Reinke Faces Life

http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2003/Best_of_ARC/best1.asp?msg=116&forumID=18

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Q: How can you call for removal of government support for the arts? Wouldn’t it help if we were able to divert more government money to better kinds of art?

What we need is not more socialism for the museums and symphonies or government regulation of record companies and schools. What we need instead is to replace the mis-education system that removes the audiences from the symphonies, museums, art schools, and galleries. What we need to do is shrink the vast resources at their disposal and keep on plugging away trying to educate people about the good stuff. We don’t need socialism to support us. We just need the support for modernism that is extracted from the public by force to be eliminated. Suffice it to say that in cases where some genuinely desirable task is completed by the expenditure of government money, you always see manipulation of the process by those seeking special favors from the government. Generally the question in these genuinely desirable areas is not over whether the project will happen at all, but whether the government (with its typical lack of accountability, inefficiency, corruption, and power mongering) will do it or whether relatively more efficient and accountable private interests will do it

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I never had much use for art. At least how art was taught. I had a revelation, it Las Vegas (of ALL places). I dragged Frau to Wynn’s art exhibit. Paid a stiff entry price. (I thin 20$ a head). Got a forerunner of an ipod and an a walk through some painting by the Old Masters. I saw some paintings that knock my socks off.

I’m still no art fan. But, you have to admit these old birds could grab you by te ear lobe and  make you listen.

It was the eyes that seemed like they were looking at you.

Sigh, less gooferment; more old masters?

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

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On Monday[10], August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total casualties to 90,000-140,000.[11] Approximately 69% of the city’s buildings were completely destroyed, and 6.6% severely damaged.

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As an American who wasn’t alive when this happened, I won’t judge the people who did this. I’m sure they have met the Maker and received their eternal reward. I will say I am shocked and appalled by it.

Government, gooferment, the meme that kills.

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A COMMENT THAT WAS A DRIVE BY

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A new comment on the post #3602 “POLITICAL: Obama’s Prayer: The Intended Audience” is waiting for your approval https://reinkefaceslife.com/2008/07/31/political-obamas-prayer-the-intended-audience/

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You do realize that Obama isn’t muslim, right? Or are you just as ignorant as you sound?

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I love “drive by” anonymous comments.

I’ll take a stab at this one.

I don’t KNOW anything about O other than he’s running for President.

• His religion, if any, is doubt. Muslin, Wright wacko, or something else — who knows?

• He’s flip floped on the war — only Ron Paul was going to get us out of Iraq!

• He’s pro-abortion. Sorry, it abhorrent, and I don’t want to pay for it.

• His tax policy is right out of the Socialist playbook.

I think his qualifications are non-existent and imho he’s an empty suit.

Guess I AM as ignorant as I sound.

(I love softballs!)

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_prayer_the_real_audienc_1.html

July 30, 2008
Obama’s Prayer: The Intended Audience
By Helen Cadogan
Helen Cadogan is the owner of iEdit.

Editor’s note: Publication of this article is suspended. Ma’ariv has backed away from the published story and YA has indicated differences with the published account.

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Barack Obama wanted the world to know that he can pray like a Christian. Thus, he penned a ‘note to God’ on stationery from the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, and he generously gave a copy to the “international media even before he put in the Kotel, a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel.” Thus says the Ma’ariv spokesman in defense of his newspaper, which may be the subject of a criminal investigation for publishing the ‘note to God’ which Obama gave to the paper. For, interestingly, not only Ma’ariv was a recipient of Obama’s generosity, so was Yediot Ahoronot (YA), the most popular Israeli daily. YA also obtained the ‘note to God’ from Obama but declined to print it, ironically, “to respect Obama’s privacy.”

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If Ma’ariv had the note from Obama right after it was written, it could have published it at anytime. However, had Ma’ariv done so, then Obama would have been justly accused of politicizing one of the most sacred places of Judaism, the Western Wall. How, then, is he supposed to avoid such a charge? The logical answer would be to have a supporter temporarily retrieve the note (notice I don’t call it a prayer, which is a private matter), take it to a newspaper, which would then publish it, with this added cachet that vindicates Obama of spiritual crassness — claim it was stolen.

Who was the intended audience for this little passion play? Every speech act has an intended audience, and prayer, a very personal speech act, also has its own. In the normal course of events, God is the intended audience. However, given that Obama released his note for publication immediately after writing it, then God may not be the intended audience. Rather, Obama’s intended audience may be of this world: America’s voting Jews, Christians, and Muslims. To reach them, Obama would have to engage in a tricky balancing act purposed to let each group know that he believes as it does.

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Wow!

I’m no fan of either political party, either politician, nor any of the gang!

This is something one would expect in a Tom Clancy novel.

It does HOWEVER have the ring of truth to it. Manipulation by politicians, and their helpful lackies in the media, have made me suspicious of EVERYTHING they do.

I have no problem with a black Muslim President. I do have a problem with politicians that hide their stipes and denty their associations until AFTER they are elected. It seems that time after time, we learn AFTER the fact, that we’ve been had.

Bush Senior read my lips. Clinton’s middle class tax cut. Bush Junior’s humbel foreign policy.

Nope, I dislike them both, but O may have set a new bottom if this is true.

What media outlet will dig for the truth?

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http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/07/28/
how-to-jumpstart-the-economy-tax-free-small-businesses/

http://tinyurl.com/622bky

How to Jumpstart the Economy – Tax Free Small Businesses
Mark Cuban
Jul 28th 2008 10:13AM

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In today’s climate, its politically expedient to volunteer taxpayer money as a solution to all problems. That’s wrong. Instead, we should open the door to our country’s Intellectual capital and the entrepreneurial energy that separates us from the rest of the world. Make it easy for entrepreneurs to do what entrepreneurs do, and great things happen. Voters and politicians alike seem to have forgotten what has made this country an economic powerhouse.

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Good idea. But, it accepts the premise that taxation is a “good idea”.

First, “companies” don’t pay taxes; real people do. Tax a “company” and they either mark up their products to cover it or go out of business. So, why should the taxpayer, you an me, put up with this fiction and the discontinuities it introduces. Take for example, any tax on the oil companies. It has a multiple whammy. The oil company raises the price of gas to cover the tax. And, every company, that uses gas, pays more and marks up their prices to cover it. So, it’s a extra whammy!

Second, the politicians have created this crazy world where money has no value. They allow the Fed to print all the money they need to waste in Washington and then are surprised when inflation robs the American people of 97% of its purchasing power in thirty or forty years.

Third, the distinction between employees and contractors is another joke. Benefits tied to employment are tax deductible to the employer but not to the employee. What a joke!

And on and on.

Expecting politicians to do anything ignores their “rules of engagement” — feather their own nest, reward heir friends, and punish their enemies!

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http://tinyurl.com/6eptr5

Referring to New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney

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Later that afternoon, Nagourney got permission from Times editors to e-mail Sargent a response to the Obama memo. But the episode still grates. “I’ve never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others,” Nagourney tells me. “I thought they crossed the line. If you have a problem with a story I write, call me first. I’m a big boy. I can handle it. But they never called. They attacked me like I’m a political opponent.”

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The implication being that if one is not a “political opponent”, one is a “political ally”?

Gee, I thought reporters were supposed to at least pretent to be impartial.

I have no dog in this fight. I don’t care for EITHER candidate, but this is “humorous” at best!

Maybe that’s why the NYT is on the rocks financially?

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http://bostontea.us

Program of the Boston Tea Party
Adopted in Convention, August 21st, 2006

1. The Boston Tea Party calls for a complete and unconditional withdrawal of US troops from, and a cessation of US military operations against or within, Iraq.

2. The Boston Tea Party supports repeal of the USA PATRIOT Act.

3. The Boston Tea Party calls for an end to the federal prohibition of marijuana and hemp.

4. The Boston Tea Party calls for the immediate repeal of the REAL ID Act and any and all National ID plans.

5. The Boston Tea Party calls for legislation adopting an annual, regularized increase in the personal exemption to the federal income tax of $1,000 or more, and the additional application of said personal exemption to all FICA/Social Security taxes paid by employees and employers.

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69693

FAITH UNDER FIRE
Major U.S. city officially condemns Catholic Church
Instructs members to defy ‘Holy Office of Inquisition’
Posted: July 15, 2008
8:48 pm Eastern

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A San Francisco city and county board resolution that officially labeled the Catholic church’s moral teachings on homosexuality as “insulting to all San Franciscans,” “hateful,” “defamatory,” “insensitive” and “ignorant” will be challenged tomorrow in court for violating the Constitution’s prohibition of government hostility toward religion.

Resolution 168-08, passed unanimously by the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors two years ago, also accused the Vatican of being a “foreign country” meddling with and attempting to “negatively influence (San Francisco’s) existing and established customs.”

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I guess San Francisco is going to change its name from Saint Francis!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese450.html

Nothing New
by Charley Reese

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Why would it be a stain on our honor to end the occupation of Iraq and hand the country back to the Iraqi people to govern as they please? It is, after all, their country, not ours; the oil is their oil, not ours. Not one candidate has the guts to say, “As soon as I’m president, I will order American troops to begin withdrawal.”

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I usually like Charley Reese, but he blew it this time.

Ron Paul!!!!

Said it, meant it, and is still in the race!

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