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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Regular Guy Speaks At TEA Party, Part II
Here's my speech to the Palatine TEA Party on July 3rd, of this month, in Palatine, Illinois.
Friday, July 16, 2010
This Is Unexpected
Alan Keyes has persuaded me to vote for Mark Kirk
Alan Keyes makes the argument I've been looking for -- and many more conservatives, too, I suspect:
...what I think needs to be the first objective in the November election for voters anxious to preserve constitutional liberty in the United States. ...I say bluntly that the very best outcome would be to vote all the Democrats
out. ...handing the Republicans an overwhelming majority will not by itself guarantee the failure of those who seek to overthrow the U.S. Constitution. It will simply put the GOP on the spot with no excuse for failing unequivocally to reject the socialist coup the Obama faction is determined to carry out.
People who insist on believing that the socialists and so-called liberals in the Democrat Party are alone responsible for the threat to American liberty may misunderstand what I have written as some kind of plug for the GOP. I would invite them to read (or reread) the articles I have posted on this site about the sham currently masquerading as a two-party system in American politics. I think the GOP and the Democrat party are two heads on the same body. The heads bicker, while the feet consistently move the nation toward socialist government dictatorship.
With that paradigm in mind the question we should ask ourselves about the midterm elections is this: What electoral outcome do the forces responsible for the consistently socialist orientation of the sham two-party system probably prefer? The Obama faction’s reckless drive toward government control is rousing a backlash among voters that actually threatens to make the eventual destruction of the American people’s sovereignty, (and open consolidation of elite control) more difficult. The Obama faction’s current unimpeded control of both the U.S. Congress and the White House must therefore be weakened. But the puppet masters themselves have no love for the constraints implied by authentic respect for the requirements of constitutional self-government. They do not seek to stop the advance toward socialism. They simply want to reduce or eliminate the frictional opposition being generated by the Obama faction’s reckless abandon.
The gray eminences manipulating the present sham two-party system would therefore logically prefer a November outcome that hands the GOP enough power to deprive the Obama faction of its capacity for unilateral action, but not enough to halt the open consolidation of elite control that will bring government of, by and for the people to an end. This implies a GOP majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, but one well short of the votes needed for a veto override. It could also include a slightly reduced Democrat majority in the U.S. Senate that would make it even more necessary for the Democrats to woo left-leaning GOP senators in order to advance their socialist schemes. The end result would be the ideal environment for so-called “bipartisanship”, which is to say, Obama faction socialism less recklessly (incompetently?) pursued.
Paradoxically, the backlash against Obama’s reckless leftist push may have created the ideal conditions for slipping left leaning votes into Congress camouflaged with a Republican label. People like Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown and Mark Kirk, the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois are good examples of this. Mark my words (already spoken where Brown is concerned, and already being proved true) given the chance, such GOP “conservatives” will time and again be the catalysts for pro-socialist “bipartisan” solutions to supposed legislative gridlock in the new Congress.
Their record over the twenty years since Ronald Reagan left office suggests that this “environment for bipartisanship” is precisely the one preferred by the GOP leadership raised up and sustained in power during the Bush dynasty’s years of preeminence. In 2012 they would probably like to fund and promote the man who represents another, similarly disposed political dynasty, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. The Obama faction’s preference for elite control is motivated by cultural Marxism. By contrast, these dynastic factions are motivated by a contemporary version of ‘noblesse oblige’ that signifies the longed for revival of an aristocratic elite. Unhappily, though sold with a gloss of Arthurian chivalry such an elite invariably ends up ruthlessly disregarding common humanity, as was characteristic of the European aristocracies that were upset by the modern surge of democratic resentment. (The surest sign that the RINO dynasties share this tendency is their support for policies on abortion and the rights of the natural family that discard the American principle of God ordained human equality and unalienable rights.)
All this suggests that America will be best served by giving the GOP leaders what they always profess to desire (victory for all Republican candidates) rather than what they really desire (just enough success to “force” them to pursue bipartisan compromise with the Obama faction i.e., not reckless but deliberate socialism.) A scant majority will leave them with the excuse that they cannot do what they otherwise would, push legislation that restores the Constitutional republic.
A veto-proof majority in the House of Representatives would deprive them of that excuse, and put pressure on them to offer legislation that embodies conservative, constitution minded approaches to the crises of our day. It would given them the power and therefore the clear responsibility to take decisive action to re-establish proper Congressional oversight of the czar ridden, anti-American dictatorship the Obama faction has substituted for limited government of, by and for the people as ordained and established by the U. S. Constitution.
Thus, though ‘throw da bums out‘ is the goal, by throwing the Dems out first we’ll get a clearer picture of who ‘da bums’ that remain really are. [Emphasis added.]
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Klavan: DE
MONEY QUOTE: "Next, stop cursing people and calling them names when they disagree with you. Listen to the point they're making, and either marshal pertinent facts that support your argument, or change your mind if their argument is better. No one will ever guess you're a liberal then!"
The Economy: A Lot Of Bad News
From Blacklisted News, 50 Statistics About The U.S. Economy That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe:
#50) In 2010 the U.S. government is projected to issue almost as much new debt as the rest of the governments of the world combined.
#49) It is being projected that the U.S. government will have a budget deficit of approximately 1.6 trillion dollars in 2010.
#48) If you went out and spent one dollar every single second, it would take you more than 31,000 years to spend a trillion dollars.
#47) In fact, if you spent one million dollars every single day since the birth of Christ, you still would not have spent one trillion dollars by now.
#46) Total U.S. government debt is now up to 90 percent of gross domestic product.
#45) Total credit market debt in the United States, including government, corporate and personal debt, has reached 360 percent of GDP.
#44) U.S. corporate income tax receipts were down 55% (to $138 billion) for the year ending September 30th, 2009.
#43) There are now 8 counties in the state of California that have unemployment rates of over 20 percent.
#42) In the area around Sacramento, California there is one closed business for every six that are still open.
#41) In February, there were 5.5 unemployed Americans for every job opening.
#40) According to a Pew Research Center study, approximately 37% of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 have either been unemployed or underemployed at some point during the recession.
#39) More than 40% of those employed in the United States are now working in low-wage service jobs.
#38) According to one new survey, 24% of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
#37) Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008. Not only that, more Americans filed for bankruptcy in March 2010 than during any month since U.S. bankruptcy law was tightened in October 2005.
#36) Mortgage purchase applications in the United States are down nearly 40 percent from a month ago to their lowest level since April of 1997.
#35) RealtyTrac has announced that foreclosure filings in the U.S. established an all time record for the second consecutive year in 2009.
#34) According to RealtyTrac, foreclosure filings were reported on 367,056 properties in March 2010, an increase of nearly 19 percent from February, an increase of nearly 8 percent from March 2009 and the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005.
#33) In Pinellas and Pasco counties, which include St. Petersburg, Florida and the suburbs to the north, there are 34,000 open foreclosure cases. Ten years ago, there were only about 4,000.
#32) In California’s Central Valley, 1 out of every 16 homes is in some phase of foreclosure.
#31) The Mortgage Bankers Association recently announced that more than 10 percent of all U.S. homeowners with a mortgage had missed at least one payment during the January to March time period. That was a record high and up from 9.1 percent a year ago.
#30) U.S. banks repossessed nearly 258,000 homes nationwide in the first quarter of 2010, a 35 percent jump from the first quarter of 2009.
#29) For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
#28) More than 24% of all homes with mortgages in the United States were underwater as of the end of 2009.
#27) U.S. commercial property values are down approximately 40 percent since 2007 and currently 18 percent of all office space in the United States is sitting vacant.
#26) Defaults on apartment building mortgages held by U.S. banks climbed to a record 4.6 percent in the first quarter of 2010. That was almost twice the level of a year earlier.
#25) In 2009, U.S. banks posted their sharpest decline in private lending since 1942.
#24) New York state has delayed paying bills totalling $2.5 billion as a short-term way of staying solvent but officials are warning that its cash crunch could soon get even worse.
#23) To make up for a projected 2010 budget shortfall of $280 million, Detroit issued $250 million of 20-year municipal notes in March. The bond issuance followed on the heels of a warning from Detroit officials that if its financial state didn’t improve, it could be forced to declare bankruptcy.
#22) The National League of Cities says that municipal governments will probably come up between $56 billion and $83 billion short between now and 2012.
#21) Half a dozen cash-poor U.S. states have announced that they are delaying their tax refund checks.
#20) Two university professors recently calculated that the combined unfunded pension liability for all 50 U.S. states is 3.2 trillion dollars.
#19) According to EconomicPolicyJournal.com, 32 U.S. states have already run out of funds to make unemployment benefit payments and so the federal government has been supplying these states with funds so that they can make their payments to the unemployed.
#18) This most recession has erased 8 million private sector jobs in the United States.
#17) Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of 2010.
#16) U.S. government-provided benefits (including Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs) rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.
#15) 39.68 million Americans are now on food stamps, which represents a new all-time record. But things look like they are going to get even worse. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forecasting that enrollment in the food stamp program will exceed 43 million Americans in 2011.
#14) Phoenix, Arizona features an astounding annual car theft rate of 57,000 vehicles and has become the new “Car Theft Capital of the World”.
#13) U.S. law enforcement authorities claim that there are now over 1 million members of criminal gangs inside the country. These 1 million gang members are responsible for up to 80% of the crimes committed in the United States each year.
#12) The U.S. health care system was already facing a shortage of approximately 150,000 doctors in the next decade or so, but thanks to the health care “reform” bill passed by Congress, that number could swell by several hundred thousand more.
#11) According to an analysis by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation the health care “reform” bill will generate $409.2 billion in additional taxes on the American people by 2019.
#10) The Dow Jones Industrial Average just experienced the worst May it has seen since 1940.
#9) In 1950, the ratio of the average executive’s paycheck to the average worker’s paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
#8) Approximately 40% of all retail spending currently comes from the 20% of American households that have the highest incomes.
#7) According to economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, two-thirds of income increases in the U.S. between 2002 and 2007 went to the wealthiest 1% of all Americans.
#6) The bottom 40 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
#5) If you only make the minimum payment each and every time, a $6,000 credit card bill can end up costing you over $30,000 (depending on the interest rate).
#4) According to a new report based on U.S. Census Bureau data, only 26 percent of American teens between the ages of 16 and 19 had jobs in late 2009 which represents a record low since statistics began to be kept back in 1948.
#3) According to a National Foundation for Credit Counseling survey, only 58% of those in “Generation Y” pay their monthly bills on time.
#2) During the first quarter of 2010, the total number of loans that are at least three months past due in the United States increased for the 16th consecutive quarter.
#1) According to the Tax Foundation’s Microsimulation Model, to erase the 2010 U.S. budget deficit, the U.S. Congress would have to multiply each tax rate by 2.4. Thus, the 10 percent rate would be 24 percent, the 15 percent rate would be 36 percent, and the 35 percent rate would have to be 85 percent.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
MUUUUSLIIIIIIMS IIIIIINNN SSSSPAAAAAACE!!
I made the following remarks to the Republican Assembly of Lake County this past Thursday:
Mr. Chairman, I rise today to congratulate the Islamic people, wherever they may be, on their achievement, unreported in the western media, of the colonization of the planet Mars, which they have renamed, “the Muslim World.”
I infer these things from the remarks recently made by the newly-appointed NASA Administrator to an interviewer from Al Jazeera, explaining that his top priority from President Obama is to “improve relations with the Muslim World.”In the wake of my disappointment with the abrupt cancellation of NASA’s Constellation program to return men to the Moon, I strongly applaud this new development, which I surmise must entail a manned mission to the Muslim World, a project I have supported since the day, just less than two weeks before my seventh birthday, when I sat with my family and watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon.
I choose this interpretation of this news because my heart cannot bear the alternative explanation, that NASA now stands for “Not About Space Anymore,” that at a time when Secretary Clinton’s top priority is Chelsea’s wedding, NASA, which once made the greatest achievements of humankind, is now relegated to self-esteem counseling for jihadis. It’s not rocket science.
I can’t face that possibility. And so I invite you join me in the rousing cry, MUSLIMS IN SPACE!
This is post number 2001 to this blog.
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