tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731750.post111149259331031018..comments2023-07-29T05:54:28.833-04:00Comments on The Kalamazoo Post: Big Government Stomps!Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03056377038486402824noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731750.post-1132907475951632052005-11-25T03:31:00.000-05:002005-11-25T03:31:00.000-05:00Hello Grodge,After reading your blog "Big Governme...Hello Grodge,<BR/><BR/>After reading your blog "Big Government Stomps!", I believe you will find the wages information on my site about <A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com" REL="nofollow"> Jobs With Best Wages</A> to be very helpful. <BR/><BR/>To give you an idea of our wide range, some of the recent searches that found our site included ... <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/farming_fishing_forestry_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Fishing Workers Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/farming_fishing_forestry_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Forest Workers Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/farming_fishing_forestry_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Conservation Workers Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/farming_fishing_forestry_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Agricultural Products Sorters Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/farming_fishing_forestry_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Agricultural Products Graders Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/farming_fishing_forestry_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Log Graders Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/farming_fishing_forestry_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Log Scalers Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/farming_fishing_forestry_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Logging Workers Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/farming_fishing_forestry_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Logging Equipment Operators Wages</A>.<BR/><BR/>We have hundreds of "must read" articles on wages and careers and many other topics in our <A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com" REL="nofollow">Top Career Wages</A> site.<BR/><BR/>Kind Regards<BR/>EmilyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731750.post-1132627023631997342005-11-21T21:37:00.000-05:002005-11-21T21:37:00.000-05:00Hello Grodge,After reading your blog "Big Governme...Hello Grodge,<BR/><BR/>After reading your blog "Big Government Stomps!", I believe you will find the wages information on my site about <A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com" REL="nofollow"> Jobs With Best Wages</A> to be very helpful. <BR/><BR/>To give you an idea of our wide range, some of the recent searches that found our site included ... <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/building_maintenance_cleaning_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Landscaping Workers Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/building_maintenance_cleaning_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Groundskeeping Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/building_maintenance_cleaning_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Pest Control Workers Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/building_maintenance_cleaning_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Pesticide Handlers & Sprayers Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/building_maintenance_cleaning_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Pesticide Applicators Wages</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com/documents/building_maintenance_cleaning_remuneration.php" REL="nofollow">Tree Trimmers & Pruners Wages</A>.<BR/><BR/>We have hundreds of "must read" articles on wages and careers and many other topics in our <A HREF="http://www.top-career-wages.com" REL="nofollow">Top Career Wages</A> site.<BR/><BR/>Kind Regards<BR/>EmilyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731750.post-1111603417843314242005-03-23T13:43:00.000-05:002005-03-23T13:43:00.000-05:00Hold on, the ride’s going to be bumpy. Nobody sai...Hold on, the ride’s going to be bumpy. Nobody said the sausage maker that we call democracy was a pretty site to watch. I feel the pain of Dr. Grodge about the legal circus we are enduring regarding Schiavo as well as the Ten Commandments, but I will re-iterate my sentiment to “trust the system”—it has ample provision for the admittedly hair-brained demagoguery put forth by the Republican leadership. You are correct, Ms. Schiavo is not going to survive this episode; and the correct decision had been made by the Florida courts. We just have to let this play out. <BR/><BR/>As a citizen of this great nation, you must realize that, however painful, politics enters every debate, even those that entail the private medical decisions of de facto celebrities such as Terri Schiavo. If you choose, you can read the Constitution and claim that the US Congressional intervention was unwise, but then that is not your decision to make mainly because you have not been elected to Congress. The stalwarts in Congress can pass a law outlawing oxygen if they wish; the ultimate interpretation of legality is up to the learned members of the courts (who are smart lawyers like me.) The soapbox has been given to the Republican leadership like DeLay and Frist, and the voters will decide if they have made good use of it. The point has never been to “save Terri” (just don’t tell her parents) with an act of Congress. The point has only been to pass the law so that the campaigns in 2006 and 2008 will be more decisively about the “culture of life” jargon which most of DeLay’s and Frist’s constituents gobble up.<BR/><BR/>The risk is that the public will tire of such silly incursions on personal liberties, and vote them out of office, but that seems less likely every day. Inexplicably, the unwashed masses seem to eat this stuff up with a knife and fork. Say what you want about the Republicans, but they certainly know what stirs up their political base. And thank God they do!! I for one do not want to go back to the bad ol’ days of tax increases, balanced budgets, talk of universal health care and pining about making life more bearable for trailer folk. <BR/><BR/>Relax, Dr. Grodge, Ms. Shiavo will mercifully pass this week or next. The chance of a Moses monument in your state capital is zero. The system will work. Trust that the current leadership knows what they’re doing. They will take care of their political base, although we may have to avert our eyes during these times of Constitutional lunacy. Personally, I don’t care how they do it, just so they get re-elected.<BR/>NYC_JDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731750.post-1111560941697800532005-03-23T01:55:00.000-05:002005-03-23T01:55:00.000-05:00Filled with fear that one day I might somehow be p...Filled with fear that one day I might somehow be plagued with a fate similar as that of Terri Schiavo, I composed a living will at 11 pm last night. It actually infuriated me that I should have to take on this task. After all the pronouncements by the right wing about the sanctity of marriage, how ironic that I would have to reinforce the fact that my spouse -- you know, the person I MARRIED -- would be my next of kin?<br /><br /><br />So why was I filled with fear? Well, I fear that one day, should the worst of circumstances prevail, my darling husband would have to spend years of his life arguing in court with my mother. I'd like to believe that my devoutly Christian mother would actually appeal to the higher spiritual view that my soul would be better off with God (if I am so lucky), rather than confined to a body which will never recover (despite Bill Frist's wacko diagnosis) and a brain filled with spinal fluid. A telephone conversation with Mother last night, which might as well have been a conversation with Tom Delay thanks to the level of irrationality, sent me flying into my study to compose my living will! I wanted to make it clear that not only does my husband speak for me, but that I just don't see the point of being kept alive artifically with no quality of life. You see, life is just a bit more than a pulse to me...<br /><br /><br />(As an aside -- Parents love their children. BUT it is simply pathological to be unable to let a human being go, when clearly that is his/her desire, in order to ensure that one's own religious views and ideological zeal are upheld.) <br /><br /><br />So that brings me to the whole issue of life. I am more than a little disgusted by the HYPOCRISY of the Republican party as regards life. Yesterday, George Bush smilingly said "we should err on the side of life" as regards the Terri Schiavo case and that insane bill he signed into law. Too bad, no one erred on the side of life as regards all those executions he presided over during his years as my governor in Texas. And too bad about the fact that he signed that Texas Medical Futility Act which forcibly removes artificial support to patients who cannot recover, but who cannot pay for healthcare. Indeed, a little boy died only weeks ago due to this very bill -- which George Bush signed -- but yet, he was speaking about "erring on the side of life." It makes me SICK to think that a little boy died, and his mother is grieving in a way that Terri Schiavo's mother has not yet had to grieve, because his mother could not afford the health care. Yet Terri Schiavo, who did not want to be kept alive as stated by HER legal guardian, was granted whole new legislation to keep her on the planet. <br /><br /><br />You know what else makes me sick about the Republicans who supported this atrocious legislation, which was intended to subvert the Constitution and separation of powers? The fact that the very people chirping about saving Terri Schiavo's life are the same people who would move heaven and earth to end malpractice medical awards as well as medicaid -- bot of which were used for the care of Ms. Schiavo. The hypocrisy is so thick, the stench is nauseating. But then what else should we expect from those who advocate "state rights" only when a racist can fly a Confederate flag but not when votes have to be counted (re: Bush v. Gore) and when civil or privacy rights have to be upheld?. <br /><br /><br />Oh and yes, over 15 years later, 19 hearings later, the appointment of an independent Guardian ad Litum later, and the repeated denials of certiorari by the US Supreme Court, and the clamor still resounds to deny this woman the right to rest in peace. Instead, judges are branded as 'activists' for simply interpreting the law, and the Congress pushes though legislation that one could argue functions like a Bill of Attainder. Okay, so this is a debatable point but why do I characterize it as such? Because it essentially denies the husband of rights while conferring new rights on the parents. Yes, that's right -- suddenly the sanctity of marriage (for Michael Schiavo to be his wife's guardian) is not quite so pure for the extremists in Congress. <br /><br /><br />I am not a lawyer and I am not a doctor, but it seems to me that if a pest control guy from Sugarland Texas feels he has the right to override the Constitution, then I'll be damned if I don't express my thoughts about that. And Bill Frist may have a medical doctorate (mine is not in the medical field)... but if he can make medical judgements based on videotape, hell if I can't call him a quack. So let it be known that this is the last straw for me. I have officially lost respect for the Republican party. The Democrats who went along with this assinine legislation are equally worthy of contempt in my book as well. Oh and ever since the election ( you know, the Nov. 2 date when "moral values" suddenly became the equivalent of discriminating against certain groups of people), I have had my problems with the church. Well, today I wrote my church a letter to explain that I will no longer be attending services and I will be praying at home instead. <br /><br /><br />Religion in this country has become a JOKE. I no longer wish to be part of a religion for which the so-called "culture of life" only applies to the unborn and the almost dead. I no longer want to be a part of a religion for which a pastor tells a judge (Judge Greer) that he is no longer welcome in church due to his ruling in the Schiavo case. Since when does the church turn away perceived sinners? Wouldn't the church be empty if that rule was applied equally? <br /><br /><br />When the church starts fighting for people on death row, and people dying of starvation, and people dying in an unnecssary war in Iraq, and poor people who can't afford to pay for health care, etc. etc, etc., I'll be happy to return. Until then, the church is a meeting place for modern day Pharisees. <br /><br /><br />The Talibanization of American culture is complete. We are as insane as the Saudis -- wedded to religious extremism and oil interests, but without the kafirs. The constitution is being shredded thanks to each successive move by this administration and its cabal of extremists in Congress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com