by OLD1953 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:20 am
Um, bill's already law, the only part under scrutiny is whether or not you can be required to buy an insurance policy. The opposition to this is rather fascinating, given that it's an implementation of a plan that started with the Heritage Foundation. Given they are now lying about the plan's origins, of course, here's a link. Political organizations lie all the time, it's what they do. I don't know why that surprises people. And the Heritage Foundation is totally and utterly a political organization.
http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view ... eID=004182
http://healthcarereform.procon.org/sour ... ricans.pdf
It's amusing to see them distancing themselves from Stuart Butler.
http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/b/stuart-butler
Indeed. If Butler does not represent their views, then nobody on this planet does.
I'm not nearly as certain as many seem to be that the SCOTUS will suddenly decide to curb the power of Congress. However, it would be very popular politically, on both sides of the aisle, so perhaps they will. I suspect the vote will come down to 7-2 and the bill will stand as it is - but that's just opinion on my part. I do think the Administration is hoping for it to be shot down in order to energize the voters, and that's why they are making weak arguements. Given that Congress can regulate the vegetables you grow in your garden (I'm not kidding) and the SCOTUS has upheld this as even if you don't sell a single carrot, you are replacing food you would buy that MIGHT be in interstate commerce, they can certainly regulate healthcare by the same reasoning that a person refusing to buy insurance is changing the price of insurance across state lines for everyone, just as the guy growing a garden is changing the price of food for everyone. That's how the law has been forever, and I'm kind of doubting they'll open that can of worms up, as it could easily lead to being asked to reexamine everything from agricultural law to drug restrictions, but they could. The court is certainly NOT apolitical and never has been. Also, the boomer vs genx thing is very much in evidence here, and that will have an impact as well.
It is also possible they could decide to delay a decision until after the election - kick the can as applied to the court.
Thailand is a divided country, that southern tip is a different world.
Is Azerbaijan's government lying? It would be hard to tell without being on the ground there. See the remark about political organizations above.
Two news items of interest, the 1940 census has finally been released.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-574 ... -released/
Apparently, there are still 21 million people alive who were living at the time of that census. A crowd-sourcing project to index the data has been announced. Crowd sourcing is making use of large numbers of people with time to spend on the internet who are willing to commit part of a scanned manual dataset to electronic storage and indexing. That's where the added data on ocean temps are coming from for past centuries, the data existed in ships logs, but is only now being indexed in such a way as to allow it to be meaningful.
Also, bin Laden's family will get six weeks in jail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-574 ... ?tag=strip
Somehow, I don't think this will appease anyone.
Um, bill's already law, the only part under scrutiny is whether or not you can be required to buy an insurance policy. The opposition to this is rather fascinating, given that it's an implementation of a plan that started with the Heritage Foundation. Given they are now lying about the plan's origins, of course, here's a link. Political organizations lie all the time, it's what they do. I don't know why that surprises people. And the Heritage Foundation is totally and utterly a political organization.
http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004182
http://healthcarereform.procon.org/sourcefiles/1989_assuring_affordable_health_care_for_all_americans.pdf
It's amusing to see them distancing themselves from Stuart Butler.
http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/b/stuart-butler
Indeed. If Butler does not represent their views, then nobody on this planet does.
I'm not nearly as certain as many seem to be that the SCOTUS will suddenly decide to curb the power of Congress. However, it would be very popular politically, on both sides of the aisle, so perhaps they will. I suspect the vote will come down to 7-2 and the bill will stand as it is - but that's just opinion on my part. I do think the Administration is hoping for it to be shot down in order to energize the voters, and that's why they are making weak arguements. Given that Congress can regulate the vegetables you grow in your garden (I'm not kidding) and the SCOTUS has upheld this as even if you don't sell a single carrot, you are replacing food you would buy that MIGHT be in interstate commerce, they can certainly regulate healthcare by the same reasoning that a person refusing to buy insurance is changing the price of insurance across state lines for everyone, just as the guy growing a garden is changing the price of food for everyone. That's how the law has been forever, and I'm kind of doubting they'll open that can of worms up, as it could easily lead to being asked to reexamine everything from agricultural law to drug restrictions, but they could. The court is certainly NOT apolitical and never has been. Also, the boomer vs genx thing is very much in evidence here, and that will have an impact as well.
It is also possible they could decide to delay a decision until after the election - kick the can as applied to the court.
Thailand is a divided country, that southern tip is a different world.
Is Azerbaijan's government lying? It would be hard to tell without being on the ground there. See the remark about political organizations above.
Two news items of interest, the 1940 census has finally been released.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57408001/1940-u.s-census-data-released/
Apparently, there are still 21 million people alive who were living at the time of that census. A crowd-sourcing project to index the data has been announced. Crowd sourcing is making use of large numbers of people with time to spend on the internet who are willing to commit part of a scanned manual dataset to electronic storage and indexing. That's where the added data on ocean temps are coming from for past centuries, the data existed in ships logs, but is only now being indexed in such a way as to allow it to be meaningful.
Also, bin Laden's family will get six weeks in jail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57407930/pakistan-sentences-bin-laden-kin-to-45-days/?tag=strip
Somehow, I don't think this will appease anyone.