Addicted to Research

Where should I start? I guess with the weather. It has been raining all week, well today is the first day it hasn’t rained. This means… ta-da… Dust has been home this last week. He works out on ranches; doing oil wells. If it is raining and he attempts to move the rig he tears up the roads. So generally (depending on location), if it is raining he can’t work. Well he can work the location he is at, but can’t then move to a new location. This equates Dustin wanting attention, LOTS of it. So right there part of my day is shot.

Then Heaven was visiting her aunt (and other family), which means? Ta…da… Nina is bored and wanting attention too. This also takes a good chunk of my day away.

I haven’t even had time to get to my silly game, and play. Now i have checked into and played on facebook after all the games I play on there only take like 20 minutes. (Which is mafia wars, my zoo and farm town if anyone wants to join me.) Oh and I totally join everything I am invited to play, but I don’t actually play them. I just like giving people bigger crews for games.

Nina and I baked a cake, Dustin and I talked about all sorts of things. Yesterday I went and picked Heaven up. Then last night Dustin and I had a date night (Italian dinner followed by Star Trek movie), it was nice.

Heaven is doing good, her prednisone being taken out has pretty much returned her to normal. This is good and bad. The good? She is acting like Heaven. The bad? She is totally her normal teen aged (argue, want to make all her own choices, boy crazy) self. We just got into an arguement day before yesterday. I posted on my “blog” at myspace about it. She decided that she wants to try again with her day, which is good and bad (if he disappoints her again I will be upset, but I really do want her to have a relationship with him.) So she tells me that, and tells me that if he wants her to come for the summer she is going. So then I explain I am the mother, so I will decide what she will or won’t be doing. We argue about this point. So she posts that she can visit her dad, and she will run away if I try to stop her. So I post telling her I said we would play it by ear, and I didn’t say NO, I said MAYBE. I woke up to having the post deleted (she knows my password on myspace as she normally checks it for me as I don’t go there often.) Evidently a friend of hers saw my post and yelled at her, so she deleted it. At least she has dropped the subject…

Sigh, the drama of having a teen daughter. The time of having other family… I am really ready for some good alone time, and perhaps some cleaning time… Then at least to be able to check into my game…

Need more hours in the day…

“Ultimately, as happened with the recovery act, it will become President Obama’s plan,“ the White House budget director, Peter R. Orszag, said in an interview. “I think you will see that evolution occurring over the next few weeks. We will be weighing in more definitively, and you will see him out there.”

It is going to take me months to put out this article, and while it is most likely already to late for this term, that is to long for what I want people to know. (NOTE: Any ideas given here are open to the public to use and reuse without permission from me. This is to important for any one person to sit on them. - Thank you, Terra Sears; Wyoming)

There are legal avenues; I haven’t done all the grunt work yet (as alluded to before.) However, there is precedent within the jails and prisons that make it so that care has to be given. It goes around the idea that they are responsible for you. In addition hospitals (I believe it most likely has to do with federal funding), have to give life saving treatment regardless of ability to pay.

Then there is the fact that all people on US soil are under the jurisdiction of US law, in addition that they are subject to (can’t think of the term here) specific rights. Add it all together (with a few more that I will find for my article), and I believe a good legal argument can be made for why health care is a right and not a privilege.

The avenue for approach might be a bit different, however, I firmly believe that this will be the best option since we can’t seem to get our representatives to move on initiatives even when 60% of Americans want them… (Talk about failing in a big way.)

Anyway, have at it… It will take me months to prepare the legal argument (as well as the article.) Of course the article has to be submitted as well to rebut any of the arguments that can be made against it…

Ms. DeMoro said: “There is a conspiracy of silence” against Single Payer in the Congress. “We’re going to have to turn up the heat” if we want to get anything done. She added that Single Payer “has been kept off the agenda” and that there was a lack of “political will” in the Congress about doing the right thing with respect to the current crisis in health care. The press conference took place in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The healthcare activists are supporting HR 676 and S 703, now pending before the Congress.

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I am working on a legal argument for why health care is a right rather than a privilege. However, I am including precedence so it is taking a bit longer to do than I expected. :)  So here is a blog post that helps find what you can do in the mean time…

Comments received and my response to those comments.

Your clueless comments …

I appreciate the show of the fact that I can’t spell. I am perfectly aware that I can’t spell, and I have decided on my blog that it is OK. I admitted full well that I didn’t understand the issue, and that I was most likely the idiot in this situation, as well as that I needed to research this issue more. As with most people I have things that I have studied in detail and those that I haven’t. I admitted that I have not researched this subject, and I was overzealous because of news that came out of Texas about the subject of secession. My blog is where I express my ideas as I learn new subjects. I know most people post when they are done (or think they are) researching a subject. My blog expresses my growth in a lot of areas. While that might lead to some posts that I follow up with something about me being wrong, my normal readers understand and appreciate that. I have no interest in gun regulations, thus I am not likely to research this subject. I am however, still quite willing to admit I don’t know anything about this subject.

In regards to using the “F” word, I am afraid that I don’t agree at all. First, I am not writing this blog as any correspondence to anyone,specifically. I don’t know how you happened upon my blog, but it is normally only frequented by people I actually know. If you have earned the right to use the word via the military, I have the right to use the word as well… A few things about me:

1. I am a 32 year old woman in school for criminal justice (probation/parole)
2. I have given birth 4 times; I lost a son, I gave a daughter up for adoption and I have 2 beautiful girls.
3.  I was sexually abused as a teenager, by a teenager.
4. I have screwed up in my life many many times, and I can admit it each and every time.

I think I have “earned” the right to say whatever I want to. (Although I would note that I might say WTF? but I would never say the full blown words.)

As for the event being what it was, I will simply say that it wasn’t “sold” to me as a fundraiser. In addition, Independent doesn’t mean I can’t make up my mind; it means that both sides being combined make more sensible resolutions to problems. I am not for “big government” nor am I for whatever label you would put on the republican agenda; I am for people. Real people in real situations. I attended this event to express views on insurance. I messed that up, I didn’t say anything about it. I am shy, and don’t do well in the public arena.

Now to the heart of the issue: Single Payer Insurance and Politics

Perhaps I am stupid, perhaps the thoughts I brought up were stupid. However, I will tell you this because I said something that was stupid our representatives (in Wyoming) know my personal story. They understand that I have a teenager with an autoimmune disease, they understand that without some sort of program, her life will be bound to fail. They know WHY I advocate for single payer insurance. I am not now nor will I ever be in politics, but there is one fact that I might not be proud of but that is true. If you want people to hear your story you have to be sure that people READ what you say. Would you have thought twice about my blog if you came here and saw my personal story without my “lack of fact” post on the representative?  (Think hard on that.) Not proud of it, but for my daughter I am willing to look like a total idiot if that is what it takes to get people to look at this subject. You have to get the attention first, then you tell the story. Do I wish it was different? Yes, I do. Do I wish that my emails to the senators was taken more seriously? Yes, I do. However, it isn’t…

You yourself haven’t even looked at the single payer option; your comment shows this. The VA as an example would show a true socialist approach. I am talking more like medicare and medicaid (which by the way I have experienced medicaid, I was a teen mother.) We are talking private doctors, with private practice and a group insurance plan that PAYS it. We aren’t talking about a government run health system. Were there some things that I wasn’t able to do because of it? Sure, instead of taking a specific medication, sometimes a different one had to be substituted, and some treatments weren’t OK to use. However, it is still better than no insurance or getting no care because you can’t afford it.

I do apologize to Colin Simpson, the reason that it took so long after the dinner to make the post is because I needed to decide if it was worth it. Was I really willing to stoop so low to get the point out there? Ultimately, if Simpson decides to run for governor I don’t know a single person that won’t vote for him (me included), no one was going to take what was said seriously, and I am a mother (my first priority is to my children), so the answer was yes. The only possible harm was to my reputation, which I don’t care about enough anyway.

The problem with our system is that we look to our “own kind” in getting what we need to know when we research subjects. Most of us don’t look at the other side, and if we do normally we mock what we think we know (which is the angle you see here), but we really don’t know. It is a system that doesn’t work to educate, only to back up whatever views you already have. I implore you, and everyone to really look at the single payer system. Protect my children, and all the other children…

I was planning on making this post next week… However, I will make it now… Thank you for your time… Terra

So my first post about my dinner on Saturday was a bit negative, as I was disappointed, now I think a positive one is needed. At least two people understand why a public option will fail for health insurance (you know because the sick people will end up on the public health insurance and the healthy people will end up on private insurance, and because of the lack of total group support the system will fail, just as medicare is going to do.) YAH… Now if I can just get more people to talk about it. I know that until and unless you have had a major illness/injury you don’t know how much they screw you around so you think the system is fine… That is the problem, until you have been on the “bad” side of this issue you don’t know how screwed up it is…

Dr. Tiller was killed last Sunday in CHURCH. It appears that religion and politics have a part in why this happened. So some bible quotes for him…

Hosea 9:11-16 (King James Version)

¹¹As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

¹²Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

¹³Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

¹⁴Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

¹⁵All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

¹⁶Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

Hosea 13:16 (King James Version)

¹⁶Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

2 Kings 6:28-29 (King James Version)

²⁸And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

²⁹So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

Exodus 12:29 (King James Version)

²⁹And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

Isaiah 13:15-18 (King James Version)

¹⁵Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

¹⁸Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

Jeremiah 19:7-9 (King James Version)

⁷And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

⁸And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

⁹And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

NOTE: I do not mean to be disrespectful to good Christians, only to bad ones. (Sorry, I can’t link to these people, I just can’t, you will have to trust me.) The point is the bible can be seen from many different views…

I do not advocate abortion, I hope people will take steps to not need one, but I hope those that do need one are able to get one. (Rape, incest, and more.) I also know it is my job to judge what is right for someone else, after all I am not a moral authority. I know what I can understand and what I can’t. This is a horrible, horrible thing…

In the interest of fairness, I just finished some research. As we all know that is my absolute favorite thing to do, there is ALWAYS so much we can learn. It turns out I might have been the ignorant one on the succession bill that was talked about the other night. (Can’t know everything.) Here is what I mock, and this is a possible “what was meant.” Now I don’t think it is what was meant, but in the interest of being fair it is possible. I would include that there was lots of talk of the good things that the Texas government has done involved directly before…

To be fair to myself, I would say it still sounds like the one I mock. Now if we are to get deep into the “idea” behind what I mock there are parts that I agree with. Our constitution does give specific rights to the federal government and specific rights to the state governments (namely those not granted by the constitution are supposed to stay within state power.) This happens to be one of the reasons I was against prop 8 (no I still don’t live in California).  I see this as most lawyers would (no I am still not a lawyer, it is just one of my favorite thing to research), and one of civil rights. Thus in the realm of the federal government, not state government.It should pass for the same reason that black and white people can now marry.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival. Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535, 541 (1942).

However, there is a fine line between what the court should and shouldn’t do, as the court is there to define the law (interpret) not to actually create the law. In other words it is up to them to say if the constitution says something is there or not. It is true that they create precedent, and thus actually do in a way create law. This is the nature of interpretation. However, there is a fine line between the two. The sad part is if the side we agree with isn’t the “winner” of a case we automatically assume they took the issue the wrong way. I would say sometimes they have and sometimes they haven’t. However, for better or worse I would stick up for the supreme court the majority of the time.

I realize that the complaint is on this point, that the federal government is taking their role to far. I would agree with that. However, unless this subject is looked at in an unbiased fashion I can’t take the argument seriously. (Not that some people don’t, just the majority don’t.) No matter what side you are on in politics, or if you are in the middle, there are specific issues that you won’t see as state rights no matter how much they actually do go against the constitution. Exhibit A and Exhibit B. Most people will think that one of those cases was decided wrong, if not both. Now there might be many reasons why they feel that way, but the only “real” legal reason is feeling that the court is legislating from the bench. However, it is debatable either way. Not saying I agree or disagree with either, only that both sides could be argued well.

Anyway, my point is I understand where the complaint comes from, I disagree and my eyes fall into my skull backward at the way it is expressed. If a subject can’t be explained in a truthful manner and still be understood by most, don’t try to express it if you are a political figure…

In the interest of fairness, a reply to my last post was made and I want it out in the open. I no longer have the notes I took from the meeting, as after I made the post I threw them away. I am not gonna go into the outside dumbest to look at them. I will keep an eye and an ear out for what is said by this representative. It is fair to say I shouldn’t judge on one encounter and on one speech, and as I said before he did get into a lot of things that are important to Wyoming as well.

I never mentioned or suggested seceding from the United States and I do not suggest such a thing and never have. What I did mention was the importance of states rights and the 10th and 17th amendments and Montana’s gun legislation. I believe strongly that states rights are far more important than the federal bureacracy or federal government attempts to abridge those rights.

So I am not recanting what I said earlier. However, I didn’t have a tape recorder and perhaps I was overzealous on the subject. After all ignorance is something that effectively shuts off my brain, and thus I could have missed something in the after words. I know I had a dumbfounded look on my face for a minute or so after. (Although my notes directly said “?succession bill?” so I am sure that particular part was in the speech. However, if any explanation was given after I could have missed it.

So to conclude, I will wait and watch. I am still asking for supporters of single payer health insurance to send notice to this senator though. Our talks have been good, and I strongly support him on many issues. He is a bright man, our talks have been wonderful! He needs more push on health insurance though… Senator_Barrasso@barrasso.senate.gov Lets get him on the right path on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjW5aE0AqxU

*wonders if he would be willing to help with single payer insurance?

I have been so busy and have lots to talk about, and nothing to talk about all at the same time. So I will tell about my dinner last Saturday. It was a republican dinner featuring Colin Simpson (from Wyoming of course.) I thought it would be a good opportunity to explain why a single payer plan would actually be a conservative republican plan as well as a liberal plan. After all done right it would be, and should be bi-partisan as values from both sides are represented. Figuring that the more people that understand the numbers that are being talked about the more people that can accurately understand what is going on, and why it is a sensible solution to health care.

I am an independent as both sides have really good ideas in different arenas. (Of course most of you know that.) I would lean more democrat if I was to pick a side because of social issues (supporting equal rights for gay and lesbian couples and such as an equal rights issue.) However, I am completely open to both sides of the debate in most everything.

Anyway, I was exited after all this “could” be our next governor, and I knew he was a lawyer. (I automatically see lawyers having a leg up in understanding the law, and the legitimate discussions. I know sometimes it isn’t deserved, but that bias is there.) I took my aunt Nicky, as she is an intelligent woman and a republican. (Well and I thought it would be nice to spend a little time with her as well.)

I didn’t really say anything to the man. I intended on doing so, but he is either to much of a politician or part idiot. One of the things that makes me say that is he suggested if a secession bill was to be addressed he would vote yes. I think my eyes went blank for a minute. I felt like yelling at the top of my lungs, WTF? That is the most ANTI-AMERICAN thing anyone can say. *sigh, I would note that this is after a prayer, the pledge of allegiance, and god bless America.

I know Wyoming is the home of Dick Cheney, although because of policy I like to pretend that Nebraska is more his style. (Although it most likely isn’t.) I just can’t believe that I pretty much wasted a night so I could hear some of the dumbest thing I have ever heard, come out of a lawyers mouth.

I know it is most likely just talking points, and I realize most likely he is more intelligent than he sounded, but the disappointment is there, a lot. Not that a few smart things didn’t come out of his mouth too. It was just really hard to ignore all the STUPID stuff. There was more intelligent talk from the people that didn’t go there to speak. My favorite is “we are here to offer a hand up, not a hand out.” I don’t remeber who said it, but it was still a good one.

Oh and some information for speakers:

1. Don’t be so exclusive at a dinner. Don’t assume everyone there is a republican, and therefore, bad mouth everyone that isn’t a republican. It is not only bad manners, but it limits your options when voting time comes.

2. Don’t ever talk about leaving the USA. The only good it can really do for you is to make a mockery out of yourself. No self respecting American would talk that way. Reform it, fix the stuff that is broken, don’t trash it.

3. Talking points that the VAST majority of America agrees on& is already guaranteed is a waste of time. Only the ignorant will want you to spend time discussing it. If you must talk about it be quick…

UGH… So I spent a whole day in prep and in attending this thing… The only good stuff that came out of it? Spending time with the aunt and a good dinner… Thanks for the complete disappointment Rep. Colin Simpson.

Edit: Please see following posts (2) for updates, and explanation of what was said. I still mock the idea in part, but the succession was in a different context than previously thought, the guy isn’t the idiot that I assumed. (My fault, I know what it means to assUme anything.)