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EDITORIAL: We can't afford this government Costs of bureaucracy spread like a deadly virus
Post Date: 2010-08-20 11:23:46 by Horse
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Whether by design or incompetence, the Cloward-Piven Strategy lives. Named after two leftist professors at Columbia University, the scheme calls for overwhelming government obligations to the point of collapse, therefore providing an excuse for a radical government takeover of the whole economy. Three news stories yesterday show the Cloward-Piven day of reckoning is creeping perilously closer. First came word that new jobless claims last week jumped above half a million, a number so large that one economist said "it looks like the economy ran into a wall." Second came a Congressional Budget Office estimate that this year's federal deficit will be well above $1.3 trillion for ...
Canadian pot growers used black bears to guard operation
Post Date: 2010-08-19 22:11:15 by tom007
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Canadian pot growers used black bears to guard operation By Agence France-Presse Thursday, August 19th, 2010 -- 8:21 pm submit to reddit Stumble This! 99Share 5diggsdigg blackbear Canadian pot growers used black bears to guard operationPolice said Wednesday they were astonished to find at least 14 wild black bears guarding an illegal marijuana growing operation after a recent raid on the property in westernmost Canada. http://>www.rawstory.com/images/new/blackbear.jpg"> Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Fred Mansveld said police believe two growers arrested in the raid had used dog food to lure the animals onto the remote property in southeastern British Columbia, to ...
America Has Disgraced Itself
Post Date: 2010-08-17 20:32:08 by tom007
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America Has Disgraced Itself by Peter Beinart Info Peter Beinart Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, is now available from HarperCollins. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. X Close Peter Beinart * - + * Single Page * print * Twitter * Emails Enter your email address: Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Message: Your email has been sent. Thanks for recommending The Daily Beast! X Close * Share * Enter your email address: ...
Freedom and Illusion
Post Date: 2010-08-17 10:21:19 by christine
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When I was a kid long, long ago, before time began, or anyone had thought of why time ought to begin, or what it might be good for, I lived in rural King George County, Virginia. The county bordered on the Potomac River and was mostly woods. Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground, on which my family lived, sloped down to Machodoc Creek, perhaps three-quarters of a mile wide. Things were looser then. When I wanted to go shooting, I put my rifle, a nice .22 Marlin with a ten-power Weaver, on my shoulder and walked out the main gate. At the country store outside the gate I’d buy a couple of boxes of long rifles, no questions asked, and away my co-conspirator Rusty and I went to some field or ...
A Nation That Spends More Money on War Than Life is Approaching Spiritual Death
Post Date: 2010-08-17 09:13:47 by tom007
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A Nation That Spends More Money on War Than Life is Approaching Spiritual Death 26Share Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 2:21pm. * Guest Commentary LAWRENCE S. WITTNER FOR BUZZFLASH The August 9 announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates of cost-containment measures at the Defense Department should not obscure two underlying facts. First, as he conceded, these proposed economies will not result in cutting the overall Pentagon budget, which is slated for expansion. And, second, as a Washington Post article reported, "defense officials characterized them as a political preemptive strike to fend off growing sentiment elsewhere in Washington to tackle the federal ...
OUR OWN GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME OUR ENEMY
Post Date: 2010-08-15 20:38:30 by christine
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"Our own government has become our enemy." So said Pinal County (Arizona) Sheriff Paul Babeu. "Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel. "'What's very troubling is the fact that at a time when we in law enforcement and our state need help from the federal government, instead of sending help they put up billboard-size signs warning our citizens to stay out of the desert in my county because of dangerous drug and human smuggling and weapons and bandits and all these other ...
Wikileaks Who's Hiding What and Why
Post Date: 2010-08-13 14:42:13 by Original_Intent
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* Wikileaks Who's Hiding What and Why July 30, 2010 Two ways exist of looking at Wikileaks, the site that publicizes secret military documents and videos. The first is held self-interestedly by the Pentagon and by Fox News, the voice of an angry lower-middle class without too much education. These believe that Wikileakers are traitors, haters of America, who give aid and comfort to the enemy and endanger the lives of Our Boys. Implicit in the Foxian view is a vague idea that the leaks give away important—well, stuff. You know, maybe frequencies of something or other, or locations of ambushes or, well, things. Important things. The Taliban will use this information to kill ...
Two Cheers For American Tolerance
Post Date: 2010-08-13 11:01:16 by tom007
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Two Cheers For American Tolerance Shikha Dalmia, 08.12.10, 02:25 PM EDT The mosque controversy shows that America manages its hatreds better than any other country. pic Sarah Palin has not only revealed herself to be linguistically challenged in "refudiating" the proposed "mosque" near Ground Zero, but also emotionally overwrought. "It stabs hearts," she tweeted to her fellow mosque-bashers. But Palin notwithstanding, the way this country has comported itself during this controversy represents a damn fine moment for humanity. As a naturalized American, let me just say that if every country handled its hatreds as well as this one, this world wouldn't be a ...
Poll: Twenty years old and raised in America- should they be deported for their parents crimes?
Post Date: 2010-08-12 22:42:28 by Artisan
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if a young adult has been raised in America since a young child of say four years old, when their parents snuck into the u.s., would you advocate this person be deported? even if they have never been to mexico & don't speak spanish?
Nugent: It Is Us
Post Date: 2010-08-11 00:47:04 by X-15
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Barack Hussein Obama did not sneak into power. An army of clueless, disconnected, ignorant Americans invited him to bring his Marxist, glaringly anti-American jihad into our lives. This president's overtly destructive, clear-and-present-danger agenda is surpassed in transparency only by his ultra-leftist public voting record and overall lifetime conduct of consorting with the enemy as a child and student of Marxism, socialist and racist community organizer, congregant of the blatant America-hating black-theology- and social-justice-spewing Rev. Jeremiah Wright and close personal friend of convicted communist terrorists like Bill Ayers, and by his unflinching appointment of an array of ...
Reagan insider: 'GOP destroyed U.S. economy'Reagan insider: 'GOP destroyed U.S. economy'
Post Date: 2010-08-10 20:26:51 by HOUNDDAWG
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Commentary: How: Gold. Tax cuts. Debts. Wars. Fat Cats. Class gap. No fiscal discipline By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- "How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse." Get it? Not "destroying." The GOP has already "destroyed" the U.S. economy, setting up an "American Apocalypse." Jobs recovery could take years In the wake of Friday's disappointing jobs report, Neal Lipschutz and Phil Izzo discuss ...
Former Sen. Stevens killed in crash near Dillingham [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-10 16:43:51 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Former Sen. Stevens killed in crash near Dillingham ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Mitch Rose, spokesperson for the Stevens family, has confirmed that Sen. Ted Stevens was killed in a plane crash near Dillingham Monday night. Nine people were on board, including former NASA Chief Sean O'Keefe. Five people were killed in the crash, but other identities were not known. GCI released a statement Tuesday morning that confirmed it owned the plane that went down. A spokesperson with Kanakanak Hospital in Dillingham says two patients were taken to their hospital from the crash site and arrived at 9:45 a.m. Two patients were taken directly from the crash site to the Dillingham airport where a C-130 ...
Matt Simmons Dead- Oil Man Who Predicted the End of Oil What's Your Reaction:
Post Date: 2010-08-09 11:41:16 by tom007
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Your request is being processed... Jack Hidary Jack Hidary Entrepreneur Posted: August 9, 2010 11:19 AM BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Bloggers' Index Matt Simmons Dead- Oil Man Who Predicted the End of Oil What's Your Reaction: digg facebook Twitter stumble reddit del.ico.us Inspiring Enlightening Infuriating Scary Helpful Amazing Innovative Adorable Read More: Matt Simmons , Matthew Simmons , Oil , Peak Oil , Twilight In The Desert , Green News 1 0views Get Green Alerts * Email * Comments Matt Simmons passed away today from a heart attack. Matt was the founder of Simmons and Company - on of the leading energy investment banks in the world. Based in Houston, he was a ...
Rosie O'Donnell, Queen of the Bull Die-Guls says Gays Treated Like Holocaust in America (my title)
Post Date: 2010-08-08 17:54:32 by James Deffenbach
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In yet one more example among thousands, we see why loud-mouth, extreme left-wing talker Rosie O’Donnell is wholly unworthy of a national forum. In a recent segment of her satellite radio show Rosie Radio, O’Donnell idiotically claimed that gays were being “rounded up” in America so that a “pink triangle” could be slapped on them just like they were during the Holocaust. But just as obscenely, O’Donnell admitted that her marriage to Kelly Carpenter was only a political statement, one of “civil disobedience,” instead of a marriage of love proving that the whole issue of “gay marriage” has nothing at all to do with rights or ...
Hillary Clinton texts a $10 donation to Pakistan flood relief
Post Date: 2010-08-08 11:20:37 by James Deffenbach
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Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton texted a $10 donation to flood relief efforts in Pakistan on Wednesday, saying she is leading by example and pressing Americans to donate money. “I just texted a contribution myself, because we know from our own experience, particularly in Haiti, small donations can add up to make a big difference,” Clinton told reporters. “Americans have always shown great generosity to people facing crises worldwide. So I urge Americans to join this effort and send some much-needed help to the people of Pakistan.” Clinton urged people to text the word “SWAT” to the number 50555, and reply ...
Empty Store Shelves Coming to America
Post Date: 2010-08-07 03:03:31 by wakeup
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Poster Comment:Everyone here has six months of water and food, right?
A Grand Unified Theory of PalinismsWhy Sarah Palin says all those stupid and ridiculous things.
Post Date: 2010-08-06 11:06:34 by tom007
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A Grand Unified Theory of PalinismsWhy Sarah Palin says all those stupid and ridiculous things. By Jacob WeisbergPosted Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, at 10:27 AM ET
Palinisms book cover.So far as I can tell, Sarah Palin has four core beliefs: Print This ArticlePRINTDiscuss in the FrayDISCUSSEmail to a FriendE-MAILGet Slate RSS FeedsRSSShare This ArticleRECOMMEND...Single PageSINGLE PAGE Yahoo! Buzz Facebook FacebookDigg DiggReddit RedditStumble UponStumbleUponCLOSE
1. Things go better with God. 2. Yay, Alaska! 3. Let's drill that sucker. 4. Curse you, political establishment.
Palinisms occur when Palin expresses one of these views in her idiosyncratically involuted syntax ("It is from ...
It’s a Fee-for-All as Credit Card Companies Innovate
Post Date: 2010-08-06 09:55:06 by tom007
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Alt Text: It’s a Fee-for-All as Credit Card Companies Innovate * By Lore Sjöberg Email Author * August 5, 2010 | * 7:00 pm | * Categories: Current Affairs * In the wake of recently enacted legislation limiting how much credit card issuers can charge and for what, banks are cooking up innovative fees and fines — and new ways of implementing them. bug_altextThe new limitations that spurred this cash-reaping renaissance are, for the most part, reasonable. For instance, one states that consumers paying more than 19 percent interest on more than $20,000 debt racked up during online shopping sprees must be given a barrel with comically large suspenders attached. Nevertheless, ...
John McCain – A Closer Look at Evil (Part 8)
Post Date: 2010-08-06 09:07:18 by tom007
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John McCain – A Closer Look at Evil (Part 8) August 5, 2010 posted by Jeff Gates · 8 Comments Share Sen. John McCain: Corrupt to the bone You can tell a lot about a Senator by how he treats his staff. McCain is a serial abuser. During my seven years as counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, I heard lots of scuttlebutt about how staffers are treated. I had no direct contact with McCain until June 2010 at a Town Hall meeting in Tempe for us constituents. His office was here in 1982 when organized crime first put him in Congress. He moved to the Senate in 1987, just as I was leaving. I know his type by the consistency of his conduct. Though he’s clearly abusive ...
Beware Rich Political Saviors
Post Date: 2010-08-05 10:54:49 by statusquobuster
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Consumer confidence is terrible; citizen confidence is worse: Only 11 percent of Americans have confidence in Congress. No surprise there is record-setting anti-incumbency anger rampant among Americans. But the sad truth is damned if you do and damned if you don’t vote for incumbents. The problem is that the reformers, populist outsiders, tea party candidates, surprise primary winners and others expecting to oust incumbents in the coming mid-term elections for members of Congress and state governors and other officials mostly suck. Why? They are nutty, ignorant, dishonest or racist. Pathetic US Senate candidates like Alvin Greene on the left in South Carolina and Sharron Angle on the ...
Understanding the Muslim world
Post Date: 2010-08-05 09:08:07 by tom007
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Understanding the Muslim world By Mark LeVine A new generation of scholars from the Muslim world are advancing a better understanding of the key issues that shape the region [EPA] What does it say about the chances for American success in Afghanistan and the larger global 'war on terror' - which despite the Obama administration's official name change to "Overseas Contingency Operations" remains deliberately far removed from any contingency that might hasten its end - that the wives of the military's most senior commanders better comprehend the reasons for the continued difficulty in pacifying the country than do their husbands? The military wives, it seems, have ...
'Borrowed prosperity on an epic scale'
Post Date: 2010-08-04 10:09:42 by tom007
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Home » Blogs » Business 'Borrowed prosperity on an epic scale' By Teymoor Nabili in * Business on August 3rd, 2010 . Share Photo by AFP With banks on the mend and stocks in London and New York bouncing, could the global economic recovery be in full flow? Banks on the mend, stocks in London and New York bouncing... looks like the recovery is in full flow, right? For David Stockman, a director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, all this apparent recovery is a myth built on borrowed money, and he's having none of it: The day of national reckoning has arrived. We will not have a conventional business recovery now, but rather a ...
What we need is more "Diversity"
Post Date: 2010-08-04 00:26:25 by X-15
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Maybe you can help me out here. Maybe you can help me to see and understand the logic – the wisdom – of encouraging ever more racial diversity and multiculturalism in the once-White neighborhoods and towns of America. You know – the ever-increasing pressure to bring even more blacks and mestizos into all of our majority-White neighborhoods, workplaces, entertainment and advertising, and social settings. Even the extremely irresponsible and anti-White practice of bringing groups of Nigerians and Somalians here from Africa and helping them settle in our towns. And working toward amnesty (a “path to citizenship”) for the mestizo hordes of so-called “undocumented ...
Is Profiling Racist?
Post Date: 2010-08-03 17:30:26 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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We live in a world of imperfect and costly information, and people seek to economize on information costs in a variety of ways. If we don't take that fact into account, we risk misidentifying and confusing one type of human behavior with another. Let's look at it. Pima Indians of Arizona have the world's highest diabetes rates. With knowledge that his patient is a Pima Indian, it would probably be a best practice for a physician to order more thorough blood glucose tests to screen for diabetes. Prostate cancer is nearly twice as common among black men as white men. It would also be a best practice for a physician to be attentive to – even risk false positive PSAs – ...
Really Cool Pix of BP's Well
Post Date: 2010-08-03 17:15:54 by tom007
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http://www.theoildrum.com/ This site has the best energy discussion I have found. Recommended.
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