There is no peace within Islam and with Islam there can never be peace
Recent 'handiwork' from the religion of peace
This is a Catholic professor in India who asked about the pervert mohammad. His answer? The Muslims there chopped off his hand. This is the reality of Islam!!!!!
Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim, T-Bone Walker...
Magic, pure magic, happened right here. To close the night out, listen to this.
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Tags: American blues, Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim, T-Bone Walker To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the Patriot's Corner. Thanks!
Wade in the water- Eva Cassidy
The blues reign tonight. Eva Cassidy has always been a favorite of mine. Long before her death in 1996 from cancer, I had heard some recording of this great singer. Virtually unknown outside of the D.C. area until after her death, Eva Cassidy had a gift of voice and song that few will ever have. Hope you enjoy this.
Things are actually quite good. Save for my orthopedic injuries, severe pain and being broke, things could be nuch worse. I am blessed by God, family, friends, great music(wife is in a blues/jazz band)many cold IPA's, Tangle Ridge or 40 Creek Whiskey and good cigars. Posts will be picking up as I feel up to it. Thank you, Gary and Bill for pinching hitting.
Tags: American blues, Appalachian music, Eva Cassidy, Salvation, Spiritual, Wade in water To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the Patriot's Corner. Thanks!
Things are actually quite good. Save for my orthopedic injuries, severe pain and being broke, things could be nuch worse. I am blessed by God, family, friends, great music(wife is in a blues/jazz band)many cold IPA's, Tangle Ridge or 40 Creek Whiskey and good cigars. Posts will be picking up as I feel up to it. Thank you, Gary and Bill for pinching hitting.
Tags: American blues, Appalachian music, Eva Cassidy, Salvation, Spiritual, Wade in water To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the Patriot's Corner. Thanks!
Stormy Monday-Eva Cassidy
One of the most talented voices ever to sing the blues. She was months away from death from Cancer when did this version. Incredible! Turn up your volume on this one.
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Tags: American blues, Eva Cassidy, Stormy Monday To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the Patriot's Corner. Thanks!
I put a spell on you-Nina Simone. A damn fine song
One of the finest versions of this song you will ever hear.
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
Tags: American blues, Jazz, Nina Simone To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the Patriot's Corner. Thanks!
Motor-Voter Registration-Another Scandal
Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
J. Christian Adams, the ex-DOJ lawyer who has blown the lid on the voter intimidation scandal at Justice, has also written an interesting piece in Pajamas Media about the so-called motor-voter law that enables people to register to vote in certain states as they get their drivers' licenses at the DMV.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/lawlessness-at-the-doj-voting-section-told-not-to-enforce-purging-the-dead-or-ineligible-from-voting-rolls/?singlepage=true
There is another twist to this that deserves scrutiny. In California during the past several years, there has been a Democrat-led move to allow illegal aliens to obtain drivers' licenses, supposedly in the interest of having safer roads. Virtually every year, "One-Bill" Gil Cedillo, a Democrat from Southern California, introduces just such a bill.
It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to see what will happen if you have motor-voter registration at DMV coupled with allowing illegal aliens to get drivers' licenses.
"Uhhhhh......yeaaaah."
fousesquawk
J. Christian Adams, the ex-DOJ lawyer who has blown the lid on the voter intimidation scandal at Justice, has also written an interesting piece in Pajamas Media about the so-called motor-voter law that enables people to register to vote in certain states as they get their drivers' licenses at the DMV.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/lawlessness-at-the-doj-voting-section-told-not-to-enforce-purging-the-dead-or-ineligible-from-voting-rolls/?singlepage=true
There is another twist to this that deserves scrutiny. In California during the past several years, there has been a Democrat-led move to allow illegal aliens to obtain drivers' licenses, supposedly in the interest of having safer roads. Virtually every year, "One-Bill" Gil Cedillo, a Democrat from Southern California, introduces just such a bill.
It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to see what will happen if you have motor-voter registration at DMV coupled with allowing illegal aliens to get drivers' licenses.
"Uhhhhh......yeaaaah."
Back later today, tonight
There will be new posts here later today or tonight. We have had friends visiting from out of town and work has been really busy and complicated this past week. Finally, seeing the end of the fiscal year 'fun'. At the state level, use your imagination. So much wasted funds and time. One thing for sure, I will never be a bureaucrat!
Donald Berwick, Roberts Gibbs, Redistribution and Rationsing
Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
Robert Gibbs
President Obama is now making a recess appointment of Donald Berwick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid. The purpose of the recess appointment is clear; Obama wants to avoid a confirmation hearing on Berwick in which this man's ideas ands previous statements would be brought to the fore; namely, thet Berwick has expressed support for the idea of rationing health care to people based on their age and the whole cost-effectiveness of treating the elderly. He has also stated that any quality system of health care must involve distribution of wealth.
In the below White House press briefing this week, WH spokeshole (and professional comedian) Robert Gibbs treats reporter Fred Lucas like an errant school child (to the laughter of other reporters) when Lucas asks him if Obama agrees with statements made by Berwick.
Well, regardless of whether or not Republican congressman Paul Ryan made a similar statement, this is also what Berwick has stated (2008 in the UK). In the below video, Berwick speaks of redistribution of wealth.
In the below article, Berwick (in an interview) addresses health care rationing (see p2).
http://www.biotechnologyhealthcare.com/journal/fulltext/6/2/BH0602035.pdf?CFID=578
Mr Gibbs; let's forget about what Paul Ryan said on the topic and get back to Mr Berwick's statements on redistribution and rationing, OK?
"OK!"
fousesquawk
Robert Gibbs
President Obama is now making a recess appointment of Donald Berwick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid. The purpose of the recess appointment is clear; Obama wants to avoid a confirmation hearing on Berwick in which this man's ideas ands previous statements would be brought to the fore; namely, thet Berwick has expressed support for the idea of rationing health care to people based on their age and the whole cost-effectiveness of treating the elderly. He has also stated that any quality system of health care must involve distribution of wealth.
In the below White House press briefing this week, WH spokeshole (and professional comedian) Robert Gibbs treats reporter Fred Lucas like an errant school child (to the laughter of other reporters) when Lucas asks him if Obama agrees with statements made by Berwick.
Well, regardless of whether or not Republican congressman Paul Ryan made a similar statement, this is also what Berwick has stated (2008 in the UK). In the below video, Berwick speaks of redistribution of wealth.
In the below article, Berwick (in an interview) addresses health care rationing (see p2).
http://www.biotechnologyhealthcare.com/journal/fulltext/6/2/BH0602035.pdf?CFID=578
Mr Gibbs; let's forget about what Paul Ryan said on the topic and get back to Mr Berwick's statements on redistribution and rationing, OK?
"OK!"
Freedom of speech works both ways unless it is against Islam or Muslims
This is simply an matter of freedom of speech, and what is said on these signs, the truth about Islam. The landlord is very ignorant about Islam and this could be anyhwere in the United States. Notice whenever someone, a company takes a stand against Islam or Muslims, it is always branded as hate speech by CAIR or other Islamic groups and organizations. The signs do not violate any local codes, nor do they contain any hate speech or anti-Semitism. If fairness to to all, the family objecting to the Muslims moving in can move or the Muslims can choose to find another area to live in.
Along the Watchtower #4: The reality of Obamacare for one Ohio company
Labels:
D.C.,
Nancy Pelosi,
Obamacare and job losses
As the horrible reality of Obamacare settles across the nation, one Ohio Company is grappling with the new realities of the new healthcare bill. I encourage all of you to now do what many across the country failed to do; study and read up on this horrendous bill that the demosocialistacrats rammed through against the majority of people in our country. Remember Nancy Pelosi's words that went something like this: We need to pass this bill so the people of this country can find out what is in it. Not an exact quote but close enough to get the point across. I am, by no means an expert on Obamacare but I did manage to struggle through over half of the bill before it got ram rodded through. It was boring and filled with an over abundance of legalese but that is what politicians and the government do.
Here in my home state of Oregon, we have many friends who are shocked and dismayed over the increase to their health insurance for 2010. Increases from 25% to over 40% have been reported to me. These are retired school teachers, fire fighters, law enforcement, union and non-union employees that cover a very wide spectrum of society. Almost every one of these increases has been related to the new healthcare bill in one way or another. I have some other friends who work for a couple of large health insurance providers. They are telling me the same story. Where I now work part time assisting the State Dept. of Employment giving Career Readiness Certificate exams(CRC),I have access to numerous studies and articles from across the country on the new healthcare bill and it's fallout. This is not a pretty picture. We must hold those who voted this through accountable and vote them out of office this coming November.
Job losses from Obamacare: White Castle Hamburgers
Cleveland Plain Dealer: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The White Castle hamburger chain fears that a health insurance reform law adopted earlier this year will put its profits on a downward slide.
The Columbus-based family owned restaurant chain - known for serving small square hamburgers called "sliders" – says a single provision in the bill will eat up roughly 55 percent of its yearly net income after 2014.
Starting that year, the bill levies a $3,000-per-employee penalty on companies whose workers pay more than 9.5 percent of household income in premiums for company-provided insurance.
White Castle, which currently provides insurance to all of its full-time workers and picks up 70 to 89 percent of their premium costs, believes it will likely end up paying those penalties. The financial hit will make it hard for the company to maintain its 421 restaurants, let alone create new jobs, says company spokesman Jamie Richardson. White Castle employs more than 10,000 people nationwide, and more than 1,200 in Ohio.
Though advocates of the health insurance bill say its reforms will boost employment, House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio, a vocal foe of the changes, says White Castle's analysis shows how the law's "job-crushing" impact will be most severe in lower-income areas, where jobs like those at White Castle are most needed.
"The irony is that in the name of expanding health care coverage, the administration is making it harder than ever for unskilled workers to get started in the workforce," Boehner said in a missive on White Castle's plight.
Boehner's predictions don't mesh with White House Council of Economic Advisors estimates that health care reform will create 320,000 jobs in upcoming years. The White House has said employees at larger companies aren't likely to notice any difference in their insurance coverage, and that changes in the bill will particularly help small businesses by driving down their premium costs and making it easier for them to insure workers.
"While opponents of reform have raised concerns that some of the provisions in the President's proposal will harm small businesses and their employees, the facts, figures, and discussion below show that the proposal will mean tax cuts, no new requirements, and numerous other benefits," said a blog posting from the group's chair, Christina Romer, and its senior economist, Mark Duggan.
That's not how the National Council of Chain Restaurants sees it. Restaurant group vice president Scott Vinson says the entire restaurant industry will have trouble dealing with costs the bill imposes in 2014, including a $2,000-per-worker penalty that companies with more than 50 employees must pay if their workers end up purchasing federally subsidized insurance rather than getting insurance from their employers.
"There is the expense of actually providing the insurance, then the expense of not providing insurance," says Vinson. "It will be expensive either way."
George Ebinger of New Jersey, who owns several International House of Pancakes restaurants, says the penalties for not insuring his 140 workers will cost roughly half as much as insuring them. He figures he will have to raise prices and possibly lay off workers to come up with the $220,000 he anticipates the penalties will cost.
"We are still figuring out how to deal with this," says Ebinger. "Ultimately, either businesses will close or consumers will pay more."
Problems will be felt throughout the retail industry, which employs many entry-level workers, says National Retail Federation vice president Neil Trautwein. He says employers will face tough choices when the mandates become effective in 2014.
"We do worry about this discouraging employment, particularly when employment hasn't taken off," says Trautwein.
But White House Office of Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle says 97 percent of the nation's companies won't pay any penalties under the new law.
"The principle underlying this bill is: if you don't offer coverage and you have workers who the taxpayers are supporting to get their coverage, than you must make a relatively small contribution," says DeParle. "I understand that they don't like it and believe it will cut into their profits, but it is a relatively small contribution to defray costs to taxpayers."
Steven Kreisberg of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, questions White Castle's calculations. His union represents food service workers in Ohio public schools and other institutions.
He figures many of the White Castle workers who would end up paying a significant amount of their income for premiums would opt to buy less expensive coverage from a federal exchange.
"Let's not forget that since the worker is declining their coverage, they don't have to pay insurance for that worker," says Kreisberg, the union's health care policy director. "So they would be saving money at the same time as they are paying the penalty."
White Castle recognizes it won't continue paying health insurance bills for workers who buy insurance on the federal exchange, but Richardson says the company predicts its insurance costs would still rise because its healthiest young employees, who make the least money, would be most likely to transfer to the federal program. An exodus of healthy workers from the company's insurance plan would drive up costs for those who remain, the company forecasts.
White Castle, which began offering health insurance to workers in 1924, is also examining whether it would make financial sense for the company to eliminate health insurance coverage altogether and have all its employees buy insurance on the federal exchange, says Richardson.
"It would be incongruent with how we run our business, but we have to think that through," says Richardson. "No matter what, we will do what's best for our team members."
Original article can be found here
Hat tip: ARRA News Service
Here in my home state of Oregon, we have many friends who are shocked and dismayed over the increase to their health insurance for 2010. Increases from 25% to over 40% have been reported to me. These are retired school teachers, fire fighters, law enforcement, union and non-union employees that cover a very wide spectrum of society. Almost every one of these increases has been related to the new healthcare bill in one way or another. I have some other friends who work for a couple of large health insurance providers. They are telling me the same story. Where I now work part time assisting the State Dept. of Employment giving Career Readiness Certificate exams(CRC),I have access to numerous studies and articles from across the country on the new healthcare bill and it's fallout. This is not a pretty picture. We must hold those who voted this through accountable and vote them out of office this coming November.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The White Castle hamburger chain fears that a health insurance reform law adopted earlier this year will put its profits on a downward slide.
The Columbus-based family owned restaurant chain - known for serving small square hamburgers called "sliders" – says a single provision in the bill will eat up roughly 55 percent of its yearly net income after 2014.
Starting that year, the bill levies a $3,000-per-employee penalty on companies whose workers pay more than 9.5 percent of household income in premiums for company-provided insurance.
White Castle, which currently provides insurance to all of its full-time workers and picks up 70 to 89 percent of their premium costs, believes it will likely end up paying those penalties. The financial hit will make it hard for the company to maintain its 421 restaurants, let alone create new jobs, says company spokesman Jamie Richardson. White Castle employs more than 10,000 people nationwide, and more than 1,200 in Ohio.
Though advocates of the health insurance bill say its reforms will boost employment, House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio, a vocal foe of the changes, says White Castle's analysis shows how the law's "job-crushing" impact will be most severe in lower-income areas, where jobs like those at White Castle are most needed.
"The irony is that in the name of expanding health care coverage, the administration is making it harder than ever for unskilled workers to get started in the workforce," Boehner said in a missive on White Castle's plight.
Boehner's predictions don't mesh with White House Council of Economic Advisors estimates that health care reform will create 320,000 jobs in upcoming years. The White House has said employees at larger companies aren't likely to notice any difference in their insurance coverage, and that changes in the bill will particularly help small businesses by driving down their premium costs and making it easier for them to insure workers.
"While opponents of reform have raised concerns that some of the provisions in the President's proposal will harm small businesses and their employees, the facts, figures, and discussion below show that the proposal will mean tax cuts, no new requirements, and numerous other benefits," said a blog posting from the group's chair, Christina Romer, and its senior economist, Mark Duggan.
That's not how the National Council of Chain Restaurants sees it. Restaurant group vice president Scott Vinson says the entire restaurant industry will have trouble dealing with costs the bill imposes in 2014, including a $2,000-per-worker penalty that companies with more than 50 employees must pay if their workers end up purchasing federally subsidized insurance rather than getting insurance from their employers.
"There is the expense of actually providing the insurance, then the expense of not providing insurance," says Vinson. "It will be expensive either way."
George Ebinger of New Jersey, who owns several International House of Pancakes restaurants, says the penalties for not insuring his 140 workers will cost roughly half as much as insuring them. He figures he will have to raise prices and possibly lay off workers to come up with the $220,000 he anticipates the penalties will cost.
"We are still figuring out how to deal with this," says Ebinger. "Ultimately, either businesses will close or consumers will pay more."
Problems will be felt throughout the retail industry, which employs many entry-level workers, says National Retail Federation vice president Neil Trautwein. He says employers will face tough choices when the mandates become effective in 2014.
"We do worry about this discouraging employment, particularly when employment hasn't taken off," says Trautwein.
But White House Office of Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle says 97 percent of the nation's companies won't pay any penalties under the new law.
"The principle underlying this bill is: if you don't offer coverage and you have workers who the taxpayers are supporting to get their coverage, than you must make a relatively small contribution," says DeParle. "I understand that they don't like it and believe it will cut into their profits, but it is a relatively small contribution to defray costs to taxpayers."
Steven Kreisberg of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, questions White Castle's calculations. His union represents food service workers in Ohio public schools and other institutions.
He figures many of the White Castle workers who would end up paying a significant amount of their income for premiums would opt to buy less expensive coverage from a federal exchange.
"Let's not forget that since the worker is declining their coverage, they don't have to pay insurance for that worker," says Kreisberg, the union's health care policy director. "So they would be saving money at the same time as they are paying the penalty."
White Castle, which began offering health insurance to workers in 1924, is also examining whether it would make financial sense for the company to eliminate health insurance coverage altogether and have all its employees buy insurance on the federal exchange, says Richardson.
"It would be incongruent with how we run our business, but we have to think that through," says Richardson. "No matter what, we will do what's best for our team members."
Original article can be found here
Hat tip: ARRA News Service
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