POLITICS: Obama’s turning point

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/09/09/obamas-turning-point/

Obama’s turning point
AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

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“If Obama gives McChrystal his soldiers he will be heading down the road to disaster. When reliably conservative columnist George Will calls for leaving Afghanistan , the writing is surely on the wall. Even Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Michael Mullen has conceded that the United States has effectively wasted more than seven years in Afghanistan and now has to start over, an assessment that is actually optimistic in that it presumes that there is a way to achieve success, whatever that means. Obama can read the tea leaves as well as anyone. Will he do an LBJ and, in the cowardly fashion of a politician placing party above country, support a war that he knows is lost or will he make the courageous and correct choice to speak candidly to the American people and admit that Afghanistan has been a failed US policy and that it is time to walk away? Or will he adopt a third way that is neither fish nor fowl, going with the status quo and supporting current troop levels and funding, even though he knows to do so is futile, in the hope that he will not be labeled as the president who ‘lost’ Afghanistan?” (09/10/09)

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Well, as a little L libertarian, I think we should bring ALL the boys and girls home. NOW!

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POLITICAL: Where are the “classical liberals” to protect us serfs?

Monday, September 14, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/win_one_by_being_like_the_gipp.html

September 11, 2009
Win one by being like the Gipper
Rosslyn Smith

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“Liberal” is still the worst and remains the only political description that is viewed more negatively than positively.

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At one time, “liberal” was a good word.

In the days of the “king”, it was “liberal” to champion individual rights. “Conservatives” supported the King!

The little guys, the serfs, the near slaves, sought the protection of the Church.

The Dead Old White Guys were all liberals in opposition to the King.

Now days, it’s hard to see anyone looking out for us serfs.

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POLITICS: Truthers, birthers, and all the other tin foil hats have to just wait a few decades

Sunday, September 13, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKR2-A0KPU

Charlie Sheen addresses the President about 9/11 in a special video message, shortly after releasing his “20 Minutes with the President,”

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Six safe for work minutes. In asking some “interesting” questions. Unfortunately, it takes decades for the “truth” to come out. Be it Pearl Harbor, JFK, or whatever … it takes decades. And, one quickly realizes that both the D’s and the R’s are just two sides of the same coin. Each election is merely a kabuki dance to entertain us into thinking we have a choice or what we “decide” makes a difference. But nothing ever changes! Argh!

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POLITICS: Van Jones is the tip of a very big iceberg

Sunday, September 6, 2009

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AHL8O80&show_article=1

Obama ‘green jobs’ adviser quits amid controversy
Sep 6 02:19 AM US/Eastern
By WILL LESTER
Associated Press Writer

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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.

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Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck repeatedly denounced Jones after a group the adviser co-founded, ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck’s show to protest his claim that Obama is a racist.

James Rucker, the organization’s executive director, has said Jones had nothing to do with ColorofChange.org now and didn’t even know about the campaign before it started.

Jones, well-known in the environmental movement, was a civil-rights activist in California before shifting his attention to environmental and energy issues. He is known for laying out a broad vision of a green economy.

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THe AP is playing politics with this report. Beck called him out as a “communist” BEFORE the boycott.

Having followed Glen Beck’s indictment of the “Czars”, this fellow was imho a racist communist.

One down and a slew of Czars to go.

Obama was known to 100% “liberal” before he was elected, why is anyone surprised at the people in his administration?

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POLITICS: Politicians and regulators

Saturday, September 5, 2009

FROM A POST ABOUT REGULATORS

And, don’t forget the only true purpose of any gooferment program is to make the politicians and their lackeys the bureaucrats look good. Along the way, they feather their own nest, reward their friends, and punish their enemies. On this side of the pond, the politicians rank lower than used car salesmen. At least, the used car salesmen and you both KNOW you are getting screwed — no pretense, no agenda, no HIDDEN gotcha. Argh!

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POLITICS: Gooferment education?

Saturday, September 5, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108507

Thought you might “enjoy” this. Get your BP up.

One more reason to kill “gooferment education”. As if that is what they are doing.

We know that the model was created to produce cannon fodder for the German Army and compliant workers for the factory.

Parents should be responsible for education. Just like they are responsible for everything else. They had them; not me. Why should I pay for their “fun”? It’s contra survival.

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POLITICAL: Keep the H1Bs here in the USA

Friday, September 4, 2009

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/30/free-the-h-1bs-free-the-economy/

Free the H-1Bs, Free the Economy
by Vivek Wadhwa on August 30, 2009

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This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa.

I have a suggestion for our President on how to boost economic growth without spending a penny: Free the H-1B’s.

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I know Vivek from our days at First Boston.

He’s absolutely correct. We need to disassemble the “illegal immigration” infrastructure. If we stop putting out milk (i.e., welfare in the form of freebies like education, health care, food stamps), then we will get fewer stray cats (i.e., immigrants who come for the wrong reasons).

Clearly, the H1Bs are valuable additions to the workforce. Let’s keep them rather than, thru ignorance, allow them to slip away.

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POLITICS: The philosophy of taxes

Thursday, September 3, 2009

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/08/31/the-truth-about-taxes/&cp=1/#comment-195287

The Truth About Taxes
Monday, 31st August 2009 (by J.D.)

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Note: Although I try to keep GRS a politics-free zone, today’s topic is inherently political. I’ve stayed as neutral as possible in the article, but I know that there’ll be some political discussion in the comments. Please keep conversation civil, as always.

Because I was frustrated with my own ignorance about the U.S. federal budget and our tax system, I recently spent twelve hours researching a variety of tax topics. From my research came two articles: last week’s short guide to the federal budget and today’s post, which answers some of my personal questions about taxes.

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Welcome to the “tax wars”, by the time we’re finished with you, you too will be a raving loon!

Tactically, you can’t figure out how much “tax” you pay. We need to recognize that ONLY real people pay tax. So, the taxes that companies pay is really a hidden tax on the people who buy their products. BUT you can’t see it. Further, if there are capital goods used by a company, the taxes on that capital good are buried in the product’s price. Also, recognize that “costs”, “user fees”, or any unavoidable expense imposed by or as a result of the gooferment’s actions, laws, regulations, or diktats is a TAX! Try and figure out all of those. Good luck. One quick example, drugs. The FDA has rules, pharmacies have regulations, doctors have laws. Argh! It’s IMPOSSIBLE to figure out exactly what you pay in tax. And, then we can talk about monetary inflation as a gooferment tax. When you sum it all up, it might be greater than your annual income!

Strategically, taxes are NOT “the cost of living in civilized society”; they are THEFT. How does what dead old white guys did 233 years ago obligate me? It’s a principle of contract law that there has to be offer and acceptance to have a contract. Where is the offer? Where is my acceptance? What obligates me to pay? The definition of citizen states there is an exchange for the state’s “protection”, yet the courts have repeatedly held that there is no specific enforceable duty of the government to protect me. So why again do I have to pay for “services” that I don’t want, can’t use, and are horribly overpriced? In the case of Federal Abortion funding, it’s also morally offensive to me; yet, I still must pay.

Welcome to the tax wars. This is theft by deception. IMHO!

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POLITICAL: It’s the gooferment!

Monday, August 31, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski236.html

Health Care Through Central Planning: A Helpful Analogy
by Karen Kwiatkowski

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We have examples – ophthalmology and veterinarian services come to mind first. You can get an eye exam for $50, and then order glasses online for another $20. Overall, that’s less than a pair of running shoes, or a meal out with the family at Applebee’s. The wide variety of eye surgeries available and the competitive and safe nature of these surgeries speak to the working of a freer market than what we see for the rest of our health care. The argument by the statist left and statist right is falsely premised by the idea that the current health care “system” is a free market system, and based on the ideas that free market systems can’t work for health care because people are not all equal in either health, desires for health or finances.

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We have to keep hitting the gooferment on all fronts. It’s ineffective, inefficient, and screws up everything it touches!

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POLITICAL: If Health Care, why not sports?

Monday, August 31, 2009

http://lewrockwell.com/orig10/maymin3.1.1.html

Public Option Sports
by Phil Maymin

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The only conclusion one can reach from all this is public options are of course a great idea. They should also be applied to sports.

Sports and health care? Are the two even comparable in terms of impact on the economy?

They are. We pay about as much for health insurance as we do for sports. Health insurance companies had total revenue of $405 billion in 2007, according to the Highline Data Health Industry Aggregate. Total sports revenue, including the NBA, NFL, NHL, MBA and golf, are now around $400 billion a year, according to Plunkett Research, Ltd.

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Makes “perfect sense”!

As a matter of fact, when these SOCIALISTS are talking about NATIONALIZING healthcare, just substitute in any other industry.

If I have a “RIGHT” to healthcare, don’t I have a “RIGHT” to food?

It’s absurd.

But follow it to its logical extreme and you wind up back in the USSR.

And, we all know how that turned out.

I just shake my head at our collective foolishness!

Vote them all out. Speak out against this radical left into Socialism!

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