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FAT KIDS CHANGE THE POVERTY ARGUMENT TO INCOME INEQUALITY

Posted on January 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

We are in a bit of a flippant mood this morning so take this post with a grain of salt.  To say “take it with a grain of salt” is an old expression meaning [wikipedia data unavailable pending new law (WDUPNL)].  The expression originated when [WDUPNL].

According to a radio report, 35% of Americans are fat enough to be declared obese.  To understand the significance of any study like that , it helps to know something about the organization that conducted it.  What we found is [WDUPNL].

Okay, we don’t need Wikipedia to make our point.  The old argument from the left that heartless Republicans were responsible for a nation full of starving kids has lost its punch.  It loses its credibility when you are surrounded with all those roly pollies.  Drop the starving kids.  Go to income inequality.

Income inequality has been the theme of socialist causes down through the ages.  To substantiate that assertion we refer you to [WDUDPNL].

The obesity study is real.  So is the unavailability of the world’s best known reference source, Wikipedia.  The Wiki shutdown is a one day self-imposed action by the online encyclopedia in protest to two bills in Congress that would regulate internet content.  The bills are intended to stop piracy of intellectual property like music and video (movies).  To that extent the intent is good.  But we take the stated intent with another one of those grains of salt.  And as far as unintended consequences go, we know that is one of those things Congress does very well.  Dare we call it soft censorship?

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VOTER FRAUD AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Posted on January 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

O’Keefe does it again!  You remember him.  It was O’Keefe who exposed ACORN by going into several offices with a concealed movie camera seeking advice on how to avoid the law when engaging in illegal activity.  Although manipulation of the election process was a primary tactic of the leading federation of community organizers known as ACORN, voter fraud was not the focus of O’Keefe’s expose.

This time O’Keefe is exposing the issue of voter fraud more directly by showing how easily it can be conducted, one could almost say encouraged.  O’Keefe’s group combed New Hampshire newspaper obituary pages and gathered the names of the deceased.  When they showed up at the polls they had no problem getting ballots to cast votes in the name of the dead.  No voter ID was required.  In fact ID was declined even when it was offered.

Now that’s not voter fraud, but does anyone really believe political groups are so honest voter fraud will not occur even when voting systems actually facilitate it?

There is no justifiable reason to oppose verification of eligibility to vote in order to cast a vote, none whatsoever.  There is however, a reason.  The reason is the belief that your party will benefit more from voter fraud than will the opposition party.  An even stronger reason would be to take advantage of the opportunity for voter fraud as a tactic in your strategy for winning an election.  The harder the fight against voter identification, the more one is inclined to think the reason is the latter, not the former.

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MSNBC SUSPENDS PAT BUCHANAN INDEFINETLY FOR TELLING THE TRUTH

Posted on January 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

Suicide of a Superpower, will America survive to 2025 is the name of Pat Buchanan’s latest book. 

“Our government is engaged in the manic pursuit of equality of rewards, as it seeks to erect an egalitarian utopia that has never before existed.  Less and less do we Americans have in common.  More and more do we fight over religion, morality, politics, history, and heroes. And as our nation disintegrates, our government is failing in its fundamental duties, unable to defend our borders, balance our budgets, or win our wars.”

Truths like that are too inconvenient for MSNBC to tolerate.

MSNBC president Phil Griffin said that Mr. Buchanan argues in his book that the “European and Christian core of our country is shrinking,” which is damaging the nation “ethnically, culturally, morally, politically.”  The book also contains a chapter titled, “The End of White America.”  Mr. Griffin said these ideas aren’t really appropriate for national dialogue, much less the dialogue on MSNBC.

Griffin is right about one thing.  MSNBC is not a place of open dialogue.  Pat Buchanan is a misfit in a network that features Chris Matthews and Ed Schulz in prime time.  However, Buchanan’s ideas are not just appropriate for national dialogue, they are precisely the concepts we should be discussing.

Is Buchanan right?  Is he wrong?  We would never know if Griffin and his book burners controlled the day.  Thank God, they don’t.

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OBAMA TO LAY OFF 500,000 FROM THE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL

Posted on January 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

The only part of the federal government the President does not want to expand is ?… the military of course.  At the moment the United States is not under attack, but there goes our life insurance.

Some of us are informed enough to know the role the United States played in Europe in World Wars I and II.  Some may even know about the gift the nation of France gave us as the great bastion of freedom.  It’s called the Statue of Liberty.  How many today know the story of the Berlin Airlift or care about the speed with which the U.S. military reaches the world’s biggest natural disaster sites with aid?  Who gives us credit for the Marshall Plan by which we helped restore the lands of those who waged war on us?

Millions of North Koreans live in misery and without the freedom to move around at will, even within their own country.  Meanwhile, South Korea remains free and prosperous thanks to the American armed forces.  It’s a safe bet that the Soviet Union would have taken freedom away from even more people had it not been for the presence of America’s defenders of freedom. No one knows what wars did not start because of our strength and humanitarian resolve. This is just a sampling of many cases where the power and might of the U.S. has been a force for good.  Our president sees none of them.  He sees only our mistakes.

Our president does not believe in America the Good, BBHO.  In the words of Pamela Geller, Barack Hussein Obama is the First Post-American President.

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OBAMA’S ACT OF DICTATORSHIP

Posted on January 5, 2012 | Leave a comment

In brazen defiance of law, President Obama has made four controversial appointments to public office without the approval of Congress as is required by the Constitution.

John Boehner described the president’s move as “an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama that defies centuries of practice and the legal advice of his own Justice Department.”  The Speaker is a public figure and must be diplomatic when making public statements.  We are not inhibited by any such restrictions so we call it for what it is, a defiant act of dictatorship. Barack Obama’s action in this instance is consistent with that of a neo-totalitarian government, not a democracy.

John Hinderaker, a lawyer and one of the founders of the Power Line blog has provided excellent coverage on this important issue.  You can read about it there.  There is no limit to where this president may take the country if he is not stopped.

 

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DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE

Posted on December 26, 2011 | 1 comment

We have occasionally made reference to Orwell’s ‘Memory Hole’ down which the Ministry of Truth dumped everything The Party did not want ever to have existed.  It was the duty of the Thought Police to enforce The Party Policy that once something was thrown down the Memory Hole it was never to be thought of as truth again.

When Orwell wrote “1984” he wrote fiction,…or did he?

Obama administration pulls references to Islam from terror training materials, official says

In a … Los Angeles Times op-ed, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) president Salam al-Marayati threatened the FBI with a total cutoff of cooperation between American Muslims and law enforcement if the agency failed to revise its law enforcement training materials.

Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday that the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.

“I recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security,” Cole told a panel at the George Washington University law school.

It is not just the water temperature in your shower that The Party wants to control.  It’s also your very thoughts.

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JIMMY CARTER – JOKE OF THE WEEK

Posted on December 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

North Korea is routinely labeled as one of the world’s most oppressive governments under an eccentric personality cult surrounding the Kim family. Harrowing reports from defectors describe North Korea as a dirt-poor nation filled with concentration camps and Communist propaganda. Kim Jong-il ran the reclusive country according to a “military first” policy since the mid-1990s, after a famine that may have killed as many as 2 million people.   The Washington Times

And of course we needn’t remind you of Kim Jong-il’s nuclear missile threats against the United States.  North Korea made the effort, they just didn’t have any success.

Now, along comes Jimmy Carter to wish them success.

Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a message of condolence over the death of Kim Jong-il and wished “every success” to the man expected to take over as dictator, according to the communist country’s state-run news agency.  The Washington Times

Republicans have had their embarrassments as well, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, to name just two.  The worst among the lot were dishonest, others corrupt and still others made some pretty bad decisions. The same thing could be said the string of Democratic presidents.  Which party has given us the best and the worst is a subject for legitimate debate.  But only two presidents have shown the world their animosity toward the country they came to lead.  At least we can be thankful that one of them is out of office.

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AN INSPIRING STORY INDEED

Posted on December 18, 2011 | 2 comments

Cody Jackson is a man who is moved by a conviction, filled with appreciation and set with the determination to show gratitude for others, others who have given greatly of themselves for their fellow countrymen like Cody, a man at the age of 8.

Standing in stark contrast to young Cody, I recall a recent man-in-the-street interview.  The interviewer holding a microphone  stopped a youth who appeared to be 18 or 20 years of age and asked the Jack Kennedy question, “What would you like to do for your country”? The young man was taken aback by the very question.  He replied, “Why should I do anything for my country? My country has never done anything for me”.

We do have these dolts, these slackers among us but we also have many like Cody.  God bless the Cody Jacksons.  It is in the youth with this spirit that lies the hope for the continued greatness that is America.

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RANDOM THOTS ABOUT OBAMA, HOLDER AND PELOSI

Posted on December 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

A man of the people or a member of the 1% ?
Barack Obama took 11 days in August to vacation on the exclusive island of Martha’s Vineyard.  Now the President has planned another 17 day vacation in Hawaii.  Rounding it out, that’s about one month of vacation out of the last 6 months in office.  Mrs. Crosby once said of her husband, “Bing  was a golfer who sometimes sang for a living”.  Dare we say, our President is a tourist who sometimes gives campaign speeches for a living?

Speaking of speeches
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently went to the LBJ library to give a speech denouncing Texas law that requires voters to present a photo ID before entering a voting booth.  Holder argued that requiring an ID for voting was somehow discriminatory.

Those who came to hear him speak were required to show photo ID cards to enter the library and hear Holder speak.

Pelosi-speak
Apparently sober, but stumbling a bit nonetheless, Nancy Pelosi, formerly third in line for the Presidency explained how helping people stay on unemployment creates jobs.  “…extending the incr…cut and extending unemployment insurance is not only good for individuals, um it also has a macroeconomic impact, uh macroeconomic advisers have advised it will make a difference of 600,000 jobs”, she said.  One would have thought it would be microeconomic advisers who would come up with a number like that.  Perhaps it was just an estimate.  Video.

The former Speaker of the House did not explain why there was a need to say what was in this particular bill before passing it into law.

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STRAITS OF HORMUZ THREATENED WITH CLOSURE — GLOBAL ECONOMY AT PERIL

Posted on December 13, 2011 | Leave a comment

Iran has announced military maneuvers in preparation for a possible closing the Straits of Hormuz.  One third of the world’s supply of crude oil delivered by sea must go through this narrow passage between Iran and The United Arab Republics, at the base of the Persian Gulf, before the ships can reach the open waters of the Arabian Sea.

The crippling effect of a disruption in shipments lasting more than 60 days could rival that of the oil embargo in 1973.  That embargo set up the serious recession of 1974.  Long lines formed at gas stations when they had a delivery as the fuel quickly sold out.  It was difficult to find any station at all that was open on a weekend.  Iran knows the value of a threat, particularly in light of the present fragility of the international economy.  What we have here is a prime example of why stability in the Mid-East is so vital.

Not to worry.  It’s only a threat, and I’m sure our President will ask Iran not to do it.

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