RANT: Do we remember Pearl Harbor?

Monday, December 7, 2009

Tommorrow, December 7th, Americans MIGHT remember the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On a Sunday morning, 68 years ago, the US Navy were the recipients of a well-planned and poorly executed raid.

Twenty Five Hundred deaths that day; uncountable more in the resulting war.

Generations disrupted as they were in WW1.

And, the “cure” to the “Great Depression”. Would this be the beginning of the Leviathan Gooferment State?

Donning my tin foil hat, I call your attention to the role of FDR in provoking, if not orchestrating, the war he needed to restart the economy.

Our entry into WW1, by the “peace candidate” Wilson, allowed the seeds of WW2 to be sown. Our entry into WW2, by the instigator FDR, allowed the creation of a permanent “warfare” state.

This day is a reminder that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

… … not for the military invasion or aggression, but against the politicians who would enslave us in debt, welfare, and the never ending “war”.

Argh!

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RANT: Guess the “war” isn’t over

Sunday, December 6, 2009

http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-happened-on-flight-297.html

Friday, December 04, 2009
What Happened on Flight 297

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If you were really paying attention, you might have heard about AirTran Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston, which was delayed on 18 November. According to the “official” version, (reported by Houston’s KHOU-TV, Fox News and other outlets), a male passenger refused to end his cell phone call, forcing the crew to return to the gate.

Since then, a far different version of events has emerged. Based on reports from other passengers, that “phone call” looks more like a terrorist dry run.

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Interesting. Too bad we don’t have a “free press” in the USA any more. Getting some facts would be nice!

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RANT: THe gooferment creating jobs? Yeah, right!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2009/12/04/how-to-create-real-jobs-mr-president/comment-page-1/#comment-119216

How To Create Real Jobs, Mr. President
Posted in December 4th, 2009

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I hear some of the folks in Washington were talking about creating jobs and it just made me cringe. Obviously, out here in the private sector one does not “create” a job. We create businesses that solve problems. Some of those businesses require people to run them, service accounts, and build stuff. While there are businesses that don’t require many workers, that’s still OK, because the person who figured out how to do more with fewer employees goes out and buys a new flat screen TV, new garage doors, and upgrades the furnace. Since I wasn’t invited to the White House jobs summit, I thought I would mail in a few of my suggestions:

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Dear WWDS:

Don’t quit your day job. :-) Not that ANY politician would follow anyone’s advice. But it can only be hoped they might accidently listen.

Cut the spending. Cut the size of gooferment. Cut the people free to create.

Note: Since the gooferment has several ways to tax people (i.e., direct unavoidable taxes like sales taxes, indirect yet avoidable taxes like income taxes, inflation to steal value from your wallet, debt which binds the current and future taxpayers, regulation that has fees, and direct theft by seizure.

On “corporate taxation”, I have yet to see ANY corporation “pay” taxes. By tax, I mean ANY collection from the company to the government regardless of label. They are just pass-along fictions to move along hidden taxation onto the backs of the people. And those sheeple are too stupid to realize.

Note: Impose a tax on a corporation and it passes it along. If the marketplace won’t pay the increase, corporation folds. So a “corporate tax” is just a hidden tax on real people. Only real people pay taxes.

If we truly want to “create jobs”, we must starve the pig that the gooferment has become.

A limit must be placed on the sources the gooferment uses to fund itself. Borrowing is the place to start. Don’t let them raise the debt ceiling. In fact, we should keep dropping the debt ceiling.

Then, we should eliminate the corporate “taxes”.

Yes, I said eliminate the corporate “taxes”!

Note: How fast would the corporate headquarters be coming back here?

Don’t forget, A corporate tax is any money that the government taxes from a company. So “fees” would be zero.

Repeal the income tax. Repeal.

Then and only then, will we truly be free.

All taxes, and other sources of funding, for the gooferment would be OBVIOUS!

ONLY REAL PEOPLE PAY TAXES.

Of course, the political class isn’t going to do this because then it would be OBVIOUS that the sheeple were being shorn.

Baahhh! Baahhh! Baahhh!

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RANT: The paranoia in all of us

Sunday, November 29, 2009

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/paranoia-strikes-deep/

Paranoia Strikes Deep
published September 2009
Why people believe in conspiracies
Michael Shermer

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Conspiracies do happen, of course. Abraham Lincoln was the victim of an assassination conspiracy, as was Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand, gunned down by the Serbian secret society called Black Hand. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a Japanese conspiracy (although some conspiracists think Franklin Roosevelt was in on it). Watergate was a conspiracy (that Richard Nixon was in on). How can we tell the difference between information and disinformation? As Kurt Cobain, the rocker star of Nirvana, once growled in his grunge lyrics shortly before his death from a self-inflicted (or was it?) gunshot to the head, “Just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not after you.”

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Argh! “THEY” are out to get us. Violent people want to seize the power of the gooferment to exercise over us. If you don’t think you are “being controlled”, just try doing something the establishment (left or right) doesn’t like!

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RANT: Climate-gate is a fraud

Friday, November 27, 2009

http://www.mrc.org/bozellcolumns/columns/2009/20091125064520.aspx

When the Press Favors Secrecy
The New York Times has no trouble reproducing damaging documents not meant for the public eye when the subject is national security — but not when the documents embarrass the “scientific experts” used to scare people about global warming.
By: L. Brent Bozell
November 24, 2009 10:39 ET

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The e-mails prove just how dishonest this left-wing global warming agenda truly is. And now suddenly, the New York Times has found religion, and won’t publish these private e-mails. Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, who’s more global warming lobbyist than reporter, quoted – sparsely – from the e-mails, but declared he would not post these texts on his “Dot Earth” blog on the Times website: “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.” That rule didn’t apply to things like the disclosure of the SWIFT global bank monitoring program against terrorists.

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Climate-gate proves that the issue is a fraud and the “scientists” can be trusted.

DIsgraceful! Guess they’l get a Nobel Prize for Science now.

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RANT: Lost my camera

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Argh!

My own fault. I had it in my left pant’s pocket and it slipped out when I was sitting in a cab.

Argh!

The driver might not even see it. Then when he does, how would he know who’s it was.

I should have remembered the cab number.

I should have taken a receipt.

I should have …

Argh!

I call a few cab companies. Nice people. But good luck.

I was told call the licensing authority; no phone number.

Argh!

Oh well.

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RANT: Yet Another Tin Foil Hat Question

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=376

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Initial reports said there were multiple shooters. If that was the case, the scenario is much more plausible. If multiple shooters had opened fire from various vantage points–especially if they had rifles–it would have made unarmed resistance extremely difficult. That scenario would make sense. The “one shooter with two handguns” explanation makes no sense.

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OK, gang, don your tin-foil hats for a moment and consider the question: “Do you really believe the Gooferment’s story? It’s another hard to swallow tale imho.

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RANT: The gooferment IS the problem

Sunday, November 22, 2009

“Advocates of government control [of health care and insurance] want you to believe that the serious shortcomings of our medical and insurance system are failures of the free market. But that’s John Stosselimpossible because our market is not free. Each state operates a cozy medical and insurance cartel that restricts competition through licensing and keeps prices higher than they would be in a genuine free market. But the planners won’t talk about that. After all, if government is the problem in the first place, how can they justify a government takeover?”

— libertarian journalist John Stossel

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RANT: Health Care Vote bribe

Saturday, November 21, 2009

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-100-million-health-care-vote.html

The $100 Million Health Care Vote?

November 19, 2009 3:03 PM

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Karl 2 ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports:

What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Here’s a case study.

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”

I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.

In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)

Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.

How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.

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Argh!

Disgusting. Is anyone going to stop this?

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RANT: “We” can’t afford the USPS

Thursday, November 19, 2009

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/OMyfED4MxVw/

Government Mail Loses $3.8 Billion

from Cato @ Liberty by Tad DeHaven

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The U.S. Postal Service reported that it lost $3.8 billion last fiscal year and that it expects to lose $7.8 billion this year. The loss occurred despite cost-cutting measures and legislation that allowed the USPS to forgo $4 billion in required payments to pre-fund retiree health benefits.

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SO the USPS “lost” 11.8B$?

So how do we “kill” the USPS?

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