Dr. Quack, Opinion & News with the harsh cry of reason.

SB1070 Draconian or not...sit down, shut up and get over it...

Before you get your tail feather into an uproar, know this. My wife of many years was a Mexican national(citizen) with papers living and working here(the United State of America) in the greatest nation on earth. A Mexican Duck she is, having migrated to the United States legally, completing and carrying proudly always, her legal documentation required to live and work in America as an immigrant. In the over (30) years as a documented immigrant my wife has never been asked for her papers or legal documentation with the exception of employment. This has been true under the past immigration laws and will be so under this new law.

 

Under the new sb1070 immigration law I have read (completely)and have noted nothing new from that of the current and weakly enforced Federal immigration laws pertaining to Illegal immigrants. Sb1070 may be a Robo-version of the Federal Law giving it the stereo-type, draconian of sort, but that would be an Ugly Lie. Mama Quack always told me an ugly lie was one with, vicious, hurtful, hateful intent to do as much harm to one, one could do. And many have done do much of that...so to speak. All the lies coming from mealy mouthed activist, journalist, politicians, multi-media outlets and so-called responsible human rights organizations has effectively light the fires of divisiveness in the souls of otherwise good people.(Immigrants, illegal or not)

 

Sure I have my concerns that an overzealous police officer will racially profile my wife and she's a bit nervous with sb1070's Robo- enhancement of the current Federal law. However police officers good or bad are more than aware of Arizona's false arrest laws, and the millions each year States and Cities lose to such cases when officers act improperly in accordance with any law. The instruction and guidance, training and the LAW itself that police officers are taught, makes it clear as to their responsibility to the people and the laws of engagement in preventing such possibilities of false arrests.

 

That being said, false arrest laws isn't my reason in supporting or not sb1070. Illegal Immigrants living and working in America are caught between two weak spine, politically self-serving governments, Mexico and the United States, that have not, since Ronald Reagan was President, put forth any real effective legislation to deal once and for all with Illegal immigration and legal immigration into the United States from Mexico. An effective and expedient immigration policy program for coming into the United States to live and work would be a great start. Better yet, match that with an aggressive and affective policy and enforcement of the entire border between Mexico and the United States, collaboratively between the two and you've got a start to something great for all.

 

SB 1070 is an enhanced, tough and perhaps more rigid law by words than the current Federal Law on immigration. But what it isn't is what the Ugly Liars want you to believe, Nazism, how stupid are writers and journalist that spew ugly lies and comparisons. Are "These the times that try men's souls" Thomas Paine...I think not, and irresponsible journalist, writers, media celebs and such, if they can't read and tell the simple truth about a (17) page bill(sb1070) then they should just sit down, shut up and get over it. Because their voices carry ugly lies that darken the souls of many good people, immigrant, illegal or not and every citizen of this great nation.

 

I'm Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason...5 04 10

Reconciliation isn't the problem, and the New York Times, knoooows that.

In Sunday's New York Times (3/7/10) 'Reconciling with the Past' the point of three writers was; "The history is clear: While the use of reconciliation in this case — amending a bill that has already passed the Senate via cloture — is new, it is compatible with the law, Senate rules and the framers’ intent."

Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Raffaela Wakeman is a research assistant at Brookings. Fogelson-Lubliner is a graphic design studio in Brooklyn.

 

The bill is the health care package and the point noted in their final sentence is non-argumentative. It's their intent, that I take to task. I've posted their Op-ED as well as the chart they created to make the point that reconciliation has been used by both parties several times and America has survived. Yet their own chart shows how wrong, and the difference between the reconciliations of the past and  the Obama health care package, now being considered for a vote. Starting with a $700billion dollar difference and the beginning of another big government bureaucratic boondoggle.

 

I want health care reform, but graduated with common sense budgeting, built with a lot of conciliatory deliberation. None of that was used in the creation of either the House or Senate Bills from Congress. And let me be clear, any health care legislation that is put  upon the good citizens of America as a Federal Mandate, does not have my backing. Constitutionally I challenge such legislation that would stymie the growth and dictate to me what the responsibility of my business is, when referring to a social contract like health care. That as a citizen of the greatest nation on earth, I'd be forced by threat of financial penalties and or else, to carry health care insurance for myself and employees, as a new government mandated social entitlement, is a  real, infringement upon my Constitutional rights.

 

In none of the charted examples by the New York Times Op-ED above, did Congress ever enact legislation so clearly in contrast to the views of what seems the majority of Americans. This current health care legislation is an overwhelming bureaucratic and budgetary albatross around the neck of America's future, not to mention, 'Lady Liberty's.' This grotesque piece of Constitutionally devoid legislation, needs to be cleaned up, shaped up and for the peoples sake, brought down and back to earth.

 

Though it be imminent that Congress & President Obama will pass this health care package, it will then be left to the voters in November and 2012 to send this Administration a clear message, "we've taken all you could shove at us, and we'll take no more." No more Mandate, no more big government, no more big brother attitude from a government that took an oath to serve the people, not compel them (us) with unconstitutional mandates. I could opine till the cows come home, for now I'll wait, pray and hope that the President will open his eyes to the realization that he was elected because he offered 'change we can believe in' and hope that we'd have a president who actually listened to the people, setting an example for Congress, that has failed to listen for some time.

 

I'm Dr. Quack, with the harsh cry of reason...3 11 10

Obama & Andy Stern, hold that thought. Pinky & the Brain,now hold that thought.

Not taking away any of President Obama's intellect for what so many in the media have declared god like, but there's one who appears to be one up on the President. And since they appear attached to the hip one might say the duo of Obama and Stern can be likened to, 'Pinky and the Brain, respectively. You know Andy Stern, he is no simpleton and no one's Pinky, he is the calculating demonstrable leader of the S.E.I.U., (Service Employees International Union.) And you know the 'Brain' from 'Pinky & the Brain' the

Emmy-winning animated television series and spin-off of Animaniacs from 1995-1999.

 

Before you get your tail feathers ruffled, I'm not saying as above, that President Obama is mentally likened to Pinky, only that he is a side-kick to Andy Stern, as the Brain. As intellectual you may believe Obama is, he is blinded by the clear and present fact, Andy Stern is out to rule the world, so to speak. We can only hope that as in the toon, 'Pinky & the Brain' that like Pinky the President in an unintentional way will ruin the plans of the Brain, to rule the world. I can imagine the President and Andy Stern during one of their so-called non-lobbyist meetings (22 or more times last year) Pinky: "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"

The Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!" With the President just laughing the idea off, not Andy Stern, he knows what he wants and he has a plan.

 

Andy Stern may have a great smile, but wields a heavy hand, cold and calculated. His ideology is not of union bosses from time past, rather from political revolutionaries from a time, we should not, and must not forget. At (59) Andy Stern is from the old school of walk softly and carry a big stick, the swan song of socialist and communist revolutionaries. Now don't ruffle your feathers yet. I'm not calling Andy Stern a socialist or communist, but, if his ideology talks the talk and walks the walk or for you Duckeons, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. Just a thought, not an accusation, yet.

 

Now this duck, oops, I mean Andy Stern, has been appointed by President Obama (aka Pinky) to the just created National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Oh boy! Another government committee, another bureaucratic smoke screen to not face head on, the problems of the economy, that this government just refuses to get. Just think, if President Obama had included the word Government in the committee title (National government Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform), it would have been an oxymoron. Does this appointment of Andy Stern sound a little like a fox in the hen house or as Investor's Business daily put it, "is like having a serial arsonist organize Fire Prevention Week”. And Pinky, is holding the match.

 

As the president of the fastest growing union in America, Andy Stern and the S.E.I.U., which contributed $60million to President Obama's campaign, from one Duck's point of view, has argumentatively single handedly added more to health care costs than any single issue on the topic. Unionizing hospital workers under the S.I.E.U. has contributed to poorer care (Patient care) and extreme costs that have not argumentatively inflated the cost of health care to beyond, and to use a Left Loon term, entitlement.

 

Andy Stern is a bad choice by a President that has promised "change we can believe in" at a time when a quarter of the way through his presidency, the only legacy for President Obama at this point, is none.

 

I'm Dr. Quack, with the harsh cry of reason...3 08 10

Goodwin Liu, Obama's 9th Circuit Nominee, brilliant, perhaps, but no cigar.

I'd best trust the one who baffles me with duck dung than the one who tried dazzling me with his brilliance. I don't know about you, but the latter scares me. University of California Berkeley progressive professor, Goodwin Liu, is President Obama's nominee to the left coast (West coast's) 9th circuit court. Whenever I hear the term brilliant applied to a politician or judge you can bet a dollar to a donut that the reference is about a progressive left person of interest. Not that brilliance doesn't take form on all sides of the isle, but I find the arrogance of the Left progressive movement in America incapable of modesty and humility, which makes them hardly difficult to identify. Qualities like humility and modesty, I believe make good justices and even better politicians, with brilliance. Then, what do I know, I'm far from brilliant.

 

The problem with Goodwin Liu, is not his brilliance, but his wisdom, he has yet to serve as a judge in any court but served as an appellate litigator at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also served as special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and as senior program officer for higher education at the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps). All the above in less than a five year span before joining the staff at UC Berkeley. Brilliance without wisdom is like good looks without a brain. Vegetation, and in this case left wing progressive partisan vegetation, is what professor Liu represents. Every organization the professor serves in or belongs to is a left progressive movement. This is important, since Goodwin Liu hasn't rendered any court decisions, we can only review his writings (Left and Progressive) and whom he associates with (Left and Progressive). Here's the short list of Professor Liu's associations with groups; serves on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society. He also serves on the boards of National Women's Law Center, the Public Welfare Foundation, and the Alliance for Excellent Education. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2008.(source U.C. Berkeley profile.)

 

Professor Liu is considered an expert on constitutional law, sounds a lot like someone else we know. Sounds like more 'Change we can believe in,' and if appointed, we will get change. Liu is another constitutional law expert, seems we have at least one or two maybe three too many already in Washington D.C., by the way, how’s that working out for you, soooo far. Seems that the tag constitutional expert is right up there with the term brilliant. Seems we have a President set on re-writing the Constitution as with professor Liu, they both believe the constitution is a living document which should be interpreted by brilliant minds for a new enlightened age, the progressive age. Similar to how the church has reconstructed the Word of God, for a more so called, enlightened time in society. Will we ever learn from history, or are we so enlightened that history doesn't give us any more of a marker for wisdom than the Bible fits with the world we live in today. God help us.

 

I'm beginning to see a Thomas Paine society, revolutionaries who blow in the wind like a feather according to, the wind. And currently it is a Left Progressive wind. A society of brilliant enlightened minds who know best. Baffle me with some Duck Dung any day than with a brilliant mind. For behind the dung is a creative, humble, modest, ethical mind waiting to be, brilliant, dare I say. It is the every day, you and I American people that baffle the heck out of me, your achievements, reason and simple common sense. Like professor Liu many Americans have walked the path he has. They may not be Rhodes Scholars and Yale Law Graduates, but they, we, are common sense Americans with a harsh cry of reason...I'm Dr. Quack with, the harsh cry of reason. 3 05 10

 

My Side Note; Here are two, worth reading FYI Goodwin Liu writings; Professor Liu's recent work includes "Keeping Faith with the Constitution" (2009) (with Pamela S. Karlan and Christopher H. Schroeder); "Rethinking Constitutional Welfare Rights" in Stanford Law Review (2008)...Source U.C. Berkeley profile...

I mention these two writings as worth reading, because there are some excellent points made by professor Liu whether you agree or not. Dr. Quack

Thanksgiving, Not just another Day

It's hard not to use cliché's when it comes to thoughts about Thanksgiving. The sole purpose of the Great American Holiday is to be Thankful for what God has blessed us with. Not ungrateful, because of what we don't have. Simply it is a given day of rest. Given, because you'll not receive one solicited phone call, and no bill collector calls. You can rest from the stress of answering your own phone. Knowing when you answer on Thanksgiving Day, it will most likely be a call to give thanks for. Long unheard from, family members, children or other family in the military. Long lost friends from most anywhere and elsewhere who have either found their way home by a call or an appearance at your front door. Anyway we give thanks.

We also gives thanks for the roof over our head and a warm bed, and for a moment we reflect on how we can make life as good for others. That's the spirit of Thanksgiving, more so it's the consciousness of a loving God dwelling inside us that reminds us of what we've been blessed with, and how we can use it to help others. Family, friends....

The reality of this revelation left in the form of a question. Will we react, will we answer the call, today, tomorrow, next week.? Will we answer the call at all? That is the (10) million dollar question

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