If transportation, in the year 2011, didn't require a car; then why did this elderly man break the law?

If the analogy between car insurance and health care was remoting correct, every roadway would be open to any moving vehicle at all.  It would have to be and automobiles would have no 'special consideration.'

This law prohibits anything except motor vehicles to go from point A to point B.  Actually, it isn't just motor vehicles, it automobiles correctly registered with the State.

Hello?

The wheelchair is motorized.

Now, what was that about cars being unnecessary?

Elderly man takes wheelchair on joyride down interstate  (click title to entry - thank you)

Posted: Jan 07, 2011 8:09 AM EST Updated: Jan 07, 2011 8:12 AM EST

FAIRFIELD, CT (CNN) - This isn't the best way to deal with rising gas prices.

An elderly man drove his electric wheelchair down I-95 in Fairfield, CT on Thursday.

Although cameras caught the driver mostly on the shoulder, authorities believe he did make it onto the highway at one point.

The man wasn't given a ticket. However, police say traveling on a highway on an electric scooter or wheelchair is illegal.

The Drama Queens in the USA House of Representatives do not have a clear concensus on repeal of any major legislation.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans do not strongly endorse the new Republican House majority's efforts to repeal the landmark healthcare legislation passed last year. A new Gallup poll finds that 46% of Americans want their representative in Congress to vote to repeal the healthcare law, 40% want their representative to vote to let the law stand, and 14% have no opinion....

PURE

UNADULTERATED

POLITICS.

Playing with the country's future is not what I would call a minor issue.  The law took an entire year of debate and procedure, not to mention the years and years of preparation, and in one week the Repuglicans want to repeal it.

Amazing.

The Affordable Health Care for America Act provides for bringing more primary care physicians into practice and more health care workers into the labor force.  Repealing this vital legislation is gross malpractice by the Repuglicans. 

Shame on them.

I heard the argument as to how requiring Health Care is so much different than requiring car insurance.  It goes like this, "You don't have to own a car."

Did you get that right?

"You don't have to own a car."  Therefore requiring car insurance is something the average person can avoid.

That is not only moronic in its logic, the analogy would require someone to NOT have to own health care.

Got that?

In other words, the only reason the Health Care Affordability Act is unconstitutional is because everyone requires health care, it is not an option.

Huh?

Why don't the Repuglicans tell that to the hundreds of thousand dead Americans that died becuase they LACKED health care.  See, according to the Repuglican logic, the dead American is a great patriot for not having health care, the constitutional thing to do instead of purchasing required insurance.

It doesn't get more stupid than that.

If the Justice Department should expect some kind of reply from Ms. Jonsdottir.

Then again, maybe not.  The satellites have been pulled out of Iceland and the USA didn't have much compassion for Iceland when Paulson imploded the global economy.

By Kim Zetter

January 7, 2011  | 

6:14 pm

The U.S. Justice Department (click title to entry - thank you) has served Twitter with a subpoena seeking information on an Icelandic lawmaker who has worked with WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the lawmaker told Threat Level on Friday.
“I got the letter from Twitter a couple of hours ago, saying I got 10 days to stop it,” wrote Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Iceland’s parliament, in an e-mail. “Looking for legal ways to do it. Will be talking to lawyers from EFF tonight.”
EFF refers to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group in the United States.
On her Twitter feed, Jonsdottir said the government is seeking an archive of tweets she sent out since Nov. 1, 2009 as well as “personal information” for her account....

Pakistan Rocks. Love the tissue boxes.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani (right of center) speaks with leaders of MQM during a meeting at their headquarters in Karachi on January 7.

The Pakistan People's Party has once again regained its footing.  At this time of year the fuel price hikes were not good.  They need to be rethought.

January 07, 2011

By Abubakar Siddique

Less than a week (click title to entry - thank you) after the country descended into political chaos when the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) defected to the opposition, leaving the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) scrambling to find new alliances, the MQM has returned to preserve the ruling coalition's majority.

MQM official Raza Haroon made the announcement on January 7 after days of hectic discussions that culminated in Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's visit to MQM headquarters in the southern seaport of Karachi.

"For the sake of our country, nation, and democracy, and in response to the prime minister's good will and for the promotion of democracy and keeping in view the delicate [political] situation of the country, Muttahida is announcing to sit on the government benches [in the parliament]," Haroon said. "But our coordination committee has decided that we will not be able to rejoin the federal cabinet for now."

But to woo his largest coalition partner back into the fold, Prime Minister Gilani was forced to accede to a key MQM demand -- the lifting of recently imposed and highly unpopular fuel-price hikes. And with the end of the short-lived austerity measures rises the question of whether Gilani set Pakistan on the road to economic ruin in order to preserve his government.

Jan Brewer's Arizona is a prime example of why Repuglican agendas are ineffective and Anti-American.

...they could no longer afford. (click title to entry - thank you) The state faces a projected $1 billion program deficit by July 2011.

...On Nov. 28, Mark Price, a 37-year-old leukemia patient from Goodyear, Ariz., died before he could obtain a $250,000 bone marrow transplant that an anonymous donor offered to fund after hearing media reports about Price's plight....

July 2011 is NOT today.  There are people dying TODAY. 

Individual Income Tax (for Arizona as of July 2010 - click here)

Net Collections $198,266,300

Percent Change 8.7%

The income to the state of Arizona increased by 8.7% in July 2010.  That means the incomes of individuals in the state has increased.  The economy in Arizona is recovering.

Arizona has some of the lowest income tax rates in the nation.  There is absoluely no reason why people are dying today in Arizona.  There is plenty of time to react to ANY IF AT ALL short fall in the budget for Medicare and 'right now' there is plenty that can be done.

How Arizona State income tax rates are structured

The tax table below will show in detail the Arizona state income tax rates by income tax bracket(s). There are 5 income tax brackets for Arizona.

If your income range is between $0 and $10,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 2.59%.
If your income range is between $10,001 and $25,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 2.88%.
If your income range is between $25,001 and $50,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 3.36%.
If your income range is between $50,001 and $150,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 4.24%.
If your income range is $150,001 and over, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 4.54%.

Jan Brewer ran for the Governorship based on the concept of no tax increases for the citizens of Arizona and now the neediest of people; people unable to change their circumstances; are dying.  That is Anti-American and Brewer should be impeached.

There is every indication the income tax 'incomes' will continue to improve over time and in sufficient amounts to afford transplants for Medicaid recipients.

Brewer's Arizona could easily raise income tax levels to cover the Medicaid Transplant program.

NONE of the deaths to date are necessary and all anticipated in the future can be avoided.

It is up to Harry now.

...Baucus began hearings (click title to entry - thank you) on tax reform last September, when he declared "our continued prosperity and international competitiveness rest on our facing these challenges." But now with Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's publicly on board, tax reform could become the next big issue for Congress to tackle this year after the debate on raising the national debt ceiling....

Filibuster Reform has to occur.  It is stifling the nation.  There is no reason to believe the Repuglicans are capable to good governance.  They weren't capable of it in the Senate and now the House is a disaster, with only an occassion glimmer of hope such as Rep. Allen West, former military, joined The Black Caucus. (click here)

...On several occasions in 2010, (click here) a majority of senators wanted to bring legislation to the Senate floor to extend unemployment benefits for millions of workers who had been laid off for long stretches.

The most frustrating incident occurred in late June, when I was one of 59 senators who wanted to restore unemployment benefits for laid-off workers who had been without them since May. The Republican minority in the Senate objected and delayed the vote using procedural tactics — then departed town for a weeklong break, leaving those 1.3 million jobless Americans in limbo for several agonizing weeks.

An empty Senate is no way to respond to Americans who need help, and yet this is what’s happening in today’s Washington....

I really have to congratulate Former House Majority Leader and now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in that she never wavered to the reform the country needed, even when the Senate was most dysfunctional. 

...The distressing truth (click here) is that the federal government appears to be incapable of tackling the big issues that will determine the nation's future health and vitality. Is it because we're too polarized by divisions of ideology, race or class? Is it a lack of will or resources? Or the pernicious influence of corruption and malfeasance?

The answer? None of the above.

The real source of federal-level dysfunction is the United States Senate.

The fact is that a two-chamber legislative branch was not the preferred model for many of our Founding Fathers. Thomas Paine argued for a single chamber. Benjamin Franklin thought having both a House and a Senate was like "putting one horse before a cart and the other behind it, and whipping them both."
But even Franklin would never have imagined just how incapable of action the Senate would become. That's because when he was around, the filibuster — which requires 60 votes to end debate and begin voting on pending legislation — hadn't been invented. It didn't become part of Senate rules until 1806. Even then, it was purely an accident — the unintentional consequence of a housekeeping measure to simplify the Senate rule book....

It is best that Tax Reform occur while Harry's Democrats have the final say.  There is a lot of work to be done when the Senate returns, including the conclusion of the tax debate.  When tax reform occurs the nation will finally be rid of the corruption the the Repuglians of the past 4 decades. 

NO MORE CORPORATE DARLINGS HARRY.

One of the greatest contributions of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to the nation under the Obama Administration are his administrative reforms in obtaining military hardware and cutting the budget.  He has been a very dedicated member of the USA citizenry and I thank him.  He will be missed.

Gates Eyes $78 Billion in Pentagon Savings Through 2016

...and how did we get into this mess?

...It is the sort of thing upon which a really bad Hollywood movie can be made.  Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) has pushed for accountability and helped create the Wartime Contracting Commission, an oversight board.  Despite Senator McCaskill’s exceptional efforts, it is too little too late.  The time to do something is when Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld cooked up that lie that took us into that war in the first place and then totally and completely mishandled it because they used the war as  a basis toset up slush funds topay off their corones and grant political favors. As Senator McCaskill Said,

“You had no oversight, chaos and breathtaking sums of money. And over all of that was the notion that failure was O.K. It doesn’t get any better for criminals than that set of circumstances.”

The responsibility for the waste of this enormous amount of money falls squarely on the shoulders of Republicans who were then in control of Congress like John McCain (R-Az), John Boehner (R-Oh), and Eric Cantor (R-Va), among many others.  So excuse me for not taking them too seriously when they question President Obama’s fiscal responsibility in trying to pass a stimulus to get this country back to work.

The House Repuglicans aren't about cutting spending to lower the national debt, they are about 'changing the PLACES government money IS SPENT.'  It is a change in spending priorities accompanied by rhetoric and nothing more.

The electorate shot themselves in the foot.

Cantor and Boner can BEGIN their 'Cut as You Go" by paying for the Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy.

The same 'ole, same 'ole GOP. No new ideas, just new words.

According to Majority Whip Eric 'Re'Cantor, the "Pay-Go" system is out and now it is just "Cut as you go."

SAME THING.

Quote, "Any NEW Spending will be met with Cut-As-You-Go." 

WHERE IS THE DIFFERENCE?

Anyone remember the argument over the First Lady's School Lunch Program?  The Dems were cutting the Food Stamp program to pay for it?

Tell me there is a difference other than the works.

And every bill the Dems passed as the Repuglicans attempted to obstruct is not "THE JOB KILLING X-Y-Z BILL.'

"The job killing Obamacare."

"The job killing Stimulus."

Where are the IDEAS?  These Bozos weren't elected on NEW ideas?  Evidently they were and obviously were elected on RHETORIC.

There is nothing new here, just the same ANCIENT GOP political 'play the American electorate for a fool game.'

The only difference between the Democrat Majority and the Repuglican Majority is the NEW SPENDING will be to benfit Wall Street.  Halliburton Subsidies and the like.

Pete Rouse needs to stay on as the President's Chief of Staff. The last thing we need is MORE Wall Streeters close to President Obama.

Pete Rouse, the interim Chief of Staff to President Obama after Rahm went placed his bid for Chicago Mayor, has lead the Democrats through a historic 'lame duck' session as no one else could.  Regardless of the Right Wing rhetoric stating the President is 'out of touch' with the business sector, that is the furthest thing from the truth.  There have been TOO MANY Wall Streeters within this administration and I am glad they are leaving.  I don't care if Daley was a Clinton Administration favorite.  He is working for Morgan now and has been 'on the inside' to one of the most corrupt banking scandals in history.  He knew what was going in internally when Paulson was pulling all the strings and I believe Daley is the worst choice President Obama could ever make.  It will hurt him politically and eveyrone knows it. 

Daley should probably be investigated along with every other 'insider' during the banking scandal of 2008 before they even let in the front door of the White House.

Has everyone completely lost their sense of what happened? 

Sperling.  Just wha the nation needs, another Geither.  President Obama can do better than this.  I would think there are many African Americans as equally if not better qualified that would love to bring a fresh outlook to the economic challenge this White House faces.

Where is the advise of Vernon Jordan when you need it?

I know all that is occuring with wildlife deaths seems wacko, but, there are reasons for this stuff, so I intend to continue to follow it.

...Several dozen blackbirds were also found scattered around the yard of a Kentucky resident. (click title to entry - thank you)

Three populations of dead birds in three different states and no one has any answers yet.

As long as there is a global concern, let's look at it.

When examining ANY forensic trama event with wildlife the first thing to consider is SPECIES. 

I am not saying all these events are unrelated, I am saying they are different species.  For example, small/juvenile menhaden in Maryland have a long history of succumbing to toxic algae.  The event in Kentucky, Arkansas and Louisiana are primarily inland and different than the rest of the 'global kills.'\

FRESH WATER vs. SALT WATER  -  Huge difference when it comes to even 'metabolic issues.'  Okay?  But, if this is FREQUENCY related and it was emitted by Earth through let's say 'magma movement' it could be global.  I am going to get into what needs to be examined for 'frequency' deaths in a minute.

Dead birds in Louisiana; dead fish in Maryland, Brazil and New Zealand  (click here)

January 4th, 2011 7:45 pm ET

...He said it was too early to connect the Arkansas bird deaths to those in Louisiana, noting testing is being done and “…it could be a week or more before the results come back.”
The Daily News reports that Maryland is now looking into massive fish deaths in Chesapeake Bay.
Dawn Stoltzfus, director of communications with Maryland’s Department of the Environment, said “We are seeing small/juvenile menhaden, croaker, spot fish dead, in very large fish kills… The numbers are estimated in the hundreds of the thousands at this point.”
Additionally, the Parana Online reports that 100 tons of dead fish, mainly sardines, were found on the beaches of Paranagua, Brazil Sunday. They have also begun to appear on the coasts of Pontal do Pontal do Parana, Guaraquecaba, and Antonina.
Furthermore, a ‘carpet’ of dead snapper has appeared on a New Zealand beach, according to the New Zealand Herald. On Tuesday, the New Zealand’s Ministry of Fisheries announced an investigation into the hundreds of dead snapper that washed up at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay. Fishery officials deemed the fish unsafe to eat and are investigating the mass deaths....

There are some toxicology reports to be added to 'the list' to be looked into regarding the 'inland deaths of birds and fish in the USA'.  From here on it is a process of elimination to determine the cause of deaths.

There is a rodenticide that could be involved as well.  Sodium fluoroacetate. (click here)  I ran across it in a veterinary toxicology article.   The reason I keyed in on this is because it absorbed through the skin, found in natural settings and triggered by thyroid levels resulting in tissue damage and death of the heart and lungs, among the brain.  I am not saying the brain component is important as the birds are stated to have internal bleeding that is the cause.  This will make more sense in a minute.

The problem with wildlife autopsies is that they sometimes don't look for the real the wildlife died in relation to the IMPORTANCE of the species unless it has a 'status' of threatened or endangered.  None of these species are 'classified.'  The IMPORTANCE of the autopsies in regard to these 'mass deaths' when the government performs them is mostly based in 'protecting humans' from poison or dangerous 'substances.'  Tangible stuff.  All that is important but leaves the mystery UNSOLVED because it stops there.

I am going to depart from the discussion of toxicology to introduce the 'concept' of frequency. 

Frequency is a wave.  An oscillation.  Okay.  Radio, television and all that mess are transmitted on frequency.  If 'waves of energy' or 'frequency' were not a matter of physics none of that 'including' electricity would be possible.

Does anyone remember the 'brain explosion' of the chess player a few years ago?  It was caused by a RARE phenomena that increased the 'electirical' activity in the brain.

...Anatoly Martinenko, (click here) famed neurologist and expert on the human brain who did the autopsy on the brilliant chess expert. "It is a condition in which the circuits of the brain become overloaded by the body's own electricity....

Electrical activity happens in the body of any living organism.  Electrical activity has frequency.  Okay?  Here comes the 'Twilight Zone.'  Ready?

The heart of any living being has an electrical system that runs on 'body chemistry.'  In the human body it is 'induced' by a sodium-potassium pump.  The sodium-potassium pump is ION exchange.  Biochemistry, this isn't that exotic.  Sodium has a - (negative) 1 (one) charge and potassium as a + (positive) 1 (one) charge and move across a membrane composed of other elements.  I am not getting into this, if one wants to examine the chemical period table do it on your own.  The electrical system in the human body is known as 'The Nervous System.'   Let's just leave it there.

The point is that 'biochemistry' of any living organism uses properties of elements to produce its own electricity and it uses efficiently to operate organs such as the RELIABLE heart.

What happens when the electricity of the heart is interrupted with an energy / frequency wave from an outside source in Red Wing Blackbirds and Drum Fish?  What happens when any species is hit with a 'frequency / energy' wave from an outside source?  No matter the species, no matter the country?

That is what needs to be answered to assist in the INVESTIGATION and whether or not it relates to human health in any way.

What I DON'T KNOW right now, is what the 'physical forensics' shows of the 'area of bleeding' of the fish and Red Wings and Starlings.  Okay, the animals bleed internally, but, why?  Anti-coagulant, toxin (natural or synthetic) or 'outside shock' (energy wave). 

I believe it is important to understand the source of the trauma.  No government entity should be able to say they simply can't identify it.  It leaves questions open to any potential human impacts and whether or not there is a greater understanding that will lend to scientific understanding in other measures of nature that may or may not benefit humans.

Later.

The current Republican majority in the House is a populous movement. It demends on 'outside' influences to win victories.

Last night on "The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell" Mark Meckler was on a panel.  He was the funniest of the panelists during the debate in that he was trying out his new 'stick.'  (click here)

During his entire presentation he mimicked President Obama.  You know 'imitation.'  Something like one would find on a comedy show.

He used the gestures that people with President Obama's 'sense of humor' would recognize.  His smile and gregarious mannerisms. 

Meckler probably has a 'stick' for every audience he appears before.

Nice try, Meckler.   Next time try being NORMAL.

The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell

MSNBC

Aired on Tuesday, Jan 04, 2011 (1/4/2011) at 06:00 PM

00:02:25

Joining me now are tennessee republican congressman phil roe, democratic congressman peter welsh of vermont, adam green, co-founder of the progressive change campaign committee, and mark mekler, co-founder of the tea party patriots.

Gallagher coined as another Limbaugh. Let's hope he improves the IQ of the audience.

...A feud of sorts (click here) erupted between the two, and when Lynch discovered that Gallagher's real name is Michael P. Smelstor,...
Mike Gallagher (click here) (AKA “The Smellster”) is one of the least evolved human beings I’ve come across in the national media. A man who does not seem to actually think, but just react to things (in a predictable and ham-handed partisan manner). And when he’s not scripted well, his program can really go off the rails....

Conservative Talk Radio; sensationalism is their game, facts are secondary.

..."We are delighted (click title to entry - thank you) to begin the New Year by announcing a new affiliate partnership with one of America's truly great radio stations, WOR in New York City," said Greg Anderson, President of SRN. "WOR and Mike Gallagher are a natural fit; both are proven radio winners with a love affair with New York City. We look forward to helping build on the already impressive and longtime success achieved by Rick Buckley, Jerry Crowley and the entire WOR Radio team."

Jerry Crowley, Vice President & General Manager of WOR-AM, added, "Mike is a superb broadcaster with a real sensitivity for the issues surrounding New York. Since he will be broadcasting from our studios at 'ground zero' much of the time, Mike will have the unique advantage of commenting on our local issues that have National implications. The Gallagher show will air between the newly extended time frame of The John Gambling show 6-10a and the Joan Hamburg show 12n-2p."...

Glenn Beck dropped by New York's WOR radio station over poor ratings, replaced by Mike Gallagher

BY David Hinckley
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, January 4th 2011, 7:42 AM Bye, bye Glennie.

WOR (710 AM), one of the city's two biggest talk radio stations, said this morning it is dropping Beck's syndicated show as of Jan. 17 and replacing him with a familiar New York name: Mike Gallagher.
"The reason is ratings," said WOR program director Scott Lakefield. "Somewhat to our surprise, the show wasn't getting what we wanted."

Murdoch's Media Circus 'bet' still pays off to the millionaires and billionairs of the GOP.

...Many substantial donations (click here) from the hedge fund executives escaped public notice either because they were made late in the campaign (and therefore weren’t reported until after the election) or were funneled through third-party groups, obscure “joint fundraising committees” and newly created political nonprofits that are not required to disclose donors.

The net effect has been to give the hedge funds important new allies at a time they are fending off regulations mandated by the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill and an aggressive Justice Department investigation into insider trading....


Issa is grasping at straws by investigating everything he can all at once on ANY WHIM that seems to lead to a faux 'pot of gold' at the end of the rainbow to attempt to BEAT THE Obama Justice Department to the punch.  In other words, the corrupt ISSA and GOP wants to either intimidate and/or 'implicate' the Obama Administration and/or Democrats on ANY 'hint' of faux impropriety to protect their cronies and win victories to return their power without interruption.

Wall Street is 'holding on' rather well until the improbable task is completed.

Make no doubt, ISSA is as corrupt as they come.  He is spending plenty of money FOR NO REASON to prove it.

The Drama Queens of the House will have a nostaligic read of the USA Constitution while interjecting the Amendments where applicable.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte, (click title to entry - thank you) R-6th, will lead a reading of the U.S. Constitution on the House floor beginning at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

The reading will reflect the new House Republican leadership's commitment to hold true to the fundamental principles upon which the country was founded, and will help set the tone for the 112th Congress, according to Goodlatte....

This is PURE politics and nothing more.  The 'Histronic' Republicans will try to inject 'the constitutionality' of ANYTHING  at every turn.  They aren't doing the nations business, they are conducting their own political campaign from the beginning of the session.

There is no use to calling the Senate into session until everyone has gotten all the histronics out of the way.

All it is is nostalgia. 

The LAWS that govern the USA line ROOMS in the Library of Congress, rooms of State Capital Libraries and SHELVES of local libraries.

There is NO SENSE of invoking some kind of PROOF of constitutionality into every law that is written and voted on because there are huge dynamics that play into CONSTITUTIONAL law, not JUST the 'words.'  SIMPLETONS.  We have simpletons sitting in the majority of the House of Representatives.

Amazing.

The Repuglicans want to ADD more paper to The Paperwork Reduction Act to have every legislation reflect the constitutionality of the document.  THAT in and of itself is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

The LEGISLATIVE majority of Repuglicans are attempting to eliminate the Judiciary as a check and balance to the laws of the USA.

I wish there were competent people left in the Right Wing, but, alas all there are are Drama Queens.

It would seem as though Prop 8 is essentially DEAD.

...The 9th Circuit (click title to entry - thank you) judges are weighing an appeal of a federal judge's finding last August that Proposition 8, which bars same-sex marriage in California, violates the constitutional rights of gay people to equal protection. The appeal was filed by the ballot-measure group ProtectMarriage.com, which is represented by private attorneys.
U.S. Supreme Court opinions have doubted the authority of ballot-measure proponents to step in and defend measures in federal court that state authorities decline to defend.
One especially relevant U.S. Supreme Court opinion stemmed from a case originating in Arizona, where ballot measure proponents attempted to defend an English-only law that state officials refused to defend against a federal constitutional challenge....

A "Proposition" is a measure voted on by the electorate.  Once it is passed into law the STATE has the authority to enforce it.  If the law is challenged in a court of law and defeated it is up to the STATE to decide the MERITS of the appeal.  If the STATE decides the costs and outcomes are adverse to any appeal then the propositon is defeated. 

A 'citizen group' is NOT the State and cannot bring suit.  It is precedent because the 'citizen group' ONLY has the authority to bring the issue to ballot.  A citizen's group is NOT a sovereign entity.

Federal Legislation is needed to insure PRIVACY rights of cell phone users.

...The Supreme Courts of California and Ohio (click title to entry - thank you) have come down on opposite sides of the question of whether police need a warrant to search an arrested person’s cellphone. California may be perceived as the tech savvy state thanks to playing host to Silicon Valley, but when it comes to how the law applies to technology, its analysis is rather simplistic. In an opinion issued Monday, California’s court said, “No warrant needed,” equating a cell phone with a pack of cigarettes — Hmmmm. Cell phones are addictive, I suppose — referencing a Supreme Court decision that allowed police to search a cigarette package in an arrested person’s pocket that turned out to contain heroin.

Ohio’s court, on the other hand, ruled in December 2009 that a cell phone is more like a laptop, holding vast amounts of personal information and thus subject to greater privacy protections — namely, a warrant for searching it....

A "Crackberry" IS a laptop. 

No different than an iPAD would be.

More dead Birds now in Louisiana

I think I have something, but, it will take additional investigation. It is related to 'frequency' and DIET.

The USGS has reported there have been 16 such incidents in 30 years regarding Red Wing Blackbirds.  I ran across a study that states (which makes complete sense that birds and especially flocks of birds would 'sense' a meal at a distance).  The study states 'starlings' have the same response.  It is SPECIES RELATED.


How this may relate to Drum Fish isn't clear yet, but, I bet it is.

ABSTRACT: (click title to entry - thank you) We examined the feeding behavior of red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) and European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) on ears of corn (Zea mavs) artificially infested with corn earworms (Helicoverpa zea). In 30-minute aviary tests, redwings and starlings directed 39 to 79% more feeding responses to ears of corn with worms than to ears without worms but they damaged the same proportion of ears with and without worms. In 3-hour aviary tests and a field evaluation, birds damaged more ears with worms than without worms. In spite of more feeding responses directed to ears with worms, the overall damage (number of kernels eaten by birds) was similar in both groups of ears in aviary tests. Our findings indicate that earworms can influence feeding behavior by redwings and starlings on ears of corn. The results generally support the hypothesis that by reducing insect populations in cornfields, one can make the fields less attractive to birds. Also, because redwings and starlings actively sought earworms in corn ears, these abundant birds have the potential for reducing populations of these insect pests in cornfields.

This study was conducted to determine if species of birds could be used to combat insect populations in corn.  The application could be used for other crops, but, if birds could be attracted to eating 'pests' it would save monies on chemicals and solve problems.

The odd circumstances about these occurrences which are reported to have happened in Kentucky, Arkansas and Louisiana all involved specific species of primarily one bird.  The occurrence in Louisiana introduced the fatalities of Starlings. 

See, if it were weather related it would have involved more than one or two species of birds.  It would have resulted in a variety of not just birds but other small mammals like squirrels or chipmunks falling out of trees and the like.  At least that is my opinion.  As a trained and certified Wildlife Rehabilitor I know it happens in that way.   At any rate, if the weather was too turbulent for birds it would be have been more than one primary species and a 'happened upon' second species.  Weather turbulence is NOT that species specific.  That is what had me going to find out what exactly this was.

Now, why I am concerned is this.

There has to be a 'vector' of some kind that was ingested by the Red Wing Blackbirds in sufficient enough numbers to cause high levels of anti-coagulant in their blood.  It is not only species related, it is also dose related.   The vector has to be some kind of insect that might be flying at the same altitudes as the Red Wings and Starlings.  The reason the birds are eating them is because of a 'frequency' (wave length of sound).  The Red Wings and Starlings are 'picking up' the frequency that tells them it is meal time.

Considering this is in primarily southern states TO DATE, the vector has to be a native of the southern environment.

I doubt, although the possibility exists, that the frequency itself is the culprit.  Frequency can do damage to living tissue and that is what needs to be investigated.  If the Red Wings and Starlings have ingested something that attracted them, that is 'safer' to other fauna than if it was the frequency itself that was the culprit.

What makes me believe it is 'the frequency' that might be causing tissue damage is the Drum Fish.  There is the possibilty a swarm of insects could have caused the same tissue damage to the Drum Fish at the location in Arkansas, but, it is even more a possiblity if it is the 'frequency' that is the culprit.

I sincerely believe there needs to be a further investigation to the cause of the deaths of the fish and the birds to come to a conclusion.  Not just for the sake of ornathologists and their knowledge of bird behavior and death.  Which they would want to know anyway to realize what causes large 'die offs' of birds to avert such incidents in 'extinction potential,' but, to know EXACTLY what the frequency is that attracted these birds and/or fish and what exactly about the frequency caused their deaths.

There is something to this and USGS needs to investigate it.  I am not crying wolf here.  We have industry in thsi country that is regularly disrupting land masses to extract methane gas.  They are disrupting the 'craton' with very dangerous chemicals and techniques.  We know that Earth and rock can release frequencies.  Earthquakes ARE frequencies.

I wan tot know that the HELL is going on ! 

I am curious about something.  What is the circumference of the entire area where the dead birds have been found and are the Drum Fish at the epicenter?  Not all frequency is heard by human ears.

The DISTANCE from Beebe, Arkansas to Gilbertsville, Kentucky is approximately 300 miles.  The distance from Beebe, Arkansas to Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana is 350 miles.  The FISH KILL of the Drum Fish (whcih are BOTTOM FEEDERS) IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS MESS.

USGS needs to test for any 'energy wave' release from the area where the Drum Fish died.  Not necessarily were found, but, where they died.