Race Baiting is well contextualized in the Huffington Post in a strategy by National Organization of Marriage

The Right Wing Media wants to speak of the advocacy for justice in the Trayvon Martin case as race baiting. One of the errors of allowing 'loose language' in discussions by the same media is the deliberate misunderstanding of the definition of the words used. Race baiting sounds like a loose and fast way of dividing people based on race. That is not accurate. Race baiting by definition is the making of verbal attacks against members of a racial group.


In the Trayvon Martin case, the plea for justice has cut across racial lines with the discovery of very dangerous laws named, "Stand Your Ground" and "The Castle Doctrine." Trayvon is a black young man who was interrupted in his life by a man with a gun who believed he had the right to kill him after stalking him while police specifically ordered him not to do so.


What has also come to the forefront of the discussion is a social paradigm called, "The Black Male Code." What has come out of that sincere understanding by black men, is an underlying bias within our society against black men of all ages based on hatred and 'genetic violence.' No person is exposed to a violent nature because they are genetically predisposed by skin color. Yet, Black Parents of both gender state their are strategies to prevent false arrest and false identity such as carrying ID at all times in preparation of those very moments. That is a serious infraction of an American social underpinning known as personal safety and security. How can a black person of any age ever be received in the best light possible if there is an underlying bias robbing of that dignity. For an entire populous of the USA to have strategies to protect their youth against authoritarian bias (racial profiling) is a serious paradigm within that society to address. I am grateful this discussion is going forward.


In my opinion, racial profiling happens due to bias instilled by media. There is also the question, and it cannot be ignored considering the profound high number of jailed black people, has racial profiling imposed a quality of life that PRODUCES criminals. 


There is no race baiting in the Trayvon Martin case, there is however an intolerance to let loose guns and loose bias to continue.


Last night the Human Rights Campaign released a slew of previously sealed internal documents from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation's largest, most visible, and most insidious group of marriage discrimination proponents. The documents, marked "confidential," were unsealed yesterday afternoon in Maine as part of that state's ongoing ethics investigation into NOM's campaign finances. NOM, notoriously dogged in its efforts to fight internal disclosures of any kind, had sued in state court to block the investigation, and now we know why: the documents disclosed yesterday reveal the group's vile and repugnant strategy of setting minority groups against each other through the shameful exploitation of race.


Here's how NOM plans to set the Latino and LGBT communities against each other, from page 17 of a "confidential" 2009 strategic report entitled National Strategy for Winning the Marriage Battle:


[B]y searching for these leaders across national boundaries we will assemble a community of next generation Latino leaders that Hispanics and other next generation elites in this country can aspire to be like. (As "ethnic rebels" such spokespeople will also have an appeal across racial lines, especially to young urbans in America). ... [W]e will develop Spanish language radio and TV ads, as well as pamphlets, YouTube videos, and church handouts and popular songs.Our ultimate goal is to make opposition to gay marriage an identity marker, a badge of youth rebellion to conformist association to the bad side of "Anglo" culture.


And from a 2009 report to its board of directors, also marked "confidential":


The Latino vote in America is a key swing vote, and will be so even more so in the future, both because of demographic growth and inherent uncertainty: Will the process of assimilation to the dominant Anglo culture lead Hispanics to abandon traditional family values? We must interrupt this process of assimilation by making support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity -- a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation.


In that board update, NOM is just as candid about its attempts to divide LGBT and African Americans:


The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks -- two key Democratic constituencies. Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage; develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots. No politician wants to take up and push an issue that splits the base of his party. Fanning the hostility raised in the wake of Prop 8 is key to raising the costs of pushing gay marriage to its advocates ... find attractive young black Democrats to challenge white gay marriage advocates electorally.


The name of the "strategic project" to which the above passage refers? NOM's "Not a Civil Right Project." Just last week I wrote a column for The Huffington Post in which I said that the movement for LGBT rights and the movement for African-American rights are both part of the same civil rights movement, and that it is crucially important for us to continue asserting so....

I am not impressed.

Burial Insurance is called Life Insurance.


SSI provides $255.00 at the death of a citizen.


Is the best they can come up with to oppose this law? Seriously.


They don't have any, none at all, case law to oppose this, even if it is a shadow of implication? Nothing, huh? Wow.


Commerce of any commodity of any product is not identical to any other commodity simply because it is a commodity. The reference to cars is not a viable argument because when people purchase cars they have exclusive rights to the use of that car. When people purchase health insurance they are absorbing the costs of those uninsured even though the uninsured is not using their health insurance. It is a NOT, ABSOLUTELY NOT, a viable analogy.


I am not impressed.


In purchasing a car, if there are less purchasers the price goes down to attract those fewer buyers. In health insurance if there are fewer purchasers the price goes up because the burden of the pay-out is carried by fewer people. There is no analogy.


This is like a side show and not a legal hearing based in fact. 


Lockner v. New York (click here)

Summary of Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45, 25 S. Ct. 539, 49 L. Ed. 937 (1905).

Facts (click here)

The Bakeshop Act was a New York state labor law which prohibited bakery employees from working for more than sixty hours per week or ten hours per day. Lochner permitted an employee to work in his bakery for more than sixty hours in one week and was convicted of his second offense and fined. Lochner appealed his conviction on the grounds that the law violated his freedom to contract under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

307 U.S. 533 (59 S.Ct. 993, 83 L.Ed. 1446) (click here)

UNITED STATES v. ROCK ROYAL CO-OP, Inc., et al. NOYES, Com'r of Agriculture and Markets of New York v. SAME. DAIRYMEN'S LEAGUE CO-OP. ASS'N, Inc., v. SAME. METROPOLITAN CO-OP. MILK PRODUCERS BARGAINING AGENCY, Inc., v. SAME.

US v. Rock Royal Co-Op speaks to Commodity Price Fixing (click here)

Scalia and Roberts embark in arguing about the future beyond the law itself. I didn't know they had a crystal ball. I can't believe there are Supreme Court Justices is worried about the degrees this law will be manipulated once everyone is in the market. That is a different lawsuit. What seems to be said is that once everyone is insured they will be exploited in other manners. That isn't this law and there is no mention of the future. The only 'future' noted in the Affordable Care Act are the boards, including members of citizens, that will collect information. There is no dictate to the use of that information.

I  can't believe they are playing with semantics between penalty and tax. The penalty is indeed a penalty. Either a person enrolls with a health insurance policy. It is collected as a tax on the IRS forms because it is a method of revenue collection by the USA. The revenue collected is real for those not subscribing to health insurance. So, it is a taxing principle with a purpose. It is legitimate and if it is called a penalty and written on the tax form as a penalty. It is revenue. Why do the semantics even play into this? It is revenue, undefined revenue year to year based on behaviors of Americans.

CLEMENTE, CARBON

Emergency room visits do not solve the problems of the uninsured; to even consider that as a viable option is hideous. People die under that dynamic. It is crude, cruel and demeaning.

Ginsburg is correct. Social Security is a delayed gratification recognized by law that everyone has to participate in order to provide the benefit. It is a lifetime responsibility for every American. Social Security Insurance is even more 'distant' from any health insurance because the benefit from being a member of a health insurance exchange can be provided now and not at a later age.

Summary of McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 4 Wheat. 316, 4 L. Ed. 579 (1819). (click here)

Facts

Maryland (P) enacted a statute imposing a tax on all banks operating in Maryland not chartered by the state. The statute provided that all such banks were prohibited from issuing bank notes except upon stamped paper issued by the state. The statute set forth the fees to be paid for the paper and established penalties for violations.

The Second Bank of the United States was established pursuant to an 1816 act of Congress. McCulloch (D), the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the Bank of the United States, issued bank notes without complying with the Maryland law. Maryland sued McCulloch for failing to pay the taxes due under the Maryland statute and McCulloch contested the constitutionality of that act. The state court found for Maryland and McCulloch appealed.

Summary of Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111, 63 S. Ct. 82, 87 L. Ed. 122 (1942). (click here)

Facts

The Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1938 (AAA) set quotas on the amount of wheat put into interstate commerce and established penalties for overproduction. The goal of the Act was to stabilize the market price of wheat by preventing shortages or surpluses. Filburn (P) sold part of his wheat crop and used the rest for his own consumption. The amount of wheat Filburn produced for his own consumption combined with the amount he sold exceeded the amount he was permitted to produce.

Secretary of Agriculture Wickard (D) assessed a penalty against him. Filburn refused to pay, contending that the Act sought to limit local commercial activity and therefore was unconstitutional because it exceeded the scope of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause.

Filburn brought this lawsuit seeking to enjoin enforcement of the Act and a declaratory judgment that the wheat marketing provisions of the AAA were unconstitutional for exceeding the scope of Congress’s commerce power. The court below, a district court panel of three judges, entered judgment for Filburn and the Supreme Court granted cert.

Federalist paper no.45 (click here)

by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison

Analysis

Having established in previous papers the necessity of giving the national government all the powers described in the Constitution, Madison now seeks to reassure his audience that such a powerful general government will not threaten the remaining authority of the state governments and render them wholly subservient. This paper is further evidence of how suspicious the American people were of the proposed national government....

United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549, 115 S. Ct. 1624, 131 L. Ed. 2d 626 (1995). (click here)

Facts

The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 (GFSZA) made it unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm at a place that he knew or had reasonable cause to believe was a school zone. Alfonso Lopez, Jr. (D), a 12th-grade student, carried a concealed and loaded handgun into his high school and was arrested and charged under Texas law with firearm possession on school premises. The next day, the state charges were dismissed after federal agents charged Lopez with violating the Act....

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) (click here)

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Historical Background

The McCulloch v. Maryland decision in 1819 fanned the flames of controversy over States' rights and national supremacy. By 1824, Chief Justice John Marshall had reached the zenith of his historic tenure on the Court and was perfectly willing to consider the most difficult areas of law.

As the American frontier moved west and settlers pushed beyond the Appalachians into the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys, the question of commercial development became very important. In 1811, the National Government began construction of the great National Road to the west through the Cumberland Gap, and State governments engaged in a frenzy of canal building, capped by New York State's 363-mile wonder, the Erie Canal. Taxation and regulation of commerce through transportation was an important source of State income in the early years of the Republic, and interstate rivalries over rights to license and collect fees from transportation services became heated. Intense economic pressures mounted as some businessmen called for more free trade while other argued for States' rights in the management of internal matters of the State...

PROMOTING Commerce v. Regulating Commerce

That is another case. The Affordable Care Act exists due to commerce that already exists.

I.  GARCLA  AND  DORMANT  COMMERCE  CLAUSE  ANALYSIS (click here)
In  attempting  to  preserve  landfill  space  through  regulations  which  either
discriminate  against or  unduly  burden" consumption  by out-of-state  interests,  a  state  quickly  finds  itself  in  the  midst  of  a  struggle  between  state sovereignty  rights  and  Congress's  commerce  clause  powers.  When  the  Supreme  Court  disengaged  economic  substantive  due  process  rights  from  the fourteenth  amendment  in  1937,16  the  Court simultaneously  cleared  the  way for  the  modern  Court's  expansive  interpretation  df  Congress's  commerce clause  powers.  For  over  half  a  century,  the  Court's  interpretation  of  the commerce  clause  enabled  Congress  to  regulate  activity  in  essentially  any area  regardless  of  the  degree  of  its  actual  impact  (or  lack  thereof)  on interstate  commerce.' Thus,  where  fundamental  notions of state sovereignty
are  allegedly infringed  by Congress's seemingly omnipotent  commerce  clause powers,  significant  disagreement  results...

Justice Sotomayor is correct, there is no class of people identified that would exclusively have the distinction of being uninsured. It is a generalized condition that occurs among all classes. In that is the understanding 'the limiting principle' is not applicable to the ACA.


There are hospitals throwing people out on the street. The emergency room is not the answer for all health problems. If a person with an 'illness' and not an injury enters the ER for treatment there is no continuity of care or any follow up with a primary physician for treatment of an illness. While a bone can be set in an emergency room, a heart condition cannot be forever treated from an ER. It is a ridiculous answer to the health needs of the people of the USA.


? To not purchase health care insurance effects no one.? BUT. Defaulting on health care providers do effect everyone. That is not a legitimate point of view because having health insurance benefits providers that are faced with raising rates to consumers when they are defaulted upon. That is a nonsense argument. 


Carbon does not like the plenary powers of Congress. Congress has to have plenary powers because the problems facing the nation is not limited. Problems can come from every venue with any dynamic. The fact the ACA is a commerce problem cannot be limited as 'exclusively' outside the powers of Congress to address. If that is going to occur, the Plutocracy then is untouchable. It's ridiculous. A definition of sovereignty includes broad plenary powers to address all the venues of a nation. Carbon wants to set health insurance in an independent paradigm outside the reach of Congress. That is an insult to the sovereignty of the USA.

Annan's proposal well received by all Syrian parties to end violence.

Former U.N. Secretary-General and special envoy to Syria Kofi Annan, left, meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the Great Hall of People in Beijing March 27, 2012.

...U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes (click title to entry - thank you) said Tuesday there is a basic structure in place to discuss with Russia and China what they can do to support Annan.

"I think we felt like we made some progress with regard to Syria in that, despite the differences that we've had -- and they continue with regard to Syria -- there is the framework for cooperation through the Kofi Annan initiative which, again, at the very least, provides a framework for stopping the violence, initiating greater humanitarian access to the people of Syria and initiating a transition in that country," Rhodes said. "Again, we believe very strongly that that transition has to involve Assad leaving power."

In Istanbul, Syrian opposition groups are meeting in an effort to forge a united front before a major conference April 1.  

Opposition member Bassam Jaara said Tuesday the meeting is an important dialogue between different sides of the opposition as they work to revise their structure....

..."Experts, officials and observers (click here) are unanimous that weapons are being smuggled into Syrian territory from bordering States, including Lebanon," Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said in a letter sent last week to the U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

He said there had been multiple "confiscations of weapons, explosives and explosive devices smuggled from Lebanon to Syria by certain Lebanese political forces linked to terrorist groups funded and armed from abroad."

He gave no details about which countries or "Lebanese political forces" were arming and funding Syrian rebels....


Human Right Commission not provided access to Syria to conduct work.

...Yakin Ertuk of Turkey told Reuters (click here) that she felt there was no point in continuing on the panel, whose mandate the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council decided on Friday to extend through the 47-nation body's September session.

"The commission cannot do comprehensive work and investigate (certain) areas because of no access, so I decided not to continue," Ertuk said in a telephone interview.

She made clear her resignation was not a criticism of the work of the panel, which she said had done everything possible under the circumstances to establish the kinds of crimes that the Syrian government has committed over the last year....


It would seem all parties are in agreement with Mr. Annan's initiative.

PARIS—A member of the Syrian National Council (click here) says the opposition welcomes the government's acceptance of a U.N. peace plan.

Bassma Kodmani told The Associated Press by telephone Tuesday that "we welcome all acceptance by the regime of a plan that could allow the repression and bloodbath to stop."

She is a Paris-based member of the opposition Syrian National Council.

She added, "we hope that we can move toward a peace process."...

Syria tops Arab summit agenda (click here)

BY PRASHANT RAO, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE 

MARCH 27, 2012

...The Arab League will have to reconcile a proposal by Gulf countries to arm opponents of Assad with calls from states such as Iraq for a political resolution to the year-long crackdown monitors say has left more than 9,100 dead.

"There is a mounting crisis in Syria, there is daily killing, there is daily bloodshed, there is a stalemate ... in the political solution, what should be done," Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told reporters .

Zebari said there "will be a resolution definitely on Syria," but admitted he did not "think there will be a call on Bashar to step aside."

Iraqi authorities have insisted the summit will focus on structural reform of the Arab League to make the organization more active, but Syria remains in the limelight, rocked by protests and deadly clashes, U.S. and European sanctions and a UN rights probe....

The USA has more executions for the death penalty than Yemen.

...Most countries (click title to entry - thank you) do not put criminals to death. Only 20 out of 198 carried out executions last year. That number has dropped by more than a third over the past decade. Many nations have abolished the death penalty and more are abolitionist in practice.

"We are determined that we will see the day when the death penalty is consigned to history," said Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International.

At least 676 people were executed across the globe last year for crimes including sorcery, sodomy and murder, according to a new annual report from the group. Executions rose steeply in the Middle East and North Africa, up almost 50% compared to the previous year....

The ? contaminated ? baggie. Where is the evidence pointing to that FACT? Forensic evidence.

While Zimmerman is stating self defense, the autopsy of Trayvon Martin is sealed.

...The Volusia County Medical Examiner's office, (click title to entry - thank you) the body that "independently, objectively and scientifically determines the cause and manner of death under certain circumstances," handled the autopsy.

For now, that report remains under seal, spokesman Dave Byron told The Times. It has been forwarded to the Seminole County branch of the Florida state attorney's office and won't be made public while the investigation is pending.

That office, as well as the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice, are among the agencies investigating the Feb. 26 shooting. 

Sanford law enforcement sources recently told the Orlando Sentinel that there's evidence to suggest Martin might have been the aggressor in the incident. Police say those leaks were unauthorized but confirm that the information contained in the Sentinel's article was "consistent" with the details the agency provided prosecutors....

Okay, if there are unauthorized leaks coming from Sanford law enforcement, I want an investigation to the leaks and I want the evidence sealed in an FBI facility where it can't be tampered with. It is a reasonable request and one that appears all too prudent for this case at this point in time. 


Sanford law enforcement AGAIN has violated the public trust and exhibits poor police conduct. The FBI needs to handle this from here out because there is nothing about Sanford law enforcement at this time that is trustworthy. Any reporting of 'leaked' material as FACT by any journalist is completely irresponsible as it cannot be validated. The facts in this case are sealed and the sources unknown.


The so called 'leaked facts' are as much myth as truth at this point.

Joe Oliver should stop lying for George Zimmerman.

Tonight, Mr. Oliver made a lame statement about the racial slur used by Zimmerman in the 911 tapes.  


Joking right?


Coon or Goon?


Really?


Okay, let's give Mr. Oliver his fantasy so he can lie to everyone and believe Zimmerman said Goon. According to Mr. Oliver's daughter that is an affectionate word used between high school students. Why an adult of 28 years would be using it is a curiosity, but, let's just say that is what Zimmerman said.


I have only one question.


Just one.


Is a "Fucking Goon" an expression of affection between high school students?

Delric Miller murder, person of interest questioned

This murder was cited on Murdoch's O'Reilly No Spin Zone. It was speculated the President of the USA did not comment on this murder of a black infant with an AK-47. The shooting and infant death occurred in Detroit.


Here again the Right Wing Media has no clue and they should simply not comment on 'comparison and compare.'


In this case, the police are very engaged in finding the killer. Again, the topic of assault weapons is an issue. Here again the advocacy of the NRA is still a problem.


It is not realistic for President Obama to comment on every murder in the USA, racial or not. The Trayvon Martin case has a sincere message of injustice and lack of expertise in its handling. An innocent young black man was killed after being pursued as a criminal while trying to defend himself without the benefit of a gun.


The NRA's answer is for both men to be armed, even though Trayvon was 17 and under the age of majority. The NRA would never come forward to be appauled if there was a gun fight between the two. The NRA would never come forward to denounce the evidence of the use of an AK47 in the death of an infant.


There is no comparison between the two cases and in both cases Americans, both minority Americans were victims of the agenda of the NRA and the propaganda of Murdoch's hate machine. If the Assault Weapons Ban was still in force, would this infant be alive today?


Dozens of bullets from an AK47 (click title to entry - thank you) pierced the windows and walls of a home on Detroit's west side early Monday, killing a 9-month-old baby sleeping on the couch.


Several neighbors, accustomed to hearing gunshots in the neighborhood, dropped to the ground and protected their pets and children.


Police arrived 24 minutes after the first 911 call, although they weren't told anyone was hit until a later call. Delric Waymon Miller IV was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead....


The attack on Reverend Al Sharpton by Bill O'Reilly is uncalled for, as after all, it is Murdoch that always claims if FOX News didn't cover the topics they do, ie "Tea Party" then no one would. When will Murdoch's media service simply admit their viewers prefer to hate minorities than solve the problems of a nation?

Obama asks for space on missile defense

I would expect any negotiations President Obama could enter into with President Medvedev of Russia would carry far less brevity in an election year, especially on Missile Defense. Missile Defense is a charged election year issue in the USA. The differences in views between Democrats and Republicans is well known.


Equity in missile defense in Europe is a delicate subject, however, parking the missiles at the Russian border is simply a bad idea and invites mutual threat. Poland would be caught in the middle. It is a matter of negotiations and with a change in the Presidency in Russia it is better to convene new negotiations with the Putin administration.


If President Obama attempted to address the missile defense system in an election year, there is a very good chance the measure would not pass and in that the reality the USA and Russia were cast into having profound differences. It is better to allow the topic to stay in anticipation of negotiations rather than have it acted on in anger by a GOP that likes to appear to be muscle flexing even when it is far less prudent to do it.


I am pleased to hear President Obama and President Medvedev were able to easily converse about missile defense for what seems less than 60 seconds without a pause in postponement of the negotiations to another time and another Russian administration. The ease at which they spoke shows a good rapport between the two and if there was any doubt missile defense was a impetus to USA and Russian conflict that can now be put to rest.

Joe Oliver, long time friend with Zimmerman was NOT an eyewitness.

Zimmerman stalked a young black man and was carrying a gun, that looks like intent to me, he believed to be dangerous and engaged in a confrontation. Trayvon had every right to defend himself. 

It is evident the NRA is involved. Defaming the victim is a classic trademark. 

By msnbc.com news services 

Trayvon Martin, the teenager (click here) whose shooting death has sparked a national uproar, was suspended from school last month for having a baggie that contained marijuana residue in his book bag, a family spokesman said M0nday....

Murdoch is painting Zimmerman as a sympathetic figure. There is gross bias by Murdoch's media. Bill Hemmer stated, "Watch to see how this goes." as if he expected 'the truth' is completely opposite as to what is being reported today.

Because Zimmerman has cooperated doesn't mean a thing. A person cooperates to seek a statement of character before a judge. There are plenty of criminals in prison that cooperated, too.


Zimmerman did not do the right thing, he was told by the police dispatcher not to pursue. He pursued and he pursed a young black man that posed absolutely no threat to him. Zimmerman confronted Trayvon and he did so armed with a weapon to kill him.


We do know what happened after Zimmerman got out of the car. He pursued Trayvon up a sidewalk. Trayvon was moving away from him and we know Trayvon believed he was being followed by testimony of his girlfriend while they were having a phone conversation. We also know Trayvon's phone fell to the ground. 


Zimmerman would have to drive his car/van up the curb in order to pursue Trayvon if he didn't get out of the car when Trayvon turned off the road an up a sidewalk. 


Zimmerman was acting on his estimation Trayvon was dangerous. He was carrying a weapon because he believed Trayvon was dangerous. What else has to be understood? Nothing. Zimmerman was acting as a vigilante and there was no self-defense on his part. He was in pursuit of someone he estimated to be dangerous after the police told him not to do that. Zimmerman fully expected to 'handle the situation' while carrying a gun. Zimmerman is guilty of pursuit of an innocent unarmed black young man with intent to bring deadly force.


The Sanford Police didn't notify anyone of the death and the family had to discover it three days later. The Sanford Police did not do everything right.

SANFORD, FLA. - A neighborhood watch captain (click title to entry - thank you) told police he fatally shot Trayvon Martin after the teenager punched him, knocked him down and slammed his head into the ground, the Orlando Sentinel reported on Monday.... 

...The Feb. 26 killing of the black teenager as he walked through a gated community by Zimmerman, a white Hispanic, has triggered protests around the country and calls for Zimmerman’s arrest.

Zimmerman had followed Martin and reported him to police before their deadly encounter. He said believed the young man in a “hoodie” hooded sweatshirt looked to be “up to no good.”...

The Penalty in the Affordable Care Act is a revenue issue. I think Ginsburg has derailed the purpose.

The penalty for not purchasing health insurance is to be used to defray the costs of the uninsured on the country. So, it is a revenue with a purpose. It is not a revenue if everyone has a health insurance policy, but, then there would be no reason to defray costs.


It is a tax called a penalty because it is mandatory if a health insurance policy is not evident. I think these arguments are superfluous to the purpose of any of the law.

DAVIS v. HALPERN (click here)

768 F.Supp. 968 (1991)
Roberts asked if Mr. Long was expecting the Court to overturn the Davis v. Halpern Case, so, there are cases already decided law under Stare Decisis.  But, the Robert's Court loves to seek destruction of Stare Decisis. Iam not surprised Robert's stated that as well. It very well may be the case before the Court is being used for other purposes than health care simply because it brings the case law into force. Robert is an activist judge and he does not accept precedent as important. So, we are up against a politically motivated court, regardless, of what is stated.
The Anti-Junction Act stands in this case.  Has to. It was established in 1793. The Anti-injunction states the federal courts cannot act against the states before they decide their case. The penalty does not take effect until 2014, in that, there is no state decision regarding the penalty until there are cases in which to decide. So, the states are trying to 'fashion' a case through imagineering of what is going to occur in the future. The states are saying they are injured because there will be grievances in the future, therefore, they want the court reverse the Anti-Injunction Act. An act that has stood over two hundred years. This is a mess. I just don't see it.   
The states have no idea what their 'injury' will be under Medicaid in 2014 in 2012, they can only guessing. In the case of Georgia, it's Senator Graham complained there will be more people that will fall under Medicaid in 2014 than today. Gee, that's a shame. So, having more people falling into the poverty statue of the ACA in having 133% of the poverty level then being eligible for Medicaid says more about the state of Georgia then it ever says about the compassion of the federal government in that requirement. I can't believe we are going through this exercise. 

"Freedom of Conscience"

Now the Right Wing is going to accuse the US Constitution of mind control. This is a representative government, conscience is exhibited in the voting booth. This is not a method of dictatorship and the argument is mute.


The Affordable Care Act is based on Insurance Exchanges whereby the cost of premiums is a cumulative methodology. The chances of being in an exchange where ones 'conscience is insulted' is as good as being insulted outside the environment of a church. If one expects too have their conscience insulted by the very society whereby they are citizens then that is their reality in knowing they have no control over others behaviors.


Conscience is an individual process and we all should be grateful for the Burger Court. Conscience is not a process of legislation, nor should it ever be.

President Obama has an obligation to speak to minority issues. (A prayer for Trayvon Martin - click title to entry - thank you)

President Obama’s remarks on the Martin case at a Friday Rose Garden press conference “disgraceful” for focusing on race. 


I find the comment by Gingrich offensive, out of context and racist. 


The nation is very lucky to have a minority President. He is brilliant. 


President Obama was compassionate and it is his obligation as the leader of the free world to speak out about minority issues, especially when those issues exist in the USA.


Maybe Mr. Gingrich wants to be seen in that light. One of the favorite venues of the GOP is Anti-Affirmative Action, and in that reality is a definitive bias against minorities. So, from a political point of view he 'took them on.'


The lack of action in the death of Trayvon Martin by authorities is an obvious and egregious racist decision. Everyone along the way DECIDED the young man was a criminal based on the testimony of Zimmerman. They believed the gunman before they ever thought the young black man was a victim to hatred. Actions speak louder than words. Trayvon could not speak for himself, but, the reality before us speaks for itself. An unarmed young black man was ambushed by a Hispanic man with a gun. Based on what? Based on the fact he was walking through a gated community? Walking is not a crime. 


If we are to believe Zimmerman was acting in defense of his 'point of view' we are back to the days of the KKK. A point of view is indefensible at gunpoint. There is nothing that validates the actions of Mr. Zimmerman. Nothing along the way validates his fears, anger or hatred. If we are to believe Mr. Zimmerman, then police are ineffective in preventing robberies. This entire disaster is at the hand of a man without a valid reason. In a gated community, I would fully expect homeowners would have alarms systems, watch dogs, etc. There simply is no way I have been able to validate Mr. Zimmerman's actions, except, for his profound discrediting of police and the death of a young black man. There was absolutely no reason for any of it, especially the fact he has not been arrested.

"Morning Papers" - It's Origin

Good Night, Moon

March 25, 2012


The Waxing Crescent


3.1 days


10.7% lit


Stranding of citizens is malpractice of government. When a country bases it's government in rewarding profits of companies, it isn't taking care of it's citizens any longer. The rights of citizens has to be well incorporated into the rewards of the private sector otherwise stranding in the only real outcome.


What is the function of the Department of Commerce if it isn't looking toward the future of it's citizens. The idea a USA government agency official should have spent so much time in China while receiving a salary from the people of this country, only to have the people suffer at the indulgences of that priority is not only malpractice, it is criminal.


The people of the USA have been stranded by the malpractice of it's government due to the corruption of its politics. The people are not put first in at least half of the parties of it's political system. 


The people have a right to a life within the sovereignty of the USA and to be protected from economic failure of an incompetent and greedy private sector. I often consider those that seek to ridicule citizens for receiving SSI or Disability or other entitlements to be Anti-American because they place 'the citizen' in lower stature to their high regard of money/gold. A country is it's people. Without its' people there is no functioning private sector. There are no profits. The companies of the USA should relish the vitality of the society in which it exists, for it is that vitality that provides a company its purpose.


Companies are not people and they cannot have a purpose or profit without them.


Support President Obama in his bid for re-election. He was always been there for us.