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Fundamental Rights

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on November 16, 2010 at 10:56am

Only God gives us fundamental rights? You don’t have a fundamental right to a haircut, nor a fundamental right to health care, because somebody, not God, serves you. In order to do that, somebody has to make it a law; somebody with the power to tax and spend—unconstitutionally, by the way. The Constitution does not give politicians the authority rob Peter to pay Paul.

That somebody with the power to tax and spend for health care, unconstitutionally, includes Republicans. I submit to the members of Tea Party that had John McCain been elected President, he would have lulled the American people into remaining in an outrageous, unconstitutional, nanny state status quo. The Republicans have heretofore dared not mention reforming government entitlements. It has been seen as the political kiss of death. John, sweet guy that he is, is a conformist.

I’m a nasty old non-conformist. I’ve got my own ideas, but I give you the same right. This makes me the greedy capitalist you hear talked on the lamestream news media. However, If I don’t happen to luck out, they have nothing to say. Capitalists call it hypocrisy. Lamestream, lame-brain birds of a feather flock together, and now that the music has stopped they are left standing with their rears exposed.

Obama was elected by those above mentioned folks who want to transform America into a collectivist state, of course, those with something to gain from it—and at the expense of others. These folks are so generous with other people’s money. It’s all about doing unto others before they do unto you, such as Obamacare, a game politicians play exceedingly well. After they make it law, then you will know and like it, and if you don’t? Again, they have nothing to say. They don’t know any way but their way. Reminds you of Muslims. Interisting! It’s always God’s way is their way. If you are successful, it is Satin’s way.

Ironically, the thing I’ve fought all my adult life is benefitting me. What a laugh! Chance favors the prepared mind. Collectivists are the losers. They never think for themselves. As a consequence of collectivist non-thinkers, the country has never been more divided, and life never better for me. Thanks guys!

What happened to the America I knew? I’m a World War II combat veteran. Seventy million people’s lives were cut short as a result of World War II. I fought the Nazis in Germany. Of the 16 million Americans who served in WW II, more than 400,000 giving their lives, and only 10 percent remaining alive today, what the American people know is in evidence: zilch! The men who cause wars don’t care enough for their fellow humans to give up their insane ideas of a better world. Me and my buddies in WW II were out to destroy Germany and kill as many Germans in the process as we could. Possessed of utopian notions, America has not won a war since. What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan? I’ve been spared to talk common sense.

Compared to the rest of the world, the American people live in the lap of luxury. They’ve never experienced thousands of tons of bombs falling on them, being left homeless and hungry. I witnessed incomprehensible cruelty in Germany. Thanks to the determination of the American people during WW II, we Americans today don’t know what most of the world goes through. It is no wonder to me we are not liked.

But apologizing only makes bad matters worse. It encourages America’s enemies. What if a similar situation as WW II should arise, with America borrowing astronomical sums to avoid facing reality, would the American people be up to the challenge? America has never been this vulnerable.

A two thousand year age is ending. We are beginning to awaken to a vast change that has got to take place. With great challenges ahead, America, in general, with Obama at the helm, a chip floating on the tides, little wonder that business is not willing to expand. As an entrepreneur, I’m preparing for the worst. But rest assured, the same as the rest of the business world, when there is no money left to hand me I’ll be looking for opportunities. With the present state of mind, I won’t have a lot of competition.

I’m with Glenn Beck. Get out of debt; store food, the price is about to go sky high. Put your money into something tangible, not necessarily gold, and look for opportunities.

The Tea Party, a big head start, is part of an exponentially expanding groundswell of new age thinking.

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Rajjpuut's Folly: The Sickening Downward Spiral of America’s Healthcare Provisioning

Posted by Bob VanDeHey on November 16, 2010 at 7:30am
special thanks to Joseph Whitworth Smith for the genesis of this idea . . .

“We Americans have the shortest memories in the world. We’ve been lied to and propagandized to by the progressive politicos since Woodrow Wilson. They’ve given us the income tax; the federal reserve banking system; the $35 TRillion in unfunded liability of Social Security; The combined unfunded liability of $80 TRillion from Medicare and the federal side of Medicaid; Obamacare; the unfunded state liability for their side of Medicaid which thanks to Obamacare will bankrupt all the states by 2022; $14 TRillion in national debt; an inescapable inflation facing us in the months ahead . . . and to reward them, we’ve handed them the right to control our very life and death.” Rajjpuut

A Healthcare Trip Back

to the “Good Old Days”

It was a time before rampant progressivism took over the Democratic Party . . . . Return with us now to those sedate days of yesteryear when Leave it to Beaver, Donna Reed and Father Knows Best ruled the airwaves such as they were in the pre-pre-MTV era . . . . In the real world, outside your black and white TV console, life seemed virtually as idyllic. Even when you as a parent came home to a sick child, you had the best health care system in the world looking out for her and the rest of your family.

In those halcyon days before the government got involved in the health care picture, a trip to the doctor cost $5, but in most rural communities only $4. There was a county hospital for the indigent (poor) who would never except in rare emergencies be treated anywhere else. If the child needed penicillin shot, add on a couple or three extra dollars. Many doctors in those times also made “house calls” for $10. A stay in the hospital in a semi-private room ran you $25 a day. Need an operation or get taken to the emergency room? You paid what you could and arranged with the doctor for follow-up payments . . . again, there was always the county hospital to fall back upon. Besides you could always plan ahead and buy health insurance.

Family health insurance -- largely via the Blue Cross and Blue Shield networks (Cross for hospital charges; Shield for physicians) was a mere $25 monthly and then your health care worries were taken care of. It was a different world then. The women’s movement was growing strong but those radicals known as feminists were no were to be seen yet. Typically the husband earned the family’s money and the wife stayed home cooked at least sixteen to twenty meals a week, watched the kids and kept the house in order. That’s what passed in those days for “not working” among women. For a family to live today with the same economic freedom and lifestyle as a husband earning $8,000 and stay-at-home mom back then . . . today would require both parents to work and pull in roughly $260,000 . . . that is they would be considered “wealthy” today but their home would be a lot dirtier and they’d subsist on five to ten fast-food meals per week. So what happened?

In part the differences are due to inflation. And inflation in America didn’t start to become a problem until Lyndon Johnson pushed Medicare and Medicaid, his “Great Society” welfare programs and his infamous “War on poverty." Between Johnson’s nonsense and the Vietnam War and the follow-up programs by Nixon-Ford and especially Carter . . . inflation rates rose to double-digits by 1978. Medicare and both the state and federal side of Medicaid were largely culpable . . . hospital costs rose 28% per year and physician costs 26% yearly now that Big-Daddy-GUV'Mint was footing the bill. As we in America are doomed to find out again courtesy of Ben Bernanke’s Quantitative Easing #1 and QE #2, inflation is a monstrous unseen tax. In short, the government stepped into things and they started going downhill fast.

Send a senior citizen to the hospital today with chest pains and he’ll leave a couple days later with the diagnosis of “acute indigestion” and the bill could easily surpass $30,000. With Medicare the hospital might charge only $7,000. The high cost? Today “private hospitals” are required by the government to offer “free services” because health care is no longer a “need” but now become a “fundamental right” according to the government. That free service must be offered even to illegal aliens. Yet since Obamacare panels now can decide independently from the doctor and patient and his family on how much and what type of services and how much money can be spent on each patient, they literally control who lives and dies . . . . If one must be treated for free, all must be treated for free including the illegals, but they’re allowed to literally kill a citizen by depriving them of care?

We Americans have the shortest memories in the world. We can’t seem to tie together the simple fact: everything outside of the military where government impinges upon private lives has become a disaster . . . . We’ve been lied to and propagandized to by the progressives since Woodrow Wilson. They’ve given us the income tax; the federal reserve banking system; the $35 TRillion in unfunded liability of Social Security; The combined unfunded liability of $80 TRillion from Medicare and the federal side of Medicaid; Obamacare; the unfunded state liability for the state side of Medicaid which thanks to Obamacare will bankrupt all the states by 2022; $14 TRillion in national debt; and based upon their great performance we’ve voted them in to office in such overwhelming numbers and handed them the right to control our very life and death.

We’ve even let them create our history for us via revisionism and bald-faced lies. We’ve allowed them to convince us that our most famously sound-fiscal conservative president, Warren G. Harding was our worst president ever. We’ve allowed them to call Herbert Hoover a “conservative” when it was his interference that ended the Roaring Twenties that Harding and his replacement (Harding died in office) Calvin Coolidge created, the most productive decade in American History. We’ve not been told that FDR and his VP John Nance Garner ran against Herbert Hoover calling him a “socialist” and pledging to cut taxes, and cut spending and then once in office did everything but what they promised. They do not tell us that Harding had provided the model which FDR was referring to when he ended the depression he was handed by Woodrow Wilson by cutting spending 49%; cutting taxes 48% and paying down the national debt 30% . . . ending the problem in 15 months.

We’re told that perhaps the worst president in history, Woodrow Wilson, was only behind Lincoln and the “great FDR” among the greatest of our chief executives. We’re not told that Wilson was a racist who stopped federal hiring of Blacks in Washington, D.C.; that his administration lied about going to war in Europe to get re-elected and then a month later got us into a war that was none of our business; that his administration created the art of propaganda; that they shepherded German and Italian citizens into concentration camps; that they closed down newspapers whose content they didn’t like; and that he left behind a depression that started out worse than what Harding and FDR faced.

We’re told that FDR saved us from the Great Depression when in fact his multiplication of the errors of Hoover between the two of them created a 12.5 year downturn that was only ended by entry into World War II. We’re told that conservatives and Wall Street created the financial meltdown that’s still got us tied up today. We even believe it when our progressive-socialist president tells us, “they ran the car into the ditch and now when we’ve almost got it out again, they want the keys back . . . .”

The truth for anyone who can read history is this:

George W. Bush saw Obama, Clinton, ACORN, and the progressives deliberately pushing the car (the economy) toward a 500-ft. cliff (utter disaster); jumped into the front seat; grabbed the steering wheel and slammed on the brakes; and produced a controlled skid that dropped the car into the nearest friendly ditch.

We don’t know the truth**, we believe the lies, because we’re too busy watching sitcoms and reality TV while vegetating on our couches rather than taking the time to become informed citizens of the greatest country the world has known. Preferring our couch-potatodom and to get our “education” from progressive sound bites . . . that is why we’re in the mess we’re in . . . we did it to ourselves.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut


** Our present ceding of the right to life and death over us by the government while many of us cheered is just the latest in government-created abominations. Let’s look at that car in the ditch story . . . .

In 1975 0.24% of all home loans were “suspect loans” usually granted at 3% down payment or less. This was the era when conservative business practices ruled the day. In 1977, Jimmy Carter and his progressives gave us the Community Reinvestment Act forcing home lenders to knowingly consider unsound loans. By 2005 after four expansions^^ by Bill Clinton of the CRA ’77 legislation 34.2% of all mortgage loans were suspect . . . many of them granted at 0% down to people without jobs; people with lousy credit scores; people with only food stamps for “income” and even illegal aliens. Driven largely by ACORN (originally Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now created in 1977 by the progressives to “handle” voter registration and housing) and our first ACORN president Bill Clinton after whose 1998 steroid expansion of CRA ’77 it became easier in the 21st Century to put people with no chance (short of winning the lottery) to ever pay off their home loans into $400,000 homes than it had been in 1996 to put better qualified people into $120-$150,000 homes.

Bush saw the problem and in January, 2005, his administration tried to repeal the most onerous aspects of the five CRA expansions since 1977. He was defeated. Bush personally and his spokesmen went before Congress almost 30 times before 30 months later in July, 2007 a much weaker bill was passed. It was way too little, way too late and the meltdown began within four months. However, Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in August, 2010, praised Bush for preventing the recession from becoming much worse and housing prices from tumbling precipitously.

This was just one more example of the great progressives whose “intentions were good” fouling things up beyond all recognition. And, of their historical revisionism and lying. We had the best home-lending system in the world and the world’s highest private home ownership (averaging 64%) the envy of the whole world. The system was NOT broken, but the progressive Democrats sure fixed it; and us.

One clarification: about 2004, Wall Street’s rating agencies and Congress’s oversight arms not only didn’t notice that people were creating “virtual junk bonds” out of bundles of these worthless sub-prime loans but were praising them for doing so and putting “A” ratings upon the finished product. This compounded the stupidity and some such as Goldman Sachs were criminally negligent at best . . . but the fundamental problem was Congress interfering in the free market’s mortgage-lending system and forcing them to make BAD LOANS.
^^ Clinton in '93 expanded the power of the CRA law via presidential edict upon the regulatory process; then legislatively twice he expanded it in 1995; and finally once more, the steroid-version expansion in 1998. Barack Obama was an ACORN lawyer in Chicago working for them for parts of three years to browbeat and shakedown banks to force these bad loans from them. Obama was infamous for getting ACORN donations from the banks as well . . . .
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The Sweet Sounds of Opinions

Posted by CJ on November 15, 2010 at 2:00pm
Opinion | One and done: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012
By Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell

Sunday, November 14, 2010

President Obama must decide now how he wants to govern in the two years leading up to the 2012 presidential election.

In recent days, he has offered differing visions of how he might approach the country's problems. At one point, he spoke of the need for "mid-course corrections." At another, he expressed a desire to take ideas from both sides of the aisle. And before this month's midterm elections, he said he believed that the next two years would involve "hand-to-hand combat" with Republicans, whom he also referred to as "enemies."

It is clear that the president is still trying to reach a resolution in his own mind as to what he should do and how he should do it.

This is a critical moment for the country. From the faltering economy to the burdensome deficit to our foreign policy struggles, America is suffering a widespread sense of crisis and anxiety about the future. Under these circumstances, Obama has the opportunity to seize the high ground and the imagination of the nation once again, and to galvanize the public for the hard decisions that must be made. The only way he can do so, though, is by putting national interests ahead of personal or political ones.

To that end, we believe Obama should announce immediately that he will not be a candidate for reelection in 2012.

If the president goes down the reelection road, we are guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it. But by explicitly saying he will be a one-term president, Obama can deliver on his central campaign promise of 2008, draining the poison from our culture of polarization and ending the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose.



We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed. The midterm elections were effectively a referendum on the Obama presidency. And even if it was not an endorsement of a Republican vision for America, the drubbing the Democrats took was certainly a vote of no confidence in Obama and his party. The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents.

The best way for him to address both our national challenges and the serious threats to his credibility and stature is to make clear that, for the next two years, he will focus exclusively on the problems we face as Americans, rather than the politics of the moment - or of the 2012 campaign.

Quite simply, given our political divisions and economic problems, governing and campaigning have become incompatible. Obama can and should dispense with the pollsters, the advisers, the consultants and the strategists who dissect all decisions and judgments in terms of their impact on the president's political prospects.

Obama himself once said to Diane Sawyer: "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." He now has the chance to deliver on that idea.

In the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama spoke repeatedly of his desire to end the red-state-blue-state divisions in America and to change the way Washington works. This was a central reason he was elected; such aspirations struck a deep chord with the polarized electorate.

Obama can restore the promise of the election by forging a government of national unity, welcoming business leaders, Republicans and independents into the fold. But if he is to bring Democrats and Republicans together, the president cannot be seen as an advocate of a particular party, but as somebody who stands above politics, seeking to forge consensus. And yes, the United States will need nothing short of consensus if we are to reduce the deficit and get spending under control, to name but one issue.


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STOP FEMINISTS' JOB KILLING LEGISLATION

Posted by Cathy O'Brien on November 15, 2010 at 12:54pm

They're ba-ack. And just like a pouty child, they will have their way, making this 111th Congress the most dangerous enemy of the state. Ignoring and misrepresenting the message sent worldwide on November 2nd, the liberal congress will force down our throats every disgraceful bill they can get away with, so it's up to us to keep their actions in plain sight, while the newbies look on.

STOP FEMINISTS' JOB KILLING LEGISLATION

It's a “job killing, trial attorney bonanza” http://bit.ly/dbskdZ

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Muslims are embracing “reverse assimilation”

Posted by paul black on November 15, 2010 at 12:27pm


Posted on September 8, 2010 by creeping

Excerpts via Muslim Non-Assimilation, at HUMAN EVENTS.

America’s greatness has been enhanced for 235 years by immigrants possessing a good work ethic only in need of alevel playing field to be nurtured. Embracing what their new countrystands for, they have ultimately assimilated, coming to understandsuccess for all is based on equality for all.

Assimilation is the process by which one group takes on cultural and other traits of a larger group “to becomepart of something greater.” It is a process that has served America wellin maintaining the core values to which our Constitution is anchored.But, it is a process anathema to Islam.

During a visit to Cologne, Germany, in 2008, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to a group of 20,000 Turks living in Europe. He told them, “I understand very well that you are against assimilation. One cannot expect you to assimilate. Assimilation is a crime against humanity.”

It is Muslim opposition to assimilation, coupled with Muslim populations growing at faster rates than native hostpopulations, that raises concerns over the “Islamization” of WesternEurope. Non-assimilation has generated “no-go” zones in someEuropean cities—areas local law enforcement refuse to go because Muslimresidents do not tolerate entry by non-believers.

Denmark dropped its very liberal immigration policy once the government recognized the dangers of failedMuslim assimilation within its borders. Comprising 5% of the population, Danish Muslims settled in no-go zones, while consuming 40% of welfare benefits.

What many people fail to understand about Islam and Muslims’ failure to assimilate “to become part of somethinggreater” is that Muslims are embracing “reverse assimilation.”This is the process by which the influence of the host population iseventually marginalized due to the disproportionately high growth of animmigrant population which then seeks to impose its beliefs on thehost. Simply put, it is the guest who comes to a host’s home, grows hisfamily until it outnumbers the host’s family and then takes over thathome.

What we fail to understand is that, to Muslims, becoming “part of something greater” means the nativessurrender their individual identity and way of life to Muslims.

In 1948, the world community unanimously agreed to a UN declaration that human rights are universal. In 1981,Muslim countries distanced themselves from this, claiming Sharia lawwas controlling, thus limiting such rights primarily to Muslim men.That same Sharia law is now being applied in host countries—including the U.S.—under pressure from growing unassimilated Muslim populations.

Muslim supporters of the Ground Zero mosque raise the Constitution with one hand to claim religious freedomprotects its construction. But, hidden in the other hand, is Sharialaw—with its standard of human inequality—which they seek to impose,trumping the same Constitution they use against non-supporters. Mosquesupporters need to understand they cannot have it both ways. We need tounderstand that as well.

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Jesus' Second Coming

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on November 15, 2010 at 10:22am

Newsmax.com lists 23 views on Jesus’ second coming. For a scientifically proven fact, Jesus never departed. Christians believe Jesus and God are one. Although I’m not a Christian, I believe that. God appears in many forms, and many times as an avenger. “To me belongeth vengeance” (Deut 32:35) Indeed, God directed his messengers to destroy the World Trade Center and to kill 3,000 people in immoral, Satin-like America. It is written. You and I have nothing to say about it. We can’t know why God does these things, so Islamic authority tells us. I listen to authority and then decide if authority is right or wrong. Most of the time authority is wrong. How do I know that? I perceive.

I act on what I perceive to be true. Authority conceives of a more perfect world and then tries to force all the pieces to fit. That’s what your President is doing. He has conceived of a better world. One of the misinformed here, apparently believing authorities, wrote that I misquoted the Bible. Obviously, he doesn’t read the Bible; he listens to authority and believes their misrepresentations. We have only to read the Bible to know how unsuccessful authority has been. Obama’s fate is clearly written in the Bible. Jesus’ influence is still alive and well. Authorities come and go. I believe Jesus is my redeemer. My life is good.

How do I know that Jesus is my redeemer? According to Christian doctrine, before I can be redeemed, I must confess that I’m a sinner and ask for forgiveness. Rubbish! I’ve done things that were wrong from lack of experience. I’ve learned from experience.

There came a time when I was forced to change. It was terribly frightening. At the time, I was in a battle with the IRS, one of those nutcake tax protesters. It was the act of reading my Constitution, with the idea of taking my grievance to court that caused me to feel that voices of the past were speaking to me, encouraging me. This caused my fear to turn into determination. I perceived I was right and the IRS was wrong. I thought I’d win and I did. God didn’t let me down. But that’s not all. I found my course of destiny. Miracles occurred during the two years I spent at sea. I left the sea captain of my ship. When, according to authority, everything should have gone wrong for me, everything went right.

In “The Lord’s Prayer,” Jesus said, “in earth as it is in heaven.” If we knew the truth about heaven and earth, we would know authority is misdirecting us. The latest science, from a study of the microcosmic world, the world that is not yet reality, a world of infinite possibility, by observation, science has proven, we create reality. Psychological research proves that group expectation determines our reality.

Einstein, who did not believe in a personal God, tried to physically unify matter as springing from one common source. His conception failed. Quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker said that objective reality is a flawed and incomplete concept. “We find that what we had thought was an independent and objective physical world is in fact contingent on the observer, on our combined consciousness, in a most basic way. And it follows that the God we find must be a personal God.”

Alas, the latest science has it that the individual’s will determines the individual reality. I’m now age 85. All of my dreams have come true. How can there be a second coming of Christ? From personal experience, I know that Jesus is there for anyone who perceives right from wrong and has the personal will to pursue a life one can call his own. Don’t wait for a proposed second coming of Jesus. Act on the knowledge that Christ’s spirit is alive and ready to turn your lives around; ready to turn America around.

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Rajjpuut's Folly: Twice Sunday, NY Times' Krugman Calls for the "Ultimate Tax"

Posted by Bob VanDeHey on November 15, 2010 at 1:00am

“Clearly before you progressive 'thinking'^^ stands exposed, the patient, the patient’s family, the doctor . . . these are not important here . . . the government will take it upon itself to decide who lives and dies. Let us for propriety’s sake call it ‘the Ultimate Tax.’” Rajjpuut
The Liberals are Dead,
Long Live the Progressives!
Today in his “The Conscience of a Liberal” column, N.Y. Times economist and Op-Ed writer Paul Krugman reiterated his call for “death panels” (his exact words on two occasions Sunday) and a Value Added Sales Tax (without first eliminating income tax) as the way out of the country’s present fiscal crisis which he’d expressed earlier as a member of a This Week (ABC’s Sunday morning political affairs TV program) panel. Mr. Krugman implied the same thing almost exactly five months ago without mentioning the death panels only then saying . . .
“Dealing with this problem will require, first and foremost, a real effort to bring health costs under control . . . .”
Apparently Krugman who calls himself a “liberal” has now moved beyond vague generalities and found the specific magic key to solve all our problems by killing off those useless old fuddy-dud senior citizens, precisely as Fabian Socialists and Eugenics-advocating progressives all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger eagerly did . . . government control over life and death, t’aint it mahvelous? Rajjpuut believes Mr. Krugman just added the Value Added Sales Tax to run up more deficits and increase the opportunity for Death Panel Denials, but that is, as yet, not provable.
Ignoring the ramifications of his proposal for “death panels,” Krugman chose to concentrate upon the VAT saying it was no more hideous than eliminating the mortgage-tax benefit for home owners. There it is unclothed before you, the liberal thought process exposed in all its naked glory. Before we’ll even consider cutting taxes and spending with responsible means . . . the ends we see are so, so very important that we’ll consider denying health treatments and medicines to our elders; we’ll consider eliminating the biggest incentive to becoming home owners; and we’ll slap another tax on their without mentioning anything about personal or corporate income taxes. It is so, so very important that we have the resources to control your life and the lifeblood of the economy that this passes for logical thinking from our brightest mind on the most important newspaper in the country (Rajjpuut exaggerates here: USA Today and the Wall Street Journal are clearly far greater and far more important than the “old gray lady,” but tradition must be honored).
It is important to realize that this is a reiteration, not a slip of the tongue.
“I said something deliberately provocative on "This Week," so I think I’d better clarify what I meant (which I did on the show, but it can’t hurt to say it again.)
“So, what I said is that the eventual resolution of the deficit problem both will and should rely on “death panels and sales taxes”. What I meant is that
“(a) health care costs will have to be controlled, which will surely require having Medicare and Medicaid decide what they’re willing to pay for — not really death panels, of course, but consideration of medical effectiveness and, at some point, how much we’re willing to spend for extreme care
“(b) We’ll need more revenue — several percent of GDP — which might most plausibly come from a value-added tax
“And if we do those two things, we’re most of the way toward a sustainable budget.
Refusing clearly to face the vile impact of his proposal for “death panels,” Krugman soft-pedals
“. . . not really death panels, of course, but consideration of medical effectiveness and, at some point, how much we’re willing to spend for extreme care . . .”
Clearly before you progressive "thinking stands" exposed . . . the patient, the patient’s family, the doctor . . . these are not important here . . . the government will take it upon itself to decide who lives and dies. Let us for propriety’s sake call it ‘the Ultimate Tax. Those reasonable liberals that once walked among us (like John F. Kennedy who slashed taxes dramatically . . . the top rate was 91%* and JFK cut it to 65%*) are dead; long live the progressives who would tax us our very lives before considering cutting spending; cutting government control and interference; before cutting taxes. The liberals are dead; long live the progressives.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
^^ more like: "progressive stinking"
** It must be clarified that in fact in 1961, the exemption process, made it highly unlikely that any wealthy taxpayer paid anything close to these levels . . . which is to say, the tax code in those days was a sham, but a modestly fair sham one could live with . . . today we prefer to eliminate the mortgage-tax deduction . . . and real bottom-line taxes are much, much higher on all income earners.
By the way, the economic malaise that JFK inherited from Eisenhower disappeared virtually overnight once this income tax slashing took place. That severe business downturn cost Richard Nixon the presidency in one of the closest elections in the nation’s history. Much like Harding who wiped out the Wilson Depression by slashing taxes and spending roughly 50% and paid down the National Debt 30%; Kennedy likewise wiped out his predecessor’s economic problems by cutting taxes.
As an aside, in case you had any doubts about the integrity of the Nobel Prizes "earned" for Peace and Economics . . . consider this: besides granting the Nobel Peace Prize to the likes of Yasser Arafat, Al Gore and Barack Obama while Mohandas K. Gandhi never was deemed worthy of winning it; and except for the prize given to John Nash (famous as the subject of the movie A Beautiful Mind) virtually every economics Nobel Prize granted is to some Keynesian economist whose "discovery" creates a whole brand new "school of Keynesian Economics so that now we have four or five dozen such "schools" none of which ever even once predicted anything with any accuracy! Our Mr. Krugman is a Nobel Prize recipient whose theories represent the usefulness of an udder on a male bovine's nose. He's been quoted as saying that Public debt "isn't as bad as many believe -- it's basically money we owe ourselves . . . " a statement that reveals a deplorable lack of practicality and empty-headed Keynesian thinking not to mention failing to account for an awful lot of Chinese, Japanese, Russians, etc. holding huge amounts of our debt instruments. Mr. Krugman finds it necessary to revise his truths about every nine or ten months in a manner that makes all his earlier books obsolete. Since Keynesian economics is the economics of preference for socialistic thinkers and totalitarian dictators . . . Rajjpuut says, "Bah, humbug" and gets his classical economics here:
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A God for Tomorrow

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on November 14, 2010 at 11:02am

After reading the thoughts of other Tea Party members here, with regard to religious extremists, I’d like to add some thoughts I’ve not been reading from other Tea Party members. The logical conclusion that without consciousness nothing would exist does not deny the existence of a Creator; or that the Creator has revealed to man a moral code that distinguishes right from wrong; or that man is responsible for the way he treats other men; or that the consciousness of man is everlasting; or that following lives will be judged by this one; or that on earth as it is in heaven; or that man has fundamental rights that cannot be taken without his permission, including the right to exist on the fruits of this own labor.

Unfortunately, the above logical conclusion is not the conclusion of the present makers and keepers of the law in America. We exist at their pleasure. It is unbelievable. By manipulating our Constitution to their own liking they have successfully divided America. A house divided cannot long stand, exactly what the Obama Administration is after. Obama is planning on a one-world government, himself in charge.

The ancients gave each of us individual characteristics and a destiny, yet we’ve allowed the present makers and keepers of the law to grant to themselves the duty to override inalienable rights. For the good of the makers and keepers of the law, these men in high office stigmatize us, for they know more than we know what is good for us. Stigmatized, we jump through their hoops. Incidentally, this is what caused the Founding Fathers to declare their independence from the mother country and to write our Constitution. And yet we read here that the Obama Administration is more in violation of intrinsic values and principles than King George. Where have we been? I’ve fought it all of my adult life.

Evan Harris Walker, M.D. and quantum physicist, bears me out in The Physics of Consciousness. In his final chapter, “A God for Tomorrow,” he allows that the ancients gave me the ability to understand the subtle workings of the universe. (Saturn was in its most favorable alignment with Pluto when I was born, giving me this ability.) I understand and agree with Walker’s conclusions, which are that we are more than matter; we are “co-equals in the foundry of creation;” objectivity, as is currently conceived by the makers and keepers of the law, is not the true fabric of reality; we who observe are fundamental to existence. The choice is ours. If we refuse to observe, we are refusing to do what our Creator created us to do. I understand this.

Science has now found that consciousness can be measured by the will; that will transcends the limits of time and space. Science can now see that will intervenes in the material events of the world and must be constrained by common law. Science has gone further, perhaps, to know where matter comes from and what space itself is.

Science has seen matter and space as a natural consequence of nothing more than the fact that conscious observers exist. That, in itself, is a quantum leap forward. Understanding this, my life is as good as it get. The lack of understanding is what makes people dependent and poor in spirit.

We take for granted the technical marvels modern science brings us. Before manifestation can take place, it takes conscious awareness. This fact alone brings the world weapons of mass destruction, and places them in the hands of megalomaniacs. The collective will of the people can be manipulated by crazies to make man the killer of all life on the planet. This gives rise to the importance of keeping individual characteristics and each person’s destiny an option. It is our increasing purpose. Science can no longer ignore that conscious observation affects the potentiality of matter.

Science brings man to accomplish life-giving miracles. We have no idea of our potentiality—and that’s what the present authority is out to crush. The consequence of our religions continues to bring unspeakable disasters. Pray for the day when those who instill guilt in our children, inflame hatred and foster war in the name of God will become history. Surely, we can unite in an effort to make God better than Obama makes God. His pastor for 20 years “God damned” America.

Surely we can find a god that gives life meaning, a god that gives us innate morals. Double talking, never landing on the point of it all, President Obama, is a traitor. We must keep our cool and methodically step up the pressure to stop Obama before he accomplishes his mission of destroying everything of value we Americans hold dear, to leave us slaves of cultists doing “some kind of god” George Soros’ and Obama’s “collectivist salvation” wills. They and their following, pushing for the Battle of Armageddon, are as close to the work of the devil as anyone can get. We got our work cut out for us.

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I Fought for You

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on November 13, 2010 at 11:32am

I was a combat infantryman in Nazi Germany in World War II. I was aboard the first troop ship to return to America. The people of New York City gave us a glorious welcome. When World War II ended, I was on the high seas heading for the invasion of Japan’s main island. Soon after two atom bombs were dropped on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we were the first American troop ship to enter Yokohama harbor and disembark. After 1-1/2 years in the ETO, I remained in the Army of Occupation in Japan for seven months and returned to boom times in America. World War II ended the Great Depression. What went wrong in America? What made us look to government for help? Had the American people seen what I saw, they would not be looking to government for help.

Last night I viewed History Channel’s presentation on religious cults, including Jim Jones’ cult. Jones was a guy who thought the world was against him. He was a socialist, one of those who felt that the Battle of Armageddon was nearing and he was going to help it along. With the jig about up for him, he shot a congressman investigating his hidden religious cult empire, shot himself in the head, and saw to it that his hundreds of followers died with him. Is that what you want? Stay the course and that’s what you will get.

Liberation Theology is along the lines of religious cultism. It’s a Christian movement connecting Jesus with social injustices. It began in Catholic South America. The Vatican rejects it as Marxist. Black Liberation Theology emerged in the United States on July 31, 1966, when an ad hoc group of 57 black pastors, calling themselves the National Committee of Negro Churchmen (NCNC) bought a full page ad in The New York Times, to publish their “Black Power” statement. Black Power pastors include Chicago’s Rev. Jeremiah Wright, South Chicago Community Organizer Barack Obama’s pastor for 20 years. Rev. Wright “God damned” America. Black Muslims also immerged in Chicago during this period. Since 1978, Louis Farrakhan has been the leader of the reconstituted Nation of Islam. American hate monger Farrakan loves Obama. He calls him our savior. During this period, Obama was Acorn’s lawyer. His associates still include SDS bomb throwers. Here is another wolf in sheep’s clothing. America has the Sword of Damocles hanging over her by a thread.

Religious cultist Obama is out to transform America. Cool cat Obama, hero of the “under-privileged,” this pot smoking hippie original goes far out of his way to circle around Islam’s holy war, which is against everything America stands for. History Channel reminded me last night the shocking truth about cool cat Obama.

It reminded me of a Tea Party member, a veteran, who does not like the connections I make and told me so in no uncertain terms. For the past nine years, I’ve been writing and rewriting my memoirs. The events of my life keep making more connections. My life is nothing like I thought it was when I was younger. Experience has been a good teacher.

Obama’s transformation would have been seen by early Americans as treason, in fact Obama is what got the Tea Party started. I’m a generation ahead of the Tea Party. In 1973, I studied my Constitution, not academically, but with the thought of using it to demand my rights, actually, in reaction to civil rights activists—like those above named South Chicago folks, those with the “preferred” rights, according to the activist judiciary. Naturally, I got nowhere. America’s corrupt legal institution does not protect fundamental rights. It protects the government entitled. Community Organizer Obama doesn’t have answers; he talks in riddles. Being a capitalist, I’m resourceful. I used the court record to hang the IRS with its own rope. They ate crow on the front page of The Palm Beach Post. And now I’m government entitled. Live and learn. Obama’s shell game now is helping me at your expense. Remember, the Lord helps those who help themselves.

Here’s the truth of the mater. At the dawn of civilization, which began in Persia, star gazers invented the zodiac, a circle divided into 12 sections, like a clock telling time. Each of the 12 sections lasts a little more than 2,000 years. The zodiac tells us that Jesus appeared at the beginning of the sign of Pisces. The nature of Pisces, according the ancients, “desperately wants to do the right thing but as a rule they do not have strong willpower. Therefore, they are easily influenced by external factors.” I read this in Astrologer’s Handbook.This fits with the story of Jesus’ crucifixion. Jesus told his disciples that before the cock crowed they would deny him three times. Add to this that the Magi, three Persian astrologers, were led to the birthplace of Jesus by “The Star of Bethlehem.”

Jesus was not a Christian. He was a nonconforming Jew, a troublemaker for Jewish leaders. When he turned over the moneychangers’ tables, the source of the leaders’ wealth and power, that did it. I’m not to blame, not anymore than I’m to blame for America’s black slavery. I’m not a Christian. I accept what Jesus taught without the doctrines and dogmas. Remember that the doctrines and dogmas once tortured and imprisoned heretics, the earth was flat and it the center of the universe, and we endured the Christian Crusades. I accept the Constitution as written, without the late interpretations thereof. I was created with a mind capable of thinking. I can’t say the same for a great many of my fellow Americans.

A mind capable of thinking does not demand that anyone think the same as he or she thinks. Many Americans can’t accept this. They know what’s best for everyone and they’ve got Obama to make us accept their way. Jesus said to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. From where do those above named South Chicago folks get their notions? You don’t get it? I’ll tell you. From special interests with their hands out for the money others earn, and more: for the phony money government prints. I refer to said notes saying we owe that much. Nice work if you can get it. I didn’t fight for this. Every American now owes more than $42,000, and you know without asking who benefits.

I read here that a school boy who was flying the American flag from his bicycle, in honor of his veteran grandfather other veterans, was ordered by a school official to remove the flag, by reason that the American flag was offensive to some people—those followers of South Chicago Obama. It might cause racial tensions, which could cause harm to the school’s children. The American flag stood for nothing.

At my school, the American flag was flown and we repeated our Pledge of Allegiance first thing every day. We were proud of our America and my generation won the war against tyranny. Obama apologizes for America. We are going to see much of this kind of manipulating in the months ahead, Black Power at voting places, and such, Obama looking the other way. This is a fight to the finish. Look out Tea Party! An evil omen is lurking in the shadows. According to cool cat Obama, we’ve nothing left in America to fight for. He is fighting control of our southern border. This is no man’s land.

I’m suspicious. It isn’t right for a Tea Party member to tell me he does not like my connections without letting us know his ideas. This self-righteous silencer hiding in the shadows told me I misquoted the Bible. What is his objective? Jesus said: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are raving wolves.” Let them who attempt to silence us come forward with their ideas. Jesus said: “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”

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Rajjpuut's Folly: 'Anti-Meathead' Hate Crimes at Record Levels,” Eric Holder Claims

Posted by Bob VanDeHey on November 13, 2010 at 6:30am


“Recently the airwaves in Florida and across the nation have been filled with hate-motivated attacks on incumbent Representative Alan Grayson which can only be described as vicious hate-mongering concentrated upon Grayson’s perceived lack of integrity, intelligence and his overall incompetence as a human being. We will provide data proving that this perception and the numerous racist utterances that accompanied it, proved prejudicial in the most recent election."


Now All those Mainstream Media

Claims of ‘Racism’ Make Sense

Despite the fact that those monitoring hate crimes have yet to define exactly what an “ignoramus” is; or that “incompetents” have never before been labeled officially as a racial minority, Attorney General Eric Holder has released figures purportedly proving that since the creation of the TEA Party, anti-meathead racism** has risen dramatically. Specifically, Holder claims that the Obama administration and Pelosi and Reid chambers of Congress have suffered relentless attacks based upon “racially-motivated” hate crimes which his office will begin prosecuting after the New Year. When questioned by reporters about the validity of the new “Ignoramus” minority classification, Holder said, “Perhaps an example will suffice . . . . He held up a large black and white picture of a familiar member of Congress . . . .

“Recently the airwaves in Florida and indeed across the nation have been filled with hate-motivated attacks on incumbent Representative Alan Grayson which can only be described as vicious hate-mongering concentrated upon Grayson’s perceived lack of integrity, intelligence and his overall incompetence as a human being. We will provide data proving that this perception and the racist utterances that accompanied it, proved prejudicial in the most recent election. Our office will not allow such spurious onslaughts to continue . . . indeed, I have myself endured such brickbats.” Nobel Peace Prize recipients Al Gore and Barack Obama, Holder claimed, have also been the victims of anti-meathead racism.

Holder refused to comment on reporters’ questions about rumors that the Justice Department had already moved on several TEA Party organizations “guilty of prejudicial behavior against incompetents.” More on this crucial story later . . . .

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

** Understanding “Racism”

For readers who have trouble getting a hold on “racism” claims in the mainstream media here are the heretofore unwritten rules determining whether or not official racism occurs. These are the most up-to-date politically correct guidelines available . . . .

1. Racism against majority races is impossible.

2. Racism by minorities against other minorities, (for example, one Black calling another Black an “Oreo” or an “Uncle Tom”) is impossible

3. In case of claims and counter-claims, “Ties go to the Democrat.”

4. The terms “cracker,” “honky,” “offay,” white-trash,” “moon,” “pale-thing,” White-boy,” “albinos,” “blue-eyed devils,” “Cavemen,” “Semen,” “Ghosts,” “Caucasheets,” “Sheets” “Whitey,” “Gomer,” Gringo, Gringo-Salao, Rednecks, Massah, Mayonnaise; Sandwich Semen, Pastyfaces, Palefaces, Not-so-friendly Ghosts, Peckerwoods, Flour, Trailer Park Trash, TPT, Wonderbread, etc. when used by Blacks or other minorities to describe Caucasians are 100% NEUTRAL terms and never to be considered racist.

5. Racial intimidation by Minorities against Whites is impossible.

6. Anti-Asian quota systems at colleges are justified and not racist. Similarly all-claims against Affirmative Action policies as "reverse-racism" are unjustified.

7. Sexism is a form of racism. Men are CRUD and White Men are PALE SEWER CRUD.

8. Regardless of any actions undertaken, the Holder Justice Department and the Obama Administration are post-racial entities.

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Religion and the New Age God

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on November 12, 2010 at 11:33am

I’m a World War II veteran. I’m still fighting for the principles and values I hold dear. A Tea Party member informed me that I misquoted the Bible and that I’m generally confused. One of us is confused. You be the judge.

I look within for my answers. My answers are based on what I perceive, intuitively. Authorities conceive all manner of things, and I observe, mostly for their express benefit. I don’t believe in objective reality. From my experience, it is 100 percent subjective reality. To be successful, I find, one has to listen to his own intellect. Since I started doing this, I’ve been served very well. I think that to tell people they are confused, and misquoting the Bible, could mean they are confused.

I’m not religious. I don’t trust religion. We read in The 5000 Year Leap of 28 principles of freedom our Founding Fathers said “must be understood and perpetrated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, freedom.” The 4th Principle: “Without Religion the Government of a Free People Cannot be Maintained. . . Religion, which might be defined as a fundamental system of beliefs concerning man’s origin and relationship to the cosmic universe, as well as his relationship to his fellowmen . . . a standard of behavior distinguishing right from wrong . . .an intellectual awareness and understanding of human experience or inquiry.” The above doesn’t describe religion.

My intuition tells me that America’s government is out of control and religion is the greatest cause of misdirection. Ever since Abraham’s religion, we’ve suffered holy wars. If the above definition of religion is true, we don’t have religion; we have man’s invention of the supernatural, wherein God is on the side of the winner of bloody wars that kill millions, and leave in their wake the destruction of what man has labored hard to built, leaving us to start over, only to do the same again. My intuition tells me this could not be God’s intention.

God’s laws don’t call for passing on to future generations the sins of the present generation. Astronomical debt passed on to future generations a terrible thing to do, my intuition tells me. We have no sense of justice or right or wrong. Why do people listen to deceptive, self-serving politicians? Why do they ignore what those frauds are doing to us? They mindlessly expect their liberties to be automatic. Jesus told us of a way of life that leads to peace, prosperity, and freedom. For telling us, Jesus was in defiance of religious and secular authority. His friends would not come to his defense. Jesus was crucified.

Why are you and I held at fault for Jesus’ crucifixion? We are born in sin, because the first man and woman disobeyed God’s orders. To be forgiven and receive God’s grace, we must confess our sins—like we did when we owned slaves. How could we be so audacious and call ourselves religion? We know the truth now. We rationalized that black slaves were not capable of the freedoms whites enjoy. My intuition tells me to look within for my answers. It has worked to empower me. I read the Bible with that thought in mind. I don’t find a conflict. Is that a misinterpretation? I welcome all comments. Keep in mind that the Muslims, those who declared war on America, believe that Americans don’t deserve to live. They get their misguided notions from the interpretations of their authorities, like Osama bin Laden. History proves that Jesus’ message is the only message that works.

Today’s Americans have been steered far from the principles set forth in the Constitution. I read the Constitution and felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. Why not everyone. I never learned to obey without question. It is hard for me to image Elizabeth Smart remaining under the control of a crazy man, who raped her every day for years. She didn’t have to remain. She was mesmerized. These kinds of things happen because we are taught to obey authority without question. I didn’t obey the IRS. The IRS ended eating crow.

I’m the bane of authority. I was born to question. Were we not all? Would we have the present government had we questioned Woodrow Wilson, who was an advocate of big, powerful government and zero individual rights. We must have been mindless to have allowed Wilson, then Roosevelt, and now Obama to transform America into a totalitarian dictatorship. Obama gave rise to the Tea Party. I’m sure he didn’t expect this.

Science is just now beginning separate the mind from the brain. Unity in nature, all things being aspects of the mind, we are now beginning to see the energy that drives our struggling souls. A universe that is not conscious of itself cannot have order. How could we be here, were there not order in the universe? A material world without the universes consciousness could not be. Providence created America. It isn’t a place. It is as state of mind.

After I read the Constitution and took action against a government gone bonkers, an amazing thing happened. When everything should have gone wrong, everything started going right. There had to be a reason. It has taken me years to find it. I found it in the Bible, in The Gospel According to St. Matthew, in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.

All of my dreams have come true. Am I generally confused? You be the judge. Have I misquoted the Bible?

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Activist Judges

Posted by Carl A. Koch on November 12, 2010 at 9:38am
I have been reading with some interest about the federal judges that are systematically thwarting the will of the people. In Arizona, a federal judge issues an injunction stopping the implementation of the new immigration laws. In Oklahoma a judge stops the state from placing restrictions on public largess for illegals. There are countless other such instances where federal and state judges have blocked the people's will. Everyone bemoans the problem, but no one seems to want to state the obvious.

Federal judges are not appointed for life. They are appointed for a period during which they exhibit judiciary restraint and "good behavior". It is no surprise to me that judges have gone overboard in legislating from the bench. We the people have done nothing to stop or discourage them from such behavior. Do not look to the legislature to do it for you. They have a vested interest in the status quo. Instead, do that which gets their attention. Kick misbehaving judges out of their cushy jobs.

All judges, elected or appointed, are subject to the will of the people. Elected judges may be removed via a recall petition. Appointed judges may be removed via impeachment processes. In both cases, it begins with a petition.

For elected judges, circulate a petition for recall. The number of signatures required will vary by state. In most cases, the completed petitions must be sent to the Secretary of State for validation. If validated, the Secretary of State must put the recall proposition on the next ballot or call a special election to address the issue.

In the case of appointed judges, it is a little more complicated. The Bill of Impeachment must be presented by a member of the House of Representatives. The impeachment petition should be sent to a member of congress for formal presentation to the Speaker of the House. It generally goes to the House Judiciary Committee for consideration. If all is in order, the House will vote on the Bill of Impeachment. Once impeachment is a fact, the Senate votes for or against conviction. Since this process is in the hands of politicians, it is obvious that the more signatures one has the better the chance of impeachment and conviction.

Does this have any effect on the judges who remain? You betcha. Iowa removed three judges by the will of the people. The pundits lamented on how this would have a chilling effect on judges and how they do their job. DUH! That is exactly the effect we want. It serves notice on all judges that we are watching them and WILL take them to task for decisions against the public will. They work for us. It is far past time for us to rein them in.
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Bachmann Withdrawal Blow to Tea Party?‏

Posted by CJ on November 11, 2010 at 6:07pm
I received this in my email but there was no way to respond and I had something to say....and very simple:
1st excerpt: "But at the same time, some winced about Bachmann's propensity for gaffes if she formally made it into the leadership. " To this I say gaffes are continuously made with Biden and Boehner always cries.
2nd What our country needs is more women in leadership and although I questioned her withdrawal I am hoping it is similiar to Sarah Palin who left the governship of Alaska knowing that she needed and could do more for our Country by "Going Rogue".
3rd Why is their the importance of a head count of Black and Hispanics (rhetorical)...I prefer qualifications over ethnics
CJ
From:TeaParty.org (mail@teapartyorg.ning.com)
Sent:Thu 11/11/10 7:04 PM
To:xxxxxxxxx

A message to all members of TeaParty.org

Some conservatives are concerned that the decision by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to withdraw from a key House leadership contest could be a sign of things to come for tea party supporters in their effort to shake up the Washington establishment.

Last week, Bachmann embarked on a bid against Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) for the post of House Republican Conference Chair, the number four-ranking position in a new Republican majority. But Bachmann, who founded the Congressional Tea Party Caucus, stumbled in gaining traction for the slot and pulled out Wednesday night.

At least a few conservative Republican House members wondered if this augured poorly for the tea party movement. And at least one Congressman blasted the new GOP leaders for trying to craft what was described as a "cabinet."

"I think it's the leadership protecting its power base and trying to keep the tea party from getting in the door," said one conservative Congressman who declined to be identified. The lawmaker went on to even compare the maneuvering of leaders to the iron fist management style of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

But top GOP leadership aides sharply dismissed suggestions that there were any behind-the-scenes machinations to derail Bachmann and elevate Hensarling. And from a political standpoint, one aide pointed out that the new leadership squad may be the most-conservative batch of leaders to ever steer the GOP in the House.

Presumptive House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and outgoing Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN) both officially backed Hensarling, as did a number of other rank-and-file Republicans. House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Whip-in-waiting Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) did not endorse in the contest.

That means the top Republican leadership positions are set and are likely to be finalized by acclimation next week at a rather anti-climatic GOP Conference meeting. It also means that white males will occupy the top rungs of the House Republican leadership ladder in a party that's always struggled with diversity. However, GOP Conference Vice Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) has signaled interest in another term in her role. And for the first time in years, the GOP Conference will feature two African American Republican freshmen.

Bachmann withdrew and immediately pitched her support behind Hensarling. She praised the Texas Republican's "commitment to limited government, reduced spending and lower taxes." Bachmann added that Hensarling will be a "strong voice" for tea party initiatives.

Bachmann's candidacy was a double-edged sword for the GOP. Many embraced her energy and tea party following. But at the same time, some winced about Bachmann's propensity for gaffes if she formally made it into the leadership. By the same token, many viewed her as a potential bridge to the tea party and especially to the conservative, freshman class.

Tim Phillips with Americans for Prosperity, has worked with tea party activists over the past two years. He says that it would have been "great" for Bachmann to be in leadership, but doubts this is a "blown opportunity" for the tea party to make formal inroads into the House leadership hierarchy.

"Jeb fits perfectly," Phillips said of Hensarling. "If Hensarling were a moderate, it would be Katy bar the door."

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Talking Points

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on November 11, 2010 at 7:34am

America has never been more divided. This is something I think about a lot. Many would say I and others who follow my line of thinking are negative, and if we continue to think my way we will surely fail as a nation.

Progressive liberals and their leader, Obama, believe the Constitution is flawed. They believe, for the good of all, that America must be transformed to collectivism, or statism: reliance on government rather than the individual. They believe they are moving America in a positive direction, and that people who think my way are trying to hold us to the past. Progressive liberals, with zero knowledge, are determined to move the nation forward; that is, to anarchy and tyranny. People who think my way are dumb to reality.

The progressive liberal idea is that after their plan is in effect, it will be shown to be the way to go, such as Obamacare. Hitler, Stalin, Castro, and Mao were progressives, many think, moving the world in a positive direction. Hundreds of millions of people were killed “for the good of all.” We can afford that, say progressives. The world is overpopulated. George Soros, who comes from a communist background, thinks any and everything can be done for the good of all.

Capitalism and collectivism aside, control is the problem. Millions of Americans have listened to Glenn Beck talk about how George Soros has used his ill-gotten billions to gain control of America, and through progressive liberal birds of a feather. According to Beck, Soros, for his own personal gain, is intent on bringing America down. He calls himself “some kind of god.” Soros is an atheist. He says he is amused at how he controls people. You could say Soros is positive and losers are negative in their thinking.

A Tea Party member informed me, in his comment to my blog, some would say a positive thinker, that I misquoted the Bible, and that I’m generally confused. I propose that he wouldn’t have made his comment had it not been for the fact that he did not look within for his answer. My reality is based on what I perceive to be true. Others base their judgments on what they conceive. They conceive of a plan to make the world better by their surface reasoning and logic.

I wonder how many octogenarians can say if life could be any better they don’t know how. All of my dreams have come true. How could that be possible? Either I’m a negative thinker or progressive liberals are negative thinkers. The proof is in the pudding. I’m a capitalist. To progressive liberals, the very fact that I’m healthy, wealthy and wise, by worldwide standards, this means that I’m a hog cheating others out of a decent existence. They’ve got George Soros, “some kind of a god,” to take me to the cleaners.

What comes around goes around. However, my mentor, Evan Harris Walker, in The Physics of Consciousness wrote, although what comes around goes around, and governed by immutable laws, we humans, with minds and individual wills are governed by other laws of nature. We have discovered that with our minds every path leads us to a structure of the universe we’ve never before realized. It is consciousness that begins everything. It is with quantum physics that we, at least Walker and I, have discovered proof that we exist as something more than matter. We are co-equals in the foundry of creation.

The observer interacts with matter. Thus, if one does not observe, one does not interact. Who is in control of what we observe? To be human is to know that the mind is our basic reality. One who is not human is subject to jumping through the establishment’s hoops; as Beck put it, a puppet, George Soros the puppet master.

As for my misquoting the Bible, the editor of my Bible, Rev. C. I. Scofield, wrote in the Introduction, “The saying that ‘anything may be proved by the Bible’ is both true and false—true if isolated passages are used. Rev. Scofield claims you are dead wrong unless the whole divine revelation is in view, which reminds me of progressive liberals. They never make it 360 degrees in their logic.

My advice: Stick with the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and you will win.

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THE INDIVIDUAL WITH A NEGATIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE ATTRACTS TROUBLES AS A MAGNET ATTRACTS STEEL FILINGS.

Posted by Don J Burgess on November 11, 2010 at 4:48am
It is a curious fact of nature that somehow our minds find a way to transform into physical reality the things we think about most. If you expect to fail, you can be sure that you will, and if you find something negative in every opportunity, nothing will ever work out positively for you. Fortunately, the reverse is also true. If you are a happy, positive person, you will attract positive things. You can keep your mindset positive by eliminating negative thoughts the moment they begin to creep into your conscious mind. If you dwell on the negative aspects of every opportunity, you will never accomplish anything worthwhile. Be prudent about the risks you take, but don't be paralyzed by fear of failure.NHF
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Rajjpuut's Folly: Obama Deficit-Commission Enters Public-Masturbation Mode

Posted by Bob VanDeHey on November 10, 2010 at 10:30pm

President Obama’s latest dog and pony show, the highly ballyhooed Deficit Commission, today did everything possible to dramatically heighten public suspicion of government; and to increase business’ uncertainty in the country. In particular public dissatisfaction (with the idea that the home mortgage interest deduction on income taxes should be eliminated) will probably amount to open mutiny. More importantly, NO real mention of inciting a return to prosperity comes up in the revelations released today as “Chapter 1” of their proposed deficit-reduction package. Those two, prosperity and deficit cutting, MUST go hand in hand.

In a phrase, the Commission recommends gutting the Pentagon; raising taxes; and infuriating the business community and homeowners; oh, and clearly it won’t work! Let Rajjpuut remind you what does work:

1) Cut taxes. Extend all the Bush tax cuts for fifteen years and permanently establish the Bush Estate Tax as the law of the land.2) Establish a six-month income tax embargo on all business and personal income for 2011 to jump-start the economy.
3) Cut, nay SLASH, government spending 20% across the board and 25% for non-defense spending and hold that level of spending for as long as necessary until the current National debt is reduced and surplus is achieved.4) Require a balanced budget, by creating an amendment to the Constitution, and within that budget require a full new funding and gradual refunding of the lock boxes for Social Security, Medicare and both the state and federal branches of Medicaid.
5) Cut all federal salaries by 25%. Maintain those levels of government salaries and wages for fifteen years while cutting government employment by 10% in year one; 6% in year two; 5% in year three; 4% in year four; 3% in year five; 2% in year six; and 1% in year seven.6) Raise the retirement age for government workers to 68 years old immediately for all persons now aged 58 or younger.
7) Require all government workers to abide with retirement equal to social security levels. Any surpluses to be put in the social security lock-box.8) Raise the Retirement age for others to 67 years old for all persons now aged 55 and younger; and in 2019 for all persons then aged 55 and younger to 68 years old.
9) Repeal and/or defund Obamacare and start over for a real health care reform addressing costs in a realistic fashion.10) Create an intelligent bi-partisan commission without any academic personalities involved but solely made up of politicians, business people and health experts to discuss successfully cutting unfunded liabilities (Social Security, Medicare and both the state and federal side of Medicaid) with a reporting date of 2013.
11) Establish an “all of the above” energy policy and encourage the building of new refineries and nuclear power plants.12) Require all legal bills to reference the U.S. Constitution and prove the bill is justified as Constitutional.

13) Eliminate Federal Reserve Banking and make inflationary spending above 4% at any time illegal. To prevent inflation, abandon Bernanke’s evil idea of “quantitative easing” by the Fed; and abandon the artificially low interest rates Ben Bernanke has established as a means to continue the corrupt idea of “too big to fail” by which (0.25% rates) he has protected five irresponsible banks (J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC with an overall derivative exposure of roughly $210 Trillion; including $188 Trillion in interest-rate derivative exposure). Patriotism is not about protecting stupid banks but protecting the American citizens.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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The Higher Law

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on November 10, 2010 at 12:42pm

For the past century, what is about to take place in America has been planned by a tiny minority of control freaks blind to reality. They build the perfect world in their imagination and then try to force all the pieces to fit by turning both sides against the middle. America has never been more divided.

The Tea Party sprang into existence, calling for constitutional law. Said control freaks call the Tea Party Nazis and racists. I’ve a different view than anyone I know on what’s taking place. The deeper meaning—in earth as it is in heaven—first came the birth of our nation on July 4, 1776, under the sign of Aquarius, the sign of brotherhood and the pouring out of man’s spirit, with our Declaration of Independence from the old world.

In 1787, “We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,” ordained and established our Constitution; in other words predestined our future to principles of law laid out in that sacred document, the one that Obama and company hold as flawed. Obama and company are for the good of all, the individual with zero rights. Without informing the American people of their end, as one of this minority of control freaks put it, a cross between Mother Theresa and Chairman Mao, their noble end justifies any means. Chairman Mao said a few million less Chinese was affordable. I assume the same applies to Americans.

Going back in time to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, pure law, in the sense that our Constitution is based on divine law, calling for righteous government, rather than splendor, ceremony, and the external demonstration of power, Jesus told us to look within, for “no man can serve two masters . . .Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Mt. 6:24).

Jesus said, “seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Mt. 6:33), and tomorrow will take of itself, but be aware that Jesus distinguishes the kingdom of heaven from the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is universal consciousness and moral intelligence. The kingdom of heaven is likened to the sower. Some of his seed was devoured by fowl. Some fell on stony places. Some fell in thorns. But some fell on good ground and brought forth fruit.

When I read the Constitution in 1973, my purpose was to use it against the above identified corrupt control freaks that have moved in and now impose themselves on naïve America. I’m 36 years ahead of the Tea Party. I imagined that voices of the past were speaking to me, encouraging me. To the American people, I was a “tax protester,” someone trying to get out paying my fair share. I imagined a bigger than life calling. Those who knew me thought I’d lost my mind. Mysteriously, tomorrow took care of itself. I went to sea for two years. While at sea, miracles occurred. After I left the sea, my life changed for the better. With regard to my tax protest, the IRS ate crow on the front page. Tomorrow takes care of itself when we know the power that lies within.

In earth as it is in heaven, and a state of universal consciousness, this was discovered ages back. The alignments of the heavenly bodies at the moment of our births leave us each born with a unique purpose, but with a choice. For the first 49 years, oblivious of my destiny in life, I took the path of least resistance and ended at a jumping off place, with the choice of soaring with eagles or falling into the abyss. Coincidently, at this crucial time in my life, my ruling planet, Uranus, was in opposition with itself at my birth. It meant pressure to change. I looked within for answers and mysteriously came up with the right answers for me. Regardless of what’s going on out there, my life is good.

Without first looking within for answers, as directed by Jesus and our Constitution, instead of personally acting, by allowing the above named control freaks to lead the nation down a dead end street, America is nearing the consequence. What’s next?

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