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by: Valerie Jarrett

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More than 30 years ago, Congress wisely passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Yet today, many pregnant women still experience unfair and unnecessary challenges on the job.

Nondiscrimination has been the law of the land for over three decades, yet, in some workplaces, the standard for treatment of pregnant women has remained in the dark ages. Some are fired or demoted, with no hesitation, when a modest accommodation would allow them to continue to work and support their families.

POLL: Is the United States Over Regulated?

The stories are heart-wrenching and preventable. There's thepregnant woman who was terminated when, in violation of company policy, she started carrying a water bottle on advice of her doctor to fight urinary and bladder infections.

With women composing nearly half the American workforce and increasingly serving as the primary breadwinner for families, we can't afford to treat pregnant women differently than their counterparts, especially when slight job modifications could help them stay in the workforce at no risk to their health.

That's why this week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued much-needed enforcement guidance on pregnancy discrimination. It is the first comprehensive update of the commission's guidance in more than 30 years and will translate into real relief for countless women, especially low-income women who are working hard to support their families.

more: 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/opinion/jarrett-pregnancy-discrimination/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

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9/11 was an inside job

By: Juan Reynoso, activist  -  voteforamerica@gmail.com

http://anticorruptionact.org/.     STAND FOR AMERICA        http://www.teaparty.org/ 

9/11 was an inside job.                                     

Fellow Americans, Our country is run by an army of criminals, sycophants and sociopaths; their ideology is; gain power and control at any cost. they are killers that are convince that they are untouchable above the laws of this country and God’s laws, they are murders that killed innocent people without any remorse they kill Americans to create motives to deceive the American people and justified the invasion by American arm forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most Americans are in complete denial and cannot believe that our own government kill Americans to justified their crimes and corruption.

9/11 was an inside job and the investigation was a cover up. But thanks to God many experts question the result of the Government investigation and work to seek the truth and inform the people of this horrendous crime committed against the American people and humanity; I cannot believe the results of their investigation and I expended many hours reviewing the tapes and without a doubt the demise of the towers was a demolition done by experts and it was done many weeks or months before 9/11.

Fellow Americans the fact is that our country is run by criminals that will not stop their crimes if we continue being in complete denial of what they are doing to us and the people of this world. They believe that they can get away with anything; they had turned their back to God almighty, because they do not believe in God, they are people without any moral principles killers without remorse that need to be expose, remove and ban from any political or government jobs. We must clean up our government from all these vicious criminals and re-store our trust in our government; we cannot trust a tyrannical system of government that will kill our own people to fabricate motives and justified their illicit wars for the purpose of gaining control of foreign countries natural resources.

Fellow Americans be brave and do your duty, God is with us expose the criminals and ask congress to do their job and demand an investigation to seek the truth of 9/11;  Justice requires Americans to demand arrests of today’s leaders as not merely accessories after-the-fact, but ongoing principal actors in the cover-up of the truth.   http://www.house.gov/representatives/    

 Please take some time to seek the truth, stop the demise of our country’s character, moral principles and the law of the land. No one in our country is above the, not the president, the CIA, DEA or any US agency or any one that work for our Government including contractors.

Sources for this article include:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnbMjAN7Bws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_fp5kaVYhk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=theYFdlQNKE

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Obama promoted and supported this invasion

By: Juan Reynoso, activist  -  voteforamerica@gmail.com

http://anticorruptionact.org/.     STAND FOR AMERICA        http://www.teaparty.org/                                       

Fellow Americans, The invasion of illegal; immigrants is promoted and supported by Obama and the Washington whores elite of the U.S political system of government, they sold their principles and moral duty to the predator corporate elite and the banking system, “the slavers of America’s poor”. They want to make the NORTH AMERICAN UNION; to facilitate the exploitation of the natural resources and human capital of these countries; they want no borders and destroy the sovereignty of these countries. All this is about greed for money and power to control the economics of North America and make the working class an economic slave class.  They plan the demise of our country to form the NORTH AMERICAN UNION.  Free trade and globalization, the economic crisis and the making of the slavery of the American working class, the US fabrication of motives to invade Iraq and Afghanistan to justified the huge national debt, 17.6 trillion Dollars  http://www.brillig.com/debtlock/_c. The invasion of people from all over the world, through Mexico and Canada and the ones that enter our country as visitors and stay as illegal immigrants. The war on drugs and terrorism all this is the plan and work of the whores in Washington political system of government.

Fellow Americans, our enemy are the Washington whores, they betray our trust, they all took the oath and sworn in the name of God all mighty to defend the US Constitution, http://twothirds.us/the-oaths-of-office/.  but they trashed our constitution and the rule of law and betray the American people. We the people are the only hope to save our country from its own demise. Washington is corrupt to the core and they know they better side with those that feed them.  “The big money that place them in power” We know that the Washington whores will continue their betrayal, those that sworn to defend it, will continue trashing our Constitution. We can stop it, be part of the solution join us. www.represent.us

Fellow Americans, Walk the walk and talk the talk. Do, don’t talk, be a role model and show your love for our country, our American principles and our God given natural rights to freedom and liberty. FIGHT FOR AMERICA, THIS IS OUR LAND FIGHT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND STOP THE INVASION.

Sources for this article include:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1GTPM_enUS561US564&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what+is+the+number+of+illegal+immigrants+that+enter+the+US+from+all+countries+of+the+world&tbm=nws

 

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American employers must end exploitation

By: Juan Reynoso, activist  -  voteforamerica@gmail.com

http://anticorruptionact.org/.     STAND FOR AMERICA        http://www.teaparty.org/                                       

American employers must end exploitation.

It is a shame that American employers use their employees at will to enhance their profits only, without any regards for their employees own time, abuses on scheduling, time off, vacations,  working hours extended to meet employer’s needs, not Breaks and demanding caregivers to preform duties that should be preform by two employees.

Currently, there are 7.5 million “involuntary part-time” workers in the US. These are workers who weren’t able to find a full-time job or whose hours have been cut back. In June alone, about 275,000 of such part-time jobs were created. Struggling to make ends meet, about 1.89m Americans are currently working two part-time jobs.  About 52% of retail workers and 80% of janitors and housekeepers and care givers know their schedule only a week or less in advance, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Retail Action Project found that about 20% of workers got their schedule just three days in advance.

Lack of stable, reliable schedules for part-time workers is "a growing national crisis in the American workplace", according to The Center for Popular Democracy. In addition to the weekly schedule changes, part-time workers are often victims of last-minute schedule changes as well.

Workers need scheduling predictability so they can plan and arrange for child care, pick up kids from school, take an elderly parent to the doctor and manage their own time to do other things not relate to work, employers must understand that they do not own the employees time 24/7 that employees need to know what time they should be schedule to work in advance so they can plan and manage their own time.

Reps George Miller and Rosa L DeLauro introduce a Schedules That Work Act to help part-time workers secure stable schedules; support this bill, send letter to your congress and ask them to support the Bill. http://www.house.gov/representatives/

Sources for this article include:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/jul/23/elizabeth-warren-senate-bill-part-time-schedules?CMP=ema_565

http://josephsoninstitute.org/business/blog/2014/01/responsibilities-in-the-employer-employee-relationship/

http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/caregiver-best-practices.html

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IMPEACH NOW

What does it take, deathly sick children caused by diseases spread by illegals, terror attacks on unarmed liberal cities, or nukes smuggled in during the distraction at the border and set off at a time of obamas' choosing.  This influx of illegals was a planned orchestrated attack by this ineligible non-natural born imposter in the white house. The elite pundits on tv would be singing a different tune other than comprehensive immigration if it is their jobs that are taken over by illegals, or if their families are dead from diseases or criminal activities, or when their cities are attacked by terrorists. When blood flows in the streets and the bodies are stacked up like cord wood maybe then someone will hold this liar in chief accountable for his hundreds of impeachable activites.

Now we reportedly have U.N. officials on the border instructing our border patrol on how to do their jobs, the last time I looked we were not under U.N. control in this country, these people need to be arrested for interferring with law enforcement activities. Plus we are releasing gang members on unsuspecting communities throughout the country, as well as not screening many of these illegals for health issues before sending them out to God only knows onto the streets of America, this is insane, when will we get some commonsense back into our government. All of the people calling for letting these illegals stay, should be made to take as many as possible to their homes, they will then be responsible for schooling, healthcare, and any criminal activity done by these so called children for the rest of their lives, after all only 20% are reportedly children.


I am amazed at how blacks and hispanics can defend this character when it is their jobs, their children, and their ability to take care of their families that will be the most affected by the millions of illegals that have been allowed in the country. How ignorant can you be to not see what the end result of this invasion will do to our already fragile economy, and job availability.

Impeach him, how many acts of treason and deriliction of duties does it take to get rid of this evil doer. This is not a single incident, if it was, you could say that it was a incompetent mistake, but this is a pattern of willfull neglect, deliberate refusal to enforce the rule of law and
a concentrated effort to bring this country to its knees, financially, morally, security wise, and eventually politically. We must stop it, whatever it takes, if congress will not remove this traitor the people will have to, we have no choice. The House needs to step up, start impeachment now, force the democrats in the senate to defend obamas' refusal to do his duty to defend our borders, and obey the rule of law; make them choose between honoring their oath to the people, or protecting their party at the expense of the people. The elections are coming up, the border boondoggle is front and center and the American people are watching. The republicans finally have a bully pulpit, they need to use it.

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By Oscar Y. Harward

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has, apparently, had a plan for years; a plan to develop Russia’s expansion into Eastern Europe and around the world.

 

In 2009, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Hagel caved to Russian President Vladimir Putin after Putin objected to America and our Allies installation of an anti-missile missile shield, from enemy nations, in protecting our European Allied NATO nations and our greatest friend in the Middle East, the State of Israel.  http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/07/14/indefensible-policies-our-commander-in-chief-retreats-as-putins-missile-programs-advance/

 

Russian President Putin rejected America’s and NATO’s Allies’ proposed anti-missile missile shield.  President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ditched America’s and our NATO Allies’ earlier anti-missile missile shield as they accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to delete the shield; a plan with President Obama’s foreign policy leaving American NATO Allies naked from Russia’s aggression.   

 

While most Senate Republicans voted ‘NAY’ on this plan, 13 Republicans voted ‘YEA’ with President Obama, Majority Leader Harry Reid, and his Senate Democrats; Alexander (R-TN),  Bennett (R-UT), Brown (R-MA), Cochran (R-MS), Collins (R-ME), Corker (R-TN), Gregg (R-NH), Isakson (R-GA), Johanns (R-NE), Lugar (R-IN), Murkowski (R-AK), Snowe (R-ME), and Voinovich (R-OH).  All of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s voting Democrats voted ‘YEA’ with President Obama.  http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00298

 

With this approved Treaty, and with all of the voting Democrat Party’s majority Senate votes, along with 13 Republicans, President Obama ordered the Pentagon to pull their earlier plans of installing the protective anti-missile missile system over our NATO Allied  Europe nations.  http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/20/flexibility-achieved-obama-pulls-missile-defense-system-from-eastern-europe/

  

President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, all voting Capitol Hill Democrats, and 13 Republicans lack the resolve to protect Americans and our NATO Allied nations.

 

America and the world are finally recognizing what Russian expansion means to the world; invading a neighbor nation, firing a missile to shoot down an airliner, 2 military jets in protection of their own nation, and who knows what comes next.

 

Americans must awaken ‘NOW’ in recognizing this danger and stop this Russian aggression.

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By Craig Andresen on July 23, 2014 at 5:35 am

ka-11.gif?width=266One of the key selling points employed by Obamacare snake oil salesmen was SUBSIDIES!!!

“STEP RIGHT UP…GET YOUR SUBSIDIES HERE!!! THIS WILL CURE WHATEVER AILS YOU…OBAMACARE…THE MIRACLE ELIXIR WITH A SECRET INGREDIENT…SUBSIDIES!!!”

To liberals, that meant something for nothing.

To those with a working brain cell…it meant $1 TRILLION DOLLARS of AMERICAN TAXPAYER MONEY as part of THE largest tax increase in American history.

Yesterday, 2 federal courts offered up two opposite opinions on that spoon full of sugar-coated crap in the Kool Aid pitcher.

Let’s take the second opinion first.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, hearing a case challenging the subsidies related to those who somehow managed to sign up for socialism on that malfunctioning Obamacare federal website and THEY found that the subsidies were A-ok and upheld the federal government’s ability to give your tax dollars to the something for nothing crowd.

Now…the first court decision from yesterday…

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2-1 that those subsidies, to be paid to the something for nothings who signed up on the federal site are null and void.

Oh my, what are we gonna do NOW?

Well, according to the lone dissenter from the DC Court of appeals…“This case is about Appellants’ not-so-veiled attempt to gut the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (‘ACA’).”

Hmmmmm…

Not so fast there Judge Panties-in-a Wad…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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“Why in God’s name does anyone show sympathy, and support for a terrorist organization?” -  Former Congressman Allen West

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And that is the question that should be asked.  It boggles the mind and offends the senses that there is EVEN ONE MEMBER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION who is upset that Israel is pummeling the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Under Ariel Sharon, Israel forcibly removed its citizens from Gaza and turned the land over to the Arabs. Israel has been rewarded for that gesture of conciliation with the abduction and killing of its citizens and the launching of hundreds of rockets into its territory.

Such provocations have finally goaded the state of Israel into launching a ground invasion of Gaza to take on the infamous Hamas, a terrorist group famous for hiding behind women and children even as they target the same. Death and destruction is a deserving end to all those who purposefully target, kidnap, and murder young, innocent civilians. That’s the tragic event that triggered this latest round of the current conflict. May all those in Gaza who support such practices pay a very severe price for doing so.

In reality, Hamas has constructed a terror state on the border of Israel which, at its core, seeks to fulfill the vision of Hitler and “drive the Jews into the sea.” And now, right on cue, the Left, and the Muslims it has allowed into the West, are now marching, protesting, and rioting outside synagogues shouting “Death to the Jews” and “Hitler was right.” It is disgusting for any member of the supposedly civilized West to embrace the cult of the belly-bombers and they should be roundly condemned at every opportunity. It seems that every generation forgets the lessons of history.

The terrorist society that inhabits the Gaza strip teaches its children to hate and kill the Jew from birth. It is a culture of death and destruction that celebrates the concept of genocide and the massacre of innocents. How can we consider such a society to be worth defending or sympathizing with? It’s hard to attain any sort of peace agreement when you up against a culture that teaches blind hate from such a young age.

The enemies that Israel faces have a long history of hostage taking, targeted killings of children, the slaughter of innocents for political purposes, airline and ship hijackings, machine gunning at airports, suicide bombings and civilian massacres. Couched in the language of liberation and the struggle for a homeland, is always a thinly - veiled crusade to slaughter Jews at every opportunity and orchestrate the destruction of the state of Israel.

Perhaps Zahir Muhsein, a former PLO executive committee member, stated it best in an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw on March 31, 1977.

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

Encouraging and highlighting the deaths of civilians in a crowded war zone is part and parcel of the Hamas propaganda strategy and that there are those who willingly play that game and promote the Hamas storyline is sickening and disgraceful. The fact that the Left falls for this gambit is simply embarrassing and all their hand-wringing over collateral damage purposefully orchestrated by Hamas hiding itself and its arms among the civilian population is either willful ignorance or dangerous complicity.

In fact Hamas, purposefully and as a matter or policy and strategy, welcomes the death of the civilians it hides behind during these periods of conflict (for propaganda purposes) while the Israelis themselves are sallying forth in an effort to protect civilians from acts of terrorism. There is a stark difference and no moral equivalency between the two.

In the end, maybe the lesson will be learned by the people living in the Gaza strip that abducting and killing helpless Israeli teenagers just for the heck of it and lobbing rockets at civilian targets carries a very high price indeed and perhaps should not be repeated in the future. I know they want to take a turn at playing "exterminate the Jew", but they seem to be discovering that the Jews are putting up a bit more of a fight this time around. I respect the Israelis; they at least have learned a lesson from history. “Never again.”

The Bible tells us that Ishmael will be “a wild one, and that he will be against everyone, and everyone will feel the same towards him, but that he will live near the rest of his relatives.” Israel is an island of civilization in a sea of barbarism and Islamic fanaticism. The struggle of the Israeli people to preserve their state and their existence continues to this day and they deserve the support of the civilized world against the barbarians of the modern age.

Whether one likes it or not, the physical state of Israel exists and is here to stay. Israel's Arab neighbors can either choose to accept the reality of the situation and peacefully coexist with the Jewish state, or accept the sometimes tough consequences of waging war upon it. If you kick a hornet’s nest, you might just get stung. As any homeowner will tell you, you may not get to choose your neighbors but how you treat them can make a huge difference in the end. You can choose to get along with them as best you can, or you can set yourself up for a lifetime of misery. That is the choice the people of Gaza and all those that border Israel must make, and the right decision will put them on a path to peace.

 

 

"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us." - Golda Meir

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx_L7wrtEC4

Video: 2010 Hamas and Hezbollah Propaganda Video "Hezbollah With Hamas Brothers In Arms Will Destroy The Zionist Disease Israel"

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By Craig Andresen on July 22, 2014 at 5:55 am

hamas-1.gif?width=292Hamas’ charter, Article 7, calls directly for the killing of all Jews on a global scale and, in Article 15, the Hamas charter directly calls for the destruction of Israel.

Both the United States and the European Union recognize Hamas as a terror organization.

Last month, in June of 2014, Hamas and the ‘Palestinian’ Authority entered into a “unity agreement” meaning that the Palestinian Authority is now the defacto “government’ of the terrorist organization, Hamas.

The “unity agreement” was carefully crafted to barely meet certain requirements that will ensure continued financial support from…the United States and among those requirements are that the PA continue to recognize the state of Israel, renounce violence and honor past agreements with Israel.

As those criteria are diametrically opposed to the charter of Hamas…the “promises” briefly outlined above…are not worth the toilet paper upon which they have been written.

Need proof?

Hamas has launched more than 1700 rockets into Israel from Gaza and the West Bank.

Hamas has NOT altered their charter ONE BIT to remove the calls for the murder of Jews or the destruction of Israel…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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Who, in this Land of Opportunity, was this patriotic song written about? Was it for Governances?  "I think not."  Was it for the immigrants? "I think not."  Was it for 'Illegals'?  ''Again I think not"

 Then who was it written for? Does the term: "We the People" sound familiar?"  The We means all who are in America, past, present and future, who was/did/will be good productive citizens'.  Sounds Great, but is it True?  

My answer is Could Be!  How?  Easy, everyone, Pulling the' Wagon of Freedom', if you can't Pull then Push the Wagon of Freedom, and those who truly can't do either, can 'Ride the Wagon of Freedom!  

Depending on, where you live in, there maybe Lots of Opportunity, (Good Honest Work Opportunities) or very little!  There is not a place in the USA (or World) that there are no opportunities to work!
 It may not be the 'Work' of you Choice, but its work, that can get you the job/career you seek!

 That is the 'Reason behind the Song: Land of Opportunity, and the Plaque on the Statue of Liberty!  Nether, alludes to Land of the Slacker's, Land of the Government Handouts, its for those who seek a 'Hand up' in order to take the opportunity: to take the opportunities, out in the 'Working Lands' of the USA.

Those who think they are 'entitled' to benefits by not contributing back to support the system, are Wrong Thinkers' in my humble opinion.  Work for Free, is not an option, neither is Work to pay a Fee, an option.  But! it is the option that many of us 'Productive Workers' have to pay for our Freedom and for those who Think they are Entitled.  

Not, to be Socialist, but there is 'Fairness' in "Share and Share Alike" when it comes to 'Freedom' for All!  Other  quote  is " Do unto other's as you would have them do onto you"!  Simple!  NOT!  If you are of opinion: "Well my neighbors are getting xyz from the government without working, then I'm entitled to xyz but more so because my Ancestors were   ( blank!)(Slavery is just one of the reason's given, how about my 'Great-great- great Parent fought in the (what ever war, you want to use) so that make me entitled to more ??? )    This attitude becomes a 'Pandemic' across this Great Land, pretty soon, it reaches a 'Critical' point (10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% (critical mass begins, Why?)  At 10% there are 90% Working, till you get to 50%, but what makes this the critical point, because you have to add 1 to 2% of the Super Wealthy into the mix, especially the one's who are taking their 1/2% overseas and helping other economies, that may or may not be the Friend of the USA way of Life/Beliefs.  So, with 48% contributing to the 'Benefits of All' the burden gets to high for all.  This is why I've Changed the Works: Land of the FREE, Home of the BRAVE, to "Land of the FEE, Home of the Brave who stay to pay the FEE for Freedom!  Get the Point.

 Its true; "You are either part of the problem or part of the solution" you can't be both at once, unless you become a CAVE Person, NIMBY Person, 'I've got mine, go get your's" kind of citizens!

"Beware of the Radicals: Right or Left", they all come to the Center, to get voted into Power over "We the People" if you are a 'Radical' make it 'F0r The People' like the Tea Party Movement, or Ross Perot's, Movement, or better yet!  Like the Partisan's of the Revolution ("Give me Liberty or give me Death!")  Those type of Radicals, I can support!  

Of course I'm a Non-Partisan by choice, Non-Religious (not a atheist) by Choice, USA Born Citizen, and I approve by Choice, Community Activist, appointed by a 'Liberal Paper', which I gladly accept!  Most importantly, I'm an Family Leader, of a Working family!  I've Accepted the Spiritual Side of Jesus Christ, because Spirits of Energy are only Natural.  

Thank you for allowing me my 'Freedom of Speech' and if you don't then: "Your org. is part of the Problem!

These are my opinions and no one else is forced to believe them, but I encourage 'All' who do or those who don't to reply!  Your Words cannot Hurt me, only your Country!  Think about it!

 Dr. Gene~Landrum, Theorist/Philosopher of Quantum Theory of Everything. "Where Everything is Pure Energy, Energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed by force."  


  


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VOTER I. D.

     VOTER I.D. IS IT REALLY RACIST OR SOMETHING ELSE.  I NOTICED ALL OF THE LIBERAL NEWS MEDIAS AND THE MAJORITY OF THE ADMINISTRATION, SAY IT IS, BUT IT'S ALRIGHT TO GET DRIVER'S LICENSES.  I WOULD SAY 90% OF THE ILLEGALS, WOULD AND WILL VOTE DEMOCRATIC, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WILL VOTE MORE THEN ONCE.  THAT MIGHT ALSO HAVE HELPED IN THE 2012 ELECTIONS.

     ANOTHER THING IS VOTER REGISTRATION.  IT IS SO SIMPLE AND EASY TO GET A CARD IN ALMOST EVERY STATE, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

     HOW MANY OF THESE PEOPLE WILL VOTE INDEPENDENT OR REPUBLICAN ???????

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Ukraine is now Putin’s You Tube Video

By Craig Andresen on July 21, 2014 at 5:17 am

MH-1.gif?width=283What we have with the shooting down of Malaysian flight MH-17 last week is an act of war perpetrated by Eastern Ukraine separatists rebels.

There are people who have seized a portion OF Ukraine, claiming it as their own but, in fact, they are nothing but Putin’s proxy. His regional puppets. Those trying to take Ukraine the way Putin took Crimea.  Those “rebels” are doing FOR Putin what Putin says HE’S not doing at all.

The Ukraine “rebels” would be nothing without Putin, without Russia and they know it, Putin knows it and we know it too.

The mere notion that they would have had he capability or the training or the hardware necessary to bring down ANY aircraft without Putin’s deep assistance in PROVIDING the missiles and the training is pure folly and that they have used that very system several times over the past couple of weeks points directly to their months if not years old partnership with Putin’s army.

The SA-11 system takes at least a full year of training to be used and those rebels have been able to bring down planes for several weeks now.

Make NO mistake here…these are NOT Ukrainians who shot down flight MH-17…these are RUSSIANS who want nothing more than to return Ukraine over to Putin and his new Russian Empire at the end of the day.

Vladimir Putin is blaming Ukraine for the deadly attack on that civilian airliner because HE wants the world to believe that HE had nothing to do with the act of war.

To Putin…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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Only in America

I was born and raised in America, but for the first time I feel like a foreigner. I was surrounded by a group of people speaking Spanish but it didn’t bother me because I do understand a little. I guess I asked too many questions because one fellow, rather exasperated, said, “You need to learn Spanish so you can communicate better with Americans.”

I guess its time for me to swim south across the Rio Grand. When you are in Mexico what number do you need to dial for English? A few months ago an American was laid off from his job because he couldn't speak Spanish and they said he was unable to communicate with those on his crew. Is there a problem with expecting everyone to speak English. If you have come here for a new like English will really help. Obama is a big help; he just said you can't lay off someone because they doesn't speak English. Only in America can you get laid off because you don't speak a foreign language but you must keep an employee that doesn't speak the local language.

They say in twenty years there will be only two languages spoken in the United States; Spanish and Arabic.

Don’t worry, Obama has America’s back…kinda like an assassin.

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Border Patrol Under Attack!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/20/cartels-suspected-as-high-caliber-gunfire-sends-border-patrol-scrambling-on-rio/

Well, out of all the guns "Fast and Furious" gave them, the .50 Cal Barretts were my greatest concern.  Any president in his right mind would call in the military at this point, but.....when one's goal is to destroy the U.S., well...

Maybe, just maybe, the Senate will step up with a 2/3 override of his veto if a militarization of the border bill gets through congress.

-kent (US Border Patrol - retired)

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Dow closes at record high! – The leaders of the five BRICKS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have signed a deal to create a new $100bn development bank and emergency reserve fund.   

The Dow rose 77.52 points, to 17,138.20

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 8.29 points  

The Nasdaq composite rose 9.58 points

One of the goals for the BRICKS bank - whose creation has been discussed for some time - would be to increase the amount of money loaned to developing countries to help with infrastructure projects.

How many realize that the two heading, though seemingly different, are the identical story, written in different presentation?

Often as citizens of this nation, we, as those who were included in the ‘We’ of our constitution, find ourselves as those on Plato’s cave. Our impression of the ‘reality’ that is happening, is not reality, but the shadow of the pablum of carefully measured information to not inform society, but to pacify and corrupt societies knowledge of reality.

The real story that the headlines that we in this nation – as we the prisoners of the corrupt press, government and bureaucracy – don’t reach the conclusion of reality. Here it is in the headlines of those who use economics, not the fallacy of central planning as their foundations of comprehending enterprise.

De-dollarization continues: China starts direct currency trading with UK  China is pursuing its quest to strip the US dollar of its global reserve currency status. After establishing the mechanisms for direct ruble-yuan trading and settlement, Beijing is now kicking the dollar out of its transactions with the Great Britain.

What does each of these stories have in common? They have in this nation statistically proof that in all elections the Democrats always have 2-4% of voter fraud. This is a horrible reflection on this nation, and its people. Yet here is an even sadder and more condemning reality. If we take the lower number 2% as our measurement, there are less than 2% of this nation’s population who would understand all three of these headlines are from the same reason!

That this nation elected the most incompetent, and incapable individual in history of mankind is beyond reason. That he is by his actions, advancing the genocide, the destruction, the disassembly of this nation is incomprehensible. He is what his is the facts are irrefutable. There is no measurement of American philosophy applicable to his presidency. He is and has been a … dedicated Marxist with an attitude of visceral … emotional genocidal determined to deliver some coupe de grace to this nation. He desires to bring about not only the nation’s destruction, but with the intent to destroy the American society. To destroy this nation, that even the majority of the race of white men will be déclassé, lowered in status, in a nation of racial politics reduced to the minority is his only intent. Democratic genocide based on race, the incomprehensible deracinating, destroying the culture, the ethnicity, the mores, the morals, and the religion of America. Inclusive is this attack on the enterprise, the economics of our national wonder. Reducing this nation to nothing based on the American philosophical idealism but déclassé our wonder to that of the barbarian, and the uncivilized.

Key in this genocide, this national destruction is exactly what these headlines all identify. Is the Dow ending at a higher level indicating that this nation is doing better? If so, I challenge any businessman, economist, or politician to explain not only the why, but the why the gain of this event is advantageous to this nation?

The debauchery – the destruction of the ‘VALUE’ the wealth of the dollar – is what all of these headlines are addressing. They are all saying the same thing, the difference, is the separation of reality – as the BRINKS, identify, and the Chinese identify – and the illusion, or hallucination of our … what words describe the press in this nation … propagandist that the Dow closing higher, without a change in the nation’s wealth is good? This is beyond the absolute ignorance of the most incompetent person who has ever earned a dollar in their lives to comprehend.

The value, the amount of dollars it takes to buy stocks has nothing to do with the ‘speculation’ of earnings, which the stock may create. The value, the amount of dollars it takes to buy stocks has everything to do with the ‘WEALTH’ of each and every dollar has depreciated – by government monetary insanity – where it takes more dollars to but the same value of a stock. The higher price is not a positive, it represents the monetary debauchery of our nation’s Federal Reserve, and a Congress based on not foundations of economics – which require that there is stabilization of the dollar’s value. They are based on the absolute diametric opposite, the destruction of the value of the dollar, making the lifetime earnings, the accumulated wealth of all citizens nullified, voided, and stolen by these policies.

What should society know? The how they – the absolutely disgraceful government of this nation – are doing it, or would it be more important to know the why … these central planning totalitarian sovereigns … are doing what they do?

How so we get the people of this nation to understand that the America of our nations design is no more. It is as gone as identified in the song Tumbling Tumbleweed, when night is gone – that a new world is born at dawn. That new world we are awaking to is not the America we know or cherish. That new world we are awaking to is the ‘fundamental transformation’ of this nation as caustic as Democracy is to a Republic, as caustic as ‘liberty is to slavery and domination.’   

Perhaps the why is most important, as so few know this nation. The why is that in this nation today, the concept of representative government is as done as last night’s darkness. Today our political design can be identified as an auction house. For in an auction house, what is for sale is sold to the highest bidder. This is the same format of congress … what were once the financers of government insanity … and thanks to the 17th amendment, also the Senate, that the votes of this damn democratic concept are sold to the highest bidder – the citizens – the suckers paying for this deception, be damned. 

Economically is it not absolutely amazing that the average … whatever the hell that is anymore, perhaps a marijuana smoking stoner in abject fear of zombies and vampires, learning from the wisdom of Oprah and Obama … American can realize if someone sticks a gun in their face and takes their money they are being robbed. While the same citizens stand in abject in cognitive comprehension when the government stands behind each and every individual, lifts your wallet, and take the wealth of your currency on a continuum. Each and every second, each and every minute, each and every day, week, year, since Calvin Coolidge this has been happening and the American citizen is oblivious to the reality.

You have to admit, our politicians aren’t quite as ignorant of knowing their constituents as we imagine. Sure, they don’t give a damn about preserving this nation, they don’t give a damn about those simple ideals of preserving and protecting the constitution, or any other enumerations placed on them. They do know though, that if we give something, even if we steal it from others, to some, they will vote to continue the theft from others. The absolute reality that whenever I hear the comment of ‘REDISTRIBUTION’ it is so un-American why it does not make any American shudder is beyond my understanding.

What they realized is that even the most ignorant economically, politically, and historically society known to inhabit this planet – the American citizen – can tell when a gun is shoved in their face and is being robbed.

Even those Americans who pay taxes – an ever shrinking minority – realize the meaning of the acronym of taxes … (Taking your Assets through eXtorsion Every political Session) … begin to rebel being the host of the bloodsucking leaches of politicians. The answer, don’t use the gun – the direct approach – use the subterfuge of debauching, reducing the value of the dollars, that the ignorant public will not even be aware. Compound that with the complacent lèse majesté attitude – we cannot challenge the sovereignty of the government, or our anointed one – the American public’s ignorance is accelerated and acerbated.

The economic system of this nation is not changing it has changed. What word one would use to identify this change is difficult to even identify. The problem being that too many in this nation want to use the definition, without the realization that the definition of some words has been changed in application. In great sadness is those Marx gave us. Marx gave this nation the economic identification of communism. His description, ‘the way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property’. The real application identified, ‘a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production’.   

The difference in the identification is the use of the word ‘OWNS’. This word in definition creates problems in our understanding. The definition; ‘has certain to have power or mastery over’ – ‘to have or hold as property’.

If there is one thing that history has shown is, it that those in the political arena can use wording that is not only vague in application – but in that application – be used to mean the exact opposite.

History gives us examples all Americans – and all citizens of the word – should not only know, but also understand. Lenin’s application of state ownership was such a failure when usurping Russia, that starvation, lack of all services, the whole infrastructure required in a society was abject failure. Fearing another revolution to overthrow his usurping the government, his answer, allow that horrible capitalism to be reinstalled to create production. Learning in the process, that the proletariat cannot just seize the means of production, for the production is only one segment of the enterprise cycle. Just as the consumer is an important, if not the most important entity of the enterprise cycle. How those in this nation do not understand that those who reject the consumer, the individual is the most identifying characteristic of those who believe in authoritarian control. One only has to watch the current first lady – now that is a misnomer if one is ever been used – dictating that government will dictate to the individual, destroying the simplest of the identification of liberty that can be known. This can be magnified in all the ways it has happened. Political correctness is what? Is it not that you do not have individual liberty to speak what you wish? Is it not the antithesis of the protections of the first amendment in the Bill of Rights? There is no one in the world – that is not hallucinating – that can disagree, or make argument of this reality.

Is not that the control of the property of who you are? Is not that the most stringent ownership anyone can apply? When you cannot have the liberty, by the reduction of your freedom through state application, and legislation inverse to our founding of man’s natural rights, those rights endowed by God, is not that about the epitome of reducing man’s ownership of his own life. It is the most invidious and demeaning slavery every imposed on man. This is the same invidious design that all who succumb to the totalitarian intrusion of government beyond comprehension … the definition of communism.

Using the dollar – by printing more and more, destroying its value – is the tool of what is in the current use, as used even in treaties this nation engages, is  described as economic coercion. Our government uses this economic coercion every second they are in session, and with the residue of legislation that will provide the death knoll, the final genocide of our culture, our philosophy, and our nation.

What do we hear on a continuum from our government? Do we not hear whenever a problem appears, the president, our congress, the shoeshine boy in the lobby needs such and such emergency funding to deal with it? How in the name of Hades with the largest bureaucracy, the greatest expenditure of wealth any nation ever known in the history of man, that our organization is so damn incompetent that we do not have the resources to deal with anything that occurs? Why is not the question ever asked; what is all the wealth this nation is committing continually not prepared us to deal with any event that occurs? Is not that the question that should be asked?

The answer is simple. This nation does not spend money to deal with the preservation of this nation. It spends money to use ‘economic coercion’ not for this nation’s needs, but for the political power of the party in power.

This is the exact same reasoning of the BRINK international banking. By controlling the ‘economic coercion’ of the nations, especially the third world nations to be submissive to the ‘money’ provided by the bank. The money has strings, those strings are the totalitarian control of government, the identification of what communism’s design is.

Why is China dealing with the Yuan instead of the dollar? Same scenario, by the exchange of currency, being based on the Yuan instead of the dollar – the control … the requirement that trade for their products be in Yuan … makes compliance with China, the most important. Why they control the money, they control the nation.

This is the same policy of our nation. We print money, give it to other nations, for what reason? Once it was to influence the advancement of the American form of enterprise, the concept of free choice of consumers controlling the economic activity of nations. Is that not been the most absolute failure ever conceived by any nation in history? What is the result? The results have been, more nation’s governments have learned that political power rests with spending wealth not existing, as this nation, for the votes of the ignorant, to preserve political power is better for the politicians. That is what they have learned from this nation. They did not learn about the simple fact of our rhetoric, that liberty and freedom have wonder and value. No, they learned that economic coercion, and the using the largess of the nation’s purse, even if borrowed from other preserves political power. It is the same format, the same template, the same insanity that both political parties – Republican and Democrat – use in this nation to gain and preserve political power.

What you hear, what you read, is a lie. If it is in the press, in the news, told to the American public in this nation one thing is guaranteed – it is, and has been for far too long – nothing but lies. It is pablum, spoon fed not for the citizens knowledge, but to pacify, to patronize a nation with learned knowledge of ignorance. Where men are not men, where insight and question do not reside. Where a society hears, but does not listen. Hears but does not understand. Our society listens in abject incomprehensible trumpery to nonsense without once, for even a second, engaging the mind’s capacity of thought, to attempt to realize this is minutia of insanity. The one thing that is constant in all acknowledgements of what we – the citizens of this nation – should ask no matter what the question. We need to be as what was once press. Answer the who, what, where, when and the thing if all of this nation would just thing about for a second would correct much – WHY?

Our nation’s preservation rests in but one place. In the minds and hearts of those who rejoice in the marvel of the miracle of the nation they reside. Not understanding that wonder is understandable with the information we are exposed. With a government based on lies, a press, not full of lies, but so incompetent it makes the government look competent.

The task is as all tasks of civilized mankind. The task is the exclusive domain of the individual. The same thing that made this nation the wonder it is today, the individual. It is you, and all whom you know, by their own knowledge and choice that will preserve this nation. It must happen now, or the corruption, the coercion, the nihilism of this nation will be so advanced that no cure will be possible.            

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Whether it’s the Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Egypt, Iraq and Iran, or China and Japan, the world itself is beginning to fall into chaos. At the same time our own country has become just as chaotic. Whether it’s the crisis at our border and illegal immigration, the IRS and DOJ targeting, the NSA spying, the out of control debt, or the unilateral action’s taken by the President himself, confusion and disarray have become today’s status quo.

In times such as these the country needs a leader whom isn’t afraid to make basic decisions. One whom set’s aside his political indifference by giving priority to policy for the good of the country. Unfortunately, our country has Barack Obama, whom Col. Ralph Peters describes as, “a man who was elected President of a country he doesn’t really like, and whose population he distrusts, who believes America is the problem, and who’s military he despises”.

Since being sworn into office, Barack Obama has done more damage to our country in 5 years, 5 months, and 29 days, then virtually any President has done before him. Upon his inauguration on January 20, 2009, the national debt was $10.6 trillion. As of July 17, 2014, the national debt stands at $17.6 trillion. Barack Obama has accumulated, in just 5.5 years, close to $7 trillion dollars in debt and is set to literally accumulate more debt by the end of his presidency than any other President before him combined.

With this astronomical accumulation of debt in mind, a CBO report released on Tuesday reminds us that a looming crisis is fast approaching. The CBO report identified the primary drivers of the rising debt to be the aging of the population and rising healthcare spending. This trend was accelerated by Obamacare due to the increase in Medicaid spending and subsidies for individuals to purchase insurance on government-run exchanges.

In short, Barack Obama’s signature health care law will push the debt to unsustainable levels.

This looming crisis is important to remember as the law itself was created by Obama, just as the “humanitarian crisis” at our southern border today was preceded by Obama’s 2012Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This program was pushed through unilaterally by Obama and created the so called “Dreamers” as children would not face deportation upon arriving here illegally.

Before 2012 an average of 7,000 to 8,000 undocumented illegal immigrant minors were captured attempting to cross our border each year. This fiscal year, which ends September 30, 2014, federal officials have estimated that number could reach 80,000. Officials further estimate at least 150,000 – 160,000 more will try next year.

With this increase in illegal Aliens set to rise without any plans of deportations, the taxpayers will foot their bill with money we simply do not have. These two policies, Obamacare and DACA, will push our nations debt to a level that is literally unsustainable.

This is the reality of the situation and the illegal immigration crisis will become much worse if the Obama adminstration does not take border security more seriously.Unfortunately, the adminstration won’t, as their party has demonstrated that they live in a reality far removed from what is actually happening.

For instance, on Tuesday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) asserted that “the border is secure“, despite the massive surge that has overwhelmed federal agencies on our border. Reid wasn’t alone in this belief as Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) on CBS’ Face the Nation stated “the border is secure” due to the, “children handling themselves over to the Border Patrol Agents“. This kind of belief perpetuated by Obama and his party outright rejects the truth of what is actually happening not only here in America, but across the globe.

On Monday, White House press Secretary Josh Ernest epitomized Obama’s detachment from reality in regards to his actions by stating they have “substantially improved the tranquillity of the global community“. Which actions Obama has taken to further such “global tranquillity” is anyones guess as the world we live in today appears to be anything but tranquil.

Read the Rest of the Article Here: PoliticallyShort.com

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Defending Liberty

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We exist in a vast sea of ignorance and lack of understanding in regards to history, politics, and ideology. Not to mention the implications of each upon our nation and civilization. Perhaps we should not be surprised that large segments of society can’t put the Civil War in the correct century or begin to find major countries on a map. There are entire political ideologies that rely on that mind-numbing, and sometimes frightening, misunderstanding and basic ignorance that a significant portion of society manifests as a source for their power and strength.

I find liberalism/progressivism to be little more than a mental poison, an ideological and philosophical cancer on society, that is malicious and destructive to everything that it touches from the sanctity of human life, to the traditional family structure (the basic foundation of all civilization), to national security, to free enterprise and beyond. It is the bane of Western Civilization, the concept of personal liberty, and a threat to all I hold dear. And it too often shares the mentality (and dare I say even goals?) of some of the nastiest political philosophies that have ever marred the face of the planet. It must be opposed however and whenever it can.

I don’t live in an ideological vacuum, instead I actively have an ideology and world view. Liberalism is a dangerous, vicious, corrupting and deceptive ideology that hates everything I believe to be true, right and correct. It is as much a religion or mental defect as a political philosophy and I will fight it however, whenever and wherever I can. I’m proud to be on the front line in the culture and ideological wars for the heart and soul of this nation. No apologies are offered.

We are now engaged in a great struggle for the heart, soul, and future of a nation, a great people, and perhaps even Western Civilization itself. Progressivism destroys everything that is good and just and wages unrelenting war on everything I believe to be sacred, right, and true. They have no pity and are not constrained by the mores of tradition, values, honesty, or rule of law. They dismantle free enterprise, flood our nation with foreign immigrants both legal and illegal, dismantle and redefine the family, mock our traditions, slaughter the unborn, ignore our history, mock Christianity, and shred morals and values at every turn. There are not two equally valid ideologies to choose from. All paths do not lead to truth.

The road to serfdom is a path we would rather not take, and warning people what can eventually happen when you give up liberty, control, and decision-making to a monolithic, increasingly powerful, and rapidly growing government that seeks to dictate, regulate, or control nearly every aspect of your personal, business, and daily life is not paranoia, but reality. The face of modern fascism is far more deceitful in the modern age. Progressivism is fascism with a compassionate face.

Perhaps I take a larger view of “the struggle.” People who are out to destroy everything I believe in and undermine the traditions, culture, language and institutions of Western Civilization certainly are an “enemy,” at least the ideology they believe in is. Have you been paying attention? Are you aware of the agendas being enacted and the ones that are planned? Statism is alive and well my friend, and liberty and freedom are on life support.

The corrupt cabal who rule us now would have kissed the feet of King George and embraced his tyranny for the sake of “the common good.” To the brave founders of this nation liberty was not just some obscure concept to give lip service to, but something worth fighting and dying for. It was real. We have lost that as a society and we must be willing to do what is necessary to regain it. Liberty is worth sacrificing everything for. It is at the core of what makes us free men.

The threat we face is not a fantasy, but a reality that is growing everyday. Defending the Founder’s vision and the Republic they created with vigor and even their own words and passion is a great thing, not something to be avoided. We are defending their vision and their dream. We are the heirs to their gift and it deserves to be defended every way possible. They earned it and they deserve it. The era of ‘decorum’ and polite political discourse is no longer with us and has been moldering in the grave for some time. That bridge has not only been crossed (by both sides) but has been burned down behind us.

Righteous anger and indignation is a fire that should be stoked, not extinguished.  Even Christ drove the money changers out of the temple. There is no shame in that but we all must do what we can to defeat the ideological barbarians in our midst.

If the Founders saw the state of the country they would be aghast at what we have allowed to happen to their bold experiment. Conservatives (at least a good many) see themselves as the spiritual descendants of the Founding Fathers and the keeper of the flame of freedom handed down to us from them. What we see now is a protest characterized not by a roar for revolution, but by a call for restoration — repair of our Constitution’s authority and return to its standard for Rule of Law.

“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.” –Thomas Jefferson

It is interesting to see some factions of the Right not embracing guerrilla conservatism. The Left firmly trampled to death the last rules of civility and the argument of ‘we need to be nice, because if we aren’t they might be mean to the next Republican president’ is bologna (ask President Bush about that). If you show up to a gun fight with cardboard swords you are going to lose. I advocate ideological warfare and an energized, confrontational conservative movement. The Left is completely dominating in every arena and it is not by ‘playing nice’. There are some who wring their hands about civility and propriety while the shining city on the hill is being looted and pillaged by the barbarian followers of an evil ideology. Let me know how “playing nice” works out. The rest of us will be in the trenches fighting the good fight.

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First Government Owned Gas Station

Somerset's city-owned gas station opens to public

A southern Kentucky city is venturing into the retail gas business by opening a municipal-run filling station.

SOMERSET, Ky. — Somerset’s City Hall ventured into the retail gas business Saturday, opening a municipal-run filling station that supporters call a benefit for motorists and critics denounce as a taxpayer-supported swipe at the free market.

POLL: If the Republicans take the Senate in November, will that solve the problems in Washington DC?

The Somerset Fuel Center opened to the public selling regular unleaded gas for $3.36 a gallon, a bit lower than some nearby competitors. In the first three hours, about 75 customers fueled up at the no-frills stations, where there are no snacks, no repairs, and only regular unleaded gas.

The mayor says the station was created in response to years of grumbling by residents about stubbornly high gas prices in Somerset, a city of about 11,000 near Lake Cumberland, a popular fishing and boating haven.

The venture got a thumbs-up from customers who let their vehicles reach near-empty in anticipation of the city-run station’s opening.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/07/19/city-owned-filling-station-kentucky-has-lower-prices/IIrJUIUJZeqxqHsOGVVYWP/story.html

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When Did We Begin To Go Wrong?

If you ask this question to a politically left leaning individual he might say the problem started with Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon.

If you posed this same question to a conservative, he would probably say Woodrow Wilson or possibly Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I believe that neither is correct and we must look deeper to see where this drift to socialism or communism, which is the ultimate goal for all those who hate the free enterprise system of economics, first started.

I think the problem was the enactment of the 17th amendment.

Wikipedia tells us: The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.

The amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures.

It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, allowing for state legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held.

Reformers introduced constitutional amendments in 1828, 1829, and 1855, with the issues finally reaching a head during the 1890s and 1900s.

Progressives, such as William Jennings Bryan, called for reform to the way senators were chosen. Elihu Root and George Frisbie Hoar were prominent figures in the campaign to maintain the state legislative selection of senators.

By 1910, 31 state legislatures had passed motions calling for reform. By 1912, 239 political parties at both the state and national level had pledged some form of direct election, and 33 states had introduced the use of direct primaries.

Critics of the Seventeenth Amendment claim that by altering the way senators are elected, the states lost any representation they had in the federal government and that, in addition to violating the unamendable state suffrage clause of Article V, this led to the gradual "slide into ignominy" of state legislatures, as well as an overextension of federal power and the rise of special interest groups to fill the power vacuum previously occupied by state legislatures.

The last sentence of the previous paragraph sums up why Washington D. C. has been called by some “ The countries most corrupt city”. Maybe that’s the reason senators are rarely seen in their home states. They probably feel more at ease mingling with lobbyists, media people and many other like minded individuals than they do talking to Angelo Caruso the home town pharmacist.

Of course, it's very easy in this environment for favors to be exchanged.

Think about this idea and let me know what you think.

Until next time. Bill

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