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Apr 24

IF HEALTHCARE OVERHAUL GOES DOWN……

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Gail Wilensky, who ran Medicare and Medicaid under President George H.W. Bush, says she doesn’t think it’s likely that the court will strike down the entire health law. But if it does, she says, “it seems like it takes everything with it, including those aspects that are only very peripherally related to the expansion of coverage.” 
CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSONS: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ They made the mess with lobbyists.
Health experts warn that the Medicare system is so intertwined with the Affordable Care Act that if the Supreme Court strikes the law down, “it takes everything with it.”
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Apr 01

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BROCCOLI AND HEALTHCARE?

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WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BROCOLLI AND HEALTHCARE, Mr. Chief Justice, Supreme Court? WE LIVE LONGER WITH HEALTHCARE! In the best way possible EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE HEALTHCARE.

Remember “Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Happiness”? The “Commerce Clause“?

 MR. C.J., QUIT PLAYING POLITICS WITH OUR LIVES AND DO WHAT IS BEST FOR ALL AMERICANS & and the rest of the universe, OK?!

Broccoli-Bungling Defense Hurts Health Care www.bloomberg.com

 

 

Feb 20

JUSTICE GINSBURG READY TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER?

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Ginsburg knows the Citizens United decision was a mistake. Now she appears to be ready to speak truth to power.
 
What effect can Ruth Bader Ginsburg have on campaign-finance cases?

 
In 18 years on the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has written more than 200 opinions on a number of important topics, including major opinions on everything from copyright law to abortion rights to employment discrimination. But in the area of campaign finance, she’s authored only one inconsequential two-paragraph concurring opinion—in one of the Supreme Court’s recent cases striking down parts of the McCain-Feingold law—in which she distanced herself from a more far-reaching dissent of Justice Stevens. She’s been a reliable vote to uphold reasonable campaign-finance laws, but this has hardly been her signature issue.
 
Last week, however, Justice Ginsburg issued a short statement that hinted she is ready to speak out more boldly. She, like many Americans, appears concerned with the rise of super PACs and the disturbing role money is playing in the 2012 campaign season since the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Citizens United v. FEC. Justice Ginsburg likely won’t have the votes to overturn Citizens United, but she soon will be in a position to expose the disingenuousness at the ruling’s core.
 
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Jan 05

CORPORATIONS GAINING MORE POWER OVER INDIVIDUALS…….

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“I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one” is flooding the internet.
 
Put simply, a corporation can sell all its assests, pocket the money, hire a new CEO who will down size and declare bankruptcy and leave high and dry. What happens to the employees who had no other skills to find a different job right away? Many lose their homes, assets, pensions funds, family, etc. There are many more reasons. Source cited below. -mackie
 
Just three months after Romney proclaimed that “corporations are people,” he has pledged to ensure that the Supreme Court will continue to share this delusion. During editorial board meeting yesterday, Romney promised that if he is elected, he will model his Supreme Court picks after corporate America’s most favorite justices:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said if he had the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice he or she would be in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts.
“Their approach is the approach I would encourage,” he said. “I would try to find those who would follow the Constitution.
Setting aside the obvious tension between Romney’s promise to appoint justices like Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, or Alito and his promise to appoint justices who will “follow the Constitution,” it’s important to note exactly what Romney is endorsing by supporting these four justices:
 
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Sep 17

MELT DOWN ALERT?

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Are we now passing the point of no return? Sincere people want to know. The only hope of our survival is not the president, the congress or the Supreme Court. They keep kicking the can down the road. When we put things off we create a larger pile of problems, right?
 
OUR ONLY HOPE IS WHEN ENOUGH AMERICANS CONCLUDE IT IS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
 

 

Ice on the Arctic Ocean has melted to its second-lowest level on record. The summertime melt coincides with a dramatic warming over the past decade, and it’s already affecting wildlife in the area.
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DAVID GREENE, host: Now to the Arctic Ocean, where researchers say the ice has melted to its second-lowest level on record. The summertime melt coincides with a dramatic warming over the past decade, and it’s already affecting the region’s wildlife. NPR’s Richard Harris has more.
RICHARD HARRIS: Ice floating on the Arctic Ocean comes and goes with the seasons. Typically, about half of the wintertime ice melts away by mid-September, and after that low point, the ice regrows. In 2007, the amount of ice left in September hit a dramatic low. And Mark Serreze, who heads the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado, says this year’s low is not far off that 2007 record.
OUR ONLY HOPE IS WHEN ENOUGH AMERICANS FINALLY CONCLUDE THAT IT IS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Jul 28

WHAT IF THE PRESIDENT HAD BEEN WHITE?

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WOULD HE HAVE RECEIVED MILLIONS MORE VOTES FROM THE WHITE CONVERSATIVES WHO ARE UNKNOWINGLY RACIST?  WOULD THERE BE ANYONE DOUBTING HIS PLACE OF BIRTH?  WOULDN’T HEALTHCARE REFORM HAVE BEEN APPROVED THIS WEEK?-mackie
Posted on Jul 28, 2009

By Eugene Robinson

    If race were the only issue, there would be much less hyperventilation about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.‘s unpleasant run-in with the criminal justice system. After all, it would hardly be the first time a black man had unjustly been hauled to jail by a white police officer. The debate—really more of a shouting match—is also about power and entitlement.

    This is a new twist. Since the triumph of the civil rights movement, minorities have been moving up the ladder in politics, business, academia, just about every field. Only in the past decade, however, has a sizable cohort of African-Americans and Latinos broken through to the tiny upper echelons where real power is exercised.

    I’m talking about President Obama, obviously, but also Citigroup Chairman Richard Parsons, entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and many others—a growing number of minorities with the kind of serious power that used to be reserved for whites only. In academia, the list begins with “Skip” Gates.

    He’s a superstar, one of the best-known and most highly acclaimed faculty members at the nation’s most prestigious university. A few years ago, when he made noises about leaving, Harvard moved heaven and earth to keep him. The incident that led to his arrest occurred as he was coming home from the airport after a trip to China for his latest PBS documentary. Following the traumatic encounter, he repaired to Martha’s Vineyard to recuperate. This is how the man rolls.

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And the Truth will set You Free.”
(my aim is not to convince, but to share what I have found for your consideration. – mackie)
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