RANT: Unidine or Obama’s Heathcare proxy
LADIES4LIBERTY do a skit for universal dining … err, healthcare. Hey, amateur? Yes! Dead on accurate? Yes! See your local VA patron for how they feel about gooferment health care.
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RANT: Unidine or Obama’s Heathcare proxy
Monday, May 25, 2009
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LIBERTY: Repeal the “Direct Election of Senators” aka Seventeenth Amendment
Thursday, May 21, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98184
The death of shame
Posted: May 15, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
Hal Lindsey
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Speaker Pelosi’s press conference yesterday had to rank as one of the most bizarre political implosions since Richard Nixon’s infamous “I’m not a crook” press conference in April 1974.
Pelosi called the press conference to offer her fifth separate explanation for why she never knew about the application of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” despite the release of CIA memos and the recollection of other participants who clearly recall her being extensively briefed.
As press conferences go, it was painful to witness. Noted one observer, if Pelosi was not lying, she deserved an Academy Award for appearing as though she were. When questioned by reporters, she actually re-read her prepared statement – several times – stumbling over it as if she were cold-reading the description of an event involving someone else.
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I would attribute us to the “Direct Election of Senators” Seventeenth Amendment 1913. (The same year they created the Federal Reserve!)
Before that they were responsible to the State Legislatures and much more insulated from the public pressure. And, much more dignified!
It’s time to repeal that amendment and a few others!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Mandatory vacation like that paragon of productivity … France!
Thursday, May 21, 2009http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22794.html
Alan Grayson to introduce Paid Vacation Act
By ERIKA LOVLEY | 5/21/09 4:28 AM EDT
The legislation would be the first to make paid vacation time a requirement under federal law.
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Rep. Alan Grayson was standing in the middle of Disney World when it hit him: What Americans really need is a week of paid vacation.
So on Thursday, the Florida Democrat will introduce the Paid Vacation
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Argh!
What about the unemployed and retired?
Surely, it’s only fair that the Federal Gooferment pay them to vacate as well.
Argh!
This is a hidden tax. It’s unavoidable; hence it’s a tax.
This is an intrusion into the the employment contract. Employer offered and employee accepted. Now here comes Mommy Government to stick its nose in.
Does this mean that the Yankees have to give Alex R a week of paid vacation? He’ll just get into more trouble.
Why limit it to 100 person business? Because then we can’t see the damage!
At the margin, how many businesses will it kill. THe ones holding on by their fingernails financially.
Why don’t we give the congress critters a permanent vacation? Never reelect anyone! Ever!!
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MONEY: The Yuan as the world’s reserve currency
Thursday, May 21, 2009http://www.cnbc.com/id/30836189
Buy Yuan and Beware of Boys, Rogers Tells His Daughters
By: Dora Cheok, News Editor | 20 May 2009 | 04:05 AM ET
Say the name Jim Rogers, and these thoughts might
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“I own the Chinese renminbi. It’s not that easy to buy and sell the renminbi because it’s a blocked currency. But I own it and every chance I get to get some more renminbi, I do so.” Rogers says.
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Will the yuan become the next reserve currency for the world?
That would surely signal the end of the American Empire and the beginning of its financial collapse.
TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It)
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LIBERTY: Friends?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009http://lewrockwell.com/north/north714.html
California’s Day of Reckoning: May 19 by Gary North
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Decades ago, my friend M. Stanton Evans came up with a law, comparable to Murphy’s Law. I came across it in a delightful compilation of these laws, a book titled “The Official Rules.” It is designated as Evans’ Law of Political Perfidy. “When our friends are elected, they aren’t our friends any more.”
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I like this! We have no “friends” in the halls of power. We never do it seems. Argh! I’ve formed the opinion that we have to “kill” the overreaching gooferment. No other solution can put the genie back in the bottle. No way to limit its power. No way to keep it from escaping its supposed “chains of the Constitution”. Lysander Spooner was right!
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RANT: Votes do NOT count.
Monday, May 18, 2009http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090513/D98573FG0.html
Report: One-fourth of overseas votes go uncounted
May 13, 3:07 AM (ET)
By JIM ABRAMS
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WASHINGTON (AP) – One out of every four ballots requested by military personnel and other Americans living overseas for the 2008 election may have gone uncounted, according to findings being released at a Senate hearing Wednesday.
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Guess every vote doesn’t count. AND, they were probably voting for the “wrong candidate” any way.
Sheeple!
Propaganda and fraud.
That’s how dictatorships happen! And, we have a “two party” one now.
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LIBERTY: Rights are inalienable
Thursday, May 14, 2009http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124223286506515765.html
News Alert from The Wall Street Journal
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The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The proposal being floated with members of Congress is another indication of President Barack Obama’s struggles to establish his counter-terrorism policies, balancing security concerns against attempts to alter Bush-administration practices he has harshly criticized.
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Another campaign issue / promise up in smoke.
Don’t real;y care about the lying.
BUT!
THe Bush Admininstration had Gitmo to keep the prisoners from getting Fifth Amendment and other rights.t us, next it
(Using my Judge Judy law degree and reading the Constitution, I think rights are inalienable regardless where on the Earth the government is operating. But my opinion matters not.)
The Obama Adminsitration seems to have a new reading of the Fifth and where it applies.
That scares me!
As Pastor Martin Niemîller taught us, next it woon’t apply to us as they herd us to the camps.
Remember my previous blogs. Just take out the first one and the they will soon run out of thugs.
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LIBERTY: Can snap that pic?
Sunday, May 10, 2009http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/07/san-francisco-muni-b.html
San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 7, 2009 6:45 PM
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The blogger at What I’m Seeing is a prolific photographer of San Francisco’s rapid transit system, and thus has fallen afoul of its imaginary no-photos policy, with a threatened arrest:
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What happened to the First Amendment?
The rapid transit is part of the gooferment.
No doubt about that!
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GAMBLING: State of NJ takes your old uncashed tickets?
Friday, May 8, 2009There as been a silent money grab in AC by Corzine. I hadn’t heard anything about it, but there was a sign at the Borgata about a new law on casino tickets. I didn’t really read it or really understand it, but they now have new tickets from the slot machines with a blue edge. As I understand it, uncashed tickets that are year old are no longer cashable. I can guess who gets the money. Heard about it. Those tickets are usually for pennies I’d guess. Take a ticket with pennies on it to say a quarter machine and it spits out a ticket for the pennies. People usually leave them in the tray when they go bust. It’s not even profitable for the homeless to collect them. But nothing’s beneath the politicians.
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RANT: The gooferment is a gang; some people are just thugs
Thursday, May 7, 2009http://www.lifenews.com/state4116.html
New Jersey Church Replaces Pro-Life Signs Defaced in Pro-Abortion Vandalism
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 5, 2009
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Milltown, NJ (LifeNews.com) — A New Jersey Catholic church has replaced the large pro-life signs that adorn a grassy area in front of the church building. The pro-life sign in a lot across from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in the central part of the state was defaced by pro-abortion vandals in December.
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I know that sign. A simple statement of fact.
Hard to imagine that vandal appreciates the First Amendment.
And, for the “free choice” that was sprayed on it, how is it “free” when I am force to pay for the gooferment’s pro-abortion policies?
It ain’t free. I’m forced to pay for it.
So explain to me, how did I incur this obligation?
I know I have to pay protection money to the various gangs in DC, Trenton, and elsewhere. But how is it “moral”?
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LIBERTY: GM along with the banks equals AMTRAK aka fascism
Wednesday, May 6, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/amtraking_automakers.html
May 02, 2009
Amtraking Automakers
By J. Robert Smith
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The odds that the federal government will ever get its hooks out of Chrysler or General Motors are slim to none, regardless what President Obama says. Why? In one word, Amtrak.
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Doesn’t anyone else see that this is fascism?
Government Motors and the banks becoming like the post office!
Argh!
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LIBERTY: Schiff on the Chrysler bankruptcy
Monday, May 4, 2009Peter Schiff on the Chrysler bankruptcy.
In a seven minute video, he makes some excellent points: turing Chrysler into the Post Office or Amtrak while trying to keep the jobs. Unfortunately, those resource tied up in Chrysler must be freed up. And, the government’s bankruptcy court will be at the end of it all the government’s bankruptcy court.
I agree that we have to stop the government from guarantying things — car warranties is another unwarranted intrusion.
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POLITICAL: What can the gooferment do for us?
Monday, May 4, 2009http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/mladjenovic042309.html
At The Heart Of America’s Economic Problems
Paul Mladjenovic
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1. Put an immediate freeze on government spending at all levels.
2. Let failed enterprises (banks, auto companies, etc.) go out of business.
3. Make it much easier to start a business.
4. Put severe restrictions on money supply growth.
5. Cut taxes at the federal, state and local level.
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If the gooferment wanted to jump start the economy, all they have to do is get out of the way.
Read the entire article for a great set of thoughts about our problems.
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RANT: The problem is NOT poor people crossing the border for a better life.
Monday, May 4, 2009Severin suspended for comments about Mexican immigrants
By David Abel
Globe Staff / May 1, 2009
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Jay Severin, the fiery right wing talk show host on Boston’s WTKK-FM radio station, was suspended yesterday after calling Mexican immigrants “criminaliens,” “primitives,” “leeches,” and exporters of “women with mustaches and VD,” among other incendiary comments.
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Interesting.
Jay filled in on a NYC show once upon a time. I thought he was a reasoned voice.
As usual, this one, and many others on the radio, have missed the problem.
The problem is NOT poor people crossing the border for a better life.
(Is that what the Statue of Liberty proclaims? The phrase “huddled masses yearning to be free” comes to mind. Maybe we SHOULD put that proverbial garbage bag over the Lady with the Lamp? We obviously don’t believe in the ethic that she represents. Any more! At one time Americans did. But not now!)
The problem is welfare!
Americans have gotten fat and lazy! On welfare.
Cut out the welfare and you cut out one of the problems. Only folks who want to work hard, assimilate, and make a good life for themselves will come.
We also need to address the psuedo “war on (some) drugs”. If we decriminalize ALL drugs, then the Columbian Drug Gangs and the various gangs — including large segments of the gang euphemistically called “the police” will have to find other productive work. The Pharmacy Department at WalMart will be hiring. Instead of shoot outs over territory and children taking rat poison when they get high, we will focus our attention on curing sick people. If they want to be cured.
Yes, America and Americans have to change. Adapt to the new realities.
Immigrants in the pre-welfare state days had hard lives. But everyone was better off for it.
As Heinlein wrote: “TANSTAFL”!
“There ain’t no such thing as free lunch!”
So let’s stop bitching and get to work solving real problems!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Company alerted on the Mexican Swine flu two weeks before
Friday, May 1, 2009http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/67283.html
Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009
Company warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued
By Les Blumenthal | McClatchy Newspapers
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WASHINGTON — A Washington state biosurveillance firm raised the first warning about a possible outbreak of swine flu in Mexico more than two weeks before the World Health Organization offered its initial alert about a public health emergency of international concern.
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Anyone care to argue that gooferment is useless!
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RANT: Pelosi seeks to divert attention!
Thursday, April 30, 2009http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aE68O.jaWO4E&refer=home
Pelosi Wall Street Probe Follows Pecora After Crash (Update1)
By Mark Pittman and Laura Litvan
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April 21 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street may be heading for the deepest investigation of its practices since a congressional panel’s probe of abuses following the 1929 stock market crash.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to push for a comprehensive inquiry, saying that three-quarters of Americans want to know what led to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. and Merrill Lynch & Co. She favors one patterned after Senate Banking Committee hearings led by Ferdinand Pecora starting in 1933, according to her spokesman, Nadeam Elshami.
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And who investigates Congress?
Because, imho, “their fingerprints” are all over this mess — Dodd, Franks, Pelosi, and Reid!
Bush doesn’t escape clean, but they did block him.
The SEC, FTC, FDIC, and the Justice Department could have “blown the whistle”.
There’s enough blame to go around, but Pelosi is seeking to once again divert attention from her own troubles and that of her fellow congress critters.
Throw them all out!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: FAA conceals bird strike data
Tuesday, April 28, 2009Monday, April 20, 2009
Hudson ditching survivor `shocked’ by FAA secrecy
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
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A survivor of the jetliner that ditched in the Hudson River after hitting birds and most other public commenters opposed a government proposal to make secret its data on when and where such bird strikes occur.
Public comments about the Federal Aviation Administration’s secrecy proposal ran 5-to-1 against it as the comment period closed Monday. One major group, which some had expected to support the rule, declined to take a position.
The primary trade group for U.S. airports, the Airports Council International-North America, told the FAA that its member airports were split on the issue so it “cannot take a position either supporting or opposing” the secrecy. But it urged the agency “to provide explanatory information to assist the public and media to use the data responsibly” if it decides against imposing secrecy.
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Who’s gooferment is it?
Aren’t they supposed to be protecting us?
Regulators and the regulated. Perfect together!
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TECHNOLOGY: The technology of voting; not paperless!
Monday, April 27, 2009http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/1418219&from=rss
Irish Reject E-Voting, Go Back To Paper
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 26, @12:07PM
from the progress-is-progress dept.
Government News
Death Metal tips news that the Irish government has announced their decision to abandon e-voting and return to a paper-based system. “Ireland has already put about $67 million into building out its e-voting infrastructure, but the country has apparently decided that it would be even more expensive to keep going with the system than it would be to just scrap it altogether.” John Gormley, Ireland’s Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, said, “It is clear from consideration of the Report of the Commission on Electronic Voting that significant additional costs would arise to advance electronic voting in Ireland. …the assurance of public confidence in the democratic system is of paramount importance and it is vital to bring clarity to the present situation.” He added that he still thinks there is a need for electoral reform.
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As some one who has some modest experience in computer security, this is a wise decision. The only process that I thought was worthwhile was to use technology to create the ballot that was “cast” by depositing the paper receipt in the ballot box. Those cash register receipts, with a crypto hash that can preserve the document’s integrity, would be available for recounts and verification.
Sorry, but anything less is unacceptable.
I laugh at the Minnesota debacle where they had more votes than voters and the courts say that’s ok. Makes banana republics look downright honest.
Argh!
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WRITING: What do you do when the secret police show up for you? (An index card novel)
Saturday, April 25, 2009It was increasingly hard to stay on the right side of the law. Red light cameras. Complex tax and financial rules in general (i.e., cash withdrawals are limited to one dollar per day). Forms arrive daily to be filled out for this and that. Travel permits are required to enter each “crime prevention zone”. Guns were a long ago memory. Knives were being collected now. Excessive food “hording” was also prohibited. Computers and the internet were carefully tracked. It was expensive to keep every bit or byte, but “Big Sister” did. “Free medical care” translated to crapy care for those that had jobs; rationing for the old, the sick, and the unemployed. Drugs, weapons, gold, and other contraband led to home searches. At the grocery store, “medicine” conflicted with liberty. Each individual had to shop for themselves. Your citizen id card allowed you certain things, but not others. Your calorie and mix was limited. One benefit of the grocery store was gossip. Person to person. Like prisoners in a jail. Rumors spread like wildfire. One was that after so many “cautions”, the family got a trip out of town. There was a lot of discussion of how many people had. Each week, when someone didn’t show up, their number was known. It appeared to be 21.
This wasn’t lost on the fat old man. When he got to 19, he figured his time was due. No family, no job, no real friends. He had nothing to lose. He remembered someone once said: “The most dangerous man in the world is the man who has nothing left to lose.” He went to his backyard and dug under a planter. It was hard work to go down three feet. He took the plastic tube and went to his garage. A hacksaw liberated the contents. One 1911 in a vacuum sealed bag. He worked the action. He went to his closet and sat down. Covered himself from the waist down with a blanket. And, said his Act of Contrition. Churches had long since been closed, but he remembered the prayers.
The Homeland Security Caution Collection Crew was led by a Sargent. He had a six man squad. The pulled up at the address list for the old man. They kicked in the door and spread out through out the house. “No one here, Sarge. He’s running.” “Why, there’s no where to go. Check under the beds and look everywhere.” With that Sarge opened the closet door. His face was blown away. Two more of them bought it before they killed the old man. They called for back up and the Lieutenant. The Lt promoted one of them and called for reinforcements. At HQ, the loss was reported. The General told the Colonel: “We need to recruit more loyal men for the CCC. I see a trend here.”
Will they run out of “loyal men” before we run out of “closet patriots”?
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INTERESTING: Abandoned homes in Detroit indict someone?
Tuesday, April 21, 2009http://www.100abandonedhouses.com
In Detroit!
Could it be the city government’s fault?
Nah!
Must be the greedy owners.
Argh!
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FUN: You May Be A Terrorist!
Monday, April 20, 2009
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RANT: “Plastic pitchforks”? DOn’t think so.
Thursday, April 16, 2009http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/04/astroturf-part-2.html
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Astroturf, Part 2
Hank Kalet
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Thomas Frank knows about Republicans and populism.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123975925509119297.html
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MY RESPONSE:
“Plastic pitchforks”?
I don’t think so. Admittedly I don’t know. It too could be another gigantic conspiracy.
But, I think not. For the first time in American history, the current generation in power is seeing — a lower standard of living for the next one, a dumbing down of “graduates”, and a net loss in their savings and earning power.
It makes me mad. It makes them mad. And, it scares the dickens out of everyone.
The political class, instead of providing leadership, has run around like chicken little spending money we don’t have to feather their own nests, reward their friends, and punish their enemies. Once again, the rich and powerful had their losses made good from the public treasury. Little people lost their 401ks and became the butt of late night comedian jokes about 201ks. At least, they noticed.
And don’t forget employment. We’ve gone from the 50’s America where it was possible for a high school student to earn a living wage on one salary to now, where to wage earners is barely enough to pay the taxes and stay solvent. Never mind live comfortably.
Astroturf?
I don’t think so.
And, it flows back into huge gooferments that suck up money like a vacuum cleaner. With bureaucrats that whine about 5 and 10% annual raises, lifetime health care, and artificially fattened pensions for their “lifetime” of “service”.
I think the “tea parties” are the undercurrent of political unrest that will make VietNam look like a walk in the park.
imho, but then I’m just one of those extremist vet that Nepaolitano and our version of the SS — Homeland Security — is watching out for. Got news for them, they could see a problem until it bites US in the A double Q!
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GUNS: Pelosi doesn’t like “guns”
Thursday, April 16, 2009Pelosi Calls For Gun Registration, Opposes D.C. Gun Reform Legislation
In February, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rightly rejected Attorney General Eric Holder’s call for renewing the so-called “assault weapons” ban, which expired in 2004 after Congress refused to renew it.
However, on Tuesday, on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Pelosi said, “we [members of Congress] have to find some level of compromise” on guns. She noted that the Supreme Court, in District of Columbia v. Heller, ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to guns. But, she said, “We want them registered.”
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Guess that the 3rd in line for the Presidency doesn’t understand the difference between a RIGHT and a privilege!
After “gun control” comes genocide.
… from my cold dead hands!
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RANT: Begala says paying taxes is patriotic
Wednesday, April 15, 2009http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/begala.taxes/index.html
Commentary: April 15 is patriots’ day
* Paul Begala: April 15 is one day most Americans sacrifice for government
* Begala says paying taxes to support worthy government services is patriotic
* “Tea parties” are being pushed by GOP supporters who lost election, Begala says
* He says President Obama and Congress have cut taxes for most
By Paul Begala
CNN Contributor
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(CNN) — Happy Patriots’ Day. April 15 is the one day a year when our country asks something of us — or at least the vast majority of us.
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This country has showered me with the blessings of liberty. So what do I owe my country in return? Paying my fair share of taxes, it seems, is the least I can do. Thanks to President Obama and the Democratic Congress, 95 percent of Americans will get a tax cut this year. No one — not even the wealthiest 1 percent — will have to pay higher income taxes until 2011.
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Please don’t make me laugh. Or, insult my intelligence!
As a vet, a voter, and a taxpayer, why don’t I feel “represented”. My congress critters and bureaucrats no more represent my thinking than the pirates in Somalia. Congress is bought and paid for by the special interests.
I am oppressed more than any serf in the middle ages. At least the feudal lord left them half.
It’s impossible to day to figure out how much of a serf I am. It feels close to 100%!
And, perhaps, Komrade Begala can explain to me how this obligation was created.
The State has no specific duty to protect me; yet, I have an obligation to pay taxes for protection I don’t receive. So, how does what some dead old white guys agreed to in a room more than 200 years ago bind me? Sorry, but I didn’t, don’t, and won’t agree with tyranny.
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MONEY: Pay your taxes, serf?
Wednesday, April 15, 2009http://www.impactlab.com/2009/03/27/watching-the-income-tax-system-implode/
March 27th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Watching The Income Tax System Implode
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Change does not happen because everyone gets together first and decides a change is going to happen. Momentum will build quickly around a single event or thought leader. When the general public senses that the end is near, an overwhelming flood of support will rapidly hasten its demise.
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I think it ends when the productive class decides to produce less. They pay less tax. And, the gooferment can’t find enough to tax.
The Chinese decide that 5T$ is too much. And, the world refuses to lend more to the American “banana republic government”.
The world decides that era of the American dollar as a reserve currency is over. And, the American Empire slides into the dustbin of history.
Tax revolt?
Even if we don’t have one here, the one overseas will be much worse.
See inflation is a tax on those foreigners holding dollars.
Gold anyone?
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MONEY: Health care a la WalMart
Wednesday, April 15, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026345.html
April 15, 2009
Thank Goodness for Wal-Mart
Posted by Lew Rockwell at April 15, 2009 12:35 PM
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I kept my COBRA going, but at $538/month, it became unsustainable. I let it lapse four months ago. Last month, I couldn’t refill my high-blood pressure medications and I took my last thyroid pill on Saturday. I didn’t know what I was to do. Kaiser wouldn’t even let me PAY for my medications as I wasn’t a member now.
I remembered Wal-Mart had these walk-in clinics. In desperation and fearing the worst, I went on Easter Sunday. The clinic was spotless, the doctor was a retired UCD Medical Center Professor who just wanted to keep his hand in and see patients, there wasn’t any wait, the cost was only $59, and my prescriptions were only $9 each for a 100 days supply. Total with Wal-Mart: $86. With my Kaiser, I would have paid a $25 copay for the doctor visit and three $25 copays for each medication. Total with Kaiser: $100, but AFTER I paid $538/month to remain a member. Before Wal-Mart, my blood pressure was 123/186, today it is back down to 84/124.
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Great lesson to the “universal health care” advocates!
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