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Reaching Across The Aisle, And Other Stupid Philosophies

June 18, 2013 by 1 Comment

Republican Democrat SC Reaching Across The Aisle, And Other Stupid Philosophies

I hate this asinine saying. It’s a thought process brought upon by a broken and corrupt two-party system. With a government full of career politicians in both major parties whose sole purpose is to retain power, what makes you think that compromise is the answer? The practice of actually serving citizens in government is long dead.

Compromise isn’t true compromise anymore…well, for citizens at least. And remember the word ‘constituent”? A constituent hasn’t existed to a federal bureaucrat in God knows how long. Laws no longer help the public as a whole. Laws are designed to strengthen federal power, buy votes from a certain voter base, and keep citizens divided. It really doesn’t matter who wins the White House. Checks and balances are dead, and the President’s agenda is no more dangerous to us than that of both houses of Congress, or federal judges.

There are so many different groups that facilitate the establishment’s agenda. The two-party system is now one of the greatest tools of the career politician. The masses stay divided. That’s all that’s needed to retain control over the public. Right-wing voters attack left-wingers, and vice-versa. Moderates on both sides who consider themselves neutral cry for bipartisanship. In the end, we’re still left with politicians eroding the Constitution at a rapidly growing pace.

As I’ve stated many times before, there in not one member of the federal government who is not part of the establishment (and has not in some way infringed on our rights.) Government continues to grow stronger, as the private market keeps suffering. Rights continue to be taken from some, and favoritism is shown towards others (non-citizens in a lot of cases).

What is it going to take for the divided to wake up and realize the dangerous path they’re bringing us down? Will government continue to do just enough to keep the masses in their hypnotic trance? For any who calls this post “doom and gloom,” guess what? You’re part of the problem. It goes much deeper than just voting. Unwitting voters support government intrusion into our education, health, energy, personal safety, food supply, and our child care among other aspects of our life.

Suicide voters are groomed to attack those who don’t agree with them…which translates to those who don’t agree with the government.

Individual responsibility has become taboo, and like-minded libertarian thinkers need to start coming out of the shadows in mass numbers. We need a new mainstream, and we need to vote for anti-establishment libertarians who believe in personal freedom. That’s the only plan I can think of that will turn the tide against tyranny…and it seems pretty easy to me.

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Lil Wayne Trampled The American Flag

June 18, 2013 by 3 Comments

Rapper Lil Wayne trampled the American flag in a recent video. I’m not upset because he and his fellow Black zombies trample the Hood and America daily!

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Euthanasia Of Children May Officially Return To Europe

June 18, 2013 by 4 Comments

Can you imagine pressuring a child to be euthanized? Or worse yet, a boy or girl getting “mercy killed” involuntarily? Talk about taking abortion to the next level! Well, it’s all up for discussion in Belgium’s Parliament.

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Prostitution & Drugs Permeated Clinton’s State Dept.

June 17, 2013 by 11 Comments

Diplomatic Security Service awash in Sex, Drugs and Hookers

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Islamic Mosques: Excluded From Surveillance By Feds

June 17, 2013 by 37 Comments

Mosque 300x189 Islamic Mosques: Excluded From Surveillance By Feds

While Government agencies watch you – Mosques run amuck

Homeland Insecurity: The White House assures us that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is necessary to stop terrorists, and yet it won’t snoop in mosques, where the terrorists emanate from. Fact - Many of the terrorists have been radicalized in Mosques and Muslim agencies right here in America. According to the NSA the government’s sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes Mosques and Muslim affiliated facilities. Supposedly this is done to protect the sensibilities of innocent Muslims who worship in Mosques.

Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. Surveillance or undercover sting operations are not allowed without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee (SORC). Who makes up this body, and under what methodology do they review requests - nobody knows.  The names of the chairman, members and staff are kept secret. Why is it necessary to keep the names and titles of the people who decide whether or not to protect the rest of the country from radical Muslims, secret?

We do know the panel was set up under pressure from Islamist groups who complained about FBI stings at mosques. Just months before the panel’s formation, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) teamed up with the ACLU to sue the FBI for allegedly violating the civil rights of Muslims in Los Angeles by hiring an undercover agent to infiltrate and monitor mosques in America’s second largest city. Another defeat for the politically correct imbeciles in our government. Before mosques were excluded from the otherwise wide domestic spy net the administration has cast, the FBI launched dozens of successful sting operations against homegrown radicals inside mosques, and disrupted dozens of plots against innocent American citizens across the United States.

If only they were allowed to continue, perhaps the many innocent victims of the Boston Marathon bombings would not have lost their lives and limbs. The FBI never canvassed Boston mosques until four days after the April 15 attacks, and it did not check out the radical Boston mosque where the Muslim bombers worshiped even though they were supposedly on the government’s watch list. The bureau didn’t even contact mosque leaders for help in identifying their images after those images were captured on closed-circuit TV cameras and cellphones.

As I have repeatedly pointed out, the Politically Correct attitude of the Obama administration is dangerous to the well being of the average hard working American citizen. There are many religious communities in the United States. How can the government attack one of the oldest and most established religions in the United States and choose to defend the actions of another belief system that espouses violence and murder of Westerners who they classify as infidels. Even though the FBI was tipped by Russia more than a year before about the leanings of the two Boston bombers, they apparently chose to ignore it. Now after the fact we learn that one of the Muslim bombers made extremist outbursts during worship, yet because the mosque wasn’t monitored, red flags didn’t go off inside the FBI about his increasing radicalization before the attacks.

Why didn’t the Imam contact the FBI? Why don’t these people of  peace speak up when they hear people in their congregation espousing hate of the country they have adopted.  Maybe it’s because they see us as an opportunity to expand their Caliphate and don’t really care what happens to the infidels in their way who don’t deserve to live. This is particularly disturbing in light of recent independent surveys of American mosques, which reveal some 80% of them preach violent jihad and distribute violent literature to worshipers. Even though Islam is not a religion in the strict sense (it is more of a socio-economic way of life), if Church doors are open to anyone or anything then Mosques should be too. If Muslims have nothing to hide then they should not object to being treated the same or equal to other religious organizations.

If our Federal agencies are going to protect us from attack, they have to adopt strong measures to root out these radicals and a plan to counter those who would commit atrocities against citizens of the the United States.

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What Recovery? Obama Fails

June 17, 2013 by 7 Comments

Economic Collapse What Recovery? Obama Fails

The nation’s economy is worse off under Obama than under Bush for yet another month, according to an objective mathematical measurement of the nation’s economic indicators released Monday by Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas 36.)

The economy continues to fail to recover under Obama as June’s Obama Failometer Score remains stuck at an astonishing 1,166.

“Not only is there no economic recovery for yet another month under Obama, things are getting worse for black Americans,” said Stockman. “It’s like Jimmy Carter swapped his sweater for mom jeans. While past economic recoveries have been roars, this is a sickly wheeze.”

The Obama Failometer uses a fixed mathematical score to calculate four economic indicators from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figures from the monthly reports are weighted to provide a balanced total score, which ranges from zero to 1,000. A score of 0 represent economic stability and racial equality. The higher the score, the deeper the economic failure.

Obama can set the Failometer to zero simply by outperforming Bush on the economy and fulfilling his 2008 and 2012 campaign promises to help blacks and Hispanics gain economically.

So far, Obama is worse than Bush.

Since its creation Obama has failed to generate a Failometer score that can be contained within the chart’s range of zero to 1000.

The Obama Failometer Score was originally displayed on a ten-foot-long billboard displayed in the hallways of the Capitol’s Cannon House Office building. House officials ordered it torn down in January after Democrats complained.

Here is how the Obama Failometer Score is calculated:

FACTORS MEASURED AGAINST BUSH

Monthly jobs created: The Hamilton Project, a liberal economic policy group, stated last year the economy must create 321,000 jobs a month in order to return the economy to pre-recession employment levels by December 2016, the end of Obama’s term.

As the economy continues to flounder under Obama that number grows, but the Obama Failometer will continue to use it, which gives him some statistical relief.

Obama promised to not only restore the economy to where it was under Bush, but grow it. So far Obama has failed to even perform as well as Bush.

This Obama Failometer score portion is calculated by subtracting the number of jobs created in the previous month from the 321,000 jobs claimed necessary by the liberal Hamilton Project and dividing by 1,000 to balance it against other factors.

The BLS reports the economy created 175,000 jobs in April, 146,000 fewer than needed to restore the economy. This portion of the Obama Failometer Score is 146.

Civilian labor force participation rate: The civilian labor force participation rate, the ratio between those 16 and over in the labor force against the national population of those 16 and over, is an important measure of economic health. After puttering along during the Bush administration, including through the “Bush years” of the recession, under Obama it has plunged sharply.

This Obama Failometer score portion is calculated by subtracting the monthly civilian labor force participation rate from the average Bush administration rate and multiplying by 100 to balance it against other factors. According to data from the BLS, under Bush the average monthly civilian labor force participation rate was around 66.2 percent.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the monthly civilian labor force participation rate for April is stagnant at an abysmal 63.4 percent, close to the record low and behind Bush’s average by 2.8 percent. This portion of the Obama Failometer Score is 280.

FACTORS MEASURED AGAINST OBAMA’S OWN RHETORIC

Black unemployment: No one has suffered more economically under Obama than black Americans. Obama’s election and re-election has meant crippling poverty for the black community.

This Obama Failometer score portion is calculated by taking the monthly unemployment rate for blacks and subtracting the monthly unemployment rate for all Americans, and multiplying it by 100 to balance it against other factors.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the black unemployment rate for April was a depressing 13.5 percent, while the national overall rate was 7.6 percent. That is a gap of 5.9 percent, is wider than last month’s gap of 5.7%. This portion of the Obama Failometer Score is 590.

Compare Obama’s performance to Bush’s. The highest monthly unemployment rate ever for blacks under Bush was 12.1 percent. Obama’s lowest rate was 12.7 percent in January, a figure he largely inherited. He has never performed as well as Bush’s worst black unemployment rate.

Bush’s average black unemployment rate was 9.7 percent and an overall national average of 5.2 percent, a 4.5 percent gap that gives Bush a score of 450.

Hispanic unemployment: Despite winning the Hispanic vote, Obama’s liberal policies have caused widespread damage to the Hispanic community. Thanks to Obama, they continue to lag behind the national average in many economic factors.

This Obama Failometer score portion is calculated by taking the monthly unemployment rate for Hispanics and subtracting the monthly unemployment rate for all Americans, and multiplying it by 100 to balance it against other factors.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the Hispanic unemployment rate for March was a pitiful 9.1 percent, while the national overall rate was 7.6 percent. That is a gap of 1.5 percent, same as June. This portion of the Obama Failometer Score is 150.

The Hispanic unemployment rate hit its all-time historic low of 4.7 percent during Bush’s last term. It is almost twice that rate under Obama.

THEREFORE, THIS MONTH’S OBAMA FAILOMETER SCORE IS 1166.

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NSA: Reality In The Digital Age

June 17, 2013 by 2 Comments

Digital Comm NSA: Reality in the Digital Age

How much of our modern life is digitally constructed? How much of our day-to-day research is done online? Much of our record-keeping, financial transactions, commerce, communications and of course, social media rely on access to the digital realm where they reside. Our entertainment and news are utterly dependent on the uncorrupted digital transfer of information.

If the NSA leaker Edward Snowden is telling the truth, then our government has the ability to see all of those things and more, at the root level. According to Snowden, our government has total access, in real time, across all platforms.

I hear much lamentation over the loss of privacy, and the counter-argument swiftly given is that only those with something to hide need worry. What is getting lost here is the unfortunate reality that we likely have less to fear from what information may be taken out of the digital stream and misused, than what information might be placed into the stream imperceptibly, across all platforms, in real-time.

Realities could be constructed. Media news cycles could be managed by leaving trails that create desired narratives. Research might be misdirected toward dead-ends or desired results. Reputations could be enhanced or diminished, created or destroyed, with no one the wiser. The political power created by such a tool would be unequalled in human history.

Our government has long operated similar surveillance programs. The NSA operation is not a shiny new thing, it is merely a very powerful thing grown to unthinkable proportions. Before 9/11 these functions were spread out across a number of agencies.

While it might have been possible to misdirect the resources of a portion of government against a political enemy, it was quite difficult to do so without leaving a trail, even with the turf battles and refusals to share information between agencies that were a hallmark of our intelligence community.  These circumstances comprised the “wall” former Clinton administration official Jamie Gorelick spoke of (and in fact created) and it needed to be breached for efficiency’s sake.

But where we only needed a door – albeit one with a sturdy lock – we destroyed the entire wall. Now, the monumental power that comes with having root access to the very backbone of the global internet, is directed by a monolithic security apparatus operating behind an impenetrable veil of secrecy with little meaningful oversight and no real checks on abuse.

What is the likelihood that the most opaque administration in our lifetime (gasp!) might be unable to resist the temptation to fiddle with our realities? This being the same bunch that peddled automatic weapons to drug cartels, targeted conservatives with the power of the IRS, and to this day, stonewalls investigators looking into Benghazi.

This is too much power for any government to have without extraordinary safeguards. The capability described in Snowden’s leak is a genie that will not be put back into the bottle. Its utility is too great and its power too vast. It is the “One Ring,” from the Tolkien tale, and it must meet the same fate.

Abolish the Department of Homeland Security, break up much of the NSA infrastructure and devolve those functions back to the multiple agencies from whence they came. At least then, when someone seeks to turn this power against a foe, real or imagined, there will be numerous checks to prevent unconstitutional behavior due to the sheer number of agencies and people involved.

Clearly this will not prevent all abuses, but dividing power such as this, is our only means of controlling it. Is Snowden a hero? I wouldn’t go that far yet, but I would certainly describe him as the right guy in the right place, at the right time in our Republic’s history, however short that history may yet turn out to be.

While the founders couldn’t have predicted a capability such as that leaked by Snowden, they did imagine and account for the mentality and motives of people who would seek to misuse it. While the tools may have improved, the workmen are just as fallible as ever, which is why we must follow Jefferson’s advice and “bind down [their] hands with the chains of the Constitution.”

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Sr. IRS Official Admits Involvement “In The Plan”

June 17, 2013 by 5 Comments

Top deputy to Lois Lerner admits there was no action for at least a year on tax exempt applications

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Lawmaker Compares GOP To Taliban’s Treatment Of Women

June 17, 2013 by 3 Comments

And the left likes to call the right haters. Hogwash. The left is where you will find the first class haters.

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Tea Partiers: It’s Time To Take To The Streets Again

June 17, 2013 by 9 Comments

Tea Party 300x156 Tea Partiers: Its Time to Take to the Streets Again

In her collection of essays on the philosophy of free trade (Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. 1966), Ayn Rand wrote: “Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t.”

What that thought in mind, consider the common thread of deception that weaves its way through the witches’ brew of scandals that are boiling over in our modern day cauldron in the smoky back room called “politics as usual.”  Approximately 47 percent of the likely voters in America seemingly approve of Barack Obama’s job performance according to a June 17, 2013 Rasmussen presidential daily tracking poll.

Logic defies an explanation.

Do natural born American citizens really want to lose the privilege of living under the rule of law that is designed to protect their life, liberty and happiness and guarantee their right to free speech, free association, self-protection and privacy? Do recent immigrants currently living in America (legally and illegally) really want to return to the suspected poverty and potential tyranny from whence they came? The answers must be no and no and yet how can our relatively youthful representative republic survive when so many of our citizenry appear not to be thinking but at the same time are given the great responsibility of casting a vote?

And what could possibly cause our elected officials to look the other way as our beleaguered commander in chief continues to nominate judges to the highest courts of our country thereby potentially skewing judicial decisions to his anti-rule of law edicts; as he cavalierly sends weapons to our enemies thereby potentially providing the small arms that will be used to murder our military men and women in the near future; and as he and his spoiled wife, children and entourage of assorted progressive neo-elites use millions of our scarce taxpayer dollars to travel the world promoting this unhealthy transformation of America? Shouldn’t he be stopped on a New York dime as a result of all these scandals? I think so, but how do we reach the millions of Americans who when asked don’t know Benghazi from a burned out hole in the ground?

Many of us who think about these things can remember that in 2009 tea party patriots from across this nation took to the streets with their signs, their flags and their banners, and in 2010 conservatives won elections all across this land (unfortunately many of the newly elected conservatives quickly cowered under the pressure of the big government power players but that is a subject for another day). In 2009, we were in the streets educating the public without the veil of deception of the Machiavellian mainstream media (MMM).

Then, in an effort to further educate our own selves on the finer points of constitutional government, for the following two years we decided to sit in meetings; to talk, listen and learn. Guess what happened while we were all sitting in meetings basically preaching to the choir? The narrative provided to the greater populace changed; the Machiavellian mainstream media (MMM) successfully but incorrectly redefined tea partiers as a small group of “wacko-birds” and as a result, we lost elections in 2012 – big time.

We need to once again break through the MMM’s veil of deception and the only way I can think of that we can possibly do that is to take to the streets again. Organize rallies, set up peaceful demonstrations, personally hand out literature, start talking to the public again. Do you remember all of the cars that beeped their horns in support of our ideals? Do you remember the energy and excitement of knowing that our message was getting out loud, clear and unadulterated by the powerful MMM forces against us?

We can do it again; we must do it again and July 4, 2013 is as good a time as any to start.

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