With a undiagnosed growth on his chest
and two ruptured disks, Richard James Verone needed medical attention and to
get it he handed a note to a bank teller demanding $1.
Verone walked into an RBC bank in North Carolina, handed
the teller the note, and she gave him the money. Then, according to the Gaston Gazette, he sat down and waited for the
police to show up.
He said, “I didn’t have any fears. I
told the teller that I would sit over here and wait for police.”
Never in trouble with the law, Verone
worked fortCoca-Cola for 17 years, but was laid off
three years ago. He's had part time jobs since, but nothing steady, and nothing
with health insurance. “If you don’t have your health you don’t
have anything,” said Verone.His plan includes a three year stint in prison,
multiple surgeries, and then releasejust in time to collect social security.
Quotes from speech given by Sen.
Bernard Sanders an Independent on
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...We
have a $16 trillion national debt and we have a $1 trillion deficit. I think
all Americans understand this is a very important issue, and it is something we
as a nation are going to have to grapple with...
...Now, what do my Republican friends and some
Democrats say? Well, they come to the Senate floor and suddenly--after going to war without paying for
it, after giving
huge tax breaks to the rich, after deregulating Wall Street--realize we have a deficit problem, and they
are very concerned about this deficit problem. They come to the Senate floor and
say: The only way we can go forward is to cut Social Security. Social Security is funded
independently. It hasn't added one nickel to the deficit, but we are going to
cut Social Security anyway. We are going to cut Medicare, we are going to cut
Medicaid, we are going to cut Pell grants, we are going to cut education, and
we are going to cut environmental protection. That is deficit reduction.
Are we
going to ask millionaires and billionaires, who are doing phenomenally well, whose effective tax rate is the lowest
in decades, to pay one nickel more in taxes? No, we can't do that, but
we can cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, and every program
that the children, seniors, and working families of this country depend upon.
Now, to add insult to injury in terms of this
movement supported by big-money interests that have so much influence over what
goes on here in Congress, it is important to look at the playing field of the
American economy today to understand what is going on. Are the people on top
really hurting and suffering? Are large corporations today really struggling
under onerous corporate taxes? The answer is, obviously not.
We don't talk about it enough, and too few
people even mention it, but I do, and I will continue. It is important today to
understand that theUnited States
has the most unequal distribution of wealth and income since the 1920s and the
most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth.
Why is that important? It is important to know that. Before we cut Social
Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, and the ability of working-class kids
to go to college, we have to know the condition of how people are doing today. The middle class today is
shrinking and poverty is increasing. When we cut food stamps and
Medicaid, we are going to hurt a whole lot of people, and in some cases very
tragically.
Just last week a member of my staff went to
southwest Virginia, and she spent the day at a program in which thousands of
people in that area were lining up to get dental and health care because they
didn't have any health insurance. There are 45,000 Americans who will die this year because they
don't have health insurance and can't get to a doctor in time. There are
people who say: Let's cut Medicaid. There are people all over this country who
can't find a dentist. There are children who are suffering from dental decay.
Let's cut Medicaid. Well, I don't think so.
If we look at the country, the middle class is
shrinking, people are hurting, but people on top are doing phenomenally well.
Very few people talk about it. I am going to talk about it. In the last study
we have seen in terms of income distribution in this country--and that is what
happened between 2009 between and 2010--93 percent of all new income created
over that year went to the top 1 percent. I will say it again. Ninety-three percent of all
new income in that year went to the top 1 percent. The bottom 99 percent had
the privilege of sharing the remaining 7 percent. Yet, when we ask the
people on top to maybe pay a little bit more in taxes, oh my goodness, there
are lobbyists all over Capitol Hill saying: We can't afford to. We are down to
our last $50 billion. We just can't afford another nickel in taxes. We need
that money now. Thanks to Citizens United, we can pump that money into political campaigns.
One family who is worth $50 billion is going
to put $400 million into
the campaign. Another guy who is worth $20 billion can't pay more in taxes,
but he does have hundreds of millions to pour into political campaigns.
In terms of distribution of wealth, which is a
different category of costs than distribution of income, we have an incredible
situation. I hope people understand what is going on in this country, where one
family--one family, the Walton family, of Wal-Mart--now owns more wealth at $89
billion than the bottom 40 percent of the American people. One family owns more wealth than
the bottom 40 percent. Do we know what some folks want to do here? They
want to repeal the entire estate tax and give that family a very substantial
tax break, because owning
$89 billion is obviously not enough. They are struggling. We have to give them
a tax break while we cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. If
that makes any sense to the American people, I would be very surprised, and it
does not make sense to the American people.
...My guess is if we go to New Hampshire,
Maine, or any other State in America and we say to people, we have a deficit
problem and the choice is between cutting Social Security or asking
millionaires and billionaires to pay more in taxes, there is, in my view, no
State in America--no State in this country, no matter how red it may be--where
people will say: Cut
Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, but don't raise taxes on
millionaires and billionaires. I don't believe that is true anyplace in America...
...There was a study that recently came out
that talks about the ability of billionaires and corporations to use tax
havens. What we know--and I am a member of the Budget Committee--is that
millionaires and billionaires and corporations in this country are avoiding
paying about $100 billion every single year by using tax havens in the Cayman
Islands, in Bermuda, Panama, and other countries. Maybe, just maybe, before we cut Social Security and
Medicare, we might want to pass legislation to make those people start paying
their fair share in taxes and do away with those tax havens...
...I hope the American people pay rapt
attention to this debate, and I hope the American people get involved in this debate, because
if they do not, mark my words, within 4 months, a handful of people, supported by corporate America
and the big money interests, are going to bring down to this floor a deficit
reduction proposal which will cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and give
more tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country. It will have
virtually all Republican support. It will have some Democratic support. If we
don't aggressively oppose this approach, that is exactly what will happen.
Sorry I have not written a blog for a while. I am currently working on a project that is taking a lot of time. When it is finished I hope you will all watch and recommend it. I have had so many things I have thought about blogging about while working on this project but decided I would finish it and when finished get back to more frequent blogging. I was not going to get side tracked for anything.
That's when it happened! I tried to ignore it and did very well for 4 days but I can't any longer. It really has my tail feathers in an uproar. The war between the Muppets and Chick-Fil-A. I just want to get up close to everyone involved and scream in their/your ears "SHUT UP!!!" I have had it.
This battle is just an example as to what really is beginning to get on my nerves. I have spoken of it before. It is the hate mongering going on by those claiming to be fighting hate mongering. I am really sorry but I can not stand hypocrisy. It sickens me!
I raised my children to be tolerant of others. They had their disagreements among themselves. Of course they did. But, I never allowed them to use the word hate when referring to each other. They knew where I stood on issues. They also knew they were free to develop their own ideas, free from me hating them. They were taught to keep an open mind. Listen to others, both sides of an issue and make up their own mind. Now keeping my own mind open (cause I am not a hypocrite) my mind has been changed about some issues by listening to my adult children (I hate to admit this but even a bit by an x-wife). I don't always agree, but I will never stop loving and excepting that they are humans too.
It is okay not to agree with someone even as far as hating an opinion. It is sad when that is taken to a level of hating a human being because you disagree with him/her.
Now we have the supporters of gay/lesbian marriage crying "Oh CEO of Chick-Fil-A does not agree with us so we won't eat there anymore." On the other side of things we have the anti gay/lesbian marriage crowd crying "Fine! I won't buy any Muppet movies anymore."
Where is the tolerance on either side?
I read what was said I always do before I write a blog. In this case there is intolerance on both sides. But I must say as usual most of the hate mongering is again coming from the very ones claiming to be fighting hate mongering. Look at the comments around the net with an open mind, you will see what I mean.
I have been referring to the Big Bird/Chicken war only because it is the top topic right now. I really am referring to it all. "I don't like what she said. BOYCOTT HER!" Come on get real people. How many times has this really worked?
I have my favorite actors. I really love to watch them, because they are great at what they do. Some of them in off screen real life, I strongly disagree with the way they act/talk. But guess what I will watch the next movie they make because I enjoy it. If I thought the acting on screen was terrible but agreed with them 100% of the time off screen, I would still not watch the next movie.
If you like the chicken EAT IT! If you like the Muppets WATCH THEM! Dog gone it! If you like liberals BE ONE! If you like conservatives BE ONE! If you don't like either DON'T JOIN THEM! If you don't like Bill Maher' DON'T WATCH HIM! If you don't like Rush Limbaugh, DON'T LISTEN TO HIM! Just stop the hate mongering.
I don't mean to compare you to little kids.... YES I DO! That is what you sound like! "I don't like what you said so I am going to take my ball and find another ballgame."
Now you kids just settle down! I am going to sit here eating my Chick-Fil-A while watching Fraggle Rock. After that I will get back to the project from which I have been so rudely interrupted by people that don't seem to be able to GET ALONG despite disagreements.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
A speech given by senator Charles Grassley a Republican from Iowa
July 17, 2012
Words are his highlights are mine.
Mr. President, last September, President Obama responded to amnesty proponents, denying that he had authority to
unilaterally grant special status to individuals who may be eligible under the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act has been around the Senate for discussion for about a decade, and in different forms. It has been voted down several times by this body--mostly because the leader won't allow for an amendment process to improve the bill; otherwise, it probably could have been worked upon. A few months ago when asked by amnesty advocates to push the bill through Executive order,President Obama said this:
This notion that somehow I can just change the laws
unilaterally is just not true. The fact of the matter is
there are laws on the books that I have to enforce. And I think there's been a great disservice done to the cause of
getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It's just not true. We live in a democracy. You have to pass bills through the legislature, and then I can sign it.
But 1 month ago, President Obama continued his ``we can't wait''
campaign and circumvented Congress, again, to significantly change the
law all by himself. On June 15, he announced that the Department of
Homeland Security would lay out a process by which immigrants who have
come here illegally could apply for relief and remain in the United
States without the fear of deportation. So what has changed in the last
9 months, when the President of the United States said last September
that he could not unilaterally grant amnesty? Before I dive into the details of how poorly planned and implemented
the directive of June 15 will be, I have to question the legal
authority of the President to institute a plan of this magnitude. I, along with 19 other Senators, sent the President a letter and
asked if he consulted with attorneys prior to the June 15 announcement
about his legal authority to grant deferred action and work
authorizations to a specific class of immigrants who have come here
illegally. It is important that we get that question answered, because
last September the President said he didn't have the legal authority to
do it. We asked the President if he obtained a legal opinion from the
Office of Legal Counsel or anyone else within his administration. To
date, we have not received any documentation that discusses any
authority whatsoever that he has to undertake this massive immigration
directive. I know the Secretary of Homeland Security has discretion to determine
who is put in removal proceedings. Prosecutorial discretion has been
around for a long time, but it hasn't been abused to this extent. The
President is claiming the Secretary will implement this directive using
prosecutorial discretion. However, millions of immigrants coming here
illegally will be instructed to report to the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Service and proactively apply. This is not being done on a
case-by-case basis as they want to make it appear. The President's directive is an affront to our system of
representative government and the legislative process, and it is an
inappropriate use of executive power based upon what he said last
September, that he didn't have the authority to do this. The President
bypassed Congress because he couldn't lead on immigration reform, and
he couldn't work in a bipartisan manner on an issue that involves
undocumented young people. The President's directive runs contrary to the principle that
American workers must come before foreign nationals. His policies only
increase competition for American students and workers who struggle to
find employment in today's economy. And that unemployment is 8.2
percent official, 11 or 12 percent unofficial. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate
among the age group 16 to 24 has been nearly 17 percent for the last
year. According to a Gallup poll conducted in April of this year, 32
percent of the 18-to-29-year-olds in the U.S. workforce, if not
unemployed, are underemployed.
The President's plan to get people back to work is to grant
immigrants who come here illegally a work authorization. He must be
seriously out of touch if he doesn't think there is competition already
for American workers. Now I wish to talk about how poorly this directive has been thought
out. This is the implementation of a directive the President said he
didn't have the authority to do in the first place. But if you are
going to have an illegal directive, you ought to at least know it will
work. It is my understanding the White House informed Homeland Security
officials of this plan just days before it was announced on June 15.
They were unprepared, and have since been scrambling to figure out how
it will be carried out. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service--the agency in charge of all
immigration benefits, including work authorizations, visa applications,
asylum petitions, and employment verifications for employers--will be
the agency tasked with handling millions of new applications for
deferred status and work permits. Agents in the field are confused as
to how to do their jobs and fear retaliation if they don't do the right
thing. So in essence, this White House is telling agents in the field
to begin a practice called catch and release. Last Friday, Homeland Security officials briefed the Judiciary
Committee on the directive. Staff of the Judiciary Committee were told
that agents of the agency would be required to release immigrants who
come here illegally if they fell into the criteria laid out. But what
are the ramifications if an agent does not release them but instead
uses his discretion to say the person was not eligible and puts them in
removal proceedings? You will be astounded by the answer we got, because the Department of
Homeland Security explained that such an agent would be subject to
disciplinary action--disciplinary action if you are doing what your job
is required to do. The agent's actions would be considered during their
annual personnel review. So there will be no discretion for agents, and they will be forced to
give deferred action to anyone who comes close to the criteria laid
out, even despite their hesitation to do so, or face retaliation from
bureaucratic higher-ups. It is as though Homeland Security forgot their mission which is:
To ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and way of life can thrive.
Once we overcome the question of legal authority and the reality that
there was little thinking put into this plan before it was announced on
June 15, we are left to oversee the details of the implementation plan.
Homeland Security officials say they will have a process laid out by
August 15. We have very little details, but Homeland Security officials
did give some insight on Friday in this briefing to members of the
Judiciary Committee staff. Here is what we learned. We know people under the age of 30, who entered before their 16th
birthday, have been here for at least 5 years, and are currently in
school may qualify for deferred action. We know there are caveats to
the criteria. Some criminal offenses will be OK, and young people can
finish their education after they are granted deferred action. We know individuals with final orders of removal will be eligible for
deferred action. We know these people will not have to appear for an
in-person interview to benefit from this directive of the President of
June 15. We know they will be granted this special status for 2 years,
and those who are denied will not be put into removal proceedings. We
know this is not aimed at helping just youth since the age limit is 30. So who are we going to help over age 30, because we thought from the President's announcement, if people are over 30 years of age nobody is going to benefit. We know people under the age of 30 are not the only people going to be considered for relief. Secretary Napolitano said so herself. She told CNN's Wolf Blitzer the following:
We have internally set it up so that the parents are not referred for immigration enforcement if the young person
comes in for deferred action
I was not born yesterday. This administration is not going to give a
benefit to immigrants here illegally and then force his or her parents
to leave the country, which begs the question, What will they do if the
young people are eligible and receive deferred action, but the parent
is a criminal, a gang member, or a sex offender?
Because this program has not been well thought out and because it is
being rushed to benefit people by the end of the year, there is no
doubt that fraud will be a problem. How will Federal officials who
process the applications ensure that information provided by the
individual is accurate? How will they verify that one truly entered the
country before the age of 16 or is currently under the age of 30?
Homeland Security officials act as though they are prepared to handle
the influx of counterfeit documents that will be presented. The
department officials are going to rely on their small fraud detection
unit--who already happen to be very busy working every day on other
types of immigration benefits--to determine if people are truly
eligible. What will be the consequences for individuals who
intentionally defraud the government? They need a fraud and abuse
prevention plan. Without one they will likely legalize every single
immigrant who came here illegally, who is already on U.S. soil.
The administration will announce more details about this plan in the
next few weeks. I am anxious to see if they plan to only provide
deferred action to this population. Department officials refuse to
elaborate on whether some of these individuals will be able to get
advanced parole. That is a special status that allows an immigrant
coming here illegally to adjust to permanent residence and then gain
citizenship. This administration wants people to believe this is not
amnesty and that these people will not have lawful status, but I am
watching to see if they try to pull the wool over our eyes and provide
a status that allows these people to adjust and remain here
permanently.
Finally, a major flaw in the President's plan is how this is going to
be paid for. A massive amnesty program is going to cost a lot of money.
So what are the taxpayers going to have to cough up out of their hard-
earned dollars to pay for it? Department officials said on Friday that
illegal immigrants may not be charged for their special status. The
individual would be charged $380 if they choose to apply for a work
authorization. They could not assure us that funding would not be
redirected from other programs to this initiative.
To reprogram funds within the Department, the Secretary must notify
and gain consent of the majority and minority leaders on the
Appropriations Committee. However, when pressed, Department officials
could not assure us that they would not bypass the longstanding process
and reprogram dollars on their own. The U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Service will be forced to concentrate on this program,
leaving employers, foreign workers, and legal immigrants without the
service they need to work, visit, or remain in the United States.
If the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service adjudication staff
will be diverted from their normal duties to handle the millions of
potential deferred action applications, this can only have a
devastating impact on other programs within the Department. I fear this
plan will bankrupt the agency that oversees immigration benefits and
affect all legal immigration for years to come.
I fear the President has overstepped his authority again. The
President, time and again, has shown no leadership or refused to work
with Congress on issues that directly impact the American people. And
when it comes to the immigration issue he promised the people in the
2008 election, that in his first year in office he would have an
immigration bill before Congress, he has not even presented an
immigration bill yet. He insisted he was coming here to change
Washington, but he changed it for the worse. He insisted he was going
to make this the most transparent administration ever, but Congress and
the American people are left in the dark.
No matter where one stands on immigration, we should all be appalled
at how this plan has been carried out. Whether it is legal or illegal
is one thing. But when it is not thoroughly thought out, how it is
going to be implemented, that is not how the chief executive of a major
operation such as the U.S. Government ought to be acting.
We should all be concerned that our votes are rendered meaningless as
a result of the assumption of power on June 15 that the President said
last September he did not have. Until we can end this plan, I encourage
my colleagues to watch over its implementation for the future of our
country. The integrity of our whole immigration system is hanging in
the balance.
This immigration system is very important because the United States
has opened doors for more people than any other country in the world to
come here legally. About 1 million people come here legally. So we are
a welcoming nation. We are a nation built upon immigrants bringing new
ideas to this country, making this a very not only colorful country but
a dynamic society. We ought to leave it that way. But this change to
our immigration system for people to come here legally jeopardizes a
lot of people who want to abide by our laws and come here and make our
country even richer. I yield the floor.
I listened to the whole conference. I was disappointed. I did not hear anything I had not heard before (IT IS FAKE). I also was extremely disappointed in the reporter that local channel five sent to report on this conference. He must not have known why he was there. His questions were off subject. He missed an opportunity. If he thought the sheriff was "full of it", he should have questioned the findings. This conference as failed as it was, was to be about the birth certificate. None of Morgan Loew's questions pertained to the subject. He seemed lost. He kept trying to change the subject. He asked no questions about the findings of the sheriff, other than why should we believe the sheriff. Unless you watched the conference live, you will not see this. If you watch the report on channel five I'm sure it'll be chopped up to make him look good. Sad, sad performance by Morgan Loew. No new evidence from the sheriff. Long story short, if you missed the conference, you missed nothing good.
I may be labeled
a liberal. First let me make it clear I do not support Obama Care as written. I
do however support a lot of the "entitlement programs". Including
more that don't exist. Is it wrong of me not to want to see a single person
thrown out into the streets due to having hit a low point in their life? Is it
wrong of me to not want to see anyone that needs medical care not get it? Is it
wrong of me not to want to see anyone go hungry? I am not just talking about
the children. I am talking about everyone. Even the able bodied young person.
It can happen to anyone. You are working one
day and suddenly, no job. No, not everyone automatically qualifies for
unemployment. Sometimes they don't at all sometimes it takes time to get it. In
the mean time there is still a need to pay the bills and eat. Try being late on
a utility bill. If it gets disconnected guess what more fees to turn it back on
plus a deposit. Where will that extra money come from? You think they could plead
with the utility company and get the extra cost erased? Think again. Try
getting a job having been evicted and now you have no home address. Not as easy
as you may think.
I know you
fortunate out there are saying "ooooooh poor babies, get a job! That just
goes to show how ignorant, spoiled and
selfish you are. Even if a young able bodied person leaves the job they
have lost and hits the pavement that very same day. Jobs are not easy to come
by (or have you not been reading the news). Wait I know you have because I hear
you blaming Obama for the
unemployment. This is strange since I also hear you calling the jobless lazy.
But back on
subject. I think there needs to be a safety net in place for everyone that does
not qualify for any other program and if able to, is seeking work. I also
believe at the same time there needs to be a better transitional program in
place to help those who have recently lost a job. As in receiving cash benefits
while in a structured employment search or training program. Now I would agree
that those who have been collecting unemployment for more than a year (sorry
guys) are either being too picky or are not looking at all. Then I agree with
you and say they need to get off their butts. So, I also believe there should be a time limit for how long anyone can collect benefits if they are able to
work. Then you pompous ignoramuses
can throw them out into the streets.
I believe as
human beings the nature we have within us should urge us all to help others in need. If you are one of
those that say don't raise my taxes to help those lazy good for nothings. I
believe that train of thought runs along the lines of survival of the fittest and in humans this teaching is indorsed by the satanic churches. So
Christians with this attitude... hmmmm you are in good company.
Are you even
aware that in most places there is no help for adults without children to
receive any type of benefits? Even disabled cannot receive cash benefits in
most places (hang in there we will get to social security soon). There are many
women out there having children and for one reason, they are rewarded for it.
They get to collect the money as soon as they are pregnant that could have been
spent to help them look for work. Now since they have a child (or more) it
makes it more difficult and more expensive to work. Chances are at minimum wage
they will pay more to child care than they take home. So what has been
accomplished. Now in this example had there been some type of program in place
to help her get a jump start, maybe she would have chosen a different route
than having a child.
Now some of you
are confused that read my blogs. I usually seem so anti Obama and conservative. Well I don't care for a lot of his
policies. I think he among dishonest politicians is the most dishonest. But
that does not mean I never agree with him.
There seems to be
a class warfare going on in politics. I hear two classes every day on the news.
There are the rich and there are the middle class. Well guess what there is a
third class that I have recently joined. We are the poor and we are humans too. Most of us hard
working. But we were not as fortunate as you to have had the ability to go to
college. We could not get the high paying jobs. But we are here, don't turn a blind
eye on us and think we don't vote. To us the middle class are rich. You cry like babies because you don't have
enough money to make payments on your new car or boat. You might not have
enough to make the mortgage payment on the house you bought, that is way more
than you needed. But you have to have the best. Heaven forbid, you might not
have enough money to go to Disneyland this
year. Raise your taxes? Goodness no!
Now this blog
gets personal. I will make public what I normally speak to close family members
only. About 2yrs ago here in Arizona
I was working and making pretty good money for my skills. I keep up on the news
always have. The big topic going around was the deficit. Cuts were going to
have to come to medical programs for adults. If not taxes were going to have to
be raised. "NO! DON"T RAISE OUR TAXES!" The majority of middle
class and rich cried. I looked at the figures and found the average tax
increase would be just over $100 a year. "Take it" I thought. "Help
these people out. They too are humans and need medical treatment." I
already was giving more than that to a fund at work to help those in need. I
could not believe such a fuss was being made over such a small amount. Guess
what, taxes were not raised and the needed programs were removed.
Little did I know soon I would be on the other
side of it. About a year later a condition I had been suffering through got
worse(and keeps getting worse) I ended up in the hospital and could no longer
perform my duties at work. I had to quit my job I had held for 11 years due to
health. The end of April 2011 was the last few hours of work I had put in.
Leading up to that time in the final couple of months I had only been able to
work sporadically. I was disabled unable to work.
I hoped to get
better and would have grabbed the first job I could find. I have not gotten
better. I used up all the money I had and emptied my 401k I sold everything of
value I had including my car (I am not allowed to drive anyway). The money was
gone. How was I going to pay bills now?
In July 2011, I
applied for disability social security. Which by the way is not an entitlement
program. It is basically a government run insurance/retirement program, that we
are forced to buy into. Over the next several months more and more paperwork
was requested and provided. Around February of this year after have heard
nothing for a while, I called social security to find out the status. After
giving the rude man on the other end of the phone all my information, there was
a pause. Then came the question that said it all "Did you apply using your
own social security number?" They had lost all records of me. I told him I
had my case number, application number, and copies of all the paperwork turned
in along with the requests. He wanted nothing to do with it and I would need to
start the process over. I have started the process over again.
Nothing received
as of yet. For 15 months now I have not worked. After the money and assets were
gone I began living on borrowed money. Some in my situation have no valuable
assets, no 401k, one to borrow from. Now those I have been borrowing from are
getting tapped out. We are almost at mid
month and I don't know how bills will be paid. I am independent. I don't like
to be dependent on others. Yet here I am
both health wise and financially. The good
news is I never bought a great house I could not afford. You can call me
trailer trash. I live in a double wide I picked up 10 years ago for about $3500
and fixed it up. So my lot rent and utilities are all I worry about. I think of
myself as fortunate compared to some. Where is the safety net for those that
for reasons similar to mine end up in situations similar to mine? Still
afraid someone might get a free ride?
Then make it a program that requires repayment when they go back to work. Would
that make you happy? I could live with
that.
I am not talking
socialism. I am talking compassion. If it makes me liberal to love and care
about others even though in just about every other case I am conservative than
I will wear the label proudly because as God leads the example, I love and care
about all.
Note: Due to the
removal of ads from my blogs (my blogs are too "controversial"). I
have added a donation button at the top of the page. It is embarrassing to say
this but please use it. Thanks as always for reading my blogs. Remember just
because you don't like one of my blogs, don't stop reading. You more than
likely will like the next.
With Sheriff Joe
Arpaio set to release "breathtaking/shocking"
revelations about Obama's birth certificate on July 17th, I have to wonder what
more could he have learned? Have we not heard it all by now? I mean even Obama
lovers have to face it, the dog gone birth certificate is fake. The debate is
over. It does not matter if you believe President Obama was born in the USA or not.
There is no doubt the birth certificate presented by the white house is a fake.
There is no longer any doubt remaining.
Even Obama's own
lawyers admitted it, in a New Jersey
court case brought by the Tea Party questioning Obama's eligibility to be on
the primary ballot. It was even argued that since it was a forgery it could not
be used as evidence. It was not even a good forgery. I will not go into the
evidence. I strive to keep these blogs short and rely on you to look for the
facts. I have however decided I will begin to include links for you to look
into. I read and watch many articles and videos on the subjects I choose, so I
will provide only some. which also are usually linked to more. Here are some
pertaining to the forgery and lawyers. (Side note to the sheriff: If you have
new evidence now, why wait until the 17th?)
So now that we know that the certificate was indeed a
forgery, was he or was he not born in Kenya,
was he or was he not born in Hawaii?
Michelle Obama let it out during a
speech that she considers his home country as Kenya. If she thinks this way it
would only make sense that he does also. Who else says he was born in Kenya?To name just a couple of important people
that should know (you can find many more). Check out the links below and add
his grandmother and Kenya's
Ambassador.
Michelle Obama says
his home country is Kenya. (video)
While you are at it
read this article that appeared in the East African Standard on Sunday June 27,
2004 as he was ready to take a seat in the US Senate.(text)
While I am
presenting all this evidence as far as his birth certificate and birthplace
let's touch on a couple of more things that he may not have been up front about.
Such as was his:
Now having
brought your attention to these things, don't label me. I don't know where he
was born. He very well could have been born in Hawaii
or Egypt
for all I know. My only aim is to get you thinking and decide for yourself
having viewed the evidence. I could go
on and on about Obama the "possible fake" but clicking on these links
alone is going to keep you very busy. I do however have a closing question for
you. If our great president has nothing
to hide then why is he hiding everything?
Note:I warned you in my "Censored" blog
that I was about to get very controversial. All adds were pulled from my blog,
due to what I considered slightly controversial. I have also since been turned
down by another sponsor for the same reason. I have nothing to lose now. Look
out here it comes!
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
I promised I would give you details on the censorship here it is straight from the horses mouth.
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Hard to believe?
Believe it! I am not the first small blogger this has happened to there are
many (research it). It is hard to censor the larger media even though it is
happening. Even though some honestly want to report the news in it's full
truth. Information is being funneled to them through filters. Witnesses hidden
in the shadows of dramatic witnesses that have "more information".
Yes more of the "information" they want you to hear. But even with
the large news media pretty much under control by placements in and out of the
business of news, another problem has arisen, THE INTERNET. The truth is always
out there. You just have to look for it.
Because of the
situation with my health, I am unable to do many things but I have times when I
get clear enough to focus on reading and writing. Sometimes it is only enough
to quick put down a piece of something to write more on later. Sometimes it is
enough to read my back email. Sometimes it is enough to actually do some research
into a subject I have been wondering about. The point is I do it whenever
possible. I look for the truth.
Now, at this
point you are probably laughing to yourself. "Mike has really lost it this
time. Why would they bother with his blog?"Let me tell you a few short days ago I would
have laughed along with you.
But, I am not
laughing now.I really have not said
much in my blogs (just enough to raise some flags). I have held back partly
because I know many are wearing the blinders that keep you thinking along the
lines they want you to think. Partly because I did not want to believe what I
was seeing. Even though there is undeniable proof. Did you know that the
internet is continually being searched for key words and phrases that warrant further
investigation?
Now maybe some of
you are thinking "Okay, but even if I was to buy into the idea they may be
worried about the direction your blogs may take, there is still the numbers
thing." Yes to the numbers. I have an extremely small number of people
reading my blog. What maybe 10 reading on a regular basis. My record day of
hits I believe was 49. Over the young life of my blog I have only received at
last check, 591 total hits. However it has been steadily growing. And this may
surprise you, (it did me) I have received hits not only from all over the USA
including the great state of Alaska but also hits from Egypt, Israel, Russia,
Slovakia, France, Germany and Malaysia. Here is the kicker though. I tried
something new within a day of the censorship that I hoped and maybe they feared
would bring in more readers to my blog. I uploaded a video to youtube. If you
have not seen it then shame on you. (LOL) But you still have a chance. It is
called "A Dying Man's Regrets".
But the number is
so small. Not by my wishes I want to reach many more(I need your help).Why bother? That is the question I asked
myself as I was ready to throw in the towel. "It is hard enough for me to do this with my health. Is it just a waste of time anyway? Nobody
reads it. It is difficult just getting friends and family to read it."These were just a few of the things going
through my mind. Then it hit me. I was a weed in their garden. When is a weed
hardest to remove? When it has grown and spread out. So you want to get it when
it is just beginning. When it is small enough to easily kill.Now, they don't want to just remove my blog,
then the word censorship could be used and the 5 of you still reading this far
would tell 5 others that would tell 5 more and pretty soon it becomes a big
story and questions would be asked and the blog put back on either here or
someplace else, in the mean time I would get the publicity along with my blogs.
Get the point. There are other ways to
censor and this is what has happened to me. The sad thing is they almost won.
They caught me at
a good time and almost created the perfect storm. Already having difficulties
doing something that would take any of you 5-10 min, that I have to put all my
focus and energy into and still takes me days to do. Then to have the low
numbers of readers and I am pretty sure only one subscriber. With the added on
blast from them, I was done. "Who cares?I will just throw my balloon to the porcupines." Then I snapped out
of it. DOG GONE IT! This is who I am! Besides my family and faithful friends,
this is all I have. I can't even concentrate on an hour long TV show from
beginning to end. Even up to this point writing this has taken 5 sits. I can't
focus for long periods of time and have to take breaks. But this is it folks,
this is what I have and it won't be taken away.
Okay so 1 or 2 of
you are still reading. Good thanks. Some are thinking I have gone to the
extreme end of conspiracies. (wait until you see what I write in the future)
How exactly have I been censored?I wish
I could give details and in a weeks time I will be able to. Right now I am in
talks with them (sounds official does it not) I worded it that way just cause
it sounds cool. It is really a one sided talk where they read my points then
decide whether or not to continue with their actions. Within a week they tell
me I will receive a decision.
Now I said I
could not give you details and I won't. However as a reward for following this
blog this far I will give you a hint that you can't miss. Remember though you
are adding 2+2 to get 4. I am not telling you. (hee hee)
Rush Limbaugh,
that would be a great clue in itself but I will take it even further. Like him,
hate him or love him does not matter. Rush is very out spoken and some would
even say radical. There are those that hate him or I'll be nice and say don't
hate him just everything that comes out of his mouth whether they heard it or
not, so much they want him censored in anyway possible. I will be careful not to
go into another blog here (too easy) So
back on track, there is a wing of Rush haters that I see all the time on the
net calling for boycotts of any advertisers of his show. Side note to any of my
well meaning friends that are in this group, it won't work. It has been tried
for years now. Like it or not he is on the air until our freedom of speech is
gone or he decides to retire. (kk freedom of speech blog on it's way lol) Now
with this little blip notice anything
missing from my blogs?
Now you can take
this blog with a grain of salt. Laugh it off, whatever. You have your own brain
and I just want you thinking. That is the whole purpose of all my blogs to get
you the reader thinking. Follow them share them. Many new blogs will follow. As
long as I can type a letter or speak a word for someone else to type, I will
keep blogging.Some blogs will be heart
warming stories some will be controversial, but they will keep coming. Maybe
the missing piece will be back on my blog within a week (maybe to be pulled
again) maybe it won't. This blog alone may be the straw that breaks the camel's
back, that piece may never be back. My blog is here to stay. (note to self: now
just to get some readers)
The word quickly
spread of the terminal illness of a man well known in the community. A young
man, maybe a bit more curious than most, just had to ask the dying man.
"How does it feel to know you are dying?'
"Do you mean
would I have rather died suddenly like my father? Not knowing, gone in an
instant. Or am I glad I am dying knowing the day is just over the horizon? I
can't answer that."
"Well"
the young man continued with another question. "Are you satisfied with the
man you are?"
"I am who I
am because of the choices I have made. The things I have seen and felt. The
actions I have taken. I am who I am." the man said emotionless.
"Then you
have no regrets?" With this question the young man saw tears well up in
the dying man's eyes.
There was a pause.
Then the dying man now with tears visibly slipping from his eyes and rolling
down his cheeks, looked toward the ground and replied.
" I regret
ever having witnessed a tear of sorrow.
I regret every
single tear I ever brought to another.
I regret any word
I have ever spoken to another in anger.
I regret any pain
I ever inflicted on another.
I regret anyone in
need I ever passed by, without stopping to see if I could help.
I regret living in
a world where immorality has become an acceptable way of life.
I regret living
in a world where people are proud to encourage hate in others, against those
they accuse of encouraging hate.
I regret living
in a world where people think only of themselves and what is in it for them
rather than what is good for all.
I regret living in a world where religion has
become a bad word.
I regret living
in a world where most churches have stopped loving, helping and encouraging
those down and out. In a world where it is more common for them to spew hate
out of their mouths, judging and calling the unfortunate and disabled lazy and
good for nothing. Not bothering to ask the situation and not caring.
I regret living
in a world where many churches have become exclusive clubs where sinners and
homeless need not enter. Where in many cases the preacher is the highest paid
person in the room and begs for more.
I regret living
in a world of my god is better than your
god and I'll kill you to prove it.
I regret living
in a world where the government is willing to lie, trick and bribe to get a bill
past that harms the people it was put in place to protect.
I regret living
in a world where people are judged or excused due to race, religion or color of
their skin.
I regret living
in a world where it is good economics to start a war.
I regret not
having made an effort to change these things when I had the chance.
I remember when I
was a child, someone told me as the rain poured from the sky, that it was God's
tears for those who no longer listened. As a child I laughed. Now it does not
seem so funny it almost seems...."
He stopped talking mid sentence, wiped his tears and looked away.
The young man could
ask no more questions and walked away, thinking of what he had just heard.
A few months
later at the man's funeral where many had gathered to say goodbye, the young
man got up and shared the conversation. He than looked to the sky and said
"You made a difference in me my friend. I will never be the same. I with
the help of those gathered here today will make a difference." He looked
back at the crowd who all just looked toward the ground.
Please stay with
me while I give a little background to this blog. The first paragraph below is
not the blog, even though it may seem like it. It is however, a mini blog
within a blog used as an intro.
Probably missed by
a lot of you during all the discussion about the ruling on the Obama Care were the votes on whether or not to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. Holder
was ordered to turn over documents pertaining to the Fast and Furious blunder.
He has made one excuse after another and to this day has refused to turn over
many documents. You or I would have been sitting behind bars long ago. There
were two votes one in the criminal case and one in the civil case. In the criminal
case the vote to hold him in contempt was 255-67 with 17 democrats voting with
the Republicans to hold him in contempt. In the civil case the vote was 258-95.
21 Democrats voting with the Republicans. Before the votes 85 COWARDS walked
out claiming it was in protest. I happen to believe that a few started it and
many joined, very happy because they would have voted against their party in
favor of the contempt charges. BECAUSE THE MAN IS GUILTY. Regardless of which
way they would have voted, they ran in the face of battle instead of casting a
vote.
Okay, here it comes. Many of you might not
know. Because in your eyes every man is created equal regardless of skin color.
Holder is the first African American Attorney General.
So it was bound to happen the card was played, THE RACE
CARD. Representative Frederica Wilson a
democrat from Florida
was one. "It's about racism." she cried. NO! Rep. Wilson, regardless
of his skin color, THE MAN IS GUILTY! We
the citizens of the United
States of America deserve the truth! As Representative Paul Gosar from Arizona put it. “Throughout our nation and specifically in Arizona, folks
from all political parties and all races are now living in danger of grave
violence due to actions of this administration, I am convinced that holding the
attorney general in contempt is the only way to send a strong message to this
administration and future ones that no one is above the law.”
The race card is
like the joker of the deck. Most of us remove them before starting and rules
are what matters, not skin color. But there are others that like to sneak them
back in the deck and when they are losing by the rules they pull the card out
and scream RACISM. Many try to take people down that they disagree with and are
losing the intellectual battle, by twisting and taking words out of context to
make non-racist people look racist. Why do they do this? Because they know the
vast majority of us are not racists and hate the act of racism.
Do I believe there
is no racism in America
today? No, I do not and it saddens me. But I will tell you what makes me madder than a fox taken prisoner
in a hen house. That is when people like Frederica Wilson, Jesse Jackson
and Al Sharpton, just to name a few, keep it alive by pumping into the veins of
racism the blood of hate. Why wouldn't they? That is how Jesse and Al make
their money. Which one of you enjoys the life they live. All through the
donations of suckers. They sit at home relaxing with a beverage watching TV
hoping to spot something involving a "minority". Something they can
twist and mold like Play-Dough into something it is not. Than they march and
scream racism. They bring attention to themselves and of course more donations
and paid appearances follow. Al and Jesse both call themselves Reverends. Reverends
of what? I want to know. They do not teach the love that Jesus taught. The
unity taught by Jesus. No! I offer to you that they are the teachers and
pushers of hate, helping to keep racism alive.
Am I against
people speaking up when there is a true act of racism? No, I am not. I applaud
those that truly want equality for all. I dislike those that create the
illusion of racism where it does not exist. The same that ignore it if racism
is reversed against the white. I support people being charged with hate crimes.
But Lady Justice must be blindfolded. It must work for all in an equal manner.
One day in Army
basic training I was sitting talking with one of my army buddies. He stopped
talking about whatever the subject was that we were discussing and said to me,
"You know you're kind of cool. I am glad I met you here. Back where I come
from, if you had shown up, you would probably been knifed just cause your
white." I think both our eyes were open during that time. I think that is
when it hit home to me that racism strikes from all directions and needs to be
stopped from all sides. I think he realized that all whites were not evil
minority hating monsters that some want them to believe. We are all human and
created equal. It is what we allow to grow within us that makes us who we are.
It is time for the
hate mongering to stop. It is time to stop twisting words and ideas. It is time
to stop pushing racism and begin looking together at the real issues. I am
white (as you may have guessed) if I go out today and get a dark tan, does that
change who I am on the inside? Nope, I will still be the same crazy Mike.
It is time to
remove once and for all the jokers from the deck. Play by the rules. If true
racism occurs, lets call it for what it is and put an end to it. Let's also
stop the false charges of racism that only seek to twist it in for a vote or
the almighty buck.
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I have a dream that one day
this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
