Ohio adoption laws discriminate

No one has to tell me about the discrimination and injustice of adoption laws in Ohio. But maybe you didn't know--there are adopted citizens born in Ohio who are discriminated against and then there are regular type citizens, who have all the usual rights. And the adopted citizens are in 3 classes, 2 free, and one in bondage:

The Ohio Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics, houses birth and adoption records of persons born in Ohio and adopted anywhere in the United States. Below is the list of Adoption laws and procedures that are used in Ohio:

•Adoptions Prior to January 1, 1964 - Adoption records open to people who were born and adopted in Ohio, with proper identification.
•Adoptions Between January 1, 1964 and September 18, 1996 - Adoption records are sealed and only opened by a probate court order (H.B. 84)
•Adoptions After September 18, 1996 - Adoption records are open to adoptive parents when the adopted person is between 18-21 years of age. If the adopted person is 21 years or older, the records are open to the adoptee. Records will only be opened if the required documentation and releases are on file.

Why should someone born in 1996 or 1957 have more rights than someone born in 1964 or 1995? Supposedly, it's about privacy, about promises made to some nameless person 30-50 years ago. I don't believe that. I say, follow the money. Someone in the legislature in 1963, or someone with money and influence, didn't want to be found, was afraid for his reputation or feared his "legal" children would face an inheritance challenge at some point in the future. If you have a better answer, I'd like to hear it justify such an unfair, discriminatory law that crosses all races (except American Indians who have special rights of their own), genders, life-styles, religions and economic classes.

http://www.odh.ohio.gov/vitalstatistics/legalinfo/adoption.aspx

Who’s the maverick now?

At Huffington Post, a left wing source, just 2 months ago: "Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after he gave an anti-Obamacare speech that lasted over 21 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday. The speech, which was not techinally a filibuster because it did not delay any votes, was labeled an "extended oratory" by McCain, who spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday. McCain said he took issue with some of the content of Cruz's speech, including a Nazi comparison." At the very least, McCain needs to apologize and hand over his "maverick" mantle to Cruz.

Obama tells insurance companies to sell illegal products

“This is a staggering display of a reckless president cavalierly instructing states to ignore federal law. President Obama is shifting the blame by saying it's up to states and state insurance commissioners to fix the massive problem his signature law has created for millions of Americans who are losing their health insurance. President Obama did succeed at one thing today: making a bad situation worse with a ‘fix’ that will create more confusion for consumers and threatens to destabilize the health insurance industry. Obamacare is an abject failure; it's time to overturn this ill-conceived, job-killing nightmare that ultimately will bankrupt this country.” - Governor Rick Perry http://bit.ly/gl50dhc3

Imagine you’re the buyer.  Obama has told the insurance companies to sell an illegal product. Would you buy it, and then later if you had a problem, who would you go to?   He didn’t change the law; didn’t ask Congress.  Just told them to ignore the law because he said so.  Well, he’s said a lot of things the last 5 years that were lies, so who is going to fall for this one. 

Obama is a bully about insurance

If I own a sensible van and avoid driving like a jack rabbit, I save money on gasoline. If I do my own food preparation and don't eat every meal in a restaurant, I save money on food. If I shop at Kohl's or Macy's instead of Crucinelli or Savannah, I save money on clothes. If I don't color my hair, I save money at the hair dresser. If I'm careful about water and electricity usage my utility bills are low. But if I don't smoke or drink, keep my BMI and exercise at a healthy level, am monogamous, prefer reading a book to deep sea diving, have a college education and attend church regularly, Obama believes I should not be allowed to pay less for my health insurance than someone who has a life style and behaviors very different from mine. And if I choose to pay for my own health care, select my own doctor, and insure only for crisis or emergency situations, Obama demeans my choice and calls that insurer substandard and bad.

The President’s faux fix

I listened to the news conference (which sounded like a commercial for the Affordable Care Act) and almost gagged. At last, some of that transparency we were promised.

Remember when Obama lied about his mother losing her health insurance? He told some more whoppers today. If insurance was as bad as he says, the media would be interviewing these people daily to shore up his argument. I doubt that he's been persuaded by citizens losing their insurance, or even Democratic politicians who have to run in 2014. He promised in the short run the insurance companies would have all these new customers because people would be forced to buy it thereby making huge profits, and I'm guessing that's where the pressure is coming from.

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/11/14/obamas-cancellation-fix-violating-law-short-term-public-relations-move/

President Obama has told Obamacare’s critics that the law is “settled” and “here to stay.” But today he is saying he’ll violate the law to put a Band-Aid on it for another year. That’s in addition to the one-year delay in the employer mandate and numerous other “fixes” and delays.

Winter came early

this year.  We just aren’t ready.  It seems we just got back from Lakeside.  Tuesday morning we awoke to white puffs on trees and bushes still bursting with fall color, or at least they were on Monday.  Then the sun came out, but the temperature didn’t rise much.   My childhood friend, Lynne, sent this poem.  Expresses very much how I feel.

The tree has blossomed overnight,
For every twig is frozen white
And garlanded with crystal sprays
That sparkle in the sun's bright rays
And on the window I can trace,
Where silver branches interlace,
A picture on the pane embossed:
A fairy orchard white with frost.

Lynne Fleming Wilburn

Peeping while you are sleeping . . .

Dan McCall, a young graphic artist, was interviewed on the Glenn Beck show last night.  He’s in trouble with the government for this t-shirt which says the NSA is the only part of government that actually listens.

With the help of consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, he is suing the NSA for violating his First Amendment rights.

Megyn Kelly interviews Dr. Emanuel twice on Fox

If you wanted to throw something at the TV watching Megyn Kelly's interviews with Zeke Emanuel, you'll love what he said in 2008--his audacious views and rationing beliefs were all out there, and he was Obama's main advisor on this death trap called PPACA. Oh yes, and he claims it's Fox News and Republicans' fault. Sorry, Zeke, but as you blame, your own words point 3 fingers back to you and the advice he got from you.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203706604574374463280098676

http://therightscoop.com/round-2-megyn-kelly-interviews-ezekiel-emanuel-again-and-hes-blames-fox-news-for-failure-of-obamacare-rollout/

It’s not a failed “roll out;” it’s a terrible law.

Feinstein has to leave the plantation—briefly

If she believed that “the majority of Americans with coverage continually say they are happy with the coverage they have” then why did she vote to change it? For the small percentage that didn’t have insurance, wouldn’t buy it, or didn’t need it?  So everyone would have equally poor insurance?

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/11/13/obamacare-kills-a-million-insurance-plans-in-california-feinstein-bails/

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-obamacare-2014-elections-democrats-senate-2013-11

Stage four cancer

And she’s lost her insurance that was working very well for her.  Thank you, President Obama.

Next on the chopping block—employee health insurance

“Right now, most people getting cancellations bought plans in the individual market. Wait until the other shoe drops in 2014 and millions more people who had coverage through their job lose it. The truth about Obamacare will become so painfully obvious that even the White House lie machine won’t be able to cover it up.” Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. governor of New York

The Jimmy Kimmel dust-up

Just a follow up on Jimmy Kimmel's China comment. Last night Glenn Beck interviewed Pastor Bob Fu, a former Communist and atheist from China, and now a Christian. He and his wife left China to save the life of their unborn child. We've all heard of the one child policy, but he said Chinese women have to carry a "birth permit" which records their periods, insertion of birth control device, etc., because they need government permission to conceive, even for the first child. The document he showed to the camera sort of looked like a passport with the woman’s photo, and stamps, and notes. Pastor Fu and his wife hadn't obtained the proper permit and could not get medical assistance. So even 8 and 9 month old babies can be aborted against their parents' wishes. So if ABC or Jimmy Kimmel want a come back to the racism charges, let them do some investigative reporting and tell the truth about the Chinese government continuing to kill its own citizens.

The Omnibus Final Rule

It’s just not good to read “conundrum,” “new regulations,” “administrative and technical challenges,” “impede innovation,” and “contentious issue” all in the same article about HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.  Not after the sloppy, struggling, and insecure roll out of Obamacare.  The Omnibus Final Rule.

There are a few hot button words for me in the JAMA September 18, 2013 article, “The HIPAA Conundrum in the Era of Mobile Health and Communications.”

• mandates
• redefined
• expanded
• now considered
• now required
• can be held criminally liable
• pose technical challenges
• estimated cost $114-225 million for start up
• underestimates compliance costs
• may impose unfunded mandates
• may impede innovation
• in theory. . .
• in practice. . .
• actual security will rely on user’s behavior
• important hurdles
• employing consultants has become the norm
• can be costly
• down stream contractors
• poor guidance
• impose
• shift
• refuse
• trapped
• impassable requirements
• penalized
• landscape is rapidly evolving

Evolution explained cold

1984 all over again

"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult…. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontentment led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.”

“Substandard” insurance

Obama loves to call your current health insurance "substandard." But insurance, like banks, is very highly regulated--by the government, and especially the state governments. And those regulations benefit the big guys who spend millions on lobbying the most. That's the same for all industries whether insurance, banking, agriculture, entertainment, toys, snack food or academia. The regulations are specifically written (many drafted by the industry itself) to keep the little guy from being competition. So the next time he tells you that, throw something at the TV and don't forget to vote in the next election.

Insurance agents are required to have extensive training, and continuing education. They have to have back ground checks and finger printing. Obama's navigators? Nothing.

Undercover video of navigator guiding a citizen to sign up with Obamacare. Not only have so-called “Obamacare navigators” not been properly vetted by Enroll America, but they are actively encouraging consumers to lie to the IRS in order to get more money in Obamacare subsidies and in fact themselves are admitting to defrauding the government. And what makes this even worse is that Enroll America, ostensibly a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, seems to be sharing information with Battleground Texas, which is described by its regional field director as “a grassroots organization dedicated to turning Texas blue.”

Jimmy Kimmel and the kids

I was sitting in the doctor's office and CNN was on, so I watched the story of comedian Jimmy Kimmel allowing a kid to say that the solution to the debt problem with China was to kill the Chinese. So then came the "I'm sorry if anyone was offended" apology from Kimmel and ABC, but that's not enough. There are calls for his firing. Really? "Comedians" call for the death of Tea Party members and Republicans, and no one is fired and they label anyone who doesn't like Obama's policies a racist, a homophobe and a misogynist.

Then the news show brought on a Chinese American who felt compelled to review America's record with minorities, like how Asians were treated in the 19th and 20th century. From her accent, I guessed she was born in China, but was probably forced to give up her native language of Cantonese or one of the Wu language groups and flee for her life when Mao was killing 70 million or so of his own citizens. If China is upset, tough.

With Obama’s help, abortion will be legal in Kenya

We know our President routinely ignores our laws, or works around them, parses his words carefully, or just blatantly lies, like he did about "you can keep your doctor, period."  However, it was also illegal for the U.S. to interfere in Kenya's constitution to promote abortion.  An investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), into the Obama Administration’s use of $18 million in taxpayer funds to provide funding for a group pushing legalized abortion in Kenya finds the administration broke the law. Guttmacher Institute (Planned Parenthood) did a happy dance and reports the same kind of “unsafe, illegal” abortion statistics that they did in the United States to get our 1973 law passed.  (That was later proved to be a complete fabrication.)  The administration stonewalled the investigation. This was in 2010, but worthy of remembering when making your list. Democrats like to say about Obamacare, "It's the law," well, so was DOMA, and he ignored it. So is sending guns to Mexico. So is spying on American citizens without a warrant.  So is interfering with our “free” press.  So is killing American citizens suspected of terrorism without a trial. So is lobbying for abortion in other countries.

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/12/16/obamas-push-to-legalize-abortion-in-kenya-broke-u-s-law/

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB_Abortion-in-Kenya.pdf

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/09/11/kenyan_catholic_bishops:_legalizing_abortion_is_legalizing_murder!_/en3-727577

On being green

I’ve seen this a few times on the internet and thought it was worth another look. I have no attribution.

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.

So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings.

Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

Please forward this on to another old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person...

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

Aren’t you glad Obamacare is saving health care dollars

According to data released by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the three major carriers in the D.C. exchange only signed up a few each; a fourth signed up no one.

Care First, Blue Cross Blue Shield: two enrollees from Oct. 1, 2013, through Oct. 30, 2013.

Kaiser Permanente: three enrollees from Oct. 1, 2013, through Oct. 31, 2013.

United Healthcare: no enrollment data from the exchange as of Nov. 4, 2013.

Aetna: No enrollment data as of Oct. 24, 2013.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have posted the amount of grant money given to the D.C. exchange. The total from these publicly-released figures are $133,573,928: $72,985,333 for an "Establishment Grant Level Two Application Summary," with an "Administrative Supplement Award Amount" of $16,969,089; $8,200,716 and $34,418,790 awarded separately for an "Establishment Grant Level One Application Summary;" and $1 million for s "State Planning Grant."

This means that the cost to the American taxpayers per enrollee in D.C. has been $26,714,785.60 each.

Information link here.

There is nothing government can do cheaper than private industry, but there are a few things it must do according to the Constitution.  Health care isn’t one of them.