First Amendment vs. Second Amendment

If you took your kid to the pediatrician and the doctor started asking you if you had guns and wanted to know how safely they were stored you might feel like this is a creeping assault on the second amendment. Pediatricians are doing this of their own free will for the safety of the children. There it is : "for the children."

This is not something they are doing by law. Again, by their own free will.

Florida passed a law banning doctors from doing this. Fortunately the U.S. District Court has struck down the law as unconstitutional since it violated the physician's right to free speech. I have to say I agree.

I worry about the initial asking of the question. I have no idea from the cited story or a few others I read if the doctor's are tracking the information. Also, since the story talks about doctors, plural, is this becoming an official policy among doctors or pediatricians?

Yes.

The American Academy of Pediatrics encourages doctors to talk about safety of ALL types. Doctors talks about car seats, pool safety, and gun safety. Louis St. Petery, MD, executive vice president of the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics had this to say about the policy:

We're not against guns, per se. What we're concerned about is proper storage and handling of firearms.

That is the official statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics. But what about the Doctors? The AAP did a study and released the results this past May. Here are a few stats from the study.

• Eighty-six percent of the pediatricians surveyed agree or strongly agree that gun-control legislation will help reduce the risks of injury or death among children and adolescents.
• Among those surveyed, 92 percent agree or strongly agree that pediatricians should support legislation to restrict possession or sale of handguns.
• Some 77 percent of the physicians surveyed agree or strongly agree that pediatricians should support legislation to ban possession or sale of handguns.
• Among those surveyed, 84 percent agree or strongly agree that pediatricians should, during routine intake screening, question parents about firearm ownership and storage.
• Some 66 percent of those surveyed agree or strongly agree that pediatricians should advise parents who own handguns to remove them from their homes.
• Only 12 percent of the pediatricians surveyed stated that they always identify families who keep firearms in their homes. Fifty percent of the physicians surveyed never identify which patients' families have firearms at home.

Did you catch that? That last little item? 12 percent always identify families who keep firearms in the home. Sounds like some doctors are keeping track.

Now I don't know what to think of the striking of the law.

11 Minutes for 8 Years

When a person joins the military they enter into an eight year contract. They are promising that over the next 8 years they can be called upon to fight for their country. The contract is a mix of active and reserve duty time.

A military service member (MSM) gives up many freedoms to protect yours. They are told what to wear. They are told when to eat. They are made to exercise. If they are late for work or fail in what they are told to do there is no threat of being fired; there is a threat of Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) action.

One of the biggest freedoms lost is the freedom of speech. A MSM can not voice their political opinion while in uniform or give their opinion and use their military standing in conjunction with it; as a MSM they are deemed to be an authority figure and can not render political opinion while viewed in that role.

They are fighting for our freedom. Regardless of whether or not you agree with or even understand the current wars and conflicts they are a part of, they are doing it for you.

Take eleven minutes to hear our men and women of the military read "The Declaration of Independence" and remember what a bold step was taken two hundred thirty six years ago to secure your freedom today and these men and women continue to protect.

Crazy Grants : July 3rd

Accelerating the Dispersal and Impact of the Predatory beetle Laricobius nigrinus	$60,000
This grant is to populate more of one insect to attack another. Haven't we heard all sorts of horror stories of man meddling by pitting one species against the other and things go horribly wrong? Cane toads? Chinese lady bugs?
Desert Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Lion Monitoring and Management	$250,000
More man meddling with nature. This involves collaring and tracking sheep and mountain lions to make sure not too many sheep are eaten.
Today's Total	$310,000

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Farewell Sheriff

Andy Griffith
1926 - 2012

Crazy Grants : July 2nd

Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program	$990,000
The purpose of this competitive undergraduate scholarship grant program is to increase the multicultural diversity of the food and agricultural scientific and professional workforce. Multicultural diversity of the food?
Track II People-to-People Activities in South and Central Asia	$1,000,000
Competition to design people-to-people activities to strengthen Asia by including people from any two or more of the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, or Uzbekistan.
Vegetation Conditions of Sagebrush Habitat around Sage Grouse Leks	$75,000
Use data from 1992-3 to determine what the habitat was like for Sage-Grouse leks (birds).
Battle Mountain District Weed Treatment	$200,000
Weed removal and try to get the public to participate.
National Analysis of Grass Carp	$150,000
Prevent Grass Carp farmers from letting any loose into the wild.
Today's Total	$2,415,000

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God? Why didn't you warn me?

Promoting More Fail

The Energy Department is celebrating the Obama administration doubling down on the atrocious biofuel scam. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Navy and Department of Energy are sinking $30 million into biofuels as matching funds to private investments. The Department of Energy is going to sink and additional $32 million in new investments for breakthroughs. Obama's 2013 budget calls for an additional $110 million.

Does anyone remember last year when even Al Gore admitted biofuel was a mistake? One sixth of the corn produced went into ethanol. This was enough corn to feed 350 million people for a year. Instead it was burned. That causes food prices to rise.

But this is supposed to make fuel prices come down. Does it?

The Navy's "Great Green Fleet" is using biofuel. What does it cost? $26 a gallon. Traditional fuel is $3.60 a gallon. Even more insane is that this will stay a small experiment because there is not enough raw bio-material available to implement this idea on a large scale.

Even the algae solution is out of the question. It was tried in 2009 and cost $424 a gallon.

Is Obama's plan to make energy prices go up no matter what?

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The Bright Side

Rusty Humphries on the Victoria Jackson Show