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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fl-man%E2%80%99s-lawsuit-raises-question-should-flashing-headlights-to-spoil-speed-traps-be-illegal/

FL MAN’S LAWSUIT RAISES QUESTION: SHOULD FLASHING HEADLIGHTS TO SPOIL SPEED TRAPS BE ILLEGAL?

Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:45pm by Buck Sexton

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No!

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http://www.cbs12.com/articles/garden-4735966-flag-olive.html

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American flag display would disrupt dining experience | garden, flag, olive – Olive Garden – WPEC 12 West Palm Beach

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Guess we have to boycott Olive Garden for now?

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http://www.myfoxal.com/story/15681535/olive-garden-apologizes-to-kiwanis-club

That was quick!

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http://lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem54.1.html

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9375-tea-party-presidential-election-primer-paul-v-cain-on-economics

Tea Party Presidential Election Primer: Paul v. Cain on Economics
by Thomas R. Eddlem
The New American

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Herman Cain: Cain called TARP a “win-win for the taxpayer” in an October 20, 2008 column. “Unprecedented problems require unprecedented solutions. The actions by the Treasury are a win-win for the taxpayer.” After Congress passed the TARP bailout, Cain complained about how the money was doled out, but not about the principle of crony-capitalism where profits are privatized and losses are socialized.

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Herman Cain – a former chairman of the Kansas City branch of the Federal Reserve Bank – was an opponent of a GAO audit of the Fed until 2011, telling Neil Boortz’s radio audience in December 2010 that “There’s no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve to my knowledge. And I tell people, we’ve got 12 Federal Reserve Banks. Find out which district you are in, call them up and go from there. We don’t need to waste money with another commission or an audit.”

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I think that the USA’s principle problem is the “dollar”.

It allows unchecked spending by the politicians and bureaucrats.

Fiat currencies (i.e., it has intrinsic value because the Gooferment says it does) have all eventually and inexorably collapsed.

Gold has stood the test of time.

The Federal Reserve Bank isn’t “federal”, reserves nothing, and isn’t a bank. It IS a banking cartel. Think OPEC for money. And, like most “monopolies”, it only exists because it enables the Gooferment, politicians, and bureaucrats to spend like drunken sailors. (With apologies to all drunken sailors who are spending their own money and stop when they run out. They don’t borrow more for someone else to pay.)

So Cain is the candidate of the Federal Reserve Bank!

Not very Tea Party Presidental candidate.

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Jeff Altman – 8:16 AM – Public

What do you think about “Occupy Wall Street?” Good thing? Bad thing? Patriots? Bums? What do you think?

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I think they are just dumb. It’s like talking to any wall, a most teenagers, or some women. Talk, or demonstrate, until you’re blue in the face or green at the gills. It isn’t going to make any difference. The problem is in the District of Corruption where crony capitalism distorts the playing field. The rubes in OWS are distracted by the “shiny baubles”. They have to learn to “strike at the root”. That’s in DC. If they want to change the game, then that’s where they should be. IMHO!

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http://bigpeace.com/jbernard/2011/09/29/can-we-trust-our-pakistani-and-afghan-allies/

Can We Trust Our Pakistani and Afghan Allies?
Posted by John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.), Sep 29th 2011

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In the war of ideologies, there is no more frustrating battle than the battle for truth. In the battle for truth, there is no more frustrating effort than trying to enlighten the hard-headed. Our enemy has been telling us for decades who he is and what his intent is. He has shown us over, and over again that he is committed to defeating us and has used every means at his disposal to that end.

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No!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohKz9OeiI0g&feature=player_embedded

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http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2011/09/14/fourth-circuits-factual-error-throws-obamacare-decision-doubt

Fourth Circuit’s Factual Error Throws Obamacare Decision in Doubt
September 14, 2011
MAUREEN MARTIN

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In reality, the Virginia law was signed by Gov. McDonnell and codified on March 10, 2010. The “ceremonial” signing was held on March 24, 2010. So rather than a Virginia law seeking to invalidate an existing federal law, it was the other way around. It was a federal law seeking to invalidate an existing Virginia law.

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Alive based on a technicality?

You’d think these type of mistakes wouldn’t happen with all the high priced talent working on it.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2011-09-11/Rick-Perry-Social-Security/50362610/1

I am going to be honest with the American people
By Rick Perry
12 September 11

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We must have a frank, honest national conversation about fixing Social Security to protect benefits for those at or near retirement while keeping faith with younger generations, who are being asked to pay.

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Sounds very reasonable to me!

Maybe that tête-à-tête with Ron Paul has transmitted some virtue into the discussion.

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http://jasperjottings-daily.com/about/911s-jasper-fatalities/

Sadly, “We, The Sheeple” have been found lacking.

The WTC should have been rebuilt in a year. I’d prefer the middle finger design.

But, we’ve lost the energy.

I think of my fellow alums and wonder what could have been.

I think if the terrorists had chosen the day before then I’d have been a casualty.

I think we have to, as a country, get our <synonym for excrement> together.

Argh!

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/08/address-president-joint-session-congress

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The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working. It will create more jobs for construction workers, more jobs for teachers, more jobs for veterans, and more jobs for long-term unemployed. (Applause.) It will provide — it will provide a tax break for companies who hire new workers, and it will cut payroll taxes in half for every working American and every small business. (Applause.) It will provide a jolt to an economy that has stalled, and give companies confidence that if they invest and if they hire, there will be customers for their products and services. You should pass this jobs plan right away. (Applause.)

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The agreement we passed in July will cut government spending by about $1 trillion over the next 10 years. It also charges this Congress to come up with an additional $1.5 trillion in savings by Christmas. Tonight, I am asking you to increase that amount so that it covers the full cost of the American Jobs Act. And a week from Monday, I’ll be releasing a more ambitious deficit plan — a plan that will not only cover the cost of this jobs bill, but stabilize our debt in the long run.

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But know this: The next election is 14 months away. And the people who sent us here — the people who hired us to work for them — they don’t have the luxury of waiting 14 months. (Applause.) Some of them are living week to week, paycheck to paycheck, even day to day. They need help, and they need it now.

I don’t pretend that this plan will solve all our problems. It should not be, nor will it be, the last plan of action we propose. What’s guided us from the start of this crisis hasn’t been the search for a silver bullet. It’s been a commitment to stay at it — to be persistent — to keep trying every new idea that works, and listen to every good proposal, no matter which party comes up with it.

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Did you think that in the time that the nation waited this should have been a complete proposal?

The 1T$ over 10 years is a phantom cut.

I’d prefer a presentation that said:

“Let’s take 1% from these departments that equates to X dollars; from that let’s spend A dollars on this, B dollars on this, and C dollar on this.”

Imagine what a difference of attitude?

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

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http://bigpeace.com/hfontova/2011/08/30/michele-bachmann-rocks-florida/

Michele Bachmann Rocks Florida
Posted by Humberto Fontova Aug 30th 2011 at 6:37 pm
in Africa, Congress, Cuba, Featured Story, History, Humanitarian, Obama, Politics, Strategy, human rights, veterans

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Fifty years ago when the smoke cleared and their ammo had been expended to the very last bullet, when a hundred of them lay dead and hundreds more wounded, after three days of relentless battle, barely 1,400 of them — without air support (from the U.S. Carriers just offshore) and without a single supporting shot by naval artillery (from U.S. cruisers and destroyers poised just offshore) — had squared off against 31,000 Castro troops, his entire air force and squadrons of Soviet tanks. The Cuban freedom-fighters inflicted casualties of 20 to 1 against their Soviet-armed and led enemies. Their feat of arms still amazes professional military men.

“They fought magnificently and were not defeated,” stressed Marine Col. Jack Hawkins a multi-decorated WWII and Korea vet who helped train them. “They were abandoned on the beach without the supplies and support promised by their sponsor, the Government of the United States.”

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The story here isn’t Michelle Bachman. The story is the Bay of Pigs perfidy.

(And as a big Gooferment republican, I’m sure she’d do the same thing. Slip the knife in anyone’s back when expeditious.)

Why would any “ally” of the USA trust us?

I wouldn’t.

I saw that lesson, as pointed out by a WW2 marine turned Christian Brother in grammar school, in the ‘57 Hungarian Revolution. We listened to the VOA broadcasts in history class. It was obvious. Would you start a nuclear war to stand by revolutionaries?

“We, The Sheeple” didn’t.

And we do it over and over again.

And the lesson is not lost by those who oppose us in the field. We can be outlasted.

Sadly, too true. Ron Paul is right. Let’s MYOB!

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http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams95.1.html

Race and Economics
by Walter E. Williams

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The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 broadened the number of workers covered by minimum wages, with negative consequences for black employment across a much wider range of industries. Good intentions motivate most Americans in their support for minimum wage laws, but for compassionate public policy, one should examine the laws’ effect. That’s seen by putting oneself in the place of an employer and asking, “If I must pay $7.25 an hour to no matter whom I hire, does it pay me to hire a worker who’s so unfortunate as to have skills that enable him to produce, say, only $4 worth of value an hour?” Most employers would view hiring such a worker as a losing economic proposition; therefore, a minimum wage law discriminates against low-skilled workers by reducing employment opportunity.

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I’ve ranted before about the minimum wage law before. Obviously, I don’t like it.

If I was King or President, I’d nuke it.

It’s simple. It’s immediately productive. And, it requires no increase in Gooferment.

As a matter of fact, we can reduce the number of bureaucrats to take all these new “minimum” wage jobs.

And for those wanting to protect poor families, don’t we have the earned income tax credit?

That’s the way to celebrate “LABOR” day.

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http://www.wimp.com/kakusecret/

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:45 AM, LUDDITE wrote:

Interesting discussion.

Click here: Dr. Michio Kaku: America has a secret weapon. [VIDEO]

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So why don’t we have a little L libertarian immigration policy? Open up the borders to folks who want to work. Show up at the border, get a free medical check, give your dna – fingerprint – picture, agree not to take welfare, and here’s your “green card” — welcome to America, land of opportunity. Commit a crime, you’re on the first thing going “home”.

And, while we are at it, let’s ween our own folks off welfare. Welfare is reduced 5% per year for the next 20 years. Minimum wage decreased 5% per year for the next 20 years.

“(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” ended.

Bet we’ll have a boom!

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http://www.downsizedcfoundation.org/blog/how-warren-buffett-is-wrong

How Warren Buffett Is Wrong
Posted by Perry Willis — August 21, 2011

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We disagree. We think Mr. Buffett’s investments do more social good than his taxes do. Here’s why…

None of Mr. Buffett’s companies use force to compel people to do business with them, but everything The States does relies on coercion. This automatically makes Mr. Buffett’s investments better than his tax payments. In addition….

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Mr. Buffett is also scamming us in another way. He wants us to believe that wealthy Americans have been doing less to fund the Leviathan State. He wrote in The New York Times….

“Since 1992, the I.R.S. has compiled data from the returns of the 400 Americans reporting the largest income. In 1992, the top 400 had aggregate taxable income of $16.9 billion and paid federal taxes of 29.2% on that sum. In 2008, the aggregate income of the highest 400 had soared to $90.9 billion… but the rate paid had fallen to 21.5%”

We say that Mr. Buffett is using percentages in order to deceive. Here’s how those percentages work out in terms of dollars….

In 1992 the top 400 wealth generators paid $4.9 billion in taxes.

In 2008 the top 400 wealth generators paid $19.5 billion in taxes.

Can you see how Mr. Buffett’s scam works? The percentage of income paid in taxes went down, but the amount of taxes paid in dollars actually ROSE, by a multiple of 4 in 16 years!

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And, he has reinforced the image that the takers in the USA have a moral argument to take more.

“Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

While Warren has more money than I ever will, it doesn’t give him “high priesthood” status.

The Gooferment is the referee; not the “beauty contest judge”.

We need more rowers and less free riders!

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FROM THE DRUDGE REPORT

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BLOOMBERG PULLS TRIGGER: ORDERS 370,000 TO FLEE…
Staying behind ‘is against the law’…
Might shut off power in low-lying areas…
RESIDENTS IGNORE MAYOR’S ORDER…

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This caught my eye by implying that Bloomberg was going to shut down the power. I thought: “Who’s he to insert himself between ConEd and their Customers?”

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/con_city_warns_of_power_cutoff_as_4mYxvuBCisJTm06rBaBnLJ

City braces for Irene’s arrival: Transit shut down, some power could be cut
By CANDICE M. GIOVE, DAVID SEIFMAN and WILSON DIZARD
Last Updated: 5:15 PM, August 27, 2011
Posted: 11:36 AM, August 27, 2011

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Meanwhile, Con Edison considered zapping power to lower Manhattan starting sometime tomorrow at 2 a.m. and 10 a.m. – leaving lights out for up to three days.

Con Ed feared that flooding salt water would ruin and short out two underground networks.

“If salt water gets on these cables when they are being used the damage is substantial,” Mayor Bloomberg said.

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Pretty sad statement about the ConEd electrical infrastructure.

Has to be because it’s a “regulated” monopoly?

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http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/%E2%80%9Ccome-out-of-her-my-people%E2%80%9D/

“Come Out Of Her, My People”
by Chuck Baldwin

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(Editor’s Note: I wrote the article “Who Should Be The State’s Mortal Enemy? about this very subject. Chuck, a pastor in Montana, frames the subject in more religious terms than I did. If you like a good sermon, read on.)

It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today’s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to be a government corporation! Yet, that is exactly what every 501c3 non-profit “religious” organization is: it is a government-created corporation. In the eyes of the government, pastors, elders, and deacons are not pastors, elders, and deacons; they are corporate officers. And put to the test, virtually any and all of these so-called “pastors,” “elders,” and “deacons,” will confirm that they are corporate officers. So, right out of the gate we must understand that we are dealing with government corporations and corporate officers, not with New Testament churches, pastors, elders, and deacons.

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The Gooferment absorbs everything.

The Golden Rule tells you who’s running the show.

That tax exemption moderates what and how criticism is leveled at the “churches”

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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/when-an-american-company-redomiciles-to-the-cayman-islands-what-lesson-should-we-learn

When an American Company Redomiciles to the Cayman Islands, What Lesson Should We Learn?
Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell

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Another American company has decided to expatriate for tax reasons. This process has been going on for decades, with companies giving up their U.S. charters (a form of business citizenship) and redomiciling in low-tax jurisdictions such as Bermuda, Ireland, Switzerland, Panama, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands.

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That “We, The Sheeple” are stupid?

There has to be a big red arrow drawn from “corporatocracy”, “crony capitalism”, and “too big to fail”.

Directly to absolute silly Gooferment diktats, policies, and other stupidity.

Even if you don’t accept my assertion that corporations don’t pay taxes, (they either pass them along to real people OR go out of business), then you must understand that if all the other “states” are ⅓ lower, where would you move your business?

The politicians and bureaucrats aren’t getting the message. I’m not sure that “We, The Sheeple” get it either. Do you?

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92943.html

August 12, 2011
The War To End All Wars Continues
Posted by Christopher Manion on August 12, 2011 06:34 PM

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My father, a student in Washington at the time, led Catholics for Wilson — “We want Wilson, one time more! We want peace, we don’t want war!” But Cardinal Gibbons, aware of the unfortunately widespread anti-Catholic sentiment in the US, feared that Catholic opposition to the war would brand Catholics as “unpatriotic.” As though we loved our country more than our government? No, that we were more loyal to “Rome” than to Wilson.

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Maybe I’m a hopeless cynic.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), I think that “We, The Sheeple” have been being hoodwinked by the effete elite for a very long time.

Wilson ran as a supposed “peace candidate” and, once firmly ensconced in power, took the USA to war.

When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up?

In history class, we learned about the “Hundred Years War”. How can a war go on for 100 years?

Now look at Korea?

Now look at Germany?

Why?

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=331793

A government that kills
Posted: August 09, 2011
John Stossel

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Life involves tradeoffs. If we want to minimize deaths from auto accidents, we may use more fuel than we might otherwise use. Who should make that decision, the government? Or you and I?

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Why is it that when our Gooferment “protects” us that decisions suck?

“Cash for clunkers” deprive the “non-rich” of good quality at a fair price.

“Gooferment Motors” puts the Taxpayer into the car biz; screws the bond holders.

The FDA retards, and in some cases stops, drugs from deployment while raising the ante on development to stratospheric levels. And, prevents cheap supplements from being marketed as alternatives to expensive drugs.

Gooferment’s phony car mileage concern takes choices from us.

Argh!

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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Feds-to-Issue-Massive-Drop-Down-Crib-Recall-71803397.html

Listened to the “news”.

One of the stories (at ~2310) was that “drop down cribs” were being sold on Craig’s List.

Interesting.

You can do anything but throw them away.

Isn’t that a Fifth Amendment “taking”?

The three that they cited were: 130, 150, and 175 each.

That’s a regulation that takes that wealth from individuals.

It’s to prevent 18 deaths over 5 years across 300,000,000 people.

That’s a tax. And, an infringement. And, it’s making a tradeoff decision for people.

But, maybe that’s a risk that a parent would take.

Maybe they’d rather have an old $130 crib rather than a new more expensive one. And, have the freedom to use the difference as they see fit. Maybe it’s for food, or rent, or a six pack.

It should be their choice.

Then Nanny State takes away our liberties.

Argh!

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AVIATION_SHUTDOWN_RURAL_SUBSIDIES

Gov’t pays for empty flights to rural airports
By KEVIN BEGOS and ADRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press

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On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it.

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Typical Gooferment!

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http://bigpeace.com/jbernard/2011/08/09/did-our-counterinsurgency-strategy-lead-to-the-death-of-our-navy-seals/

Did Our Counterinsurgency Strategy Lead To The Death Of Those Navy SEALs?
Posted by John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.)
Aug 9th 2011 at 9:03 am

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Why aren’t American deaths on the battlefield today, as repugnant to our current leadership as they were back then? Why don’t the leaders of this country, today, expect the Afghan’s to share the devastation of broken families, untimely death of children and other ravages of warfare to secure their own futures?

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You can’t Monday morning qback the loss.

We can Monday morning qback the strategy that puts the girls in boys downrange on a live fire range!

If we were more like the Swiss, we’d MYOB!

Then those folks wouldn’t be in harm’s way without a good reason.

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=328713

Red ink as far as I can see
Posted: August 01, 2011
Joseph Farah

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Before I get into the details of the “bipartisan” scandal that is the debt deal shaping up this week, let me explain the historic opportunity that was blown by the Republican House majority. They could have crippled Barack Obama’s administration for the remaining 18 months of his term. They could have forced the deepest cuts in federal spending in the history of the republic. They could have forced the budget to be balanced immediately. They could have forced deep cuts and possibly even the elimination of worthless and unconstitutional agencies and departments like Education, Agriculture, Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency and Homeland Security. They could have forced defunding of Planned Parenthood, NPR, PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts and countless foreign wealth transfers. They could have postponed any implementation of Obamacare until it could be dealt with in finality in 2013.

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Every time there’s a line in the sand for smaller Gooferment, someone blinks.

This time was no different.

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