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Posted by reinkefj
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWU3ZmJjODBjMTllNTg2ZTk5MGZiMWU1NTM5ZTMzMjU=&w=MA==
May 9, 2009 7:00 AM
Climb
Conservatives must have the courage to defend their convictions.
By Mark Steyn
Is conservatism over?
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It’s a mountain, and it’s getting steeper. Promises of “free” government health care will make more voters susceptible to the blandishments of the nanny state. The Democrats have plans for talk radio and the Internet that will diminish conservative voices. Another retirement on the Supreme Court, and the First and Second Amendments will start getting nibbled away. Obama’s buddies at ACORN, already under investigation in multiple states over fraudulent voter registration, will have a prominent say in the 2010 census.
But, when the going gets tough, you don’t, as General Powell advises, “move toward the center.” You move the center toward you, as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did. It’s harder to do it that way, but if it’s a choice between more government and more taxes, or more liberty and more opportunity, I’ll stick with the latter, and so should the Republican party — however difficult it is. Unlike Colin Powell, conservatism does do mountains.
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Anyone, who is even thinking of being fooled by Obama / Hillary Healthcare, shoudl consider:
(1) We have a working model — the VA healthcare system. Ask any vet!
(2) Will the politicians be using it? Probably not!
(3) Where is the money coming for this? Remember in every college economics class, medical care is used as an example of an “inelastic” demand curve, infinite demand without regard to cost. If medical care is “free”, demand will be “infinite”. So there will be rationing and waiting. Look at England where old people don’t get dialysis. Look at Canada, the wait for an MRI allows cancer to be fatal. (Reminds of the VA where vets are convinced their VA docs want to kill them to reduce the demand!)
(4) Forget privacy. THe government will know everything,
Name one thing that the government does acceptably?
How stupid are we?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/how_does_gay_marriage_affect_y.html
How does gay marriage affect you?
from American Thinker
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If past is indeed prologue, the organized, concentrated and continuous assault by a small percentage of zealots will ultimately wear down the resistance of the larger, less focused, non-committed majority.
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The Constitution’s Tenth Amendment reserves that to Several States. Thus the Federal Government should have NO role in the definition of marriage.
The States really should not have any role in defining marriage either since it’s a “church” thing.
The heritage of marriage licensing is racial discrimination.
So, “marriage” should be left to the civil society; the gooferment should MYOB and butt out.
imho!
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Posted by reinkefj
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Job Track – A Free service from EasyWebSitesToday
Posted by: “Job Track”
Mon May 11, 2009 6:33 pm (PDT)
Are you looking for a job? Do you find yourselves applying for way more jobs than ever before? Are you finding yourselves, in a situation where they are calling you 3 months after you have applied for that dream job and you are trying hard to remember, which job is this guy talking about, what is the job description, what salary did I mention to them or that they mentioned to me and what was the resume I sent to them?
If you have answered yes to any one or more of these questions, if that is any consolation. know you are not alone,
The unemployment rate in the US is right now in double-digits and it is taking a very long time to land on a job.When the phone rings, you ask who the person on the other side is, and they start asking questions about you and the job you applied for. You don’t want to miss the call or ask her to call again later, just because you do not remember, which job this is, which resume you sent and other details. You want to be prepared, ready and be able to pull up the information exactly how they pull up your information when you call.
In short, you need to keep track of your job search, like never before and for this you need JobTrack from EasyWebSitesToday.
To help you keep track of your job search and also to be able to meet some the requirements from the Dept. of Labor, we introduce a tool called JobTrack <http://jobtrack.easywebsitestoday.com/>.
This tool is meant to help you to be on top of your job search, by letting you know, “what are the top five jobs that I am pursuing”, “what does my calendar look like for this week, in terms of interviews, either phone, follow-up or face to face”. When you are on the phone with an interviewer, it critical to keep all the relevant information, all on the same page, including the Job Description, the targeted resume and cover letter, the name of the HR person or the hiring manager, the notes you had jotted down about this job and all such relevant information at your finger tips.
So go ahead and sign up for this free service JobTrack<http://jobtrack.easywebsitestoday.com/>, and check it out for yourselves, today!
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I did. The sign up process isn’t friendly. So!
Not really ready for prime time, yet.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124223286506515765.html
News Alert from The Wall Street Journal
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The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The proposal being floated with members of Congress is another indication of President Barack Obama’s struggles to establish his counter-terrorism policies, balancing security concerns against attempts to alter Bush-administration practices he has harshly criticized.
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Another campaign issue / promise up in smoke.
Don’t real;y care about the lying.
BUT!
THe Bush Admininstration had Gitmo to keep the prisoners from getting Fifth Amendment and other rights.t us, next it
(Using my Judge Judy law degree and reading the Constitution, I think rights are inalienable regardless where on the Earth the government is operating. But my opinion matters not.)
The Obama Adminsitration seems to have a new reading of the Fifth and where it applies.
That scares me!
As Pastor Martin Niemîller taught us, next it woon’t apply to us as they herd us to the camps.
Remember my previous blogs. Just take out the first one and the they will soon run out of thugs.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://lewrockwell.com/woods/woods112.html
A EURO-PACIFIC/PETER SCHIFF WHITE PAPER
Beware of Obamanomics
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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In short, the president’s program aggravates every existing problem in the American economy, and will make genuine recovery all the longer in coming. Whether we measure these policies against history or sound economic theory, the verdict is the same: the president has chosen a path that is guaranteed to fail. We were already on that path before his election. Only if President Obama genuinely changes course, and allows the free economy to restore the prosperity that so much previous intervention served to undermine, would we really have change we can believe in.
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Yes, those trillions and trillions of dollars of debt are going to make us more like Zimbabwe!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22401.html
Pelosi: Torture protest improper in ’03
TAGS: Congress, Jane Harman, Nancy Pelosi, Interrogation, Torture
By GLENN THRUSH & JOHN BRESNAHAN | 5/11/09 8:14 PM EDT
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San Francisco Democrat said Monday.
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How can you tell when a politcian is lying?
When their lips are moving!
She wants it her way all the time regardless of facts or history.
They’re all the same.
And she’s THIRD in line to be PRESIDENT?!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090509/D982S7N80.html
Texas man jailed 83 days for skipping jury duty
May 9, 1:56 PM (ET)
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McKINNEY, Texas (AP) – A man arrested for allegedly failing to appear for jury duty was released Saturday after spending 83 days in jail, a length of detention that a judge called “unacceptable.”
Douglas Maupin was released a day after The Dallas Morning News brought his plight to the attention of a Collin County judge.
Maupin, a masonry contractor, was arrested Feb. 15 after police pulled him over for speeding. Police then detained him on a 2003 warrant for failure to appear for jury duty.
He wrote a letter to the newspaper about his lengthy jail stay, then said in a jailhouse interview that he, his friends and family could not afford his $1,500 bail.
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Guess no one ever heard of the Fourteenth Amendment about slavery!
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Posted by reinkefj
Don’t gum up the works
The drunk staggered along the street. He was dirty, smelly, and bedraggled. He bumped between parking meters and cars. Like a sad ping pong match. The police car was at the corner. Illegally parked, of course; the members of the long blue line were on doughnut break. From their “selfless” mission, protecting and serving the entrenched elite. The drunk was an equal opportunity ping pong ball. He bounced off their car, around the corner and away.
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It was the death of his wife that set him off. No one much cared about him. But, then that feeling was mutual with him. He was a self-described “tin foil hat patriot”. Who would know if he was a pinhead or a patriot? Who’d much care! As long as he paid his taxes, there was much he could do. Frustratingly, he blogged. He wrote his letters. He went to demonstrations. He voted religiously. But nothing much mattered. It all came to him in an Auto Parts store. He needed replacement windshield wiper blades. A very mundane purchase. After all if was one of the last things you could do on a car without the government’s permission. The socialists had succeeded in making everything with cars either illegal, expensive, or sealed. You could put an additive in your oil; it’s damaging the planet. Gas was eight bucks a gallon, seven of which was tax; taxed like beer, treated liked drugs. The twenty two hundred dollar catalytic converter was sealed shut; the earth had to “breathe” too you know. Global warming. Remember Mother Earth. For the children. The Auto Parts store had some vintage signs as decoration. One was for an old product called Gunk Out. The slogan was: “Don’t gum up the works!”. Next to the car register were small packages of liquid epoxy designed to stick trim back on cars. Their slogan was: “It’ll never be loose again.” On an impulse, he bought five at this store. And went to another store for more.
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It was the end of a quiet shift. The police pair had been “clocked out” as they drove into the station parking lot. Due to budget crises, there was an automatic badge reader that recorded their status. They just had to refill the patrol car on their own time. The city saved grazillions on the “free labor”; their union had gotten other off-budget concessions. So, their end of shift chores were “off the clock”. Fill up the tank, record the serial number of ammo returned to the armory, lock up their personal weapons until next shift, download their computers to the HQ network. All their problem. Pulling up to the gas pump, the non-driver went to pump. They switched roles each shift. Just like they’d change who was the “bad cop” in their “good cop / bad cop” routine they’d run on suspects. It was all about making their quotas. The gas tank cover wouldn’t open. They were befuddled. They tried knives. They called for help. Finally, the mechanic drilled the cover and cut it off. Four hours later, gas was flowing into their tank. Their car was put out of service for repair. They were being investigated by Internal Affairs for sabatoge. Fixing that was going to be expensive. Especially at government prices!
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The next morning, the city’s 311 number was taking calls from irate citizens. There was no where to park. Every other meter on several blocks wouldn’t take money. What’s worse, if the parker ignored the problem, the automated parking meters would sense there was a car parked, that no graft was being paid to the city for that privilege, and a traffic agent was printed out a ticket automatically to be delivered to that car. Maybe it even got there. On some of the newer meters, it would also read the license plate, and mail a three day violation notice to the registered owner. After three days, if the $125 fine was not paid, their license and registration was suspended automatically. After seven days, a collection agency was engaged. After fourteen days, an arrest warrant was issued. All automagically. The older meters still relied on the Civil Servants to eventually get the paperwork where it should be. The law was written for the new meters. May take years but everyone would be penalized in due time. There’d be arrests for eons based on the old tickets; no statue of limitations and no requirement that tickets be done promptly by the government. But, no such “grace period” for the rabble. It was making pinheads into patriots everywhere in society. It was hard to be uninvolved. Everyone was getting into the act!
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It really wasn’t so bad. They were doing OK until the internet got the story. They had suppressed the press from reporting. They were the lapdogs of the politicians. But, eventually, six days later, the blogosphere erupted with the news. Enraged bloggers caught in the mess screamed to Holy Heaven. The the patriot bloggers picked it up. Then the outlawed bittorrenters distributed pointers to how it was done. All sorts of glue sold out in a few days. Then the fun really began. Finally way to late, wweks later, the government suspended the sale of all glue. It was more heavily regulated than guns.
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Eventually government ceased to function. Society thrived. But government was “glued” solid. Unmovable. Yes, it was a little inconvenient to get around the “road blocks”. But it was funny to see the mayor’s limo encased in epoxy!
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Yes, you really should NOT gum up the works.
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[NOTE: This is Johnathan Swift satire, you should NOT do this!]
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Posted by reinkefj
http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/05/inflation.html
Friday, May 8, 2009
Inflation
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This is a backdoor tax because a tax was not passed. You did not have money stolen out of your paycheck and didn’t write them a check but they in effect reached into your wallet and bank accounts and via a loss purchasing power you were essentially taxed.
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Insidious backdoor taxation. Coming to you very soon!
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Posted by reinkefj
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