Just when you thought things in Washington couldn’t get any stupider… Do other countries treat their heroes this way? You can’t make crap like this up!
The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake will soon be informed that their names must be run through the FBI’s terrorism watch list. Any of the responders who are not compared to the database of suspected terrorists would be barred from getting treatment for the numerous, worsening ailments that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health And Compensation Law was passed to address. It’s a requirement that was tacked onto the law during the bitter debates over it last year.
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“This is absurd,” said Glen Kline, a former NYPD emergency services officer. “It’s silly. It’s stupid. It’s asinine.”“It’s comical at best, and I think it’s an insult to everyone who worked on The Pile and is sick and suffering from 9/11,” said John Feal, a former construction worker who lost half a foot at Ground Zero and runs the advocacy group Fealgood Foundation.
The provision was added in an amendment by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) during the heated debate over the bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee last May. Sept. 11 responders in the committee room at the time mostly shook their heads at the move, which Democrats accepted on a voice vote after battling to bar other amendments on abortion and immigration that might have killed the bill.
“I think Congressman Stearns is stabbing at pettiness. He’s a buffoon,” Feal said. “We get sicker and die, and they’re going to disseminate a letter wondering whether we’re terrorists or not. … I think everybody needs to start showing a little more compassion.”
Here’s an article from last year about this inanity.
I can’t help think that all this birther crap is misdirection from the real issues.
Our economy is in danger of undergoing some fundamental changes because the cost of borrowing is going to go up since we are not doing the right things and trying to retire the debt, the money owed to the rich (yup, that 1% of the population who already own 80% of everything) is about to put the final squeeze on the United States and move to China.)
We citizens of one country don’t matter.
We’re going to get a massive parting present from the 1% in the form of crushing debt payments.
Look for intrest rates to become the leading factor of inflation.
Think it can’t happen?
Just look North. It happened to Canada.
Read up on the history of Fiscal Policy and you’ll be astonished at how bad it got for a while.
Think you can just move? Go ahead and try, without any money, (that’s got to say right here.)
@TeaDude, you’re so far the deep end that I’m not even sure if you’re for real or just trolling. Entertaining, though.
Heck, if there was a time machine and you saw Obama being born in Hawaii with your own eyes, you still would deny it. So any proof, counterpoint, etc. is just immaterial.
Thing is, you obviously wouldn’t vote for Obama, ever… Probably not for *any* Democratic candidate, ever. So your crazy opinions really don’t matter much.
In #21, I forgot to give a link to what I was referring to as far as canadian Fiscal History.
If I wanted to scare the shit out of people, I would give links to the history of hyper-inflation and its use as a weapon.
Remember the Zimbabwean Dollar?
Remember the German Mark?
Remember the Hungarian pengő?
If somebody walks into the valley of the shadow of death to help others then I’m for helping mitigate their suffering caused by doing so because I believe it is the right thing to do.
As far as I’m concerned anyone who wants to bring partisan party politics into this is a sick puke with tunnel vision who has a great difficulty telling right from wrong.
#21 Its only irrelevant if Obama isn’t a foreign agent intent on destroying America by giving Progressives everything they want, no restraint.
Years ago in the crew mess I observed the Steward laughing to himself, as he watched a sailor feast on his cream donuts.
I asked,”Stew, what’s so funny.” He replied, “see him overeat, he loves cream donuts…every one brings him closer to a coronary…I bake what he loves, because I hate his guts…”
Loons are given all the entitlements they ever wanted, reality is not allowed to restrain their spending, and it may have destroyed us.
It may be too late.
But if Obama is a foreign agent, which is consistent with his wrecking ball policies, then not having a BC is relevant, material and competent.
#21 Evidently Trump concluded, and rightly so, that exposing Obama ID theft would devastate his chances of reelection, and propel him to hero status.
To my fellow Tea Partyers who believe the birthers are a distraction, I suggest they reconsider.
If Obama is proved to be a fraud, THEN everything Progressive is de-legitimatized…the propaganda press which refused to VET him, and defended him…the DNC which elevated a foreigner to destroy our country, progressives in general who repeated the lies keeping suppressing the truth in unrighteousness…all de-legitimized…
While Trump rightly does not make this a main issue, it was strategic genius he bring the issue back into the body politic.
It could well change everything, for decades to come.
And if not, then its Obama’s fault for not releasing his long form BC, fueling the controversy.
#26
“If Obama is proved to be a fraud, THEN everything Progressive is de-legitimatized”
/implying that Obama is the modern day symbol of the Progressive movement.
//implying that if Obama is indeed to be a fraud, then every Progressive “thing”, including everything before Obama’s own birth year, is de-legitimatized.
-Just an amused bystander commenting.
OK first rule of a spy, have an ironclad back story. So if obama was an agent of another government it would follow that as part of his cover he would have a birth certificate. If asked he would produce the birth certificate to show that he is actually a citizen of the us. The supposition that he has not produced a birth certificate makes him suspicious. If he did produce a bc this would prove that he actually is a spy. At least in alfie little world.
And just what the hell is an astringent background check? These places check for acne now?
Any “Responder” that was on the list would now have grounds for demanding the government open up the list. Currently the list is used to deny people flying. OK, so flying optional. Being compensated for medical injuries caused by 9/11 isn’t.
The Federal government assumed all the costs for 9/11 from the city and state. There is no other way for an injured responder to receive treatment.
Alphie,
Christ on a pogo stick without his undies on, man you are screwed up. every month after the 20th you start showing how weird you can be. You are a walking advertizement for universal mental health care in this country.
#28 You had me until I recalled he has submitted a short form…which isn’t a substitute for the long form when getting a passport etc.
Its absurd to think this was planned since his birth…its NOT absurd his mom did what any mom would do, make sure her son was recognized as an American, an anchor baby as it were.
Her and her mom would conspire to ensure Barack was accepted as an American…so they posted the newspaper announcements, not the hospitals.
As he revealed in “dreams of my father”, he is an anticolonialist in thought, making him a foreign agent against America by choice, will and desire…no one has to pay him to wreck the American economy.. he wants to do it…its what his lefty heart earnestly desires…
#27 Obama pretends to be a progressive, he’s that and more, also an anti colonialist Marxist.
But it was the progressive entity, media, Hollywood, Networks, that failed to VET Obama, and FOISTED him unto the public, misrepresenting what he really is, disguising him as a centrist…when he is far left.
But being pathological, the left is discovering him to be unreliable in many areas…he often does what seems convenient, even when it conflicts with progressive ideology.
#30 Mr. Fusion said…
Christ on a pogo stick without his undies on, man you are screwed up…you start showing how weird you can be. You are ..advertizement for universal mental health care…
Aren’t you depriving a village somewhere an idiot?
Like Pavlov’s dog, touch Obama where it hurts, and out comes Fusie barking…
It would hilarious, if not so deranged.
Alphie,
You are exhibiting the effects of final stage syphilis. The damage is most likely too far advanced to correct. It is not too late to prevent even more damage. See your health provider; all it takes is a simple blood test and a couple of bucks worth of antibiotic.
All those little wee spirochetes eating their way through your brain. Making little tunnels and leaving enough room for the wind to blow through. Soon, after another while, there won’t be enough brain to retain conscious. Death soon follows when the brain can’t tell the lungs to breathe.
Oh, and BTW, the bible endorses abortion, genocide, infanticide, slavery, and paying taxes.
#32 Tdud doesn’t know what his talking points mean.
Wikipedia:
“Anti-imperialism includes opposition to wars of conquest, particularly of non-contiguous territory or people with a different language or culture; it also includes people opposing the expansion of a country beyond earlier borders.”
Basically everyone is anti-colonial/anti imperial at this point. You use the word as a slur, yet please point out to me where imperial/colonial behavior is tolerated/encouraged on the world stage by anyone.
I may not agree with some of the crazy shit you post, but its pathetic when you don’t even understand *your own* argument.
“Its only irrelevant if Obama isn’t a foreign agent intent on destroying America by giving Progressives everything they want, no restraint.”
Your words alf so do you believe he is a spy or not?
I consider this one of the worst insults those brave men could ever receive. If anything similar happens in future I doubt there will be many people willing to step up and help.
Yes of course he is a spy, the best ever, because whomever placed him there had two officials in Hawaii lie that they saw the long form certificate, two newspapers conspired to announce his birth in 1961 and every election official in every state of the US allowed him on the ballot.
It is all one big conspiracy to get a black Muslim man into the white house so he can feed the corporate interests as much as all the other ones did before him and distract the nation with wars and beer summits. Which beer is something Muslims are not allowed to drink.
Even lunatics in an asylum are shaking their heads in disbelief over this one.
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@TeaDude: Even though the sign says “Do not feed the Trolls”, here’s a photo of Obama drinking beer:
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Politics/pages-2/Obamas-beer-choice-blasted-by-GOP-Scrape-TV-The-World-on-your-side.html
And a whole article about Obama in a Deli, eating among other things pork.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/04/obama-savors-some-very-special.html
Does that prove he’s not a Muslim? In your head, I’m sure it won’t.
Fascinating how reality really cannot get through sometimes.
You may have legitimate issues to discuss, but when you focus on silliness, there’s no getting past that.
But shhh, don’t tell your boy Trump. Too much fun to watch the regressives running around when that buffoon is the number one contender for GOP presidential candidate, by pandering to the birthers/ teabaggers.
#39 So he’s a bad muslim, as for the beer, did you notice the pinky finger is raised just as the ruling class Elite does?
Bitter clingers, clutching our guns, have trained that finger to grasp the mug like a shifter…a habit we developed in our F150s.
IF Obama had a BC, he would show it, to embarrass Trump, end his campaign.
Or he would have shown it to embarrass others before now.
He don’t have it. That is why he fights against revealing it, against ID laws, against anything requiring proof of citizenship…
He don’t want to get carded.