Hunting- Fishing- Farmng since I'm retired and Just enjoying life....
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And you want more dumbass troops to fight and die for another 8 years? HUGE LOL
Thats about as un-American as you could get by making such a statement.. By the way though, you can think these same troops and all former military troops who have protected your right to prove your ignorance.
Dismantling America
Will the country wake up before it’s too late?
By Thomas Sowell
October 27, 2009 12:00 AM
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDNlZTQzMGYzMmE0NjM3YzM1MjJkYzMwZDk4Yjk2MzE=
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many “czars” appointed by the president, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did you think that another “czar” would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers — that is, to create a situation where some newspapers’ survival would depend on the government’s liking what they publish?
Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called “experts” deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life-and-death decisions about your loved ones?
Does any of this sound like America?
How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brownshirts of dictators than like anything American.
How far the president will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to “change the United States of America,” the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles, and the people of this country.
Jeremiah Wright said it with words: “G** damn America!” Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he planted. Community-activist goons have said it with their contempt for the rights of other people.
Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans to a captive audience of children.
Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn’t know what such people were like, when he had associated with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?
Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government — people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, and resent America’s influence in the world.
Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed. Fox News is now high on the administration’s enemies list.
Nothing so epitomizes President Obama’s own contempt for American values and traditions as trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year — each bill more than a thousand pages long — too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question — and the biggest question for this generation.
— Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. © 2009 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
11 33 48 88 Thanks and goodluck to everyone!!
There is a poster on Ihub called Stock Lobster, she used to have contest on her boards and would send out fresh lobsters to the winners. Do a member search and maybe she can help you out.
Jackie
That post was meant for everyone who wants to start throwing insults, it just so happens I dont have a son or brother that post on Ihub. I read your DD and I read all the other posters DD, we used to have some good pro and con discussions on this board concerning the dinar and thats the title of the board 'Iraqi Dinar Discussion Board' but it all changed when tempers kept flaring and insults and name calling started and I will admit I was part of the crowd.
You must be a far left liberal.. All libs resort to name calling...JK! It would be nice if everyone could have a discussion about the dinars without all the verbal abuse. Aerospace you have a right to your opinion just as others have their right to an opinion, so lets just discuss our opinions without verbal assaults.
Fix-en to head out to deer camp and hopefully stick an arrow in a deer this weekend. Have'nt got to practice as much as I would of liked with all this steel in my neck but I'm good for 2 or 3 draws on my bow before it becomes to painful.
Hello Ron, let me have the 9 14 33 48. TIA and GLTA!!
Howdy Nazcar fans.. Let me have the 9 14 29 48 @ Fontana.
PS, Ron you may want to check your picks before race time, the 2 11 and 99 are in the top ten.
He was a great driver and just as good as Dale Sr. even though I was a Dale Earnhart fan.
Milos is still going strong and market their tea in all the big grocery store chains now. Birmingham has changed alot in the last few years and still too many murders taking place. I am currently remoldeling all the Hud apartments beside Legion Field for the Federal Government and I used to live on Valley Ave. but now reside in Hoover.
I would want to read the bill in its entirety that was proposed by Franken first, and if I thought it was fair for the victim (victims) and would be applied to all Government Contractors and not just a select few then I would vote for his bill. Anyone who would violate a woman like that poor girl was deserves to be put under a prison and the employers who were responsible for her safety should be held accountable because if background checks were done on these men (perverts) then they probably have some sort of this type behavior in their past.. JMO!
Now having said that Sylvester80, that is why I would want to read the bill and all its wording because of frivilous lawsuits. If an employee comes into work high on some sort of substances and breaks a leg from tripping or looses a limb using power tools then he should be held accountable and not be able to sue the contractor but in the about mentioned case, someone needs their ba##s nailed to the wall..
Yepper.. Donnie, Bobby, Davy Allison, Neil Bonnet and Red Farmer they were all great drivers and were from right here in the Birmingham area. The Alabama Gang is what they were refered too on the Nascar circuit.
I am a writer — novelist, pop-math author, reviewer, and opinion journalist — living on Long Island, New York.
He said he is an opinion journalist plus other things, he is no politician and from the looks of him he would have a hard time grasping reality.. LOL!
I'm a white male!! I'm from Alabama!!! Woman have just as many rights as men and they are entitled to everyone of them and that is the mentality of the majority of white males from Alabama.. You are posting quotes from a dumbarz who said he learned it from his mentor who is also a dumbarz. I am also a white conservative and I know of no conservatives whom I have contact with who would have that kind of mentality...
Nice bear Richard. Should make a beautiful rug.
5 9 48 88 for Kansas race.. GLTA!!
Speaking of Rig and I hope its the rigmedic you are referring too, Where has he been?
I believe it was Cleavon Little instead of Levar Burton that starred in Blazing Saddles.
I can prove The Tooth Fairy is real.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/profile.asp?user=74293
Alright people its time to slap that ask....
LOL!! aint that the truth...
E-mail and find out for yourself since you are so full of question constantly.... Gheeese..
Howdy Yall! 24 48 88 99 at Dover..
A discussion board concerning what BKMP investors need to do would be my first thought.
Edit: upon reading the statement again it seems he maybe referring to shareholders forming a board(group) to contact others and form a game plan..
Thanks Capt.
Link is at bottom of page George..
McConnell Blasts Government Over 'Gag Order' on Private Health Care Provider
U.S. health officials launched an investigation into Humana after the Louisville-based company mailed a letter to patients enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plans, alerting them that President Obama's health overhaul could eliminate important benefits of the program.
FOXNews.com
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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U.S. health officials launched the probe after the Louisville-based company mailed a letter to patients enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plans -- private options that replace standard Medicare -- warning that President Obama's health overhaul could eliminate important benefits of the program.
Humana said in its letter that if Medicare Advantage funding gets cut, "millions of seniors and disabled individuals ... could lose many of the important benefits and services that make Medicare Advantage health plans so valuable."
Republican Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell blasted the investigation of Humana on Wednesday, calling it a "federal gag order" that seeks to silence a health provider that disagrees with the administration. McConnell said he's called for a complete legal justification of the probe.
"This is so clearly an outrage," McConnell said on the Senate floor. "For explaining to seniors how legislation might affect them, the federal government has now issued a gag order on that company, and any other company that communicates with clients on the issue, telling them to shut up -- or else.
"This is precisely the kind of thing Americans are worried about with the administration's health care plan. They're worried that government agencies which were created to enforce violations even-handedly will instead be used against those who voice a different point of view," he said.
The investigation was first suggested by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, whose committee has jurisdiction over Medicare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) -- which officiates over the Medicare program for seniors and Medicare Advantage options -- ordered a "cease and desist" order on all of Humana's health care mailings until the investigation is concluded.
Baucus has called the Humana letter a "scare tactic" meant to distort the current reforms under consideration. The CMS alleges that Humana's letter may have violated federal regulations, but the information distributed by the health provider was supported by the nonpartisan, independent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office.
Obama has insisted that despite planned cuts to Medicare providers, seniors would not see their benefits reduced under a health care overhaul. But CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf contradicted that Tuesday under questioning by Finance Committee Republicans, saying seniors in the private Medicare Advantage plans could see reduced benefits under Baucus' legislation. Proposed changes "would reduce the extra benefits that would be made available to beneficiaries through Medicare Advantage plans," Elmendorf said.
A Republican aide told FOXNews.com that the investigation is a clear breach of First Amendment rights and said the Republican leader is asking the CMS to provide legal justification for its investigation. The aide said CMS's investigation follows a pattern of intimidation put forth by the administration for any kind of dissent in the health care debate.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee lashed out at McConnell's charges Wednesday, saying, "If there was ever any doubt who Republicans are looking out for in the health care debate, Mitch McConnell has offered conclusive proof: the insurance companies.
"Republicans jeopardize their own credibility when they choose to defend big insurance companies trying to make false claims about senior citizens," the DSCC said in a press release.
Nine months into Obama's administration, no administrator of the CMS has been named -- leading some Republicans to question whether the White House had a direct hand in silencing Humana.
While the administration referred all questions about the investigation to CMS, White House spokesman Reid Cherlin said the confirmation of a CMS administrator "is a priority for the administration." CMS did not immediately answer requests for comment.
House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., has called on CMS to provide additional information on the so-called gag order, including the person or persons who authorized the agency to issue it.
"I have never seen anything like this and I question if politics was the deciding factor," Camp said in a press release. "Given that the administration has failed for more than eight months to nominate a director for CMS, I wonder if undue political pressure may have been applied on the CMS staff.
"It is Congress' responsibility to find out the facts and protect the interests of the American people. We need to know who contacted CMS, when they did it and what was said," he said.
FOX News' Chad Pergram and the Associated Press contributed to this report
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/23/mcconnell-blasts-government-gag-order-private-health-care-provider/
BKMP looking good!!! O wait that was a post from 3 1/2 years ago.
In your opinion(which I do respect) do you believe he has some merit to his plan and do you think it will help shareholders?
Have you given Ken1 your phone # yet? I have been so sick and cant talk right yet. Maybe as more come on board we can get a better feel for whats going on and make a decision from there.
To have of invested in pinkies to start with I believe the name of my school was "Whatsa Matta U"
I am not one that knows the answer to any of your questions Josh, but my guess is we will get nothing unless as logging-in stated in a previous post someone buys this shell for a hefty amount and that is very unlikely. JMO.
I bought BKMP as a gamble!! Had nothing to do with business, you never hear me whine, cry and complain about loosing 1000's here because it was a gamble and I lost. Period!! Nobodys fault but my own... If a person is going to play in the pinksheet market they had better be prepared to loose it all. 99% of all pinkies are scams, follow the hype and momo, find what the big dogs are playing, get in early with about 10k and sell at the first uptick and never ever look back..
At least thats the way I play them now after being sent to school by Sandy Winick..
LOL! Neal.. I am about as conservative as they come.. Maybe Sandy should of approached ACORN concerning BKMP and they could of helped him scam more folks.
I run a multi-million dollar building and develoment project so I believe my experience in business will help me make the proper decisions.
You have to e-mail him lexlor@live.com to find an answer to that question. GL and I will back whatever the board (investors decide to do)
Hey DD, I just e-mailed Ken1 concerning BKMP and will await his response before passing judgement.
5 14 18 29 For me.. GLTA!!
Hello Ron..
5 14 18 88 for me this weekend. GLTA!
God help us if this idiot succeeds in convincing the obamanation administration his thoughts and beliefs needs to be ratified into laws.