Michael Savage banned in Britain -- will State do nothing for him?

Does it not seem rather strange -- even comical in the German sense of the word "komisch" -- that an award winning radio talk show host, with two Ph.D.s and some very important contributions to scientific literature in his fields of botany and epidemiology, finds himself banned from traveling to a country he had never planned to visit because of selectively lifted quotes from his monologues, which were never heard on radio in that country, which severely distort his views? Or that the country in question is allegedly a democratic nation (a limited monarchy) with a robust tradition of free speech, which was passed on to the United States in its cradle?

What I find even stranger -- and in a darker sense, what I find outright perverse -- is a government that turns its back on one of its citizens, whose rights are being trampled on in a foreign country who is ostensibly our closest ally, with the silent acquiescence of much of the news media that supposedly bathes in the sunshine of freedom of speech and press. The hypocrisy all around staggers my imagination. It is an affront, an egregious insult to the very name Democratic, as far as the party of the administration is concerned, as well as to this nation with such deep historical roots in its mother country, to say to one of our native sons, for doing nothing but speaking his mind earnestly about the pressing issues of life and of the day, "No, you cannot come here, you are like a terrorist or a murderer."

Is this invective against an innocent man to be answered with silence? With consent? Is there no one left in the halls of power in this land to defend one citizen from being subjected to a bill of attainder by a foreign nation that purports to be our fastest friend? Even if we out of ignorance fail to respect the legal traditions of our nation-friends, does that mean we then deliberately choose to ignore our own Constitution and Bill of Rights as at least guiding principles in our dealings with countries who mistreat and oppress our people? What does that say about us?

It has been said that for evil to prosper, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing. I would like to believe there are still some good men and women left in the Government of the United States. But if they do nothing, are they truly good or are they a part of the problem? If nothing is done to right the wrong done to Michael Savage by Her Majesty's Government, I will have to believe that either good men are utterly powerless now, or that there are no good men left in the employ of the Department of State, the Obama Administration, or in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

Zelaya should not be reinstated!

I emailed the following to President Barack Obama, Senators LeMieux and Nelson, and Rep. Bill Young:

I think it is necessary once again to point out that Manuel Zelaya, the ousted former president of Honduras, is not the constitutional head of state or of government of that nation ever since the Supreme Court of Honduras, with the full support of the Congress and other branches of government, issued a warrant for his arrest for violating the Constitution, attempting to hold extralegal elections, stealing government funds, inciting a riot, and other charges.

Neither the United States, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union, or other entities outside of the borders of Honduras have any right to arbitrate constitutional issues within Honduras any more than a foreign state or organization would, in, say, deciding that the U.S. Constitutional procedure for impeaching a President should be vetted with any of them first. That's imperialism!

The only legal bodies that have the authority to decide whether Mel Zelaya should have continued in office or not are the very ones that ousted him. They had the legal authority and they exercised it. The analogue to their procedure is called impeachment in the United States. It's no more a coup than the ouster of Richard Nixon was one, and this Zelaya makes Nixon look like a choirboy with a halo when you actually look at what he was getting away with.

I seriously and deeply question the judgment of any government or leader that supports the reinstatement of an impeached official who has violated the Constitution of his or her country, and whose next stop should be before the legal body his nation's Constitution has empowered to render a verdict on his impeachment. Let Honduras settle her own affairs before any more bad precedents are set by this administration, lest they end by boomeranging back to our own nest!

A spectacle of media bias

What a spectacle. Leftist voices from Maureen Dowd of the New York Times to Jimmy Carter are accusing Rep. Joe Wilson of being a racist after he's already apologized to President Obama for his outburst during the President's address to Congress... meanwhile the news media disparages and discounts the massive demonstration in Washington, DC over the weekend, and when certain media personalities call the big acronyms on the carpet on that, we get treated to the spectacle of Politifact.com dragging out some old photo harvested from an overenthusiastic blogger and asserting that this is proof that the demonstration was 50,000 to 75,000 people and not 1 to 2 million people like members of the Capitol Police and others calling in to radio stations have been saying. Jack Harris of 970 AM in Tampa said around 5 am this morning (Tuesday 09/15/09) that he had lived in Washington, seen several pictures and video of the event, people had called him describing it, and the way the media treated it "was an insult" to the people who flooded the city to protest against the way universal health care is being rammed down our throats.

In my entire life -- 44 years -- I have not seen such an egregious display of dishonesty and distortion from the major news outlets... you would expect this from a Communist or a Nazi government, not from a so-called free press. The real stinger is that a supposedly "independent, unbiased" group that rates political quotes on a "Truth-o-Meter" has now shown itself to me -- TWICE -- once on the Joe Wilson issue, and now with the crowd numbers in Washington -- that it is no more to be trusted on FACTS than Pravda or TASS under Leonid Brezhnev. The truth about Politifact is this: It is run by the St. Petersburg Times, whose editorial board is pro-Democrat, endorsed Obama for President, and parrots the same biased stories from the AP and Reuters, among others -- sometimes excising crucial facts that would put leftism in a bad light! I know because that's the paper I read every day, and the disconnect between its "journalism," if you can still call it that -- the quality of the writing having declined to near stupidity lately -- and verifiable information that I get from other sources, has widened to nearly a gulf on any story that has political controversy in it. I don't have to rehash my last blog criticizing the press to say that the St. Petersburg Times also has a code of ethics that it has lately defenestrated whenever it was inconvenient to the Democratic administration.

One more thing I'd like to say about Joe Wilson's shout "You lie!" Before you read racism into it, let me tell you that normally Southerners are a laconic bunch, especially when they're ticked off. I was born in Maryland, which is a Southern state and let no one tell you any different, and the only reason either I or anyone else would say "You lie!" is it was the shortest, most direct way of stating "You're a dishonest lying piece of crap, and anyone who trusts what you say is a damn fool!" Notice that nowhere in there is some race statement -- it was not reserved for use against only blacks or any other group. That's simply what Southerners will say to you if they think you're being deliberately and scummily deceptive. It's in the present tense, but perhaps it would be more accurate, from the tone that it's usually delivered in (this is for you grammarians), to call it an infinitive present tense. That means it's a permanent condition, there is no time attached to it, "You lie!" means "You can never be trusted again" and "You should never have been trusted at all!"

Some promises of God.

I got so furious this morning over yet another potential government-perpetrated atrocity against the Constitution and the American people, that it would be impossible to articulate it, I don't really care to deal with it, and I need to claim some promises of God in these last days.

You see, all of this stuff that's happening is leading up to something, and that's the return of Jesus Christ, which anyone who trusts Him should be looking forward to with an attitude of joy.  As long as I wallow in anger and disgust because of current events, I'm not looking at Christ and that's Who I need to be looking at instead of the bums steering us all off a cliff.  He's coming to rescue us from these worthless sons of Belial!

So I am claiming the following promises of God and statements of faith, Amen in Jesus Christ's Name:

GOD IS IN CONTROL.

VICTORY IS OURS IN CHRIST JESUS.

YET IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD.

I SHALL NEITHER FEAR THE ARROW BY DAY NOR THE POISON BY NIGHT, FOR HE IS WITH ME.

WHEN YE SEE THESE THINGS, REJOICE, FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR.

Respect is not deserved.

I received the following reply from a local radio station DJ after emailing, on the eleventh, the blog "Rep. Joe Wilson... Was he right?" to the contacts that I send political mail to:

"It is September 11th.  Have some respect."

I wrote back,

"I have no respect left to give this President or this Congress.  I cannot tolerate liars, power hungry Marxists, or political opportunists who cater to scum."

Needless to say, perhaps, the radio station will receive no more mail from me and is deleted from my contacts.  

Once in a while you have to go out and tell the whole world that it's wrong; dates, holidays, or commemorations be damned.  I'm not going to allow anyone to play the hypocrite with me and one-up me over a play on emotions calculated to create sympathy for politicians who don't deserve it and never earned it, let alone lying frauds who should never have passed the vetting process before being elected!!

Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez kiss each other's rears

Chavez walks Venice red carpet with Oliver Stone says the byline from the Ass-ociated Depress on Sep. 8, 2009 5:15 AM ET (AP) in a two thirds to three quarters fawning article by Colleen Barry.  You know, I used to like and respect Oliver Stone as a director; he made some movies which were quite interesting about the JFK assassination and some other topics.  

But for the first time I now realize just how deeply rooted he is in the leftist Hollyweird propaganda society... I mean, the article says Stone puts Cuba and Venezuela "on the same page" with Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Bolivia... What does that mean?  We now have a seven-nation anti-US Marxist bloc on our hands in Latin America?  Thank God Honduras kicked out Zelaya or we'd have eight!

I wonder... if Oliver Stone ever made a movie about Roberto Micheletti, would the actor playing him end up staring at paintings in the Presidential residence in Tegucigalpa and sweating a lot like Anthony Hopkins did in Nixon?  You know, as if Nixon was supposed to be tortured because he wasn't leftist enough to qualify for sainthood?  Who else thought those kinds of scenes looked contrived and unnatural?

Well, here's this movie critic:

"...Stone has not made a history. As best as I can tell, about half the movie is based on facts. The other half ranges from sound speculation to borderline slander."

Now what sort of right wing nut critic would ever level such a charge at the great director Oliver Stone? How about Bob Woodward of the Washington Post? Bob Woodward!!!

PDF file issue

Some of us, including me lately, have been having trouble with Adobe Reader due to badly written software in the program called acrord32.exe that opens PDF files.  I found a fix on the Internet which worked for me, so I'll post it here.  (The following solution was originated by Jari Ahtiainen.)

First, close all other programs (except this page so you can read along, or print it out and close your browser, too) and open Adobe Reader in your computer.

Second, choose Edit, then choose Preferences from your menu bar, then along the side of the dialog box for Adobe that opens, choose Internet.  It will open a dialog box containing check boxes for "Allow fast web view" and "Allow speculative downloading in the background."  Uncheck both of these boxes, then click Okay at bottom.

Apparently it is these two options, when checked on, that cause the computer to continue to run Adobe on ever increasing amounts of RAM until your entire CPU is tied up and made useless for anything else, even when no PDF files are being downloaded any more.  Unchecking those two boxes allows the computer to continue to multitask even when opening giant PDF files like HR 3200.

If you find yourself in a PDF disaster/lockup before you get to these steps, ctrl-alt-del, select Processes, and delete acrord32.exe if you see it using 95 to 100 percent of your RAM in the CPU column.  (Nik Colman authored this solution.)

Rep. Joe Wilson... was he right?

     So today in the House of Representatives, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) had an "emotional outburst" and yelled "You lie!" at President Obama after the President's speech on health care in the chamber, against Obama's assertion that he has never proposed that the government cover health care for illegal aliens.  For which the South Carolina Congressman has apologized and yada yada yada.

     Well... It seems to me that the "fact-checkers" like Politifact.com have not been as thorough as I might have hoped.  There are reports in conservative media that Obama has been caught lying over and over again, constructively, about the increased access that illegal aliens will have to health care paid for by the US government.

     Examples include:

     Mickey Kaus, a supporter of universal health care, in Examiner.com such as: "...Illegal immigrants will too get health insurance under the current Democratic proposals. They’re technically not eligible, maybe–but their eligibility probably won’t be verified. And Dems have rejected amendments to require verification."

     According to Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, Jerry Kammer wrote:

     In an interview on the program "Al Punto," White House Director of Hispanic Media Luis Miranda acknowledged that coverage would not be provided to illegals. Then he immediately added, "Precisely because of that we are working for reform of immigration laws." Presto-change-o, problem solved, with coverage for all those formerly illegal immigrants."

     In the Center for Immigration Studies report Health Reform Legislation and Immigration by James R. Edwards Jr., August 2009, I found:

     "Bear in mind, Government agencies and nonprofits often look only at income levels and similar qualifiers when enrolling new beneficiaries in public programs like Medicaid and SCHIP. They often overlook immigration status, even though that could disqualify someone from program participation. [Emphasis mine.]

     "Health reform legislation, particularly H.R. 3200 (pdf file), contains a number of provisions that open the door to taxpayer funding of immigrants’ health care. That’s for illegal aliens, legal aliens who are supposed to rely on their sponsor for financial assistance their first five years here, and certain immigrants who sponsor other immigrants.

     "In brief:

•      "Despite nominally barring illegal immigrants from receiving a health-insurance subsidy, an amendment to require that applicants be screened for eligibility — as are all other welfare recipients — was rejected on a party-line vote. [Emphasis mine.]

•      "Even legal immigrants whose sponsors are supposed to provide them financial support would be eligible for taxpayer-funded subsidies.

•      "Certain legal immigrants who qualify for premium subsidies or expanded Medicaid would also be able to sponsor new immigrants, whom they would have to pledge to support.

•      "Illegal immigrants would be exempt from the legal mandate to have health insurance, but they’d still receive taxpayer-funded medical services at health clinics and hospitals required to serve all those presenting with medical emergencies."

     In the National Review, Kevin Williamson, to summarize, basically says that illegal aliens get around legal restrictions to access health care through loopholes already present in the Medicare and Medicaid systems, and since there are no provisions in HR 3200 and similar legislation from the Democrats to otherwise prevent illegal aliens from accessing government-provided health care, the American people will end up subsidizing even more, perhaps a lot more, of the health care of illegals.

     I would also say, as Williamson and others do, that it is Obama who is lying by omission.  A lie of omission is still a lie.

Lockerbie bomber getting congratulated by the world

Just to prove how sick the rest of the world is getting, as if it wasn't enough that the UK released the murdering terrorist convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, and that Libya grossly and hideously insulted the West, America, and everything decent by giving this piece of ghuy'cha' a warm fuzzy welcome home in Tripoli, but now 150 leaders from the Pan African Parliament are giving him a visit, like they were old friends... representing mostly the various tyrannies and plutocracies of the African continent... all paragons of honorable constitutional government in their own eyes, I'm sure.

Read this article in Yahoo News to see for yourself.  I spit on the African Union if this is the sort of thing it endorses!  And don't fail to read the bottom of the article where the African Union parliamentarians' excuse to visit this vile butchering petaQ is put on a moral equivalency with European leaders visiting Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor grossly and unfairly accused and convicted by the Libyan so-called justice system for deliberately spreading AIDS, as if you could ever find a whole group of volunteering medical professionals, dedicating their lives to helping poor people in the rest of the world, from Europe or from ANYWHERE who would ever do such a thing on purpose.

US cuts aid to Honduras

Well now... the U.S. government, which as we all know is so interested in preserving constitutional government that it's trying to get HR 3200 passed so we can all have the right to have all our medical records read and reviewed by Uncle Sam, has decided to extend its defense of constitutional government to other countries, starting with Honduras, which had the nerve to impeach Pres. Manuel Zelaya for 1. trying to run a private election to extend his own term, 2. running illegal drugs through his country, and 3. helping himself to the national treasury, 4. accepting undue influence from a foreign head of state, among other things.... and toss him out of the country... letting him fly out on the same foreign head of state's military aircraft, rather than conduct it properly, by imprisoning him and giving the leftist rabble in Tegucigalpa a reason to riot in the streets.

Because, you know, any democratic government is all about minding everybody else's business... whether it be Honduras's business... or yours.

Update:  Watch the series of AP photos about Manuel Zelaya and the demonstrations in Honduras.  Tell me you're looking at people protesting a military coup when the military is nowhere in sight, the demonstrators are the ones perpetrating all the violence (albeit bloodless stuff like eggs and water balloons), and the AP/AFP/Reuters series that Yahoo posted conveniently leaves out pictures, if they even took any, of Micheletti's supporters while parroting the captions on all the posters calling for Zelaya's return and for cancelling the regularly scheduled November 29 elections!!!  Who's on the side of democracy again??  Are the Associated Press, Reuters, and  Agence France-Presse a little leftist here??

On the About AFP web page, its mission statement saith:  

"Article 2

"Agence France-Presse may not under any circumstances take account of influences or considerations that would compromise the accuracy or objectivity of the news; it must not under any circumstances pass under legal or de facto control of an ideological, political or economic group.”

How well is AFP fulfilling their mission?  Are the pictures evidence of either accuracy or objectivity when they protray only one side, favoring Mel Zelaya's return and water and egg throwing protesters who are literally egging a constitutional republican government into CANCELLING elections??  Or is Agence France-Presse actually under control of leftist agents with political motivations?  How about Reuters?

Everything we do as Reuters journalists has to be independent, free from bias and executed with the utmost integrity. These are our core values and stem from the Reuters Trust Principles. As a real-time, competitive news service whose reputation rests on reliability, we also value accuracy, speed and exclusivity. The way in which we, as Reuters employees, live these values is governed by the Reuters Code of Conduct. That code, with a few notable exceptions that apply specifically to journalists, governs the behaviour of all Reuters employees and is essential reading. As journalists, however, we have additional responsibilities if we are to fulfil the highest aspirations of our profession – to search for and report the truth, fairly, honestly and unfailingly.

Mmm hmm.  I would say the way the Honduras photo series was shot, portrayed and captioned violates Reuters Code of Conduct, but that probably doesn't faze its reporters either.  What about the Associated Press?  Everybody trusts the AP... the good ole AP.

It says, 

"...we insist on the highest standards of integrity and ethical behavior when we gather and deliver the news... we avoid behavior or activities that create a conflict of interest and compromise our ability to report the news fairly and accurately, uninfluenced by any person or action.. we must be fair. Whenever we portray someone in a negative light, we must make a real effort to obtain a response from that person. When mistakes are made, they must be corrected – fully, quickly and ungrudgingly...it is the responsibility of every one of us to ensure that these standards are upheld. Any time a question is raised about any aspect of our work, it should be taken seriously."

Oh really?  Where was the "real effort to obtain" responses from Roberto Micheletti, the Liberal Party, or the supporters of the interim government in Yahoo's photo series about the Honduras affair??

The "Chipping" Subtitle of HR 3200... Health Care Reform, Without Privacy!!

Would I really be doing my job here if I let this go uninterpreted?  This is one of the most dangerous sections of a bill to civil liberties that I've ever read. 

Subtitle C—National Medical

10 Device Registry

11 SEC. 2521. NATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY.

(And we need a medical device registry because??)

12 (a) REGISTRY.—

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 519 of the Federal

14 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360i) is

15 amended—

16 (A) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub17

section (h); and

18 (B) by inserting after subsection (f) the

19 following:

20 ‘‘National Medical Device Registry

21 ‘‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall establish a national med22

ical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the

23 ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and

24 outcomes data on each device that—

25 ‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and (now let me get this straight ... this comes in under the guise of safety and good outcomes... the State needs to "protect" us.)

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1 ‘‘(B) is—

2 ‘‘(i) a class III device; or

3 ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable, (like the Mark er I mean Chip of the Beast?)

4 life-supporting, or life-sustaining.  (Naturally we have to have this because it saves lives.)

5 ‘‘(2) In developing the registry, the Secretary shall,

6 in consultation with the Commissioner of Food and Drugs,

7 the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid

8 Services, the head of the Office of the National Coordi9

nator for Health Information Technology, and the Sec10

retary of Veterans Affairs, determine the best methods (make sure we have as many bureaucrats on board as we can possibly use!)

11 for—

12 ‘‘(A) including in the registry, in a manner con13

sistent with subsection (f), appropriate information

14 to identify each device described in paragraph (1) by

15 type, model, and serial number or other unique iden16 (Don't let any of them get away!!  Your pacemaker will be government property or else!!)

tifier;

17 ‘‘(B) validating methods for analyzing patient

18 safety and outcomes data from multiple sources and

19 for linking such data with the information included

20 in the registry as described in subparagraph (A), in21

cluding, to the extent feasible, use of—

22 ‘‘(i) data provided to the Secretary under

23 other provisions of this chapter; and

24 ‘‘(ii) information from public and private (private??  Not any more, baby, it's ALL public now!!)

25 sources identified under paragraph (3);

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1 ‘‘(C) integrating the activities described in this

2 subsection with—

3 ‘‘(i) activities under paragraph (3) of sec4

tion 505(k) (relating to active postmarket risk

5 identification);

6 ‘‘(ii) activities under paragraph (4) of sec7

tion 505(k) (relating to advanced analysis of

8 drug safety data); and (drug safety data... hmm, they want to make sure you're getting enough thorazine to tolerate tyranny!!)

9 ‘‘(iii) other postmarket device surveillance

10 activities of the Secretary authorized by this

11 chapter; and

12 ‘‘(D) providing public access to the data and (because everybody has the right to know... especially the government, which is who they really mean by the public.)

13 analysis collected or developed through the registry

14 in a manner and form that protects patient privacy (Yeah, right.  If that was a priority this wouldn't even be in the bill!)

15 and proprietary information and is comprehensive,

16 useful, and not misleading to patients, physicians, (Don't even think about lying to us!  You're all suspects now!!)

17 and scientists.

18 ‘‘(3)(A) To facilitate analyses of postmarket safety

19 and patient outcomes for devices described in paragraph

20 (1), the Secretary shall, in collaboration with public, aca21

demic, and private entities, develop methods to— (Ve haff vays of making your chips talk!!)

22 ‘‘(i) obtain access to disparate sources of

23 patient safety and outcomes data, including—

24 ‘‘(I) Federal health-related electronic (Files they collect and keep on you... to watch you.)

25 data (such as data from the Medicare pro-

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1 gram under title XVIII of the Social Secu2

rity Act or from the health systems of the

3 Department of Veterans Affairs);

4 ‘‘(II) private sector health-related

5 electronic data (such as pharmaceutical

6 purchase data and health insurance claims (Are you sorry you joined that HMO yet?  You will be.)

7 data); and

8 ‘‘(III) other data as the Secretary

9 deems necessary to permit postmarket as10

sessment of device safety and effectiveness;

11 and

12 ‘‘(ii) link data obtained under clause (i)

13 with information in the registry.

14 ‘‘(B) In this paragraph, the term ‘data’ refers to in15

formation respecting a device described in paragraph (1),

16 including claims data, patient survey data, standardized

17 analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of

18 data from disparate data environments, electronic health (because we're all the government's little experiment in social engineering)

19 records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the

20 Secretary.  (Never mind what the Constitution says about search and seizure, the Secretary says he must have this data!)

21 ‘‘(4) Not later than 36 months after the date of the

22 enactment of this subsection, (by the fateful year of 2012, apparently) the Secretary shall promul23

gate regulations for establishment and operation of the

24 registry under paragraph (1). Such regulations—

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1 ‘‘(A)(i) in the case of devices that are described

2 in paragraph (1) and sold on or after the date of the

3 enactment of this subsection, shall require manufac4

turers of such devices to submit information to the

5 registry, including, for each such device, the type,

6 model, and serial number or, if required under sub7

section (f), other unique device identifier; and

8 ‘‘(ii) in the case of devices that are described in

9 paragraph (1) and sold before such date, may re10

quire manufacturers of such devices to submit such

11 information to the registry, if deemed necessary by (Oh, he'll deem it necessary if he has to manufacture a crisis to justify it!)

12 the Secretary to protect the public health; (Because Big Brother cares about you!)

13 ‘‘(B) shall establish procedures—

14 ‘‘(i) to permit linkage of information sub15

mitted pursuant to subparagraph (A) with pa16

tient safety and outcomes data obtained under

17 paragraph (3); and

18 ‘‘(ii) to permit analyses of linked data;

19 ‘‘(C) may require device manufacturers to sub20 ("Require."  Doesn't sound optional, does it.)

mit such other information as is necessary to facili21 ("Other such information," like anything the government wants to know about your internal goings on ... and maybe also your personal identifying information "if deemed necessary.")

tate postmarket assessments of device safety and ef22

fectiveness and notification of device risks;

23 ‘‘(D) shall establish requirements for regular 

24 and timely reports to the Secretary, which shall be (Keeps Big Brother's machine running)

25 included in the registry, concerning adverse event

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1 trends, adverse event patterns, incidence and preva2

lence of adverse events, and other information the (More and more information is deemed appropriate, isn't it.)

3 Secretary determines appropriate, which may include

4 data on comparative safety and outcomes trends;

5 and

6 ‘‘(E) shall establish procedures to permit public

7 access to the information in the registry in a manner

8 and form that protects patient privacy and propri9 (the joke's on us with that one.)

etary information and is comprehensive, useful, and

10 not misleading to patients, physicians, and sci11

entists. (Because it's not pastors who know what's good for us, it's amoral atheistic scientists in the same profession as the people who conducted the Tuskegee experiment.)

12 ‘‘(5) To carry out this subsection, there are author13

ized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary

14 for fiscal years 2010 and 2011.’’.  (See my blog about the Rapture in 2011.)

15 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Secretary of

16 Health and Human Services shall establish and

17 begin implementation of the registry under section

18 519(g) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic

19 Act, as added by paragraph (1), by not later than

20 the date that is 36 months after the date of the en21 (2012)

actment of this Act, without regard to whether or

22 not final regulations to establish and operate the

23 registry have been promulgated by such date.

24 (3) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section

25 303(f)(1)(B)(ii) of the Federal Food, Drug, and

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1 Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 333(f)(1)(B)(ii)) is amend2

ed by striking ‘‘519(g)’’ and inserting ‘‘519(h)’’.

3 (b) ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE AND USE IN CERTIFIED

4 ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS OF UNIQUE DEVICE

5 IDENTIFIERS.— (This is what they wanted the online health records for.  RFID Chips!!)

6 (1) RECOMMENDATIONS.—The HIT Policy

7 Committee established under section 3002 of the

8 Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300jj–12)

9 shall recommend to the head of the Office of the Na10

tional Coordinator for Health Information Tech11

nology standards, implementation specifications, and

12 certification criteria for the electronic exchange and

13 use in certified electronic health records of a unique

14 device identifier for each device described in section

15 519(g)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic

16 Act, as added by subsection (a).

17 (2) STANDARDS, IMPLEMENTATION CRITERIA,

18 AND CERTIFICATION CRITERIA.—The Secretary of

19 the Health Human Services, acting through the

20 head of the Office of the National Coordinator for

21 Health Information Technology, shall adopt stand22

ards, implementation specifications, and certification

23 criteria for the electronic exchange and use in cer24

tified electronic health records of a unique device

25 identifier for each device described in paragraph (1),

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2 the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21

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Feel better knowing that our legislators are SO willing to look out for you and yours that they'll gladly give this up: Amendment IV: Search and arrest warrants

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.