Reinke Faces Life

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130929.html

Should We Apply the Logan’s Run Principle, Updated for Inflated Life Expectancies Of Course, to Congress and the Courts?
Nick Gillespie | January 7, 2009, 7:43am

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The author of Nanny State concludes: “Theoretically, it would be nice to allow citizens to vote for anyone they please, young or old. But since we already have a minimum, constitutionally mandated age limit to serve in place, why not a maximum age? How about at least placing it wherever the average life expectancy falls?”

Because, right now, Washington looks more like Del Boca Vista than America.

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Sounds like a good idea. There’s even an age limit for voting for Pope!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/how-this-happened.html

How This Happened
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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Will this go on for ten years like the last time? Will it end in World War III, as if following some historical script? Is it possible that we will go the way of Germany in the 1920s, straight into the abyss of hyperinflation and into the hands of a ghastly dictator? It is unwise to rule it out.

And yet, I’m not that pessimistic. It is extremely crucial to realize that there is a difference this time. In the 1930s, technological limits put severe restrictions on information delivery. Government propaganda easily dominated the culture. All of that has changed. Despite everything, people simply do not trust the government as they once did. Obama will enjoy a short honeymoon but it will be over by summer.

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I’m not so sure. I think Hannity got it right when I heard him say something like: ” … It’s not that these programs get passed. It’s that it’s impossible to kill them. They get a life of their own.”

Look at the Income Tax impoverishing us.

Look at the Social Security Ponzi scheme unraveling.

Look at the Medicare socializing medicine.

Look at the TSA “teaching” us to be “sheeple”.

Look at the double whammy of the monopoly in banking represented by the “Federal Reserve Bank” which is a private cartel of bankers with some lipstick pretending to be answerable to the gooferment. Double! It permitted the NIJA (no income no job no paperwork no hope of being repaid.) mortgages, that it could have prevented with the stroke of a pen on a regulation like short stock. (Requiring a 50% down for the privilege of having ZERO paperwork. Would have ended that REAL quick!) It manipulated interest rates and inflate the currency that allowed the congresscritters to spend wilily nelly with impose a hidden tax on all holders of dollar bills. (That ignited the run up in oil prices. Sadam got knocked off because he dared to suggest to OPEC that oil be paid for in gold. Right idea; wrong to be right when the biggest force in the world is wrong!)

No, I’m not so optimistic how this all ends up!

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http://knappster.blogspot.com/2009/01/gaza-in-brief.html  

Gaza, in brief
from KN@PPSTER by Kn@ppster

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Israel isn’t going to crush Hamas, because their meal ticket would expire if they did. Hamas isn’t going to settle, for the same reason. The show must go on.

High-quality theatre? Perhaps. But it’s hell on the extras.

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Interesting perspective. You have to think that it’s a possibility.

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Suprise, suprise. They looked and they didn’t do anything wrong. And, we’ll announce it Christmas Eve so it gets overlooked.

Begin forwarded message:

From: “WSJ.com Editors”
Date: December 23, 2008 4:56:27 PM EST
Subject: WSJ NEWS ALERT: Obama, Staff Had No Improper Contact With Blagojevich, Report Finds

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NEWS ALERT

from The Wall Street Journal

Dec. 23, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition staff had no inappropriate communications with the office of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to a report released Tuesday.

The five-page report identified incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as the only aide who had direct contact with Blagojevich, who is at the center of a corruption probe. Emanuel “had one or two” telephone conversations with the governor between Nov. 6 and Nov. 8 to discuss his own resignation from the U.S. House as well as potential nominees to fill the Illinois Senate seat being vacated by Obama, according to the report written by incoming White House Counsel Greg Craig.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123006506377030963.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

Full PDF of the report: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/200812230-obamablagomemo.pdf

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http://www.spectator.org/archives/2008/12/10/the-tainting-of-the-president

The Tainting of the President-Elect

By Jeffrey Lord on 12.10.08 @ 1:05PM

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Wait a minute.

“I had no contact with the governor what….”

That’s the money quote from President-elect Obama in his first comment on the arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat. What was that “what” about to become before Obama stopped himself in mid-sentence in front of the cameras as Al Gore and Joe Biden sat by, stonefaced? The word “whatsoever” perhaps? In which case, did the new president stop himself because he knew that to say “no contact whatsoever” was something that would be provably untrue? According to a now hastily retracted statement by aide David Axelrod, the president-elect had indeed “talked to the governor” about the vacancy.

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I found this hard to believe also.

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>Vincent Wright joined the group Caroline Kennedy for the U.S. Senate.

John Reinke at 9:00am December 8

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VW: Love you. BUT, (there is always a big butt), Caroline K? We need a liberal Hollywood celebrity with more hard left theories. Let’s repeal the direct election of senators. The dead old white guys were right; democracy is a terrible idea. imho :-) fjohn

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Vincent Wright at 9:19am December 8

JR: Love you,too, BUT, – don’t cha just LOVE reciprocal “buts”? – I think that the one thing most political analysts – both amateur and pro – miss is that sometimes – just sometimes – voters and political supporters prefer candidates who make them FEEL good. As sacrilegious as that might sound, it happens and it’s a legitimate factor in selecting … Read Morewhom we choose to support. I LIKE the idea of Caroline Kennedy because the way she’s conducted herself MAKES ME FEEL GOOD, JR! I trust her. I respect her. An unjaundiced eye can see her as one of the most atypical Senators we could have. And, what’s more, if selected, I believe she’ll do MORE than a commendable job – indeed – no ifs, ands, nor buts about it, I’ll go on record as saying Caroline Kennedy will be an OUTSTANDING US Senator…Let’s rendezvous in 10-12 years to discuss, ok? So, Keep STRONG until then, JR! :-)

As for democracy being a terrible idea – it becomes less terrible when you don’t have it… Vincent Wright

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John Reinke at 12:28pm December 8

OK, I put it down for a follow up discussion in a decade or so. You be sure to be here for it! :-) Just seems like the old system, (selection by the state legislatures), gave us “better” senators. It certainly stopped “unfunded federal mandates”. Argh! “Feel Good” politicians are not the strong medice that we need imho; we need some one to give us … Read Morethe bad news that there is “no free lunch”. No bailouts. No politican can “give” us what we don’t earn without taking it from someone else first! Argh!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer186.html

Trust In the GOP?
by Butler Shaffer

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I have had a few people – fearful of our collapsing into a one-party system – ask me what should be done to restore the strength and integrity of the Republican Party, so that we may have the kind of vibrant political contest necessary for a free society. My answer has been to let the GOP collapse of its own dead weight. For more years than I can recount, we have long had a one-party system in America, disguised in the form of two branches that owe their allegiances to the country’s corporate owners, and who espouse minor variations on the same establishment-serving themes. If you doubt this is so, please explain to me how a Ron Paul – or his supporters – was literally forced into the wings of public debates and conventions, or why the efforts of “third parties” to get on ballots – or be interviewed by the mainstream media – took on a Sisyphian character. At the very least, the demise of the Republican Party can strip away any further pretense that there is any genuine difference in the principles by which political systems are governed in America.

The only alternative to what our nation has become is not to be found in the entities that created and profit from the mess; but in bringing about a major paradigm shift in our thinking about more free, peaceful, and productive ways of living together in society. Such a shift will not take place in Washington, D.C., or via network television, or in so-called “think tanks.” It will occur, if at all, only within your own conscious mind. Libertarian and anarchist philosophies can provide insights to facilitate this transformation but, ultimately, the change will occur only within yourself. Some of the best advice, in this regard, comes from James Wolcott, who tells us that “the lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.”

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December 6, 2008

Butler Shaffer [send him e-mail] teaches at the Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of the newly-released In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938 and of Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival.

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Sorry, but the people ARE sheeple! Like lambs to the slaughter, they are mesmerized by the song of the “one eyed monster”, the “vast wasteland”, TV. And, it’s media clones “the free press”, Hollywood, “talk radio”, and the “illiterate”. Craven politician pander to the mobs every prejudice and have zero backbone. Using the Clinton playbook, when caught, they just look in the camera and lie! (Example, Barney Frank and Chis Dodd who are at the heart of the Fannie and Freddie mess just ignoring their role in it. Rangal and his rent-controlled apartments. Obama’s “public financing” pledge and his position as the “peace candidate”. And on and on.)
No, a plague on all their houses. They fool me no more!
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