Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc
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Friday, 4 September 2009
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy -
In this issue:
1. Teddy
2. UAW Health Care
3. Show Trials
4. Denver
5. VA ALS
6. Kookesh
1. Teddy. There are only five polite words to describe the passing of Ted
Kennedy. They are: “Mary Jo Kopechne” and “Robert Bork.” Any other
discussion would have to include his destruction of American power on the
foreign stage starting with the loss in Vietnam that directly led to two
million dead in Cambodia. It would have to include the two immigration reform
acts he sponsored that changed the mix of people immigrating into the United
States from primary European to third world; specifically the massive illegal
influx over the last four decades. It would have to include his virulent
anti-Second Amendment legislation and serial attempts to ban gun and ammunition
ownership. It would have to include the Waitress Sandwich sexual assault on a
waitress in a DC restaurant with Chris Dodd. It would include him covering for
his nephew William Kennedy Smith on rape charges in 1991. Good riddance.
2. UAW Health Care. From Sweetness & Light Wednesday we get a Detroit Free
Press story describing yet another public bailout for the UAW medical care
fund. This fund gives UAW retirees health care coverage and is one of the
primary reasons that Chrysler and General Motors failed in the marketplace.
The first bailout was the federal seizure of both corporations, the shafting of
bondholders of those corporations during bankruptcy proceedings, and awarding
substantial ownership shares of the post-bankruptcy corporations to the UAW,
portions far in excess of what the UAW owned in stocks and bonds. The second
bailout was the recently defunct cash for clunkers program, which was intended
to primarily benefit Chrysler and GM. Fortunately, the general public refused
for the most part to purchase vehicles from those corporations. The UAW
bailout in the health care legislation is around $10 billion. This amount of
money still does not cover all
fiscal responsibilities for the UAW to its retirees, as there are an awful lot
of retirees and insufficient monies in the UAW-managed fund. How many more
public bailouts of fiscally irresponsible union retirement plans are we going
to have to pay for? How many more transfers of our hard earned tax dollars to
democrat voters, big dollar donors and supporters will we endure before we
stand up and say “Enough. No more?” I say the time is now. It is time for
the unions themselves to go into bankruptcy rather than continuing to suckle
from the public trough.
3. Show Trials. The Obama WH decided to change the subject once again as
their attempt to nationalize medical care and health insurance is being
rejected by the general public. Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder decided
to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate detainee abuses, torture, and
other unpleasantries committed against captured terrorists. The political
calculation here is to get the hard left on board with the administration once
again after a very tough summer. The actual result will be to target career
CIA employees who conducted the interrogations in good faith for banana
republic style investigations, hold show trials, and impoverish them with
crushing legal bills as they defend themselves. Given the highly politicized
nature of the CIA these days and the war they conducted against the Bush
Administration over the conduct of the War on Terror over the last eight years,
I am not particularly sympathetic, as they now
have the administration they wanted all along and ought to be enjoying its
tender mercies. Late in the week, Limbaugh passed along thoughts from Andrew
McCarthy on the investigation. McCarthy, who writes for the National Review
Online and prosecuted the original World Trade Center terrorists in the early
1990s believes that the democrats will not have the intestinal fortitude to
actually hold the trials here in the US. Rather, he expects that the Obama
administration will release the results of the investigations to the public and
let the International Criminal Court and European national courts do the trials
and convictions in abstentia of the targeted CIA employees and Bush
administration appointees. These investigations are a sop to the hard left and
will do significant damage to the CIA. Perhaps it is time to shut down the CIA
and set up a new intelligence organization, which would solve the immediate
problem of both the right and the left
with what the CIA has become today.
4. Denver. One of the things the left is very good at doing is projection,
the act of blaming others for doing the very things they are currently doing or
planning to do. With this definition in mind, we can turn to a vandalism
attack on a democrat party office in Denver last week where a pair of
club-wielding bozos broke 11 windows causing over $11,000 of damage. The head
of the state democrat party instantly blamed it on the Tea Party crowd,
anti-Obama haters and other conservative ne’er-do-wells. Interestingly enough,
there was video shot during the attack that led to the identification of a long
time democrat, transgender activist doing the dirty deed. He / she was
arrested and charged with felony mischief. This person also worked for a
democrat politician, was a member of a SEIU-affiliated 527 group called
Colorado Citizens Coalition. He / she was also arrested at the 2008 Republican
convention in Minneapolis – St. Paul. The
Colorado state party chairman refused to apologize for charging conservatives
with the crime and for creating an “atmosphere of hate.” As usual, the
atmosphere of hate exists mostly on the left.
5. VA ALS. In our universal health care story of the day, we have the
Veterans Administration (VA) which notified 1,200 veterans that they had Lou
Gehrig’s disease (ALS), a 100% fatal condition. The notifications were blamed
on a “coding error” that led to mailed notifications from the VA to the vets.
The letters also contained a description of assistance provided by the VA for
the terminally ill, including access to the pamphlet “Your Life, Your Choices”
– the VA death book. Kind of makes you wonder how many of the wrongly notified
vets took the VA up on the suggestion. Note that this is what governments do –
screw-ups on a massive scale; scaring the ever loving tar out of thousands with
just an “oopsie, it’s a coding error” excuse afterwards. If these vets had the
ability to opt out of the VA system and take their medical benefits in the form
of a Medical Savings Account that could be used to go out into the economy
and find their own medical care, this sort of thing would never have happened
en masse. It may have happened to one or two of them, but never to 1,200 at
once. And every single one of them would not have been subjected to the tender
mercies of the VA Death Book after the mis-diagnosis. Think of this as we
continue down the road to Sweeney Todd Medicine, ObamaCare. Hot Air, Tues .
6. Kookesh. Democrat state senator Al Kookesh and others were busted in July
for taking 73 more red salmon with a net than they were allowed to take. The
excuse to the state trooper who cited them was that a friend who had a permit
for 100 additional fish was not there yet but would be there Real Soon Now –
the functional equivalent of “a dog ate my homework.” Rather than paying the
$500 fine, Kookesh is going to take the case to court and attempt to get a
federal judge to say that state troopers do not have jurisdiction to enforce
limits on fish and fame taking on federal lands. Essentially, Kookesh is going
to try to expand federal control over hunting and fishing in Alaska using the
1980 ANILCA legislation and the courts as his vehicle. This has potential to
do great harm, as the feds do not have sufficient manpower to enforce fish and
game limits, and subsistence hunters and fishermen have not demonstrated the
discipline or
integrity to police themselves. Evidence of this are the 70+ caribou shot
near Point Hope last year left to rot; Kookesh’s party taking 70+ more fish
than they were allowed in July; and the native protest on the Yukon that took
nearly 100 king salmon this summer after the river had been closed due to a
poor return of salmon. Eventually, this “I’ve got special rights to do
whatever I want to do whenever I want to do it and to whomever I want do it
because I am a native and I have a right to live a subsistence lifestyle”
garbage has got to stop. Either we are all equal in the eyes of the law or we
are not. And if we are not, that means we are living under a different set of
rules; rules that are created and enforced out of the end of a gun. I do not
think our native activist neighbors want to live in that world as much as they
think they do.
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. We ask not
your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen."
- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia
State House, August 1, 1776.
Note: Interesting Items can be found at the following locations:
The Alaska Standard http://thealaskastandard.com/
MatSuValley News http://www.matsuvalleynews.com
District 28 http://www.dist28.com/
subscriber and supporter Elbert Collins at http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/
and the home page: http://home.gci.net/~agimarc
Rod Martin's The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column:
http://www.thevanguard.org/
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