I decided to turn on
Katie Kuric and her first guest was this woman addressing sexual assaults in
the US Armed Forces. She wants one of
two bills now in congress on the subject of sexual assault reform, passed. One by a lady Missouri Senator (who just got
elected last year) wants to keep the decision to press sexual assault charges
in the hands of the commanding officer.
The only provision here is if the verdict is guilty, the commanding
officer would not be able to unilaterally overturn the decision. The other bill has broad support even from
such Senators as Ron Paul. This states
that some sort of outside prosecuter should be the one to bring rape or other
sexual assault charges in the military.
The thing is that commanding officers have a bias that they should not have. I wouldn't be biased were it me in command. I would hold to the philosophy that any officer on officer - or whatever - - sexual assault - - undermines the moral in the military hurting unit cohesion, after all you have to face these people the next morning and continue to work with them. But commanding officers like High School football coaches in the Midwest- - seem to have "teacher's pets" who can do no wrong, because maybe they are a hero and have already completed a tour of duty in a combat zone. They say that there are 26,000 such sexual assault charges brought each
year. Only a minority are even reported
and only a minority of those are ever pressed forward. This is the case even though the incidence of
sexual assault is continually rising, no doubt due to the increased presence of
women working alongside men in the military.
Clearly this is an issue that should have been already addressed. If the defense secretary says there should be
a “Zero tolerance policy” tword rape, I don’t see how any commanding officer
could rationalize NOT prosecuting every charge of any substance.
I have a little solution to "bend the cost curve" on Health Insurance. We are told that mal practice insurance eats into a physician's cost of "doing business". The solution is simple. Make mal practice insurance illegal. Period. After all an average citizen can't buy "police arrest" insurance to say all you need to do is flash a membership card and get a free pass as far as the law is concerned. Some want to "solve' this problem by taking away a citizen's right to sue in our legal system. By the way I would also forbid any contract which in the fine print takes away a patient's right to sue. These should always be illegal. But when you think about it, insurance companies are in the business of making money. If the mal practice business is as great as they say it is- - then these Mal practice insurance companies should be making a bundle. This could be plowed back into the health care expense for patients. However just to even things up- - I would also say that "failure to test for the improbable" is not legal grounds for a lawsuit. Lawsuits should be limited to just that- - wrong practice. Not a "failure to be psychic. Needless medical tests drive up medical costs, and frankly - patients should realize that "diseases happen". I want to see a cause and effect link between what the doctor or hospital does- in terms of treatment- - before I would say legal suits are in order.
The tea party
hysterical freaks are at it again. You
heard how upset they got when the roomer got going that President Obama never
spoke the words “under God” in the pledge of allegence, even there was ample video
footage of him doing just that. Now they
are saying that President Obama left out the words “under God” in a reading of
the Gettysburg Address doing some album of speeches. There happen to be five different versions of
the Gettysburg address, which I sure didn’t know till today. (Just think of how many versions of the Bible
there are) Two of these versions, the
earliest two, lacked the words “under God”.
Then supposedly President Lincoln actually visited the battlefield, and
then changed his mind. The other example
of a forced misunderstanding is in labeling the Bible as fiction in Cosco
stores. I thought that was hilarious. But clearly it was a mistake and the guy that
did it “Loves the Lord”.
Shirley Mc Lane had the
next segment and she says that none of the Hollywood rat pack like Dean Martin
or Jerry Lewis or Frank Sinatra ever hit on her. They probably regarded her as some kind of a
freak. Of course she still believes in
past lives, and believes that space aliens come in three different types. I have no comment about that. Mc Lane stated that Elvis Presley was “really
sweet” and it wasn’t just because the Colonel told him to be respectful to his
seniors. I believe that. The respect was genuine because it is part of
his make-up.
There is no Black equivalent
of the KKK, Mario reminds us this morning.
No Black is out there saying that “Africans are the master race”. Ditto with the Latinos. Of course as we mentioned a while back- -
being Black is celebrating one’s ethnicity.
However the term “white” should not be capitalized because it is NOT a
race but a “state of mind”. In this case,
it is organized hatred. Like Born Again
Christians, it’s kind of a case of “If you feel as though you are one of them -
- then you Are”. Minority races are
interested not in some kind of racial hegemony but rather- - of securing their
basic rights. So often these interests
are economic involving hiring and firing and selling and buying and the like- and
aren’t “ethnic” at all. Needless to say,
but it bears repeating- - these are by no way “Racist” goals, as whites have.
The weather is chilly
and will be turning colder, with rain and snow.
And they still haven’t turned on the heat anywhere in this
building. Enough of the deep freeze
already. But late in the afternoon [BLANK] promised us that he would throw a party for us with pizzas and sodas
and cigarettes, with the money he has collected from all the soda cans we’ve
been depositing for countless months. He
promised us the same thing a number of years ago, and nothing came of it. Glen isn’t answering his door- when I tried
to get coffee. The radio was playing
loudly in the room. We had baked chicken
tonight for dinner and some kind of whipped sweet potatoes, and corn, with red
Jell-O for desert- - and no seconds.
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