Repugs change horses in midstream and no one seems to notice

How Republicans made it possible for the Supreme Court to rule against the individual mandate
By Ezra Klein 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/06/25/why-the-supreme-court-might-rule-against-the-mandate/

EXCERPT: Over the past two years, the Republican Party has slowly been building a permission structure for the five Republicans on the Supreme Court to feel comfortable doing something nobody thought they could do: Violate the existing understanding of the Commerce Clause and, in perhaps the most significant moment of judicial activism since the New Deal, overturn either all or part of the Affordable Care Act.

The first step was, perhaps, the hardest: The Republican Party had to take an official and unanimous stand against the wisdom and constitutionality of the individual mandate. Typically, it’s not that difficult for the opposition party to oppose the least popular element in the majority party’s largest initiative. But the individual mandate was a policy idea Republicans had thought of in the late-1980s and supported for two decades. They had, in effect, to convince every Republican to say that the policy they had been supporting was an unconstitutional assault on liberty.

But they succeeded. In December 2009 every Senate Republican voted to call the individual mandate unconstitutional. They did this even though a number of them had their names on bills that included an individual mandate. (For more on the political history of the mandate, see this post.)  (Note from StarWisdom: It's easy for the GOP to get their Bubble-dwelling voters to buy whatever they're selling, even if it is the exact opposite of what they sold them a year or so ago -- just tell Rush Limbaugh and FOX News to broadcast their new view, as if they'd never had another one that was diametrically opposed to it. If Obama adopts RomneyCare from Massachusetts asking for an individual mandate just like Romney had, BUT Romney is now running against Obama...OOPS--Make an immediate 180 degree turn and start calling RomneyCare ObamaCare, pretending Republicans were never involved with such a thing. You can be sure the dittoheads will buy it.  Conservative voters will listen to their leaders, no matter what they are peddling.  That's why Rush Limbaugh calls them "my dittoheads."  And they don't even take offense at that -- I guess they think it's an honor to be a dittohead of their great-in-girth leader (am shaking my head in cynical wonderment at their willingness to swallow anything that is thrown at them by the right wing media and then send it out as "truth" in their e-mails)

For full article, go to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/06/25/why-the-supreme-court-might-rule-against-the-mandate/

Read More

Do female frogs croak? Hilarious Q & A from Hollywood Squares

Time for Laughter -- we've got to keep our sense of humor alive in these heavy times... (~.~)

These great questions and answers are from the days when the Hollywood Squares game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now! Q. Do female frogs croak?          A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.  Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be                                                                                                                  A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.  Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years...  A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.  Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?                                                                    A.. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.                                                                                      Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?  A.. Rose Marie: No wait until morning.  Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?  A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency..  Q. What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?  A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.                                                                 Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?  A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.  Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?                                                                                                           A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.  Q.. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?  A.. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.  Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?  A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.  Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?                                               A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.  Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?  A.. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.  Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?  A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?  Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?  A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark...  Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?  A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.  Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?                                                                                                           A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.  Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?  A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?  Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?  A. Charley Weaver: His feet.  Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?  A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh

 

 

 

 

Read More

Former Head of Star Wars Program: Cheney Is My Main 9/11 Architect Suspect

By Laura Tyco -  June 23, 2012

The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter, currently running for Congress in Florida's 15th district, has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is false and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Cheney.

Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President’s Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers Gold Medal (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is one of the country’s foremost experts on National Security.

Bowman worked secretly for the US government on the Star Wars project and was the first to coin the very term in a 1977 secret memo. After Bowman realized that the program was only ever intended to be used as an aggressive and not defensive tool, as part of a plan to initiate a nuclear war with the Soviets, he left the program and campaigned against it.

In an April 4, 2006 interview aired nationally on the GCN Radio Network, Bowman (pictured below right) stated that at the bare minimum if Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were involved in 9/11 then the government stood down and allowed the attacks to happen. He said it is plausible that the entire chain of military command were unaware of what was taking place and were used as tools by the people pulling the strings behind the attack.

Bowman outlined how the drills on the morning of 9/11 that simulated planes crashing into buildings on the east coast were used as a cover to dupe unwitting air defense personnel into not responding quickly enough to stop the attack.

“The exercises that went on that morning simulating the exact kind of thing that was happening so confused the people in the FAA and NORAD….that they didn’t they didn’t know what was real and what was part of the exercise,” said Bowman

“I think the people who planned and carried out those exercises, they’re the ones that should be the object of investigation.”

Asked if he could name a prime suspect who was the likely architect behind the attacks, Bowman stated, “If I had to narrow it down to one person….I think my prime suspect would be Dick Cheney.”

Bowman said that privately his military fighter pilot peers and colleagues did not disagree with his sentiments about the real story behind 9/11.

Bowman agreed that the US was in danger of slipping into a dictatorship and stated, “I think there’s been nothing closer to fascism than what we’ve seen lately from this government.”

Bowman slammed the Patriot Act as having, “Done more to destroy the rights of Americans than all of our enemies combined.”

Bowman trashed the 9/11 Commission as a politically motivated cover-up with abounding conflicts of interest, charging, “The 9/11 Commission omitted anything that might be the least bit suspicious or embarrassing or in any way detract from the official conspiracy so it was a total whitewash.”

“There needs to be a true investigation, not the kind of sham investigations we have had with the 9/11 omission and all the rest of that junk,” said Bowman.

Asked if the perpetrators of 9/11 were preparing to stage another false-flag attack to reinvigorate their agenda Bowman agreed that, “I can see that and I hope they can’t pull it off, I hope they are prevented from pulling it off but I know darn good and well they’d like to have another one.”

From the very start we have put forth eminently credible individuals only for them to be ignored by the establishment media. Physics Professors, former White House advisors and CIA analysts, the father of Reaganomics, German Defense Ministers and Bush’s former Secretary of the Treasury, have all gone public on 9/11 but have been uniformly ignored by the majority of the establishment press.

Will Robert Bowman also be blackballed as the mainstream continue to misrepresent the 9/11 truth movement as an occupation of the fringe minority?

Bowman is currently running for Congress in Florida’s 15th District.

Read More