Reinke Faces Life

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/1123/Did-Ron-Paul-win-GOP-s-national-security-debate

Did Ron Paul win GOP’s national security debate?
Media-types seem to think Ron Paul more than held his own, which is no small feat, considering many of his ideas on national security are well outside the Republican mainstream.
By Peter Grier, Staff writer / November 23, 2011

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Which is where Congressman Paul comes in. It was him against the Republican world last night. His positions are often very different from those of his GOP opponents, and he defended them with his typical well-honed points. You’re reminded once again that he’s been at this for decades. Even longer than Mitt Romney.

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He said foreign aid is “worthless,” for instance. Really? Not even the other GOP candidates went that far. US cash is paying for much of Africa’s fight against HIV/AIDS, for instance. Is that not money well spent?

<<< NO! It’s not up to the politicians and bureaucrats to give the taxpayers’ money to foreign politicians and bureaucrats to supposedly spend on this or that. If individual taxpayers want to give their money to such a charity, that’s all well and different. Want to make a wager how much more effective that will be? >>>

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“I think the Patriot Act is unpatriotic, because it undermines our liberty,” said Paul in the opening moments of the debate.

The longtime libertarian was just getting warmed up.

“So if you advocate a police state, you can have safety and security, and you might prevent a crime, but the crime then will be against the American people and against our freedoms,”

<<< Warrantless searches, wiretaps, the TSA, the BATF, and on and on. It’s pervasive in the District of Corruption! >>>

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“let Israel take care of itself.” That meant, apparently, don’t meddle with Israel if it wants to bomb Iran, but don’t give it any money to do the deed, either.

<<< And, MYOB. We should be pulling all the girls and boys home immediately. >>>

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“They’re not cutting anything out of anything,” replied Paul. “All this talk is just talk.”

<<< He’s right all this “gutting and cutting” is really talking about the rate of growth; not the amount of spending. Only in DC is a smaller increase a “cut”. Argh! >>>

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If you’re for a real peace, then Ron Paul is the authentic “peace” candidate.

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http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ge-filed-57000-page-tax-return-paid-no-taxes-14-billion-profits_609137.html

GE Filed 57,000-Page Tax Return, Paid No Taxes on $14 Billion in Profits
1:11 PM, NOV 17, 2011 • BY JOHN MCCORMACK

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Ryan used the data point to underscore the irrationality of the corporate income tax code. He also contrasted GE with UPS to make the point that the corporate income tax code doesn’t make sense. “UPS paid a 34 percent effective tax rate,” while its biggest foreign competitor, DHL, paid a 24 percent tax rate, Ryan said.

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Corporations don’t “pay” taxes.

ONLY real people pay taxes.

The correct corporate tax rate is ZERO.

And, what is a “corporation” any way? Just a bunch of stockholders, typically mutual funds. Retirees and pensioners.

How stupid are “We, The Sheeple”?

Argh!

p.s., “What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.” ~Thomas Paine

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http://youtu.be/Ms92g-Gxeho

Ron Paul stands up to uber liberal Bob Schieffer as the questions are slanted and the bias is obvious.

Like Ron or not, you have to admit that he knows his stuff and challenges the “things that everyone knows”.

I especially liked how Ron didn’t let Bob slander him with the “you say it’s america’s fault” riff.

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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/senate-rules-committee-blocks-tea-party-debt-commission-from-presenting-budget-proposal/

POLITICS
SENATE RULES COMMITTEE BLOCKS TEA PARTY DEBT COMMISSION FROM PRESENTING BUDGET PROPOSAL
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:09pm by Madeleine Morgenstern

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) addressed Tea Party activists who came to hear the debt commission’s findings after the informal hearing was shuttered at the Capitol Thursday. (Image source: YouTube)

The Senate Rules Committee reportedly blocked the Tea Party Debt Commission from unveiling its budget proposal at the Capitol Thursday, with staff members removing microphones and locking doors to the room where the group was set to present its findings.

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I guess we’ll all just have to read what they wanted to say. They can’t suppress the truth.

http://blogs.freedomworks.org/files/TeaPartyBudget.pdf

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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47438

David Axelrod’s Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior
by Ann Coulter
11/09/2011

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Meanwhile, as extensively detailed in my book Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their Assault on America, the only reason Obama became a U.S. senator — allowing him to run for president — is that David Axelrod pulled sealed divorce records out of a hat, first, against Obama’s Democratic primary opponent, and then against Obama’s Republican opponent.

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Axelrod’s fingerprints are all over the Cain attack.

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http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer244.html

It Was a Strange Saturday
by Butler Shaffer

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Hours later, and on another channel, I watched Ron Paul engage in a one-man debate with seven life-sized sock puppets. The seven are auditioning to play the lead in a modernly-defined tragedy: to be the President of the United States. They recite their lines with nary a break in content or meter – except for Rick Perry, who was unable to remember his – hoping that the show’s producers will find their responses suitable to the boobeoisie who fill audience seats. It is just like taking a show on the road to New Haven or Baltimore before letting it open on Broadway! Ron, on the other hand – when allowed to speak at all – addresses not the show’s owners, but those outside the theater.

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I think you may have hit on an excellent idea.

Ron Paul SHOULD debate sock puppets with distribution on You Tube and Facebook. I think it could be a “real page turner”.

I’d take a clip of his opponent from a debate or a speech, and then have Ron give his response. He’d have the benefit of no time limit and he could carefully tighten his response. Shorter would be better.

imho

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/98826.html

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I’m a techie but not an AV type. I’d be happy to help.

I’d suggest that quick like a bunny, there needs to be eight quick hitters.

(1) Michele Bachmann — On why “pro-life” isn’t a Federal issue.

(2) Herman Cain — Obviously debate the FED

(3) Newt Gingrich — Global warming and the couch with Nancy

(4) Jon Huntsman —China and the need for trade without “Fair Trade” treaties. And, not to threaten them.

(5) Gary Johnson — The “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” and exactly how to do it. I think Ron would say let a regulated marketplace whereas GJ would say wide-open.

(6) Rick Perry — About Gardisol and drug regulation, why should the FDA exist. And a swipe at him being a democrat.

(7) Mitt Romney — Romneycare and Obamacare! With a swipe at Northeaster liberal Rockefeller Republican.

(8) Rick Santorum — Marriage, from gay marriage to bestiality and pedophilia to hetro, is not the business of the State. The DOM act is just bad legislation.

I can probably get my niece-in-law to make the sock puppets.

:-)

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http://www.freep.com/article/20111111/BUSINESS06/111110345/Stryker-cut-5-workforce

Stryker to cut 5% of workforce
Nov. 11, 2011
FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES
Michigan Business

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Stryker, the Kalamazoo-based maker of artificial hips and knees, will cut 5% of its global workforce by the end of next year to reduce costs in the face of new fees on device makers required by the U.S. health care law.

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And, I’ll bet it’s not just the new fee that’s scaring them into layoffs.

I’ll guess that with Obamacare, employees will get new “rights” and become more expensive.

Add to that, they probably figure Medicare will be paying for fewer artificial anythings as well as paying less.

Seems prudent to me.

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http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan196.html

The Equality Racket
by Patrick J. Buchanan

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What action? The rich must pay “their fair share.” Though the top 1 percent pay 40 percent of federal income taxes and the bottom 50 percent have, in some years, paid nothing, the rich must be made to pay more.

That’s an appealing argument to many, but one that would have horrified our founding fathers. For from the beginning, America was never about equality, except of God-given and constitutional rights.

Our revolution was about liberty; it was about freedom.

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Too many folks idle in the boats and too few rowers.

Too many entitlements; too much welfare; too much crony corporatism; too much “incest”.

Too, too much of all the bad stuff that comes with Gooferment.

And it all comes down to the root causes:

(1) Yielding to the gang called Gooferment the illusion that it’s allowed to initiate force against peaceful people.

(2) Permitting that gang to redefine “money” from gold to paper. That results in unchecked taxation (i.e., inflation).

(3) Allowing them to create the Prussian model Gooferment Skrules to brainwash and dumb down posterity.

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

Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) is on 11 November and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning—the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918.

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“60 million people who died in the war.”

Mister Wilson, who ran for President on a “peace platform”, when the country was very isolationist, almost immediately took us to war. The Lusitania, the causus beli, we know know, was carrying munitions in violation of the accepted standards of neutrality.

60 million!

And, it set us on the path to the American Empire.

The entrance of America into Europe’s War balance the sides. The Armistice was the toot cause of WW2 which killed another generation of American men.

And, we’ve never been able to get off that path. Ten years in AfPak? Policeman to Africa. We’re broke.

I won’t get into politics on the graves of Americans, who were duped into dying for the Empire.

I’ll just pray for them and the next generation who will fight in someone else’s war.

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