Posted on March 4th, 2010 by jimstillman
President Obama’s position on health care delivery systems and the need for comprehensive reform is totally consistent with the ideals and traditions of the nation. The Republican continuing assertion that an apparent populist aversion to the reforms should prevent their adoption reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the underpinnings of America.
I will assume, without much confidence in the assumption, that many of those opposed to the health-care legislation are sincere (more. . .)
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Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by jimstillman
Almost every weekday evening I can be found in my red VW Beetle driving the 30 to 40 minutes from my Jackson Hewitt Tax Service kiosk at a nearby Walmart where I am, for 105 days, office manager of the location. The ride is not that exciting and I invariably put the radio on and listen to either Country and Western tunes or one of three stations in Tampa that (more. . .)
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Posted on October 16th, 2009 by jimstillman
Let me tell you about a Republican whose positions are diametrically opposed to those in which I believe. For example, my subject
has been a military prosecutor and has little sympathy for persons accused of a crime and, indeed, often considers accusation and conviction as a unit;
is a proponent of the death penalty and limits on appeals by convicted criminals;
has voted for and advocated wiretaps without prior judicial (more. . .)
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Posted on September 25th, 2009 by jimstillman
Thank Goodness
Those blasted activist judges.
How dare they consider “most elementary notions of justice and morality?”
Steve Pearlstein, writing in the Washington Post, expressed the dismay over U.S. Distinct Judge Jed Rakoff’s cavalier approach to the law:
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it up to here with activist judges who think they can overturn decades of legal precedent and ignore well-established norms of legal behavior in the (more. . .)
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Posted on September 16th, 2009 by jimstillman
In return for the hoped for Republican bi-partisan joining health care reform efforts, Senate Democrats accepted Republican negotiators’ instance that the “public option” and other provisions be dropped. And then the negotiators admitted that none of them would vote for that which had been agreed. Democrats in the Senate, so far, have surrendered in hopes for compromise, all to no avail.
Last November, the American people elected a new president (more. . .)
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Posted on September 10th, 2009 by jimstillman
The President’s health care address and the GOP reaction
Last Wednesday, President Obama, that well-known Socialist-Fascist-Kenyan-tool of Marxists everywhere, in between meeting with revolutionaries who are tasked with subjecting our kids’ tender ears with un-American thoughts of killing Granny, addressed a joint session of Congress to plead for an overhaul of our health care delivery system. The opposing GOP acknowledges that the system is flawed and needs reform but urges (more. . .)
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Posted on September 7th, 2009 by jimstillman
Afghanistan and Iraq and terrorists– déjà vu, all over again?
In late 2006, I wrote about the war in Iraq, how it started and, more important, how and why we should get out. To a great extent, President Obama is faced with a very similar set of circumstances in Afghanistan, although our reasons for being there in the first place has a certain apparent rationale and not the fantasies of (more. . .)
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Posted on September 5th, 2009 by jimstillman
More evidence for the need for expanded health care
Insurance and pharmaceutical companies and their GOP lackeys, mentally challenged talk show hosts (read: Glenn, Rush, Michael Savage, and a few others) have been active in stirring the Rabid Right’s patriots; a foul deed is about to take place, our children are about to be exposed to a communicable disease, they will, by next week, be donning their hidden brown shirts, (more. . .)
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Posted on September 4th, 2009 by jimstillman
Joan and I had been visiting family in New Jersey. Part of the visit was devoted to stuffing ourselves with Jersey Shore hot dogs at Max’s and The Windmill; part was just visiting friends and relatives. One set of the latter were devotees of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, normally rational and intelligent people but, insofar as politics is concerned, willing to suspend common sense and adopt the paranoia being (more. . .)
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