POLITICAL NEWS QUOTES

Romney: "I served in the government but I didn't inhale."

Steve, on Countdown:  "The Republicans continue to play checkers while Obama plays chess."

Santorum:  "Women shouldn't be in combat because of their emotions."

Romney:  "I was a severe conservative."  to which came a reply: "Hey, that's what the Republicans say about us, not what we say about ourselves."

Comment heard on Glenn Beck's birthday:  'We thank you for your laughs and your tears and the laughs at your tears.'

Bill Maher:  "We have a new front runner for the Republican Presidential campaign.  I feel like I say that every week."

Bill Maher again:  "Catholics hate to vote for something they don't like and don't believe in...
the vagina."

Santorum:  "Contraceptives don't belong in our lives.  Sex should only be in marriage."
Should someone let Rick and his wife know that married people use contraceptives as well?  Not all married people can afford an extra allotment of kids and would like to do a lot for the few than insufficient for the many.

Mo Rocca:  "5% of men are now wearing 'mangagement' rings to let everyone know they are off the marriage market.."    Bill Maher's observation:  "They are marked.  A dog has 'p*ssed on them."

COMCAST DID NOT ADD TO MY DAY

My phone and Internet with Comcast has been, since the end of October a game of chance that it will work on a given day, part of the day, sporadically, or not at all.  Yesterday, was the last straw (if I had any straws in the matter) when I had asked a tech to get to a supervisor. I could have settled the Middle East hostilities faster..It seems that this dedicated tech servant didn't believe me when I said he could not fix my problem from his station as it was a hardware problem.  I had already told him I have had four modem replacements and the problem persists.  Nevertheless, he noticed that my service was dropping out for long periods, randomly and also noted that no one had written anything (which I had been told had been done) since my last in home service call a month ago (when the last  brand new modem was taken out of the box, replacing the three previous failures.  I also told him I had limited minutes left on my cell (it had dropped out on the previous call attempt to reach Comcast, leaving me with out either land line or cell ). I had to drive 2 1/2 miles to the person who could get more minutes for me. This tech's computer froze as he was madly typing (while I was pleading with him to let me talk to a supervisor).  He told me the supervisors know nothing about tech issues, something that I did not find comforting.  He also couldn't get a supervisor because, with his frozen computer he couldn't reach one.  It took 29 minutes of my phone time for him to tell me he could only send a tech to me 2 days hence.
     
While writing this, my fingers are crossed as it has worked for more than two hours and I hasten to send this off in the event that I am on Internet and phone withdrawal as I write..

NO BLOG TODAY WITH REASON WHY NOT

For those few of you who have indicated concern on my cell phone, there was no blog today because COMCAST has decided to prove it doesn't know how to fix a recurring problem for the past four months.  Comcast has replaced the modem four times.  It seems to work while the tech is here but doers not last for long after he has left.  Service acts like New England weather.  It may be good for five minutes or more and you never know when it will turn the bad  This is just to let you know I am without phone or internet (at the whim of the poltergeists in charge) and a tech is scheduled to arrive at 8 AM Friday, 2/10.

VIOLATING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? FLIP-FLOPPING?

This is not a final decision and Prop 8 will be in limbo until the Supreme Court (if it goes there) rules on same gender marriage.  It is thought the issue will eventually be solved by demographics.  We are reminded that there was a time that races could not intermarry.  Most amusing is that the people who most object are the people who want the government out of our lives. The Pew Foundation poll shows that 46% are in favor of same sex marriage.  For more on this Prop 8 issue, click here.

Another hypocritical stance are those who remain dedicated to overturning Roe vs Wade on religious principles.  They do not ask, "Whose religion?"  Does a majority share this opinion?  Not at all from general polls taken, it would seem..  It is good that Ms Hayden stepped down from her job at Susan G Komen.  Her presence has undoubtedly cost an irreparable lack of trust and respect for the Foundation which may take a long time to recover.

There is yet another hypocritical flap about PAC money used by Obama as well as the Republican Presidential  candidates.  Originally, Obama said he would not take PAC money.  However, when the money given to PACs became an obscene amount, it would have been analogous to him willing to duel with an initial agreement that they would all fight with feathers and the the rest of them changed to pistols and are calling HIM a flip-flopper for deciding to use a pistol, too.

Hypocrites should wear a big red "H" on their foreheads, IMHO

THE WORLD AND PEOPLE IN IT SEEM TO COME UP WITH EXTREMELY CREATIVELY EVIL OR CLEVERLY ENTREPRENEURIAL.

In the UK, apparently hackers have hacked into home TV monitors, making them public and thus displaying people's children being monitored violating privacy to a dangerous degree. 

Under the heading: Trendnet flaw hits home net cams.  "It says, Feeds from thousands of Trendnet home security cameras have been breached, allowing any web user to access live footage without needing a password.

Internet addresses which link to the video streams have been posted to a variety of popular messageboard sites."  To see this article, click here.

Chilean police report that thieves have stolen ice from a Patagonian Glacier to sell to make gourmet cocktails.  Click here. The article says,  " Chilean authorities have charged a man with transporting 11,453 pounds of ice stolen from a glacier in the country's Bernardo O'Higgins national park. The chunks of ancient ice were allegedly bound for sale in the capital city, Santiago."

In Greenland, entrepreneurs plan to sell the water from the glacier ice before it goes to global warming.  A promo video for this creative venture can be seen by clicking here.

Many people really think that animals are people and should have the same privileges.  WhileI believe that there should be a great deal done to stop abusing animals, I hardly think law suits (which usually are to get financial reimbursement) is the way to go here. click here   If these whales can sue for human rights, will they spend the human money themselves if they win the suit?

SHOULD CATHOLIC HOSPITALS BE FREE TO DICTATE TREATMENT IN DEFIANCE OF FEDERAL LAWS?

To answer the question about religious hospitals, one must first look into the Federal mandates for hospitals to be approved by all the departments of health, etc that apply.  It must also be defined as exempt as a religious institution, if they are to be permitted to deny medical resources, especially if they are the only hospital available to communities.They also must not be there solely for furthering their religion.

When I was in Chicago, several decades ago, I had an obstetrician who worked at the closest hospital (which happened to be Resurrection Hospital, a Catholic hospital though I am non-Catholic.  Having been warned about Catholic belief that the child should be saved if a choice must be made between saving the mother or the unborn fetus.  I was assured, that though it was a Catholic hospital, non-Catholics are given their stated choice by their own religion or beliefs. 

The current flap has become a political issue.  A hospital is not a church, only sponsored by one and must first meet the laws dictated for licensing a hospital.  Even if non-profit, if it caters to the public, it must follow all the other rules set for institutions which cater to the public at large.  The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was passed in 1986 as part of COBRA, (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)  It would be important to acquaint one's self to information before giving the emotional response requested by the far right which is challenging President Obama's insistence that regardless of the sponsor for a hospital, it must follow the Federal Laws.  I think it unacceptable for Romney, not yet President and having not considered the whole picture, to have spoken as he did in his 1/20/2012 speech.  For details, click here.. Apparently Romney has missed the Constitution saying there should be a separation between church and state. For information on EMTALA and COBRA, click here.

It is not surprising that religious leaders would fight this but it seems that all the laws effecting this unfunded mandate must be explored.  I President Obama within Federal Law to demand this respect for some patients' wishes or should the hospitals risk their charters, or should only Catholics who agree to risk their death use them.

ROMNEY'S " I BELIEVE...." SPEECH

Given the content of Mr. Romney's Nevadan victory speech, I was left wondering which orifice he was using giving it.  The major belief he holds is balancing the budget without raising taxes, while shrinking the government.  I must have missed a few gems while I was orally eliminating a great deal of profanity as well as everything I have eaten for the past few weeks.  I expected him to say he believed in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy which would have brought him a tad closer to some sort of reality.

His supporters were ooh-ing and ah-ing like spectators at  4th of July fireworks displays. To hear  a bit of this, click here for The Hill report.   "Throughout his speech, Romney sought to portray himself as the presumptive Republican nominee. The former Massachusetts governor has won three of the early contests — New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada — but his opponents have pledged that they are not giving up on the race.
Romney tried to contrast his campaign proposals with the economy under Obama. Romney said he is a candidate who cares about Nevadans' problems and would offer them jobs instead of broken promises,( editor's insertion: neglecting to mention how he planned to do it). He peppered his speech with references to Nevada's economy – that its foreclosure rate is the highest in the nation, its 12 percent unemployment and its plummeting home values – to fire up angry voters in a state gave Obama 55 percent of the vote in 2008."  Amidst the chorus of 'rom-NEY, rom-NEY, rom-NEY, one could picture the signs of truth if anyone had dared,  They might have welcomed visitors to the State with a sign: 'Hypocrisy Spoken Here' 

If he complains that Obama didn't achieve what he had promised in the campaign (since he didn't know that Congress planned to deep 6 any ideas he put forth) I can just imagine what we will be hearing about him.  He will get rid of 'Obamacare' immediately. He never once mentioned the staff he will have or his Cabinet appointments; he doesn't seem to need any because he knows it all.  He believes he will stick to the Constitution (as though President Obama, a constitutional scholar does not understand the Constitution in Romney's eyes.) and will once again turn the country into a place that has freedom of religion.  I think I was just regaining consciousness when I heard this part and quickly faded again, missing any of the 'truths' he must have spoken.

Gee, Mom, why didn't you tell me before you died that you were preaching to the choir about truthfulness when you should have been teaching the Republican presidential candidates.  Mom, Mom!  Can you hear me up there in the Evangelical Heaven?