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It’s official. The Almighty One has officially flushed the Republic down the drain. He successfully bought enough votes from Congress to pass Obamacare with enough of a margin to not “single out” any one particular Democrat. Never mind that the Leprechaun changed his vote to Aye after a flight of Airforce One. Never mind that the Stupak coalition had been holding out due to abortion language. Never mind that the general population had soundly notified the Monsters in the Swamp that this socialistic amalgamation of quasi taxes was not only undesirable, but unwanted and despised. That talking heads in DC didn’t follow the wishes of their constituents however. Instead, they turned on them. We’re that much closer to the collapse of the Republic thanks to the abomination that was passed yesterday, led by the likes of Nancy Pelosi.

If Uncle Sam were a genuine human instead of an amalgamated cartoonified concept, he would be aching in pain right now, reaching around in his back pocket seeking a missing billfold or wallet, because not only does he not have the money to pay for this monstrosity, his entire wallet has been stolen away from him, now residing in the hands of the Central Banks of the World. Is it a surprise that the same people who don’t pay their taxes are the kind of people that are hired to run the economy? Is it a surprise that our country, which is functionally bankrupt, is in such a ridiculously high debt, that our grandchildren will inherit it because there is no way for us to pay it off ourselves? Never mind the unfunded liabilities which are OFF the books. Those that are ON the books are bad enough! When Congress votes to raise the debt ceiling by 1.9 TRILLION dollars with the expectation of voting to raise it yet again the next Legislative Session by over 2 TRILLION, where can we possibly go from there? We are currently officially in debt some 12.6 TRILLION dollars. This latest failure from the District is ostensibly going to cost some 900 BILLION dollars. As was seen with TARP 2.0, the costs tripled. It is very likely to triple with this legislation as well. Hopefully we can be only so lucky to keep it reigned in that low without an even higher multiplier. I find it disgusting that my own government has incurred a debt approximating $40,000 dollars per citizen. Yes, that’s right. You, me, your friends, family, and strangers, have all incurred a debt of approximately $40,000 each because your so-called Representatives have committed themselves to a disastrous course. Much like the Titanic being an “unsinkable” ship that totally disproved it’s motto, the U.S.ofA is now officially headed on a sinking course. Your Legislators have failed you. Where every single Republican in the House voted against this bill with 45 Democrats joined them, a simple majority still passed it with a vote of 219-212. This includes our very own Valley “Representatives”, Congressmen Cuellar, Ortiz, & Hinojosa.

Make sure to let your “Representatives” know your thoughts regarding their stab-you-in-the-back vote for Obamacare.

… when he said “In the long run we are all dead.”  This newly passed “health care reform” bill just proves how dead America has become (about as dead as a George Romero zombie).  

God help us.

BTW, we owe a big thanks to the American Medical Association, labor unions, and the pharmaceutical corporate industry for helping Congress jip us.

“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he be then trusted with the government of others?” – Thomas Jefferson

Today the House of Representatives are voting on a historic bill to push coverage for an additional 32 million people (supposedly), and this is done with the cause that people who aren’t covered with health insurance will fall under the responsibility of the federal government.

WASHINGTON – With House Democratic leaders confident they have the 216 votes needed to pass a historic vote Sunday on sweeping health care reform, Republicans were focused on the 20 Democrats who were still uncommitted late Saturday and could derail the legislation.

House Republican leader John Boehner said Sunday that Democrats have yet to lock in enough votes.The Ohio Republican told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the plan is a government takeover opposed by the vast majority of Americans.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Connecticut Rep. John Larson, chairman of the Democratic caucus in the House, said their party has the votes needed to pass the bill but acknowledged they have yet to nail down commitments from a handful of members.

“There are still members looking at it and trying to make up their minds,” Hoyer said on “Meet the Press” in the hours before the vote. He added that the holdouts numbered in “the low single digits.”

“We think there are going to be 216-plus votes when we call the roll,” Hoyer said.

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My translation: the geniuses in Washington thought that since you can’t take care of your self, they, in their all encompassing knowledge and lordship, will take care of you as a mother rat that looks over her young (and are notorious for eating them when hungry).  Hmm, I believe it was Patrick Henry who once said, “I smell a rat.”

Update: Regarding this bill, both conservatives and progressives are correct:

Conservatives are corrent in pointing out that the bill is socialist; it gives greater power for the government to hold your medical records and control your care between the physician and you.

Progressives are correct in maintaining that the bill is a tribute to privatization: it produces huge amounts of subsidies toward various companies/corporations that will be participating under the government scheme, all the while trampling the power of small bussinesses and individuals that barely make enough.

They should just call this bill the fascistic health care reform since it merges the corporation and the state (“corporate state,” in the words of Benito Moussolini).  Who knew we travelled this far?

Update2: As much as I dislike the politics of Nancy Pelosi, this just boils down to her dirty level of professionalism when she passes through the anti-Obamacare protesters with her trail of goons to taunt them.

NaturalNews reports that John McCain has introduced legislation that poses a serious threat to your use of vitamin supplements and other non-drug supplements.

Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) has introduced a new bill called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) of 2010 (S. 3002), that, if enacted, would severely curtail free access to dietary supplements. Cosponsored by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota), the bill would essentially give the FDA full control over the supplement industry.

Most of the industrialized world has incredibly restrictive laws governing supplements. People worldwide often purchase supplements from the U.S. because they are freely available at low costs.

All of this could change, however, if DSSA passes. DSSA would change key sections of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C), undoing protections in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, effectively eliminating free access to supplements.

The problem with this is that herbal or vitamin supplements are NOT drugs. The FDA should have absolutely zero input here as to any form of regulation regarding these substances. If you desire to go to your local health food store and purchase a superfood powder with high “greens” content or protein powder for your exercise regimen, this legislation has the potential to remove these very powders from store shelves. The FDA could literally come in and ban multivitamin supplements because those vitamins aren’t good for you! No sir! No vitamins for you. No herbal supplements for you. No superfood powders for you. This would have disastrous effects on people that desire a healthier selection of foods for their consumption, as well as those with particular food allergies or dietary requirements. What if you suffer from Chrohn’s disease and have to only consume non-solid foods in order for easier absorption in your intestinal tract? You might rely on a particular superfood powder with a high protein content as your primary source of food. What if you suffer from Celiac disease and cannot consume traditional breads because of your gluten allergy? You might rely on a particular type of vitamin enriched bread which is created from a non-wheat grain such as spelt or millet or somesuch. These essential items for your continued health and existence would be directly under attack from this legislation, putting them squarely in the crosshairs of the FDA for review and potential regulation.

The importance of DSHEA
The passage of DSHEA resulted from millions of Americans who worked hard to reinforce their freedom to buy and sell supplements. At the time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was alleging that nutrients like CoQ10 and selenium were dangerous and should be pulled from the market.

The availability of CoQ10 and selenium as common supplements is extremely common now. I don’t even have to go to a health food store to acquire them. I can purchase them at any of my local grocery stores. The literature on these two substances are fairly large now as to their positive effects on the human body, with CoQ10 having an important effect on brain functions and selenium having a wide range of effects. The question of these supplements having a beneficial effect on your health is no longer open for debate. But, can the same be said for other supplements? The FDA seeks ever increasing power, and this is the latest foray into that situation.

From The Washington Post:

Although Democrats think their health-care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead — a constitutional challenge to the legislation’s core. Democrats who assume it is constitutional to make it mandatory for Americans to purchase health insurance should answer some questions:

Would it be constitutional for the government to legislate compulsory calisthenics for all Americans? If not, why not? If it would be, in what sense does the nation still have constitutional, meaning limited, government?

Yes indeed… there is definitely a Constitutional challenge looming beyond the passage of this abysmal legislation. The issue of forcing a citizen to purchase health insurance alone is flatly and easily discerned as unconstitutional. It’s nothing short of Government mandated theft. The desire of the individual to not pay for it is their own. Being told that you MUST pay for it or go to jail for up to 5 years is preposterous! Yet Speaker Pelosi glosses over this issue as if it is fair. Appropriate?!? In what world is it appropriate to jail a citizen for refusing to purchase said plan? As a matter of fact, let’s see her dance around this issue…

Wow. She certainly has the gift for gab doesn’t she? The ability to dance around this issue and not be called out on it by every single journalist in that room is atrocious.

Ah, but back to the Washington Post, and perhaps the most important point that Mr. Will makes.

Judicial review — let us be candid: judicial supervision of democracy — troubles people who believe, mistakenly, that the Constitution’s primary purpose is simply to provide the institutional architecture for democracy. Such people believe that having government by popular sovereignty is generally much more important than what government does; hence, courts should be broadly deferential to preferences expressed democratically. This is the doctrine of those conservatives who deplore, often with more vigor than precision, “judicial activism.”

More truly conservative conservatives take their bearings from the proposition that government’s primary purpose is not to organize the fulfillment of majority preferences but to protect preexisting rights of the individual — basically, liberty. These conservatives favor judicial activism understood as unflinching performance of the courts’ role in that protection.

That role includes disapproving congressional encroachments on liberty that are not exercises of enumerated powers. This obligatory engagement with the Constitution’s text and logic supersedes any obligation to be deferential toward the actions of government merely because they reflect popular sovereignty.

The latter kind of conservatives are more truly conservative than the former kind because they have stronger principles for resisting the conscription of individuals, at a cost of diminished liberty, into government’s collective projects. So a constitutional challenge to the mandate serves two purposes: It defies a pernicious idea and clarifies conservatism.

Well, here is the key point of the article. The understanding that the role of the Government is to protect our liberties. Courts should not be advocating changes to the legal system and using procedural wrangling to enact such change. It is their role to preside of the rule of law as it exists, thereby protecting the individual from loss of liberties.

From Politico:

The fight over the federal health care takeover is not going to end with a Rose Garden signing ceremony. Oh, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid may succeed in buying (with your money) enough votes to pass their 2,000-page, $2 trillion entitlement behemoth. And the conventional wisdom in Washington and the mainstream media may say the Democrats won.

But they will not have.

Obamacare’s final passage by Congress is not a fait accompli, but — if and when it happens — the moment will be anticlimactic. Most of the final bill’s major provisions will not take effect until 2013. And between now and then, there will be a midterm and a general election that will be largely defined by the scandalous process, policies and price tag of the health care takeover.

The 2010 and 2012 elections, then — and not this month’s bribe-a-thon on Capitol Hill — will determine the impact and legacy of the Democrats’ health care gambit.

And Republicans should insist on it.

If and when Obamacare becomes law, repealing it will immediately become the most important conservative economic policy goal since the Reagan tax cuts. The tax increases, individual mandate, premium hikes, new government agencies and powers and the stealth scaffolding for a single-payer system tucked into the House and Senate bills represent an existential threat to American prosperity.

Congressional Republicans deserve credit for shaking off their 2006-08 doldrums and producing an array of market-based, competitive reform alternatives (Utah Sen. Robert Bennett’s monstrosity notwithstanding). Interstate competition, tort reform and tax equity for individual insurance consumers could form the basis of a 21st-century health care system and of a new reform-minded Republican majority.

But that majority will never materialize until the GOP wins back the public confidence it deservedly lost during the past decade. The Republican National Committee’s highly publicized fundraising troubles square with what political observers — and conservatives especially — have concluded: The public has rejected Obama liberalism but is not at all eager for a return of Bush-era Republicanism. If the dominant political mood can be summarized today, it is a nonpartisan rejection of Washington’s bipartisan addiction to Big Government.

Mike Adams from his excellent Natural News network reports:

Even if Obama’s health care reform bill becomes law, mandating that all Americans buy health insurance policies for a failed system of “sick care”, I will refuse to comply. I’ve read the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and nowhere in that document do I find that the federal government has the power to force consumers to purchase for-profit insurance products from private companies.

The very basis of the health care reform bill is, at its core, unconstitutional. If this mandate is allowed to stand, it sets a dangerous precedent for the U.S. government to require us to purchase other products and services from whatever industries it chooses to support. What’s next? Will the government pass a law forcing us to buy pharmaceuticals at thousands of dollars a year? Will it force us to purchase U.S.-made automobiles in order to boost the automobile industry? Is our economic free choice now centrally planned by our own government operating like Communist China?

This is a serious question that Constitutional scholars will no doubt be debating in the months ahead. But who am I kidding anyway? The U.S. government has long since abandoned the U.S. Constitution and no has any intention of abiding by it. Want proof? Read just one amendment: the 10th amendment.

Check out the website www.TenthAmendmentCenter.com which carries a highly relevant article on this matter: Health Care Nullification and Interposition (http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com…). It paraphrases James Madison, saying, “…state governments not only have the right to resist unconstitutional federal acts, but that, in order to protect liberty, they are ‘duty bound to interpose’ or stand between the federal government and the people of the state.”

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I find it very interesting that Mike has seized on the important and salient point here. If this unconstitutional legislation is Passed, he refuses to abide by it. This is quite simply the dumbfounding logic that many citizens of these United States have not figured out yet. The moral cesspool that is our Senate and House of Representatives has degenerated so far that they have long served their own interests instead of those they purport to represent.

So I ask you, if this unconstitutional legislation is indeed passed, will you abide by it knowing full well that it is immoral, unjust, and corrupt?

The ever-wise Senators of Massachusetts have decided that it is important to violate your Constitutional Rights if they “suspect” you might be infected with the so-called ‘Swine Flu’. Instead of checking you into the hospital and having you tested to see if you are infected and do indeed need to be treated for it, they immediately authorize nearly any State-licensed health official to make the call and require you to be submitted to a forced vaccination. Never mind your own acceptance of the consequences to your health from the installation of dead or partially dead retrovirals into your blood stream. No, you don’t get the chance to even see if any of it is true! You even have the pleasure of being fined $1,000/day for refusing to submit to the whims of the State. Yes, the Nanny State is alive and well.  Should we expect anything less than this sort of abuse from Those Who Lord It Over Us?

Read the entire article for Mike’s take on the individual abuses of your Constitutional Rights. For my part, I would recommend those Liberty loving individuals of Massachusetts remove themselves from their environs and make way for a more Liberty minded state… Texas perhaps?

from http://www.naturalnews.com/026934_health_public_health_quarantine.html

The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the “Pandemic Response Bill” 2028, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all Constitutional rights of Massachusetts citizens and forces anyone “suspected” of being infected to submit to interrogations, “decontaminations” and vaccines.

It’s also sets fines up to $1,000 per day for anyone who refuses to submit to quarantines, vaccinations, decontamination efforts or to follow any other verbal order by virtually any state-licensed law enforcement or medical personnel. You can read the text yourself here: http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/sen…

So, you want health care reform, but you don’t want to go down the Obamacare road of Socialism that is currently being espiused? Well then – you need to immediately call your Representatives and DEMAND that they hasten HR 1495 out of Committee unchanged for an immediate Floor Vote. HR 1495 was introduced Mar 12, 2009 by Congressman Ron Paul for legitimate change of Health Care. How is that you may ask? Well, Obamacare, while 1,018 pages long is a behemoth that encompasses much malice aforethought towards you the citizen. HR 1495 on the other hand is only 2 pages! It could hardly be simpler. It amends existing Code to allow people to save untaxed for their health care costs in the future. Very little government administrative costs are involved. That’s quite a change from whats proposed by Obamacare!

You can read the Bill in its 2 page entirety here:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1495:

Food & Health Freedom are pretty well interlinked. The food supply currently available to us has been systematically replaced piecemeal by genetically modified organisms (GMO) which are rushed through the FDA/USDA testing facilities without adequate testing. In fact, there is much emerging evidence that many of our food allergies are caused by these GMO foods. A staple item, sugar, has nearly been replaced by GMO sugar from beets. Unless you explicitly buy Organic or better yet Naturally Grown sugar, the odds are pretty good that the sugar you are holding was sourced from a GMO beet. Read up on this conference in San Antonio and if able, attend it. You will learn over 2 days all about the lost freedoms and consequences thereof in the Agriculture & Ranching industries.

from http://farmandranchfreedom.org/content/conference-2009

Be part of an exciting gathering of non-profit leaders, farmers and ranchers, farmers market organizers, local foods activists, and more!  This two-day event will feature speakers on issues critical to both farmers and consumers, including:

• Keynote address by Sally Fallon on the Health and Economic Benefits of Raw Milk
• Food Safety Bills: What’s Happening in Congress?
• Genetically Modified Foods and Their Impact on Mammal Health
• National Animal Identification System (NAIS)
• Organic Certification: How do Farmers and Consumers Make the Choice?
• Climate Change and Agriculture

This conference will also give you the tools you need to take action to protect your farm and your food supply!  There will be speakers on how to lobby, creating social networks, and approaching the media.  At the end of the conference, you’ll have the information you need to be effective in making your voice heard on issues important to you!

WHEN: Monday, September 14 – Tuesday, September 15, 2009

WHERE: Pearl Full Good Studio in San Antonio, Texas.  Pearl is a historic brewery that now houses a thriving farmers market, a branch of the Culinary Institute of America, shops, and housing.  For a map and directions, click here

REGISTRATION: Register online or download the registration form to mail in.  Early registration ends September 1!