ROP Kills Nearly 4000 Since 2004 in Thailand
From JihadWatch:
Thailand: “More than 3900 people have died in shootings, bomb blasts, beheadings and crucifixions” since 2004
This AFP story departs from ordinary mainstream media practice by actually identifying the Thai jihadists as “Islamic,” and adds a final paragraph that is, well, killer: more than 3900 people (but apparently fewer than 4000), it says, have been killed “in shootings, bomb blasts, beheadings and crucifixions” since the jihad in Thailand began in 2004.Beheadings? Crucifixions? Those who insist that this is simply a nationalist insurgency with an Islamic character that is only incidental should take note: no other group around the world besides Islamic jihadists is practicing “beheadings and crucifixions” with any regularity in 2009. And why are “beheadings and crucifixions,” both of which one might be forgiven for thinking of as relics of a distant and barbaric past, happening in Thailand at all?
Why, because Islamic jihadists — contrary to the prevailing wisdom of the learned analysts — read and follow the Koran.
Muslim No Go Zones in the U.S.?
Europeans in major cities in England and France have surrendered large sections of their cities to Muslims in so-called “no go zones,” where even the police don’t enter for fear of Islamist violence.
A news team in Detroit discovered that city’s no go zone recently.
Check out this video, courtesy of TheJawaReport:
And there’s a link to this story about a guy opening a bar in New York City near a mosque and getting threatened by members of the Religion of Peace:
The lovely-looking restaurant and bar The Breslin begins lunch service tomorrow, and co-owner Ken Friedman (The Spotted Pig) is planning on serving alcohol despite objections from the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street. Earlier this month the mosque’s leaders called a meeting with Friedman at The Ace Hotel, where The Breslin is located, and asked, “Can you move the bar?” Friedman’s response makes us want to hurry over to The Breslin right now for a dram of Laphroaig to show our support (and drown out the voices):
I laughed. And the guy said, “Oh, you think that’s funny?” And I said, “Yeah, that is funny, that is really funny, because we’re not going to move the bar just because you discovered we’re serving booze.” Can you name one restaurant in New York that doesn’t serve booze? I said, “This is the United States of America and we’ll do whatever the fuck we want.” He said the mosque had suggested it couldn’t control the behavior of “a few bad eggs”; i.e., we could get a brick through our window.
Friedman notified police of the threat, but just to show he’s not a hard-hearted man, that it’s not all dollars and cents, he agreed to put a curtain over the windows so devout Muslims wouldn’t be corrupted by the sight of infidel inebriation. But the curtain hasn’t arrived yet, so over the weekend he actually taped paper over the windows to hide a gay wedding. A volunteer at the mosque says city law forbids serving liquor within 200 feet of a place of worship and that “not more than 200 feet is between the mosque and the bar.”
But Ace Hotel developer Andrew Zobler tells The Observer, “The law is clear that in order for that to apply it has to be an exclusively dedicated house of worship, and at their space they have both residences and a restaurant, so basically, because of those uses the law allowed there to be a bar within 200 feet. Everyone was aware of that when the liquor license was granted.” And Friedman adds, “They can threaten, but they can’t really stop us.” Yeah, heh, what are these devout, pissed-off Muslims gonna do?
Be nice if he’d serve bacon sandwiches five times a day.
But seriously, why should he have to put curtains or paper over his windows? The law is apparently clear, he is allowed to operate where he is, so the muslims should just STFU.
Democrats Preparing to Steal N.J. Governor Election
The Democrats stole the Washington State gubernatorial election a few years ago, stole the Minnesota Senate seat last year and now are setting the stage to steal the N.J. gubernatorial election next week.
Check out this from RedState:
National Review’s Jim Geraghty has a tremendously important story. Jon Corzine is trying to build an absentee ballot slush fund to win a recount in the New Jersey Governor’s race. Basically, the Democratic Party has asked the Secretary of State to send provisional absentee ballots out to people whose signatures on their absentee ballot requests don’t match:
In a development that is depressingly predictable, the New Jersey Democratic party is asking the state to provide provisional ballots for all these voters. Those ballots could, presumably, be used to overcome any narrow lead by Republican Chris Christie over Democrat Jon Corzine on Election Day.
Now, let’s be clear how the absentee process works in New Jersey. Third parties can pick up and return absentee ballots. A couple of weeks ago, a Democratic operative in Atlantic City plead guilty to a lesser charge of tampering with ballots. One practice mentioned in the indictment was the person picking up ballots from people and throwing them out if they weren’t for his candidate. Another example was:
They allegedly solicited applications for messenger absentee ballots from individuals not qualified to receive them and had the voters not fill in the name of the messenger, so they could fraudulently designate themselves as the authorized messengers or bearers.
And:
They allegedly obtained messenger ballots from the county clerk and submitted them to the board of elections as vote s on behalf of voters who, in fact, never received or voted the ballots or, in some cases, were given only the security envelope for the ballot and were told to sign it. Those voters were not given the opportunity to vote in most instances.
So when ballots are getting into the hands of people who didn’t even ask fro them, you have to wonder what is going on.
If you’ll remember in the Norm Coleman vs. Al Franken contest last fall, Coleman won the election on election night. However, because the race was so close there was a recount. The Democrats kept finding uncounted, absentee and other mysterious ballots that hadn’t been counted in the immediate election aftermath.
They kept finding balllots until Franken had enough votes to win and then suddenly announced the recount was over.
Looks like Garden State Democrats are stocking away some extra ballots to pull out at the last minute to assure Democrat Jon Corzine’s win.
All the more reason why conservatives, Republicans and anybody else interested in fair and free elections should come out in droves on election day. You can’t steal an election if you lose by a landslide.
An ‘Underhanded’ Use of the Truth
There really is no need to make up stuff about politicians to make them look bad. I’ve always said the worst thing you can do to a pol is quote him or her.
A front group for Club for Growth is drawing fire, and so too the Doug Hoffman for Congress campaign, for an add that targets New York Republican Dede Scozzafava as the “progressives” choice for Congress.
You can see the ad at The Politico.
Note that there is nothing false in the ad. She is in favor of The Obama stimulus, card check and gay marriage.
But, the Scozzafava campaign claims that saying she is the “progressives choice” is unfair and dishonest.
Scozzafava spokesman Matt Burns accused the Hoffman campaign of being behind the ad, and attacked them for engaging in dirty, underhanded tricks to undermine the Republican’s campaign.
“Doug Hoffman and his supporters have lied and distorted, and now they’re just being downright underhanded,” said Burns. “Doug Hoffman has run the most divisive campaign of any candidate, probably in modern political history. He’s lied, he’s distorted and now he’s just using another underhanded tactic because he’s desperate.”
Yea, Hoffman is so desparate that he’s running ahead of Scozzafava (in third place) and the Democrat candidate in recent polling.
And, his campaign is no more underhanded than the Republican National Committee and New York State Republican Party was in handing the New York 23rd nomination to a candidate who is way more liberal than her constituents, bypassing two other candidates, both of whom were more popular with local party officials and more conservative.
The reason the ad is effective is because it’s true. That’s what stings. The ad is not negative, does not distort the candidate’s positions, just simply portrays them as they are. And illustrates the simple truth, that Scozzafava IS the left most candidate in that race. She more liberal than even the Democrat.
Congratulations to the Club for Growth and the Hoffman campaign for smart campaigning.
BTW, check out Riehl World View for a good description of the backroom maneuvering that secured the nomination for Scozzafava.
Republicans Got Rolled, Again.
At a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the creation of yet another oversight agency, this one with oversight of financial institutions — the Consumer Financial Protection Agency — House Republicans put up a valiant but ultimately vain attempt to block the vast criminal enterprise known as Acorn from having a seat on the agency’s oversight committee.
As Byron York in the Washington Examiner relates the incident:
Although the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency — designed to deal with issues like mortgages and credit-card fees — has nothing to do with community organizing, Democrats offered an amendment that could allow ACORN and groups like it to participate in the new agency. Republicans offered an amendment of their own, designed to stop the Democratic one. An argument ensued. It was complicated, with lots of different proposals and a good bit of misunderstanding. But when the dust settled, Democrats had outmaneuvered Republicans, and the new bill they approved could allow organizations like ACORN to play a role in the highest levels of the new consumer protection agency.
The bill creates two boards. One, the Oversight Board, will be the key panel giving advice to the director of the new agency. The bill says the Oversight Board will have seven members and specifies who those members will be: the chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve; the head of the agency responsible for chartering and regulating national banks; the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the chairman of the National Credit Union Administration; the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and the chairman of the liaison committee of representatives of state agencies to the Financial Institutions Examination Council.
That’s the Oversight Board. The bill would also create a second board, the Advisory Board, which would offer general advice to the director of the new agency. The bill does not specify how many members the Advisory Board will have, nor who they will be. It just says they should be “experts in financial services, community development, fair lending and civil rights, and consumer financial products or services.”
That second board is the kind that a host of federal agencies have that allow leftist to pressure regulators to advance all manner of destructive policies. That is how groups like Acorn came to pressure the Federal Reserve and other financial institution regulatory agencies to force banks to make loans (in the name of fair housing or fair lending) to people who couldn’t pay them back, the very cause of the current depression the U.S. is in.
Well, Republicans wanted to keep groups like Acorn off the oversight board and offered an amendment to do just that. Unfortunately, wiley Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) outsmarted them by proposing the second “oversight board,” which will ultimately be staffed by the very same crooks that the Republicans were trying to lock out of the regulatory process.
Again from York:
It turns out Republicans were mistaken. On Thursday, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters introduced an amendment that would add five members, not to the Advisory Board, but to the Oversight Board, with all five chosen from among “experts in the fields of consumer protection, fair lending and civil rights, representatives of depository institutions that primarily serve underserved communities, or representatives of communities that have been significantly impacted by higher-priced mortgage loans.” That description could easily fit ACORN, or any number of other pro-Democratic groups. In any event, these new members would serve alongside the top officials from the Fed, FDIC, HUD, and the rest of the Oversight Board. Waters did not waste her time with the lower-level Advisory Board; she went straight for the top, the Oversight Board.
But Republicans had prepared an amendment which covered just the Advisory Board. “We can only anticipate what she’s going to offer,” says Rep. Michelle Bachmann, who introduced the Republican amendment, referring to Waters. “We anticipated the Advisory Board.”
“Did Rep. Waters aim higher than you thought she would?” Bachmann was asked. “She certainly did,” Bachmann answered.
If Waters surprised Bachmann, it also appears that Bachmann surprised Waters. The California Democrat appeared to expect Bachmann to attack the proposal to add community activists to the Oversight Board, and Waters seemed confused that Bachmann’s amendment addressed the Advisory Board instead. Waters was prepared to fight, and then discovered the other side had missed the real target. “I do not know what we are doing here,” Waters said at one point. “She [Bachmann] is amending the wrong board.”
But committee chairman Rep. Barney Frank knew what was going on. Seeing that Bachmann’s amendment did not cover the more important Oversight Board, Frank made sure Waters’ amendment remained untouched. “We are simply trying to make sure that [Bachmann's] amendment does not inadvertently undo the amendment the gentlewoman from California previously offered,” Frank said, before quickly ordering a vote on the amendments. The committee approved both Bachmann’s and Waters’. The result was that the Oversight Board will be expanded with members of community organizations, including ACORN. Democrats did not seem to mind that ACORN was banned from the less-important Advisory Board.
As usual, the Republicans were rolled.
But here’s an idea:
How about conservatives forming groups and getting themselves appointed to these advisory/oversight boards? How about a conservative consumer group, one that would advance free market and true consumer protection and would be an antidote to the leftists that pollute so much of the regulatory world.
The same thing for any FCC attempt to revise the Fairness Doctrine through the use of local community boards or advisories. Let them create these boards and let us flood them with Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck fans.
Fight on two fronts:
Work to defund the left and the deconstruct the power structure that lets them influence government policy;
And, overwhelm those very same apparatus of influence at federal agencies with vocal, aggressive conservatives. Imagine if the rule-making stakeholder group, currently run by environmental wackos, that has just about closed one of the most beautiful and popular beaches in the United States, The Cape Hatteras National Seashore, from human use, taken over by off road affectionados, fishermen, and just plain beach lovers.
Which by the way:
I’ve been meaning to add a link to Save Hatteras for sometime, but can’t figure out how to add it to the sidebar.
Anyway, so let’s fight the left on all fronts:
At the polls,
In Congress,
In local town halls,
At the federal and state regulatory level.
The Obama Effect
The Obama wandered across the river the other day to spread a little HopeNChange on the Creigh Deeds for governor campaign.
The result?
Republican Robert F. McDonnell has now opened a 13-point lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds with less than a week to go in the race for governor of Virginia.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state – taken last night just after President Obama made a campaign appearance for Deeds in the state – shows McDonnell ahead 54% to 41%. Only four percent (4%) remain undecided.
Prediction:
Should McDonnell prevail next week, the election will be viewed by the media and liberal punditry as a sign of a poor candidate (Creigh Deeds) and his ineffective campaign, not as a referendum on The Obama’s dreadful first 10 months in office. Nor will McDonnell’s win be seen as the result of a conservative groundswell in opposition to the president and congressional Democrats.
If Deeds should manage to pull off a miracle and win the Va. governor’s race, the election will called a stunning public affirmation of The Obama and his agenda. Conservatives and tea party folks will be written off as powerless cranks.
Enforce the Law…
… and criminals will flee.
The Washington Examiner today reports on a study by a regional anti-gang task force that says that aggressive crackdowns on gang activity and enforcement of immigration laws have prompted Hispanic gangs out of Northern Virginia and into D.C. and Maryland.
From the Examiner:
“Many gang members from Northern Virginia are moving or driving to Prince George’s and other Maryland counties, into the District of Columbia or further south and west into Virginia to avoid dealing with police departments that are unrelenting in their efforts to keep gangs under control,” authorities wrote in the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force report.
The report said the task force’s success is the result of Virginia law enforcement’s use of anti-gang policing measures, including the referring of suspected illegal immigrants to federal authorities. Since the task force was created in 2003, it has arrested 952 gang members, more than 40 percent of whom were illegal immigrants, the report said.
And then there’s this:
Experts say jurisdictions such as Montgomery County, where police are told to look away from immigration violations, have become safe havens for gangs.
Whod’ve thunk it?
Escape from New York
Liberalism makes cities unliveable. And, high taxes are driving “rich” residents out of New York, according to this article in the New York Post.
New Yorkers are fleeing the state and city in alarming numbers — and costing a fortune in lost tax dollars, a new study shows.
More than 1.5 million state residents left for other parts of the United States from 2000 to 2008, according to the report from the Empire Center for New York State Policy. It was the biggest out-of-state migration in the country.
The vast majority of the migrants, 1.1 million, were former residents of New York City — meaning one out of seven city taxpayers moved out.
“The Empire State is being drained of an invaluable resource — people,” the report said.
Overall, the ex-New Yorkers earn about 13 percent more than those who moved into the state, the study found.
Why all the moving vans?
The center, part of the conservative Manhattan Institute, blames the state’s high cost of living and high taxes.
Goodbye Stranger
Supertramp’s Breakfast in America is still one of my favorite albums.
Write your problems down in detail,
Take them to a higher place.
You’ve had your cry, no I shouldn’t say wail.
In the meantime hush your face.
Right (right), you’re bloody well right,
You got a bloody right to say.
Right, you’re bloody well right,
You know you got a right to say.Ha-ha you’re bloody well right,
You know you’re right to say.
Yeah-yeah you’re bloody well right,
You know you’re right to say.Me, I don’t care anyway.
Pretty much sums up my attitude most of the time.
To Hell With The Big Tent
David Frum, writing at NewMajority.com, pre-emptively blames conservatives for what he sees as the impending loss of the New York and New Jersey congressional races, where moderate/liberal Republicans are in three-way contests with Democrats and conservatives.
By all rights, the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District should be a Republican cakewalk. Stretching across the hunting and fishing towns along the Great Lakes and Canadian border, the district contains Fort Drum, base of the 10th Mountain division, and re-elected its Republican congressman in the disaster years of 2006 and 2008 by margins of 60-plus percent.
Yet polls show the Republican candidate in serious trouble. State Republican Party leaders prevented an open primary race and instead engineered the nomination of one of their own, moderate, pro-choice Assemblywoman Deirdre Scozzafava.
Angry conservatives in the 23rd rebelled, rallying to the third-party candidacy of local accountant Doug Hoffman. Hoffman and Scozzafava are splitting the Republican vote between them, allowing Democrat Bill Owen to emerge as the front-runner.
He goes on to criticize Republican bloggers and other commentators who extol third party runs by conservatives while chastizing the same campaigns by environmental/liberal/moderates. Party loyalty should be paramount, according to Frum, regardless of the ideology of the candidate wearing the GOP lapel sticker.
What lessons will Republicans draw? You might think that the impending defeats in New York and New Jersey would drive home the need to broaden the Republican coalition. A candidate like Hoffman would have been the better candidate for New York’s 23rd CD; a candidate like Daggettthe better candidate for suburban New Jersey. Republicans have to find ways to accommodate bothtypes of candidates and both kinds of constituencies.
The problem with this perspective is that while you may end up with a majority in either house of Congress, that coalition is only as strong as the weakest liberal in it. Witness the attempts by John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Alren Specter, to name a few, to throw a monkey wrench into any attempts by the GOP to oppose the liberal march toward big government.
You can always count on a moderate or liberal Republican to betray his party when an issue comes down to a straight party-line vote. They vote for themselves and not the party. Olympia Snowe’s recent betrayal/vote for The Obama healthcare bill in the Senate Finance Committee is a case in point.
She was the sole Republican to vote for the montrosity, a vote that will allow Democrats to call the bill destroying the nation’s healthcare industry “bi-partisan.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t want the Republican Party to win, if winning means putting people in Congress who will act like, vote like Democrats. I don’t want a Republican Party that is just a cheaper, slower, less aggressive version of the Democrats.
I want a Republican, or Conservative Party, that is dedicated to free markets and limited government. And, I’ll vote and work for the candidate that seeks to achieve those aims.
To hell with the Big Tent.
Palin Endorses Hoffman for N.Y. 23rd
There’s been some discussion about whether Sarah Palin would/should endorse Tea Party candidate Doug Hoffman in his bid for New York’s 23rd congressional seat.
Lot’s of folks on the right have been hoping she would, and she did, today.
The votes of every member of Congress affect every American, so it’s important for all of us to pay attention to this important Congressional campaign in upstate New York. I am very pleased to announce my support for Doug Hoffman in his fight to be the next Representative from New York’s 23rd Congressional district. It’s my honor to endorse Doug and to do what I can to help him win, including having my political action committee, SarahPAC, donate to his campaign the maximum contribution allowed by law.
Doug Hoffman is committed to ending the reckless spending in Washington, D.C. and the massive increase in the size and scope of the federal government. He is also fully committed to supporting our men and women in uniform as they seek to honorably complete their missions overseas.
The next line would be, for me, a key reason to support Hoffman, where I a citizen of New York, in addition, of course to the above.
And best of all, Doug Hoffman has not been anointed by any political machine.
The fact that the Stupid Party has nominated a lib Republican is all the more reason to abandon the Republican Party.
Hoffman’s win would be a refreshing break from the two-party system that has crippled American elections for, well, for ever.
I’m so very tired of having to hold my noses and vote for “the lessor of two evils” when presented with a super lib Democrat and a less-than-super lib Republican. Pox on both houses. I vowed sometime ago to never vote for a liberal/moderate Republican, preferring to see a Democrat win an election than live through two, four or six years of a Republican disappointment.
So, good for Palin and good for Hoffman. I hope he achieves a significant win next month, one that will dispel the notion that third parties are not a viable alternative to the same old Republican/Democrat choices we have always had.
With All the Commies…
…running around in the White House, of course The Obama won’t be traveling to Germany to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the fall of communism in Europe.
The Berlin Wall came down in November, 1989, and Germany is planning a big celebration, but instead of going to Berlin to triumph freedom from oppression for half of Europe and the U.S. victory in the Cold War, The Obama is staying home.
From The American Thinker:
It is pretty clear why the president is refusing to accept the personal invitation of the German chancellor and attend festivities marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It would smack of American triumphalism – our success in defeating perhaps the most odious of all the odious ideologies of the 20th century. Obama doesn’t do “triumphalism.” That would place America above other nations – something that he has explicitly condemned.
So he will be conspicuous by his absence. And another European ally has been embarrassed by this president. Rick Richman of Contentions adds this:
President Obama has reportedly informed the German government that he will not travel to Berlin on November 9 to participate in the 20th-anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is an unfortunate decision on multiple counts.
First, it is another slight to another European ally – one that is going all-out to celebrate the event. The invitation to Obama was extended personally by Chancellor Angela Merkel last June.
Second, it is a failure to correct the historical misstatement of his citizen-of-the-world address last year in Berlin, when he credited the fall of the wall to the “world standing as one” and failed even to mention the names of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
Third, it is an embarrassment for the United States not to be represented at the highest level for the commemoration of an event of this magnitude. As Matt Welch writes in the November issue of Reason magazine, November 1989 was “the most liberating month of arguably the most liberating year in human history” – the end of the Soviet Union and communism in Europe and a 50-year Cold War that was a worldwide ideological battle. It was battle led by America.
Fourth, it is an opportunity for Obama to give a speech in which he does not apologize for his country but celebrates the triumph of freedom that has been the driving force of American history from its beginning through his own election.
What a disgrace, but sadly probably not the last.
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Baby Killers Coming to Your Local School
The vileness of The Obama administration knows no bounds.
The most radically pro-death president ever opposed every effort by the Illinois legislature to protect late-term babies who survive abortions. As president he appointed an apologist for the notorious baby killer George Tiller to be the nation’s secretary of Health and Human Services.
Now in his crusade to destroy the U.S. healthcare system, The Obama and the Democrats plan to put the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, in every school in the nation as part of a “school-based health clinic” provision of the House version of the universal health care bill.
From the American Family Association:
There are many reasons to oppose President Obama’s push to take over the nation’s health care system, but among the most important is this one: His plan will put Planned Parenthood clinics inside your child’s school.
As you know, Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider and the most dangerous purveyor of the mythical “safe sex” message which has deprived so many American teens of their sexual innocence and left them with diseases and unwanted pregnancies.
Yes, you read that right. Under an innocuous-sounding section titled “School-Based Health Clinics,” H.R. 3200 will authorize Planned Parenthood, as a “sponsoring facility,” to run a clinic during school hours on the grounds of public schools, with absolutely no accountability either to parents or school administrators.
Clinics would be accountable only to the Secretary of Health & Human Services, the radically pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius, who was a fervent supporter of late-term abortionist George Tiller.
All this will be done at taxpayer expense. And unlike the rest of the bill, which isn’t slated to go into effect until 2013, these clinics are scheduled to go into schools next fall.
The text of the bill, which follows, is here.
SEC. 2511. SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CLINICS.
(a) In General- Part Q of title III (42 U.S.C. 280h et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
`SEC. 399Z-1. SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CLINICS.
`(a) Program- The Secretary shall establish a school-based health clinic program consisting of awarding grants to eligible entities to support the operation of school-based health clinics (referred to in this section as `SBHCs’).
`(b) Eligibility- To be eligible for a grant under this section, an entity shall–
`(1) be an SBHC (as defined in subsection (l)(4)); and
`(2) submit an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, including at a minimum–
`(A) evidence that the applicant meets all criteria necessary to be designated as an SBHC;
`(B) evidence of local need for the services to be provided by the SBHC;
`(C) an assurance that–
`(i) SBHC services will be provided in accordance with Federal, State, and local laws governing–
`(I) obtaining parental or guardian consent; and
`(II) patient privacy and student records, including section 264 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and section 444 of the General Education Provisions Act;
`(ii) the SBHC has established and maintains collaborative relationships with other health care providers in the catchment area of the SBHC;
`(iii) the SBHC will provide on-site access during the academic day when school is in session and has an established network of support and access to services with backup health providers when the school or SBHC is closed;
`(iv) the SBHC will be integrated into the school environment and will coordinate health services with appropriate school personnel and other community providers co-located at the school; and
`(v) the SBHC sponsoring facility assumes all responsibility for the SBHC administration, operations, and oversight; and
`(D) such other information as the Secretary may require.
`(c) Use of Funds- Funds awarded under a grant under this section may be used for–
`(1) providing training related to the provision of comprehensive primary health services and additional health services;
`(2) the management and operation of SBHC programs; and
`(3) the payment of salaries for health professionals and other appropriate SBHC personnel.
`(d) Consideration of Need- In determining the amount of a grant under this section, the Secretary shall take into consideration–
`(1) the financial need of the SBHC;
`(2) State, local, or other sources of funding provided to the SBHC; and
`(3) other factors as determined appropriate by the Secretary.
`(e) Preferences- In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to SBHCs that have a demonstrated record of service to the following:
`(1) A high percentage of medically underserved children and adolescents.
`(2) Communities or populations in which children and adolescents have difficulty accessing health and mental health services.
`(3) Communities with high percentages of children and adolescents who are uninsured, underinsured, or eligible for medical assistance under Federal or State health benefits programs (including titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act).
`(f) Matching Requirement- The Secretary may award a grant to an SBHC only if the SBHC agrees to provide, from non-Federal sources, an amount equal to 20 percent of the amount of the grant (which may be provided in cash or in kind) to carry out the activities supported by the grant.
`(g) Supplement, Not Supplant- The Secretary may award a grant to an SBHC under this section only if the SBHC demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that funds received through the grant will be expended only to supplement, and not supplant, non-Federal and Federal funds otherwise available to the SBHC for operation of the SBHC (including each activity described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (c)).
`(h) Payor of Last Resort- The Secretary may award a grant to an SBHC under this section only if the SBHC demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that funds received through the grant will not be expended for any activity to the extent that payment has been made, or can reasonably be expected to be made–
`(1) under any insurance policy;
`(2) under any Federal or State health benefits program (including titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act); or
`(3) by an entity which provides health services on a prepaid basis.
`(i) Regulations Regarding Reimbursement for Health Services- The Secretary shall issue regulations regarding the reimbursement for health services provided by SBHCs to individuals eligible to receive such services through the program under this section, including reimbursement under any insurance policy or any Federal or State health benefits program (including titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act).
`(j) Technical Assistance- The Secretary shall provide (either directly or by grant or contract) technical and other assistance to SBHCs to assist such SBHCs to meet the requirements of this section. Such assistance may include fiscal and program management assistance, training in fiscal and program management, operational and administrative support, and the provision of information to the SBHCs of the variety of resources available under this title and how those resources can be best used to meet the health needs of the communities served by the SBHCs.
`(k) Evaluation; Report- The Secretary shall–
`(1) develop and implement a plan for evaluating SBHCs and monitoring quality performances under the awards made under this section; and
`(2) submit to the Congress on an annual basis a report on the program under this section.
`(l) Definitions- In this section:
`(1) COMPREHENSIVE PRIMARY HEALTH SERVICES- The term `comprehensive primary health services’ means the core services offered by SBHCs, which shall include the following:
`(A) PHYSICAL- Comprehensive health assessments, diagnosis, and treatment of minor, acute, and chronic medical conditions and referrals to, and follow-up for, specialty care.
`(B) MENTAL HEALTH- Mental health assessments, crisis intervention, counseling, treatment, and referral to a continuum of services including emergency psychiatric care, community support programs, inpatient care, and outpatient programs.
`(C) OPTIONAL SERVICES- Additional services, which may include oral health, social, and age-appropriate health education services, including nutritional counseling.
`(2) MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS- The term `medically underserved children and adolescents’ means a population of children and adolescents who are residents of an area designated by the Secretary as an area with a shortage of personal health services and health infrastructure for such children and adolescents.
`(3) SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CLINIC- The term `school-based health clinic’ means a health clinic that–
`(A) is located in, or is adjacent to, a school facility of a local educational agency;
`(B) is organized through school, community, and health provider relationships;
`(C) is administered by a sponsoring facility; and
`(D) provides, at a minimum, comprehensive primary health services during school hours to children and adolescents by health professionals in accordance with State and local laws and regulations, established standards, and community practice.
`(4) SPONSORING FACILITY- The term `sponsoring facility’ is–
`(A) a hospital;
`(B) a public health department;
`(C) a community health center;
`(D) a nonprofit health care agency;
`(E) a local educational agency; or
`(F) a program administered by the Indian Health Service or the Bureau of Indian Affairs or operated by an Indian tribe or a tribal organization under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, a Native Hawaiian entity, or an urban Indian program under title V of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
`(m) Authorization of Appropriations- For purposes of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2014.’.
(b) Effective Date- The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall begin awarding grants under section 399Z-1 of the Public Health Service Act, as added by subsection (b), not later than July 1, 2010, without regard to whether or not final regulations have been issued under section 399Z-1(h) of such Act.
Planned Parenthood will weasel its way into the public school system as a “non-profit health care agency,” and spread it’s poisonous propaganda to school children throughout the country with no accountability to local school officials or parents. Abortion will now be a part of “student health.”
I would truly like to hear from the Evangelical Christians who stupidly voted for HopeNChange last fall. Any regrets?
Shocka: WaPo Endorses Deeds
As Gomer Pyle would say, “surprise, surprise,” the Washington Post today endorsed Democrat Creigh Deeds for governor of Virginia over Republican Bob McDonnell.
If the current campaign for governor has clarified anything, it is that state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic nominee, has the good sense and political courage to maintain the forward-looking policies of the past while addressing the looming challenge of fixing the state’s dangerously inadequate roads.
Translation:
Forward-looking policies of the past = raising taxes.
Addressing the looming challenge = raise taxes.
What a winning platform, and one likely to draw the votes of forward looking progressives in Northern Virginia, Richmond and Hampton Roads.
In fact, it is Mr. Deeds whose ideas hold the promise of a prosperous future.
Prosperous future = more taxes.
Yep, that’s the key to a thriving economy, raising taxes during a depression.
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