The only answer to the End Times is to pucker up

In regards to Mr. Nash and his column concerning the end times. He has it all messed up and really needs to understand that there are only two options for the human population when that happens.

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3:51 PM January 9, 2012 0

East Pierce makes correction to informational flyer sent to district residents

10:48 AM August 4, 2011 0

Constitution, birther issue not as clear as columnist maintains

I wanted to respond to the column in your April 13 edition of The Courier-Herald. The piece, penned by staff writer Brian Beckley, appeared in the Our Corner section of this edition.

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updated 10:54 AM May 4, 2011 0

So who evaluates the evaluators?

The teacher termination bill really (puts power) in the hands of one person: the evaluator of that teacher. What if the evaluator is not competent? Then all the teachers under him/her who get a poor evaluation will lose their jobs.

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updated 10:53 AM May 4, 2011 0

It’s time to revisit the three strikes rule

Good public policy defines a problem and proposes a solution that should solve it, periodically evaluating it and changing it, if needed.

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2:07 PM February 14, 2011 0

Health care law continues to bring confusion

I dislike being the one to rain on Dan Scribner’s latest hate parade, but no amount of (excruciatingly) bad poetry makes up for facts. (What happened to Brian’s call for civility?)

Um, Dan, the Obamunist takeover of all health care does not go into effect until 2014. All you are seeing now is the unintended consequences of us being forced at federal gunpoint to pay the full boat tax load today ($1 trillion) to pay for it when it does kick in in 2014. The Obamunist must have a surplus in the bank in order to claim the implementation is cost neutral in, did I mention 2014?

This of course is all to plan as the act will bankrupt entire states, as 26 states have just now realized and gone to court to stop it, as well as all private insurance companies. Bankrupted by forced coverage of prior conditions among other provisions they will leave the market, as they have for individual children’s policies in most states. (Hey! 300 million new customers for the Obamunists.) Then, Obama will be shocked, shocked that the little old federal government will be “forced” to take over all health care in the U.S. (think Veterans Administration hospitals type care for you and your kids) and if you are not a supporter of IWon, good luck getting to see a government doctor. If there are any doctors left as upwards of 60 percent say they will leave practice rather than work under the Obamunists.

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2:07 PM February 14, 2011 0

A partisan political poem about health care

As the Repugnicans have shown their true colors – make sure as many people as possible die due to no health insurance – I wrote this poem, entitled “Armi-Armageddon.” (Repugnicans in Arizona have been cheering; they’ve managed to kill two more Americans by refusing to help with transplant expenses, and they confidently expect several more will die in a few months.) Remember, folks, this is the party that was stomping around with their chests out claiming they were Christians and poking into others religious beliefs. Some Christians! More like the Romans enjoying Christian deaths in Christ’s time.

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1:48 PM February 7, 2011 0

Deficit created by more than social programs

I love the way the right is so easily blaming all of our economic woes on the left. Never mind that President Clinton had a balanced budget and was paying down the national debt, which was somewhere between $4 trillion and $5 trillion. Never mind that as soon as Bush got into office he declared this paying down of the debt a surplus and it was our money and he was going to give it back to us. Never mind that these wonderful tax cuts and two unfunded wars, not even included in the budget, turned our $4+ trillion debt into $12 trillion by the time he left office. Never mind that it is the mantra of the Republicans to deregulate business because big business can better regulate itself. Never mind that that deregulation was largely responsible for the financial meltdown that nearly brought on another great depression. Never mind that without the bailout (that started under Bush by the way), there would have very likely been another great depression.

All the right can do is immediately blame Obama for all of our financial woes and just about everything else that is wrong with our country. Suddenly they can forget about the $8 trillion in additional debt piled on by the previous administration and now we should be fiscally responsible but don’t take anything from the rich because, I guess, they can’t afford it; oh, and of course they earned it. If people are unemployed it’s not because the rich have gotten richer by sending all of our good-paying jobs overseas and busting our labor unions, it’s because they’re just lazy and don’t want to take two or three minimum wage jobs just to make ends meet.

The Republicans have been trying to get rid of all of the social programs that FDR implemented ever since he got them passed and they have found the perfect way to do it; they will just bankrupt the government and all of those nasty socialistic programs can’t be funded so they will all go away and we will be a country of the super rich and the destitute.

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3:20 PM January 31, 2011 0

What happened to respectful discussions?

Re: all the finger-pointing after the Tucson shooting of Giffords.

One man had a good point – we’re giving that shooter too much credit if we think he had deep political convictions that he was acting on. However, I do know that hatred atracts hatred. The people spewing hate are magnets for the weak-minded people whose sad, pitiful lives are so empty that they need something or someone to hate. So they follow the rhetoric and the haters and do things to get attention.

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3:19 PM January 31, 2011 0

Roe v. Wade anniversary a time to reflect on law

The 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade has come and gone. Is it coincidental, or a big surprise that a Philadelphia abortion provider/doctor/abortionist has been charged with multiple counts of murder in relation to the abortion industry? No, it isn’t.

One of the big lies put forth by the left trying to get abortion legalized is that abortion needs to be safe and legal because “back alley abortions” were killing mothers. Well, legalization hasn’t changed things much. Botched abortions are killing and maiming mothers every day across this country. The unborn baby is still dying, even though he or she may be aborted alive. Although that death of the baby is now considered A-OK by the government, courts and society. Some babies still survive abortions. So, just like the cases in Philadelphia, the abortionist has to snuff out the life of the baby that is born alive, because that is what they are paid do. The abortionist in Philadelphia used scissors to kill the surviving babies. If this is offensive, I am sorry you feel that way. Please go back to your Facebook or ESPN or your wine club chat room on the Internet – sorry to make you feel uncomfortable by exposing the truth. Fortunately, this doctor was exposed and he will probably face some stiff penalties. However, don’t think that he is the only abortionist that does this.

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3:19 PM January 31, 2011 0