Published 2 months ago
llinois is one of the states that can elect a Republican to replace a Democrat in the Senate. Don Lowery is a solid conservative and values the Constitution. The RNC is endorsing Mark Kirk a liberal RINO that voted for Cap and Trade as a Representative in the House and he is pro late term partial abortion and against the Child Interstate Abortion Act http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=7972&can_id=33502 . He is also anti-gun.
Don Lowery is a retired judge and served in the Army in Korea and Viet Nam. He is pro life and progun.To see his views on the issues go to http://www.judgelowery4ussenate.com/wordpress/
Don Lowery is a chance to put a “real” conservative in the Senate that will be for real change that will get us smaller government, lower taxes, and adherence to the Constitution. He can use your support as the RNC isn’t helping him please go to http://www.judgelowery4ussenate.com/wordpress/ and donate what you can. This is a grass roots effort and no matter how small a donation they add up.
I put this in as a blog because the site will not add my and Hepsy's blog on the site list and never posts the articles.
Published 5 months ago
3-4 years ago there was a great deal of talk and international squabbling going on about rights to the sea bed and Northwest Passage opening up due to global warming. The polar bears were going to all die out and other dire things were to happen. Guess what it's all freezing over and all the talk is dead silent. Where's Al Gore now? This is a picture of the Northwest passage late Aug 2009. When it should be at a minimum.
I submitted this as news but it takes 2 days for consevatives to get unsubmitted sites to get posed assuring they never make the 24 hour window.
In late August 2009, ice clogged some but not all of the Northwest Passage, and snow had retreated from most of the islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite caught this rare cloud-free view of the archipelago on August 27, 2009. Although Parry Channel appears partially ice free, especially in the east, sea ice spans most of McClure Strait, blocking the northern, or preferred, route through the Northwest Passage. The southern route, however, which Roald Amundsen followed from 1903 to 1906, appears open. Amundsen navigated around the southern perimeter of King William Island, passing through a narrow strait on his way westward.
Snow-free land surfaces allow a view of the islands’ topography. While the western end of Baffin Island appears flat and almost featureless, dramatic stripes cross Bathurst Island in the northwest. These approximately east-west stripes result from layers of exposed bedrock, likely tilted by a mountain-building event in the mid-Mesozoic Era. Snow-free landmasses vary in color from beige to brown. Cold temperatures, persistent snow cover, and short growing seasons limit tree growth so far north, leaving the islands coated with tundra.
The northern, or preferred, route through the Northwest Passage has been navigable a few times, and it appeared wide open in satellite imagery in 2007. The route that Amundsen followed. World wide temps have been dropping since 2007.�
Published 8 months ago
The RAC program is going into effect soon and is a stealth way for the government to take over healthcare and close many hospitals. It claims to be out to catch overbilling but will cost hospitals millions each for small coding errors.
Example 1) A patient is brought to a rural hospital in serious condition. Labs are run and the patient is deemed treatment by a larger hospital with better resources and is flown to that bigger nearby hospital. The hospital gets the patient in the ER and runs labs to acertain the condition of the patient. Sounds reasonable, right? RAC steps in and demands the hopital to refund medicare payment for any labs done in the small hospital. Conditions in a critical patient can change in minutes, but bureaucrats know better than a doctor.
2) A patient is admitted with chest pain and the next day is diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome. No problem there right? No the person in billing sees chest pain and there after puts chest pain every day for the medicare coding while the more expensive diagnosis of ACS is treated and billed. CAR steps in and Medicare is repaid for the cost of the whole hospital stay.
Medicare billing is complex and small errors are easily made with no intent to defraud. These small errors and many like the examples are going to cost hospitals more than many will be able to afford. It will also cause costs to rise for those not on government assistance. The government might even take over some failing hospitals in the socialist agenda. RAC is already causing hospitals to lay off and not hire needed medical staff.
What is really astounding is the private firms doing the audits keep 1/3 of all recovered money. This is a scheme ripe for abuse by the private auditing firms.
The sum of all this is your local hospital could close costing jobs and healthcare for you when seconds count.
Published 10 months ago
The Cap and Trade bill passed in the house. It was 1,200 pages and was not read by those who passed it. The Stimulus bill was 2,500 pages and was passed without being read also. The Democrats refused Republicans in on crafting the bills and both were rushed through without much or any deliberation.
Is this what we expect of Congress, stealth bills that the congressmen and the public know nothing of what they contain? Is this Democracy?
I have been asking people " What do you think of the Cap and Trade bill" of over 20 none had heard of it. This bill will affect all Americans, the poor, those on fixed incomes, and middle class the hardest. Democrats have played fast and loose with the people they say they are for. The media is in collusion with the Democrats to keep the people in the dark. What little has been on the nightly news has pointed to a rosy outcome and those nasty Republicans object to it, without saying why.
The Stimulus bill was of huge cost and we still don't know the full extent of the things included in the bill. The things that have come out are largely political paybacks and pork for inane projects. The administration is already hedging their bet by saying " Well it isn't having the effect we had hoped for because things were worse than we thought". So payoffs and pork were supposed to help? The only ones being helped are the Democrats and their future campaign funds.
If ever our government was not of the people and not for the people, it is now. The Founders would be appalled at what is going on and so would the majority of Americans if they knew.
Published 10 months ago
America is sitting on an oil field
By David TrimbleGeorgetown News-Graphic6/18/09
Published: Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:13 AM EDT
Remember how Barack Obama pledged to bring "transparency" to government? And remember how he pledged to work on U.S. oil dependency, albeit by his plan for developing alternative energy? As the old saying goes, "the more things change, the more they remain the same."I wrote in this space some months ago about the availability of vast deposits of oil shale in the U.S. west, mostly on lands owned by the U.S. government. Combined with emerging technology to cleanly extract oil from the shale without creating huge piles of waste rock, oil shale has the potential to release Americans from dependency on foreign oil, in and of itself.Well, there's more. I read a report last week about massive reserves of light, sweet crude oil that is there for the taking within the borders of the continental U.S. That's right, not controversial offshore reserves, but oil we can walk or drive to here in the lower 48.One such reserve is called the Bakken formation, which sits under western North and South Dakota and eastern Montana. The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10 percent of the oil is recoverable, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion. This is light, sweet oil, and those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 per barrel - not the $70-plus that is the present world oil market price.That's not all. Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than two trillion barrels. On Aug. 8, 2005, president Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this mother load of oil why are we still paying $70 per barrel to foreign governments?How do these reserves stack up with the big producers - 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia; 18-times as much oil as Iraq; 21-times as much oil as Kuwait; 22-times as much oil as Iran; 500-times as much oil as Yemen, just to name a few.This, president Obama, is how to develop energy independence - free ourselves from the foreign oil producers, allow our economy to ease back from higher energy prices and heal, and use the economic savings to invest in those precious alternative energy sources.It's called giving ourselves the independence, the financial savings, and the wherewithal to develop alternative energy sources the right way, not in a rushed panic because we are broke and oil prices are going up again.It's called transparency, Mr. Obama, to be honest with Americans that we do have sufficient energy reserves to support ourselves, instead of manipulating us by our fears to achieve some pie-in-the-sky "green" agenda.The sole known reason we are not developing our own resources, is the abusive power of the environmental lobby, that with over-regulation has made oil exploration and drilling prohibitively expensive. Technology changes and improvements, however, have changed things many times over from the "There Will Be Blood" days of oil development. Oil fields have much smaller foot prints, and are substantially less environmentally challenging than they once were, but the old, bad days are all the environmentalists want us to see.Two examples: First, after all the gloom and doom over the Alaska pipeline, experience has now shown that the pipeline has not only not damaged the environment, but has enhanced it - many animals such as the caribou make their homes near the pipeline because it is warm.Second, to drill in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, oil wells would only occupy a footprint comparable to placing a postage stamp on a football field.Every time I pay even $2 or higher for a gallon of gasoline, this makes me angry. There is no reason Americans should be in virtual slavery over high oil prices. There is no reason Americans should have our national security and foreign policy compromised by dependence on foreign oil. There is no reason our economy should be so heavily burdened by out-of-control crude oil prices. And there is no reason our president should feel compelled to bow to a Saudi king.Bottom line, the only tool we as a people have to combat this is to speak up. Last year's "Drill Here, Drill Now" campaign got some attention - we need to do it again. Write to president Obama, write to your Senators and Congressmen. Spread the word that we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more.David Trimble, a Georgetown resident, is an attorney and his column, The Bottom Line, appears every Thursday in the News-Graphic. Readers can find more of Trimble's writing at his blog, stillonpatrol.typepad.com, or e-mail him at stillonpatrol@hotmail.com.This was from the Georgetown KY newspaper and would not of been posted as it probably had not been used before or it would of been posted as news.
Published 12 months ago
Springfield IL is a Republican town, we had April 15 at the Tea Party, my guess 1,500 attended, the Springfield local station an ABC affiliate said we had a couple of hundred. Are the local stations getting marching orders from the networks to under report? UK fan said there were approximately 1,000 at the Louisville, KY Tea Party and the local station reported 200-300. I am asking the Politics.com members that went to a Tea Party to put in the comments of this blog the number of people who attended the event and the number reported by the local media. If you can identify the town the media outlet is in as liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican please do so.
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