Opinions Based on Facts: May 2013

WELCOME TO OPINIONS BASED ON FACTS (OBOF)

THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED (TYMHM)

YEAR THREE

Name	Published
OVERVIEW
OBOF & TYMHM PART 14	Dec 18, 2012
OBOF & TYMHM PART 15	Jan. 02, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 16	Jan. 08, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 16 EXTRA	Jan. 11, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 17	Jan. 15, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 18	Jan. 22, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 19	Jan. 29, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 20	Feb. 05, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 21	Feb. 14, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 22	Feb. 20, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 23	Feb. 27, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 23 SPECIAL	Mar. 06, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 24	Mar. 07, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 25	Mar. 12, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 25-EXTRA	Mar. 14, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 26	Mar. 19, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 27	Mar. 26, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 28	Apr. 02, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 29	Apr. 08, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 30	Apr. 17, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 31	Apr. 23, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 32	Apr. 30, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 33	May 07, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 34	May 18, 2013
OBOF & TYMHM PART 35	May 21, 2013

IN THIS ISSUE

1. Introduction.

2. Unbelievable true story. Second installment.

3. Colorado Governor stand with the voters.

4. Friends of Senator Bernie Sanders.

5. GOP trying for fact to bring up impeachment.

6. I simply cannot understand the way people act.

7. The cancer on Capitalism.

INTRODUCTION

Last week, I started with a TRUE STORY. It is covering a period of about 3 1/2 years and I said that I would tell it in installments. Each week I am going to print the previous installments, but they will be printed in GREEN. By doing that, anyone who has not seen the previous installments will have them and can catch up if they are in a mind too. At the same time anyone of you who have read the previous installments will not have to read it all over again and can just read the new installment. The new installments will always be in BLACK and labeled as such.

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A TRULY UNBELIEVABLE

TRUE STORY

By Floyd Bowman

Publisher "Opinions Based On Facts."

May 7, 2013

PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT 5-07-13

I am going to attempt to tell you a story that is taking place right now and I am involved in it. The entire story is complicated and covers a period of the past 3-1/2 years. It will have to be told in a number of installments. At this time, I am just going to give you a basic idea as to what it is about. I am going to ask you to take my word for the facts that I provide cause I know they are facts by being involved.

This involves the acquisition of an item by the U. S. Military from an individual that has invented and patented it. It is an item that saves equipment, precious time, and most important, will save lives in combat.

This individual is a very honest, patriotic, and unpretentious person from Owasso, Oklahoma. He is my neighbor and I have known him for more than 23 years. He has had lucrative offers to buy his patent and they wanted to have it made in China. He will not have it built anywhere, except in the USA.

He has been having this item produced and has been selling it at Farm & Ranch shows. It has been accepted very well. When he started to approach the Military he had to make one that was much larger than what was for domestic use. His first showing was before a group of about 35 Military Engineers. When he got done he received a standing ovation.

What this man has gone through with the government is just unreal. They are suppose to be pushing and helping small businesses, but you would never know it by the treatment he has received.

Next week, I am going to start at the beginning and how this invention came about.

THE REASON FOR WRITING ABOUT THIS.

At the beginning, I said I was going to attempt to write this story. It has become so involved, so much runaround, so much misinformation, and so deceptive that I am very upset about it. It is my hope that by writing this in my blog, someone, someday may pick up on it and say "This has to stop." And maybe, just maybe that someone might be a person that can do something about the mistreatment this man has received.

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THIS WEEK'S INSTALLMENT - 4-14-13

I am starting at the beginning this week. That is always a good way to start. First, a little bit about this man. We will call him Jack. (I am not going to use person names throughout, so I won't get anyone in any trouble.)

Jack was 58 when he first got this idea. Jack attended Oklahoma State University and has a Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree in Science. He is an accomplished mechanic with a background in heavy earth moving equipment operation and repair. He and his wife have two real fine boys, 18, and 21. One day in August 2010, he and the boys had been out boating.

They were on their way home from the lake and Jack got quiet. The boys asked him if he was all right? He just answered them, yes, but that was all. This idea had just came into his head.

When they got home, Jack went out to his shop immediately and made the first prototype of the unit.

The above writing of this installment, was done before I fell and broke my leg. Unfortunately, I am just not up to writing the rest of this installment at this time. I will pick it up next week.

I THAN ALL OF YOU FOR YOU UNDERSTANDING.

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GOVERNOR STANDS UP FOR VOTERS.

WHERE? IN COLORADO.

Floyd,

BREAKING: Colorado’s Democratic governor John Hickenlooper just signed a bill that will enfranchise more voters and make it easier to vote in his state.

Making it easier for eligible citizens to vote – now that’s a novel concept!

Republicans hate this idea, of course. They know that the more people who vote, the worse Republicans’ chances are to get elected.

Sign your name to thank Governor Hickenlooper for protecting democracy and encouraging more people to vote.

The Colorado bill allows same-day registration and requires the state to send every eligible voter a ballot by mail. Voters may still choose to vote in person, but they will also have the option to vote by mail or at any number of voting centers – not just a single designated precinct.

The Colorado bill follows measures by Democratic governors to expand ballot access in states like Delaware and Maryland, which recently expanded early voting and approved same-day registration during early voting periods.

Let’s show Governor Hickenlooper our appreciation.

Thank Governor Hickenlooper for signing one of the most progressive voting bills in the country.

This is just one battle won in a larger war on voting. Unfortunately, these positive efforts stand in contrast to Republican governors’ attempts to restrict voting in their states. Let’s celebrate this victory and continue the fight to protect every citizen’s right to vote.

Sincerely,

Danny Kanner
Democratic Governors Association

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Dear Floyd,

The great struggle of our time is to prevent the United States from becoming an oligarchic form of society in which the economic and political life of the nation is controlled by a few extraordinarily wealthy families -- including the Koch brothers who are worth over $50 billion.

Fact: The Koch brothers spent up to $400 million in the 2012 elections attempting to elect right-wing candidates to the White House, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House and governorships. Those efforts will continue in the future.

Fact: The Koch brothers have established or funded dozens of right-wing organizations dedicated to providing huge tax breaks to the rich and multi-national corporations, destroying trade unions and workers’ rights, privatizing Social Security and Medicare and making massive cuts to programs of vital importance to the middle class and working families. Those efforts will continue in the future.

Fact: The Koch brothers, who have made their fortune in the fossil fuel industry, are strongly supporting a massive disinformation campaign to deny the reality of the planetary crisis of global warming. Those efforts will continue in the future.

And now, the Koch brothers want to expand their power by taking over the Tribune Newspaper chain -- the nation’s second largest newspaper publisher. The Tribune Company chain includes such newspapers as the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Hartford Courant, the Orlando Sentinel, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Baltimore Sun, the Daily Press and The Morning Call -- among other papers.

We must not allow that to happen. Please join 65,000 other Americans in urging the Tribune Company not to sell their newspapers to the Koch brothers. Enough is enough!

Senator Bernie Sanders

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Watergate Revenge: Republicans Yearning To Impeach Obama Over Benghazi ‘Cover-Up’

Joe Conason

May 8th, 2013

Less than four months after Barack Obama’s inauguration, the right-wing propaganda machine is already promoting the only imaginable conclusion to a Democratic administration that dares to achieve a second term: impeachment. Once confined to the ranks of the birthers, the fantasy of removing President Obama from office is starting to fester in supposedly saner minds.

Certainly impeachment is on the mind of Mike Huckabee, the Fox News commentator who — as a former governor of Arkansas and political antagonist of Bill Clinton – can be expected to know something about the subject. On Monday, he predicted that the president will be forced from office before the end of his term by the controversy over the Benghazi consulate attack last September. According to Huckabee, while the Watergate scandal was “bad,” Benghazi is worse because four Americans died there, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

The proximate cause for impeaching Obama, he suggested, is the “cover-up” of the facts concerning Benghazi. Moreover, he said, if the Democrats “try to protect the president and their party, and do so at the expense of the truth, they will go down.” When “the facts come out,” predicted Huckabee, “something will start” and ultimately the Democrats will lose “the right to govern.”

Presumably Huckabee believes impeachment would be easier than winning a national election. He isn’t alone in ruminating on the removal of a president who just won re-election last November — not on Fox News, anyway. (The ever-crafty Huck hedged by noting, however, that none of this will come to pass if Democrats win the midterm elections next year.)

Meanwhile, former UN ambassador John Bolton, whose cranky pronouncements continue to embarrass responsible conservatives, upped the ante by confiding what Huckabee left out – namely, that like every desperate Republican, he yearns for a Benghazi scandal that will stick. If there was no cover-up, Bolton insisted with characteristically twisted logic, that would prove Obama (the president who dispatched Osama bin Laden) simply doesn’t understand the ongoing threat from al Qaeda. “If it was merely a political cover-up,” he noted with satisfaction, “then there can be a political cost to pay.”

No doubt both Bolton and Huckabee — not to mention Rep. Darrell Issa, whose House Government Reform Committee maintains an ongoing Benghazi probe — plan to charge that cost not only to Obama but to a certain woman who now leads every 2016 presidential poll.

The meager substance of the “cover-up” canard was debunked months ago – and to date nothing has emerged to change those facts. (Indeed, even some of the most gullible denizens of Fox Nation have rejected the attempted frame-up lately.) Were the Republicans interested in constructive change rather than invented conspiracies, they might consult the Benghazi testimony of former general David Petraeus and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as the unvarnished report by former ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Mike Mullen.

But defending American diplomats and promoting American prestige are both foreign to the Republican agenda, which is concerned with nothing more elevated than partisan power.

With his far-fetched comparison to Richard Nixon’s disgrace, Huckabee helpfully unveiled a flashing neon clue to GOP psychopathology. The desire for revenge over Watergate, a Republican obsession for decades, was the underlying motivation for the outlandish Whitewater investigations that targeted the Clintons almost 20 years ago. Now, as the Obama presidency continues, America’s political predicament increasingly resembles the worst moments of that era, when the furious derangement that grips the opposition began to emerge in full.

For years we have seen the same campaign to demonize the president, the same systematic obstruction, the same refusal to accept a democratic verdict – and now the same urge to invent high crimes and misdemeanors. The only difference is that the timetable for impeachment – which didn’t commence for Clinton until the end of 1997 — appears to be accelerating.

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I JUST SIMPLY

CANNOT UNDERSTAND

HOW SOME PEOPLE

CAN DO WHAT THEY DO.

By Floyd Bowman

Publisher "Opinions Based On Facts"

May 22, 2013

I came across the following somewhere and I failed to get all the info. as to who wrote it. Now, if you are not a lover of wild life or animals who are considered by some as being dumb animals, then this article will not appeal to you. I am not one of those. I do all that I can for any animal along side the road that is having a problem and if I had money I would do a lot more.

These animals hurt, get frightened just like we do and they do not deserve to be treated like Bentley. People that raise animals just to see them fight another animal to the death is murder and they should be punished accordingly.

Try to give whatever you can to the ASPDCA. They do tremendous work and deserve out support. Now I don't know the full name or address, but any vet. could give it to you. THERE ARE A LOT OF BENTLEYS OUT THERE. LETS HOPE WE CAN FIND THEM AND GIVE THEM THE TREATMENT THEY NEED.

By the time Bentley arrived at ASPCA Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital, he was barely hanging on to life. A devastating kick to the head had left him with a dangerous brain hemorrhage, broken jaw, and a broken skull, threatening to destroy his tiny brain stem. He could barely stand or move his legs.

Bentley wasn't likely to survive the next few days, and even if he did, his chances of walking again were very slim. Even worse, emergency surgery would be too dangerous for him.

Still, we knew ASPCA veterinarians were his best hope.

Any sudden movements could have killed Bentley in those early days. ASPCA veterinarians provided critical head trauma care, medications to reduce fluid build-up in his brain, and comprehensive pain management—hoping against hope to see improvement. All the while, hospital staff tended to him round-the-clock—bathing and cleaning him every few hours to prevent pressure sores, providing physical therapy to his lifeless legs, monitoring his vital signs, hand-feeding him since he couldn't move his neck—and slowly earning his trust.

That wasn't easy, as Bentley sometimes recoiled in fear when people approached him. That's not how a one-year-old Shih Tzu should have to see the world, but we understood. ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement Agents rescued Bentley after receiving a call that a dog had been severely beaten.

Veterinarians saw that Bentley was a fighter. He survived those initial days. Then the first two weeks. As soon as he could, Bentley began lifting his neck and wagging his tail to greet staffers. And one day, Bentley began to regain use of his legs.

Veterinarians knew that what Bentley needed most was a loving home environment to complete his rehabilitation. Eventually, he found a devoted foster family who adopted him as soon as possible. Now he is showered with love. He attends doggy daycare. He has a brother named Cloudy, also rescued from cruelty by the ASPCA. Against the odds, he's a normal, social dog, and he couldn't be happier.

Today, after an ASPCA investigation, the man who kicked Bentley is facing criminal charges.

Bentley is just one of so many dogs the ASPCA rescues from cruelty each year. No dog deserves what he's been through. Please join us in being a force against cruelty by making a gift today.

THE CANCER OF CAPITALISM.

Just a quick note about this article. It will have to be written up better.

I felt that it was a good article about what today's capitalism is doing to our country. However, it contained a lot of statistics and information that was not verified in anyway by reference. Since I can't tell you that it was factual I am not going to post it.

However, there was one comment at the end that I thought was worthy of passing on. It follows for whatever it is worth to you.

"Something else that is a symptom of the malignancy called capitalism is the move away from being a country of laws to a country of individuals too important to prosecute and companies too big to fail.

Since the pardon of Richard Nixon on the pretense that it would harm the country to prosecutte him for his crimes we have moved steadily away from the concept of equality before the law. Reagan with his Iran Contra scandal that gave North a free pass on a technicality to GWB and torture and illegal invasions we have gradually moved to a country where the law applies to individuals based on wealth or influence not on equality before the law. I am not saying the wealthy and influential did not always have an advantage, but they at least had to face prosecution and use their advantage. Today their crimes are just ignored.

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I the good Lord is willing and the creek don't rise, I'll try hard to get back with you next Tuesday May 28,2013.

God Bless All of You

God Bless the United States of America

Floyd

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