Why am I bringing this up? I used to write a political site and since I am Libertarian, I had to research a lot of things, unlike the other parties it seems. I got burnt out very quickly. The sheer amount of bills that come up in the house and senate is staggering. And the amount of non-needed bills is even more amazing. Recently there was a bill, S. 1864 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012) that would label our own citizens as enemy combatants, luckily Rand Paul fought to get a vote to strike this from the bill and won. I noticed BOTH of my senators were on the list of those voting Yea. And it got me thinking about how I want to write them but they would sent back their prepossessed drivel and they wouldn’t give two shits on what some little nobody in their state said.

How to fix it? Well, I can’t claim to be a political scientist and know the answers because I’ve studied it forever. But I think there’s some simple ways to fix some of the bills. Basically, you’d have a bill that only focused on the issue at hand, nothing else, if they want something else, separate bill. This prevents people from burying what they want in a big bill so people who vote against it can be made out to seem like they don’t want the original bill, this was done with the Protect the Children or whatever stupid fucking bill they had recently about child pornography with a dash of 1984 style monitoring of everything you ever did on the web to be tracked by your ISP. What that has to do with protecting children, I have no idea. More government control hidden away while making people who vote against it pedophiles. Stupid shit like this needs to go. Bills should have to sit unaltered for up to 1 month after it is finalized before it’s voted on in the house or senate. This allows a process to not be pushed through any house without the people knowing about it. They should also have CSPAN cover what’s waiting to be voted on and there should be a site discussing the bills and whats in it so the people can review them and then be able to contact their representative. Hell, throw voting buttons on them, but make sure those people are registered to vote so when they do vote yes or no, their rep will know how someone they represent feels on an issue. After a vote passes, and both sides agree on the bill, it goes to the president, where it has to wait two more weeks. Here people can vote against it again, and more coverage talking about it. Then the president can sign it or veto it depending on what the people say.

It’s 2011, we should be interacting more with the people who represent us and they should take into account how we feel about what they’re doing. Anyway, I’m done ranting early in the morning about politics and I don’t even think the original thing I came to write here is really addressed, but I don’t care. I just hate how things are done now and have complacent WE ALL ARE in how things operate. Occupy Congress and get them to change how they operate. Might as well throw in term limits for our reps as well to keep things fresh. But what the hell do I know?

Now, if I was to head to a bar, I’d expect there to be smoking, and being an adult, I can make choices for myself. So, I can either go and breathe in smoke and get, OMG SECOND HAND SMOKE, or just go somewhere else where there isn’t a cloud of smoke in the air. It’s really not that difficult of a decision. I don’t want my RETARDED government telling local establishments that they have to ban smoking. It’s ridiculous. If people don’t like it, open up a bar that doesn’t allow smoking indoors to give you and your hippie retarded loving friends a place to go without being harmed by the ghastly smoke.

Now, I’m not entirely nuts, which I’m sure many lefties might think, but I don’t think there should be smoking in work, around your kids, OR even when you’re pregnant with your child. That’s just plain dumb. But, I feel if you’re an adult, you can make adult decisions on how you wish to surround yourself with smoke or no smoke and that you should also know to not smoke around your child. It’s all about our own personal choice. No one forces you to go to these bars, so quit fucking complaining. My government shouldn’t force my local watering hole to ban smoking.

I’m not here smoking to harm you, you’re here harming my choice by involving government because you’re too stupid to make your own choice, to fucking leave.

• Hold the town hall meetings, lay ground rules, have police enforce said interruption rules, ie you will be removed if you cause a disturbance. If people want to speak, let them ask their question and answer it. Let this be a civil matter. In fact, give people tickets, draw 20, answer those questions and end the town hall.
• Everyone should be allowed to enter without feeling bullied. It goes with my next point.
• Allow people to record town hall meetings. Why? Because it’s a public gathering about a public matter. We should be informing everyone we can with what’s going on during these meetings.
• No one should stop anyone from discussing health care with other people at town halls that are doing so in a civil matter, that means no yelling at people or ACORN grabbing police officers to shut up dissenters. It’s free speech, it works both ways, we can agree to disagree.
• Quit the name calling and get down to the issues. What matters most to the people. Whether it’s the cost of the program or what’s in the bill, this should be time to meet with our representatives and work things out, not shut out people against a plan.

That’s all I have right now it. I’m going to catch up on a few other of life’s fun things and soak in everything that’s happened this week and write a few more articles.

So, here it is, a call to arms. Spread the picture far and wide, post bills like the first, get the word out, our President does not have Americans best interests in his heart, only the backers of the Fed and himself.

Speaking of pictures of O great one. What the hell is with Mr Narcissist and his giant mural on his fake birthday?

Remember kids, it’s perfectly right to pick on the Right, but never pick on the Left, because that’s wrong, unfair, evil, despicable, racist, mean-spirited, or any other words that the Left throws out when it can dish the dirt but can’t take it.

I’m sorry Linda, what? Obama can say 12 different things, but today he says another and it’s ok? Have some accountability.

On top of that, Obama wants all you good little boys and girls to turn in any one opposed to the Healthcare bill.

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Now, that site seemed fishy, so I’ve already sent it in. But you can also send in more Obama speeches and links, because nothing what he says it true. He hasn’t stuck to most of his promises in the election, why should we trust him now?

If anything, that bill should be discussed on both sides to determine what is best for us. There is no reason to force this thing through without anyone reading it. I say make every person in the House and Senate sit in and have each one of them read it aloud on CSPAN so we the American people and hear what is in that Bill. Only then should they sit down and decide what to strike out and add, and then read it again. Then they can vote.

I’m against this 100%, who’s turning me in?

For everyone that thinks socialized medicine work, why not move to Massachusetts and let us know what you think of the current health care system. For those claiming the GOP wants you to die young and die fast, you’re completely wrong. Even Obama said older people would be treated less to make way for the young, so in fact we would be dying well before our average age under his plan. It’s tactless to throw a situation where you say the GOP would let one child die while letting another leave, since the GOP doesn’t treat your kids, it sets laws in place. And yes, people do get treated in both programs, not just socialized medicine. In socialized medicine they do have to wait longer, and they might get the wrong treatment by the time they get treated, but in America, when something is wrong, they try to get it fixed fast. Even our current system it’s not that difficult to get health care, you have to be willing to sacrifice certain things you’ve become accustomed to, like that fancy car or all your electronics. Those are luxury items and if you wanted greater health care coverage you would drop those and buy it yourself. The problem isn’t the system, the problem is the people using the system, so everyone except the Government to baby them, which is wrong, but it’s such a hot button issue now, there’s no turning back. One more thing, if you do have insurance through your current job, yes you get to keep it, but there are no more new plans, so if you leave your job, you have to choose wait times and government health care.

Jim DeMint’s plan is very simple, and in a time of people rushing through and spending money he takes the time to think of alternatives, even when people speak out against him, and wants people to decide for themselves.

• You keep your current health care plan, on your own or job group plan.
• If you don’t have a plan, you can get one or shop around with a voucher. It’s your own plan, separate from your job. It travels with you.
• Shop for plans across state lines. Let the free market dictate pricing. More competition means better pricing and better services, unlike in the government-run scheme.
• Costs? Not $1 Trillion like the bill currently sitting in the house. It’s funded by the bailout funds for Wall Street.

Honestly, how can anyone be behind a government that has screwed up Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to the point there might not be any room to save them. The only efficient thing Government does do is spend money and wage war. And right now, Obama’s government is at a record high for spending, frankly, I’m tapped out of money, I can’t afford anymore, how can you?

Schumer and Sens. John Rockefeller (D-WV), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) pounded the insurers, who they portrayed as unwilling to help pay for reform even while they have enjoyed exploding profits.

“The insurance companies are the people who are just rapaciously, greedily and unstoppably making money by underpaying the patient, by underpaying the provider and by overpaying, therefore, themselves,” Rockefeller said.

I love when Democrats don’t get what they want from a big business, they end up calling them greedy. No where does it state that insurers HAVE to participate in any reform, it’s a gesture of good faith if they do. This is just more of the same old Democrat shtick blaming big business for being successful and wanting to make us feel special by going after them. Like they are really saving us from big profits. They should be focusing on spending less money in the budgets and eliminating pork from bills.

Schumer pointed to the profits of the 10 largest insurance companies which shot up 428 percent between 2000 and 2007, from $2.4 billion to $12.9 billion as a reason health care reform is needed.

“As families and small businesses struggle during the current economic slowdown, now is not the time to impose new fees on health care coverage that will make coverage less affordable. To make health care more affordable policymakers should focus on initiatives that promote value and make the system work better and more efficiently, said AHIP spokesman Robert Zirkelbach.

But Schumer said they are working to make sure the fee can’t be passed through to consumers. Additionally, a strong government-run insurance plan that competes with the private market will make it more difficult for insurers to pass along the increased costs.

So accustomed have we become to identity politics that it barely causes a ripple when a highly touted Supreme Court candidate, who sits on the federal Appeals Court in New York, has seriously suggested that Latina women like her make better judges than white males.

Indeed, unless Sotomayor believes that Latina women also make better judges than Latino men, and also better than African-American men and women, her basic proposition seems to be that white males (with some exceptions, she noted) are inferior to all other groups in the qualities that make for a good jurist.

Any prominent white male would be instantly and properly banished from polite society as a racist and a sexist for making an analogous claim of ethnic and gender superiority or inferiority.

Imagine the reaction if someone had unearthed in 2005 a speech in which then-Judge Samuel Alito had asserted, for example: I would hope that a white male with the richness of his traditional American values would reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life and had proceeded to speak of  inherent physiological or cultural differences.

Stuart also makes a point that, “President Bush’s appointments of Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005 and Justice Samuel Alito in 2006 moved the Court closer to the absolutist “colorblind Constitution” position of Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who see virtually all governmental racial classifications as unconstitutional.”

So in essence, Sotomayer’s approval would only move the Court away from being “colorblind.”

It’s a damn shame when we worry more about being racist instead of worrying about picking the right person for the job. As Dr. Thomas Sowell says, “Performance matters.” The position of being a Supreme Court justice is the highest in the land for a judge and should also be the place for only judges that consistently side with the law of the land. They should interpret our Constitution and previous cases when thinking about a current case. Never should a judge bring their own feelings into this. SCOTUS Judge Clarence Thomas said it best:

“[T]he job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker…. Judging requires a certain impartiality.”

This is what we should be talking about during these hearing for Sotomayer, not about where she came from, not about her being a “wise latina”, but whether or not she is impartial to the law. It’s a waste of time to dissect anything else but being impartial.

I also do not believe in taking from international law and using it to interpret our own Constitution. The only thing a SCOTUS Judge should take into account when making a decision, is US law and our Constitution, nothing more.

And finally, for people saying she’s smart. She’s not. She just retracted her Wise Latina statement, and she said policy was made by the court even though she knew it was wrong for saying so on the record.

Anyone can pass a class and graduate. It’s all memorization and tests. The true judge of being smart, is actually going out there and doing your job and the results that come from doing a great job. So far, Sotomayer has shown she is ignorant of the laws, judges without impartiality, and thinks she’s better than anyone else out there. If acted the same way she did, I would have been burned at the stake.