GINGRICH IS 68 AND OVERWEIGHT.
I'M WATCHING HIS UNGRACIOUS "PRESSER" LIVE FROM VEGAS AND HE SOUNDS WEAK.
ILL.
HE PROMISED 2 WEEKS AGO TO RELEASE HIS MEDICAL RECORDS.
WHERE ARE THEY?
IS HE HIDING SOMETHING?
DON'T WE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW IF HE'S HEALTHY BEFORE THE NEXT PRIMARY?
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Saturday, February 04, 2012
ELECTION IN ITALY FEATURES 2 PORN STARS CONTESTING ONE SEAT
Two Italian porn stars will go head to head in an upcoming local election.
Amandha Fox and Luana Borgia are both campaigning to become the civic leader of Taranto, Italy.
A pole dancing night has been organized for local voters to discuss their issues with the candidates and see what policies they have to offer.
A fitting metaphor for all of Europe.
EVEN ISRAEL HAS ITS PROBLEMS WITH MOSQUE-BASED TAKEOVERS OF JEWISH NEIGHBORHOODS
It's not just in America and Europe where you've got serious problems of Muslims trying to do a slow conquest with mosques: even in Israel, and in this case the city of Akko, there's now this very type of problem:
Jewish residents of the city of Akko in northern Israel are upset by the scheduled opening later this month of a mosque in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood in the mixed Jewish-Arab city.The latter part of the article notes how in cities like Akko and Lod, there's been a problem of Arab/Muslim population growing, while Jewish residents have been leaving. This is definitely a very troubling issue, and anyone who can help deal with it will be helping tremendously.
Public officials have already expressed their discontent over the idea that a mosque will be opened in a Jewish area, and a member of the Akko City Council member, Shlomo Fedida, has begun a struggle against the opening of the mosque.
Fedida told Arutz Sheva on Thursday that some of the Arabs in Akko, who make up less than 30 percent of the population, are trying to conquer the city, as he put it.
“Until now there was a status quo, but recently the Arabs began preparations for the renewal of the historic mosque in the city,” he said. “The Arabs are planning to put up a muezzin and a minaret, begin praying there and then take it further. Unfortunately, the State gives them a hand.”
Fedida said that many Jews who live in the city center have already begun to pack up and leave because of the Arab takeover. “People have started to sell their homes. There used to only be mosques in the old city of Akko, and now it’s come to us. You go to synagogue on Shabbat and the Arabs are barbecuing right in front of you.”
He called on hilltop youth from Judea and Samaria to populate the city with Jews and thus save it from the Arab takeover.
SYRIA PROVES THAT INTERNECINE HATRED AND WAR, AND NOT THE USA AND ZIONISM, ARE THE REAL ENEMIES OF ARABS AND MUSLIMS
SICKENING:
NOT JUST FOR OUR SAFETY, AND ISRAEL'S - BUT FOR SYRIANS AND IRAQIS AND IRANIANS AND EGYPTIANS WHO LONG TO BE FREE.
THEY ARE A DISTINCT MINORITY NOW, OUTNUMBERED BY SALAFISTS AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, BUT IT DOESN'T ALWAYS HAVE TO BE SO.
THEY NEED ALLIES IN THE WEST - WHO WILL DO MORE THAN STAND BY AS MOST HAVE DONE - AND MUCH MORE THAN OBAMA AND THE LEFT, WHO HAVE ACTUALLY AIDED THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
IT'S NOW.... OR NEVER...
“It’s a real massacre in every sense of the word,” said a resident in Khaldiya, who gave his name as Abu Jihad. “I saw bodies of women and children lying on roads beheaded. It’s horrible and inhuman. It was a long night helping people get to hospitals.”…
“The army has weapons, and the people have weapons,” one opposition activist said on condition of anonymity, recounting Saturday’s bloodshed. “Syria is finished for me. It is a civil war, and nothing will save us anymore.”THE INTERNECINE VIOLENCE IS NOT ENDING - NOT IN SYRIA, AND IT'S BARELY PAUSING IN EGYPT AND IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
- INTERNECINE VIOLENCE WITHIN THE ARAB WORLD AND WITHIN THE MUSLIM WORLD HAS KILLED 1000x AS MANY ARABS AND MUSLIMS AS ISRAELIS.
- MORE THAN WERE KILLED BY US FORCES WHO ATTEMPTED TO LIBERATE ARABS AND MUSLIMS FROM TYRANNY.
- THIS GENOCIDAL RAMPAGE IS NOT NEW TO ISLAM; THE RECENT UPTICK IN THE LAST 2 DECADE IS A RETURN TO ISLAMIC ROOTS.
- BUT ARAB DEMOCRACY AND ISLAMIC PLURALISM MIGHT, IN A FEW DECADES (IF IT CAN ONLY MANAGE TO SURVIVE),
- PROVIDE THE ROOM FOR YOUNG MUSLIMS TO SEE AND ACCEPT THE FACT THAT ISLAM ITSELF IS ANTITHETICAL TO DEMOCRACY,
- AND THEN THEY MIGHT - IN INCREASING NUMBERS - CHOOSE MODERNITY AND LEAVE ISLAM.
- LEFT ON IT'S OWN, ISLAMISM AND ISLAMO-FASCISM WILL INEVITABLY EVENTUALLY COLLAPSE IN A RUIN OF IGNORANCE AND POVERTY.
- BUT THAT WOULD REQUIRE THAT THE WEST COMPLETELY CUT-OFF/ISOLATE/SHUN ISLAMO-FASCIST NATIONS - INCLUDING A BOYCOTT OF THEIR NATURAL RESOURCES. AND YES: THIS WOULD MEAN BOYCOTTING SAUDI AND GULF OIL. MAYBE NIGERIA OIL, TOO - THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING...
- THE WEST CAN'T DO THIS UNTIL WE FIND REPLACEMENTS FOR THOSE ENERGY SOURCES AND BRING THEM ON-LINE.
- DOING SO WILL MAKE US SAFER, AND IS THE BEST HOPE FOR THE 1,000,000,000 PEOPLE ENSLAVED BY ISLAM.
NOT JUST FOR OUR SAFETY, AND ISRAEL'S - BUT FOR SYRIANS AND IRAQIS AND IRANIANS AND EGYPTIANS WHO LONG TO BE FREE.
THEY ARE A DISTINCT MINORITY NOW, OUTNUMBERED BY SALAFISTS AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, BUT IT DOESN'T ALWAYS HAVE TO BE SO.
THEY NEED ALLIES IN THE WEST - WHO WILL DO MORE THAN STAND BY AS MOST HAVE DONE - AND MUCH MORE THAN OBAMA AND THE LEFT, WHO HAVE ACTUALLY AIDED THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
IT'S NOW.... OR NEVER...
DIABOLICAL PUTIN CUTTING EUROPE'S GAS SUPPLIES AS FREEZE SETS IN
Squeezed supply of Russian gas to some EU countries fell further yesterday, the European Union’s executive said, but added the situation had not reached emergency levels despite freezing temperatures gripping much of Europe.
A cold front blamed for more than 100 deaths is lashing the continent, bolstering demand for heating and forcing countries to tap stored gas supplies.
“I can confirm that there has been a decrease in gas deliveries in various member states: Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Italy,” EU energy spokeswoman Marlene Holzner told a regular news briefing.
“Yesterday, we saw in Austria a decrease of 30 percent, Italy of 24 percent and Poland 8 percent. But I must also say that it’s not a situation of emergency yet.”NOT YET, BUT PUTIN'S WORKING ON IT.
BTW: SOCIALIST GERHARD SCHROEDER - THE FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR WHO NEGOTIATED THE GAS DEALS - NOW WORKS FOR PUTIN AND GAZPROM.
MUSLIMS TRYING TO WEAKEN NYC'S ANTI-TERROR PRACTICES
BBC:
THIS IS A SOPHISTICATED EFFORT BY MEMBERS OF GLOBAL JIHAD TO WEAKEN OUR DEFENSES.
I PRAY THE LIBERALS RUNNING NYC AND NY STATE POLITICS DON'T CAVE INTO THIS CHARADE.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A CONCERTED EFFORT TO DECAPITATE THE NYC POLICE DEPARTMENT BY GETTING RID OF RAYMOND KELLY:
THE LEFTISTS WHO DOMINATE THE LEGACY MEDIA HAVE THEIR KNIVES OUT, AND THEY ARE THE FIFTH COLUMN FOR THE JIHADISTS.
I BELIEVE THEY WANT KELLY OUT IN ORDER TO WEAKEN OUR DEFENSES.
STAY TUNED...
Civic groups from around the US are calling for a legal investigation into intelligence-gathering on Shia Muslims by the New York Police Department.
The complaint comes after an internal memo became public recommending increased surveillance of the city's Shia community.
Muslims gathered near police headquarters on Friday in protest over the NYPD memo.
Top police officials insist the police only follow-up legitimate leads.
The memo, part of a 2006 report, recommended expanding the NYPD's spying operation on Shia mosques and Muslim centres. It was addressed to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
On Thursday, Mr Kelly called the memo a "contingency plan" in case of military conflict between the US and Iran, although no such language is used in the document.
The report was made public by the Associated Press as part of a series of reports on the NYPD's response to terrorism.
The police commissioner is already under fire for appearing in the "The Third Jihad", a controversial movie about Muslims.
'Disturbing picture'
In their letter, addressed to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, thirty-three groups said that the memo further uncovered "a disturbing picture about the NYPD's institutional approach" to the Muslim community that "erodes the public's trust and confidence".
"The need to hold the NYPD accountable for its flagrant use of discriminatory policing practices has never been more glaring and urgent," the letter says.THIS IS NOT AN EFFORT TO RESTRAIN UNBRIDLED AND UNNECESSARY POLICE ACTIONS BY TRUE LIBERTARIANS.
THIS IS A SOPHISTICATED EFFORT BY MEMBERS OF GLOBAL JIHAD TO WEAKEN OUR DEFENSES.
I PRAY THE LIBERALS RUNNING NYC AND NY STATE POLITICS DON'T CAVE INTO THIS CHARADE.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A CONCERTED EFFORT TO DECAPITATE THE NYC POLICE DEPARTMENT BY GETTING RID OF RAYMOND KELLY:
After years of undeniable suc-cess, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly is going through turbulent times, confronted with a steady drip of troublesome episodes. They include officers fixing traffic tickets, running guns and disparaging civilians on Facebook, and accusations that the Police Department encourages officers to question minorities on the streets indiscriminately. His younger son has been accused of rape, though he has not been charged and maintains his innocence. On Thursday, in an episode that Mr. Kelly said concerned him, an officer killed an 18-year-old drug suspect who was unarmed.
At 70, Mr. Kelly has now run the 52,000-member department longer than any of the city’s 41 commissioners. Almost everything about him braids through the department’s interlocking workings. Yet many inside and outside the force wonder whether the pileup of scandals and his increasingly authoritarian use of power have diminished his once-towering stature.
In Mr. Kelly’s two tenures — 16 months in the early 1990s under Mayor David N. Dinkins, and since 2002 under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg — he has now served 11 ½ years. Lewis Joseph Valentine presided for just shy of 11, from 1934 to 1945, during monstrous times, when organized-crime groups sanctioned hundreds of murders.
Mr. Kelly has many fans. His public approval numbers after years of low crime remain high: two-thirds of the city’s voters were pleased with his job performance in a December poll by Quinnipiac University.
Mr. Bloomberg continues to affirm his unbending faith. Asked if he had considered replacing Mr. Kelly, he said, “With God as my witness, never once.” While waving off interest, Mr. Kelly has been promoted as a 2013 mayoral candidate; political soothsayers are dubious he will run, however, and the suggestion is heard less often these days.
But even some of those who admire Mr. Kelly wonder if his prolonged tenure has changed him. And they wonder something else more ominous: Has it begun to damage the department?
THE LEFTISTS WHO DOMINATE THE LEGACY MEDIA HAVE THEIR KNIVES OUT, AND THEY ARE THE FIFTH COLUMN FOR THE JIHADISTS.
I BELIEVE THEY WANT KELLY OUT IN ORDER TO WEAKEN OUR DEFENSES.
STAY TUNED...
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT HARRY REID DECIDED ON HIS OWN NOT TO BRING A FEDERAL BUDGET TO THE FLOOR FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW?
OF COURSE NOT.
HARRY REID ANNOUNCED HE WON'T BRING A BUDGET TO THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW, BUT THIS WAS DECIDED BY OBAMA AND PELOSI AND THEIR COMRADES.
THEY HAVE DELIBERATELY WRECKED THE ENTIRE BUDGET PROCESS BECAUSE IT LEAVES ALL THEIR CORRUPT BOONDOGGLES (EMBEDDED VIA THE SO-CALLED STIMULUS BILL --- THE VERY FIRST BILL THEY PASSED) --- IN PLACE AND UN-EXAMINED, MERELY CARRIED FORWARD.
OBAMA , PELOSI AND REID HAVE BEEN THE MOST CORRUPT AND DESTRUCTIVE LEADERS OUR DEMOCRACY AND OUR ECONOMY HAS EVER HAD.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY!
HARRY REID ANNOUNCED HE WON'T BRING A BUDGET TO THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW, BUT THIS WAS DECIDED BY OBAMA AND PELOSI AND THEIR COMRADES.
THEY HAVE DELIBERATELY WRECKED THE ENTIRE BUDGET PROCESS BECAUSE IT LEAVES ALL THEIR CORRUPT BOONDOGGLES (EMBEDDED VIA THE SO-CALLED STIMULUS BILL --- THE VERY FIRST BILL THEY PASSED) --- IN PLACE AND UN-EXAMINED, MERELY CARRIED FORWARD.
OBAMA , PELOSI AND REID HAVE BEEN THE MOST CORRUPT AND DESTRUCTIVE LEADERS OUR DEMOCRACY AND OUR ECONOMY HAS EVER HAD.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY!
Obama "love": You've gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet
Our President at Thursday morning's National Prayer Breakfast:
In Obama's mind, "love" commands this complete destruction of the very concept of an insurance market. Sounds more like the Stalinist dictum that "you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet." Ditto for Obama's other example of his supposed love:
Why would the government have to order banks not to throw money away on bad credit risks? Because for years the government has been enforcing anti-discrimination laws that require banks to lend to bad credit risks. That's where the mortgage meltdown came from. Using the Community Reinvestment ACT for leverage, the Alinskyite "community organizer" group ACORN succeeded in forcing banks to lower their credit standards on the grounds that existing standards (standards that only lend to borrowers who are likely to repay their loans) had a disparate impact on blacks.
(Read the whole thing. In addition to forcing banks to make bad loans, ACORN also succeeded in forcing the quasi-government mortgate companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase these loans and implicitly guarantee them with taxpayer dollars, which is what turned the A-bomb into an H-bomb.)
Obama was intimately involved in all of this. He worked for ACORN as a lawyer and participated in at least one suit against a bank for having too discriminatory (too strict) a credit standard. The woman who pioneered ACORN's pressure tactics against the banks, Madeleine Talbot, also brought Obama in to teach Alinsky tactics to ACORN personnel. You may have seen the picture of Obama teaching Saul Alinsky's "power analysis" at the University of Chicago Law School:
Obama trained ACORN leaders and foot-soldiers in these commie pressure tactics for years. Here is Obama meeting with the ACORN in 2004:
Oops, I did it again
So Obama screwed everything up when, as "the senator from ACORN," he helped force banks to loan to bad credit risks, and now he thinks the answer is to force them not to lend to bad risks. But guess what? Title X of Frank-Dodd creates and entire new bureaucracy dedicated specifically to enforcing the very anti-discrimination laws that Title XIV of Frank-Dodd is trying to counteract!
Title X is Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created to enforce The Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, and a mish-mash of other re-distributionist and anti-discriminatory lending laws.
Each of these moves is in itself destructive. If banks are left alone they won't make bad loans and they won't leave profitable loans un-provided on account of anyone's race. Some individual bank might pass up profitable loans on account of race, but they would just be leaving money on the table for some non-racist bank to come in and pick up, which means some non-racist bank will come in and pick it up.
Remember what it took to stop such equal economic opportunity in the old south: a vast network of Jim Crow laws, working to outlaw the thousands of ways that free economic activity kept treating blacks as equals. Markets are an anti-discriminatory force. To maximize anti-discriminatory effect they should run free. There is no possible benefit to roping them down with anti-discrimination law, but there is vast potential to do any amount of harm, as the mortgage meltdown demonstrates.
Marvel at the sheer manic insanity, ordering one contradictory mandate after another when every single one of them is in itself destructive. We've got Moe Howard in the Oval Office.
You know Moe's gonna get mad, and Curly (should be Elizabeth Warren) is not backing down so: Egg fight!!!!!!! It's a Three Stooges breakfast party, with our lives hurtling like cream pies through the air. Smash everything! Leave no table unturned! Feel the Obama love.
When I talk about making sure insurance companies aren’t discriminating against those who are already sick, I do it because ... I believe in God’s command to 'love thy neighbor as thyself.'Forcing insurance companies to cover people who are already sick (a key Obamacare provision) is like forcing automobile insurers to cover accidents that applicants have already been involved in. It is not insurance at all. It is confiscation, paid for by those who are actually trying to buy insurance instead of get a handout.
In Obama's mind, "love" commands this complete destruction of the very concept of an insurance market. Sounds more like the Stalinist dictum that "you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet." Ditto for Obama's other example of his supposed love:
... making sure that unscrupulous lenders aren’t taking advantage of the most vulnerable among us.What "advantage" have banks been taking? Why they have very cruelly been stuffing the pockets of bad credit risks with far more money then these people could ever pay back. This has been so advantageous for the banks that we had to bail half of them out with tax dollars. Nevertheless, Title XIV of the Frank-Dodd Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act does indeed "impose obligations on mortgage originators to only lend to borrowers who are likely to repay their loans."
Why would the government have to order banks not to throw money away on bad credit risks? Because for years the government has been enforcing anti-discrimination laws that require banks to lend to bad credit risks. That's where the mortgage meltdown came from. Using the Community Reinvestment ACT for leverage, the Alinskyite "community organizer" group ACORN succeeded in forcing banks to lower their credit standards on the grounds that existing standards (standards that only lend to borrowers who are likely to repay their loans) had a disparate impact on blacks.
(Read the whole thing. In addition to forcing banks to make bad loans, ACORN also succeeded in forcing the quasi-government mortgate companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase these loans and implicitly guarantee them with taxpayer dollars, which is what turned the A-bomb into an H-bomb.)
Obama was intimately involved in all of this. He worked for ACORN as a lawyer and participated in at least one suit against a bank for having too discriminatory (too strict) a credit standard. The woman who pioneered ACORN's pressure tactics against the banks, Madeleine Talbot, also brought Obama in to teach Alinsky tactics to ACORN personnel. You may have seen the picture of Obama teaching Saul Alinsky's "power analysis" at the University of Chicago Law School:
Obama trained ACORN leaders and foot-soldiers in these commie pressure tactics for years. Here is Obama meeting with the ACORN in 2004:
Oops, I did it again
So Obama screwed everything up when, as "the senator from ACORN," he helped force banks to loan to bad credit risks, and now he thinks the answer is to force them not to lend to bad risks. But guess what? Title X of Frank-Dodd creates and entire new bureaucracy dedicated specifically to enforcing the very anti-discrimination laws that Title XIV of Frank-Dodd is trying to counteract!
Title X is Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created to enforce The Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, and a mish-mash of other re-distributionist and anti-discriminatory lending laws.
Each of these moves is in itself destructive. If banks are left alone they won't make bad loans and they won't leave profitable loans un-provided on account of anyone's race. Some individual bank might pass up profitable loans on account of race, but they would just be leaving money on the table for some non-racist bank to come in and pick up, which means some non-racist bank will come in and pick it up.
Remember what it took to stop such equal economic opportunity in the old south: a vast network of Jim Crow laws, working to outlaw the thousands of ways that free economic activity kept treating blacks as equals. Markets are an anti-discriminatory force. To maximize anti-discriminatory effect they should run free. There is no possible benefit to roping them down with anti-discrimination law, but there is vast potential to do any amount of harm, as the mortgage meltdown demonstrates.
Marvel at the sheer manic insanity, ordering one contradictory mandate after another when every single one of them is in itself destructive. We've got Moe Howard in the Oval Office.
You know Moe's gonna get mad, and Curly (should be Elizabeth Warren) is not backing down so: Egg fight!!!!!!! It's a Three Stooges breakfast party, with our lives hurtling like cream pies through the air. Smash everything! Leave no table unturned! Feel the Obama love.
Friday, February 03, 2012
FIRST THEY COME FOR THE TRUTH: ALETHIACIDE - WHEN THE TRUTH IS SLAUGHTERED
ALETHIACIDE IS WHEN THE TRUTH IS SLAUGHTERED BY A BIG LIE.
(ALETHIA IS TRUTH IN GREEK.)
A GOOD EXAMPLE IS TODAY'S UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS - WHICH, ACCORDING TO OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES IN THE LEGACY MEDIA, "SHOWED A DECLINE OF UNEMPLOYMENT TO 8.3%."
THE TRUTH IS THAT CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT SANK AGAIN - TO THE LOWEST IT'S BEEN SINCE WW2, AS 1,200,000 PEOPLE STOPPED LOOKING FOR WORK AND WERE DROPPED FROM THE ROLLS. (GET THE TRUTH HERE WHILE YOU CAN!)
THESE 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE WEREN'T LITERALLY KILLED - THAT WOULD BE GENOCIDE.
BUT THEY WERE MADE TO VANISH - BENEATH A VEIL OF LIES AND A PATINA OF PROPAGANDA.
FIRST THEY COME FOR THE TRUTH...
(ALETHIA IS TRUTH IN GREEK.)
A GOOD EXAMPLE IS TODAY'S UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS - WHICH, ACCORDING TO OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES IN THE LEGACY MEDIA, "SHOWED A DECLINE OF UNEMPLOYMENT TO 8.3%."
THE TRUTH IS THAT CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT SANK AGAIN - TO THE LOWEST IT'S BEEN SINCE WW2, AS 1,200,000 PEOPLE STOPPED LOOKING FOR WORK AND WERE DROPPED FROM THE ROLLS. (GET THE TRUTH HERE WHILE YOU CAN!)
THESE 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE WEREN'T LITERALLY KILLED - THAT WOULD BE GENOCIDE.
BUT THEY WERE MADE TO VANISH - BENEATH A VEIL OF LIES AND A PATINA OF PROPAGANDA.
ALETHIACIDE.
FIRST THEY COME FOR THE TRUTH...
THE ENVIOUS LEFT: EVIL AND ANTI-AMERICAN
LAST WEEK THE GATEWAY PUNDIT POSTED ON ENVY AND COVETOUSNESS: Obama’s Politics of Envy Are a Complete Contradiction to Biblical Teaching
WE'VE POSTED ON ENVY AND LEFTISM SEVERAL TIMES:
FRIDAY, MAY 04, 2007
Aryeh Spero at the Wall Street Journal explains how Obama’s class warfare is a complete contradiction of Biblical teaching:
No country has achieved such broad-based prosperity as has America, or invented as many useful things, or seen as many people achieve personal promise. This is not an accident. It is the direct result of centuries lived by the free-market ethos embodied in the Judeo-Christian outlook.
God begins the Ten Commandments with “I am the Lord your God” and concludes with “Thou shalt not envy your neighbor, not for his wife, nor his house, nor for any of his holdings.” Envy is corrosive to the individual and to those societies that embrace it. Nations that throw over capitalism for socialism have made an immoral choice.Read the rest here.
WE'VE POSTED ON ENVY AND LEFTISM SEVERAL TIMES:
2007:
FRIDAY, MAY 04, 2007
You Shall Have No Gods Before Envy
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. --Winston Churchill
If you are a true leftist, then you shall covet.
2008:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008
REDISTRIBUTION IS ANTITHETICAL TO THE VALUES AT THE CORE OF OUR NATION'S FOUNDING
S&L: OUR FOUNDING FATHERS OF REDISTRIBUTION:
HEH.
SERIOUSLY: LINCOLN MADE EACH MAN'S RIGHT TO THE FRUITS OF HIS OWN LABOR THE CENTERPIECE FOR HIS MORAL ATTACK ON SLAVERY:
THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UN-AMERICAN.
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”
— John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816“[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
— James Madison
But maybe they were wrong and Mr. Obama is right.After all, he is a Constitutional scholar.
HEH.
SERIOUSLY: LINCOLN MADE EACH MAN'S RIGHT TO THE FRUITS OF HIS OWN LABOR THE CENTERPIECE FOR HIS MORAL ATTACK ON SLAVERY:
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.OBAMA WOULD HAVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REDISTRIBUTE PRIVATE PROPERTY.
- Seventh and Last Joint Debate with Steven Douglas, at Alton, Illinois (15 October 1858)
THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UN-AMERICAN.
2010:
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2010
COVETOUSNESS IS DEEP IN THE HEART OF EVERY LEFTIST
THOU SHALT NOT COVET.
IT'S A COMMANDMENT.
BUT ONE LEFTISTS IGNORE.
COVETOUSNESS IS AT THE VERY CORE OF THEIR BEING.
COVETOUS PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO LEFTISM BECAUSE IT OFFERS THEM A WAY TO EXPRESS AND FULFILL THEIR COVETOUSNESS - AND DRESS IT UP AS ALTRUISM.
THIS IS VERY CLEAR WHEN ONE EXAMINES THE LEFT'S LATEST CLASS WARFARE JARGON ABOUT 'THE TOP 1%".
AS IF I AM POORER BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE GETS RICHER.
IT'S A COMMANDMENT.
BUT ONE LEFTISTS IGNORE.
COVETOUSNESS IS AT THE VERY CORE OF THEIR BEING.
COVETOUS PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO LEFTISM BECAUSE IT OFFERS THEM A WAY TO EXPRESS AND FULFILL THEIR COVETOUSNESS - AND DRESS IT UP AS ALTRUISM.
THIS IS VERY CLEAR WHEN ONE EXAMINES THE LEFT'S LATEST CLASS WARFARE JARGON ABOUT 'THE TOP 1%".
AS IF I AM POORER BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE GETS RICHER.
2011:
ENVY - AND NOT GREED - IS THE REAL PROBLEM
The Left argues that GREED is the problem: greedy rich people; greedy corporations.
This is nonsense.
People get rich and corporations grow by selling something to people that they WANT to buy, and which makes them happy once they bought it. Nobody holds a gun to the head of a buyer. And the seller isn't being greedy by asking for and getting "as much as the traffic will bear" - that's what a free-marketplace IS!
People like Steve Jobs got rich - and made others rich along the way - by producing things people wanted and were willing to pay for.
This is why the things that are bought and sold are called "GOODS" - they make people feel good. The buyer gets the goods, the seller gets the money - and hopefully a profit.
Corporations do this and big corporations do this on a big scale. Including corporations that are public and are owned by pension funds and unions and, well - your neighbors, maybe you, too.
They live and die in a fluctuating market, sometimes selling at a profit and sometimes not. After all, capitalism is not a PROFIT SYSTEM; it's a PROFIT AND LOSS SYSTEM.
Most of the billionaires in the USA today made their billions themselves in the last few decades. FROM NOTHING. And as they became wealthy, they created thousands of jobs and made thousands of millionaires - and enriched our lives with their products and their services.
Not Steve Jobs, or the GOOGLE guys, or Gates, or Ellison, or Musk, or Bezos, or Branson - not Buffett, not any of them. They had a vision for a new NEED in the marketplace or a new way to satisfy a demand in the marketplace.
And they didn't COVET or STEAL to make their billions; they EARNED it. Taking risks with their own money - or money they borrowed and paid back AND THEN SOME, and earning it with their own courage and sweat.
These billionaires and millionaires are to ADMIRED and not vilified.
What deserves to be vilified is the COVETOUSNESS and ENVY of the pathetic dupes and morons on the Left who have taken to the streets in the "OCCUPY WALL STREET" circus.
This is nonsense.
People get rich and corporations grow by selling something to people that they WANT to buy, and which makes them happy once they bought it. Nobody holds a gun to the head of a buyer. And the seller isn't being greedy by asking for and getting "as much as the traffic will bear" - that's what a free-marketplace IS!
People like Steve Jobs got rich - and made others rich along the way - by producing things people wanted and were willing to pay for.
This is why the things that are bought and sold are called "GOODS" - they make people feel good. The buyer gets the goods, the seller gets the money - and hopefully a profit.
Corporations do this and big corporations do this on a big scale. Including corporations that are public and are owned by pension funds and unions and, well - your neighbors, maybe you, too.
They live and die in a fluctuating market, sometimes selling at a profit and sometimes not. After all, capitalism is not a PROFIT SYSTEM; it's a PROFIT AND LOSS SYSTEM.
Most of the billionaires in the USA today made their billions themselves in the last few decades. FROM NOTHING. And as they became wealthy, they created thousands of jobs and made thousands of millionaires - and enriched our lives with their products and their services.
- FACT: 14 OF THE TOP 20 BILLIONAIRES MADE THEIR ALL THEIR BILLIONS IN THE LAST 20 YEARS. MOST, FROM NOTHING.
Not Steve Jobs, or the GOOGLE guys, or Gates, or Ellison, or Musk, or Bezos, or Branson - not Buffett, not any of them. They had a vision for a new NEED in the marketplace or a new way to satisfy a demand in the marketplace.
And they didn't COVET or STEAL to make their billions; they EARNED it. Taking risks with their own money - or money they borrowed and paid back AND THEN SOME, and earning it with their own courage and sweat.
These billionaires and millionaires are to ADMIRED and not vilified.
What deserves to be vilified is the COVETOUSNESS and ENVY of the pathetic dupes and morons on the Left who have taken to the streets in the "OCCUPY WALL STREET" circus.
2012:
ENVY AND GREED AND COVETOUSNESS ARE EVIL SINS AND THEY ARE DESTRUCTIVE.
THEY FOSTER THIEVERY AND TYRANNY - AND POVERTY.
THEY VIOLATE THE BASIC TENETS OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION ARE ANTI-AMERICAN.
IF WE WANT TO MAKE POVERTY AND TYRANNY HISTORY WE NEED TO CONVERT THE ENVIOUS LEFT INTO AN INDUSTRIOUS RIGHT.
WE CAN DO IT - ONE LEFTIST AT A TIME.
THAT'S ONE REASON WHY I BLOG
OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES CONTINUE TO ATTACK GOP AS ANTI-CONTRACEPTION
WE FIRST POSTED ON IT ON JANUARY 7TH AFTER THE STEPHANOPOULAS DEBATE WHEN HE KEPT BADGERING MITT ON THE CONDOM ISSUE:
HOT AIR TODAY:
THEY WILL FAIL WITH THIS IN 2012 AS MISERABLY AS THEY DID WITH THE "TEA PARTIERS ARE RACISTS" MEME IN 2010.
When the administration announced earlier this month that it would stick to its decision to require religiously-affiliated employers to provide their employees with insurance that covers contraception, the national Catholic reaction was, to put it mildly, less than supportive. All across the country, Catholic bishops wrote and readletters to their flocks that read, “We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law.”
Today, a CNSNews.com reporter asked Nancy Pelosi whether she would stand with her fellow Catholics and oppose the law or whether she would stand with the administration and support it. The former Speaker of the House responded with this doozy:
THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE AN ISSUE OUT OF THIS - AND ALL "REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE" ISSUES - BECAUSE THEY THINK IT WILL MOBILIZE THEIR BASE.“First of all, I am going to stick with my fellow Catholics in supporting the administration on this. I think it was a very courageous decision that they made, and I support it.”
THEY WILL FAIL WITH THIS IN 2012 AS MISERABLY AS THEY DID WITH THE "TEA PARTIERS ARE RACISTS" MEME IN 2010.
IS IRAN ABOUT TO TEST A NUCLEAR BOMB?
Khamenei then claimed the current century as the century of Islam and promised that human history is on the verge of a great event and that soon the world will realize the power of Allah.IMHO: THE ONLY THING THAT THIS COULD BE IS EITHER A TEST OF A NUKE OR THE USE OF A NUKE.
STAY TUNED...
UPDATE:
Here's what I suspect: the Iranians bought a North Korean nuclear bomb and plan to explode it underground and then claim it was one of theirs and thereby win deterrence.
TRUTH: Civilian labor force tumbled to a fresh 30 year low of 63.7%
FACT: "civilian labor force tumbled to a fresh 30 year low of 63.7%".
FACT: OBAMA IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT SINCE THE DEPRESSION TO HAVE THE CIVILIAN LABOR DECLINE DURING HIS PRESIDENCY.
REPEAT: OBAMA IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT SINCE THE DEPRESSION TO HAVE THE CIVILIAN LABOR DECLINE DURING HIS PRESIDENCY.
REPEAT: OBAMA IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT SINCE THE DEPRESSION TO HAVE THE CIVILIAN LABOR DECLINE DURING HIS PRESIDENCY.
FACT: OBAMA IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT SINCE THE DEPRESSION TO HAVE THE CIVILIAN LABOR DECLINE DURING HIS PRESIDENCY.
REPEAT: OBAMA IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT SINCE THE DEPRESSION TO HAVE THE CIVILIAN LABOR DECLINE DURING HIS PRESIDENCY.
REPEAT: OBAMA IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT SINCE THE DEPRESSION TO HAVE THE CIVILIAN LABOR DECLINE DURING HIS PRESIDENCY.
2012: SOROS VERSUS THE KOCH BROTHERS?
THAT'S THE WAY IT SEEMS.
BUT OBAMA & SOROS VERSUS MITT & KOCH REALLY BOILS DOWN TO SOCIALISTS & COLLECTIVISTS VERSUS CAPITALISTS & INDIVIDUALISTS.
OBAMA WAS RAISED IN INDONESIA. SOROS IS A EUROPEAN - AND THEIR WORLDVIEW IS DECIDEDLY TRANS-NATIONALIST.
MITT AND THE KOCH'S ARE 100% AMERICAN - AND SO ARE THEIR TENETS.
OBAMA AND SOROS WILL TAKE US FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM - AND OVER THE CLIFF EUROPE IS TEETERING ON RIGHT NOW.
MITT AND THE KOCH'S CAN TURN US AROUND.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY!
BUT OBAMA & SOROS VERSUS MITT & KOCH REALLY BOILS DOWN TO SOCIALISTS & COLLECTIVISTS VERSUS CAPITALISTS & INDIVIDUALISTS.
OBAMA WAS RAISED IN INDONESIA. SOROS IS A EUROPEAN - AND THEIR WORLDVIEW IS DECIDEDLY TRANS-NATIONALIST.
OBAMA AND SOROS WILL TAKE US FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM - AND OVER THE CLIFF EUROPE IS TEETERING ON RIGHT NOW.
MITT AND THE KOCH'S CAN TURN US AROUND.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY!
THE LEFT'S BIG LIES MAKE THEM GINORMOUS DENIERS
- THE LEFT LIES ABOUT CO2 AND GLOBAL WARMING, AND DENIES THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
- THE LEFT LIES ABOUT ISRAELI APARTHEID, AND DENIES THAT IRAN AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PRESENT EXISTENTIAL THREATS TO THE WEST.
- THE LEFT LIES ABOUT REPUBLICANS TRYING TO BRING BACK THE JIM CROW ERA (DURING WHICH TIME THE DEMOCRATS WERE RUNNING THE KKK), AND DENIES THAT VOTER FRAUD EVEN EXISTS.
- THE LEFT LIES ABOUT GROWING INCOME INEQUALITY - WHICH HASN'T CHANGED SINCE 1986, AND DENIES THAT HIGHER TAXES AND MORE REGULATIONS STIFLE ECONOMIC GROWTH.
- THE LEFT LIES ABOUT THE RICH WHEN THEY SAY THEY AREN'T PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE; THE RICH PAY A HIGHER SHARE OF INCOME TAXES NOW THAN BEFORE GW BUSH, AND AMERICA'S INCOME TAX IS AMONG THE MOST "PROGRESSIVE" IN THE ENTIRE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD.
Islamists in Argentina Join Leftists in Demonstration against British in Falkland Islands
Daily Mail:
Mob: Hoards of protestors wraped in Argentine flags and football shorts chant as they watch the Union Jack burn on the streets of Buenos Aires yesterday
Argentine thugs vow to attack a British business every week as 'pirate prince' William arrives in Falklands for tour of duty
BP and Unilever braced for violence after anarchists circulate 'hit list'
Boycott British firms in protest at presence of 'pirate prince', say militants
Pledge comes after Mob attack branch of HSBC Bank in the capital
- HMS Dauntless will set sail for the South Atlantic, says MoD
Mob: Hoards of protestors wraped in Argentine flags and football shorts chant as they watch the Union Jack burn on the streets of Buenos Aires yesterday
Thursday, February 02, 2012
RUTH BADER-GINSBURG SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR SLANDERING THE US CONSTITUTION
WHAT PROGRESSIVE RUTH BADER-GINSBURG TOLD EGYPTIANS ON EGYPTIAN TV(MEMRI VIA VLAD):
You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II. I would not look to the US constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary? It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recent than the US constitution ? Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It dates from 1982. You would almost certainly look at the European Convention on Human Rights. Yes, why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?AS VLAD WROTE: Unfreakingbelieveable.
IF SHE HAS NO FAITH IN THE CONSTITUTION, THEN SHE HAS NO BUSINESS BEING A JUDGE ON THE COURT.
SHE SWORE AN OATH TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND THE US CONSTITUTION, BUT HERE SHE IS DEROGATING IT - TO FOREIGNERS... PUBLICLY, NO LESS!
IF SHE DOESN'T RESIGN, THEN SHE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.
UPDATE: WE SCOOPED HOT AIR ON THIS.
OBAMA'S LAST THREE CHANCES TO WIN RE-ELECTION
ACTUALLY, HE MUST DO AT LEAST TWO OUT OF THE THREE FOLLOWING THINGS:
HE'S PROBABLY PRAYING 5x A DAY THAT ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN - SO HE CAN BLAME THEM FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT.
- BOMB IRAN
- NAME HILLARY VEEP
- CONVERT TO JUDAISM
HE'S PROBABLY PRAYING 5x A DAY THAT ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN - SO HE CAN BLAME THEM FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT.
AP WIRE OPPOSES NYPD'S SURVEILLANCE AT MOSQUES
The AP Wire is trying to undermine the war on terror and efforts to keep NYC safe with this latest article of theirs:
Here's where the article really turns into bias:
If it hadn't been for the NYPD's efforts, the Big Apple might have fallen into more serious danger by jihadists. The AP clearly does not appreciate their efforts, nor do they want any genuine safety provided for the public.
The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document.The AP makes it sound like they haven't read the Koran, and the news agency clearly has no interest in researching it.
The document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of NYPD intelligence officers and how, when looking for potential threats, they focused their spying efforts on mosques and Muslims. Police analysts listed a dozen mosques from central Connecticut to the Philadelphia suburbs. None has been linked to terrorism, either in the document or publicly by federal agencies.
The Associated Press has reported for months that the NYPD infiltrated mosques, eavesdropped in cafes and monitored Muslim neighborhoods with plainclothes officers. Its spying operations were begun after the 2001 terror attacks with help from the CIA in a highly unusual partnership.
The May 2006 NYPD intelligence report, entitled "US-Iran Conflict: The Threat to New York City," made a series of recommendations, including: "Expand and focus intelligence collections at Shi'a mosques."
Here's where the article really turns into bias:
The NYPD is prohibited under its own guidelines and city law from basing its investigations on religion. Under FBI guidelines, which the NYPD says it follows, many of the recommendations in the police document would be prohibited.And assuming the above is true, the guidelines cannot be changed, lest even some Scientologists start really going bananas and the authorities don't know how to deal with it in advance?
The report, drawn largely from information available in newspapers or sites like Wikipedia, was prepared for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. It was written at a time of great tension between the U.S. and Iran. That tension over Iran's nuclear ambition has increased again recently.It's clear that the AP is trying to undermine the NYPD and Kelly, and that's why he and they need some backing from the public now. The claim the report was drawn from papers and Wikipedia sounds like it was intentionally written to make the police look like they weren't researching properly, which is ironic coming from a mainstream news company that's unlikely to respond to criticism that it's biased against civilized society and beliefs.
Police estimated the New York area Shiite population to be about 35,000, with Iranians making up about 8,500. The document also calls for canvassing the Palestinian community because there might be terrorists there.
"The Palestinian community, although not Shi'a, should also be assessed due to presence of Hamas members and sympathizers and the group's relationship with the Iranian government," analysts wrote.
The secret document stands in contrast to statements by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said the NYPD never considers religion in its policing. Kelly has said police go only where investigative leads take them, but the document described no leads to justify expanded surveillance at Shiite mosques.
The document also renews debate over how the NYPD privately views Muslims. Kelly has faced calls for his resignation recently from some Muslim activists for participating in a video that says Muslims want to "infiltrate and dominate" the United States. The NYPD showed the video to nearly 1,500 officers during training.
If it hadn't been for the NYPD's efforts, the Big Apple might have fallen into more serious danger by jihadists. The AP clearly does not appreciate their efforts, nor do they want any genuine safety provided for the public.
JUST SAYING...
The only thing worse than jihadists and their leftist enablers are jihadists and leftist enablers who call me an islamophobic neocon.
Shoe and stone throwing greet the UN convoy in Gaza
Ban Ki-Moon's convoy, on their visit to Gaza today, received quite a welcome from the Islamists they're so obsessed with appeasing:
Dozens of Palestinians threw shoes, sticks and stones at U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's convoy as it crossed into the Gaza Strip on Thursday, protesting against what they saw as a slight against Palestinians jailed in Israel.How about that; he sees nothing wrong with Islamists carrying on with that dismal belief that shoe-throwing is an insult, and no matter how much they might despise him, he's still willing to be a dhimmi.
No one was injured during the hostile welcome and the vehicles, which crossed into the Hamas-ruled territory from southern Israel, pushed through the crowd and sped away.
Ban is visiting the region to try to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
"I thank the people of Gaza for the warm welcome," he told a news conference, provoking laughter among local journalists. "I met many people who were waiting for me at the entrance."
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
CATALAN TERRORISTS LAUNCH 8 ROCKETS INTO SPAIN. EU, UN, OBAMA AND RUSSIA DEMAND SPAIN NOT RETALIATE
OH. SORRY. IT WASN'T CATALANS OR SPAIN.
IT WAS GAZANS AND ISRAEL. GAZANS LAUNCHED 8 ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL.
ISRAEL IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHICH IS EXPECTED TO DO NOTHING - (OR MERELY REACT "PROPORTIONATELY") - IN THE FACE OF VIOLENT GENOCIDAL ATTACKS LAUNCHED BY BEASTS COMMITTED TO ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION.
OTHER NATIONS ARE FREE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AS THEY SEE FIT WHEN THEY ARE ATTACKED.
PEOPLE WHO HOLD JEWS AND ISRAEL TO DIFFERENT STANDARDS -ONES WHICH MAKE THE LIVES OF JEWS AND ISRAELIS BITTER - ARE ANTISEMITES.
IT WAS GAZANS AND ISRAEL. GAZANS LAUNCHED 8 ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL.
ISRAEL IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHICH IS EXPECTED TO DO NOTHING - (OR MERELY REACT "PROPORTIONATELY") - IN THE FACE OF VIOLENT GENOCIDAL ATTACKS LAUNCHED BY BEASTS COMMITTED TO ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION.
OTHER NATIONS ARE FREE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AS THEY SEE FIT WHEN THEY ARE ATTACKED.
PEOPLE WHO HOLD JEWS AND ISRAEL TO DIFFERENT STANDARDS -ONES WHICH MAKE THE LIVES OF JEWS AND ISRAELIS BITTER - ARE ANTISEMITES.
FEARLESS ANN COULTER ONCE AGAIN BRAVELY SPEAKS THE TRUTH - THIS TIME ABOUT ROMNEYCARE
COULTER DID NOT JUMP THE SHARK: Everything Coulter says about Romneycare and the mandate is factually true.
COULTER:
In 2007, when Romneycare became law, the federal government alone was already picking up the tab for 45.4 percent of all health care expenditures in the country.
Until Obamacare, mandatory private health insurance was considered the free-market alternative to the Democrats' piecemeal socialization of the entire medical industry.
In November 2004, for example, libertarian Ronald Bailey praised mandated private health insurance in Reason magazine, saying that it "could preserve and extend the advantages of a free market with a minimal amount of coercion."
A leading conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, helped design Romneycare, and its health care analyst, Bob Moffit, flew to Boston for the bill signing.
Romneycare was also supported by Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School professor and health policy analyst for the conservative Manhattan Institute. Herzlinger praised Romneycare for making consumers, not business or government, the primary purchasers of health care.
The state mandate makes people who can afford to pay for their own insurance buy it or pay for their healthcare. This is better than having third parties pay via taxes. And, it is consistent with conservative principles. Which is why The Heritage Foundation supported it - as did the Manhattan Institute.And Romneycare's 70 pages did not micromanage the healthcare industry like Obamacare's 2700 pages. And states are constitutionally permitted to do what Romneycare does. And Romney has said that healthcare is a state issue and that both medicare and medicaid should be blockgrants to the states. And all of this is consistent with conservative principles.
Coulter is right on the principles and the history.
I'll take her over all of the Newtnuts and Paultards.
She is a real conservative - unlike Newt or Paul.
And she is fearless: She speaks the truth to everyone - regardless of who might not like it.
I THINK STATES HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO WHAT MASSACHUSETTS DID.
(MARK LEVIN MUST AGREE BECAUSE HIS LANDMARK LEGAL FOUNDATION HAS NEVER CHALLENGED ROMNEYCARE IN COURT.)
OBAMACARE PREEMPTS THIS RIGHT.
PEOPLE WHO HATE OBAMACARE SHOULD VOTE FOR MITT BECAUSE OF ROMNEYCARE - AND HOW IT PROVES OBAMACARE IS OVER-REACHING BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - AND NOT SHUN MITT BECAUSE OF IT.
Newt's southern success: The Astute Bloggers scoops the GREAT Jay Cost and The Weekly Standard by a day
JAY COST TODAY (AND HE GOT MEGA-LINKS FOR IT, TOO!):
Something like that might be going on here – with Southerners simply being more comfortable with the Speaker of the House from Georgia rather than the governor from Massachusetts, even though both claim to be conservative and have very little space between them in terms of policy proposals. The opposite looks to be holding true in the North.TAB YESTERDAY:
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
NEWT'S FLORIDA SHOWING PROVES HE ONLY HAS A VERY NARROW GEOGRAPHICAL BASE
NEWT HANDILY WON SC AND DID VERY WELL IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA - BOTH PLACES THAT BORDER ON HIS OLD HOMESTEAD, GEORGIA.
IN IOWA AND IN NH AND IN THE REST OF FLORIDA NEWT HAS DONE POORLY.
ON TOP OF THAT HE HAS A LOUSY NATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND IS A LOUSY MANAGER.
SO NEWT REALLY HASN'T GOT A PRAYER.REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP ALL THE BIGGIES REGULARLY.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, BLOGROLL US, BOOKMARK US AND FOLLOW US.
NEWT ABOUT TO BE ENDORSED BY ANOTHER CASINO MOGUL!?!? AND IN NEVADA, NO LESS!
FIRST, CASINO MOGUL ADELSON GAVE NEWT $10MILLION BUCKS.
NOW REPORTS THAT TRUMP P ANOTHER BIG CASINO OWNER - WILL ENDORSE HIM.
IT'S A LOVELY GROUP REALLY: TWO CASINO OWNERS ENDORSING A SERIAL ADULTERER WHO ADMITTED LYING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS COMMITTEE.
THESE SLEAZEBALLS DESERVE EACH OTHER.
WE DESERVE BETTER!
UPDATE: What does the NEWT-TRUMP alliance endorse in an abstract sense? Two blowhard big mouths who will say anything to get attention, so I guess this alliance is itself an endorsement of bullying.
NOW REPORTS THAT TRUMP P ANOTHER BIG CASINO OWNER - WILL ENDORSE HIM.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT NEWT THAT ATTRACTS SUCH DEVOTION FROM FOLKS WHO PROFITEER FROM GAMBLING?
IT'S A LOVELY GROUP REALLY: TWO CASINO OWNERS ENDORSING A SERIAL ADULTERER WHO ADMITTED LYING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS COMMITTEE.
THESE SLEAZEBALLS DESERVE EACH OTHER.
WE DESERVE BETTER!
UPDATE: What does the NEWT-TRUMP alliance endorse in an abstract sense? Two blowhard big mouths who will say anything to get attention, so I guess this alliance is itself an endorsement of bullying.
ANOTHER OWS DEMONSTRATOR HAS BEEN EXPOSED AS A LYING SACK OF CRAP AND A FRAUD - AND NOT AN IRAQ WAR VETERAN AT ALL
HIS STORY WAS TOO GOOD TO CHECK:
BUT NOW HE HAS BEEN EXPOSED AND THE STORY RETRACTED BY APR'S MARKETPLACE:
THIS HAPPENS A LOT BECAUSE THE LEFTISTS DOMINATING THE LEGACY MEDIA HAVE MANY BIASES LIKE THIS, AND OFTEN RUN STORIES THAT ARE TOO GOOD TO CHECK FROM THEIR POV, AND OFTEN TURN OUT TO BE TOTAL BS.
THAT'S WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS DOUBLE-CHECK ANYTHING YOU READ ABOUT IN THE LEGACY MEDIA THAT PERFECTLY ILLUSTRATES WHY ANY PART OF LEFTIST IDEOLOGY OR LEFT-WING POLICIES ARE GOOD.
IF THEY SHOW LEFTISM WORKS, THEN THEY'RE PROBABLY BASED ON A SACKFUL OF LIES AND DISTORTIONS.
BUT NOW HE HAS BEEN EXPOSED AND THE STORY RETRACTED BY APR'S MARKETPLACE:
Editor’s Note: A commentary by Leo Webb, ”Returning veteran has few marketable skills,” prompted questions from listeners about Webb’s account of his service as an Army sniper in Iraq. A subsequent investigation found that the Army has no record of Webb. Webb also said he pitched for a Chicago Cubs minor-league team. Inquiries to the Cubs and to Minor League Baseball found no record of Webb. Marketplace has an obligation to provide accurate information. That was not met in this commentary. It has been retracted and the text and audio have been removed from the web site.THE LEFTIST DOMINATED LEGACY MEDIA HATES THE MILITARY AND VETERANS AND ARE OFTEN DUPES FOR LEFTIST SCUM WHO POSE AS VETERANS IN ORDER TO LANDER THE MILITARY.
THIS HAPPENS A LOT BECAUSE THE LEFTISTS DOMINATING THE LEGACY MEDIA HAVE MANY BIASES LIKE THIS, AND OFTEN RUN STORIES THAT ARE TOO GOOD TO CHECK FROM THEIR POV, AND OFTEN TURN OUT TO BE TOTAL BS.
THAT'S WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS DOUBLE-CHECK ANYTHING YOU READ ABOUT IN THE LEGACY MEDIA THAT PERFECTLY ILLUSTRATES WHY ANY PART OF LEFTIST IDEOLOGY OR LEFT-WING POLICIES ARE GOOD.
IF THEY SHOW LEFTISM WORKS, THEN THEY'RE PROBABLY BASED ON A SACKFUL OF LIES AND DISTORTIONS.
Right-to-work Red States saved the US economy
2011 again saw right-to-work states significantly outperform those which are not.
... if it weren’t for the states where Republican governors are applying common sense solutions to fiscal and economic problems, along with most of the states where getting many jobs doesn’t require you to pay union dues, the economic “recovery,” such as it is, would be somewhere between awfully weak to nonexistent.
Yet Washington’s Democrats, led by the president, continue to insist on applying baked-over versions of the policy choices which have left the country as a whole feeling blue during his three years in office.RTWT - AND CHECK OUT THE CHARTS.
- CONSERVATIVE POLICIES HELP GROWTH AND PROSPERITY;
- DEMOCRAT POLICIES HURT GROWTH AND PROSPERITY.
AL QAEDA PLANS TERROR AGAINST LONDON EXCHANGE!
Four British men, allegedly linked to al Qaeda, have admitted to planning an attack against the London Financial Center.
At the same time European politicians are mounting a concerted attack on the City of London, and the rest of Europes financial centers. And this assault is far more dangerous and more likely to succeed. The Bureaucrats of Brussels are putting together a new financial arrangement that is intended to save the economy of europe from collapse.
This entire crisis - that few fully understand and even fewer try to explain - is being used as a pretext for the apparatcthniks to grab more power for Government instead of solving the problem. The silver bullet of this plan, according to the social engineers of Brussels, is a Tobin tax on financial transactions. This tax is intended to limit "speculation" and will generate funds that the Government will use to create jobs. It really is the equivalent of the post-1929 crash protectionism that exacerbated the Great Depression! The financial markets will not stop - they will move their transactions to other markets and increase their bets to compensate for their losses.
But all this debate is smoke and mirrors. All the while politicians are repeating their mantra that it is the financial markets that created this crisis and that Government needs to seize control. Unless someone questions this paradigm the man on the street will believe it's all Wall Streets fault. The fact is everyone - consumers, banks, and especially Government - willingly participated in the the exuberant expansion that preceded the crash. It is Government that grew too large. It is Government that enabled the emergence of dubious financial instruments.
When will European politicians find solutions instead of new taxes? Maybe never...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
NEWT'S FLORIDA SHOWING PROVES HE ONLY HAS A VERY NARROW GEOGRAPHICAL BASE
NEWT HANDILY WON SC AND DID VERY WELL IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA - BOTH PLACES THAT BORDER ON HIS OLD HOMESTEAD, GEORGIA.
IN IOWA AND IN NH AND IN THE REST OF FLORIDA NEWT HAS DONE POORLY.
ON TOP OF THAT HE HAS A LOUSY NATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND IS A LOUSY MANAGER.
SO NEWT REALLY HASN'T GOT A PRAYER.
AND ANOTHER THING:
IF HIS BOSOM-BUDDY ADELSON HADN'T GIVEN HIM $10 MILLION BUCKS LAST WEEK, HE WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN DONE AS WELL AS HE DID.
NEWT SHOULD WITHDRAW.
AND WHERE ARE THE MEDICAL RECORDS THAT THIS 68 AND OVERWEIGHT SLEAZEBALL PROMISED HE'D RELEASE!? WE'RE WAITING, NEWT!
IN IOWA AND IN NH AND IN THE REST OF FLORIDA NEWT HAS DONE POORLY.
ON TOP OF THAT HE HAS A LOUSY NATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND IS A LOUSY MANAGER.
SO NEWT REALLY HASN'T GOT A PRAYER.
AND ANOTHER THING:
IF HIS BOSOM-BUDDY ADELSON HADN'T GIVEN HIM $10 MILLION BUCKS LAST WEEK, HE WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN DONE AS WELL AS HE DID.
NEWT SHOULD WITHDRAW.
AND WHERE ARE THE MEDICAL RECORDS THAT THIS 68 AND OVERWEIGHT SLEAZEBALL PROMISED HE'D RELEASE!? WE'RE WAITING, NEWT!
NEWT IS A BULLY AND A SORE SPORT
HE DIDN'T CALL MITT TO CONGRATULATE HIM ON HIS FLORIDA VICTORY.
MORE PROOF THAT NEWT IS TEMPERAMENTALLY UNFIT FOR THE HIGH OFFICE HE SEEKS.
MORE PROOF THAT NEWT IS TEMPERAMENTALLY UNFIT FOR THE HIGH OFFICE HE SEEKS.
GUARANTEED NOT HALAL - MORMON EDITION
THE FAMOUS GALS IN THIS FIRST GROUP ARE ALL MORMONS TO THIS DAY:
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MORMONS REVERE WHAT CHRISTIANS CALL THE OLD TESTAMENT - AND THEY ENDEAVOR TO LIVE MORAL AND PRODUCTIVE LIVES IN GOD-FEARING COMMUNITIES. AND THEY'RE HOT. THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME!
AND THEY PROSELYTIZE IN A MELLOW WAY.
UNLIKE OUR FOES WHO USE SEXUAL COERCION AND SLAVERY TO MAKE CHRISTIAN WOMEN CONVERT TO ISLAM.
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