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FREAKS - THEY'RE COMING FROM THE WOODWORK

 

This group B4UACT.ORG is actually trying to eliminate the stigma of pedophilia - AUG 17, 2011 CONFERENCE.

rkramer@b4uact.org

 

American Psychiatric Association

 

An adult who engages in sexual activity with a child is performing a criminal and immoral act and this is never considered normal or socially acceptable behavior. Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H., Director, American Psychiatric Association’s Division of Research states, “there are no plans or processes set up that would lead to the removal of the Paraphilias from their consideration as legitimate mental disorders.”

 

apa@psych.org

 

 

WRITE ABOUT THIS INSANITY!

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Liberal Cry Babies - "Blame others for Broken Toy"

I wonder how these liberals run their homes! 
 
Do they run the credit cards up to the max - and then claim bankruptcy - charging everyone else for their mistakes. 
 

IRS: Not enough rich to cover the deficit

August 5, 2011 by Don Surber

Soak the rich, eh?

They do not have the money.

A report from the Internal Revenue Service found that the rich — 8,274 people with incomes of $10 million per year or more — earned a total of $240 billion in 2009.

Even of you confiscated every dime they earned, you would barely have enough money to cover government spending for 24 days.

Of course, about a quarter of that money already goes to the federal government for federal income. So make that 18 days.

Another 227,000 people earned $1 million or more in 2009.

Millionaires averaged taxes of 24.4% of their income — up from 23.1% in 2008.

They, too, did not earn enough money to come anywhere close to covering the annual deficits that are $1.5 trillion a year.

Barack Obama was the first president to sign a budget with a $1 trillion deficit into law.

In fact, all the taxpayers — including the ones who get a refund check bigger than the withholding taxes they paid — have the money.

From Reuters: “Total adjusted gross income reported on tax returns, measured in 2009 dollars, was $7.626 trillion, down from $8.233 trillion in 2008 and $8.989 trillion in 2007. Total adjusted gross income was up only slightly from the $7.475 trillion reported in 2001, when there were 10 million fewer taxpayers. Adjusted gross income is the amount on the last line of the front page of a Form 1040 tax return.”

Individual tax collections totaled $1,175,422,000,000 in 2009 — or 15.4% of all income.

Doubling federal income taxes for everyone would still leave us $400 billion or so shy of balancing the budget.

We must cut. We cannot afford to buy everything we want.

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MORE CLIMATE CHANGE UNTRUTHS!!!! POLAR BEAR LIES!


 MORE  CLIMATE CHANGE LIES!  NO DROWNING POLAR BEARS!
 
Charles Monnett is being investigated for unspecified “integrity issues” apparently linked to his report that polar bears could face an increased threat of death if they’re forced to swim farther as Arctic ice
 
Myron Ebell, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, could not speak directly about the Monnett case but said he believes the public has a right to be skeptical of scientists’ claims about global warming.
 

According to documents provided by Mr. Ruch’s group, which sat in on investigators interviews with Mr. Monnett, the questioning focused on observations that Mr. Monnett and fellow researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004.

At the time, they were conducting an aerial survey of bowhead whales, and saw four dead polar bears floating in the water after a storm. They also added that the findings “suggest that drowning-related deaths of polar bears may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and/or longer open water periods continues.”

They detailed their observations in an article published two years later in the journal Polar Biology.

 
 
WASHINGTON TIMES
 
 
 
 
 
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BLOOMBERG SUPPORTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

 
Bloomberg’s gift will help the Sierra Club build on the biggest victory against climate change scored to date in the United States: the de facto moratorium on new coal plants achieved in recent years by local activists working under the banner of the club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign. “Since we began targeting coal in 2003, we have blocked 153 planned coal plants from being built,” Brune told The Nation. “Since January 2010, we’ve shut down ninety-one existing plants. Closing those ninety-one existing plants alone will prevent 114 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is about the same as taking 20 million cars off the road.”

With Bloomberg’s help, the Beyond Coal campaign now hopes to “revoke the social license for burning coal in this country, just like the social license for smoking cigarettes was revoked,” said Brune. Although many progressives have criticisms of Bloomberg—in fact, Brune notes, the local Sierra Club chapter did not endorse him when he ran for a third term as mayor two years ago—Bloomberg makes a logical partner for such an effort. As mayor, he has championed high-profile initiatives to ban cigarette smoking and slash greenhouse gas emissions. “Some things a modern society can move beyond,” Brune argued. “We don’t cut down old-growth redwood trees anymore to make decking material, and we don’t need to burn coal to keep our iPhones charged.”

The only fossil fuel more dangerous than coal to public health and climate stability is tar sands, and they too are being newly targeted by renewed grassroots opposition. Author and activist Bill McKibben said he has signed up some 1,100 volunteers, including actor Danny Glover, writer Naomi Klein and labor leader Joe Uehlein, to join him in committing civil disobedience in front of the White House beginning on August 20. Their goal is to pressure President Obama to block the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, designed to transport tar sands from Canada to the Gulf Coast. The Canadian province of Alberta has the world’s largest deposits of tar sands, a thick, sticky form of crude oil that requires vast amounts of energy to dislodge from the earth and leaves behind extensive land and water pollution.  Even more environmentally destructive is the burning of tar sands, which have a carbon footprint 82 percent larger than conventional oil, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
 
 
This is the FRINGEGROUP!  These are the fools - right here.  They don't work - they just are "activists."  This guys analogy of "we don't cut down the giant redwoods for decking materials..."  Come on - ELECTRICITY, really. 
 
The United States sits on the largest geological COAL reserve - in the world.  Saudi sits on OIL = we, we sit on coal.
 
Why doesn't anyone get upset about how many BIRDS the windmills kill????  And you know what - I'm tired of these fools.  If it's so good to go green then go into business and creat a company that competes with coal - but they can't do that!  They don't have the money  - to do startups - so they need your money, choir sings TAXES.    But yet this "activist," is like, totally sure, that we can, like, develope something else.  As if!  these people don't realize that coal - has given power to billions of people around the globe that would otherwise not have it.  Oh, yea, but we don't want them to have it - only the dude from San Fran is allowed to charge is iphone...well, he may have a green technology by then.    What a load of nonsense these people are.  THEY'RE THE FRINGE!
 
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FLOTILLA AGAINST ISRAEL

American Jewish Committee executive director David Harris emails:

Nearly two years ago, I was invited by The Huffington Post (HuffPo) to become a blogger on their site. I was honored. It is one of the most heavily trafficked news sites anywhere, and it reaches an influential audience. Since September 2009, I have published nearly 50 articles there, and look forward to publishing many more. This week, for the first time, I was told by HuffPo that an article submitted was "not for us." It's below. I ask you to read it and decide for yourself. Apropos, the same article was published on my Jerusalem Post blog earlier this week.

Harris's blockaded post is titled "The Hamas - Oops, Gaza - Flotilla." I'm pretty sure Power Line readers can handle Harris's post. Here it is:

We're on the verge of another "flotilla" to Gaza. Estimates of the number of ships and participants vary from day to day, tending downward, but the erstwhile organizers insist that the maritime operation will take place.

Their spokesmen have been hyperactive in drawing attention to the event. After all, without coverage, they'd be denied their oxygen. And the kind of coverage they seek - idealistic humanists and peace activists determined to aid the poor, beleaguered residents of Gaza versus stone-hearted oppressors in military uniforms determined to block them at all costs - would, needless to say, portray Israel in the worst possible light.

The International Solidarity Movement, Free Gaza Movement, U.S. Boat to Gaza, and kindred spirits want the world to believe there is a strip of land called Gaza that, left to its own devices, would create the Shangri-La of the Middle East.

All its residents want are peace, harmony, coexistence, and tranquility. Some spokesmen acknowledge that Gaza has a governing authority. A very few even mention its name, Hamas, but hasten to add that it was elected democratically, so end of story. The rest don't give it a name, as it might muddy the waters.

According to this narrative - a word particularly popular in Middle East discussions- the residents of Gaza face a neighboring oppressor, Israel, which, for diabolical reasons of its own, wants to inflict maximum harm on people whose only dream in life is to live and let live. For these spokesmen, the wealth of vocabulary in the Oxford English Dictionary fails to capture the true nature of Israel's venality.

Enter, then, the self-described, modern-day Freedom Riders. They're boarding flotilla ships, they suggest, to bring aid, relief, and attention to those trapped in Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1963.

George Orwell, where are you? You could have a field day with this story.

Actually, you anticipated it when you wrote about the Ministry of Truth in your classic book, 1984. What were the ruling party's slogans on the outside of the 1,000-foot-tall building housing the ministry? Weren't they "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," and "Ignorance is Strength"? And didn't the ministry rewrite history at will to ensure it always served the party's interests?

The Gaza flotilla spokesmen are inverting the truth and rewriting history at will to serve their interests. And what are those interests? To prop up the Hamas regime in Gaza and delegitimize Israel.

While they are entitled to their own opinions, however misguided, they are not entitled to their own facts.

They cannot separate Hamas from the equation. Much as they might try, the central fact is that Hamas is key to understanding Gaza today.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. Don't take my word for it. Check with the United States and European Union, both of which have designated Hamas as a terrorist entity.

Hamas preaches the elimination of Israel and a toxic brew of classical anti-Semitism. Again, don't believe me. Read the Hamas Charter.

While Hamas may have been elected to govern with the PA in 2006, the first and only national Palestinian elections, one election does not a democracy make. Hamas used the ballot box to gain a foothold, then employed anti-democratic means to impose its own suffocating vision on the land. Hamas violently ousted the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority from Gaza in 2007 and has ruled ever since. Because Hamas cannot reform, the much heralded "unity" agreement it signed with Fatah six weeks ago is headed for an uncertain future.

Hamas celebrates violence. It joyously speaks of jihad, martyrdom, conflict, and the ultimate destruction of Israel. It has matched its fiery rhetoric with a sustained effort to import weapons, courtesy of Iran, smugglers in the Sinai, and tunnels from the Egyptian side of the border. In recent years, literally thousands of rockets and missiles have been fired from Gaza at Israel. Why?

Israel has no claim on Gaza. To the contrary, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Soldiers and settlers alike were pulled out by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, giving local residents the first chance ever in their history to govern themselves.

Indeed, with Israel's encouragement, a number of Jewish donors purchased Israeli greenhouses in Gaza and left them behind to help jump-start the local economy. The first reaction was to ransack them, when they could have been sources of flowers and vegetables for the local economy.

Israel has an interest in a stable, peaceful, and prospering Gaza, not a gun-toting, missile-firing, jihad-preaching entity. After all, you can change a lot of things in life, but not neighbors. Israel and Gaza are destined to be neighbors for a long time to come.

The Quartet - the U.S., EU, Russia, and UN - set three conditions for engagement with Hamas. The group must forswear violence, recognize Israel's right to exist, and accept previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements. To date, none of those conditions have been met. Apologists for Gaza would have you believe otherwise, but Hamas's spokesmen always undercut them. When it serves their purposes, they might briefly curtail violence to regroup and rearm, but Hamas is adamant that it will never abandon its struggle against Israel.

So, let's be clear. The flotilla participants, whether they acknowledge it or not, are handmaidens of a terrorist regime. That regime, not Israel, is responsible for the conditions in Gaza, which may not be enviable, but are a far cry from the dire picture of starvation and stunted growth painted by the hyperbolic spokesmen.

Israel has only one concern, which is to ensure that Hamas, a declared enemy of Israel, does not get additional means to threaten its neighbor. That's it, pure and simple.

As has been said, if Hamas laid down its weapons, there would be peace. If Israel laid down its weapons, there would be no Israel.

The flotilla participants claim their mission is nothing more than humanitarian, but, in reality, it serves the interests of a regime that espouses terrorism, peddles anti-Semitism, and praises the memory of Osama Bin Laden.

To portray themselves as the new wave of Freedom Riders is to trample grotesquely on the legacy of America's civil rights struggle and rewrite history. Orwell's Ministry of Truth is back.
 
CONTACT: American Jewish Committee   http://www.ajc.org/
 
 
 
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ICELAND CO2 EMISSIONS debunk GLOBAL WARMING

MORE CO2 than humans: VOLCANOS
 
"I do know that Mt. Kilauea's CO2 output by itself is more than every car in the United States over the course of the entire year."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/apr/21/iceland-volcano-climate-sceptics
 
 
 
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Global Warming Guru EXPOSED ENRICHING HIMSELF

Here he is!  This is the guy that came up with AlGore's HOCKEY STICK.  This is the nut that has been pushing Global Warming - and as most of us suspected it was "to enrich himself."  Shamefully that he has any connection to NASA! 
 
 
6/22/11
 

-- A shared $1 million prize from the Dan David Foundation for his "profound contribution to humanity." Hansen's cut ranged from $333,000 to $500,000, Horner said, adding that the precise amount is not known because Hansen's publicly available financial disclosure form only shows the prize was "an amount in excess of $5,000."

-- The 2010 Blue Planet prize worth $550,000 from the Asahi Glass Foundation, which recognizes efforts to solve environmental issues.

-- The Sophie Prize for his "political activism," worth $100,000. The Sophie Prize is meant to "inspire people working towards a sustainable future."

-- Speaking fees totaling $48,164 from a range of mostly environmental organizations.

-- A $15,000 participation fee, waived by the W.J. Clinton Foundation for its 2009 Waterkeeper Conference.

-- $720,000 in legal advice and media consulting services provided by The George Soros Open Society Institute. Hansen said he did not take "direct" support from Soros but accepted "pro bono legal advice."
 
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SOCIAL JUSTIC EQUALS SOCIALISM

Social justice: How to be Nice—Forcefully
By Paul B. Skousen

Did you hear that people are beating up Glenn Beck right now because in early March he told people to flee to higher ground if their churches want “social justice”? A misunderstanding about his comments is spreading around, and he’s being crucified.

In response, I want to ask you: does anybody have the slightest clue what people mean when they say, “I’m for social justice”?

The correct answer is, are you kidding me?

That’s right—because the truth is, nobody really knows

This much we do know:

  • The term social justice was coined by an Italian Catholic scholar, Luigi Taparelli D’Azeglio (1793–1862)
  • Luigi was trying to balance natural law with his perception of inequality rising from competition and capitalism.

Beyond that, social justice has evolved since the 1930s into a euphemism for socialism that was used heavily by both the Nazis and the Communists.

As for everybody else, they’ve thrown the term about for the past several decades as a band-aid to cover whatever injustice people perceive. It’s their “get out of jail free” card for all instances of inequality—except for this one important detail: social justice is not free.

Under the banner of social justice have come these calls to arms:

“We’re suffocating the planet! Impose ‘cap and trade.’”
“Animals have rights, stop hunting, stop furs.”
“The trees have feelings, stop logging, stop deforestation.”
“Resources are dwindling, stop populating.”
“Death and dismemberment costs money, you must wear seatbelts.”
“The poor should have jobs, give them one.”
“The homeless should have homes, give them one.”
“The blacks deserve slavery reparations, pay them.”
“The Mexicans were here first, give the land back.”
“The Indians were here first, give the land back.”
“Pedophiles are people too, show compassion.”
“Terrorists are people too, show compassion.”
“Every human is owed affordable health care, give it to them.”
“Every worker is owed a minimum wage, give them one.”
“Wear helmets, seatbelts, mouth guards, and ID or else.”
“There’s a hole in the ozone, stop cars and hair spray.”
“The rich should pay more taxes, make them pay.”
“If you don’t go green, we’ll fine you.”
“Nobody should be allowed to fail, bail them out.”

The do or die detail that comes with a cause, any cause, is whether or not the proponents require force to have it implemented. That’s the freedom factor that Glenn Beck was talking about—does your church espouse social justice that must be enforced by coercion or law or brute force?

Dr. W. Cleon Skousen points out in “The Five Thousand Year Leap” how today’s government-enforced social justice is not the same as Biblical charity the Founders tried to preserve with our Constitution:

“In Europe, during the days of the Founders, it was very popular to proclaim that the role of government was to take from the ‘haves’ and give to the ‘have nots’ so that all might be truly ‘equal.’ However, the American Founders perceived that this proposition contained a huge fallacy.

“The Founders recognized that the people cannot delegate to their government the power to do anything except that which they have the lawful right to do themselves.

“For example, every person is entitled to protection of his life and property. Therefore it is perfectly legitimate to delegate to the government the task of setting up a police force to protect the lives and property of all the people.

“But suppose a kind-hearted man [seeking social justice] saw that one of his neighbors had two cars while another neighbor had none. What would happen if, in a spirit of benevolence, the kind man went over and took one of the cars from his prosperous neighbor and generously gave it to the neighbor in need? Obviously, he would be arrested for car theft. No matter how kind his intentions, he is guilty of flagrantly violating the natural rights of his prosperous neighbor, who is entitled to be protected in his property.

“….But suppose the kind-hearted man decided to ask the mayor and city council to force the man with two cars to give one to his pedestrian neighbor. Does that make it any more legitimate? Obviously, this makes it even worse because if the mayor and city council do it in the name of the law, the man who has lost his car has not only lost the rights to his property, but (since it is the ‘law’) he has lost all right to appeal for help in protecting his property.” (The Five Thousand Year Leap, pp. 87-88)

The Founders were experts on human nature. They knew that some people would prosper more than others in a truly free nation. Rather than force and curtail human nature to fit neatly into some Utopian scheme of social justice, they sanctified the principle of “equal rights not equal things.”

Equal rights as defined by the Founders provides these four freedoms:

  • Freedom to buy
  • Freedom to sell
  • Freedom to try
  • Freedom to fail.

Equal rights puts the burden of production on the individual, not the state. This is something lazy people passionately despise. Nevertheless, everyone has the right to be prosperous, but only at the cost of personal invention and innovation, hard and dedicated work, and a willingness to learn from mistakes.

What about the lazy, the unfortunate, the accidental victims of personal catastrophe?

The Founders knew their Bible. They knew God mandated that all his children should help the poor and underprivileged. Outside of private charity—which our nation has in abundance—how can the government help without making things worse?

Their solution came in the form of “calculated” compassion (see The Five Thousand Year Leap, p. 91):

  1. Do not help the needy completely. Merely help them to help themselves.
  2. Give the poor the satisfaction of “earned achievement” instead of rewarding them without achievement.
  3. Allow the poor to climb the “appreciation ladder”—from tents to cabins, cabins to cottages, cottages to comfortable houses.
  4. Where emergency help is provided, do not prolong it to the point where it becomes habitual.
  5. Strictly enforce the scale of “fixed responsibility.” The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community; finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstance is the federal government to become involved in public welfare. No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.

So, was Glenn Beck correct in his call to all thinking Americans to flee from churches and other organizations that promoted social justice with force? When such organizations align with big government’s socialist programs, and they force increased taxes, a smothering deficit, and the loss of property rights to achieve so-called social justice, it is clear that Beck is right. 

“Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s,” Jesus taught, but never let Caesar co-opt the real work of God—the work of voluntarily helping those in need. That’s our job. And I wouldn’t call it social justice any more.
 
 
Personal note:
 
I love God, and I consider myself a Christian.  I have sacrificed - I have been troubled - I've been poor and I've been rich.  No, I've never been a war refugge, nor have I ever really gone hungry (though there was a period as a single parent I worried about milk.) 
 
Fast forward to today. 
 
We (my family) left my church, cancelling all membership officially in July due to the denominations activities.  It was the UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - the same denomination as Reverand Wright.  We loved our community church - and thought that we would be separated from them.  We weren't - the national church was using our church as part of it's foundation - to do BIGGER things.  The UCC Church endorsed the FCC letter calling for end of "hate speech" on "talk radio" (the one the Southern Poverty Law Center and La Raza (illegal immigration proponents).  And the las thing the UCC did was "they marched" at the One Nation Rally  - - with the AFL-CIO, Green for All, SEIU: Service Employees International Union, Communist Party USA (CPUSA), International Socialist Organization, National Stonewall Democrats, United Church of Christ.

Would you believe, we still haven't found a church to call home.  We won't call a church home that touts Social Justice, it's a code word for Socialism.

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HERE WE GO WITH THE HYPOCRISY!

They want to manage your food intake (salt, soda, etc.), oops they're still promoting the cheese industry:
 
 
 
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The English have gone MAD

 
These people are veryvery seriously NUTS (Ironside and 10:10 groupies together in a 10X10' is a picture to imagine): 
 
THESE PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING - OH MY.  They probably already have brown outs in the UK and didn't hear that the whole thing was a MADE UP SCANDAL --- didn't hear about the IPPC and the "emailgate thing," with the Anglican University professor that said he fabricated the numbers!
 
Here's that 10:10 group - freaks:
 
 
Oddly, the BRITISH ARE THE ONES THAT SAID GLOBAL WARMING WAS OVER ALSO:
 

 
 
 
LEFTY - WACKADOODLE
(VIRGINIA IRONSIDE) ON EUTHINASIA
OF SICK CHILDREN:
(Actually, Ms. Ironside is now 60 - old coot - I think all people over sixty with purple hair are freaks and should definitely be put out of misery - clearly she's delusional.)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFbMza9X34&feature=related
 
    AND THEN THERE'S THESE TYPES:
 
         Gosling, well known in Britain as a professional journalist and gay-rights activist, said that he killed the unnamed man....

Gosling confessed that he suffocated his former lover with a pillow while he lay dying in his hospital bed. In the UK mercy killing is a felony punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

According to The Independent, he stated during the taping: Maybe this is the time to share a secret that I have kept for quite a long time. I killed someone once. He was a young chap, he'd been my lover and he got AIDS


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WE MUST END DEBT IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

 
WE MUST NOT RUIN OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURES!

Senator Thune - NOVEMBER 7, 2010
 
America’s national debt is increasing with every passing day. In the 232 years of American history until 2008, through 43 American presidents, our country accumulated $6.3 trillion in publicly held debt. Under the Obama administration, that number is projected to double in five years and triple in 10 years.

To break these numbers down to a more personal level, for every child in America under 18 when President Obama took office, their share of that debt was $84,000. Now it is $119,000 per child. By the end of 2016, it would be $196,000.

We are witnessing a massive increase in the amount of borrowing, the amount of spending, the amount of debt and the growth of government in Washington, D.C. We need to start tackling this debt, and we need to start doing it now.

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SOME EXEMPT FROM HEALTH CARE REFORM!!!!!!

Some are more equal than others!!!
 
 
 
The federal government has granted 30 companies and organizations one-year waivers to exempt them from one of the newly-implemented health care reforms.

 

A set of consumer protections enacted in President Obama's health care overhaul kicked in last month, including a requirement for insurers to gradually phase out annual coverage limits. The waivers granted last month exempt the organizations in question from that requirement; they were approved for organizations offering limited-benefit plans, such as Jack in the Box and the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund (a New York-based union health care provider). The 30 entities granted waivers are listed here and listed below.

 

The waivers were granted after insurers threatened to raise premiums dramatically or drop the limited-benefit plans all together rather than pay for the additional coverage. The exemptions apply to insurance plans for nearly a million people. Limited-benefit plans are often used to cover part-time or low-wage employees, and they often have low premiums and high deductibles. The Department of Health and Human Services opted to grant those entities waivers rather than allow consumers to lose coverage or see their premiums rise.

 

"The waivers are about insuring people and protecting the coverage they have until there are better options available to them in 2014," White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs said today.

 

The bulk of the new health care reforms will go into effect in 2014. At that point, some large employers that drop coverage for their workers will be subject to a fee. Consumers will also have the option of using new state-based health care exchanges to access the individual health care market.

 

By 2014, insurers will be completely barred from limiting annual benefits. The new regulations are being phased in until then: companies without waivers will have to provide a minimum of $750,000 in coverage next year, $1.25 million in coverage in 2012, and $2 million in 2013.

 

"HHS is to committed strengthening employer-based coverage for employees and retirees, while building a bridge to a new competitive marketplace in 2014," HHS spokesperson Jessica Santillo said.

 

The waiver granted to the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund will have the biggest impact in terms of numbers, applying to 351,000 enrollees of the Fund's supplemental insurance plan. McDonald's insurance carrier, BCS Insurance, received a waiver to cover 115,000 enrollees.

 

Gibbs said today that the White House does not perceive the need to grant the waivers as a flaw of the new health care reforms.

 

"This is about implementing a bill correctly," he said, to ensure that "as reform ramps up, we protect consumers and don't put them at the mercy of health insurance companies."

 

Below are the 30 entities that received waivers, along with the number of enrollees impacted:

  1. Fowler Packing Co. (39)
  2. Baptist Retirement (127)
  3. BCS Insurance (115,000)
  4. Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund (881)
  5. Greater Metropolitan Hotel (1200)
  6. UFT Welfare Fund (351,000)
  7. Aegis (162)
  8. Maritime Association (500)
  9. Aetna  (209,423)
  10. UABT (17,347)
  11. Reliance Standard (varies)
  12. QK/DRD (Denny's) (65)
  13. Guy C. Lee Mfg. (312)
  14. I.U.P.A.T (875)
  15. HealthPort (608)
  16. Jack in the Box (1,130)
  17. Allflex  (34)
  18. Transport Workers (107)
  19. Tri-Pak (26)
  20. Cryogenic (19)
  21. Metro Paving Fund  (550)
  22. Health Connector (3,544)
  23. Health and Welfare Benefit System (41)
  24. PS-ILA  (8)
  25. PMPS-ILA (15)
  26. Maverick County (1)
  27. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. (326)
  28. GS-ILA  (298)
  29. Allied (127)
  30. CIGNA (265,000)
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THE COST OF ILLEGAL ALIENS

FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS HAVE NO SAY IN OUR SOVERIEGN COUNTRY
WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?

I hope the following 11 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts...

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.

Verify at: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

7 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML

9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US .

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML<;

11.. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'

Verify at: http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME; HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.


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ONE NATION SPONSORS

And they get angry when we call them SOCIALISTS/COMMUNISTS:
 
Lest we forget - the Dept of Education paid teachers to be there and the SEIU mandated workers to be there!
 
SOME FASCINATING VIDEOS:
 
 
 
(This was a little video after the Obama innaguration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMrJE7J3fWU&feature=player_embedded#!
 
Featured Endorsers:

AFL-CIO
American Federation of Teachers
Center for Community Change
Communications Workers of America
Green for All
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
NAACP
National Action Network
National Council of La Raza
PowerPAC
Rainbow PUSH Coalition
SEIU 1199
SEIU: Service Employees International Union
Sojourners
UAW, International Union
United States Students Association
All Endorsing Organizations:
Sky
350.org
A. Philip Randolph Institute
A. Philip Randolph Institute - The Metropolitan New York Chapter
Action LA Network
AFSCME
AFSCME 3800 - University of Minnesota Clerical Workers
AIDS Walk Washington
All Hands on Deck
Alliance for Democracy
Amalgamated Local 171 UAW
American Association of University Professors
American Federation of Government Employees
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
American Friends Service Committee
American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA)
American Rights at Work
Americans for Democratic Action
Americans for Financial Reform
ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition
Bail Out the People Movement
Bethel Tabernacle AME Church, Brooklyn
Beulah Church of the Nazarene
Black Leadership Forum, Inc.
Black Women’s Roundtable
Black Youth Vote
Bronx for Change
Brooklyn for Peace
Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development
Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development
Bryn Mawr Peace Coalition
California Black League of Voters
California National Organization for Women
Campaign for America’s Future
Campaign for Community Change
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Campus Camp Wellstone
Campus Progress
CEEF: Center for Community and Economic Justice
Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War
Charlie Fink Productions
Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
Chicago Teacher’s Union – AFT Local 1
Church of the Evangelical United Church of Christ
Citizen Wave
Clarendon Road Church
Cleveland Peace Action
Coalition for Peace Action
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Region One
Coalition of Labor Union Woman
Coalition on Human Needs
CODA (Coalition for a District Alternative)
Code Pink
Coffee Party Progressives
Color of Change.org
Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Communication for Social Change Consortium
Communications Workers of America Local 2336
Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
Community Empowerment Network
Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago
Courage Campaign
CUNY University Student Senate
CUSH
DC 1707, AFSCME
DC Asian American and Pacific Islander Democratic Caucus
DC Latino Caucus
DC Vote
Delaware Pacem in Terris
Demand Equity Now
Democracy for America
Democratic Socialists of America
Demos
Detroit Democratic Socialists of America
Disciples Justice Action Network
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. DC Support Group
Drum Major Institute
Energy Action Coalition
Equality Federation
Equality Wisconsin, Inc.
Ex-Offenders Association of PA
Family Equality Council
Fellowship of Reconcilliation
Free Speech TV
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Poor
Fur Cultural Revival (Darfur Community Center)
Gathering for Justice
Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
General Board of Church and Society- United Methodist Church
Generation Change
Generational Alliance
Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club
Get Equal
Girldrive
Gray Panthers
Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral
Haitian American Caucus
Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement
Harlem One Stop
HOFADS Corp., Inc.
Human Rights Campaign
Humanist Party, New York City Chapter
Illinois Single Payer Coalition
Imani Group
immigration Equality
Injured Workers United
Institute for Policy Studies
Institute of Caribbean Studies
Interfaith Worker Justice
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
International Federation of Black Prides
International Socialist Organization
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Jewish Arab Dialogue Association
Jewish Funds for Justice
Jewish Labor Committee
Jobs with Justice
Jordan / Rustin Coalition
Latin America Solidarity Coalition
Latino Action Coalition of DC
Latino Equality Alliance
Latino Federation of Greater Washington
Left Labor Project
Lemeul Haynes Congregational Church
Lincoln Park Neighbors United for Peace, Chicago
Long Island C.B.T.U.
Maine Green Independent Party
Majority Agenda Project
Make the Road NY
Maryland and DC AFL-CIO
Maryland Black Family League
Mass Equality
Mass Transgender Political Coalition
Mexican American Coalition
Midwest Academy
Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout
Mother A.M.E. Zion Church
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression, Chicago Branch
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
National Association of Black Social Workers
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
National Black Justice Coalition
National Black L.U.V. Festival est. 1997
National Black Law Students Association
National Black Police Association
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
National Congress of Black Women
National Council of Negro Women
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Education Association
National Exhoodus Council
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
National Jobs For All Coalition
National Missionary Baptist Church
National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth
National Nurses United
National Organization for Women California
National Stonewall Democrats
National Union of Home and Health Care Employees
National Urban League
New England Region – AFSC
New Haven Peoples Center
New Jersey Black Issues Coalition
New York City Democratic Socialists of America
New York State AFL-CIO
New York Urban League
Next Step
North Country Peace Group (Long Island)
North Manhattan Neighbors for Peace and Justice
North Suburban Peace Initiative
Northeast Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice
NY Coalition of 100 Black Women
NYC LCLAA
NYU Nursing Doctoral Students Organization
Ohio AFL-CIO
One of the 266 Wrongfully Terminated
P.A.P.A.II People Assisting Positive Actions
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays National
Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore
Pax Christi USA
Peace Action
Peace Action Education Fund
Peace Action Maine
Peace Action Montgomery
Peace and Freedom Party
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
People for the American Way
People’s Organization for Progress
People’s Organization for Progress
Physicians for a National Health Program
Planned Parenthood
Pledge of Resistance - Baltimore
Policy Link
Prayer, Praise and Worship Centers of America
Pride at Work
Progress Ohio
Progressive Congress Action Fund
Progressive Democrats of America
Progressive Democrats of America - NYS and NYC
Queers for Economic Justice
Reform Immigration for America
Resurrection Temple of the Lord
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association (RENA)
Roosevelt Institute
School of Americas Watch (SoA Watch)
SEIU Local 32BJ
SEIU Local 722
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Sikh Coalition
Single Payer Action Network Ohio - SPAN Ohio
Single Payer New York
Society of American Law Teachers
Solidarity
Stonewall Democratic Club
Stonewall Democratic Club - Los Angeles
Stonewall Young Democrats
Student World Assembly
Suffolk Peace Network
Teamsters Local 808
The Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist
The L.I.F.E. Institute
The New Testement Revival Cathedral
The New York Immigration Coalition
The Opportunity Agenda
The Other 98%
The Power: The People United for LGBT Equality
The Religious Institute
Tikkun-Network of Spiritual Progressives
TransAfrica Forum
Transport Workers Union of America
True Colors, Inc.
TWU Local 100
Unids LGBT- The National Latin@ LGBT Human Rights Organization
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Unite Here
United Church of Christ
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
United Food and Commerical Workers Minority Coalition
United for Peace and Justice
United Mine Workers of America
United Steel Workers
Urban Agenda
US Action
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
US Human Rights Network
US Labor Against the War
US Peace Council
US Peace Council– Wisconsin
Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO
Veterans for Peace
Veterans for Peace NY
Voice of Haitian Americans Inc.
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
WAND: Women’s Action for New Directions
War Resisters League
Ward 7 Business Professional Association
Washington Peace Center
Welfare Rights Committee
Whitman Walker Clinic
William Kelibrew Foundation
Win Without War
Wishadoo
Witness Against Torture
Women’s Caucus for Political Science
Women’s Funding Network
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Working America
Working Families Party
WPFW
Ya Ya Network
 
NAACP -
 
Liberal groups hoping to revive enthusiasm before the midterm elections are encouraging members to show up on the Mall on Saturday for a rally that they expect to draw tens of thousands of people.

Their aim is to reclaim the sense of excitement that surged among left-leaning groups after the 2008 presidential race but more recently has belonged to tea party groups and other conservative activists. Conservative commentator Glenn Beck filled the Mall with tens of thousands of his supporters last month.

The organizers of the Oct. 2 rally, dubbed One Nation, are calling it the "most diverse march in history." The amalgam of 300 progressive groups - environmentalists, antiwar activists, church and civil rights groups, union organizers, gay rights coalitions and others - is planning four hours of speeches, singing and spoken-word poems.

"We lose separately, and absent of a strategy to work together we will continue to lose," said Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, chief executive of Green for All, an environmental group supporting the march. "We have to be able to take critical action on all of the issues facing this country. We're at a critical moment in history, and we have the opportunity to move forward in a really significant way."

The One Nation groups hope to set up a kind of competition with the tea party movement. If their rally is successful, organizers will try to hold the groups together to become a revived political force. They are promoting the rally through their network of groups, on liberal radio, and on television host Ed Schultz's show.

"We aren't the alternative to the tea party, we are the antidote," said NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, who has also been a lead organizer. The team that produces the NAACP's annual Image Awards show will put together the program for One Nation.

The groups involved represent many of President Obama's core supporters, including the National Council of La Raza, NAACP, AFL-CIO, SEIU and the U.S. Student Association. The effort is separate from the Democratic Party's plan to spend $50 million trying to reach those same voters - though Organizing for America, the grass-roots network that Obama's campaign created, will send out an e-mail encouraging its affiliates to attend.  (Is the president's organization supporting COMMUNIST PARTY / AND SOCIALIST PARTY?)

It is unclear how many people will make it to Washington for the rally, but organizers' expectations are high. Last week, the rally's leaders were still trying to raise money to bring 50,000 students to the event. A plan by Comedy Central television hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to hold dueling rallies on Oct. 30 could appeal to some potential One Nation participants, creating a less-than-desirable competition for liberal-leaning would-be activists.

Unlike Beck's rally, in which overt politics took a back seat to religious and patriotic themes, the progressive groups will repeatedly remind attendees at their rally to vote in November's mid-term elections, said Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of AFL-CIO.

"We have heard a lot about frustration and anger leading to apathy. What we are finding is that anger is now turning into, 'Okay, let's act,'â??" Holt Baker said. "We can either sit here and not move forward or we can go backward."

She sees the rally as a first step in a more unified progressive movement, which has often splintered into its own niche causes.

The diverse range of groups participating in One Nation creates some inherent tension. Gay rights groups, such as Human Rights Campaign, will attend alongside socially conservative faith groups including the National Baptist Convention and the National Missionary Baptist Church. A mineworkers union and groups of environmentalists have also endorsed the event.

Organizers say they are focusing on three big, unifying ideas: jobs, justice and education. Those ideas are defined in a set of principles, which lays out a list of causes largely supported by liberals. They include ending discrimination in the criminal justice system, protecting Social Security, spending federal money to stimulate jobs and improving public education.

"These are the big rock issues that define who we are and why we march," Jealous said.
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