For all you geniuses inside the Beltway, here's how it looks from Real America where we're not drinking Koolaid and trying to breathe in a vacuum:
Stop wringing your hands.
Get off your butts and start working.
Repeal the damned thing and replace it.
It is easier than you're making it look. If you just stop fussing around the outside trying to pick and choose how to approach it, and do what the people who sent you to Washington have said they want to do, you could have this done by July 1st - the start of the next fiscal year. After all, this list comes from me sitting on my butt in my living room for about forty-five minutes, and it makes sense:
1) Set the goals - What Do the American People Want You To Do?
a) Repeal the Obamanation 100%. Rip it out, branch, trunk, root and tendril and send it through the shredder. Leave nothing behind to sprout up somewhere else.
b) Institute protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
c) Make sure that families who choose to can keep their kids on their plans until said kids turn 26.
2) Get started:
a) Again, stop with the hand wringing. We didn't elect you so you can stand in a circle and whine about how hard it is. We voted you into office so you could do this. Now you need to put your faith in us to support you and you need to get the job done. You have about twelve short months to make progress - if we see what you're doing and like it, you've got it made. Keep mucking about and waffling, you'll probably be unemployed come 2018.
b) Get medical professionals and insurance brokers involved - what do they say? What's going to make things better and easier for them to provide the best service and care to the American people?
c) Get rid of the lines, which means amending the Commerce Clause (probably the single hardest thing to do, but you're sharp legal minds - I'm sure you can figure out how to do an end run), so we can buy the insurance we want and need at reasonable cost from whatever state or exchange or whatever we choose to do.
d) Get rid of bureaucratic decision makers who tell us individuals what we have to include in our plans - let us decide what coverage we need. As a sixty-year old woman, I do not need pregnancy coverage or birth control. I do not need pediatric care. I do not need prostate screenings. Make sure that plans offer me a shopping list so that I can pick the coverage that best suits my needs.
e) TORT REFORM!!!! Get rid of the friggin' ambulance chasers who sue over a torn hangnail. If someone suffers a case of medical malpractice, okay - let them sue. People need to make choices for themselves and be responsible for understanding the risks they are taking when they sign up for surgery or medication. It should not be my responsibility to pay for someone else's uninformed decision. And prevent ridiculous awards at settlement time.
Make the settlements reasonable, based on the individual situation. If someone loses wages for 60-years, fine. Take their annual salary (gross), calculate the cost of medical care for the individual based on reasonable life expectancy + 10% and that's the maximum award. Period, end of story.
3) Replacement:
a) Let me pick and choose from any insurer I want from any state in the union. If I can't get an affordable plan here in California, then how about one from Louisiana or Minnesota or Utah?
b) Let me pick and choose from a menu of options. As I said, I don't need pregnancy or pediatric care, so why should a health plan I buy include that?
c) For the people with preexisting conditions, they pay a higher premium than someone who's healthy. Why should people who take care of themselves, who manage their weight, don't smoke or drink, who exercise regularly, get their routine physicals and eat properly pay for the excesses of others? Make people who make unhealthy choices pay for their own damned care.
If they can't afford free-market healthcare, make the individual states set up high risk pools, like those for uninsurable drivers who can't get car insurance from most auto insurance providers. They pay a higher premium but get the coverage they need.
d) If families choose to keep their kids on their plans, fine - make them pay for it on their own. Once the kids get insurance of their own, through an employer or on their own hook, mom and dad's premiums go down - but make them pay for it themselves.
e) Make it possible for me to negotiate my own healthcare costs with my providers or medical group if I choose to, and then my insurer comes into the picture. Why should an insurance company get to pick and choose what doctor or group of doctors I can see? If I want to see Dr. X who participates in Plan 1 because s/he's someone I like and trust, but also want to see Dr. Y who doesn't participate in that Plan but does participate in Plan 2 because they're a specialist in the field for which I need treatment, why should I pay extra?
See? If you just stop dithering and get to work, you can get this done and all Americans will thank you. This took me all of about thirty minutes to write up. I'm sure that you guys, with your brain trust and consultants and PR people can do something just as sweeping.
Did I hit all the points? No. Obviously not. But if you wipe the slate clean, 100% clean and wash it with acid so that even God can't find it, you can start new and fresh and it'll be a lot easier in the long run.
Now do what we sent you there to do - get to work and get it done. The clock is ticking.
Best~
Philippa
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Saturday, January 28, 2017
Sunday, November 13, 2016
My View of #MAGA
We have a great country. That was proved on November 8 when millions of us - more than twelve million - went to the polls and, by a goodly majority of electoral votes, we effected a bloodless revolution. Now we have to deal with the future.
What can we do to truly Make America Great Again for all of us? From where I sit, there are a few things that would go a long way to not only making America stronger than it was, but keep it stronger for our future generations.
One YUGE thing popped into my awareness yesterday - our Constitution. It's been assaulted, again, by our own government, by someone who took an oath of office that declares, in part: "to uphold and defend the Constitution".
Secretary Kerry and President Obama signed a treaty with the United Nations that could, realistically, undermine our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. This treaty is intended to prevent the trade of arms "across state lines". The UN, at least publicly, says those lines belong to nation states. However, it is not at all difficult to extrapolate that "state line" component into individual American state lines.
This angers me. It angers me a lot because I happen to understand the brilliance of our Constitution.
It's a guideline, not a rule book, and it can be - if decided upon by the majority of American citizens and American states - be modified. However, and it's a big HOWEVER, it is not supposed to be something that can be undermined or weakened by a simple swipe of the pen by one person or a small group. Changes to the Constitution, such as gutting the Second Amendment, require ratification by thirty-eight of our fifty states.
Therefore, from where I sit, one challenge is how to guarantee that our Constitution and our sovereignty are protected from any such treaty in future? Simple, but not so easy:
Amendment Thirty-Four: No Administration, Department or Agency shall enter into any treaty that weakens or directly affects, negates or offsets any of the Amendments to this Constitution without achieving a two-thirds majority vote of the legal American electorate.
That wording is not as elegant as the preceding thirty-three amendments, but it covers the bases. It makes it harder for any Secretary of State or President, to sign away our sovereign rights to another entity - like the UN.
We've already had our First Amendment threatened. Earlier this year, the US gave up its control of the internet DNS - Domain Naming System - to the UN via the ICANN treaty. We haven't seen the change, yet. However, if the UN decides that internet "things" are getting out of control, what prevents them from shutting it down, or modifying the DNS access we currently enjoy to something unusable?
As it is now, if you type in a domain name, the DNS recognizes the link between the name and the IP address and directs you there, without you having to remember the TCP/IP string of ###.##.##.## which is convenient. However, let's say the UN's group that oversees the internet decides it doesn't like me and others like me who say what we think. Not all members of the UN like free speech. If they're in power, or heading up the internet group, what's to prevent them from meddling? This is something that should not have been turned over to another entity.
Going farther, because of the changes in society over the past two-hundred fifty years, we need to think hard about our approach to things. We need to look back and take measure of the best parts of the character and ethics of the men who wrote this document. We need to weigh their morals and values against ours (which, in my view are weak, at best). When it was written, they approached governance of America from the standpoints of:
The greater good - what is good for ALL of the citizens, not just for them and their cronies? There weren't lobbyists and the buying of access and power then as there is now.
Justice for all had meaning. It meant that the laws that affected the people would apply equally to them. There would be no different strokes for different folks as there is now - think of Hillary Clinton and her cabal. Do you really believe that if any one of us did one-one-millionth of what they've done we would get a pass? Hell no! We'd be tried and convicted in half-a-heartbeat and the key would be thrown away for good.
The Founders asked themselves under what guidelines and laws will ALL of us live? They expected to live by the same rules and regulations imposed on everyone else. They never envisioned a state of affairs with one set of rules for We the People and an entirely different set for the rich, the powerful and the politically connected. Congress, for instance, doesn't fall under the sway of Obamacare. Some unions and states were given a pass on it - they didn't have to buy into the exchanges and weren't subjected to the rules.
Service to America - not dictatorship. When the Constitution was written, the people who would serve in Washington expected, and were expected, to serve for short periods. They would be elected, go to Washington, do the work, get the job done, and go home again. They never expected to be career politicians as we have now. These career politicians are the people (vermin) who have done so much damage to our country. Donald Trump's term limits proposal is exactly what's needed.
I also think that it's crucial that we re-institute American History courses in our schools. Not just one year, or two, but year after year. Teaching needs to go back into the decades that preceded our withdrawal from British rule, without revision or parsing. It must be true to what happened.
What made us want to leave? How did the Constitution and Bill of Rights come into being? (It wasn't just a bunch of guys sitting around the dinner table one night.) What were the effects of those documents on the men who formulated and signed them? How high a price did they pay for demanding to be free? How did the Revolutionary War start, and how was it fought?
None of our kids - none of the #Snowflakes running around, screaming their heads off - know these things. They do not know the brilliance and the beauty of our Constitutional form of government. THAT, among all the rest of it, is the biggest crime of all.
So, those are a few of my visions of what will Make America Great Again. There's a lot more, but if these things get started, I'd sleep better at night.
Best~
Philippa
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilippaStories
What can we do to truly Make America Great Again for all of us? From where I sit, there are a few things that would go a long way to not only making America stronger than it was, but keep it stronger for our future generations.
One YUGE thing popped into my awareness yesterday - our Constitution. It's been assaulted, again, by our own government, by someone who took an oath of office that declares, in part: "to uphold and defend the Constitution".
Secretary Kerry and President Obama signed a treaty with the United Nations that could, realistically, undermine our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. This treaty is intended to prevent the trade of arms "across state lines". The UN, at least publicly, says those lines belong to nation states. However, it is not at all difficult to extrapolate that "state line" component into individual American state lines.
This angers me. It angers me a lot because I happen to understand the brilliance of our Constitution.
It's a guideline, not a rule book, and it can be - if decided upon by the majority of American citizens and American states - be modified. However, and it's a big HOWEVER, it is not supposed to be something that can be undermined or weakened by a simple swipe of the pen by one person or a small group. Changes to the Constitution, such as gutting the Second Amendment, require ratification by thirty-eight of our fifty states.
Therefore, from where I sit, one challenge is how to guarantee that our Constitution and our sovereignty are protected from any such treaty in future? Simple, but not so easy:
Amendment Thirty-Four: No Administration, Department or Agency shall enter into any treaty that weakens or directly affects, negates or offsets any of the Amendments to this Constitution without achieving a two-thirds majority vote of the legal American electorate.
That wording is not as elegant as the preceding thirty-three amendments, but it covers the bases. It makes it harder for any Secretary of State or President, to sign away our sovereign rights to another entity - like the UN.
We've already had our First Amendment threatened. Earlier this year, the US gave up its control of the internet DNS - Domain Naming System - to the UN via the ICANN treaty. We haven't seen the change, yet. However, if the UN decides that internet "things" are getting out of control, what prevents them from shutting it down, or modifying the DNS access we currently enjoy to something unusable?
As it is now, if you type in a domain name, the DNS recognizes the link between the name and the IP address and directs you there, without you having to remember the TCP/IP string of ###.##.##.## which is convenient. However, let's say the UN's group that oversees the internet decides it doesn't like me and others like me who say what we think. Not all members of the UN like free speech. If they're in power, or heading up the internet group, what's to prevent them from meddling? This is something that should not have been turned over to another entity.
Going farther, because of the changes in society over the past two-hundred fifty years, we need to think hard about our approach to things. We need to look back and take measure of the best parts of the character and ethics of the men who wrote this document. We need to weigh their morals and values against ours (which, in my view are weak, at best). When it was written, they approached governance of America from the standpoints of:
The greater good - what is good for ALL of the citizens, not just for them and their cronies? There weren't lobbyists and the buying of access and power then as there is now.
Justice for all had meaning. It meant that the laws that affected the people would apply equally to them. There would be no different strokes for different folks as there is now - think of Hillary Clinton and her cabal. Do you really believe that if any one of us did one-one-millionth of what they've done we would get a pass? Hell no! We'd be tried and convicted in half-a-heartbeat and the key would be thrown away for good.
The Founders asked themselves under what guidelines and laws will ALL of us live? They expected to live by the same rules and regulations imposed on everyone else. They never envisioned a state of affairs with one set of rules for We the People and an entirely different set for the rich, the powerful and the politically connected. Congress, for instance, doesn't fall under the sway of Obamacare. Some unions and states were given a pass on it - they didn't have to buy into the exchanges and weren't subjected to the rules.
Service to America - not dictatorship. When the Constitution was written, the people who would serve in Washington expected, and were expected, to serve for short periods. They would be elected, go to Washington, do the work, get the job done, and go home again. They never expected to be career politicians as we have now. These career politicians are the people (vermin) who have done so much damage to our country. Donald Trump's term limits proposal is exactly what's needed.
I also think that it's crucial that we re-institute American History courses in our schools. Not just one year, or two, but year after year. Teaching needs to go back into the decades that preceded our withdrawal from British rule, without revision or parsing. It must be true to what happened.
What made us want to leave? How did the Constitution and Bill of Rights come into being? (It wasn't just a bunch of guys sitting around the dinner table one night.) What were the effects of those documents on the men who formulated and signed them? How high a price did they pay for demanding to be free? How did the Revolutionary War start, and how was it fought?
None of our kids - none of the #Snowflakes running around, screaming their heads off - know these things. They do not know the brilliance and the beauty of our Constitutional form of government. THAT, among all the rest of it, is the biggest crime of all.
So, those are a few of my visions of what will Make America Great Again. There's a lot more, but if these things get started, I'd sleep better at night.
Best~
Philippa
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilippaStories
Friday, November 11, 2016
Mirror, Mirror
In the past months, the drumbeat of hatred has ramped up. Words are being thrown around with abandon, and the vast majority of the pejorative nouns coming from the Left side of the political spectrum are being grossly misapplied. Most often by those who consider themselves to be "tolerant."
Yesterday, GrubHub's CEO issued a broadcast email to all of his employees:
Based on what's here, if you happen to think Donald Trump might be a good president, you're supposed to tender your resignation - there is no room for you at GrubHub. He explicitly states: "We do not tolerate hateful attitudes on our team." But isn't the jist of his message hateful toward those who happen to have a view that's different than his?
There are hundreds of examples of this kind of bigotry and intolerance throughout the media, across the internet and through anecdotal reporting of individual victims.
People are being threatened or beaten until they're bloody because they don't agree with those who support Hillary Clinton.
Yesterday, in Woodside, California, a high school student was viciously beaten and ended up in the local hospital emergency room because, as shown in the video below, she tried to explain why she supports Trump to another student. The other student wouldn't listen or just walk away. Instead, she tore into this young girl who just happened to have a different point of view.
On the radio this morning, I heard a caller from Williams, California tell about his experience with the "loving" "tolerant" Left.
He picked his step-daughter up from school the other day. He noted that she was upset but, when he asked what the problem was, she wouldn't tell him. Half-an-hour after getting home, the man's wife, who's Hispanic, took him aside and told him that because he's white, their daughter is being bullied by her classmates.
There are thousands of other, similar stories. They're popping up in our news feeds time after time after time.
Given the hatred streaming from the Left - the shrieking intolerance, bigotry, fascism and, at times, blatant racism - I think these "inclusive" "loving" and "tolerant" people would do well to stop for five minutes. They should be encouraged to find a mirror, to look deep into the glass and think: Just who is it who best fits all of the pejorative terms being thrown around?
And, for clarity, here are those definitions I promised:
Hater - a person who greatly dislikes a specified person or thing.
Bigot - a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.
Fascist (fascism) - an advocate or follower of fascism (facism - an authoritarian and nationalistic system of government and social organization. [In general use - extreme authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.])
Based on what's unfolding across America these days, the protests, riots, destruction of private property and the rest of it, I can tell you who are none of these things: Donald Trump and his supporters.
Best~
Philippa
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
"White Guilt" - What Is That?
On Tuesday, Americans went to the polls. We cast our votes. One side won, the other didn't. Now there are protests. People waving signs a nine-year old might write, screaming unimaginative slurs and swearing because the vocabulary just isn't big enough to encompass emotion.
Virtually all of it is organized and promoted by Moveon or other Soros fronts. This is a job for most of these people. They get word there's something on. They get dressed. They go out and make a bunch of noise and create problems for law enforcement and fellow citizens. At the end of it, they get a check. It's not a true movement. It's pretend.
That's the overarching theme. Underlying that, mixed in with the overt "we hate the guy who got elected" childishness, are "Black Lives Matter" and other outright racist signs.
Oops. I'm not supposed to say that. I'm white, and a woman, and over a certain age (39) so I can't call anyone "racist" - even if it fits.
On the other side, they can say I'm racist, a bigot, and all the rest, even though they don't know me. They don't know what I think, what I believe or what's in my heart. Just because I don't hold exactly the same view about things they do, I'm a... something.
What these people don't realize is: This country, because of generations of discriminatory laws, attitudes and behaviors, has deep wounds. The problem with deep wounds is that if you dig at a them, pick at the edges and rip at the scab, the wound can't heal. And that's what these people are doing.
By putting black lives above other lives, saying they're more important than brown lives or red lives or white lives, they're diminishing - discriminating against - those other lives.
By demanding that I, and other Caucasian people feel guilty because of a chance of birth, is plain stupid. I didn't choose to be white. It just happened.
In the place where I grew up, I'll admit it wasn't diverse, but is that my fault? Should I feel guilt because my parents bought their house in a town that was predominately white?
As it happened, my family wasn't much different than the families of my peers - except for the family of my Chinese friend who lived in one of the nicer neighborhoods in town, and Wilt Chamberlain who lived in a house that looked down on the small, three bedroom, one bathroom house my family lived in. We were middle class / borderline poor - one car, lots of casseroles and cheap meat, tent camping trips were the vacation of our dreams and, among that, I was raised to believe that I have to make and take opportunities that present themselves.
When I was fifteen, I tried to talk to my dad about planning for college. He looked me in the eye and said, "We can't afford it. If you want to go to college, you have to work through it." The door was closed because I was fifteen. I wasn't driven, so I looked for other options. I took typing classes. Then I went to junior college and took bookkeeping classes. I didn't get a leg up or special treatment. I wasn't admitted to the typing class because I was white. In fact, two of my classmates were black. I certainly didn't look around and pin the blame on someone else, not even of a different race. It was my situation, my problem, and it was up to me to figure it out, so I did. Should I feel guilty for that?
This is what I don't understand. Why are these people out there, marching, blocking traffic and sidewalks, interrupting the lives of other people just trying to go about their own business?
Why do they demand that I and other people who don't happen to be black, feel guilty for a chance of genetics?
If these people really want equality, as they say they do, why do they keep picking at the wound of differences? Why don't they stop pointing out that not everyone is the same? At the end of the day, what difference does it make? Who cares what color skin someone happens to have?
Martin Luther King said it best:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
Why can't these people strive for that ideal and just go home?
Can someone enlighten me, please?
Best~
Philippa
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilippaStories
Virtually all of it is organized and promoted by Moveon or other Soros fronts. This is a job for most of these people. They get word there's something on. They get dressed. They go out and make a bunch of noise and create problems for law enforcement and fellow citizens. At the end of it, they get a check. It's not a true movement. It's pretend.
That's the overarching theme. Underlying that, mixed in with the overt "we hate the guy who got elected" childishness, are "Black Lives Matter" and other outright racist signs.
Oops. I'm not supposed to say that. I'm white, and a woman, and over a certain age (39) so I can't call anyone "racist" - even if it fits.
On the other side, they can say I'm racist, a bigot, and all the rest, even though they don't know me. They don't know what I think, what I believe or what's in my heart. Just because I don't hold exactly the same view about things they do, I'm a... something.
What these people don't realize is: This country, because of generations of discriminatory laws, attitudes and behaviors, has deep wounds. The problem with deep wounds is that if you dig at a them, pick at the edges and rip at the scab, the wound can't heal. And that's what these people are doing.
By putting black lives above other lives, saying they're more important than brown lives or red lives or white lives, they're diminishing - discriminating against - those other lives.
By demanding that I, and other Caucasian people feel guilty because of a chance of birth, is plain stupid. I didn't choose to be white. It just happened.
In the place where I grew up, I'll admit it wasn't diverse, but is that my fault? Should I feel guilt because my parents bought their house in a town that was predominately white?
As it happened, my family wasn't much different than the families of my peers - except for the family of my Chinese friend who lived in one of the nicer neighborhoods in town, and Wilt Chamberlain who lived in a house that looked down on the small, three bedroom, one bathroom house my family lived in. We were middle class / borderline poor - one car, lots of casseroles and cheap meat, tent camping trips were the vacation of our dreams and, among that, I was raised to believe that I have to make and take opportunities that present themselves.
When I was fifteen, I tried to talk to my dad about planning for college. He looked me in the eye and said, "We can't afford it. If you want to go to college, you have to work through it." The door was closed because I was fifteen. I wasn't driven, so I looked for other options. I took typing classes. Then I went to junior college and took bookkeeping classes. I didn't get a leg up or special treatment. I wasn't admitted to the typing class because I was white. In fact, two of my classmates were black. I certainly didn't look around and pin the blame on someone else, not even of a different race. It was my situation, my problem, and it was up to me to figure it out, so I did. Should I feel guilty for that?
This is what I don't understand. Why are these people out there, marching, blocking traffic and sidewalks, interrupting the lives of other people just trying to go about their own business?
Why do they demand that I and other people who don't happen to be black, feel guilty for a chance of genetics?
If these people really want equality, as they say they do, why do they keep picking at the wound of differences? Why don't they stop pointing out that not everyone is the same? At the end of the day, what difference does it make? Who cares what color skin someone happens to have?
Martin Luther King said it best:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
Why can't these people strive for that ideal and just go home?
Can someone enlighten me, please?
Best~
Philippa
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilippaStories
The Sun Came Up After All
How about that? The election is over and we're still upright and breathing. The sun rose and things are moving along just as they did yesterday.
From where I sit, and where I think a lot of my fellow countrymen sit, there is a profound sense of relief. Relief and a looking-forward feeling that we're not about to fall off the edge into a downward spiral of more regulation, higher taxes and greater government control over our lives. It IS hopeful in America because, after months and months of struggle, door knocking, phone calls, hard work and hoping, we have a man with a positive, hopeful, uplifting message for America.
Donald Trump has said repeatedly, in front of hundreds of thousands of witnesses, that he will be OUR president. That he will work for US. That he loves America. That he will do all he can to protect our country and our best interests on the world stage.
I look forward to that. I look forward to looking up instead of down. I look forward to having a chance for a better quality of life, a thriving economy with higher employment. This is, truly, a new day and it is full of hope and the prospect of change we were promised more than eight years ago.
No matter what the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) says, there are tens of millions of people who are and who have been sitting on the sidelines, sometimes for years, who haven't been able to find work. They are the truly disenfranchised, the hopeless. Now, because of the programs and ideas Donald Trump has publicized, they can hope again. They, too, can look forward to getting back to work, to digging in and feeling that sense of well-being that comes from contributing to the greater good through the effort of their own labor.
It won't happen immediately, but you can already see the sense of relief, of looking-forward in the stock market.
Companies that engage in construction and infrastructure, the equipment manufacturers, the material suppliers, are seeing a bounce in their stock prices. There is anticipation that those will be needed - and those companies will again be offering employment opportunities. In a matter of months, I think a lot of the un-employed, the given-up, the under employed will begin to see the budding of a new economic boom.
The coal industry, the broader energy industry, the lifeblood of our country will start to resurge. Jobs will open - the high paying jobs that have been promised for years and years - will start to open up and that will benefit the workers, their families and their communities. People will have money in their pocket, not because of government largesse or theft from others in the form of taxes, but because of their own labor. For the honest, the willing, there is no greater sense of satisfaction than going to work, working hard and, when the day is done looking back and saying, "I did a lot today" or "I had a good day."
It has been a long time, too long, since America has had an opportunity like this. I am glad we finally do. I am glad the sun rose over America this morning and there is change in the air.
And, in the spirit of the day, the hope and the expectation, I'll leave it there.
Best~
Philippa
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilippaStories
From where I sit, and where I think a lot of my fellow countrymen sit, there is a profound sense of relief. Relief and a looking-forward feeling that we're not about to fall off the edge into a downward spiral of more regulation, higher taxes and greater government control over our lives. It IS hopeful in America because, after months and months of struggle, door knocking, phone calls, hard work and hoping, we have a man with a positive, hopeful, uplifting message for America.
Donald Trump has said repeatedly, in front of hundreds of thousands of witnesses, that he will be OUR president. That he will work for US. That he loves America. That he will do all he can to protect our country and our best interests on the world stage.
I look forward to that. I look forward to looking up instead of down. I look forward to having a chance for a better quality of life, a thriving economy with higher employment. This is, truly, a new day and it is full of hope and the prospect of change we were promised more than eight years ago.
No matter what the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) says, there are tens of millions of people who are and who have been sitting on the sidelines, sometimes for years, who haven't been able to find work. They are the truly disenfranchised, the hopeless. Now, because of the programs and ideas Donald Trump has publicized, they can hope again. They, too, can look forward to getting back to work, to digging in and feeling that sense of well-being that comes from contributing to the greater good through the effort of their own labor.
It won't happen immediately, but you can already see the sense of relief, of looking-forward in the stock market.
Companies that engage in construction and infrastructure, the equipment manufacturers, the material suppliers, are seeing a bounce in their stock prices. There is anticipation that those will be needed - and those companies will again be offering employment opportunities. In a matter of months, I think a lot of the un-employed, the given-up, the under employed will begin to see the budding of a new economic boom.
The coal industry, the broader energy industry, the lifeblood of our country will start to resurge. Jobs will open - the high paying jobs that have been promised for years and years - will start to open up and that will benefit the workers, their families and their communities. People will have money in their pocket, not because of government largesse or theft from others in the form of taxes, but because of their own labor. For the honest, the willing, there is no greater sense of satisfaction than going to work, working hard and, when the day is done looking back and saying, "I did a lot today" or "I had a good day."
It has been a long time, too long, since America has had an opportunity like this. I am glad we finally do. I am glad the sun rose over America this morning and there is change in the air.
And, in the spirit of the day, the hope and the expectation, I'll leave it there.
Best~
Philippa
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
The Pinky & The Brain Society for World Domination, Part II - Updated
Following is the repost of a blog I put up last December.
It lays out my concern that the United Nations is nothing more than the nascent government for the New World Order / Globalist Society being forced upon us by our politicians.
America must do as the UK did from the EU - one of the five region/states promoted by the Globalists. We must "Brexit" from the UN and from NAFTA if we want to keep our sovereignty. By doing that, by shedding the shackles imposed upon us over the past thirty-five years, we will become truly free again, and will be positioned to provide a guiding light for the rest of the industrialized world.
If Hillary Clinton becomes President, our nation will cease to be. Obama has already handed over internet freedom to the United Nations. Clinton will have the Supreme Court and will strip our Constitution from us. The Second Amendment will be the first to fall - our insurance policy against governmental tyranny. Next will be the First Amendment, then the others, one-by-one, until we are laid bare.
There is no reason to doubt that the UN will begin exercising internet censorship if Hillary is elected. It fits with the UN 2030 Agenda - which lays out, in kindly terms, their plan for subverting free peoples and free nations to a One World Government.
The other day I posted and ranted about the UN's Agenda 2030 - a document that smacks of a manifesto about how they're going to take over the world. Reading that and thinking about it, it seems clear to me that the United Nations is intent on becoming the One World Government, Constitutions and national sovereignty be damned.
According to their Agenda, immigration is necessary and nations should cooperate and even encourage it.
Nation states should not do anything independently. If they want to enter into a trade agreement or do something that will benefit the citizens of their country financially or economically, that nation state is required, under the terms of this agreement, to get it approved by the Pinky & The Brain Society for World Domination (hereinafter called "the UN").
Along with the manifesto there were a smattering of references to other documents. Reading them it's not as overtly concerning as I expected. Most deal with the lofty goals of bringing undeveloped countries forward. African nations, land-locked nations (like Lichtenstein, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, no doubt), and other "deserving" countries. It sounds as if it's all about helping them to become self-sustaining and peaceful. And as I said the other day, those are lofty, admirable and worthy goals. They're not realistic goals given what's going on around the world these days, but they are worthy.
Can we say Boko Haram and mass murder? How about Daesh or ISIS or ISIL or IS or whatever the hell the name du jour is for those vermin who are killing and raping with abandon. Al Qaeda or Taliban or any of the many offshoots are in there, too. Given the violence running rampant through much of the world, the worldwide peace called for in Agenda 2030 looks to be very pie in the sky right now.
Despite the worthiness of its ideals, I do hope, for the the benefit of citizens everywhere, that the UN doesn't set itself up as The One World Government. Having people govern themselves locally is much better for the individual than people living under one-size fits all totalitarianism or tyranny, which is what I fear the UN's vision for the world would quickly become.
However, I do hope they manage to bring peace and prosperity to all. I'm still not sure how they're going to do it given the (I stand corrected because I said six the other day) more than seven billion people wandering around this planet and the limited resources of clean water and food. Good on them if they can, though.
Well, I said I would go back and read through some of those documents. Truth is, I skimmed. I skimmed several carefully, an in-depth skim rather than a skim-skim, and I gleaned some interesting information. Nothing about widespread eugenics or life productivity charts that show where medical resources should be applied (which was a cause of some widespread conspiracy theories back in 2008-2009).
One of the documents I looked at is called the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Googling it brought me a selection of sites. I chose this UN page which is basically lots and lots of happy-talk about what the plan is:
On the weekend of November 16th, the G20 leaders whisked into Brisbane, posed for their photo ops, approved some proposals, made a show of roundly disapproving of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and whisked out again. It was all so fast, they may not have known what they were endorsing when they rubber-stamped the Financial Stability Board's "Adequacy of Loss-Absorbing Capacity of Global Systemically Important Banks in Resolution," which completely changes the rules of banking.
Russell Napier, writing in ZeroHedge, called it "the day money died." In any case, it may have been the day deposits died as money. Unlike coins and paper bills, which cannot be written down or given a "haircut," says Napier, deposits are now "just part of commercial banks' capital structure." That means they can be "bailed in" or confiscated to save the megabanks from derivative bets gone wrong.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/new-g20-bailin-rules-now-_b_6244394.html
It lays out my concern that the United Nations is nothing more than the nascent government for the New World Order / Globalist Society being forced upon us by our politicians.
America must do as the UK did from the EU - one of the five region/states promoted by the Globalists. We must "Brexit" from the UN and from NAFTA if we want to keep our sovereignty. By doing that, by shedding the shackles imposed upon us over the past thirty-five years, we will become truly free again, and will be positioned to provide a guiding light for the rest of the industrialized world.
If Hillary Clinton becomes President, our nation will cease to be. Obama has already handed over internet freedom to the United Nations. Clinton will have the Supreme Court and will strip our Constitution from us. The Second Amendment will be the first to fall - our insurance policy against governmental tyranny. Next will be the First Amendment, then the others, one-by-one, until we are laid bare.
There is no reason to doubt that the UN will begin exercising internet censorship if Hillary is elected. It fits with the UN 2030 Agenda - which lays out, in kindly terms, their plan for subverting free peoples and free nations to a One World Government.
The other day I posted and ranted about the UN's Agenda 2030 - a document that smacks of a manifesto about how they're going to take over the world. Reading that and thinking about it, it seems clear to me that the United Nations is intent on becoming the One World Government, Constitutions and national sovereignty be damned.
According to their Agenda, immigration is necessary and nations should cooperate and even encourage it.
Nation states should not do anything independently. If they want to enter into a trade agreement or do something that will benefit the citizens of their country financially or economically, that nation state is required, under the terms of this agreement, to get it approved by the Pinky & The Brain Society for World Domination (hereinafter called "the UN").
Along with the manifesto there were a smattering of references to other documents. Reading them it's not as overtly concerning as I expected. Most deal with the lofty goals of bringing undeveloped countries forward. African nations, land-locked nations (like Lichtenstein, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, no doubt), and other "deserving" countries. It sounds as if it's all about helping them to become self-sustaining and peaceful. And as I said the other day, those are lofty, admirable and worthy goals. They're not realistic goals given what's going on around the world these days, but they are worthy.
Can we say Boko Haram and mass murder? How about Daesh or ISIS or ISIL or IS or whatever the hell the name du jour is for those vermin who are killing and raping with abandon. Al Qaeda or Taliban or any of the many offshoots are in there, too. Given the violence running rampant through much of the world, the worldwide peace called for in Agenda 2030 looks to be very pie in the sky right now.
Despite the worthiness of its ideals, I do hope, for the the benefit of citizens everywhere, that the UN doesn't set itself up as The One World Government. Having people govern themselves locally is much better for the individual than people living under one-size fits all totalitarianism or tyranny, which is what I fear the UN's vision for the world would quickly become.
However, I do hope they manage to bring peace and prosperity to all. I'm still not sure how they're going to do it given the (I stand corrected because I said six the other day) more than seven billion people wandering around this planet and the limited resources of clean water and food. Good on them if they can, though.
Well, I said I would go back and read through some of those documents. Truth is, I skimmed. I skimmed several carefully, an in-depth skim rather than a skim-skim, and I gleaned some interesting information. Nothing about widespread eugenics or life productivity charts that show where medical resources should be applied (which was a cause of some widespread conspiracy theories back in 2008-2009).
One of the documents I looked at is called the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Googling it brought me a selection of sites. I chose this UN page which is basically lots and lots of happy-talk about what the plan is:
Cutting through the wilderness of
verbiage (you think they use so many convoluted words and phrases so people will give up and go do
something else?), I found not much else but one significant point that comes up again and again.
Hold onto your wallet. The
tax collector is coming to get you, and it’s going to hurt:
Domestic resource mobilization is central to
the agenda. In the outcome
document, countries agreed to an array
of measures aimed at widening the revenue base, improving tax collection, and
combatting tax evasion and illicit financial flows. Countries also
reaffirmed their commitment to official development assistance, particularly
for the least developed countries…
Doncha love the convoluted phrasing?
It makes sound so benign. “Domestic resource mobilization…” * Sighs and bats eyelids at the melodious sound of it *
Oh, and that typo is theirs, not mine (mine is a direct quote, including the wart of 'combatting').
Oh, and that typo is theirs, not mine (mine is a direct quote, including the wart of 'combatting').
Now, back to the program here:
Excuse me? Just what the hell is that supposed to mean? "Domestic resource mobilization..."
This is deliberate, you know. Make it hard to read, harder to comprehend and people will give up. You can bet when these guys and gals were sitting around that table they weren’t saying (in portentous tones), “You know, domestic resource mobilization has got to be central to this agenda.”
No, it was probably more along the lines of, "You know, we are going to have to tax the hell out of people to pay for all of this. That has got to be central to this agenda."
Excuse me? Just what the hell is that supposed to mean? "Domestic resource mobilization..."
This is deliberate, you know. Make it hard to read, harder to comprehend and people will give up. You can bet when these guys and gals were sitting around that table they weren’t saying (in portentous tones), “You know, domestic resource mobilization has got to be central to this agenda.”
No, it was probably more along the lines of, "You know, we are going to have to tax the hell out of people to pay for all of this. That has got to be central to this agenda."
Bottom line is that they have deliberately made it harder to
read than it needs to be, and if you’ve reached this far it’s possible your
brain is on the verge of exploding. But I’m persistent and dogged so I made it
this far. Then read farther. Basically, they are going to create new taxes, fees, liens, assessments and levies,
reduce loopholes, and do everything possible to separate you from as much of your hard
earned money as possible so it can be given away to other countries.
The next paragraph takes it a step
farther:
The outcome document also
underscores the importance of aligning private investment with
sustainable development,
In
other words, under this grand scheme it seems that your “private”
investments wouldn't be
private anymore. You invest your money in the stock market or some other
savings vehicle and it’s not necessarily yours. Maybe it'll be like some
of the programs instituted in Greece and Cypress in the past couple of
years. You know, those policies where if you have anything more than "x"
amount of money in the bank, the government can just swoop down and
take it. They were called 'bail-ins'.
In
case you don't believe this actually happened (it did), here's an
except is from the Huffington Post (there are many other links but out
of sensitivity for those who might get hives from any of the other more
right-wing publications like Forbes or Investor's Business Daily or the
Wall Street Journal, I chose this one):
On the weekend of November 16th, the G20 leaders whisked into Brisbane, posed for their photo ops, approved some proposals, made a show of roundly disapproving of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and whisked out again. It was all so fast, they may not have known what they were endorsing when they rubber-stamped the Financial Stability Board's "Adequacy of Loss-Absorbing Capacity of Global Systemically Important Banks in Resolution," which completely changes the rules of banking.
Russell Napier, writing in ZeroHedge, called it "the day money died." In any case, it may have been the day deposits died as money. Unlike coins and paper bills, which cannot be written down or given a "haircut," says Napier, deposits are now "just part of commercial banks' capital structure." That means they can be "bailed in" or confiscated to save the megabanks from derivative bets gone wrong.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/new-g20-bailin-rules-now-_b_6244394.html
And, that G20 document they signed affected all banks, everywhere.
Including here in the US where we supposedly have our own national
banking regulations and restrictions. Yeah, well there went those with
nary a ripple.
So, back to the UN Agenda 2030 and Addis Ababa Action Thingie. It goes farther. It pretty much says
that on top of your local tax collector and the national tax collector, we
might end up with a UN tax collector, too. Although they won’t call it that.
They’ll figure out new ways and means and impose taxes, fees, levies,
assessments or anything else they can think of, take the money locally or
domestically, and then funnel it into the UN for redistribution. Don’t believe
me? Well, they say it right here:
Taxation—The
Agenda calls for strengthening support for the work of the UN Committee of Experts on International
Cooperation in Tax Matters to improve its effectiveness and operational
capacity,
Wunnerful. So, on top of the
twenty-some percent I pay in income tax, and the ten percent sales tax I
regularly shell out on things other than foodstuffs, and the forty percent I
pay per gallon on the gas I need to get to my job to earn the money to pay my
taxes, I get to look forward to another hand being thrust in my direction.
Well, they gotta pay for this somehow.
I kept reading but didn’t find
anything else that’s new. Just the high-falutin’ goals to which they aspire and
expect us to pay for.
I’m
still scratching my head over how they’re going to
bring everyone on this planet up to the same plane of existence. Don't
misunderstand me, please. It’s a worthy
goal and I hope they can accomplish it. I just fear that by taking and
taking and taking from those who have and giving and giving and giving
to those who don't, they'll end up dragging the rest of us down to the
level of these undeveloped countries.
Since
we have no one with a spine in Washington, and Obie-One is routinely
circumventing the protections afforded by the Constitution by issuing
decree after decree from the Oval Office, I suspect we're going to be
stuck with this whether we like it or not. So much for a Representative
Democracy.
Well. It's another case of something about which I, as an individual can do nothing so I'm not going to worry about it. I'll live my life, put one foot in front of the other for as long as I can, and keep on keepin' on. I hope you'll do the same but I do hope, if you figure out a solution to The Pinky & The Brain Society for World Domination you'll clue the rest of us in so we can join you.
If you want to read the lead-in to this, see my other post about this, here:
http://philippastories.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-pinky-brain-society-are-winding-up.html
Best~
Philippa
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Well. It's another case of something about which I, as an individual can do nothing so I'm not going to worry about it. I'll live my life, put one foot in front of the other for as long as I can, and keep on keepin' on. I hope you'll do the same but I do hope, if you figure out a solution to The Pinky & The Brain Society for World Domination you'll clue the rest of us in so we can join you.
If you want to read the lead-in to this, see my other post about this, here:
http://philippastories.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-pinky-brain-society-are-winding-up.html
Best~
Philippa
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Saturday, October 22, 2016
What is Wrong with America?
I am so angry, so frustrated and so disgusted by the descent of this country into a nation where there are two sets of rules - one for the rich and powerful, and a completely different set for the people who work hard, pay their taxes and play by the rules. WE, what little is left of the middle class, by our labor and effort, carry the rich and powerful on our backs.
For all those Elitists in Hollywood who look down their noses at people like me, or people who kind of think like me, we support you by going to see your movies. We support you by buying your music and watching your shows. Where do you get off looking down at us and sneering? Without us, without our money, you'd be broke and living on the streets. You would be homeless like so many of the men and women who have fought for those freedoms that allow you to spew hatred and crap like pus from a suppurating wound.
The same for the media and the Masters of the Internet - Google and Microsoft. If we could break our addiction to the drug you provide - the internet - you'd go broke in a week. But we can't. You own us and you know it and you sneer and smear and laugh.
Fine. Sometimes a dance with the devil is unavoidable, so we dance.
But! This corruption, the lies that are told and the evil that pervades our electoral process is so far removed from, so diametrically opposed to the intent of our Bill of Rights and Constitution - that I could almost (not quite, but almost) commit murder.
Saying it "infuriates" me doesn't even come close to how I really feel.
All across the news there are stories, Ed Snowden, Kristian Saucier, David Petraeus, John Deutch, Sandy Berger, Peter Van Buren and the list goes on and on and on, of people who have done nothing compared to what Hilliary has done. These people have been hammered, their lives ruined, imprisoned or not, their reputations have been trashed - and Hilliary gets a pass.
The latest I saw last night is that one of her attorneys "gave" our national secrets to China by using a compromised laptop. Files that were on her server have been found on that laptop, which has been proved to have been hacked by China. Files have been found on a server in Romania - and she gets a pass.
For months we kept hearing that James Comey "is a stand-up guy". Bull crap. He's as corrupt, as morally and ethically bankrupt, as soulless as Loretta Lynch and all the rest of the Washington insiders.
This leads me to ask: What the HELL is wrong with the people in this country?
Is there no one with a shred of honor, a speck of decency or moral fiber left? Why is this woman walking the street? Because she said, "I don't recall"? That's bull crap and we all know it.
There's a video that's been found, from 2010, where she's on tape telling her staff about cyber security. Now we all know that was a case of "do as I say, not as I do". But she doesn't recall.
If anyone else did any thing even remotely like what she's done, they'd be rotting in jail - and she's not.
Why are we, the citizens of this country, giving this woman a pass? Why are WE allowing her to get away with this? This is WRONG.
I am confident that if Donald Trump gets elected next month Hilliary will be toast next year - and about damned time as far as I'm concerned.
But what does all of this say about our country? What does it say about our morality and sense of right and wrong? More importantly, what message are we sending our kids? "Become powerful and you can do anything?" That's what it looks like from where I sit.
There is credible evidence that the Clintons have been involved in hurting people, perhaps even killing some. Just the Project Veritas videos prove that they will stop at nothing - even if it means children get pepper sprayed and people get beaten up and pelted with eggs. All that matters to Hilliary is getting elected - and the hell with everyone who gets in her way.
Why? On God's green Earth, why would anyone with a shred of decency or speck of a soul vote for someone like this?
Even if you think Donald Trump is a foul mouthed boor, mean and crass or anything else, that is NOTHING compared to what we know about Hilliary and her entourage. When has Donald Trump ever caused property damage, physical harm or threatened anyone? I've never heard that from the media - and we all know they would have used it, plastered the airwaves with it, but there's nothing.
This election IS the future of our country. I'm convinced of that because of the Supreme Court. We can handle a couple of more years of bad leadership and a limp Congress - but the Court is our future. It will guide us as we move forward, and our freedom is under direct threat because of how Hillary Clinton views our country.
That is why I pray that Donald Trump prevails. Even if his feet are made of clay, even if he cannot do everything he's promising to do, it will put a huge dent in the globalist plan to subvert what was, in the twentieth century, the greatest republic on the planet.
Best~
Philippa
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For all those Elitists in Hollywood who look down their noses at people like me, or people who kind of think like me, we support you by going to see your movies. We support you by buying your music and watching your shows. Where do you get off looking down at us and sneering? Without us, without our money, you'd be broke and living on the streets. You would be homeless like so many of the men and women who have fought for those freedoms that allow you to spew hatred and crap like pus from a suppurating wound.
The same for the media and the Masters of the Internet - Google and Microsoft. If we could break our addiction to the drug you provide - the internet - you'd go broke in a week. But we can't. You own us and you know it and you sneer and smear and laugh.
Fine. Sometimes a dance with the devil is unavoidable, so we dance.
But! This corruption, the lies that are told and the evil that pervades our electoral process is so far removed from, so diametrically opposed to the intent of our Bill of Rights and Constitution - that I could almost (not quite, but almost) commit murder.
Saying it "infuriates" me doesn't even come close to how I really feel.
All across the news there are stories, Ed Snowden, Kristian Saucier, David Petraeus, John Deutch, Sandy Berger, Peter Van Buren and the list goes on and on and on, of people who have done nothing compared to what Hilliary has done. These people have been hammered, their lives ruined, imprisoned or not, their reputations have been trashed - and Hilliary gets a pass.
The latest I saw last night is that one of her attorneys "gave" our national secrets to China by using a compromised laptop. Files that were on her server have been found on that laptop, which has been proved to have been hacked by China. Files have been found on a server in Romania - and she gets a pass.
For months we kept hearing that James Comey "is a stand-up guy". Bull crap. He's as corrupt, as morally and ethically bankrupt, as soulless as Loretta Lynch and all the rest of the Washington insiders.
This leads me to ask: What the HELL is wrong with the people in this country?
Is there no one with a shred of honor, a speck of decency or moral fiber left? Why is this woman walking the street? Because she said, "I don't recall"? That's bull crap and we all know it.
There's a video that's been found, from 2010, where she's on tape telling her staff about cyber security. Now we all know that was a case of "do as I say, not as I do". But she doesn't recall.
If anyone else did any thing even remotely like what she's done, they'd be rotting in jail - and she's not.
Why are we, the citizens of this country, giving this woman a pass? Why are WE allowing her to get away with this? This is WRONG.
I am confident that if Donald Trump gets elected next month Hilliary will be toast next year - and about damned time as far as I'm concerned.
But what does all of this say about our country? What does it say about our morality and sense of right and wrong? More importantly, what message are we sending our kids? "Become powerful and you can do anything?" That's what it looks like from where I sit.
There is credible evidence that the Clintons have been involved in hurting people, perhaps even killing some. Just the Project Veritas videos prove that they will stop at nothing - even if it means children get pepper sprayed and people get beaten up and pelted with eggs. All that matters to Hilliary is getting elected - and the hell with everyone who gets in her way.
Why? On God's green Earth, why would anyone with a shred of decency or speck of a soul vote for someone like this?
Even if you think Donald Trump is a foul mouthed boor, mean and crass or anything else, that is NOTHING compared to what we know about Hilliary and her entourage. When has Donald Trump ever caused property damage, physical harm or threatened anyone? I've never heard that from the media - and we all know they would have used it, plastered the airwaves with it, but there's nothing.
This election IS the future of our country. I'm convinced of that because of the Supreme Court. We can handle a couple of more years of bad leadership and a limp Congress - but the Court is our future. It will guide us as we move forward, and our freedom is under direct threat because of how Hillary Clinton views our country.
That is why I pray that Donald Trump prevails. Even if his feet are made of clay, even if he cannot do everything he's promising to do, it will put a huge dent in the globalist plan to subvert what was, in the twentieth century, the greatest republic on the planet.
Best~
Philippa
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