Showing posts with label HHS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HHS. Show all posts

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Headlines


‘Trumpy politics’ leave a permanent imprint on GOP

Weekly jobless claims climb by more than 1 million for 17th straight week

DOJ announces terrorism charges in nationwide gang crackdown

North Carolina City Council [Ashville] votes in favor of reparations

U.K.: Russian hackers attempted to steal coronavirus vaccine research

Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC to HHS

Dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts hacked, including Joe Biden

Trump replaces campaign manager Brad Parscale with Bill Stepien

China summons U.S. ambassador to discuss ‘bullying’

Homebuilder sentiment jumps back to pre-coronavirus pandemic high

President Trump may intervene in case of armed St. Louis couple who defended home

Quinnipiac poll: Biden takes double digit national lead over Trump

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Headlines


Schiff: Supporters of rule of law ‘nauseated’ at Trump letting Roger Stone go free

Florida reports more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, shattering record

Coronavirus expert predicts Americans will be wearing masks ‘for several years’

Mitt Romney on Trump commuting Stone’s sentence: ‘Historic corruption’

HHS testing chief: We do expect deaths to go up

Election officials fear voting changes will confuse voters in November

Trump, Pence both have higher favorability ratings than Congressional leaders

Rifle seized from St. Louis couple who defended home with guns

Iran blames errors for [Ukrainian] jet shoot down

Mueller speaks out on Stone clemency: ‘He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so’

Portland is a war zone: Driver shoots his way out of danger as rioters surrounded car

PA Democrat calls to remove Gettysburg‘s Confederate statues

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Headlines


Health officials bearish on administration effort to open economy by May

Coronavirus live updates: NYC sees negative ICU admissions, HHS begins $30 billion in aid

Debt tops $24 trillion ...

Report: Donald Trump pressing to reopen country by May 1

Fauci: Coronavirus immunity cards for Americans are ‘being discussed’

Mexico throws OPEC’s historic oil production cut in doubt ahead of G-20 meeting

Poop study reveals virus cases undercounted ... Traces found in wastewater at high levels ...

Coronavirus crashes prices for hotels, rental cars and women’s dresses

Barr backs Trump on firing of Intel IG, calls Russian investigation baseless

Trump administration pays out $26 billion in relief funds to hospitals Friday

Antibody test in German town reveals 15% infection rate ...

WHO launches $1.5 billion global funding appeal

Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Headlines


State lawmakers pushing for laxer vaccine rules despite measles outbreaks

Trump says strong US dollar, rate hikes are hurting economy

Trump proposed wealth tax in 1999 ...

Democrats prepare Congressional hearings over Trump saying ‘fake news’

Ignoring warnings: HHS is advocating for detrimental [drug] price controls

The India-Pakistan crisis deserves our ‘urgent attention’

Trump marathon: Longest speech of presendency [at CPAC] ...

Report: Rashida Tiag paid herself $17, 500 in campaign funds

Trump demands removal of China’s agricultural tariffs

Irish PM sees Brexit extension till June ‘very likely’

NYPD: Murders, rapes soaring in NYC ...

[David] Brooks: Trump deserves ‘fair amount of credit’ on N. Korea

Monday, March 04, 2019

Headlines


Deficit-swelling Trump White House plans to use deficit against Democrats

SpaceX launches unmanned capsule to the space station in milestone test for NASA astronauts

For first time in 132 years, L.A. never reached 70 degrees in February

Poll: Only 38% found MichaelCohen’s testimony creditable

Republicans pound abortion ‘infanticide’ issue

Trump says he’s asked China to ‘immediately’ remove all tariffs on US agricultural goods

HHS extends contract to make ‘humanized mice’ out of aborted baby parts ...

Democrats ready to introduce ‘dream act’ — amnesty for millions

Chelsea Manning fights grand jury subpoena linked to Assange

Most global finance chiefs predict ‘no-deal’ Brexit will happen: CNBC survey

Prince Harry ‘will raise baby gender fluid’ ...

Sharpton: Patton was a ‘prop’ that ‘was not allowed to speak’

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

The Heavy Hand of Government


If you can't trust the government, then whom can you trust? Well, apparently NOAA's reputation as an impartial observer of global warming has once again taking a hit as it has been revealed that, over the last two years, it has been revising down older recorded temperature data from Maine in order to make it look like things have been warming up there ... and in the rest of the country ... when in fact they haven't. John Hinderaker of Powerline has just pointed this out in his recent blog posting ... see: Powerline Blog Entry for all the sordid details.

This fast and loose revisionism is about as smarmy as a supposed "scientific" government agency can possibly become. I realize that such malfeasance might get them in good with the current Democrat administration ... but, longer term, this can't be good. I suggest that this agency now is vying with the IRS, the State Department, HHS, the Secret Service, the EPA, the White House, the VA, the CDC, NSA, and the TSA for this year's Heavy Hand of Government medal ... an award which I just coined.

Perhaps we could have an annual ceremony for the winner ... with all the hoopla of Oscar Night? With Al Gore or Michael Moore as its Master of Ceremonies?

Saturday, July 12, 2014

The Solution


Our federal government seems to be having problems finding homes for the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants that have conveniently flooded over the Mexican border recently. Seeing that most of them may never return to their Central American domiciles, I think I may have stumbled upon a solution to this relocation problem …

Send all of their HHS buses to Detroit. (It might already be starting … see: Breitbart Story). If these “refugees” really want to make a place for themselves in the United States, they might start by helping to rebuild this crumbling bastion of liberal politics.

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Freedom of the Depressed

















The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has quietly become a propaganda ministry of the Obama administration … spoon-feeding information to reporters and Congressional visitors to the camps housing this new wave of illegal immigrants. But what is depressingly outrageous is a series of restriction it imposes on them before they are allowed into these facilities, viz: 
- No recording devices will be allowed
- No questions will be allowed during the tour
- No interacting with staff and children at the shelter
- We ask that your questions be provided via email or phone after the tour to Kenneth Wolfe
- HHS ACF public affairs will provide answers to your follow up questions as quickly as    possible- We will provide photos of the facility after the tour
- There will be no on-site interviews by HHS staff before or after the tour, all inquiries go to  Kenneth Wolfe 
 These constraints are clearly in violation of the first amendment of our Constitution and the fact that most reporters and Congressmen have abided by them is discouraging beyond expression. Yes, Representative Jim Bridenstine (R., Okla.) has objected but, in my opinion, not strenuously enough. Just the fact that these visits need to be scheduled days in advance indicates the degree to which HHS is trying to stifle the information flow out of these camps … see: National Review Story. How about a little civil disobedience … anyone?

Two weeks ago I asked a series of questions about this situation that I thought needed answers … see: Death Trains. Has anyone seen even a semblance of reportage on these issues in the main stream media? This is the real tragedy that is occurring surrounding this immigration influx ... along with the fact that there is anyone defending this BS. Here is the text of the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights in our Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
In their naivete the framers of the Constitution neglected to include the Executive branch in this restrictive covenant … because of their dewy-eyed assumption that this branch was only to administer (faithfully) the laws passed by Congress. In six short years we have seen this assumption knocked into a cocked hat.

I greatly fear that we are approaching a Constitutional crisis … if not already there.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

In the Weeds


There is a popular media putdown for anyone who tries to explain anything more complicated than how to take an aspirin.  This goes something like "you're too far in the weeds on this."  In other words, "the American public is too stupid (or distracted) to understand the details of what you are trying to say."  And so, the viewers or listeners seldom get the real story beyond the superficials on any issue.  And to continue the thought on my previous blog (A Master Politician) ... politicians have come to rely on this tropism and convolute their messages so as to win the soundbite contest.  A perfect example of this trend is the current back and forth between religious freedom and HHS Secretary Sibelius's edict on medical-insurance coverages.  I won't go into the weeds on this issue, but you decide which message is directed to a dumbed-down American electorate.

Apparently this was not the case when Ross Perot was running for President in 1992.  He could pull out his many financial charts on the Larry King Live show and expound for an hour on how the United States was going down the tubes.  And we listened to him ... and, if he had not gone a little paranoid toward the end of his candidacy, we might well have elected him.  What has changed?  I wish I was smart enough to figure out this conundrum.  But, if I could, I doubt if many would stick around long enough to read my analysis.