My SIL sent me an email and a link to Free Republic. As strange as this sound, this site is still openly advocating treason against the United States of America.
Notice to Obama, Democrats and any Republicans foolish enough to vote for ObamaCare!
The unlawful federal government’s takeover of the financial, banking and insurance industries was just a prelude to the planned complete unconstitutional Marxist takeover of all of America.
Your nearly trillion dollar per month spending habits have bankrupted our country. You’re running up our taxes and the national debt, saddling future generations with enslaving burdens of taxes and debt that they can never repay.
You’ve taken over car manufacturing companies, illegally wiping out the stockholders, bondholders and distributors and awarding the remaining assets to the labor unions or other political cronies of your choice.
You are wasting trillions of our hard earned dollars on foolish and ill advised so-called attempts to stimulate the economy, but are actually being used to reward political cronies, criminal political organizations like ACORN, government employee unions, entrenched government employees, corrupt government officials, etc.
Your administrations, departments, agencies, bureaucracies and congressional offices are fraught with crime, graft, bribery, corruption, waste, ineptitude, incompetence and worse.
Your planned destruction of the oil, gas, coal and energy producing sectors will cripple our economy, raise costs for every product and service manufactured, provided, transported, or delivered in our nation.
Your idiotic socialist policies will increase our taxes, increase our costs at the wholesale and retail levels, bankrupt our businesses small and large, drive up unemployment, drive up foreclosures, drive up personal bankruptcies, cause banks to fail, drive up unemployment and entitlement costs and make it all but impossible for city, state and local governments to provide basic services.
Your incompetent, ill advised and cowardly foreign policies, international agreements to weaken our defense systems while at the same time crippling our heavy manufacturing, raw goods, transportation systems and our economy in general are making our nation a sweet target for our enemies who wish to destroy us.
And now you want to takeover our health care industry. You want to control our health insurance industry to the point that government has a monopoly. Drive out all private insurance and private health care providers. You want government bureaucrats making our personal health care decisions for us. You want government bureaucrats to make life and death decisions for us, determine who is worthy to receive health care and who should be allowed or even encouraged to die.
Well, sirs. This is the end of the line. The free American people will not allow this tyranny to stand!
Vote yea on this bill, sign it, try to enforce it and you are signing a declaration of war on we the people of the United States of America.
Advise you dust off and study the Declaration of Independence dated In Congress, July 4, 1776 to learn your fate.
Fill your hands you sons of bitches!
Rebellion is brewing!
DONT TREAD ON ME!!
My name is Jim Robinson and I approve this message.
Hopefully, this will not be the next thread that Free Republic must scrub because they are openly advocating murder and assassination. This is another one to send as a hot tip to the FBI and Homeland Security.
Grover Norquist and the American Conservative Union have been caught in a payola scheme, showing once and for all that they are nothing more than whores whose only principle is money.
Exclusive: Conservative group offers endorsement for $2M
The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then the group’s president flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors. (Note that Mr. Keene writes a weekly column that appears in The Hill.)”
The conservative group’s remarkable demand — black-and-white proof of the longtime Washington practice known as “pay for play” — was contained in a private letter to FedEx , which was provided to POLITICO.
The letter exposes the practice by some political interest groups of taking stands not for reasons of pure principle, as their members and supporters might assume, but also in part because a sponsor is paying big money.
People bring things to my attention. The most recent is “Accuracy in the Media,” a right wing blog that appears to define “Accuracy” as whatever lie they an get away with. They have a post by a man named Hilmar von Campe whose book “Defeating the Totalitarian Lie” is clearly being pushed by this website. The premise of Mr. Von Campe’s blog is stated in this quote:
The national Socialist ideology was built on lies-the most important being that that there is no God.
Mr. von Campe tries to convince us that Germany under Hitler was a Godless regime. The truth of course is exactly the opposite of his claims. Hugh Heclo, Religion and Public Policy, ) Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke in “The Occult Roots of Nazism” and many others show that the Nazi State and the people who lived under it were very much a creation of their religion. Religion, whether Catholic, Lutheran, or other protestant faith occupied the status of state religions. (Martin Luther was a rabid anti-semite as shown by his writings.) The state collected church taxes and gave those funds to the churches. This information is easy to find, a few hours work on the computer followed by a few hours at a library will suffice to show the absolute lie that Mr. von Campe and “Accuracy in the Media” are attempting to perpetrate. If there should be a totalitarian pusch that overthrows the government of the US, it will be applauded and supported by these people.
My first thought, don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. Palin resigns as governor, leaves plans secret
Still, I wonder why. I mean, if she wants to run for President, quitting in the middle of her biggest job because she could not stand the heat doesn’t look good. Well, it doesn’t look good to me. At Redstate.org, she is just moving on to get ready. No one asks will she just quit in the middle of a Presidency if she should win in 2012? Over at Free Republic they have that same kind of adulation.
Is there a big old scandal coming down the pipes? I she resigning because she is facing a criminal indictment? Is she just a wimp. This is a story to be watched.
T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. (There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch) was coined by Robert Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. The phrase passed from fiction to fandom to physics to economics and even Libertarians. The concepts origin goes back to the 30’s and 40’s when bars would advertise a “Free Lunch” but you had to by drinks, and the lunch was added to the drinks. Heinlein’s lunar colonists used to describe a concept as essential to economics as it is to physics. Nothing in the universe is free. There are costs in everything, and more often than not, they are hidden. It comes about as close to describing the Libertarian idea of a man’s relation to government as it is possible to get. T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. reveals that any government benefit comes only at a cost of freedom. Balancing the two, even in the ideal government, is difficult on a short term and impossible in the long term.
That is something that we all should think about in these times, even if like me you are not a Libertarian. What do we get from anything, be it a pet, a shiny new car, a functioning economy, or a shiny new government benefit? What will it cost us, in the short term and long term? Does the cost outweigh the benefits?
T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L., the concept, is something we should all think about as we read through the news. Every one of history’s acts is the product of T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. Somebody, probably you and me, are paying for it. We will not know the cost until long after the last bill comes due. But just because something is expensive and loaded with hidden costs, to our wallet or even some freedom, doesn’t me we should not buy it. It just means we should be aware of what we are buying.
I’m not feeling newsy today, nor opinionated (at least anymore opinionated that usual). but I am in blogging frame of mind. Today, I’ll choose a scatergun technique.
Cool gray Mist / Blankets Van Dam Peak / Cries Dew on Leaf / Draws tear trails down glass / Morning – M. Frank Darbe 5.29.2009
Occassionally, I do listen to music in other languages. My wife, Eva, introduced me to this, and I am thinking of her…
This was sent by Kathy… OK, Just a little opinion…
I grew up with the space race, with astronauts. In my Grandpa’s house, I sat on a small red stool (really just a foot stool) nearest the television. Through clouds of fragrant, swirling, Prince Alber tobaco smoke I wathed Armstrong, Aldrin, and others go up as Spam in a Can and visit a swirling chunk of rock that lovers kiss under on warm summer nights. The shuttle is going away and because our government went on a Capitalist Bender that did not recognize how important space is, the Shuttle is closing up shop and we are hiring the Russian Taxi Drivers to get us where we need to go.
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian space agency says it has signed a $306 million deal with NASA to ferry its astronauts to the international space station in 2012.
Roscosmos said Friday the agreement covers four launches aboard the three-person Soyuz capsules to swap out crews in the orbiting laboratory.
NASA said Russia would supply comprehensive support for six NASA crew members taking part in long-duration missions.
Considering a Movement of Non-Violent Non-Compliance to End the War in Iraq/Afghanistan, Divest the United States of Empire, return power to the hands of the people, and Bring Peace and Stability to the U.S.A.
Liberals are in disarray after their willing seduction and abandonment by the Pragmatists of the Centrist Branch of the Democratic Party led by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, DNC Chairman Tim Kaine and other “Leaders” of the National Democratic Party. Many people searching in the blogosphere and living in the atmosphere will find that statement ludicrous. A party in disarray should be on the run from their enemies. The Democratic Party in is not in shambles, but the grass roots of one of its constituencies, that being the liberal left, finds itself half in the wilderness and half linked by an umbilicus of belief to a party that uses them for elections and forgets in the pragmatics of governing.
The Liberal Left that came out in force for Barack Obama, seeing him as the man of the hour who would carry the standard of peace for a desperate world, now find him a disinterested peacemaker. Obama has declared an end to the adventure in Iraq while charging willfully into the wilderness of Afghanistan. The war does not end, it only moves to a different location. Obama has not ended the Don’t Ask Don’t’Tell policy designed to enforce societal concepts that gays and lesbians as lesser human beings. He has resisted holding the Bush Administration responsible for violations of law and even protected them by reneging on the promise to release torture photographs. In his acceptance of the CIA’s just following orders defense used at the Nuremberg trials he has become an accessory after the fact to torture, and complicit in torture. All of these actions are abominable by the left.
News happens every day whether we want it or not. It’s been a while since I rounded up the information dogies. So without further ado about nothing…
The first story that caught my eye was this bit of reasearch into Autism. There has been a tendancy to blame autism on childhood inoculations. Parents have gone so far as to opt out of these for fear that their child will go autistic. Finding a genetic cause does not support the drug cause theory, but may open science to treatement.
A Genetic Clue to Why Autism Affects Boys More
Among the many mysteries that befuddle autism researchers: why the disorder affects boys four times more often than girls. But in new findings reported online today by the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers say they have found a genetic clue that may help explain the disparity.
The newly discovered autism-risk gene, identified by authors as CACNA1G, is more common in boys than in girls (why that’s so is still not clear), and the authors suggest it plays a role in boys’ increased risk of the developmental disorder. CACNA1G, which sits on chromosome 17, amid other genes that have been previously linked to autism, is responsible for regulating the flow of calcium into and out of cells. Nerve cells in the brain rely on calcium to become activated, and research suggests that imbalances in the mineral can result in the overstimulation of neural connections and create developmental problems, such as autism and even epilepsy, which is also a common feature of autism.
News on the nomination of a New Justice to the Supreme Court…
I am curious about the process that other writers use? I used to write as the bug bit me. Now, I have set up a regular schedule, like work actually that makes me more productive as a writer.
I write every weekday morning after dropping my kids off at school, writing a 1666 words a day on a new project. It usually takes me a max of an hour and a half. Saturday’s and Sundays I set aside time every day to edit existing work. I know, editing is writing, but it uses different talents. I read through 2500 to 5000 words in an editing session, every day. (Note, at this time I am unemployed and finishing my degree in English literature. While working as a technical write, I only managed 1000 words a day and about 2000 edited words.
It appears that the defection of Arlen Specter continues to send waves. I think the Club for Growth is the symptom of the problem. Republican conservatives have championed ideological purity and Americans have turned their back, at least temporarily, on that message. But they are only the fiscal side, another big segment of the Republican Conservative Coalition is the religious right with their own litmus test of Christianity. This may have worked well when Americans were focused and frightened of an outside threat. But Republicans, always happy to claim 9/11 changed everything, did not notice that the Great Recession, brought about by their own fiscal policies, has changed everything.
Republicans feud over Specter
Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch and George Voinovich blamed the Club for Growth for imposing a right-wing litmus test that chased Arlen Specter out of the Republican Party. The Club for Growth blamed Specter — first for helping to ruin the GOP and then for leaving it. A leading Republican strategist blamed the party for turning its back on moderates. Sen. Lindsey Graham sniped at Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. Specter’s pollster blamed the stimulus bill. Karl Rove blamed Specter himself.
And the National Republican Senatorial Committee set about trying to taint Specter among Pennsylvania Democrats by reminding them that he was once aligned with Republican President George W. Bush.
In the nasty game of Who Lost Specter, only Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell seemed to go unscathed — although his pain will come as he tries to lead a caucus that is likely to be too small to stand in the way of anything the Democrats want to do.
The majority of Americans are no longer concerned with the theoretical threat of Al Qaida or Muslim Barbarians at the Gates. They are concerned with existential threat of loosing their homes, their livelihoods, and their money backed way of life. The borrow and spend, deregulate now policies of Republicans failed. Reaganomics failed. The collapse of the economy has changed everything and they are not ready for it.
A second change Republicans were not ready for was Obama. Obama, himself is just a symptom of deep changes in the American electorate. The young are rising to assert their power and they voted for Obama. In a huge majority they oppose the demonetization of gays and the strict Christian religious experience. Hispanics are rising to assert their power, and Republican fear tactics attacking illegal aliens alienated Hispanics.
Finally, Republicans have not come to grips with the historic flip that occurred in 2006. They don’t understand why they lost or why their message no longer resonates. Rather than try find a message that works they have attempted to purify themselves. That is what the Whigs did, and few people in the US of A even remember the Whigs.
Considering a Movement of Non-Violent Non-Compliance to End the War in Iraq/Afghanistan, Divest the United States of Empire, return power to the hands of the people, and Bring Peace and Stability to the U.S.A.