LIBERTY: They did what they were asked to do

Saturday, June 6, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_day

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The best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day on which the Invasion of Normandy began — commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.

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One thing is for sure, many good men died this day.

Was it worth it? Only history will tell. Only God knows what might have been.

(Remember “It’s a wonderful life”?)

If we as a society truly value our soldiers and veterans, then we would not allow the gooferment to treat them so badly.

Let’s bring the troops home. Now! (Remember I told you that Ron Paul was that only true anti-war candidate.)

Let’s have the courage to demand, and pay for, the VA.

Let’s beware of the politicians who risk our troops for ill defined, venial, or (yes, sometimes) personal reasons.

Remember the 6th of June and all these days that good men died.

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LIBERTY: Parents; not gooferment

Thursday, June 4, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99054

Hands off our children!

Barbara Simpson
Posted: May 25, 2009

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The real issue is when can the state can intervene into family issues and how “neglect” is defined?

Does a 13-year-old boy, with parental agreement, have the right to refuse chemotherapy?

If not, why does a 13-year-old girl, without parental consent (or notification), have the right to birth control or an abortion? In reality, her right to abortion is subtle state permission for her to have sex – although sex with a minor is illegal.

Yet the same girl can’t get an aspirin from the school nurse without parental consent.

Perhaps that’s to make the parents feel they have some authority.

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I’m hard pressed to take the control of children from parents and give it to the gooferment.

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LIBERTY: Really READ the bills act

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Seed: Democrats Hire Speed Reader To Read Cap And Trade Bill Aloud – Levin Fan (Source: The Washington Post)

One sign that long days of debating may have gotten to the members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: they were briefly transfixed by a demonstration of speed-reading.

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Does anyone else find this strangely upsetting?

DownsizeDC (http://www.downsizedc.org/) champions the idea of “read the bills”. The congresscritters makes a joke out of the idea of “reading” whatever the hell they’re voting on. It’s a joke. AND, the joke’s on us!

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LIBERTY: Who runs the banks?

Monday, June 1, 2009

http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUKN2941127620090529

U.S. FDIC restricts interest rates at weak banks
Fri May 29, 2009 3:38pm BST

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WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) – U.S. banks that are struggling to stay afloat will not be allowed to aggressively ratchet up interest rates to attract customer money, a top bank regulator said on Friday.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp voted to bar a bank with insured deposits from paying interest rates that “significantly exceed” prevailing market rates if the bank is deemed not well capitalized. The new rule better defines what constitutes normal market rates, the FDIC said.

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Let’s dispose of any doubt that this is a “free market” economy!

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LIBERTY: Government Motors is a demarcation

Monday, June 1, 2009

http://lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster153.html

Obama to Government Motors: ‘Let’s Roll’
by Karen De Coster

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As the Chrysler resuscitation continues and GM morphs into Government Motors, we can expect that the government will prepare to churn out its environmentally correct greenmobiles that the market has rejected over and over again. Freedom, choice, and capitalism will pay a dear price because a group of government bureaucrats, on the receiving end of political favors, will run a major sector of the US economy and foist a prescribed lifestyle upon American consumers.

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The USA of the American Revolution died during the War of Norther Aggression.

The USA was started on a road to somewhere by WW1 and WW2. The Depression gave FDR the “reason” to start it on the road to socialism.

Now, we have turned to Mussolini’s fascism. The government OWNS businesses. IT ACTUALLY owns the biggest business of the nation — the banks and car makers! By regulation, it owns in fact, the railroads, the airlines, the phone, the drug makers.

What’s left?

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LIBERTY: “Too big to fail” is a gooferment failure

Saturday, May 30, 2009

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=12177

Break Up These Banks
by: Mike Lux
Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 17:00

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I also fundamentally agree with David Sirota that if these corporations are too big to fail, then they are too big to exist: a proposition also agreed to by the populists and progressives of the late 1800s/early 1900s, by Abe Lincoln, by Teddy Roosevelt, by FDR, by Harry Truman. Progressives of all eras have understood that corporations that grow too enormous threaten our economy and our democracy, and should be woken up into smaller entities that can’t do so much damage when they are mismanaged. The era of bank consolidation has to come to an end, and these monsters need to be broken into smaller companies just like Standard Oil was in the early 1900s.

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Very good point.

“To big to fail, then they are too big”

It would seem that’s a great principle of regulation!

Wonder why none of the “brains” ever thought of it?

Could it be that the politicians need things big to get political contributions?

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LIBERTY: The video camera is the new gun of the Liberty Army

Thursday, May 28, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR0YAghdHSY&feature=player_embedded

Fifteen minute video as Judge N helps rally the People against the power of the overbearing State.

Highly recommended on several levels.

Obviously, the Judge was impressed with the use of technology.

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LIBERTY: Search by the FCC?

Thursday, May 28, 2009

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/fcc-raid/

FCC’s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts
    * By Ryan Singel Email Author
    * May 21, 2009 |

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You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.

That’s the upshot of the rules the agency has followed for years to monitor licensed television and radio stations, and to crack down on pirate radio broadcasters. And the commission maintains the same policy applies to any licensed or unlicensed radio-frequency device.

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Sure, the Fourth Amendment no longer applies in Amerika!

Argh!

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LIBERTY: Memorial Day; very sad

Monday, May 25, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day

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A lot of good men, and even some women, paid the ultimate price getting us to where we are now. Memorial Day remembers them.

And, that their sacrifice should not be in vane.

Sigh, sadly, I’m not so sure we appreciate it.

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LIBERTY: Repeal the “Direct Election of Senators” aka Seventeenth Amendment

Thursday, May 21, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98184

The death of shame
Posted: May 15, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
Hal Lindsey

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Speaker Pelosi’s press conference yesterday had to rank as one of the most bizarre political implosions since Richard Nixon’s infamous “I’m not a crook” press conference in April 1974.

Pelosi called the press conference to offer her fifth separate explanation for why she never knew about the application of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” despite the release of CIA memos and the recollection of other participants who clearly recall her being extensively briefed.

As press conferences go, it was painful to witness. Noted one observer, if Pelosi was not lying, she deserved an Academy Award for appearing as though she were. When questioned by reporters, she actually re-read her prepared statement – several times – stumbling over it as if she were cold-reading the description of an event involving someone else.

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I would attribute us to the “Direct Election of Senators” Seventeenth Amendment 1913. (The same year they created the Federal Reserve!)

Before that they were responsible to the State Legislatures and much more insulated from the public pressure. And, much more dignified!

It’s time to repeal that amendment and a few others!

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