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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_foundation#Policy_influence
"Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans"
By Stewart Butler, Heritage Foundation
This mandate is based on two important principles. First, that health care protection is a responsibility of individuals, not businesses. Thus to the extent that anybody should be required to provide coverage to a family, the household mandate assumes that it is t h e family that carries the first responsibility.
Second, it assumes that there is an implicit contract between households and society, based on the notion that health insurance is not like other forms of insurance protection. If a young man wrecks his Porsche and has not had the foresight to obtain insurance, we may commiserate but society feels no obligation to repair his car.
But health care is different. If a man is struck down by a heart attack in the street, Americans will care for him whether or not h e has insurance. If we find that he has spent his money on other things rather than insurance, we may be angry but we will not deny him services - even if that means more prudent citizens end up paying the tab. A mandate on individuals recognizes this implicit contract. Society does feel a moral obligation to insure that its citizens do not suffer from the unavailability of health care. But on the other hand, each household has the obligation, to the extent it is able, to avoid placing demands on society by protecting itself...>more
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/assuring-affordable-health-care-for-all-americans
Notice the comparison to auto insurance in the Heritage paper.
"Free Rider" used to be a term used by Republicans. Now it's bi-partisan.
The Obama that ran for President didn't like Obamacare. So it would be great if those that didn't "change their mind" were not called RACISTS.
Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) coming up on ABC's "This Week" 1/5/14
Set your DVR's! –ABC’s “This Week“: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), ABC’s Cokie Roberts, Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard, CNN’s Ana Navarro, Frmr. Gov. Brian Schweitzer (MT-D), BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/weekend-show-preview-1-3-1-5_b121532
Who is Brian Schweitzer?
...He has endorsed an expansion of wind, solar, and biofuel technologies as well as a plan to turn coal into diesel fuel.[23] Schweitzer has pointed out that Montana has had the highest ending fund balances in the state’s history under his administration, with an average ending fund balance of $414 million. The average balance of the eighteen years prior was $54 million....
...Schweitzer consistently held one of the highest approval ratings among governors in the nation, with polls regularly showing a rating of above 60 percent.[25][26] Due to term limits in Montana, he was barred from running for a third term in 2012...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Schweitzer
"How should America extract itself from Afghanistan?"
Schweitzer: "With Helicopters. Today."
little known fact about Bob, his toe, the CIA and boots
While the band prepared for the concert, a gift was delivered, according to a witness at the enclave – a pair of boots for Bob Marley. Former Los Angeles cinematographer Lee Lew-Lee [his camera work can be seen in the Oscar-winning documentary The Panama Deception] was close friends with members of the Wailers, and he believes that Marley’s cancer can be traced to the boots: “He put his foot in and said, ‘Ow!’ A friend got in there… he said, ‘let’s [get] in the boot, and he pulled a length of copper wire out – it was embedded in the boot.”
Had the wire been treated chemically with a carcinogenic toxin? The appearance of Colby at Marley’s compound was certainly provocative...
http://www.hightimes.com/read/chanting-down-babylon-cia-death-bob-marley
What the hell was a son of a CIA director doing giving Bob Marley a pair of boots?
Clean Diesels are incredible!
"BlueMotion vehicles are not available in North America."
And why is that?
Here's a guy that drives on hydrogen extracted from water (H20) powered by solar energy. IOW: Free. Range: ~400 miles.
Anyone can split water in their garage and produce hydrogen.
"Bride and Boom"-We’re Number One... In Obliterating Wedding Parties
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Washington's Wedding Album From Hell
Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:24am, December 20, 2013.
The headline -- “Bride and Boom!” -- was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a half. Of course, you have to imagine that smirk line in giant black letters with a monstrous exclamation point covering most of the bottom third of the front page of the Murdoch-owned New York Post. The reference was to a caravan of vehicles on its way to or from a wedding in Yemen that was eviscerated, evidently by a U.S. drone via one of those “surgical” strikes of which Washington is so proud. As one report put it, “Scorched vehicles and body parts were left scattered on the road.”
It goes without saying that such a headline could only be applied to assumedly dangerous foreigners -- “terror” or “al-Qaeda suspects” -- in distant lands whose deaths carry a certain quotient of weirdness and even amusement with them. Try to imagine the equivalent for the Newtown massacre the day after Adam Lanza broke into Sandy Hook Elementary School and began killing children and teachers. Since even the New York Post wouldn’t do such a thing, let’s posit that the Yemen Post did, that playing off the phrase “head of the class,” their headline was: “Dead of the Class!” (with that same giant exclamation point). It would be sacrilege. The media would descend. The tastelessness of Arabs would be denounced all the way up to the White House. You’d hear about the callousness of foreigners for days.
And were a wedding party to be obliterated on a highway anywhere in America on the way to, say, a rehearsal dinner, whatever the cause, it would be a 24/7 tragedy. Our lives would be filled with news of it. Count on that....
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...In this same spirit, the U.S. drone campaigns are said to launch what in drone-speak are called "signature strikes" -- that is, strikes not against identified individuals, but against "a pre-identified 'signature' of behavior that the U.S. links to militant activity." In other words, the U.S. launches drone strikes against groups or individuals whose behavior simply fits a “suspect” category: young men of military age carrying weapons, for instance (in areas where carrying a weapon may be the norm no matter who you are). In a more general sense, however, the obliterated wedding party may be the true signature strike of the post 9/11 era of American war-making, the strike that should, but never will, remind Americans that the war on terror was and remains, for others in distant lands, a war of terror, a fearsome creation to which we are conveniently blind...
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http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175787/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_washington%27s_wedding_album_from_hell/#more
About Tomdispatch:
Juan Cole: "Tom Engelhardt is a national treasure and always worth reading. Whenever I think that Russell Jacoby might have been right about the passing of the 'last intellectuals,' I think of Tom and conclude 'not yet.'" See the full article.
Preemptive strike: Someone may say "The Constitution doesn't apply outside the US."
Isn't that a bit racist? If it's good enough for US, isn't it good enough for the rest of the world? Isn't that what we are "spreading"? Freedom and Democracy?
+100
It's done in our name but the benefits are given to corporations, like Cinnabon getting to expand all over Libya
Cinnabon in Tripoli as Libya Opens Up to Foreign Business
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-13/cinnabon-in-tripoli-as-libya-opens-up-to-foreign-business
Corporatism. It works, if you're in the club.
Here's an idea
First of all, we could stop funding Al Qaeda. It's the height of absurdity, to use Al Qaeda to take liberties and money and then declare that wedding parties must drone bombed to "get Al Qaeda" whilst funneling money to them. Really. It's beyond criminal, it's treason. And it's INSANE. PSYCHO.
Is this going to continue for the next 5 or 6 hundred years? When is enough blood enough? How many more dead children?
Due to incompetence 19 Arabs with Box cutters managed to squeak through the best most expensive air defense system in the world.
Hasn't the US extracted enough revenge? The nation is protected by seas and friendly countries. Maybe next time the Feds get multiple warnings about devout hard drinking coke snorting Muslims that happen to be taking flight lessons they will keep an eye on them or perhaps share information with "Homeland Security".
Doesn't that sound better than creating more enemies every day? Because if Kim Jung Il sent a drone over your area and somehow incinerated your kid while he was walking next to a "person of interest" you'd spend the rest of your life plotting, wouldn't you.
The Guardian: I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
Heather Linebaugh theguardian.com, Sunday 29 December 2013 07.30 EST
An Elbit Systems Hermes 450 drone. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program – aka drones – I wish I could ask them some questions. I'd start with "how many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile?" and "How many men have you seen crawl across a field, trying to make it to the nearest compound for help while bleeding out from severed legs?" Or even more pointedly, "how many soldiers have you seen die on the side of a road in Afghanistan because our ever-so-accurate UAV's [unmanned aerial vehicle] were unable to detect an IED [improvised explosive device] that awaited their convoy?"
Few of these politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue of what actually goes on. I, on the other hand, have seen these awful sights first-hand.
I knew the names of some of the young soldiers I saw bleed to death on the side of a road. I watched dozens of military-aged males die in Afghanistan, in empty fields, along riversides, and some right outside the compound where their family was waiting for them to return home from mosque.
The US and British militaries insist that this is such an expert program, but it's curious that they feel the need to deliver faulty information, few or no statistics about civilian deaths and twisted technology reports on the capabilities of our UAV's. These specific incidents are not isolated, and the civilian casualty rate has not changed, despite what our defense representatives might like to tell us...more
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military
There's no statute of limitations on murder.
Look at the division on this thread...
It looks the same at every forum.
The authoritarians/party faithful/obey me types vs. the Jeffersonian Democrats.
The old definitions don't work anymore. It's a New World Order. The Authoritarian/Fascists vs. Left Liberals. The Kucinich's vs. the Liebermans. Kucinich has as much in common with Lieberman as Snowden does with Clapper- they both work for the same side, supposedly.
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