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Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises (2007) IMDB rating: 8.00 Plot: The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Headed by Semyon, whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold and brutal core, the family's fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill, who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father. But Nikolai's carefully maintained existence is jarred once he crosses paths at Christmastime with Anna Khitrova, a midwife at a North London hospital. Anna is deeply affected by the desperate situation of a young teenager who dies while giving birth to a baby. Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's lineage and relatives. The girl's personal diary also survives her; it is written in Russian, and Anna seeks answers in it. Anna's mother Helen does not discourage her, but Anna's irascible Russian-born uncle Stepan urges caution. He is right to do so; by delving into the diary, Anna has accidentally unleashed the full fury of the Vory. With Semyon and Kirill closing ranks and Anna pressing her inquiries, Nikolai unexpectedly finds his loyalties divided. The family tightens its grip on him; who can, or should, he trust? Several lives - including his own - hang in the balance as a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution reverberates through the darkest corners of both the family and London itself.

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Sen Sessions has New Facts -- Should They Be Considered Before Healthcare is Voted on?
Should Anybody Listen to Sen Sessions' New Facts? Or should the Senate just go ahead?

Obama for the past week has been touting the $350 Billion in deficit reduction savings over the next ten years.

Then today Sen Sessions comes out with a letter from CBO which says whoops! the democrats have been counting the effects of the Medicare Reforms twice. You can't both use the $400 Billion (supposedly saved by curtailing fraud waste and abuse) to EXTEND the MEDICARE PROGRAM'S SOLVENCY and also use that exact same $400 Billion to CREATE NEW HEALTHCARE PROGRAMS OUTSIDE OF MEDICARE.

That's double counting. When the double counting error is removed, it turns out that Obama-Care will greatly add to the annual deficits as far as the eyes can see and vastly increase our national debt.

Let me tell you a true story from the chronicles of the law. Some years ago (about 10 or 15) there was a Supreme Court in an eastern and southern state (could have been GA, TN, KY, or NC, don't remember) that said "It does not matter if the DNA evidence totally exonerates the accused and shows that he did not commit the crime --- He should be executed anyway -- because all the correct processes and procedures were followed in our Courts and the accused got due process of law."

The Court's written opinion saying this was widely criticised, as you can imagine. If you know better, you don't execute a man -- said the critics. The Court Justices were interviewed in the press and at least one of them, in the interviews defended the opinion as valid, sound, and good jurisprudence.

That was the day I stopped believing that capital punishment in civilian courts is an appropriate punishment. We are simply too dumb and too crazy to handle that much power.

Now back to our subject -- I told you the legal story because it is precisely where the Senate is at this exact moment.

The theory that Obama-Care is going to reduce the deficit has been shown, albeit at the last moment, to be a total and complete fraud. And yet the Senate in its insitutional arrogance and mental inertia plnas to vote for Obama-Care anyway tommorow morning at 8 a.m.

They can see plainly that this bill will entail huge deficits, not savings increases in the deficits, and a catastrophic national debt that no generations present or future will be able to bear, and yet, since all the test votes have been taken, and Senate rules and processes, and procedures have been followed, that catastrophic outcome which is now fully known does not matter. They will go ahead anyway.

It would never occur to anyone in the Senate to say, "Let's check this out -- see if the numbers were really double counted like the CBO and Sen Sessions says. If that means we have to wait till January to proceed, OK let's wait. Let's not do something totally stupid and irreversible now. A month more to get to the bottom of this makes much more sense than passing a bill that the whole Senate can see is based on fraudulent premises and duplicitous promises by Obama, Axelrod, Pelosi and Reid."

It will be almost as if G.W. Bush knew before invading Iraq that there was NO WMD there, but decided to go ahead anyway, what the heck.

Tommorrow morning at 8 a.m. the American Prospect will be Lethally Harmed by 100 persons who know better. This is the inertia of mental deadness and the arrogance of institutional proceduralism. We can't stop ourselves, no matter what the facts are.
Source(s):
Senator Sessions (Google his Remarks, Consider the reaction by Sen Reid, and ask yourself -- is this logical?)

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Well, I guess they should take his words into consideration...
The guy above me said that Senator Sessions has no credibility. I wouldn't know since I don't even know him at all. So maybe he's wrong! (the Senator, not the guy above me.)
Or Obama is actually adding to the national American debt which to be honest it wouldn't surprise me because politicians do it all the time.
I wish I knew more but I'm a clueless about politics especially in America.
But yeah, it's not logical this Obama-care...

Highlands Emma de Milo | Dec 23, 2009

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I also heard that. sounds like they count money like they count jobs created.
froghugger | Dec 23, 2009

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There will always be new "facts". If they couldn't get the "facts" out sooner - then it just looks like another delaying tactic.

No, the new "facts" don't have to be considered before the vote, in my opinion.
Mad Mama | Dec 23, 2009

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Yeah, that's all well and good, but if you think long-term strategy the Democrats have something going for them. When they lose in 2012 and Obamacare saddles the next Republican administration with huge debt obligations, they can complain that politician is over-spending, when in reality it was the Democrats fault in the first place.

They do this every time.
Pfo | Dec 23, 2009

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Senator Sessions of Alabama has no credibility! He is a naysayer from the Republican far right and is doing anything to delay a process of caring and help to American citizens who cannot afford the outrageous costs of medical care.
Thanks
telwidit | Dec 23, 2009