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6/1/2012 7:15:39 PM Thanks J P! |
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6/5/2012 2:34:49 PM Subject: Occupy Wall Street A great article. One of the most intellectual human beings in this country, hits it right on the head ! ! ! Description: Description: [] Occupy Wall Street by Thomas Sowell By Dr. Thomas Sowell The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama's America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly. It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare and of murder are all promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American civil society. It is an America where humans have been degraded to the level of animals: of defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid of basic hygiene. It is an America where the basic tenets of a civil society, including faith, family, a free press and individual rights, have been always rejected. It is an America where our founding documents have been now shredded and, with them, every person's guaranteed liberties. It is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come to the American people, but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, liberal college professors, union bosses and all other loyal liberal/Communist Party members will live in opulent splendor. It is the America that Obama and the Democrat Party have now created with all the willing assistance of the American media, Hollywood, unions, universities, the Communist Party of America, the Black Panthers and numerous anti-American foreign entities. Barack Obama has brought more destruction upon this country in 3 years than any other event in the history of our nation, but it is just the beginning of what he and his comrades are capable of. The Occupy Wall Street movement is just another step in their plan for the annihilation of America. "Socialism, in general, has a record of failure that's so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." Dr. Thomas Sowell (A National Humanities Medal Winner) The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are out numbered by the people that vote for a living. |
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| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #106610 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
6/12/2012 12:28:05 AM Babbler Barack Tells It Like It Isn’t By Robert Ringer - Friday, May 25, 2012 I keep thinking that Babbler Barack can’t outdo his last performance, but just about every day he manages to prove me wrong. In a press conference this week, in talking about private equity firms like Bain Capital, he said: But understand that their priority is to maximize profits. And that’s not always going to be good for communities or businesses or workers. And when you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everyone in the country has a fair shot. Your job is to think about those workers who get laid off and how are we paying for their retraining. Your job is to think about how those communities can start creating new clusters so they can attract new businesses. Your job as president is to think about how do we set up an equitable tax system so that everybody is paying their fair share that allows us then to invest in science and technology and infrastructure, all of which will help us grow. And so, if your main argument for how to grow the economy is, ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors, then you’re missing what this job is about.’ Yes, it was all spoken with a straight face. Now, let’s do a bit of dissection on the Babbler’s words. Obama: “But understand that their priority is to maximize profits. And that’s not always going to be good for communities or businesses or workers.” Dissection … First of all, profits are always good for “communities, businesses, and workers.” Do you know any unsuccessful companies that are better for communities, businesses, and workers than those that are successful? Second, it doesn’t matter. That’s right, even if making money were bad for communities, businesses, and workers, it wouldn’t be relevant. A company doesn’t have an obligation to do what’s best for others. It may give progressives apoplexy, but, sorry, a company’s only obligation is to make as much money as possible for its shareholders. Obama: “And when you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits.” Dissection … I agree. A president’s job is not to maximize or minimize profits, because a private company’s profits or losses are none of his business. Obama: “Your job is to figure out how everyone in the country has a fair shot.” Dissection … Wrong. Your job is to defend the Constitution and protect people’s property. But, even so, giving “everyone in the country … a fair shot” is nothing more than populist babble. Fair shot is a totally subjective term. To a collectivist, “fair shot” means equalizing results. And that most definitely is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they made the Constitution the law of the land. Obama: “Your job is to think about those workers who get laid off and how are we paying for their retraining.” Dissection … Wrong again. Your job is to defend the Constitution and protect people’s property — period. If a person loses his job, it’s his problem to get “retrained” and find another job. The only way the government can provide retraining to some citizens is to force other citizens to hand over more of the fruits of their labor to them. Obama: “Your job is to think about how those communities can start creating new clusters so they can attract new businesses.” Dissection … “Clusters?” Like so much of what Babbler Barack says, this statement is unintelligible … so, no comment. Obama: “Your job as president is to think about how do we set up an equitable tax system so that everybody is paying their fair share that allows us then to invest in science and technology and infrastructure, all of which will help us grow.” Dissection … Again, it is not a president’s job “to think about how do we set up an equitable tax system so that everybody is paying their fair share.” Barack, can’t you get that Constitution thing through your ideologically diseased brain? I don’t need to elaborate on fair share, as that’s become a laughable term to any halfway serious person with an IQ above fifty-three. “Allows us then to invest in …” No, no, and no! “Us” means politicians, and it’s not the job of politicians to invest in anything. Finally, there is nothing the government can do to help the economy grow. Entrepreneurs and businesses make the economy grow. Government only gets in their way. Obama: “And so, if your main argument for how to grow the economy is, ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors, then you’re missing what this job is about.’” Dissection … I agree! Just because someone makes a lot of money for investors doesn’t mean he knows how to be a good president, because it’s not the president’s job to make money for anyone. What makes a good president is his commitment to defending the Constitution and protecting people’s property. I can’t wait … (yawn) … to hear what the Babbler has to say at his next press conference. Who knows, it may be about something original, like social justice … or shared prosperity … or the fat cats on Wall Street. Lucky that we have someone as exciting as Mitt Romney in the race to prevent us from becoming bored. You have permission to reprint this article so long as you place the following wording at the end of the article: Copyright © 2012 Robert Ringer ROBERT RINGER is a New York Times #1 bestselling author and host of the highly acclaimed Liberty Education Interview Series, which features interviews with top political, economic, and social leaders. He has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business, The Tonight Show, Today, The Dennis Miller Show, Good Morning America, The Lars Larson Show, ABC Nightline, and The Charlie Rose Show, and has been the subject of feature articles in such major publications as Time, People, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Barron's, and The New York Times. |
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6/17/2012 12:33:48 PM Ottawa airport wired with microphones as Border Services prepares to record travellers conversations Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Ottawa+airport+wired+with+microphones+Border+Services+prepares+record+travellers+conversations/6788759/story.html#ixzz1y4LHGJVM |
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7/7/2012 11:57:29 AM http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp This is just part of the article: Obama's agenda: Overwhelm the system Posted: Jun. 6, 2010 | 12:00 a.m. Rahm Emanuel cynically said, "You never want a crisis to go to waste." It is now becoming clear that the crisis he was referring to is Barack Obama's presidency. Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within. Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it. |
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7/9/2012 9:32:28 AM IN MY INBOX... Charles Krauthammer July 3, 2012 11:07:40 PM MST To all my friends, particularly those conservatives who are despondent over the searing betrayal by Chief Justice John Roberts and the pending demise of our beloved country, I offer this perspective to convey some profound hope and evidence of the Almightys hand in the affairs of men in relation to the Supreme Courts decision on Obamacare. I initially thought we had cause for despondency when I only heard the results of the decision and not the reason or the make-up of the sides. I have now read a large portion of the decision and I believe that it was precisely the result that Scalia, Alito, Thomas, Roberts and even Kennedy wanted and not a defeat for conservatism or the rule of law. I believe the conservatives on the court have run circles around the liberals and demonstrated that the libs are patently unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. Let me explain. First let me assure you that John Roberts is a conservative and he is not dumb, mentally unstable, diabolical, a turncoat, a Souter or even just trying to be too nice. He is a genius along with the members of the Court in the dissent. The more of the decision I read the more remarkable it became. It is not obvious and it requires a passable understanding of Constitutional law but if it is explained anyone can see the beauty of it. The decision was going to be a 5-4 decision no matter what, so the allegation that the decision was a partisan political decision was going to be made by the losing side and their supporters. If the bill was struck down completely with Roberts on the other side there would have been a national and media backlash against conservatives and probably strong motivation for Obama supporters to come out and vote in November. With todays decision that dynamic is reversed and there is a groundswell of support for Romney and Republicans, even for people who were formerly lukewarm toward Romney before today, additionally Romney raised more than 3 million dollars today. Next, merely striking the law without the support of Democrats and libs would have left the fight over the commerce clause and the necessary and proper clause and the federal governments role in general festering and heading the wrong way as it has since 1942. As a result of the decision the libs are saying great things about Roberts; how wise, fair and reasonable he is. They would never have said that without this decision even after the Arizona immigration decision on Monday. In the future when Roberts rules conservatively it will be harder for the left and the media to complain about the Roberts Courts fairness. Thats why he as Chief Justice went to the other side for this decision not Scalia, Alito, Thomas or Kennedy, all of whom I believe would have been willing to do it. Next lets look at the decision itself. Thankfully Roberts got to write it as Chief Justice and it is a masterpiece. (As I write this the libs dont even know what has happened they just think Roberts is great and that they won and we are all going to have free, unlimited healthcare services and we are all going to live happily ever after.) He first emphatically states that Obamacare is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause saying you cannot make people buy stuff. Then he emphatically states that it is unconstitutional under the necessary and proper clause which only applies to enumerated powers in the US Constitution. Justices Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan all went along with these statements. They never would have gone along with that sentiment if that was the basis for striking the law in total. This is huge because this means that the Court ruled 9-0 that Obamacare was unconstitutional under the Commerce clause which was Obamas whole defense of the bill. They also ruled 9-0 on the necessary and proper clause. Even better both of these rulings were unnecessary to the decision so it is gravy that we got the libs to concede this and it will make it easier to pare away at both theories in the future, which we must do. Well done. Roberts, through very tortured reasoning, goes on to find that the taxing law provides the Constitutionality for the law. Virtually everyone agrees that the Federal government has the power to do this as it does with the mortgage deduction for federal income taxes. This too is huge because Obama assiduously avoided using the term tax and now he has to admit this law is a tax and it is on everyone even the poor. That will hurt him hugely in the polls and will help Romney. More importantly though is the fact that this makes this a budgetary issue that can be voted on in the Senate by a mere majority instead of 60 votes needed to stop a filibuster. That means that if the Republicans can gain a majority in the Senate, it can vote to repeal Obamacare in total. Finally the Court voted 7-2 to strike down the punitive rules that take away money from states that do not expand Medicare as required in Obamacare. This too is huge because we got Kagan and Breyer to join this decision and it can easily be applied to many other cases of extortion the Federal government uses to force states to do things they dont want to. This is also amazing because Obamacare has no severability clause so by striking the Medicaid mandate portion as unconstitutional the whole bill should have been struck. If that happened none of these other benefits would have been accomplished. I havent read far enough to know how he did it but I am sure it is brilliant. So to recap the Roberts court through a brilliant tactical maneuver has: strengthened the limitations of the commerce clause and the necessary and proper clause by a unanimous decision, made Obama raise taxes on the poor and middle classes, converted Obamacare into a tax program repealable with 51 votes in the Senate, enhanced Romneys and Republicans fundraising and likelihood of being elected in November, weakened federal extortion and got the left to love Roberts and sing his praises all without anyone even noticing. Even Obama is now espousing the rule of law just 2 weeks after violating it with his deportation executive order. That is why I have decided this was a genius decision and that I did in fact get a great birthday present today not to mention U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder being held in contempt. What a day. |
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