RANT: Privacy or lawsuit protection

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2213818

Birth photo ban irks western Md. mom-to-be
December 27, 2010 – 4:26pm

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Rachel Seeger, a spokeswoman for the U.S. office of Civil Rights, said birth photography by a family member or friend doesn’t violate privacy laws, but that some hospitals prohibit the practice out of a fear of lawsuits.

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The hospital cites “privacy”, but do you really think it’s that?

Maybe I’m a cynic, but I suspect the lawyers are behind this policy.

Given Big Medicine’s incestuous relationship with Big Gooferment, I assume that there is nothing “We, The Sheeple” can do about it.

Interesting that all the hospitals in the area have the same policy. Isn’t that collusion? Don’t we have anti-trust laws?

Nah, not when the “King” grants absolution.

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RANT: Why is Yankee Stadium snowless while NYC roads ain’t?

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

FROM A FACEBOOK FRIEND

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Ok explain this..there are roads throughout NYC that haven’t yet been plowed BUT they are working overtime to get Yankee Stadium ready for a bowl game tomorrow

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Greed is good! Seriously, human society advances when each of us cooperates. What better way to get someone to do what you want than to reward them with “certificates of appreciation”?

People will drive themselves harder, mostly without the need for an overseer — boss — taskmaster — slavedriver, when they see their own self-interest being satisfied.

So that’s why the Ghost of George Steinbrenner is well pleased. And, when those industrious Yankee Stadium cleaners get their “certificates of appreciation”, they will be happy too. Those certificates not only get cranky humans to cooperate, but the ENSURE that any effort is the BEST use of resources available at the time. After all you don’t really waste your “certificates of appreciation” on your fellow humans who have not satisfied your needs and wants, do you?

Except for the Gooferment! They steal yours; sometimes without your even knowing it. And, they print up their own certificates, even though they haven’t earned them, whenever.

(For those on Facebook who never had “ekkynonics”, “certificates of appreciation” are a placeholder for the word “money”. For a quick remedial, Google “I, Pencil” and read a short expose of how cooperation by often unwilling humans allows society to thrive.)

So greed will ensure that Yankee Stadium is snowless while the rest of the City chokes on the snow. Gordon Gecko was right. Greed does make the world go round.

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POLITICAL: Make progressive reform impossible

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/12/giving-states-veto-is-bad-idea.html

Monday, December 20, 2010
Giving states the veto is a bad idea

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I would dismiss this as a joke, but given the looniness we’ve seen grow on the issue of federal power it obviously is not a joke.

The this, in this case, is an amendment that would grant state legislatures the power to repeal federal law — two-thirds of all state legislatures would need to vote for repeal. It has the backing of folks in 12 states (the story says legislatures, including New Jersey, when it needs to be made clear that full legislatures are not on board in most cases) and some in Congress — which leaves me wondering if anyone is thinking clearly out there.

The amendment is being pushed as a way to trim federal sails and force national lawmakers to consider the impact of their actions on the states, which sounds logical in theory but would create chaos in practice and do little more than further empower small states and, more ominously, make progressive reform impossible.

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So how do YOU prevent “unfunded mandates”?

The Dead Old White Guys HATE democracy as “mob rule”. And, we are PROVING them correct.

The Seventeenth Amendment killed the feedback loop from Trenton to DC.

Will the Trenton crooks pick better crooks that the bosses do for “We, The Sheeple” in Nu Jerzee to rubber stamp?

I bet yes. For only one reason, Trenton Crook wpuld pick someone to go to DC and make sure that (1) they were no unfunded mandates; (2) they “get” as much as they “give”; and (3) conduct that causes “We, The Sheeple” to get upset (more) with Trenton is not tolerated.

Sorry, but you “Secular Progressive Socialists” have to remember the words of the Iron Lady! “The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” –Margaret Thatcher

The States’ “veto” is just trying to de facto repeal the Seventeenth.

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