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Have Obamacare “Death Panels” Already Begun for Women with Breast Cancer?
Posted by: | CommentsRecently, the FDA determined that the cancer-fighting drug, Avastin, is not cost-effective in treating stage IV breast cancer patients. Avastin has been proven to extend cancer patients’ lives by several months, it will no longer be available to women suffering from breast cancer or ovarian cancer; it will, however, still be available for people treating other types of cancer.
The cost of this drug is quite expensive, but isn’t extending life worth it? If Obamacare is already starting to attack and restrict people from using drugs that might possibly extend life now, what will our medical decisions be in 2014 when we’re all forced to follow the Obamacare rules?
The “Maraca Girls” 3 Day team after completing the 60 mile walk.
Louisiana Law Prevents Monks from Selling Handmade Caskets
Posted by: | CommentsMonks in Louisiana face jail time if their company, Saint Joseph Woodworks, was to sell their handmade caskets in the state of Louisiana.
The Institute for Justice has accepted the case request by Abbot Brown and his fellow monks to provide them with the authority to sell their caskets within the state of Louisiana. Currently the monks, who have been established in the Gulf South since 1889, are under threat of hefty fines or even jail time for selling their caskets due to protectionism laws put into place by state legislature to protect the funeral cartel of Louisiana.
Current Louisiana law makes it legal to bury the human body straight into the ground or you can also wrap a body in a bed sheet to bury the deceased. Making your own casket or one made by someone else is also legal as long as it is not purchased. However, it is illegal to purchase a casket if the purchase is not make by one of their politically protected and licensed cartel members.
The monks caskets, made by Saint Joseph Woodworks, are simple in nature and are not requested by large numbers of people. The monks of Saint Joseph Abbey have been making been making their caskets for over a hundred years and use these profits to support the health and education of their monks at the monastery. There is a public demand for their simplistic coffins and they just wish to have the right to continue to provide this option to people who have lost loved ones.
This case has come about from a subpoena issued to Saint Joseph Abbey members Abbot Justin Brown and Deacon Mark Coudrain in March by the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. If the two are found guilty they will be subject to 180 days in jail and thousands in fines. Both of which are crippling to the monks, monastery, and Saint Joseph Woodworks.
Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Jeff Rowes states,
The brothers of Saint Joseph Abbey are ready to go all the way to the Supreme Court if that’s what it takes to restore economic liberty to grassroots entrepreneurs everywhere.
References to this case can be found at:
Video: Free the Monks & Free Enterprise
Missouri Voters Slam the Door in the Face of Obamacare
Posted by: | CommentsAugust 3, 2010 will be another monumental moment in the fight to “Repeal Obamacare” as Missouri voters vote to reject the highly debated bill passed by Congress and the Senate against a large majority of American’s opposition to the bill.
Missouri doesn’t just vote against the nationalized healthcare plan, they slam the door shut in the face of an over agendized Obama administration with the common sense citizens voting 70% for Proposition C.
Several states were watching this vote closely to see how Missouri voted on this issue. Some are expecting Federal legal battles to try to knock down the passage of Proposition C in Missouri.
Florida Senator George LeMieux Cries Foul on Feds Failure to Clean Up Gulf
Posted by: | CommentsIn a video released yesterday, June 21, 2010, by The Shark Tank, Florida Senator George LeMieux accuses the Federal Government of failing to get available equipment to the Gulf region to clean-up the oil spill contaminating the Florida beaches.
According to the Senator LeMieux, during his interview,
“We only have 20 skimmers off the coast of Florida. We have 2000 skimmers in the United States. We haven’t even asked, as the Federal Government, for those skimmers to come to the Gulf.”
He went on to talk about how he had questioned the President about why these skimmers weren’t being deployed to the region and the President felt the skimmers needed to be in their current positions in case there is an oil spill in those areas. LeMieux made the point that this was like not being able to send a fire truck to your house burning down because another house may burn down.
Senator George LeMieux also discussed foreign offers,
“The Dutch has Super Skimmers they have been offering with Federal Government saying, no.”
Letter to the Editor Causes Intimidating Voice Mail
Posted by: | CommentsToday, the St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) published a letter I wrote regarding a story about government union (specifically, City) workers loafing (while on the taxpayers dime) on the job when they were supposed to be filling potholes in St. Paul.
A culture of laziness
The story about the public union workers caught loafing on the job is an example of union organizing gone bad (“Pothole loafing gets 17 suspended,” May 11).
When unions first started organizing in the early 20th century, they helped workers in dangerous jobs become empowered against business owners who did not value the lives of their workers. For example, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers was formed because of the deaths of high-voltage linemen while they were installing what is now our power-grid.
However, along with necessary unions, there has been an explosion of non-essential unions in America. Unions that have absolutely nothing to do with the safety of their workers and are in place to bilk the public. These unions are responsible for bankrupting states like California with their salary and benefit demands — demands that private-sector employees can’t imagine requesting from their employers.
Our current administration prefers to demonize bankers, Wall Street, oil companies and talk radio for the breakdown of our great country. This administration is wrong. The real villains are the government and teachers’ unions that refuse to tighten their belts like those of us in the private-sector have to do.
Shame on those public unions for allowing a culture of laziness to flourish within their systems. Shame on them for insisting upon salaries and benefits that out-pace private sector salaries and benefits at the expense of the American taxpayer. It is time to abolish government and teacher unions and go back to a true privatized free-market system.
I had no idea that the letter had even been published until I checked my voicemail and heard the following message:
Was this voice mail, by an alleged Teamsters Union member, intended as intimidation? You decide!
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The caller (coward) made sure to use “Private Caller” on my caller ID and left no name, either. Isn’t it great that when we express our Freedom of Speech and are required to publish our names and hometowns that those in opposition to us, if they feel too cowardly to stand behind their statements, can call or write to harass us for using our Freedom of Speech? Maybe this Teamster should put his money where his mouth is and write his OWN Letter to The Editor, instead of calling to harass me about my point of view.
Editor’s Note: I have now been informed that others have taken interest in playing this audio on some St. Paul area radio stations. I wonder if the voice on this voice mail recording will be recognized by friends and co-workers of this individual?
Restoring Honor in the Realm of Dumbledore
Posted by: Britt Hanson | Comments (0)The Harry Potter
series may have been written for children, but much of the heart of the books ring true to adults today.
Professor Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
, JK Rowling, pgs. 723-724
If Glenn Beck were to use this speech at his “8/28 Restoring Honor Rally” on Saturday, it might go something like this:
Dumbledore’s words ring true to those of us who love America, who desire to see her back on track with the Constitution. What happens in Hogwarts School in Book 5 (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
) is prophetic – on a smaller scale, obviously – of what we are potentially facing as a country if the current leaders are allowed to continue to take us on the path they’ve set forth upon.
Our current leaders crave a crisis. They crave dissonance. They want us to be battling over a mosque that doesn’t even have enough funding to begin building next year because it takes the focus off of what they are doing to our country. Our current leaders want us to find reasons to be distrustful of one another because that forces us to trust them or to become oblivious to what they are doing, and the essence of what the leaders are doing is spreading evil.
The evil that is being encouraged and exploited by our leaders is the evil of ENVY. Envy is the worst of the Seven Deadly Sins for a reason: all of the other sins originate with ENVY. Lucifer’s fall hinged upon his desire to be like GOD – he was envious of God’s power and wanted it. He was cast out of heaven for that sin. Our current administration plays upon this deadly sin by trying to limit how much people can earn; by trying to “spread the wealth”; by stealing from hard-working people to give their wealth to those who don’t work as hard. Why? Because they are playing the politics of envy.
When we are envious of what others have, we are coveting their belongings and breaking one of the Ten Commandments; simultaneously, we are also playing directly into the hands of the administration who tell us that we don’t have to work as hard as someone else, that the government will take care of us, if only we let them. We are allowing our envy, our desires, our coveting to override our freedoms. By breaking God’s commandments, we are allowing ourselves to be punished and that punishment comes in the form of the blessing of FREEDOM being removed, bit-by-bit, from our lives. While we are distracted by what we don’t have but what we want to have, we allow our government to continue to play upon the basest nature of mankind. We are so busy hating those who have, that we don’t see what precious things are being taken away from us.
We need to heed Dumbledore’s advice. We need to listen to Glenn Beck. We need to come together as AMERICANS – not as Republicans or Tea Partiers or Democrats – and fight the insidious evil that is spreading across our land. We need to teach our children to be self-sufficient; to do for themselves – that urge that takes over every two-year-old child to say “ME DO IT!” when they refuse to let you dress them – we need to raise our children to see what they want and think “Me do it!” – that they can work for what they want instead of coveting what others have and allowing the government to take care of them.
Listen to Dumbledore
. We are coming upon dark and dangerous times. What choice will you make? Will you choose what is right or what is easy?