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Hillary thinks the rich aren’t paying enough. What happens when the producers stop producing? Who is John Galt?
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Hillary thinks the rich aren’t…
Hillary thinks the rich aren’t paying enough. What happens when the producers stop producing? Who is John Galt?
Acorn lawsuit
Let me get this straight. Acorn is suing the federal government because they think cutting off their funding is unconstitutional. What part of the constitution are they reading? Acorn is the not for profit organization that helps pimps get tax breaks for under age Honduran hookers. They also help dead people vote in places like Chicago and New Jersey. If withholding funds from this group of crooks is unconstitutional, how constitutional is it to fine or jail people that don’t buy government approved healthcare?
Withholding funds from Acorn i…
Withholding funds from Acorn is unconstitutional, but fines and jail time is ok for people who don’t buy govt approved healthcare?
Govt is “doing more w. less” t…
Govt is “doing more w. less” today. How about less w. less. Time to end the American addiction to govt services.
45 Goals of Communism (Read in US House of Reps, 1963)
Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 .
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Who will make sure you have ac…
Who will make sure you have acceptible healthcare and fine you if you don’t? Under Obamacare… the IRS. http://tinyurl.com/nd8qnu
Obama and Benito
When reading the following quotes, think about Citibank, GM, and Chrysler under the Obama administration. He now has his sights on privately run healthcare. Obama is successfully melding the progressive movement with socialism through fascist techniques.
The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.
-Benito Mussolini, 1935, “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”
One of the Facist slogans used by Benito Mussolini
Best explanation of why cap an…
Best explanation of why cap and trade will fail… http://bit.ly/17dUo6
Best explanation of why cap an…
Best explanation of why cap and trade will fail… http://bit.ly/17dUo6
Saw this on sayanythingblog.co…
Saw this on sayanythingblog.com
Bush took 96 months to give us the largest debt in decades.
Obama took 4 months to QUADRUPLE it.
Shrugged
Banks and manufacturing sectors are failing. Government is taking a hard left toward socialism. The plan is to punish achievers. It won’t be long until Atlas shrugs. Hey Obama, “Who is John Galt?”
How many carbon credits does it take to offset a volcano?
How many carbon credits does it take to offset a volcano?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_us/hawaii_volcanic_gas
OCEAN VIEW, Hawaii – For eight years, Tony and Sam Bayaoa have grown thousands of bright red, yellow and pink protea flowers on their farm. Then in March, Kilauea volcano opened a new vent and began spewing double the usual amount of toxic gas.
Now about 70 percent of their crop is dried, brown and brittle.
“The first reaction was – did someone poison the plants?” said Tony Bayaoa, whose two-acre farm is 35 miles from the volcano. “I’ve lost my livelihood.”
Ethanol Possibilities with Sugar (not corn)
Here is a very cool article about the possibilities of ethanol…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/technology/27proto.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Notice the article references sugar as the source for ethanol. Cheap sugar makes ethanol feasible.
Corn is not a good source of sugar. Corn has long chain carbohydrates that must be converted to simple sugars through mashing. Mashing takes a corn mush to 140 to 160 degrees where enzymes break down carbs to simple sugar. This is usually done by firing the mash with propane. Burn one fossil fuel to prevent burning another. In the end you get corn syrup that will ferment into ethanol. Costly!
Sugar doesn’t need to be mashed. Liquid sugar and yeast will spontaneously produce ethanol.
Why don’t we use sugar? The US doesn’t produce it. We have high tariffs to keep the cost of sugar high. Ever wonder why all the food labels are loaded with corn syrup? Check the label on that sugary soda. Yup, corn syrup where the sugar used to be. Unhealthy!
If we stop using corn for fuel, sugar can be used to make very cheap ethanol. The inventors in the article indicated that they could make ethanol for about a dollar a gallon with cheap Mexican sugar. Sound like a good idea.
Lift the gas tax!!!
Both Clinton and McCain are calling on congress to temporarily lift the gas tax. The Federal tax on gas is 18.4¢ per gallon. My state gas tax is 23¢ per gallon. My state has gas for about $3.51/gallon as of 4/30/2008.
15 gallons of regular will cost me $52.65. If we lift the Federal and State taxes, I will pay $46.44. this is a savings of $6.21. I would save about $25 a month. Every little bit helps.
Hell, if we are willing to have foreign investors supply the money for my $1500 stimulus package check, I think we can lift $75 or $100 worth of gas tax for the summer.
The biggest savings would be to truckers. They are using thousands of gallons of diesel (currently at $4.26/gallon). Instead of my measly $25/month, they would save thousands. This would lower the transportation cost for everything. This may slow the increasing cost of food at the grocery store. Win-Win.
Why wouldn’t we do this? Some “economists” think it’s a bad idea. They seem to think the prices would remain the same and “evil” oil companies would suck up the tax savings. Wouldn’t happen. If just one oil company kept the price low, the free market would force the others to stay low.
Maybe those economists should spend less time on politics and fire up their calculators (the math wasn’t very hard). The tax cut would be very simple.
The problem would occur when you try to reinstate the taxes. This would cause apathetic Americans to wake up and notice the high cost of hidden taxes and fees.
Here is the obligatory link to the negative Reuters story…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080430/ts_nm/usa_politics_gastax_economists_dc
CBS to bid on the Weather Channel
If CBS gets their hands on the weather channel, will it become the 24hr Global Warming network….
NEW YORK (Reuters) – CBS Corp and GE’s NBC Universal plan to bid for the Weather Channel in the second round of bidding due in early to mid-May, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Privately held Landmark, which has put the channel up for sale along with other businesses, could see it sell for significantly less than the $5 billion it had originally sought, sources have told Reuters.
(Reporting by Jui Chakravorty; editing by John Wallace)
Al Gore Cast the Vote to Mandate Ethanol
Newsbusters has a great article…
Now that fuel and food prices are heading into orbit, will the media remember that the Goracle (Al Gore) cast the vote to mandate ethanol?
No new gas taxes!
Following the Minneapolis bridge collapse, I keep seeing news stories calling for new taxes to repair our sagging infrastructure. We should now be alarmed at the state of disrepair of our public roads and bridges. The ONLY solution appears to be a new gas tax.
From a recent USA today article…
The Minneapolis bridge disaster that suddenly is the symbol of the nation's crumbling infrastructure could tip the scales in favor of billions of dollars in higher gasoline taxes for repairs coast to coast.
There are 500 bridges around the country similar to the Minneapolis span, and "these are potential deathtraps," says Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, former chairman of the House Transportation Committee.
"We have to, as a Congress, grasp this problem. And yes, I would even suggest, fund this problem with a tax," he says. "May the sky not fall on me."
What's the big deal? It's only a 5¢ per gallon increase. With gas hovering around $3 a gallon, you will hardly notice it.
I object to that line of thinking. Let me introduce government to a new concept… reallocation.
You are already familiar with the concept. When your electric bill spikes with summer air conditioning costs, where does the money come from? Do you take the bill to your employer and demand funds to cover the increased cost? No.
In my family budget, the money is taken from other expense categories. We don't eat out as often. Our entertainment budget is scaled back. We may cut back on saving (yes, we run a razor thin surplus in the family budget). Where has the Federal Government offered to cut back?
In the FY2008 budget, the Federal Government will spend an estimated $79.282 billion dollars on transportation. Let's compare this to other spending categories…
| Transportation (air, ground, water transportation) | $ 79.3 Billion | 3% |
| Health Care & Medicare (medical) | $ 672.3 Billion | 23% |
| Social Security (old age, disability) | $ 612.5 Billion | 21% |
| Defense (Military) | $ 606.5 Billion | 21% |
| Income Security (housing, unemployment, food stamps, etc) | $ 380.8 Billion | 13% |
| Interest (paid on debt) | $ 261.3 Billion | 9% |
| Other (Energy, Science, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Justice, Commerce, International Affairs, Community, Education, Veterans ) | $ 288.6 Billion | 10% |
There is an estimated 4% growth from FY2007 to FY2008. If we freeze the cost of government to the FY2007 budget and apply the 4% growth to infrastructure, transportation would be funded at $202.5 Billion. This is additional funding of %153 to infrastructure. All other agencies would be funded with the EXACT SAME funds next year as they had this year!
Problem Solved!
It's called… living on a budget. Congress should be required to listen to Dave Ramsey every day until they get it!
The budget numbers in this post came from http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/pdf/hist.pdf
The Star Spangled Banner
This one came to me in an email…
THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Unless you know all four stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner you may find this most interesting. Perhaps most of you didn’t realize what Francis Scott Key’s profession was or what he was doing on a ship. This is a good brush-up on your history.
(Editor’s Note- Near the end of his life, the great science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about the four stanzas of our national anthem. However brief, this well-circulated piece is an eye opener from the dearly departed doctor……) ” I have a weakness — I am crazy, absolutely nuts, about our national anthem. The words are difficult and the tune is almost impossible, but frequently when I’m taking a shower I sing it with as much power and emotion as I can. It shakes me up every time.”
NO REFUGE COULD SAVE : BY DR. ISAAC ASIMOV
I was once asked to speak at a luncheon. Taking my life in my hands, I announced I was going to sing our national anthem — all four stanzas. This was greeted with loud groans. One man closed the door to the kitchen , where the noise of dishes and cutlery was loud and distracting. “Thanks, Herb,” I said.
“That’s all right,” he said. “It was at the request of the kitchen staff”
I explained the background of the anthem and then sang all four stanzas. Let me tell you, those people had never heard it before — or had never really listened. I got a standing ovation. But it was not me; it was the anthem.
More recently, while conducting a seminar, I told my students the story of the anthem and sang all four stanzas. Again there was a wild ovation and prolonged applause. And again, it was the anthem and not me.
So now let me tell you how it came to be written.
In 1812, the United States went to war with Great Britain , primarily over freedom of the seas. We were in the right. For two years, we held off the British, even though we were still a rather weak country. Great Britain was in a life and death struggle with Napoleon. In fact, just as the United States declared war, Napoleon marched off to invade Russia . If he won, as everyone expected, he would control Europe, and Great Britain would be isolated. It was no time for her to be involved in an American war.
At first, our seamen proved better than the British. After we won a battle on Lake Erie in 1813, the American commander, Oliver Hazard Perry, sent the message, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” However, the weight of the British navy beat down our ships eventually. New England , hard-hit by a tightening blockade, threatened secession.
Meanwhile, Napoleon was beaten in Russia and in 1814 was forced to abdicate. Great Britain now turned its attention to the United States, launching a three-pronged attack.
The northern prong was to come down Lake Champlain toward New York and seize parts of New England.
The southern prong was to go up the Mississippi , take New Orleans and paralyze the west.
The central prong was to head for the mid-Atlantic states and then attack Baltimore , the greatest port south of New York . If Baltimore was taken, the nation, which still hugged the Atlantic coast, could be split in two. The fate of the United States , then , rested to a large extent on the success or failure of the central prong.
The British reached the American coast, and on August 24, 1814, took Washington , D.C. Then they moved up the Chesapeake Bay toward Baltimore . On September 12, they arrived and found 1,000 men in Fort McHenry , whose guns controlled the harbor. If the British wished to take Baltimore , they would have to take the fort.
On one of the British ships was an aged physician, William Beanes, who had been arrested in Maryland and brought along as a prisoner. Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and friend of the physician, had come to the ship to negotiate his release.
The British captain was willing, but the two Americans would have to wait. It was now the night of September 13, and the bombardment of Fort McHenry was about to start.
As twilight deepened, Key and Beanes saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry . Through the night, they heard bombs bursting and saw the red glare of rockets. They knew the fort was resisting and the American flag was still flying. But toward morning the bombardment ceased, and a dread silence fell. Either Fort McHenry had surrendered and the British flag flew above it, or the bombardment had failed and the American flag still flew.
As dawn began to brighten the eastern sky, Key and Beanes stared out at the fort, trying to see which flag flew over it. He and the physician must have asked each other over and over, “Can you see the flag?”
After it was all finished, Key wrote a four stanza poem telling the events of the night. Called “The Defense of Fort McHenry ,” it was published in newspapers and swept the nation. Someone noted that the words fit an old English tune called, “To Anacreon in Heaven” — a difficult melody with an uncomfortably large vocal range. For obvious reasons, Key’s work became known as “The Star Spangled Banner,” and in 1931 Congress declared it the official anthem of the United States.
Now that you know the story, here are the words. Presumably, the old doctor is speaking. This is what he asks Key:
Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
(“Ramparts,” in case you don’t know, are the protective walls or other elevations that surround a fort.) The first stanza asks a question. The second gives an answer:
On the shore, dimly seen thro’ the mist of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep.
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream
‘Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
“The towering steep” is again, the ramparts. The bombardment has failed, and the British can do nothing more but sail away, their mission a failure. In the third stanza I feel Key allows himself to gloat over the American triumph. In the aftermath of the bombardment, Key probably was in no mood to act otherwise? During World War I when the British were our Staunchest allies, this third stanza was not sung. However, I know it, so here it is:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
(The fourth stanza, a pious hope for the future, should be sung more slowly than the other three and with even deeper feeling):
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation,
Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven – rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause is just,
And this be our motto –”In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
I hope you will look at the national anthem with new eyes. Listen to it, the next time you have a chance, with new ears. Pay attention to the words. And don’t let them ever take it away … not even one word of it.
AND IT’S SUNG IN ENGLISH!!!