Reinke Faces Life

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/book-review-the-next-american-civil-war/

Book Review: The Next American Civil War
The pushback against the all-encompassing state has its roots deep in the American tradition.
September 29, 2010 – by Janet Levy

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Harris sees the threat to liberty today as not emanating from Marxism, the essential focus of Tea Party activists, but from prosperous modern civilizations supported by cumbersome government bureaucracies, corporations, and media and from our failure to cherish freedom. He reasons that if we cared enough about freedom and less about material comforts, Marxist policies opposed by the majority of Americans would not be imposed upon us. The supremacy of the state as a vehicle to improve the lives of citizens has become a betrayal of American founding principles of individual liberty and traditions of self-sufficiency, hard work, and self-governance.

Harris proposes that a turnaround for future generations begins with our children. Rather than raise them with a sense of entitlement in which the struggle for their rights is paramount, we need to raise them with a sense of duty and responsibility. They need to be taught self-control that is essential for preservation of freedom and to admire and emulate the heroes throughout our history who fought for freedom.

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Clearly, the battle will be separating the Gooferment from education of future voters. Close the “reeducation camps”!

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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/09/governors-priorities.html

>>Gov. Chris Christie now says he wants to cut income taxes for the rich.
>I want readers of this blog to think about what he’s proposing
>and ask yourselves why giving money back to the rich makes more
>sense than providing teachers — or ensuring that the people who
>do the work that we need done get decent salaries and benefits.

Yes, it makes more sense to me on a several levels: Morally, Strategically, and Tacically.

Morally, when someone — rich or poor — creates wealth — be it grows more tomatoes, makes more lumber, or enables the same by capital formation — the Gooferment has NO right to steal it. At least the Mafia was polite when it robbed you and left you enough to survive. The DofI states that all men are created equal. Except when it comes to taxes.

Strategically, in a capitalistic society, deferred consumption allows capital formation and risk taking. On Robinson Crusoe’s island, Robinson has to save some fish to sustain himself while he weaves a net that allows him to catch more fish in the future. And, there’s no guaranty that it will work. So too, today, we need “rich” people to forgo consuming, invest, and take risks. Who’s more likely to save, invest, and employ others? The rich or the poor? When the Gooferment taxes the rich at disproportionate rate, ti discourages investment and risk taking. Why take a risk when you can spend what would have been “capital”, enjoy life, and wait for better times? Tax rates that make the Gooferment your partner 50/50 is one thing. When the the split is 90/10 on profit and you take the loss, then you think real hard about it. (Similar to professionals like doctors who can “time” when they take income, rich people have options that the poor do not. Heck, LeBron went to Florida to save taxes.) High tax rates and “progressive” tax rates are counter-productive to society. But, not to the Gooferment, who’s desire for funds is insatiable. New Jersey was #4 on the list of “lost high earning” losers, I just saw.

Tactically, New Jersey’s tax rates are higher than the surrounding states. Why do politicians and bureaucrats think people are moving to Delaware and Pennsylvania? Retirees depart the state because they can’t afford to live here. Do you think that even poor people are stupid?

Now let’s look at cited case of teachers, politicians, and bureaucrats. Sorry but they do NOT engender sympathy. I’ve ranted before about Gooferment Skrules are themselves immoral, strategically wrong, and tactically stupid. I won’t repeat all those arguments but I’ll summarize in one sentence: “I didn’t have any part in the decision to have your children, don’t pay to feed them, and the Gooferment should NOT be propagandizing future voters.” The salary was supposedly lower than in the private marketplace, hence great pensions and benefits. Now, Gooferment workers make twice what the private industry. In private industry, there’s no pensions any more. There’s no job security. Heck, there’s not even salaries for jobs any more. The absolute piggishness of politicians and bureaucrats with their scams to pad salaries, pensions, and benefits is criminal.

And, please don’t say that allowing the “rich” to keep what they have earned so they can invest and take risks prevents the politicians and bureaucrats from earning “decent salaries and benefits”.

So let’s have some reforms:

(1) No politicians and bureaucrats can ever make more than the Governor.

(2) No pensions for anyone. Convert all to defined contribution plans.

(3) Everyone pays a percentage of their benefit costs. (Benefits are a Federal problem.)

(4) All income taxes — corporate and personal — are capped at 10%.

(5) Let’s have a 40 year plan to get the Gooferment out of education. 20 years to privatize it; 20 years to migrate it back to the parents.

(6) Let’s get serious about the definition of poverty. In comparison to the rest of the world, our “poor” are rich.

JFK said it best. “A rising tide raises all boats!”

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/65765.html

September 18, 2010
Privatize Government Football
Posted by Lew Rockwell on September 18, 2010 08:15 PM

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With their boom-ballooned, debt-financed physical plants, not to speak of a hothouse tangle of overpaid administrators and professors—and fewer and fewer kids willing to go deeply into debt for degrees of questionable economic value—state universities are in trouble. But here is a partial way out, without further punishing tax victims or students: sell the football team.

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College football was “federalized” in 1905 by Teddie. Roosevelt, not Kennedy. And, the “colleges” have been on the dole for decades.

Why is the taxpayer regarded as the “deep pocket” participant in “sports”? We don’t build MickeyD’s, big box stores, or churches. So why do we participate in this scam?

Let the Billionaires find their Millionaire “slaves” and build their own “coliseums” without the taxpayer.

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http://bigpeace.com/teamb/2010/09/22/taqiyya-a-concept-of-deceit-that-security-professionals-must-lnow/

Taqiyya: A Concept of Deceit that Security Professionals Must Know

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It does, though, argue for professionals to be aware of these facts, to realize they are dealing with an enemy whose doctrine allows – and at times even requires – its adherents not to disclose fully all that they know, and deliberately to misstate that which they know to be the truth.

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When you can’t trust what some one says, then you must hold that in mind whenever they say anything.

In the cited example, “Islam calls for democracy” and “democracy is the rule of the people, but we want the rule of Allah.” are mutually exclusive. So we have an actor who postures with statement #1 and concealing #2. Very dangerous!

Any it casts a pall over all Muslims.

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=205253

Poverty just ain’t what it used to be
Posted: September 20, 2010
Roger Hedgecock  

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Government reports, cited by the Heritage Foundation, indicate that:

   * 43 percent of the “poor” own their own homes.

   * 80 percent of “poor” households have air conditioning. More than 67 percent of “poor” households have two or more rooms per person. The average poor American has more living space than the average resident of any major European city.

   * “Poor” American children eat more meat than higher-income American children and average protein intake 100 percent above the recommended levels. Obesity is the predominant health hazard to America’s “poor” children. “Poor” children in this country grow up to be on average one inch taller and 10 pounds heavier than the average G.I. who stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II.

   * Some poorer families, of course, do experience temporary food shortages. But government surveys indicate that 89 percent of poor families have “enough” food to eat, while only 2 percent say they “often” do not have enough to eat.

   * Beyond the basics, according to the government, America’s “poor” are living better than most people on the planet.

   * 74 percent of “poor” households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.

   * 97 percent of “poor” households own a color TV; more than 50 percent own two or more color TVs.

   * 78 percent have a VCR or DVD player, and 62 percent have cable or satellite service.

   * 89 percent own microwave ovens, and more than one-third have automatic dishwashers.

The key to understanding the contradiction here is the way the government defines “poor.” An individual is poor (2009 figures) if making less than $10,830 a year. For a family of four, it’s $22.050. That sounds like real poverty given the cost of living these days. But the government does not count as “income” any income received from the government. If you get food stamps or WIC payments or Section 8 housing subsidies or a disability check, this income does not count as income.

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Like that African refugee said to the TV interviewer’s question: “Why do you want to come to America?”, this fellow, who was just skin and bones, responded “You have fat poor people there.”

We keep defining “poverty” strangely. It seems that our definition of poverty is very different form elsewhere. And, I am not in the least disparaging “the poor”.

• They’ve been imprisoned by the Gooferment’s propaganda and diktats.

• Throw in some self-delusion and some hustlers who make a living by flogging poverty while feathering their own nests.

• Stew in the inner city with the drug war, crime, and schools whose performance is criminal.

• Add a pinch of “liberal condescension” telling you that nothing is ever your fault and society owes you.

So how do we get out of this disaster.

☐ Ending the pseudo War on some Drugs would be a good start.

☐ Pardon non-violent drug offenders.

☐ Focus on crimes where there is a victim.

☐ End welfare for corporations; phase out welfare for people.

☐ End the warfare around the world and bring the troops home.

☐ End political pensions; convert bureaucrats’ pensions to 401ks.

☐ End Social Security and privatize it like Chile did in the 1970s.

☐ Nuke the FED and “commoditize” the dollar to restrict future Congresses from spending without taxing to pay for it.

And, recapture the American dream … … for everybody!

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=204973

Obama drops ‘Creator’ from Declaration quote
Posted: September 18, 2010 6:05 pm Eastern
Credit to WorldNetDaily

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President Barack Obama removed the reference to the “Creator” from the Declaration of Independence when he quoted a portion at a meeting of the Congressional Hispanic Congress.

Obama said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

But the the actual quotation is: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

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This is a BFD!

Don’t just whiz by this and dismiss it as trivial.

Remember the old saying: “What Congress gives; it can take away!”

Up until the American Revolution, RIGHTS were granted by the King. And, the King could take them away; just as fast as they were granted. Then, the Dead Old White Guys came along and said your rights come from the Creator; not any human being. Even an atheist could say: “I have these rights because I am me! Ts; deal with it!”.

By, even inadvertently, failing to quote the DOI correctly, he begins the slow methodical journey back to a time when “the ruler” decided what RIGHTS the subjects would have. And, don’t think for a moment that any “oversight” is a trivial mistake. These are fighting words. Because the next step is the Death Camps of Auschwitz! And, don’t tell me for a minute that it can’t happen here. Can you say Japanese Internment?

No, we have to vigorously and irascibly defend the concept that no politicians and bureaucrats gives us our RIGHTS!

Look at the TSA and tell me that our Fourth Amendment rights are NOT in the toilet.

Argh! Sheeple!

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http://www.keywestlou.com/2010/09/great-radio-show-yesterday-most-of-show.html

My Life in Key West
Saturday, September 18, 2010

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A strange thought crossed my mind last night as I looked at Key West’s visitors and cycles. What would Harry Truman have thought? He loved and enjoyed Key West. My guess is he would have probably joined in on the festivities. At least attire wise. Harry, yes. Bess, no.

When I got home, I went to the internet to see what Truman was up to on this weekend years ago.

Turns out that on September 18, 1948, Harry Truman was campaigning for President. He was on the rear platform of a train in Chariton, Iowa giving a political speech. Candidates campaigned from the back of trains in those days. It was called whistlestopping.

Truman was giving the Republicans hell. He told the crowd that they were receiving top dollar for their pigs and corn. Thanks to him and the Democratic Party. He referred to the Republicans and their Republican controlled Congress as a “…do nothing Congress.” The transcript of Truman’s remarks were concise and hard hitting. His words would have equally applied in today’s political climate.

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I know you like Truman, but he’s firmly in my second tier of “worst Presidents ever”.

Alone in the “bottom slot” of worst is Lincoln, with the “civil war”. He allowed war on civilians and mass killing “to preserve the Union”. The USA was never the same after that. Suspending civil liberties and persecuting his political enemies. I’d agree with Booth “sic semper tyranis”. As a pro-lifer, killing is almost always wrong, but he was a pretty bad guy. The damage was already done when he was killed.

Tied for the title, “My Second Worst”, is FDR, Wilson, and Truman. Hard to pick a winner in that trio. Harry dropped the bomb on Japan to his, and our, unending shame. It’s hard to imagine a worse crime against humanity. Twice.

So, I wouldn’t celebrate Harry. Sigh, I’d suggest that Harry’s actions wouldn’t have passed muster in MC Theology class. Heck, in grammar school we learned about the criteria for a “Just War” and proper conduct of it.

p.s., Wilson’s biggie was WW1 and his racist / elitist Progressive agenda. FDR was socialism, taking us off the gold standard, and WW2.

p.p.s, I have no love for either flavor of big Gooferment statists. But, please, please, don’t get caught up in the “political theater” that passes in Washington District of Corruption for “reasoned debate”. These two “parties” are two sides of the same coin. If the D’s or the R’s didn’t exist, the other side would reinvent them so as to have a “straw man” to villainize. It’s a scam. To fool “We, The People” into believing one side or the other. Don’t fall for it. It will only end when we dissolve like the old USSR. And, then we can “localize” the discussion. We’re broke and don’t let anyone tell you differently. People are going to get screwed and the politicians and bureaucrats will have looted the public treasure. It makes old Bernie Made-Off look like a Saint. Argh!

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/shocking_testimony_reveals_police_32mOVk4qQsVZvBGXAEnHRP#ixzz0zdNxZnxA

Shocking testimony reveals police inaction in Conn. horror home invasion
By LAURA ITALIANO
Last Updated: 2:34 PM, September 15, 2010
Posted: 12:54 PM, September 15, 2010

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Podunk local cops wasted more than half an hour assessing the Connecticut home invasion and setting up a vehicle perimeter — time the two attackers used to strangle the mother in her living room and set the fire that claimed the lives of the two girls upstairs, according to shocking testimony today.

The revelation — which suggests perhaps the family could have been saved but for police bungling — came on day three of testimony in the murder trial of crack addict Steven Hayes, charged as one of the two monsters who launched a rein of rape and murder against a Cheshire, CT family on a Monday morning in July, 2007.

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It’s Columbine all over again.

The police have morphed into a Pretorian Guard of bureaucrats, who fund raise for the Empire, and are the janitors of violent situations.

Failure to deploy puts people at risk. In this case, kills you.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/14/2010-09-14_koran_burner_derek_fenton_fired_from_his_job_at_nj_transit.html

Koran burner Derek Fenton booted from his job at NJ Transit

By Alison Gendar, Kevin Deutsch and Pete Donohue
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Originally Published:Tuesday, September 14th 2010, 7:55 PM
Updated: Tuesday, September 14th 2010, 9:05 PM

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“Mr. Fenton’s public actions violated New Jersey Transit’s code of ethics,” an agency statement said.

“NJ Transit concluded that Mr. Fenton violated his trust as a state employee and therefore [he] was dismissed.”

Fenton was ushered from the protests by police on Saturday and questioned, but he was released without charges.

“He said, ‘This is America,’ and he wanted to stand up for it, in a Tea Party kind of way,” a police source said.

Another police source said Fenton described himself as a “loyal American” exercising his “right to protest.”

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Guess the State bureaucrats haven’t heard of the First Amendment. No matter how offensive the speech, we have to protect it. The worst thing is for the nut jobs to be silenced and go underground. Didnt’ work in the USSR, won’t work here. Let everyone speak their mind and the Gooferment should stay out of it.

For the record, this guy is a bozo. But he had the Creator given right to demonstrate his bozoness!

Argh!

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