Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

Court Sides With U. S. in Detainee Photo Case” – Wall Street Journal

The Supreme Court threw out an appeals court ruling that ordered the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their U.S. captors.
In doing so Monday, the high court cited a recent change in federal law that allows the pictures to be withheld. ** The justices issued a brief, and expected, order Monday directing the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to take another look at a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union to obtain the photos of detainee abuse. President Barack Obama at first didn’t oppose the release, but he changed his mind, saying they could whip up anti-American sentiment overseas and endanger U.S. troops.

Posted by Tina

The BBC was informed about the fraud for a month…they chose to sit on it. We have known that many MSM news outlets have been in the tank for leftist causes and politicians for a long time. This story offers evidence that a major news outlet was willing to completely ignore important information leaked by a whistle blower in the global warming science scam:

“BBC weatherman ‘ignored’ leaked climate row emails,” By Mail On Sunday Reporter – Daily Mail (UK)

The BBC has become tangled in the row over the alleged manipulation of scientific data on global warming. ** One of its reporters has revealed he was sent some of the leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia more than a month ago – but did nothing about them. ** Despite the explosive nature of some of the messages – which revealed apparent attempts by the CRU’s head, Professor Phil Jones, to destroy global temperature data rather than give it to scientists with opposing views – Paul Hudson failed to report the story.

The Sunday Message, by One Vike

As we approach Christmas, you will no doubt be confronted by those who would like to remove the name Christ and any reference to Him from the Holiday season. That is because the world we live in has been judged by Him and it’s end is near. Thus, those who hold onto this world will do all they can to keep the lost from finding the Messiah, Christ Jesus. Many do not even want to use the word “Christmas” to describe this holiday season. There are disputes across this country in community after community where public officials are debating whether a large public tree display should be called a ‘Christmas” tree or a “holiday” tree. Added to this disgrace is the many department stores across America that carry “Christmas cards” with poems and greetings that don’t even mention the words Christ, Christmas, or God, let alone a verse from the Holy Bible.
Remember the days when you entered a store, and a clerk wished you a Merry Christmas? Now when you enter a store you will be lucky if you here the phrase, “Happy Holidays”, let alone the greeting, “Merry Christmas”. Now, I could continue on the path of pointing out all the areas of our society where Christmas is being supplanted by the generic “Holiday Season” theme, but I have a larger point to make. You see, this attempt to remove Christianity from society is not unexpected; fact is, most Christians have always known that it would eventually happen. What must be understood is that this is part of a larger agenda to do away with the Christ of Christmas and the God who created mankind. Just like the effort that has been underway for years to remove the phrase “IN GOD WE TRUST” from our coins and paper currency, so too is there an effort to remove the Christian God from all aspects of the American culture and replace Him with entities of worship that are neither real nor Divine.

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From Netscape…

Seven medical myths:

1. You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
This advice, often found in the popular press, probably originated from advice given in 1945 stating that a suitable allowance of water per day for adults is 2.5 liters (which is 10.14 cups). The statement also added that most of this quantity is found in food–but that part seems to have been forgotten. Thus, it’s interpreted as eight glasses of water a day. Remember, drinking too much water can actually be harmful, resulting in water intoxication, hyponatraemia and even death.

2. We use only 10 percent of our brains.
Erroneously credited to Albert Einstein, this myth is cited by everyone from physicians to comedians. But they’re wrong! MRI and PET scans show that there are no dormant, inactive areas of the brain. Detailed probing of the brain has never revealed the non-functioning 90 percent.

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by Jack Lee

In 2010 Sen. Sam Aanested-R will be termed out of office in the 4th Senatorial District and you will be asked to vote for his replacement. You might think that is a long way off, but in politics that date is just around the corner and they are busy figuring out ways to win your vote. So before all these phony baloney mailers start coming out I would like to share some thoughts about the current candidates.

Right now we know of only two contenders for the Senate in the 4th District, Doug LaMalfa (farmer from Richvale) and Rick Keene (lawyer from Chico), both are conservative republicans and both are well liked and both have served full terms in the Assembly. Both candidates have a good voting record, although LaMalfa’s record is rated slightly better according to several conservative groups that track such things, but they are still pretty close.

The 4th Senate District covers a predominantly rural farming region that includes Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Nevada (partly), Placer (partly), Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehema, Trinity and Yuba Counties. As in past elections, Butte County is the key to winning with the highest number of republican voters and you voters in Chico really hold the most sway in this county. So ground zero for this Senate race is really right here in Chico!

FACTOID: In his last year in office Keene raised $$916,356.00. His ending cash in his campaign contributions was $1,023,641.82

FACTOID: In his last in office LaMalfa raised $216,769.15 for his last year in office. His ending cash in his campaign contributions was $530,877.11

Now this from Maplight: These are the top ten money givers to Doug LaMalfa and Rick Keene.

(Lamalfa) Farmers in general gave Doug LaMalfa $61,700, Lumber and wood products & lumber yards $33,375, Police & fire fighters unions and associations $26,230, Pacific Gas & electric utilities $20,500, Insurance companies, general $20,350, Native American tribes & governing units (gambling) $20,200, Real estate, $16,825, Tele-communications $14,500, Auto dealers, new & used $13,625, Tobacco comapnies & tobacco product sales $13,400

(Keene) Rick Keene took $36,600 from Insurance companies, Real estate gave him $31,750 35%, Police & fire fighters unions and associations $31,399, Native American tribes & governing units (gambling) $28,416, Lumber and wood products & lumber yards $23,950, Builders associations $22,441, Gas & electric utilities $19,400, Physicians $18,350, Pharmaceutical manufacturing $18,200, Attorneys & law firms $16,425,

So, to summarize the top 3 givers, Keene took a lot of money from Insurance companies, police and fire unions, and gaming, and LaMalfa took a lot of money from farmers, lumber and police and fire unions.

My theory is that whoever raises the most money probably has made the most backroom deals and is the most crooked. Simple logic I know, but past performance has told me I’m right! Lawyer Keene has taken in almost twice as much as Farmer LaMalfa, so for whatever thats worth…there you go.

Next, as I said earlier Doug LaMalfa has a slightly better voting record, but Keene is better at raising money from special interest groups and that makes him the odds on favorite. He who spends the most to buy your vote usually wins. That’s a statistical fact and I wish you would prove me wrong on this, but maybe this subject of money and politics is best left for another article….we’ll see.

Unions, insurance companies and the medical industry seem to have an attraction to Keene. This doesn’t mean that Keene is beholding to them or that he will write favorable legislation when the time comes, it just means that he [probably] would. Is there anyone out here who still doesn’t understand that one? LaMalfa’s contributions seem less focused and tend to come from small donors, I like that better.

We should also know that Lawyer Keene handpicked his own successor several years before he was termed out of office and then did everything in his power to get his man elected and he was. His Assembly replacement was Dan Logue and not surprisingly he is strongly supporting Rick Keene for his election. Keene’s former Chief of Staff is now Logue’s and he is also Keene’s current campaign advisor. His advisor has been busy too, he has helped start up a number of California Republican Assembly units aka CRA units within his Senate district and this is intended to pay off when it comes time to get the CRA endorsement. Typically such units exist only long enough to do the endorsement and then they fold up, kinda sleezey, huh? Another Keene employee has been running the local Butte County Central Committee and is most recently chairing one of these newly formed CRA units. Want to bet on who the so-called independent Central Committees will wind up endorsing? Yeah, this stuff gets really messy, all these little power plays and just to make it look like one candidate has more endorsements than the other candidate. This part really sucks about elections. The other part that sucks is all that legal bribe money they take in, but that’s our system.

The Keene Machine is attached to the Aanested campaign and that will be a huge help in exchanging endorsements for each other. All this Machiavellian tactics and infiltrating political organizations for no other purpose than to get an endorsement at the right time to sway the election for their boss.

Farmer Doug LaMalfa is running more of an ordinary campaign and this means he has his work cut out for him if he is going to stay up with Lawyer Rick Keene’s big political machine. However, if there is an upside here, it’s that this battle for the Senate is won by either candidate we will have pretty good representation. I may not like how Keene runs for office (too clever – too many deals made) but I don’t dislike his voting record.

On a more personal note I truly do like both candidates and I know them to be good family men, so for me it really only breaks down to how ethical I think they are running their campaigns, other than that I see them as pretty equal.

I’ll probably vote for the farmer (LaMalfa) because he’s the clear underdog. He’s more like us regular everyday folks and he did reject that fat pay raise awhile back that the Assembly voted for themselves, remember that one? It came just as California’s government was going broke. Lawyer Keene has no such objections, he gladly took the raise. I know, that was small stuff, but it all points to character in my book. But, you folks have draw your own moral line in the sand and decide for yourself. I’m just saying at this early point this is how it looks to me.

I just hope both candidates will run on the issues and spare us all the fake promises and BS we are so used to hearing once the campaigns start ramping up.

Question: How many Senate Districts does California have? 4, 40 or 80? Answer is on page two.

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Posted by Tina

“Chart: Total 10-Year Cost of Reid Bill is $2.5 Trillion,” by Jeffrey H. Anderson, The Blog – The Weekly Standard

Senate Republicans have just released an outstanding chart highlighting the accounting games that Democrats are playing with the costs of their proposed health-care overhaul. The Democrats assert that their Senate bill would cost $848 billion over ten years. But Congressional Budget Office projections show that only 1 percent of those costs would kick in prior to the fifth year of what the Democrats are calling the “first 10 years.” In the bill’s true first 10 years (2014 to 2023) — that is, in the first 10 years in which it would be operational to any meaningful extent — the CBO projects that the bill would cost $1.8 trillion. ** But it gets even worse.

On January 6, 1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a state of the union message to Congress entitled “The Four Freedoms”. A portion of that speech follows:

“The Four Freedoms” – FDR

Therefore, as your President, performing my constitutional duty to “give to the Congress information of the state of the union,” I find it unhappily necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders. *** Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe and Asia, and Africa and Austral-Asia will be dominated by conquerors. And let us remember that the total of those populations in those four continents, the total of those populations and their resources greatly exceed the sum total of the population and the resources of the whole of the Western Hemisphere — yes, many times over. *** In times like these it is immature — and, incidentally, untrue — for anybody to brag that an unprepared America, single-handed and with one hand tied behind its back, can hold off the whole world. *** No realistic American can expect from a dictator’s peace international generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of expression, or freedom of religion — or even good business. Such a peace would bring no security for us or for our neighbors. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. *** As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed. We must always be wary of those who with sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal preach the “ism” of appeasement. We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Inspired by this speech Norman Rockwell decided to paint The Four Freedoms series. His motivation, beyond the sheer importance of the work, was a deep love for America, a love that comes through in all of this great painters work. Rockwell was too old to defend his country during WWII so he used his talent as a way to serve. It took six months and 15 pounds from his already slender frame to produce the four paintings above but the result was and remains masterful. Ironically he could find no government agency to sponsor the work which was ultimately published in the Saturday Evening Post (Curtis Publishing). Norman Rockwell’s other paintings of life in America with her ordinary citizens doing everyday things reflect the blessings of this great nation. Blessing we should embrace and hold dear; blessings we must teach and pass on to our children.

As we celebrate this Thanksgiving 2009 let us reflect on the four freedoms, on the first thanksgiving, on the similarities of history that revisit us today, on the fact that men and women are defending our freedoms in dangerous places and situations around the globe, and let us give thanks to the creator and pray for his guidance and continued blessing.

Wishing each of you a Happy Thanksgiving with appreciation for your generous participation here at Post Scripts….Jack, Bruce, OneVike and Tina

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