Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.'
~ Thomas Jefferson
1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
3. Colt: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.
8. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
9. What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand?
10 The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
11. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
12. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
13. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
14. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
15. 911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
16. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
17. ;Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.
18. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
19. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
20. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
21. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.
22. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
23. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Obama's policies undermine Family and religious freedom
OBAMA'S POLICIES ALREADY UNDERMINING FAMILY AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICA
The Heritage Foundation today published a list of the policies advanced by the Obama administration in the first 2 ½ months of his term that demonstrate a profound disregard for parental rights, the right to life, and freedom of conscience.Here's the dismal list:
Discouraging charitable giving
Blocking educational opportunity for low-income D.C. students
Reducing abstinence education
Rolling back conscience protections for health care professionals
Subsidizing Planned Parenthood
Restricting parental notification and expanding family planning
Using tax dollars to finance abortion abroad
Taxpayer funding for controversial, unproven embryonic stem cell research
Violating religious groups' equal access on college campuses
Rolling back successful welfare reform
Expanding dependence on government
Leaving a legacy of debt to future generationsA grim list indeed. And we've still got 3 years and nine months to go! He's just getting warmed up! Anyone for a Tea Party on April 15?The Dirty Dozen: 12 New Policies That Undermine Civil Society
Our president and his "yes sir circus congress" obviously have no idea what their job is so they are busy doing everything....wrong!!! ..under his "messiahship"
kinda like a dictatorship!!! Anyone awake yet?
The Heritage Foundation today published a list of the policies advanced by the Obama administration in the first 2 ½ months of his term that demonstrate a profound disregard for parental rights, the right to life, and freedom of conscience.Here's the dismal list:
Discouraging charitable giving
Blocking educational opportunity for low-income D.C. students
Reducing abstinence education
Rolling back conscience protections for health care professionals
Subsidizing Planned Parenthood
Restricting parental notification and expanding family planning
Using tax dollars to finance abortion abroad
Taxpayer funding for controversial, unproven embryonic stem cell research
Violating religious groups' equal access on college campuses
Rolling back successful welfare reform
Expanding dependence on government
Leaving a legacy of debt to future generationsA grim list indeed. And we've still got 3 years and nine months to go! He's just getting warmed up! Anyone for a Tea Party on April 15?The Dirty Dozen: 12 New Policies That Undermine Civil Society
Our president and his "yes sir circus congress" obviously have no idea what their job is so they are busy doing everything....wrong!!! ..under his "messiahship"
kinda like a dictatorship!!! Anyone awake yet?
Economic collapse to trigger pandemonium
This post is lengthy but a MUST READ:
email alert, April 3, 2009FM web site: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message763643/pg1or http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/04.09/pandemonium.html By Lee Bellinger(Editor's Note: This urgent, time-sensitive briefing from Lee Bellinger, Publisher of Independent Living, reveals some deeply disturbing developments right under the surface. While, to some, the following might seem like sensationalist hogwash, to your editor, it is like "singing to the choir". It would be foolish not to consider these possibilities. - JSB)
U.S. Preparing a Military Response to Coming Social Chaos As the shocking confidential information contained in this briefing shows, the threat of social meltdown and chaos is so large a domestic law-enforcement arm of the U.S. military (referred to by The Army Times as the "Consequence Management Response Force") has been created to deal with what U.S. officials believe to be a coming, unprecedented wave of massive social chaos.
Later I'll show you why many Washington insiders (including officials directly involved in homeland security) are personally making emergency preparations for social chaos. In addition, outgoing Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson told Sen. James Inhofe and Rep. Brad Sherman that so much financial mayhem lies ahead U.S. troops may have to impose martial law to deal with social unrest.Yes, U.S. Officials Are Quietly Preparing for BIG Trouble Ahead A new report by the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute states flatly the U.S. military must prepare for "a violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States" that could be provoked by "unforeseen economic collapse" or "loss of functioning political and legal order."
Late last year, The Washington Post noted the incoming Obama Administration is going to "earmark" at least 20,000 troops returning from Iraq to deal with "domestic emergencies." Since then, the Army Times has broken the story that the domestic emergency army unit has been increased to 80,000 troops, who are being trained right now in Georgia. In short, U.S. officials expect big trouble ahead — but they are not warning the general public about the danger (much less urge the unsuspecting masses to make basic preparations).
A rare critic of the government's keep-the-public-in-the-dark mentality is former head of the U.S. Commission on National Security, Stephen Flynn. He noted in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial: "Too many officials believe telling the truth to Americans about the risk would set off a nationwide panic. Thus, they keep us sheep in the dark for our own good." Boiled down, you need a real plan to deal with massive social dislocations that are headed our way. And you need to get started right now, because the government isn't going to give you a heads-up.
Here’s Why Washington Expects to Use Troops Against Americans Let me get straight to the point about the high probability of social chaos, what it will look like, and what you can do to not be among the millions of unsuspecting Americans who are going to get caught flat-footed. You see, a government-consumer debt bubble 20+ years in the making is imploding — as desperate federal meddling to stave off financial collapse is "funded" by frantic funny-money printing to shower trillions of dollars over a restive public.
Even "mainstream" financial figures are finally admitting we may be in more than a recession. For example, the CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt, recently conceded the U.S. may be descending into a depression. Until a few short months ago, official Washington wasn’t even using the "R" word. The "experts" are finally fessing up to what the rest of us can already see: Ghost malls springing up from coast to coast, with an estimated 148,000 store closures projected so far for 2009 — including Steve and Barrys, Sharper Image, Wicks, Levitz, CompUSA, Circuit City, Linens and Things, KB Toys, Whitehall Jewellers, and Shoe Pavilion.
Frightened U.S. policy-makers also note a number of giant chains are on the brink of bankruptcy for 2009, including Phillip Van Heusen (IZOD/Calvin Klein), Macys, Office Depot, Pacific Sunware, Bombay Company, Pep Boys, Sprint-Nextel service stores, Ethan Allen, Ann Taylor, Lane Bryant, Dillards, Starbucks, the Gap, Footlocker, and Home Depot.Dire Unemployment Picture Foreshadows Social Chaos
John Williams of the authoritative Shadow Government Statistics notes that unfudged, un-manipulated government statistics suggests a whopping civilian unemployment rate of 17% — with a projected total to exceed 30% (during the Great Depression, unemployment approached an historic 25%). In the U.S., job-shedding has now exceeded post-World War II levels and the January 28 Wall Street Journal warned: "One troubling sign is that the states that were first into recession — those with a heavy concentration of home building and manufacturing — are getting worse, not better..."
In December, the International Monetary Fund's managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned of riots and unrest sweeping through Western countries as lower-income households are beset with credit constraints and rampant unemployment. (Such riots have already caused the government of Iceland to fall and triggered riots in Greece.)Today's Americans Don't Resemble the Hardy Depression-Era Generation
Not to be politically-incorrect, but the simple truth is millions of Americans who've never known anything but prosperity and easy-money have a militant expectation that society "owes" them something. And with so many families on the margins of survival already, the speed of the downward unemployment spiral is downright ominous (and unprecedented). Worse, there are few signs the taxpayer dependents of today have any of the self-reliance skills that saw the hardy Great Depression generation through the tough times.
In fact, there is mounting evidence tens of millions of low-income government dependents and many others infected with a sense of entitlement are prone to crime and violence — especially when it dawns on the masses there are not enough jobs and government promises of "relief" are as empty as the U.S. Treasury is bankrupt. For example, in response to financially-troubled New York State making minor trims to its budget, an ugly 50,000+ mob took to the streets around city hall to demand higher taxes against the "rich." (Similar protests were mounted in Albany, Buffalo, and White Plains.)
In just the last year, when fuel prices were soaring and metals such as platinum were exploding, gasoline thefts across the nation became rampant. Copper was being ripped off from construction sites, pipes were torn out of abandoned houses and catalytic converters containing trace elements of platinum were being shanghaied from parked cars all over the country. Of course, the possibility of a full-scale depressionary unemployment is just one "trigger" threatening to cause society to come completely unglued.Systemic Collapse is a Real Possibility: Other Shoes Are Getting Ready to Drop
It is far too dangerous to ignore the growing signs of impending national social chaos. Even after absorbing some of the unsettling facts in this briefing, you need to act calmly and decisively make sure you can get the things you need and protect what’s yours — with undertones of frantic — while you still can. The signs of trouble abound. Congressional Quarterly notes that pension fund losses are about to spill out onto the front pages — with nearly as much financial exposure as that which brought down America's banking giants.
It has not made much news yet, but the pension funds of millions of retirees is down by a whopping $1.9 trillion. This is why cities such as Philadelphia are quietly seeking federal money to bolster pension funds which CQ notes are 60% invested in the stock market — which itself has collapsed by a catastrophic 50% in just the last 18 months. Not to scare the pants off you, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has quietly informed Congress that the "insurance" agency for private pension funds, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, is at high risk of failure. (This will not become a "crisis" until desperate people start trying to tap early retirement money that is not there — for now the looming pension catastrophe remains a "dormant" threat).
Worse, the former head of the U.S. Comptroller General Office, David Walker, essentially told Congress (before resigning in disgust) that the Social Security "Trust Fund" is a vault of IOUs; and Medicare will soon be effectively bankrupt.State Governments Are Becoming Too Broke for Law-Enforcement The American Association of Architects' historically-reliable construction index has plunged 34.7% — a grim indication the commercial real estate market is the next shoe to drop, which analyst Mike Larson forecasts will lead to an "unstoppable chain reaction of bankruptcies."
The reason I bring this up is because 46 states are already experiencing major budget shortfalls. And yet it is taxes from U.S. commercial real estate on which local and state governments depend to fund fire, police and social services. (Not to mention major insurance carriers — many of which are going to go belly-up when the full extent of the commercial real estate bust hits their reserve portfolios.)
States such as California and Kansas don't even have enough money to send out tax refund checks (much less properly fund police departments) and are coping with the biggest annual job loss in a single year since 1945 (down 2.8 million jobs in 2008 alone). The Washington Post notes two out of three large police departments in U.S. cities are already reporting budget cuts and hiring freezes, even as 233 departments told the Police Executive Research Forum that they are noticing a major "uptick" in property crime which they attribute to financial unrest.
The National Center for the Victims of Crime reports a whopping 24% increase in calls from October 2007 to October 2008 as "job losses and economic stress factor into increased violence." In addition, cash-strapped states have been forced by collapsing tax revenue to release hardened criminals back into society, noted the Post. On February 21, The Charlotte Observer reported on a disturbing trend which is going on all over the country: Major budget cuts for jails even as criminality is on the rise.
The Observer story cited the closing of a youth detention center for violent offenders, an all-too-common "low-profile" budget-cutting practice going on all over the country.More Evidence the You-Know-What is Going to Hit the Fan Think about the widespread collapse of order and emergency services in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina — except on a national level.
The implementation of gun-confiscation laws, looters and thugs terrorizing the elderly with impunity, besieged hospitals without power, doctors and medicine. People forcibly herded into "containment zones" and denied access to food, water, and medical attention. At least 45 patients died in one city-run hospital after being abandoned by doctors and staff.
More recently, a simple fuel pipeline break in America's barely-functioning, antiquated energy infrastructure spawned major gasoline delivery disruptions throughout the entire Southeastern Seaboard region. For over six weeks, drivers could not find gasoline except by standing in line for hours to get just a few gallons of fuel.
The recent regional collapse of the U.S. fuel infrastructure is a major warning sign that the energy supply chain is stretched dangerously thin — which combined with financial unrest has the strong potential to create major disruptions in the food supply chain (most population centers have only three days of food available to the public through supermarkets — meaning panic runs on food are a distinct possibility as the potential for social chaos continues to mount).
If you think these scenarios cannot happen in the United States of America, talk with anyone who has ever been in the path of a hurricane. They will confirm that by the time the general public catches on to the danger, getting everyday items such as gasoline, batteries, plywood, medicine, water, and food becomes next to impossible. Social services, police protection, public transportation, and highway systems become next to useless.When the Police AbandonLaw-Abiding Neighborhoods to Mobs And don't even get me started on police protection. Past riots in Washington DC and Los Angeles portend a disturbing pattern when social chaos overwhelms order. The police almost always "pull back" and abandon entire neighborhoods to vicious mobs.
In the case of the 1992 Los Angeles Rodney King riots (as Caucasians and Asians were hunted down, robbed, and slaughtered), the police hunkered behind their defensive cordons as the murderous racist rage unfolded — the only outside contact law-abiding victims had in the riot zone were with intrepid news helicopters hovering overhead, broadcasting the racial pogroms on live TV.
You may even remember the only community to come out unscathed were sections of Los Angeles populated by Asian merchants — who fended off the mobs by placing shooters on the roofs of buildings within their defense perimeter. These heroic Korean merchants successfully protected their families, shops and homes. All because they knew how worthless bureaucrats truly are and made their own preparations. Where are you in this process? The coming social chaos will magnify these problems a thousand-fold.
In short, it is extremely important to be one step ahead of the general public during an unfolding crisis. And at least three long steps ahead of the government's draconian, blunderbuss, freedom-stealing response.Government Deliberately Keeps Public in theDark About Multiple Threats to Public Order
Some Americans have learned from past history and are quietly making basic emergency preparations for social chaos. Private gun sales at all-time record highs. Safe makers and alarm and generator installers have never been so busy. Not even close. Highly successful financial players such as commodities genius Jim Rogers now openly says the U.S. is heading for an inflationary holocaust.
Which is why, for over a year — as confidence in the U.S. financial and political system continues to evaporate — physical gold and silver have been flying off the shelves — not just in the United States but all over the globe. The unavailability of physical gold and silver has become so acute that major U.S. mints have either curtailed or stopped taking orders for new coins.The Washington Elite Are Quietly Making Themselves More Self-Reliant Now I want to share an important personal insight with you that will probably never make the news.
You see, I belong to two Washington, D.C. membership organizations which date back to the 1800s — with members that include a smattering of cabinet officials, members of Congress, mid-level federal managers and many, many, retired former insiders. This is how I first learned that many top-level Washington insiders — many of whom have been directly involved in developing the Homeland Security Department, do not have confidence in government preparations for social chaos.
I know this for a fact, not just because of my conversations with club members. I am also an acquaintance with a private contractor who has a booming specialty business which does nothing but work in posh DC neighborhoods, installing emergency back-up generators, freezers for food, and safes (Even a quick review of the DC yellow pages suggests that installing emergency generators and other survival precautions has become a prospering cottage industry in the Washington area.)
As one of my very best Hillsdale College professors would have mused: "What would lead so many influential Washington insiders (who are in a position to know) to seek out ways to become so much more self-reliant than the average citizen?"Outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chilling Prediction
Of course, financial mayhem may be the least of America’s problems. Right after leaving office, Vice President Dick Cheney warned of the possible deaths of "perhaps hundreds of thousands of Americans" in a terror attack using nuclear or biological weapons. "I think there is a high probability of such an attempt," the straight-talking Cheney warned during an interview with Politico.
An important item buried deeply in The Washington Post recently noted there are already 20,000 commercially-available labs in the world where a single person could synthesize any existing virus. In those same 20,000 labs, five people with $2 million can create an advanced pathogen—meaning a virus that will be able to infect even those people who have been immunized with conventional vaccines, and kill perhaps a million of them.
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson confessed to a reporter he "worries every single night" about a possible bioterror attack on the U.S. food supply. "For the life of me," he said, "I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is the easiest thing to do".
Two Categories of People: The Prepared vs. the Clueless Whatever form the "triggering event" takes, not only will millions of Americans suddenly discover they are completely on their own, they will be completely unprepared for the government’s draconian response to social chaos. So there are two categories of people in America right now:
Category 1 are the millions of clueless who blissfully assume their political overlords are going to take care of them. These are the people most likely to get caught flat-footed when all hell breaks loose.
Category 2 are prudent, savvy people who are taking basic steps toward making their families and their households more self-reliant.
email alert, April 3, 2009FM web site: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message763643/pg1or http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/04.09/pandemonium.html By Lee Bellinger(Editor's Note: This urgent, time-sensitive briefing from Lee Bellinger, Publisher of Independent Living, reveals some deeply disturbing developments right under the surface. While, to some, the following might seem like sensationalist hogwash, to your editor, it is like "singing to the choir". It would be foolish not to consider these possibilities. - JSB)
U.S. Preparing a Military Response to Coming Social Chaos As the shocking confidential information contained in this briefing shows, the threat of social meltdown and chaos is so large a domestic law-enforcement arm of the U.S. military (referred to by The Army Times as the "Consequence Management Response Force") has been created to deal with what U.S. officials believe to be a coming, unprecedented wave of massive social chaos.
Later I'll show you why many Washington insiders (including officials directly involved in homeland security) are personally making emergency preparations for social chaos. In addition, outgoing Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson told Sen. James Inhofe and Rep. Brad Sherman that so much financial mayhem lies ahead U.S. troops may have to impose martial law to deal with social unrest.Yes, U.S. Officials Are Quietly Preparing for BIG Trouble Ahead A new report by the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute states flatly the U.S. military must prepare for "a violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States" that could be provoked by "unforeseen economic collapse" or "loss of functioning political and legal order."
Late last year, The Washington Post noted the incoming Obama Administration is going to "earmark" at least 20,000 troops returning from Iraq to deal with "domestic emergencies." Since then, the Army Times has broken the story that the domestic emergency army unit has been increased to 80,000 troops, who are being trained right now in Georgia. In short, U.S. officials expect big trouble ahead — but they are not warning the general public about the danger (much less urge the unsuspecting masses to make basic preparations).
A rare critic of the government's keep-the-public-in-the-dark mentality is former head of the U.S. Commission on National Security, Stephen Flynn. He noted in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial: "Too many officials believe telling the truth to Americans about the risk would set off a nationwide panic. Thus, they keep us sheep in the dark for our own good." Boiled down, you need a real plan to deal with massive social dislocations that are headed our way. And you need to get started right now, because the government isn't going to give you a heads-up.
Here’s Why Washington Expects to Use Troops Against Americans Let me get straight to the point about the high probability of social chaos, what it will look like, and what you can do to not be among the millions of unsuspecting Americans who are going to get caught flat-footed. You see, a government-consumer debt bubble 20+ years in the making is imploding — as desperate federal meddling to stave off financial collapse is "funded" by frantic funny-money printing to shower trillions of dollars over a restive public.
Even "mainstream" financial figures are finally admitting we may be in more than a recession. For example, the CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt, recently conceded the U.S. may be descending into a depression. Until a few short months ago, official Washington wasn’t even using the "R" word. The "experts" are finally fessing up to what the rest of us can already see: Ghost malls springing up from coast to coast, with an estimated 148,000 store closures projected so far for 2009 — including Steve and Barrys, Sharper Image, Wicks, Levitz, CompUSA, Circuit City, Linens and Things, KB Toys, Whitehall Jewellers, and Shoe Pavilion.
Frightened U.S. policy-makers also note a number of giant chains are on the brink of bankruptcy for 2009, including Phillip Van Heusen (IZOD/Calvin Klein), Macys, Office Depot, Pacific Sunware, Bombay Company, Pep Boys, Sprint-Nextel service stores, Ethan Allen, Ann Taylor, Lane Bryant, Dillards, Starbucks, the Gap, Footlocker, and Home Depot.Dire Unemployment Picture Foreshadows Social Chaos
John Williams of the authoritative Shadow Government Statistics notes that unfudged, un-manipulated government statistics suggests a whopping civilian unemployment rate of 17% — with a projected total to exceed 30% (during the Great Depression, unemployment approached an historic 25%). In the U.S., job-shedding has now exceeded post-World War II levels and the January 28 Wall Street Journal warned: "One troubling sign is that the states that were first into recession — those with a heavy concentration of home building and manufacturing — are getting worse, not better..."
In December, the International Monetary Fund's managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned of riots and unrest sweeping through Western countries as lower-income households are beset with credit constraints and rampant unemployment. (Such riots have already caused the government of Iceland to fall and triggered riots in Greece.)Today's Americans Don't Resemble the Hardy Depression-Era Generation
Not to be politically-incorrect, but the simple truth is millions of Americans who've never known anything but prosperity and easy-money have a militant expectation that society "owes" them something. And with so many families on the margins of survival already, the speed of the downward unemployment spiral is downright ominous (and unprecedented). Worse, there are few signs the taxpayer dependents of today have any of the self-reliance skills that saw the hardy Great Depression generation through the tough times.
In fact, there is mounting evidence tens of millions of low-income government dependents and many others infected with a sense of entitlement are prone to crime and violence — especially when it dawns on the masses there are not enough jobs and government promises of "relief" are as empty as the U.S. Treasury is bankrupt. For example, in response to financially-troubled New York State making minor trims to its budget, an ugly 50,000+ mob took to the streets around city hall to demand higher taxes against the "rich." (Similar protests were mounted in Albany, Buffalo, and White Plains.)
In just the last year, when fuel prices were soaring and metals such as platinum were exploding, gasoline thefts across the nation became rampant. Copper was being ripped off from construction sites, pipes were torn out of abandoned houses and catalytic converters containing trace elements of platinum were being shanghaied from parked cars all over the country. Of course, the possibility of a full-scale depressionary unemployment is just one "trigger" threatening to cause society to come completely unglued.Systemic Collapse is a Real Possibility: Other Shoes Are Getting Ready to Drop
It is far too dangerous to ignore the growing signs of impending national social chaos. Even after absorbing some of the unsettling facts in this briefing, you need to act calmly and decisively make sure you can get the things you need and protect what’s yours — with undertones of frantic — while you still can. The signs of trouble abound. Congressional Quarterly notes that pension fund losses are about to spill out onto the front pages — with nearly as much financial exposure as that which brought down America's banking giants.
It has not made much news yet, but the pension funds of millions of retirees is down by a whopping $1.9 trillion. This is why cities such as Philadelphia are quietly seeking federal money to bolster pension funds which CQ notes are 60% invested in the stock market — which itself has collapsed by a catastrophic 50% in just the last 18 months. Not to scare the pants off you, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has quietly informed Congress that the "insurance" agency for private pension funds, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, is at high risk of failure. (This will not become a "crisis" until desperate people start trying to tap early retirement money that is not there — for now the looming pension catastrophe remains a "dormant" threat).
Worse, the former head of the U.S. Comptroller General Office, David Walker, essentially told Congress (before resigning in disgust) that the Social Security "Trust Fund" is a vault of IOUs; and Medicare will soon be effectively bankrupt.State Governments Are Becoming Too Broke for Law-Enforcement The American Association of Architects' historically-reliable construction index has plunged 34.7% — a grim indication the commercial real estate market is the next shoe to drop, which analyst Mike Larson forecasts will lead to an "unstoppable chain reaction of bankruptcies."
The reason I bring this up is because 46 states are already experiencing major budget shortfalls. And yet it is taxes from U.S. commercial real estate on which local and state governments depend to fund fire, police and social services. (Not to mention major insurance carriers — many of which are going to go belly-up when the full extent of the commercial real estate bust hits their reserve portfolios.)
States such as California and Kansas don't even have enough money to send out tax refund checks (much less properly fund police departments) and are coping with the biggest annual job loss in a single year since 1945 (down 2.8 million jobs in 2008 alone). The Washington Post notes two out of three large police departments in U.S. cities are already reporting budget cuts and hiring freezes, even as 233 departments told the Police Executive Research Forum that they are noticing a major "uptick" in property crime which they attribute to financial unrest.
The National Center for the Victims of Crime reports a whopping 24% increase in calls from October 2007 to October 2008 as "job losses and economic stress factor into increased violence." In addition, cash-strapped states have been forced by collapsing tax revenue to release hardened criminals back into society, noted the Post. On February 21, The Charlotte Observer reported on a disturbing trend which is going on all over the country: Major budget cuts for jails even as criminality is on the rise.
The Observer story cited the closing of a youth detention center for violent offenders, an all-too-common "low-profile" budget-cutting practice going on all over the country.More Evidence the You-Know-What is Going to Hit the Fan Think about the widespread collapse of order and emergency services in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina — except on a national level.
The implementation of gun-confiscation laws, looters and thugs terrorizing the elderly with impunity, besieged hospitals without power, doctors and medicine. People forcibly herded into "containment zones" and denied access to food, water, and medical attention. At least 45 patients died in one city-run hospital after being abandoned by doctors and staff.
More recently, a simple fuel pipeline break in America's barely-functioning, antiquated energy infrastructure spawned major gasoline delivery disruptions throughout the entire Southeastern Seaboard region. For over six weeks, drivers could not find gasoline except by standing in line for hours to get just a few gallons of fuel.
The recent regional collapse of the U.S. fuel infrastructure is a major warning sign that the energy supply chain is stretched dangerously thin — which combined with financial unrest has the strong potential to create major disruptions in the food supply chain (most population centers have only three days of food available to the public through supermarkets — meaning panic runs on food are a distinct possibility as the potential for social chaos continues to mount).
If you think these scenarios cannot happen in the United States of America, talk with anyone who has ever been in the path of a hurricane. They will confirm that by the time the general public catches on to the danger, getting everyday items such as gasoline, batteries, plywood, medicine, water, and food becomes next to impossible. Social services, police protection, public transportation, and highway systems become next to useless.When the Police AbandonLaw-Abiding Neighborhoods to Mobs And don't even get me started on police protection. Past riots in Washington DC and Los Angeles portend a disturbing pattern when social chaos overwhelms order. The police almost always "pull back" and abandon entire neighborhoods to vicious mobs.
In the case of the 1992 Los Angeles Rodney King riots (as Caucasians and Asians were hunted down, robbed, and slaughtered), the police hunkered behind their defensive cordons as the murderous racist rage unfolded — the only outside contact law-abiding victims had in the riot zone were with intrepid news helicopters hovering overhead, broadcasting the racial pogroms on live TV.
You may even remember the only community to come out unscathed were sections of Los Angeles populated by Asian merchants — who fended off the mobs by placing shooters on the roofs of buildings within their defense perimeter. These heroic Korean merchants successfully protected their families, shops and homes. All because they knew how worthless bureaucrats truly are and made their own preparations. Where are you in this process? The coming social chaos will magnify these problems a thousand-fold.
In short, it is extremely important to be one step ahead of the general public during an unfolding crisis. And at least three long steps ahead of the government's draconian, blunderbuss, freedom-stealing response.Government Deliberately Keeps Public in theDark About Multiple Threats to Public Order
Some Americans have learned from past history and are quietly making basic emergency preparations for social chaos. Private gun sales at all-time record highs. Safe makers and alarm and generator installers have never been so busy. Not even close. Highly successful financial players such as commodities genius Jim Rogers now openly says the U.S. is heading for an inflationary holocaust.
Which is why, for over a year — as confidence in the U.S. financial and political system continues to evaporate — physical gold and silver have been flying off the shelves — not just in the United States but all over the globe. The unavailability of physical gold and silver has become so acute that major U.S. mints have either curtailed or stopped taking orders for new coins.The Washington Elite Are Quietly Making Themselves More Self-Reliant Now I want to share an important personal insight with you that will probably never make the news.
You see, I belong to two Washington, D.C. membership organizations which date back to the 1800s — with members that include a smattering of cabinet officials, members of Congress, mid-level federal managers and many, many, retired former insiders. This is how I first learned that many top-level Washington insiders — many of whom have been directly involved in developing the Homeland Security Department, do not have confidence in government preparations for social chaos.
I know this for a fact, not just because of my conversations with club members. I am also an acquaintance with a private contractor who has a booming specialty business which does nothing but work in posh DC neighborhoods, installing emergency back-up generators, freezers for food, and safes (Even a quick review of the DC yellow pages suggests that installing emergency generators and other survival precautions has become a prospering cottage industry in the Washington area.)
As one of my very best Hillsdale College professors would have mused: "What would lead so many influential Washington insiders (who are in a position to know) to seek out ways to become so much more self-reliant than the average citizen?"Outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chilling Prediction
Of course, financial mayhem may be the least of America’s problems. Right after leaving office, Vice President Dick Cheney warned of the possible deaths of "perhaps hundreds of thousands of Americans" in a terror attack using nuclear or biological weapons. "I think there is a high probability of such an attempt," the straight-talking Cheney warned during an interview with Politico.
An important item buried deeply in The Washington Post recently noted there are already 20,000 commercially-available labs in the world where a single person could synthesize any existing virus. In those same 20,000 labs, five people with $2 million can create an advanced pathogen—meaning a virus that will be able to infect even those people who have been immunized with conventional vaccines, and kill perhaps a million of them.
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson confessed to a reporter he "worries every single night" about a possible bioterror attack on the U.S. food supply. "For the life of me," he said, "I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is the easiest thing to do".
Two Categories of People: The Prepared vs. the Clueless Whatever form the "triggering event" takes, not only will millions of Americans suddenly discover they are completely on their own, they will be completely unprepared for the government’s draconian response to social chaos. So there are two categories of people in America right now:
Category 1 are the millions of clueless who blissfully assume their political overlords are going to take care of them. These are the people most likely to get caught flat-footed when all hell breaks loose.
Category 2 are prudent, savvy people who are taking basic steps toward making their families and their households more self-reliant.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Americans with no abilities act
I actually thought this was a joke while I was reading it and had to verify it to be sure. This is real. This actually isn't a joke...The administration is but this legislation is not.
As a president that took oath to upphold the constituion, he has continued to shred it here as well. It is no wonder though, in one week we are no longer a Christian nation, we have apolgized to our enemies, took no action when challenged, bow to a countries king that dislikes America.
In addition new polls say that:
53% of Americans believe in the free capitalist system
24% believe that socialism is the answer
23% aren't sure?
Does this scream ignorance to anyone but me? We have become lazy, apathetic, stupid, careless, selfish and beyond anything we, ourselves can possibly do to be smart enough to pull us out of this mess!
How can these stats be real unless we as a nation have given up on ourselves...
Here is the frosting on this freakin cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress have passed sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans.
The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition."Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society," said California Senator Barbara Boxer.
"We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing."
In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U.S employer of Persons of Inability.
Private-sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against the Inept include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement 'warehouse' stores (65%). At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%). Under The Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million "middle man" positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance. Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees.
The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, 'Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?' 'As a Non-abled person, I can't be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,' said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint , Michigan , due to her inability to remember 'rightey tightey, lefty loosey.'
'This new law should be real good for people like me,' Gertz added. With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. Said Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), "As a Senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities.
(What would be the difference...most senators don't seem to have abilities anyway, at least he is honest)
It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so."
As a president that took oath to upphold the constituion, he has continued to shred it here as well. It is no wonder though, in one week we are no longer a Christian nation, we have apolgized to our enemies, took no action when challenged, bow to a countries king that dislikes America.
In addition new polls say that:
53% of Americans believe in the free capitalist system
24% believe that socialism is the answer
23% aren't sure?
Does this scream ignorance to anyone but me? We have become lazy, apathetic, stupid, careless, selfish and beyond anything we, ourselves can possibly do to be smart enough to pull us out of this mess!
How can these stats be real unless we as a nation have given up on ourselves...
Here is the frosting on this freakin cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress have passed sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans.
The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition."Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society," said California Senator Barbara Boxer.
"We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing."
In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U.S employer of Persons of Inability.
Private-sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against the Inept include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement 'warehouse' stores (65%). At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%). Under The Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million "middle man" positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance. Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees.
The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, 'Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?' 'As a Non-abled person, I can't be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,' said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint , Michigan , due to her inability to remember 'rightey tightey, lefty loosey.'
'This new law should be real good for people like me,' Gertz added. With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. Said Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), "As a Senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities.
(What would be the difference...most senators don't seem to have abilities anyway, at least he is honest)
It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so."
Oreilly is a neo-con shmuck!
Liberals tend to think that we conservatives have only one source of media information, that being Fox news and I believe they hate it . I wonder if they get this ideology in that they, themselves only rely on one source of information as well.
I believe that the majority of liberals and conservatives have a favorite media source and in most cases rely on this information as "the only source of truth," there are, however others, like myself, who derive their information from many sources including the media source that we favor to verify it's accuracy.
This being said, as a strong true conservative, I do watch Fox and believe they tend to be more "fair and balanced" than the other sources because they offer opinions from both sides that the others tend to forget but not necessarily "fair and balanced" as they say they are. The more appropriate statement would have been that "we are more fair and balanced than the others."
I have watched Fox for years and have a difficult time with many of the perspectives on the various personalities.
I am most pleased by Glen Beck coming to the network as I believe he has the heart of the people and the true ideology of the true American and understands our history of this country.
I am displeased by personalities such as the idiot Geraldo Rivera( proof that Fox isnt all conservative) and the self-proclaimed independent Bill O'reilly which in many cases I cannot tell where he is coming from.
For example, O'reilly stated today that it was a liberal perspective that the public school system is a mess. Who is he kidding? Anyone that has half a brain can see that the public school system is a mess and as I just wrote, like the government, the more money we throw at it the worse it gets!
Fox, I would say is more right-leaning than conservative but the liberals would only realize this if they watched it!
I believe that the majority of liberals and conservatives have a favorite media source and in most cases rely on this information as "the only source of truth," there are, however others, like myself, who derive their information from many sources including the media source that we favor to verify it's accuracy.
This being said, as a strong true conservative, I do watch Fox and believe they tend to be more "fair and balanced" than the other sources because they offer opinions from both sides that the others tend to forget but not necessarily "fair and balanced" as they say they are. The more appropriate statement would have been that "we are more fair and balanced than the others."
I have watched Fox for years and have a difficult time with many of the perspectives on the various personalities.
I am most pleased by Glen Beck coming to the network as I believe he has the heart of the people and the true ideology of the true American and understands our history of this country.
I am displeased by personalities such as the idiot Geraldo Rivera( proof that Fox isnt all conservative) and the self-proclaimed independent Bill O'reilly which in many cases I cannot tell where he is coming from.
For example, O'reilly stated today that it was a liberal perspective that the public school system is a mess. Who is he kidding? Anyone that has half a brain can see that the public school system is a mess and as I just wrote, like the government, the more money we throw at it the worse it gets!
Fox, I would say is more right-leaning than conservative but the liberals would only realize this if they watched it!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Obamas pushes another day...
As many are aware so much is happening so fast that it is difficult to keep up.
If I were to keep a pencil and paper handy, I would be busy writing all day about the blatent violations that he continually pushes on unsuspecting Americans doing all they can do to keep there families together and performing the 8-5 grind.
Black caucus visits Cuba
Today I see that His administration and the black caucus visited Cuba and praised them in that it did not appear to look like what they thought, they praised the country and the healthcare system without so much as a visit to any politician there or to any healthcare facility there
America is not a Christian Nation?
Obama, in his trip to the middle east and his series of fopahs, announced proudly that America was not a Christian nation but a nation of civilians...The ignorance and/or denial here is more than I can bear.
Obama to repeal the conscious clause
In addition to repealing Foca and Doma as well as many others he believes he has the power, his dictatorship, to override the will of the people once again by repealing the conscious clause "forcing" doctors to commit acts that they believe are immoral.
Who does this guy think he is? Who is it that the American people think he is?
I know who he is...He is the rise and confirmation of the fourth reich, he is a communist dictator and many people think it is great! In the words of a guy who says he was going to bvote for Ron Paul and changed his mind ( yeah right) he says:
"I just don’t fear regulation and see cries of socialism as corporate tools to keep things unregulated..."
Looks to be like Hitler, Stalin, mousolinni and the rest all over again and the people are stupid enough to take us down with them...How dare they!!!
If I were to keep a pencil and paper handy, I would be busy writing all day about the blatent violations that he continually pushes on unsuspecting Americans doing all they can do to keep there families together and performing the 8-5 grind.
Black caucus visits Cuba
Today I see that His administration and the black caucus visited Cuba and praised them in that it did not appear to look like what they thought, they praised the country and the healthcare system without so much as a visit to any politician there or to any healthcare facility there
America is not a Christian Nation?
Obama, in his trip to the middle east and his series of fopahs, announced proudly that America was not a Christian nation but a nation of civilians...The ignorance and/or denial here is more than I can bear.
Obama to repeal the conscious clause
In addition to repealing Foca and Doma as well as many others he believes he has the power, his dictatorship, to override the will of the people once again by repealing the conscious clause "forcing" doctors to commit acts that they believe are immoral.
Who does this guy think he is? Who is it that the American people think he is?
I know who he is...He is the rise and confirmation of the fourth reich, he is a communist dictator and many people think it is great! In the words of a guy who says he was going to bvote for Ron Paul and changed his mind ( yeah right) he says:
"I just don’t fear regulation and see cries of socialism as corporate tools to keep things unregulated..."
Looks to be like Hitler, Stalin, mousolinni and the rest all over again and the people are stupid enough to take us down with them...How dare they!!!
Education bailout?
Letter to the editor- Idaho press tribune 3-8-09
In respose to an article by sherri Wood ( lawmakers don't hurt our children)
I spend most of my free time trying to educate others on the proper role of government, including the dangers of public school and our reliance on government programs.
As I read this article, to me it sounded like the same story...Help the schools? There will be a reduction in books, spending, no new hires,larger class sizes, lay offs, no field trips, no custodian services? This sounds like a letter to the complaint department or a plea to the Obama administration for a bailout.
Our public school system is a mess. Like the government, the more money we throw at it the worse it gets.
There was a story in the news the other day about the lies in our textbooks in both history and science as well as the changes in our english language.The final comment was when asked what we should do was "make sure you teach them the facts before they go to school so they will know the difference"...Why is it we should support the public school system when are children are not being cared for educationally being taught the truth? I could care less about a teacher that loses their job that insists that Evolution is a fact or that our founding fathers were homosexuals.( like they teach in my school district) These public cirriculums promote ignorance and teaches these students that government is their God.
What about the separation of church and state? Our students are being taught Secular humanism and Atheism both of which were recognized by the Supreme court in 1973.
Your children are growing up to believe that there are no absolutes, that everything is relative, that facts change over time, there is no God, except for government,parents do not have rights, abortion the homosexual behavior is an acceptable choice and school shootings are just the sign of the times.
It is our lack of morality in this country and our denial that God is in control that got us here, it will be our acknowledgement of Him once again that will return things back to the nation we once knew and loved.
In respose to an article by sherri Wood ( lawmakers don't hurt our children)
I spend most of my free time trying to educate others on the proper role of government, including the dangers of public school and our reliance on government programs.
As I read this article, to me it sounded like the same story...Help the schools? There will be a reduction in books, spending, no new hires,larger class sizes, lay offs, no field trips, no custodian services? This sounds like a letter to the complaint department or a plea to the Obama administration for a bailout.
Our public school system is a mess. Like the government, the more money we throw at it the worse it gets.
There was a story in the news the other day about the lies in our textbooks in both history and science as well as the changes in our english language.The final comment was when asked what we should do was "make sure you teach them the facts before they go to school so they will know the difference"...Why is it we should support the public school system when are children are not being cared for educationally being taught the truth? I could care less about a teacher that loses their job that insists that Evolution is a fact or that our founding fathers were homosexuals.( like they teach in my school district) These public cirriculums promote ignorance and teaches these students that government is their God.
What about the separation of church and state? Our students are being taught Secular humanism and Atheism both of which were recognized by the Supreme court in 1973.
Your children are growing up to believe that there are no absolutes, that everything is relative, that facts change over time, there is no God, except for government,parents do not have rights, abortion the homosexual behavior is an acceptable choice and school shootings are just the sign of the times.
It is our lack of morality in this country and our denial that God is in control that got us here, it will be our acknowledgement of Him once again that will return things back to the nation we once knew and loved.
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