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DEL.ICIO.USOn SCHIP, Bush should use veto power
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Demonstrating that life and fight remains, a Bush administration hounded and besieged by a spendthrift Congress, demonstrates that even when surrounded and overwhelmed, there are ways to fight back.
Less than three weeks before the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the federal funding source for PeachCare, is set to expire, neither the House nor the Senate has moved to reconcile wildly expensive legislation passed in August to extend the program another five years. Under existing spending levels, that cost would be $25 billion.
The House would raise that to about $75 billion and the Senate, $60 billion. The president has proposed $30 billion and has promised to veto the higher spending.
After the two higher versions were passed allowing coverage of “children” up to the age of 25, whether they are in this country legally or not, and after New York sought to expand eligibility for families earning as much as $82,000 per year, the administration acted. It imposed new standards requiring states to enroll “at least 95 percent of children in the state below 200 percent of the federal poverty level” before they can expand eligibility. New York would expand eligibility to 400 percent of poverty, highest in the nation. Georgia is at 235 percent.
In effect, states are ordered to fulfill the original promise of programs such as PeachCare to fully serve the poor before moving to provide taxpayer-subsidized coverage to the children of the middle class. Who could argue?
Lots of Democrats, for one. On Friday, the administration rejected New York’s application because it has not yet enrolled at least 95 percent of the state’s poor children. “New York has not demonstrated that its program operates in an effective and efficient manner with respect to the core population of targeted low-income children,” said the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Kerry Weems.
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who slipped a $2 million taxpayer-financed earmark into a labor and health appropriations bill in July to create a “Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service” at the City College of New York, found the federal decision to serve the poor first “unconscionable.”
“It’s clear,” said Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, “the administration is spoiling for a fight and it’s unfortunate he has chosen children’s health care.”
Weems noted, too, that children of the middle class should not be enrolled in the program for the poor until they have been uninsured for a year. A Congressional Budget Office study found that up to half of the children enrolled in state programs such as PeachCare came from families where parents had either dropped or elected not to purchase available private insurance because the taxpayer offering is better and cheaper. You can’t blame the parents, but you can apply rules to discourage the dumping of middle class children onto the backs of taxpayers, as the administration did.
In addition to the unwarranted expansion of SCHIP, The New York Times reported last month that its analysis of the House bill reveals hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for specific hospitals. One hospital, Bay Area Medical Center, straddles the border between Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the Times reported. Yet, in the House bill it’s “moved” 200 miles to Chicago, where Medicare reimbursements are higher.
In all, millions of dollars a year are directed to about 40 favored hospitals, the Times found. Two hospitals in Kingston, N.Y., are “moved” 80 miles to New York City. Admittedly, Democrats didn’t invent the practice of “moving” favored hospitals. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a Republican, “moved” a hospital from rural Dixon, Ill., to Chicago 95 miles away in 1999.
Democrats vowed when they took control of Congress that they’d reform earmarks, but there’s little evidence anything has changed.
The president has the veto pen, and he should use it on either version of SCHIP. He should, too, take up the crusade on earmarks. In the meantime, however, his administration is demonstrating life and a willingness to use the bureaucracy to fight back on the unnecessary expansion of government.
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By Redneck Convert
September 11, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this
Well, this a.m. I went outside to get in my truck and I thought I seen this bin Laden guy and I about messed my pants. I hate to admit it, but the front of my pants got a little wet. A cold shiver went up my spine. Turns out it was just a guy in his bathrobe that hadn’t shaved for a few months and was wandering around the trailer park, but it sure give me a scare. I guess thinking it was 9/11 kind of put me in the mood to see him.
Us godly Republicans are willing to give up all our freedoms just to be safe from the guy. If they want to listen to my phone calls, fine. If they want to look at my e-mails or wiretap me or check my bank account, fine. If they want to arrest me and ship me off to that Cuba place without a trial, fine. If they want to plant a bug in my bedroom, fine. Just keep me and mine safe from this guy. If they want to strip me nekkid and run my body thru a screening machine in front of other people, fine. I don’t care about this freedom of speech and religion and such, just as long as we are safe. Good Republicans don’t pay no attention to such bunk. I’d vote for Hitler hisself if it meant my fambly and me would be safe. Your freedom ain’t no good to you if you are dead.
Anyway, I see the librul Democrats are out to get this General Betrayus. They can’t stand it we are winning the war and will whup up on the towel heads in 20 or 25 years if we just stick it out. Its just awful that so many in this country is against the war. They are nothing but cut ‘n run traders, like Sister Dusty says. I get real mad when I think of how this Saddam guy got in one of those planes and flyed right into that building in New York and kilt all the people in it. Even yankees shouldn’t have to die like that. Course, I wouldn’t mind if they was in the hospitle for a few months. There wouldn’t be as many of them showing up at the voting booth to elect libruls.
I figure all we need to win this war is a few people like Sister Dusty and TFTT and jbmlaw and Van and RCH in uniform. They would probly be as fierce on the battle field as they are on this blog. Sister Dusty could start using that long thumb nail and make a few of the towel heads ready to sing in the Vienna Boys Choir. I figure in war time they can make a x-ception for TFTT and not keep him out on account of a little mental problem.
Anyway, I know most of us godly Republicans is a little skittish today. It’s a sad, sad day for our country. Tonight at Billy Bob’s I plan to honor all the victims by not drinking for five or six minutes. Billy Bob is planning a special ceremony. He has hired somebody to dress up like My President and read from a kids book and have somebody else go whisper in his ear. Just the way it happened six years ago. Then the guy that plays My President is going to get real wide-eyed and keep reading for awhile and then pertend to fly to Nebraska. Billy Bob is trying to get somebody to play Rudy but everybody has been married only oncet and no one has a girl friend living in the same house as his wife. So we may have to skip that part.
I’m with Wooten on this SCHIP foolishness. We don’t need to be spending billions on kids health care when we got a war to fight and pretty soon we will need another $100 billion for the war. We could run out of money fast if we spend it on the kids of Those People. Its OK to borrow it from China for the war, but not for putting hard working taxpayers on the hook for somebody elses doctoring. This is America, not some commie country.
By WTF
September 11, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this
Jim, lighten up man! You make a good point now and then but you seem to only view the world as Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Liberal, Us or Them. Take the partisan goggles off and enjoy the real world.
By God Hates Trash
September 11, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this
A formidable post tftttranny. Whilst I usually playfully adopt the ‘far left surrender monkey’ position as you usually put it I am actually quietly quite impressed with how Bush has handled the surge and very ashamed of how my fellow liberals have behaved as things seem to be getting better in Iraq. Whilst we are hardly political allies you have pretty much hit the nail on the head today of all days. My congratulations on such a fine well argued post.
By time to hang the yellow streaked leftist traitors
September 11, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this
The demoNcrat scum yesterday relentlessly showed its true appeasing cut and run treasonous face to the world. Despite unassailable proof that the US military, along with increasingly more effective Iraqi units is now actually “winning” militarily a good many of these “elected” leftist vermin and their hate America far left paymasters treated Petraeus despicably. NO sneer/lie/distortion/half truth was too petty or to vile to be left ‘unpuked’.
The far left and their military hating demoNcrat congressional poodles are terrified that the USA will “win” - or at least completely turn things around in Iraq - which of course is electorally disastrous for the party of hate and cut and run. These perfidious COCKroaches have heavily invested in defeat and wont simply have it any other way!! Even more despicable is the gleeful way that the party of hate media ignored the leftist lies, hate and distortions yesterday - glibly and gleefully parroting the surrender monkey chorus.
Irrational psychotic Bush hate pathologically dominates these moronic small minded appeasing surrender monkey far left traitors. Imagine Eisenhower being treated like this back in the mid 1940’s.
By getalife
September 11, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this
The gop are prolife but if the sick kids get sick, they let them die.
Geez.
By jbmlaw
September 11, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. At one time our Constitution was intended to define the limits of government, to keep the thieves out of our pockets. That time has long since passed, of course, and the latest pocket-pickers intend to steal from the taxpayer to reward medical industry professionals. I cannot fathom why anyone deems the medical industry so meritorious that deserves a special pipeline from the taxpayers’ wallets. Grasping crooked leftists.
By Mrs. RepubLady
September 11, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this
Yes, you tell them, Mr. Wooten! An economic system, a tax code, and a set of regulations friendly to big insurance, big pharm, and rich doctors is good for me and my stock portfolio! So what if kids get sick and die? They should have been born to decent, God-fearing Republican parents instead of godless, fornicating, lazy, hourly-wage lefties! Or not. I don’t really care. I just care about keeping what I earn (on interest of course, you dont think I actually ever worked?) in MY POCKET! Veto away, President Bush! That’s why I sent so much money to your campaign in the first place. Scruh-eeeewwww those sick kids and their little dogs too.
By stuffedshirt
September 11, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this
Thats right Woodenhead, cheat the children, while lavising hundreds of billions on killing arabs. Al Quida was not a problem in Iraq until we invaded, and I suspect Al Quida is mostly a figment of the PR spin doctors trying to justify the occupation of Iraq. This nonsense Ar reminded us of Hermann Goering’s famous remark, upon hearing that the Vatican had condemned Nazi Germany.
“How many divisions does the Pope have?” he asked.
Any comparison between the “War on Terror” and WWII must be largely fantasy, as near as we can determine. The terrorists – whoever they are – have no divisions at all. No tanks. No bombers. No fighter jets. No infantry. No artillery. No country. No reserves. No staff. No discipline. No military tradition. No armaments factories. No railroads. No stocks of fuel. No logistics to speak of. Nor anything else that marks a modern, worthy enemy.
Yet, apparently intelligent people are still able to say that “we are in WWIII.”
By Jackie
September 11, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
Dubya can spend $500 Billion dollars on the Iraqi disaster, yet, he quibbles about $10 Billion for the health care of this country’s future. Is there a disconnect with this logic?
By WTF?
September 11, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this
Bush is a freaking idiot!!!!!! Stop spending trillions on this war so his greedy butt can get his hands on their oil, and start spending on our own right here in our own country!!! BUSH IS A GREEDY, LOW DOWN, LYING, WHITE COLLAR THUG!!!!!!!!! IMPEACH BUSH!!! IMPEACH BUSH!!!
By Mrs. RepubLady
September 11, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this
Some people matter. Some people don’t. Why is that so hard for some of you to understand? Jim Wooten understands. President Bush understands. Stop whining about your tax dollars going to fund my good friends at Halliburton! WE DON’T CARE! We eat caviar and drink the best wine and scotch money can buy and laugh at you while we’re doing it. We will make sure this war drags on forever, or until we have all the money and you stupid working stiffs have nothing! There’s nothing you can do, so stop whining about things that don’t matter, and get back to work!
By Say what?
September 11, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this
Did I just see God Hates trash whine about another poster here and comments? Hahahaha! Pot, meet the black kettle. Only a liberal DemoCRAP would show that kind of childcare whining. Like those Movement-on-toilet traitors who are calling Petraeus Be-tray-us. Hang ‘em high for a short drop if they can’t handle the truth. These same left wingnut garbage who are calling for a ban on stun guns in San Jose. Fineyou pansies. Let the cops bring real bullets back then. No skin off by back.
And now, the rest of the story [no, it’s not about Hillary] -
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.
He responded by asking how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, “How is your friend Audrey doing?” She replied, “Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She’s always invited to all the parties, and lots of times she doesn’t even show up for classes because she’s too hung over.”
Her wise father asked his daughter, “Why don’t you go to the Dean’s office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.”
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily fired back, “That’s a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I’ve worked really hard for my grades! I’ve invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!”
The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, “Welcome to the world off being a Conservative Republican.”
By Morrigan
September 11, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this
Let’s see proof that a parent is truly unable to afford insurance before we pay for The Children (tm). That means the parent must work full time or be actively seeking employment; including all benefits such as WIC and subsidized housing as income; and proof of how the household’s money is spent. I don’t want to pay for their insurance while they’re paying for cell phones, manicures, braids and cable TV. And if they decide to have another child while on welfare…too bad. That child is not covered, just as we should have done with all other welfare benefits a few years ago.
The idea that middle-class kids should be covered also is obscene. I’m waiting for some Democrap to tell me how that’s justifiable.
By WTF?
September 11, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this
And anybody that supports these Republicraps are just as ignorant and greedy!!!! But remember this……….every dog has his day…….and Bush and his cronies are no different!!
By Force2Con
September 11, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this
The not so cherished liberals amongst us are showing their true colors. If you want to see more of these loons running and controlling America like those lib loons posting on this blog, read all about it with visuals here. http://www.zombietime.com/9-11truthmarchpowerto_peaceful/
By time for the stark truth
September 11, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this
uplifting thought for the day
we have a vaccine for rabies, cervical cancer, polio etc - so why not one for liberalism?
By The Stark Truth
September 11, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this
Because you need the liberals to invent the vaccines since the conservatives don’t believe in science.
By Craig J
September 11, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this
So much hate and polarization among the responses. I thought the Bush administration was going to bring the country together, but instead it’s done more to tear it apart. Pretty sad though that it’s more important to to continue an imperialistic and immoral war that costs $300K per minute, and has already cost billions of dollars, as well as thousands of wasted American lives, than to look after our own children. In light of how much money has been spent, it seems abundantly apparent that Republicans are the big spending party. My God, actually spending American taxpayer money on American children, we can’t have that now can’t we. More important to protect tobacco companies from higher taxation. I guess the Pro-life party is not pro-children. They don’t vote so we can make them politically expendable.
By George W. Bush
September 11, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this
Screw all you!
And screw your little ankle biters.
If you can’t afford insurance - die.
Social Darwinism.
More for me.
By jm
September 11, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this
Ah yes, SCHIP, the Walmart health insurance plan. It allows Walmart to “offer” health insurance to their employees but encourages them to go with the government plan because it is cheaper, classic “win-win”.
By Political Foreskin
September 11, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this
Bush should veto everything that the liberals put in front of him.
Viva la Veto! Viva la Veto!
Why should American children get healthcare. The native american indians didn’t have no health care or SCHIP plan, and they did fine. Hell, when a woman had a baby, she simply wandered off into the woods by herself and had the damn thing.
I’m with Jim Wooten on so many things, but I vociferously concur with his plea for more vetos from Bush against the spend free liberals who think human beings should see a doctor when they’re sick. The very idea is socialism, communism, and Marxism and fascism all rolled up into one al queda egg roll, and proves that all democrats are radical islamist terrorists and jihad lovin’ scum.
You rock, Wooten, sir. Count me in! I’m joining the Wooten express to a conservative america!!!
By Jackie
September 11, 2007 1:17 PM | Link to this
News reports of the Hunt family of Texas has just signed a profit-sharing deal with the Kurds in Northern Iraq. This same gentleman is a member of the board of Haliburton. Is this part of the strategy to give the Iraqs freedom and democracy, teach them what is to rob, cheat and steal their natural resources because “they have not maximized sufficient return on the asset?” We are discussing the denial of health care for us and our children due to the lack of funding and access, yet, we “give” our blessings to doing business with others at the point of a gun. The neo-cons and their supporters have no shame!!!!!
By getalife
September 11, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this
How does health care for poor, sick, kids effect Jim?
Why does he hate taking care of kids?
Cons Are Pathetic.
By getalife
September 11, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this
I think the Hunt family should pay the troops and their families for the blood and limbs they sacrificed for his oil deal with the Kurds.
Scum.
By who cares
September 11, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this
If they would jsut stop being so “christian like” and just bomb Iraq/Iran and Pakistan with the same bombs as Hiroshima, we would not be over there. The developers would be there constructing a mall every 5 miles. We should have taken over the oil fields because then we would pay $1 a gallon or less instead of $2.65! It is really sad when a gallon of gas is 1/3rd of a min wage earner. How ‘bout a trade-BOMBS for oil! give us oil or we BOMB you! Destroy ALL mad Muslims! Remember, they want you to convert to Islam and give up your CHRISTIAN faith.
By the stopper
September 11, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this
Jim, seriously. Take a look in the mirror.
Ask yourself how you came to a point in your life where you were defending a stagnant military occupation at the cost of >$150 billion a year, but slamming a program to insure CHILDREN for $10 billion a year.
Are you still proud of yourself?
You shouldn’t be. Shame on you.
By time for the harsh truth
September 11, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this
actually liberal dickhead
we ‘need’ the sick and twisted cut and run liberals for TWO things:
experimenting on -
and
as the ‘source’ genetic detritus to establish a vaccine to eradicate the mental sickness of liberalism. if you dont have the virulent disease its kindahard to find a cure!!
jeeeeeeeeezus!!!
getaturd is absolutely right - getaturd is SCUM!!
By stuffedshirt
September 11, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this
since stock profits are just financial inflation, they should be taxed at 90%, not 15%.
By stuffedshirt
September 11, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this
yo whocares, 30 minutes after we nuked arab cities, mushroom clouds would bloom over israel and the usa, via the russian and chinese doomsday machines.
By Curious Observer
September 11, 2007 2:45 PM | Link to this
It is interesting and revealing that Congress is about to receive a supplemental military appropriations request amounting to more than five times what the SCHIP bill would cost. Talk about straining at gnats and swallowing camels … .
Nothing is going to improve the disgraceful situation in children’s health care until a Democratic president takes office, supported by strong Democratic majorities in Congress.
By No Laughing Matter
September 11, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this
Jim, you lose whatever slight (and I do mean slight) credibility with the first sentence of your “modest solution’. “Hounded and besieged by a spendthrift Congress” indeed. What was he surrounded by the first six years of his administration when he didn’t veto a single spending bill? What is the biggest expenditure year in and year out for this buffoon of a president? Why is he “besieged and hounded” only when he is being asked to spend money on something you don’t like? We are spending billions on this war that he has botched so badly, but you say “stay the course”. But spend money so sick children can get medical care, “not on my watch”. Pathetic, stupid and cruel. Perhaps that will be the GOP’s slogan for ‘08.
By Anonymous
September 11, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this
This was one funny column! I love how Wooten, with childlike innocence, hopes that Bush will suddenly embrace the idea of responsible spending and reining in the growth of government—despite seven years’ history of doing the opposite.
And to suggest that Bush tackle “earmarks,” the #1 most beloved tool of entrenched big-business insiders… the very people Bush owes his entire career to! Well, that’s simply hilarious.
You should take this show on the road, Wooten. With Lewis Grizzard dead, we need another southern humorist.
By Jackie
September 11, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this
Could Dubya use the money that he will save in WITHDRAWING 30,000 troops from Iraq to fund the medical care of AMERICANS? Where are the neo-cons who support Dubya praising his strategic retreat from the debacle? Will Dubya be labeled “cut and run?”
By @@
September 11, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this
Holy moley Jim, it would appear there is a tunnel underground in the SCHIP program big enough to circle the globe, but it’s not being dug by Bush.
After the two higher versions were passed allowing coverage of “children” up to the age of 25, whether they are in this country legally or not, and after New York sought to expand eligibility for families earning as much as $82,000 per year, the administration acted.
You have got to be kidding me!!! Children age 25? They should be contributing, not drawing from…
and expanding coverage to illegals? Isn’t that like allowing illegal activity to take from our poorest children?
In effect, states are ordered to fulfill the original promise of programs such as PeachCare to fully serve the poor before moving to provide taxpayer-subsidized coverage to the children of the middle class.
Absolutely!!! otherwise it just looks like their pursuing their objective of socialized medicine for all at the expense of the truly poor.
On Friday, the administration rejected New York’s application because it has not yet enrolled at least 95 percent of the state’s poor children. “New York has not demonstrated that its program operates in an effective and efficient manner with respect to the core population of targeted low-income children,”
Well there ^^^ ‘ya go!!! Why would you reward ineffective and inefficient government with more opportunities to misuse funds while neglecting the truly low-income children.
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who slipped a $2 million taxpayer-financed earmark into a labor and health appropriations bill in July to create a “Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service” at the City College of New York, found the federal decision to serve the poor first “unconscionable.”
Now I realize that $2 million is a drop in the bucket for government but if Charlie Rangel thinks that HE is more important than low-income children he’s poor in spirit.
PeachCare came from families where parents had either dropped or elected not to purchase available private insurance because the taxpayer offering is better and cheaper. You can’t blame the parents, but you can apply rules to discourage the dumping of middle class children onto the backs of taxpayers, as the administration did.
You may not want to blame the parents, but I sure will Jim. If their employer provides insurance then they should avail themselves of it and leave the Peachcare funds for…you know…those who have none.
Democrats didn’t invent the practice of “moving” favored hospitals. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a Republican, “moved” a hospital from rural Dixon, Ill., to Chicago 95 miles away in 1999.
Again….underhanded political ploys!!! and he’s one from my party?
So President Bush wants to shine a light on all those ^^^ abuses?
I agree with you Jim. It’s the right thing to do.
By ACC-12Booster
September 12, 2007 8:30 AM | Link to this
Jim, this is surreal…A spendrift Democrat congress and the highest-spending Republican President ever, are arguing over which branch of government is going to bankrupt the treasury most. To make Bush look like a penny-pencher is pretty bad, but that is just what the Dems are doing.
By ACC-12Booster
September 12, 2007 8:32 AM | Link to this
Jim, this is surreal…A spendrift Democrat congress and the highest-spending Republican President ever, are arguing over which branch of government is going to bankrupt the treasury most. To make Bush look like a penny-pencher is pretty bad, but that is just what the Dems are doing.
By Political Foreskin
September 12, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this
Philosophy with poetic constraints: “the lookout”. a review.
Imagine telling a story about a bank heist, where you retell the shootout at the OK corral, like every other movie ever made including the singing nun movie. (for which the catholic church has never apologized. I hate the world. Viva, Darth Vader! Viva Darth Vadar!!)
Aw, but it’s to laugh, folks. Laughs are prayers. That’s why we all need them so much.
Position and momentum are mutually-exclusive yet symbiotic. You cannot determine a particle’s position without sacrificing the predictability of where the particle might have gone. Both position and momentum are available to you before you look, but you can only see one. Then you set up the apparatus to actually look for it. I say ‘particle’ because it is a generic term for the basic unit of matter, I could have said photon, or electron, but nobody knows why there needs to be smaller particles providing the possibility that the larger photons or electrons exist. I dont think they do, they’re shadows of what’s really going on. We can build geiger counters and measure where the needle surges up and down on the moving paper record which made someone call light a wave. It’s not a wave, and the “wave” description of light is incorrect and should be dropped. We only call it a wave because of the appearance of waves on the graph of moving paper that records the frequency of light up and down you know, waves. That’s just the co-incidence of the image the moving graph is creating. Calling it a wave is what the Geico Cave men would call light, them being the first morons, and all.
Radiation 101: Every thought, and every visual observance by your eyes, and each reaction you yourself create is radiation. Radiation is simply light at different frequencies, thus, X rays are the same thing as radio waves. They are the same identical thing, just existing on different frequencies. They live in their own frequency, but the essence of what comprises radio waves is the same as the essence of what comprises xrays. Identical in every way (but frequency, which is actually spin. You can do things with xrays that you cant do with radio waves, but only if a man creates the apparatus and observes the experiment with the light, and that is what serendipity is, (now THERE is a good place to live…)
The Universe is Serendipity.
Shoutout to my dad who’s recovering from leaky valves and a 30 beats a minute heart. Pace maker? That might challenge the leaky valves. He’s had a ruptured aorta, and near death experience in ‘89, but was saved by a helicopter transfer from the bowling alley to the operating room like it was Iraq or something. But my dad is no stranger to danger. Y, in WW2, He used to laugh at danger, and speet on death!
Anyway, he’s the hero of the twenty-first century, part of the Greatest Generation. Tom Brokaw is our national common sense when he gives my parents that title. (The baby boomers are now considered “Generation Y-bother”).
I think America is in a ceremonial stupor. There has been a subtle national ritual in this post-911 wash of war. We’re still under the spell of the McRoves. We cant leave Iraq. Accept it. We have stumbled from 911 into Iraq. Lady Liberty got sand in her toes. Naughty Lady Liberty. I must be inside the statue of liberty again, it’s been years and she’s misbehaved. I must punish the Statue of Liberty by coming inside her. Is the Statue of Liberty the same model that’s in the Figure holding the Justice Scales? Is that the same chick? You gotta be kidding me. What a fox. Get a load of linda.
Have fun people. Just speak to god, dont try to memorize any prayer, just speak to god, and assume he’s standing there listening. Speak to God. Christ showed us a way to pray, and it’s a good one, you cant compete with those lyrics. No one ever will. But it’s one way to pray, certainly it’s that. Just talk plain sho nuff when the lord’s in the room, massah, that’s what you told me, massah. “shut up, if you knew how annoying you’re being right now….” (mark twain, Huckleberry’s Blueberries 1877).
Physics itself becomes a bomb. A man has to set up an apparatus. He has to observe that apparatus in order for the bomb to go off. (No looksee, no boom)
Without the Manhatten Project, we could have taken years longer to actually set a bomb off. Germany’s quantum-ace Heisenberg had given up, even though he had created the math and the insights necessary to build the bomb. He made an error in math, and it’s an interesting one, one so improbable that one could see the face of god through it.
Listen: Heisenberg thought it would take 100 years to mine the fuel it would take to set off just one bomb. He thought in terms of the space a volkswagen occupies when only the space of a golfball was needed.
People surround themselves with yes men and wither away.
Sen. Craig, thank you. No, thank you. No, it’s you. Stop it. You.
I love that guy.
By Goldie
September 13, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this
And if they decide to have another child while on welfare…too bad. That child is not covered, just as we should have done with all other welfare benefits a few years ago.
Yep, that’s some real family values for you, Morrigan — I guess it’s important that we punish the poor children for choosing to be born to their own lousy parents, hmmm???
By Morrigan
September 13, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
Aw, Goldie, you’re right. I deserve to have my family robbed while we all continue to tiptoe around the “families” whose values include breeding more kids when they can’t afford the ones they already have. Are those the “family values” you aspire to? If so, I just heard you volunteer to pay for all the kids born to parents who couldn’t afford the ones they already have. My family values don’t include punishing poor children by rewarding poor adults who create them. What family-oriented solution do you have?
Some people play the race card, some people play “The CHILLLLLLDREN ” card.
By Elizabeth Warner
September 20, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this
Please listen to some reason about the SCHIP bill.
I am going to tell you a story about a single mom that is legally blind and supports her child who can’t afford healthcare of her child without the Hawk - I program here in Iowa. I have attempted to get health insurance from other sources, paid by myself, mediacaid, and Medicare. Please inderstand I am not a welfare mom, I am disabled single mom with a college education and a toddler, this program is for poor people like myself that work or receive benefits but to now met the super low income guidelines for other programs. Don’t suppor the Veto please.