First, I was taught that a corporation was a citizen and had certain legal rights as such.
Second, I was taught that the sanctity of religion and our ability to practice it as we chose was important and was one of our inalienable rights.
The Supreme Court announced a narrow decision yesterday which held private company owners cannot be forced to do certain things against their religion. In this specific case pay for certain type of birth control prescriptions that caused the end of a life.
The Supreme Court did not rule out contraceptive coverage and any employee of Hobby Lobby can purchase the type in question on their own and abort til the cows come home if they so choose.
The reaction of women activists has been nothing short of hysterical. Hillary has joined their ranks so she can ride the crest of a wedge issue and garner uninformed votes in her presidential run . The problem with these wild eyed women is they generally set up a false 'straw persons' and proceed to knock them down and in this instance they claim women no longer have a right to birth control. Stretching the truth is what they do for a living.
The Supreme Court is not at war with women but these wild eyed women are at war.
Then today I received an unseemly piece of mail from Buddy Carter informing me: "Don't Let Bob Johnson Embarrass Us In Congress."
This type of campaign trash literature is what is embarrassing. Does this say something about Carter's character?
Are the two connected? In my world they are because they are based on false premises and are intended to inflame and turn people against others. The same is being done against Jack Kingston by his opponent.
You would hope these sort of overboard attacks would boomerang but, because they prove effective, they continues to be practiced.
Where are these inflamed women when African girls are being mutilated?. Where are these inflamed women when women are being persecuted, stoned and killed by Islamist radicals?
The 'hysterics' are selective in what gives them angst and thus they are, in my eyes, hypocritical and when they distort facts they lose any smidgen of credibility.
As for Buddy Carter, I would be embarrassed to be associated with his inflammatory message. The basis for this mailing was to reinforce the dumb remark Bob made about the TSA for which he apologized and admitted it was dumb. Now Bob must live with this mistake but he is far more thoughtful and decent a person and I would hope balanced judgement will determine the winner but inflaming voters is the rage! (See 1 below.)
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Dick Morris is not one of my favorite people. That said, facts are acts even when presented by him.
When it comes to Bill Clinton we know he is clever with words and evasive - is is is. When it comes to Hillary we know she too is a liar.
I recall her telling how she was attacked when deplaning in Africa, Whitewater Documents suddenly appeared on a table in the living quarters of The White House and her explanation of her one day 'futures' killing. (See 2 and 2a below.)
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The death of the dollar? Will it happen? Can it be avoided? (See 3 below.)
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Do we live in a country run by idiots or are we the idiots who elected them?
Food for thought! (See 4 below.)
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Palestinians attacked by Palestinians thinking they were Israelis. And so it goes! (See 5 below.)
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1) Mature Women don't Cry-yi-yi,
Notice who is whining and crying and basically misrepresenting Monday's Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision. To paraphrase a popular song of the early 60s "little girls do cry-yi-yi-yi, it's just an alibi." Those little girls, those passive, helpless women – girls, really, no matter their age -- and especially their enablers who encourage this passivity, this helplessness to increase their own inverted sense of superiority, are the complaining ones, the ones who, willfully or not, are spinning out alibis about the impact of this Supreme Court decision.
Yes, I'm referring to you Sandra Fluke, you, the poor little rich girl, the helpless law student who parlayed a spoiled student public cry-yi-yi about a Catholic school's refusal to pay for her birth control into a speaking gig at the Democratic National Convention, and now as a candidate for California state senator (no, I won't give you the link). She cry-yi-yies crocodile tears on twitter and misrepresents the impact of the Hobby Lobby decision.
And she passed the bar how?
Help denounce #HobbyLobby decision &show a woman’s boss should NOT have say in her health carehttp://bit.ly/1r7wCHc pic.twitter.com/bWv6TxeIZcSandra Fluke @SandraFluke · 20hLet’s use this moment 2 send a message that we r tired of #SCOTUS putting corp. interests ahead of women's rights.http://bit.ly/1r7wCHcHouse OversightDems @OversightDems · 23h.@RepCummings&@SandraFluke: "We cannot ignore the interests & health of our nation's women."http://go.usa.gov/9tEz #HobbyLobbySandra Fluke @SandraFluke · Jun 30Supreme Court rules that bosses can deny employees coverage of birth control. #HobbyLobby#NotMyBossBusinessSandra Fluke @SandraFluke · Jun 30A woman’s boss should not have a say in her health care decisions-stakes are too high for us to be silent#HobbyLobbyhttp://dccc.org/flukeSandra Fluke @SandraFluke · Jun 29Read why I think private employers shouldn’t have a say in their employees’ health care decisions.#HobbyLobbyhttp://bit.ly/1wBEZeoSandra Fluke @SandraFluke · Jun 29My opinion on #HobbyLobby: corporations are not people. http://bit.ly/1nYZYae RT if you agreeSandra Fluke @SandraFluke · Jun 29Raise YOUR voice around the #HobbyLobby case and say: No one’s boss should have say in their health care decisions.http://dccc.org/fluke
You're absolutely correct, Sandra -- and I can call you that, can't I? -- that a woman's private and personal decisions are her own and not her employer's; therefore they are not the business of her boss or their financial responsibility. For instance, if a woman -- not a girl -- wants birth control she can just go and buy it at any convenient pharmacy.
No alibis. Her employer probably really, really,does not want to know about it and doesn't really need to.
Yes, I'm referring to you Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization of Women, who falsely compares this ruling to the evils of apartheid and segregation, thereby minimizing the latter two's true horrors while further denigrating women. Oh, and for good (well, bad) measure she forgets all about diversity and tolerance, smearing religion and its followers as she too misinterprets the ruling.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of protecting religious freedom for private business owners is on par with arguments favoring race-based segregation in South Africa and the United States in the past, according to National Organization for Women president Terry O’Neill.“I think it’s really important to remember apartheid in South Africa was justified on religious grounds; the Southern Baptist Convention justified slavery, and later Jim Crow and segregation, on religious grounds,” O’Neill said on MSNBC on Monday. “There are some religious beliefs we no longer honor in our government, and the Supreme Court is simply wrong to honor gender bigotry that Hobby Lobby stores and Conestoga Wood are promoting.”“It’s bigotry to keep women away from having basic health care,” she added.
And yes, you, poor little Hillary Rodham Clinton, you Yale Law School graduate who proudly defended a rapist by withholding crucial evidence, I'm talking to you too, although at this point, what difference does it make?
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday called the Supreme Court’s ruling that employers with religious objections can refuse to pay for insurance coverage for contraception “deeply disturbing.” (snip)Clinton was speaking at a Facebook Live session at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado.“I obviously disagree,” Clinton said, “I obviously disagree… I disagree with the reasoning as well as the conclusion.”During her remarks on the topic, Clinton said “this element” is seen in foreign countries where women are deprived of rights. “Among those rights is control over their bodies, control over their own health care, control over the size of their families,” she said. “It is a disturbing trend that you see in a lot of societies that are very unstable, anti-democratic, and frankly prone to extremism.” (snip)Where women and women’s bodies are used as the defining and unifying issue to bring together people — men — to get them to behave in ways that are disadvantageous to women but which prop up them because of their religion, their sect, their tribe, whatever. So to introduce this element into our society… it’s very troubling that a sales clerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception, which is pretty expensive, is not going to get that service through her employer’s health care plan because her employer doesn’t think she should be using contraception.”
Uh, Hillary, you're a lawyer and that's not what Hobby Lobby said. As I said tho, what difference does it make? The difference is you cheaply got in your feminist street cred with this sad alibi-i-i and for you, that's all that counts.
And I'm also speaking to you, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts Indian), who li-yi-yied that her "high cheekbones" (racist!) indicated she was a minority, Native American category, which along with her husband's job at Harvard Law School, qualified her for a job as law professor at Harvard Law School. She too, li-yi-yies again.
https://twitter.com/elizabethforma about the decision.Elizabeth Warren @elizabethforma · Jun 30Can't believe we live in a world where we'd even consider letting big corps deny women access to basic care based on vague moral objections.
Based on your past behavior, I believe you'd say and/or do anything to get your way.
And finally, I'm talking to you, all you liberal women everywhere, in the media, in government, and those just babbling everywhere on social media waging war on women. And girls. Stop it! Read the decision and stop exploiting yourself, degrading yourself and other females.
Now, to all the little girls, stop cry-yi-yi-ying. Wipe your tears and remember, big girls don't cry-yi-yi-y, they act and become women.
You want birth control? Well, courtesy of Weasel Zippers here's some information for you. Go out and buy it for yourself for just $9 a month without insurance. And the transaction is just between you and your pharmacy; your employer and anyone else doesn't have to know.
And this is without insurance.
2) AN ANALYSIS WORTH READING by Dick Morris, former political adviser to President Bill Clinton
If you happen to see the Bill Clinton 5-minute TV ad for Hillary in
which he introduces the commercial by saying he wants to share some
things we may not know about Hillary's background, beware. As I was
there for most of their presidency and know them better than just
about anyone, I offer a few corrections.
Bill says: "In law school, Hillary worked on legal services for the poor."
The facts are: Hillary's main extra-curricular activity in law school
was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing
and killing a federal agent. She went to court every day as part of a
law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights
violations and develop grounds for appeal.
was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing
and killing a federal agent. She went to court every day as part of a
law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights
violations and develop grounds for appeal.
Bill says: "Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a
children's rights project for poor kids."
The facts are: Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the
California Communist Party. She met Bob when he represented the
Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an
internship with him.
California Communist Party. She met Bob when he represented the
Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an
internship with him.
Bill says: "Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she
turned down all the lucrative job offers."
The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam; yes, flunked. It is a
matter of record, and only passed the Arkansas bar. She had no job
offers in Arkansas - none - and only got hired by the University of
Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was already teaching
there. She did not join the prestigious Rose Law Firm until Bill
became Arkansas Attorney General and was made a partner only after he
was elected Arkansas Governor.
matter of record, and only passed the Arkansas bar. She had no job
offers in Arkansas - none - and only got hired by the University of
Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was already teaching
there. She did not join the prestigious Rose Law Firm until Bill
became Arkansas Attorney General and was made a partner only after he
was elected Arkansas Governor.
Bill says: "President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services
Board of Directors and she became its chairman."
The facts are: The appointment was in exchange for Bill's support for
Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy. Hillary then became
chairman in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter's
choice to be chairman.
Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy. Hillary then became
chairman in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter's
choice to be chairman.
Bill says: "She served on the board of the Arkansas Children's Hospital."
The facts are: Yes, she did. But her main board activity, not
mentioned by Bill, was to sit on the Walmart board of directors for a
substantial fee. She was silent about their labor and health care
practices.
mentioned by Bill, was to sit on the Walmart board of directors for a
substantial fee. She was silent about their labor and health care
practices.
Bill says: "Hillary didn't succeed at getting health care for all
Americans in 1994, but she kept working at it and helped to create the
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million
children with health insurance."
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million
children with health insurance."
The facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP. It was
included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority
Leader Senator Trent Lott. I know; I helped negotiate the deal. The
money came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney
Generals' tobacco settlement. Hillary had nothing to do with either
source of funds.
included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority
Leader Senator Trent Lott. I know; I helped negotiate the deal. The
money came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney
Generals' tobacco settlement. Hillary had nothing to do with either
source of funds.
Bill says: "Hillary was the face of America all over the world."
The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of
town so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that
Hillary was running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely
touristic and symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any
of them.
town so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that
Hillary was running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely
touristic and symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any
of them.
Bill says: "Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for
children's and women's issues."
The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like
changing the names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed
only four substantive pieces of legislation. One set up a national
park in Puerto Rico. A second provided respite care for family
members helping their relatives through Alzheimer's or other
conditions... And two were routine bills to aid 911 victims and
responders which were sponsored by the entire NY delegation. Presently
she is trying to have the US memorialize the Woodstock fiasco of 40
years ago.
changing the names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed
only four substantive pieces of legislation. One set up a national
park in Puerto Rico. A second provided respite care for family
members helping their relatives through Alzheimer's or other
conditions... And two were routine bills to aid 911 victims and
responders which were sponsored by the entire NY delegation. Presently
she is trying to have the US memorialize the Woodstock fiasco of 40
years ago.
Here is what bothers me more than anything else about Hillary Clinton.
She has done everything possible to weaken the President and our
country (that's you and me!) when it comes to the war on terror.
country (that's you and me!) when it comes to the war on terror.
1. She wants to close GITMO and move the combatants to the USA where
they would have access to our legal system.
2. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of suspected Al Qaeda phone
calls to/from the USA .
3. She wants to grant constitutional rights to enemy combatants
captured on the battlefield.
4. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of money transfers between
suspected Al Qaeda cells and supporters in the USA.
5. She wants to eliminate the type of interrogation tactics used by
the military & CIA where coercion might be used when questioning known
terrorists even though such tactics might save American lives.
terrorists even though such tactics might save American lives.
One cannot think of a single bill Hillary has introduced or a single
comment she has made that would tend to strengthen our country in the
War on Terror. But, one can think of a lot of comments she has made
that weaken our country and make it a more dangerous situation for all
of us. Bottom line: She goes hand in hand with the ACLU on far too
many issues where common sense is abandoned.
2a) The joke's on us
War on Terror. But, one can think of a lot of comments she has made
that weaken our country and make it a more dangerous situation for all
of us. Bottom line: She goes hand in hand with the ACLU on far too
many issues where common sense is abandoned.
2a) The joke's on us
Pretty good for people who claim to be broke. Read how the joke's on us!
Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a New York State Senator, now comes under this fancy "Congressional Retirement and Staffing Plan," which means that even if she never gets re-elected, she STILL receives her Congressional salary until she dies.
If Bill out-lives her, he then inherits HER salary until HE dies. He is already getting his Presidential salary until he dies. If Hillary out-lives Bill, she also gets HIS salary until she dies.
Guess who pays for that? WE DO. It's common knowledge that in order for her to establish NY residency, they purchased a million dollar-plus house in upscale Chappaqua. New York . Makes sense. They are entitled to Secret Service protection for life. Still makes sense. Here is where it becomes interesting. Their mortgage payments hover at around $10,000 per month. BUT, an extra residence HAD to be built by the Government within the acreage to house the Secret Service agents. Any improvement to property is owned by the property owners...the Clinton's. SO.....the Clinton's charge the Federal government $10,000 monthly rent for the use of that extra residence, which is just about equal to their mortgage payment. The ONLY EX-president to use this loophole. This means that we, the taxpayers, pay the Clinton's salary, mortgage, transportation, safety and security, as well as the salaries for their 12 man staff and this is all perfectly legal!
Bless her poor soul!!
Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a New York State Senator, now comes under this fancy "Congressional Retirement and Staffing Plan," which means that even if she never gets re-elected, she STILL receives her Congressional salary until she dies.
If Bill out-lives her, he then inherits HER salary until HE dies. He is already getting his Presidential salary until he dies. If Hillary out-lives Bill, she also gets HIS salary until she dies.
Guess who pays for that? WE DO. It's common knowledge that in order for her to establish NY residency, they purchased a million dollar-plus house in upscale Chappaqua. New York . Makes sense. They are entitled to Secret Service protection for life. Still makes sense. Here is where it becomes interesting. Their mortgage payments hover at around $10,000 per month. BUT, an extra residence HAD to be built by the Government within the acreage to house the Secret Service agents. Any improvement to property is owned by the property owners...the Clinton's. SO.....the Clinton's charge the Federal government $10,000 monthly rent for the use of that extra residence, which is just about equal to their mortgage payment. The ONLY EX-president to use this loophole. This means that we, the taxpayers, pay the Clinton's salary, mortgage, transportation, safety and security, as well as the salaries for their 12 man staff and this is all perfectly legal!
Bless her poor soul!!
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