The Only Cogent Person to Speak at the U.N.
If you have any interest in the truth of the world in which we currently live, spend 30 minutes watching Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the U.N. We are living in a dangerous and pivotal time and the leaders of the worlds' superpowers (for the most part) are spineless, rudderless and impotent. That is a recipe for disaster. WAKE UP!
Part 1 - click to watch
Part 2 - click to watch
Part 3 - click to watch
Part 4 - click to watch
"Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists?"
"Peace, prosperity and dignity" but only with security.
Seems simple doesn't it? Why does the United Nations, Obama, China, Russia and the entire Middle East oppose immediate dismantling of Iran's nuclear facilities?
If you do nothing else, listen to the end of Part 4 with the quote from Winston Churchill and I defy you to make the argument that we are not at that exact point in history right now.
The Lost Art of Critical Thinking and Common Sense in Politics and Public Policy
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
The Difference Between a Conservative and a Liberal
If a conservative doesn’t like guns, they don’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, then no one should have one.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, they don’t eat meat. If a liberal is, they want to ban all meat products for everyone.
If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.
If a conservative is homosexual, they quietly enjoy their life. If a liberal is homosexual, they loudly demand legislated respect .
If a black man or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church. A liberal wants all churches to be silenced.
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that his neighbors pay for his.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, they don’t eat meat. If a liberal is, they want to ban all meat products for everyone.
If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.
If a conservative is homosexual, they quietly enjoy their life. If a liberal is homosexual, they loudly demand legislated respect .
If a black man or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church. A liberal wants all churches to be silenced.
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that his neighbors pay for his.
What are the Democrats Afraid Of? The Truth!!
Earlier this week, an amendment introduced by Senator Bunning (R-KY) that required the health care reform bill and estimates of its costs to be available to the public 72 hours before the final vote in the Finance Committee was rejected by a vote of 11-12. This amendment would have given Senators and the American people the opportunity to analyze and understand what is being voted on by the Committee. Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) introduced a modified version of the amendment, which passed on a party-line vote, that requires that only "conceptual" language (essentially a summary) and cost analysis be available at some point before the Finance Committee votes.
The Democrat Party is run by the Left and they are going to do whatever the hell they want; the American public be damned.
Pathetic and short-sighted.
The Democrat Party is run by the Left and they are going to do whatever the hell they want; the American public be damned.
Pathetic and short-sighted.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Economics 101
If you have any historical perspective of economics, you know that we always recover but the speed of the recovery is always in question depending on the policies deployed to deal with the downturn.
The rapid recoveries always come when we have investment incentives that encourage people and businesses to invest in the United States. You encourage entrepreneurs to take chances to come up with new companies and new technologies. The result is rapid advances that creates millions of new jobs.
The alternative is to do what we are doing now (spend a lot of money on digging holes, patching roads, making turtle paths and horse trails). The result is slow, sputtering recoveries that take 10-15 years to get us back to where we were before. See the Great Depression and the 1930's following it and how we stumbled along into World War II or, if you prefer, the 1970's where we spent 10 years fumbling around until we finally got the right kind of incentives that launched us into the technology revolution of the 80's and 1990's.
So given the empirical evidence, why do you believe that the Obama administration is taking us down the current path? Could it be that they are committed Socialists and borderline Communists? No, of course not! Pay no attention to our President's past or his czars that were appointed with no congressional approval.
Please tell me this is a bad dream!!!
How's that 'Hope and Change' working for you?
The rapid recoveries always come when we have investment incentives that encourage people and businesses to invest in the United States. You encourage entrepreneurs to take chances to come up with new companies and new technologies. The result is rapid advances that creates millions of new jobs.
The alternative is to do what we are doing now (spend a lot of money on digging holes, patching roads, making turtle paths and horse trails). The result is slow, sputtering recoveries that take 10-15 years to get us back to where we were before. See the Great Depression and the 1930's following it and how we stumbled along into World War II or, if you prefer, the 1970's where we spent 10 years fumbling around until we finally got the right kind of incentives that launched us into the technology revolution of the 80's and 1990's.
So given the empirical evidence, why do you believe that the Obama administration is taking us down the current path? Could it be that they are committed Socialists and borderline Communists? No, of course not! Pay no attention to our President's past or his czars that were appointed with no congressional approval.
Please tell me this is a bad dream!!!
How's that 'Hope and Change' working for you?
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Analysis of the Liberals by a Self-Proclaimed Liberal
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/09/09/healthcare/
This is delicious! Excerpts from a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat, Camille Paglia, on Salon.com.
Delicious!
This is delicious! Excerpts from a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat, Camille Paglia, on Salon.com.
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers (one reason for the hypocritical absence of tort reform in the healthcare bills). Weirdly, given their worship of highly individualistic, secularized self-actualization, such professionals are as a whole amazingly credulous these days about big-government solutions to every social problem. They see no danger in expanding government authority and intrusive, wasteful bureaucracy. This is, I submit, a stunning turn away from the anti-authority and anti-establishment principles of authentic 1960s leftism.
It was as if Democrats live in a utopian dream world, divorced from the daily demands and realities of organization and management.
(No shit! You think??)
She can't say all of that without taking the obligatory shot at Republicans, Dick Cheney, George Bush and, even, Newt Gingrich:
Is it even worth bringing up the obvious???? John Edwards, Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, Charlie Rangel, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Van Jones . . . . . . ? I don't think it is necessary anymore. I believe the American people have finally woken up.Having said all that about the failures of my own party, I am not about to let Republicans off the hook. What a backbiting mess the GOP is! It lacks even one credible voice of traditional moral values on the national stage and is addicted to sonorous pieties of pharisaical emptiness. Republican politicians sermonize about the sanctity of marriage while racking up divorces and sexual escapades by the truckload. They assail government overreach and yet support interference in women's control of their own bodies. Advanced whack-a-mole is clearly needed for that yammering smarty-pants Newt Gingrich, who is always so very, very pleased with himself but has yet to produce a single enduring thought. The still inexplicably revered George W. Bush ballooned our national deficits like a drunken sailor and clumsily exacerbated the illegal immigration debate. And bizarrely, the hallucinatory Dick Cheney, a fake-testosterone addict who spooked Bush into a pointless war, continues to be lauded as presidential material.
Delicious!
Saturday, September 5, 2009
100% Failure Rate
I have documented much of this previously but, at this point, repetition is required to get the message across. The federal government has a 100% failure rate. Why do we, THE PEOPLE, continue to turn more and more of our lives over to them?
The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - they've had 234 years to get it right; it is broke and, even though heavily subsidized, it can't compete with private sector - Fed Ex and UPS services.
Social Security was established in 1935 - they've had 74 years to get it right, it is broken and bankrupt.
Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; it is broken.
This year, a trillion dollars was committed in the massive political payoff called the Stimulus Bill of 2009; it shows NO signs of working unless increasing the size of government was the goal . . . . Has it created a single new private sector job? Our national debt projections (approaching $10 trillion) have increased 400% in the last six months.
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009 - - after a large percentage of the cars purchased turned out to be produced by foreign companies. And don't worry about the dealers nationwide who are buried under bureaucratic paperwork demanded by a government that is not yet paying them what was promised.
So, with a perfect 100% failure rate, we are now supposed to turn the best health care system in the world over to government? The majority of the problems that do exist with the current system can be laid at the feet of government (federal and states) by way of the 2,000+ mandates on insurance companies and the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance due to our lack of tort reform.
Sure Mr. Obama, take over 17% of our economy! Why not one more governmental boondoggle? Only this time you will not be playing with our money, you will be playing with our lives.
The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - they've had 234 years to get it right; it is broke and, even though heavily subsidized, it can't compete with private sector - Fed Ex and UPS services.
Social Security was established in 1935 - they've had 74 years to get it right, it is broken and bankrupt.
- This program was doomed from the start. The first recipient, Ida Mae Fuller, contributed $25 and drew $23,000.
Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; it is broken.
The War on Poverty was started in 1964 - they've had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our hard-earned money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - they've had 44 years to get it right; they are both broken and bankrupt. And now our government dares to mention them as models for all US health care.
AMTRAK was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; last year they bailed it out as it continues to run at huge loss. Only the federal government would think transporting people via 100+ year old technology is a good business model.
This year, a trillion dollars was committed in the massive political payoff called the Stimulus Bill of 2009; it shows NO signs of working unless increasing the size of government was the goal . . . . Has it created a single new private sector job? Our national debt projections (approaching $10 trillion) have increased 400% in the last six months.
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009 - - after a large percentage of the cars purchased turned out to be produced by foreign companies. And don't worry about the dealers nationwide who are buried under bureaucratic paperwork demanded by a government that is not yet paying them what was promised.
So, with a perfect 100% failure rate, we are now supposed to turn the best health care system in the world over to government? The majority of the problems that do exist with the current system can be laid at the feet of government (federal and states) by way of the 2,000+ mandates on insurance companies and the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance due to our lack of tort reform.
Sure Mr. Obama, take over 17% of our economy! Why not one more governmental boondoggle? Only this time you will not be playing with our money, you will be playing with our lives.
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