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12, 2008 This week, a smaller number of stories than usual, as I was not able to get to the news for one day. However, I have LOTS to share regarding our wonderful Congress-critturs, and start in on the baboons first! Baboon
tricks: Obviously a late convert to fiscal conservatism, it is hard to argue with this veto, whether we are talking farm income highs or not. Clearly, the Congress still has its head in the sand regarding the collapse of the dollar and their insane spending ways. Mama's Note: Too bad Bush doesn't apply this logic to all the other insane policies he does support. At least we can say he's done SOMETHING right, though congress will probably over ride this veto. (Read the rest here)
Politically
Incorrect Movie Reviews Here is the plot of Forgetting Sarah Marshall in a coconut shell: ugly guy loses pretty girlfriend, but learns in the end he doesn’t want her anyway when he finds an even prettier girl to sleep with – after he drops trou about 25 times. Bring a pillow, let the yawning commence. The PC nonsense is all over this film, like porno pix on a pervert’s PC. For those fuddy-duddies out there who cringe at the word “penis” and will write letters and send emails, know this; male genitalia is what this movie is all about, yet it is billed as a trendy comedy. This is what passes for funny these days. (Read the rest here) Gay
Bombs and Bubble Wrapped Battlefields Another tactic called for covering the battlefield with Bubble Wrap. Once enemy jackboots began popping the bubbles during a charge they would be unable to resist the compulsion to stop and pop more bubbles. The unbearable urge to repeatedly stomp and pop, stomp and pop, would make them forget all about fighting.
Unfortunately, a libertarian proposal to minimize the possibility of constant warfare by adopting a noninterventionist foreign policy was summarily rejected. (Read the rest here) Will
King George NUKE Ron Paul's Revolution? HOUSTON, May 10 -- In Dr. Ron Paul's 14th Congressional District, just south of Houston, Texas City residents are living in fear. It's not because their BP refinery, the nation's most polluted plant, is earning them the unenviable nickname of "Toxic City." It's not because BP is far and away the most deadly industrial site in the nation. It's because they are afraid that BP is the target for a king-sized plan to explode a nuke on US soil. Federal authorities and national media have been hinting for years that "terrorists" want to nuke Texas City, and they regularly insinuate it on the nightly news. The programming has been effective, and each time the BP refinery has exploded in recent years locals have instantly thought of Al Qaeda. They are already halfway convinced that it's only a matter of time before Texas City, Texas joins Oklahoma City and New York City, New York on the US "greatest hits list." (Read the rest here)
Obama
Hitches his Wagon to the Radical Feminist Agenda Then there's Mr. Obama's embrace of radical feminism. Like Rev. Wright's black liberation ideology, the core of feminism is a dogmatic belief in a malevolent, all-pervasive conspiracy that renders its victims helpless. Call it capitalism or the patriarchy, the effect is the same. And just as Jeremiah Wright spews his hatred for American society, feminists blame every unpleasantness on the alleged shortcomings of men. This past Thursday New York Times columnist Gail Collins indulged in her latest anti-male diatribe: "Men with egos are, of course, the central topic this week." Every roadbump in the campaigns of the two Democratic challengers, Collins insists, can be blamed on those nincompoopish, self-centered men. (Read the rest here) A
Republican for Barack I have consistently offered that I have been a life-long Republican and one that voted for George W. Bush in 2000, and one who was also during that time a Rush Limbaugh "dittohead" and subscriber to the Limbaugh Letter. I have finally come to my senses and now reject the Republican Party and its dispensationalist, Christian Fundamentalist vast right-wing conspiracy. But no, this does not mean I will now embrace the Marxist socialism and communism of the Democratic Party's vast left-wing conspiracy. So, what precisely is an American to do? To answer this question, all one needs to do is to define what is meant by the term "American." (Read the rest here)
External
Articles The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) [Editor's note: Anyone who can look at these and still believe there is ANY moral excuse for aggressive war has my deepest sympathy. This was not "defense," just pure wholesale murder. And may God be merciful to us all.] Open
Letter to the Supporters of Barack Obama On Behalf of Ron Paul There is no doubt in my mind that an Obama administration would be significantly different than another Clinton regime (er… administration), but I won't get into those differences because – I hate to inform you Obama supports out there – it will not happen. No conspiracy theories here, but I do believe there is an establishment class (an unholy trinity of government bureaucrats, corporations, and media elites) in this country who have picked their candidate and her first name is Hillary. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Archives President Franklin Roosevelt stated:"[i]n politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." Every time there is a crisis, real or contrived, the solution is always more government. When government senses a potential crisis on the horizon, or manufactures one, the next step is to allow the crisis to degenerate to the point where the people demand immediate action irrespective of the consequences. In the author's opinion, the flood of illegal aliens pouring across our southern borders is a classic example of this principle. The problems caused by this invasion were not some unforeseen event outside of the control of government. It has spiraled out of control because it was planned that way. (Read the rest here) The
Independent Institute Libertarians habitually indulge in wishful thinking. We live in a country where freedom is under relentless attack in ways too numerous even to categorize easily. Governments at every level seem determined to crush each remaining molecule of liberty, and, worst of all, most of the citizens readily accept, when they do not affirmatively demand, the suffocation of freedom wherever it dares to raise its head. Schumpeter foresaw our present situation with clear eyes when he wrote in his diary: “Humanity does not care for freedom. The mass of the people realize they are not up to it: what they want is being fed, led, amused, and above everything, drilled. But they do care for the phrase.” Ah, yes, “land of the free”—try to utter that phrase three times without breaking down in laughter or weeping. Yet libertarians are constantly seizing on some little tactical retreat by Leviathan or some little endorsement of liberty and describing it as the beginning of an imagined “revolution.” (Read the rest here)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute First, the underlying cause of any shortage is the lack of a free market, since genuine shortages cannot appear in a free market. Instead, while prices of goods would likely rise at the onset of reduced supplies, the goods in question would always be available at some price — and the higher the price, the more the supply would increase to meet demand, which would then of course reduce the price. If we had free world markets, food would be exported from some countries, such as the United States and Europe, where food is plentiful, to countries where it is needed. This is because it would be profitable to ship goods to needy areas like Africa, where shortages were making prices rise. The fact that this is not currently happening can be a result only of government price controls (which prevent prices from rising in needy countries), trade restrictions, or some other government barrier that prevents people from getting what they need. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Tracy
Ingle: Another Drug War Outrage Here's the Arkansas Times piece, which I'd encourage you to read in full. And here's a follow-up interview with North Little Rock Police Chief Danny Bradley about SWAT tactics. Please send any SWAT stories you find!
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