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22 June 2014

Regarding Veteran's Administration "Scandals" Professor Paul Krugman Nobel Peace Prize Winner New York Times Columnist Cautions Readers Not Rush To Judgment Despite Media Hysteria

       Sunday, 22 June 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Nobel Peace Prize Winner New York Times (Uncompensated) Daily "The Conscience of a Liberal" Columnist Princeton University Economics Professor (and the Ninth Amendment Editorial Board is not sure exactly what else) Paul Krugman in a Thursday, 19 June 2014 column presented verbatim in its entirety as fair comment accessible by interested readers via the link below argues why more thoughtful persons may wish to exercise pause before rushing to judgment regarding information presented to them which facts on cursory examination may seem to be susceptible to but one "correct" interpretation but on further examination with more complete background context may not necessarily be exactly what it seems nor be presented in some cases solely for the necessarily "innocent" good-intentioned motives which readers might quite naturally be expected to impugn.
       In the following piece Professor Krugman raises the question whether the furiously fueled Veteran's Administration hypermedia scandal may be to some extent be instigated by the calculated manipulation of parties with agendas which some observers might not otherwise immediately expect as well as demonstrating to the Ninth Amendment's editorial board one of a great many persons such as Professor Krugman win a Nobel Peace Prize while members of the Ninth Amendment's editorial board and staff have not. The editorial board however does take this opportunity unambiguously to communicate that we in fact are available to accept the Nobel Peace Prize and the accompanying one million dollar "stipend" -- including any inflation or cost of living upward adjustments -- should duty call upon us to do so.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/opinion/the-hype-behind-the-health-care-scandal.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As&_r=0  

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19 June 2014

WebMD Long Sordid Record As Undisclosed Biased Tool Of Big Pharmaceuticals And Others Google-Supplied "Gadget" Yanked By Ninth Amendment Immediately Upon WebMD Bias Exposure

       Thursday, 19 June 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment sincerely apologizes to readers for any legitimacy WebMD may have been afforded by its Google "Gadget" WebMD presence on this site as it has come to the attention of the editorial board that WebMD has long been the subject of verified allegations that it operates with a complete lack of disclosure and no transparency whatsoever in the fact that it is nothing more than a "For Sale" totally pro-drug company biased operation which has taken in huge amounts of cash for drug companies whose medications it then has directed completely unknowing consumers toward to the extent that WebMD has been the subject of a Congressional investigation.
       When drug company advertising somewhat dried up WebMd took large amounts of U.S. readers' taxpayer money from the U.S. Government in order to give the appearance of unbiased support of Obamacare. It seems our most "transparent" President (a pretty tall order which he has no one to blame but himself for totally dishonestly claiming that title) cannot help but likewise enlist or rather pay off the least transparent but mistakenly once most highly regarded and visited web site which Americans where scammed into turning to for what seemed "to good to be true", and was, free medical advice. About as helpful as turning for advice to all those horrific prescription medicine ads the FDA true to its morally bankrupt history has allowed to deluge the public airways.
       Speaking of which it turns out that WebMD also has received many millions of dollars from the FDA itself discredited for dissuading the people of this country from using time-tested natural remedies and  promoting drugs which often turn out to have horrific "side effects" which somehow never came to light. Readers may learn why if they ever ask their pharmacist for the true drug information sheet which must come with all cases of prescription medicine in the form basically of tissue paper that folds out to something the size of a billboard in tiny print. If readers examine the numbers of persons actually able to survive it through the studies on which the FDA (iall costs paid by the pharmaceutical companies) approves medications readers will find that often barely a handful make it to the end of a study before the FDA approves a drug that then may be used by millions of persons.
       A final note on the absolute hypocrisy of the FDA. In the 1980's the Administrator of the FDA found that the drug MDMA in a final determination did not meet the requirements of no known medical or research value such that it therefore could not be placed in Schedule I. Yet at the same time the latest chemical sweetener to be developed by Searle known as aspartame was found by the FDA to cause too high a risk of brain cancer and was to be banned. Well would readers not know that shortly after that Ronald ("McDonald") Reagan became the first brain-dead President elected since Warren Harding.
       He within days reversed the FDA Administrator's determination on MDMA ("ecstasy") and ordered it placed in Schedule I on an emergency basis (no public comment) while meanwhile to the delight of one of his new cabinet members who happened to have just resigned his position as President of Searle within days of joining the new Administration Ronald (McDonald) Reagan agreed to have the FDA rush new tests on aspartame and lo and behold within weeks it was no longer banned but declared perfectly safe such that it was on readers' supermarket shelves and being dumped into all kinds of foods and beverages within the month in time to the likely severe detriment of millions of Americans' well-being. As it turned out Ronald (McDonald) Reagan had been consuming large quantities of homemade aspartame since he was a child and he after all turned out practically to be perfectly fine with no sign of no brain cancer at all.
       One last tidbit about what a load of garbage the FDA and all its pharmaceutical and law enforcement chums have hoisted on Americans forever is that one just need take a look at the story of one horribly vilified "date rape" drug known as GHB the only problems for starters being that it is naturally occurring in the human body which one would think might make prosecuting possession a bit of a problem at least in some legal systems. The second being that it has been very widely and safely used for years in Europe and throughout the world as an anesthetic, a sleep aid that some have said is the best sleep aid they have ever had leaving them clear-headed, well-rested, and often even needing less sleep before being able to do more mental and physical activity and even exercise that seem indisputedly to more quickly result in healthy muscle development.
       In any case the DEA of course needed its latest hysteria to keep it in business as always, and with the help of a few well-publicized anecdotes, well what did Americans know but the naturally-occurring human growth hormone that had been sold for years in places like GNC and was well known to weightlifters and athletes has become the thing of living nightmares and of course headed for "emergency" scheduling as Schedule I, no known blah blah blah. Only problem was that it turned out to be the only effective substance for certain sleep disorders including serious narcolepsy, so what did the federal acronym gang come up with, well they simply allowed a single company to sell it in pharmacies under a trade name (the name escapes us but interested readers should be able to find it, possibly under the "R"s in about one minute) as schedule III, while it was simultaneously schedule I at the same time and voila disaster was diverted. It is not known if they had the NSA lawyers or the White House lawyers review and okay that one making the legally impossible fully possible with the stroke of a pen.
      The Ninth Amendment will save the story told on of all places "60 Minutes" about the drugs in regular use such as aspirin and even phenobarbital from well before the FDA even existed and which therefore had no authority to approve or disapprove those or many other drugs commonly used  -- as we understood it from the television program, and though may have gotten it all wrong and be totally confused we think not. (THIS IS NOT NOR DOES IT PURPORT TO BE LEGAL NOR MEDICAL ADVICE IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. READERS MUST EXCLSUIVELY CONSULT A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL FOR LEGAL ADVICE AND A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL FOR MEDICAL ADVICE.) In any case in casual inquiries with pharmacists it has been our experience that as "60 Minutes" predicted many druggists are confused between what is known as the NDC number (?) and the actual FDA approval.
       Regardless as many of our readers know pharmacists are always right unless they are speaking directly to a doctor or as for the pathetic customer prescription unless they open the bag right there and dump their prescription out on the counter and actually count it out in front of someone behind the counter and carefully compare the visual appearance to the verbal description on the label.
       Because OTHERWISE ONE IS OUT OF LUCK even if one gets home with just one big square green pill for pets with the letter "A" on it but were supposed to get two hundred and twenty-five small white people ones with the number "178" on side and for example  "Screw You" on the back. (The number by the way is we understand how many dollars profit the pharmaceutical company makes per pill from the patient, the insurance company, or Medicare or Medicaid -- in the last case it is doubled.)
        Whatever that green pill is readers better make it last the month or whatever because the PHARMACIST DOES NOT EVER MAKE A MISTAKE WITH THE PATIENT and ONE'S DOCTOR IS NOT INTERESTED IN ONE'S ABILITIES AT CREATIVE STORYTELLING BECAUSE SHE HAS ONE GOOD ONE FOR THE PATIENT CALLED "DRUG DIVERSION" AND ALREADY HAS THE FDA, DEA AND STATE MEDICAL BOARD all breathing down her neck poring over her medical records for weeks on end of full work days (four-and-a-half hours minus lunch) just because of SUCH UNGRATEFUL PATIENTS  -- and incidentally illegally practicing medicine but we will not get into that here.
       In any case WebMD get off our page and good riddance you sell-out pharmaceutical pigs and good riddance again. As for Google well Google no longer has any excuse whatsoever. And MIT had such high hopes for Goog;le. Well it sure is no Noam Chomsky that has become clear. Just shows anyone can go to the dogs. . . .  May Google one day have a Chromebook in the hands of some wacko talking to the parking meters so Google can track their every move and thought for the next ten years. Market that then sell the information to partner CIA -- sounds like a fine opportunity for the first candidate for MK-ULTRA-II. . . .

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13 October 2013

Shutdown Is Nothing Less Than EXTORTION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.....And Could Result In GLOBAL RAMIFICATIONS

    Sunday, October 13, 2013 Orlando, Florida    1 + 1 = 2;  2 + 2 = 4;  3 + 3 = 6!!!  It is that simple. Shutdown + Economy = DISASTER.  It is so discouraging to have to witness this unbelievable Government Shutdown.  I, Little L can't tell you how many times I have had to Accept and Live with the will of the ALMIGHTY VOTE.  The people have spoken. The vote has been counted and OBAMACARE won.  This Shutdown is unnecessary.  This Shutdown is a result of Extortion, Extortion of the American People.  I for one am FURIOUS.  Ted Cruz (R) Senator from Texas, please Cruz on down the road..... I wish this Yahoooooo would Cruz on down the road. Go have a cup of tea and leave the Country to people who know how to Govern.  As if TEXAS didn't have enough to be sick about, now they have another disgrace to deal with and his name is TED CRUZ. Please Cruz on down the road TED. I know, I know Ted can not be blamed for all our problems, but he sure has asked for all the credit! I will never read "Green Eggs and Ham" again.....
     Parents from the start teach their children to follow the rules.  They tell their children that rules should be followed and that if they do not like a rule they work to have the rules changed through the appropriate channels.  Parents do not tell their children to break the rules, or to ignore the rules.  Parents also teach their children to respect the vote, they teach their children that voting is a privilege not a given, and that the vote is to be respected.  I have many friends and relatives who do not share my political beliefs.  I respect each and every one of them.
      I respect their right to have their opinion and their vote.  That is what makes this Nation of ours great.  The Government Shutdown is causing unnecessary hardship for American Citizens.  It does not discriminate, all classes, races, and ages are being affected.  I can't even enjoy TEA anymore, because it reminds me of the OBNOXIOUS TEA PARTY.  Power and Money, that is what this whole mess is about in my opinion.
     We the people, need to stand up and contact our public servants and express our complete dissatisfaction with what we see as a complete collapse of Good Judgement and Will of the Majority. You can find out who your Elected Government Officials are by going to www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml .  Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of this great Nation we call the United States of America.  It does not matter to me if you are a Democrat or a Republican, now is the time to show up and speak up, before irrefutable damage is done.
     If this Great Nation the USA defaults and does not pay our debts we are guaranteed to have a negative outcome.  We are the LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD.  We are being viewed as a bunch of children throwing a tantrum.  A true Brat among Nations.  Enough Already!!!!


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04 October 2013

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       Friday, 4 Octobeer 2013, WASHINGTON, D.C. -  Superstupid Senator Ted Cruz (R- Texas, surprise, surprise)  what more perfect de facto voice of that awesome phenomenon in the United States come to be known as the "Tea Party". The name evokes richly textured small-town communities of mostly more mature thoughtful women discussing topics in knitting circles with others they may have known for decades, not to mention of course the seminal American historical Revolutionary event which started the United States on its long and hard-fought road to independence.
       Only fitting that Cruzian "Tea Partiers" of today distort that essential foundation of our Nation's history to debase it to a series of meaningless noisemaker events worthy of nothing more than the decimation of a collapsing country. Only this country to be rendered once again into the Republicans' timelessly failed recipe for repeated homeland economic disasters a la "Apocalypse Now", copyright the Doors, is our own fault.
       As usual the big-slime corporate donors want readers wrongly to believe "they are helpless" but to keep dumping money in the coffers of social pariahs like ATT and Verizon busy using confused callers perpetually extending "contract fees" (i.e. their latest consumer ripoffs) vying for those coveted front tables at the latest iteration of their "Tea Party" luncheon where they can sit just feet (oh boy!) from the Superstupid Tea Partier Supreme (yesterday dragged from the House of Reprsentatives because he did not know which house of Congress to which he belonged blabbing his phony filibuster). Sentaor Cruz may have his no doubt gathering henchman explain to him who is giving what so that it is easier to keep it straight on "payback" day, which in the Republican spirit unabashedly was cemented by former movie star and poster child for the disadvantaged Ronald Reagan.
       As best we recall before his Presidential inauguration speech had even begun Reagan's staff already had started working the front rows assuring luminaries such as then Searle President ("Pigheart") Cheney that that pesky aspartame ruling (causes brain cancer, does not everything?) would be reversed as soon as "Big Ron" could be taught to sign (no, NOT PRINT) his name to the orders to the FDA Administrator. No need to wait even until the Administrator could be replaced with someone more "enlightened", or should we say "encumbered" with the famous Cheney signature pallets of crisp new stacks of $100 bills straight from the mint press to the helipad do NOT pass time-consuming bill serial number recording.
       Speaking of brain cancer why not FINALLY ALREADY turn our attention back to today and the selfless generosity of ATT and Verizon wireless extended to the "Tea Party" morons and most of all their self-styled brainless leader Senator Ted Cruz, hear the tea spoons clanking around in his empty noggin?). The link below will help fill in those "interested" (or shall we just say "thoroughly nauseated" readers) with fascinating key participation of these well-practiced sleight-of-contract cellphone grifters ATT and Verizon whom we might thank our lucky stars do not get in the automobile sales, leasing and repair business (as far as we know, that is) were we not reasonably confident that they left no stone unturned getting a hand in EVERYONE's pocket except maybe in those countries which do not yet have pockets.
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03 October 2013

BREAKING NEWS MANHATTAN: U.S. Drone Reportedly Crashes In Manhattan (After Government Gas Runs Out) Picked Up By Curious Bystander Who Examines Photocard

       Thursday, 3 October 2013, MANHATTAN- CBS Television News reported that just over SEVENTEEN HOURS AGO, when mostly freshman United States Representatives and their idiot House loser leader Boehner along with lost Senate Republican freshman prodigy Ted Cruz (no known relation to the actor) cut of the money for all Americans' headwear just as flu season started, cut off the temporary funds to keep the government afloat with temporary money, and forced the entire United States to stop work and defer paying millions of its Federal employees sending most of them home with no pay for the coming weeks. The Congress is not believed to have chosen to do the same to itself. Meanwhile as we prepared for press reports began coming in from CBS-TV news in New York that a (nonexistent) drone has crashed on a busy street (are they not all) in Manhattan? No government gas.
       Except the really important adolescents who work for the National Security Agencies and those who pack lox lunches and dinners for the generally heavier old Republicans before they go home and pat themselves on the back, Senator Cruz reportedly was either delirious or under the influence of borderline "brain death". Not unlike his beloved protege lame duck Texas "Village Idiot" Rick "Payback" Perry had been at the now infamous Republican nationally televised "Perry brain freeze". Whatever the case Cruz is a Senator with high hopes in the Republican party for carrying the mantle of the "Tea Party Republicans" boldly into the fully forseeable budget disaster which awaits us all.
       Although frugal California Governor Jerry Brown has not ever even been known to set foot in his "California" limo or mothballed "mansion", Texas Brain Duck Governor George "little shrub" Perry could be seen to once again shed a crocodile tear as Bush gleefully loaded his laser-sighted six shooter with some extra bullets in his mouth for good luck. "Better bullets than bandaids" the really extremely  short Perry reportedly quipped as he accidentally clipped a tree beside his beloved Labrador and sent his bodyguards diving for cover from his errant bullets which could have bought vaccine for a whole clinic.
       As reported here some weeks ago the relatively tiny and shrinking number of Texas "Tea Party" dupes see Perry idiot protege Senator Steve Cruz as the flag bearer of the "Tea Party" mantle that confused ignorant hope for salvation, having squandered earlier money on nonexistent coyote problems and boldly living out the fantasy of the "Tea Party King". (Some of those American Republicans sure do like Kings, like George of England.) They know on which side their toast is dusted.
       So Senator Cruz finally last night had to be physically escorted from the House of Representatives reminded that he is a big Senator now but NOT also a Congressional Republican Representative who does NOT get to vote twice to dump our Nation's living and eating money as might have been expected by this latest disastrous Republican financial "hero of ruin".
       And just the most recent Republican to take the Country down the sewer drain amidst fear, stupidity and recrimination. The most memorable last financial disaster of a sick fear-mongering Republican, well that would of course be just another long-time dope addict's run taking the Country along on the road to financial ruin was Republican star Senator McCarthy. As Cruz quivered wondering what next Mengelian medical research hare-brained scheme Republicans (many of whom are too stupid to marticulate from an accredited United States Law School and in any case not be able to succeed on their medical boards without a good deal of  grease-fillled Republican hand-squeezing).
      At least Senator Cruz can take comfort that he is not the only one in over his had as clearly now after his SECOND totally failed chance to divert further compounding of Republican-created disasters in a totally bad faith disingenuous last minute call unbelievably AGAIN to meet with President Obama TWENTY MINUTES before they lock up the government BOEHNER a COUPLE YEARS LATER STILL WANTS TO BE PLAYING with dredging up decades of yet more new dead old issues in a desperate attempt to run down the clock. The United States does not just have to close up the public restroom here and say, phew! that was a close one.
       And they even try to make the Republicans look like someone's heroes? Who their mothers? Do the Republicans WHO CAN ALWAYS SEE THE DOCTOR WHENEVER THEY WANT really believe that for making sure that the Americans' long ago duly fully legally passed universal health care is further diverted while these Speaker Boehner and fellow turkey Republicans play cock-a-doodle-doo with the real hard-working Americns' need for life and death health care now is going to make them some kind of heroes for thinking up stupid old lies as fast they can to kill off the people who voted for them?
       Now that is over how about a litttle time to go out and get a little cash in the palms, eh eh? Heck, their voters can wait all day in the emergency room for basic medical care (paid for by the State not the Feds mind you readers) for a while longer just like always (and probably catch something far worse while they are waiting in that germ pit.)
       No dice for the hot shot Republicans until after they have gone round and gotten paid off by all their insurance company pals and the people THOSE REPUBLICANS REALLY REPRESENT. We know they will be going to see their doctors in the morning, getting paid their Congressional salaries and honorariums and a little of this and a little of that just a small gift oh just fine, and sitting down for a nice steak dinner for lunch before they go to sleep with a job well -- NOT done. But just that one last thing must be sure to collect the dues BEFORE the pressure is off, right?  Oh yes indeed it is business as usual in the Grand Old Party, just do not get stomped on (or worse) by that big old elephant. . . . . Because we will sure want to see you still when we need next need you.

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27 September 2013

"Thin Slicing", Necessity To Write, Your Top Public Servants In Congress Vie To Paralyze Government

      Thursday, 27 September 2013, WASHINGTON, DC - The Ninth Amendment Log editorial board recently was pleased to find itself with a thin slice* of free time with digital enthusiasm still growing, even if not necessarily reflected in ability. The dictates of writing emphasizing constantly to the editorial board that this craft unequivocally must have its time for reflection away from the constant demands of continuing publication of this living "tribute" ostensibly to Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.* Blink copyright 2005 Malcolm Gladwell is a fascinating compilation of brief examinations of situations in which literally just a "thin slice" (not really cutting into the brain!) of information in our own and sometimes in experts which enables us to predict human behavior even when provided with astonishingly little information. (As in a college professor who has distilled the work of examining married mail-female couples to the point that by just eavesdropping for a few seconds on a neighboring conversation at a restaurant he can predict to something like 95% accuracy whether they will be married in fifteen years.)
       The act of writing for us has become not just a pleasure but a necessity which drives us through intermediate method to final product. As many readers and others including a range of friends (including former and present government officials) by now are aware from conversations in person and remotely, and physical evidence some of which is under the protection and care of others that the Ninth Amendment (which is made up of individual persons) unfortunately suffered harm, damage, very large (for us) economic loss in order to either repair, upgrade, replace and/or secure former computers' integrity. This includes all manner of injury short of known physical assault from acts clearly evidencing technical malfeasance with our publication, identity theft known to include breaking into e-mail accounts, and related accounts, which were misused for so-called "side-door access" including to all significant functions we control allowing us to bring out the Ninth Amendment as we see fit.  
       Furthermore damages were incurred and federal, state and/or local laws may have been violated under a lay reading of the plain texts of statutes by taking without authorization (theft) "Administrator" status such individuals were acting and purportedly writing legally significant and other correspondence under the name of myself, the editor-in-chief, of this publication. To the best of our knowledge we suffered the first service disruptions of any type consistent with those described above exactly on the same date that information became public of Texas Governor Rick Perry's impending self-imposed end to his unparalleled run in state office culminating in a string of Texas governorships spanning more than thirty-five years.
       According to statistics kept by Google page views of the most viewed page appearing in this Ninth Amendment Log is a more than three-year-old post reporting on Governor Perry which has as of the publication of today's post reached 1,376 specific page views. The Ninth Amendment Log is and always has been political satire, with scattered obvious solemn notes such as our statements honoring our war dead and wounded on Veteran's Day, celebrating the United States Constitution and the pressingly pertinent endurance of its words today, as well of its historical foundation to our County's current experience, and more reflecting a deep and abiding love of that Compact which roots this extraordinary Nation.
       The Ninth Amendment is recognized as such by reasonable persons from the moment they first see the cartoon caricaturing Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on the Ninth Amendment's landing page. Readers easily can discern the focus of the site's mostly political satirical coverage regarding nationally and globally known institutions and individuals.
       Upon learning that Google keeps a record accessible for site administrators such as ours detailing all account activity, including identifying information as to servers and their approximate location including objects from within a proximity of a few feet. More exact location need be pursued through some unfamiliar to us military/national security/similar we expect channels. Upon learning this persons including those participating in the digital publication of the Ninth Amendment consulted the Google listing for this Ninth Amendment Log, a so-called "blog" on Google's "blogger.com". The Ninth Amendment consulted the Google Account Activity site and found that the Ninth Amendment for years has had its server of record at an IP address in Mountain View, California.
       Nevertheless after about five years of uninterrupted publication since its inception in later July 2013 that IP address jumped (in the Google report with no discernable action on the part of anyone working on or for the Ninth Amendment) to a different server having been documented in earlier posts searchable by interested readers. A reverse IP address locater found that the server IP address 127.227.207.201 is at about the southwest corner of the intersection of Van Ness and Market Streets at a facility listed to a previously identified public information search as belonging to the State of California. The reference resource identifies California DTS-cis (?) as providing computer support services to local, state, and federal entities from this location.
        Now patient readers to change gears and assuage your boundless curiosity we reproduce first verbatim the below editorial. As readers see it has been presented by the New York Times unanimously by the Editorial Board. The below is copyright The New York Times. House leaders are threatening economic disaster with an absurd list of discredited demands of "or elses"  that should be:
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A Republican Ransom Note


On Wednesday last, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew sent the House a very serious warning that, for the first time, the United States would be unable to pay its bills beginning on Oct. 17 if the debt ceiling is not lifted. House leaders responded on Thursday with one of the least serious negotiating proposals in modern Congressional history: a jaw-dropping list of ransom demands containing more than a dozen discredited Republican policy fantasies.

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We’ll refrain from deliberately sabotaging the global economy, Speaker John Boehner and the other leaders said, if President Obama allows more oil drilling on federal lands. And drops regulations on greenhouse gases. And builds the Keystone XL oil pipeline. And stops paying for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And makes it harder to sue for medical malpractice. And, of course, halts health care reform for a year.
The list would be laughable if the threat were not so serious. A failure to raise the debt ceiling would cause a default on government debt, shattering the world’s faith in Treasury bonds as an investment vehicle and almost certainly bringing on another economic downturn. Unlike a government shutdown, a default could leave the Treasury without enough money to pay Social Security benefits or the paychecks of troops.
The full effects remain unknown because no Congress has ever allowed the government to go over the brink before. The Government Accountability Office estimated that simply by threatening to default in 2011, Republicans cost taxpayers $1.3 billion in higher interest payments because of that uncertainty. The 10-year cost of those higher-interest bonds is $18.9 billion.
Any sober-minded lawmaker should realize that the danger of trifling with the debt limit is far too high. But Mr. Boehner has been encouraging his members to toss their pet projects — hey, let’s insist on Congressional approval for every major federal regulation! — onto the towering list of demands.
By day’s end, many Republican members remained skeptical of the leadership plan. But the House leaders clearly hope the president will take the bait and negotiate on a few items on the list, forcing him to break his promise never to bargain over the debt ceiling. Many items on the list are intended to put vulnerable red-state Democratic senators on the spot should the plan wind up in their chamber. One of them, Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, said Thursday he could support a year’s delay on health reform. If the unified Democratic opposition to the debt-ceiling threat is shattered in the Senate, the pressure on Mr. Obama to come to the table would be intense.
But the absurdity of the list shows just how important it is that Mr. Obama ignore every demand and force the House extremists to decide whether they really want to be responsible for an economic catastrophe. He made a mistake by negotiating in 2011, hoping to reach a grand bargain; that produced the corrosive sequester cuts.
To prevent the House from making every debt-ceiling increase an opportunity to issue extortionist demands for rejected policies they can achieve in no other way, the president has to put an end to the routine creation of emergencies once and for all by simply saying no.

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    31 March 2012

    Americans' ACA Health, Welfare and Very Lives in Hands of Single Supreme Court Justice Kennedy? And He Smiles Like a Fool As He Figures Out What "Liberty" Means

           Saturday, 31 March 2012, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Readers routinely reminded not to READ FREE UNLIMITED NEW YORK TIMES' DIGITAL CONTENT SIMPLY BY SETTING FREE FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING" by later that year on April Fool's Day that is tomorrow in fact the Times already fired at least one executive over the "gold-plated" tens of million dollar porous "paywall" when it if anyone should have known that for a few million dollars of $100 bills lowered on pallets from helicopters the Times simply could have called Dick "Pig Heart" Cheney on the scrambled Batphone and had his "Blackdeath" boys go door to door to crack some heads and get the message out.
           Speaking of April fools the Ninth Amendment moves on to the Justices haunting the once-hallowed halls of the Supreme Court where now Mr. Justice Thomas must be patted down for pornography or self-pleasure devices before entering the men's rooms out in the public area of the Court. Not to mention his lifetime bar from the women's rooms just like his Republican-expected extremely long lifetime appointment to the bench which he is giving up nohow since no one can make him do any work, and he hears from up there on the bench when he can understand what they are saying down there that it may be kind of hard to get another job in America these days.
           In stark contrast Justice Antonin "Broccoli" Scalia sliding his words and the underclass unfortunate enough to slide legs apart down his razor sharp mind that shared an epiphany long ago that life/death/law it is all just economics. Sure does miss those pals of a similar bent from the University of Chicago school and the Seventh Circuit up there. Too bad Bork could not make the cut in 1987 simply because in his case as well it is not necessary to turn to the opinion to know the result, just the parties and/or the causes. Legal realism, economic style. If you have not got the bucks your "justice" decision on the case is a foregone conclusion. As is Mr. Justice Scalia's here with this what who cares Act rich people can pay for their doctors so how dare the Government tell them how to spend their money and the poor already have emergency rooms dammit.
         The Ninth Amendment previously posted its prediction that the Court just because it found it essentially could ignore the United States Constitution (and that sure turned out to be a stellar idea) and in a day position a man for President  who was not even elected, never to cite THAT decision again, now could take on this one too where the American people already clearly have spoken and having done so may not be so tolerant once again this time to have their and their families and loved ones health, welfare, and lifespans profoundly affected by nine spooks in black robes hiding up behind a bench that really is not that high. We could and did reach right over it as children just to bang the Chief's gavel.

    Ninth Amendment Comment Published in Digital New York Times Regarding Mr. Justice Kennedy
    1.             (Verbatim with one editorial correction "menal" to "mental")
      • BigMartin
      • waronnothing
      Intellectually stimulating as it may or may not be to focus on the alleged jurisprudence of Mr. Justice Kennedy's apparent fascination with the concept of "liberty" (yes such as allows us to carry firearms in schoolzones) given the occasion of this most momentous week in this Court's history as it publicly considers the constitutionality of the ACA, perhaps we might just consider the shameful reality of the "Greatest Nation on Earth" not even providing basic healthcare for all. The Ninth Amendment log at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com observes that in the Federal Government every government worker gets health insurance from a list of about 100 plans which either play ball and provide reasonable healthcare or simply do not get to be on the list. We assume the Justices have at least similar benefits in addition to special attention wherever when needed. (If Mr. Justice Thomas is unwilling to use his provided mental healthcare but instead sit on the bench for decades manifesting some kind of semi-catatonic stupor, no doubt Mr. Justice Kennedy could find him at "liberty" to do so unless and until Thomas is removed under pertinent provisions of the US Constitution). So assuming the Justices are well aware of this excellent system already in place for millions, why agonize reinventing the wheel over the distracting din of obscenely well-financed biased filthy rich opponents who obviously care of nothing but their bottom line while Americans continue to suffer and die for no reason?

    28 March 2012

    Supreme Court Confirms Unsound Minds on Bench In Health Care Law Questionning, Assures Obama's Re-Election

           Wednesday, 28 March 2012, Washington, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment REMINDS OUR FAITHFUL READERS TO AVOID READING FREE UNLIMITED DIGITAL NEW YORK TIMES CONTENT SIMPLY BY SETTING READERS' FREE FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING" especially now that the Times purports to have imminent plans to reduce "free" article reading from twenty (20) to a niggardly ten (10) a month.
           The editorial staff and global bureaus of the Ninth Amendment again apologize to our loyal readers as our game of cat-and-mouse with the National Security Agency continues. The NSA gets a new GPS system that tracks to the nearest centimeter, we get one that tracks to the nearest millimeter. The NSA gets new night vision combo infrared-10,000 candlelight gear that allows it from a satellite to read the date on a penny on the street in New York, we get new gear that allows us from the planet Pluto to read "LIBERTY" to the left of President Lincoln's head on a penny buried 30,000 feet in an ocean trench still covered with muck from Captain Hazelwood's Exxon Valdez mishap.(Still did not pay that $1 billion jury award after 25 trips to the Supreme Court, has Exxon?)
           The NSA gets frustrated and so has a very large contractor from the latest corporate iteration of Dick "Pig Heart" Cheney's "Blackdeath" outfit disguised as an African-American woman demanding $1.50 for a malt liquor toss one of our editors across the hood of a car speeding by on the main thoroughfare in "Hurricane" Carter's ("He could have been champion of the world. . . .") northern New Jersey hometown. And so it goes.
           Return from digression to note the news of the week as in the hallowed pure Italian marble halls of the Supreme Court the almost nine mentally unfit socio-psychopaths (word Copyright 2012 Big M and Little L) on the bench prepare to toss out Romneycare. Mr. Justice Scalia's incisive analogy of health insurance to broccoli making even the New York Times scratch its head. The black-robed gang glaring down from its bench in Fantasyland what do they care? They still get free care at Walter Reed, do they not? Though those in Washington, D.C. beginning to wonder if perhaps the standards have fallen somewhat there since they lost President Kennedy's brain. Or maybe that was the Smithsonian or Library of Congress, Thomas Pynchon might observe.
         No matter the brain-rotted denizens of the bench who have let Congress get away with any law under the "Commerce" or whatever clause (except of course outraged naturally finding a ban on handguns in schoolzones unconstitutional wildly beyond Congress' power). The Ninth Amendment predicts the Court's decision is a foregone conclusion, ninety-nine per cent of American's will hate this cast forever, and the Court will single-handedly insure President Obama's re-election. You read it here first. Take it to Vegas.

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