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Saturday, 14 November 2009

  • November 11, 2009

    When Our Military Is Attacked, Obama Is a Nowhere Man

    By Robin of Berkeley

    He's a real nowhere man,

    Sitting in his Nowhere Land,

    Making all his nowhere plans

    for nobody . . . 

    He's as blind as he can be,

    Just sees what he wants to see,

    Nowhere Man can you see me at all?

    (Lennon / McCartney)

    I used to have a friend with a few screws loose.  But you'd never know it.

    Barbara dressed impeccably in designer wear, and her house resembled a museum. She was a professor, tops in her field.

    But behind the impressive image, all wasn't right. She said she loved her son, Noah, but acted like he didn't exist. A single parent, Barbara wouldn't hesitate to introduce Noah to her boyfriend of the month. She skipped some of his meals, claiming that she was too busy to cook.

    Barbara called me her best friend. But she'd cancel dates at the last minute for no good reason. And she always flaked when I needed her.

    Even though Barbara looked perfectly normal, there was something awry. Perhaps the neurons in her brain weren't firing properly.

    I've been thinking about Barbara since Obama came on the scene. Like Barbara, Obama professes concern for people, but treats many with utter disregard. Since both are charismatic and successful, it's easy to get fooled.

    Some would say Obama's cool detachment is narcissism. But narcissists are charmers; they know exactly what to say and do, even it's all hot air.

    Others think that Obama is disengaged because he's elitist, arrogant. The day-to-day grunt-work is beneath him. His motto: I'd rather be golfing.  

    All of the above may be true, but it's something else: he seems off to me.

    During a "60 Minutes" interview with Steve Kroft when the stock market was sinking, Obama giggled. He wasn't embarrassed afterward, or apologetic. More worrisome than his bizarre behavior was that he didn't regard it as strange.

    Then, last week, we're faced with a national crisis: soldiers killed and gravely injured by an apparent Jihadist in the guise of a military doctor. When announcing the catastrophe, what does Obama do?

    He drones on and on for three minutes about Native American health issues, even doing a shout-out. In a monotone voice, Obama then reports that soldiers have been shot. He's nonchalant, flat, as though he's reporting the weather. 

    Afterwards, the opinions roll in. Some say that Obama looks down on the military. He views our soldiers as the great unwashed, trashy and ignorant, like Sarah Palin.

    Others assert that Obama's sympathies lie with the Muslims. Thus, he wants to avoid our burning questions: Why wasn't Major Hasan put on leave after he made anti-American remarks and surfed the web for information about Jihad? Most importantly: what is the government going to do to keep our military people and civilians safe?

    True, Obama's disinterest could be related to all of the above. But there's one more possibility: he may not have the foggiest idea what to feel or say or do.  

    He may not realize that after dozens of our soldiers are shot, he should be angry. Sad. Worried. He should feel something. Or at least pretend to. 

    When Obama isn't prepped and rehearsed, he flails around like a blind man. He's clueless, lost in space. 

    Obama wrote in his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, that he's not comfortable around people. This speaks volumes about his disengagement.  

    People who cannot relate to humans, who are made nervous by close proximity, shut down. They isolate and hide, like a snail inside its shell.

    This is when my therapist mind goes into overdrive trying to figure out what's wrong with Obama.

    Is he schizoid (a detached, asocial person)? Bipolar (manic depression)? Does he have a brain syndrome? What about Asperger's (high-functioning autism causing a defect in social skills)?

    Is something wrong medically -- a hormone or blood-sugar imbalance, a head injury, too many drugs in his youth? 

    Or is his disconnect caused by damage from childhood, from being raised by freaky people?

    Barack, Sr. was an abusive alcoholic and a bigamist. Obama's mother, like my former friend Barbara, made decisions about little Barry that showed little parental concern, like schlepping him to Indonesia, then back to the States, then wanting to return with him to Indonesia (he stayed with his grandparents). 

    Obama's grandfather Stanley was impulsive and volatile; he  was expelled from high school for punching his principal.  

    Stanley weirdly named Obama's mother "Stanley" because he wanted a boy. He anointed Frank Marshall Davis, an alleged pedophile and avowed communist, as young Barry's mentor. In his autobiography, Obama reports feeling uncomfortable at having to listen to sexually charged, drunken trash-talk between Stanley and Frank. 

    Did Obama start sealing himself off in childhood? It would be understandable: who would want to bond with people so disturbing? And why form emotional ties when you'll soon be leaving?

    Obama may have felt continually out of place and alien: black in a white family, American in Indonesia, middle class with average grades at a rich kids' prep school, and child of an odd, Communist-leaning family.  

    In Dreams, he reveals how he started detaching. About living with his grandparents from preteen on, he writes, "I was to live with strangers." And: "I'd arrived at an unspoken pact with my grandparents; I could live with them and they'd leave me alone so long as I kept my troubles out of sight."

    All grown up, Obama remains hermetically sealed. Although he's been a media star for a couple of years, we have no idea who he is inside.

    I've often wondered why people haven't come forth to say, "I knew Barry when..." We live in a media-saturated, exhibitionist world where everyone wants his three minutes of fame.  

    So where are all of his school chums, best friends, and old flames? The groups he hung with? His teachers, neighbors?

    Where are the anecdotes of what Obama was like, his interests and predilections? Was he friendly, funny, insightful? Did he win any prizes or trophies? Pen any papers?

    Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review. Yet from his former colleagues we find no accounts of  putting out the journal together under his leadership.

    He was a lecturer on constitutional law. Why hasn't a single student come forth and offered evidence like a good attorney?

    Why the silence? Could it be that Obama left no dent, not even a single footprint? Is there nothing there?

    When I envision the youth of other public figures, my impressions are vivid:  

    Little Bill Clinton: people-pleaser, Mama's boy, showoff.

    Young Hillary: brainiac, smartest girl in school, bossy.

    W: wisecracker, class clown, smart-aleck. 

    McCain: impetuous, volatile, ornery.

    Sarah: sweet, popular, every teacher's favorite, Miss Congeniality. 

    Young Barry: _________________. Blank.

    Only this: stranger in a strange land. 

    Obama's identity seems to have been formed when he found his clan: Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn. But these are disconnected people, misfits who aren't comfortable in their own skin. Their radical ideology arises from rage and alienation.  

    They, like Obama, treat people with disdain. Rev. Wright damned us after 9/11. Ayers and Dohrn bombed us, even masterminded a failed plot to kill U.S. servicemen attending a dance.

    Obama's indifference and distaste are on display every day. He golfs while unemployment surges. He pontificates after an attack against America.

    Why the "let them eat cake" attitude? Is it because he's pleased that the Left's long-laid plan to decimate capitalism is working nicely? Is he stubborn, not wanting to do what he doesn't want to do?

    I'd say yes. But there's something much more unsettling.

    He may have a limited ability to care.

    Sure, Obama loves his wife, children, dog Bo, and himself -- especially himself. And he relishes his far left ideology.  

    But the working stiff, the heart and soul of this country? I don't see it. The United States? I don't think so.

    And that's why Obama should never have been elected president.  

    A man or woman can be a decent president without getting As in school or graduating from the Ivy League. He or she does not need to have had a Brady Bunch childhood.

    The person can even lack experience if he or she is committed to working 24/7, learning the important stuff, and seeking expert advice.

    But there's one requirement that is nonnegotiable: Any viable candidate for president needs to be able to care about us.

    And, frankly, I don't know if this president is capable of it.

    Robin is a licensed psychotherapist and a recovering liberal in Berkeley.

Thursday, 22 October 2009

  •  More corruption revealed in the Demoncrat Senate

     

    No more StarKist Tuna for me. (I love tuna but there are other brands.)

      Sorry  Charley...  

     
         No more StarKist Tuna for me.....      SNOPES"  VALIDATES THE FACTS BELOW  : Speaker  of the House Nancy Pelosi's home district  includes San Francisco .  StarKist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco ,  Pelosi's home district.   StarKist  is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi. StarKist  is the major employer in American Samoa  employing 75% of the Samoan work force. Paul Pelosi, Nancy 's husband, owns $17 million  dollars of StarKist stock. In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was  increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa  exempted from the increase so Del Monte would  not have to pay the higher wage. This wou ld make  Del Monte products less expensive than that of  its competitors..   Last  week when the huge bailout bill was passed,  Pelosi added an e armark to the final bill adding  $33 million dollars for an "economic development credit in American Samoa "  Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "CORRUPT" and many other things!!!   How do you spell "HYPOCRISY" ?

     

Monday, 19 October 2009

  • Many Christian churches have endorsed giving amnesty to illegals poaching here...

    Assembly of God, Nazarene, Vineyard, MANY others.

    Read the article below

     

    Conservative Protestants Condone Law-Breaking

    Has the Christian Church Gone Crazy???

    by

    Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

    thelastcrusade.org



    Evangelical Christians this week offered the Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and members of the U.S. Senate Immigration Reform Committee their ringing endorsement of full amnesty for the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens within the country.

    Open borders and high immigration, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) proclaimed, increases membership in evangelical churches and is good for the economy.

    Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, said there was no dissent among the members of his organization in ratifying a pro-amnesty resolution.

    He testified that the Gospel requires that Christians be willing to forgive illegal aliens for breaking existing immigration laws and statutes.

    Rev. Anderson added: “We believe that undocumented immigrants who have otherwise been law abiding members of our communities should be offered the opportunity to pay any taxes or penalties owed, and over time earn the right to become U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The process of redemption and restitution is core to Christian beliefs, as we were all once lost and redeemed through love of Jesus Christ.”

    The NAE describes itself as “. . . a network of 40 denominations comprising more than 45,000 local churches located in every congressional district and every state.”

    Most of the member denominations uphold a literal interpretation of scripture and intransigent support for traditional values. The list of includes:

    • Anglican Mission in America
    • Assemblies of God
    • Brethren in Christ Church
    • Christian Reformed Church in North America
    • Church of God
    • Church of the Nazarene
    • Churches of Christ In Christian Union
    • Conservative Lutheran Association
    • Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches
    • Evangelical Presbyterian Church
    • Evangelical Free Church of America
    • Fellowship of Evangelical Churches
    • Free Methodist Church of North America
    • General Association of General Baptist
    • International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
    • International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies
    • International Pentecostal Church of Christ
    • International Pentecostal Holiness Church
    • Presbyterian Church in America
    • Primitive Methodist Church USA
    • Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
    • The Brethren Church
    • The Christian & Missionary Alliance
    • The Evangelical Church
    • The Salvation Army
    • The Vineyard, USA
    • Transformation Ministries
    • United Brethren in Christ
    • US Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches
    • The Wesleyan Church Corporation

    The position of the NAE remains incomprehensible to many conservative Christian conservatives, including Rev. Judith Schmitt of Puritan Congregation Church in Scranton, PA. “It’s outrageous for any Christian or Christian organization to condone law-breaking,” Rev. Schmitt said. “Forgiveness is central to the Christian doctrine but approval and reward of wrong-doing is not.”

    atta_Evanjellyfish

    Others, including conservative writer Patrick J. Buchanan, wonder why the endorsement of plans to grant full amnesty fails to create national outrage. He points out that while 25 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, “8.5 million U.S. jobs are held by illegal aliens who broke into the country or overstayed their visas.”

    Senator Schumer and other advocates for amnesty argue that illegals take jobs that Americans are unwilling to accept.

    This argument has been laid to rest by a raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants which rounded up 1,200 illegal aliens, 10 percent of the workforce. The raid failed to create any employment problems for Swift. In a matter of weeks, the plants were operating at full force – - manned by hundreds of native-born Americans who were delighted to take the jobs.

    Says Vanderbilt University Professor Carol Swain, “Whenever there’s an immigration raid, you find white, black and legal immigrant labor lining up to do these jobs Americans will supposedly not do.”

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Monday, 14 September 2009

  • August 22, 2009

    Obamacare-Point and Counterpoint

    By Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.
    Mr. Obama has gone back on the campaign trail to try to sell his health care reform to the nation.  Mostly hand-picked, sympathetic attendees have been showing up to his town hall meetings.  He continues to make the same points regarding health care reform, which need to be addressed specifically.  I hope to address more in future articles.
    • 1. We need health care reform.
    We do not need health care reform.  We have the best health care system in the world.  We need health insurance reform.

    • 2. Free market health insurance has caused our current problem.
    It is the government that has caused the current problem.  We have not had free market health insurance in this country since 1965.  It is not possible to consider our system of medical payment free market when the government controls $.60 of every dollar spent on health care.

    • 3. The evil and greedy health insurance companies have caused prices to skyrocket.
    Again, it's the government that has caused prices to skyrocket.  Medicare and Medicaid are the 800 pound gorilla and insurance companies are the fleas on the gorilla.  Nothing can be done by the private insurance companies that has not been done by Medicare and Medicaid.  The federal government opens the door and the private insurance companies follow.  It is the government manipulation of the free market that has caused our current health insurance problem. The out of control medical costs in Britain and Canada, as well as in Massachusetts and other states that have tried government health care prove this point.

    • 4. Nearly 50 million Americans are without health care.
    Nearly 13 million Americans are without health insurance.  No one in the United States is without health care.  Government regulations prohibit patients from being turned away from hospitals, which must provide medical care to anyone.  The huge number that the Obama administration has used is highly inflated.

    • 5. A government option will lower costs and improve quality of care.
    A government option will increase costs and reduce quality of care.  In every instance so far government involvement in medical services has caused prices to increase. Medicare spending has increased at a rate greater than 10 times that which was projected.  Medicare and Medicaid will be broke in less than nine years.  Adding another entitlement program will cause economic disaster.  The Congressional Office of Management and Budget has stated that the president's plan is unaffordable.  Further, the necessary rationing in order to even begin the program will reduce quality of care. 

    • 6. If you like your insurance and your doctor you can keep them.
    The same things were said at the inception of Medicare.  Medicare was supposed to be a supplemental insurance plan for retired people.  It now covers the disabled as well and those over the age of 65, who are now ineligible for any other type of primary medical insurance.  The government option will become the only option.  Therefore, it's not an option and in the end hospitals, doctors, and all health care companies will be working directly and only for the government.

    • 7. Government medical insurance is more cost efficient.
    Government medical insurance is less efficient.  The government, by force of law, transfers administrative costs to the private sector. Hospitals and doctors' offices must assume the burden of administration under threat of criminal penalty.  This unfunded administrative burden transferred to private individuals and private insurance is then added to the cost of the supposedly free-market healthcare system.

    • 8. The government option is necessary in order to prevent loss of insurance by individuals with medical problems.
    Government regulations make it mandatory for hospitals to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay.  The government can certainly pass a simple regulation making it illegal for medical insurance plans to be canceled due to illness on the part of the insured.  This would be a simple solution but of course would not increase government control over our lives. 

    • 9. The government option would ensure treatment for sick individuals who would otherwise have lost health care insurance. It would prevent lifetime limits on medical care.
    This is blatantly untrue.  There are definitive limits to Medicare that are not being publicized.  For example, a review of Medicare regulations shows it will pay up to a maximum of 90 days in the hospital for each medical incident. After that, a patient must be in a rehabilitation facility for 60 days in a row in order for Medicare to begin another cycle of payment. Similarly, there are limits on most other Medicare services. While private medical insurance may have a total lifetime limit on the amount that can be spent, there is almost never a limit on the number of days in the hospital.

    • 10. A government option will not result in rationing.
    The major government options already in existence employ rationing every day.  Prohibitively difficult preauthorization, statements of medical necessity, convoluted and complicated paperwork, and often impossible to meet requirements result in rationing on a huge scale.  Furthermore, delay in payment, denial of payment for services already rendered and other tactics reduce access to medical care on a widespread basis.  The government may not call this rationing but it is an insidious form of rationing that will be an integral part of any government plan.  Medicare misuses and abuses its funding and is guilty of literally stealing from hospitals and physicians.

    As an example of this thievery, due to a change in the corporate status of my practice I was required to apply for a new national provider identification number (NPI) in March of this year.  Within several weeks, without exception, all of the private insurance companies had registered the number and were paying on claims. After five months and exhaustive work of over 140 hours by my office staff Medicare and Medicaid had still not paid on a single claim. Finally, on August 14, Medicare made their first payment on claims that were five months old.  Yet, if we do not bill Medicare within three months of the date of service, Medicare will not pay us at all. Government regulation and control permeates the entire medical system.

    • 11. A government option will simplify the payment for medical services.
    The government has always made things more complicated and expensive.  This is part of their rationing system. The government has a habit of requiring new provider numbers every couple of years that must be used for all claims, including private insurance claims. When these are instituted, payment can be delayed for as long as six months.  To see how "simple" the federal government makes medical claims, what follows are my required identification numbers.
    UPIN #G16766

    OMAP#079496

    Medicare#R0000BLCGY (PTAN) OLD

    Medicare # R147304

    (PTAN) **NEW** R147303

    Railroad Medicare#110162014

    NEW Tax ID # 264520277

    OLD Tax ID# 911768627

    DEA # BRxxxxxxx  (Hidden to prevent use)

    Clia# 38D0933946

    NPI# 1306924691 (individual)

    NPI Group # 1235371485

    Every point the president has made regarding his health plan is either a gross misrepresentation or an outright lie.  The purpose of this plan is to ensure dependence on government and a financial windfall for his cronies, including trial lawyers, and has nothing to do with concern about the cost of medical care or about the health or lives of American citizens.

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