No. 255 of 365
Quote from the collected wisdom of Al "Non Sequitur" Gore:
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Democrat."
Monday, September 12, 2011
365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy
Human Events
No. 255 of 365
Quote from the collected wisdom of Al "Non Sequitur" Gore:
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Democrat."
No. 255 of 365
Quote from the collected wisdom of Al "Non Sequitur" Gore:
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Democrat."
JurisDictionary- The Pro Se Problem
Tips & Tactics
September 12, 2011
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2011 by Jurisdictionary® - All Rights Reserved
The Pro Se Problem
Why Pro
Se Litigants
Have a Hard Time.
Many pro
se people
are winning.
Unfortunately,
a great number who should be
winning are losing ... needlessly!
Going
to court without
a lawyer is
a growing phenomenon. Whether it's the high cost of legal fees
or growing distrust of lawyers in general, the trend is for more
people to fight without lawyers
The
American Bar Association reports nearly 1/2 of all pro
se folks
believe lawyers care more about their own self-interest than
their client's rights.
If
you go by calls and emails Jurisdictionary receives,
there's good reason for this! Lawyers who bail at the last
minute. Lawyers who don't know what they're doing. And, worst of
all, lawyers wishing to curry favor with judges, afraid to stand
up to the buffalo in the black robe and demand their clients'
rights by making timely objections and threatening appeal.
60%
of pro se people
say they can't afford a lawyer.
20%
say they simply don't want to spend the money.
Nearly
½ of all court proceedings in the U.S. involve at least one pro
se party
... and too
many of them are losing all because they don't yet know the
"rules of the game" or how to play to win!
Good
people who should be
winning are losing needlessly simply because they were never
taught what it takes to win!
Ever
ask yourself, "Why?"
Ever
wonder if there might be a sinister reason nothing about law is
taught to our children in schools supported by our tax
dollars?
Who
benefits from your legal
ignorance?
You
have a Constitutional right to
justice.
You
have a Constitutional right to
go to court and win pro
se!
Your
rights were paid for by the blood of those who gave the ultimate
sacrifice for you!
BUT,
THE KEYS TO JUSTICE HAVE BEEN HIDDEN FROM YOU -
UNTIL NOW!
Pro
se people
too often do not get
justice.
Why?
We
at Jurisdictionary receive
emails every day
complaining there's a judicial "conspiracy" against pro
se litigants.
Let's
examine facts:
BUT!
Pro
se people
who know what I explain so simply in my affordable, official,
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would you feel when he or she kept fouling and arguing he or she
has a right to do as he or she pleases because she doesn't know
the rules?
Put
yourself in the judges' robes!
Many
years ago, after winning a motion, an older judge asked me to
stay behind after the parties left. He took me aside and said
simply: "I want you to know that the case before yours
today was to protect a little girl who's grandfather thinks it's
fun to extinguish cigars on her legs." I knew what he
wanted me to know, and I never forgot. Other people's case are
serious, too.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Liberty Quotes
"Farce, gross incompetence, and tragedy is the hallmark of big centralized government, wherever it develops. Big centralized government has developed in the United States year after year since the 1930s, and it has both solidified and metastasized since 9-11. Today, we live at the will and by the grace of a dystopian and grasping government. There is not an exceptional amount of time left before this government collapses, but before it does, we the people will suffer far more than we have suffered to date. Banking collapses, mortgage fraud at the highest levels, government bailouts, currency printing, and inflation in food and energy are just a foretaste of the future, led by the same Washington public-private cartel we have suffered for decades. . . .
"I believe our government -- outdated, unrestrained by the Constitution and soon to default on every debt it has taken on in our name -- cannot long endure. But unlike those who run and benefit from our modern American nationalism, corporatism and socialism, I do not fear average Americans seeking self-government, rule of law and liberty.
"That's why on Sept. 11, I will not be celebrating America's undeclared wars on countries that had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks 10 years ago. I will not be attending remembrances of victims of that day, because those remembrances refuse to count American liberty, rule of law and freedom of trade and movement uppermost on that list of the sacrificed. I will not attend any program offered by a religious or political organization that seeks to ride a federal government bandwagon to confirm some imperative of war against Islam halfway around the world, or that seeks to promote the false concept of a culture war as somehow God's intent for America.
"On this 10-year anniversary, I intend to go about my business as usual, and say a prayer of gratitude for the small freedoms I have left. In the afternoon, I'll be in Charlottesville, Va., learning about local apprenticeship and crafts demonstrations. In the evening, I'll check the livestock and gather the eggs. I won't allow what I personally experienced that day in the Pentagon, nor the subsequent government drumbeats for war, waving the Sept. 11 banner, to diminish my awareness of the meaning of liberty. . . .
"The real battle for Americans today is a battle to reassert our independence from an overbearing and unsustainable state. Today, we can all celebrate that there are fundamental cracks in the federal state's veneer, and we can be grateful for the options we still have in our own lives to live free, to practice charity and faith, creativity and productivity and to rediscover our own power as individuals and communities." -- Karen Kwiatkowski (1960-) retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, included duties as Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency, author, columnist 9 Sep 2011
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Karen.Kwiatkowski.Quote.54EF
The Ultimate Pork Barrel Project
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among proletarians, and in public prostitution.
The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.
Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.
The Communist Manifesto of 1848
Friday, September 9, 2011
Psychopsema
Psychopsema psy-cho-pse-ma noun
A system of actions that Child Protection Service (generically CPS) agencies use to achieve profit through fraudulent and deceptive means.
Psychopsema is an orchestrated assault (organized crime), utilizing several methods of fraud, psychological operations, psychological intimidation and other premeditated offense-based systems against a parent or a family. Malicious CPS professionals, usually employed by a Child Protection Service (CPS) agency or a similar social service agency are the perpetrators of the act of Psychopsema.
Word Origination and History
The term and description was originally created by Canadian and American social service crime researcher experts on February 2011, to assist former and present victims, police, prosecutors and other authorities identify previously unknown key strategic systems.
A system of actions that Child Protection Service (generically CPS) agencies use to achieve profit through fraudulent and deceptive means.
Psychopsema is an orchestrated assault (organized crime), utilizing several methods of fraud, psychological operations, psychological intimidation and other premeditated offense-based systems against a parent or a family. Malicious CPS professionals, usually employed by a Child Protection Service (CPS) agency or a similar social service agency are the perpetrators of the act of Psychopsema.
1 - A false report of child abuse is made against parent(s), often by "mandated reporters", or "anonymous reporters".Usage- The system actors implement the methods of Psychopsema to assassinate the characters of (and/or criminalize) their victim's family to make the child(ren) Legal Orphans in custody of the state (Parens Patriae) under the guise of "Best Interest". Psychopsema aims to deflect attention from crimes committed by said workers against families, as those children are seized (kidnapped), for the purpose of profit. “Child Protection Service” agencies and their contractors throughout North America, the UK, Australia and other European countries are the benefactors of the act of Psychopsema.
2 - The system thrusts victims into the CPS system without REAL merit or justification.
3 - A CPS worker then colludes with her peers and contractors to fabricate evidence to "validate" the allegations as "substantiated".
Word Origination and History
The term and description was originally created by Canadian and American social service crime researcher experts on February 2011, to assist former and present victims, police, prosecutors and other authorities identify previously unknown key strategic systems.
JurisDictionary- Protect Yourself From Lawyers
Tips & Tactics September 09, 2011 © 2011 by Jurisdictionary® - All Rights Reserved |
... Especially Your Own Who is Taking Your Money!
If you're like most people, you don't have a clue that it takes to win a lawsuit.
If you have a lawyer, you don't have a clue what your lawyer should be doing or how you might get involved in your case to reduce legal fees and costs.
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There IS another way!
A nice lady contacted us for help. Her lawyer promised to file an appeal after the court ruled against her. The lawyer never filed! The deadline to file ran out. Her winnable case is lost forever!
A nice man paid his lawyer $60,000. No discovery was done. No evidence was uncovered. The case was lost. His $60,000 bought absolutely nothing!
Too often people hire lawyers who are afraid to stand up to arrogant judges, too timid to press opponents for evidence, unwilling to fight tooth-and-nail for rights the lawyer promised to protect, or simply bailing out at the last moment, leaving their clients to fight their legal battles alone. Perhaps you know good people who suffered at the hands of their own lawyers.
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People who pay lawyers, instead of going pro se, frequently end up holding the bag when the lawyer they hiare bails our or wimps out, so they lose and never know why!
Good people should not lose ... whether they can afford a lawyer or not!
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961 days in, Obama becomes sick and tired of someone dawdling about jobs
September 9, 2011 | 5:18 am
LA Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/obama-jobs-speech-congress-bad-news-polls-.html
I left a nice comment there-
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." -- Ronald Reagan.
Talk to America's families being destroyed by the Organized Crime Ring that Child "Protective" Services is. Don't forget the utterly corrupt psychiatric industry working in collusion with them to assassinate people's characters in order to make the children Legal Orphans. And the unconstitutional administrative law courts of NO Due Process in collusion with them. Billion$ in FRAUD going down this rotten rathole. When families have to deal with CPS, they literally ARE negotiating an Adhesion Contract with the SEIU.
"Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Leonard Henderson, co-founder.
American Family Rights.
http://familyrights.us/
"Until Every Child Comes Home"©.
"The Voice of America's Families"©.
LA Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/obama-jobs-speech-congress-bad-news-polls-.html
I left a nice comment there-
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." -- Ronald Reagan.
Talk to America's families being destroyed by the Organized Crime Ring that Child "Protective" Services is. Don't forget the utterly corrupt psychiatric industry working in collusion with them to assassinate people's characters in order to make the children Legal Orphans. And the unconstitutional administrative law courts of NO Due Process in collusion with them. Billion$ in FRAUD going down this rotten rathole. When families have to deal with CPS, they literally ARE negotiating an Adhesion Contract with the SEIU.
"Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Leonard Henderson, co-founder.
American Family Rights.
http://familyrights.us/
"Until Every Child Comes Home"©.
"The Voice of America's Families"©.
Foster Parents; Title IV "ties that bind " social security. 3 / 8
Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner
We, continue laying our foundation, bear with us. The last quote bears repeating. Part of the ASFA initiative was to… FULL STORY
We, continue laying our foundation, bear with us. The last quote bears repeating. Part of the ASFA initiative was to… FULL STORY
Thursday, September 8, 2011
The Surprising 32-Year Scandal That's Kept This Toxic Substance in Your Head
Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 09 2011
...FDA Covers Up Amalgam's Mercury from Consumers – for 32 Years
The dirty secret of conventional dentistry is this: those "silver fillings" aren't silver. They are mainly mercury – and mercury, of course, is a virulent neurotoxin that can kill babies in the womb, can cause permanent brain damage to children, and can cause irreversible kidney damage in adults (among many other things).
When industry is engaged in a cover-up of a health problem, the solution for the past century in America has been to turn to the U.S. FDA. But on amalgam, like on many health issues affecting our lives in recent years, FDA has been AWOL – focusing on blocking Americans' access to products Americans want and need and which are not harmful, instead of doing its legal duties.
In the case of amalgam, the violation of law was flagrant and continuing – and ultimately resulted in sharp language and a direct order from a United States federal judge. In 1976, Congress directed the FDA to classify (determine the risk of) every medical device. Dental fillings are a medical device. The FDA proceeded to classify all filling materials except the most common one – and the most controversial one – mercury amalgam.
Despite letters, petitions, Congressional hearings, and a lawsuit, the FDA refused to budge. The FDA had no intention of doing what, by law, it was required to do. FULL STORY
...FDA Covers Up Amalgam's Mercury from Consumers – for 32 Years
The dirty secret of conventional dentistry is this: those "silver fillings" aren't silver. They are mainly mercury – and mercury, of course, is a virulent neurotoxin that can kill babies in the womb, can cause permanent brain damage to children, and can cause irreversible kidney damage in adults (among many other things).
When industry is engaged in a cover-up of a health problem, the solution for the past century in America has been to turn to the U.S. FDA. But on amalgam, like on many health issues affecting our lives in recent years, FDA has been AWOL – focusing on blocking Americans' access to products Americans want and need and which are not harmful, instead of doing its legal duties.
In the case of amalgam, the violation of law was flagrant and continuing – and ultimately resulted in sharp language and a direct order from a United States federal judge. In 1976, Congress directed the FDA to classify (determine the risk of) every medical device. Dental fillings are a medical device. The FDA proceeded to classify all filling materials except the most common one – and the most controversial one – mercury amalgam.
Despite letters, petitions, Congressional hearings, and a lawsuit, the FDA refused to budge. The FDA had no intention of doing what, by law, it was required to do. FULL STORY
Families Feel Sharp Edge of State Budget Cuts
By MONICA DAVEY
Published: September 6, 2011
LANSING, Mich. — Stretched beyond their limits and searching for new corners of their budgets to find spending cuts, states are now trimming benefits for residents who are in grim financial shape themselves.
....line after line of doom... Page 2 .... more gloom...
...In Michigan — where 23 percent of children were living in poverty by 2009 (compared with 14 percent in 2000) and with an unemployment rate, at 10.9 percent, worse than the nation’s — state leaders defended their changes.
Sara Wurfel, a spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican in his first term, said his efforts had focused on creating an economic climate in the state for more and better jobs, while also protecting and even enhancing core safety-net services like Medicaid, she said.
Ms. Wurfel added that the state had, for instance, hired hundreds of new child welfare workers. And as part of their decision to cut state unemployment benefits next year, Michigan lawmakers had accepted a federal extension of benefits this year for residents. FULL STORY
What an interesting little tidbit of info to stick in the story.
* Communist Manifesto of 1848-
Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among proletarians, and in public prostitution.
The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.
Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.
Published: September 6, 2011
LANSING, Mich. — Stretched beyond their limits and searching for new corners of their budgets to find spending cuts, states are now trimming benefits for residents who are in grim financial shape themselves.
....line after line of doom... Page 2 .... more gloom...
...In Michigan — where 23 percent of children were living in poverty by 2009 (compared with 14 percent in 2000) and with an unemployment rate, at 10.9 percent, worse than the nation’s — state leaders defended their changes.
Sara Wurfel, a spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican in his first term, said his efforts had focused on creating an economic climate in the state for more and better jobs, while also protecting and even enhancing core safety-net services like Medicaid, she said.
Ms. Wurfel added that the state had, for instance, hired hundreds of new child welfare workers. And as part of their decision to cut state unemployment benefits next year, Michigan lawmakers had accepted a federal extension of benefits this year for residents. FULL STORY
What an interesting little tidbit of info to stick in the story.
* Communist Manifesto of 1848-
Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among proletarians, and in public prostitution.
The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.
Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.
Info Request- I want your CPS Complaint
 | AFRA EDITORIALS By Leonard Henderson |
September 8, 2011
Info Request- I want your CPS Complaint
Today, I had a nice phone conversation with Dr. Graves of JurisDictionary. I had emailed him asking about working up a special version specifically for helping people defend themselves against CPS. He expressed that he was just too busy to do that and suggested perhaps I could adapt his information specifically to CPS defense.
So now I am looking into doing that. And immediately ran into a brick wall.The first thing we know about a CPS case is- it is more or less a LAWSUIT.
- What starts a lawsuit is the COMPLAINT by the Plaintiff.
- As the Defendant, you need to respond to that Complaint.
Over the years of teaching others how to fight CPS, their cases were always so advanced that whatever the original Complaint might have said- made no difference at the level the case had developed into by the time the "consumer" found me. All this time, we have been working on Defense a lot further down the road.
So, in order to begin developing a system of DEFENSE, I need to see some original COMPLAINTS the agencies have filed against YOU, their "consumer" or "client".
These Complaints ARE Public Record, so there is no legal reason (I am aware of) why you cannot share your original Complaints with me.
I need them for the purpose of showing people HOW to develop a DEFENSE against the Complaint from line 1. And I need to see enough of them to work up a "generic" defense. Defense BEGINS with HOW you respond to the original Complaint.
If you have your original court Complaint from CPS already scanned in, or you can easily scan it in, I would very much like to see it. If it would make you more comfortable, you can black out your names and addresses on a COPY of that Complaint. I do care about what state you are in and the actual verbiage in the Complaint itself.
Please feel free to email them to me- leonard@familyrights.us
I will NOT identify you personally in any materials I might develop for educational materials for Pro Se CPS defense.
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." --Aesop (c. 550 B.C.) legendary Greek fabulist
If CPS hasn't attacked YOUR FAMILY yet, see If you are ever approached by anyone from social services.... and WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU
If CPS hasn't attacked YOUR FAMILY yet, see If you are ever approached by anyone from social services.... and WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU
Learn as much as you can, as fast as you can at How To Fight CPS
Get YOUR VERSION OF HISTORY ON THE RECORD with your Sworn Declaration
Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights Association
http://familyrights.us
"Until Every Child Comes Home" ©
"The Voice of America's Families" ©
I am not a lawyer and I do not pretend to give legal advice. If you need legal advice, see AFRA's Lawyer Friends who certainly are not pretenders (http://familyrights.us/info/law) I merely relate the things I learned in the past that seemed to work in my own case or things that others have related to me that worked in their cases. I provide information for free and do not expect to receive any form of payment or reward on this side of heaven. Therefore, DO NOT rely on this information as legal advice. Real Legal advice would come from a real lawyer who hates CPS and prepares a VIGOROUS DEFENSE against a negative (proving nothing happened) instead of talking you into a plea bargain (http://familyrights.us/bin/The_Problem_with_Plea_Bargaining.htm)
Get YOUR VERSION OF HISTORY ON THE RECORD with your Sworn Declaration
Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights Association
http://familyrights.us
"Until Every Child Comes Home" ©
"The Voice of America's Families" ©
I am not a lawyer and I do not pretend to give legal advice. If you need legal advice, see AFRA's Lawyer Friends who certainly are not pretenders (http://familyrights.us/info/law) I merely relate the things I learned in the past that seemed to work in my own case or things that others have related to me that worked in their cases. I provide information for free and do not expect to receive any form of payment or reward on this side of heaven. Therefore, DO NOT rely on this information as legal advice. Real Legal advice would come from a real lawyer who hates CPS and prepares a VIGOROUS DEFENSE against a negative (proving nothing happened) instead of talking you into a plea bargain (http://familyrights.us/bin/The_Problem_with_Plea_Bargaining.htm)
AFRA Editorials are NOT copyrighted. Please feel free to forward widely. We are at 100% total complete WAR with CPS, not trying to be famous or important.
Child welfare in Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Where stigma and bias “flourish”
Richard Wexler
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Child welfare in Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Where stigma and bias “flourish”
The case file had a single word written across the top. There was no context for this one word, no explanation.
But in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and surrounding Linn County, when that word is on a child welfare file, no explanation is necessary. Everybody knows the word means the agency doesn’t like the family, the family deserves an extra measure of suspicion and the case worker really thinks the children would be better off with people with whom that worker is more comfortable.
That one word amounts to seven scarlet letters for a family caught up in the net of the Iowa Department of Human Services in Linn County.
The word is “CHICAGO.” FULL STORY
Foster Parents; Title IV" "ties that bind "social security 2 / 8
Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner
In part 1, we began our foundational research, we now continue with what is essential to solidify prior to putting up… FULL STORY
In part 1, we began our foundational research, we now continue with what is essential to solidify prior to putting up… FULL STORY
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The proposed Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution can halt these erosions and protect our families from unnecessary government interference at every level. State constitutions and even federal laws can be overturned by the federal courts or by international treaties. But in the text of the U.S. Constitution the time-honored tradition of parental rights can be preserved. Take Action: Doesn’t every child have the right to be raised and represented by parents who love them, and not by disconnected government bureaucrats? Visit ParentalRights.org today and sign the petition to support the Amendment and to halt the erosion of your parental rights. Protect your family now and all American children for generations to come. In a couple of weeks, we will contact you to call your congressman to support this Amendment in the U.S. House. Last Congress we gained 141 congressional cosponsors. With your help, we can double that number and permanently preserve your parental rights. Please  today!Sincerely, Michael Ramey Director of Communications & Research    |
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Founders Quotes
"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." --Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy
Human Events
No. 251 of 365
When employing the word "progressive," always use air quotes. Explain to a liberal that you cannot fathom what is remotely "progressive" about the kind of ideology which seeks to reduce U.S. per capita income to levels last seen in the 1860s.
No. 251 of 365
When employing the word "progressive," always use air quotes. Explain to a liberal that you cannot fathom what is remotely "progressive" about the kind of ideology which seeks to reduce U.S. per capita income to levels last seen in the 1860s.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Liberty Quotes
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt (1759-1806) British Prime Minister (1783-1801, 1804-06) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Source: Speech, House of Commons, 18 November 1783
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Pitt.Quote.D262
"Now the truth of the matter is, there is nothing wrong with this country. Please. The message I want to leave with you is that there's nothing wrong with this country that the proper leadership won't cure. We've been here before. In 1787, the economy of our nation was in absolute chaos and as a consequence, they met in Philadelphia to form a new country, and when they did, they did the right things, and in the second State of the Union address, which was written at that time by George Washington, he said the foundations, the economic foundations of our nation are on such sound footing that it would have been a madman would have suspected 3 years ago. The fact is that the chaos that they're creating doesn't mean that America can or has to be in decline. It means that we need to remove them as rapidly as possible and get people that know what to do and America will continue to climb." -- Bob McEwen (1950-) US Congressman (OH-R) (1981-1993) Source: http://www.conservative.org/cpac/archives/cpacarchivescpac-2010-bob-mcewen/
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Bob.McEwen.Quote.A6F0
"I have the right to do whatever I wish with my property. If I own a pile of wood, I can set fire to it even if it is currently nailed together in the shape of a barn. Cigarettes may not be healthy for me in the long run, but I have the freedom to smoke them anyway. Drinking alcohol may or may not have negative side effects, but even if it does, the government has no authority to prohibit you from consuming it, even if it is "in your own best interest." Since when do we let the government decide what is or isn't good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway? (For that matter, what does Congress know about the Constitution?) If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard. Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since - "it's in your best interest." This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible. Hitler used the same attitude to persuade the Germans to subjugate themselves to the "Fatherland." -- Michael Badnarik (1954- ) American software engineer, political figure, and former radio talk show host Source: Good To Be King, 2004.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Michael.Badnarik.Quote.8E56
Founders Quote
"[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous." --George Washington, letter to Steptoe Washington, 1790
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You Will Fail or Be Rejected. Now What?
By JOHN M. GROHOL, PSYD
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Psych Central
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/09/05/you-will-fail-or-be-rejected-now-what/
I left a nice comment there (subject to moderation)-
Say you are struggling along as a parent, doing the best you can in the situation you are in…
Somebody reports you to the local Children’s “Protective” Services, often for the most absurd reason imaginable.
You quickly find yourself in an inquisition conducted by an absolute sociopath CPS agent, who writes up reports with her Poison Pen packed FULL of lies and innuendo prefaced with “appears”, “could”, “might”, “consistent with”.
Not only that, but you find yourself assigned to one of their contract mental illness clinicians, who IS a character assassin.
YOU end up childless, jobless, homeless, unemployable, with a RECORD in the state Abuser Index.
What ARE YOU GOING TO DO when the accusation is made against YOU?
Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights
http://familyrights.us
“Until Every Child Comes Home”©
“The Voice of America’s Families”©
UPDATE-
I see my comment was not approved. Perhaps not warm and fuzzy, "feel good" enough?
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Psych Central
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/09/05/you-will-fail-or-be-rejected-now-what/
I left a nice comment there (subject to moderation)-
Somebody reports you to the local Children’s “Protective” Services, often for the most absurd reason imaginable.
You quickly find yourself in an inquisition conducted by an absolute sociopath CPS agent, who writes up reports with her Poison Pen packed FULL of lies and innuendo prefaced with “appears”, “could”, “might”, “consistent with”.
Not only that, but you find yourself assigned to one of their contract mental illness clinicians, who IS a character assassin.
YOU end up childless, jobless, homeless, unemployable, with a RECORD in the state Abuser Index.
What ARE YOU GOING TO DO when the accusation is made against YOU?
Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights
http://familyrights.us
“Until Every Child Comes Home”©
“The Voice of America’s Families”©
UPDATE-
I see my comment was not approved. Perhaps not warm and fuzzy, "feel good" enough?
365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy
Human Events
No. 250 of 365
Rail against the iniquities of government-to-government "foreign aid." Quote the definition of economist Peter Bauer. It is a transfer "from the poor in rich countries to the rich in poor countries."
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=365+Ways+to+Drive+a+Liberal+Crazy
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/365-ways-to-drive-a-liberal-crazy
http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=1596986425
No. 250 of 365
Rail against the iniquities of government-to-government "foreign aid." Quote the definition of economist Peter Bauer. It is a transfer "from the poor in rich countries to the rich in poor countries."
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=365+Ways+to+Drive+a+Liberal+Crazy
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/365-ways-to-drive-a-liberal-crazy
http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=1596986425
Many in U.S. slip from middle class, study finds
By Michael A. Fletcher, Published: September 6
Washington Post
Nearly one in three Americans who grew up middle-class has slipped down the income ladder as an adult, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Downward mobility is most common among middle-class people who are divorced or separated from their spouses, did not attend college, scored poorly on standardized tests, or used hard drugs, the report says.
“A middle-class upbringing does not guarantee the same status over the course of a lifetime,” the report says.
The study focused on people who were middle-class teenagers in 1979 and who were between 39 and 44 years old in 2004 and 2006. It defines people as middle-class if they fall between the 30th and 70th percentiles in income distribution, which for a family of four is between $32,900 and $64,000 a year in 2010 dollars.
People were deemed downwardly mobile if they fell below the 30th percentile in income, if their income rank was 20 or more percentiles below their parents’ rank, or if they earn at least 20 percent less than their parents. The findings do not cover the difficult times that the nation has endured since 2007.
Pew researchers said the study’s structure did not permit an analysis of whether upward mobility has become more difficult through the years. Nonetheless, some economists point to growing income inequality and widely stagnating wages as evidence that the American Dream is slipping out of reach for many people.
The report found that being married helps people avoid the worst economic outcomes. Women who are divorced, widowed or separated are much more likely to fall down the economic ladder than their married counterparts. For men, the differences are not as dramatic, although married men are more likely than single men to retain their middle- class status as adults.
Education, particularly going to college, is another crucial factor in people’s economic stability, the report says.
Women who graduated from high school are more likely to be downwardly mobile than their counterparts who are college graduates. The same dynamic exists among men, the study found.
Overall, African American men have a particularly hard time clinging to middle-class status. Thirty-eight percent of black men who grew up middle-class are downwardly mobile, nearly double the rate of white men, the report says. Hispanic men are slightly more likely than white males to fall down the economic ladder, but the difference was not statistically significant.
Among African Americans and Hispanics, men are more likely to slip than women, although the reverse is true among whites.
The racial gap in mobility has perplexed researchers at Pew since a 2007 report that said nearly half of African Americans born to middle-income parents in the late 1960s plunged into poverty or near-poverty as adults. That report underscored the feeble grip many African Americans had on middle-class life, prompting researchers to probe deeper, said Erin Currier, project manager of Pew’s Economic Mobility Project.
The new report called the performance of blacks on a key standardized test a factor that accounts for virtually the entire mobility gap separating the races. Black males scored much lower than white males on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, which measures reading comprehension, vocabulary and math ability.
“Taking into account differences in AFQT scores between middle-class white and black men reduces the gap until it is statistically indistinguishable from zero,” the report said.
The findings in the report are drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a group of 12,000 interviews that researchers have followed since 1979.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/many-in-us-slip-from-middle-class-study-finds/2011/09/06/gIQA76ut7J_story.html
Washington Post
Nearly one in three Americans who grew up middle-class has slipped down the income ladder as an adult, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Downward mobility is most common among middle-class people who are divorced or separated from their spouses, did not attend college, scored poorly on standardized tests, or used hard drugs, the report says.
“A middle-class upbringing does not guarantee the same status over the course of a lifetime,” the report says.
The study focused on people who were middle-class teenagers in 1979 and who were between 39 and 44 years old in 2004 and 2006. It defines people as middle-class if they fall between the 30th and 70th percentiles in income distribution, which for a family of four is between $32,900 and $64,000 a year in 2010 dollars.
People were deemed downwardly mobile if they fell below the 30th percentile in income, if their income rank was 20 or more percentiles below their parents’ rank, or if they earn at least 20 percent less than their parents. The findings do not cover the difficult times that the nation has endured since 2007.
Pew researchers said the study’s structure did not permit an analysis of whether upward mobility has become more difficult through the years. Nonetheless, some economists point to growing income inequality and widely stagnating wages as evidence that the American Dream is slipping out of reach for many people.
The report found that being married helps people avoid the worst economic outcomes. Women who are divorced, widowed or separated are much more likely to fall down the economic ladder than their married counterparts. For men, the differences are not as dramatic, although married men are more likely than single men to retain their middle- class status as adults.
Education, particularly going to college, is another crucial factor in people’s economic stability, the report says.
Women who graduated from high school are more likely to be downwardly mobile than their counterparts who are college graduates. The same dynamic exists among men, the study found.
Overall, African American men have a particularly hard time clinging to middle-class status. Thirty-eight percent of black men who grew up middle-class are downwardly mobile, nearly double the rate of white men, the report says. Hispanic men are slightly more likely than white males to fall down the economic ladder, but the difference was not statistically significant.
Among African Americans and Hispanics, men are more likely to slip than women, although the reverse is true among whites.
The racial gap in mobility has perplexed researchers at Pew since a 2007 report that said nearly half of African Americans born to middle-income parents in the late 1960s plunged into poverty or near-poverty as adults. That report underscored the feeble grip many African Americans had on middle-class life, prompting researchers to probe deeper, said Erin Currier, project manager of Pew’s Economic Mobility Project.
The new report called the performance of blacks on a key standardized test a factor that accounts for virtually the entire mobility gap separating the races. Black males scored much lower than white males on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, which measures reading comprehension, vocabulary and math ability.
“Taking into account differences in AFQT scores between middle-class white and black men reduces the gap until it is statistically indistinguishable from zero,” the report said.
The findings in the report are drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a group of 12,000 interviews that researchers have followed since 1979.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/many-in-us-slip-from-middle-class-study-finds/2011/09/06/gIQA76ut7J_story.html
Working-age adults make up record share of US poor
Sept. 7, 2011, 6:16 a.m. PDT
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Working-age America is the new face of poverty.
Counting adults 18-64 who were laid off in the recent recession as well as single twenty-somethings still looking for jobs, the new working-age poor represent nearly 3 out of 5 poor people — a switch from the early 1970s when children made up the main impoverished group.
While much of the shift in poverty is due to demographic changes — Americans are having fewer children than before — the now-weakened economy and limited government safety net for workers are heightening the effect.
Currently, the ranks of the working-age poor are at the highest level since the 1960s when the war on poverty was launched. When new census figures for 2010 are released next week, analysts expect a continued increase in the overall poverty rate due to persistently high unemployment last year.
If that holds true, it will mark the fourth year in a row of increases in the U.S. poverty rate, which now stands at 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people.
"There is a lot of discussion about what the aging of the baby boom should mean for spending on Social Security and Medicare. But there is not much discussion about how the wages of workers, especially those with no more than a high school degree, are not rising," said Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan public policy professor who specializes in poverty.
Census numbers show that out of 8.8 million families who are currently poor, about 60 percent had at least one person who was working.
"The reality is there are going to be a lot of working poor for the foreseeable future," Danziger said, citing high unemployment and congressional resistance to raising the minimum wage.
The newest poor include Richard Bowden, 53, of southeast Washington, who has been on food stamps off and on the last few years. A maintenance worker, Bowden says he was unable to save much money before losing his job months ago. He no longer works due to hip and back problems and now gets by on about $1,000 a month in disability and other aid.
"At my work, we hadn't gotten a raise in two years, even while the prices of food and clothing kept going up, so I had little left over," Bowden said. "Now, after rent, the utility bill, transportation and other costs, my money is pretty much down to nothing."
"I pray and hope that things get better, but you just don't know," he said.
The poverty figures come at a politically sensitive time for President Barack Obama, after a Labor Department report last Friday showed zero job growth in August. The White House now acknowledges that the unemployment rate, currently at 9.1 percent, will likely average 9 percent through 2012.
Obama is preparing to outline a new plan for creating jobs and stimulating the economy in a prime-time address to Congress on Thursday. The Republican-controlled House has been adamant about requiring spending cuts in return for an increase in the federal debt limit. Suggested cuts have included proposals to raise the eligibility age for future Medicare recipients or to reduce other domestic programs in a way that would disproportionately affect the poor.
According to the latest census data, the share of poor who are ages 18-64 now stands at 56.7 percent, compared to 35.5 percent who are children and 7.9 percent who are 65 and older. The working-age share surpasses a previous high of 55.5 percent first reached in 2004.
Lower-skilled adults ages 18 to 34, in particular, have had the largest jumps in poverty as employers keep or hire older workers for the dwindling jobs available. The declining economic fortunes have caused many unemployed young Americans to double up in housing with parents, friends and loved ones.
In 1966, when the Census Bureau first began tracking the age distribution of the poor, children made up the biggest share of those in poverty, at 43.5 percent. Working-age adults comprised a 38.6 percent share, and Americans 65 and older represented nearly 18 percent.
Douglas Besharov, a University of Maryland public policy professor and former scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, says that expansions of the federal safety net including Social Security retirement and disability payments have been important in reducing poverty.
In 2009, for instance, the Census Bureau estimated that new unemployment benefits — which gave workers up to 99 weeks of payments after a layoff — helped keep 3.3 million people out of poverty. For 2010, Besharov said demographers on average expect an increase in poverty of roughly half a percentage point to nearly 15 percent, depending partly on the impact of unemployment insurance, which did not run out for many people until this year.
The current poverty level was set at $10,956 for one person and $21,954 for a family of four, based on an official government calculation that includes only cash income, before taxes. It excludes capital gains or accumulated wealth, such as home ownership, as well as noncash aid such as food stamps.
Taking noncash aid into account shifts the poverty numbers notably. Next month, the government will release new supplemental poverty numbers for the first time that will factor in food stamps and tax credits — which often benefit out-of-work families with children — but also everyday costs such as commuting that tend to have a bigger impact on working Americans.
Preliminary census estimates released this summer show a decline in child poverty based on the new measure and a jump in the shares of poor who are working age — from 56.7 percent to nearly 60 percent. In all, the child poverty rate decreases from 20.7 percent under the official poverty measure to 17.9 percent, according to estimates. But the senior poverty rate jumps from 8.9 percent to 15.6 percent after including out-of-pocket medical costs, and working-age adults see an increase in poverty from 12.9 percent to 14.9 percent.
Food banks say they see a shift to a new working poor.
"Americans from all walks of life are now finding themselves in need of help for the first time in their lives," said Vicki Escarra, president of Feeding America, a national network of food banks that is based in Chicago. She noted that demand has increased by 46 percent since the recession began in late 2007, with more than 1 in 3 families who get their assistance having one or more adults working.
"The reality is we all know someone who has lost a job or a crisis that has caused financial concern. In fact, some people who used to be donors to our Feeding America food banks are themselves now turning to us for help," she said.
Demographers expect next week's poverty report to show:
—A rise in working families who are low income, to nearly 1 in 3. "Low income" is defined as those making less than 200 percent of the poverty threshold, or about $43,000 for a family of four.
—Larger numbers of people who are uninsured, due to slightly higher rates of unemployment on average in 2010. Most provisions of the new health care law, which in part expands Medicaid to pick up millions more low-income people, don't take effect until 2014.
—Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately hit, based on their higher rates of unemployment.
—A possible widening of the income gap between rich and poor, at least by some measures, due partly to last year's stock market rebound while the job market languished.
Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in income inequality, called the outlook for younger adults in the U.S. especially troubling. He pointed to youth discontent in other parts of the world, such as England, where he says high unemployment and widening inequality contributed to recent rioting.
"We risk a new underclass who are not able to support their children, form stable families, buy houses and reach the middle class," Smeeding said.
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/working-age-adults-make-up-record-share-of/b64df4ae770a4995b89ec19e3d820c6a
In a TV interview for Thames TV This Week on Feb. 5, 1976, Prime Minister Thatcher said, "...Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them." Note "other people's money" is now known as OPM
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Working-age America is the new face of poverty.
Counting adults 18-64 who were laid off in the recent recession as well as single twenty-somethings still looking for jobs, the new working-age poor represent nearly 3 out of 5 poor people — a switch from the early 1970s when children made up the main impoverished group.
While much of the shift in poverty is due to demographic changes — Americans are having fewer children than before — the now-weakened economy and limited government safety net for workers are heightening the effect.
Currently, the ranks of the working-age poor are at the highest level since the 1960s when the war on poverty was launched. When new census figures for 2010 are released next week, analysts expect a continued increase in the overall poverty rate due to persistently high unemployment last year.
If that holds true, it will mark the fourth year in a row of increases in the U.S. poverty rate, which now stands at 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people.
"There is a lot of discussion about what the aging of the baby boom should mean for spending on Social Security and Medicare. But there is not much discussion about how the wages of workers, especially those with no more than a high school degree, are not rising," said Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan public policy professor who specializes in poverty.
Census numbers show that out of 8.8 million families who are currently poor, about 60 percent had at least one person who was working.
"The reality is there are going to be a lot of working poor for the foreseeable future," Danziger said, citing high unemployment and congressional resistance to raising the minimum wage.
The newest poor include Richard Bowden, 53, of southeast Washington, who has been on food stamps off and on the last few years. A maintenance worker, Bowden says he was unable to save much money before losing his job months ago. He no longer works due to hip and back problems and now gets by on about $1,000 a month in disability and other aid.
"At my work, we hadn't gotten a raise in two years, even while the prices of food and clothing kept going up, so I had little left over," Bowden said. "Now, after rent, the utility bill, transportation and other costs, my money is pretty much down to nothing."
"I pray and hope that things get better, but you just don't know," he said.
The poverty figures come at a politically sensitive time for President Barack Obama, after a Labor Department report last Friday showed zero job growth in August. The White House now acknowledges that the unemployment rate, currently at 9.1 percent, will likely average 9 percent through 2012.
Obama is preparing to outline a new plan for creating jobs and stimulating the economy in a prime-time address to Congress on Thursday. The Republican-controlled House has been adamant about requiring spending cuts in return for an increase in the federal debt limit. Suggested cuts have included proposals to raise the eligibility age for future Medicare recipients or to reduce other domestic programs in a way that would disproportionately affect the poor.
According to the latest census data, the share of poor who are ages 18-64 now stands at 56.7 percent, compared to 35.5 percent who are children and 7.9 percent who are 65 and older. The working-age share surpasses a previous high of 55.5 percent first reached in 2004.
Lower-skilled adults ages 18 to 34, in particular, have had the largest jumps in poverty as employers keep or hire older workers for the dwindling jobs available. The declining economic fortunes have caused many unemployed young Americans to double up in housing with parents, friends and loved ones.
In 1966, when the Census Bureau first began tracking the age distribution of the poor, children made up the biggest share of those in poverty, at 43.5 percent. Working-age adults comprised a 38.6 percent share, and Americans 65 and older represented nearly 18 percent.
Douglas Besharov, a University of Maryland public policy professor and former scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, says that expansions of the federal safety net including Social Security retirement and disability payments have been important in reducing poverty.
In 2009, for instance, the Census Bureau estimated that new unemployment benefits — which gave workers up to 99 weeks of payments after a layoff — helped keep 3.3 million people out of poverty. For 2010, Besharov said demographers on average expect an increase in poverty of roughly half a percentage point to nearly 15 percent, depending partly on the impact of unemployment insurance, which did not run out for many people until this year.
The current poverty level was set at $10,956 for one person and $21,954 for a family of four, based on an official government calculation that includes only cash income, before taxes. It excludes capital gains or accumulated wealth, such as home ownership, as well as noncash aid such as food stamps.
Taking noncash aid into account shifts the poverty numbers notably. Next month, the government will release new supplemental poverty numbers for the first time that will factor in food stamps and tax credits — which often benefit out-of-work families with children — but also everyday costs such as commuting that tend to have a bigger impact on working Americans.
Preliminary census estimates released this summer show a decline in child poverty based on the new measure and a jump in the shares of poor who are working age — from 56.7 percent to nearly 60 percent. In all, the child poverty rate decreases from 20.7 percent under the official poverty measure to 17.9 percent, according to estimates. But the senior poverty rate jumps from 8.9 percent to 15.6 percent after including out-of-pocket medical costs, and working-age adults see an increase in poverty from 12.9 percent to 14.9 percent.
Food banks say they see a shift to a new working poor.
"Americans from all walks of life are now finding themselves in need of help for the first time in their lives," said Vicki Escarra, president of Feeding America, a national network of food banks that is based in Chicago. She noted that demand has increased by 46 percent since the recession began in late 2007, with more than 1 in 3 families who get their assistance having one or more adults working.
"The reality is we all know someone who has lost a job or a crisis that has caused financial concern. In fact, some people who used to be donors to our Feeding America food banks are themselves now turning to us for help," she said.
Demographers expect next week's poverty report to show:
—A rise in working families who are low income, to nearly 1 in 3. "Low income" is defined as those making less than 200 percent of the poverty threshold, or about $43,000 for a family of four.
—Larger numbers of people who are uninsured, due to slightly higher rates of unemployment on average in 2010. Most provisions of the new health care law, which in part expands Medicaid to pick up millions more low-income people, don't take effect until 2014.
—Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately hit, based on their higher rates of unemployment.
—A possible widening of the income gap between rich and poor, at least by some measures, due partly to last year's stock market rebound while the job market languished.
Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in income inequality, called the outlook for younger adults in the U.S. especially troubling. He pointed to youth discontent in other parts of the world, such as England, where he says high unemployment and widening inequality contributed to recent rioting.
"We risk a new underclass who are not able to support their children, form stable families, buy houses and reach the middle class," Smeeding said.
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/working-age-adults-make-up-record-share-of/b64df4ae770a4995b89ec19e3d820c6a
In a TV interview for Thames TV This Week on Feb. 5, 1976, Prime Minister Thatcher said, "...Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them." Note "other people's money" is now known as OPM
Foster Parents; Title IV "the ties that bind" Part 1 of 8
September 4, 2011
Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner
There has been much controversy the last few weeks about Social Security funding, cutting funds retirees count on to pay necessary… FULL STORY
Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner
There has been much controversy the last few weeks about Social Security funding, cutting funds retirees count on to pay necessary… FULL STORY
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