#1
Gun control by any means. They know the citizens are arming themselves and don't trust this government and the tyrants are gonna put a stop to it, once and for all.
#4
Restraining order via the Judicial Branch against the Executive Branch originated in the Legislative Branch - House of Representatives. As designed by the Founders.
[Dawn] India's next parliament will include a record number of politicians facing criminal charges despite
... or perhaps because...
campaign promises by prime minister-elect Narendra Modi to clean up government, research showed Sunday.
Modi, who pledged a clean and efficient government to help revive the slowing economy, won the general election on Friday in a landslide, securing the biggest majority by an Indian leader in 30 years.
But newly-elected politicians from his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are among those facing criminal charges including murder, kidnapping, robbery and inciting communal disharmony.
Research by the Association for Democratic Reforms shows 186 members of the elected lower house of parliament, 34 per cent, are facing criminal charges, compared with 158 members in the dissolved legislature.
The association, an advocate for clean government, says 21 per cent of members of the new 543-member parliament face serious criminal charges.
Four of nine politicians charged with murder are from the BJP, and so are 10 of 17 parliamentarians charged with attempted murder.
The organization's research is based on affidavits which all candidates were required to file with the election commission before launching their campaigns.
The association's Jagdeep Chhokar said the increase in numbers showed parties only chose candidates based on their "winnability" at the election, not their likely contribution to good governance once elected.
"The public cannot expect that these people can contribute to good governance during their terms in office. That would be the ultimate fallacy,"Chhokar told AFP.
"If this rate continues at coming elections then eventually you will see the majority of politicians with criminal cases. It sounds ridiculous but it's true," he said.
India has a long history of electing politicians with criminal cases against them, but cleaning up government was a central theme of the mammoth polls that just ended.
Voters turned against the Congress party, embroiled in a string of corruption scandals during its decade in power, in favour of Modi.
Analysts say voters have traditionally been untroubled by politicians facing criminal charges in a country where millions have voted along caste and religious lines in the past.
Many also believe the charges are false or trumped up and levelled by political opponents.
[Wash Times] The Obama administration received clear notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care problems that have turned into a growing scandal.
Veterans Affairs officials warned the Obama-Biden transition team in the weeks after the 2008 presidential election that the department shouldnt trust the wait times that its facilities were reporting. On December 7, 2008, then-President-elect Champ announced he would nominate retired General and fellow Hawaiian Eric Shinseki as Director of the VA. Shinseki was Champ's 'fix it man.' This morning's news reports that VA appointment records are now being quietly destroyed nationwide.
#5
Any National Guard units available to start making arrests throughout the Executive Branch?
Posted by: Elmumble Oppressor of the Pixies5813 ||
05/19/2014 15:51 Comments ||
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#6
This is what King Putt said when campaigning.
As President, I wont stand for hundreds of thousands of veterans waiting for benefits. Well hire additional claims workers, Obama said. Well bring together veterans groups and the VA to work out a claims process that is fair and fast. And instead of shutting veterans out, well make sure that our disabled vets receive the benefits they deserve, and well allow all veterans back into the VA health care system. And well have a simple policy when it comes to homeless veterans: zero tolerance. Well expand housing vouchers. Well set up a new supportive services program to prevent at-risk veterans and their families from sliding into homelessness. Well stand with veterans in their hour of need, just as they have stood up for us. Sen. Barack Obama, Oct 2007
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05/19/2014 16:08 Comments ||
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#7
lulz - every statement by this liar has an expiration date. That one was a half hour later
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/19/2014 16:15 Comments ||
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#8
This "scandal" is about highly paid VA doctors seeing less than 10% of the patients that a doctor in private practice sees.
The question is why were the administrators of the hospitals fudging the books rather than cracking down on these slackers and getting bonuses to the high performers.
#9
As much as I hate to admit it; I have to give Bambi props for getting the VA's budget bumped. Only bad thing appears that the VA management opted to spend the bucks on anything other than increased care and support for our Vets. Now this is where Bambi failed, he sent the money and then went back to sleep....
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05/19/2014 20:50 Comments ||
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#10
This "scandal" is about highly paid VA doctors seeing less than 10% of the patients that a doctor in private practice sees.
A better comparison would be the volume of a doctor that sees Medicare/Medicaid/Indian Health patients.
Oh, and strictly just out of curiosity, do you know what the GS level of a VA doctor is?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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