Drudge is reporting 62M votes of O and 55M votes for McC. That’s 117M votes in a country of 300M? A third in what’s widely touted as the best turn out ever.
Do we have the beginnings of a revolt?
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POLITICAL: Record turnout?
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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POLITICAL: Are elections important where there is no choice?
Monday, November 3, 2008http://www.lifetrekcoaching.com/current/
PROVISION #589 (11/02/08): ELECTION ENERGY
>You’re also participating in that great movement called democracy. The opposite of democratic
>is not republican; the opposite of democratic is aristocratic. “Democratic” means rule of the
> people, the “demos” in Greek, while “aristocratic” means rule of the best, the “aristos”.
You have got to be kidding. This is a joke. Right? You can’t be serious. This is what the Founding Fathers feared most; the inflamed passions of the mob.
Sorry, given today’s education system, which is right out of the Socialist Horace Mann’s playbook, we have functionally illiterate people picking based on TV. I’ve got more respect for “Dancing with the Stars” election process than I do “the gooferment’s one”. (Have you seen the mechanics of voting?) Mann wanted an education system to create good factory workers and soldiers for the army. People who were easily lead by the elite.
See any elite in this election?
I sure do!
Sarah is the only wild card in the deck. And, at least she has some demonstrated executive ability. She is probably the most qualified of all of them. At least she hasn’t been in Washington DC at all.
No, this isn’t about an Athenian democracy. Or Plato’s “Republic”. This is about “manipulation”. Yes, you did see raw intelligent passion as folks came out for Ron Paul. There was a TRUE choice. A completely different path! Hopeless; throwing themselves against the entrenched elites of the Republican Party. Mao said “All power comes from the end of a gun”. He was dead on.
We have an American because some Dead Old White Guys stood up to the entrached power elite and said “hell, no!” and were willing to die for their liberty. We’ve seen from time to time that fighting spirit come out — the Second American Revolution aka the War of Norther Aggression aka the Civil War (there’s a misnomer).
The elite allows “elections” on the hope that the sheeple will carry on the illusion of “their government”. In fact, it is a fraud. Your friend was absolutely right there’s no difference between the two “parties”. In the election that you abhor the Supreme Court deciding, there was only two choices the Harvard guy with the blue tie and the Harvard guy with the red tie. They are so much alike I can even remember who wore what!
No, the whole thing is a farce! Except at the end of it, the gooferment kills. It kills with its diversion of our attention to REAL problems. To the real loss of liberty here at home and abroad. Eventually, the chickens do come home to roost.
At some point in time, the oppressed decide that they are tired of “the shit end of the stick”. They look at their lot in life and make a decision to say “enuf”! If we are lucky, it’s relatively peaceful like Ghandi, the Polish Soladarity, or the Russian Communism collapse. If we are not, it’s bloody like the French Revolution, Mao taking China Communicst, North Korea, Nazi Germany.
I fear we are merely traveling the road that ends in disaster. Election, or not. When you have Socialism, whether it be from a Democrat or a Republican, that takes an ever increasing percentage of wealth and earnings, while one’s accumulated wealth is inflated away, you have the focus point of revolution. At some point, even American’s will say “enuf”?
Can’t tell you at what point exactly that is. When the taxes so much, that survival is in doubt? When a life’s savings are stolen? When the insame gooferment diktats about drugs have half the people in prison? When the unemployment is 50%? When the dollar ceases to be the reserve currency and we have a Zimbabwe inflation? When Hispanics become the dominent race here in America? If Obama loses and half the people think the other half are racists? If McCain loses and half the people think the other half are Marxist Communist Socialists?
Eventually, all gooferments get around to killing their citizens. Like the JPFO says: “Frist comes disarmament; then genocide.” We will have a “vote” then. I pray it’s Ghandi-like. But, I’m not so sure of that. I do know that “cold dead hands” will decide the issue eventually. Not ballots.
Peace,
fjohn
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RANT: LICENSE, lisence, … we don’t need no sinkin licenses!
Saturday, October 18, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/joe-the-outlaw.html
Joe the Outlaw by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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But the New York Times did some digging and discovered – horror – that Joe is doing plumbing without a proper business license. How dare he call himself a plumber! A license is required by Toledo, not just one license for a partnership but for everyone who is called a plumber. Joe has not taken the training courses, is not a member of the union, and cannot legally call himself a plumber.
The press reports on this were explosive, with reporters speaking as if they had caught this guy red-handed and completely discredited him. But what about the complete absurdity of the idea that you have to have a license in order to have the right to fix someone else’s sink? This is Soviet like, but deeply entrenched in American professional life.
The idea of licensing is that it assures quality standards. But this is just a cover used by guilds since the Middle Ages. The real goal of licensing is to create a professional cartel. Fewer providers means higher wages for those with licenses. It is all about boosting income by restricting competition. This is of course a violation of human rights because it impinges on the fundamental freedom of association.
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Lew got this online before I could, And, of course, did it much better than I could. But, this is what I first thought when the press ‘discovered’ the outlaw.
A more important scandal would have been if they could have found an unhappy customer of Joe’s. That would have been a scoop.
Since it’s a successful plumbing business, I’m reasonably sure they would find one. (Well, there’s always one.)
Funny, how the ‘bad’ plumbers always seem to have licenses?
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POLITICAL: Time to take on gooferment pensions?
Friday, October 17, 2008Especially here in New Jersey, it appears to be time to take on the issue of “Government Pensions”. Pity the poor taxpayer, they may not have a pension, but the politicians and bureaucrat certainly have the best possible pensions at our collective expense.
First, the politicians and bureaucrats work the system to maximize the amount they steal. Pure and simple, it’s theft. We have trial going on of a NJ Political Powerbroker Legislator where he collected ‘no show’ jobs to pad his pension. Of course, the pension administrators say basically “nothing wrong with that!” What a fraud on the people.
Take note that gooferment pensions allow “retirement” after 20 or 30 years; as opposed to the 30-40 years one USED to find in private industry.
I have to laugh because: (1) Not only had NJ not made its proper contribution in many years. (Wonder why the Feds haven’t brought it before a Grand Jury? If a private business did this, the executives would be in jail. Guess the big gang in dc has a reciprocity agreement with the gang in Trenton?) (2) The Guv has decided to “raid” the pensions to “invest” in community banks. (This was humorous because whoever had the “fiduciary” duty to manage these funds was screwed. They should be worried only about protecting the pensioners; not making the Guv look good!)
There is no guaranty that these gooferment pensions won’t be “reformed” in the future.
The gooferment made the assertion that to compete for the talent in the marketplace they needed to offer pensions. Now that industry has left pensions for other programs, they don’t want to follow that trend.
We need to force the gooferment to convert pensions to 401k!
Period!!
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MONEY: “Silent” Bank Run
Thursday, October 2, 2008http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/226799.html
Wachovia faced a ‘silent’ bank run; FDIC forced sale
Fearing a loss of funding over the weekend, the FDIC forced the sale.
By Rick Rothacker and Kerry Hall
CharlotteObserver.com Business
Posted: Thursday, Oct. 02, 2008
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Starting Friday morning, Evans said, businesses and institutions with large accounts started withdrawing money to lower their balances to below the federally insured $100,000 limit. They weren’t closing accounts, he said, adding “they were very apologetic in saying they love the service they get from Wachovia and they weren’t leaving Wachovia. They were just moving their money until things settled down.”
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Clearly, for us little guys, you should never have anything close to the FDIC limit.
Even with that, you can’t have all your eggs in one basket.
Paper money is just that paper money. When panics start, they develop a life of their own. Clearly, depending upon one bank is absurd. Even if FDIC comes in and saves “your bank”, I can only imagine the ‘fun’ while things, like deck chairs, get rearranged.
It would seem that us little guys need several banks or credit unions pre-set up and funded, ready to go at a moments notice.
I’d go so far as to suggest that FOUR might not be excessive. With web bill pay, printed checks, and direct deposit all energized ready to go.
Fore warned is Fore armed. “Be prepared” It ain’t just for Boy Scouts.
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POLITICS: Debate reaction. Who cares what big gooferment wants!
Saturday, September 27, 2008I too listened to the debate. Who cares! Both are big gooferment interventionists. Neither understand that the ‘crisis’ is created by the gooferment — both sides have their hands int he mess up to their elbows. The D’s created Fannie and Freddie; they tax and spend. The R’s are not much better — they promised smaller and delivered bigger; they borrow and spend. Neither of them nderstand the problem starts with gooferment and ends there. The gooferment creates the problem and then rescues us from it. A plague on both their houses.
Only freedom and liberty can prevail in the long run. Force begets force. If I can’t convince you that something is a good idea, then maybe it isn’t. I have to be humble enough to accept that.
I won’t, can’t, force you to do what you don’t wnat to do. I’d like you to do the same for me. So take your government off my neck, please!
I don’t want to buy 80% of AIG. I’d like my tax money that was stolen back. I don’t want to pay for all the things you think are “good for me”. Let me keep my money and spend it on what I think is good for me. If I make mistakes, so be it. They are MY mistakes. Please don’t inflict YOUR mistakes on me.
Take a look at the little flash movie at http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf becasue it says it better than I can.
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