RANT: Sorry it’s a duck!

Monday, September 21, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574425294029138738.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

* REVIEW & OUTLOOK
* SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Obama’s Nontax Tax
On a Sunday show, the President offers a revealing definition.

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“Mr. Obama: “My critics say everything is a tax increase. My critics say that I’m taking over every sector of the economy. You know that. Look, we can have a legitimate debate about whether or not we’re going to have an individual mandate or not, but . . .””

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If I can’t avoid it, then it’s a tax. Call it a “mandate”. Call it a “penalty”. Call it the “tooth fairy”. The IRS will ensure you pay it. If that’s not a “tax”, I don’t know what is!

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RANT: Who voted against defunding ACORN

Sunday, September 20, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/the_seven_senators_who_voted_a.html

September 15, 2009
The seven senators who voted against defunding ACORN
Ethel C. Fenig

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Now who were those seven senators who were apparently unfazed by ACORN’s bland unconcern of providing mortgage money to a supposed prostitute and her pimp, even counseling them on evading taxes? (Nine senators did not vote.)

# Dick Durbin (D-IL)
# Roland Burris (D-IL)
# Robert Casey (D-PA)
# Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
# Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
# Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
# Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

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Would seem to be an easy vote.

This demonstrates the culture of corruption in DC.

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RANT: The role of the police today — revenue agents

Saturday, September 19, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w109.html

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Witness the case of Jamie Lockard, a 53-year-old resident of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, who was stopped last March on suspicion of driving while intoxicated (DWI). A roadside Breathalyzer test determined that Lockard’s blood alcohol was under the legal limit.

Since incriminating Breathalyzer results are regarded as infallibly conclusive for the purpose of securing a conviction, a negative result offers immediate exoneration – correct?

One would think so. And one would be wrong.

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SENT TO A FRIEND:

And you AGREE with this?

HE RESPONDED:

I would like to see more respect for authority. Lack of it will get you in trouble, and rightly so.

THAT SENT ME INTO ORBIT!

Oh, yes, right or wrong, we can’t be disrespectful to the massa!

Authority EARNS respect.

Cops have become nothing more than revenue agents for the state. Roadside radar traps make them into highwaymen who robbing innocent travelers who fail to follow their posted warnings.

Seriously, who designs a road for NINETY or a HUNDRED, then posts it with 45, 50,55, 60 or 65, to nail the unsuspecting.

Seriously, roadside checkpoints for license, registration, insurance, drinking, drugs, and anything else we can think of, belong to an old WW2 movie about Nazi Germany. Where are your papers? Comrade, citizen, subject.

Argh!

Take DWI or DUI! It’s an excuse to hassle folks. OK, if you have an accident or, heaven forbid, hurt someone, then you should get the book tossed at you. (Unless your name is Ted Kennedy!) Otherwise, forget it. All the horror stories, come from repeat offenders — some with 10 or 15 “convictions” — or even police officers.

Sorry, but they have lost “respect”, because of their conduct.

The “Dial 911 and die!” is a toungue in cheek recognition that they are no more than a clean up squad. If they weren’t busy collecting revenue, then maybe they could go after real criminals.

End the drug war now. Pardon all the non-violent drug offenders. Close the FDA, DEA, and BATF.

Liberty and freedom for all!

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RANT: Municipal plate on the GSP

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Monroe’s MG63207 sped down the GSP tailgating.

No cops.

Guess there is a fire convention in Wildwood. The many other fire related cars and trucks with SG and MG plates seemed to be in no need to endanger everyone to get there!

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RANT: Congress is disingenuous

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125303051628912339.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

The House voted 240-179 along party lines to admonish Rep. Joe Wilson over his “you lie” outburst to President Barack Obama during the president’s health-care speech to Congress last week.

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Sorry, but where was the “admonishment” when they booed President Bush.

Like Sara’s “death panel” facebook post, with out Joe’s outburst, “illegal” aliens (an assinine concept) would be getting free health care. (In addition to everything else)

Argh!

Who’s going to call them out about “not one dime added to the debt”, cutting Medicare (real cuts; not controlling growth), and all the other “barbara streisand”?

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RANT: An open letter to Bill O’Reilly

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

OPEN EMAIL TO BILL O’REILLY

Bill:

Like your show, find it “challenging”.

My pithy comment for you is that “The government gets to tell its version of every story that may or may not be the truth. It appears to take decades for the whole truth to leak out from the edges.”

Did FDR know about Pearl Harbor? Historians have long debated whether President Roosevelt had advance knowledge of Japan’s December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Using documents pried loose through the Freedom of Information Act during 17 years of research, Stinnett provides overwhelming evidence that FDR and his top advisers knew that Japanese warships were heading toward Hawaii. The heart of his argument is even more inflammatory: Stinnett argues that FDR, who desired to sway public opinion in support of U.S. entry into WWII, instigated a policy intended to provoke a Japanese attack.

Kennedy assassination? As an amateur shooter, that shot, at a moving car with a junk rifle without practice from elevation and with swirling wind, is per se “unbelievable”. A killing zone ambush from the grassy knoll and one other position (i.e., the three shots of Zapruder audio) is much more plausible.

And on and on. Truth about Lincoln leaks out. Wilson campaigning on a Peace Platform. FDR follows Hoover’s plan. LBJ Gulf of Tonkin. The Federal Reserve creation at Jekyll Island.

And this on the WTC.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/09/10/911-our-truth-and-theirs/

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Of course, the Israelis and our own government denied everything. Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli government, scoffed: Israel, spying on the United States? Why, who ever heard of such a thing?! The US government, for its part, disdained all such reports as “an urban myth.” The Israel lobby moved quickly to make sure the Cameron reports were thrown down the Memory Hole, and Cameron was accused of – you guessed it! – “anti-Semitism,” on account of having spent time in the Middle East in his youth.

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I’d just like you to be a little more skeptical of the “official story”. Admit that the powers that be, and their willing accomplices in the main stream media, want the sheeple kept in the dark, stupid with today’s gooferment union education, and paying for the privilege.

Yes, I’m a “birther”. I don’t know what to believe. For me what gives the story “legs” is Obama spending good money to keep everything hidden. That’s the smoke that sets off the detectors.

Unfortunately for what once was the Great Republic, we have smoke ‘n’ mirrors being used all over the place to our detriment.

As a tin foil hat kinda guy, it’s too bad we can’t treat all conspirators like Arthur Thistlewood. Maybe then we’d get the truth from the government.

Don’t be so trusting! To quote the fictional Doctor House, “They all lie.” And, I’m shocked — “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — that you are more circumspect.

P.S., Instead of interviewing the beautiful people, how about giving a “conspiracy nut” two minutes on video to express their favorite conspiracy and then you can rip them to shreds. But, be careful, you might find an erie thread of truth in their statement. Then what will you do?

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RANT: Too big to fail?

Saturday, September 12, 2009

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aUTh4YMmI6QE

Lehman Monday Morning Lesson Lost With Obama Regulator-in-Chief
By Alison Fitzgerald and Christine Harper

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“They should be broken up and sold off,” Fine, 58, said he declared, as Geithner scribbled notes before thanking him for his time and ushering him out into the January chill.

The Treasury secretary didn’t follow through on Fine’s suggestion, just as he didn’t act on the advice of former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. head Sheila C. Bair, or the dozens of economists and politicians who pressed the White House for measures that would limit the size or activities of U.S. banks.

One year after the demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. paralyzed the financial system, “mega-banks,” as Fine’s group calls them, are as interconnected and inscrutable as ever. The Obama administration’s plan for a regulatory overhaul wouldn’t force them to shrink or simplify their structure.

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Washington is corrupt.

Big financial entities make BIG financial contributions.

We probably don’t know half of the stuff that goes on below the surface.

So, we the taxpayers, get screwed repeatedly.

If you were the regulator, and you were presented with an “easy” solution (i.e., break up, sell off, and limit the future size), what would you do?

Seems easy to me.

Pick a big number say 1B$ (that’s billion with a B) and say “No finaincial entity insured by the Fed or the Federal Government gets bigger than that!”

Seems trivial to me.

But, where would the big campaign contributions and payoffs come from?

Washington and all the little DCs are corrupt.

We need more work, workers, and a lot less politicians.

Every wonder why there are SO MANY lawyers?

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RANT: Another 9/11 and still we haven’t … …

Friday, September 11, 2009

… rebuilt the WTC (I prefer the middle finger design!);

… found OBL;

… brought our troops home;

… dismantled the TSA; and

… instructed our representatives about American values!

Donna Nobis Pacem

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RANT: Big insurers may gain from Obamacare

Thursday, September 10, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/cato090309

Cato Daily Podcast, 09/03/09
Cato Institute

“Big insurers may gain from Obamacare,” featuring Michael D. Tanner. [MP3] (09/03/09)

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I am shocked — “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — to hear that.

But I knew it when they started advertising for its passage.

Argh!

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RANT: How O could pass health care

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

http://knappster.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-president-obama-should-do.html

Tuesday, September 08, 2009
What President Obama should do

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I don’t support any variant of Obamacare that I’ve heard about (a number of different proposals are apparently floating in and out of different congressional committees). I don’t support any “reform” that includes more, rather than less, government involvement in health care. And in point of fact, in broad outline, I just don’t support the Obama administration’s agenda, period. 90% of it is just plain bad, and the other, decent 10% (closing Gitmo, ending torture and unlawful detention, etc.) went by the wayside in record time once his hand came off the Bible he was sworn in with.

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I COMMENTED:

I too am a little L libertarian that has no use for EITHER party. Unlike you, if I was O, (being an unprincipled Chicago machine politician), I would give “stuff” galore to get ANY bill passed with a public option. Then I’d rest secure in the knowledge that this was the camel’s nose. And, in a decade or two, like FDR’s ponzi, there would be no way to prevent communism. They have the skools turning out functional illiterates. They’ve “won”. Too bad what they have won won’t sustain the parasite. imho

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