Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc <[email protected]> Monday, July 13, 2009
Interesting Items Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. FedEx 2. BMD 3. Enviro Cops 4. LA 5. Ginsburg 6. Tobacco Ban 1. FedEx. Next up for attack by the unions and their proxies in the fascist democrat majority in congress is FedEx. The vehicle for this is the FAA Reauthorization Act passed out of the House on May 21. In it, Rep. Oberstar (D, MN) placed a provision that would move FedEx from the Railway Labor Act to the National Labor Relations Act, completely changing the set of labor rules under which the corporation operates. The bottom line is that it would become far easier to organize FedEx workers into unions (Teamsters anyone?), ultimately crippling FedEx in the marketplace. The Railway Labor Act was intended to cover businesses that provide critical infrastructure services such as airlines and railroads. FedEx started out as an airline – a cargo airline – with around 85% of its business done shipping things by air. UPS, which started out as a ground shipping company ships around 85% of its packages by ground and has ended up in head to head competition with FedEx. In this legislation, UPS and the Teamsters have teamed up to push legislation that will end up crippling one of the most successful worldwide corporations. Over the last couple of decades, UPS has given large sums of money primarily to democrat politicians, as have the Teamsters. It appears that they have finally taken delivery on what they have tried to purchase over the last couple of decades, a change in the law that will cripple their competition. 2. BMD. President Teleprompter took his “I love me” road show to the Kremlin last week. He planned on negotiating an agreement to ratchet back the number of nuclear weapons in the hands of both nations. The Russians, on the other hand were far more interested in stopping the US BMD program, which is at least a couple decades ahead of anything they are able to do. As of this writing, it appears that Obama got schooled, taken to the cleaners by the savvy former KGB agents now running Russia. Although the WH did not verify or release the final agreement, Russian media ran a story that the US had given up its intention to provide a BMD shield in Eastern Europe, something high on the Russian KGB list. If true, this represents a dangerous weakness in negotiations and yet another kneejerk appeasement out of our Leftist in Chief. The world does not respect weakness or appeasement. Such things only breed contempt and make the world incrementally more dangerous for Americans every single time our elected leaders cave in to criminals, thugs, goons and bullies. 3. Enviro Cops. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: Enviro Cops. As we discuss Taxman-Marlarkey, the Crap and Trade Bill passed out of the House a few weeks ago, it is always instructive to take a look at Europe and see how they are doing selling indulgences (sorry, I mean carbon credits). In Great Britain, things are not going so well, and sales of carbon credits have not been enough to keep companies from potentially violating their set emissions limits. So the British Environmental Agency is forming up a group of 50 green-coated auditors that will make the rounds of businesses, checking their utility bills and enforcing their carbon emissions limits. As there is no Fourth Amendment protection in Great Britain, these intrusive audits will start taking place early and often. Why should this concern us on this side of the Atlantic? Because Cap & Trade sets this entire regulatory scheme up – puts it all into place where it can fester and grow like some awful malignant bureaucratic tumor on our liberty and body politic. Hot Air, Tues. 4. LA. When is the formal tax ruling of a municipal government not applicable to that government? When you are Los Angeles and you are out of money. The latest story from the land of fruits and nuts is about a demand from Los Angeles for back taxes from a local business. A company in LA was classified as a wholesale and retail business in 1994. Such a classification results in a lower tax rates for the business. In 2007, when the city stated running out of money, they began sifting through the tax rolls and reclassifying businesses into higher tax rates. The business in question was reclassified into the higher tax rate retroactively to 2004, complete with a demand for payment of interest and penalties. LA demanded a very large check to be written immediately if not sooner. When asked what happened to the 1994 ruling, the city responded that they were not bound by past rulings; only taxpayers are. As a result, the business will now be leaving LA, yet another honest businessman driven out of California by a rapacious, unlawful, democrat dominated local government. Hot Air, Sat. 5. Ginsburg. Planned Parenthood was founded to carry out the eugenics work of Margaret Sanger by providing abortions to undesirables so that they would not reproduce and grow in uncontrollable numbers. Over the years, their eugenics past has been effectively buried and now is hiding behind the cheerful little euphemisms of reproductive choice, a woman’s right to choose, and choice. Dedicated feminist and current SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an interview to the NY Times gave the following response to a question about abortions for poor women (h/t Hot air, Thurs): Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women? JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong. Ginsburg clearly is on board with the old eugenics goals of Planned Parenthood and apparently has no problem with the goal of controlling populations of undesirables (by their definition) via mass abortions. This is why the left fights so hard to keep abortion funding in Medicare, Medicaid, and exports paid abortions worldwide, particularly to the Third World nations. This has nothing to do with reproductive choices. It has everything to do with weeding out Americans who are not up to the physical and class standards of the eugenicists. 6. Tobacco Ban. Last but certainly not least, is the latest push by the Tobacco Nazis. This time they aim to make the active duty military completely smoke free. DoD buildings have been smoke free since the days of Bill Clinton. A Pentagon commission on health and welfare has recommended a complete ban on all tobacco products on all military installations, among all deployed troops, and removed from all commissaries and Base / Post Exchange stores. This is little more than another way to make overseas deployments more uncomfortable, eventually hurting recruitment in the future. Perhaps it is time to stop social engineering our active duty military. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. 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