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The Blue social model is collapsing says Mead. Mead is a Democrat who voted for Obama in 2008. Mead defines the Blue social model in the video. Look for that at about 7 minute mark.
Update:
More on a specific failure of the Blue social model from Mead here.
Al Fin: "Cowboy Commentary", aka "Eat your veggies" The Flag banner is posted in order to defy those who would make patriotic symbols illegal or disreputable.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wickard must go
For those who aren't familiar, Wickard v. Filburn was a Supreme Court case that is being cited as a defense of ObamaCare. I wasn't familiar at all with the Wickard case. What I've learned was enough to convince me of its wickedness.
What Wickard was about: To put it simply, Wickard said that the government can tell a farmer what he could grow on his own farm. The government claimed that Filburn, the farmer, was engaged in interstate commerce, even though his wheat wasn't being sold on the market- the wheat Filburn grew was just for his own purposes. Since it is supposedly interstate commerce, the Congress has to power to regulate this the theory goes.
On the face of this, it is mind boggling that the people of the time accepted this. It is totalitarian. In a free society, it shouldn't be any of the government's business what the man grew on his own farm. But that's been the law since 1942. Perhaps too many people just didn't know nor care about this. If you weren't a farmer, it wouldn't matter as much to you, I suppose.
Now its 2012 and the government is once again claiming for itself the power to tell people that they have to buy medical insurance, or pay a fine, which is being defended as a tax. It is being defended as a tax because it can be claimed that there can be no court case until the tax is collected. In the meantime, the private insurance business is being wiped out and people will have no choice but do what the government demands.
The tax, if it is a tax, is itself is a capitation tax, which according to the Constitution, is itself illegal. It isn't an income tax, which itself was illegal until the Constitution was amended. If it is a penalty, it is a penalty for not doing something. It seems that you should do something wrong before you are penalized. Just breathing and minding your own business shouldn't earn you a penalty, but the government says otherwise.
This looks like one abuse of power stacked up on top of another abuse of power. If there were no Wickard, there would be no ObamaCare as it is now constructed.
If people are passive as in 1942, there will be even more things like this in the future. Wickard must go.
What Wickard was about: To put it simply, Wickard said that the government can tell a farmer what he could grow on his own farm. The government claimed that Filburn, the farmer, was engaged in interstate commerce, even though his wheat wasn't being sold on the market- the wheat Filburn grew was just for his own purposes. Since it is supposedly interstate commerce, the Congress has to power to regulate this the theory goes.
On the face of this, it is mind boggling that the people of the time accepted this. It is totalitarian. In a free society, it shouldn't be any of the government's business what the man grew on his own farm. But that's been the law since 1942. Perhaps too many people just didn't know nor care about this. If you weren't a farmer, it wouldn't matter as much to you, I suppose.
Now its 2012 and the government is once again claiming for itself the power to tell people that they have to buy medical insurance, or pay a fine, which is being defended as a tax. It is being defended as a tax because it can be claimed that there can be no court case until the tax is collected. In the meantime, the private insurance business is being wiped out and people will have no choice but do what the government demands.
The tax, if it is a tax, is itself is a capitation tax, which according to the Constitution, is itself illegal. It isn't an income tax, which itself was illegal until the Constitution was amended. If it is a penalty, it is a penalty for not doing something. It seems that you should do something wrong before you are penalized. Just breathing and minding your own business shouldn't earn you a penalty, but the government says otherwise.
This looks like one abuse of power stacked up on top of another abuse of power. If there were no Wickard, there would be no ObamaCare as it is now constructed.
If people are passive as in 1942, there will be even more things like this in the future. Wickard must go.
MILLOY: GOP is MIA on EPA overreach
Washington Times
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So he takes credit for more oil being produced? He is hostile towards fossil fuels, so why would anybody believe this guy when he takes credit for increased oil production?
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Though the proposed standards leave alone existing coal-fired power plants, they effectively prohibit the construction of new plants by establishing an impossible-to-meet emissions standard.Comment:
So he takes credit for more oil being produced? He is hostile towards fossil fuels, so why would anybody believe this guy when he takes credit for increased oil production?
Iowahawk: Why I Am a Democrat
Not.
I sometimes hear the question, "Why are you a Democrat?" and frankly, I have to laugh. Laugh and laugh, because perhaps this person may tire of my laughing, and he will eventually wander off. Sometimes I ponder seriously when I hear this question, because I'll look around and around and there's nobody there asking the question. Why am I a Democrat?Written in 2003, I see. The more things change...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Arpaio Investigation Brings Up Compelling Questions About Obama's Birth Certificate and Eligibility
hawaiireporter
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Comment:
So, why put out a birth certificate that can easily be shown as a forgery? It was meant to stir up the controversy, not to quell it.
This may be a type of agitprop, I speculate.
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Indeed, an Adobe Illustrator pro and video game writer in Atlanta, who goes by the YouTube handle orangegold1, downloaded the document from whitehouse.gov and quickly exposed it as fraudulent. Orangegold1's initial 7-minute YouTube video depicts a step-by-step forensic deconstruction of the document. This video has had nearly 1.3 million hits thus far and its detractors' criticisms have been thoroughly answered in Orangegold1's follow-up videos.
Comment:
So, why put out a birth certificate that can easily be shown as a forgery? It was meant to stir up the controversy, not to quell it.
This may be a type of agitprop, I speculate.
The Browns: Forgerygate is provoking us to outrage
By FLOYD AND MARY BETH BROWN CAGLE CARTOONS NEWS SYNDICATE
Comment:
The opinion expressed here is similar to my own. If Obama was born in Hawaii, this should be easily determined. This is still controversial because Obama and Co. want it to be controversial. As long as it is controversial, they can use it politically.
Politics doesn't generate light, but heat. Emotions are more useful politically than facts.
We have found the presidency of Barack Obama provoking us to outrage in unexplainable ways. Does he do this on purpose? We believe he does. He and his team single out Christians and conservatives by provoking them and then mocking their response to the provocations.
Comment:
The opinion expressed here is similar to my own. If Obama was born in Hawaii, this should be easily determined. This is still controversial because Obama and Co. want it to be controversial. As long as it is controversial, they can use it politically.
Politics doesn't generate light, but heat. Emotions are more useful politically than facts.
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