RIGHT WING DOMESTIC TERRORISTS

According to the White House website, http://www.barackobama.com/, those opposed to national health care are left wing domestic terrorists. It's sad to read such things in a White House managed website. Obama's push for a bipartisan passed national health care bill becomes more difficult when you calling the those you want to help support the bill terrorists. Does Obama even know what is being put forth on his sponsored website, remember the buck stops at the President's desk, he has to accept responsibility. What say you about this?

NATIONAL HEALTH CARE TO INCLUDE IRS LAW

The politicians are at it again. This time it's Charlie Rangle, representative from New York, you remember Charlie, he owes the government $3,000,000 in back taxes. Well good old Charlie thought it a good idea to put a provision in the National Health Care plan to cover those that owe back taxes, he wants to double the fines along with a few other penalties. This represents the height of hypocrisy. I think dear old Charlie has lost it. But then maybe somewhere in the back of his little brain he knows this and thus he thinks he better have a good health care plan, one that will cover the cost of plugging the hole in his head.
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This goes to show you that any bill is fair game for inclusion of anything that strikes the fancy of a politician on a given day. The National Health Care bill is an ideal venue for including any item that is not related to health care since no one is going to read thru the 1000+ pages of the bill.
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Well I hope Charlie gets his wish and the IRS tax fines section is included in the Health Care bill, it will interesting to see what Charlie does if the bill gets passed and he finds he cut his own throat.

NATIONAL HEALTH CARE IN A GLASS

There are so many additions to a planned national health care bill that it is starting to get out of hand. I believe now that congress will take all the additions and will put them in a blender, give it a good stir and pour out some in a glass. What's in the glass is what we will get and once past, for decades to come, congress will spend it's time tinkering with it, a change here, a change there, a little more of this, a little less of that, and after the decades have past the health care we started out with will long be gone. No wonder people are mad at the town hall meetings. They are scared of what we might get stuck with. People will accept change, but only if their shown what the change will be, but with congress always changing what a health care plan will look like, people will not support. The latest polls show that, 53% against national health care, 43% for it. And when you have one representative state on national TV he gives a damn about what his voters think, he is going to do what he thinks is best, that makes people really mad. Congress needs to step back from national health care, let the dust settle and then take it back up, but it needs to have input from the Dems & Reps. Then maybe they can achieve a health system that will work, that won't be rationed, that is reasonable in price and one that lowers cost without hurting the people or the health care system whatever that may end up being.

NCAA & THE NBA

What are college scholarships for? Most would say the intended purpose is to help students with tuition while they attend a college seeking their degree in one of the academic fields. What would you say to Mississippi State University when their basketball coach tells a high school student that if he plays for the MSU basketball team that he will get the kid into the NBA in two years and that a scholarship will be provided him? Doesn't sound so good does it?
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Lets look at this from another view. A student receives a scholarship to attend a university to study in the field of medicine with the end result of moving on into the research field. The student is brilliant, his research leads to a great cure for a disease that had no cure. A great contribution to society. Now lets look at the student going to college under a scholarship that eventually leads him into the NBA. He has a long career in the NBA and he sets new scoring records. His contribution to society is zip. But, for the basketball player he gains wealth and fame.
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This is the evil of NCAA basketball. The scholarship handed out to students that show a great talent for playing basketball is done so under the disguise of eventually earning a degree in one of the academic fields. If you were to look at what the degree falls under you would see that's really a worthless field that will not gain the student any advantage in the working world. All colleges, coaches and basketball players know the end result is to make it to the NBA where fortunes are to be made. Is this wrong, well not really. For many of the students playing college basketball it's their only chance to achieve independence, and for those that do not make it into the NBA, life for many means working at menial jobs after leaving college. We all have a talent in something and it's this talent that we try to be the best at. We achieve a level of success based on how good we are at our talent and that is life.
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So what it the beef here? It's the plain view that scholarships should only be given to students seeking a degree in an academic field, one that will eventually benefit society and not one that only provides for fame and fortune which provides no contribution to society. But to limit scholarships as such would go against college tradition and take away from the college life itself. College sports is part of the very fabric that makes up a college. It's part of why some student's elect to attend a certain college over another. I for one do not wish to see any changes made to recruitment practices, go ahead and promise a student that he will make the NBA in 2 years. Go ahead and give a scholarship for a kid to play basketball. I'm for it.
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Yes I'm for keeping the status quo, but I will still have heartburn over wasting a scholarship for some kid to play basketball. Here is my solution. The NBA treats NCAA basketball as nothing more than an collection of farm teams. So why not have the NBA contribute to the college farm teams by way of penalties paid to the NCAA. If the NBA drafts a college basketball player out of college before the player attains his degree, then the team that drafts the player must pay a penalty fee in the sum of $300,000. This fee would cover the cost spent on the player's scholarship and would also provide additional funds for other scholarships that would be used for academics and not sports. This would also have the benefit of slowing down the ever increasing tuition cost for students.
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Well there you have my take on the subject, what say you about it?

BING CROSBY PIONEER FOR RECORDING TAPE USE

Just a bit of radio broadcast history.
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Development of magnetic tape recorders in the late 1940s and early 1950s is associated with the Brush Development Company and its licensee, Ampex. The equally important development of the magnetic tape media itself was led by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing corporation.-
American audio engineer John T. Mullin and entertainer Bing Crosby were key players in the commercial development of magnetic tape. Mullin served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and was posted to Paris in the final months of WWII. His unit was assigned to find out everything they could about German radio and electronics, including the investigation of claims that the Germans had been experimenting with high-energy directed radio beams as a means of disabling the electrical systems of aircraft. Mullin's unit soon amassed a collection of hundreds of low-quality magnetic dictating machines, but it was a chance visit to a studio at Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt while investigating radio beam rumours, that yielded the real prize.
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Mullin was given two suitcase-sized AEG 'Magnetophon' high-fidelity recorders and fifty reels of recording tape. He had them shipped home and over the next two years he worked on the machines constantly, modifying them and improving their performance. His major aim was to interest Hollywood studios in using magnetic tape for movie soundtrack recording.
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Mullin gave two public demonstrations of his machines, and they caused a sensation among American audio professionals -- many listeners literally could not believe that what they were hearing was not a live performance. By luck, Mullin's second demonstration was held at MGM studios in Hollywood and in the audience that day was Bing Crosby's technical director, Murdo Mackenzie. He arranged for Mullin to meet Crosby and in June 1947 he gave Crosby a private demonstration of his magnetic tape recorders.-Crosby was stunned by the amazing sound quality and instantly saw the huge commercial potential of the new machines. Live music was the standard for American radio at the time and the major radio networks didn't permit the use of disc recording in many programs because of their comparatively poor sound quality. But Crosby disliked the regimentation of live broadcasts, preferring the relaxed atmosphere of the recording studio. He had asked NBC to let him pre-record his 1944-45 series on transcription discs, but the network refused, so Crosby had withdrawn from live radio for a year, returning for the 1946-47 season only reluctantly.
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Mullin's tape recorder came along at precisely the right moment. Crosby realised that the new technology would enable him to pre-record his radio show with a sound quality that equalled live broadcasts, and that these tapes could be replayed many times with no appreciable loss of quality. Mullin was asked to tape one show as a test and was immediately hired as Crosby's chief engineer to pre-record the rest of the series.-Crosby became the first major American music star to use tape to pre-record radio broadcasts, and the first to master commercial recordings on tape. The taped Crosby radio shows were painstakingly edited through tape-splicing to give them a pace and flow that was wholly unprecedented in radio. Mullin even claims to have been the first to use "canned laughter"; at the insistence of Crosby's head writer, Bill Morrow, he inserted a segment of raucous laughter from an earlier show into a joke in a later show that hadn't worked well.
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Keen to make use of the new recorders as soon as possible, Crosby invested $50,000 of his own money into the Californian electronics company Ampex, and the tiny six-man concern soon became the world leader in the development of tape recording, revolutionising radio and recording with its famous Model 200 tape deck, issued in 1948 and developed directly from Mullin's modified Magnetophones.

GOD, THE BIG BANG AND ME

GOD AND THE BIG BANG
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Some have responded to my Facebook post about God and the Big Bang. Well here it is and I know some you may not like it, but maybe a few will accept it. The whole thing gets down to how I finally worked out that there is a supreme being.
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I know what the Bible says about the beginning and I know what scientist say about the beginning. There is direct conflict between the two, or is there?
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I’m a believer in science, it has given many wonderful things, it has given us the computer and now anyone in the world can communicate to someone else on the other side of the world. It’s given us life saving meds. And it’s given us things that we do not understand if we believe in God because it goes against what is written in the Bible.
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When scientists look at the universe they see the galaxies moving apart. Scientist can measure how fast the universe is moving and they can pin point where the galaxies originated. And the grand conclusion is that the universe all started from something smaller than an atom. Hard to believe, but I believe it. From some people it just sounds so unbelievable that they will never believe it. But what makes me believe? Well, for me it’s my starting point to my journey to believing in the Supreme Being.
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Something smaller than an atom produced the universe. From it came everything we see, every object on this earth and the earth itself. To me that requires that you have to believe that if the Big Bang did occur from something smaller than atom then you have to believe a supreme being created that small little microscopic speck and caused its explosion into something really grand. Thus my belief in God springs from the Big Bang.
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Now I hear the argument, if the Big Bang did occur and that I subscribe to that theory, then don’t I have to subscribe to what scientists say about other things such the existence of the dinosaurs? The Bible makes no mention of such creatures. So how do I get around that? For a long time I couldn’t find a way around it. It’s something I thought about for years, but I finally came to a solution that works for me.
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What I’m going to say next may cause many of you to want to stone me. I ask that you bear with me.
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Here’s my take. God was the cause of the Big Bang, though it took billions of years to reach it’s current form, it was just a blink of an eye for God. When he saw what he had made, he populated many of the worlds including our own with living creatures. Now here is the part that may get many mad at me. None of the creatures that God created for our world did not include man and thus man was not around to record the event. Remember, it was man that wrote the Bible and thus we know what happened after mans creation.
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There were two great extinctions of the earth. From what the scientists tells us the first extinction was caused by an exploding star and the earth was in direct line of the killing gamma burst from that star and it killed off over 90% of living things on earth. I believe this was an act of God since he did not like what he had created. I heard someone say that God makes no mistakes. If God was only dealing with earth itself and not any of the other planets that he populated with living creatures than I could agree with that. I’m not saying God is not perfect, what I’m saying is that not only did he create earth but also the universe and there are billions of other worlds in our galaxy and there are billions of galaxies. That means God may just had his hands full and when he got back to earth he found it needed a little change.
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I think after first extinction of the Earth, God went back to checking the other worlds he had populated and started making changes to them. Then when he got back to Earth again, things still were not to his liking. The Earth was covered many creatures and the Earth was lush with vegetation. But it still was not good and God deemed another minor adjustment was needed and he caused the second extinction by sending a meteor crashing into the earth which wiped out most of the living creatures. And like the first extinction man was not around to record the event.
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When God paid a third visit to earth he then found things much more to his liking and found that earth just needed a very minor tweak to make it better and this tweak was man. And as time past man took up the pen and started recording God’s work. Of course man did prove a slight disappointment to God for he had to make another minor adjustment in the form of the Great Flood.
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All this may seem silly to some, but as the pastor’s wife said to me “It’s not important how you came to God, it’s that you did.” So if you want to condemn me for the path I took to God then so be it, if you care less about the path I took but care only about my happy arrival, then thank you.

HEALTH CARE - THE NEW MONUMENT

I grew up in Washington, D.C. I grew up with the Federal Government and I've seen what the government can do. There is an old saying in Washington, "What is passed by Congress to be temporary becomes permanet. What is past as permanet becomes a monument." The last means that any bill wich finds it way into law never goes away. Like the Jefferson Memoral or the Washingto Monument, which always requires every increasing funds to maintain either, a national health care once passed into law it will also have to be maintained with every increasing funds.

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At the moment medicare as of last year is broke, meaning it now exist on one of the largest ponzi schemes in history which makes what Maddoff did look like a drop in the bucket. The out lay for medicare now exceeds 1 trillion dollars a year, it depends on those working to pay for those retired, that's a ponzi scheme. I can't imagin what will be the cost within the next two years when the babyboomers start hitting medicare. When those working can no longer support medicare, one of two things will have to be done, raise taxes or cut back on services. What will cutting back on services gain, that I do not know. Obama says approximately half of the cost for a government run single payer national health care program can be paid by cutting of waste from medicare. Maybe it can, but then somewhere down the road medicare will still need additonal funding other than what it gets from those working.

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One important point to consider about a government run health plan, it's start up cost, it's been indicated it will require 2 trilloion dollars in startup funding. Where will that come from? We now have a national dept of 1 trillion dollars, where will the additional 2 trillion come from and where will the 1 trillion to cover the first 10 years according Obama come from? We are talking about a lot money that no one has really stated where it will all come from and most likely we will never really know.

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Here's the real point here. Once a law is past, that's it. It never goes away. Any required funding never goes away. And when a program needs additional funding, it will get it. Congress is very good at hiding additional funds for any program as an admendment to any spending bill. You already see how this works with the pork barrel spending - oh did you know there will be pork in the national health care bill in it's final form. The pork projects has already been debated on the different national news shows. And if additional taxes is placed on us down the road to keep a national health care going, believe me when I say we will pay it and we may not even know it when we do. You may find a minor change in the income tax laws, maybe a slight drop in a particular deduction. Taxes can buried in anything.

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Politicians are very good schemers. It they say you are getting a tax cut, they'll tell you where, but you will never be told what other tax is being rasied to the cover the tax that is being cut. A good example of this comes out of Mississippi. Car tags were extremely high, it finally got to the point the people started complaining. The politicians in the state capitol, Jackson, got together and came up with the perfect solution, cut the taxes on car tags by half and they did and the people were really happy. Well some were disappointed a little later when they bought a new car, that's when they found out the state sales tax of 7% was no longer true when came to new cars. For new cars it was now 9%. As you can see you really don't get a tax cut, what you do get is a trade off of taxes, drop one, raise another. Keep all this in mind, once the law is passed for a national health care program, it will be with us as long as there is a USA. And it will be paid for not matter how much it will cost down the road. The politicians now in office are only concerned about holding office as long as they can, and if passing on a big mess for our grandchildren to handle, our politicians today could really care less for they know they won't be around when it all its the fan. And what makes it worse our grandkids will grow up thinking its just part of their world.

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So to end this, lets make sure that any health care plan that is passed into law is something we really want and are willing to pay a lot for especially down the road. Nobody can predict the future. Just one last thing, has anybody been keeping track of the Cap-And-Trade aka the Envioremental Bill that congress past. It's estimated to cost each household $4,300 each year in added taxes. Take a good look at it and contact y0ur senator to express your concerns.