Wednesday Potpourri

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“… Tht mns Swn Cnty wll rcv $52 mlln n cmpnstn fr rd nvr cmpltd. …”

Smll rcmpns fr prms brkn nd gnrtns dshnrd.

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don talley

“… That means Swain County will receive $52 million in compensation for a road never completed. …”

Small recompense for a promise broken and generations dishonored.

So Ralph you are in favor of reparations too? who da thunk it. First the socialist parking thing, and now this…are you sure you’re not red?

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If climate change wasn’t happening North America would be under an ice cap, or the “little ice age” would not have happened,but can the U.N. TAX and supranational government structure change that? This is a naked grab for power by an unelected, unaccountable group of internationalists using science (or lack of) as a trojan horse to bring about world government.

At the United Nations Bretton Woods Monetary Conference back in 1944, the three-pronged economic framework for a fully integrated world was established. The U.S. Senate confirmed two of the three: the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The U.S. did not pass the International Trade Commission, the precursor to the World Trade Organization. In its place, 23 countries ratified the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs. Between 1948 and December, 1994 when GATT/WTO was finally passed by a lameduck Congress, fourteen GATT “Rounds” had been held, including the Dillion, Kennedy, Tokyo, and Uruguay Rounds. At each of these meetings further concessions were made in the negotiations of trade tariffs. Major categories for trade include telecommunications, maritime transport services, Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Financial Services, the environment, competition policies, government procurement, technology, labour, agricultural reform, and textiles. The GATT is more than 26,000 pages long and no single article could ever explain or comprehend what this global agreement really does or means. This massive Agreement whose intent it is to break down ALL of the TRADING BARRIERS IN THE WORLD, will change everything. Given the above negotiations and the length of the GATT document, it should be noted that trade is not “free.” GATT/WTO represents a complete dismantling of commerce and manufacturing as presently known. (WTO Press Release on Financial Services, December 9-13, 1996)

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Potpourri it is…
When the TVA was first proposed, it was attacked in the same way health reform is being attacked–but it brought electricity to rural areas would have been ignored by private power companies. Now the descendants of those people can use that electric power to complain about big government…

Historical correction: The people were not removed with “little or no recompense” to create the Smokies. They were paid the going rate for their land–but not for their emotional connection to the land (how does one put a price on that?). Some were given the option of remaining there until they died.

Jim,

A patient is given a series of lab tests by a group of doctors–the majority of the tests are postive for illness but several are negative because of testing errors. Should the patient assume that all the tests are wrong and not seek treatment?

I tried to read it but my tinfoil hat kept interfering with my wireless connection.

not really, I’ve got callouses.

http://finance.yahoo.com/focus-retirement/article/108747/next-in-line-for-a-bailout-social-security?mod=fidelity-readytoretire

A patient is given a series of tests. A group of doctors, some of whom have a financial interest in recommending their cure, others only somewhat agree, with reservations which are not noted by the others, many disagree that the illness even exists argueing the symptoms are within the natural variability of human health, analyze the results. The test results contrary to the favored diagnosis are excluded and destroyed. All efforts to determine the methodology of the small number of doctors testing is thwarted, and any doctors disagreeing are ridiculed and shut out of peer reviewed medical journals by the testers’ influence with the journals This is the REAL analogy. I believe, at least the patient should get other opinions, and if necessary, file malpractice claims about the deliberate distortions by the doctors, before agreeing to any treatment.

nice, you’ve really put some effort in to expanding a simple analogy.

All doctors (unless a charity clinic) have a financial interest recommending their cure.

..meanwhile the patient’s health continues to decline. The indiviual is led astray by nonmedical persons (with their own self interests) and does not seek medical care. Eventually the patient dies from the illness. Thus it is proven that the majority diagnosis was correct.

The moral to this charming bedtime story? A couple of well meaning doctors “financial interests” could have been met and the patient would have LIVED.

Jim McConalogue is not a scientist, he’s a conservative political analyst with his own interests…