Burying the Boston Bomber

It is a natural reaction of the human mind to be upset and angered that one of the monsters that bombed the Boston Marathon deserves a respectful burial.  Some people protested angrily outside a funeral home to show their anger and American pride.  It is the wrong reaction.  The person that committed the reprehensible crime is no longer with us.  All that remains is a body with no life in it.  No different than a rock.  Some people have argued that we should have tossed him into the middle of a pig farm simply because he was Muslim and let the hogs have their way with his body.  Some people say that we should have dumped him off a boat in the Atlantic along with Osama Bin Laden and never think of him again. That was pure anger, a natural but wrong logical thought process.

Tamerlane Tsarnaev was a terrorist.  He had a mission to destroy the American way of life to send some kind of message that was as twisted as his own mind was.  He wanted you and I to hate America because he hated America.  Why he hated our country and why he and his younger brother did the bombing of the Boston Marathon may never be known.  He struck a nerve when it came time to bury his body.  Not one cemetery in the northern states seashore of the United States wanted him buried in their hallowed grounds. 

Does a terrorist deserve a burial according to religious tradition?  Granted, most terrorist bombers of this kind never need a proper burial, because there are never enough pieces left.  This case is different.  We had a body.  No matter what crime you commit in your life, everyone has the right to a proper burial.  Burial tradition is not for the one that committed the crime but for the family to grieve, and get past the idiotic thing that you did against all of humanity.  Would you blame his three year old daughter for all of his sins and crimes against humanity? 

Some people and some reporters think it is a good idea to protest a funeral.  For the reporter it is a paycheck on a situation that is blood boiling mad for the protesters.  Anger feeds headlines and sells newspapers.  It sells well till you think it out.  

A funeral is the time for the family to bury their dead.  They had nothing to do with the madness of Tamerlane Tsarnaev.  They will carry the guilt of his actions till the day they die with great shame.  Some people say that he should have been cremated.  That is against not only Muslim religious belief but also Catholic religious belief.  Add a ton of other religions that believe the body should be returned to the earth and you get one conclusion.  Burial.

There is no logical reason to protest a funeral unless you are as radical as the Wesboro Baptist Church that thinks it is okay to protest every dead soldiers funeral.  Burying your dead is a hard time for any family.  That is a time when we as American's draw the line.  We do not prey on the family of our enemies.  We are not the monsters of other peoples creations.  Does protesting a funeral or showing utter contempt that the bomber is dead change anything?  It does not.  Screaming and shouting your message to a family member that had nothing to do with the crime is dishonorable and wrong.    

I have been a member of a great organization for over ten years that I have 100% pride in.  I feel no shame for having my name or blog associated with it.  I'm talking about the Patriot Guard Riders.  Our mission is to honor the family of our nations fallen military.  This organization was formed to combat Westboro Baptist Church and their protests at funerals for our fallen sons and daughters, family members in uniform.  Patriot Guard Riders only show up to keep the WBC protest out of sight of the family burying a loved one.  And only at the request of the family.  Their mission has expanded to more interactions but you can get the full message by Google searching Patriot Guard Riders and joining us.

Protesting any funeral to sell your message is wrong no matter how angry you are at the person about to be buried.  It makes you party to the same madness as the WBC.  America is a changing experiment and we need to find our way that is right because we think it is the right way to be.  Not because someone showed so much hate for us that he died for being wrong.  American patriots die every single day in uniform but few care.  Protest that by showing up for the family supporting them during a time of grieving.  Walk into the funeral home and just thank the family for their loved one. That is a message that Tamerlane Tsarnaev never understood.  They were wrong.  We as a people are right because we have honor and respect for all faiths and all traditions no matter your origin.  That includes burial.

Protesting a funeral, no matter what reason or logic you think is right is wrong.  Grahm Putnam and Mahoney Funeral home was doing what is right by offering to bury the dead for a person that was once a human being to his family.  They took the job on because nobody else would.  They do the same thing for people that nobody else cares about.  The homeless, people with no family, people that are Jane Doe or John Doe.  I applaud them for standing up and taking the heat.  Everyone on this planet deserves a respectful burial or service even if nobody shows up or even cared.  Please don't ever point a GP&M as a funeral home that is anti American.  They by far showed that we are American.  Think about it.

Papamoka

Vermont GMO Labeling

Much to the chagrin of politicians in Washington DC is the ability of states to enact laws within their borders.  Republican politicians in Washington attached and tried to bury in HR933, a bill to fund the government and many other important endeavors that are much needed as a sign it or kill it ultimatum.  The president funded the government with his signature.  Republicans supported financially by Monsanto with donations or previous jobs in the industry celebrated the free for all status that gave Monsanto immunity of prosecution from the products they Franken create called Genetically Modified Seeds.

When you can not trust the federal government to protect the food supply then you as a state government can regulate laws to protect your citizens.  People in Vermont like their food the old fashioned way.  The kind where the after affects are just a full belly and kids that grow up healthy.  I so love the folks in Vermont.  This is from the Burlington Free Press...

MONTPELIER — The Agriculture Committee in the Vermont House has approved a bill calling for genetically modified foods to be specially labeled.

The bill lays out technical definitions for what constitutes genetic modification, and says food that has been subject to those techniques must bear a label saying so.

The legislation faces an uncertain future, and is expected to go next to the House Judiciary Committee, before being debated by the full House.

Supporters of the House bill say consumers want information about what’s in their food.

The bill has drawn warnings from the attorney general’s office that it’s likely to be challenged in a lawsuit brought by industry. -Burlington Free Press


The people in Vermont are working on getting GMO's labeled for consumers so that you as the consumer can decide to buy that product or go for what grows naturally without being bastardized with dna cells that emit toxins inside the plant to stop bugs from eating it while it grows. There is not enough test data to prove or disprove the effects of GMO foods and that is and should be a great concern to all Americans.  Do you want to know if the can of corn you open to go with dinner has the potential to harm your children's health because the genes inside the corn have been modified to kill certain insects?  I sure do.  I did a post on it last summer that you can check out here.  Monsanto GM Corn with BT Toxin.


HR933 is more or less a resolution to fund the federal government and not a permanent law.  It expires in September of 2013.  Now is the time to act out and ring the warning bell.  If Vermont can start the ball rolling on GMO labeling then so can other states.  Let the GMO revolution start in Vermont and move state by state till the bought and paid for politicians in Monsamerica are irrelevant.  Spread the word and spread it fast.

We the people deserve the right to know what is in our food and what we feed our children.  We the people can end around Monsanto and the federal government much like a football play by demanding GMO labeling in our individual states.  Have to love state rights. I wonder how many other states are looking into GMO labeling laws.  Let me know in the comments please.

Papamoka

  

Monsanto and Obama Franken Food

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One of the things I admire about past presidents in history is the strength of their convictions.  They were men that had an idea of what was best for the nation and acted accordingly.  George Washington proved his convictions during the long years of the Revolutionary War and never gave up the fight for America.  Even as the largest brewer of whiskey he cut down the Whiskey Rebellion during his presidency.  Andrew Jackson tossed the bankers out of the United States Treasury when they thought they owned the American peoples currency and thus owned the government.  Abraham Lincoln led the nation into a civil war that was about states rights but stuck to his convictions that slavery was wrong and thus ended it in America with the 16th amendment to the Constitution.  Teddy Roosevelt saw that the way American's were being treated by the people supplying food to the nation was wrong and broke out his big stick and signed into law the Pure Food and Drug Act which is what we call the USDA and FDA today.

The USDA is charged with keeping a safe food supply for the American people.  The FDA is charged with making sure that drugs used to treat the people are safe.  That sounds great on paper but what if the agency is riddled with people from a company that does not care about food safety or drug safety.  If you look at the list of department heads at the USDA and the FDA it looks like a class reunion for Monsanto.  If you used to work for Monsanto, the USDA needs your help.  Everyone else... We are not hiring.

President Obama campaigned on food safety and the GMO issue during his first election.  GMO is Genetically Modified Organism.  That is where Monsanto takes a plant and screws up the DNA of the plant so that one type of bug won't eat it.  In that respect, they could also make the same plants that you eat an issue to your health.  Everyone loves corn, Monsanto loves corn, so they made it better so that you don't have to spray certain pesticides on the corn by making the plant create that same pesticide inside of its own genetic coding.  Would you spray pesticide on your food before serving it to your family?  Pass the potato's and the DDT please.  Tastes just like butter. 

Michael R. Taylor was appointed as a deputy commissioner to the FDA by President Obama during his first administration.  He was a former LOBBYIST for Monsanto that fought long and hard for his company.

Michael Taylor then led the ban on labeling of GM products all together. This was labeled “the principal of substantial equivalence” which prohibits any distinction to be made between GM and traditional products. Regardless of any testing or lack there of on the possible effects of GM foods used for human consumption.

He left the FDA in 1994 and a few years later became Monsanto’s Vice President in charge of lobbying in Washington. As a lobbyist, Taylor argued AGAINST the Delaney Clause, one of the foundations of food safety regulation that prohibits cancer-causing chemicals to be added to food. - Veterans Today 

The major point of this article is not to beat up Monsanto, well maybe it is.  My point is that the control of industries that are harmful to the American people's food is owned by the USDA and the FDA.  Those are agencies the President and Congress oversee.  What does it tell you if the majority of people working in high positions of each agency are former Monsanto lobbyist or high level employees?  It tells me that the oversight of Teddy Roosevelt signed into law was tossed out with the baby and the bath water.  As a consumer and a person that eats food, you need to be aware that the food coming to your local grocery store is not what you parents or grandparents purchased to feed their children.  Franken Food is what it is. 

There is an old story about Irish immigrants that were mocked, treated badly, could not get jobs, and were considered scum of the earth here in America.  We Irish banded together in the late 1800's and started electing our grown educated children and family into public office.  In doing so we changed the face of American politics forever to meet our needs and not the people that mocked us.  Monsanto appears to be taking the same lesson and using it for profit inside the USDA and the FDA.

It is time for this president to clean house that report to him and stand strong for his people.  I so wish President Obama would have the guts and integrity of Washington, Jackson, and Teddy Roosevelt, and toss out the people that are selling out our food supply safety for a profit.  It is time for change and we need to make that message loud and clear.

What can you do?  Sign this petition to stop Monsanto by asking the President to veto HR933.  Click here to sign the petition.

Spread the word.

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Republican Push to End Overtime Pay

The man to the left is Eric Cantor.  He believes that you should not be paid for overtime work.  You should get time off when and if the company your work for wants to give it to you.  This man is bought and paid for by corporations to serve the state of Virginia in the US Congress.

When the Republican Party gives up common sense for political donations it is called good government.  That is what they think is good government.  Eric Cantor is going to propose legislation to please his political donors to end overtime pay in lieu of free time off that may be or may not be used at a later date.  He might not include that part in his legislation.  Ending overtime pay is the goal.  It makes fat rich guys that own companies that pay overtime happy so they can bring back the 16 hour work day.  And their checks always clear at the bank. 

This idea is idiotic and would turn the clocks back on working men and woman to pre 1938 when President Roosevelt signed into law that workers had a right to extra pay for extra hours worked.  Cantor would promise you time off at a later date.  But that time off is not guaranteed or promised to ever be honored.  Some unions or most unions might have a minor issue with this but that is another story for another day.

This is not the first time the Republican Party has tried to end the New Deal requirement for workers to be paid for one and one half pay for overtime hours worked.  Every few years, some idiot comes up with a brainstorm to please his corrupt political campaign donors to end overtime pay.  It's been happening since Roosevelt signed the overtime mandate from the federal government into law.

This is big government gone wrong on one side of the political aisle because the political campaign donation check cleared.  Believe it or not, our government and access to it is for sale.  Both political parties are guilty of it.  It’s just ironic that the GOP is so blatant about it.  Screwing over the hourly worker to benefit and put a few thousand more gallons of fuel in the CEO’s yacht works for the GOP.  To top it off we should also gut Medicare so they have to take grandma and grandpa to the doctor and go deeper in debt to the company store.

Cantor is working this under the pretext of "Family Time", or other context that leads you away from the screwing your families paycheck would get under it.  Nobody is against "Family Time" if you pop in some creative additional words that ring of the good old days.  He is trying to screw over the working man and woman and he is playing the game with words. He thinks you as a worker are an absolute idiot.  His red tie says so.  How many coal minors in Virginia get overtime?  Are you going to give that pay up because your Congressman Eric Cantor says the company store will promise you credit at a later date?

The only good thing we have going for us right now in this country is that we have a Democrat controlled Senate, and a Democrat President.  Cantor’s dream of ending overtime pay is a wet dream that he wipes himself clean with the people’s checks that are idiotic enough to donate money to his campaign.  And yet, people in his district will still re-elect him next year even though he tried to rob them.  Wake up Virginia!  When someone tries to wrong you, you right it.  You pay your household bills, Eric Cantor does not.

Eric Cantor is a time stamp of 15 minutes of fame and his political career is now tied to the extreme right.  His political career is dead.  Whoever is the next competitor for his seat should broadcast every comment he has made to screw over the working man and woman so that he can cash a check from another millionaire or billionaire.  Follow the money and you see who owns Erick Cantor.  Political donors are public records.

Thank you Daily Kos for the hat tip and up front detailed info on the workings of Eric Cantor to end overtime pay for all Americans.

Papamoka

Missouri Ban on Gun Ban Legislation?

Someone in the Missouri House of Reps thinks it would be a good idea to make it a felony for any state government representative to propose legislation against anything to do with gun bans in Missouri.  Can we all assume that that idea is a really bad idea because it demands that we toss the first amendment to the constitution out the window to defend the second amendment.

Legislation introduced Monday by state Rep. Mike Leara, a Republican from St. Louis, thinks it should be illegal and a class D felony for his fellow legislators to propose any bill that would restrict any gun ownership in Missouri.  Sorry Mikey, you can't make a law banning legislators from LEGISLATING LAWS.  It is what we the people vote them into public office to actually do.

I did a quick search and I could not come up with an actual bill on the statehouse web site that Leara claims he submitted.

Constitutionally, it is a lame bill if ever there was one.  We really need to get some people that actually think before they act in the Missouri State house.  Somebody should seriously consider getting a logical group of folks together on something called a committee to come up with some common sense ideas that will actually work.  Submit those ideas to the governor and let him duke it out with the people in the house.  Past that, people like Leara would bring back the Guillotine and have a field day at the cost of the United States Constitution.  

Papamoka

Facebook Paid No Income Taxes in 2012

Feel free to scream at the top of your lungs WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?  The largest social media network in the world called Facebook paid no U.S. or state income taxes???  BUT my Joe or Sue six pack pays out the ass and then some in state and federal taxes?  What is wrong with this picture?  Check it out here at CNBC.

"Facebook didn't pay any federal or state income taxes last year and will receive a hefty tax refund, according to a recent report.

How did the social network manage to swing such a nice tax break? 

Well, according to the Citizen for Tax Justice report the company benefited from the tax deduct-ability of executive stock options, which reduced all of its income taxes by $1.03 billion in 2012. 

The company also has another $2.17 billion in extra tax-option breaks to carry forward in the future, according to the report, which means Facebook gets to deduct a total of more than $3 billion in current and future taxes, according to the report."

Are you freaking kidding me??? Not one dime in taxes while they made billions?

I'm done... this is bullshit.  Where is the Elizabeth Warren at the IRS???  We need an Alan Grayson mentality on this crap.  This is wrong all across the board.  All of these rape the country tax loopholes need to be closed once and for all.  We all benefit from a strong government that protects all American interests.  Nobody gets a free ride when you get billions in profits or even working for a paycheck as a shipping clerk for a small company.  Nobody.

Papamoka 

Free Heat From the Sun

Free heat from the sun is possible.  I have built it and I have seen it work since the fall of last year.  It's called a solar heater window box.  Put it in a window that is getting full sun and in less than an hour it is pumping out free heat with just the power of the sun and direct sunlight exposure.  120F or more of free heat.  These solar window boxes just don't heat up air but they have a built in system that heats up and holds the heat longer giving you additional heating when the sun starts to set.

Anyone can put a bunch of soda cans or beer cans into a box and call it a solar heater.  Go for it, try it.  The main problem with a soda can heater is the connections between all of the cans.  You can not guarantee that the seal is perfect and will last.

Free heat is possible with just a two foot by two foot window sized box that heats up the air inside your home and pumps out the free heated air from just the power of the sun for free.  All you pay for is the power to run a 3 watt fan.  Ergo free heat.  Check out Sun System Designs video and feel free to spread the word and let us know what you think.  You can find more info at sunsytemdesigns.com or visit them on facebook by searching for Sun System Designs.  Putting a like on the main page would be greatly appreciated.  Go solar, go green, and let your children and grand kids know that sometimes the energy you need to live does not have to come from fossil fuels.  It is right over their heads.

 

Papamoka

Fed Okays Vaccine Abuse of Kids

All parents should be concerned with the contents of various vaccines that are given to their children.  That is common sense.  Some manufacturers use some products and compounds that have been shown and proven to cause serious long term health side affects such as Mercury.  It is better to err on the side of caution than take the vaccine if the end result is possible damage to the child's health  down the road.

In upstate New York a mother refused to sign a consent form to have her kindergarten child vaccinated against an outbreak of H1N1.  They vaccinated the child anyway.  She sued and won in state court.  Then in federal court that decision was overruled.

Health Impact News is reporting on the story.

The Appellate Division concluded on Nov. 21 that PREP pre-empts state law claims. PREP contains an express pre-emption clause stating that, during a declared public health emergency, “no state … may establish, enforce or continue in effect with respect to a covered countermeasure any provision of law or legal requirement that (A) is different from, or is in conflict with, any requirement applicable under this section; and (B) related to the … use, … dispensing or administration by qualified persons of the covered countermeasure,” Peters wrote.

A “qualified person” includes licensed health professionals, and liability protections in pandemics “are specifically provided for” in PREP, she added.

“Considering the breadth of the preemption clause together with the sweeping language of the statute’s immunity provision, we conclude that Congress intended to preempt all state law tort claims arising from the administration of covered countermeasures by a qualified person pursuant to a declaration by the Secretary [of Health and Human Services],” the decision states.

The justices said they were “unpersuaded” by Parker’s claim that immunity under PREP did not extend to anyone administering a drug without consent.

“The immunity provisions of the PREP Act are triggered where, as here, the vaccines are purchased pursuant to a federal contract or agreement,” Peters wrote.

PREP also created the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, which handles claims by individuals who suffer adverse reactions to devices, medications or therapies that have been recommended for use in public health emergencies, the decision notes.

Peters further noted that separate federal causes of action exist for wrongful death or serious physical injury resulting from misconduct by licensed health professionals.

“The provision of these exclusive federal remedies further supports our finding of preemption,” she wrote.
Since a federal cause of action is “the exclusive remedy” under PREP, “the complaint must be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction,” the decision states.

That my friends is child abuse with government approval.  I would urge the mother of this child to appeal to the SCOTUS.  Big brother does not have the right to abuse your child.

Thank you Sonia B. for the news tip...

Papamoka

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