Reinke Faces Life

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0707/Edwards_They_want_to_shut_me_up.html

July 27, 2007
Edwards: “They want to shut me up”

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This stuff’s not an accident. Nobody in this room should think this is an accident. You know, I’m out there speaking up for universal healthcare, ending this war in Iraq, speaking up for the poor. They want to shut me up. That’s what this is about. “Let’s distract from people who don’t have health care coverage. Let’s distract from people who can’t feed their children…. Let’s talk about this silly frivolous nothing stuff so that America won’t pay attention.”

They will never silence me. Never.

If we don’t stand up to these people, if we don’t fight em, if we don’t beat them, they’re going to continue to control this country. Thye’re going to control the media. They’re going to control what’s being said. They do not want to hear us talking about health care for everybody.

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“Universalhealthcare”!?!

Please a tax funded boobdoggle (Not just an ordinary boodoggle! This appeals to boobs who can’t see the “barbara streisand” he’s peddling!) boon to the medical establishment, gooferment bureaucrats of all shapes ‘n’ sizes, and the trial lawyers.

The Soviet Union demonstrated how well <insert favorite service> can be delivered by the gooferment. Examine how well the Post Office delivers mail. Is the VA the exemplar of how the gooferment will provide you health care. We already have working examples about how everyday health care will be delivered by the gooferment — Medicare and Medicaid. We already have examples of “universal healthcare” Canada, England, and Australia.

No, “universal healthcare” is an attempt by the politicians, who created the problem with various laws, to convince us to let them “solve” it.

Shut up and sit down, Senator.

You’ve contributed to the mess, voted for the war, and gotten some expensive hair cuts.

You are a joke. Time for you to get a real job.

My fellow alum had a great cartoon (http://www.jerrybreen.com)

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Why Dr Ron Paul?

• He has never voted to raise taxes.
• He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
• He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
• He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
• He has never taken a government-paid junket.
• He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
• He voted against the Patriot Act.
• He voted against regulating the Internet.
• He voted against the Iraq war.
• He opposed the Federal Reserve.

And, he speaks from his heart and doesn’t change his position based on this poll or that.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25funeral.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

July 25, 2007
On Base, a Plea to Give Each Death Its Due
By WILLIAM YARDLEY

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“We owe them the highest gratitude a nation can give,” Lt. Col. John Pettit, a chaplain, said at a memorial service in July for two soldiers. Sgt. Joel A. Dahl and Cpl. Victor A. Garcia were killed by small-arms fire in Iraq.

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No, we owe them a giant apology. We have the duty of getting their mates out of the danger zone asap. The politicians led us down another rat hole and we ought not take another casualty in a political blunder of mammouth proportions. We allowed them to not follow the Constitution and they died as a result.

Bring the boys and girls home. Now!

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You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 25 July at 0700 edst on 295 milepost 52 … …

… … a blue marquis jft 96r … …

… … at leisurely 85 (Your serf speed limit is 65!)

… … in lots of traffic

… … tailgating the poor peon in his way

… … never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Now it didn’t have state plates but it did have blue and red lights on the back window. So it had to be one of your state centurions.

Arghhhhhhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2a735dd0-3873-11dc-bca9-0000779fd2ac.html

Globalisation backlash in rich nations
Pressure for higher taxes on rich
By Chris Giles in London
Published: July 22 2007 18:11 | Last updated: July 22 2007 18:11

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A popular backlash against globalisation and the leaders of the world’s largest companies is sweeping all rich countries, an FT/Harris poll shows.

Large majorities of people in the US and in Europe want higher taxation for the rich and even pay caps for corporate executives to counter what they believe are unjustified rewards and the negative effects of globalisation.

Viewing globalisation as an overwhelmingly negative force, citizens of rich countries are looking to governments to cushion the blows they perceive have come from the liberalisation of their economies to trade with emerging countries.

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And, that strategy always works so well.

One of these days, the poor will learn that the rich didn’t get that way by being stupid. The truly rich don’t advertise their wealth and take steps to shelter it from confiscation. So, you’ll never really get “them”. All that happens is that the poor get a shot to the foot.

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FROM A FELLOW ALUM’S OBIT

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… … died July 16, 2007 in New York. He was 64.

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SO he paid the ultimate “social security tax”. Argh. He paid into one of the most unfair Ponzi scams imaginable. If an Insurance Company offered you such a policy, the executives would all be in jail for theft. Or at least on the various nightly news shows, like “Shame on You”.

For a per centage of your life time earnings,

(Now doesn’t that sound like something you’d expect hear in a movie sequence of a Mafia shakedown?)

you get a modest lifetime disability protection,

(If you are willing to hire a lawyer and spend a lot of money getting it.)

and a less than adequate retirement income

(And they now say social security was never intended to live on … … “barbara streisand”)

that you have to pay taxes on

(That they “promised” would never be taxed … … double “barbara streisand”)

and represents the biggest savings of a poor person’s life

(Economist generally agree it’s a wealth transfer from poor minority men to rich white women!)

that’s ends with no benefit when you die.

(The ultimate in theft!)

Economist generally concede that the most optimistic look at “Social Security Insurance” is that it is a negative 1 to 2 % savings.

In my fellow alumni’s case, it’s nothing but a tax.

What a losing bet!

“Social Security Insurance” is a socialist program that is an absolute disgrace.

At least the gooferment should have the honesty to stop calling it “insurance”.

Argh!

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You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 17 July at about 645 am edst on Route 295 milepost 51 … …

… … a big white state pickup truck (monster size) TD 10342 … …

… … tailgating the poor peon (me!) in his way (who got the hell out of the way before being pushed out)

… … who never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away I assume trenton to protect and serve me.

Or, perhaps to escape the scene of the crime!

Arghhh!

Arghhhhhhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

A statist, who must like the “inflation tax”:

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There is a new comment on the post “Independence Day”.

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/07/04/
independence-day-3/

Author: Ace Duggery
Comment: I want everyone that thinks the United States currency should be backed by a commodity to check the historical prices of gold and silver. The volatility of these commodities is high, so much higher than the dollar that it makes me laugh to listen to your arguments. If our currency was backed by a commodity, you would be complaining about that too.

See all comments on this post here:

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/07/04/
independence-day-3/#comments

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I think “Ace” that you are missing the point. (And, I think it says something when people need to use an alter ego.)

It really doesn’t matter if it’s backed by a commodity or backed by something like tiki statues on Easter Island. With a non-fiat currency, the gooferment can NOT impose an “inflation tax” on all holders of “money”.

Gooferment wants to have social program, they can’t just print more but have to impose a tax. Gooferment wants to fight a war, they can’t just print more and have to impose a tax.

We want a commodity as money because the gooferment can’t wave it’s magic printing press and make more. Remember that greenbacks were originally redeemable in gold and silver. So the scrap of paper was really a receipt. Since 1970, the value of a dollar as depreciated 95% due to inflation. That’s a hell of a tax! If they tried to impose such, they have been lynched.

Inflation did it silently for them politicians. A commodity money would have prevented that, and made us all wealthier.

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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/8517012.html

Jul. 15, 2007
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Helping students become ‘responsible citizens’?

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America’s schools aren’t failing, Gatto discovered. They’re doing precisely what they were re-designed to do between the 1850s and the early 1900s, when America embarked on our current imperial/mercantilist adventure — that is, to churn out little soldiers and factory workers with mindless obedience drilled in and with the higher critical faculties burned out of them through the process of feeding them learning in small unrelated bits like pre-digested gruel, till they neither know how nor feel any inclination to discern higher patterns, which might lead them to challenge the “party line.”

Who dreamed up such a system?

John Dewey and Horace Mann brought this form of “compulsion schooling” home from Prussia, Gatto learned.

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When will the taxpayers and parents realize what they are doing to their children?

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NJ1015 radio is now reporting that the state is enforcing some sort of food regulations that prevent the roadside farm markets from selling anything but fresh veggies.

Jim Gearhart notes that he has NOT heard of anyone getting sick from such purchases. Neither have I.

So here’s another infringement that will probably just slip into place.

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