Good morning!

Healthcare and more specifically, the continued to effort to take down Obamacare, is still in the news. Get over it repubs. The ACA is here to stay. Can we move onto something that propels us forward instead of trying to throw us back? Oh right, you love the “good ‘ol days” – the days of  ”what’s good for me and mine.” There is rarely the touted “I want what’s best for the country.” (LSOS speak)  It is usually “We will do whatever we need to do, to bring Obama down in any way we can.”

And that means convincing repubs to shut down the government in a ploy to defund the Affordable Care Act. Here’s A write from Think Progress:

Conservatives Finally Announce Alternative To Obamacare: Just Go To The Emergency Room

Heritage president and former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint continued his campaign to convince Republicans to shut down the government in a ploy to defund the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, telling a town hall in Tampa, Florida that “This might be that last off-ramp to stop Obamacare before it becomes more enmeshed in our culture.” The law “is not about getting better health care,” he continued. Uninsured Americans “will get better health care just going to the emergency room.”

The claim may be a standard line for today’s Republicans, but it is a stark departure for DeMint and the think tank he now leads. In 1989, the Heritage Foundation was at the forefront of advocating for a requirement to purchase coverage through as system of regulated health care marketplaces, the very centerpiece of Obama’s health care reform, and later lobbied Congressional Republicans to offer the initiative as an alternative to President Bill Clinton’s health proposal.

More than a decade later, Heritage boosted former Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R-MA) health reform law and the individual mandate included in it, describing the requirement as “one that is clearly consistent with conservative values.” A Heritage health care analyst said Romney’s proposal would reform the state’s “uncompensated-care payment system,” force residents to take “personal responsibility” for their health care and prevent them from simply showing up “in emergency rooms.”

Indeed, DeMint himself backed the effort when he endorsed Romney for president in 2008.

“That’s something that I think we should do for the whole country,” DeMint told Fox News. “And the governor just looked at the numbers like a good businessman and realized that we could give people private insurance policies cheaper than we could provide free health care.”

The so-called “free” care at emergency rooms is a result of The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act or (EMTALA), which requires hospitals that accept Medicare or Medicaid funding to treat patients for emergency medical conditions regardless of legal status or ability to pay. But EMTALA only applies to medical emergencies like heart attacks or serious injury. It does not offer any treatment for chronic conditions, leaving the millions of Americans with diabetes who need regular access to medication to stay alive, or asthma patients, or women diagnosed with breast cancer without access to care.

Studies also show that not all emergency room patients have equal outcomes. The uninsured who suffer “traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance.”

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Readers: So there you have it – As usual repubs had similar ideas of legislation. That is until it became too much like the legislation Obama was promoting. Then no…it was no longer a good idea.  Who cares if people without health insurance are almost twice as likely to die in emergency rooms. “As long as I can afford it and me and mine are covered – I don’t care if ACA helps keep people alive – we don’t need it.”

And that is the sick truth the repubs won’t say to you, but will certainly show you with their actions.

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Good morning.

Men in power positions continue to blame women – the victim. You would think that from all of the backlash that men receive from blaming the woman, when she is the obvious victim in stated horrific scenarios, that men would stop blaming the woman. Hell no. It continues.

In Montana Judge G. Todd Baugh recently sentenced a 14-year-old girl’s rapist to 15 years and then suspended it to just 30 days in prison.  Who cares, if hundreds protested in front of the court house. Who cares if tens of thousands signed a petition calling for the judge’s resignation. He’s sticking with his decision and he sees nothing wrong with it. He blames the 14-year-old girl, who he claims was acting “older than her chronological age” and “as much in control of the situation” as the 49-year-old teacher who raped her.  Sick.

By the way, the 14-year-old girl ended up committing suicide 2 years after she was raped. She is not the only young rape victim who has taken her own life after being raped. Our young girls, who are the victims, are blamed and bullied when they need to be understood, supported, and cared for. The messages they receive is that they are the ones to blame, and that is something that needs to be stopped or boys/men are going to continue to rape and get away with it.

Here’s the write from Think Progress:

Judge Sparks Protests After Sentencing 14-Year-Old Girl’s Rapist To Just 30 Days In Prison

BY TARA CULP-RESSLER ON AUGUST 29, 2013 AT 5:40 PM

Judge G. Todd BaughCREDIT: Matt Brown / AP

A Montana judge who recently sentenced a 14-year-old girl’s rapist to just 30 days in prison is defending his decision, even as hundreds of peoplepicketed the courthouse in protest on Thursday. Although State District Judge G. Todd Baugh doesn’t see anything wrong with the sentence itself, he has apologized for his comments that the rape victim acted “older than her chronological age” and was “as much in control” of the situation as her rapist.

In 2007, a Montana teacher named Stacey Rambold raped a 14-year-old girl who later ended up committing suicide. On Monday, Baugh gave him 15 years in prison for his crimes — but suspended all but 30 days of that sentence. And when arguing the case, Baugh noted that the 14-year-old girl was acting “older than her chronological age” and “as much in control of the situation” as the 49-year-old teacher who raped her.

That sparked considerable backlash. More than 30,000 people signed onto a MoveOn.org petition calling for the judge’s resignation. “Baugh places the responsibility for the situation on a troubled child — one who committed suicide just two years later — and excuses the criminal actions of an adult who violated the ethical standards and trust of his community,” the petition reads. “Baugh has engaged in the worst kind of victim shaming.”

And members of the community rallied at the Billings, Montana courthouse on Thursday afternoon, holding signs demanding justice for the victim, Cherice Moralez, and calling for Baugh to step down. “The demand and goal of this is to ask the judge to resign. The broader message is to really unite as a community against victim-blaming,” the protest’s organizer, Sheena Davis, explained. Davis noted that the protesters hoped to address “a larger issue on how we protect children from rape in this justice system.”

The victim’s mother, Auliea Hanlon, called the sentence was a “travesty” and said she was “horrified.” Hanlon told CNN that she was particularly upset about the judge’s comments that Cherice was somehow in control of the situation. “How could she be in control of the situation? He was a teacher. She was a student. She wasn’t in control of anything. She was 14,” she said.

Baugh has since issued a public apology for those statements, saying he “deserved to be chastised” for suggesting that Cherice was actually in control. Since she was just 14 years old, the relationship between her and her teacher is considered to be statutory rape — and particularly since Rambold was abusing his place of authority, it’s inappropriate to insinuate that he and Cherice were on equal footing.

The Montana judge has defended his sentence, however, saying that he believes Rambold is at a low risk of becoming a repeat offender. The prosecution entered into a “deferred prosecution agreement” with Rambold after Cherice’s death — which means the charges against him would have all been dismissed if he had successfully completed a sex-offender treatment program and met other terms, like avoiding contact with children. But he broke some of those terms, and that’s why his case ended up before Baugh. The sentence ended up being rolled back to 30 days because Baugh determined the scope of infractions weren’t serious enough to merit more time in prison.

Unfortunately, Cherice is hardly the only young rape victim to take her own life. Earlier this year, 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons killed herself after her school administration ignored evidence that she had been raped and her peers bullied her. And 15-year-old Audrie Pott killed herself after being allegedly gang-raped at a party, during which boysscribbled messages all over her unconscious body.

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I HOPE everyone had a lovely Labor Day with friends and family!

Peace & Love…

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Good morning!

I realize many of you are probably out enjoying the Labor Day Holiday, and soon I HOPE to be out too. However, the fact that this is Labor Day prompts me to post a personal opinion because of the need to point out again that the republicans have been against anything Obama is for.  When Obama announced that he will leave it up to Congress to decide whether he should take action that he wants to take, he showed that his beliefs as a Constitutional lawyer and his belief that a President has to obey that Constitution. More importantly he wanted to make it more difficult in the future for a president to take this country to war on his own.

The traitorous actions by the House of saying no to anything Obama wants is not lost on the Russians. For the first time in our history the Russians are sending members of their own to argue against a President of this nation. Why? Because they know that this bunch of bigots will once again decide for a white person of any country, rather than support a black man. No surprise there.

Labor Day to these hypocrites is merely an opportunity to lie to the people. They are firmly behind the 1% that are paying them to make it profitable to send American jobs overseas.

Obama is simply trying to send a message to those that would use chemical weapons upon civilians, that when the United Nations of the world decided that was something that would trigger a military response, that it would.  Just because those nations only gave lip service to the edict, doesn’t mean Obama should. Wouldn’t we be disappointed if he did? I know I certainly would. It would be not be characteristic of him.

In the past those same white led nations have used their power to subjugate and plunder OTW nations. They have set themselves up as holding up moral standards to lead the planet by. Yeah right. But once again this is but another example of that hypocrisy. The British allowed Hitler to take country after country until it became apparent that their security was in jeopardy. By then it was too late and we had to enter to save their sorry cowardly ass.

This behavior has repeated itself in modern history by every nation led by a white man including America. Obama is simply saying he refuses to take the cowardly way out.  He is standing by the principle that was agreed upon by every nation that is a member of the United Nations, including Syria, Russia, China, and Great Britain, that the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated. Again, if he decided to go along with the crowd, wouldn’t you be disappointed? I know I would.

Watching those white run nations cop out just shows that in general white men are gutless when it comes to standing on principle when they have to put some skin in the game. It seems Obama is the only one with a pair. Like the republicans in our country, to them principle and morals are but sound bites they use to justify their positions and to move their constituents to vote for them.

It is truly a sorry state of affairs that a foreign power has recognized the degree of racism in this country in one of our Branches of government that it feels it can send a delegation to that branch to argue against the President of our country. They know that they can interfere in our internal politics because it is blinded by racism. Sickening enough for you? Happy Labor Day.

Now…I’m off to get some sunshine myself. Blog me if you have some time. 

Peace & Love to all of you. 

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Good morning!

“Just noticing….”

Court Is ‘One of Most Activist,’ Ginsburg Says, Vowing to Stay

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her chambers on Friday, said she hoped that some of her sharp dissents “will one day be the law.

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Good morning!

Correction: My stat on the number of lives lost in the chemical attack in Syria was incorrect. I stated that over 3oo people were killed. It has been stated that the chemical attack murdered more than 1,400 citizens, 426 of them were children. My apologies for not having the current information yesterday.

Well..probably like many of you, I was waiting to hear Obama’s statement on Syria. I listened to it and I totally support his decision.

In case you missed it, here is a segment from CNN:

President Barack Obama said that the United States “should take military action against Syrian targets” in a Rose Garden address Saturday. However, he said he would seek congressional authorization when federal lawmakers return from recess.

The president appealed for congressional leaders to consider their responsibilities and values in debating U.S. military action in Syria over its alleged chemical weapons use.”Some things are more important than partisan differences or the politics of the moment,” he said. “Today I’m asking Congress to send a message to the world that we are united as one nation.”

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Readers: It is not the entire statement but that is about all I could find right now.

Happy Labor Day weekend everyone! Any big plans? Me? I am getting out into the sunshine today. 

Peace Please. 

Blog me. 

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