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Current Events Poll

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:03:02 GMT

This Guy is Hilarious!!! AND politically INcorrect.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:43:05 GMT

While I was looking for footage of the girl that fell on the subway tracks in Boston a couple days ago- here's the video footage:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-ap-us-woman-on-tracks,0,3495300.story?track=rss

-this video came up in the search list results. He's definately my new super hero!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB8M3vyK-IQ

This is the best though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HezqxeUq9Zo&feature=channel

Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde and her take on Swine Flew

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:51:43 GMT

Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, former health minister of Finland [Finland has socialized medicine in case you didn't know] blames the World Health Organization and U.S. companies for hype about Swine flu or H1N1. The idea is to reduce the world's population and make a large amount of money at the same time. She also argues that the W.H.O. has manipulated circumstances in which governments have given them the power to mandate that every person gets the H1N1 vaccine. Hear it in her own words......I find this fascinating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgyakGAddM&feature=player_embedded

One Alternative to AARP

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:46:33 GMT

Let me precede my comments with- I am not a senior and have no vested interest in this topic.

Today the AARP announced it was throwing its support behind the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care bill. The last time they did this the AARP lost 60,000 members. So where can one turn to get the same quality (if not better) seniors program? On their website's "About Us" page, the American Seniors Association makes it clear that they are looking out for YOU- not what's in the best interest of the masses or government. You the individual. They state:

"We are driven by a uniquely American philosophy that starts with the understanding that government doesn’t tax and regulate “things.” It taxes and regulates “people.” Individuals like you and me. That’s why we treat every member as an individual, with a different story and different priorities, freely united as individuals to provide each other with better values in the services we want and need.

At American Seniors Association, we don’t just take the government’s side like some other associations. We are not some big liberal bureaucracy here to try to scare you into going along with Big Government all the time or telling you what to think. Instead,

• We’ll offer you real, useful information so you can make up your own mind.
• We’ll ask: What do you think?
• And, we’ll take your side.

And instead of pretending to speak for you on every issue, we’ll help provide you with the information and the tools you need to speak for yourself.

Like we said, we’re different. And we’re working for people just like you."

http://www.americanseniors.org/pages/aboutus.aspx?Images=/images/american_aboutus.JPG

12 Question Poll

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:21:19 GMT

Feel free to leave any comments below.

V

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:42:52 GMT

I missed the series premier of the new ABC show V but I hope to see it Saturday when it will be available for viewing on ABC's website. However, there was a very interesting review of the show from Glen Garvin in the Entertainment section of the Chicago Tribune that makes me think ABC just fired a shot accross the Obama administration's bow. Mr. Garvin writes:

"Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy."

So, does that sound like anyone you know? Oh, wait -- did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who's come here to eat us?"

Sounds like someone in Hollyweird is looking for trouble. Should be a fun show to watch! Check out some of the clips on ABC's website and listen to the dialog. It sounds like it could be happening today. I wonder if this show is a metaphore or reflection of society.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0,7062976.story

What is the Definition of an Illegal Alien?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:23:48 GMT

Remember a couple months back I posted a comment about how the U.S. borders would essentially be erased in the future. I was poo-pood by a bunch of right as well as left leaning folks. Well, guess what? Here's evidence that that is exactly what the powers that be are attempting to do. It's right at the 1 minute 52 second mark. From CNN- I give you the new amnesty bill with proof of the North American Union being planned. Then watch for the African Union, Asian Union...........

http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/17260182/1610997888/name/ftc-vi26.wmv

Progressives and the Founding Fathers

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:54:30 GMT

Back in the 1700s when the country was just starting to get a grip on becoming independent the free thinkers faced communists and marxists just like we do today. In those days, those who sought to oppress the people had the more informal name of tyrant. If you were to take this quote by Samuel Adams and substitute marxist or communist for the word tyrant you can see how long this debate of freedom vs. gov't enslavement has been going on. Back then it would have been King George impossing his rule on the colonies. We all know how that worked out.

"It is high time for the country explicitly to declare, whether they will be freemen or slaves? It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in the event. For wherever tyranny is establish'd, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent. It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interest are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all events, to put a stop to the progress of tyranny."

~ Samuel Adams, October 1772

Green Jobs- Not Quite a Success in Germany

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:15:26 GMT

OK- so the left likes to point to European countries and suggest that we emulate them. Germany has been ahead of our game when it comes to the creation of green jobs while the Obama administration pushes for just that to happen here. The only problem is, Germany has not had much success in creating actual "green" jobs. In their 2009 report the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institute concludes:

"Although renewable energies have a potentially beneficial role to play as part of Germany’s energy portfolio, the commonly advanced argument that renewables confer a double dividend or “win-win solution” in the form of environmental stewardship and economic prosperity is disingenuous. In this article, we argue that Germany’s principal mechanism of supporting renewable technologies through feed-in tariffs, in fact, imposes high costs without any of the alleged positive impacts on emissions reductions, employment, energy security, or technological innovation.

First, as a consequence of the prevailing coexistence of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the increased use of renewable energy technologies triggered by the EEG does not imply any additional emission reductions beyond those already achieved by ETS alone. This is in line with Morthorst (2003), who analyzes the promotion of renewable energy usage by alternative instruments using a three-country model. This study’s results suggest that renewable support schemes are questionable climate policy instruments in the presence of the ETS.

Second, numerous empirical studies have consistently shown the net employment balance to be zero or even negative in the long run, a consequence of the high opportunity cost of supporting renewable energy technologies. Indeed, it is most likely that whatever jobs are created by renewable energy promotion would vanish as soon as government support is terminated, leaving only Germany’s export sector to benefit from the possible continuation of renewables support in other countries such as the US. Third, rather than promoting energy security, the need for backup power from fossil fuels means that renewables increase Germany’s dependence on gas imports, most of which come from Russia.

And finally, the system of feed-in tariffs stifles competition among renewable energy producers and creates perverse incentives to lock into existing technologies.

Hence, although Germany’s promotion of renewable energies is commonly portrayed in the media as setting a “shining example in providing a harvest for the world” (The Guardian 2007), we would instead regard the country’s experience as a cautionary tale of massively expensive environmental and energy policy that is devoid of economic and environmental benefits. As other European governments emulate Germany by ramping up their promotion of renewables, policy makers should scrutinize the logic of supporting energy sources that cannot compete on the market in the absence of government assistance. Such scrutiny is also warranted in the US, where there are currently nearly 400 federal and state programs in place that provide financial incentives for renewable energy (DSIRE 2009)."

To see their entire report complete with charts and reference sources:

http://http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/germany/Germany_Study_-_FINAL.pdf

AND- for something a little more light hearted-

What do green jobs and balloon boy have in common?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJt2_PYRC2E&feature=player_embedded

Cash for Clunkers COST WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:01:48 GMT

Holy cow (no offence to Hindus) the cash for clunker program is the perfect, definitive example of why government should not be in charge of anyone's health care. C4C cost the tax payer, per car sold, $24,000!!!!

http://www.edmunds.com/help/about/press/159446/article.html

http://www.autoobserver.com/2009/10/cash-for-clunkers-tab-24000-per-vehicle-of-taxpayer-cash.html

Quick Poll

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:07:16 GMT

What Do These Things Have in Common?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:38:16 GMT

What three things do;

Health insurance companies, banking companies, Wall Street, Main Street, car manufacturers, Tea Party and Town Hall attendees, non-believers of global climate change, Fox News and political opponents of the Obama administration all have in common? They all have been demonized through a three step process by the Obama administration.

First, we are told that these entities are engaged in the "wrong way of thinking". Second, there is danger (of some kind) if we let them go on the way they have been. Third, they all like profit and profit is [according to this administration] bad. Are there any other enities that I forgot here?

This is classic Alinsky rearing it's ugly head! Isolate, pummel, ridicule and destroy the enemy. Rules for Radicals #s 5, 8 & 13 apply.

Rules for Radicals

1. "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."

2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.”

3. "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.”
4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
6. "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time."
8. "Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose."
9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
10. "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign."
11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative."
12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen’.

On Thursday October 21st, 2009 the Internet Could Change Forever

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:40:50 GMT

Meet Mark Lloyd. Diversity Cheif for the FCC. They are seeking to limit free speech through a program called Net Neutrality. On the surface it sounds nice but it's goal will be to limit speech on the grounds of politically correct ideals that we have heard the past ten years or so i.e. religious talk in the public square or those who oppose any administration's policies. So enjoy the last bit of freedom we still have because the gov't is about to get it's big nose right in the middle of the internet!

Here's Mark Lloyd on a couple of subjects. Listen to what he says and how he plans to implement his ideas. This guy looks to Hugo Chavez as an example to follow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovnwzMJf09o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUzorZFtoYM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ffAP5ixhg&feature=PlayList&p=E482F64E8E0F4AAE&index=0&playnext=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5X7nP5mDgk

Wonder if it's True?!?!?!?!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:42:28 GMT

I don't know much about the CFP or Canada Free Press, but here's an interesting article about an attempt to be made to give United States sovereignty away and this news is not coming from a U.S. citizen. It's coming from Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He said in a recent speech to the Minnesota Free Market Institute:

"At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Prize [winner]; of course he’ll sign it.

[laughter]

And the trouble is this; if that treaty is signed, if your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution (sic), and you can’t resign from that treaty unless you get agreement from all the other state parties – And because you’ll be the biggest paying country, they’re not going to let you out of it.

So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. I’ve read the treaty. I’ve seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or not.

But I think it is here, here in your great nation, which I so love and I so admire – it is here that perhaps, at this eleventh hour, at the fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second, you will rise up and you will stop your president from signing that dreadful treaty, that purposeless treaty. For there is no problem with climate and, even if there were, an economic treaty does nothing to [help] it.

So I end by saying to you the words that Winston Churchill addressed to your president in the darkest hour before the dawn of freedom in the Second World War. He quoted from your great poet Longfellow:

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!"

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15816

There are several other sites that have this same story. Here's a link to the video but it's over an hour long. Oi yoy yoy!

http://mnfreemarketinstitute.org/2009/10/16/monckton-speaks-to-over-700-at-minnesota-free-market-institute-event/

Meet Dr. Utopia- hawking his 'Ism' from 1948

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:52:06 GMT

This is a really great video- amazing how nothing has changed in politics since 1948....oh wait....there's a Marxist in the White House now. This video should be played in every classroom in the U.S. from now until the end of time itself. But since it won't be- get the kiddies together and have a learning session like no other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVh75ylAUXY&feature=player_embedded

(I think I may have seen this in school years ago. Something familiar about it. Anyone recall seeing this before?)

What if This Happened to........

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:10:51 GMT

Mozart? By age 5 Mozart was performing in front of royal courts and composing music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfjTrrBE_eI&feature=channel

Health Insurance- the cost to Congress

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:02:16 GMT

How much do you pay for your health insurance? Does it have limitations? Are there things that your plan just will not cover? Got deductibles that go up every year?

Wouldn't it be nice to get ANYTHING you would ever need in health care for $42 a month? Impossible you say? Well, run for Congress and get yerself a seat in that thar rotunda and you too could have a great health insurance plan. Then you can vote against any bill that would force you to go to the public plan once it's rammed down our throats.

I think I'm gonna be sick. ;(

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/13/cbsnews_investigates/main5382699.shtml

The Office of the Attending Physician

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:11:07 GMT

Jackpot for Congress. In the Office of the Attending Physician Congressional members don't need health insurance rather, they go the the little known office of the attending physician where they can get practically any medical care for $503 a year. You read that right, $503 a year. Almost half of Congress takes advantage of this service. Do you think they will give us in the general public that kind of deal? Can I get a HECK NO!? Well, don't take my word for it- here's a report from ABC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGuQB9CNDp8&feature=player_embedded#

Just Waiting for the "Normalization" Part of it.

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:36:09 GMT

Hmmmmm, why does some of the things this guy talks about seem....oh, I don't know.......correct? Is that the word I'm looking for? Familiar maybe? He says it only takes 2 to 5 years to destabilize a nation. What's happening to the U.S.? Has ANYTHING been fixed? I don't believe there is an economic recovery starting....nothing has changed since the election. So how could there be any recovery?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMZGGQ0ERk