http://www.reason.com/blog/show/135908.html
Guess Who’s an Official UN Hero?
Michael C. Moynihan | September 4, 2009, 11:30pm
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Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, bestows official hero status on Bolivian President Evo Morales, the first president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere, and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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And why are we still in the UN?
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http://www.reason.com/news/show/135830.html
George Will is Right
It’s time for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan
David Harsanyi | September 2, 2009
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Or is victory achieved when we finally usher this primitive tribal culture, with its violent warlords and religious extremism, from the eighth century all the way to modernity? If so, we’re on course for a centuries-long enterprise of nation building and baby-sitting, not a war. The war was won in 2002.
If the goal is to establish a stable government to fill the vacuum created by our ousting of the Taliban and al-Qaida, we’ve done quite a job. Most Americans can accept a Marine’s risking life and limb to safeguard our freedoms. But when that Marine is protector of a corrupt and depraved foreign parliament—one that recently legalized marital rape and demands women ask permission from male relatives to leave their homes—it is not a victory worth celebrating.
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Put the girls and boys on the next thing coming home.
Why do we have troops in 170 countries?
We can’t afford that any more than we can afford Obamacare.
Let’s finally end the welfare warfare state.
Switzerland is an excellent model!
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http://lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html
Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
by Nicholas Monahan
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Of course when I say she “told me later,” it’s because she wasn’t able to tell me at the time, because as soon as I demanded to know what the federal employee had done to make her cry, I was swarmed by Portland police officers. Instantly. Three of them, cinching my arms, locking me in handcuffs, and telling me I was under arrest. Now my wife really began to cry. As they led me away and she ran alongside, I implored her to calm down, to think of the baby, promising her that everything would turn out all right. She faded into the distance and I was shoved into an elevator, a cop holding each arm. After making me face the corner, the head honcho told that I was under arrest and that I wouldn’t be flying that day – that I was in fact a “menace.”
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May suggest you read this account of an “encounter” with the TSA? I read it and found a few items of particular interest.
(1) The very expensive security theater it demonstrates.
(2) What I would call unconstitutional search (i.e., baseball cap; public humiliation of an obviously pregnant woman.)
(3) The topper: destroying evidentiary video after 3 days.
As a reaction to the TSA, I have only flown twice since 9/11. (I had no real choice! Business.) I refuse to get my bp up from this absurdity.
Perhaps you might comment on it in your blog and wake up a few more citizens.
We really should close down the TSA and return security and the airports to the airlines.
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107403
DOCTOR’S ORDERS
Obamacare will be 1 big ‘death panel’
Just as in U.K., government system will lead to early demise of seniors
Posted: August 20, 2009
By Richard Poe
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Barbara Wagner of Springfield, Ore., was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005. Chemotherapy and radiation put her cancer into remission. But the cancer returned in May 2008.
Wagner’s doctor prescribed Tarceva, a pill which slows cancer growth. There was a good chance it might extend her life by a few weeks or even months.
At age 64, Wagner had two sons, three daughters, 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Every moment she could spend with her loved ones was precious.
But Oregon’s health commissars nixed the plan. Her Tarceva treatment would cost $4,000 per month. Wagner was going to die anyway, so why waste the money?
Wagner received a letter stating that the Oregon Health Plan would not approve any treatment for her “that is meant to prolong life, or change the course of the disease …” However, if Wagner opted for physician-assisted suicide, Oregon would be happy to pick up the tab, said the letter.
Physician-assisted suicide is legal in Oregon and costs only about $50.
“It was horrible,” Wagner told reporters. “To say to someone, we’ll pay for you to die, but not pay for you to live, it’s cruel. Who do they think they are?”
Wagner finally got her Tarceva when the manufacturer Genentech offered to supply it free of charge. She died in October 2008.
A humble, retired schoolbus driver, Wagner touched more people in death than she had in life. Local and national press picked up her story, alerting many Americans to the danger of medical rationing.
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There has to be a special place in hell for those who have defrauded the public into thinking this is “medical care”.
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107221
Is ‘death panels’ charge over the top?
Posted: August 18, 2009
Thomas Sowell
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As for a “death panel,” no politician would ever use that phrase when trying to get a piece of legislation passed. “End of life” care under the “guidance” of “some independent group” sounds so much nicer – and these are the terms President Obama used in an interview with the New York Times back on April 14.
He said, “The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out there.” He added: “It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. That is why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance.”
But when you select people like Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to give “independent” guidance, you have already chosen a policy through your choice of advisers, who simply provide political cover. The net result can be exactly the same as if those providing that guidance were openly called “death panels.”
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The gooferment has no business in health care, health insurance (other than to prevent fraud), or anything like it.
The FDA should be shut down. People, in consultation with their doctors, should decide the efficacy and safety of drugs.
We got into this mess because of Medicare. Unfortunately, time for that to go. We should be spending our energies on how to unwind that mess.
It all comes down to the definition of insurance. What is the purpose of wealth at end of life.
Insurance is not for routine maintenance (i.e., you don’t insure your car’s oil changes) and for predictable stuff (i.e., the car reaches the end of its useful life). Insurance is for the unpredictable catastrophes. People, all subject to the same random risk, band together to minimize the impact. That’s why insurers talk about “pools”. If I have a pool of ten people who all share the same risk (e.g., a meteor will strike ONE car this year), then the premium is 10% of the car’s cost plus administration. Very smart actuaries figure it all out. And, it seemed to work fine for decades. Think Lloyds of London. But, now the gooferment says “insurance has to pay for hair replacement”. What if I don’t want to insure that risk. Too bad; you’re screwed. Live in NJ; can’t buy NY insurance. Can’t buy multi-year insurance. No 20 year level premium term insurance in health care. Argh!
And, when I come to the end of my life, and I begin to spend my wealth in my declining years, who’s business is it anyway. What did I save it for? If not to extend or make my life comfortable?
Let’s send the gooferment back to the drawing board. They should stick to figuring out how to honor the camel. Wasn’t it a horse designed by a congress critter committee?
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http://www.impactlab.com/2009/08/10/are-local-and-state-governments-in-the-u-s-getting-too-big/
August 10th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Are Local And State Governments In The U.S. Getting Too Big?
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A new local government now emerges, on average, once a day in the United States. “I think it gives you a fair sense of the scale of growth that warrants attention,” says Nick Dranias, director of the Center for Constitutional Government at the Goldwater Institute, a public policy think tank in Phoenix, Arizona. For example, according to the California state government Web site, “within California, there are 58 counties, 468 cities, and over 3,400 special districts, exclusive of school districts.” Dranias believes that “few [special districts] are models of limited government restrained by a system of checks and balances,” arguing that these bodies are often driven by special interests.
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Of course, my immediate answer is yes.
“Special Districts” represent a new threat to liberty. Overlapping gooferments. With lots more paid staff. With pensions.
Argh!
How dumb are we?
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http://www.motherbird.com/deep_politics.html
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott
Book review by Jodey Bateman
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Scott says that at this point it is not possible to say what specific individuals plotted to kill Kennedy. However, there is publicly available information, easy to obtain, on why a much larger group of individuals was willing to stage an official cover-up to make it appear that the Kennedy assassination was simply a horrible accident without political significance.
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And, that is why dear Sheeple, we will never get the truth about anything.
The gooferment is corrupt.
Slowly, but surely, with age, I am becoming an anarchist.
The gooferment is the meme that kills and enslaves us.
We need to find a better answer.
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Michelle Obama’s toxic veggie nightmare: White House organic garden polluted with sludge
Alex Salkever
Jul 30th 2009 at 10:00AM
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The White House has sought to downplay the issue, and a number of experts have pointed out that 93 ppm of sludge in soil is somewhat normal for older urban locales. However, the EPA recommends not growing food in soil that has 100 ppm. Several major food producers, including H.J. Heinz and Del Monte, won’t accept produce grown in sludge. That’s despite decades of U.S. government efforts to encourage farmers to use solid sewage wastes in lieu of traditional fertilizer products.
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You have to admire liberals. Their hearts are always in the right place. And, their heads are … …
Well, it’s intentions that count; not results. Right?
No one in the gooferment could tell them about this problem BEFORE the big garden photo op?
And, it’s the big bad corporations like Heinz and DelMonte that want to poison us!
ROFL!
I just shake my head.
And, they want to run HEALTHCARE, ENERGY, as well as GM, the Banks, Wall Street and everything else.
They can’t even manage a small garden!
Argh!
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo175.html
Socialized Healthcare vs. the Laws of Economics
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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In the UK as well – thanks to nationalization, price controls, and government rationing of healthcare – thousands of people die needlessly every year because of shortages of kidney dialysis machines, pediatric intensive care units, pacemakers, and even x-ray machines. This is America’s future, if “ObamaCare” becomes a reality.
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Seems to me like this is the essence of Obama-care. Just like Hillary-care. National socialism. And just wrong!
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi113.html
Obstructing and Manipulating
by Bill Sardi
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Bernanke Caught Swapping Currencies
On the same day Barofsky was briefing Congress on his 250-page report, a film clip on YouTube showed Congressman Alan Grayson grilling the Federal Reserve’s Ben Bernanke, who admitted to swapping $500 billion of US funds to central bankers in Europe in one day (this represents 25% of what the US collects in taxes in an entire year), in what appears to have been an attempt to alter the value of the US dollar and to influence the price of oil and the value of stocks.
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What that means is that, to the Average Joe , the markets are being manipulated.
What that means is that eventually one big ugly chicken is going to come home to roost.
What that means is that sooner or later the truth will come out.
We wuz robbed.
And the elite did it.
So recognize the thieves in DC and vote them ALL out.
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