May 22, 2014
Probation Department Trial Reveals Deep Massachusetts Corruption
[From article]
As the CM so memorably told the House committee whenever he was asked about his serial-killer gangster brother, “To the best of my recollection, I cannot recall.”
Like his 65-inch-high mentor, Jack the Hack did not “deem it appropriate” to remember anything, about anything.
Jack the Hack went to law school with a junkie named Pat Lawton, the son and grandson of judges. As the current poster boy for the rampant corruption of state government, Lawton’s squalid career has come under great scrutiny. Lawton doesn’t seem to understand why his getting a job at the Probation Department in 2008 is such a big deal.
“I didn’t start using heroin until after I got my job,” he explained. “I’m just a poor boy from Brockton.”
[. . .]
The trial has turned into a circular firing squad. Now, if only both sides could lose.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/05/carr_the_twisted_vines_of_hack_jungle
Carr: The twisted vines of hack jungle
Thursday, May 22, 2014
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald
Obama's Dislike of America Apparent
[From article]
Mostly, his time seems to be spent causing dissention, unrest, and anxiety among the people rather than uniting us (even though he was presented to us as the "Great Uniter"). He creates chaos for the sake of keeping citizens separated, envious, aggrieved and ready to argue. Under his leadership Americans have been kept on edge, rather than in a state of comfort and security. He incites people to be aggressive toward, disrespectful of, and retaliate against those of differing backgrounds and views. Through such behavior, Obama has lowered the standards for self-control and mature restraint to the level of rowdy, street-fighting gangs.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/scott/130301
March 1, 2013
The Architect of Destruction
By Maureen Scott
May 20, 2014
Medical Devices Can Be Used For Evil
Scientists have no boundaries. In the name of healing they create the potentially dangerous items. What prevents these same implants for being used without consent during surgery, and then to control or to harm or to kill undesirable persons. Have the genes of psychiatrists been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism? Will medical examiners look for these devices when they do autopsies?
[From article]
A report in the Frontier in Behavioural Neuroscience journal by Mariska Mantione and colleagues describe the case of “Mr B”, a 58-year-old Dutch man who had suffered severe obsessive-compulsive disorder from the age of 13.
As a last resort he was given deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical treatment involving the implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker, which sends electrical impulses to specific parts of the brain.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/brain-implant-made-man-a-johnny-cash-fan/story-fneuzlbd-1226924704893
Brain implant made man a Johnny Cash fan
News.com.au
MAY 21, 2014 1:06AM
* * *
The question is, what might we do with such microimplants? Both heart and brain pacemakers (for Alzheimer’s) are the obvious first port of call. Beyond that, though, microimplants would make great sensors; you could implant them all over your body (brain, heart, liver, gut) and have them regularly report that organ’s health back to your doctor (or smartphone app). As we begin to learn more about the brain, we might attach these implants to specific nerve channels in the brain, to boost or degrade specific neuron behavior
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/182686-here-come-the-rice-grain-sized-brain-implants-stanford-discovers-way-of-beaming-power-to-microimplants-deep-inside-your-body
Here come the rice-grain-sized brain implants: Stanford discovers way of beaming power to microimplants deep inside your body
By Sebastian Anthony
May 20, 2014 at 8:30 am
Twenty SS Guards Stand Trial For Killing Jews 70 Years Ago
[From article]
While Majdanek was also used as a labor camp - meaning guards theoretically could have worked there at certain times and not been involved in the Nazi genocide - prosecutors focused on guards allegedly present during the killings.
The Auschwitz investigation also continues and Schrimm said he expects more suspects will be announced 'in the coming months'.
Efraim Zuroff, the head Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, urged state prosecutors to prioritize the new cases, given the advanced age of the
suspects.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2634318/Now-20-SS-concentration-camp-guards-face-justice-70-years-crimes-Nazi-prison-killed-360-000-Jews.html
Now 20 SS concentration camp guards face justice almost 70 years after their crimes at Nazi prison which killed 360,000 Jews
War crimes investigator set to turn cases over to German authorities
Some 20 living suspects in Germany may face accessory to murder charges
Investigation related to guards at the Majdanek death camp in Poland
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:50 EST, 20 May 2014 | UPDATED: 17:18 EST, 20 May 2014
Now 20 SS concentration camp guards face justice almost 70 years after their crimes at Nazi prison which killed 360,000 Jews
War crimes investigator set to turn cases over to German authorities
Some 20 living suspects in Germany may face accessory to murder charges
Investigation related to guards at the Majdanek death camp in Poland
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:50 EST, 20 May 2014 | UPDATED: 17:18 EST, 20 May 2014
Obama Denies Knowing About VA Abuse of Veterans
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the White House 'learned about' the growing VA scandal 'through the reports' in the news, contrary to a report released on Monday that shows Obama has known about the scandal since he was elected.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2633996/Obama-known-elected-Veterans-Affairs-hospitals-lying-quality-health-care-provide-vets.html
Obama has known since 2008 that Veterans Affairs hospitals were lying about quality of health care they provide vets
VA medical centers stand accused of keeping secret off-the-books waiting lists in order to boost performance stats
As many as 40 veterans died in Phoenix when they were denied critical care because their names didn't appear on official waiting lists
A report emerged on Monday showing the VA warned President Obama's transition team about the secret waiting lists after the 2008 election
Yet, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says president Obama didn't know about the explosive Veterans Administration scandal until he saw recent news reports
Obama and his surrogates have claimed he learned of several other scandals from broadcast or print news stories
They include Operation Fast and Furious, the IRS's targeting of tea parties and a DOJ seizure of two months of Associated Press phone records
By DAVID MARTOSKO and FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 10:26 EST, 20 May 2014 | UPDATED: 12:01 EST, 20 May 2014
Labels:
Denial,
Medical Abuses,
Political Deception,
VA Hospital,
Veterans
Drug Corporations Join Police Creating Rules To Take Freedom
This unidentified press release, likely a product of police PR flacks and a lobbyist for drug corporations announces new rules for taking the freedom of vulnerable persons. (no byline, "Cambridge Police begin new training for mental health responses," May 20, 2014, CAMBRIDGE Chronicle) NAMI promotes a deceptive image as being a civil rights advocate for mental patients. Formed as a parents organization it morphed into a lobbyist funded by drug corporations ($11 million or more each year from drug companies) to promote drug treatment. Here is an example of how thoroughly drug corporate interests control treatment and incarceration of troubled individuals. Notice there is no mention of any disability advocates to protect the rights of vulnerable citizens. None of the many taxpayer funded agencies with well paid attorneys contributed to the creation of this protocol for taking the freedom of citizens. There are no assurances of the Right to Due Process as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. It is one more example of how unelected corporate lobbyists make policy, and run government agencies, now police agencies too, who can take freedom and life with no accountability. It is one more dangerous step in the elimination of freedom in this country. The Nazi doctors and Stalin's psychiatrists extensively used psychiatry to silence dissent and criticism, and to incarcerate political activists. Due to dumbed down journalists and the general population the image psychiatrists in America have, is that their genes have been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism. They show contempt for laws which regulate their behavior, and abuse humans as control freaks with limitless power, while they speak of love for their vulnerable clients. The state legislature writes laws determining when and how police can take the freedom of civilians. This is a dangerous effort in the name of good. It needs scrutiny by disability rights attorneys.
[From article]
Funded through a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, police departments in Cambridge and Somerville, working with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, developed the CIT-TTAC regional program to provide 40 hours of CIT training for police officers, while fostering partnerships between law enforcement and community human services providers, to improve law enforcement response to people with mental illness.
[. . .]
"We laud the Department of Mental Health and our partners — the Cambridge and Somerville Police departments — for their leadership and for serving as a model for communities across the commonwealth," said June Binney, director of the NAMI Mass Criminal Justice Program.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140520/NEWS/140529723
Cambridge Police begin new training for mental health responses
Posted May. 20, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle
[From article]
Funded through a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, police departments in Cambridge and Somerville, working with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, developed the CIT-TTAC regional program to provide 40 hours of CIT training for police officers, while fostering partnerships between law enforcement and community human services providers, to improve law enforcement response to people with mental illness.
[. . .]
"We laud the Department of Mental Health and our partners — the Cambridge and Somerville Police departments — for their leadership and for serving as a model for communities across the commonwealth," said June Binney, director of the NAMI Mass Criminal Justice Program.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140520/NEWS/140529723
Cambridge Police begin new training for mental health responses
Posted May. 20, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle
Labels:
Cambridge Police,
Corporations,
Drug Companies,
Due Process,
Freedom,
Lobbyists,
NAMI,
Psychiatry
May 14, 2014
War On Elderly Continues, Little Media Interest
[From article]
The 20-year-old suspect was captured on surveillance video slamming Wen Hui Ruan into a wall in front of 745 E. Sixth St. near Avenue D about 8:45 p.m. Friday and then punching and kicking him in the head as he lay on the ground.
Hui died Saturday from his injuries, which included bleeding on the brain, a fractured skull and multiple contusions to his head.
http://nypost.com/2014/05/13/cops-question-thug-in-fatal-east-village-beating/
Cops question thug in fatal East Village beating
By Dana Sauchelli and Bob Fredericks
May 13, 2014 | 12:28pm
Homosexual Haters of Religion Promote Foreign Paradigm of Speech Censorship
Posted May 10, 2014 2:45 AM ET; last updated May 40, 2014 8:28 PM ET
[From article]
A number of news outlets credited Right Wing Watch with drawing attention to the Benham’s pro-life, pro-traditional marriage views. But what is Right Wing Watch and who is behind it?
The answer: The anti-Christian conservative effort in Hollywood.
Right Wing Watch is a project of the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way, which started with an assist from the left-wing Tides Foundation.
People for the American Way was founded with help from former television Norman Lear, a Hollywood executive producer credited with starting the anti-Christian-right movement in the 1980s.
[. . .]
The president of People for the American Way is Michael Keegan, a founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). GLAAD was involved in last year’s unsuccessful effort to permanently remove Phil Robertson from “Duck Dynasty” after his well-publicized comments about gays.
People for the American Way, perhaps ironically, is also a member of the National Coalition Against Censorship — a group that has protested the silencing of people based on their views on homosexuality
http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/12/meet-the-liberal-network-that-orchestrated-the-hit-on-the-benham-brothers/#ixzz31bS4s7xz
Meet The Liberal Network That Orchestrated The Hit On The Benham Brothers
9:49 PM 05/12/2014
* * *
ABC news Nightline broadcast on Friday (actually Saturday morning at May 10, 2014 12:35 AM ET) May 9, 2014, a segment about the Benham brothers who lost a show on HGTV because of their views on homosexuals.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/benham-brothers-hgtv-knew-controversial-comments-year-ago/story?id=23663928
Here's link to their web site
http://benhambrothers.com/
Black GLBT Buzzfeed Editor, homosexual Saeed Jones, said on the show "You are free to say whatever you want in this country. That will never change. But that also means that you will be held responsible for what you say." It is obvious that Mr. Jones is not familiar with the meaning of the concepts of free speech, freedom of religion, and the First Amendment. In America speaking freely, and believing freely, are rights. If one is intimidated from speaking and believing that is an abridgment, a chilling effect. It is a violation of the right to free speech and the right to believe. If one is not free to speak, and to believe without fear of "being held responsible" as Mr. Jones suggests it is not a right to speak and to believe at all. The concept that this homosexual promotes is foreign to the United States and to the First Amendment. He needs to read the United States Constitution and not just accept censorship policies and propaganda of the homosexual lobby.
Here is one more example of how the homosexual lobby distorts the notion of free speech under law, into speech by mob rule. They condemn and intimidate anyone who utters speech they do not like. They use political and economic influence to intimidate spineless CEOs and politicians to yield the protections of the First Amendment to their thuggery. Politicians violate their oaths of office by yielding to homosexual mobs. What is curious is that when the majority of the heterosexuals adopt the techniques of homosexuals applying it to homosexual thugs, they will be reduced to their former status being denied their rights. The division of Americans by race, sexual preference and gender is a Communist mission directed by the KGB beginning about 75 years ago. The useful idiots of dumbed down America adopted their programs to help divide the nation. So divided we are. And when the rule of law collapses completely homosexuals will not be in the majority and totalitarians will not be as tolerant of their behavior as Americans who support the Constitution have been.
http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/url-benham-brothers-respond-hgtv-cancelled-show/
Brothers Yanked By HGTV Respond: “If Our Faith Costs Us A TV Show, Then So Be It”
By LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
Thursday May 8, 2014 @ 10:41am PDT
http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/url-benham-brothers-respond-hgtv-cancelled-show/
Brothers Yanked By HGTV Respond: “If Our Faith Costs Us A TV Show, Then So Be It”
By LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
Thursday May 8, 2014 @ 10:41am PDT
Labels:
First Amendment,
Foreign,
Free Speech,
Haters,
Homosexuals,
Political Censorship,
Religion
Boston Herald, AP Show Negative Bias Toward Disabled Persons
[From article]
Vernon police had said they were concerned for the boys' safety. [Jackie Morris, 32, the mother's] relatives told officials that she had a history of mental illness.
Relatives of a suspect reveal her medical records. Journalists repeat them in print. In this case it is a wire story. But the Boston Herald has no standards protecting medical records if the person is accused of mental illness. After years of complaints the Boston Herald (and the AP) continue to exhibit a negative bias toward persons with disabilities. For the Boston Herald (and the AP) privacy rights of persons with disabilities have less privacy protections than non disabled persons. Homosexuals would be attacking this as hate speech. CNN would give it wall to wall coverage.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/05/3_connecticut_children_mother_found_safe_in_maine
3 Connecticut children, mother found safe
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
By: Associated Press
Boston Herald
May 10, 2014
Cambridge Weakly Editors Want More Clemency
Editors state, "the U.S. government is waking up to the realization that it cannot jail its way out of a drug problem." (EDITORIAL: "Facing up to the failed War on Drugs," May 10, 2014, CAMBRIDGE Chronicle) Yes, but government policy makers still believe it can jail its way out of it's troubled persons problem, by jailing any and all persons they do not like or do not understand. Some believe that persons they do not trust should be jailed too. These are the people that they say are "crazy." If drug dealers and users will no longer be jailed someone has to fill the empty cells. Ready and waiting are the crazy people. Do the editors suggest disbanding prison guard unions? Who will fund the luxurious lifestyles of union leaders? And then there are the prison guards themselves, who will be unemployed. No way, Jose. Bring on the crazies to keep the cells filled. Best of all Due Process is unnecessary to incarcerate crazy people.
The editorial notes "Congress, locked in dysfunction, hasn't [. . .] done anything else toward meaningful drug reform." Is it dysfunction that prevents them from acting? Or is it opposition to legalizing recreational drugs? Are there no downsides to legalizing marijuana? Perhaps US Congressmen are not "cool." Maybe they have different (elderly) ideas than the editors and the lawless Obama-Holder team. If the majority of the population wants to legalize murder for offensive speech should Congress make it legal?
The editors celebrate clemency and encourage the lawless Obama-Holder leadership to increase its use. They say, "More than half of Americans favor legalizing marijuana. And the issue is increasingly a bipartisan affair." Oh? More than half of Americans oppose Obamacare and want it repealed. Do the editors support repealing that too?
EDITORIAL: Facing up to the failed War on Drugs
Posted May. 10, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
CAMBRIDGE Chroncile
Labels:
Drug Wars,
Jails,
Marijuana Laws,
Repeal,
US Congress,
US Prisons
Unlawful Use of Taxpayer Funds
The announcement of annual free self defense training for women only is shameless overt unlawful discrimination against men by the City of Cambridge, using taxpayer money. (no byline, "Cambridge Police to offer free self-defense courses for women," May 10, 2014, Cambridge Chronicle) The passive population is expected to believe that women are the only victims of violent street attacks. But also that men are capable of fighting off their attackers in this age of gangs of black youth attacking individual white civilians. This is dangerous public policy for the male population, complete nonsense, one of many implemented by misguided city officials.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140510/NEWS/140506016
Cambridge Police to offer free self-defense courses for women
Posted May. 10, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
Cambridge Chronicle
Cambridge City Council Wants More Taxpayer Funded Psychiatry
Posted May 8, 2014 9:17 PM ET; Last updated May 10, 2014 12:10 AM ET
On the day after I submitted this letter to the local weakly newspaper, and sent copies to local activists, a thoughtful black racist man employed by the City of Cambridge, took time from his busy schedule to appear at my residence to conduct surveillance and harassment. He joined the diligent omniscient lesbian graduate student in psychology at Harvard University Medical School who is the primary criminal who harasses me every day. She, another sacred victim, vigorously disturbs my sleep every one or two hours every day, and tampers with my computer. Her black racist male partner in criminal abuse, later showed his dedication to the cause of free expression, by silencing critics, by following me to a concert at a local college, where he used young women as bait for more harassment and character assassination.
Censorship is what black racists do in the City of Cambridge to white men. Black persons are "victims" and can do whatever they want to white people. No less than the Attorney General of the United States, Eric "White people are cowards." Holder and his boss, Barack "Typical White Person" Obama refuse to enforce civil rights laws in a race neutral manner. (See, e.g., J. Christian Adams' book, Injustice; and John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky's book, Who's Counting?) That policy extends down to the city of Cambridge where black racists are free to abuse white people without concern for being held accountable. Even if that is a felony violation of the Massachusetts Civil Rights statute M.G.L. Chapter 265 Sec. 37, intimidation of a person in the free exercise of a constitutionally protected right; and Title 42 US Code 1983 Deprivation of Civil Rights; and Title 42 US Code Section 1985, Conspiracy To Interfere With Civil Rights.
In Cambridge the majority of city and Harvard University officials insist that black people cannot be racists. The Holder-Obama doctrine states that inconvenient laws may be ignored. In Cambridge laws are optional for city and Harvard University officials. Here is only the latest abuse of power by privileged officials. I have no evidence it was either of the City Councilors mentioned in this letter. More likely it was one of the random black racist city employees who love to harass white people. It comes with the territory.
[From article]
"These patients will be seeing these nurses who might not be trained to see people with these conditions," said Councilor Marc McGovern. "I wonder if a hospital would take a cardiology unit and tell patients to just see a podiatrist because ‘they’re all doctors.’"
"If you’ve never had to use the ward, consider yourself lucky, but if you have had to use it you should also consider yourself lucky. It’s a pretty remarkable place," Simmons said. "For me, it is important to stabilize an individual and to have all the resources available at once. This is a closing of the emergency room, and now we will have fragile individuals with people who do not know what is going on. I think it’s a huge, huge mistake."
Councilor Marc McGovern says, "These patients will be seeing these nurses who might not be trained to see people with these conditions[.]" If that's true why do ordinary medical doctors prescribe psychiatric drugs to children and adults if they are not trained? The human services industrial complex (MA State Rep. Marie Parente's term) argues that psychiatric illnesses are no different than physical illness. Why then do they need a special emergency room? Do all physical illnesses need their own emergency room too? Speaking as an experienced psychiatrist Councilor Simmons says, "For me, it is important to stabilize an individual and to have all the resources available at once. [. . .] and now we will have fragile individuals with people who do not know what is going on." Gasp! Does Councilor Simmons know what's going on? Does she speak for the doctors and the patients? Patients have rights? In Cambridge?
Council, residents cry foul over Cambridge Health Alliance emergency services merger
By Marc Filippino
Posted May. 8, 2014 @ 8:31 am
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle
On the day after I submitted this letter to the local weakly newspaper, and sent copies to local activists, a thoughtful black racist man employed by the City of Cambridge, took time from his busy schedule to appear at my residence to conduct surveillance and harassment. He joined the diligent omniscient lesbian graduate student in psychology at Harvard University Medical School who is the primary criminal who harasses me every day. She, another sacred victim, vigorously disturbs my sleep every one or two hours every day, and tampers with my computer. Her black racist male partner in criminal abuse, later showed his dedication to the cause of free expression, by silencing critics, by following me to a concert at a local college, where he used young women as bait for more harassment and character assassination.
Censorship is what black racists do in the City of Cambridge to white men. Black persons are "victims" and can do whatever they want to white people. No less than the Attorney General of the United States, Eric "White people are cowards." Holder and his boss, Barack "Typical White Person" Obama refuse to enforce civil rights laws in a race neutral manner. (See, e.g., J. Christian Adams' book, Injustice; and John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky's book, Who's Counting?) That policy extends down to the city of Cambridge where black racists are free to abuse white people without concern for being held accountable. Even if that is a felony violation of the Massachusetts Civil Rights statute M.G.L. Chapter 265 Sec. 37, intimidation of a person in the free exercise of a constitutionally protected right; and Title 42 US Code 1983 Deprivation of Civil Rights; and Title 42 US Code Section 1985, Conspiracy To Interfere With Civil Rights.
In Cambridge the majority of city and Harvard University officials insist that black people cannot be racists. The Holder-Obama doctrine states that inconvenient laws may be ignored. In Cambridge laws are optional for city and Harvard University officials. Here is only the latest abuse of power by privileged officials. I have no evidence it was either of the City Councilors mentioned in this letter. More likely it was one of the random black racist city employees who love to harass white people. It comes with the territory.
[From article]
"These patients will be seeing these nurses who might not be trained to see people with these conditions," said Councilor Marc McGovern. "I wonder if a hospital would take a cardiology unit and tell patients to just see a podiatrist because ‘they’re all doctors.’"
"If you’ve never had to use the ward, consider yourself lucky, but if you have had to use it you should also consider yourself lucky. It’s a pretty remarkable place," Simmons said. "For me, it is important to stabilize an individual and to have all the resources available at once. This is a closing of the emergency room, and now we will have fragile individuals with people who do not know what is going on. I think it’s a huge, huge mistake."
Councilor Marc McGovern says, "These patients will be seeing these nurses who might not be trained to see people with these conditions[.]" If that's true why do ordinary medical doctors prescribe psychiatric drugs to children and adults if they are not trained? The human services industrial complex (MA State Rep. Marie Parente's term) argues that psychiatric illnesses are no different than physical illness. Why then do they need a special emergency room? Do all physical illnesses need their own emergency room too? Speaking as an experienced psychiatrist Councilor Simmons says, "For me, it is important to stabilize an individual and to have all the resources available at once. [. . .] and now we will have fragile individuals with people who do not know what is going on." Gasp! Does Councilor Simmons know what's going on? Does she speak for the doctors and the patients? Patients have rights? In Cambridge?
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140508/NEWS/140507056
Council, residents cry foul over Cambridge Health Alliance emergency services merger
By Marc Filippino
Posted May. 8, 2014 @ 8:31 am
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle
May 8, 2014
High Cost of Liberalism Three Parts
[From article]
Much as many liberals like to put guilt trips on other people, they seldom seek out, much less acknowledge and take responsibility for, the bad consequences of their own actions.
[. . .]
In this part of California, liberalism reigns supreme and "open space" is virtually a religion. What that lovely phrase means is that there are vast amounts of empty land where the law forbids anybody from building anything.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042314.php3#.U2bvu90--yN
Jewish World Review
April 23, 2014 /23 Nissan, 5774
The High Cost of Liberalism
By Thomas Sowell
* * *
[From article]
Liberals can be disarming. In fact, they are for disarming anybody who can be disarmed, whether domestically or internationally.
Unfortunately, the people who are the easiest to disarm are the ones who are the most peaceful — and disarming them makes them vulnerable to those who are the least peaceful.
We are currently getting a painful demonstration of that in Ukraine. When Ukraine became an independent nation, it gave up all the nuclear missiles that were on its territory from the days when it had been part of the Soviet Union.
At that time, Ukraine had the third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. Do you think Putin would have attacked Ukraine if it still had those nuclear weapons? Or do you think it is just a coincidence that nations with nuclear weapons don't get invaded?
[. . .]
As with so many things that liberals do, the disarmament crusade is judged by its good intentions, not by its actual consequences.
[. . .]
If in fact tighter gun control laws reduced the murder rate, that would be the liberals' ace of trumps. Why then do the liberals not play their ace of trumps, by showing us such hard facts? Because they don't have any such hard facts. So they give us lofty rhetoric and outraged indignation instead.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042414.php3#.U2bxwd0--yN
Jewish World Review
The High Cost of Liberalism
By Thomas Sowell
* * *
[From article]
Liberals can be disarming. In fact, they are for disarming anybody who can be disarmed, whether domestically or internationally.
Unfortunately, the people who are the easiest to disarm are the ones who are the most peaceful — and disarming them makes them vulnerable to those who are the least peaceful.
We are currently getting a painful demonstration of that in Ukraine. When Ukraine became an independent nation, it gave up all the nuclear missiles that were on its territory from the days when it had been part of the Soviet Union.
At that time, Ukraine had the third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. Do you think Putin would have attacked Ukraine if it still had those nuclear weapons? Or do you think it is just a coincidence that nations with nuclear weapons don't get invaded?
[. . .]
As with so many things that liberals do, the disarmament crusade is judged by its good intentions, not by its actual consequences.
[. . .]
If in fact tighter gun control laws reduced the murder rate, that would be the liberals' ace of trumps. Why then do the liberals not play their ace of trumps, by showing us such hard facts? Because they don't have any such hard facts. So they give us lofty rhetoric and outraged indignation instead.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042414.php3#.U2bxwd0--yN
Jewish World Review
April 24, 2014 /24 Nissan, 5774
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part II
By Thomas Sowell
* * *
[From article]
Most Americans living in "poverty" have air conditioning, a motor vehicle and other amenities, including more living space than the average person in Europe — not the average poor person in Europe, the average person.
"Poverty" is in the eye of the statisticians — more specifically, the government statisticians who define what constitutes "poverty," and who are unlikely to define it in ways that might jeopardize the massive welfare state that they are part of.
[. . .]
Yet liberals often act as if this is an injustice to those who don't work, rather than an injustice to those who do work, and whose taxes support those who don't.
[. . .]
If increasing your income by $10,000 a year would cause you to lose $15,000 worth of government benefits, would you do it? That is more than the equivalent of a 100 percent tax rate on income. Even millionaires and billionaires don't pay that high a tax rate.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042514.php3#.U2b0i90--yN
Jewish World Review
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part II
By Thomas Sowell
* * *
[From article]
Most Americans living in "poverty" have air conditioning, a motor vehicle and other amenities, including more living space than the average person in Europe — not the average poor person in Europe, the average person.
"Poverty" is in the eye of the statisticians — more specifically, the government statisticians who define what constitutes "poverty," and who are unlikely to define it in ways that might jeopardize the massive welfare state that they are part of.
[. . .]
Yet liberals often act as if this is an injustice to those who don't work, rather than an injustice to those who do work, and whose taxes support those who don't.
[. . .]
If increasing your income by $10,000 a year would cause you to lose $15,000 worth of government benefits, would you do it? That is more than the equivalent of a 100 percent tax rate on income. Even millionaires and billionaires don't pay that high a tax rate.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042514.php3#.U2b0i90--yN
Jewish World Review
April 25, 2014 /25 Nissan, 5774
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part III
By Thomas Sowell
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part III
By Thomas Sowell
Propaganda Used to Discredit Successes of Charter Schools
[From article]
Charter schools are hated by teachers' unions and by much of the educational establishment in general. They seem to be especially hated when they succeed in educating minority children whom the educational establishment says cannot be educated.
Apparently it can be done when you don't have to hire unionized teachers with iron-clad tenure, and when you don't have to follow the dogmas in vogue in the educational establishment.
[. . .]
Charter schools are hated by teachers' unions and by much of the educational establishment in general. They seem to be especially hated when they succeed in educating minority children whom the educational establishment says cannot be educated.
Apparently it can be done when you don't have to hire unionized teachers with iron-clad tenure, and when you don't have to follow the dogmas in vogue in the educational establishment.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042914.php3#.U2b1vd0--yM
Jewish World Review
April 29, 2014 /29 Nissan, 5774
Politics Versus Education
By Thomas Sowell
Politics Versus Education
By Thomas Sowell
Labels:
Charter Schools,
Education Abuses,
Propaganda,
Public Schools
Misguided Abuse of Power By Teachers Unions
[From article]
One of the claims is that these alternative schools drain money from the public schools. But expenditures per pupil in the public schools have risen during the era of the spread of alternative schools.
[. . .]
Then there is the claim that alternative schools "skim the cream" of the students, and that this explains why their test results are better. But many, if not most, charter schools select among their applicants through a lottery
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell043014.php3#.U2b2xd0--yM
Jewish World Review
April 30, 2014 / 30 Nissan, 5774
Demonizing the Helpers
By Thomas Sowell
Demonizing the Helpers
By Thomas Sowell
Justina Pelletier Remains in State Custody Contrary to Common Sense, Due to Psychiatric Abuses
[From article]
Lawyers Mathew Staver and Philip Moran also challenged Polanowicz on statements in his May 5 letter that said, "DCF (Department of Children and Families) at this time retains custody of Justina" and "only the Juvenile Court has the authority to determine when and if custody should be returned."
The Pelletier attorneys called Polanowicz's claim "inaccurate," saying, "DCF’s own regulations for case closure make it abundantly clear that it is within DCF's power and prerogative to end this situation immediately.
[. . .]
"They’re just shipping her off to another psychiatric facility," Lou Pelletier told FoxNews.com Tuesday. "It’s disgusting."
"They’re totally ignoring her physical needs," he said, citing a heart condition the girl suffers from that Pelletier claims has gone untreated since the teen was transferred to Boston Children's Hospital last year.
[. . .]
Justina was taken by ambulance to Boston Children's Hospital because she was in a wheelchair at the time and a heavy snowstorm was blanketing the region. Because she arrived by ambulance, she was taken directly into the hospital's emergency room, where a "resident refused to send her to Dr. Flores" and, "declared this was his case," according to Moran. He said the unnamed resident then called upon a psychologist who diagnosed Justina with somatoform disorder -- a mental condition in which a patient experiences symptoms that are real but have no physical or biological explanation. Justina was diagnosed with the disorder "within 25 minutes," Moran claims.
This is exposes the criminal abuses of the psychiatric industry. They ignore laws and get support from spineless officials with relaxed rectitude. Ignoring a court order psychiatric control freaks thumb their collective noses at the courts, the legislature and the parents of this young lady. Why are the misguided journalists silent about this egregious abuse of power by mindless officials who support greedy, sadistic mendacious psychiatric predators? It is time to retake the lawless operation of the hospitals and courts from these charlatans of the psychiatric industry.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/08/lawyers-for-justina-pelletier-family-blast-massachusetts-officials-in-letter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29
Lawyers for Justina Pelletier family blast Massachusetts officials in letter

By Cristina Corbin
Published May 08, 2014
FoxNews.com
Television Network News Indicates Misguided Priorities
[From article]
NBC’s Today show didn’t find time to talk about the Lerner contempt vote but did bring on their chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd to talk about a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that finds there is a greater acceptance of tattoos. Total Today show tattoo time? 4 minutes, 30 seconds.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2014/05/08/networks-spend-275-minutes-climate-change-just-15-seconds-lois-ler
Networks Spend 27 Minutes on Climate Change, Just 15 Seconds on Lois Lerner Contempt Vote
By Geoffrey Dickens
May 8, 2014 | 12:19
Women Selling Positive Pregnancy Tests Online
[From article]
One Craigslist ad posted last year by a Central New Jersey woman read: “I am pregnant and will sell you a positive pregnancy test. These will be taken right before you’re ready to pick them up. Wanna get your boyfriend to finally pop the question? Play a trick on mom, dad or one of your friends? I really don’t care what you use it for.”
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/07/seen-at-11-positive-pregnancy-tests-up-for-sale-online/
Seen At 11: Positive Pregnancy Tests Up For Sale Online
Seller Morality Just As Disturbing As Buyer; Ads Designed To Trap Unsuspecting Men
May 7, 2014 11:27 PM
CBS News New York NY
May 7, 2014
Why Meet The Press Host Is Unwatchable
[From article]
I've always thought entrenched left-wing journalists in Washington needed their heads examined. Much to my satisfaction, it appears the corporate media bosses of at least one Beltway anchor now agree.
[. . .]
What's the matter with David Gregory? And why don't people like to watch him?
I could have saved the honchos at NBC News a lot of time and trouble. The first answer is: David Gregory is a phony. The second answer is: He's a jerk.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin042314.php3#.U2b4ud0--yN
Jewish World Review
April 23, 2014 / 23 Nissan, 5774
NBC's Cognitive Dissonant Hack Syndrome
By Michelle Malkin
NBC's Cognitive Dissonant Hack Syndrome
By Michelle Malkin
Obama Corrupts the Corruption Fighters
[From article]
The Obama administration doesn't have watchdogs. It has whitewash puppies.
The president's Chicago bullies have defanged true advocates for integrity in government in D.C. from day one.
[. . .]
They got exactly what they needed: A do-nothing, know-nothing, toothless lackey.
[. . .]
Former DHS crook-in-chief Janet Napolitano continues to deny any wrongdoing. Conveniently, Napolitano's longtime aide and crony pal Suzanne Barr, former chief of staff to former DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement head John Morton, left office just after whistleblower allegations about Barr's lewd conduct and sexual harassment of underlings surfaced.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin042514.php3#.U2b5s90--yM
Jewish World Review
April 25, 2014 / 25 Nissan, 5774
Obama's Dirty Watchdogs
By Michelle Malkin
Obama's Dirty Watchdogs
By Michelle Malkin
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