Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

Our government discovered there was little interest in the citizenry to enroll in the Obamacare exchange options for healthcare insurance so they decided to spend even more taxpayer money to create a system of navigators to hock the plans, enroll the “folks”…and make sure they are also registered to vote as democrats. The navigators will not be vetted for the job but will be collecting sensitive personal data…social security numbers, birthdates and the like…what a stupid, stupid move!

Be aware America, scams are already being perpetrated on citizens according to a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee:

…there are already numerous reports of scam artists posing as Navigators and Assisters to take advantage of people’s confusion about ObamaCare. According to recent news reports, scam artists are calling individuals and asking for information to sign them up for their “ObamaCare card,” are asking seniors for their personal information to verify their Medicare and Social Security status and are going door-to-door threatening people with prison time if they do not sign up on the spot. The Administration is keenly aware of these reports and concerns, but has thus far failed to take appropriate measures.

Instead of signing up for the destruction of the United States of America…instead od settling for a permanent state of high unemployment…instead of joining the idiots that think 2% growth is the best America can do and gasoline at $8.00 a gallon is just fine…instead of joining with the radicals of the Democrat Party that believe they should be a permanent dictating elite in Washington DC…instead of committing to the destruction join with the 54% of Americans who would prefer to scrap Obamacare and look to reforms for a better solution…AND…begin to reclaim our nation as the land of the free and working!

by Jack

The story in the ER says, CHICO — A woman (20-year-old Megan Carey) was pepper sprayed by a Chico police officer who was attempting to arrest her on suspicion of public intoxication Friday morning. She was treated by medical personnel on scene and then taken to Butte County Jail on suspicion of public intoxication and resisting an officer.

Here’s the weird part, for about the last half century it has been the view of the courts that you can be arrested for 647f PC, public intoxication, or you can be arrested for 148 PC, resisting arrest, but you can’t be arrested for both. The reason is this, being in violation of 647f requires that you are unable to care for your own safety or the safety of others, you’re basically wasted and the brain is on hold. Resisting (148) requires a deliberate and conscious action. You would not arrest an accident victim with head trauma that is combative for resisting and the same theory applies to drunks, so says the court. It’s has happened that an officer was so disturbed by an aggressive drunk’s actions that they tacked on the resisting (148) as a throw away charge, but I can’t recall a case where the local courts convicted anyone for both charges, it’s one or the other.

Has something changed?

Obamacare Arrives 3 Years Later, Little Understood and Not Well-Liked
By Damla Ergun
Sep 20, 2013 12:01am

More than three years after Obamacare was signed into law and fewer than two weeks before its health insurance exchanges are to launch, many Americans don’t know a lot about the pending changes except this: They don’t much like them.

Sixty-two percent in a new ABC News-Washington Post poll say they lack the information needed to understand the changes that will take effect as the Affordable Care Act is implemented. Barely one in 10, moreover, thinks the federal government, their state government or the health insurance industry is fully prepared to implement the law.

See PDF with full results and charts here.

On the law itself, moreover, 52 percent are opposed, vs. 42 percent in support; in 16 ABC-Post polls since August 2009, it has never received majority support.

Fifty-five percent, further, disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling implementation of the law, with “strong” disapprovers outnumbering strong approvers by a 23-point margin. And Obama and the Republicans in Congress essentially are tied in trust to handle its implementation, 41-38 percent, respectively, with most of the rest saying they trust neither.

Trust in “neither” is its highest in 10 ABC-Post polls since June 2009 asking about health care overhaul or its implementation. Trust in Obama is at a new low, while trust in the Republicans matches its lowest in more than three years.

Strong opposition to the law outstrips strong support by 13 percentage points, 39 vs. 26 percent, in this poll, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates. Critics are so fired up that among those who oppose the law, 52 percent say they’d support Congress’ shutting down the federal government’s major activities in order to block it, as some House Republicans have suggested. (The net support for this idea, among all Americans, is 27 percent.) The House votes today on another proposal, to strip funding for the law’s implementation.

Posted by Tina

The Daily Mail reports that after a judge restrained local police by ruling their “stop and frisk” tactic for preventing crime was unconstitutional:

The recent ruling to reform the New York Police Department’s controversial ‘stop-and-frisk’ tactic has already led to a sharp rise in shootings, new figures reveal.

In the month after the policy was ruled unconstitutional shootings spiked nearly 13 per cent while gun seizures fell almost a fifth, the figures show.

In the 28 days up to September 8 there were 140 shootings across the city, compared with 124 over the same period last year, according to NYPD statistics.

The judge, a female, is using the same tired old whine that the tactic targets minorities unfairly. She claims she only wanted to create more bureaucracy to monitor the cops:

She said she did not order an end to the stop-and-frisk program but instead insisted that it be carried out legally.

And she defended her remedies, which include the appointment of a monitor to ensure the program’s legality and of a facilitator to conduct meetings with interested parties in neighborhoods where frequent stops occur.

She had also ordered some officers to wear cameras.

She said the vast majority of the overhaul won’t be implemented until the monitor and the facilitator meet with the community, the police department and other stakeholders to create sensible solutions.

‘In short, the only activity at this stage is discussion between the monitor, the facilitator and the parties to develop the remedies,’ she said. ‘No other specific relief is imminent, much less ordered.’

Hey lady, you are a judge not the city’s official busy body. The cities policing body has a department to investigate officers who overstep their authority. The man on the street who believes he’s being targeted can make a complaint to the mayors office, the district attorney’s office, his local police and consult legal aid…but most won’t because they are up to no good! If a citizen doesn’t want to be hassled then he needs to comport himself accordingly…it is a citizens responsibility to his fellow citizens. The cops on the beat know better than anyone who needs to be watched and questioned and who doesn’t in order to make the streets safer for civilized, law abiding citizens…let them do their jobs.

Posted by Tina

Given the instantaneous Diane Feinstein political reaction to the horrible shooting at the Navy Yard in DC a few days ago it was refreshing to read Charles Krauthammer, a voice of experience and authority, who has written of the actual underlying problem and how to address it. Here’s an excerpt; I hope you will read the entire piece:

As was the case in the Tucson shooting — instantly politicized into a gun-control and (fabricated) tea-party-climate-of-violence issue — the origin of this crime lies not in any politically expedient externality but in the nature of the shooter. …

…Had this happened 35 years ago in Boston, Alexis would have been brought to me as the psychiatrist on duty at the emergency room of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Were he as agitated and distressed as in the police report, I probably would have administered an immediate dose of Haldol, the most powerful fast-acting antipsychotic of the time.

This would generally have relieved the hallucinations and delusions, a blessing not only in itself, but also for the lucidity brought on that would have allowed him to give us important diagnostic details — psychiatric history, family history, social history, medical history, etc. If I had thought he could be sufficiently cared for by family or friends to receive regular oral medication, therapy and follow-up, I would have discharged him. Otherwise, I’d have admitted him. And if he refused, I’d have ordered a 14-day involuntary commitment.

The Congress Critters would be wise to listen to the good doctor and then work together to do something positive about mental health laws…if not the Congress then state legislatures need to move!

Dr. Krauthammer concludes: “More than half of those you see sleeping on grates have suffered mental illness. It’s a national scandal. It’s time we recalibrated the pendulum that today allows the mentally ill to die with their rights on — and, rarely but unforgivably, take a dozen innocents with them.”

Amen to that, brother.

 by Jack

In this day of the gun-grabbers in Washington and in our home state of California, I want to remind people that the gun not only won the West, but it was our American sharpshooters that often turned the tide of battle in war.

Back in WWI the great distances our soldiers were picking off the Germans made them think we must be able to sneak up on them with special camouflage or we had some break through technology with our weapons. We were using a 30.06 Springfield rifle in WWI and it was good, but it was more the man behind that rifle that made history. The Germans had never seen such accuracy and such long distances. But, that was nothing compared to what an American soldier named Alvin York did. He showed them exactly what an old country boy could do with a rifle.

On one side there was York and the other side, the German soldiers with 32 machine guns along with rifles and pistols.

When the Germans attacked they cut down almost all of York’s unit including the commanding officer, which put him in charge. The remaining soldiers were busy guarding the prisoners they had taken behind enemy lines. This left York to deal with the Germans. When the fight started York had no time to run for cover, so he just started picking off the German soldiers as they popped up to take a shot at him. Each time they showed themselves, York would take them out. One shot one kill.

Imagine there’s York and he’s running out of bullets. He’s exposed with about 100 German solders above him firing down at him and now a group of Germans breaks free and runs at him with their bayonets from a range of about 25 yards. So does he run for cover? Nope, instead he pulls out his pistol, calmly puts on his sunglasses and kills all of the German soldiers descending on him. Not only this, but he systematically picks off the Germans in the back first, so those in the front will keep running towards him thinking they have support.

I might add, while York is down there picking off Germans he’s repeatedly calling out to the Germans to surrender; he didn’t want to kill any more than he had to…and eventually the German Commander, sick of seeing his men killed, ordered them to surrender. York captured 132 Germans that day.

Now flash forward. If it was up to the liberal gun-grabbers there will be no more Sgt. York’s, but if a drug dealer, robber or a killer wants to buy a gun, there will always be a black market.

by Jack

I cringed as I heard the news about a shooting rampage at a Navy base in D.C. As the body count started to come in I felt sick. What a senseless tragedy! I was watching TV news at the time and they reported this may be the work of more than one gunman and they had unconfirmed reports coming in that police have one in custody and are searching for a second suspect, possibly in camo’s and armed with a military style assault weapon. This raised the possibility of another terrorist attack.

An hour later, I’m flipping through the dial, er, clicker, and now it’s being reported on all the major networks that just like at Sandy Hook and Aurora, the gunman was once again armed with the deadly AR-15 with a high capacity magazine! As the day progressed various gun experts appeared on camera to testify that the AR-15 is not a hunting rifle and has no legitimate purpose in civilian hands. It’s a powerful military assault weapon designed to kill people. The experts eagerly explained to us too stupid to understand our Constitutional rights that this is not what the 2nd Amendment intended. As one ex-police chief said, the 2nd amendment was basically crafted for hunting rifles. (That came as news to me – the 2nd Amendment is for hunters eh?) Even Congress got into the act as democrat lawmakers took to the pulpit to talk about the deperate need for more gun laws and the evils of this particular rifle which should be banned. The one-sided talk was really lined up against the venerable AR-15 that has been with us for over 50 years. They rattle off so much information it was almost as if they were scripted in advance, just waiting for another tragedy like this to make their political points.

One problem… An AR-15 was not used. What was used was Joe Biden’s gun of choice, the shotgun. However, you can’t un-ring the bell and the damage was done to the millions of law abiding AR15 owners who like this weapon for home defense, target practice and small game hunting. I said small game because it’s a .223 caliber, that would be a bullet about the size of a .22 bullet…if you still don’t get it, it’s really, really small.

If there is something to be learned from this tragedy, it’s once again not about the gun, but about the person. Mentally ill people should not be allowed access to firearms (or weapons of any sort). All the warning signs were there in the DC shooting, but nobody took the initiative to do one $%#@ thing about it!

The shooter had a secret clearance and when the police reports started coming in to his employer, warning of his mental instability they did nothing and the Navy did nothing! Can you believe they issued a Secret Clearance to the shooter after he had several gun violations? How does this happen on a tightly controlled military installation?

You can bet there will be lawsuits filed at least against the government sub-contractor and hopefully others who may have been negligent. This was a very preventable tragedy if only the police and the Navy had used the law in time or if the sub-contractor had refused the shooter employment because of the prior gun charges and red flags about anger issues that came up in his background.