1. The latest GOP ploy vis a vis the Joe Wilson outburst against Obama is to claim that "Obama started it" when he said in his speech that even some elected officials had been spreading misinformation and lies about his plan. So, they're justifying Wilson's shout-out "You lie" on the childish "he started it." The facts are: they did lie; Obama did not.
2. Orly Taitz -- the attorney who filed the case claiming that soldiers do not have to obey deployment orders because commander in chief Obama is not a citizen and therefore is not a legitimate president -- seems to me to be certifiably insane. I base this not only on seeing her on an interview show but in her response to the judge who threw the case out of court as frivolous and threatened to sanction her.
Here's what she said:
"somebody should consider trying [the judge] for treason and aiding and abetting this massive fraud known as Barack Hussein Obama. . . . This is so outrageous what this judge did -- it goes in the face of law and order. . . . Not every judge is as corrupt as Judge Land. Some judges believe in the Constitution. And some judges believe in the rule of law. . . . Judge Land is a typical puppet of the regime -- just like in the Soviet Union."U. S. District Court judge Clay Land was appointed by President George W. Bush. Orly Taitz is a self-proclaimed leader of the birther movement, and she is exploiting service men and women in her cause. She has used forged "birth certificates" from Africa to try to make her point. She has filed numerous lawsuits across the country, none of which has been successful. In the TV appearance I saw, Orly Taitz was unable to carry on a sensible dialogue with the interviewer but wandered wildly and loudly, such that the interviewer finally terminated the interview shaking his head in disbelief.
3. The South Carolina Supreme Court has awarded a $10 million dollar settlement against an insurance company that rescinded the medical insurance policy of a teenager diagnosed as HIV positive when he tried to donate blood -- after his policy became effective. Internal memos showed that the insurance company based its decision on a memo in his record from a nurse who said the diagnosis "might" have been known prior to the policy date, which was false.
Another case (out of thousands) was cited in which a woman's surgery for breast cancer was delayed by the insurance company for five months because there was a record of a doctor having years earlier suggested that a lesion on her face "might be" pre-cancerous. It later turned out to be acne. But even if it had been skin cancer, that would not be a pre-existing condition for beast cancer. In the five months it took to get approval for surgery, her breast mass had doubled in size and greatly reduced her chances for cure. Like thousands of others, this was the result of employees being given bonuses for finding reasons to cancel policies.
This is outrageous.
Ralph
I have to add a #4. Humana and other insurance companies are sending mailers to senior citizens warning them that the reforms will cut billions of dollars from the Medicare Advantage plan, and will result in loss of benefits and services.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is: the cuts proposed are the subsidies that the Bush administration agreed to pay insurance companies in an attempt to make private insurance competitive with Medicare. The proposed cuts will hurt insurance companies' profits, not seniors.
The worst that will happen is that an insurance company will drop the plan because it is not lucrative enough for them -- and then the seniors will simply go back to the regular Medicare plan. Any services lost will be insignificant for their health care.
The birthers, the tea baggers, the screamers, and the deathers continued extreme minority presence will become tiresome to mainstream America, if it has not already done so. To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true, if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. I heard Orly Taitz, is selling a tape (I think it’s called “Money, Lies and Video tape”). She is from Orange County, CA, now I know what the mean when they say “behind the Orange Curtain”, when they talk about Orange County, the captial of Conspiracy Theories. You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess they were in on it. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).
ReplyDeleteOrly is a piece of work. I just saw another attempted TV interview with her by Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC. It was another freak show. This woman simple takes the opportunity to blather on about her nonsense until the interviewers finally just cut her off.
ReplyDeleteWhat they should do is organize a real conspiracy: a total black out of news reporting on Orly Taitz. Don't give her the platform of national TV. No one has a constitutional right to be interviewed.