Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.

Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states.

Constitutional law experts say the movement is mostly symbolic because federal laws supersede those of the states.

But the state measures reflect a growing frustration with President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The proposal would cover some 30 million uninsured people, end insurance practices such as denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, require almost all Americans to get coverage by law, and try to slow the cost of medical care nationwide.

Democratic leaders hope to vote on it this weekend.

With Washington closing in on a deal in the months-long battle over health care overhaul, Republican state lawmakers opposed to the measure are stepping up opposition.

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, a Republican, said he believes any future lawsuit from Idaho has a legitimate shot of winning, despite what the naysayers say.

MORE >>>> http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/17/idaho-state-sign-law-health-care-reform/

Democrats inched closer to building a majority that could pass a monumental restructuring of the health-care system, with two key House members announcing plans to vote yes, but they remained short of the total required and struggled over changes in how the bill would tax certain insurance plans.

It’s a “Code Red” week for the members of Congress. President Obama has strongly hinted that he wants a vote on health care by Friday. The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs said he thought a bill would be passed this week, but some folks on the right have sworn to “Kill the Bill.

“In Washington, D.C., Republicans and Tea Party members are holding “Code Red” rallies. The protesters are rallying around the phrase “Kill the Bill,” and are decked out with signs courtesy of the Republican National Committee.Rush Limbaugh urged folks to call their representatives today during his radio show:

” The lines are busy. Some people are getting through and some people aren’t, but what you can also do is Google ” Code Red. ” Just put in ” Code Red .” Just search for it.”

Rush is directing folks who are searching for Code Red to this site. It lists each state representative’s contact information and indicates how each one voted last November.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes – When you have a chance read this on Wikipedia. It verifies this article.

Letter about Snopes by Alan Strong, CEO/Chairman Commercial Programming Systems, Inc.

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How does one check to see if the below statements are true??? One can’t obviously go to Snopes……………

If you choose to use Snopes.com, proceed with caution.

About SNOPES.COM’

Who watches the watchers?
For the past few years http://www.snopes.com/ has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the ‘tell-all final word’ on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind http://www.snopes.com/.

Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it – kinda made you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team – that’s right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It’s just a mom-and pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago – and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation?

The reason for the questions – or skepticisms – is a result of http://www.snopes.com/ claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the ‘true’ bottom of various issues.

A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet, ’supposedly’ the Mikkelsons claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on http://www.snopes.com/. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort ‘ever’ took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg’s contact phone numbers – and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec’s at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg no one from http://www.snopes.com/ ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, http://www.snopes.com/ issued a statement as the ‘final factual word’ on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things – not!

Then it has been learned the Mikkelsons are Democrats and extremely liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. Gee, what a shock?

So, I say this now to everyone who goes to http://www.snopes.com/ to get what they think to be the bottom line facts … ‘proceed with caution.’ Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that’s all the Mikkelsons do. After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their ‘not’ fully looking into things.

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://www.snopes.com/

I have found this to be true also! Many videos of Obama I tried to verify on Snopes and they said they were False… Then they gave their Liberal slant…!!! I have suspected some problems with snopes for some time now, but I have only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity they do an immediate full left rudder. Truth or Fiction’s web-site http://www.truthorfiction.com/ is a better source for verification, in my opinion.

I have recently discovered that is http://www.snopes.com/ owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank for Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site as a hoax and yet you can go to YouTube yourself and find the video of Obama actually saying these things. So you see, you cannot and should not trust http://www.snopes.com/ for anything that remotely resembles truth (SIC ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO LIBERAL vs CONSERVATIVE CONCERNS)! I don’t even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore.

A few conservative speakers on MySpace told me about http://www..snopes.com/ a few months ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true. Anyway just FYI, please don’t use http://www.snopes.com/ anymore for fact checking and make your friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think http://www.snopes.com/ is neutral and they can be trusted as factual. We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a hoax in itself.

Thank you,

Alan Strong, CEO/Chairman
Commercial Programming Systems, Inc.
4400 Coldwater Canyon Ave. Suite 200
Studio City , CA. 91604-5039

Phone: 888-277-4562 EX. 306/
Direct 888-812-9234 or 818-308-8561
Mobile 818-522-9319
FAX 818-301-2054

The charges came just three days after regulators seized the bank, which had $520 million in assets.

A 10-count criminal complaint said Charles Antonucci devised “an elaborate round-trip loan transaction” that he told others was his own $6.5 million investment in Park Avenue Bank, misleading bank regulators. Antonucci made false statements in the bank’s application for $11.2 million from TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, according to the complaint.

“Antonucci is the first person ever to be charged with attempting to defraud the TARP and we expect he will not be the last,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a news conference.

He declined to give further details of the continuing investigation, other than to say prosecutors and New York state bank regulators would be making a review of banks that appear to be having problems.

Antonucci, 59, appeared in Manhattan federal court and was released on $2 million bond. He did not enter a plea, but his lawyer said he would plead not guilty.

Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general of TARP, told the news conference that Antonucci “launched a criminal enterprise” as soon as the U.S. Treasury announced its historic program to bail out the banks in late 2008.

“The charges today send a powerful message to those who tried to steal from the TARP, those who have stolen from the TARP and those who are contemplating similar fraudulent action,” Barofsky said.

“You will be tracked down; you will be caught; you will be arrested; and you will be brought to justice.”

source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62E2Y520100315