Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell

“Most of these children’s parents died in the earthquake just a few days ago”

CBS had video of a bit the interrogation ‘after having attempted to cross the border’ in Port-au-Prince of those 10 Americans Baptists from Idaho.

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“We simply wanted to help these children. We did not understand all your rules.”

Mmhmmm . . . .

R.I.P. John Murtha

John Murtha has died at the age of 77.  For all his foibles and faults, he was a stalwart opponent of the Iraq war, and the people of his district in Pennsylvania.

Pastor Jean Sainvil = Keyser Söze?

Update:  When this first broke there was misspelling of the pastor’s name, Jean Sanvil, who helped the Americans pick out ‘orphans’ now in Haitian custody.

Pastor Jean Sainvil (aka Keyser Söze)…..  found this video of the good pastor on blackamerica.com this morning, Monday, Feb. 8th  – Tom Joyner’s show.

[Originally this was thrown together when the story was "breaking news." ]

This pastor apparently left Haiti some years ago & is now an American citizen.  He is now in Norcross, Georgia – which is a suburb of Atlanta.

And What the Hell, Sarah?

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Like others have speculated, it seems Ms Palin most likely knew the questions which were to be asked.

And this is the woman John McCain unleashed on America without any apology.  The only thing that has carried this woman anywhere is her looks. Straight up.  Looks and white privilege because you know no black or any candidate of color would be able to withstand the shit storm brought on by Faux News and others like Candy Crowley, John King, et al of CNN.

As Mudflats said: “I never thought she’d be able to rival the Katie Couric moment, until now.”

Nope – I think there’s more to come.

My Thoughts on Boise’s Trickster

There are things happening in and around Boise with the legislature, our national congressional delegation from Idaho and congress itself with quite a disturbing update on Bowe Bergdahl to continue focusing on the numbnutz who scurried off to Haiti with questionable intents as they relate(d) to “Haitian orphans.”

I just find the need to get this out of my system. More than likely, I’ll keep half an eye on this story because I want to see the comeuppance for the brazen hubris and white privilege expressed in the actions of these jackasses with their claim of being ‘missionaries’ off to save the ‘poorest of the poor’ – children, homeless without families, without protection or refuge.  All done in the name of their ‘Lord Jesus Christ’ of course.

As I’ve mentioned before my suspicions immediately flared following the reading the document Laura Silsby & her ‘nanny’, Charisa Coulter, devised and wrote up in which they assigned themselves as ‘directors.’ (Page 3). For me it was just the language used – the Christian type catchphrases whose sole intent is draw & suck people in.

There were the obviously ignorant statements made by Laura Silsby such as this: “We had permission from the Dominican Republic government to bring the children to an orphanage that we have there.” I still find it mind-boggling that she actually used that justification.

Child Kidnapping & Conspiracy

This just came over MSNBC. All 10 of the Americans posing as missionaries will be charged with ‘Child Kidnapping & Conspiracy.’

This is a statement published by the Southern Baptists regarding these folks up in here who are Baptists, but not Southern Baptist.

“In Chains for Christ” – Going From Bad to Worse

In a recent ‘interview’ from jail in Port-au-Prince one of the Americans, arrested for allegedly attempting to take some Haitian children from Port-au-Prince across the border into the Dominican Republic, yelled out, “Philippians 1.” From my own background in being dragged from those different evangelical churches by our mother – Foursquare Gospel to Church of the Nazarene to Assembly of God – one of the most cited verses of chapter 1 is #13 which refers to Paul (and Timothy) being “in chains for Christ.”

“In chains for Christ.” I could better understand that outburst if these people were Egyptian or Iraqi Christians or maybe facing brutal suppression in China, Burma (Myanmar) or Iran. But not when you’re in a Haitian jail for attempting to spirit away some 33 children across an international border. Not to mention every time they tell their story, it shifts and slides. However true to past form and example, they trudge on. No remorse, no second-guessing from them over their hubris. Nope. They were called by G*d.

Yesterday morning an update post in the New York Times had this sentence.

And while the Americans said they did not intend to offer the children for adoption, the Web site for their orphanage makes clear that they intended to do so.

That’s all there is to say. While they say their intent was NOT to offer any one of those children up for adoption, it is stated in cold, stark black and white print that is (was) precisely their intent. It’s right there, right there under the plan on their website. Along with the call for prayer requests including one for G*d “to continue to grant favor with the Dominican Government in allowing us to bring as many orphans as we can into the DR.”

“As many orphans as we can . . . ”

Would Health Care Reform Help You?

Many obstacles and stumbling blocks remain in the way of health care reform. The House and Senate bills will have to be merged, and then the House and Senate both will vote on the final bill. We don’t yet know what will be in the final bill, or if the final bill will be passed into law. Passage will be especially difficult in the Senate, where it will need 60 votes to pass. It is still possible that after all this angst, just one grandstanding senator could kill the whole thing.

But just for fun, let’s look at what conventional wisdom says will be in the final bill and see if there is anything in it that will be an immediate benefit to people with mesothelioma cancer and other asbestos-related disease.

It is likely that the final bill will provide additional funding for state high-risk insurance pools. Currently more than 30 states run such pools, which are nonprofit, state-sponsored health insurance plans for people who can’t buy insurance because of pre-existing conditions. The biggest problem with such pools is that, often, the insurance they offer is too expensive for many who might need it. Both the Senate and House bills provide $5 billion in subsidies for state high-risk pools to make the insurance more affordable.

Under the Senate bill, beginning in 2014, private companies would no longer be able to deny coverage to adults with pre-existing conditions, nor could they charge higher premiums for people with pre-existing conditions. Until then, the state high-risk pools could provide some help.

Closing the Medicare Part D coverage gap — also called the “doughnut hole” — is another potential provision that could help some patients with asbestos-related disease. The “doughnut hole” is the gap between the coverage for yearly out-of-pocket expenses provided by Medicare Part D and Medicare’s “catastrophic coverage” threshold.

For example, in 2009 Medicare Part D paid at least 75 percent of what patients paid for prescription drugs up to $2,700. After that, patients must pay for all of their prescription medications until what they have paid exceeds $6,154. At that point, the catastrophic coverage takes over, and Medicare pays for all but 5 percent of the patient’s drug bills. The final health care reform bill probably will provide for paying at least 50 percent of out-of-pocket costs in the doughnut hole.

You may have heard the bills include budget cuts to the Medicare program, and this has been a big concern to many people. Proponents of the bill insist that savings can be found to pay for the cuts, and that people who depend on Medicare won’t face reduced services. But this is a complex issue that I want to address in a later post.

The long-term provisions probably will include many other provisions that would benefit patients with asbestos-related disease, including increased funding for medical research. Although there are many complaints about the bill coming from all parts of the political spectrum, on the whole it would be a huge benefit to many people.

— Barbara O’Brien

Fer God’s Sake – Please Buy A Dictionary

This country really is going to hell in a hand basket, isn’t it?

First there’s the hat and the shirt in violation of flag etiquette.  You’d think they’d know that being so damned Amerikan and all.  And, seriously – do the maroons have to misspell everything that’s greater than five letters?

You would think they’d carry a dictionary; they’re affordable.  Just like a copy of the Constitution.

*courtesy Superpoop.com

Now They’re Demanding “Their Rights” Under the Haitian Constitution

Just wanted to post this before I forget.

BOISE, Idaho — Church leaders affiliated with the 10 Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take a busload of children out of the country are calling for their immediate release.

Central Valley Baptist Church officials claim the detainees have been interrogated by the Haitian government without an attorney or witness present – a move church officials say violates the Haitian Constitution.

Assistant Pastor Drew Ham also points to a clause in Haiti’s constitution preventing anyone from being arrested more than 48 hours without appearing before a judge. They have not yet been charged by the Haitian government.

The 10 Americans, including nine from Idaho, were arrested Friday after trying to take 33 undocumented children across the border. The Americans insist they were only trying to rescue child victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Does the irony of these idiots demanding their ‘right’s under Haiti’s constitution strike anyone else as hilarious especially the go-round we’ve had in THIS country regarding legal rights of any of those at Guantanamo.

I mean – seriously!