FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd
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Czars - The President's Men
Boxer: If Obamacare Covers Viagra, It Should Cover Abortion
Watered-Down ‘Public Plan’ Emerges in Senate
They may still call it a “public plan,” but private insurers — not the government — would offer coverage under a compromise Democrats are considering to win Senate passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
The latest idea bears little resemblance to the original vision outlined by liberals, and embraced by Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign. That called for the government to sell insurance to workers and their families in competition with industry giants like UnitedHealthcare.
But instead of Medicare-for-the-masses, it would be Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser Permanente, albeit with a government seal of approval from the department that handles the health plan for federal employees, including members of Congress. The Office of Personnel Management — OPM — would become an instantly recognizable federal acronym, like FDA and CDC.
“I think it’s the right way to go because it’s simple and the public can grasp it,” Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, said Monday, reflecting a general hope that a deal is close.
Lawmakers will be able to tell their constituents “you’re going to get exactly what we have, and that every federal employee has, you can buy into it,” Begich added.
Five moderates and five liberals tapped by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., planned to work on the compromise Tuesday as the Senate debated the 10-year, nearly $1 trillion bill. A vote on an amendment to tightly restrict abortion coverage by health plans receiving federal subsidies could also happen Tuesday.
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Health Care vs. the Value of Human Life
Under the Democrats’ proposed health care reform legislation, we know that the government will have to determine some sort of rationing system in order to control costs. We are aware that part of the rationing will be absorbed in the discrimination that the bill inflicts upon the elderly; we know that it cuts $500 billion from Medicare. What has remained puzzling is how exactly this rationing will be determined for the rest of us. Similarly elusive is how the new Health Benefits Advisory Committee will decide whether or not you get certain medical treatments, regardless of the opinion of your doctor. After all, how do you put a dollar value on a human life?
If you think there is no answer to that question, you are way behind the progressives. In fact, most countries with socialized medicine, including Britain, are already using a mathematical formula that expresses the numerical value of one year of a human life in a measurement called the QALY, or “quality-adjusted life year.” In terms of determining medical care, the mathematical formula of the QALY is based on both how much a treatment may lengthen your lifespan and the quality of the life you will be living.
Basically, if you are in optimal health, the QALY of one year of your life is 1.0. But if you have any underlying conditions, like asthma or muscular dystrophy, your QALY is much lower. Under the QALY system, the blind are worth less than those with sight, as those who can walk are worth more than those in wheelchairs. Sound like discrimination against persons with disabilities? It gets worse.
In a paper entitled “Cost-Effectiveness and Disability Discrimination,” the director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School, Dan Brock, argues “prioritizing health care resources by their relative cost-effectiveness can result in lower priority for the treatment of disabled persons than otherwise similar non-disabled persons.” He says that type of system not only “implies that disabled persons’ lives are of lesser value than those of non-disabled persons,” but it also “conflicts with equality of opportunity; it conflicts with fairness, which requires ignoring (some/most) differential impacts of treatment; it wrongly gives lower priority to disabled persons for equally effective treatment; it conflicts with giving all persons an equal chance to reach their full potential; and, it is in conflict with giving priority to the worse off.”
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As if that’s not bad enough, the health advisor to the president, Ezekiel Emanuel, is proposing a system even more deleterious. His system, similar to the QALY, is “the complete lives system,” which not only allows for discrimination against the elderly and disabled, but also targets the very young, i.e., our children.Emanuel says of his system: “When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.”
Leave it to American progressives to take the QALY one step further by defining quality of life as how useful you are to society — that is, how likely you are to increase the government’s tax revenue, hence the emphasis on those between ages 15 and 40. Health care gets a lot cheaper by rationing care to all non-taxpayers.
According to Emanuel, “The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a two-month-old girl.” I doubt the parents of the two-month-old agree.
And, if you are a child with disabilities, the government has already completely given up on you. Emanuel believes “services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.” What’s worse, since he does not believe in “guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason,” once the public option puts the private sector out of business, these types of life-changing services for children will no longer exist.
Years of research in treating children with autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and dyslexia are in jeopardy of being rendered null and void. Years of progress in passing anti-discrimination laws may be undone in one single bill.
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“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ~ George Orwell
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Thomas Sowell, one of the clearest thinkers of our time, has written an enlightening column on jewishworldreview.com about the dismantling of our country.
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many “czars” appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did you think that another “czar” would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers — that is, to create a situation where some newspapers’ survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called “experts” deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?
Does any of this sound like America?
How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.
How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to “change the United States of America,” the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.
Jeremiah Wright said it with words: “G0d damn America!” Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he planted. Community activist goons have said it with their contempt for the rights of other people.
Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children.
Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn’t know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?
Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government — people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America’s influence in the world.
Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for what they are. Fox News is now high on the administration’s enemies list.
Nothing so epitomizes President Obama’s own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year — each bill more than a thousand pages long — too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question — and the biggest question for this generation.
Please read the original article and other great editorial opinion columns here:
Dismantling America
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The Wall Street Journal discusses President Obama’s appointee, Craig Becker, of the SEIU, to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Mr. Becker is associate general counsel at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is most recently in the news for its close ties to Acorn, the disgraced housing shakedown operation. President Obama nominated Mr. Becker in April to the five-member NLRB, which has the critical job of supervising union elections, investigating labor practices, and interpreting the National Labor Relations Act. In a 1993 Minnesota Law Review article, written when he was a UCLA professor, Mr. Becker argued for rewriting current union-election rules in favor of labor. And he suggested the NLRB could do this by regulatory fiat, without a vote of Congress.
Yet now that he could soon have the power to act on this conviction, Mr. Becker won’t tell Congress if this is what he still believes. In written responses to questions from Republican Orrin Hatch, Mr. Becker promised only to “maintain an open mind about whether [his] suggestions should be implemented in any manner.” That sounds like his mind is made up but he won’t admit it lest it hurt his confirmation.
Mr. Becker also won’t give a clear answer about his role in preparing several pro-labor executive orders issued by President Obama shortly after inauguration. Mr. Becker’s name was found in at least one of the documents, suggesting that he had written it.
When asked by Sen. Hatch if he was “involved or responsible in any way” for these executive orders, Mr. Becker responded: “I was not responsible for [the specific executive orders] except as described below. As a member of the Presidential Transition Team, I was asked to provide advice and information concerning a possible executive order of the sort described. I was involved in researching, analyzing, preliminary drafting, and consulting with other members of the Transition team.” In other words, Mr. Becker was the main author but would rather not say so explicitly.
Why not? Well, perhaps because Mr. Becker seems to have been on the SEIU payroll at the time he did his “drafting.” Many people take leaves of absence from their private jobs when serving on a transition team, but Mr. Becker says he was on “vacation.” And his “vacation” seems to have been sporadic. “My work on the Transition Team was not full time or continuous . . . When I was not on vacation in order to work on the Transition Team, I continued to perform my regular work for both SEIU and the AFL-CIO.” The White House has made a public show of banning paid lobbyists from certain Administration jobs, but it let a paid union operative draft government documents benefiting unions.
There’s more. One of the many accusations leveled against former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is that he accepted money from the SEIU in return for taking actions giving collective bargaining rights to Illinois home health-care workers. While Mr. Becker denies any knowledge of, or role in, contributions to the former Governor, he does admit that he provided “advice and counsel to SEIU relating to proposed executive orders and proposed legislation giving homecare workers a right to organize and engage in collective bargaining under state law.”
Mr. Becker says he “worked with and provided advice” to SEIU Local 880 in Chicago, a beneficiary of the newly unionized health workers, and one of two SEIU locals currently in the national spotlight for its deep ties with Acorn. Mr. Becker denies working for Acorn or its affiliates, but as recently as April Acorn co-founder Wade Rathke praised Mr. Becker by name, noting “For my money, Craig’s signal contribution has been his work in crafting and executing the legal strategies and protections which have allowed the effective organization of informal workers, and by this I mean home health-care workers.”
The NLRB has both GOP and Democratic members, and nominees are typically packaged together to avoid hearings. In this case, the GOP nominee is Brian Hayes, an aide to Senator Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.), who is eager to see Mr. Hayes confirmed with Mr. Becker and another Democrat, Mark Pearce. But Mr. Becker would sit with the majority, with the ability to dictate labor policy, and the stakes are too high to let him pass without more Senate and public scrutiny.
Please read the entire article here:
Acorn’s Ally at the NLRB
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Obama’s School Safety Czar Kevin Jennings: “Kids are being aggressively recruited to become heterosexual in this country.”
White House Laughs at and Dodges Questions About Obama Appointed School Safety Czar Kevin Jennings
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Kevin Jennings and Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)
Mark Tapscott of The Washington Examiner has written a wonderful editorial about Obama appointee Kevin Jennings’ praise of Harry Hay.
Kevin Jennings, President Obama’s Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug FreeSchools at the U.S. Department of Education, is in hot water this week for having failed to report that a 15-year-old sophomore student in his school had told him of having sex with an older man.
But failure to report what appeared to be a case of statuatory rape of a child may be the least of Jennings’ worries. Lori Roman of Regular Folks United points to statements by Jennings a decade or more ago when he praised Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.
Please read the entire article here:
Obama appointee lauded NAMBLA figure
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We came across several stories in our ceaseless search for important news that demonstrate our society’s moral decline. Immorality has always existed but it has not always been accepted. Over the years the media’s relentless and ubiquitous in-your-face assault on everything decent has numbed us all to things that were once unacceptable.
Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, was teaching high school in Concord, Mass., in 1988 when the boy, a sophomore, confessed an involvement with a man he had met in a bus station bathroom in Boston. Jennings has written that he told the boy, “I hope you knew to use a condom.”
In a statement issued Wednesday, President Obama’s Director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools Kevin Jennings responded to critics calling for Jennings to step down:
Twenty one years later I can see how I should have handled this situation differently. I should have asked for more information and consulted legal or medical authorities.
“Teachers back then had little training or guidance about this kind of thing,” Jennings said. “All teachers should have a basic level of preparedness. I would like to see the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools play a bigger role in helping to prepare teachers.”
“I should have handled this situation differently” You think?
“Teachers back then had little training or guidance about this kind of thing”. Who needs training on this? How about common sense and a sense of decency? The first reaction of people I know would have been to call the police and get help for the student. How difficult is that to figure out?
We might be more sympathetic if Mr Jennings had not been continually boasting about his handling of the incident and the positive effect he had on this young man’s life, in his published book as well as in his talks before gay audiences. We might be, but I doubt it.
Speaking of difficult things to figure out, Toys”R”Us spokesperson, Whoopi Goldberg, defended child rapist and hollywood filmmaker, Roman Polanski.
Claiming that he wanted to photograph 13-year old Samantha Geimer, Polanski, then 43, plied the girl with champagne and drugs and then, despite her repeated refusals and requests to go home, he raped her.
“I know it wasn’t ‘rape’ rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was ‘rape’ rape,” said Ms. Goldberg on ABC’s (owned by Disney) The View.
Perhaps Toys”R”Us should “fire” fire their spokesperson. Perhaps we should fire Toys “R” Us as well as Disney.
Disney also owns the ABC Family Channel whose tagline is “A New Kind of Family”.
Meanwhile, Newsweek reporter, Katie Connolly decries Senator Orrin Hatch’s call to reinstate federal funding for abstinence-only sex education:
Let’s face it. Teenagers are going to have sex. They always have, they always will. Sure there will be a decent number of teens who choose to abstain and they should feel supported in that decision, but there will still be a large chunk of teenagers doing the dirty. Making them stop is a fools errand. It’s about as likely a seeing the Pope in a speedo. It’s like asking the Queen to declare her hatred for corgis. It’s not going to happen. Sex education policies should take into account this basic reality and tailor programs that broadly educate teens about their choices, abstinence included. Policies should be set up to work. Anything else is just pointless moralizing.
These casual and fatalistic views have been destroying our way of life and will result in our undoing. Before there were ever governments to rule “civilized” society, there were families consisting of a mother, father, and children. We don’t need a “new kind of family”.
Sources:
Obama’s ‘Safe Schools’ Czar Admits He Poorly Handled Underage Sex Case
Toys”R”Us Spokeswoman Defends Child Rape
Abstinence-Only Education is Back
[Caution: contains explicit reference to sexual acts which may disturb some readers]
Polanski Crime Worse Than People Know
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OK, after all the horrific Obama “key appointment malfunctions” I think we have found a winner to take the proverbial cake.
The alleged crimes of Mr Obama’s choice for “Safe School Czar”, Kevin Jennings, were exposed in a Washington Times Editorial and a Fox News story, both of which are linked below.
The source for these allegations is apparently is Mr Jennings himself, in a book he authored in 1994 and an audio tape of a talk he delivered in 2000. In them, the following story emerges:
A 15 year-old student sought counsel from Mr. Jennings in his capacity as a school teacher. He told of meeting an older man in a bus station men’s room and subsequently accompanying him to his home that evening where he engaged in homosexual acts. Instead of reporting the incident as required by law of an adult in such position of trust and authority, Mr Jennings allegedly encouraged the relationship despite the fact it seems to have been a clear case of statutory rape.
In the links below you will find the Washington Times editorial in full as well as the Fox News story, a Human Events article and an Atlas Shrugs Blog article each providing insight into Mr Jennings history and qualifications for the powerful post to which he has been appointed. In them you will learn that Mr. Jennings is the homosexual founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). You will also get some interesting insight to the mission and methods of this organization.
When you are finished, you may wish to ask yourself this question: Do you want this man to be in charge of school safety for our nation?
EDITORIAL: At the president’s pleasure
Did “Safe School Czar” Encourage Statutory Rape?
Kevin Jennings — Unsafe for America’s Schools
This next article contains very disturbing information:
OBAMA APPOINTEE KEVIN JENNINGS
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Trish Turner of foxnews.com reports the following:
Fox has learned, the White House has urged Senate Democrats not to support an amendment that would impose congressional oversight on “czars.”
I recently posted a blog about Sen. GOP moderate Susan Collins’ effort, via amendment to the Interior spending bill, to reign in the Obama Administration’s use of these positions. There are more than 18 czars, and they are not Senate-confirmed.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, who is managing the spending bill on the Senate floor, told Collins earlier this week that she was prepared to accept the amendment, but that one Democrat had an objection. Both senators confirmed this to me directly.
Collins told me she knew who objected and that she thought it was “just a misunderstanding,” that it could all be worked out.
What a difference a couple of days makes.
Now, Feinstein says the White House has indicated to her that she should back away from this effort.
“It’s a huge separation of powers issue. I had no idea,” Feinstein said. I asked if this was the message from the White House, and she said, “Exactly.” She would not say who she had spoken to in the Administration.
You can find Ms. Turner’s article here:
Administration Pushes Dems to Oppose Reining in Czars
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Cass Sunstein is President Barak Obama’s radical anti-hunting, anti-gun, pro-animal rights professor of law nominee for “Regulatory Czar”. The following are Mr. Sunstein’s opinions in his own words.
2004 book Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions
“Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives…”
Cass Sunstein, Regulatory Czar currently serving under President Obama, gives his views on hunting, animal slavery & right to bear arms.
Cass Sunstein, arguing for a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet in his book, Republic.com 2.0 (page 137).
“A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.”
Obama Regulation Czar Advocated Removing People’s Organs Without Explicit Consent
Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken. Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done.
Here are more quotes by Mr. Sunstein:
Cass Sunstein Quotes
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