WELCOME TO OPINIONS BASED ON FACTS (OBOF)
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EXTRA II | June 01, 2012 |
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SS & MORE PART 37 EXTRA | June 07, 2012 |
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SS & MORE PART 39 | June 19, 2012 |
SS & MORE PART 40 | June 26, 2012 |
1. "THE FAB GROUP."
2. The Supreme Court, it has changed.
3. Is Affirmative Action next.
4. Court decision on Affordable Care Act.
5. What is the true meaning of Patrotism.
6. Parting Thought.
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"VOTE, AN EDUCATED VOTE"
What is an educated vote? It is one that has been made with as much knowledge, based on facts, not misinformation, that an individual can obtain.
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"THE FAB GROUP"
What is "THE FAB GROUP?" Very simply, it is a group of short news items that provide more varied amounts of news, which I think we all will be interested in, without long detailed commentary. More news - less reading.
Why "FAB?" My name is Floyd Austin Bowman - (FAB), and these are a goup of items that I have choosen, thus "THE FAB GROUP," pronounced "FAB."
34 Lawmakers Changed Their Investments after Receiving Private Briefings About 2008 Economic Crisis
Pat Garofalo, News Analysis:
After speaking with Paulson, Boehner shifted $50,000 to $100,000 out of a risky mutual fund, and spent tens of thousands of dollars more on a less-risky fund. Other lawmakers who were making investment decisions after receiving private information at the time included Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE). The lawmakers contend that their investments are overseen by outside advisers and that the private information had no bearing on their portfolio moves.
Class of 2012, Greetings!
It’s a deceptively glorious day, even under this tent in the broiling heat of an August-style afternoon in mid-June on this northeastern campus. Another local temperature record is being set: 98 degrees. And yes, let’s admit it, the heat, the sun, the clearness of the azure blue sky stretching without a cloud to the horizon, the sense of summer descending with a passion, it’s not quite as reassuring as it might once have been, is it?
I suspect that few of you, readying yourselves to leave this campus, many mortgaged to your eyeballs (some for life no matter what you do), and heading into a country on edge, imagine personal clear skies to the horizon.
And while we’re admitting things, let’s admit something else about the heat today, as you bake under your graduation gowns: whether or not you have the figures at your fingertips, whether or not you know the details, who doesn’t sense that this planet is on edge, too? I mean, here you are, the class of 2012, and like the classes of 2011, 2010, and so on, you are surely going to spend your first months out of college enduring one of history's top ten heat years.
ROBIN HOOD'S
Economic Justice
by Leo Gerard
Robin Hood popped up all across America
Another felt-hatted group demonstrated in Washington D.C. during J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's testimony about why his bank shouldn’t submit to regulation even after flushing $2 billion down the toilet. The biggest band of Robin Hoods appeared on dollar bills -- a pointy hat drawn on George's head and the words “Robin Hood tax” written below.
The American Robin Hoods are seeking economic justice. They want Congress to resurrect the financial transactions tax. This is the Robin Hood tax, a tiny levy on the sale of stuff like stocks, bonds, derivatives, futures and credit default swaps. It packs two benefits in one tax. It would give the government cash to offset the cost of the Wall Street-caused recession. And it would suppress the high-risk, high-speed trading that caused the crash. Britain, home of Robin Hood, already charges a form of it. Ten European Union countries plan to institute it. America
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THE SUPREME COURT,
IT
HAS CHANGED.
by Floyd
What has happened to the highest court in the land? That, of course, is the Federal Supreme Court, to which I am referring. Today, June 25, 2012, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling prohibiting States from passing laws contradictory to Federal law.
For example, the specific law, being referred to today, is one that was passed in 1912 in the State of Montana Montana
It seems to me, that this action, which is the second step of the Citizens United ruling, which, you may recall, opened the floodgate for corporate money in politics, is more damaging than the first ruling. As Ed Schultz said tonight, "We lost a bit of America
Will Affirmative Action Go Next?
The following is part of an article by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, published in The New American Media News Report on Monday June 25, 2012
......Next up is affirmative action. Expect the court to use the suit by a former Texas white student against the University of Texas
The court’s sharp upturn in the sheer number of conservative decisions tells the real story of the majority’s naked political activism.
In the first five years under the watch of Chief Justice Roberts, the court issued conservative decisions in nearly 60 percent of the cases, an unusually large number of them by a 5-4 split.
And in the term that ended the year after Obama took office in 2009, the percentage of conservative decisions shot up to 65 percent. This is the largest number of overtly conservative political decisions in over a half-century. There’s no sign that that the court’s conservative rampage will change.
The health care reform law, if it is overturned, would be the court conservative’s political coup de grace. It would come in the heat of what will be an intensely close White House race and will earmark yet another big political gift to the GOP. With that and its other decisions, it has done everything it could to bend the law for its blatant political ends.
by Floyd
The Supreme Court is suppose to determine constitutionality of an issue, not legislate from the bench. It not only opened the floodgate for money, it has become a PAC ,in itself, in terms of providing, as Hutchinson
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COURT DECISION ON
"AFFORDABLE CARE ACT"
by Floyd
It is reported that the Supreme Court will hand down a decision on the Affordable Care Act on Thursday. It is also, reported that they could even wait until after the November election; who knows? Maybe the Court doesn't even know. They probably have to figure out what would be the best for the Conservative Republicans.
If they declare the "Mandate to carry health insurance" unconstitutional, they just as well declare the entire Act unconstitutional, as it cannot function without the finances from that section of the Act. This is a crucial decision that will affect millions and millions of people.
The next President may very well have the opportunity to appoint two new members to the Court. This makes the November election even more important. If President Obama is re-elected, he may have the chance to even-out the look of the court, somewhat.
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Excluding Outsiders or Coming Together for the Common Good: What’s the True Meaning of
Patriotism?
by Robert Reich
Recently I publicly debated a regressive Republican who said Arizona America
To my debating partner and other regressives, patriotism is about securing the nation from outsiders eager to overrun us. That’s why they also want to restore every dollar of the $500 billion in defense cuts scheduled to start in January.
Yet many of these same regressives have no interest in preserving or protecting our system of government. To the contrary, they show every sign of wanting to be rid of it.
In fact, regressives in Congress have substituted partisanship for patriotism, placing party loyalty above loyalty to America
The GOP’s highest-ranking member of Congress has said his “number one aim” is to unseat President Obama. For more than three years congressional Republicans have marched in lockstep, determined to do just that. They have brooked no compromise.
They couldn’t care less if they mangle our government in pursuit of their partisan aims. Senate Republicans have used the filibuster more frequently in this Congress than in any congress in history.
House Republicans have been willing to shut down the government and even risk the full faith and credit of the United States
Regressives on the Supreme Court have opened the floodgates to unlimited money from billionaires and corporations, overwhelming our democracy, on the bizarre theory that money is speech under the First Amendment and corporations are people.
Regressive Republicans in Congress won’t even support legislation requiring the sources of this money-gusher be disclosed.
They’ve even signed a pledge – not of allegiance to the United States
True patriots don’t hate the government of the United States U.S.
But regressive Republicans loathe the government – and are doing everything they can to paralyze it, starve it, and make the public so cynical about it that it’s no longer capable of doing much of anything. Tea Partiers are out to gut it entirely. Norquist says he wants to shrink it down to a size it can be “drowned in a bathtub.”
When arguing against paying their fair share of taxes, wealthy regressives claim “it’s my money.” But it’s their nation, too. And unless they pay their share America America
So when regressives talk about “preserving and protecting” the nation, be warned: They mean securing our borders, not securing our society. Within those borders, each of us is on our own. They don’t want a government that actively works for all our citizens.
Their patriotism is not about coming together for the common good. It is about excluding outsiders who they see as our common adversaries.
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PARTING THOUGHT
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
by Albert Camus.
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If the good Lord is willing and the creek don't rise, I'll talk with you again on or before July 3, 2012. Till then:
GOD BLESS YOU ALL
&
GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Floyd
