Green Police: Audi Super Bowl Ad
Absolutely hits too close to home. Even the non-political types who were watching the game were upset by the commercial. It may have started a small “tea party” on its own.
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POLITICAL: Green Police: Audi Super Bowl Ad
Monday, February 8, 2010
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POLITICAL: Who’s “manning the walls” in the Obama administration?
Sunday, February 7, 2010http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/specialengagements/moviespeechafewgoodmencodered.html
American Rhetoric: Movie Speech
“A Few Good Men” (1992)
written by Aaron Sorkin
Colonel Nathan R. Jessep Addresses the Court on “Code Red”
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You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives…You don’t want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty…we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use ’em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I’d rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to!
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This rings true more today that ever.
Who’s “manning the walls” in the Obama administration?
Sorry, but the Department of Defense and the National Guard should be deployed here at home. Like the Coast Guard should NOT be off gallivanting.
We have bases in reportedly 170 countries. Time for a base closing commission of taxpayers.
Did you know that the Constitution only authorizes a permanent Navy. The Army is only allowed for two years. Guess the Dead Old White guys understood about the dangers of a permanent army. What do you think they’d have thought about the alphabet agencies: FBI, DEA, BATF, CIA, NSA, yada, yada, and yada?
Argh!
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POLITICS: OBH44 and his economic illiterates
Thursday, February 4, 2010http://kudlow.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjU0MWQ0OWQ3OTI2OTgzMmUwMGM2NTUxMGRhMDcyYzY=
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
$2 Trillion in Tax Hikes Is Good for the Economy?
Larry Kudlow
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Why not put more money into private pockets to spur growth — the free-market capitalist way? Why slam businesses, banks, and hedge funds to the tune of nearly $500 billion?
Once again, it takes liquidity from the private sector, reduces economic growth and the incentive effect, and gives money to the government.
Here’s the key point. All of these fat-cat, class-warfare, soak-the-(alleged)-rich tax-hike proposals actually reduce investment and capital formation so much so that jobs and wages will ultimately falter on Main Street. That’s what Team Obama is missing.
Taxing businesses and so-called “rich” people hurts ordinary working folks. That’s a fact. And that’s why this is a misbegotten policy. We’re not talking class warfare here; we’re talking growth. My way is the growth way. So far, the Team Obama way is a social policy on the left that has nothing to do with spurring jobs and economic growth.
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Can’t drum it in to economic illiterates.
- Companies don’t pay taxes; only real people do.
- The government spends OUR money; it doesn’t EARN any. It does NOT create wealth.
- A dollar taken by the gooferment is not available for other productive uses.
- A dollar is not a store of value when the gooferment runs the printing press.
- The political process is corrupt. It’s not a democracy; nor is it “representative”!
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POLITICAL: Energy independence; absent leadership
Monday, February 1, 2010http://www.keywestlou.com/2010/02/sunday-is-supposedly-day-of-rest.html
My Life in Key West
Monday, February 1, 2010
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The article contained an observation that sticks with me. The United States has depended on the Middle East for years for its power supply, to wit: oil. That if the United States did not get into the manufacture of renewable energy quickly and in big time, our energy dependency in the future would move to the Far East. China!
And we would have replaced one less than friendly peoples for another in satisfying our energy needs.
All very interesting. Thought provoking. Part of Obama’s State of the Union speech.
Talk is one thing. Action another. Obama has to move us in the direction of manufacture and use of renewable energy dramatically. Now, not tomorrow. And everyone, Democrat and Republican alike, should support him in this endeavor. This is not a No issue.
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(1) Unfortunately for us, OBH44 is an inexperienced “talker”; not a “do-er”. We need a “leader”; not a “community organizer”. Every politician lectures us about “energy independence”. Little gets done. If we still funded the Federal Government on tariffs and duties like the Dead Old White Guys wanted us to do, then the gooferment would be a lot smaller and less intrusive. AND, we’d have energy independence. because solutions here would be cheaper than imported oil from there. Maybe we might have a car industry too, instead of having sent allt he jobs overseas. Too late, we get smart. It might be way too late.
(2) With all the secession talk, maybe Mike and Tina can do some stuff for real. When the S hits the fan, maybe we can replace the FED’s “dollar” with a Constitutional gold and silver money. The we’d be once again the envy of the world with “honest money”. Maybe then we could get working on the national debt so that we don’t condemn the children to Haiti-like poverty. Inter-generational theft will be how we are remembered as the progeny try to pay off the Chinese.
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POLITICS: A spending freeze? Is he kidding me?
Thursday, January 28, 2010reinkefj has left a new comment on the post “A spending freeze? Is he kidding me?”:
Amazing when the wacko left and the wacko right agree, a spending freeze is just dumb. What he needs to do is what he promised in the campaign. Sit down with the Federal budget and a red pen.
Freezing spending at current levels is just enshrining the past mistakes.
imho, for example, milk and sugar price supports. We pay money so that people have to pay higher prices?
imho, minimum wage, that puts minority youths out of work. If there is a marginal worker, he’s out as opposed to making a few bucks. And, it cost the taxpayers in all sorts of ways.
imho, military bases in 170 countries. Let have some base closings in strange places.
That’s the way to “freeze” spending.
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It merely “freezes” the increased spending of the past decade. Argh!
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POLITICS: My SOTUA!
Thursday, January 28, 2010http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/01/27/a-10-point-libertarian-sotu-address/
A 10-Point, Libertarian, SOTU Address
Posted by Jeffrey A. Miron
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1. Abandon Obamacare
2. Forget Cap and Trade
3. Reject the Card Check Bill
4. Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan
5. Legalize Drugs
6. Scrap the tax code and replace with a flat tax
7. Expand free trade and immigration
8. Stop the bailouts
9. Cut spending
10. Cut spending
BONUS – Cut spending
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1. End the war. Bring the troops home. Close foreign bases. Department of Defense is NOW in charge of national defense. All national defense.
2. Income tax is over. A drastically reduced Federal budget will be funded on import duties and excise taxes.
3. The drug war is now OVER. All non-violent drug offenders are granted a Presidential pardon. All violent drug offenders MAY apply for clemency.
4. The death penalty IS cruel and unusual punishment. All death row inmates are commuted to life without parole.
5. All welfare (including corporate welfare) will be phased out. All immigration rules will be phased out.
6. The Federal Reserve is to be audited. Legal tender laws are NOW unconstitutional.
7. Social Security and government pensions will be securitized by bonds. National assets will be pledged as collateral for these recognition bonds.
8. All “government entities” are suspended effective immediately. All especially the IRS, BATF, etc. etc. etc. will be shutting down. If States wish to fund an entity like the FBI with funding based on population.
9. All bailouts are to be recalled. Automakers will be spun out to the citizens.
10. All “health care” and “health insurance” rules are to be phased out.
That’s my LIBERTARIAN SOTUA (State Of The Union Address)!
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POLITICAL: Obama’s health agenda
Thursday, January 21, 2010WITH APOLOGIES TO ONE OF MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS:
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Coakley took the hit, but Obama can’t let one vote derail his agenda and his Presidency. Seat Brown, then have the House pass the Senate bill as is and sign it before the State of the Union address.
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It’s NOT just one vote.
This bill is a DISASTER. Both personally and for the country. It’s not about “heath”, “health care”, or even “health care insurance”. It’s about putting the gooferment in charge of people’s decisions about their lives.
Personally, my wife needs her doctors to work hard on her case; not playing games to satisfy some gooferment bureaucrat deciding what care she will get.
Nationally, we can’t afford this monstrosity. The gooferment already “runs” Medicare (broke!), Medicaid (breaking Fed and States), the VA (hated by most vets and underfunded), and Indian Health System (hated and goes broke every June). Let them “fix” one of those and then revisit the issue.
As a little L libertarian, I’d prefer that they just leaves us alone. If they can’t do that, how about some things that EVERYONE can agree on: (1) interstate competition; (2) eliminate the unfavorable tax treatment on self-purchased health care insurance; and (3) some limits on malpractice awards?
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POLITICAL: Sic transit gloria mundi
Thursday, January 21, 2010http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,673192,00.html
01/21/2010
The World from Berlin
The World Bids Farewell to Obama
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Center-left daily Süddeutsche Zeitung writes on Thursday:
“Obama made a serious misjudgement. Right at the beginning of his first year in office, he saved the banks, rescued the automobile industry from collapse and passed a huge economic stimulus package. He had hoped that these enormous deeds would give him the space to address those issues which are dearest to him: health care reform, climate change and investment in education.”
“Those issues, however, are clearly not priorities for people in the US at the moment. Scott Brown campaigned on two promises, both of which apparently struck a nerve with the electorate. He wants to block health care reform and he wants to find ways to reduce the enormous budget deficit. It is here where the roots of dissatisfaction with Obama are to be found. His reform agenda, in its current form, is highly suspect to Americans. And they have the impression that, if he continues piling up debt, he will be gambling away the country’s future.”
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He’s misjudged the meaning of his election. And, for all the talk of tough Chicago style politics, he wasn’t so tough. He caved to Wall Street. He should have said to little Timmy, Helicopter Ben, the Labor Unions, the Trial lawyers, Nancy, and Harry: “Howdy, now get lost!”. They sunk him. Along with Big Sis, and all the hangers on weighing him down. I believe he missed one key factor. Wall Street has a unique survival mechanism. Self-preservation. If he had zipped the public purse form the bail outs — all of them — magic would have happened. All these folks with “no way to survive” would have figured it out WITHOUT a bail out. And, after the first one was rejected, there would have been NO QUEUE for more “worthy contenders”.
He should have focused on the message of Bill Clinton. Like Kennedy, he could have had the Obama tax cut to small business. Figure out a complicated formula to ensure it went only to the little guys. They make the jobs any way. Then go after the sugar and milk price supports to bring down prices to the people. Then, repeal the minimum wage and put youngsters back to work. Minorities would have been helped. He could have gone after the absurd “war on some drugs” and emptied the prisons of non-violent drug offenders.
Then, maybe he could have done all sorts of good things. He went for the big brass ring and fell off the ride. He should have, in consultant speak, gone after the low hanging fruit. Quick easy wins that score big points.
Sad.
All glory fades.
Seeking to be a JFK, he winds up a Carter. At least, he not a joke like Clinton. “Democratic” President don’t seem to work out too well.
(It is interesting how the UK, German, and International press is so much better than the US counterparts.)
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POLITICAL: The View on healthcare
Wednesday, January 20, 2010Whoopi: “I want what all the guys and girls in Congress have. Gimme what you got! Why do you get better than me?”
AGREED! Why should the employees have better than the poor people paying the bills.
Joy on preexisting conditions.
DISAGREE! Hey that’s why the call it “pre-existing”. And, it’s insurance. Otherwise it’s welfare. You can’t buy fire insurance when your house is burning down. Or as some Californians discovered, when the neighborhood it threatened by wildfires. Why should you be able to buy “insurance” AFTER your diagnosed with the condition. The problem is the way the gooferment has mucked up insurance coverage in this country. If you bought “health” insurance like you buy car insurance, life insurance, dental insurance, pet insurance! The problem occurs when health insurance is connected with your employment. Lose your job; lose your insurance. You don’t lose your car insurance. Argh! You could buy a high deductible policy (i.e., 5, 10, or 25k) even today and never ever hear about pre-existing conditions. Argh!
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POLITICAL: It’s the economy. It’s ALWAYS the economy!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010http://www.keywestlou.com/2010/01/haiti-has-brought-earthquakes-to-mind.html
My Life in Key West
Monday, January 18, 2010
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This Massachusetts election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat is both interesting and troublesome. The political pundits this morning are predicting the Republican will win. If so, the Democratic majority of 60 will be gone. And probably also the new healthcare bill.
What does this all reflect?
There is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in this country. Properly so. The economy is down. Unemployment is rampant. Foreclosures continue. The banks and insurance companies say screw you to the government and people.
The situation is much like that which causes earthquakes. Things have to move and move properly. If not, there is a glitch big time. An earthquake in one instance. A political upheaval in the other.
Something has to be done. And soon. We cannot much longer tolerate the abuse which is being heaped upon us as a people.
Obama, wake up! You can do it!
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BHO43 has forgotten the (Bill) Clinton doctrine. “It’s the economy stupid!” His “heath care” fiasco — which is not about health, health care, or health care insurance — it IS about putting the gooferment in control of people’s lives. To make a permanent dependence upon politicians for “medical care”. Along the way, in the tradition of good old Chicago politics, BHO43 and his co-conspirators can reward their firends, punish their enemies, and feather their own nests. Argh!
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