Ebola Equality Political Correctness

Ebola Equality Political Correctness Thomas Frieden                            Ebola Equality Political Correctness Thomas Frieden

Ebola fear is spreading, a contingency the Obama administration should have been preparing for in August if not earlier.

The big reason for the unease is leadership. Obama said it was unlikely to get here and, well, here it  is.

He apparently thought he was dealing with the  j.v. team of contagious disease.

Thomas Frieden, who directs our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the man who Obama tapped to deal with matters like this.

As we should have expected, Frieden was not picked  for his skill in dealing with a crisis but for his fidelity to the poison of political correctness.

He was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene when called to federal service and was best known for distributing condoms to gays and banning trans-fat from New York restaurants.

His brother Jeffrey is  the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard and critic of free markets.

It’s no wonder why Frieden is fighting quarantines for travelers from West Africa. Equality means Ebola equality as well, after all.

And it’s no wonder  that now Frieden has been compelled to act he is proposing plans that are scaring the pants off of rubber-meets-the-road health workers.

And it’s no wonder that he is giving  blame-ridden explanations without checking the facts i.e. there was no protocol to breach concerning the contagions of those who treated the late Liberian visitor Thomas Duncan.

When your skill set is political pandering that is the thing you do.

The tragedy is that Ebola doesn’t have to be scary, or anywhere near as scary anyway.

The evil, greedy Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. stopped Ebola cold at its 80,000 person rubber plantation in the middle of the Liberian hot zone, it seems and just using common sense and materials at hand.

But then those evil greedy corporate types appear to have treated the issue as crisis and not as an excuse for political posturing and laughable orchestrated photo ops.

Ebola Equality Political Correctness Thomas Frieden

 

 

Delco Vet Memorial Honored By Fox29

Delco Vet Memorial Honored By Fox29Margaret Lawrence being interview, Oct. 15, for the Fox29 feature on the Delco Vet Memorial in Newtown Square

The Delco Vet Memorial will be highlighted on the Oct. 27 edition of Fox29’s Good Day Philadelphia with weather anchor Sue Serio doing her feed from the site on West Chester Pike in Newtown Square if we understand the plan correctly.

Delaware County veterans Bob Dimond of Media, Springfield Police Chief Joe Daly and  Margaret Lawrence of Springfield whose quotes can be found on the memorials pillars will be featured.

Kudos to Barbara Ann Zippi and Linda Houldin for setting things up.

Delco Vet Memorial Honored By Fox29

 

Oral Anticancer Med Payments Addressed By HB 2471

HB 2471, which prohibits insurance companies from placing oral anticancer medications on a specialty tier, was passed by the Pennsylvania House, Oct 6, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

He says the bill also prohibits charging a co-insurance payment for the medication.

The vote was 195-1 with John D McGinnis (R-79) being the dissenter.

The bill is now before the Senate.

“With more than 80,000 Pennsylvanians estimated to be diagnosed with cancer this year, this legislation would have a tremendous impact on the lives of many Commonwealth residents” said  Cox.  “As it currently stands, intravenous anticancer medications are typically covered under a health plan’s medical benefit, often only requiring patients to pay a minimal fixed co-payment; however, orally administered anticancer medications are covered under a health plan’s pharmacy benefit and require patients to pay a percentage of the total cost of the drug, generally between 25 percent and 30 percent. This significantly increases the out-of-pocket costs to obtain treatment for patients.”

 

Oral Anticancer Med Payments Addressed By HB 2471

Oral Anticancer Med Payments Addressed By HB 2471

HB 1982 Makes Credit Security Freezes Permanent

A bill that would require credit report security freezes to stay until their removal is specifically requested by their subjects is before the Pennsylvania Senate, according to State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

A security freeze prohibits a credit reporting agency from releasing the consumer’s credit information to certain third parties. They automatically expire after seven years.

The bill, House Bill 1982, was unanimously passed by the State House on Oct. 7.

The prime sponsor is State Rep. Stephen Barrar (R-160)

 

HB 1982 Makes Credit Security Freezes Permanent

HB 1982 Makes Credit Security Freezes Permanent

 

Airbnb End Of Hotels?

Airbnb, a digital marketplace enabling travelers to rent and share private accommodations, is taking business travel spending according to eMarketer.com
eMarketer  notes that the service is popular with the young and has made an impact in the hotel business. It speculates that once Millennials enter the business world they are going to take the habit with them.
We’re not so sure. Hey kids, two words: expense accounts.
Airbnb End Of Hotels
Airbnb End Of Hotels

Mumia Speech Inspires HB 2533

Murderer Mumia Abu Jamal’s Oct. 5 recorded commencement address for the Vermont Campus of Goddard College has inspired legislation in Pennsylvania to address revictimization.

House Bill 2533 passed the  House Judiciary Committee, Oct. 8, and is expected to come before the full house this week, according to State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

Ahhh but what will happen if it should reach the Senate, hmmm Senator Pileggi?

HB 2533 says In addition to any other right of action and any other remedy provided by law, a victim of a personal injury crime may bring a civil action against an offender in any court of competent jurisdiction to obtain injunctive and other appropriate relief, including reasonable attorney fees and other costs associated with the litigation, for conduct which perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime on the victim. 

Jamal is a convicted murderer who barely escaped the execution gurney and is serving a life sentence for taking the life of an innocent man, whom he has been slandering ever since. And before you start screaming in defense of Jamal’s First Amendment rights ask if he should have Second Amendment rights as well. How about the Fourth Amendment? You think the guards should need a warrant to search his cell?

Jamal can’t even order out for a pizza. He can’t even choose what clothes to wear.

He should be grateful for just being allowed to breathe.

Danny and Maureen Faulkner Mumia Speech Inspires HB 2533

Danny and Maureen Faulkner at their wedding in 1979. Faulkner was the Philadelphia policeman murdered by Mumia Abu Jamal in 1981, who Jamal has been slandering unrepentantly since. Mr. Faulkner was 25.

Mumia Speech Inspires HB 2533

Ignore Howard Zinn, Celebrate Columbus

Ignore Howard Zinn, Celebrate Columbus — Let us today, this Columbus Day — granted the official observation is Monday — ignore Howard Zinn, who was  a very bad historian, and celebrate the guy who, for all intents and purposes, discovered America.

Vinland, after all, never really took.

Ignore Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn was a socialist who wrote a book call “A People’s History of the United States” which used to be able to be read for free  at a site, appropriately enough regarding Zinn, called HistoryIsAWeapon.com. It no longer seems to be available there, however.

Zinn claims that America has always been ruled by oppressors — the 1 percenters who own a third of the wealth and keep control by fermenting dissent among the 99 percent who are the rest of us  — and starts his claim with Columbus who he says committed genocide on the residents of the West Indies.

It seems to be the theme pushed by the hipster crowd this 2013.

Well, the truth is the Spanish were pretty rough on the native peoples of the Caribbean, something we know from Spanish sources, but the cruelty was obviously not done at the direction of Spanish authorities as steps were taken to stop it when complaints reached them. Further, the native peoples of the Caribbean were not without their flaws either. The name for the Caribbean comes from the Carib tribe, from whence we also get the word cannibal.

And while Columbus was  far from perfect he does not appear to be the gratuitously cruel tyrant Zinn and our hipster friends claim him to be. In Columbus’ own words this is what he says about the Lucayan peoples of the Bahamas who Zinn et al alleges he mutilated and slaughtered: “They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil; nor do they murder or steal… . Your Highness may believe that in all the world there can be no better people … they have the sweetest talk in the world, and are always laughing.”

It seems the revisionists are getting their signals crossed somewhere, which is understandable as Zinn is a bad historian.

America is a place that allowed tens of millions of Europeans and Asians to escape the feudalism that infected their homelands and her discovery only deserves to be celebrated. Even Africans should celebrate. Slavery existed in Africa — it wasn’t Europeans doing the slave catching — before the trans-Atlantic slave trade and it was only after the founding of the United States did the push begin to end it. Pennsylvania was one of the first recognized governments in in history, to ban slavery which happened in 1780 in the middle of the Revolutionary War.

Our hipster ironically wants a day named for Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas and there is a point to that as the Bishop is one of history’s good guys.  On the other hand, he was the one who suggested that the labor lost due to the death of Indians be replaced by Africans and some credit him with the start of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

History is a bit more nuanced than Zinn and the hipster crowd make it out to be.

One more bit of irony:  Zinn’s work was popularized by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck who grew up near Zinn and were family friends. Damon and Affleck are now part of the one-percenter crowd. They have yet to give most of their money to the rest of us, and certainly have not led any crusades to end the tax breaks for performing artists who receive mega millions per film.

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