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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Beheading Profit Makers In America

Published by Dick Schaefer,

Date: 4/27/2011
Post: 2,165

Have you seen this report? I thought you should see what is not be reported by the mainstream media.

Anti-tea party radical calls for beheadings to begin:

VIDEO:

http://www.breitbart.tv/anti-tea-party-speaker-we-must-guillotine-profit-makers/

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/04/21/taking-a-page-from-islamists-playbook-anti-tea-party-radical-demands-beheading-of-business-owners-and-conservatives/

Taking a Page from Islamists' Playbook, Anti-Tea Party Radical Demands Beheading of Business Owners and Conservatives

News Real
Walter Hudson
Posted on April 21 2011 11:00 am

Last weekend, Tea Parties throughout the country held Tax Day rallies to protest bloated government budgets, ever increasing debt, and the ballooning entitlement state. Some among the Left were not content to let the Tea Party own Tax Day.

In Arkansas, an anti-Tea Party rally dubbed “Make Them Pay” took place on the steps of the state capitol. Jim Lendall, a former state representative and 2010 Green Party Gubernatorial nominee, was applauded when he took the podium to call for the beheading of businessmen and conservatives.

The French, inspired by our American Revolution, knew how to deal with the wealthy arrogant aristocrats. The French people built guillotines. Maybe we can park a guillotine in front of every chamber of commerce, corporate headquarters, bank, investment house, and Republican Party headquarters to remind them that democracy is about people, not profits. We need to tell them in one clear voice, ‘No more greed.’

The video was picked up by Breitbart. Check it out. Note the amused approving smirks, the aloof comfort, and the eagerly offered applause.

The easy point to make, which Americans for Prosperity Arkansas does, is that Lendall’s call to violence highlights a double-standard. What if a similar comment were made at a Tea Party rally? There’s no doubt it would be a top story for days.

However, there’s a more instructive point to take away. Unlike Sarah Palin’s depiction of gun sights on a campaign map, this is not a political metaphor. Lendall references the French Revolution as a template for how the Left should proceed. At the very least, he suggests that the threat of violence is a legitimate political tactic.

Even more instructive is the “sin” which incurs Lendall’s wrath. Making a profit is, to his mind, a capital offense. Being productive, creating wealth, providing jobs and opportunities for others, all are heinous undertakings deserving of death.

You have to wonder what Lendall would prescribe as a next step, after beheading all the wealth creators. How do you run the world after you’ve “made them pay?”

Whatever Lendall’s answer, we can be assured of its nonsense. That’s because, unless he’s prepared to lie down and starve to death, Lendall and the leftist remnant of their New Reign of Terror would need to create and manage wealth, or conquer others to do it for them.

In any case, this moment highlights the tyrannical impulse which underlies leftist thought. They want to park a guillotine on your yard. We want to be left alone. By all means, bring on that argument.

Editor’s Note: For your convenience, here’s some contact info from JimLendall.org 501-562-0011, jelendall@comcast.net

Walter Hudson is a political commentator and co-founder of Minnesota's North Star Tea Party Patriots, a statewide educational organization. He runs a blog entitled Fightin Words. He also contributes to True North, a hub of Minnesotan conservative commentary. Follow his work via Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

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Monday, April 25, 2011

"The Nanny State Can't Last" by Dr. Ron Paul

Published by Dick Schaefer, Part-time Contributing Writer; Amateur Investigative Reporter; Aspiring Photo-Journalist, Creator of "Ralphie's Buffalo Chips" Column and Loyal Mizzou Fan

Date: 4/25/2011

Post: 2,155

Dr. Ron Paul has been railing against runaway government spending on unconstitutional entitlement programs for years .... but few have listened to him. Now, as the debt crisis bears down upon our nation, I hope that more people will finally listen to this man.

The Nanny State Can't Last

Ron Paul

Last week, Congress and the administration refused to seriously consider the problem of government spending. Despite the fear-mongering, a government shutdown would not have been as bad as claimed.

It is encouraging that some in Washington seem to be insisting on reduced spending, which is

definitely a step in the right direction, but only one step. We have miles to go before we can
even come close to a solution, and it will involve completely redefining the role of government in
our lives and on the world stage. A compromise was struck at the last minute, but until
Democrats agree to rein in entitlement spending, and Republicans back off the blank checks to
the military industrial complex, it all amounts to political gamesmanship.

Unfortunately, the compromises always seem to be just the opposite. Instead of the left

agreeing to cut social spending and the right agreeing to cut military spending, the right agrees
to more welfare and the left agrees to more warfare. In spite of all the rhetoric, we will go
deeper in debt, the Fed will print more money, and the value of the dollar will continue to
plummet. How long will it be before foreigners stop buying our debt, and hyperinflation arrives?
Throughout history, empires have always overextended themselves through conquests and
wealth transfers leading to eventual collapse, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union. We
are headed in the same direction and it seems only the chaos of the collapse of the dollar will
stop the spending spree. Arguing over funding for Planned Parenthood and NPR, though
important, only shows that leadership in Washington either won't face reality, or don't
understand how serious the problem is.

Of course, an actual government collapse would create serious problems for many people who

have come to depend on government payments for healthcare, retirement income, their
children's education, and even food and housing. However, these so-called entitlement
programs are unconstitutional to begin with and have engendered a culture of dependence on
wealth transfer payments that is out of control. It concerns me greatly that instead of dealing
seriously with our situation, so many in Washington would rather allow the chaos that will ensue
when all of the dependent people are suddenly cut off. Better to look reality squarely in the face
and tell people the difficult truth that government is simply not capable of managing people's
lives from cradle to grave as was foolishly promised. We face trillions in deficits with any of the
budgets under consideration. Keeping those promises is, sadly, just not one of our options in
the long run. Better to admit the nanny state is coming to an end and we are no longer working
on "compromises" but a transition - to a sustainable way of life, one that respects the
constitution, the rule of law and property rights.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Setting The Record Straight

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Wars of Humanitarianism

Click on the following link to read a thoughtful analysis regarding "wars of humanitarianism" .....

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110404-immaculate-intervention-wars-humanitarianism

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Hope for Change?

After 2 years of Obama, here's your change:

	January 2009	TODAY	*% chg*	^Source
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.	$1.83	$3.704	79.6%	¹
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)	$43..48	$105..02	147.7%	²
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)	$38..74	$104.78	155.9%	²
Gold: London (per troy oz.)5	$853.25	$1,469.50	70.5%	²
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL	$3.56	$7.33	88.1%	²
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL	$9.66	$13..75	42.3%	²
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob	$13..37	$41..39	184.7%	²
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall	7.6%	9.4%	23.7%	³
Unemployment rate, blacks	12.6%	15.8%	25.4%	³
Number of unemployed	11,616,000	14,485,000	24.7%	³
Number of fed. Employees, ex. Military (curr = 12/10 prelim)	2,779,000	2,940,000	2.9%	³
Real median household income (2008 v 2009)	$50,112	$49,777	-0.7%	⁴
Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10)	31,983,716	43,200,878	35.1%	⁵
Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10)	7,526,598	9,193,838	22.2%	⁶
Number of long-term unemployed	2,600,000	6,400,000	146.2%	³
Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009)	13.2%	14.3%	8.3%	⁴
People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009)	39,800,000	43,600,000	9.5%	⁴
U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings	5	9	n/a	¹⁰
Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10)	29.9	23.5	-21.4%	¹¹
Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date)	140	164	17.1%	¹²
U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate	89.76	82.03	-8.6%	²
U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)	1,575.1	1,865.7	18.4%	¹³
U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)	8,310.9	8,852.3	6.5%	¹³
National debt, in trillions	$10..627	$14..052	32.2%	¹⁴

Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history.
Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane.
27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH!

Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor;
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC;
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury

The U.S. Debt Problem

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"Government is not the solution to the problem, Government IS the Problem."

"We could say they are spending like drunken sailor's, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their OWN money."

- Ronald Reagan

Standing Down At The Border

Published by Dick Schaefer, Part-time Contributing Writer; Amateur Investigative Reporter; Aspiring Photo-Journalist, Creator of "Ralphie's Buffalo Chips" Column and Loyal Mizzou Fan

Date: 4/17/2011
Post: 2,109

The Obama government is ROTTEN TO THE CORE! Don't think so? Read the following article by Jana Winter of FoxNews.com.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/01/exclusive-federal-agents-told-reduce-border-arrests-arizona-sheriff-says/

EXCLUSIVE: Federal Agents Told to Reduce Border Arrests, Arizona Sheriff Says

FoxNews

Jana Winter

April 01, 2011

An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce -- at times even stop -- arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border.

Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever told FoxNews.com that a supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol told him as recently as this month that the federal agency’s office on Arizona's southern border was under orders to keep apprehension numbers down during specific reporting time periods.

“The senior supervisor agent is telling me about how their mission is now to scare people back,” Dever said in an interview with FoxNews.com. “He said, ‘I had to go back to my guys and tell them not to catch anybody, that their job is to chase people away. … They were not to catch anyone, arrest anyone. Their job was to set up posture, to intimidate people, to get them to go back.”

Dever said his recent conversation with the Border Patrol supervisor was the latest in a series of communications on the subject that he has had with various federal agents over the last two years. Dever said he plans to relay the substance of these conversations when he testifies under oath next month before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

“I will raise my hand to tell the truth and swear to God, and nothing is more serious or important than that,” he said. “I’m going to tell them that, here’s what I hear and see every day: I had conversation with agent A, B, C, D and this is what they told me.”

Dever’s charges were vigorously denied by a commander with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“The claim that Border Patrol supervisors have been instructed to underreport or manipulate our statistics is unequivocally false,” Jeffery Self, commander of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Joint Field Command in Arizona, said in a written statement.

“I took an oath that I take very seriously, and I find it insulting that anyone, especially a fellow law enforcement officer, would imply that we would put the protection of the American public and security of our nation’s borders in danger just for a numbers game," he said. "Our mission does not waiver based on political climate, and it never will. To suggest that we are ambiguous in enforcing our laws belittles the work of more than 6,000 CBP employees in Arizona who dedicate their lives to protect our borders every day.”

In recent days, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said the U.S.-Mexican border is more secure than ever, and Homeland Security officials have used recent statistics to support those claims.

"There is a perception that the border is worse now than it ever has been," Napolitano said at the El Paso border crossing last week. "That is wrong. The border is better now than it ever has been."

Dever doesn’t agree.

“Janet Napolitano says the border is more secure than it’s ever been. I’ve been here for 60 years, and I’m telling you that’s not true,” he said.

The sheriff of Santa Cruz County, which borders Dever’s Cochise County to the west, said, “This is news to me,” when asked about reports that border agents were being told to turn illegal immigrants back to Mexico rather than arrest them.

“It comes as a complete surprise that that would be something that’s going around,” Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said. “I meet with Dever all the time and I have great respect for him, so I expect he’d come forward and say what he knows and give the source.

“Not knowing who the source is, how reliable that source is, I really don’t have much of a position,” Estrada said. “I’ve been around a real long time and haven’t heard anything like this. By the same token, you learn new things every day.”

Both sheriffs are elected officials. Dever is a Republican, Estrada, a Democrat.

Others have questioned the methodology and conclusions of the Homeland Security numbers showing the border is more secure.

Mark Hanna, CEO of Real Life Enterprises, a Phoenix-based technology integration and security company, has testified before the Arizona Senate about what he called Homeland Security’s flawed methodology used to compile border security statistics. Hanna maintains the numbers are dangerously misleading.

Hanna, who is currently working on a private/public partnership pilot program along the Arizona border, said he attended a February conference at which Michael Fisher, chief of the United States Border Patrol, and Mark S. Borkowski, assistant commissioner for technology and innovation acquisition, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, showed off charts indicating arrests were decreasing and argued the border was more secure. The charts also showed an increase in marijuana seizures along the border and an increase in Border Patrol agents.

But those charts left out crucial data, Hanna said.

“Since we don't know how many illegal crossings are occurring, then a decrease in apprehensions might mean that there are fewer illegal crossings, and the border is more secure. But it could also just as easily mean that more illegal border crossings are occurring, and we're just not catching as many. In order to know how secure the border is, you need to know how many are crossing and the threat level of those who are crossing illegally," he said.

“It is a very dangerous condition for the secretary of Homeland Security to be using incomplete data to form such a conclusion, and then repeatedly announce these conclusions as fact,” he said.

The Department of Homeland Security did not return repeated requests for comment on Hanna’s specific challenges to the agency’s methodology.

Whatever the methodology, Dever said the numbers don’t accurately describe what’s happening on the ground.

“We do not know who’s crossing that border, but that anyone who wants to can. That’s the message our nation needs to hear, that anyone who wants to can, and is. And our own Department of Homeland Security does not have clear definition of what securing the border even means," Dever said.

“People are disgusted, the smiles are gone off their face, their general sense of welfare been taken away from them and until that’s returned you can throw all the numbers on the board. … I’ll tell Napolitano, in spite of all of your declarations and efforts to the contrary, things are not safe. No, they are not secure.

“You can use your numbers to say it’s more secure, but it does not define a sense of safety or well-being. You can say it’s more secure, but it’s more dangerous than ever.”