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The Right Prescription
We’d Like to Know a Little Bit About You for Our Files
A new HHS regulation will create a government database of your private health information.
While armies of attorneys battle the Justice Department over Obamacare’s constitutionality, and politicians hold forth about their strategies for repealing and replacing the unpopular law, bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been working around the clock to assure that the President’s “signature domestic achievement” becomes a permanent fixture of your life. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her accomplice Donald Berwick have been promulgating regulations as quickly as their minions can get them written. The most recent fruit of their combined labor has emerged from the bowels of the bureaucracy in the form of a “proposed rule” that, if permitted to stand, will profoundly change your relationship with government and eliminate what vestiges of personal privacy you still enjoy.
The new regulation, a copy of which can be found here if you have the intestinal fortitude to wade through 27 pages of excruciating bureaucratese, requires insurance companies to submit detailed health information about their patients to the HHS mother ship. And the “information collection requirements” (ICRs) set forth in this Byzantine edict will not be limited to federal programs like Medicare, or even to carriers involved in Obamacare’s insurance exchanges. As the rule matter-of-factly phrases it, ICRs will apply to “all health insurance issuers both inside and outside of the exchanges” and affect carriers “in the individual and small group markets.” The new regulation includes several alternatives for gathering and reporting your health data, but opting out is not among the choices offered.
In fact, some members of Congress are concerned that the apparatchiks of HHS have already begun moving forward with their data collection project before properly completing the required public comment process that must precede implementation of federal regulations. Congressman Denny Rehberg, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services and Education, wrote to Secretary Sebelius last Thursday asking about this: “I have been told that HHS has already procured a contractor to build a database and that this contractor has already taken steps to acquire personal health care data from a large claims database. I would like to know if these reports are, in fact, true. If so, it would represent an egregious violation of the privacy rights that the American public rightfully demands.”
On the same day Rep. Rehberg’s letter went out, several GOP congressmen held a news conference and demanded that HHS cease work on its patient database. The group emphasized patient confidentiality. Congressman Tim Huelskamp put it as follows: “There are major problems here.… The first is the threat to patient privacy… we have plenty of evidence that the government is ill-suited to handle large amounts of data and keep it secret.” Indeed we do. Just this fall, in fact, HHS contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) breached the privacy of five million patients. Nor can we derive much comfort from the assurance, on page 12 of the rule, that the bureaucrats are now cognizant of “concerns related to consumer privacy.” HHS learned so much from this error that it just awarded SAIC another $15 million contract.
The most ironic feature of this blunder, and the failure to learn from it, is that HHS is the federal agency charged with enforcing health privacy regulations in the private sector. Yes, this is the government agency that supposedly assures that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), whose primary provisions protect patient privacy, is followed to the letter by health care providers. And HHS routinely metes out punishment to hospitals and other entities that inadvertently lose patient data. Earlier this year, for example, it fined Massachusetts General Hospital $1 million because an employee lost 192 patient records on a commuter train. Nonetheless, the department has repeatedly demonstrated that it is incapable of living up to its own standards. The SAIC screw-up was by no means an isolated incident.
Not to worry, says Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) Steve Larsen: “Protecting an individual’s personal health information continues to be among CMS’s highest priorities.” CMS and CCIIO fall under the aegis of HHS, of course, and it is to Mr. Larsen’s bureaucratic fiefdom that your health information will be transmitted along with that of your fellow Americans. Does this man’s name sound familiar? It should. This is the guy who issued the infamous Obamacare waivers to a motley miscellany of Democrat donors. And it is Larsen who continues to ignore congressional and media requests to provide the criteria by which CCIIO made its decisions to grant or deny the waivers. Would you put a gigantic database of sensitive health data into the care of this man?
Even if such bureaucrats could be trusted to keep your health information secure, it is difficult to get comfortable with their stated purpose for creating the database: “[PPACA] directs the Secretary to develop a list of 50 to 100 medical conditions to identify high cost individuals.” Why do Sebelius, Berwick, and their minions need such a list? The proposed rule advises us that they want to “mitigate the impact of potential adverse selection and stabilize premiums in the individual and small group markets.” Can any rational voter accept that claim at face value, remembering how Secretary Sebelius lied about the moribund CLASS Act, how Dr. Berwick dodged congressional questions about his views on rationing, and how Larsen thumbed his nose at Congress? Can any sane electorate continue to trust such people with anything of importance?
And yet it is these very officials who want to compile a national database of our private health information and develop a list of “high cost individuals.” While we chuckle at the discomfiture of DOJ attorneys who must argue that not buying insurance is a kind of interstate commerce, and nod approvingly when politicians give stem winder speeches about repealing Obamacare, these bureaucrats are cranking out life-altering regulations at breakneck speed. Today they want to know a little bit about us for their files. Tomorrow it will be something else. If we don’t stop them soon, say in 2012, they will fulfill the Obama’s 2008 promise to “transform the United States of America.” Your new and improved country will be a place where such things as personal privacy will be subordinated to the demands of the state.
About the Author
David Catron is a health care revenue cycle expert who has spent more than twenty years working for and consulting with hospitals and medical practices. He has an MBA from the University of Georgia and blogs at Health Care BS.
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Pecos Pete| 10.17.11 @ 6:35AM
You can't make this up: "CMS and CCIIO fall under the aegis of HHS" and not cry. It is a foreign language.
Your health records stored in a database maintained by the federales makes as much sense as keeping an open bowl of dog food outside your home.
Hackers can hardly wait to sift through this immense mountain of junk data looking for your social security number, and your bank account number (which, BTW, is also required data by ObamaCare).
Gary B| 10.17.11 @ 6:48AM
Any doubt left about the lawlessness of this rogue reqime? These people are criminals of the highest order.
Ask youself this: What kind of person does this kind of stuff to his fellow citizens? Then vote accordingly.
florin| 10.17.11 @ 10:21AM
What kind of person? Someone who advances the cause of baby killing. Sebelius was a colleague and friend of George Tiller known as the baby killer, who terminated the lives of full term babies and then would at times place the dead baby's body next to the mother and have a picture taken, sometimes with himself in the picture. Sebelius looks dried up, empty - scary. This woman has the blood of preborn babies on her hands...yet, Obama chose her to take charge of our health care...a woman who advocates for the destruction of human life....if we don't vote Obama out in 2012, what evil will he perpetrate with this woman at his side...they have only just begun!!
scythe| 10.17.11 @ 7:07AM
No Sh-t. Why do you think hundreds of thousands of us marched on Washington to protest this monstrosity? Because we saw where it was going. You can have "privacy" if your female organs have been "invaded" by a parasitic fetus, according to the left, by never anywhere else. For years, when asked my social security number in a doctor's office, I have refused to give out that information. In fact, wanna bet asking for that information from someone who appears to have just jumped the border for free health care becomes illegal, but for the rest of us it is mandatory? When the social security law was written it specifically stated that it was NOT to be used for identification. That law was never repealed nor amended. It simply mutated. Our social security number is now an ELECTRONIC TATTOO. If this ever gets implemented, destabilize the system, crash it. Create fake numbers, over and over again. If hundred of thousands of us stand together we can make it happen. But let's hope we don't have to.
Solo| 10.17.11 @ 7:43AM
I already give fake SS numbers everywhere I go.
The only exceptions would be my bank, credit card company, insurance company (after I have agreed to purchase a policy) and the IRS.
Everyone these days thinks they're entitled to your SS number. If you request an auto insurance quote (just a quote), they request your SS number. The doctor's office wants it. The dentist wants it.
I recently requested a consultation with an attorney and they requested it on the application.
The cable and satellite TV companies want it.
Hell.....some years ago the local video rental store "required it" on their application.
All fake information is what they got. Let 'em choke on it!
Gary B| 10.17.11 @ 7:58AM
There's probably languange in the regulation that cites severe penalties for providing false information. Kinda' like lying to a gestapo SWAT cop who just kicked in your door.
I can only imagine the anger and grief WWII veterans are experiencing right now. The country they fought for has turned into the enemy they died to defend us against.
But, with work and a little luck, the pendulum is head back our way.
Teaghan| 10.17.11 @ 8:27AM
I don't know Gary. Have you seen the people on the streets at the OWS sit in? They are calling for socialism/communism and der feurer (sp) yesterday, once again showed his solidarity with them. He will use this protest to further his destruction of our free nation. Little do they know that they are pawns in his evil game. And how dispicable to use the MLK day as a campaign stop. And the crowds lapped it up.
Gary B| 10.17.11 @ 8:37AM
Teaghan,
I once made the mistake of thinking a protest in Chicago was a major deal because the TV cameras showed a lot of people. But, a friend of mine who works downtown said he walked right by it and reported that only about 100 people were there.
The sympathetic enemedia is blowing this up as large as possible, so we need to be careful about judging its actual impact. Remember, Tea Partiers are all across America and include a huge number of baby boomers. These mutts in the parks are not political contributors.
Also, I believe Obama and his ilk are making a big mistake identifying with this mob. Remember, also, the Democrats are desperate for a credible campaign theme. If this is all they have to hang their hat on (class warfare), we may be in pretty good shape.
Occam's Tool| 10.17.11 @ 10:57AM
You might be setting up your doctor for a fraud conviction.
rd| 10.18.11 @ 12:52AM
I understand that my health care provider wants to make sure I can pay and that I'm not some jerk, cheapskate, or liar who will 1) obtain the health care, and then 2) never ever pay it.
Got it.
So you need my SSN to have this assurance?
That's backwards.
Surely there are other ways. My health care provider should never have any need to know this piece of info.
RND| 10.17.11 @ 6:02PM
Solo, please add SSN being REQUIRED on all DMV (Dept. of Motor Vehicles) applications, renewals, new/additional car registrations, etc.
It would be interesting to see an article that just listed these "required" SSNs -- required of us for "access" to services or buying.
As I have pointed out to others, obtaining a SSN is not only about making the grab to a person's banking/financials, it is also quite probably in the case of a former veteran about outright stealing or "borrowing on" his veteran's privileges.
scythe| 10.17.11 @ 9:17PM
Here in New York there was a story years back about the Motor Vehicle Office being a hub of identity theft. Gee. Ya think it had to do with your SS number now being required to get a license? Well. Duuuuh. And the fact that almost everyone who works there looks like they crept in in a cargo container from somewhere south of the border. Solution? Write the number so damned small and illegible that anyone trying to figure it out will feel the blood rush to their eyeballs first. Works for me.
CalMark| 10.17.11 @ 10:10PM
In 2006, I moved to California.
I had an Illinois license, but that wasn't good enough. No, I had to present a birth certificate or passport to get my CA license.
I wonder how many south-of-the-border types jamming that office had to prove their citizenship?
It enrages me. What enrages me even more is how little I can do about it without destroying someone.
Tyranny makes it impossible to rebel in any significant, "cost-effective" way. It's hundreds and hundreds of small, individual requirements, failure to abide by any of which can be ruinous. In this slow, insidious way, liberty dies a death by a thousand cuts.
God help us all.
POST American| 10.17.11 @ 7:28AM
"Understand folks, your data has been
relentlessly collected for many decades now.
Your newborns blood have been routinely
taken at birth and sourced in a Pentagon
data bases. This has been underway for
35 years now. This is for race specific,
even person specific, bio weapons development.
Have a friend who's a doctor? --Ask them.
Even more, this is also being used to
follow your family through generations
to identify which they wish to bring through
or, far, far more to the point, which are
to be culled when the time comes."
-ALAN WATT
(superb online coverage
of the CON)
REALLY kiddies ----as that
FUKISHIMA fallout
that doesn't exist, saturates
the northern hemipshere
-------get with the DE-PROGRAM
--------------------------------------------FAST.
Tim the Enchanter| 10.17.11 @ 11:11AM
Huh?
William L. Gen sert| 10.17.11 @ 8:55AM
Excuse me, but that's Queen Sebelius and Prince Berwick.
PJ| 10.17.11 @ 8:57AM
Hubby has been working with databases for over 30 yrs. For me it's been over 20. I assure you if anyone wants to know anything about you, he/she will find it somewhere among the databases that have been created during the past 20 yrs. (It's been about 20 yrs since the commercially available terabyte storage capability has been manufactured.)
Those working with computers kind of knew what was going on but it was more of a "wink-wink" acknowledgement. It was assumed that the information collected would help cure diseases, lower the cost of marketing products, monitoring illegal money transfers, etc...------- actions for the common good. It was also assumed that the appointed ethical individuals &/or organizations would have fiduciary responsibility over the collection of this personal information.
Now we have nefarious elected officials, their appointees, bureaucrats, & cooperating companies who think they know what the common good is. This is what happens when relativism is incorporated into society.
Gary B| 10.17.11 @ 9:04AM
PJ,
Just once, I'd like to see a CEO of a large company tell DC stand up to this BS. Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas hotel owner, let loose with a rant that made the news. We need a lot more of the highly-paid dopes to man up, step up to the microphone and fire back at the tyrants in DC.
Just checking, how would RINO Romney deal with a rogue HHS department?
PJ| 10.17.11 @ 9:12AM
"... how would RINO Romney deal with a rogue HHS department?"
I guess it all depends if he has any moral standards & will he use them to guide his decision-making.
txn4ever| 10.17.11 @ 5:41PM
Since Romney created the same system in the state of Mass. when he was governor I suspect this only makes him yawn with boredom.
Timothy L. Pennell| 10.17.11 @ 9:15AM
That is some picture. Isn't it? It's not often that one gets to come face to face (so to speak) with one's BETTERS.
I know that TAX CHEAT - Sebelius - cried, when the one man Infanticide - Tiller the Killer - got what he had coming, but, how much ya wanna bet, that the two Hershey Highway Hitchhikers, sitting next to her, also had a lump in their throat? (Pun intended)
David Catron wants to know why Eva Braun needs a LIST. Why, for just the OPPOSITE reason, that Schindler needed a List.
(Please see my Hitler analogy on the "Occu-Pied Obama story)
You can't make this stuff up.
But, then, what's up, with the HOUSE?
WHY are we sending letters ASKING things, when we should be writing letters, THREATENING things?
If I was the Chairman of any House Appropriations Committee, I would LAY DOWN THE LAW!
NO MONEY. Not another Dime, until this LIST, is burned.
Does anyone think that the Democrats would be WASTING TIME on niceties? Ask the South Vietnamese. They had no problem, cutting off the Weapons that they. themselves, had PROMISED to the South Vietnamese, so that they could do their own fighting, after we left. How many DIED, from that betrayal?
This needs to end, NOW.
Put your pants on, and be MEN.
Tell this B*TCH, what for. Or, we'll find someone who can.
post*tenebras*lux| 10.17.11 @ 9:45AM
Just received my monthly coop letter from my local electric company. Headlines inside read: EPA rule will increase cost of electrical power. January 1, 2012 Cross State Air Pollution Rule issued by the EPA will go into effect. The rule, which is intended to limit the effects of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide across state lines, will affect 27 states and cost billions of dollars which will be paid by consumers through higher electric bills. My contention is that the Republicans inside Congress know all this. Why aren't they shouting EPA nonsense from the rooftops????? Why don't they do something to get rid of the EPA?
Ground Control| 10.17.11 @ 9:50AM
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Article IV, the Bill of Rights. Can any Democrat and Obama apologist please explain how one's personal medical records are NOT considered part of one's "papers and effects?" And how the US Government has any legal authority whatsoever to seize those records without a warrant?
Someone should remind Catherine Sebelius that the above quote is the LAW, and she is REQUIRED to obey that Law, and can be held criminally liable for violating that Law. The biggest problem with DC is politicians and bureaucrats see themselves as not subject to the Law, but above the Law. They see themselves as rulers, not servants. And these kinds of violations will continue unabated until We the People stop voting for "rulers" (e.g. ALL Democrats and any "moderate" to liberal Republicans) and elect Representatives and servants instead. Each and every vote for a Democrat is a vote for tyranny. The sad part is the Obama criminals did not take over Washington by force. They were elected.
CopyKatnj| 10.17.11 @ 10:15AM
Excellent point!
George S| 10.17.11 @ 2:27PM
The key word is "unreasonable". Unfortunately, SCOTUS has established a threshold of 'rational basis' on government action; so as long as government does not act randomly or capriciously, almost anything government does can have a rational basis. Isn't wonderful to have a living breathing Constitution?
Ground Control| 10.17.11 @ 3:18PM
Just because they "say" it does not give it legitimacy. "Rational basis" is like "overriding government interest." Such thing appear nowhere in the Supreme Law of the Land and are fabrications of the courts. The only possible salvation we may have is the Tea Party. Electing rational, reasonable people, and not the drooling, fanatical Leftists we have now, can and will make a profound difference. Under President Bozo, there is no respect for the Law.
Petronius| 10.17.11 @ 10:16AM
"We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live."
Ed| 10.17.11 @ 11:40AM
P.S. The Captain wants to water ski.
"The beatings will continue until moral improves."
Louis Jenkins| 10.17.11 @ 10:20AM
To the above post:
I cannot figure out why these people break the IV amendment. They know what they're doing, and they do it anyway. They must be feeling really good about themselves. They're above the law, no doubt. And the hackers have a new area to reap the profits from. HIPAA? Do these people not realize the mega mess that they will have when these SS#s are leaked out via hacking? We will recieve letters in the mail, and chances are there will be several of them from repeated hacking. Of course my phyisican is ready to down load, as they do all their paperwork now electronically. Sickening.
JeffT| 10.17.11 @ 11:02AM
Hackers are salivating. So much information, so little protection.
bobmontgomery| 10.17.11 @ 11:30AM
Well, gee, maybe some genius ought to demand that the Supreme Court step in now instead of waiting til 2019 or whenever to discuss it over tea and crumpets. No hurry, though, we suppose. It's just a republic.
no name| 10.17.11 @ 12:01PM
A liar, a thief, a socialist and a professor went into a bar. The bartender asks: What can I get for you Mr. Obama?
Riff Raff| 10.17.11 @ 3:24PM
Calling Obama a "professor" is a stretch. This guy couldn't teach a dog to piss on a fire hydrant.
RND| 10.18.11 @ 12:46AM
By the way, have we ever heard from any of his students? Why the silence? Surely there are a few that need some cash in their pocket and would sell out for a little interview with a journal or newspaper.
Maybe they'd say complimentary things. Or just say that he wasn't all bad or good.
Either way...this isn't ancient history where his former students are already six feet under and can no longer share.
I thought that in this America everybody wanted his or her 15 minutes of fame.
PattyMor| 10.17.11 @ 1:22PM
Its not just the hackers that we have to worry about. How about nosy bureaucrats looking up personal data on famous people or politicans, especially of the Republican kind. No tactic is too low for the dark side.
Aces and Eights| 10.17.11 @ 3:22PM
This is true. Remember that Bill and Hillary Clinton used data (much of it raw and unsubstantiated) from confidential FBI files to smear people who tried to expose the Clintons' numerous felonies.
kit| 10.17.11 @ 5:05PM
Just want to salute you for the Pink Floyd reference in the article's title.
Aces and Eights| 10.17.11 @ 6:47PM
Pink Floyd? The title above if a lyric from "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon and Garfunkel.
uncle curmudgeon| 10.17.11 @ 5:17PM
I work for a construction contracting firm in Virginia. Early this year I managed a project at a Federal facility near our town; a good repeat customer. This time the routine work was contracted through a GC . The GC was a so called SWAM (Small Women And Minority owned business) hired, no doubt, to keep our customer's quota numbers kosher. The SWAM subbed her part of the work out to a small commecial build-out man who was a pleasure to work with. My interactions with the Swam were limited to the extra paper work required and deflecting demands for the medical records and health insurance histories of anyone from our company who would be setting foot on this this site (i.e. me, my two mechanics, and members of the delivery and clean-up crews). The GC was politly told to, ah, do something with her request. DC is infested with toltalitarians. We must get rid of them. All.
RND| 10.17.11 @ 6:10PM
Is it just me or don't I recall President George W. Bush signing something launching further advances for the Electronic Medical Record? You know, those signing ceremonies where there are dozens gathered right at the president's shoulders, and he hands out the 9 or 10 "signing pens" to the true champions of this new piece of legislation.
That did occur, did it not? (Yes, I think so.)
The point being: ALL our leaders are dunderheads.
ALL of them are for big government and incredible intrusion atrocities into your life and those of the ones you love.
Margie| 10.17.11 @ 8:41PM
In other (GREAT) news:
Drudge Reporting:
POLL: CAIN 43% OBAMA 41%
http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....l_matchups
Margaret| 10.17.11 @ 10:20PM
This is the only intelligent comment you ever made. Stick to reporting the polls.
Margie| 10.17.11 @ 11:12PM
Stuff it, TROLL.
Bob Grant| 10.17.11 @ 11:42PM
Good on ya Margie.
POST American| 10.17.11 @ 11:17PM
-----AGAIN
your PCs --ARE-- surveillance devices
with backdoors, and eavesdropping devices
that can be activated even when it's off.
Your TVs, aside from the propaganda
content that comprises the 'programming'
--are adjusted, esp. with HD, to mind control
flicker rate spectrums.
Those RED China made, mercury filled,
UN mandated bulbs are, likewise, adjusted
for mind control flicker rates and are
provide eavesdropping access and, again,
bio-metric scanning.
Your cellphones --ARE-- tracking and eaves-dropping
devices and have always been
designed and put out there for that purpose.
CCTV, everywhere, can be linked, accessed,
adjusted to crystral clarity, and used for
tracking, eavedropping and data collection.
NEW cars are now, one and all, fitted with
ON STAR satellite tracking, surveillance
and eavesdroppng devices.
'SMART meters', mandated by the criminal
UN, are also surveillance devices with bio-metric
scanning and eavesdropping add ons.
Your credit card is tracking and recording
your activities in REAL time.
Your churches are, almost without exception,
compromised and filled with informers
--uh-- we meant 'Clergy Response' teams.
They're now forced to comply with agendas
and censorship in order to remain eligible
for tax free status. (ON RECORD folks!)
-----------HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012---------
Dan Mathewson| 10.17.11 @ 11:59PM
Tell me, Skippy, how are you able to post this stuff "exposing" the hidden agenda of these people? Isn't your computer a surveillence device? Thought the, as you put it "EEL-EATS" would've shut you down by now.
RD| 10.18.11 @ 12:31AM
He's doing it from a small community college library's computers. C'mon, that wasn't so hard to figure out. ;) He's got some tradecraft in him. And, plus, he's right about the cell phones and the autos now with OnStar junk. Dontcha think they'll use your phoning records to confirm those docs/medical visits you've been making? (plus the trackers on your car -- right to that lot near the clinic -- they gotcha.)
RND| 10.18.11 @ 12:36AM
I can easily see this scenario: A government employee at any of the dozens of major or minor government health agencies selling medical data to supplement his or her government salary.
Sure the big places like HHS, NIH, CDC, but even the multiples of subsidiaries or even government contracted firms that work directly for these government health monstrosities.
After all, Joe or Josephine the government employee is just not appreciated enough and properly financially compensated for what he brings to the table, right?
People Magazine, Us, National Enquirer, E!, BET, Vogue, The New Yorker, etc. Lots of possibilities. If a sports figure, why not ESPN or SI as the purchaser of the revealing medical data?
Don't you think Lance Armstrong's medical files might be worth millions of $ on the open media market? (particularly when they'd prove he was blood doping for years?) I can easily think of three major French media companies that would dish out big euro bucks for Lance's medical data from last the last decade.
This is what we'll be seeing.
Robert| 10.18.11 @ 1:52AM
Every time I see that vision of John Kerry in drag ( Sebelius) speaking, I feel a little bit less safe from the prying eyes of the government.
dadfly| 10.18.11 @ 3:43AM
obamacare == slavery. what power will you cede to the government for a lifesaving surgery; for the life of your child or your mother. and what use will a great doctor be when all his decisions are dictated by the government and statistical cost controls. my God, "how foolish these mortals be."
rn| 10.18.11 @ 11:15AM
I think that the contractor working on the database - the database referenced in the article - is working out of Baltimore. They were hiring like gangbusters a year ago at this time. Just a tip.
Tony in Central PA| 10.18.11 @ 8:47PM
I never thought I'd live to see the utter revocation of liberty in this country so blandly accepted by so much of the population. If you voted for Obama you're only getting what you deserve. If you didn't, remember that the Tree of Liberty must have its roots nourished with the blood of patriots.
POST American| 10.18.11 @ 10:57PM
----------------BOTTOMLESS LINE--------------------
"American better watch it or
in a couple of decades we're
going to be a minstrel show
for RED China."
-GORE VIDAL
1985
One and all, REAL--EYES the lies.
It's our 4 decades 'on the go',broad daylight,
Globalist RED China set up, sellout, TREASON
and EUGENICS OP.
It REALLY is -------what it is.
-----Accept NO substitute X-plan-ations.