EVANSVILLE – State Rep. Gail Riecken (D-Evansville) announced today that a community town hall originally scheduled for earlier this month now will take place November 16 at the First Presbyterian Church in Evansville.

The town hall will begin at 10 a.m. on November 16 at the church, located at 609 E. Second Street.

“This town hall will give area residents a chance to tell me their priorities for the upcoming 2014 session of the Indiana General Assembly,” Riecken said. “As hard as it might seem to believe, Organization Day to prepare for the 2014 session is Tuesday, November 19. I want to give everyone the chance to tell me what the Legislature needs to do in areas like job creation, education reform, and improving access to health care.

“I also want to use this event to get local input on the actions being taken by the state’s Commission on Improving the Status of Children, a group that I serve on that is looking to improve the delivery  of services to neglected and abused children across Indiana,” she continued. “I believe the best way to achieve that mission is to gain the views of individuals and groups from our area who can bring a local perspective to identifying problems and finding solutions.”

By Scottie Thomas

Born on an old farm, a few miles from Fort Branch, Indiana, which she tells me was haunted, Berniece Terminstein is a widow of twenty years. Her husband, Paul was the Director of Purchasing & Material Control for then, Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company (SIGECO), now Vectren. Terminstein currently resides in the same house in Evansville for the last sixty two years now. She has two children: a daughter, Debbie and a son, Mark. Terminstein also has one granddaughter, Sarah.

Debbie now lives in Montana working for Habitat Inventory of Grizzly Bears and trains a new search and rescue dog, Choteau. Mark is a medical researcher for Bristol Myers for the last five years. His main focus is in work with Diabetes, mainly in regards to the development of a drug to help with the condition.

Terminstein is a big fan of genealogy, as she has tracked her ancestry to the Sollman family of Bavaria, with a heavy nationality of German roots. Her great-great-great Uncle William Nennecker was awarded a German Cross Medal during his service in the Franco Prussian War dated 1848-1849.

It is easy to see why her children have taken the career paths that they have given Terminstein’s legacy. She is eighty-two years young and a proud member of the Tea Party as she has spoken before City Council several times.

She joined the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps for World War II. The last class to be admitted was 1945. The Bolten Act allowed for Room & Board and Tuition for the nurses to be paid for and provide a stipend of $10.00 a month, then. She later worked for the Linda Richards Nursing Home (the first Deaconess Hospital) which had only nineteen beds. It was owned by Major Byron Parson.

Terminstein was the first Registered Nurse to receive the American Nurses Association Achievement Award (Indiana). The Associated Press awarded her as the first recipient of the honor. She has also gone on to win the Evansville Neighborhood Association Spark Plug Award, which recognizes an individual for their efforts in improving their neighborhood and making it a better place.

At one of the City Council Meetings, when speaking to City Council President, Terminstein shared that ‘[She] always felt that Evansville citizens [should] have an open dialogue to better their community.’ She has been involved with City Council the past four or five years. Some of the issues she spoke upon where pertaining to the softball/baseball fields by Roberts Stadium, in addition to the concerns about two Fire Stations (#10 & #14).

One facilitator spoke of Terminstein with these words to offer: ‘Berniece you always have factual arguments to make and show no emotion.’ He then proceeded to ask if she was a nurse. Terminstein is more than a Registered Nurse. She is a caregiver to her family, neighborhood, community and nation. Berniece Terminstein continues to add to her legacy of longevity.

Excerpts from Article by Andrew McCarthy

“If he were a CEO in the private sector, he’d be prosecuted for such deception.”

“‘If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan. Period.” How serious was this lie, repeated by Barack Obama with such beguiling regularity? Well, how would the Justice Department be dealing with it if it had been uttered by, say, the president of an insurance company rather than the president of the United States?”

“Fraud is a serious federal felony, usually punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment — with every repetition of a fraudulent communication chargeable as a separate crime.”

“Cases of multi-million-dollar corporate frauds — to say nothing of multi-billion-dollar, Bernie Madoff–level scams that nevertheless pale beside Obamacare’s dimensions — often result in terms amounting to decades in the slammer.”

“Justice Department guidelines, set forth in the U.S. Attorneys Manual, recommend prosecution for fraud in situations involving “any scheme which in its nature is directed to defrauding a class of persons, or the general public, with a substantial pattern of conduct.” So, for example, if a schemer were intentionally to deceive all Americans, or a class of Americans (e.g., people who had health insurance purchased on the individual market), by repeating numerous times — over the airwaves, in mailings, and in electronic announcements — an assertion the schemer knew to be false and misleading, that would constitute an actionable fraud — particularly if the statements induced the victims to take action to their detriment, or lulled the victims into a false sense of security.”

“A material omission is the intentional failure to state any fact the communication of which would be necessary to ensure that statements already made are not misleading. The concept of material omission is a staple of fraud prosecutions. A good example is the Obama Justice Department’s ongoing and transparently political effort to portray financial institutions — as opposed to government policies — as the proximate cause of the mortgage-industry collapse that resulted in our national economic meltdown.”

“Martha Stewart, naturally, was fearful that truthful statements would send the stock price plummeting. Obama, by comparison, was not lying merely to prevent a company from losing value. His fraud was, first, to induce passage of a plan designed gradually to destroy the private health-insurance market — a plan that barely passed and never would have been enacted if he’d been honest. And later, his fraud was to procure his reelection and the guaranteed implementation of Obamacare; had he been honest, he would have been defeated and Obamacare forestalled.”

“Barack Obama is guilty of fraud — serial fraud — that is orders of magnitude more serious than frauds the Justice Department routinely prosecutes, and that courts punish harshly. The victims will be out billions of dollars, quite apart from other anxiety and disruption that will befall them.”

“It is highly unlikely that Barack Obama will ever be impeached. It is certain that he will never again be trusted. Republicans and sensible Democrats take heed: The nation may not have the stomach to remove a charlatan, but the nation knows he is a charlatan. The American people will not think twice about taking out their frustration and mounting anger on those who collaborate in his schemes.”

Full Article:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/363538/obamas-massive-fraud-andrew-c-mccarthy