It
is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably
precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence
never to practice either of them.
. . . Mark Twain
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Econ 101 -- a Simple Lesson
U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let’s now
remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget. Annual family income:
$21,700
Money the
family spends: $38,200
New debt on
the credit card: $16,500
Outstanding
balance on the credit card: $142,710
Total budget
cuts: $385
Monday, May 21, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Ironic, Isn't It?
The
Secret Service scandal was discovered when a disagreement on how much a
prostitute wanted for her services came to light.
She
demanded $800 . . . the Secret Service Agent offered $30.
How
ironic is it that the only person in Washington willing to cut spending
gets fired?
Race War Raging . . . But Media and Public Authorities Hope Public Will Join Them In Ignoring It
A race war is in progress and rapidly expanding in the U.S. but the nation's media and public officials are ignoring it, hoping it will go away by itself if nobody notices the raging conflict.
Read this account by the estimable and always erudite Thomas Sowell.
Then consider the following horrific account which received scant notice when it occurred just a few years ago:
Read this account by the estimable and always erudite Thomas Sowell.
Then consider the following horrific account which received scant notice when it occurred just a few years ago:
The Victims
Their Attackers
The animals pictured above car-jacked then raped Christopher Newsom, cut off his penis, set him on fire and fatally shot him several times while they forced his girlfriend, Channon Christian, to watch. An even more cruel fate awaited her!
Channon Christian was beaten and gang-raped in many ways for four days by all of them, while they took turns urinating on her. They cut off her breasts and forced corrosive chemicals into her mouth . . . and then murdered her.
"Knoxville (WVLT) - The District Attorney General of Knox County announced the list of charges facing now five suspects in the double murderof Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
The District Attorney General Randy Nichols is not saying whether or not he will seek the death penalty, but he does say the State will seek conviction for all charges filed in a 24-page indictment from the Knox County Grand Jury. Lemaricus Davidson, 25 , faces a total of 46 charges, Letalvis Cobbins, 24 , faces a total of 46 charges. George Thomas, 24 , faces a total of 46 charges. Vanessa Coleman, 18 , faces 40 Tennessee state charges. Eric Boyd, 24 , also arrested in connection with the fatal car jacking, only faces federal charges as an accessory after the fact."
So, where were Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson? Were they providing counsel and help to the families of the victims?
Of course not -- the victims were white.
Why did not this received national coverage by the ‘news’ media like the Trayvon Martin case in Florida?
Oh, that's right -- the victims were white.
Why didn't the ACLU, The New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc., call for an investigation?
Must be ‘cause the victims were white.
Why wasn't the FBI been called in to investigate this as a hate crime?
Oh, that's right -- the victims were white.
So, if a white radio shock jock uses the phrase 'Nappy headed' Ho, it gets weeks of constant news coverage.
If white people are tortured, raped, and murdered by a brutal gang of vicious black thugs, it barely gets a blip in the news.
Is Al-Qaeda Doomed or Too Big to Fail?
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In a covert mission
designed to destroy what remains of al-Qaeda, the CIA has been infiltrating the
terror network with executives from JP Morgan Chase, the banking giant.
The mission, which the intelligence
agency had hoped to keep secret, came to light this week when al-Qaeda
dismissed two of its top officials who it said were responsible for
“unacceptably speculative” betting of the terror net’s funds on credit default swaps.
Across the intelligence community,
the dismissals caught the attention of analysts, who thought such risky
behavior seemed out of character for al-Qaeda.
“The first thing I thought was, this
sounds more like the work of JP Morgan,” one analyst said, speaking on
condition of anonymity. “Al-Qaeda has a reputation for being madmen, but
even for them these investments were crazy.”
Pressed about the covert mission, CIA
Director David Petraeus confirmed today that it had been a resounding success,
telling reporters, “If you’re serious about putting someone out of business,
there’s no one better than these JP Morgan guys. One of them can do more
damage than a thousand drone strikes.”
But Gen. Petraeus may have spoken too
soon, as the official al-Qaeda website today claimed that the terror
organization was on the brink of getting a “major financial bailout package”
from a consortium of state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and North Korea.
“Al-Qaeda is too big to fail,” the
website said.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Impertinent Legal Questions
How can anyone receive a fair trial on a claim challenging our tax laws when his case is heard before a judge who is paid from, and depends for his livelihood on tax money filling the public treasury?
How can any such judge, by any stretch of imagination, be seen as disinterested or free of any conflict of interest?
How can any such judge, by any stretch of imagination, be seen as disinterested or free of any conflict of interest?
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Faux Hero in the White House
The stump turtle* in the oval office is attempting to pose as a heroic warrior president as a tactic in his campaign effort to win reelection to office.
Even many of his fellow liberals and progressives have seen through and are criticizing his shoddy effort to gain political points for his role in the killing of Osama bin Laden. Some of the Navy Seals who actually carried out the mission reportedly are reacting with anger over the attempt of the commander-in- chief to claim credit for the action.
Let's be clear on what happened. Mr. Obama never served as a warrior or as anything else in any military service. There is no record of his ever having done anything heroic. All he did in connection with the killing of Bin Laden was to give a go ahead from a comfortable and secure location for a mission planned, put into place, and carried out by others. He was given the opportunity to do this by actions that he criticized and opposed when they were initiated by his predecessor as president.
It is despicably shameful of him to claim credit and seek political advantage for having done that. His use of troops a background props for self aggrandizing speeches is even worse, bordering on loathsome.
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* Explanation of the stump turtle term: When, in the course of driving on a long country road, one comes upon a turtle on a fence post, you stop because it's such a strange thing. You realize the pathetic thing did not get up there by himself, he does not know how he got there, what he's doing, or what he's going to do next. Then you realize you have to do whatever you can to help the dumb creature down.
Even many of his fellow liberals and progressives have seen through and are criticizing his shoddy effort to gain political points for his role in the killing of Osama bin Laden. Some of the Navy Seals who actually carried out the mission reportedly are reacting with anger over the attempt of the commander-in- chief to claim credit for the action.
Let's be clear on what happened. Mr. Obama never served as a warrior or as anything else in any military service. There is no record of his ever having done anything heroic. All he did in connection with the killing of Bin Laden was to give a go ahead from a comfortable and secure location for a mission planned, put into place, and carried out by others. He was given the opportunity to do this by actions that he criticized and opposed when they were initiated by his predecessor as president.
It is despicably shameful of him to claim credit and seek political advantage for having done that. His use of troops a background props for self aggrandizing speeches is even worse, bordering on loathsome.
______________________
* Explanation of the stump turtle term: When, in the course of driving on a long country road, one comes upon a turtle on a fence post, you stop because it's such a strange thing. You realize the pathetic thing did not get up there by himself, he does not know how he got there, what he's doing, or what he's going to do next. Then you realize you have to do whatever you can to help the dumb creature down.
Demanding 'Justice' for Fraudulent Victims
In assessing the bona fides of those demanding the head of George Zimmerman under the guise of calling for justice for Trayvon Martin, one would do well to look at the record of those leading and inciting the savage mobs, and particularly the reverend charlatans, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Anyone sufficiently interested in the subject to look into the relevant facts will find that the same bunco artists previously stirred up and led similar demands for justice for such notables as Tawana Brawley and Crystal Mangum . . . and those not old enough to be familiar with, or too old to recall those names can Google them to get their interesting and noteworthy, but sordid histories.
Anyone sufficiently interested in the subject to look into the relevant facts will find that the same bunco artists previously stirred up and led similar demands for justice for such notables as Tawana Brawley and Crystal Mangum . . . and those not old enough to be familiar with, or too old to recall those names can Google them to get their interesting and noteworthy, but sordid histories.
California's High Speed Lying Authorities
California's moonbeam governor and his big spending cohorts are charging ahead with their high speed rail fantasy in the face of public opposition that has arisen with the exposure of the lies that were used to gain voter approval of the originally proposed project.
It turns out that the initially planned project would cost not the lowball figure that was used to sell the boondoggle to the public but almost exactly what its critical opponents had predicted from the outset.
Faced with that unpleasant fact, the tax-and-spend fantacists are -- for the moment -- cutting back their plans and charging ahead into the valley of financial death. They intend to spend the funds they have on hand to build a portion of the line in the state's sparsely populated central valley and connect only a few small towns and two midsize ones at the initial terminal points. No funds have been committed and none are in sight to connect the project to either San Francisco or Los Angeles. Providing high speed ground transportation between those two major cities was the point of the initially conceived project.
Underlying the now planned fiscally reckless and irresponsible foray is the confidence of the high speed rail authorities that once their initial rail line to nowhere is built, they will be able to extort the funds necessary to connect the state's major metropolitan areas for whatever it may cost by pointing out that if they are prevented from doing so, the initially expended public funds will have been wasted.
They also claim that once the entire system is up and running, train operations will be self sustaining with no need for any subsidy from the taxpayers.
All one needs to do to evaluate that claim is to do what Al Smith, a sensible Democrat mayor of New York in a saner and more responsible time, always recommended: Look at the record:
The counterparts of the people making these promises are the ones who promised that:
* If voters approved the bonds to build the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, the bonds would be repaid from the 65-cent (in each direction) tolls, and then the bridge would be toll free. The construction bonds were retired long ago but now the commute hours toll for a driver traveling alone is $6.
* If voters approved the bonds to build the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, it would be self sustaining. Google BART to see what it now costs to travel on the system. Furthermore, the fares, lofty though they be, are dwarfed by the taxpayer subsidies necessary to keep the system operating. And the system provides transportation that, in addition to not being cheap, is not (i) comfortable, (ii) convenient, (iii) fast, (iv) reliable, or (v) safe. The rail cars, incidentally, were ordered without anything that standing passengers could hold onto because it was promised that the trains would run only three minutes apart and therefore there always would be seats for everyone. Hah! It is true that there is no need for anything for standees to hold onto because during rush hours the cars are crowded to the point that passenger are so closely pressed together that no one could possible fall down. After the system was built, those who had promoted it admitted that they had lied as necessary to get it approved.
* The Golden Gate Bridge also was supposed to be toll free once its construction bonds were retired. Instead the leeches occupying the bridge authority's sinecures have expanded into the ferry and bus businesses, both of which are subsidized by the bridge's tolls, which have climbed to unbelievable levels that can be seen by Googling the bridge's website.
The foregoing has been replicated by those who extort and expend public funds in virtually every venue and jurisdiction in and throughout the U.S.
It turns out that the initially planned project would cost not the lowball figure that was used to sell the boondoggle to the public but almost exactly what its critical opponents had predicted from the outset.
Faced with that unpleasant fact, the tax-and-spend fantacists are -- for the moment -- cutting back their plans and charging ahead into the valley of financial death. They intend to spend the funds they have on hand to build a portion of the line in the state's sparsely populated central valley and connect only a few small towns and two midsize ones at the initial terminal points. No funds have been committed and none are in sight to connect the project to either San Francisco or Los Angeles. Providing high speed ground transportation between those two major cities was the point of the initially conceived project.
Underlying the now planned fiscally reckless and irresponsible foray is the confidence of the high speed rail authorities that once their initial rail line to nowhere is built, they will be able to extort the funds necessary to connect the state's major metropolitan areas for whatever it may cost by pointing out that if they are prevented from doing so, the initially expended public funds will have been wasted.
They also claim that once the entire system is up and running, train operations will be self sustaining with no need for any subsidy from the taxpayers.
All one needs to do to evaluate that claim is to do what Al Smith, a sensible Democrat mayor of New York in a saner and more responsible time, always recommended: Look at the record:
The counterparts of the people making these promises are the ones who promised that:
* If voters approved the bonds to build the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, the bonds would be repaid from the 65-cent (in each direction) tolls, and then the bridge would be toll free. The construction bonds were retired long ago but now the commute hours toll for a driver traveling alone is $6.
* If voters approved the bonds to build the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, it would be self sustaining. Google BART to see what it now costs to travel on the system. Furthermore, the fares, lofty though they be, are dwarfed by the taxpayer subsidies necessary to keep the system operating. And the system provides transportation that, in addition to not being cheap, is not (i) comfortable, (ii) convenient, (iii) fast, (iv) reliable, or (v) safe. The rail cars, incidentally, were ordered without anything that standing passengers could hold onto because it was promised that the trains would run only three minutes apart and therefore there always would be seats for everyone. Hah! It is true that there is no need for anything for standees to hold onto because during rush hours the cars are crowded to the point that passenger are so closely pressed together that no one could possible fall down. After the system was built, those who had promoted it admitted that they had lied as necessary to get it approved.
* The Golden Gate Bridge also was supposed to be toll free once its construction bonds were retired. Instead the leeches occupying the bridge authority's sinecures have expanded into the ferry and bus businesses, both of which are subsidized by the bridge's tolls, which have climbed to unbelievable levels that can be seen by Googling the bridge's website.
The foregoing has been replicated by those who extort and expend public funds in virtually every venue and jurisdiction in and throughout the U.S.
Easy To ID Election Cheats
To identify those who habitually engage in, and depend on election fraud to obtain and/or maintain political power, one only has to see those who oppose voter identification laws and other measures to ensure the integrity of our elections.
It is no accident that most such culprits are Demorats [sic] and particularly those who hold sway in, or have scurried out from Chicago's political sewers where the interred routinely leave their graveyards every election day to join their living counterparts in faithfully observing their leaders' standing and constantly repeated instructions to "vote early and often."
It is no accident that most such culprits are Demorats [sic] and particularly those who hold sway in, or have scurried out from Chicago's political sewers where the interred routinely leave their graveyards every election day to join their living counterparts in faithfully observing their leaders' standing and constantly repeated instructions to "vote early and often."
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