Anglers will now need to register to go fishing

BOSTON (AP/WPRI) - Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a law requiring state licenses for saltwater fishing in Massachusetts.

Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, Teach a man to fish and you can tax him for the rest of his life!!!!!!

Will you be the One to get a Mammogram?

There will be rationing and the government will be the one to do it if ObamaCare passes.

in reference to: Morning Bell: The Obamacare Rationing Threat To Your Mammograms » The Foundry (view on Google Sidewiki)

Much of the economy's return to growth last quarter reflected federal support for spending on homes and cars.

What the government tells you and what really is happening to the economy.

This administration is working towards all depending on the government for just enough of a hand out to survive.

in reference to: Economic Growth Revised Down in 3rd Quarter - FOXNews.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Senate front-runners criticize Catholic Church at forum

These are the very best that Massachusetts has to offer to take US Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy. Believe me, I am not defending right all the Catholic Church has done. They do have a right to defend their views on such topics as abortion and to call attention to the so called Catholics that will make those calls for us.
Call me when Capuano and Coakley start questioning the Muslim religion as it pertains to the women in said religion.

The main focus in every state today is to get the job market going. And how was it that Ms Coakley forgot to claim an additional $200,000.00 on her tax return?

In the end it is all politics, what they say is only to get elected.

in reference to: Senate front-runners criticize Catholic Church at forum - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe (view on Google Sidewiki)

Mass. Legislature overrides Gov. Deval Patrick's attempt to kill Bunker Hill Day, Evacuation Day as public holidays

I am not a fan of this governor, but I am even less of a fan of those hacks in the State House.
We need to start cutting back on some of these foolishness as far as perks and benefits given unions when everyone had a job and the government spent our money like drunken soldiers!

in reference to: Mass. Legislature overrides Gov. Deval Patrick's attempt to kill Bunker Hill Day, Evacuation Day as public holidays | Breaking News - MassLive.com - (view on Google Sidewiki)

His Ethics Under Scrutiny, Rangel Is Frayed but Defiant

Mr Charlie Rangel.........is this the type of man that you want to make the decisions on your medical care? When will the people see the light and vote these corrupt politicians out of office? Maybe it is too late to save our country..............

in reference to: His Ethics Under Scrutiny, Rangel Is Frayed but Defiant - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Eve Of Distruction

       Been in the kitchen readying for the Thanksgiving feast this week.  I have been doing Thanksgiving dinner for over 40 years and it is one of my favorite holidays.

       Can not get the vote today out of my mind though .  I was in high school when this song came out and I feel it is as relevant today as it was those many years ago and I fear bad times ahead.
        I am Thankful... worked hard,  have a wonderful family.  Looking back, I am glad I lived in a time that seems simpler:  Christmas celebrated in school, pledge of allegiance and prayer before class, people helping people. I am glad I grew up in America when America was free, not perfect mind you, but free.
       God Bless America, Happy Thanksgiving....and back to the kitchen for me.  I am not complaining because things could always be worse................ couldn't they?

Is this the flu shot, and are you a real doctor????

It was one of several herding operations that will culminate today with the inoculation of female, part of an experimental program designed to limit the population through contraception. The goal: reduce herd size -- which increases by 15% or more  -- to a manageable, healthier, less environmentally damaging...........


NO, NO, NO.....bison, but don't tell the progressive movement and be aware of and who will be administering that FLU shot ladies...............


Now go and start calling your senators to tell them to vote no on Obama care and have a good weekend regardless of  them not listening to you and voting yes...

        

Guidelines Push Back Age for Cervical Cancer Tests

OK ladies moving down your body...new guidelines for testing for cervical cancer. These guidelines are to prep us all for the days of rationed care when those boobs in Washington control our health care by voting for "universal care for all paid by a few".

When will the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists come out with the facts that abortions are bad for the babies being aborted. Now then you would see all hell break loose.

Talk about your population control! Bend over Mr. Man, you surely will be next on the guidelines for medical testing update.

in reference to: Guidelines Push Back Age for Cervical Cancer Tests - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

  

        Thank you again tax payers for your stimulus bucks to be used in Massachusetts, yes Senator Kennedy would have been proud.  Looks like most money is going to government or those well connected to government.

       Can not wait till these people start screwing with the medical insurance and institutions in the name of medical coverage for all, I mean almost all!!!

There’s $1.5 million to fix a remote lighthouse on uninhabited Monomoy Island, off Cape Cod. Security measures to protect the Spirit of Boston party cruise ship from terrorist attacks will cost about $123,000. And the University of Massachusetts at Boston received nearly $95,000 to study pollen samples from the Viking era in Iceland.

Ho Ho No: Postal Service Drops Santa Letters Program

what the hell, as I have been posting about Santa...has anyone noticed? Well now you will when the letters do not get to him!

in reference to:

"Ho Ho No: Postal Service Drops Santa Letters Program"
- Ho Ho No: Postal Service Drops Santa Letters Program - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Mass. tax collections fall 7 percent

Guess that sales tax hike is not working for ya. Also large gap in excise taxes this year. This might be a good time to circle the wagons and change fiscal policy to maybe include a tax cut for businesses and individuals alike.

in reference to: Mass. tax collections fall 7 percent - Boston Business Journal: (view on Google Sidewiki)

Obama creates task force targeting fraud linked to financial crisis

This is a great idea and nothing will come of it.
Can we start the investigations at the Feds door step. These people make the decisions and THEN make the rules to back them up...

in reference to: Obama creates task force targeting fraud linked to financial crisis -- latimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Legislature holds hearing on anti-bullying bill

SANDWICH – Her son went to his first school dance and had the time of his life.

But as the 12-year-old autistic boy was grooving to the music, he had no idea that a classmate was filming his every move on her cell phone. That is, until a few days later, in school, when he began to get harassed about his dance moves.

Tomorrow, that boy's mother, Theresa Jackson, will tell the Legislature's Joint Committee on Education that the state needs to protect children like her son with anti-bullying legislation. That legislation would require the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to create a model policy, provide training materials and hold districts accountable.

The legislation is needed, proponents say, because ultimately bullying can push victims to suicide. Jackson will be joined at today's hearing by a Springfield mother whose 11-year-old son killed himself after classmates berated him for dressing like a girl.

           This is a sad story on all fronts.  No one likes bullies, I myself was bullied as a child and rectified the situation with a lunch box swung at the perpetrator's head.

          Can we honestly make laws against bullies? What is the difference between bullying and just mean and cruel behavior?  I think some of these incidents could be settled out of court and settled within the school system and with the parents.  I think our government is way overstepping its jurisdiction on what it's roll in society is and should be.  Maybe pick up the lunch boxes and put down the cell phones.....could be a start.....

Who's the Boob now?

  Ya, those pesky mammograms, who needs them?  Is this the government getting us ready for the future when universal health is the law of the land?
 What tests will the government let us have and at what age will we be allowed to have them?
Like myself, I know of women who are alive today because they had a mammogram on request of their doctor and not of a government official. 

     For most of the past two decades, the American Cancer Society has been recommending annual mammograms beginning at 40, and it reiterated that position on Monday. "This is one screening test I recommend unequivocally, and would recommend to any woman 40 and over," the society's chief medical officer, Dr. Otis Brawley, said in a statement.

 

Congress passed the Endangered Species Act of 1973

     Congress passed the Endangered Species Preservation Act in 1966, providing a means for listing native animal species as endangered and giving them limited protection. The Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Defense were to seek to protect listed species, and, insofar as consistent with their primary purposes, preserve the habitats of such species. The Act also authorized the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to acquire land as habitat for endangered species. In 1969, Congress amended the Act to provide additional protection to species in danger of “worldwide extinction” by prohibiting their importation and subsequent sale in the United States. This Act called for an international meeting to adopt a convention to conserve endangered species. One amendment to the Act changed its title to the Endangered Species Conservation Act.

        This Act has changed through the years with species coming and going on the list.
Some have even argued that having placed a specie on the list was an act to stop drilling for oil
or to stop wind farms or even development of ski resorts. 


1978:

• Provisions were added to Section 7, allowing Federal agencies to undertake an action that would jeopardize listed species if the action is exempted by a Cabinet-level committee convened for this purpose;
• Critical habitat was required to be designated concurrently with listing a species, when prudent, and economic and other impacts of designation were required to be considered in deciding on boundaries [section 4];
• The Secretary of Agriculture (for the Forest Service) was directed to join the Secretaries of Interior, Commerce, and Defense in developing a program for conserving fish, wildlife and plants, including listed species; land acquisition authority was extended to all such species [section 5];
• The definition of “species” with respect to “populations” was restricted to vertebrates; otherwise, any species, subspecies, or variety of plant, or species or subspecies of animal remained eligible for protection under the Act [section 3].

1982:

• Determinations of the status of species were required to be made solely on the basis of biological and trade information, without consideration of possible economic or other effects [section 4];
• A final rule to determine the status of a species was required to follow within one year of its proposal unless withdrawn for cause. This requirement replaced a two-year limit that had been enacted in 1978 on adopting a final rule. Failure to meet the two-year deadline had been grounds for mandatory withdrawals of more than 1500 proposed species listings in 1979 [section 4];
• Section 10 included a provision to designate experimental populations of listed species that could be subject to different treatment under section 4 for critical habitat, section 7 for interagency cooperation, and section 9 for prohibitions;
• Section 9 included a prohibition against removing endangered plants from land under Federal jurisdiction and reducing them to possession
• Section 10 introduced habitat conservation plans, providing “incidental take” permits for listed species in connection with otherwise lawful activities.

1988:

• Monitoring candidate and recovered species was required, with adoption of emergency listing when there is evidence of significant risk [section 4];
• Several amendments dealt with recovery matters: 1) recovery plans were required to undergo public notice and comment, and affected Federal agencies were required to give consideration to those comments; 2) new subsection 4(g) required five years of monitoring recovered species; and 3) biennial reports were required on the development and implementation of recovery plans and on the status of all species with plans;
• A new section 18 required a report of all reasonably identifiable expenditures by the Federal government and States that received section 6 funds on a species-by-species basis on the recovery of endangered or threatened species [see last page]; and
• Protection for endangered plants was extended to include a prohibition on malicious destruction on Federal land and other “take” that violates State law [section 9].
  

2004:

• National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law number 108-136)
• Section 4(a)(3) exempted the Department of Defense from critical habitat designations so long as an integrated natural resources management plan prepared under section 101 of the Sikes Act (16 U.S.C. 670a) and acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior is in place.

        Everyone is concerned about the animals, forest, oceans, the planet in general.  But these days I am more concerned about the next specie that will be on the 'endangered list'

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