John Roberts' Vote On Obamacare, Plus No Abilities Act

Some people say that Obama used NSA information to intimidate Roberts into his vote for Obamacare because of his illegal adoption of Irish babies.

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VRAJAVALA says: January 10, 2013 at 10:02 pm
I basically wanted to know why the Roberts had focused on adopting 2 Irish babies. I would have to say that this article explains that completely.

EOWYN says: March 27, 2013 at 7:07 pm
Irish law prohibits the adoption of children to non-residents. If the Roberts indeed had adopted their two children from Ireland, the adoptions are illegal.

http://irishamerica.com/2009/08/jane-sullivan-roberts-rules-for-success/

Jane Sullivan Robert’s Rules for Success
By Niall O'Dowd, Founding Publisher
August / September 2009

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Rich says: January 9, 2014 at 6:06 pm
I shed a tear in memory of what once was the greatest nation on earth. Brought to it’s knees by a media that has no honesty, a government with no morality and a population without ambition. The theory of a Supreme Court justice being blackmailed isn’t new. If not for the interstate commerce clause most federal regulations wouldn’t exist. Look that one up for an eye opener. Civil war is upon us. But in the sense that first comes to mind. The founders of this nation anticipated a man like Obama. They kept a final tactic in reserve. It is called nullification. And it can be done by the states. If the states like South Carolina and Georgia are joined by others and outlaw Obamacare it will be a dead issue. The feds need the states to comply if the states refuse to do so there is nothing the feds can do. The federal government is not sovereign. We the people rule ourselves. So while it is far more difficult, we have the legal means to stop Obamacare and it’s redistribution of wealth produced by those who earn it given to those who do not.

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Orland says: January 9, 2014 at 8:22 pm
The Americans With No Abilities Act (ANAA)
President Barack Obama and the Democratic Senate are considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many more Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition.
“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said California Sen. Barbara Boxer. “We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability (POI) to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.”
In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons with No Ability (63 percent).
Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million mid-level positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.
Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability (POI) into middle-management positions, and give a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the Americans With No Abilities Act contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, “Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?”
“As a non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint, Mich., due to her inability to remember righty tighty, lefty loosey. “This new law should be real good for people like me. I’ll finally have job security.” With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other lazy untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Said Sen. Dick Durbin, IL: “As a senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a great salary for doing so.”
This message was approved by Jesse Jackson, Kathleen Sebelius, Al Sharpton, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama.

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Henry says: January 12, 2014 at 2:36 pm
Glad you reported this. Ireland has strict adoption laws. Only an Irish citizen can adopt Irish children. Everything else is called kidnapping.

[From article]
In 2005, when they thought they were doing the Democrats’ bidding, the New York Times dug into apparently easily accessible records and found that the children Roberts and his wife adopted in “South America” started life as Irish citizens. This is a red flag. The laws of Ireland regarding adoptions are very clear: adoptions by non-citizens are prohibited, as are private adoptions.
Apparently, when the Democrats realized they could control a Supreme Court Justice’s vote through blackmail over his having committed a number of international crimes, the Times pulled back and dropped its investigation. The Democrat paper of record pulled back because it didn’t want to “ break the seal of an adoption case” – as if violating laws ever means anything to Democrats in their quest for power. Keep in mind Barack Obama’s violation of his opponents’ “sealed” divorce records propelled him to a US Senate seat.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/john-roberts-likely-protecting-obamacare/

Why John Roberts (Likely) Is Protecting Obamacare…
JANUARY 9, 2014
BY DR. KEVIN "COACH" COLLINS

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[see comments for more links]

http://twitchy.com/2014/01/06/chief-justice-john-roberts-denies-stay-on-obamacare-scotus-alternate-universe-noted/

Chief Justice John Roberts denies stay on Obamacare; SCOTUS ‘alternate universe’ noted
Posted at 5:39 pm on January 6, 2014
by Twitchy Staff


Shannon Bream
@ShannonBream

72-year-old Jewish Woman Writer Held For Scrutiny By TSA

[From article]
“I [was] traveling with a wheelchair,” Chesler related. “I knew we would have a long wait at the airport, so I took my reading, and that included the Jewish Press, and I write for the Jewish Press as well. … The first security guard looked at the title, the headline, turned it over, opened it, pulled over with a smile and a smirk – I was told [by my wheelchair attendant] – a second security guard.
“Meanwhile, I notice a woman in niqab [a dark cloth, often used by Muslim women, which hides all the wearer's face but the eyes] just sail on through without being asked to show her face to indentify herself vis-à-vis her documents,” Chesler continued.
Chesler told Klein the search itself was “a minor blip,” something that could happen to anyone, but argued the TSA is going so far to avoid appearing biased against Arab and Muslim passengers that it’s creating a reverse discrimination that threatens true airport security.
“Now, I understand that we don’t want to be a country that racially profiles, but on the other hand, if we’re really looking to protect this country from terrorism, I think a [72-year-old] Jewish woman/scholar needing a wheelchair is not the best target of suspicion,” Chesler stated. “So the question is not about me or about the Jewish Press but rather what security measures are being taken and how backward is everyone willing to bend to avoid having Muslim civil rights groups, a.k.a. Muslim Brotherhood groups, charge ‘racism’ or ‘Islamophobia’?”

http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/woman-detained-by-tsa-goes-public/

WOMAN HELD BY TSA FOR READING JEWISH PAPER GOES PUBLIC
'Security guard looked at the title, the headline ... opened it'
Drew Zahn
February 9, 2014

Obama Adopts Rape Propaganda

[From article]
Modern-day expectations for government have become so unmoored from common sense that a federal bureaucracy of nearly 3 million employees, erupting daily in mandates and directives, can be portrayed with a straight face as inadequate to the presidency. Leave aside Obamacare and the unilateral Dream Act. In the last few weeks alone, the White House has alerted the nation’s schools that disciplining black students at higher rates than whites will put them at risk of a federal lawsuit and has created a new federal task force to “protect [college] students from sexual assault.” Both initiatives are based on fictions—that black students are no more fractious in the classroom than whites and Asians (despite a homicide rate among black-male teens ten times that of other ethnic groups of the same agecombined), and that female college students are experiencing a rape epidemic of unprecedented proportions. Delusional or not, these directives will increase litigation, bloat already gigantic public and private bureaucracies even more, wrench schools and colleges further from their educational mission, and harden the patently counterfactual ideology of victimization.
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The materials accompanying the new sexual-assault task force recycle the usual feminist claims about campus rape: an “estimated 1 in 5 women is sexually assaulted at college,” proclaims a White House press release. Such an assault rate would represent a crime wave unprecedented in civilized history. By comparison, the 2012 rape rate in New Orleans and its immediately surrounding parishes was .0234 percent; the rate for all violent crimes in New Orleans in 2012 was .48 percent.
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The reality on campuses is not a rape epidemic but a culture of drunken hook-ups with zero normative checks on promiscuous behavior. And that is why Obama’s call for chivalry is so interesting.
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A return to an ethic where manhood consisted of treating women with special courtesy would be a victory for civilization, not just for college co-eds. The chivalric ideal recognizes two ineluctable truths: men and women are different, and the sexual battlefield is tilted in favor of males. On average, males are less emotionally affected by casual sex; if given the opportunity for a series of one-off sexual encounters with no further consequences, they will tend to seize it and never look back. Females on average will never be able to match them at this game,

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0209hm.html

HEATHER MAC DONALD
Meretricious Meets Meddlesome
President Obama’s silly task force on campus sexual assault is wholly based on a fiction.
9 February 2014

California Tries The Idiocracy

[From article]
Apparently, Pacific-corridor residents from San Diego to Berkeley had acquired the affluence not to worry so much about the old Neanderthal concerns like keeping up freeways and airports — and their parents’ brilliantly designed system of canals, reservoirs, and dams that had turned their state from a natural desert into a man-made paradise. They have become similar to the rarified Eloi of science-fiction writer H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, who live dreamy existences without any clue how to supply their own daily necessities.
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In the last five years, they have successfully gone to court to force millions of acre-feet of contracted irrigation water to be diverted from farms to flow freely out to sea.
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Unless it rains or snows in biblical fashion in the next 60 days, we could see surreal things in California — towns without water, farms reverting to scrub, majestic parks with dead landscaping — fit for Hollywood’s disaster movies.
Instead of an adult state with millions of acre-feet stored in new reservoirs, California is still an adolescent culture that believes that it has the right to live as if this were the age of the romantic 19th-century naturalist John Muir — amid a teeming 40-million-person 21st-century megalopolis.
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In 2014, nature yet again reminded California just how fragile — and often pretentious — a place it has become.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370425/californias-two-droughts-victor-davis-hanson

FEBRUARY 6, 2014 12:00 AM

California’s Two Droughts
An affluent society didn’t bother to add to the inherited system of canals and reservoirs that made it thrive.
By Victor Davis Hanson

The Man Made Of Wax Flew Too High

[From article]
In short, our Icarus-in-Chief, without much foreign-policy experience but with youthful zeal and good intentions, soared far too high for his flimsy waxen wings. Now they are melting, and as the American commander-in-chief careens back to earth, lots of those below are wondering what will come next. Still, there is a lot of irony as Obama freefalls to earth.
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Then came the waxen Obama soaring on hope and change, the president who would remake the world along the lines envisioned in a college faculty lounge or a Chicago organizing session. Obama was not a Buchananite isolationist who would be easy for Europeans to caricature. Rather, he is a postmodern, postracial progressive, who deeply felt either that traditional U.S. alliances were not worth the commitment, or that the U.S. was properly moving away from its European heritage and thus without any need for special trans-Atlantic relationships, or that an internationally engaged America came at the expense of dollars better spent on redistributive entitlements at home — or all three and more still.
The result is that the Europeans are increasingly bewildered if not a little anxious. They cannot reduce Obama, a man of the Left, to a caricatured Texan who often misunderstands the world, because Obama is an Ivy Leaguer who has never yet understood it.
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Obama is not so much patient as uninterested. [. . .], Europe cannot play Athens when there is no longer a Rome to back it up. The result is a sort of sad update of Stalin’s thuggish but instructive rhetorical question to French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval when the latter in 1935 suggested that the Soviets reach out to the Catholic hierarchy in order to thwart Hitler: “The Pope? How many divisions has he got?”
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when Japan and the U.S. uncouple, then China will do what it pleases to Japan — for no other reason than, to paraphrase Dirty Harry, it likes to.
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Libya, Syria, Egypt, and the general regional turmoil suggest instead that tribalism, religious intolerance, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and authoritarianism were mostly indigenous and did not need British colonists, Russian generals, American oil men, or the Bush family to activate them. To paraphrase Ward Churchill, with the American recessional from the region, the long-awaited Middle East chickens are coming home to roost.
The nosedive of the melting Obama will leave the world a more dangerous place, but also serve as another mythological reminder of why the pretentious without real wings should not try to fly.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370259/our-icarus-chief-victor-davis-hanson

FEBRUARY 4, 2014 4:00 AM
Our Icarus-in-Chief 
Obama’s global fantasies are falling to earth along with him.
By Victor Davis Hanson

Boston Minister Laments Silence Of Public Officials and Alleged Victim Advocates After State Rep. is Expelled From Legislature For Attacking A Woman

Posted February 7, 2014 8:28 PM ET; Last updated February 9, 2014 5:45 AM ET

[From article]

What especially concerns me is how black leadership, most recently the NAACP, has supported Henriquez in his desperate attempt to stay in office, or has remained silent on the issue. This is as disgraceful as the violence itself. Black leaders have, with rare
exceptions, failed to raise their voices to call for Henriquez’s expulsion from the Legislature.
As a black man, I am outraged. The black political leadership of the city and the state have not displayed courage in repudiating the misbehavior of their own.
Perhaps more amazing is the silence of black female elected officials. The same must be said of the various anti-violence groups, not least those that are led by black women. Where were their voices?

Don't feel bad Rev. Scott. People in Massachusetts, see, hear and speak no evil. Cambridge city officials and Harvard University officials and their police employees, dominated by limousine liberals, "always" speak for the "most vulnerable." Meanwhile they allowed and joined in a 43-year-ongoing program of harassment, insults, provocations, humiliation, ridicule, abuse, character assassination of a 70-year-old white man who they all say is "crazy." City, state and U.S. taxpayer funded agencies whose mission is to protect such persons join in or stand by and allow it to continue. Currently it is a Harvard University campus policeman. The lesbian graduate student in psychology at Harvard University Medical School who was conducting a criminal behavior conditioning campaign trying to make me into a homosexual failed. The Harvard University campus police officer who protected her, appeared at my residence to take her place disturbing my sleep, tampering with my browser, operating system, and causing my computer to crash. In the film Five Easy Pieces, a woman asks Susan Anspach, "Don't you think that more harm has been done in the name of love than in the name of evil?" Anspach gets upset and walks out. I'm told that this policeman "loves" me. Huh? Probably loves me like the woman who told everyone I met and everyone I knew and know, "He's a retired drug dealer." She and her husband too said they loved me. With friends like these who needs enemies? How long before the President of Harvard University and the General Counsel appear on premises to do the same? Harvard and Cambridge residents love to torment people they believe are vulnerable and unable to fight back. They say they speak for them. It is a charming state and it is to be expected that they remain silent about a state rep being jailed for attacking a woman. As Hillary Clinton said, "What difference does it make?"

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." -- Albert Einstein

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/02/scott_black_leaders_support_of_carlos_henriquez_a_disgraceful

Scott: Black leaders support of Carlos Henriquez a disgraceful turn
Friday, February 7, 2014
Boston Herald
By: The Rev. Mark V. Scott

Paterson NJ Increases Debt To Pay Pensions

[From article]

Last year, Paterson borrowed about $2.3 million to cover retirement checks for 28 police officers and firefighters. In 2012, the city bonded $3 million for 34 retirees, and in 2011 it borrowed $4 million for 50 severance checks. The city is paying a total of more than $560,000 in interest on the bonds for those three years and the proposal for 2014 will add another $141,900 in interest costs. 

http://www.northjersey.com/paterson/Severance_plan_for_Paterson_cops_and_firefighters_puts_four-year_tab_at_11_million.html?page=all

Retirement plan for Paterson cops, firefighters puts four-year tab at $11 million
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2014, 2:26 PM
BY JOE MALINCONICO
PATERSON PRESS

Reality Is What I say It Is, Nothing More

[From article]

Barack Obama, the first president shaped by the celebratory culture in which every child who plays soccer gets a trophy and the first whose campaign speeches were his qualification for the office, perhaps should not be blamed for thinking that saying things is tantamount to accomplishing things, and that good intentions are good deeds. So, his presidency is useful after all, because it illustrates the perils of government run by believers in magic words and numbers.

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Many of the words and numbers bandied by Obama and his administration may reflect an honest belief that the world is whatever well-intentioned people like them say about it. So, Obama’s critics should reconsider their assumption that he is cynical. It is his sincerity that is scary.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-president-obamas-magic-words-and-numbers/2014/02/07/220fbc04-8f76-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html

President Obama’s magic words and numbers
By George F. Will

Published: February 7

Former Harvard Law Student Convicted of Insider Trading

[From article]

Former Harvard Law student and SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager Mathew Martoma was found guilty of two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud Thursday afternoon. The 39-year-old Martoma faces a maximum sentence of 45 years.

In a scheme that netted SAC Capital $275 million and scored a $9.3 million bonus for Martoma, he and colleagues made trades based on insider information about the testing of a drug to potentially cure Alzheimer’s, according the federalcomplaint against Martoma.

During the court proceedings, it was also discovered that Martoma was expelled from Harvard Law School in 1999 for creating a false transcript and using it to apply for clerkships with federal judges.

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Martoma came to Harvard Law School after graduating from Duke University. Following his expulsion from Harvard Law School, Martoma applied to and was accepted to Stanford Business School, where he earned an MBA in 2003.

The court documents also revealed that Martoma, who changed his name from Ajai Mathew Thomas to Mathew Martoma after his expulsion, tried to deceive the Law School Administrative Board during his hearing there. Martoma altered emails and submitted a counterfeit report from a computer forensics firm that he created to hide his activities from the Ad Board.

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Martoma’s Ad Board hearing and subsequent expulsion were only revealed after a judge unsealed court records detailing the case before Martoma’s federal trial.
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Martoma was the eighth SAC Capital employee to plead guilty or be convicted of insider trading. Martoma’s lawyer told news outlets that his client planned to appeal.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/2/6/martoma-law-school-convicted/

Former Law Student Martoma Convicted of Insider Trading in SAC Case

By TYLER S. OLKOWSKI, 

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER

February 6, 2014

Harvard Graduates Courted After Graduation By Alumni Association

[From article]
Somehow Harvard students are marked for life. Faust hinted at it. They sense it. But there is a fundamental paradox in Harvard’s vision of success: its inconceivable opportunities are often predictable, the supposed flexibility of its expansive network confining. Successful Harvard grads follow well-tread paths that lead from campus to New York, Hollywood, and across the globe. If they go where the existing university network shapes their trajectory, it is too easy to remain within the Harvard bubble—obscuring the possibilities that exist outside of it.

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Harvard maintains its strongest presence along the East Coast—55 percent of the 2013 graduating class reported relocating there, according to The Crimson’s Senior Survey. And New York may well be the one city where Harvard maintains a presence comparable to that of Boston: 13.5 percent of the Class of 2012 left for the Big Apple after Commencement, according to that year’s Senior Survey.

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Jeff F. Solnet ’12, a former president of the Institute of Politics, started building his D.C network as an undergraduate coordinator for the organization’s “Summer in Washington” program,” connecting students working in D.C. for the summer with alumni in the city. 

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affiliation with a university alone usually means almost nothing in Hollywood, where success is aided not by where you went but by who you know.

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“Why shouldn’t you work with people that you think are talented and that you like and that you’re familiar with? Hopefully not at the cost of other types of diversity, but, you know….”

[you mean like people who went to other schools?]

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It’s hard because Harvard’s not super conducive to helping you find any opportunities in the realm of public service,” she says.

[you mean to say that Obama is not doing public service?]

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But this uneven perception is largely a result of unequal recruitment strategies across professions, says OCS Director Robin Mount. The most visible are those of the Fortune 500 companies who approach Harvard to recruit on campus in batches, willing to pay high price-tags that other industries cannot match.

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“There are a lot of things Harvard students don’t learn to do that most other college students do—like pay your bills, cook a meal, and clean your bathroom.”

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“The world really—excuse my French—does not give a whatever about what university I went to,” he says. “What are the real, substantive contributions you’re going to make? The fact that I went to Harvard might open a door, but then keeping that door open—you can’t just rely on Harvard.”

[This last comment is especially true. During my brief career in what is now called the IT field, I found the true geniuses went to small colleges and to state universities, and some had no degree at all.]  

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/2/6/networking-after-harvard-scrutiny/

Club Harvard
The Postgraduate Social Network
By DELPHINE RODRIK,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
February 6, 2014

Harvard Grad, 29, Falls From Psychology Building Tower

[From article]

A 2006 graduate of the College jumped over the side of William James Hall to his death at about 9:30 a.m. Thursday morning, according to the Harvard University Police Department’s public police log.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/2/6/william-james-grad-death/

Alumnus Jumps to His Death from William James Hall
By MADELINE R. CONWAY and STEVEN S. LEE,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
February 6, 2014

46 Senators voted to give your 2nd Amendment Rights to the U.N.

The U.N. Resolution 2117 lists 21 points dealing with firearms control, but perhaps of most interest is point number 11: “CALLS FOR MEMBER STATES TO SUPPORT WEAPONS COLLECTION, DISARMAMENT ---”

By a  53-46 vote - The U.S. Senate voted against the U.N. resolution.

 


Here are the names of 46 Senators who voted to destroy Second Amendment rights. 

 

In a 53-46 vote, the Senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. The Statement of Purpose from the Bill reads:  "To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty."  The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has been championed by the Obama Administration, would have effectively placed a global ban on the import and export of small firearms.  The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S. and had language that would have implemented an international gun registry,on all private guns and ammo.


46 out of 100 United States Senators were willing to give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power. Here are the 46 senators who voted to give your rights to the U.N.


Baldwin (D-WI)

Baucus (D-MT)

Bennett (D-CO)

Blumenthal (D-CT)

Boxer (D-CA)

Brown (D-OH)

Cantwell (D-WA)

Cardin (D-MD)

Carper (D-DE)

Casey (D-PA)

Coons (D-DE)

Cowan (D-MA)

Durbin (D-IL)j

Feinstein (D-CA)

Franken (D-MN)

Gillibrand (D-NY)

Harkin (D-IA)

Hirono (D-HI)

Johnson (D-SD)

Kaine (D-VA)

King (I-ME)

Klobuchar (D-MN)

Landrieu (D-LA)

Leahy (D-VT)

Levin (D-MI)

McCaskill (D-MO)

Menendez (D-NJ)

Merkley (D-OR)

Mikulski (D-MD)

Murphy (D-CT)

Murray (D-WA)

Nelson (D-FL)

Reed (D-RI)

Reid (D-NV)

Rockefeller (D-WV)

Sanders (I-VT)

Schatz (D-HI)

Schumer (D-NY)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Stabenow (D-MI)

Udall (D-CO)

Udall (D-NM)

Warner (D-VA)

Warren (D-MA)

Whitehouse (D-RI)

Wyden (D-OR)


These Senators voted to let the UN take our guns. They betrayed U.S. citizens.

46 Senators voted to give your Second Amendment Constitutional Rights to the U.N.

Strong Factor Blocking Upward Mobility? Single Parents

[From article]
The study, “Where is the Land of Opportunity?: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States,” authored by Harvard economist Raj Chetty and colleagues from Harvard and Berkeley, explores the community characteristics most likely to predict mobility for lower-income children. The study specifically focuses on two outcomes: absolute mobility for lower-income children—that is, how far up the income ladder they move as adults; and relative mobility—that is, how far apart children who grew up rich and poor in the same community end up on the economic ladder as adults. When it comes to these measures of upward mobility in America, the new Harvard study asks: Which “factors are the strongest predictors of upward mobility in multiple variable regressions”?

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/01/new_harvard_study_where_is_the_land_of_opportunity_finds_broken_families.html

Family Matters
What’s the most important factor blocking social mobility? Single parents, suggests a new study.
By W. Bradford Wilcox
JAN. 22 2014 3:55 PM

Preferred Character Traits For Lasting Marriage

[From article]
Certain behaviors — like signs of defensiveness or resentment — were noted. With these details, trained researchers were able to detect whether or not the couple would divorce in 10 years with 90 percent accuracy. In another similar study done at Harvard, even untrained undergraduates were able to guess the couples’ futures based on a 15 minute interaction with an 81 percent accuracy.
While researchers can see clearly, so many of us are blinded by love.
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Knowing all this — and most of us should — doesn’t stop the fact that finding a mate is largely an “irrational” process. Statistics and love are like oil and water, but Tashiro hopes to make the mixture a bit more palatable, especially for those looking for long-term love.
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“If you choose someone with traits that drive you crazy or make you sad while you’re dating, then those traits will make you crazy or sad for decades to come,” he writes. “So you want to choose well, because what you see is what you get.”

http://nypost.com/2014/02/02/for-real-long-lasting-love-the-no-1-trait-to-seek-is-niceness-expert/

The science of happily ever after
By Susannah Cahalan
February 2, 2014 | 12:37am

New York Post

Man Exploits Vulnerable Woman Displaced By Hurricane

[From article]
Villano, given a Distinguished Alumni Award by Long Island University in 2007, founded several businesses, including a software company that served Fortune 100 clients. In 2005, he donated $1 million to a Greenwich Village child-protection center.
“He acted like a father figure,” said Riccardi’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina. “This was despicable conduct by a guy who knew Francesca was traumatized by Hurricane Sandy and took advantage of her.”
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She had lost all her belongings when Sandy flooded the Staten Island home she had been living in with her boyfriend. When a friend died in a car crash, she became “an emotional wreck,” she says.
Villano tried to monitor and control her every move, Riccardi says. He installed a GPS locating device on a car he loaned her, sent her 930 texts, phoned incessantly, hired a private eye to tail her, and stole her AOL password to pose as her and cut ties with her ex-boyfriend, telling him Villano wanted to marry her, the suit alleges.
“You belong to me and nobody else,” she says Villano told her.

Exploiting vulnerable people is a pattern of control freaks. They are the kind of people who surround me for 40 years. Some professions who specialize in controlling people, include but are not limited to, lawyers, psychologists, psychiatrists, crime families, politicians.  

http://nypost.com/2014/02/01/obsessed-mogul-drugged-moms-oatmeal-tracked-every-move-suit/

Mogul drugged mom’s oatmeal, sexually assaulted her: suit

By Susan Edelman
February 1, 2014 | 10:47pm

New York Post

Government Claims To Be Able to Restore Memory

[From article]
Darpa is seeking to develop a portable, wireless device that “must incorporate implantable probes” to record and stimulate brain activity, according to documents posted online. Those submitting proposals were instructed to specify the number, size, spacing, weight and power requirements of the probes in their proposals, as well as what areas of the brain would be targeted and the surgical procedures used to implant the devices.

Compare this with the project to eliminate memory. Hmmm. Criminals, and corrupt medical officials will be able to eliminate memories when convenient and to restore it when convenient. Lawyers will be paying big bucks for these trial consultants.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-07/brain-implants-hold-promise-restoring-combat-memory-loss.html

Brain Implants Hold Promise Restoring Combat Memory Loss
By Kathleen Miller 

Feb 7, 2014 11:31 AM ET

Unlike Obama, Holder, VA AG Held Accountable For His Lawlessness

[From article]
“Attorney General Herring swore an oath to defend the constitution of the Commonwealth, yet now he is participating in a lawsuit against the very people he is sworn to represent, the citizens of Virginia who preserved marriage in their constitution. This malfeasance and neglect of duty is not only a disgrace, it’s an impeachable offense under the constitution,” said NOM President Brian Brown.
NOM spokesman Chris Plante told WND that the bottom line is not a fight over the definition of marriage or the acceptance or rejection of same-sex “marriage.”
“It means lawlessness. Every American ought to be afraid,” he said.

This is the prevailing pattern of how government and voters work in and around Cambridge MA. Harvard University is the master of state and local government. Though they graduate lawyers who work in all levels of government and corporations they remain silent about arbitrary enforcement of laws. The immigration issue is typical. Liberals at Harvard University and in Cambridge MA believe that immigration laws may be ignored because they are inconvenient. They begin their public discourse with the harm suffered by illegal immigrants, who they demand are undocumented immigrants, not illegal aliens. The laws are meaningless. They are willing to promise all kinds of concessions if the current millions of illegals are admitted to a path to citizenship. They have no intention of enforcing any of the new laws because they never enforce any of the current or previous laws. It is all about getting re-elected, and nothing more. 

http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/dereliction-of-duty-charge-leveled-against-virginia-ag/

'DERELICTION OF DUTY' CHARGE LEVELED AGAINST VIRGINIA AG
Call for impeachment issued after he 'forsakes' oath of office

Bob Unruh
February 7, 2014

MA Woman From Brazil Takes Taxi From New York Refuses To Pay

[From article]
When police asked her why she didn’t take a bus and if she had planned on paying him, she said, “I have so many problems, I just came from Brazil.”
Cops let her use a phone to make calls to try get money to pay for the fare, but she wasn’t able to find anyone to cover the bill.
She became belligerent and kept threatening to call President Obama about the police.
“She started abusing another police officer, talking to her rudely,” Chaudhury said, who added that she snapped “what did you do to me” to him at the police station.
She told cops she didn’t have money because her son was abused, and she can’t keep a job.

http://nypost.com/2014/02/07/woman-arrested-after-not-paying-1000-cab-ride-from-jfk-to-mass/

Arrested woman refused to pay $1000 cab ride from JFK to Mass.
By Erin Calabrese and Rebecca Harshbarger
New York Post
February 7, 2014 | 12:31pm

Misguided Promotion of Courts As Enablers of Drug Addiction

[From article]
But there aren’t nearly enough beds at licensed treatment facilities, which means many addicts are sent to prison instead: men to a prison in Bridgewater and women to MCI-Framingham. There, they are treated like prisoners, not like patients trying to escape a serious, chronic illness.

This editorial makes it sound as if heroin addicts are victims of the criminal justice system. Did government bureaucrats force them to ingest drugs? Is there a taxpayer funded conspiracy which encourages people to abuse drugs? Is a lack of discipline, a weakness of will an illness? How does one correct that? Can psychiatric drugs strengthen willpower, discipline? On Super Bowl Sunday NYC police reported they found Philip Seymour Hoffman dead with a heroin needle in his arm. Was he unable to afford the prescription form of these opiates?
More troubling is the apparent misguided belief of the editorial writers that state courts in Massachusetts incarcerate people for being drug addicts. That would be a status crime prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. These people have committed a crime, possession, sale, larceny, burglary, assault, threats, something that is a violation of a criminal statute. Police cannot and do not arrest people for being a drug addict. That practice ended about 70 years ago.
This sounds more like a PR piece promoted by the human services industrial complex (State Rep. Marie Parente's term) for more taxpayer funds.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140201/NEWS/140209871

EDITORIAL: Heroin crisis demands a better treatment system
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Feb. 1, 2014 @ 12:04 pm

Misguided Medai Campaign Attacking NJ Governor

Let me guess. The writer is under 40, and loves Obama. He lacks any knowledge of history. Never heard of Richard Nixon and believes that the Holder-Obama scandals are anecdotes. Why did former NJ Governor Jon Corzine remain un-indicted for his loss of about a billion US? Who is leading this propaganda of destruction campaign against Christie? Are any of his former defendants behind this? Or are all the liberal propagandists just acting on their own?

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2014/02/experts_chris_christie_dead_in_water

Experts: Chris Christie dead in water
He can't make it across
Boston Herald
By: Antonio Planas
February 2, 2014