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Worst form of Cancer – Government Thuggery

An excellent author and thinker presented this as part of his larger column.  Thanks to Daniel J. Mitchell

Some examples of government thuggery.

A story of vicious IRS persecution.
A family in legal trouble because it rescued a baby deer.
A women jailed overnight because she let her kids play outside.
Cops legally stole $17,000 from a man who committed no crime.
Threatening to send a woman to jail because someone whistled at a whale.
Two stories of innocent people who were victimized by the idiotic Drug War.
A video about how the EPA tried – and fortunately failed – to destroy a family.
A story about the Justice Department’s discriminatory attack on a hapless homeowner.
The government treating child molesters more leniently than people who accidentally omit irrelevant info from forms.

So how come you never see stories about loving caring government making life for everyone a sunny, happy, la la land?  Because government doesn’t EVER “fix” things it just gets bigger.  We’ve challenged MANY MANY folks to tell us what government does better and/or more cost effectively than the private sector.  They won’t answer because they CAN’T.

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Plaintive Bleating

The current government is built on catering to a class of people who:

1. Believe its their “right” to receive, payments, benefits from society/community/nation.  What was charity is now a right?  You have a right to NOTHING that you don’t earn or produce yourself.
2. Take no accountability and responsibility for their own lot in life.  They mouth it, but don’t live it.  Its always someone else’s fault.  Government, Business, the NWO, the Bilderbergers, whoever.  It’s not my fault I have no money, no job or can’t afford health care.  Whatever the complaint it will very soon turn to the evil entity that is responsible.  Too bad reality shows that for the predominant majority of the world, you are what you are because of what you’ve decided and how you’ve chosen to act.
3. Have politics and vote based on wishful thinking.  If we think good thoughts and implement policy based on those good thoughts than we will overcome reality and human nature.  A core priniciple of collectivist sheople.
4. Are markedly ignorant of issues (in any detail). Rather regurgitating sound bites they’ve heard or read in passing, adopting it as revealed truth and considering any disagreement to be motivated by a negative emotion.
5. You know, selfish, lazy people.  Plus, the utopian idealist and conspiracy fantasists who cater to them.

Listen to the plaintive bleating of these people.  Blaming everything from the death of loved ones to the definition of words on unquantifiable evil forces that reflect the underlying symptom causing the classing above.  Envy.  Fairness is violated by a pet “progressive” article of faith, the “progressive income tax”.  What is fair about taking more by percentage from one group of people and not from all?  Look up “fair”.  Fair and just are unquantifiable, emotion based subjective terms.  Based on culture, upbringing/family and politics.  Equality?  The baa’ing crowd want equality of outcomes.  Even if it means a crappy life for all (but the Lib/prog Elites of course. The Nomenclatura of today’s State).

The collectivist lib/progs and their sheople frequently bleat about “fairness”, “justice” and “equality”.  The socialist left lie outrageously about those with differing points of view.  They routinely project their own demonstrated behaviors on to their opponents.  Accusing those they hate of “hate”.  Denouncing the intolerance of those who’s views they can’t tolerate, that they believe society shouldn’t tolerate.  The only equality right that exists and upon which the U.S. was founded is equality of opportunity.  The flaws of that we assiduously addressed over time and can continue to do so.  That isn’t good enough for the statist collectivists.  You aren’t smart enough, “empowered” enough to take advantage of this.  So you or you or that group or this group need “help”.  Of course help from a faceless monolithic government bureaucrat/department is what they have in mind.

Enjoy your dependency during your descent in to slavery.  Which, by the way, was a Democrat deal.  As were Jim Crow laws, the KKK, poll taxes and other lovely “empowerments”.  Chattel slavery was overthrown by freedom loving people so the Democrats had to find a new way to enchain their inferiors and their evil opponents.  Dependency on a Statist Collectivist government that daily contravenes the Constitution.  That’s the ticket.

It WAS better when need was met by charity.  It WAS better when families stayed together and didn’t have kids until they WERE together.  It WAS better when individual liberty was valued above ANY function of government.

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Why Did the President tell us…..?

Why do you think President Obama chose to say the following things about his unconstitutional health care take over?

• Illegal Aliens will Not be Covered
• It will be deficit neutral
• No new taxes for the Middle Class
• No Rationed Coverage
• No Death Panels
• Doesn’t have to have Public Option
• If you like your plan keep your plan
• If you like your doctor keep your Doctor

It turns out none of these things is true. Nor were they EVER true under the Obama health care law. Besides the gullibility of the dependent left one is baffled by how anyone could WANT the Federal government to run anything. Government never does anything as efficiently or economically as the private sector. Ever.  Read this travesty of liberty and constitutional rule of law

This page is dedicated to nothing but what they (sourced) identify as President’s Obama’s lies. Some most objectively are….shown to be incorrect (lie?). Others may be subjectively a lie as in you passionately don’t want it to be true.

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Redefining Marriage? Why?

First, spare us the “homophobe” and “intolerance” flames.  Disagreeing on issues doesn’t mean people “fear” or “hate” opposing points of view. Can YOU answer the question, “Redefining Marriage?  Why?”

Denying it is redefining the term is as Orwellian as the “Ministry of Peace”.  What is amazing is so many, well intentioned, caring,  sheep buy it.

1. Marriage has always been defined as the union of a man and a woman. Women in some cultures. Never, no not once, has it ever been considered a union of same sex partners.
2. Marriage as an institution developed in order to foster the protection and propagation of the human race. It had nothing to do with “love” and nothing to do with sexual satisfaction beyond begetting a new generation. This is true in many cultures today, still.
3. Homosexual political activists seem to crave, as an ultimate goal, not just equal protections, but active affirmation of their lifestyle and sexual preference by all of society. Failure to be penalized, attacked and ostracized.
4. Every protection of the law is available equally to homosexuals today. Civil union legislation to fix problems wouldn’t encounter too much difficulty where necessary. Realistic current contract law and powers of attorney make that neccesity unlikely.

Brave enough, honest enough, educated enough to continue?  We dare you…. Read the rest of this entry »

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Who should fight?

We think that every American can serve the nation in the Armed Forces and serve well.  The “women in combat” tempest has a very simple solution.  ”Combat” or any other service category shouldn’t be limited by gender, race, who you sleep with etc. Your job classification in the military (MOS, Rate, AFSC) should be tied STRICTLY and ONLY to performance criteria.

Combat specialties should have different, much more stringent performance criteria for qualification to do that job.  Lowering standards is NEVER the answer.   All service categories should have basic combat training in their basic training courses.  As they move from basic to their specialty, each would have its own entrance performace criteria.  

Personnel Clerks, Cooks, Maintenance types don’t need to have as tough standards to acheive the quality that is standard to our modern services.  The military thrives on “tables”.  Make an occupational specialty table to denote minimum performance standards (Physical, Academic, Aptitude) for each.  Very simple then and it doesn’t matter what you look like or what parts you have.

So why this extended debate?  What morons would actually propose, let alone implement, lowering standards for service in combat?

The Marine Corps did an interesting experiment.  God bless the women for trying but they had to drop out due to the physical demands.  It doesn’t make them lesser people or lessen the value of their service.  If a woman can meet a realistic combat arms physical standard, then more power to them.

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What they HATE

Leftists and collectivists “hate” many things, despite their crusade against “hate”. #Gungrabbers can’t bear that “Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense.” – John Adams, founding father

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Progressive Taxation – Wrong!

Progressive taxation, and those who support, are antithetical to freedom and more so to the “fairness” they always bleat about.  To take more from one than another for any purpose is the epitome of “UNfairness”.  The idea is driven by playing on the envy of people and the twisted satisfaction some (alot?) get from “sticking it to” other people.  Hating successful, high acheiving people is very stupid from a civics and liberty context.  This reposted illustration is simple enough even for those who believe its ok to take from others.

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Guns DO save lives – Save the second Amendment

1) On February 12, 2007, a lone gunman, Sulejman Talovic, opened fire at the crowded Trolley Square shopping mall, killing five bystanders. Armed with a shotgun with a pistol grip, a 38-caliber handgun with rubber grips, and a backpack full of ammunition, he set forth on his rampage through the mall.

But he did not get as far as he had hoped. He was stopped by off-duty police officer Kenneth Hammond of the Ogden City Police Department, who was at Trolley Square having an early Valentine’s Day dinner with his pregnant wife. When they heard shots, she called 911 and he drew his weapon and confronted Talovic. He was joined by Sgt. Andrew Oblad of the Salt Lake City Police Department. They pinned down Talovic, stopping further deaths, until a SWAT team from the Salt Lake City Police Department killed him.

Hammond, a man with a weapon, was credited with saving “countless lives.” Read the rest of this entry »

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How to beat Debt? Stop Borrowing Dummy!

Its simple really.  See how true this, previously posted, remains.

While collectivists gleefully project their wish for a Republicrat “Civil War” over the debt limit one has to stop and look through normal eyes what the hub-bub is about.

Nearly all collectivists oppose, in every and any way they can, any limitation on borrowing because they want no limitation on “benefits” they can “give” in exchange for votes to perpetuate their own power and the dependency of their constituencies.

The fear is of a “Government Default”.  Hey dummies, just don’t spend over the last borrowing cap.  And reduce spending more.  That’s the rub.  Demonrats and Republicrats truly believe that it is *government’s job to provide (things, monies, “services”) stuff*.  They are wrong and that is why they can so gleefully bankrupt our children and theirs.

It isn’t rocket science.  Spend less money, reduce the number of employees, reduce programs equally across the board if you can’t agree on cuts.  Finally,  the one no government collectivist politicrat understands, IT ISN’T Government’s job to do ANYTHING not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.

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Women in Combat Roles

We are hearing many folks objecting to women in combat roles.  We don’t think such roles need to be constrained by sex but DO NEED to be constrained by standards of performance (regardless of sex).  

Currently women have significantly LOWER standard of physical performance in at least the Army and Marines.  

Make combat roles have realistic (hard core) physical requirements and and let anyone who can meet them, meet our enemies.

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