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Agenda
1.
A letter to the President.
2.
Why you should vote.
3.
Duplication Nation.
4.
Ebola - what iyou need to know.
5.
From a loyal reader.
A LETTER
TO THE
PRESIDENT
By
Floyd Bowman,
Publisher,
"Opinions Baseed On Facts."
October
31, 2014.
Since my last
posting there have been a few developments occur relative to the first item of
OBOF 32 that has made it imperative that I write to the President.
Below is a
short reprint from last posting and then the letter I sent to the President.
GREED IS THE
FOOD
for
POWER &
CORRUPTION
by Floyd Bowman
Publisher, OBOF
October 8, 2014.
I have had a long and
difficult debate with myself as to whether I should write about this
subject. There are so many people involved,
that could be touched, and who are totally innocent. What I am going to write is based on MY PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF FACTS THAT HAVE AND
ARE OCCURRING. I make this statement because I can not give
you the information that would tell you how I obtained these facts, as that
would put some innocent people in danger.
What danger? I am not prepared to
say.
There is a United
States Senator who has been involved in politics for the past 54 years and now is the MOST POWERFUL AND CORRUPT SENATOR IN THE UNITED
STATES SENATE. IN SOME WAY'S, HE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN EVEN
THE PRESIDENT. NO LEGISLATOR FROM HIS
STATE, IN EITHER THE HOUSE OR SENATE, WILL VOTE ON ANY LEGISLATION, UNTIL HE
TELLS THEM HOW TO VOTE AND THEY CLEAR
THEIR TALKING POINTS WITH HIM ALSO. HE
IS A VERY FRIGHTENING PERSON.
He even controls
everything that happens in his State from the Governor on down. They don't vote or express any thoughts
unless he OKs it. MOST OF ALL, HE HURTS FINE PATRIOTIC CITIZENS
OF HIS STATE, THAT HE SHOULD BE HELPING.
I wrote the above
after gaining this knowledge over the past four and one half years. I don't know if this writing will do any good
or not, or if it might be a little dangerous to me, but I don't care. This man must be stopped. He is Senator Jim Inhofe (R) of Oklahoma
THE LETTER
Dear President Obama:
This will be
short. It will be factual and
provable. It is an example of the most
despicable case of undermining by the Republicans in the United State
I am a 90 year old
USMC WWII veteran and a retired Illinois
State
This company is owned
by a minority small businessman, who has been jacked around by numerous
government agencies for the past three years.
I have every reason to believe that a Republican Senator is powerful
enough to get this stopped.
My friend has now come
to the end of the road. Not only would
he appreciate an opportunity to tell you his story, but this product is one
that will save lives in the field. This
is no gimmick
I plead with you to
give this man an opportunity to tell you his story. You need to know it.
Sincerely,
Floyd A. Bowman
fab_80@cox.net (there is an _ after fab and
before 80)
PS. He has fought to keep the manufacturing of his products
and create jobs in the
~~~
WHY SHOULD YOU VOTE?
DOES YOUR VOTE COUNT?
WHY SHOULD YOU BE CONCERNED?
By
Floyd Bowman.
Publisher,
"Opinions Based On Facts."
October
31, 2014.
The right to
vote is one of the most precious rights we have in a Democracy. We should always vote when we are given that
opportunity, regardless of whether we think our vote counts or not. If a person does not vote, he/she has no
right to complain after an election.
It has been
said that there are always consequences resulting from any election. I suppose this is true to a greater or lesser
effect. Regardless of how great the
consequences of the election next Tuesday November 4, 2014, we should vote.
Now, in my opinion,
there will be a very small amount of consequences, and particularly positive
consequences, from our up coming election.
Let's see why I say that.
There is only
one result that can bring about any change in our Federal dilemma. That would be if Democrats won a filibuster
proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House of
Representatives. THAT IS ALMOST 100%
IMPOSSIBLE.
If the
Democrats maintain a majority in the Senate, but not a filibuster proof
majority and the Republicans maintain a majority in the House of
Representatives, everything stays the same as now. THERE IS A VERY HIGH LIKELY HOOD THAT THIS
MAY HAPPEN.
If the
Democrats maintain a majority in the Senate, but not a filibuster proof
majority and the Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives,
there will be changes from the House, but they will be stopped in Senate by a
filibuster.
If the
Republicans win a majority in the Senate and maintain a majority in the House
of Representatives, many legislation changes will be made and passed and sent
to the President's desk, where he will veto them and be labeled the
"Obstructionist."
REGARDLESS,
WHATEVER ONE OF THE ABOVE HAPPENS, DEFINITELY GET OUT THERE, AND VOTE.
~~~
Duplication
Nation
By Tom Coburn, MD.
US Senator, Oklahoma
Note from
Floyd:
It might be
that some of you do not know that Senator Coburn is stepping down a year early
of his term finish. It is reported that
there are two reasons for his decision to make this change.
First, he has
discovered he has Cancer and he wants to start treatment as soon as possible.
Second, he is
returning to his medical practice in order to make up for all the money he has
lost while serving in both the US
House and Senate for Oklahoma
He is the first
and only Republican I have ever voted for in my 90 years on this planet. The following is just a sample of the kind of
work he has done while in Congress. When
he ran for a seat in US House of Representatives, he said he would only serve
two terms. That is what he did. He said the same thing when he ran for a seat
in the Senate. That is what he was doing,
except, because of the above reasons, he has had to cut it one year shorter.
~
Despite the looming fiscal crisis and
near-nonexistent economic recovery, Congress continues business as usual, by
refusing to plan for the future, set priorities, or cut spending. Federal
spending is at an all-time high, and as a nation we are looking down the barrel
of record trillion-dollar deficits and a more than $16 trillion debt, more than
$53,000 per citizen.
Taxpayers are sending nearly a trillion dollars of their income to the
Treasury every year, just to watch Congress waste it on thousands of programs
that duplicate other federal, state, and private efforts and cannot demonstrate
any measure of success. Despite promises from Washington
Ignoring their responsibility to conduct oversight and determine if a given
federal program is effective, members of Congress are often beholden to special
interest groups and would rather continue funding an old program instead of
eliminating it. At the same time,
Congress will then create new programs that do the very same thing and do it
just as poorly. There's no ineffective, inefficient
program that the government can’t recreate at an even higher cost.
Thoughtful and careful legislating is a thing of the past, and instead,
Congress is in the business of creating press release programs, established not
to truly fix a problem, but simply to give the appearance of action and
concern. The result is a maze of
bureaucracy and overlap, hundreds of billions of dollars spent on thousands of
duplicative programs, and government waste and mismanagement as far as the eye
can see.
Even worse, the more we spend, the more the problems stay the same. Congress has created a program (or several in
most cases) and poured billions of dollars into these programs, to address
nearly every issue and problem faced by any individual, group, or entity across
the country. And yet, many of these
problems and challenges still exist today, as if the government never even
tried to address it.
Many of these challenges such as homelessness, poverty, education, juvenile
delinquency, drug abuse, and hundreds others, remain today—homelessness rates,
education testing, juvenile crime rates remain unchanged and unimproved,
despite decades of federal programs and billions of dollars in taxpayer funding
spent to alleviate and address these concerns.
We spend billions of dollars on hundreds of education programs, yet scores
continue to fall and dropout rates are rising.
We spend billions of dollars on housing programs, yet thousands are still
homeless.
We spend millions of dollars on dozens of job training, yet thousands are
looking for work.
It is nearly impossible fully comprehend the vast expanse of federal
programs that exist today. Although
various sources, including USA
In response, this January, the Senate passed an amendment directing the
Government Accountability Office (GAO) to annually identify federal programs,
agencies, offices, and initiatives with duplicative goals and activities, to
estimate the cost of the duplication, and to make recommendations for
consolidation and elimination of the duplication.
GAO has been working long and hard on a report, as mandated by this
provision, and early next year we hope to see the first in a series of reports
fully outlining the extensive duplication throughout the federal bureaucracy.
It will then be up to Congress to look objectively at GAO’s finding and begin
eliminating and consolidating the thousands of duplicative government programs.
Examples of Federal
Duplication
There are over 14 programs administered by the U.S.
According to GAO, to the tune of $30 billion, the federal government funds
more than 44 job training programs, administered by nine different federal
agencies across the federal bureaucracy.
The federal government administers at least 20 federal programs across 12
different federal offices and agencies, dedicated to the study of invasive
species.
There are at least 17 offender reentry programs across five different
federal agencies, costing taxpayers over $250 million annually.
A May 2007 report of the Academic Competitiveness Council revealed there
are at least 105 federal programs supporting science, technology, education,
and math education, with aggregate funding of $3.12 billion in FY 2006.
There are at least nine federal programs tasked with researching and
developing biofuels, costing taxpayers nearly $300 million annually, and over
$800 million was included in the Stimulus bill for these initiatives.
~~~
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Ebola: What you need to know
by Brad Hoppmann, Publisher, Uncommon Wisdom Daily |
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Unless you live thousands of miles away from
any human civilization, you surely have heard about Ebola. You know it’s some
sort of disease. You know it's spreading
fast. And you know it's bad.
But do you know what it
actually is?
"One of the world's deadliest diseases…"
That's according to
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, a French-founded
humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization.
"It is a highly
infectious virus that can kill up to 90% of the people who catch it, causing terror
among infected communities," they say.
And so far, there's no
vaccination against it.
What is Ebola?
Before the recent
outbreak, most people had never heard of Ebola. The disease was discovered in
1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire Ebola
River
The Ebola virus causes
viral hemorrhagic fever, which according to the U.S.
Normally, the body
recognizes a virus, such as the flu or the common cold, by the function of
dendritic cells. These cells patrol the body and alert the immune system of an
invader.
When the body knows of
an invader, it produces antibodies tailored specifically to the particular
virus. This is how the body normally
deals with infection.
When the Ebola virus
enters the blood, it immediately targets the immune system, which is
responsible for combating infections.
What makes Ebola
different and much more dangerous is its sophisticated ability to bypass the
dendritic cells undetected and shut off their "alarm system."
This leaves the immune
system clueless, and therefore no antibodies are made to combat the Ebola
virus.
Now the immune system
is completely unprotected and open to all kinds of infection.
The Ebola virus begins
to replicate like crazy, causing uncontrollable growth and infection in various
organs in the body. Cells begin to prematurely die and even explode.
Remember, from initial
exposure to death process can take anywhere from a couple days to up to 21 days
depending on certain factors.
However, in the end,
it’s not the Ebola virus that kills you. It's actually your own immune system in
the form of something called a "cytokine storm."
A cytokine storm is
essentially an SOS to your immune system. In one last desperate attack to save
the body, the immune system launches its full arsenal of weapons.
The virus takes a hit,
but the collateral damage on the body proves to be fatal.
Dr. Christopher Basler
an immunologist at the University
of Texas
Basler’s partner, Dr.
Thomas Geisbert, describes the finish:
"All these factors
combine together to reduce blood pressure to dangerous levels, so you don't die
of blood loss, but from something similar to severe septic shock."
The Current
State
The World Health
Organization warned Thursday as it announced the worldwide death toll would
pass 4,500 — including 236 health workers.
So far, the disease has
mainly affected the West African countries of Guinea ,
Liberia and Sierra Leone , but fears of a spread to the United States , Europe
and the rest of the world are quickly rising.
Only one American,
Thomas Eric Duncan, has died from the Ebola outbreak.
Two nurses who had been
involved in treating Duncan
One of those nurses,
Amber Vinson, flew halfway across the country from Texas
to Ohio
"She was being
monitored here in Dallas
"And if she was
being monitored correctly, I think she should have never gotten on that
flight."
The Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention said this in a statement:
"Because of the
proximity in time between the evening flight and first report of illness the
following morning, CDC is reaching out to passengers who flew on Frontier
Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland
Is Ebola the Next Pandemic?
In my opinion, no. At
least not yet.
The current outbreak is
for the time being contained in West Africa .
The Ebola virus spreads by human to human contact, not airborne transmission,
which would be a dire cause for concern.
Unfortunately, the
world does not seem to be as prepared as it should of been, but in no way can
this already be deemed "the next AIDS."
Right now, the only
prevention you can take against Ebola is by not traveling to an infected area.
This is a simple
solution for now, but personally, I think this creates a sense of insecurity,
because the fate of the disease rests in the hands of others and the decisions
they make.
What do you think about
Ebola? How big of a threat do you believe it really is? You can leave a comment on our website or send me an e-mail.
Publisher
Uncommon Wisdom Daily
Uncommon Wisdom Daily
~~~
FROM A
LOYAL READER
HE SAYS
IT SO WELL.
By Howell Joiner.
A loyal reader.
October 23, 2014.
Floyd , you
are one of the very few respected elders who are still around for me to look up
too. I will be 81 in December. Most of my elder friends in my church circles
have not used a thoughtful process of facts to form their opinion. They have let the likes lof Rush Limbaugh
form their opinion. All the misinformation
has led the Christian majority to pledge allegiance to a political party that
is, bound and determined to destroy our government of the people, for the
people, and by the people.
There are too many people who we have elected who
are fast moving us into the position of being governed by world corporations. When that happens our once Great United States Of America will then be known as
"The Late Great United
States Of America
I than you so much Howell. Floyd
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If the good Lord is willing and the creek don't rise, I'll talk with you again, hopefully next week.
God Bless You All
&
God Bless the United States of the United States
Floyd
