American Exceptionalism?

Rightardia follows international surveys and the US is rarely even in the top 10. We have talked about this many times but right wingers like Sarah Palin love this feel good pabulum about American exceptionalism.

A nation must work every day to remain exceptional. Being exceptional is not an entitlement by virtue of being an American citizen. The Romans and Greeks were once exceptional nations, but their day has come and gone.

A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found that 39 percent of respondents believe “the current economic downturn is part of a long-term permanent decline and the economy will never fully recover.”

It is politically correct to say that America is an exceptional country, but the world is a competitive place and the US cannot rest on its laurels.

source: http://dailybail.com/home/graphic-of-the-day-america-were-not-1.html


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Who's the big political spender?

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For vets: Is your VA disability conjunctive ?

It is important for veteran to know where his or her claim file or c-file is. Normally this file will be retained by the local VA Regional Office (VARO).  However, if you have appealed your Local VARO's  decision, the c-file could be in the Appeals Management Center which for all intents and purposes is a specialized VARO in Washington DC handles Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA) remands.

After the local VARO and AMC finish with you c-file, the Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA) reviews the conclusions and can overrule both the VARO, the AMC and even a Decision Review Officer (DRO) decision.

The BVA makes decisions on the law and not VA regulations. Often some of the VARO raters make mistakes. For example, if you have diabetes mellitus., you must meet all of the examples in disability compensation for Diabetes Mellitus  DC 7913, you must meet all of the examples in this DC. This is because DC 7913 is rated conjunctively:

However, all DCs are not rated this way. For example, DC 7903, is not rated conjunctively. This means the raters must see the forest through the trees.

The UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS (USCavc), NO . 07-2728 DIANNE C.  TATUM , APPELLANT , (Argued July 15, 2009 Decided September 28, 2009) ruling explained this.

The USCAVC agreed with Ms. Tatum on her entitlement to a higher disability rating because it agreed with the appellant that all of the examples in DC 7903 did not need to be present for a higher level rating. The USCAVC said that the higher level examples in DC 7903 were inclusive of the lower level examples.

The USCAVC made it clear the laundry lists in in the CFR for disability rating are examples, not criteria. In the case of hypothyroidism, the VAROs will often deny a higher level claim for hypothyroidism if the veterans has not complained of being constipated. This is because a VARO may think DC 7903 is related conjuctively: 

Rightardia has reviewed both BVA and USCAVC cases in which the veteran lost the case over this issue. However, The Major found the Diane Tatum case and relized the VARO "constipation" issue was bogus. 

First, when you are hypothyroid, you my indeed suffer from constipation that may result in hemorrhoids. However, once you take a medication like Levthyrozxine, you will have the opposite problem, diarrhea   

Prednisone and hydrocortisone will also cause the some of the same symptoms when voiding.

The USCAVC concluded a veteran could potentially establish all of the criteria required for either a 30% or 60% disability rating, without establishing any of the criteria for a lesser disability rating.

The USCAVC considers the laundry lists in the 38 CFR for DC 7903 to be examples rather than criteria. In addition, the higher level examples are inclusive of the lower disability rating examples. Thus, DC 7903 is not conjunctive. Such disabilities that are not conjuctive are called "disjunctive." 

38 C.F.R. § 4.21 (2009), is federal regulation which explains that "it is not expected. . . that all cases will show all the findings specified [in an applicable DC (Rating category)]."

Is you VA disability conjunctive? Talk to your Disabled American Veteran, American Legion or other non-governmental rep to find out. If the VARO gave you the "don't meet all of the criteria two step" using an erroneous conjunctive style rating , appeal to BVA or the DRO. This is an important issue that the vet cannot afford to ignore. 

Regarding the c-file. Both the BVA and the AMC have fax numbers and Washington addresses that you can submit new information to. The Major has submitted new information to both the AMC and the BVA after recent doctor's appointments. You can also take this information to the VARO and eventually it will be attached to you c-file. However, if you know your disability is currently being reviewed by the BVA or AMC, send it directly to Washington. 

The Major just completed an important diagnostic test and he called the BVA and DAV Washington to see if the new information could be added to the c-file. Both organizations provided fax numbers 

The BVA said 'yes" and to add this line in the fax cover sheet or transmittal letter prior to faxing: 

I waive regional office (RO) consideration in the first instance for new evidence. 

This is why it is essential the veteran know where his or her c-file is. 

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Huffington Post: Ridiculous Rebel Flag Products

Ahoy matey. It's me, Captain Jack of Pirates of the Confederacy. Arrrgh!

See more of these ridiculous items at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/25/9-ridiculous-frebel-lag-products_n_908878.html?utm_campaign=072611&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-comedy&utm_content=FullStory#s315497&title=Pirate_Eye_Patch
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Colbert Report: Right wing media stereotypes attack in Norway

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As usual, the right wing media stereotyped the Norway attack. The real attacker was a native Christian fundamentalist Norwegian not a Muslim.

Stephan's best line:

And we know the Wall Street Journal is accurate. As a Murdoch newspaper, it has proven ways to get inside information.

Then the right wing media complained the main stream media were calling Anders Breivik a Christian! 


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House GOP revolt

Speaker John Boehner: This gavel is almost as big as my head.

Uh oh!

Republicans in the House are revolting against the Boehner paln. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), who said the Boehner plan didn't cut spending enough, heads a group that includes 178 of the 240 Republican House lawmakers.

Five other House Republicans have also announced their opposition: Reps. Louie Gohmert of Texas, Tom Graves of Georgia, Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, and Connie Mack and Steve Southerland of Florida. 

Mr. Boehner can only lose 22 GOP votes for his plan to pass the House. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyernsaid "very few" Democratic representatives would back the Boehner plan, scheduled for a vote Wednesday.


graphic courtesy of the Freaking News


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DCCC Fact Check: the Boehner plan would cost more than 700,000 jobs

Today on Fox News Sunday, House Speaker John Boehner said he would seek a budget deal "in the framework of Cut, Cap and Balance" and Boehner recently called himself a "happy warrior" for the controversial plan.

In reality, this plan would cost more than 700,000 Americans their job and end Medicare for seniors.

Representative Jim Jordan, the Chairman of the 175 Members Republican Study Committee, said this scheme “basically mirrors the budget proposal that the House passed this year” - ending Medicare in order to protect taxpayer giveaways for Big Oil companies and tax breaks for millionaires.

From polls to town hall meetings, that plan was widely rejected by the American people. The non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities wrote that “Cut, Cap and end Medicare” is an “ideologically extreme” plan that “would inexorably subject Social Security and Medicare to deep reduction.”

See http://dccc.org/blog/entry/fact_check_boehner_repeats_calls_for_a_budget_deal_in_the_framework_of_cut_/

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Bill Maher overtime: Episode 221, July 22, 2011

Ep. 221: July 22, 2011 - Overtime

This is one of the most provocative Overtimes we have seen. The Norwegian response to Anders Behring Breivik's attack is very different from the US response to 911,

Breivik's lawyer thinks his client may be "insane".


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Bloomberg: Debt default would create a depression

July 26 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alice Rivlin discusses the implications of a U.S. default should lawmakers fail to reach an agreement on increasing the country's borrowing limit. 

Rivlin, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, speaks with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop. " 

Source: Bloomberg

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WH Blog: Deficit Crises

With eight days until our nation faces an unprecedented financial crisis, the President addressed the nation on the consequences the stalemate in Congress could have on the stability of our economy.   

 Here are some key passages from his remarks

The debate right now isn’t about whether we need to make tough choices.  Democrats and Republicans agree on the amount of deficit reduction we need. The debate is about how it should be done.  Most Americans, regardless of political party, don’t understand how we can ask a senior citizen to pay more for her Medicare before we ask a corporate jet owner or the oil companies to give up tax breaks that other companies don’t get.  How can we ask a student to pay more for college before we ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries?  How can we slash funding for education and clean energy before we ask people like me to give up tax breaks we don’t need and didn’t ask for?  

Speaker John Boehner says his house plan has bi-partisan support but the vote on it was on party lines. Although Rightardia is sympathetic to the presidne'ts dilemma, Obama should have rescinded the Bush tax cuts when the Democrats controlled the House to fund the recovery. 


Instead the Democrats squandered a year on a half-baked medical reform. Obama is right that the Bush presidents and Reagan had no difficulties getting the debt ceiling raised. That's because the Democrats are team players and  were unwilling to play hardball with GW Bush. 


The Republicans are, indeed, less timid. 


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Glenn Beck crosses the line again with Hitler Jugend comments

From the July 25 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program

Video source : MediaMatters : http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201107250006

A former Norwegian press secretary , Torbjorn Eriksen, said this to the Daily Telegraph. 

Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about. Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful.

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WMR: UN representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, assassinated in 2003 by U.S. operatives

 SPECIAL REPORT. UN representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, assassinated in 2003 by U.S. operatives

Was Sergio de Mello assassinated? 

On August 19, 2003, at 5:37 pm, a van exploded at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, the headquarters for the UN Peace Mission for Iraq. The blast ripped through a wall of the building causing a side of the building to collapse. 

Twenty-two UN employees were killed in the blast, blamed by the U.S. occupation forces and echoed by the corporate media on a suicide bombing. 

An additional 100 people inside the building, including U.S. military personnel, were injured. Trapped under the rubble but alive for a number of hours before he died of his injuries was Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian diplomat who was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. 

Other UN staff members killed in the blast included nationals of Egypt, Britain, Italy, United States, Spain, Canada, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, and the Philippines.

In an exclusive to WMR, a senior U.S. flag rank officer in Baghdad at the time of the bombing of the UN mission has revealed that the bomb blast that killed de Mello and his colleagues was not a suicide attack but the result of a remote-controlled bomb placed in the van that was parked directly next to de Mello's office inside the U.S. military-controlled access zone. 

U.S. rescue teams were under orders not to excavate de Mello from the rubble of the Canal Hotel until after it was determined that he was dead.

The U.S. flag rank officer had met with de Mello on August 18. During the meeting, de Mello told the high-ranking U.S. Army officer that he was compiling evidence of U.S. troops in Iraq torturing Iraqi detainees. 

The Army officer relayed de Mello's concern up the chain-of-command. The next day, de Mello was dead, along with 21 members of his UN mission. 

A second bombing of the UN mission the following month resulted in the UN withdrawing its 600 member mission from Iraq. The authorization for the twin bombings of the UN mission came from the highest levels of the Bush White House, according to our source. 

However, in typical fashion, responsibility for the bombings came from "Al Qaeda's" chief in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi.

Zarqawi was said to have been killed in a targeted precision-guided bombing of his safe house in Iraq by U.S. Air Force F-16s.

De Mello also expressed concern to the U.S. officer about outside actors involved in torture in Iraq, elements later identified as Israelis. The torture by U.S. forces of Iraqi detainees was not reported by the media until April 2004.

De Mello was the highest-ranking victim of a terrorist assassination since Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN mediator in Palestine, was killed by Zionist terrorists in 1948 and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's plane was shot down over Northern Rhodesia by Belgian mercenaries from Katanga that were linked to the CIA.

In 2008, the UN General Assembly voted to designate August 19 as World Humanitarian Day in honor of those UN workers who were killed in Baghdad.

In light of the revelation that the Bush White House ordered the assassination of de Mello and members of his staff, the day should be known as World Humanitarian and Awareness of U.S. Sponsored Terrorism Day.

source: Wayne Madsen Report

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Hysterical Raisins: Senator Inhofe's tweet on the OK heat wave

The US heat waves seems to confirm Al Gore's statements on global warming. The heat wave is not short term weather. It has affected most of the country for a prolonged period. 

Inhofes' tweet:

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UAW wants a bigger piece of the pie

The UAW negotiated in good faith with the auto industry during the financial collapse. Now it wants some of its concessions to be reconsidered.

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AHNC: The Politician of No

source: All Hat No Cattle

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Science Daily: Chance favors the concentration of wealth

Chance favors the concentration of wealth, study shows; New model isolates the effects of chance in an investment-based economy

ScienceDaily (July 21, 2011) — Most of our society's wealth is invested in businesses or other ventures that may or may not pan out. Thus, chance plays a role in where the wealth of a society will end up.

The study, "Entrepreneurs, chance, and the deterministic concentration of wealth," is published in the July issue of the journal PLoS ONE.

The model predicts that the rate at which wealth concentrates depends on the variation among individual return rates. For example, when variation is high, it would take only 100 years for the top 1 percent to increase their share of total wealth from 40 percent -- a recent level in the United States -- to 90 per cent,

"The implication is that nations with diverse economies should tend to outcompete on the world stage those with large concentrations of wealth, such as monarchies, or established democracies that have allowed their wealth to concentrate," said author Clarence Lehman, associate dean for research in the College of Biological Sciences.

Fargione added:.

To retain the benefits of a diverse capitalist economy, we need economic policies that counter what seems to be the innate tendency for economies to concentrate wealth and become less diverse.

Author Joseph Fargione, is an an adjunct professor of ecology, evolution and behavior in the university's College of Biological Sciences.

The simulations showed that a tax (or other mandatory donation to the public good) on the largest inherited fortunes would short-circuit the over-concentration of wealth. But the researchers don't advocate a particular policy, but note a policy is needed that protects long-term economic stability.

This study suggests that getting wealthy is more about luck more than skill. It also suggest that democracies that allow their wealth to be overly concentrated are less competitive on the world stage.

sources:

Joseph E. Fargione, Clarence Lehman, Stephen Polasky.Entrepreneurs, Chance, and the Deterministic Concentration of Wealth. PLoS ONE, 2011; 6 (7): e20728 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020728\

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110721172334.htm

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Yale Study: You can't confuse conservatives with the facts

by Dan Sweeney, City Link Magazine


"A new study out of Yale University confirms what argumentative liberals have long-known: Offering reality-based rebuttals to conservative lies only makes conservatives cling to those lies even harder." 


In essence, a fact-based rebuttal  makes conservatives even more rigid in their thinking. 

Rightardia agrees. it is a waste of time to argue with most conservatives. Many conservatives have strong emotional components to their thinking. When confronted with a refutation to their ideas, it makes them believe the misinformation even moreso.


Yale Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler conducted the study. 


Nyhan and Reifler did not see the same "backfire effect" when liberals were given misinformation and a refutation about the Bush administration's stance on stem cell research.

Liberals are more likely to have brains that have a larger anterior cingulate cortex while conservatives have larger amygdalas. The amygdala is associated with the limbic system and emotion. The primary role of the amygdala is the processing and memory of emotional reactions.

The anterior cingulate is associated with rational cognitive functions, such as reward anticipation, decision-making, empathy and emotion.

The limbic system is one of the more primitive parts of the brain. It has a central role in memory, learning, emotion, neuroendocrine function, and autonomic activities

Prior research has suggested that conservatives are more sensitive to threat or anxiety in the face of uncertainty, while liberals tend to be more open to new experiences.



sources: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-sweeney/theres-no-arguing-with-co_b_126805.html


The Temporal lobe and Limbic System, John R. Hesselink, MD, FACR

Wikipedia

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Washington Whispers: Crunch Time

Rightardia agress with this assessment. The president must be resolute or he will lose the next election because Progressives will stay home. Politics is a contact sport and Obama must be prepared to let the government go into default if he wants to win.

No guts, no glory! It's crunch time and we hope its's the GOP that gets caught in the squeeze play.

If the GOP won't compromise, take the government down!

Screw the Republicans!

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Rick Perry gets "The Call."

Many evangelicals and fundamentalists think they have put their fates in God's hands and feel they are following the plan God has for them.

Wirehead, out technical editor,  worked with a pleasant fundamentalist women who started showing up to work late and got fired.

She took a stoic view of her predicament and said that her present job was not part of God's plan for her.

Rick Perry thinks he knows God's plan for him.

Rick Perry stated:

But I’m getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I’ve been called to do. This is what America needs.”

When a conservative politician starts talking about The Call, you know he or she is serious about running for office.

Perry is hardly the first to receive a presidential summons from the heavens. George W. Bush said God had made clear that He wanted GW Bush to become commander in chief.

Rightardia suspects Bush may have been talking to Satan based on the mess he created in the Middle East and the torture under the guise of enhanced interrogation techniques.

Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain have also said they are running at God’s behest. In contrast, Mike Huckabee explained that his decision not to run for president was based on God’s guidance.

What is all of the God talk about?  Essentially, Republicans are trying to fire up evangelicals and fundamentalists who helped propel GW Bush into the presidency.

source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/20/rick-perry-in-2012-run-for-president-latest-pol-to-claim-god-s-guidance.html

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RDT: That same ol' Republican song

Ronald Reagan had an excuse. He had Alzheimer's.

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A Bachmann!

by Pablo July 22, 2011

One report Rightardia read suggested the Bachmann migraine story came out of the Tim Pawlenty campaign. 

Why would Pawlenty do this? We think Pawlenty and Bachmann are vying for the VP nomination spot. T

This is why paelnty rolled over in the New Hampshire debates after he had touted O'Bomney medical care.

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MoveOn.org indicates Obama will roll over to Tea Bagger demands

 

  Is Obama ready to roll over?

If you've been tuning out the fight in Washington over the "debt ceiling," it's time to tune in. Right now. 


The New York Times reports that President Obama and Speaker John Boehner are close to reaching a secret agreement that includes deep cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, but have no immediate plan to make millionaires and corporations pay their fair share.

This is an absolutely critical moment for MoveOn members to make an impact.

Democratic Leaders in Congress—including Minority Leader Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid—have consistently said that a lopsided deal like this is a non-starter. 

But if a backroom deal is reached, they'll be under extraordinary pressure to go along. They need to hear loud and clear from their donors, volunteers, and voters that such a deal would be completely unacceptable.

Things are moving very quickly right now, so we're joining other key progressive groups for today's Emergency Call-In Day to Demand They Stand Strong. 

Democrats in Congress need to hear that if they stand firm against any debt ceiling deal that goes after the elderly and poor, we'll have their backs.

Will you call your US senator and ask this person to make clear that he/she will not vote for a deal that cuts Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits or a deal that doesn't make corporations and the rich pay their fair share?

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Beck: "We're not a democracy . . .

Here we go again. Beck claims the US is not a democracy. The ancient Greeks defined the two forms of government that almost all countries use today

The Athenians had a democracy and the Spartans: an oligarchy.

An oligarchy can be ruled by a king or a dictator; In Sparta, it actually had two kings.

Republicans like to suggest that the US is a republic, but that is really apples and oranges.

According to Wikipedia, A republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government.

Likewise, in a republic offices of state are not granted through heritage.

The common modern definition of a republic is a government having a head of state who is not a monarch.

Steve Kangas has written:

The U.S. is a democracy -- just not a direct one. Every branch of our government -- executive, legislative, judicial, monetary -- ultimately derives its power from majority rule or approval. By making our democracy indirect instead of direct, the Founders prevented unrestrained mob rule, allowing a more reasonable pace of majority rule, and greater room for compromise.

Kangas also notes that this is a quibble over definitions, because a constitutional republic is a type of democracy.

In Beck's radio show, he also said:

Majority Rule Is Mob Rule -- Bad.

The Major listened to the audio and thought at least one of the two speakers was drunk because he noticed slurred speech. 

Perhaps more important questions are why do Republicans think the US is not a Democracy? Does the GOP think America is a plutocracy or meritocracy? 

What form of government does the GOP really want: a plutocracy run by corporations? 

Corporatism is just another word, of course, for fascism. 

This seems to be what the GOP would prefer for America: a fascist oligarchy run by corporate bosses that emphasizes the primacy of business over the needs of its citizens. 

This is exactly what Gov. Rick Scott is trying to push in Florida. 

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Newsy.com: Anonymous hackers breach NATO

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July 21, 2011(2:02)

Anonymous claims to have hacked NATO -- getting over a gigabyte of restricted documents.

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