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The Zimm


George has done it again! After being acquitted in the murder of Trayvon martin, George Zimmerman has continued his apparent usual behavior. He has been revealed as the aggressor (not in court) in real life. The latest incident ended in his being arrested, forbidden to have weapons and ammunition. After posting bond of $9000.00, Zimmerman was freed. This latest incident had him holding his girlfriend at shotgun pint after barricading the front door. This is an excerpt of the incident:

George Zimmerman was taken into custody Monday after girlfriend Samantha Scheibe told deputies he pointed a shotgun at her during an argument.

SANFORD, Fla. — A prosecutor says George Zimmerman’s girlfriend claims he choked her about a week ago but she didn’t report it to police at the time.

The prosecutor told a judge about the allegation during a first appearance Tuesday on domestic violence-related charges of aggravated assault, battery and criminal mischief.

The judge set George Zimmerman’s bond at $9,000 and ordered that he not possess guns or ammunition. He was ordered to stay away from the girlfriend’s house and wear a monitoring device.

Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of any charges in the 2012 fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, was charged Monday with aggravated assault, battery and criminal mischief after his 27-year-old girlfriend called 911.

Raw: Judge Sets Zimmerman Bond at $9,000

Raw: Judge Sets Zimmerman Bond at $9,000

Samantha Scheibe claimed Zimmerman had smashed a glass table, threatened her with a shotgun and ultimately pushed her out of the house she rented.

Scheibe told deputies the ordeal started with a verbal argument and that she asked Zimmerman to leave the house. Her account in the arrest report says he began packing his belongings, including a shotgun and an assault rifle. She says she began putting his things in the living room and outside the house, and he became upset. At that point, the report says, he took the shotgun out of its case.

Zimmerman told his girlfriend to leave and smashed a pair of her sunglasses as she walked toward the front door, the report says. Scheibe told deputies he pushed her out of the house when she got close to the door.

“You point your gun at my fricking face,” Scheibe is heard telling Zimmerman on a 911 call. “Get out of my house. Do not push me out of my house. Please get out of my house.”

Now what do you think the jurors are thinking about the man they acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin?

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I was Close!


I was close to avoiding any more conversation on the ACA, after hearing Mr. Issa again beating the drum about the poor rollout of the ACA I am again making the statement that Congress is full of lame ducks! These morons are too busy trying to stay in office to tell the truth!. The failure on this rollout is as much their issue as the administration’s. The Congress had ample time to read this bill before it was enacted but did not, instead they took excerpts given them by their staff and ran with them. Remember the death camps? If ( and I hope it happens) the voters look behind the curtain they will see it is all smoke and mirrors (still).Their lack of vision is as bad as a parent not taking care of their children and expecting a good result in their upbringing and future life. A national insurance company hits the mark with the baby in the stroller stating” Ok, did anyone notice that mime was talking?- Freeeaky!” Did Congress notice that the ACA required reading before passage? What is freaky is that the seat fillers who are up for election will go forward as if they have really done something worthwhile and deserve to be elected again. If being in the media and making “bold” statements is doing their job then they have done so but if passing laws and insuring that their constituents know what the laws are about is their job, then they have failed with great fanfare. I can only say as Voters we all need to wake up and understand that we have a neer do well Congress who apparently cannot find the key to the executive washroom without a guide.

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A Post From Martin


No surprise

women get things done

Abel Oldsworth, my reticent friend, told me he was not surprised that the Congressional Gentle Women or Gentle Ladies, as they are addressed, collaborated in getting compromises underway during the government shutdown and debt default messes.  It’s their gene based intuition or mind reading capabilities.

My wife reads me like a book.  For example, the other night, I was scanning concert attendees prior to its start and musing over some improper thoughts.  She poked me in the ribs and said, “Quit that!”

I had not even said a word.

As some Congressional Men snipe and investigate to stall legislative fixes, Gentle Women’s intuition and caring will again get solutions going.

He recalled the leadership of a former one.

There once was a Congress woman named Bridgett,

Who believed in fixits for legislation with glitches.

She reached across the aisle

In a nonpartisan style,

Outclassing the partisans who preferred just to ditch it.

Yeah for the USA

Happy Thanksgiving

Martin Egelston

 Battle Creek Enquirer

11/9/2013

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ACA-still going on.


At last the legislators and critics of “Obamacare” aka the “Affordable Health Care Act” have moved in the direction of repairing the issues with the law. What if there was not an election cycle coming? ,the flaws in the law would still be the subject of political rhetoric and public outcry. It  would have made more sense to read and understand the law before enacting so that it would roll out as smooth as possible.  Instead pundits and elected officials spent public capital on trashing the act, leaving the people in limbo and under informed. There has been ample time to make adjustments and apply fixes but that valuable time was misspent much like our votes for Legislators who have been in office much too long. In order for Congress to work as well as it could, the voters need to spend less time waiting for opinions from the media and put more time in forming their own opinions through the process of accessing multiple sources of information. Opinions and information from a single source is similar to: ” when I want your opinion, I will give it to you”.

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ACA-Still??


The ongoing problems of Affordable Care accessibility is debilitating and disruptive. The elected officials of the combined legislature (both sides) are more concerned with re-election than assisting in getting this program to work. Consider how it could have been had these 535 took the time to read and offer input when initially proposed, instead we have had 5 years of almost ruinous debate on it and creating  a panic in the public with talk of “death Camps” (this is not 1940’s Germany) and folks being denied services. This Congress is so inept that we cannot believe anything they say. It  unrealistic to think they are acting in our best interest, the truth is they have one goal and that is remaining in office. Politicians will and do say what ever they have to remain in office. This ACA was going to solve a lot of issues on health care and yes some people will be affected adversely yet the overall Act is positive for more Americans who have not been able to get healthcare. These folks were the people we all pay for so they can have healthcare now many can afford their own (with government subsidies). The mis labeling of the Affordable Healthcare Act as Obamacare is more of a political ploy to win elections, many people do not know they are one in the same. When asked many  opted  for the Affordable Care Act instead of Obamacare (could there be a racial tone to this?). Is it not odd that media reporters ( the more intelligent ones) know more about the Affordable Care Act than Congress? My primary issue is: We have an inefficient and mostly inept Congress that has polarized the country by Race, religion ethnicity and gender for so long that they believe it is OK then tie their fortunes to big money donors and radical yet vocal splinter groups with a certain charisma based on their novelty.

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Are You?


The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has taken up more time than required for the 535 to just take up the issue of correcting or assisting in correcting the problems with its rollout and implementation. Unfortunately these folks have gone the route of Joseph McCarthy and Estes Kefauver. Incase no one remembers or knows, these two members of Congress consumed the airwaves with what is now known as witch hunts against  Communists and Juvenile crime  (Switch blades?) due to TV programming of the time. Personally I am pretty much done hearing and listening to the same old Cr** with no solutions or offers to help. All of the folks use the phrase: “the American people” when condemning the ACA yet they never asked the American people, the small sample they get is targeted and non representative therefore who are they really representing?   The fact that they are constantly blasting the program  is enough to show me that their only issue is a Democrat who happens to be Black and intelligent has a rational thought to help the “American people”  whom they have underserved for much of their time in office. While I may be a bit biased but could the “American People” please read all of the available information and disregard the inane ranting of the ensconced politicians who by the way are not so concerned with the American people until it’s election season! Now I ask: Are You tired of it?

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Food for Thought?


The following article points out the double dealing the Dupublican caucus.

CUTS TO FOOD STAMP PROGRAM REVEAL CONGRESSIONAL HYPOCRISY

Cynthia TuckerBy Cynthia Tucker | Cynthia Tucker – Sat, Nov 2, 2013

For decades, I’ve proudly asserted that “nobody starves to death in America.” The comment has been addressed to acerbic critics of the American government, often foreign visitors, who insist that the United States is a mean-spirited place that casts aside its weak and fragile citizens. I still contend that nobody starves to death here, but I’ve had to modify my claims about the country’s social safety net. Even if no one dies for lack of basic nutrition, plenty of people go to bed hungry every night. And if Congress’ harsh Republican caucus has its way, some may starve.That’s because the band of ultraconservatives who control the House are bent on deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps. They passed a farm bill laden with welfare for farmers, but they left out one of its biggest traditional components: food stamps. It was the first time since 1973 that the nutrition program had been left out of the farm bill. Now, negotiations have started between the Senate and the House to try to reconcile the upper chamber’s more charitable version with the one the lower chamber put together. It will be a tough slog since the two bills are billions of dollars apart. The Senate wants to cut $4 billion from SNAP over 10 years, while the House wants to cut nearly $40 billion. Perhaps the most appalling thing about the farm bill presented by the ultraconservatives in the House is that it makes little pretense of cutting spending by ferreting out wastefulness or fraud, no feint at an all-out assault on the deficit. Instead, this is just a base and ugly assault on the working poor. Oh, conservatives claimed that their cuts to food stamps were in response to fraud, as their claque filled the airwaves with the same example of a carefree California surfer enjoying his “wonderful” life on food stamps. They neglected to point to government data which show that SNAP is among the most efficient of government programs, with fraudulent spending restricted to about 2 percent of its budget. Meanwhile, the same conservatives have said nothing — nothing — about the millions of dollars in fraud related to farm subsidies. A June audit by the Government Accountability Office found that millions of dollars in subsidies have been sent to farmers who’ve been dead for at least a year. That’s just the illegal stuff.

That doesn’t touch the entirely legal fraud: The entire network of agricultural subsidies is a massive boondoggle, welfare to people who hardly need it. While conservatives hector the working poor about their alleged laziness, some agricultural programs pay farmers not to plant. Why don’t Fox News and Rush Limbaugh ever talk about that? Farmers hardly need the money. (Forget about the struggling family farmer of lore. He has largely disappeared.) Earlier this year, the Agriculture Department projected that farm income in 2013 would be $128.2 billion, the highest since 1973. One of the more egregious examples of the sheer hypocrisy surrounding the debate over the farm bill was revealed by The New York Times, which wrote about U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher, R-Tenn. He voted for the bill that eviscerates SNAP, but he received nearly $3.5 million in farm subsidies from the government between 1999 and 2012, according to the Times. “We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over,” he said, apparently without irony.

Conservatives claim to be alarmed by the dramatic increase in food stamp outlays, up 77 percent since 2007 to a record high of $78.5 billion in fiscal year 2012. (The SNAP program is already scheduled for a 5 percent cut as a provision related to the 2009 stimulus bill lapses.) But that’s because so many more people are struggling to make ends meet. The Great Recession accelerated a trend that has hollowed out the middle class, leaving many Americans without college degrees in a downward spiral. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that nearly 49 million Americans are “food insecure” — bureaucratese that means they don’t have enough to eat. If we aren’t willing to see to it that they have basic nutrition, I’ll have to reconsider what I believe about my country.

(Cynthia Tucker, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. She can be reached at cynthia@cynthiatucker.com.)

COPYRIGHT 2013 CYNTHIA TUCKER

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In My Semi Biased Opinion


The Affordable care Act has problems! These problems started during the first 4 years of the Obama administration. The election leading up to (and after) his inauguration  was nasty, racial and politically divided. This aura remained in place even after most Americans were happy to see him win (this includes  Americans of all hues and beliefs). There will always be anti everything including  members of Congress. The shame of it is that Congress (the same people who enact our laws) had ample opportunity to get on board and do their jobs but they wasted so much time kow towing to their big contributors (not their constituency) that they had no time to read and understand what the act was  and is about. Many of them have and continue to state that the act is a “train wreck” and the”American people ” do not want it yet they have no idea what it  does and have taken no interest in fixing it. Their hands off attitude is primarily political and covertly racist. To address the political aspect: their focus now (with the Party of Tea in the wings) is to win the Whitehouse and Congress and then repeal the Affordable care act. If that happens the result will be more devastation on the backs of the people who are  (and want to be) part of the ACA. The Congress has already put more problems on the folks who are recipients of food subsidies by changing the funding for Farmers who provide assistance to these folks under “SNAP”. The pre election media storm literally divided this country into the closeted  and outright bigots, the gentrifiers and  well off who seek to keep the less fortunate more so. These few groups are not united but each has  their own axe to grind and the heads of the lower and middle classes are on the block. Bigotry itself knows only the boundaries of its perpetrator and it is self serving, many bigots have no idea why they hate! The others are more self serving in that they feel they can buy their way on the backs of others. These traits are acquired or taught and amazingly some folks even “grow” out of it. I read and view a lot of information on all of this and this post is my semi biased opinion.

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