The Bush White House is incompetent. For that reason any legislature is afraid of stopping what has worked to date.

It's a matter of public vigilance. I guess it's upto the investigative media to keep on top of these morons. I don't what else say. There is so little confidence in this president and administration and while most agree the illegal programs they have used to date don't really accomplish anything except a lot of 'traceable' information that no one has time to trace; any self respecting legislator doesn't want the responsiblity of 'thwarting' what might work to protect Americans.

The Executive Offices are responsible for maintaining the Cabinet authority of Homeland Security including the NSA, FBI and CIA. It is the role of a currently incompetent president to oversee the nation's security. Everyone knows Bush is overreaching but what is one to do when the Executive Branch is corrupt and dead set on having things their way or no way.


Look what they have done? They ignored intelligence from the CIA and FBI, PRE-911 attacks even when the Senate Intelligence Committee members were 'onto' the issue of a threat against our country.


YOU CAN'T TRUST BUSH AND CHENEY to protect the USA. They have no capacity for measured competency UNLESS they have everything their way which includes invasion of privacy that definately serves political purposes.


These men have lead a war into a sovereign country for the sake of oil, when the 'real war' to defeat al Qaeda and bin Laden's network was in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They have made a complete and absolute mess of the powers of the Executive Branch by 'power playing' authority. In other words, if they have to 'do things' in a way that honors privacy and they can't cheat and manically control whatever level of information they desire for whatever reason they desire it, they WILL SABOTAGE the country. They have done that before. The Republicans are corrupt to the core and there isn't a darn thing anyone can do about it so long as they have capacity to out vote the Democrats. And quite frankly at this point, the Democrats don't trust the current administration's competency to change the rules and have them OBEY those rules.


It isn't a matter of doing what's best by the Democrats at this point. It is what the country can survive until Bush and Cheney are out of office. They need to be impeached, but, there aren't enough House and Senate votes to impeach and try because of 'image' issues for Republicans.

It's a mess. Completely.


...A former senior Justice Department lawyer, Jack Goldsmith, seemed to bolster their case last week when he told Congress that the program was a “legal mess” and strongly suggested that it was illegal....

It isn't just about the immunity for the utilities, it is also about immunity for Bush. Bush authorized illegal activity against the citizens of this country. If he can get the program he authorized illegally passed into law, it exonerates him from legal proceedings now and in the future.


....Wendy Morigi, a spokeswoman for Mr. Rockefeller, said that retroactive immunity for the utilities was “under discussion” but that no final proposal had been developed.


The immunity issue may prove to be the crucial sticking point between whatever proposals the House and Senate ultimately pass. Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who was among the harshest critics of the temporary bill, said in an interview he would vigorously oppose any effort to grant retroactive legal protection to telecommunications utilities....


The legislation should not have been brought forward for a vote. It should receive temporary authority now and until Bush and Cheney are out of office and then it should be looked at again when a more competent administration is in the White House.

Besides the technology is highly invasive and while a corrupt administration sits in the Executive Branch there will be widespread misuse of it. Find an administration that is corruption free and/or find a way to monitor them so they remain corruption free by public surveillance OF THEM.

In the long run, it will be up to the public to keep themselves free of government encumbrances until the USA gets turned around and we are finally defeating terrorist networks, something that even today evades the Bush White House from accomplishing. Even WITH their illegal programs, a clear demonstration the eavesdropping no matter what form it takes, DOESN'T WORK, but, they won't give it up. They can't. They would suffer consequences. It is far better for Republicans to state, "Bush was right the entire time" and pass lousy legislation, then for them to actually do something that would matter to the people of the USA.

Surveillance System Lets FBI Play Back Recordings as They Are Captured, Like TiVo (click here)
By Ryan Singel
Aug. 28
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies. It is far more intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure than observers suspected.
It's a "comprehensive wiretap system that intercepts wire-line phones, cellular phones, SMS and push-to-talk systems," says Steven Bellovin, a Columbia University computer science professor and longtime surveillance expert....


The United States of America is COMPROMISED and under Republican rule until it can dig itself out again!


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MnDOT's hiring of most expensive contractor to replace collapsed I-35W bridge upheld

October 8, 2007

Twin Harbors, Minnesota

Photographer states :: It's really just Skunk Creek, which flows through Two Harbors and dries up to a trickle by summer's end, but after three days of rain, it's flowing deep and fast. At one time, it would have been up and over the road, but retention basins put in farther upstream have tamed our litte creek-gone-wild. Rip-rap was recently added along the shore to keep it stable.

After a weekend fling with summer, it's back to normal temperatures (click here)
By Tim Harlow, Star Tribune
Last update: October 08, 2007 – 11:56 AM

A flood watch had been in effect for the area as the storms dropped more than 1 inch of rain in many places, including St. Paul, Andover, St. Cloud, Madison, Granite Falls, Little Falls, Morris and Willmar. Long Prairie wins the prize for the most rain, with 3.18 reported during the 24-hour period that ended at 7 a.m. today, the National Weather Service said.
A flood watch remains in effect for the Arrowhead region in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin where storms could drop 2 to 5 inches of rain, the Weather Service said.

Minneapolis Bridge Work Raises Costs, Rancor (click here)
by Tom Scheck
All Things Considered, October 8, 2007 · In Minnesota, the governor and state lawmakers are arguing over the best way to pay for replacing the I-35W bridge that collapsed in August. Cost estimates for cleanup and reconstruction have skyrocketed from $250 million to nearly $400 million.
The plan is to have the bridge finished by the end of next year — just 14 months from now. But so far, the federal government has only delivered a portion of the money it promised to provide for the project.
If the Republican governor and the Democrats who control the legislature can't authorize using state money to pay for the bridge, many of Minnesota's other road projects will be delayed.
Until federal money for reconstruction becomes available, the governor and state lawmakers have to figure out a way to pay for the bridge. But the state's transportation budget doesn't have enough money to float itself a loan.
Transportation Commissioner Carol Molnau is asking a special panel of senior state lawmakers to authorize state money for the bridge. Without it, Molnau says they will have to delay other state transportation projects....

The temperatures yesterday in Chicago were far above even the average highest recorded in Chicago.

The other marathons being run are in no danger that the Chicago Marathon succumbed.

The weather/temperature conditions in Portland, Oregon and Boston, Massachusetts are FAVORABLE for such endurance running. Temperatures in the fifties.


According to average temperatures found at The University of Chicago Law School (click here), the temperatures for yesterday's "LaSalle Bank's Chicago Marathon" were far above normal than any other temperature.

Chicago
January - 32-17
March - 45-29
May - 70-50
July - 84-65
September - 76-56
November - 48-33

The sad truth is that many people seek to be 'the winner' of such events. They start at levels as is taking place in Boston, a 10 K run. While world class athletes might finish their marathons in style there are many who begin their athletic training in those shadows. It is a shame this tragedy had to be realized. I believe those that sponsor and organize these events need to evaluate the potential for 'doing good' in perspective to postponing the event to more favorable weather conditions. It's important all athletes that plan to participate have a good outcome or at least as good an outcome as can be realize for their abilities.

What occurred in Chicago yesterday was directly related to Climate Change and the sooner the USA deals with it the better off everyone will be. Postponing such an event is one way of providing success, but, in the 'postponing' endurance events should act a 'trigger' to a much larger issue as to why the postponement occurred in the first place.

I am quite 'used to' the idea of propaganda overshadowing 'the truth' regarding climate change. I just don't think it should be allowed anymore. Evidently, it costs lives while threatening others.

Death of Michigan police officer stated from heart condition, but, this man was well conditioned and ran regularly with his wife. Excuses, excuses

I guess all of Chicago ran out of water yesterday. It looks as though the officer, husband and father had a pre-existing condition that never stopped him before. Hm? It would seem he passed any police physicals. He just doesn't seem to 'fit the profile' of a poorly conditioned athlete regardless of any heart issue. To believe his death is totally unrelated to the heat when 302 runners were hospitalized and the race stopped half way through is unrealistic and reeks of propaganda !

Police Officer Dies While Running Chicago Marathon (Update1) (click here)

...A 12-year veteran of the Midland, Michigan, police department, Schieber was named its 2006 Officer of the Year. He was a mountain biking instructor for the department and was involved in establishing a law enforcement memorial at the department's headquarters last year, said Bob Lane, Midland Police deputy chief.
``He was just a very-well liked, very-well respected officer,'' Lane, 48, said in a telephone interview. ``He was in excellent shape. It took me totally by shock, to say the least.''
A father of three children, Schieber was running the race with his wife, Sarah, Lane said. At least 302 runners were hospitalized with heat-related ailments, according to the Chicago Tribune.
30-Year History
It was the hottest day in the 30-year history of the Chicago marathon, the Tribune said....

Heat stroke is the most serious of any heat related conditions. It constitutes a medical emergency with impending death a possibility.

Heat Stroke is different from heat cramps or exhaustion in that it causes mental disorientation.

What makes heatstroke much more severe and potentially life-threatening is that the body's normal mechanisms for dealing with heat stress, such as sweating and temperature control, are lost. The main sign of heatstroke is a markedly elevated body temperature — generally greater than 104 F — with changes in mental status ranging from personality changes to confusion and coma. Skin may be hot and dry, although in heatstroke caused by exertion, the skin is usually moist.
Other signs and symptoms may include:
Rapid heartbeat
Rapid and shallow breathing
Elevated or lowered blood pressure
Cessation of sweating
Irritability, confusion or unconsciousness
Fainting, which may be the first sign in older adults
If you suspect heatstroke:
Move the person out of the sun and into a shady or air-conditioned space.
Dial 911 or call for emergency medical assistance.
Cool the person by covering him or her with damp sheets or by spraying with cool water. Direct air onto the person with a fan or newspaper.

Scientist predicted Human Induced Global Warming is changing the course of human endurance

This didn't happen this year for everyone? There was no finish to The La Salle Bank of Chicago Marathon? There was an end to it, but, no finish. This is the year 2004 when Evans Rutto won "The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon." (click here)

Marathon cut short for first time ever (click on title to this entry)
By Josh Noel, Andrew L. Wang and Carlos Sadovi Tribune staff reporter
October 8, 2007

The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon was cut short for the first time in its history Sunday as hundreds of runners laboring across ovenlike streets were treated for heat-related illness.The stoppage happened about 3 1/2 hours after the start gun on an abnormally sweltering autumn day, amid complaints of insufficient water for more than 35,000 runners who had come from around the world to compete in one of its pre-eminent marathons.One runner, a 35-year-old Michigan police officer, died after collapsing in the race's 19th mile, but it was not clear whether the death was heat-related....

There is a lot at stake here. Scientists don't 'make up' priorities in their research simply because they want to scare the public or have money thrown at them for their research. They are ethnical people whom are exceptionally well invested in research they perform. The science surrounding the issue of Human Induced Global Warming is decades old. It tells a sad and threatening story for species on Earth including homo sapien.

Humans are not exempt this time. Humans have been able to overcome nature and it's threat to survival with extraordinary grace and agility. They have done it so well, that now the very nature of a benevolent Earth is failing and they may be running the race of their lives. Literally. One death in this race is attributable and many exhausted runners now know the REALITY of Human Induced Global Warming.

Yesterday was October 7th and the temperatures during The La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon were in the 80s Fahrenheit.

When are you all going to listen and realize this is more serious than anyone has ever contributed a value to the problem.

How does the melting of the Arctic Ocean and the impending extinction of Polar Bears relate to the mainland USA?

Now you know.

Abortion and Gay Rights aren't the ONLY minority issue suffering at the hands of Self Righteous Right Wing Christians

There is 'trending' in the USA which indicates the nation has a right to be concerned about it's future and the equality of it's people. Freedom needs to take 'serious' precident in places other than Greensboro, North Carolina.

Civil Rights wasn't supposed to end with the 14th amendment, it was supposed to start there.

Good night.

Yes, I have a clear conscious. I always do. I believe in the potential of people, not the demands of law !

When the Robert's Court decided "The Partial Birth Aborton Law," Justice Kennedy stated...

...if he heard of one case whereby a woman's life was saved because of the procedure he would have voted with the opposing Justices. Does he consider emotional distress enough of a reason? Does he consider a woman desperate enough to attempt to take her own life enough of a reason?

I do.

The decision regarding the oppression of any abortion in the USA was "W"rongly decided. It was legislation that was intended to be a Trojan Horse to promote an Evangelical Christian agenda and victimize women. Justice Kennedy didn't see that?

If Justice Kennedy needs an 'example' of the circumstances women now will be facing to end an unwanted pregnancy, it might include their lives along with the fetus.

This isn't the first case. There was another one, I think it was Nevada within the last year. Not sure the state, whereby the woman was hit with a baseball bat stating it was an accident. She shortly thereafter aborted the fetus. She as well could have died, perhaps not caring if she would. Women have to be assured they are accepted in society when they don't want a pregnancy, they will receive confidential treatment when they do decide an abortion is better than pregnancy. They need support without ridicule or embarrassment.

Abortion at any stage of pregnancy should be a woman's right. Funny, if you asked me about this a year ago, I would have stated abortion should stop at 22 weeks. Not anymore. Not now that I see what venue this is all taking. Partial Birth Abortion was never exclusively used for terminating pregnancy, but, the 'fallout' as a result of the Justices' decision is more than women in the USA are willing to live with. If having the permission 'on the books' adds balance to the ability of women to cope with life, then we are better with the law than without it.

Pregnancy is a special time to MOST women. To others it's '...the wrong time...' and still to others it is a goal they never want to achieve. To those that seek a different road then an Evangelical enthralled with her pregnant status, I state they have the right to be different. They have the right to seek whatever relief they desire to end any unwanted pregnancy. Women should never live in fear of having a uterus or ovaries, but, need to accept their bodies as vital to their lives without a second thought to any resolve they have for their life.

The Christian Extremism that resulted in the successful elevation of fetus over woman would continue until they had their precepts in place in law.

NEW HIV PREVENTION CAMPAIGN TARGETS AFRICAN-AMERICAN GAY MEN (click here)

SA couple want first gay wedding (click here)

If the Religious Right were ever to 'begin' to accomplish the tasks of engraining the American culture with their extremist agenda, it wouldn't stop at fetal rights. Every measure to destroy any other religion, along with who knows what to homosexual couples would be invoked in whatever manner it could be afforded until they had the Christian Nation of their desires.

The Gay Community is right to be up in arms regarding their Civil Rights status. The sooner we INSURE their place among the majority of Americans the safer they will be. Now. And in the future.

If we are to insure the 'safety' of our people it has to include all our people and not JUST those the majority 'deem' worthy of the rights our USA Constitution guarantees. There are no by-standers to democracy or the civil liberties written in our laws.

Pregnant Woman Stabbed in Queens

Published: July 29, 1995
A man with a knife attacked his pregnant girlfriend and two other people in the woman's apartment house in the Ridgewood section of Queens yesterday, the police said.
Waldemir Diaz, 29, of the Bronx, slashed Karl Mitteibur, 71, the owner and superintendent of the Queens apartment house shortly after 3 P.M., said a police spokesman, Officer Robert Samuel.
Mr. Diaz then dashed to the fourth-floor apartment of his pregnant girlfriend, Ingrid Jorge, 21, and stabbed her in the stomach and chest, Officer Samuel said.
Her screams attracted her neighbor, Darkys Vargas, 22, who went into Ms. Jorge's apartment, where Mr. Diaz slashed her, too, the spokesman said.
All three victims were in stable conditions in Queens hospitals, he added.

In this case the attacker was interested in killing both the fetus and the woman. No rational man with a pregnant girlfriend or wife that attempts to stab the fetus is giving second thought to the woman. If she dies with the fetus the attacker could not care less. There are tragic circumstances surrounding issues of pregnancy, but, in no way should a fetus be valued over and above the life of a woman. If it weren't for the life of women, fetus wouldn't exist.

It is an outrage to realize women desperate enough to inflict deadly wounds are considered murderers when they are more victims than anyone cares to realize. The charges in Ohio are wrong and the 'idea' that fetus have a special status separate from their mothers is hideous.

When fetus are valued by a family and the woman is known to be terminally ill, there are provisions to provide for the extended 'existance' of that woman to bring about a birth. There is clear recognition that a uterus is vital to the birth of any fetus. WOMEN have a special status because they do give birth.

To begin to jail and imprison women for the sake of saving a fetus is simply a society 'gone wrong' and one out of complete balance with the priorities naturally afforded women. The Right to Life Movement is way out of line and they only exist today in status because the Neocons pander to anyone willing to vote them into POWER.

A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation

This was the New York Times today. It bears noting. The United States of America is a secular nation whereby every citizen should have a voice.


Fetus are citizens.

The Evangelical Right Wing Neocons currently occupying the White House and evidently police departments in Ohio are attempting to build a case of "Fetal Rights." There is no such thing. There never will be. The Lacy Peterson case was widely viewed by the media and was "W"rongly decided. While the fetus died because 'it's' mother did, it had no 'right to a murder trial' separate from Lacy's trial. Allowing 'the fetus' to carry weight in sentencing is correct, but, there were NOT two charges of murder that should have been leveled, but, ONLY ONE and that one was of a woman pregnant.

The move toward 'fetal rights' is dangerous and carries with it brevity to women's rights that should never appear anywhere in a court of law. The woman mentioned that shot herself could have died. Didn't care if she did and was in dire need of professional intervention. It was a tragedy, a personal tragedy for her and anyone who loved her enough to care, but, that is where it ends. Women's lives matter over and above their ability to procreate !

...In the 1790s, in the waters off Tripoli, pirates were making sport of American shipping near the Barbary Coast. Toward the end of his second term, Washington sent Joel Barlow, the diplomat-poet, to Tripoli to settle matters, and the resulting treaty, finished after Washington left office, bought a few years of peace. Article 11 of this long-ago document says that “as the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,” there should be no cause for conflict over differences of “religious opinion” between countries....

Yesterday there was an article in "The Plains Dealer" regarding a self inflicted wound.

I don't know the ethnicity of the woman involved and that may indeed play a role in the charges that were leveled whereby police charged a woman that shot herself in the abdomin as having commited homicide of a fetus.

That's simply ludicrous.

I don't know the motives of the shooting. I don't care to know. It can be simply stated that there was a woman in enough emotional pain regarding her circumstances to attempt suicide and take the fetus with her.

Enough said regarding this incident.

What is of brevity here, is the fact the police charged a woman intent on inflicting enough harm to kill the 22 week fetus and perhaps herself. The focus to the 'intervention' by police was not about the woman and the state of her extreme and pending demise, it placed the 22 week fetus at higher importance than the woman. That is politics at work. That is taking control and victimizing the victim. It is abuse of women.

The lies and deceptions of the Bush White House - 'Benchmark' Strategy

You gotta be joking here. This is what corruption does to a military and to a government. This is a human being outfitted for war? Not in my book. This is a human being 'dropped kicked' into a war for oil the Commander and Chief has designed to support his cronies. Our military doesn't deserve this type of treatment in this type of extreme conditions without good reason and more than sufficient personnel to carry out a mission. Noted the dead soldier laying on the ground next to his pier. The equipment didn't save him, did it?


When the Democratic majority of the House and Senate set down 'benchmarks' they weren't asking 'pretty please.' The benchmarks were to be met or the USA military was no longer at the Iraqi government's disposal.

All that clear. What did Bush have to say?

Bush's latest rhetorical tactic is unlikely to win over dissatisfied voters (click on title above)
By Howard Fineman
Updated: 3:33 p.m. ET Oct 25, 2006
Oct. 25, 2006 - Remember Al Gore’s mysterious “lockbox?” Well, I have a new item to nominate for the Museum of Inert Campaign Rhetoric: “Benchmarks.” The president says that they are the keys to victory in Iraq. But if I’m a struggling Republican candidate—buffeted by winds of anger and confusion over the war—I’m not sure “benchmarks” will insure my victory on Nov. 7....

What?

Benchmarks aren't a political tool. They are measures developed by the legislature to influence the 'W'rongful use of the USA miltitary. What's so hard to understand, unless, in the minds of the moronic every legislative agenda is a political agenda. That is not what the Iraq War is or should it ever HAVE BEEN. Our military is supposed to be available to defend the USA, not victimize sovereign countries for oil and the economics of America's wealthy.


The quotes of General Petraeus at the recent Senate hearings:

One of the Republicans who is increasingly skeptical of the Iraq War strategy is outgoing Sen. John Warner of Virginia, who is retiring after 2008. While he has criticized the president's policy, he has never supported a Democratic withdrawal plan.


(Warner) :: "Are you able to say at this time if we continue what you've laid before the Congress here as a strategy, do you feel that is making America safer?" Warner asked Petraeus during a charged session of the Armed Services Committee Tuesday.


"Sir, I believe that this is indeed the best course of action to achieve our objectives in Iraq," Petraeus answered.


(Warner) :: "Does that make America safer?" Warner pressed.


"Sir, I don't know, actually," the general said. "What I have focused on and riveted on is how to accomplish the mission of the multinational force in Iraq."

Recent views of the Republican legislature (click here):

..."I think it gets to a point where we have spent enough time and enough lives and enough money in this one particular spot," said Rep. Bob Inglis, of South Carolina, who was one of 17 Republican House members who voted against the U.S. military buildup in Iraq last February.
"Our military has succeeded," Inglis said. "The question is whether Iraqi politicians can succeed. If they fail, it is not a U.S. failure. Let them go baby-sit a civil war."

While several prominent Republican senators have broken with President Bush on Iraq — notably Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and John Warner of Virginia, both of whom aren't seeking re-election — their counterparts in the House largely have backed Bush despite ebbing public support for the war.

There are signs the House Republican compliance is fading, especially as Republicans try to recapture control of Congress in next year's elections and lawmakers focus more on their campaigns.

"In general, you're going to see more of a splitting with Bush," said John Geer, a Vanderbilt University political scientist who has written extensively on congressional elections.
Republican incumbents are "going to seek mechanisms by which they can show their opposition on Iraq and gain credibility with the electorate," Geer said. "They will find ways to get those extra few votes to keep their jobs."...

There is definately and "Us and Them" to the Evangelical Christian Regime. They are God's correct populous and the rest of us are in the way.

The mission statement below is an expression of intent. The FACT these ministries have aligned themselves politically with one party willing to transform them into a warring power is more than worrisome for the elections one might loss. It is a force to contend with and there is absolutely no way their 'dogma' should ever transcend American Policy of ANY KIND. This is treason of the USA Constitution.

Evangelize they may. Convert the nation of the USA to a 'strategy' that feeds war, killing and international destabilization is facism (click here).

mission statement


The American Evangelical Christian Churches (AECC) believes everyone should enjoy the freedom to proclaim the Word of God as imparted to them by the Holy Spirit. Our mission is to serve our immediate church community by implementing the Great Commission in Matthew 28: 18-20 and ministering to the needs of God's people (Matthew 25: 34-40). In order to accomplish this we reach out and accept into membership those who believe the Bible to be the unerring Word of God and are called into His ministry. Our mission is to create a body of believers where we as individuals can realize God in our lives and model, teach, call forth, and celebrate the integrity of the spirit, mind and body in all that we do.

The article at this title link is from today's newsprint at the Los Angeles Times

The Democrats put forward a great candidates in 2004. What happened exactly? Was Kerry defeated because of policy? Character? Or simply by character assassination?

I consider the strategic move by Bush regarding SCHIP another political strategy of Georgie's agenda. In my neck of the woods (there is still a woods, right?), this is called "...throw the dog a bone...." Object to perfectly good legislation that will insure the nation's children from any adverse outcome and APPEAR to offer a real objection. Therefore, it's not Bush that has the problem, but, the Democrats and those that LACKED his superior intellect to 'see the real problem.' He isn't stating what his 'specific' changes would be because he doesn't know what they should be. He will allow the 'subservient' and 'inferior' Democratic legislature to play around with proposals until he basically thinks it 'appears' a 'proper' form of legislation.

He doesn't care about the nation, he wants to play politics. He objects to 'adults' because he thinks no one in the USA realizes there is an adult component to SCHIP. He threw it 'out there' to 'shock and awe' the Americans that ridiculed him 'unwittingly' in favor of a Democratic program. It's a strategy.

Of course there are adults included in SCHIP, especially if they were raised in Foster Homes and grew up with that insurance. Of course there are adults when PRE-NATAL care is afforded women who can't pay for it otherwise. Of course there are adults included in a program when there health and ability to work are impeded and as 'minors' were never able to work or build a Social Security Trust Fund.

But, that isn't the issue after all. It's just that MOST of the recipients of SCHIP are children. That is who is most important in this legislation as a majority. But, Bush is using this legislative 'opportunity' just as he uses the Iraq War and Evangelical Religion to promote 'party politics.' We don't have a president or vice; the USA does have a figure head that plays politics with lives and the USA Treasury with the cunning of a fox.

Bush calls for compromise on children's healthcare (click title of entry)


The president still has not said what specific changes he wants to make to the bill, though he wants adults moved off the program.


By Judy Pasternak
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 7, 2007


WASHINGTON -- President Bush indicated Saturday that he would be willing to accept a larger increase for a children's health insurance program than the one he has proposed, but defended his veto of the expansion of coverage approved by Congress.Bush's long-promised veto Wednesday set off an ideological battle about who holds responsibility for extending healthcare benefits to uninsured children: the government or the private sector.The congressional bill would spend $60 billion over five years to expand health coverage for children of the working poor and middle class, and pay for it with higher tobacco taxes. Bush has offered $30 billion, a 20% increase from the current levels but not enough to maintain the existing enrollment in the State Children's Health Insurance Program, budget analysts say....

1 Corinthians 13 is not the same for everyone? Click on this title to a link that has sound of the entire passage.

The drop down screen obviously takes a viewer to many interpretations, however, not every venue has sound, "The New International Verson" does have sound.

This 'spiritual note' above and at the bottom of the listed Bible entries are 'applications' of this passage in secular literature. Realizing how people incorporate what they find inspirational into writing that many people, with and without a perscribed faith, will read and also find inspirational leads to the point that a democracy can 'contain' the same values regardless of the 'particular' value systems of it's members. It is those value systems and their diversity which is an incredible feat of the American experience. The Evangelical Christians seeking domination of the people of this nation and the policies of the USA want to take that 'miracle' called The United States of America away from us.

The USA 'has been' a marvelous example of tolerance with a 'melting pot' heritage. Who among us doesn't love corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day or Misteltoe at Christmas or Pizza from the local 'take out?' Who among us can't appreciate the 'difference' of the colors of the rainbow or realize the 'common' plight a health issue such as cancer presents? Dearly few, so what is the problem in the tolerance of Evangelical Christians when it comes to realizing they need to RESPECT the laws that apply to all this nation rather than a limited population.

I would like to know the number of Jewish Synagogues that have closed down over the past seven years and how many have opened. You won't readily find those numbers anywhere as a measure to the spiritual health of the USA. I also wonder how many relish in that thought in the Conservative Christian community and how many feel the destruction of the Islamic Holy Land is a measure of progress. Oh, it exists. I know it does. These are not 'bitter' words, they are words of concern. The demise of any culture is not the answer to the world's problems. Quite the contrary.


1 Corinthians 13:11

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I no longer used childish ways.

King James Bible
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

American Standard Version
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

Bible in Basic English
When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

Darby Bible Translation
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

English Revised Version
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

Tyndale New Testament
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I imagined as a child: but as soon as I was a man I put away childishness.

Weymouth New Testament
When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

Webster's Bible Translation
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

World English Bible
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

Young's Literal Translation
When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

'When I was a child I thought as a child ...': the importance of memory in constructions of childhood and social order in a selection of post-disaster fictions.
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, September, 2005 by Braithwaite, Elizabeth

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4926/is_200509/ai_n18067828


When I Was a Child I Thought as a Child
Roger Parham-Brown
Callaloo, No. 30 (Winter, 1987), pp. 55-70
doi:10.2307/2930635
This article consists of 16 page(s).

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0161-2492(198724)30%3C55%3AWIWACI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

Don't talk to me about how wonderful Neocons were, including Giuliani, following September 11, 2001. They completely neglected an entire community.

These are people. There are a lot more biological entities on Earth besides people, but, these are the biological entities the Religious Right seems focused on to convert and control.

I believe Homosexuals are people, too. They are citizens with equal standing in the USA no different than Heterosexuals. I believe all people of equal standing have the same civil rights. I believe the Homosexual community of the USA is oppressed, degraded due to the current regime occupying the White House known as Neocons.

I believe every woman has a mind. I believe every woman has the right to allow whatever dignity she can find in this life to be hers. If that includes limiting her childbearing to only one or two or maybe none then she has the right and OBLIGATION to HERSELF to seek proper medical treatment to cause an abortion in as safe as manner as possible to secure THE RIGHT TO HER OWN LIFE as she can possibly find.

I believe every person has the right to define their own lives and pursue whatever forms of happiness they desire unimpeded.

The Right Wing Christian Neocons of which James Dobson is obviously a member have absolutely no right to determine the fate of any American, man, woman or child. They have no right to bring overbearing and burdensome policy to the rights of women, children or homosexuals.

They are bigots, sexist and seek to control the USA military beyond a shadow of a doubt for global domination of resources that allow their wealth to grow while causing demise of the cultures they choose to lay waste !

As an American raised by an American family, I had a very interesting childhood into young adulthood.

I lived in a predominantly Caucasian town, but, my neighborhood was multicultural. There were Jewish kids, Catholics, Greek and Russian Orthodox. I don't remember any Muslim kids. My loss. There were Italian kids, Polish kids, Russian kids, Hispanic kids and a token Black kid. We didn't invite the minorities into the neighborhood, you understand, they lived there.

We were all different but we were all the same. Lower Middle Class with modest methods of enjoyment and attire, but, we were great together. I haven't asked lately, but, if one were to ask the staff at my former High School which graduating class was the most memorable, they would tell anyone for years to follow it was clearly the Class of '73. The truth. No lie.

As one of the kids in the neighborhood growing up, it was important to have a bike. And there all kinds of bikes. Bikes with high rise handle bars, some with cable brakes and some with gear shift levers. There were blue bikes and black bikes and green bikes and red bikes. Each one different from the other. It was important to have shiny chrome wheels. Clean bikes, they had to be clean bikes.

Everyone of us were different from each other. We celebrated the holidays differently, we went to different places of worship, some didn't worship at all, but, we were never so different that we didn't have playmates. We found commonality in our difference by being fascinated with the same things as we grew up.

The time I remember we all were happy, inventive and enjoying each other was on a summer day when a breeze was blowing. I brought out a section of stiff cardboard from the basement of the house out of complete boredom and cut a piece that would fit perfectly between the frame of my bike and the spokes of my front wheel. I jumped on my bike and raced down the street and this completely delightful noise filled the air. It was no time when all the neighborhood kids heard me and well you can guess the rest. They all wanted to make noise as well. I was pleased I had enough cardboard and fasteners for all of them. The adults didn't pay attention, were absorbed in their own worlds while the children of the neighborhood loved the joy of wonderment and learning.

That is my America. That is the America I grew up with. Diverse. Interactive. WITHOUT computers or I-Pods or DVDs, but, only radios that played FM and telephones with an extension cord. No barriers. No hatred. Nobody was right, nobody was wrong, we all lived and loved and got by with what we had while laughing and smiling through our own entertainment with our lives.

Now, I obviously have a computer. I have DVDs. I listen to more than just FM radio. But, it's still the same America to me and the changes that have occurred over the past seven years under this current 'regime' in DC has me worried about the tolerance of each other and the stability of my country. The USA is becoming a blight on Earth and that above all else has to precede any 'ideology' of perfection a MINORITY of religious devotees desires as the precepts to government.

I doubt many people are going to 'appreciate' what I have to write about tonight; but; as an American woman anchored in the belief all people can find a way to get along; this needs to be done. I will not stand by and have my country victimized by obsessed religious bigots.



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