Standard (October 5, 2006) noted:

"It [SEA] further demands that the government "remove inappropriate limits on stem cell research," meaning dramatic increases in NIH grants for ESCR and public funding of human-cloning research. It urges that public policy "promote new partnerships between government-funded researchers and industry, including the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors" – in other words, time to ratchet up the corporate welfare! And it seeks "an aggressive program of research and innovation incentives," to promote more efficient energy use, which would, not coincidentally, provide substantial financial benefits to an increasingly powerful science-industrial complex." ("A New Political Action Committee Enters the Fray")

Most intriguingly, SEA is affiliated with another non-profit, the SEA Action Fund, which is headed up by Michael Stebbins, a bio-weapons expert. Stebbins is also on the Obama team, as a liaison to the science and technology committee.

Bottom line: The Obama "objective science" team has at least two proven ideologues with axes to grind.

It gets more unsettling.

The week before PCAST came up with its H. G. Wells scenario, Varnus was taking part in a Brookings Institution forum on policies to advance science and technology.

The forum was attended by Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, and Rubin's protégé, Lawrence Summers, chief Obama economic adviser, a former President of Harvard (where PCAST co-chair Holdren teaches) and a former Treasury Secretary, also under Bill Clinton,

Rubin is Mr. Wall Street, ex co-chair of kleptocrat megabank, Goldman Sachs, and ex-chairman of corrupt drug money launderer, Citigroup, a man as responsible as anyone for the deregulation of the financial industry and the consolidation of the banks that snow-balled a crisis of cheap money into a global depression, a man who never met a door he couldn't revolve through, a man who's bailed out of enough corporate-state ships to sink an armada.

Summers, for his part, defends the perfect economic logic of dumping the toxic waste of multinational corporations in Africa.

The outfit that put these power players together, the Hamilton Project, also deserves scrutiny.

HP is the brainchild of its co-chairmen, Bob the Bailer, and another revolving banker of high caliber, Roger Altman, CEO of Evercore, a boutique investment bank.

Altman has had stints at Lehman Brothers (before and after its merger with Shearson) as well as at Treasury, first as an assistant secretary and then as deputy secretary (under Clinton). He's been an adviser of both John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. In fact, he resigned from Treasury after admitting he tipped off the Clintons about criminal referrals arising from an investigation into the Clintons' Whitewater investments.

In other words, Altman is not only a Wall Street insider, he's a Clinton confidante.

Also telling is the fact that Altman has headed up Mergers & Acquisitions and international outreach for the secretive and huge private-equity firm, Blackstone.

Blackstone, as Wall Street watchers know, has a strange way of sneaking into just about everything going on of any importance.

[An aside: Blackstone's CEO is Pete Peterson, commerce secretary under Reagan and also the creator of the Peterson Foundation, the Peterson Institute, and the Concord Coalition. All three outfits present themselves as disinterested policy advocates, but all three betray a focus on budgetary issues that just happens to tally wondrously with Peterson's own financial advantage].

Besides Altman's ties with Blackstone, the Hamilton Project has another link with Peterson. Along with Obama economic adviser and former Federal Reserve chairman, Paul Volcker, Rubin is a vice-chairman of Peterson's Concord Coalition, which gave him its Economic Patriotism award in 2006.

How are any of these ties relevant to swine flu?

Both Blackstone and Evercore have powerful ties to big pharma.

I. Blackstone:

Blackstone entered the huge Indian drug market in 2006, buying shares in Emcure, which produces antiretroviral drugs, antiviruses and antibiotics. Besides pharmaceuticals, Blackstone is also heavily invested in hospitals, nursing homes, health insurance and health care packaging, among other things. So while drug companies don't want Americans buying cheaper generic drugs abroad, companies like Blackstone are investing in foreign drug companies and profiting.

II. Evercore:

Evercore, which Altman now heads, is a big player in the drug industry too.

In July (just one month after swine-flu was declared a pandemic) Evercore concluded its second multi-billion dollar health care deal of this year when it advised leading vaccine maker Sanofi-Aventis (SASY. PA) in its acquisition of the other 50% of Merial from joint owner, Merck. Evercore's previous multi-billion dollar deal was advising Wyeth on its acquisition by Pfizer, the biggest pharma deal of the year when it took place.

Sanofi-Aventis is described as the world's leading flu vaccine maker and is rushing to create a swine-flu vaccine that it began testing on August 6.

Industry analysts have noted that sales of swine-flu vaccine will add billions of dollars to drug company revenues in 2009 and 2010. ("Sanofi-Aventis Starts Swine Flu Shot Trials," Reuters, August 7, 2009).

Meanwhile, the Sanofi-Aventis and Pfizer deals have pushed Evercore ahead of Credit Suisse in volume of mergers & acquisitions in US rankings.

Both deals were put through by Altman and a former Credit Suisse banker who joined Evercore two years ago, after concluding some of the decade's biggest health-care deals for clients like Johnson & Johnson, Schering-Plough, Wyeth, GlaxoSmithKline, Roche Holding and Teva Pharmaceutical.

("The Pharmaceuticals Banker That Helped Evercore Land a $4 Billion Mandate," Deal Journal, July 31, 2009)

Note: Roche Holdings and GlaxoSmithKline are producers respectively of Tamiflu and Relenza, two popular vaccines that retard the spread of swine-flu in the body. The two companies have ramped up their production in anticipation of the pandemic. ("The Quest for a Swine Flu Vaccine," BBC, April 29, 2009)

III. Big pharma has its fingers in the Obama administration in another way.

Billy Tauzin, the former Louisiana congressman, chief of Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA), the biggest pharmaceutical trade group, has recently managed to enlist Obama's support in protecting drug prices. The White House has agreed to stymie congressional efforts to allow drugs from Canada to be imported or bargain for lower drug prices, among other concessions. In exchange, PhRMA has agreed to cut $80 billion in projected costs to taxpayers over ten years

("The White House Deal with Big Pharma Undermines Democracy," Robert Reich, Salon, August 10, 2009)

IV. And where are the insurance companies in all this? The five largest private health insurers and their trade association, lobbied Congress to the tune of over $6 million in Q1 2009 alone.

("It's Robbery," Alternet, August 24, 2009).

It's not swine-flu Americans should be worried about. It's swine-at-the-trough flu, a much more lethal condition.

Symptoms

1. Infiltration of the body politic by activists and unknown agents.

2. Extremism about rising temperatures, feverish statements, and predictions bordering on the delusional.

3. Monopolistic conditions requiring constant monitoring.

4. Frequent and massive collapses needing bailing out and mopping up by supervisors.

5. Ongoing influenz(a)-peddling, symptomatic lobbying, and borderline-racketeering disorder.

6. Reliance on questionable and intrusive foreign bodies.

Diagnosis:

Moderate-Severe Pandemonium

Aetiology:

Cases of pandemonium often tend to be stirred up by government hacks, corporate flacks, and welfare kings interacting with the media, causing acute inflammation in the population. This one is no different.

Note: One of Obama's chief flu-viators, the director of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Andrew Besser, left to become a correspondent for ABC this past July.

Item:

The team that wants to vaccinate tens of millions of people, with vaccines not yet tested for safety, for a plague that even the government admits is unpredictable consists of the following:

1. An environmental and population alarmist with a forty-year track-record of making apocalyptic predictions that are flat-out wrong. A guy who's spent his whole life convinced that there are too many people, that people are destroying the universe, and that we should actively reduce the number of people on the planet.

2. Another guy who's creating genetic ID's for people prone to disease – a genetic profiler whose work would be invaluable to health insurance companies and to government surveillance.

An aside: What if they come up with a gene for right-wing attitudes?

3. A third guy who doesn't like religious values in public policy and works with ideological and activist "science" groups, one of which is affiliated with bio-weapons. A lobbyist for the science-industrial complex.

4. One of the top five miscreants of the global economic collapse, a big-time Wall Street player responsible for using the government, first, to consolidate the mega-banks; then, to bail those banks out when they blundered; and finally, to eviscerate less powerful banks. An insider with ties to the insurance industry.

5. Another Wall Street and government player with a track record of consolidating big pharmaceutical companies, several of which will directly profit from the swine-flu scare. Also an insider with ties to the insurance industry.

Prognosis:

In the scheme of things, swine-flu is no more than a one-off bonanza for the drug companies.

Far more lucrative over the long-haul is the continuing and increasing use of vaccines of all kinds, especially vaccines subsidized and pushed by the government.

Example: In January 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $487 Million contract to Novartis to make avian flu vaccine. Novartis is one of five companies (along with GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi) that are making both seasonal and swine-flu vaccines for the government.

Conclusion:

Just as the avian flu scare ended up being a dry-run for the current round of medical hysteria, the current panic will likely be most significant as a dry-run for an expansion of the police state and for greater consolidation of the big banks, big insurance, and big pharma. In fact, that's just what Homeland Security adviser Brennan said in remarks to the very influential Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on August 6, 2009.

Quote:

"Our coordinated response to the H1N1 virus – across the federal government, with state and local governments, and with the private sector and the public – and our extensive preparations for the coming flu season will ensure that we are better prepared for any future bio-terrorist attack."

Health care, anyone?

Prescription:

Turn off the TV, stay out of crowds, wash your hands often, drink plenty of water, and if you do feel sick, check out Dr. Grattan Woodson's website.

August 29, 2009

Lila Rajiva is the author of the ground-breaking study, The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media (MR Press, 2005), and the co-author with Bill Bonner of Mobs, Messiahs and Markets (Wiley, 2007). Visit her blog. All responses to email are posted at my blog in the comment section after the relevant article, with personal information omitted to ensure privacy.

Copyright © 2009 Lila Rajiva

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The Power of Language

The Power of Language: How to expose BIG GOVERNMENT with our words

By admin on August 26, 2009

Language is the most powerful tool we have to expose and undermine Big Government. It is also the most powerful tool Big Government has to crush Small Business.

lies-truth-smallOver the last few weeks Congress and the Administration have been trying to call government takeover of health insurance and health care “competition”. They have hijacked words and are using them in completely new ways to try and trick people into believing they are selling something they’re not.

The expansionist and interventionist nature of Big Government means that it always has as its goal to set up Monopsonies (single payer systems in which they control the production of goods and services) or Monopolies (single provider systems in which they control the provision of goods and services). They try to do it in the name of “competition” as if they actually plan on competing fairly (if at all) with the private businesses and charities they’re trying to muscle out of a market.

Battles against Big Government are often won or lost over whether or not we are willing to concede the actual terms of the argument to Big Government, or whether we’ll refuse to conduct the argument with Big Government’s terms. Below are a few examples of how we can change the terms and, therefore, how people feel about Big Government’s activities.
“Revenue” vs. “Confiscation”

Here’s a glaring example. Big Government calls taxation by the name of “Revenue”. The agency in charge of collecting taxes is even called the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Set aside whether or not it’s technically correct or not or has become such through use of the word for a long time, “revenue” is a business word. That’s our word. That’s the word for sales – the free market exchange of goods and services between voluntary parties who are both made better off by the trade. Revenue is something freely given for something of value freely received. Taxation is coercion and wealth confiscation by force.

At the very least, we should refuse to grant taxation legitimacy by calling it that. Moreover, revenue is a “positive” word that government has hijacked. When our goal is to reduce the size and intervention of Big Government, why would we ever concede to use words that might grant Big Government any semblance of legitimacy?

While taxation is an OK word to use when talking about the means through which Big Government finances itself, it is one that has become desensitized and still does not make strongly enough the central point that it is coercive.

So we propose to use the word “confiscation” instead. When discussing our opinions with friends, family, employees and co-workers, we would say, “I think government confiscates too much,” or “Government confiscated 10% more of our private property this year than they did last year.”
“Earnings” vs. “Private Property”

Notice that in the statement above we used the word “private property” instead of “earnings.”

“Earnings” actually should be a pretty good word to use because it implies that what is taken from people is something they’ve earned, or labored for, but this word has also been used for so long that people have become desensitized to it.

How about talking about confiscation in terms of “private property“?

Also, how about talking about the confiscation of private property in terms of “productive people” or the “productive sector” funding the “unproductive people” or “unproductive sector”? Big Government, after all, merely redistributes the confiscated property of productive people, so let’s call it what it is.
“Welfare” vs. “Dependency Programs”

We talk about Government “Welfare” programs in language that implies they help others “fare” more “well”. We even use terms such as “Charity” or “Entitlement” to talk about these Big Government Programs. While it is true that some of these programs can provide temporary relief to those in need, the full truth is that they often create permanent dependencies and reward dependents for inactivity and bad behavior.

Furthermore, private charities (which have to compete for donations) are far more efficient at helping those in need and suffer when Big Government confiscates more private property to itself, rather than allowing those resources to be employed by the more efficient and accountable charitable organizations.

So, instead of calling these programs “welfare programs,” we can call them by the more accurate terms, “Government dependency programs” or “Government handout programs.”

Then we could say things like, “Government dependency programs confiscated 10% more private property from the productive sector” or “Government handout programs saw their rolls grow by 5% in the last quarter.”

That helps others see the truth about Big Government.

Big Government not only uses words to justify its big programs, but it also selects words that can be used to silence dissent and opposition to the programs. Think about the “Patriot Act.” It has nothing to do with being a patriot, but by using that name anyone who opposes the act it can be labeled “not a patriot.” Cunning. If you oppose “No Child Left Behind” you can be labeled as someone who does not support helping children succeed. Think about the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act. Nothing was improved or modernized so much as spending was drastically increased – the biggest Government Dependency Program expansion in decades. But if you didn’t support it you were labeled as one who didn’t want to improve and modernize Medicare, and therefore were against the well-being of the elderly.

And that’s why it’s important to do our best to not conduct the debate in the terms Big Government tries to force upon us.

Our movement must use the terms we choose, words that expose Big Government for what is really is, helping others to see clearly the forces that impinge upon their freedoms. As we do so, we’ll help undermine the legitimacy of Big Government and we’ll counteract its efforts to hijack and change the plain meaning of our language and then use it against us.

We would love to hear your thoughts about what to call various government agencies and practices in order to more accurately show what they really are.

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What Exactly is a Czar?? Read this!!

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Tsar or czar[1] (Bulgarian цар, Russian: ru-tsar.ogg царь (help·info), Ukrainian: цар, in Serbian: цар / car, in scientific transliteration respectively car' and car), occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English, is a Slavic term with Bulgarian origins used to designate certain monarchs. The first ruler to adopt the title tsar was Simeon I of Bulgaria [2]

Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch).

Occasionally, the word could be used to designate other, non-Christian, supreme rulers. In Russia and Bulgaria the imperial connotations of the term were blurred with time and, by the 19th century, it had come to be viewed as an equivalent of King.[3][4]

"Tsar" was the official title of the supreme ruler in the following states:

* Bulgaria in 913–1018, in 1185–1422 and in 1908–1946
* Serbia in 1346–1371
* Russia from about 1547 until 1721 (replaced in 1721 by imperator, but remained in common usage until 1917).

Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria, is the only living person who bore the Slavonic title Tsar.

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Truman Nieces and Nephews Came for a Visit!!

I cannot begin to explain how happy I was to have my Youngest Sister and her Children visit me today!! We had Fun together. I showed them My art that is currently on display in a local gallery, then we drove up to an area named Kids Pond and everyone was able relax and be them selves!! Then I showed them a Historical Building and we were able to have a personal guide!!

Here is just one of many Photo's that they took for me and I later edited tonight!!

and for your information here is a list of edits I did but they are not in order ok..

Vignetting
backlight Correction..
Sharpen..
Pastel(Out of Focus)Region)) I did this to give the lamp post at the top of the waterfall more of a center of focus in this image
and I also included some Waterpaint edits

I will post more in a few days so they can relive the enjoyable visit!!

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What makes my photography desire tick??!!

One day a few years ago I informed a online friend that I was going to take Wedding photo's with a disposable camera and that christmas I received their 4 year old Digital camera in the mail as a present and have since never looked back!!

then I joined a photography social network

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and I formed a Group for California members and oversaw that group while I Lived in California. I ran a few photo challenges in the group then one Day decided it was time to try and plan a photography trip with anyone in the group that wanted to take part. So a handful of us put our heads together and decided where to go and when!! to make a long story short we ended up going to Crowns Memorial State Park which is in the Alameda area of the East Bay of California!

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We got a Double Bonus because we only went to the Beach with the intent of capturing some Beach photo's and to our delight found there happen to be a Sand Castle Contest going on that day so we obtained some great Activity shots and as we were packing up someone informed us of an Activity across town at the decommisioned Navy base!! the folks there were attempting to enter the Guinness World Record with a large chalk drawing!! and let me back up here.. When we started the planning for this trip there was to be maybe 5 of us going but when all was said and done Myself and Marsha Black and her Husband were the only ones that followed through with the trip!! Now I share with you her Talent that she wishes to be passed on!! although our focus on subjects and our style of photography are different. I take Joy in being able to connect with someone with the depth of a Traveling Photographer such as her!!

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The Chalk Drawing was a fun event to witness!! I was able to trade a photo book i had created for a activity T-shirt because they only took cash and i had a debit card on me so we bartered!! look here for more great shots of that activity!!

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and that's my photography journey so far!!

P.S. some of my work is currently at display in a Gallery till the end of august here in Cedar city!!

My Thoughts on Obama to meet this week with Professor Gates and Cambridge officer

I have a few bones to pick on this!!

1.Do we really have to know what Beer is being served at the White House during what appears to be a Casual Meeting!!

2. I believe The Cambridge Masschussetts Police has computer access to residential records to determine the owner in a moments notice and should have used that resource the moment there was a question of who the owner was of the house in question!!

3. The President should not have stepped into this situation just because a party involved is a apparent good friend of his!! Calling certain parties Stupid!! Didn't he ever listen to his mother when I am sure she imparted wise wisdom with the familiar Saying!! If you can't think anything nice to say then Don't say anything at all!! Especially with the Admission that he Did not know all the facts at the time he spoke up about the situation!!

Obama says you can't have the red pill

--Red Pill Blue Pill-- In the President's prime time televised press conference on Wednesday, he revealed his real goal in the health care reform debate -- government rationing. He added this puzzling abstraction about cost containment:

"If there's a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that's going to make you well?" he asked.

Conservatives have no problem with Americans bargain shopping for their medications -- that's what they should do. But the government should not have the power to make these decisions for us. The President's statement makes it clear that, despite his campaign promises, he is not going to allow Americans to keep their current benefit plans and choices.

In another bizarre hypothetical, the President accused a pediatrician of violating the Hippocratic Oath by unnecessarily removing a child's tonsils just to make more money. If this is how the President views physicians, he probably isn't going to allow us to choose our doctors either.

Total Solar Eclipse

those photographers that live in Asia have a rare treat this week. A total Solar Eclipse that will last about 5 Minutes!!!!
Happens on Wednesday!!

Total Solar Eclipse

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Another paper changes 'Obama's origin'

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Bombshell: Orders revoked for soldier challenging US President

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Understanding the Kennedy health care bill

Posted on June 8th, 2009 by kbh in featured, health, taxes

Over the weekend a draft of Senator Kennedy’s (D-MA) health care bill leaked. After playing with Adobe Acrobat, here is the text of the draft Kennedy bill as a text file (173 K), and as a single Acrobat file (3.4 MB). Update: I fixed the broken link to the PDF. Unlike the leaked version, both of these are searchable.

Calling it the “Kennedy” bill is something of an overstatement. Senator Kennedy chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, and his staff wrote the draft. By all reports, however, Chairman Kennedy’s health is preventing him from being heavily involved in the drafting. Senator Reid has designated Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) to supervise the process, but as best I can tell, it’s really the Kennedy committee staff who are making most of the key decisions. For now I will call it the Kennedy-Dodd bill.

As the committee staff emphasized to the press after the leak, this is an interim draft. I assume things will move around over the next several weeks as discussions among Senators and their staffs continue. This is therefore far from a final product, but it provides a useful insight into current thinking among some key Senate Democrats.

Update: I now have a three-page outline of the House Democrats’ health care bill. I have a new post which contains all of the content below, and compares it to the House bill. If you read the new post, you’ll get two for the price of one: Understanding the House Democrats’ [and Kennedy-Dodd] health care bill[s].

Here are 15 things to know about the draft Kennedy-Dodd health bill.

1. The Kennedy-Dodd bill would create an individual mandate requiring you to buy a “qualified” health insurance plan, as defined by the government. If you don’t have “qualified” health insurance for a given month, you will pay a new Federal tax. Incredibly, the amount and structure of this new tax is left to the discretion of the Secretaries of Treasury and Health and Human Services (HHS), whose only guidance is “to establish the minimum practicable amount that can accomplish the goal of enhancing participation in qualifying coverage (as so defined).” The new Medical Advisory Council (see #3D) could exempt classes of people from this new tax. To avoid this tax, you would have to report your health insurance information for each month of the prior year to the Secretary of HHS, along with “any such other information as the Secretary may prescribe.”


2. The bill would also create an employer mandate. Employers would have to offer insurance to their employees. Employers would have to pay at least a certain percentage (TBD) of the premium, and at least a certain dollar amount (TBD). Any employer that did not would pay a new tax. Again, the amount and structure of the tax is left to the discretion of the Secretaries of Treasury and HHS. Small employers (TBD) would be exempt.


3. In the Kennedy-Dodd bill, the government would define a qualified plan:
1. All health insurance would be required to have guaranteed issue and renewal, modified community rating, no exclusions for pre-existing conditions, no lifetime or annual limits on benefits, and family policies would have to cover “children” up to age 26.


2. A qualified plan would have to meet one of three levels of standardized cost-sharing defined by the government, “gold, silver, and bronze.” Details TBD.


3. Plans would be required to cover a list of preventive services approved by the Federal government.


4. A qualified plan would have to cover “essential health benefits,” as defined by a new Medical Advisory Council (MAC), appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The MAC would determine what items and services are “essential benefits.” The MAC would have to include items and services in at least the following categories: ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and new born care, medical and surgical, mental health, prescription drugs, rehab and lab services, preventive/wellness services, pediatric services, and anything else the MAC thought appropriate.


5. The MAC would also define what “affordable and available coverage” is for different income levels, affecting who has to pay the tax if they don’t buy health insurance. The MAC’s rules would go into effect unless Congress passed a joint resolution (under a fast-track process) to turn them off.


4. Health insurance plans could not charge higher premiums for risky behaviors: “Such rate shall not vary by health status-related factors, … or any other factor not described in paragraph (1).” Smokers, drinkers, drug users, and those in terrible physical shape would all have their premiums subsidized by the healthy.


5. Guaranteed issue and renewal combined with modified community rating would dramatically increase premiums for the overwhelming majority of those Americans who now have private health insurance. New Jersey is the best example of health insurance mandates gone wild. In the name of protecting their citizens, premiums are extremely high to cover the cross-subsidization of those who are uninsurable.


6. The bill would expand Medicaid to cover everyone up to 150% of poverty, with the Federal government paying all incremental costs (no State share). This means adding childless adults with income below 150% of the poverty line.


7. People from 150% of poverty up to 500% (!!) would get their health insurance subsidized (on a sliding scale). If this were in effect in 2009, a family of four with income of $110,000 would get a small subsidy. The bill does not indicate the source of funds to finance these subsidies.


8. People in high cost areas (e.g., New York City, Boston, South Florida, Chicago, Los Angeles) would get much bigger subsidies than those in low cost areas (e.g., much of the rest of the country, especially in rural areas). The subsidies are calculated as a percentage of the “reference premium,” which is determined based on the cost of plans sold in that particular geographic area


9. There would be a “public plan option” of health insurance offered by the federal government. In this new government health plan, the federal government would pay health care providers Medicare rates + 10%. The +10% is clearly intended to attract short-term legislative support from medical providers. I hope they are not so naive that they think that differential would last.


10. Group health plans with 250 or fewer members would be prohibited from self-insuring. ERISA would only be for big businesses.


11. States would have to set up “gateways” (health insurance exchanges) to market only qualified health insurance plans. If they don’t, the Feds will set up a gateway for them.


12. Health insurance plans in existence before the law would not have to meet the new insurance standards. This creates a weird bifurcated system and means you would (probably) be subject to a different set of rules when you change jobs.


13. The bill does not specify what spending will be cut or what taxes will be raised to pay for the increased spending. That is presumably for the Finance Committee to determine, since it’s their jurisdiction.


14. The bill defines an “eligible individual” as “a citizen or national of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence or an alien lawfully present in the United States.”


15. The bill would create a new pot of money for state gateways to pay “navigators” to educate people about the new bill, distribute information about health plans, and help people enroll. Navigators receiving federal funds “may include … unions, …”


This would have severe effects on the more than 100 million Americans who have private health insurance today:

* The government would mandate not only that you must buy health insurance, but what health insurance counts as “qualifying.”


* Health insurance premiums would rise as a result of the law, meaning lower wages.


* A government-appointed board would determine what items and services are “essential benefits” that your qualifying plan must cover.


* You would find a tremendous new disincentive to switch jobs, because your new health insurance may be subject to the new rules and would therefore be significantly more expensive.


* Those who keep themselves healthy would be subsidizing premiums for those with risky or unhealthy behaviors.


* Far more than half of all Americans would be eligible for subsidies, but we have not yet been told who would pay the bill.


* The Secretaries of Treasury and HHS would have unlimited discretion to impose new taxes on individuals and employers who do not comply with the new mandates.


* The Secretary of HHS could mandate that you provide him or her with “any such other information as [he/she] may prescribe.”

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The Marine

THE MARINES WANT THIS TO ROLL ALL OVER THE U.S.

Please don't delete this until you send
it on, Let's send it around the world.




This is a poem being sent from a Marine
to his Dad. For those who take the time
to read it, you'll see a letter from him to
his dad at the bottom. It makes you truly
thankful for not only the Marines, but

ALL of our troops.
THE MARINE



We all came together,
Both young and old
To fight for our freedom,
To stand and be bold.

In the midst of all evil,
We stand our ground,
And we protect our country
From all terror around.

Peace and not war,
Is what some people say.
But I'll give my life,
So you can live the American way

I give you the right
To talk of your peace.
To stand in your groups,
and protest in our streets.

But still I fight on,
I don't fuss, I don't whine.
I'm just one of the people!
Who is doing your time.

I'm harder than nails,
Stronger than any machine.
I'm the immortal soldier,
I'm a U.S. MARINE!

So stand in my shoes,
And leave from your home.
Fight for the people who hate you,
With the protests they've shown.
Fight for the stranger,
Fight for the young.
So they all may have,
The greatest freedom you've won

Fight for the sick,
Fight for the poor
Fight for the cripple,
Who lives next door.

But when your time comes,
Do what I've done.
For if you stand up for freedom,
You'll stand when the fight's done

By: Corporal Aaron M. Gilbert, US Marine Corps
USS SAIPAN, PERSIAN GULF

Hey Dad,
Do me a favor and label this 'The Marine' and send it to everybody on your email list. Even leave this letter in it. I want this rolling all over the US ; I want every home reading it. Every eye seeing it. And every heart to feel it. So can you please send this for me? I would but my email time isn't that long and I don 't have much time anyway.
You know what Dad? I wondered what it would be like to truly understand what JFK said in His inaugural speech. 'When the time comes to lay down my life for my country, I do not cower from this responsibility. I welcome it.' Well, now I know. And I do. Dad, I welcome the opportunity to do what I do. Even though I have left behind a beautiful wife, and I will miss the birth of our first born child, I would do it 70 times over to fight for the place that God has made for my home. I love you all and I miss you very much. I wish I could be there when Sandi has our baby, but tell her that I love her, and Lord willing, I will be coming home soon.Give Mom a great big hug from me and give one to yourself too.
Aaron

Please let this marine (and all our military) know we care by passing his poem onto your friends even if you don't usually take time to forward mail...do it this time!
Thanks,
Let's help Aaron's dad spread the word .... FREEDOM isn't FREE Someone pays for you and me.



God bless you!

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