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Welcome to my blog http://www.skegley.blogspot.com/ . CAVEAT LECTOR- Let the reader beware. This is a Christian Conservative blog. It is not meant to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore this blog, but also feel free to browse and comment on my posts! You may also scroll down to respond to any post.

For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Sunday, March 21, 2010

From Jeanie's best friend in New Boston- Deloris salyers

Aye, Aye, Aye, DELORIS!




Thanks Good friend!



Sam & Jeanette

----- Original Message -----

From: Deloris Salyers


Subject: Fw: A special card for Y O U!!













"People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But, people will NEVER forget how you made them feel." Ain't that the truth!!!!











It's "Friends Day" - Send this to all your good friends.. Even me, if I am one of them. See how many you get back. If you get more than 3, you are really a lovable person.



.................... I am waiting!

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Ann Coulter's Healthcare Plan






*Makes sense to me!*











*My health-care plan**

*Posted: March 17, 2010

5:53 pm Eastern







Liberals keep complaining that Republicans don't have a plan for reforming

health care in America. I have a plan!







It's a one-page bill creating a free market in health insurance. Let's all

pause here for a moment so liberals can Google the term "free market."







Nearly every problem with health care in this country – apart from trial

lawyers and out-of-date magazines in doctors' waiting rooms – would be

solved by my plan.







In the first sentence, Congress will amend the McCarran-Ferguson Act to

allow interstate competition in health insurance.







We can't have a free market in health insurance until Congress eliminates

the antitrust exemption protecting health insurance companies from

competition. If Democrats really wanted to punish insurance companies, which

they manifestly do not, they'd make insurers compete.







The very next sentence of my bill provides that the exclusive regulator of

insurance companies will be the state where the company's home office is.

Every insurance company in the country would incorporate in the state with

the fewest government mandates, just as most corporations are based in

Delaware today.







That's the only way to bypass idiotic state mandates, requiring all

insurance plans offered in the state to cover, for example, the Zone Diet,

sex-change operations and whatever it is that poor Heidi Montag has done to

herself this week.







President Obama says we need national health care because Natoma Canfield of

Ohio had to drop her insurance when she couldn't afford the $6,700 premiums,

and now she's got cancer.







Much as I admire Obama's use of terminally ill human beings as political

props, let me point out here that perhaps Natoma could have afforded

insurance had she not been required by Ohio's state insurance mandates to

purchase a plan that covers infertility treatments and unlimited ob/gyn

visits, among other things.







It sounds like Natoma could have used a plan that covered only the basics –

you know, things like cancer.







The third sentence of my bill would prohibit the federal government from

regulating insurance companies, except for normal laws and regulations that

apply to all companies.







Freed from onerous state and federal mandates turning insurance companies

into public utilities, insurers would be allowed to offer a whole

smorgasbord of insurance plans, finally giving consumers a choice.







Instead of Harry Reid deciding whether your insurance plan covers Viagra,

this decision would be made by you, the consumer. (I apologize for using the

terms "Harry Reid" and "Viagra" in the same sentence. I promise that won't

happen again.)







Instead of insurance companies jumping to the tune of politicians bought by

health-care lobbyists, they would jump to tune of hundreds of millions of

Americans buying health insurance on the free market.







Hypochondriac liberals could still buy the aromatherapy plan, and normal

people would be able to buy plans that only cover things such as major

illness, accidents and disease. (Again – things like Natoma Canfield's

cancer.)







This would, in effect, transform medical insurance into ... a form of

insurance!







My bill will solve nearly every problem allegedly addressed by Obamacare –

and mine entails zero cost to the taxpayer. Indeed, a free market in health

insurance would produce major tax savings as layers of government

bureaucrats, unnecessary to medical service in America, get fired.







For example, in a free market, the government wouldn't need to prohibit

insurance companies from excluding "pre-existing conditions."







Of course, an insurance company has to be able to refuse new customers with

"pre-existing conditions." Otherwise, everyone would just wait to get sick

to buy insurance. It's the same reason you can't buy fire insurance on a

house that's already on fire.







That isn't an "insurance company"; it's what's known as a "Christian

charity."







What Democrats are insinuating when they denounce exclusions of

"pre-existing conditions" is an insurance company using the "pre-existing

condition" ruse to deny coverage to a current policy holder – someone who's

been paying into the plan, year after year.







Any insurance company operating in the free market that pulled that trick

wouldn't stay in business long.







If hotels were as heavily regulated as health insurance is, right now I'd be

explaining to you why the government doesn't need to mandate that hotels

offer rooms with beds. If they didn't, they'd go out of business.







I'm sure people who lived in the old Soviet Union thought it was crazy to

leave groceries to the free market. ("But what if they don't stock the food

we want?")







The market is a more powerful enforcement mechanism than indolent government

bureaucrats. If you don't believe me, ask Toyota about six months from now.







Right now, insurance companies are protected by government regulations from

having to honor their contracts. Violating contracts isn't so easy when

competitors are lurking, ready to steal your customers.







In addition to saving taxpayer money and providing better health insurance,

my plan also saves trees by being 2,199 pages shorter than the Democrats'

plan.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Health Care. Thanks John M.!

Subject: Health Care




The good news is in the last line.....

Our Constitution is on life support, and House Democrats are about to pull the plug.

Leaders of the Democrat Party ("Progressives" as they call themselves, Leftists as we call them) have been unable to garner popular or even Democrat Party support for their plan to socialize our health care system. Fortunately, Republicans are united in their opposition to this one issue.

Barack Hussein Obama, titular head of the Demos, proclaimed, "I want some courage. I want us to do the right thing."

But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi concludes, "Nobody wants to vote for the Senate bill."

She is proposing to overtly circumvent our Constitution by way of the "Slaughter Solution." Rep. Louise Slaughter, chairman of the House Rules Committee, proposes to pass legislation using the "self-executing rule," which will allow the House to accept the already-passed Senate health care bill by presumption alone, thus negating a formal up-or-down vote by House members.

Pelosi confessed, "I like it because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."

Unfortunately, there is precedent in invoking the "self-executing rule" -- by Republicans, no less -- concerning "mundane" legislation agreed to by House leaders of both parties. Unconstitutional as these precedents are, there is nothing "mundane" about ObamaCare.

"Slaughter" and "self-executing" may describe both the process and the electoral future of many Democrats in the House.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Thanks Eleia and good luck in Spain! Vaya Con Dios!

Thanks Eleia!




Jeanie and I are so lucky to have Eleia as a friend. She is a former UK basketball player (2009) and a Columbus girl who is now a professional player in Spain.



This is a re-cycle, but it is so eloquently put as a way to express your positive feelings of life. Eleia has great integrity and may soon have a somewhat autobiographical book published. God has blessed Eleia with height and beauty and a Christrian spirit!



I hope this season was successful, Eleia. I will appreciate if you can email a summary.



Sam

----- Original Message -----

From: eleia roddy

Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:55 AM

Subject: Fwd: Fw: Choices!



































Everyone I know thinks this way, but its great to see it illustrated so well !!!!!!!!!!!!



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A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.





A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.



Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"







The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way." I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."



Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?





Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative.. Think differently and positively.



When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear..

Just think God is Near! God Bless you and your family. From a friend to a friend.



The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling¦

And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!



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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

American arrogance

Thanks Herma! Is this empire building? Hardly so!




Sam

----- Original Message -----

From: hermadmills@aol.com

Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:02 PM

Subject: Define Arrogance











Define Arrogance











------------------------------------------------------------















At little historical perspective.









Our European arrogance in alphabetical order:

1. The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne , France . A total of2289 of our military dead.



2. The American Cemetery at Ardennes , Belgium . A total of5329 of our dead.



3. The American Cemetery at Brittany, France . A total of4410 of our military dead. Excuse us.



4. Brookwood , England American Cemetery. A total of 468 of our dead.



5. Cambridge , England .. 3812 of our military dead.



6. Epinal , France American Cemetery. A total of 5525 of our Military dead..



7. Flanders Field , Belgium . A total of 368 of our military.



8. Florence , Italy . A total of 4402 of our military dead.



9. Henri-Chapelle , Belgium . A total of 7992 of our military dead.



10. Lorraine , France . A total of 10,489 of our military dead...



11. Luxembourg , Luxembourg . A total of 5076 of our military dead.



12. Meuse-Argonne. A total of 14246 of our military dead.



13. Netherlands , Netherlands . A total of 8301 of our military dead.



14. Normandy , France . A total of 9387 of our military dead.



15. Oise-Aisne , France . A total of 6012 of our military dead..



16. Rhone , France . A total of 861 of our military dead.



17. Sicily , Italy . A total of 7861 of our military dead.



18. Somme , France . A total of 1844 of our military dead.



19. St. Mihiel , France . A total of 4153 of our military dead..



20. Suresnes , France . a total of 1541 of our military dead.



Apologize to no one!

Remind those of our sacrifice and don't confuse

arrogance with leadership.

If I added correctly the count is 104,366 dead.

And we have to watch an American elected leader

who apologizes to Europe and the Middle East

that our country is "arrogant"!



HOW MANY FRENCH, DUTCH, ITALIANS, BELGIANS AND BRITS ARE BURIED ON OUR SOIL, DEFENDING US AGAINST OUR ENEMIES? WE DON'T ASK FOR PRAISE...BUT WE HAVE ABSOULUTELY NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE!!!!! PLEASE----DO NOT DELETE!!!!! DO THINK ABOUT THIS. THANK YOU.

I hope you remember this when election

time comes around again.

"We are NOT a Christian Nation"

"I will stand with the Muslims"

Barack Hussein Obama

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

physician's ltr to Senator Bayh

Shock to NBC This morning.








An Indianapolis doctor's letter to Sen. Bayh about the Bill (Note: Dr. Stephen E. Fraser, MD practices as an anesthesiologist in Indianapolis, IN ) Here is a letter I sent to Senator Bayh.. Feel free to copy it and send it around to all other representatives. -- Stephen Fraser







Senator Bayh,



As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the health care bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the government's proposed involvement in the patient-physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a health care system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our health care system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed.



I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our fellow citizens.



Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self-insure!!



Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill: THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.



Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!



Page 42 of HC Bill: The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC benefits for you. You have no choice!



Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non-US citizens, illegal or otherwise.



Page 58 HC Bill: Govt will have real-time access to individuals' finances & a 'National ID Health card' will be issued! (Papers please!)



Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt will have direct access to your bank accounts for elective funds transfer. (Time for more cash and carry)



Page 65 Sec 164: Is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in unions & community organizations: (ACORN).



Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the 'Exchange.'



Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans -- The Govt will ration your health care!



Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. (Translation: illegal aliens.)



Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt will use groups (i.e. ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan.



Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. (AARP members - your health care WILL be rationed!)

Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid eligible individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. (No choice.)



Page 12 4 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No "judicial review" against Govt monopoly.



Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical Association - The Govt will tell YOU what salary you can make.



Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto-enroll employees into public option plan. (NO choice!)



Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part-time employees ANDtheir families. (Employees shouldn't get excited about this as employers will be forced to reduce its work force, benefits, and wages/salaries to cover such a huge expense.)



Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not provide public option will pay 8% tax on all payroll! (See the last comment in parenthesis.)

Page 150 Lines 9-13: A business with payroll between $251K & $401K who doesn't provide public option will pay 2-6% tax on all payroll.



Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn't have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income.



Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay.) (Like always)



Page 195 HC Bill: Officers & employees of the GOVT HC Admin.. will have access to ALL Americans' finances and personal records. (I guess so they can 'deduct' their fees)



Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." (Yes, it really says that!) ( a 'fee' instead)

Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill: Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors. (Low-income and the poor are affected.)



Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors: It doesn't matter what specialty you have trained yourself in -- you will all be paid the same! (Just TRY to tell me that's not Socialism!)



Page 253 Line 10-18: The Govt sets the value of a doctor's time, profession, judgment, etc. (Literally-- the value of humans.)



Page 265 Sec 1131: The Govt mandates and controls productivity for "private" HC industries.



Page 268 Sec 1141: The federal Govt regulates the rental and purchase of power driven wheelchairs.



Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!



Page 280 Sec 1151: The Govt will penalize hospitals for whatever the Govt deems preventable (i.e...re-admissions).



Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors: If you treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission -- the Govt will penalize you.



Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. (The Govt tells doctors what and how much they can own!)



Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion. (The Govt is mandating that hospitals cannot expand.)

Page 321 2-13: Hospitals have the opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input is required. (Can you say ACORN?)



Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: The Govt mandates establishment of=2 outcome-based measures. (HC the way they want -- rationing.)

Page 341 Lines 3-9: The Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans, HMOs, etc. (Forcing people into the Govt plan)



Page 354 Sec 1177: The Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of 'special needs people!' Unbelievable!



Page 379 Sec 1191: The Govt creates more bureaucracy via a "Tele-Health Advisory Committee." (Can you say HC by phone?)



Page 425 Lines 4-12: The Govt mandates "Advance-Care Planning Consult." (Think senior citizens end-of-life patients.)



Page 425 Lines 17-19: The Govt will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. (And it's mandatory!)

Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: The Govt provides an "approved" list of end-of-life resources; guiding you in death. (Also called 'assisted suicide.')(Sounds like Soylent Green to me.)



Page 427 Lines 15-24: The Govt mandates a program for orders on "end-of-life." (The Govt has a say in how your life ends!)



Page 429 Lines 1-9: An "advanced-care planning consultant" will be used frequently as a patient's health deteriorates.



Page 429 Lines 10-12: An "advanced care consultation" may include an ORDER for end-of-life plans.. (AN ORDER TO DIE FROM THE GOVERNMENT?!?)



Page 429 Lines 13-25: The GOVT will specify which doctors can write an end-of-life order.. (I wouldn't want to stand before God after getting paid for THAT job!)



Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end-of-life! (Again -- no choice!)



Page 469: Community-Based Home Medical Services = Non-Profit Organizations. (Hello? ACORN Medical Services here!?!)



Page 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover marriage and family therapy. (Which means Govt will insert itself into your marriage even.)



Page 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, and rationing those services.





Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything possible to inform patients and my fellow physicians about the dangers of the proposed bills you and your colleagues are debating.



Furthermore, if you vote for a bill that enforces socialized medicine on the country and destroys the doctor-patient relationship, I will do everything in my power to make sure you lose your job in the next election.



Respectfully,



Stephen E. Fraser, MD



Dear Reader,



I urge you to use the power that you were born with (and the power that may soon be taken away) and circulate this email to as many people as you can reach. The Power of the People can stop this from happening to us, our parents, our grandparents, our children, and to following generations

Thanks Ray ! Illegal immigrants and their benefits

What is the problem?

I suspect that lobbyists have our elitist representatives' ears in Washington and are enjoying the situation with illegal immigrants.  All we Tea Party members want is to seal off the borders and invite the illegals to come in legally.  We also do not want to give them the excessive benefits they receive above and beyond those of us who have paid into the system here in the USA.  That is not unreasonable, but lawyers and our reps are talking incessantly on behalf of the illegals and winning.

GRRRR!

Sam


----- Original Message -----

Subj: Fwd: From a Florida Emergency Room Doctor























Beyond belief....but true!!







Having spent three weeks in a hospital in Naples, Florida with my wife I couldn't help noticing what was going on in the hospital and I had a lot of time to talk to the doctors and nurses about what I had observed. Below is a commentary from the ER Doctor.



Do you think this might be a big reason our health care system and our social security system are so screwed up? Do you think this might be a big reason our taxes keep going up? Who do you think these people are going to vote for?







From a Florida ER doctor:



"I live and work in a state overrun with illegal aliens. They make more money having kids than we earn working full-time. Today I had a 25-year old with 8 kids - that's right, 8 kids; all illegal anchor babies and she had the nicest nails, cell phone, hand bag, clothing, etc. She makes about $1,500 monthly for each; you do the math. I used to say, We are the dumbest nation on earth. Now I must say and sadly admit: WE are the dumbest people on earth (that includes ME) for we elected the idiot idealogues who have passed the bills that allow this. Sorry, but we need a revolution. Vote them all out in 2010. "











This is an insult and a kick in the butt to all of us...









If the immigrant is over 65, they can apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than a woman on Social Security, who worked from 1944 until 2004. She is only getting $791 per month because she was born in 1924 and there's a 'catch 22.'



It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890. Each can also obtain an additional $580 in social assistance, for a total of $2,470 a month.



This compares to a single pensioner, who after contributing to the growth and development of America for 40 to 50 years, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement.



Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!



Consider sending this to all your American friends, so we can all be ticked off and maybe get the refugees cut back to $1,012 and the pensioners up to $2,470. Then we can enjoy some of the money we were forced to submit to the Government over the last 40 or 50 or 60 years.



Please forward this to every American you know to expose what our elected politicians have been doing for the past 11 years to over-taxed Americans.























--- REMEMBER ---



IN NOVEMBER 2010, WE HAVE A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAN OUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE AND ONE-THIRD OF THE SENATE!

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