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Widely used by every military branch, asbestos was highly regarded for its heat resistance and fireproofing capabilities. In fact, asbestos was so valued that the military even mandated widespread usage before eventually phasing out the material in the 1970s. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of these living veterans were exposed to toxic asbestos-containing materials during military service which could develop into mesothelioma (a rapacious cancer that attacks the internal lining of the lungs, abdomen, and heart). Asbestos.com offers complete information on mesothelioma statistics, lists of occupations, ships, and shipyards that could have put our Veterans at risk for developing asbestos-related diseases. Additionally their Veterans Assistance Department offers extensive experience in filing VA claims and can help any veteran coping with mesothelioma receive benefits from the VA system.Carl Jewett
A quote from George Washington Plunkitt from Wikipedia: There is so much honest graft in this big town that they would be fools to go in for dishonest graft
I have recieved official notice of acceptance to nomination for the Reform Party Presidential candidacy 2012 for Robert David Steele. I will make the effort to supply some information here on the candidate as well as links.Robert David Steele is one of three declared candidates for the Reform Party nomination for President.Here is a link of information about Mr. Steele:
November 29, 2011...addition
The following came to me via email. I have checked with Snopes and found their response(s). They make their claim to be 'Mostly Outdated & Inaccurate'. Reading it I believe the Outdaed & Inaccurate was tied to just not being cuurent from being updated. They drew excerpts from Charitable Navigator and Forbes. Forbes always triggers my thoughts of being supportive of wealth in the extremes. So no shock when they defended the salaries and compensatory aspects of the upper level title holders of said charity organizations. Their defense focused on their chosen label of 'efficiency'. Please keep in mind that regardless of the efficiency the head(s) still absorb(s) an excessive salary. And much of the justification for what might appear to be glutonous is to state how there is a higher amount of such in other areas of the business world. Of course these are charity salaries by comparison. May I draw your attention to the organizations that are at a zero salary and yet produce charity. Zero may be an under appreciated amount and some compensation might be more equitable in a sense of decency. But whatever, please don't overlook these truly humble charity organizations whose operations have no excess salary and compensation connections. Thanks.
Christmas is coming. Think about these.
As you open your pockets for the next natural disaster, please keep these facts in mind:
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.Does the bad side and evil of man exist? Does money have a bad and evil influence? Do you feel they think those human aspectsd only exist in the common man, you and I and not in them? Or, have they orchetrated a process that denies addressing those unsavory elements in themselves, our(your) leaders?
April 28, 2011...additionMAY DAY, 2011
So many of us despise violence most particularly combat and war. These can come in different forms. Perhaps the ugliest of what we humans contend with are movements of terrorist nature. From one person to a network of them who operate for the sole purpose of terrorizing a few or everyone. Osama Bin Laden was more than a bump in the road. He was a major obstacle whose image and ocassional taped messages generated minions to do his will of terrorism. The tracking of him over time came at great cost! The final encounter took place and last chapter has been written for Osama Bin Laden. Was there any alternative? Today we greet the day with a major threat from one source now silenced.
To all my fellow military active and veteran, the mission to remove(eliminate) the major player(leader) of the terrorist movement Osama Bin Laden has been completed. My great respect to the Joint Special Forces, U.S. Special Forces and our Navy Seals who saw this mission's final encounter to it's successful conclusion. I imagine that this will not be a complete illimination of terrorism. I would hope so but take stock that these forces, Joint & United States Special Forces, Navy Seals and others are dilligent and on call. This serves notice they can and will act when the situation needs them. This was an act of self defense on behalf of the entire civilized world. Terrorism is a global threat. I shall forever remember May 1st(May Day), 2011 as a day of relief for all the civilized world. To all peace loving civilized persons: Lastly, this entire event was regretfull and personally I wish it had never happened.
For the record there are some who are so antigovernment they see a conspiracy here. It is our government. Comes with good and bad. But it is ours and some other country. Know this, that my posts concerning the President's birth certificate of proof is a stand alone item. Some allege that this conspiracy theory is a product of that which motivates(ed) the birthers. While I am also against conspiracies I cannot jump from one to another lacking substance of proof. I immediately wondered about the quickness of burial etc. It was explained, that a test on the spot showed it was Osama Bin Laden and that his brain was saved.I am open to comments and being corrected. I certainly do not want to be gullible as anyone can be. Obviously this event should be covered well enough to root out anything if it is there.
And it has been reported that there is yet an incident in Portland Maine of hateful and threatening nature making reference to Islam and Muslims. This is not the way to react and express yourself. There are peace loving Muslims. Hate that randomly targets the mass hits innocent people. Lets be mindful of this and denounce the hate that is nothing more than foolish spam.
Our Founding Fathers were birthers. They made it mandatory that a President of the United States be a United States Citizen BY BIRTH. As a United States Citizen I honor that mandate. I expect it to be honored by all. Especially those who serve and are serving. I don't expect the media and politics to do anything else but demean it whenever they feel it deserves to be in fitting their agenda, possibly political. But as a Citizen and to all those who have been sent to a distant place to fight by a President I stand firm that he or she be a United States Citizen BY BIRTH. Allegiance to the United States is best set when it starts at BIRTH in the UNITED STATES only. I can think of some serious complications that may arise but in the final analysis the Founding Fathers call needs to be answered. And to those who say, 'Let's move on.' I say what you really are saying is, 'Let's move away'. Whose fault is it if past Presidents haven't been questioned? It's in the process. It's their onus to pony up the evidence. Trust no one. That's why we have a system of checks and balances. Our current 2 parties have been clever and diligent enought to exploit that to where I have to wonder. And isn't it interesting that to some the subject here is being over-talked when in our own government they use an over-talk process that mimics this called a 'Fillibuster'!!! So much for moving on when that takes place!!
The President has produced his Hawaiian Long Form Notice of Live Birth. I would just like to bring up some important knowledge about the requirement for a public servant in government to be an American citizen by birth. Our Forefathers made wise decisions. One they made pertained to offices in government. These office positions were considered so important that they coud not be content that just anyone held them. It was considered a high risk for someone whose birth was other than America to hold certain offices. And the highest one of President was the highest of the highest risks. These office positions, servant of the people, by the people and for the people, were not to be held by an Irish born, French born, Italian born, Russian born or any other born except American born. The idea of asking about the credentials of a servant is anything but trivial. In support of our Forefathers and respect for their wisdom I stand my ground when this question is in suspense. Current comments from the media make little reference to what I have stated here. They come more with the feel of intimidation. Even I am asked from time to time to identify my status. I assume the document he just revealed is legal in the eyes of the appropriate credentially committee/department or whatever it is. I would say that from this point on if the question persists it should be ignored by the media. If they don't then they are working this issue for a self serving purpose.April 25, 2011...addition
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- President Obama announced Friday that he's appointing Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren to a key role crafting the consumer financial protection bureau that was her idea in the first place.Ms. Elizabeth Warren has been named to the above. You will see the news make unfavorable comments about her with the argument that she will hurt consumers and whoever else they choose to apply to their media slight of reporting. It's said that Ms Warren doesn't like Wall Street as well as the President. But the proper way to state that is that they don't like the Wall Street that operated the way it did for Enron and a pretty long list of corporations that used a hoax or hoax-like model to entice or Pied Piper investors. Keep in mind President Bush wanted to place our Social Security into the hands of these people!!! Ms. Warren and the President like Wall Street but not the one that just got finished giving we Americans a financial flogging. Look for the reporting tone and you will find that the media will try everything to prop up a fully free to operate Wall Street as they have no sense that the economy ran rough shod over working Americans and needs to be sent to their room without supper at the least!! Ms Warren brings credentials that support keeping the economy sustainable by and for all. She doesn't need adversity but I suspect she will get it. If you feel you support her please do so however you can.
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When I took office I promised not to accept taxpayer subsidized health insurance, a benefit offered to all Members of Congress, until Americans had access to affordable quality care. Three years later, I have kept that promise and have not enrolled in taxpayer subsidized Congressional health plan. Throughout the course of the debate on this legislation, I committed to joining those I serve in the health insurance reforms created through this legislation -- even promising to enroll in the public option that was included in the House-passed version. While the final bill contains no government run "public option," like many Americans I, along with my staff, will seek out private health insurance coverage from an Exchange beginning in 2014.For me to place oneself where I am Rep. Courtney would have to sign a legal document along with witnesses stating that he is permanently removed from the list of eligible Congressional members who have the CHOICE to take or leave taxpayer subsidized health care with no option to undo this and return his name to that or any list of such. This would place him where we are. As long as he stands there with a taxpayer subsidized health care plan as an OPTION and I'm standing there without the same thing then no matter what he chooses he has special health care treatment as a CHOICE. His option not to take the plan does NOT place him where I am. I am on a bus I cannot get off of. While he may be on my bus he CAN get of it. We are NOT THE SAME.
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March 15, 2010...addition
The Supreme Court, in session this morning, is releasing its rulings on the landmark campaign finance case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.And here is the aticle from the L.A. Times;
Early reports indicate the court's rulings will indeed rewrite federal campaign finance law, particularly as it applies to corporate and union independent expenditures.
The restriction dates to 1907, when President Theodore Roosevelt persuaded Congress to forbid corporations, railroads and national banks from putting money into federal races. After World War II, Congress extended the ban to labor unions. More recently, the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002 added an extra limit on corporate and union-funded broadcast ads in the month before an election. Such ads were prohibited if they even mentioned a candidate running for office.
Thursday's decision swept away all of these restrictions.
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Here are(is) some update(s) on Reform Party activities; RPUSA Member on CNN.com OP ED Mr. Charles Faddis is a recently joined Reform party organizer. He brings a strong set of skills to our organization due to his background as a retired CIA operations officer, former assistant state attorney general, and his own private consulting work. He is also the author/coauthor of two books on the CIA and the need for reforms. His most recent Op Ed on CNN.com discusses the causes and impact of the recent deaths of seven CIA officers in Afghanistan. Both of his books are available on Amazon. Mr. Charles Faddis OP-ED RPUSA Chairman in the DC area February 17-20. Email for more information if you are in the VA/MD/DC area and would like to schedule a meeting. |
Horse tradingJanuary 8, 2010...addition---IMPORTANT INFORMATION!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Horse trading is, in the original sense, the buying and selling of horses, also called "Horse Dealing". Due to the great difficulties of evaluating the merits or demerits of a horse offered for sale, the selling of horses offered great opportunities for dishonesty. It was not to be expected that the sellers of horses would fail to capitalize on these opportunities; thus those who dealt in horses have always had a reputation for shady business practices.
With the decline in the standards of business ethics in the U.S. in the Gilded Age, however, the activities of horse traders came increasingly to be seen by the business class not as symptoms of the moral depravity of horse traders, but as the natural, and not necessarily wholly undesireable product of a competitive market. Thus, for example, the New York Times in an 1893 editorial criticizing a proposed law to make it illegal for a newspaper to falsely state its circulation figures, declared that "if the lying were stopped by law, the business of horse trading would come to an end, and the country taverns and groceries in the Winter season would be deprived even of the limited eventfulness which they now enjoy."[1]
Such attitudes were reflected in the early 20th century adoption of horse trading as an approbatory term for what others would deem ethically dubious business practices; it is likely the 1898 publication of Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum -- whose title character saw all business through the lens of horse trading -- played a key role in this.
In a further development of meaning, horse trading has come to refer specifically to political vote trading, and this is now the most common sense of the term, largely displacing the older term, logrolling.
Logrolling
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Logrolling is the trading of favors or quid pro quo, such as vote trading by legislative members to obtain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member. It is also the "cross quoting" of papers by academics in order to drive up reference counts. The Nuttall Encyclopedia describes log-rolling as "mutual praise by authors of each other's work." American frontiersman Davy Crockett was one of the first to apply the term to legislation:
The first known use of the term was by Congressman Davy Crockett, who said on the floor (of the U.S. House of Representatives) in 1835, "my people don't like me to log-roll in their business, and vote away pre-emption rights to fellows in other states that never kindle a fire on their own land."[citation needed]
The widest accepted origin is the old custom of neighbors assisting each other with the moving of logs. If two neighbors had cut a lot of timber which needed to be moved, it made more sense for them to work together to roll the logs.[1][2] In this way, it is similar to a barn-raising where a neighbor comes and helps build your barn and then you go and help build his. Here is an example of the term's original use:
"A family comes to sit in the forest," wrote an observer in 1835. "Their neighbors lay down their employments, shoulder their axes, and come in to the log-rolling. They spend the day in hard labor, and then retire, leaving the newcomers their good wishes, and an habitation.[citation needed]
Though most sources support the above etymology, another possible origin is from the sport by the same name in which two contestants try to topple each other into the water by standing on a log. Each must keep up with the other or risk taking a spill, so it appears to be cooperative.[citation needed]
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."Here is the link to the Snopes website on it;
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