immigration reform possible? Yes!

How to solve illegal immigration?

Work to change the conditions that draw people here illegally. Too easily people can get fake identification papers. The Border Patrol too frequently turns a blind eye to people entering illegally. There is no fence along the southern border — though money was allocated for one. The federal government for too many years has done too little.

Hence Arizona’s sensible response. More needs to be done, however.

So let’s make sensible changes:

** Built rapport with law abiding groups across the Border. Have a foreign workers program and all workers carry tamper proof identification cards. Make a fence that is not easily penetrated and well maintained. Provide foreign aid to families and children that encourages families to stay and or return to Mexico and other Latin American countries.

** Built a solid fence with a 1/2 mile “no go” strip maintained by air planes, the national guard & border patrol. Physically fit persons paid by the government — like census workers — can walk the fence and be the eyes and ears for the national guard and border patrol. Use air planes equipped with laser tag guns, glow in the dark paint ball guns and other means of identifying persons that have illegally entered the U.S.

** Akin to the “go to the people & get their support” in Iraq and Afghanistan, use our military to “make friends” with law abiding citizens and groups in Mexico. What do they need/ want so their young people stay in Mexico and contribute to Mexico’s development? Give direct aid in small towns so they thrive and are pro-American and give us tips as to what the drug cartels are doing. Build rapport and support for law abiding behavior across the border.

** Remember that it is illegal behavior. Follow the laws that are already on the books.

** People are drawn here because of the freedoms we have as a lawful society. That’s what is wrong with amnesty every 10-15 years. Amnesty is a reward for bad behavior. Let’s reward legal behavior.

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are we safer now that Obama is President? The jihadists do feel safer!!

Let’s see. The Christmas Day bomber. He got Miranda rights. And the Times Square fellow who almost blew up the Square. He initially got Miranda rights. With a hem and a haw. And the Ford Hood psychiatrist that shot a bunch of fellow soldiers. As he was in the military I suppose he will — if able to stand trail – get a military trial. And there was a student who shot a couple of recruiters. Who else have I left out? All this in President Obama’s first year.

Do I feel safer now that Obama is President? Do you feel safer? Who should feel safer? Jihadists probably do feel safer!! With Miranda rights given to persons who commit domestic terrorism it will be many a year before their legal rights are exhausted.

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Would you take a $100 if someone picked it up off ground and asked if it was yours?

Would you take money?If you see someone walking towards you on the street holding out a $100 bill and asking if you want it, most people will avoid the person, say something like “I don’t come that cheap!” or “No, I do not have change…” We all know those people are wacky.

But if in any kind of minimum relationship and someone bends over and picks up a $100 bill and asks if it is yours…. what do YOU do? Do you take it? Then you can be bribed.

The article below is why to buy IMPORTED tomatoes and not buy from Safeway. And it is about BRIBES and TAINTED tomatoes. Continue reading “Would you take a $100 if someone picked it up off ground and asked if it was yours?”

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Napa Hospital Chief Arrested for Alleged Sexual Assault of a Foster Son 10 Years Ago

Head shrink at Napa State Hospital arrested for alleged molestation that occurred 10 years ago.

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Foulk, Chief of Napa State Hospital, charged with molest

Certainly a young man of 20 can remember what happened 10 years ago. But, why wait until someone who harmed you is in charge of a hospital to come forward? One does not have to be in charge of the joint to continue to do bad things.

Do you think Foulk has the “look” of a molester? Someone who works at the Santa Cruz County jail told me that she thought Foulk “looks” like a molester. I disagree. There is no “look”… Continue reading “Napa Hospital Chief Arrested for Alleged Sexual Assault of a Foster Son 10 Years Ago”

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Aptos psychologist: your cell phone location SHOULD be private. Not so says Obama govt.

Cell phone location is a privacy issue.

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cellphone privacy?
My cellphone lives in my purse, travels with me in my car, goes to work. Where my cellphone is is a private matter. The government has no business tracking cellphones. The Obama government disagrees. Americans have no expectation of privacy regarding their cell phone? Continue reading “Aptos psychologist: your cell phone location SHOULD be private. Not so says Obama govt.”

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Aptos psychologist: Let’s use the Internet to debate and control earmaks

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Pork is pork. Show it for what it is. Debate it. The Appropriations Committee is the Senate’s “favor factory”. It parcels out earmarks. Scott Brown wants to be on the Appropriations Committee precisely to improve transparency about earmarks. The last committee meeting held on Transparency in Government was held behind closed doors. written by Cameron Jackson DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

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Americans with Disabilities Act CAN protect persons with Autistic Spectrum Disorders

New Jersey has laws that require physicians to register those they diagnose with autism. Why such a high rate in the state of New Jersey? When there are dramatically different rates then the enviornment has to be implicated in addition to genetics. See the following article:

” A FLURRY of legislation was signed during former Gov. Jon Corzine’s last days in office, including two important autism bills: anti-discrimination legislation for people with autism and the opening of the autism registry to adults.

New Jersey has the highest autism rate in the country — 1 in 94
— and in the past three years, six other laws relating to autism were enacted. One, requiring that state-regulated health insurers cover medically necessary treatments, starts on Feb. 10.

Eight laws in three years is commendable. We urge the new governor and reorganized Legislature to continue that important work.

Autism is not one but a range of developmental disorders that are usually diagnosed around age 3. The cause is not fully understood, although scientists think complex genetic factors play a key role, as well as environmental factors. The disorder can range from mild to severe and from one symptom to many.

The autism registry started in 2007 and requires doctors who diagnose a child with autism to report it. Expanding the autism registry to include adults, who will voluntarily report themselves, will help the state develop better adult programs and provide a clearer picture of the range and scope of the disorder.

Advocates say the federal Americans with Disabilities Act has weakened over the last decade, and people with autism have not always been thoroughly protected. The new legislation expands the state’s anti-discrimination law to specifically include people with autism spectrum disorders. That means, for example, people with autism cannot be turned away from movie theaters or swimming pools.

Families of children with autism go through difficult years of grappling with the diagnosis, understanding their children’s needs and putting together the best education plan for them. It is an expensive, lonely and uncertain period for parents, especially since they’re dealing with a disorder we don’t fully understand. Then there’s the future. Parents worry about their kids growing up and government-mandated help running out.

Assemblywoman Joan Voss, D-Fort Lee, and Assemblyman Gary Schaer, D-Passaic, reintroduced a bill this month to create a state autism Web site. It would include information about the disorder and how to contact the Early Intervention Program. It’s a good start.

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How create competition in health care? free enterprise not government run health care

Paul Krugman in Baucus and the threshold (Santa Cruz Sentinel 9-20-09) writes that the Baucus plan doesn’t create “real competition in the insurance market. The right way to create competition is to offer a public option, a government run insurance plan individuals can buy into as an alternative to private insurance…”

That boggles the mind. Paul, we already have a public option — it is called Medicare. Everyone age 65 is forced to use the public option plan. Whether they like it or not. Medicare is a single payer, government run plan. And it runs hugely in the red. Reform Medicare instead of creating another government run bureaucracy.

How reform health care? Here’s how:

One, let the over 65 population opt out of Medicare in favor of privately run insurance plans of their choice. Create an Exchange that allows private insurance plans to compete with Medicare Over 65 people who are healthy and only want catastrophic care can get what they want. People over 65 may not want to and should not have to to pay for cosmetic surgery, abortions or AIDS care. Let the over 65 choose the level and kind of care they want. This is a way to create real competition with the existing single payer system – Medicare.What was that cry in the wilderness — Let my people go! Today let the people go out of Medicare if they choose.

Two, get serious about tort reform. Cap the amount of money people can get for non-economic losses at $400,000. Get rid of joint and several liability. That is serious tort reform. One state has already made these reforms. Make tort reform applicable in all states.

Use the carrot instead of a stick.
Give incentives for people to either buy health care or set aside money in an account to pay for their cost. Don’t use penalties for not buying insurance

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Obama calls police “stupid” to arrest black prof. www.freedomOK.net/wordpress

Prof Gates plays race card
Prof Gates plays race card
I hope that Professor Gates Black Studies classes are not required black political indoctrination at Harvard. From sad experience I know about the University of California “think a certain way” courses concerning sexuality and other issues. You have to take some courses to get that diploma.

At least when parents choose to mortgage their house in order to send their child to Harvard, they can tell their darling child, “I am not paying good money for you to take Black Studies courses by Gates. He is too full of himself — so pick another class.” And, per Mark Seyn’s article, which follows, Gates’ may have a Ph.D. in English and teach English at Harvard — and testify in court cases — but he does not know Robbie t Burns’ poetry from that of Shakespeare. But then again, who WAS Shakespeare? I dunno.

The article below is a hilarious comment on American society. In brief, how long will the racial card be used? Does the racial abyss have to go on forever? Answer: As long as there are people like Professor Gates around, puffing and puffing. And as long as there are Obama type people with knee jerk reactions.

Read and enjoy Mark Steyrn:

He Said/V.I.P. Said
A Prejudometer cranked up to eleven.
from National Review web site

By Mark Steyn
“By common consent, the most memorable moment of Barack Obama’s otherwise listless press conference on “health care” were his robust remarks on the “racist” incident involving Prof. Henry Louis Gates and the Cambridge police. The latter “acted stupidly,” pronounced the chief of state. The president of the United States may be reluctant to condemn Ayatollah Khamenei or Hugo Chávez or that guy in Honduras without examining all the nuances and footnotes, but sometimes there are outrages so heinous that even the famously nuanced must step up to the plate and speak truth to power. And thank God the leader of the free world had the guts to stand up and speak truth to municipal police sergeant James Crowley.

“For everyone other than the president, what happened at Professor Gates’s house is not entirely clear. The Harvard prof returned home without his keys and, as Obama put it, “jimmied his way into the house.” Someone witnessing the “break-in” called the cops, and things, ah, escalated from there. Professor Gates is now saying that, if Sergeant Crowley publicly apologizes for his racism, the prof will graciously agree to “educate him about the history of racism in America.” Which is a helluva deal. I mean, Ivy League parents re-mortgage their homes to pay Gates for the privilege of lecturing their kids, and here he is offering to hector it away to some no-name lunkhead for free.

“As to the differences between the professor’s and the cops’ version of events, I confess I’ve been wary of taking Henry Louis Gates at his word ever since, almost two decades back, the literary scholar compared the lyrics of the rap group 2 Live Crew to those of the Bard of Avon. “It’s like Shakespeare’s ‘My love is like a red, red rose,’ ” he declared, authoritatively, to a court in Fort Lauderdale.

As it happens, “My luv’s like a red, red rose” was written by Robbie Burns, a couple of centuries after Shakespeare. Oh, well. Sixteenth-century English playwright, 18th-century Scottish poet: What’s the diff? Evidently being within the same quarter-millennium and right general patch of the North-East Atlantic is close enough for a professor of English and Afro-American Studies appearing as an expert witness in a court case. Certainly no journalist reporting Gates’s testimony was boorish enough to point out the misattribution.

I hasten to add I have nothing against the great man. He’s always struck me as one of those faintly absurd figures in which the American academy appears to specialize, but relatively harmless by overall standards. And I certainly sympathize with the general proposition that not all encounters with the constabulary go as agreeably as one might wish. Last year I had a minor interaction with a Vermont state trooper and, 60 seconds into the conversation, he called me a “liar.” I considered my options:

Option a): I could get hot under the collar, yell at him, get tasered into submission, and possibly shot while “resisting arrest”;

Option b): I could politely tell the trooper I object to his characterization, and then write a letter to the commander of his barracks the following morning suggesting that such language is not appropriate to routine encounters with members of the public and betrays a profoundly defective understanding of the relationship between law-enforcement officials and the citizenry in civilized societies.

I chose the latter course, and received a letter back offering partial satisfaction and explaining that the trooper would be receiving “supervisory performance-related issue-counseling,” which, with any luck, is even more ghastly than it sounds and hopefully is still ongoing.

Professor Gates chose option a), which is just plain stupid. For one thing, these days they have dash-cams and two-way radios and a GPS gizmo in the sharp end of the billy club, so an awful lot of this stuff winds up being preserved on tape, and, if you’re the one a-hootin’ an’ a-hollerin’, it’s not going to help. In the Sixties, the great English satirist Peter Simple invented the Prejudometer, which simply by being pointed at any individual could calculate degrees of racism to the nearest prejudon, “the internationally recognized scientific unit of racial prejudice.” Professor Gates seems to go around with his Prejudometer permanently cranked up to eleven: When Sergeant Crowley announced through the glass-paneled front door that he was here to investigate a break-in, Gates opened it up and roared back: “Why? Because I’m a black man in America?”

He then told him, “I’ll speak with your mama outside.” Outside, Sergeant Crowley’s mama failed to show. But among his colleagues were a black officer and a Hispanic officer. Which is an odd kind of posse for what the Rev. Al Sharpton calls, inevitably, “the highest example of racial profiling I have seen.” But what of our post-racial president? After noting that “‘Skip’ Gates is a friend” of his, President Obama said that “there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.” But, if they’re being “disproportionately” stopped by African-American and Latino cops, does that really fall under the category of systemic racism? Short of dispatching one of those Uighur Muslims from China recently liberated from Gitmo by Obama to frolic and gambol on the beaches of Bermuda, the assembled officers were a veritable rainbow coalition. The photograph of the arrest shows a bullet-headed black cop — Sgt. Leon Lashley, I believe — standing in front of the porch while behind him a handcuffed Gates yells accusations of racism. This is the pitiful state the Bull Connors of the 21st century are reduced to, forced to take along a squad recruited from the nearest Benetton ad when they go out to whup some uppity Negro boy.
As Professor Gates jeered at the officers, “You don’t know who you’re messin’ with.” Did Sergeant Crowley have to arrest him? Probably not. Did he allow himself to be provoked by an obnoxious buffoon? Maybe. I dunno. I wasn’t there. Neither was the president of the United States, or the governor of Massachusetts, or the mayor of Cambridge. All of whom have declared themselves firmly on the side of the Ivy League bigshot. And all of whom, as it happens, are African-American. A black president, a black governor, and a black mayor all agree with a black Harvard professor that he was racially profiled by a white-Latino-black police team, headed by a cop who teaches courses in how to avoid racial profiling. The boundless elasticity of such endemic racism suggests that the “post-racial America” will be living with blowhard grievance-mongers like Professor Gates unto the end of time.

In a fairly typical “he said/V.I.P. said” incident, the V.I.P. was the author of his own misfortune but, with characteristic arrogance, chose to ascribe it to systemic racism, Jim Crow, lynchings, the Klan, slavery, Jefferson impregnating Sally Hemmings, etc. And so it goes, now and forever. My advice to Professor Gates for future incidents would be to establish his authority early. Quote Shakespeare, from his early days with Hallmark:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Victims are black
Like 2 Live Crew.

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