Politics

I read a column today by Peggy Noonan. It was interesting to read what she thought of how our President has pretty much squandered any good will the people had towards him as a politician.

I remember back in December has I was wretching my guts out from chemotheraphy, and thinking about how someone with no health insurance would basically be out of luck in getting the extensive treatment I was getting....I know it crystalized in my head the idea that there must be a way to have comprehensive health care for all without sending us all to the poorhouse.

Now the Obamacare law is before the Supreme Court, and many speculate the law will be tossed...which is a shame since there ARE some good points in the law. I can't beleive Congress passed it without a clause that if part of the law is found unconstituional, that part gets tossed and the rest stays. So how does a Constituional law professor (Obama) push a law thru knowing that without the severability clause, the law might be unravelled???

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Mesquite bbq Prime rib, mashed potatoes & gravy, cranberry stuffing, green beans, yams, and fresh biscuits.

Pumpkin and/or apple pie and mountains of whip cream...

May all share time with friends and family to give thanks...

IRAN (probably) has nuclear weapons

Russia and China fear the publication now of the IAEA's findings could hurt any chance of diplomacy resolving the long-running nuclear row and they have lobbied against it, signaling opposition to any new punitive U.N. measures against Iran.

Iran rejects allegations of atomic weapons ambitions, saying its nuclear program is aimed at producing electricity.

The IAEA has declined to comment on the intelligence it has received from member states, including the United States, pending the release of its report.

But some of the highlights were described in a presentation by David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector, at a private conference of intelligence professionals last week. PowerPoint slides from the presentation were obtained by The Washington Post, and details of Albright’s summary were confirmed by two European diplomats privy to the IAEA’s internal reports, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, in keeping with diplomatic protocol.

Albright said IAEA officials, based on the totality of the evidence given to them, have concluded that Iran “has sufficient information to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device” using highly enriched uranium as its fissile core. In the presentation, he described intelligence that points to a formalized and rigorous process for gaining all the necessary skills for weapons-building, using native talent as well as a generous helping of foreign expertise.

According to the intelligence provided to the IAEA, key assistance in both areas was provided by Vyacheslav Danilenko, a former Soviet nuclear scientist who was contracted in the mid-1990s by Iran’s Physics Research Center, a facility linked to the country’s nuclear program. Documents provided to the U.N. officials showed that Danilenko offered assistance to the Iranians over at least five years, giving lectures and sharing research papers on developing and testing an explosives package that the Iranians apparently incorporated into their warhead design, according to two officials with access to the IAEA’s confidential files.

According to Albright, one key breakthrough that has not been publicly described was Iran’s success in obtaining design information for a device known as an R265 generator. The device is a hemispherical aluminum shell with an intricate array of high explosives that detonate with split-second precision. These charges compress a small sphere of enriched uranium or plutonium to trigger a nuclear chain reaction.

Additional help appears to have come from the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, whose design for a device known as a neutron initiator was found in Iran, the sources said. Khan is known to have provided nuclear blueprints to Libya that included a neutron initiator, a device that shoots a stream of atomic particles into a nuclear weapon’s fissile core at the start of the nuclear chain reaction.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iaea-says-foreign-expertise-has-brought-iran-to-threshold-of-nuclear-capability/2011/11/05/gIQAc6hjtM_print.html

why Michael Moore and Bill Maher should be imprisoned

I seriously wonder why these anti capitalists who have flourished in this republic not only support those that are calling for anarchy, but replacement of our society with a soviet style dictatorship that will tend to every need of every citizen, until it runs aground on its own.

 Bill Maher is  fighting socialism’s status as a four-letter word in America. For some who have had hands-on experience with socialist states, this is total BS, besides being incredibly naive.

So perhaps Maher and his ilk should experience true socialism, with its warm and cuddly side. Confiscate all his wealth for the better good, and tell hime to speak what he wants, as long as he wont might forcible relocation to the polar region..and reeducation to be more pure in his thoughts... 

Gang members in military...

The NGIC is a multi-agency operation -- federal, state and local – headed up by the FBI to bring together intelligence on gangs and gang activity.

Their latest report devotes four pages to the problem of gang members in the military and lists about 50 gangs with members with military backgrounds.

Younger gang members, who do not have arrest records, are reportedly making attempts to join the military, and also attempting to conceal any gang affiliation, including tattoos, during the recruitment process.

The report also specifically relates the 2010 cases of three former Marines arrested in Los Angeles for selling illegal assault weapons the Florencia 13 gang, and a U.S. Navy SEAL charged in Colorado with smuggling military-issued machine guns and other weapons from Iraq and Afghanistan into the U.S.

"Gang members armed with high-powered weapons and knowledge and expertise acquired from employment in law enforcement, corrections or the military may pose an increasing nationwide threat, as they employ these tactics and weapons against law enforcem4nt officials, rival gang members and civilians," the NGIC report says.

Amazing news : Obama Spoke Without Teleprompter?

Now it makes headlines when President Obama doesn't use his trademark Teleprompter.

Wrapping up his three-day bus tour of North Carolina and Virginia today, the president stopped at a Chesterfield firehouse to promote his jobs bill.

 "It is great to be at Fire Station Number 9 with some of Virginia's finest," the president said without the use of his Teleprompter.[No doubt onlookers were stunned- "hey, where's the teleprompter?]

The press pool present felt it necessary to note the lack of the speech-reading device the president prefers to use over note cards. Said the pool report: "One detail from Chesterfield firehouse event: POTUS spoke without a Teleprompter."

Occupy Wall Street - in a 1,000 countries? WTF!

Showing that the people that sit in front of the cameras at the Networks aren’t really journalists, but are merely pleasant looking readers of Teleprompters, Diane Sawyer of ABC News sonorously informed readers that the Occupy-Whatever protests have now “spread to 1,000 countries.”

Speaking of Wall Street, we thought we’d bring you up to date on those protesters, the Occupy Wall Street movement. As of tonight, it has spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries — every continent but Antarctica.

Only there’s a small problem with that claim. There are only 195 countries currently on planet Earth.

The coverage of these disjointed, hollow, and pointless Occupy-Whatever protests have received is far more positive and extensive than the Tea Party protests ever got. This particular report is a perfect example of this bias.

While Diane Sawyer pumps up the viewers into stating that “1,000 countries” are now supporting the Occupy-Whatevers, her report goes on to indulge in class warfare meant to make anyone that doesn’t earn a million dollars hate everyone that does.

This is a perfect example of why I read a lot news sources...someone told me once if you shift thru enough shit, eventually the truth becomes apparent...