Wednesday Open Thread: Hancock Edition

Hancock, nice guy, patriot, one of richest colonists, yet, risked his life and fortune used plenty of harsh rhetoric to communicate his displeasure to the English monarchists for trying to censor and control them.

I would think Hancock, Franklin, Washington and Madison would all laugh at Obama, and the media class, for being spineless and petty weasels for turning a killing by a psycho into an excuse to try to repress political opposition. I think they'd throw them in jail for sedition to make an example out of them.

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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

I'm not a wikpedia fan either, too much bunk information………Here's where i referenced, its short and sweet….just interesting facts……. you'll enjoy it.
http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/lon/grade5/mazerol...

That's a good read.

And to all those morons out there who when discussing our existing medical care system whine 'of course the system is broken', eff you.

It appears not to be broken.

Now can the House please commence repealing Obamacare? Hello? Bueller?

Al Sharpton has an editorial in WaPo today on the subject of responsible speech, if you can believe it! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...

Off Topic: always keep your eyes on the other hand.

Post Office Bait and Switch

A new initiative by the U.S Postal Service that appears on the surface to be a good deal for customers is in fact setting the stage for bankruptcy and a future bailout of the Post Office with taxpayer money.

This week, U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahue plans to announce that all future stamps sales will be so-called “forever stamps,” which can still be used even if postage rates go up.

Anyone who has had to hunt around for 1 or 2 cent stamps to add to their old stamps after an increase may consider this good news.

However, consider the implications of this action. The Post Office is currently experiencing a severe budget deficit and has been unable to gain approval for a postal rate increase. In addition, they are threatening to stop delivering mail on Saturdays as a way to cut costs. As Peter Schiffastutely points out in this interview with The Daily Bell, the Post Office is trying to solve their short term revenue problems at the cost of even bigger problems down the road.

The Post Office will try to use any short term increase in sales from these forever stamps to solve their immediate fiscal problems. But if the Post Office is already having trouble operating at full capacity with current prices, imagine how difficult it will be to do so in five or ten years after inflation has pushed their costs up AND they are selling even fewer stamps because so many people already purchased them in the past.

In fact, this move is setting the stage for a future taxpayer bailout of the Post Office because it virtually guarantees its future bankruptcy.

The low price of stamps is not the reason why the Post Office is facing such huge deficits. The Post Office is seeking a 5.6% increase in the price of stamps despite an inflation rate of just 0.6%.

Instead, the Post Office is facing budget shortfalls because it is unwilling to engage in the necessary reform of its operations necessary in the modern economy.

If the Post Office really wants to solve its fiscal challenges, it needs to engage in the difficult work of reforming its operating procedures, including its suffocating and costly union work rules like “standby time.”

Congress should block the Post Office from implementing this genuinely dumb move and force it to confront the true cause of its budget woes and implement real reform.

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
George Washington

Yes.
Several.

He also knew Charles III had "weak" eyes. That's why he signed in such large script. Then again Georgie III was a spoiled, narcissistic wimp

The results of the Dream and Change for those who voted for this commie POS Ubama

An Illinois morgue's cooler is getting so crowded that bodies are being doubled-up on trays, according to Chicago's CBS affiliate.

The Cook County medical examiner says the backup has to do with a number of deaths at the end of the year.

"We had this huge upswing in deaths right at the end of the year, and with the holidays being on Saturdays, it really created a backlog because the funeral directors weren't coming in," Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Nancy Jones told WBBM Newsradio.

Jones tells the CBS affiliate a mass county burial is scheduled for next week, which will free up space at the morgue.

"We do have a fair number of bodies, but it has had more bodies in it at other times."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/12/bodies-doubl...